Trump Threatens to Revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship

By Michael Shackelford, Funny Farm News

By Joe Perticone, The Bulwark

“About six months into the second Trump presidency, Republicans are charting a collision course with the Catholic Church. Stark and growing differences between their views on migrants, the poor, technology, and other issues could put the spiritual home of tens of millions of American Catholics in direct conflict with the political framework of the party that runs the U.S. government.”

By Chris Gloninger, WeatheringClimate.com via Substack

If the proposed NOAA budget is approved, tornado and hurricane prediction, air quality alerts, and climate monitoring could grind to a halt.

https://chrisgloninger.substack.com/p/breaking-if-noaas-budget-passes-congress?utm_campaign=post

By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, Pro Publica

In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.

In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.

“’It becomes wrapped up in the political dispute that a judge who’s doing his or her job is part of the problem,’ Roberts said at a gathering of lawyers and judges in Charlotte, North Carolina. ‘And the danger, of course, is somebody might pick up on that. And we have had, of course, serious threats of violence and murder of judges just simply for doing their work. So I think the political people on both sides of the aisle need to keep that in mind.’’

By Mark Sherman, AP

“Starting this fall, Oklahoma high school students will be expected to study so-called ‘discrepancies’ from the 2020 presidential election — essentially conspiracy theories about a stolen election that have been thoroughly discredited by courts and President Donald Trump’s own Department of Justice.”

By Yunior Rivas, Democracy Docket