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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Earth Day EO To Remove NonProfit Status of Climate Groups? [1]
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Date: 2025-04-17
Environmental and climate related groups are scurrying to respond to a threat of losing their nonprofit status through an EO rumored to be on the docket for release on Earth Day Tuesday.
According to reporting at Bloomberg Law, the order could also “seize funds and designate groups as domestic terrorists.”
“This is going to be focused on climate activism, not environmentalism in general,” according to Kieran Suckling, executive director for the Center for Biological Diversity.
Bill McKibben in his substack A Chill Falls on the Climate Community, quotes from E&E News:
“There's lots of rumors about what terrible thing [Trump] wants to do on Earth Day, to just give everybody the middle finger,” Brett Hartl, director of governmental operations at the Center for Biological Diversity, said. An environmental funder granted anonymity to speak freely speculated Trump might try to do to nonprofits what he’s threatened to do with universities. “The rumors feel credible because this is playbook they use,” the funder said. “That’s why people are taking it very seriously.” Another environmentalist expressed concern that the administration could attempt to target green groups by defining efforts to limit fossil fuel development as a threat to national security.
On a lighter note, let’s flash back to childhood days and the excitement and magic of evening street games in the neighborhood …
Street games were contagiously popular on summer evenings in New York. My brother and I would rush through dinner and cleaning the table as our friends gathered outside within the humid soup of mosquitos and fireflies.
The kids from the two block area of Woodland Ave. and Ave.I were the primary participants but our ranks were always infiltrated by a few outsiders from nearby Oak Street or Melville Road. We’d play tag or capture the flag or hide and seek as quarters jingling in our pockets, at the ready for the Good Humor man.
I first played Ringolevio when I was about eight. My dad, who grew up in the Bayridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, joined the neighborhood kids one night as the sky was darkening. He gathered us together in a wide huddle as he explained the ground rules of the game, which had been played in the boroughs of New York City since the late 19th century.
Ringolevio rapidly became our favorite street game that summer. We would gather after dinner to play, the night swelling around us, cooling the temperatures as moths flirted with the street lamps and the sound of televisions skirted through the August air.
Ringolevio combines the rules of ‘tag’ and “hide go seek.” The game is quite simple. There are two teams and an area set aside as the jail. The hunters catch a member of the opposing side and hold on to them while chanting “Ringolevio, 123, 123,123.” If the hunter succeeds in maintaining hold throughout the chant, the captured person is held in the jail. Captured team members can be freed from jail when a team member enters the jail and shouts “All in. All in. Free-All” or “Oily oily oxen free.”
Did you hear about the elephants at the San Diego Zoo, forming an ‘alert circle” around their young immediately following the recent earthquake?
As the shaking begins five African elephants run in different directions before the three older ones form a circle around the two 7-year-old calves. They remained standing guard looking outwards even after the shaking ceased.
Hackers turn Silicon Valley crosswalks into mockery of Musk, Zuckerberg
Instead of the usual "walk" or "wait" instructions that emit from crosswalk speakers, Silicon Valley pedestrians were in for an auditory surprise over the weekend when they instead heard seemingly deepfaked recordings, mocking some of the titans who preside over the tech world. A series of viral videos posted on social media showed crosswalk speakers playing derisive messages about billionaire tech giants Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Redwood City as perplexed onlookers laughed.
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