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Boots on the Ground Midwest weekly protest at 75th and Metcalf in Overland Park, KS | Saturday 12.27.25 💙🪧🌻
(More photos in comments! ⬇️)
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December 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Boots on the Ground Midwest weekly protest at 75th and Metcalf in Overland Park, KS | Saturday 12.27.25 💙🪧🌻
(More photos in comments! ⬇️)
(More photos in comments! ⬇️)
Protecting democracy in Johnson County Kansas on a Saturday after Christmas
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Protecting democracy in Johnson County Kansas on a Saturday after Christmas
"...America, thinking of you, on my rumble home,
the anthem I used to sing along to, my hand
finding my heart because I was young
and yielded to most things. And, still, listen..."
- Donika Kelly, excerpt What I Might Sing
the anthem I used to sing along to, my hand
finding my heart because I was young
and yielded to most things. And, still, listen..."
- Donika Kelly, excerpt What I Might Sing
“What I Might Sing”
“Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, / and, because of you, I was thinking too of America.”
www.newyorker.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"...America, thinking of you, on my rumble home,
the anthem I used to sing along to, my hand
finding my heart because I was young
and yielded to most things. And, still, listen..."
- Donika Kelly, excerpt What I Might Sing
the anthem I used to sing along to, my hand
finding my heart because I was young
and yielded to most things. And, still, listen..."
- Donika Kelly, excerpt What I Might Sing
We humanize each other.
When the history of this cruel era is written, the shame should be no less than the shame we now feel about the roundups and detention of Japanese Americans in World War II. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-brazen-cruelty-of-the-trump-regime
December 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We humanize each other.
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Feeling overwhelmed by the season? Trade holiday stress for a protest sign. Join us this Saturday, 9:30-10:30am at 75th & Metcalf, and bring cereal to support Peggy’s Pantry KC. 💙🪧🌻
December 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Feeling overwhelmed by the season? Trade holiday stress for a protest sign. Join us this Saturday, 9:30-10:30am at 75th & Metcalf, and bring cereal to support Peggy’s Pantry KC. 💙🪧🌻
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Keep on marching. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Keep on marching. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch. https://youtu.be/IjiLaLj1ZZE
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December 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch. https://youtu.be/IjiLaLj1ZZE
A recent acquisition of the Nelson Atkins Museum: Until Ex parte Endo (Part 1) by Hank Willis Thomas. The title refers to the 1944 Supreme Court ruling on behalf of Mitsuye Endo making it illegal to detain citizens loyal to the US
Until Ex parte Endo (Part 1)
This vertically oriented photographic and textile artwork depicts an obstructed image of what appears to be a black and white photo of children outside with a building …
art.nelson-atkins.org
December 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A recent acquisition of the Nelson Atkins Museum: Until Ex parte Endo (Part 1) by Hank Willis Thomas. The title refers to the 1944 Supreme Court ruling on behalf of Mitsuye Endo making it illegal to detain citizens loyal to the US
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Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
On the watch list www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Rethinking Nuremberg for the 21st Century
The new film Nuremberg may tell us as much about the present as about the past.
www.thenation.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
On the watch list www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The federal government has proposed two new rules that could make it virtually impossible for transgender youth to get the health care they need - I just submitted my public comment and you can too act.hrc.org/page/183931/...
Submit Public Comments
act.hrc.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The federal government has proposed two new rules that could make it virtually impossible for transgender youth to get the health care they need - I just submitted my public comment and you can too act.hrc.org/page/183931/...
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The government is accepting public comment on 2 proposed rules that would severely restrict access to gender affirming care for young Americans. These comments will be supportive of legal challenges aimed at blocking the new rules. Submit a public comment on the regime's new attacks on trans youth.
Submit Public Comments
act.hrc.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The government is accepting public comment on 2 proposed rules that would severely restrict access to gender affirming care for young Americans. These comments will be supportive of legal challenges aimed at blocking the new rules. Submit a public comment on the regime's new attacks on trans youth.
Moving then and now: "Don't Give Up On Me" with the PS22 Chorus:
"And I will hold
I′ll hold onto you
No matter what this world'll throw
It won't shake me loose...
′Cause I'm not givin′ up
I'm not givin′ up, givin' up
No not yet"
youtu.be/KL9qp0FNEzU?...
"And I will hold
I′ll hold onto you
No matter what this world'll throw
It won't shake me loose...
′Cause I'm not givin′ up
I'm not givin′ up, givin' up
No not yet"
youtu.be/KL9qp0FNEzU?...
"Don't Give Up On Me" Andy Grammer ft. PS22 Chorus
YouTube video by PS22 Chorus
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December 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Moving then and now: "Don't Give Up On Me" with the PS22 Chorus:
"And I will hold
I′ll hold onto you
No matter what this world'll throw
It won't shake me loose...
′Cause I'm not givin′ up
I'm not givin′ up, givin' up
No not yet"
youtu.be/KL9qp0FNEzU?...
"And I will hold
I′ll hold onto you
No matter what this world'll throw
It won't shake me loose...
′Cause I'm not givin′ up
I'm not givin′ up, givin' up
No not yet"
youtu.be/KL9qp0FNEzU?...
13-minute segment of the 60-Minutes Special Inside CECOT: Hours before it was set to air, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast substack.com/home/post/p-...
BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.
substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
13-minute segment of the 60-Minutes Special Inside CECOT: Hours before it was set to air, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast substack.com/home/post/p-...
Upstanders - Teenage brothers stepped up to the front lines to help a rapid-response network of volunteers youtu.be/-yKSgM0G1xQ?...
