Trump appears to be very upset about having to sit through this testimony. He appeared to mouth 'bullshit' minutes ago.

Yet as Dylan Howard reminded Stormy’s lawyer Keith Davidson the day after the Access Hollywood tape came out, Trump was “fucked already,” but Stormy’s telling her story herself would have been “the final nail in the coffin.”

This bit is important. Stormy's story became valuable AFTER the access Hollywood tape came out - showing that his campaign was on the ropes, and Stormy could have knocked it out. That's why her story became valuable to catch and kill.

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'Newbern, a small majority-Black town, has not had a mayoral election since the Voting Rights Act (VRA) was passed in 1965. Instead, the town’s practice was to have the current mayor appoint the next mayor.'
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Congratulations to the FEC, which just enforced the law against a Trump-aligned super PAC!

It only took 60 allegations of wrongdoing for the FEC to finally act... citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

“'The delegation traveled to understand the depth of the gap and the level of flexibility that Hamas has. They will come back and report and then we will see what Israel is required to do,' the senior Israeli official said.” Barak Ravid reports

(Reuters) - Hamas official Osama Hamdan warned on Tuesday that if Israel's military aggression continues in Rafah, there will be no ceasefire deal.

Hamdan's comments were made during a press conference in Beirut as a delegation from Hamas, the group that runs the Gaza Strip,

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An Israeli businessman assisinated in Alexandria today. A group called Mohammed Salah Brigades (in reference to the soldier who killed a number of israeli soldiers last year) claimed responsability. The group frames the attack in arab nationalist terms not in Salafi-Jihadi ones.

Janelle Stelson's campaign is putting out polling showing her two points down from Scott Perry in PA10

Egypt Today: “A high-level source stated that the Egyptian security delegation warned its counterparts in Israel of the consequences of storming the Rafah crossing from the Palestinian side, and requested that this movement be stopped immediately.
The source went on saying that

BREAKING: The Biden administration is holding up shipments of two types of Boeing-made precision bombs to send a political message to Israel, according to a U.S. official and six other people with knowledge of the deliberations. Team effort w Lee Hudson Paul McLeary Joe Gould

If I had to pick one recent article to be required reading...

'Fear, cynicism, nihilism, and apathy, coupled with disgust and disdain for democracy: This is the formula that modern autocrats [sell], all with the aim of destroying what they call “American hegemony.”

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A former Mossad official who oversaw investigations into terrorist financing says the Trump administration - specifically Steve Mnuchin - helped Netanyahu convince Qatar to do an end-run around the PA to fund Hamas, in 2018.

Same one an Israeli Defense Minister resigned over.

⚡️ The EU is planning to prohibit political parties and think tanks from accepting Russian funding as part of its latest round of sanctions against Moscow, Bloomberg reported on May 6.

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Creating a situation that allows him to try to undermine Biden is a feature in Bibi’s calculus not a bug.