🗳 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, national parliament election:

89.0% counted

VMRO DPMNE+-EPP: 44.3% (+0.5)
SDSM+-S&D|RE|G/EFA/ECR: 15.5% (+0.5)
EF~S&D|EPP|NI: 14.6% (-0.4)
VREDI~NI: 11.4% (-0.5)
Levica~LEFT: 7.0% (-0.1)
ZNAM-*: 5.4%
...

+/- vs. 78.6% counted

📎 Europe Elects

🗳 🇺🇸 U.S. House tables Rep. Majorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) motion to vacate the chair, 359-43-7.

📎 CSPAN

🇺🇸 Full text of MTG's motion to vacate the office of Speaker of the House. - Congressman Thomas Massie

🇺🇸 The US House of Representatives has blocked an initiative to remove Mike Johnson from the post of speaker, after Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, to the disapproval of colleagues, announced the launch of the procedure to remove Johnson from his post.

📎 Malinda

Ann Coulter tells Vivek that even though she liked a lot of his policies she wouldn't have voted for him because he's a pajeet 🤣

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 BREAKING: President Biden says if Israel invades the city of Rafah, the United States will no longer supply Israel with artillery shells, precision bombs, and other offensive weaponry – CNN

@Middle_East_Spectator

📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Biden: “I’ve made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet: They’re not going to get our support, if in fact they go on these population centers,” he said.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/joe-biden-interview-cnntv?cid=ios_app

— 🇪🇬/🇵🇸 NEW: Footage from today shows Egyptian soldiers pushing and beating a Palestinian boy at the Rafah crossing

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Battle for Rafah | Rybar Force Analysis

🔶️ Following yesterday's capture of the Rafah checkpoint, the Israelis are not yet moving deeper into the Philadelphi Corridor, which may be due to both international pressure and military necessity. However, there is no talk yet of curtailing the IDF operation.

🔶️ The Air Force is actively carrying out strikes on Rafah and nearby settlements. According to IDF, the targets are exclusively Hamas infrastructure, while Palestinians report civilian deaths.

📎 Rybar Force

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 "Anti-Semitism has become such a dominant force in K-12 schools that Second Graders across America are spewing Nazi propaganda." - Congressman Aaron Bean (R-Fl)

📎 Michael Tracey

📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 President Biden tells CNN that he will not only continue to block all shipments of bombs to Israel, but also hold up artillery shells because what the IDF has done in Gaza and wants to do is “just wrong.”

📎 AF Post

🇺🇸 Barron Trump to step into the political arena as a Florida delegate at the Republican convention

🔶️ The position as an at-large delegate for the Florida Republican Party will be the most high-profile political role thus far for Barron, former President Donald Trump's youngest son.

🔶️ The youngest child of former President Donald Trump, who will graduate high school next week and has largely been kept out of the political spotlight, on Wednesday night was picked by the Republican Party of Florida as one of the state’s at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention, according to a list of delegates obtained by NBC News.

🔶️ In a Trump family full of politically involved children, Barron has retained much more of a private life than his older brothers, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., both of whom will also serve as Florida at-large RNC delegates, along with Trump’s daughter, Tiffany.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/barron-trump-florida-delegate-republican-national-convention-rcna151388