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The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in disaster relief and peacekeeping money into Trump’s Board of Peace - a personal international organization he chairs for life with no audits, no transparency, and no congressional vote.

Senate Democrats are about to pass the Fix Our Forests Act, handing permanent industrial logging authority to Tom Schultz, a former lumber executive now running the Forest Service who believes you prevent wildfires by not having trees, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, a political operative with no land management background, and Michael Boren, the Undersecretary who illegally built a private airstrip inside a national recreation area and is now in charge of your national forests. Thanks to More Than Just Parks for flagging this story.

House Oversight Chair James Comer confirmed some Republicans want to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell in exchange for testimony she could give without being under oath.

The DOJ indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for paying informants to infiltrate the KKK, intelligence they shared with the FBI for years until Kash Patel cut the relationship in October and Todd Blanche indicted them six months later.

At the White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump’s first as president, a gunman sprinted through security and exchanged fire with Secret Service. Before Trump’s press conference, MeidasTouch Network pointed put that MAGA accounts tweeted the same ballroom talking points simultaneously. Trump bragged about the crowd size and made the case for his $400 million ballroom with a secure underground bunker. Make of that what you will.

Welcome to the golden age.