Akash Nikolas

I judge harshly and often.

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

Awards only matter if they contain and confer prestige and the Grammys and Emmys have long squandered theirs by having too many categories and too many nominees. And some people seem to want the Oscars to follow the same path.

[Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 @marcorandazza]

The entertainment industry is so weird. I can’t believe this is a Grammy category.

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

🎵 Would you forgive me, love
If I dance in your shower?
Would you forgive me, love
If I lay in your bed?
Would you forgive me, love
If I stay all afternoon? 🎶

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A man caught a woman he matched with on a dating app breaking into his home despite never giving her his address

Lindsay Harris even had a bottle of wine and water ice ready in an apparent attempt to spend the evening with him

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@BillyBiggs_ This is great. You should do one of these every week. It would be fun to look back at the end of the season and see how it all tracked.

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@joeyseras Room temperature IQ

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@AnthonyMEmerson "Donald Trump wants Susan Collins to win" was SUCH an easy layup and he never took it.

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@yeselson @hecubian_devil Yeah he was polling much better before the NY Times story but there wasn't much evidence even then that he was doing particularly well with non-college voters.

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@DanRosenheck I think the filing deadline for an independent run has long past?

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@daveweigel Was there any hand wringing about democratic legitimacy when VA Republicans canceled their primary in 2021? The media gave Youngkin a tongue bath and all but praised Rs for not letting their crazy voters decide — and it worked out well for them.

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@ImNotOwned @KisukeJotchua Independent wink wink is perfect for Maine (see Angus King)

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@DjsokeSpeaking I think those are actually equivalent to be honest. Mills would be an improvement now just because the bottom is falling out for Platner but she's still the second worst option. It was the same for Kamala.

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@DjsokeSpeaking @charizardavis Platner dropping out would be old news by November and a state party choosing a candidate worked out well for VA Republicans in 2021.

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@brianros1 Yes they're doing something very different (and interesting) this year

https://t.co/Jo2uQKnX73

[ABC News @ABC]

JUST IN: After two people climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and unfurled a banner on top of its spire Wednesday afternoon, one of the climbers appeared to propose to the other. https://t.co/ngG3jOeTBU

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@ImNotOwned VA Republicans got rid of their primary in 2021 and it actually worked out well for them. That was the last success they had in Virginia.

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@yeselson It'll be interesting to see if he suddenly rebounds in the polls when they all switch to LV models in the fall. For now he just needs to go hard on Collins is a vote for Trump (and hope she doesn't get the chance to cast a well-timed vote against Alito's replacement).

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

I had high hopes for Platner but yes this seems to be true. Hard to look at the data and not conclude that he's underperforming a normal Democrat and could cost us this seat.

[Joe @JoePostingg]

Mills was probably worse but a normal Democrat would have cruised

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@yeselson Yeah there's a miasma of scandal attached to him now. There's no chance anymore to make this race about left populist issues. It's just consolidating Dems, tying Collins to Trump and hoping for a Jay Jones repeat. If more stuff about him comes out, he's probably done.

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@yeselson @daveweigel Replacing him is really the best option at this point but what leverage do Dems have to get him to drop out before 7/13? He's not the type to do that on his own (very few people are).

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@yeselson It's all so disappointing and depressing. I don't see his favorables dramatically improving or him dropping out before 7/13 so we're probably stuck grinding this out to November.

[Akash Nikolas @akashnikolas]

@PeterHamby Either his moderate shifting is helping (like criticizing Biden's border policy) or most Texas voters haven't heard all the stuff he's said in the past and that will change as we get into the fall. Of course the latter also means Republicans will have to spend more in Texas.