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Colorado legal aid organizations will now have a new pot of money to draw from, thanks to a law signed Monday by Gov. Jared Polis. HB24-1286, dubbed the Equal Justice Fund Authority bill, will add roughly $2 million in funding for organizations that offer free civil legal services to low-income Coloradans.

Because nothing says competence quite like using a foreign city instead of Milwaukee on your convention website, right? Source: Heartland Signal The Republican National Convention (RNC) is set to be held in Milwaukee on July 15; however, the convention’s website featured a banner image of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam for several months. Boston Globe reporter Sam Brodey flagged the blunder on X on Tuesday morning. The image appears to be an iStock photo posted by Diversity Studio in 2019.

To celebrate Pride Month in Colorado, the state GOP issued a fatwa and called for the burning of all Pride flags. As one might expect, this bit of branded extremism has not gone over well, even among Log Cabin Republicans, a group which "advocates for equal rights for LGBT+ Americans." Source: 9News, Denver COLORADO, USA — The Colorado Republican Party marked the start of Pride Month with a mass email attacking “godless groomers” and a social media post calling for the burning of all Pride flags. The state GOP’s move to the far right after a series of electoral blowout losses continued with some of its harshest anti-gay rhetoric in recent years. The Colorado GOP’s mass email titled “God Hates Pride,” read, in part, “The month of June has arrived and, once again, the godless groomers in our society want to attack what is decent, holy, and righteous so they can ultimately harm our children.” The message to Colorado Republicans was headlined with an image reading “God Hates Flags,” a nod to the anti-gay slur on the picket signs of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church.read more

As they say, better late than never. On Tuesday, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced that he has filed felony charges against former Trump lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Jim Troupis, as well as former Trump aide Mike Roman: The charges stem from the 2020 fake elector scheme. Kaul filed the charges in Dane County Circuit Court against Kenneth Chesebro, a Wisconsin native and lead architect of the 2020 fake elector plan; former Dane County Judge Jim Troupis, who represented Trump in Wisconsin during the 2020 election; and Mike Roman, a former Trump aide who allegedly delivered Wisconsin's slate of false elector paperwork to a Pennsylvania congressman's staffer in order to get them to Vice President Mike Pence on Jan.

U. S. intelligence officials are issuing a stark warning to America’s former “Top Gun” pilots: Don’t help China. A new threat bulletin issued Wednesday warns that China’s People’s Liberation Army “continues to target” current and former Western fighter pilots to help teach Chinese pilots how to master one of the hardest maneuvers in aviation: taking off and landing on aircraft carriers.

Andy Kim, the congressman who has turned New Jersey politics on its head since entering the race to unseat Senator Robert Menendez, won the Democratic nomination for Senate yesterday after a campaign marked by a watershed ballot-access ruling. Via the New York Times: The victory makes Mr. Kim, 41, a favorite to become New Jersey’s next senator.