Jonathan Martin

Thrilled to return to the great team @politico to launch a reported column on politics From the Hill and WH to state capitols and city halls, i’m going to write about both the inside conversation + big-picture trends At the heart will be news Send some: jmartcolumn@gmail.com

This had me laughing way too hard. Never change, New Orleans.

Portrait of President Chester Alan Arthur 🇺🇸 dressed in a traditional samurai costume Painted and sent to Arthur as a gift by Japanese artist Toshitsugu Nakayama (sometime between 1881-1885) #POTUS 🇯🇵

Got a really fun ON THE ROAD coming this week - hop like a bunny over to @instagram to see it all! @jmartroad on da gram

Barr with an incredible jacket

“I think there’s honesty regarding the idea that they’re still very much thinking about it,” said Marc Adelman, a political consultant whose clients include entertainment industry figures and organizations. “She’s still in the game, actively. This idea that she bought the house, and therefore that negates the idea that she’s running — I just don’t buy that.” But in Malibu, few see it that way. When the former vice president bought the 4,000-square-foot home in the Point Dume neighborhood in December, she joined an exclusive community where Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Anthony Kiedis, Sergey Brin, Julia Roberts and King Abdullah II of Jordan have also owned houses

Good morning from Doral, where the PGA Tour is back — and Trump is, too. A decade ago, the PGA Tour rebuked Trump's comments. Then they shunned Trump's courses. Now, like others, they've come to accommodate him in his second term. with @RickMaese washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

Here with the one and only Dick Vitale, at his home with about 500 of his closest friends, for the "day after" event. His Gala was last night at the Ritz Carlton Sarasota. Coaches honored, Auriemma, Calipari, Izzo, Sampson, broadcaster Katie Couric, my niece Jamie, many other celebs in attendance. Dick will by 87 soon and this weekend, with events starting Thursday, would be endurance test for a man half his age, not battling cancer. He's amazing...

Watch my son Robin seeding a field on the Grassley farm Hoping for bountiful harvest #cornwatch

I can never forget Jiang Zemin’s delight at wearing a tricorner hat in Colonial Williamsburg

@aseitzwald lewiston was sitting right there !

Portland, Midcoast, Kennebunk

does the governor of kentucky always sell the state’s job numbers at the derby or is beshear introducing himself to america?

As people dump on the Spirit experience today, I’m remembering the legendary announcement one of their flight attendants made: “Welcome to Spirit Airlines. And to those of you who said you’d never fly us again: Welcome back.”

A retired member of Navy SEAL Team 6 recounted in 2012 the raid that killed the world's most wanted man: Osama bin Laden. Today marks 15 years since the successful raid. cbsn.ws/425Nip3

Trump to Congress, May 1: Hostilities with Iran "have been terminated." Trump to Florida audience, May 1: "You know we’re in a war." @EricaLG nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/…

New @playbookdc: A massively consequential horse race takes the stage in Kentucky today. Oh, and there’s also the Derby. On @AndyBeshearKY’s effort to win the @Carlos_E_Espina primary at Churchill Downs. politico.com/newsletters/pl…

Five presidents (former and future) were at the 1983 Kentucky Derby -- Donald Trump Bill Clinton George H.W. Bush Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford

First byte or our latest ON THE ROAD - with @JBPritzker

Trump implies that Nate Morris is going to leave the Kentucky Senate race. Elon Musk spent $10 million to help Morris, but it didn’t seem to get him much vote share.