On the Wichita City Council agenda today: the new Fraternal Order of Police contract.

Since I've been covering the city's $72.4 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds for the past couple weeks, this is what stood out to me:

ICYMI: ALEC members of the energy task force voted unanimously to approve a new model policy that would prevent financial companies that end investments in oil, gas, and coal companies from receiving state government contracts or managing state funds.
exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/03/ale…

BREAKING: At today's policy summit of the American Legislative Exchange Council, state legislative & corporate members unanimously approved a model bill that would penalize companies that stop investing in or financing fossil fuels.
#ALECExposed #ALECinCA
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337-374-2041 is a political robocall from Americans for Prosperity, the political arm of the #KochNetwork

One key to arguing that the Critical Race Theory discussion is on the level is pretending these tweets never happened

CRT is a manufactured and weaponized panic that taps directly into white supremacist paranoia. You cannot just let this fester. These things dictate entire generations if they’re not met head on.

Call this what it is. Get into the fight.

What more do you need to know about Republican Attorneys Generl than this: Stephen Miller spotted at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego at a dinner Tuesday night for a Republican Attorneys General Association conference. Despicable, racist, nativist.

Anti-vaxxers at this Staten Island rally are now talking about burning town halls and schools to the ground, and picking up guns.

Kansas, take 2 minutes and watch this. We don’t always see honest and good push back against this stuff, but you see it here.

Outside billionaires want to decide who is on your local school board. They hold the receipts for the candidates they bought wholesale (and can’t raise local grassroots dollars). Watch this video, spread the facts — defend local government.👇💪🇺🇸

A school board candidate in Iowa is promising to get the names of every student who checked out certain LGBTQ books from the school library and to notify their parents. Also threatening to punish the school staff member who ordered the books.

The Pompeo's Madison Dinners were lavish dinner parties attended by a mix of celebrities, political operatives, government officials and public figures. They had little to do with State Department business, just personal gain for Mike and his wife. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

Woman at Traverse City Sch Bd meeting this week: “Satan’s agenda is behind this. Masks don’t work and neither do vaccines. It’s destroying and killing. You want to program children to turn in their parents. Right now, there are classrooms in the US that are teaching cannibalism.”

BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to consider limiting EPA's authority to curb greenhouse gases from power plants, will hear appeals from coal-mining companies and Republican-led states

BREAKING: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejects a challenge to Maine's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. The challengers complained that the mandate lacks religious exemptions. Thomas, Alito, & Gorsuch dissent.
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Kansas AG and GOP candidate for governor tells overreach committee he will file lawsuit to challenge vaccine mandate for federal contractors. Democrats call hearing a 'political circus' and question cost of litigation #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2021/10/29/kan…

Turns out the Koch network bankrolled the astroturf backlash against teaching kids about racism. bit.ly/3AA9MOU

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We always suspected Mike Pompeo was using government resources to advance his own interests. Now, we have proof: We just got back emails from his wife acknowledging that his Madison dinners helped create connections that would not have happened otherwise. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…