The unexpected faces on the frontlines of ICE raids
YouTube video by The News Movement
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Upstanders - Teenage brothers stepped up to the front lines to help a rapid-response network of volunteers youtu.be/-yKSgM0G1xQ?...
CBS cancelled 60-Minutes report but this 11 minute PBS Frontline + Propublica documentary is well worth your time youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc?...
December 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
CBS cancelled 60-Minutes report but this 11 minute PBS Frontline + Propublica documentary is well worth your time youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc?...
"While some states have passed protections above those set by courts because of how easily police can coerce students into false confessions and wrongful convictions, Kansas is not among those states."
Opinion by Mark McCormick: Topeka police seize student phones, demand passcodes, without telling families. Parents cry foul. #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/t...
Topeka police seize student phones, demand passcodes, without telling families. Parents cry foul. • Kansas Reflector
When police appeared at Topeka High with a warrant, they had students pulled from class, seized their phones and demanded the passcode.
kansasreflector.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"While some states have passed protections above those set by courts because of how easily police can coerce students into false confessions and wrongful convictions, Kansas is not among those states."
Good nonviolence news: "2025 was not a great year for authoritarians... In surprising contrast to many global movements, the anti-authoritarian struggle in the United States is decidedly multi-generational." nonviolencenews.org/2025/12/21/u...
Unprecedented: 2025 In Review – Nonviolence News
nonviolencenews.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Good nonviolence news: "2025 was not a great year for authoritarians... In surprising contrast to many global movements, the anti-authoritarian struggle in the United States is decidedly multi-generational." nonviolencenews.org/2025/12/21/u...
SANTA IS WITH US! Neighborhood pop-up protest: Merry Resistmas Protest and IKC Bridge Brigadiers - bring your signs to promote democracy and fight fascism!
3:30 TO 5:30 pm Tuesday Dec. 23rd on the 15th and Walnut Bridge over 670 in downtown Kansas City www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...
3:30 TO 5:30 pm Tuesday Dec. 23rd on the 15th and Walnut Bridge over 670 in downtown Kansas City www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...
December 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
SANTA IS WITH US! Neighborhood pop-up protest: Merry Resistmas Protest and IKC Bridge Brigadiers - bring your signs to promote democracy and fight fascism!
3:30 TO 5:30 pm Tuesday Dec. 23rd on the 15th and Walnut Bridge over 670 in downtown Kansas City www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...
3:30 TO 5:30 pm Tuesday Dec. 23rd on the 15th and Walnut Bridge over 670 in downtown Kansas City www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...
Community for Deepening Practice
Free New Years Retreat and Gratitude Gathering
Friday, Jan. 2, 3–7 p.m. Pacific
Saturday, Jan. 3, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Pacific
Attend one or both 4-hour sessions
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Free New Years Retreat and Gratitude Gathering
Friday, Jan. 2, 3–7 p.m. Pacific
Saturday, Jan. 3, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Pacific
Attend one or both 4-hour sessions
us5.campaign-archive.com?e=[UNIQID]&u...
December 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Community for Deepening Practice
Free New Years Retreat and Gratitude Gathering
Friday, Jan. 2, 3–7 p.m. Pacific
Saturday, Jan. 3, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Pacific
Attend one or both 4-hour sessions
us5.campaign-archive.com?e=[UNIQID]&u...
Free New Years Retreat and Gratitude Gathering
Friday, Jan. 2, 3–7 p.m. Pacific
Saturday, Jan. 3, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Pacific
Attend one or both 4-hour sessions
us5.campaign-archive.com?e=[UNIQID]&u...
The stage of authoritarianism where people are turning each other in has begun - fortunately charges were dropped www.yahoo.com/news/article...
December 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The stage of authoritarianism where people are turning each other in has begun - fortunately charges were dropped www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Kansas Department of Health and Environment is providing a public comment period for the Statements of Basis submitted for 12 sites within the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant. Written comments will be accepted from December 18, 2025, to January 18, 2026. www.kdhe.ks.gov/m/newsflash/...
Former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant Public Comment Period • KDHE, KS
www.kdhe.ks.gov
December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Kansas Department of Health and Environment is providing a public comment period for the Statements of Basis submitted for 12 sites within the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant. Written comments will be accepted from December 18, 2025, to January 18, 2026. www.kdhe.ks.gov/m/newsflash/...
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"It was a week. We have long since crossed the rubicon of constitutional and democratic crisis, and still last week seemed remarkable and uniquely chilling. We must not become numb to it."
The great @sifill.bsky.social is especially great here.
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...
The great @sifill.bsky.social is especially great here.
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...
Is It Too Late?
No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle
sherrilyn.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"It was a week. We have long since crossed the rubicon of constitutional and democratic crisis, and still last week seemed remarkable and uniquely chilling. We must not become numb to it."
The great @sifill.bsky.social is especially great here.
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...
The great @sifill.bsky.social is especially great here.
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...
Take Action in Jefferson City on January 21st
Rally Wednesday, January 21, 2026 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM CT Sign up here:
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Rally Wednesday, January 21, 2026 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM CT Sign up here:
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December 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Take Action in Jefferson City on January 21st
Rally Wednesday, January 21, 2026 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM CT Sign up here:
secure.ngpvan.com/-MhyBSWLAES1...
Rally Wednesday, January 21, 2026 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM CT Sign up here:
secure.ngpvan.com/-MhyBSWLAES1...
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A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky:
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky:
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.