Gas prices always rise in the warm weather months due to the seasonal blends of fuel. But market factors--including wars--impact on them, as well. This upward pressure on consumers is another challenge the President Biden will have to navigate. cbsnews.com/news/gas-price…

The claims of AZ politicians who say now that they meant the 2022 ban to supersede the draconian 160-year law is belied by the language in the '22 law specifically stating that it did NOT repeal the 1864 statute, which set minimum two-year prison sentences for anyone who performs…

You look at the current margins in these battleground states and it's pretty obvious that third party and independent candidates can and probably will play an outsized role in tipping them one way or the other.
Which candidates actually get on these ballots is critical to watch.

In shades of 1/6, here's Trump fundraising text today, as he prepares to face trial on Monday. CAPS are all his.

From Trump: ON MONDAY ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!
It's bad.
THEY WANT ME IN PRISON!
Read my Emergency Memo: rwing.us/5yeZbG

Here's some political wisdom from Nancy Pelosi:
'People don't want to hear you tell them that you deserve to be reelected because you did this, this, this & this...That's a good calling card but you have to be talking about the future.'
#AxeFiles 👉link.chtbl.com/1DSLs3TD
#POTUS

Word is Trump and Kari Lake are frantically whipping votes to get the Rs in the AZ legislature to save them by overriding the state court decision reinstating a draconian 1864 abortion ban Lake praised just two years ago.
#Dogswhocaughtthecar

On a new #AxeFiles , recorded this week at Arizona State University, Nancy Pelosi predicts the House will pass Ukraine funding but decries opposition from within the GOP ranks. 'There's a Putin caucus on the Republican side of the aisle...They LIKE Putin...It's scary.'
Pod: link.chtbl.com/1DSLs3TD

AZ legislators obviously didn't get the memo. This 160-year-old abortion ban is a disaster for women AND for Republicans! nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/…

There will never be another Caitlin Clark & there will never be another 2️⃣2️⃣.

The #Hawkeyes will retire Clark's No. 22.

This decision in AZ could very much impact the outcome of the presidential race in a key battleground state.
There is an effort underway to put an abortion rights initiative on the Nov. ballot. With this ruling, that take on greater meaning and would surely affect turnout.

BREAKING: The Iowa-South Carolina national championship game averaged 18.7 million viewers.

That makes it the most watched basketball game — men's or women's, college or professional — in five years.

What a MASSIVE month for women's basketball.

Sister Simone Campbell became a nun to help the poor. But her 1st assignment was working w/teens in, of all places, Beverly Hills! She explains on #AxeFiles that she learned an important lesson in dealing with those kids: Money doesn't buy happiness.
link.chtbl.com/lP3YgDkL

Seeking refuge from the storm he proudly created. washingtonpost.com/elections/2024…

'Children are dying as we speak.'

Cindy McCain Cindy McCain tell me Gaza is “literally on the brink of going over the edge, over the cliff with famine and not being able to recover from it.'

And super classy of SC coach Dawn Staley to offer single out Iowa's Caitlin Clark for her great contributions to the sport.

You don't go undefeated by accident. The best team won today. Good for SC!