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Qian Weizhong/VCG via GettyJessica Seinfeld, cookbook author and wife to comedian Jerry Seinfeld, is funding a pro-Israel counterprotest at UCLA—where violence broke out Tuesday night after a mob attacked demonstrators inside a pro-Palestine encampment.A GoFundMe for the effort, which Seinfeld promoted in an Instagram story this week after contributing at least $5,000, has since made the majority of its donations anonymous. The fundraising page has raised more than $93,000 as of Wednesday and also changed its organizer name and description since launching over the weekend.The Daily Beast left messages for reps for the Seinfelds.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyWhile Donald Trump stands trial over his hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, Fox News and other outlets are giving her disgraced former lawyer Michael Avenatti—incarcerated for stealing millions from his own clients—loads of free airtime.But victims of the fallen Newport Beach litigator aren’t happy he’s back in the spotlight.“He’s a crook, he’s a criminal, and he doesn’t deserve it,” said Greg Barela, a former client who testified against Avenatti in a federal fraud case in California.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyLast Wednesday, dozens of students skipped class to gather outside a Payson, Utah, middle school for hours and chant, “We the people, not the animals!”—a protest launched over the dramatic accusation that their classmates were running wild as “furries” and attacking other students without consequence.Much of the hysteria, however, has been blown out of proportion.Footage from the scene showed them hoisting signs declaring, “Compelled speech is not free speech,” “We won’t be compelled,” and “We just want to learn.” A fourth sign read, “You can’t ignore us,” with a drawing of an animal print covered with a prohibition sign.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, FileMultimillionaire banker and Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has made health care, namely his beef with Obamacare, one of four central issues on his campaign website.The Republican challenger to Democrat Tammy Baldwin, who also unsuccessfully ran in 2012, has long opposed the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Back then, Hovde said he didn’t support anything about it—including its coverage for Americans with preexisting conditions or allowing people to stay on their family’s insurance until age 26.Now newly resurfaced video shows Hovde proposed enacting an especially cruel health care measure: Charging higher premiums for people living with obesity and reducing the amount of care they receive.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty Residents of North Carolina began noticing the mysterious billboards days before this month’s Super Tuesday primaries.Across Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Greensboro and beyond, digital posters displaying the smiling faces of former President Donald Trump and his old friend, the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, greeted drivers as they traveled highways and busy intersections.Soon after, the Trump-Epstein signs popped up in Georgia.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Mathieu Polak/Sygma/Sygma via Getty ImagesGhislaine Maxwell’s lawyer asked a U.S. appeals court to overturn her conviction for grooming and abusing girls for the late sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.During oral arguments on Tuesday before the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, her attorney Diana Fabi Samson argued that Epstein’s infamous 2007 non-prosecution agreement (NPA) should have barred her prosecution.That lenient deal, inked with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, provided immunity for alleged co-conspirators including four women tied to Epstein. Maxwell wasn’t listed on the document, but her lawyers say she’s covered—and that the agreement was intended to bind every other U.S. Attorney’s Office in the country.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyThe campaign ad begins with creepy piano music and scenes from Trump rallies and the Jan. 6 insurrection. “The far right has brought their brand of violent chaos and bigotry into our schools,” a narrator says, before members of the Proud Boys flash on screen.Proud Boys—who belong to a male-dominated extremist group—are also pictured at the election night party of Bridget Ziegler, the Florida school board member whose three-way sex scandal has spotlighted the hypocrisy of her anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.“Enough is enough,” the video concludes. “It’s time to bring sanity back to our schools.”Read more at The Daily Beast.