GoFundMe also removed fundraisers for Rittenhouse's legal defense.

The ban was only lifted after he was acquitted.

• This is a lawsuit, not criminal charges. It could be bad for Musk (see: Engoron decision) but there is no risk of arrest or jail. Yet.
• Defendants who lose lawsuits cannot be pardoned. Only criminal charges can be pardoned.
• "All parties must be present" means someone on the defendant's side must be present. It is not unusual for only the lawyer(s) to attend.
• The case has been moved to federal court for now. But it could be moved back if the federal court decides it belongs in state court.

A ridiculous ruling, but fortunately Virginia has same-day registration. So if you show up to vote and find you've been purged, you can immediately re-register.

You would have pressed it to retrieve a personal item? Seriously? Like if you're visiting a factory and your phone fell on the assembly floor you would run to the first red button you could find and press it without asking anyone? If so, please never get on an airplane.

The Harris and Trump teams don't agree about whether mikes should be cut when their opponent is speaking.

You might think Team Harris wants the mikes cut. But actually, they want the mikes kept on throughout the debate. Team Trump wants them cut, because they are afraid Trump won't be able to control himself and end up looking bad. Which I think is hilarious.

FWIW, a few weeks ago I went to a Midwestern county fair. The state went blue in 2020 but this particular county voted 60% Trump, higher than the one in the article (56%).

Before I arrived I braced for the worst.

Nothing. No one sold Trump merch. At most I saw one or two people who brought their Trump hats or t-shirts. There was a monster truck show and the announcer never mentioned politics. I counted a handful of Trump bumper stickers in the parking lot.

Zero Trump yard signs spotted on the road back to where we were staying, even though there were lots and lots of yard signs for various county or municipal candidates. So they weren't completely disengaged politically.

I'm sure many of the people I saw will vote for Trump again this year. But they weren't so willing to advertise that.

Sounds pretty awful, but remember that prosecutors don't have ESP. So "prosecutors claim she didn't want to jeopardize her career" is not the same as "she didn't want to jeopardize her career".

It's not like she wrote in her diary "Today I killed my newborn because I thought it would interfere with work."

Hillary Clinton ran against a sexual predator. She should have mopped the floor with him. She didn't.

Any election against Trump will be close. The problem isn't age. The problem is Trump supporters.

It was definitely not directly from Trump.

Insurance company Chubb underwrote the bond for Trump, which the former president signed on Tuesday. Under the terms of the bond, Chubb will only secure the appeal of the $83.3 million judgment, not any future appeals.

Let me save you some trouble:

Chubb Limited is an American company incorporated in Zürich, Switzerland. It is the parent company of Chubb, a global provider of insurance products covering property and casualty, accident and health, reinsurance, and life insurance and is the largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company in the world

If you destroy privately owned art that the public couldn't see, does it make a sound?

Great news!

Apropos nothing:

The Republicans are falling in line with disgraced ex-president Donald Trump’s personal hatred of Ukraine—and equally personal fondness for authoritarian Russia. The Republicans’ allegiance to Trump—and therefore to dictators and military aggressors—wasn’t an issue for Ukraine until they narrowly gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the November 2022 elections. When earlier funding for Ukraine ran out in late December, Rep. Mike Johnson—the extremist House speaker—refused to put additional aid to a vote.

The direct language is a pleasant surprise, and honestly more than I expected from FORBES. Have they always been this willing to call out Trump and his enablers?