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.

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.

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

Hard times create Democratic presidents, Democratic presidents create good times, good times create Republican presidents, and Republican presidents create hard times.

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?

• 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.

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.

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

Your title is misleading. The article does not say that the 31.5 inch axis tilt is having a huge impact on our planet. It says groundwater pumping is causing changes in sea level and also causing a change in the axis tilt.

The axis tilt itself is an effect, not a cause.

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.

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.

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."

GoFundMe also removed fundraisers for Rittenhouse's legal defense.

The ban was only lifted after he was acquitted.

This is meaningless, pretty much anyone can be nominated. All it takes is a letter sent by any professor of history, social science, law, philosophy, or religion.

A Nobel Prize nomination is the academic equivalent of "Here, have an upvote".

They didn't all go poof.

• Fani Willis indicted Trump and his crew with 41 charges.
• The judge said 6 of the 41 were too vague, the other 35 could proceed to trial.
• Willis is trying to get those 6 added back to the 35.

OK Nostradamus. I'll file that prediction alongside "Full self drive in 2018" and "Mars landing in 2024"

Probably because they think when (not if) Trump blabbers while Harris is trying to speak, it will make Trump look bad in front of undecided voters. I think they're right.

Team Harris might even try to pull a Chris Christie, who predicted what Rubio would say and watched his prediction come true, eg

Harris: "As a former prosecutor, I believe in following the rules. But Trump believes rules don't apply to him. He's not supposed to interrupt me, but he just did a moment ago. And mark my words: he will do it again soon, because -"

Trump: "No I won't!"

Just for comparison, the Feds indicted some random person for selling pirated TV shows in 2019 and didn't get a conviction until this month. That's five years, and the SCOTUS wasn't even helping him drag the case out.

Federal cases take a long time when defendants insist on going to trial and dragging things out.

Alex Jones and/or his lawyers were too stupid to show up to court and defend themselves, so Jones automatically lost a defamation lawsuit without anyone even proving that Jones lied.

Wow, you might be thinking, that's great for these plaintiffs but surely nobody else would be dumb enough to ignore a defamation lawsuit and thus instantly lose! Well, let me introduce you to a certain Donald J Trump.