Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness
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Exploring the intersection of contemplative practice and community engagement toward collective well-being.
“While all are innocent of any crime that would be punishable by death in the U.S. criminal justice system, some appear to be innocent of any wrongdoing at all.” - Washington Office on Latin America
Killing Spree: Extrajudicial executions in the U.S. boat strikes campaign - WOLA
WOLA's new report, "Killing Spree," examines the U.S. military's extrajudicial boat strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, which have killed 221 people since Sept. 2025.
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"I believe that the status quo is an electability risk at a time when people are hungry for change." - William Lawrence
NPR@npr.org · 2d agoDemocratic primary elections in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have made the Midwest a test case for whether progressive candidates can win in competitive states and what electability really means. n.pr/4hdLR0y
“This next election is not a presidential election but it may be the election that determines whether we remain a free people...” - Jim Cook
Atul Gawande says an estimated seven hundred thousand people have already died as a result of the USAID cuts and unltimately it will have caused millions of deaths. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
How an Estimated Seven Hundred Thousand People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts
Podcast Episode · The New Yorker Radio Hour · July 12 · 32m
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations. Their 14 month old daughter was found crying near her mother's body. www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
stlpr.org
"Reclaiming patriotism does not mean reclaiming the flag. It means rediscovering the people who refused to give up on democracy, even when they were called un-American for doing so." - Dominic Erdozain time.com/article/2026...
E. coli has been making the rounds too via blueberries and cheese www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea
The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system.
newyorker.com
From the comments: "You cannot have a global production and a supply chain this behemoth based upon profit over people and not have a nation of diarrhea..." www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
The Worst Part of the Cyclosporiasis Response
As the government began to figure out why people were getting sick, the messaging got only worse.
theatlantic.com
Short-sighted people in power They’re killing us quick By the day by the hour While they stack up their profits It’s never enough But we’re the ones left here To clean it all up - My Politic
Short-Sighted People in Power
YouTube video by My Politic - Topic
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"...for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing." - Milton Mayer This collage depicts why it is hard to be a participant in teacher led mindfulness classes right now.
Voter Guides for Johnson, Wyandotte, and Leavenworth counties in Kansas substack.com/home/post/p-...
MISSOURI! Join us for a Rush Hour Rally! Want to meet fun people AND raise awareness of the upcoming MO Primary election and the importance of voting NO on amendments 4 & 5? Bring your own sign or we'll have a few. 🪧 Thursday AND Friday | July 23-24 | 4:30 - 6 p.m. | 63rd and Ward Parkway
"The midterm elections will be among the most consequential of our lifetimes." - American Oversight Impact Report americanoversight.org/about/
About American Oversight - American Oversight
Since our launch in March 2017, we have obtained and published tens of thousands of documents from federal, state, and local government agencies. Records uncovered by American Oversight have supported...
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Immigrants Make Olathe Beautiful! THIS THURSDAY | July 23 | 3 - 4:30 p.m. | Johnson County Square | Downtown Olathe | Join us to hear speakers and learn other ways you can support the community. Please bring signs that celebrate our immigrant neighbors. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
“Don’t step back, step forward. Don’t look away... People who don’t want to speak up for any reason are conspirators. If they don’t do anything they have to live with the fact that they enabled the destruction of democracy.” - Bob Hillard substack.com/home/post/p-...
This 101-Year-Old WWII Veteran Has a Warning for America
Watch now | Bob Hilliard fought fascism in Europe. Now he’s calling out Trump’s authoritarianism.
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From 2017. We were duly warned - it didn’t have to be this way (again). “The current administration’s stifling of progress in food policy—through its actions and its inattention — reverberates beyond its specific context...”
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Let's support Center of Grace's goal to provide 1500 backpacks full of school supplies to children at their end of summer celebration! Drop off backpacks and school supplies to First Lutheran (6400 State Line Rd) this Sunday, July 19th, from 3-5pm.
Remember this? A journalist applied to join ICE in August 2025 and told about her experience slate.com/news-and-pol...
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
Remember the Wisconsin Supreme Court race in which Elon Musk and groups he funds spent around $19 million to promote the far right candidate? This is an example of why Kansas needs to Vote NO on August 4th www.jocodems.org/2026-vote-no
Did you know there was a slave bible? It was edited by white supremacists to give enslaved people a distorted version of Christianity that made them feel slavery was God's will youtu.be/YmjuDxKTzzg?...
Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom | A Documentary from @ourdailybread Ministries' VOICES Collection
YouTube video by Our Daily Bread Ministries
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The last words Joshua Orta, 25 heard his childhood best friend Ruben Ray Martinez, 23 utter after he was shot by ICE were “I’m sorry.” This article includes a video of the moment he was informed Ruben was dead. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/04/r...
An unreported ICE killing of an American shattered 2 Texas families
Josh Orta was the sole witness of Ruben Martinez’s death to dispute the government’s account. Months later, he died in a crash after learning an ICE agent killed his friend.
texastribune.org
Kansas Citians, have you visited Greenwood Social Hall yet? Beautiful affordable place to enjoy live music.
Human beings possess an optimism bias - how has this contributed to the collective situation at hand? insideoutrevolution.substack.com/p/measuring-...
Measuring the Water in the Glass
The Role of Optimism in the Situation at Hand
insideoutrevolution.substack.com
Sunday July 19th from 3-5 pm: Back to School Supply Drive - Get involved in Johnson County Kansas mutual aid at First Lutheran Church on State Line Road to support Center of Grace’s goal in providing 1500 backpacks full of supplies to children.
Both Trump administrations worked to undermine our elections system, spreading false claims of fraud, intimidating and burdening voters, officials and election workers, and attempting to rewrite rules and capture control. The Brennan Center keeps an interactive timeline of significant actions
Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections
Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.
brennancenter.org
‘We're fighting this by ourselves’: Southern Black leaders feel abandoned by Democratic Party
‘We're fighting this by ourselves’: Southern Black leaders feel abandoned by Democratic Party
Black lawmakers and activists in the Deep South say they are fighting an existential crisis on their own in the wake of a major Supreme Court ruling.
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