Over the course of two decades, Politico reports, Representative Alan Grayson’s ex-wife Lolita Grayson went to police with accusations of domestic abuse at least four times—twice in Virginia and twice in Florida In one instance, according to a police report, he threatened to kill her.

Two attackers stormed a church in France on Tuesday, killing an elderly priest during morning mass and taking four hostages. They were later shot and killed by police, French officials said. According to French president Francois Hollande, the attackers “claimed to be from ISIS.”

Damn, it turns out he was the good one all along.

On Monday, First Lady Michelle Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention to give an emotional endorsement of Hillary Clinton. “Leaders like Hillary Clinton,” said Obama, “who has the guts and the grace to keep coming back and putting those cracks in the highest and hardest glass ceiling, until she finally breaks through, lighting all of us along with her.”

On Monday, NowThis News producer Ian Mckenna tweeted a gif of fervent Bernie Sanders supporter and Hillary Clinton critic Susan Sarandon fuckin’ hating it at the Democratic National Convention, writing, “Susan Sarandon is having literally the worst time at the #DemConvention.”

After giving a speech endorsing Hillary Clinton as a Bernie Sanders supporter, comedian Sarah Silverman went off-script at the Democratic National Convention on Monday to tell chanting Sanders diehards in the crowd they were “being ridiculous.”

PHILADELPHIA — Welcome to the first night of the Democratic National Convention, where we’ll be coming to you live from the disgusting, 200-degree little plot of land in hell that is Philly. Tonight we’re in for a special treat: Bernie Sanders will be taking the stage. And if god cares about the media at all, Bernie Sanders is going to give us a coup.

Growing bored, presumably, with “Crooked Hillary,” Donald Trump indulged in a bit of word association at a campaign event in Virginia on Monday. Clinton’s middle name, “Rodham,” he appears to have noticed, rhymes with the word “rotten.” Pretty cool! The Associated Press reports:

PHILADELPHIA — It’s the first night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, and the Wells Fargo Center is about to be filled with the words of such great speakers as Senator Bernie Sanders, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Senator Elizabeth Warren. But first—Demi Lovato.

On Monday, Symone Sanders, Bernie Sanders’ former national press secretary, took to social media to dispute claims that the Democratic primary election was stolen from the senator in the wake of newly leaked DNC emails, writing, “Now, we won some great battles, but the reality is the system didn’t cheat us.”

PHILADELPHIA — All the Democrats had to do was have an uneventful, competently run convention. That’s it. Just four days where nothing horrible and embarrassing happened, with no ridiculous organizational fuckups or humiliating own goals.

At least 15 people were killed and 45 more were wounded on Tuesday after a man with a knife attacked a home for the disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, NHK reports.

The Democratic National Committee has offered a “deep and sincere apology” to Senator Bernie Sanders, his supporters, and the Democratic Party for “inexcusable remarks” made by staffers over email. WikiLeaks released approximately 20,000 emails copied from the DNC’s internal servers on Friday.

Have you ever wondered what all the dankest memes from your Facebook feed would look like in human form? Then man, do I have just the protest for you. Welcome to the first of several pro-Bernie Sanders rallies at the DNC. It’s the internet come to life and it smells like Dr. Bronner’s.

Ivana Wall is not the author’s real name. She worked as a dancer at a Cleveland strip club last week, to take advantage of the Republican National Convention. This the second and last installment of News From the Poles. You can read part one here.

This afternoon in Philadelphia, Bernie Sanders spoke to supporters in advance of this week’s Democratic Convention. During his speech he doubled down on his Hillary Clinton endorsement, telling the gathered crowd that not only must Donald Trump be defeated, he must be defeated by voting for Clinton and her new running mate Tim Kaine.

You may recall that in early May, as part of an ill-advised attempt to give him a taste of his own medicine after calling Hillary Clinton “crooked Hillary,” Democratic party operatives and Clinton herself began referring to Donald Trump as “Dangerous Donald.” The epithet—if you can even call it one—was met with ridicule almost immediately, and, according to leaked emails, the DNC noticed.