Tim Nicolai

If Democrats win all districts up to Trump +9 under the new maps: Dems 222 GOP 213 Under the old maps Dems 239 GOP 196 A 17 seat gap. That's the story of redistricting in a nutshell.

Thomas Massie was the overwhelming favorite to win reelection. Then the Israel lobby dropped 35 million dollars against him. It should not be possible to buy elections like this.

Massie: I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv

Say whatever you want about Oli Marmol, I don’t know how you can dislike this. #stlcards

what a silly team. just delightfully whimsical #stlcards

What Biden and Powell pulled off with the soft landing was genuinely insane and no one but policy nerds will ever give them credit for it

#stlcards might just be the most fun team we’ve had in years.

Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the federal deficit. Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the federal deficit.

Just to emphasize how bad of a hole the Trump Administration is in right now, gas prices this morning literally plummeted so far we had to fix the Y axis of this chart.

You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story. When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement. It's the world's laziest status symbol. The starter kit is always the same: *A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago. *A gun they'll never actually need. *A Bible they've never actually read. *And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their.... Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard? FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody. He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior! And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man. You genuinely cannot make this stuff up. And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it..... I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy

Gas prices are at crazy levels--fire Obama!

Scoop: Josh Shapiro secretly helped a Republican state treasurer's 2024 reelection bid after the official's Democratic opponent had criticized Shapiro as a potential VP pick, a close Shapiro ally said last week. w/ @AlexThomp axios.com/2026/05/03/jos…

Great piece by @AnnieLowrey on the tax wars. This part is important about how we got here too — Democrats have been highly effective in designing efficient, welfare enhancing tax programs that absolutely nobody knows or cares about.

@SlangsOnSports Sarah, you're the best! Happy birthday!

Thank you!!!

NYT: “You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist” Tucker Carlson: “I have not said that” NYT: *plays clip of him saying that*

POV: The map for the US House after the 2028 presidential election

The St Louis Cardinals continue to stun the baseball world, beating the Dodgers again, and moving to 20-13 in a full rebuilding year.

NEW: One of the most dangerous drivers in New York City is an NYPD cop on Staten Island. He’s gotten 547 school-zone speeding and red-light tickets in the past four years. The NYPD is refusing to intervene: nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/to-…

@jivy86 @elizaorlins look up Project Redmap

@elizaorlins Republicans started this fight? Do you have any idea what happened in NY in 2022? Have you seen the IL map? How bout the entire northeast for that matter? You also said there have been no demographic shifts as if COVID didn’t happen and red states aren’t booming.

I read the full court order on Virginia's redistricting. A judge didn't pause the vote. He declared it void from the beginning—seven independent constitutional violations. Everyone is either celebrating or panicking. Almost nobody has read the order. I did. Full breakdown below:

Yea we joke about the double standard in the media, but this is legitimately insane.