Unless you are a federal agent who shoots someone in the head in broad daylight in an American city for doing nothing illegal and then we will bury the evidence and not investigate a thing. Right Petey?

I really hope when the stories get written on the midterms that the same hot takers who constantly come for the Dems positions and electoral strategies write about this insanely clueless, inside-the-bubble, MAGA political positioning. No rational reading of the current polling yields this take.

COMING TO A CAMPAIGN AD NEAR YOU

I am a chief of staff by trade but a speechwriter by passion - if the reports are true and Trump is giving a 2 hour SOTU then that is a crime against speeches. There is no speech ever that should go that long. Not even if Jesus and Lincoln decided to rise from the dead and give a joint address.

Pour it directly into my veins.

Big Things happening soon

So let me just say this to any NHL/Olympic USA Men’s hockey coaching/PR staff - if you go to the White House and appear ion camera with Trump - he’s going to make your PR problem Immeasurably worse by saying something even more sexist. And you won’t be able to say you didn’t know. Just FYSA.

My boss once stayed back from a White House black tie dinner because there was flooding in Illinois and he wanted to call all the local officials involved. But hey I’m sure there is nothing Kash needs to be doing right now…

NEW: Natasha Korecki at NBC reports that in light of the SCOTUS tariff ruling, Gov. Pritzker sent President Donald Trump an invoice of $8.6 billion.

1. Of course I love this ad (and Juliana) 2. I don’t think the DC “thinkers” get how much the Democratic base is tired of being lectured to about the “norms.” You guys let Trump throw it all away. Spare us handwringing over language and maybe take to a diner and get in touch with how people feel.

Love actually is all around – and those who think that cruelty can destroy it are incapable of understanding the power of a nation moved by it.

A year ago, I stood before you and asked a provocative question: After we have discriminated against, disparaged, and deported all our immigrant neighbors — and the problems we started with remained. What comes next?

I told @jbpritzker.bsky.social I’d do this job for a year. That was 7 years ago. And this is the 8th State of the State speech…

Go birds

I need a 5000 word explainer and a Netflix documentary on the curling cheating scandal. I’ve heard Bluesky is the app for sports so who is doing this for me?

One of my many reasons I love Chicago is that the weather has been above freezing for two days and my local restaurants are sitting people outside today. It is 44 degrees.

Here’s the fun thing that every good political operative knows - just because you don’t poll something doesn’t make public sentiment cease to exist 🤗

This is - objectively - the most insane, hilarious, idiotic and downright crazy thing I’ve seen a press team (?) do and I have been the chief of staff for the Governor of Illinois for 8 years.

Unidos somos América.

That gave me a boost - like a shot of hope in the arm.

This is a love song to what the Latino community brings to the US - protest in art in its purest form and its widely entertaining. Well done all the way around.

Omg how mad is MAGA right now it’s giving me life

Just a reminder that the last time the Patriots were in the Super Bowl the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social backup QB beat them. Stay tuned to Thai account tonight for more petty facts from a petty Eagles fan.

This is a great standard to apply to your political takes…

This is not “analysis”. It’s also not particularly insightful or intelligent. I need everyone - but particularly this particular commentator - to do much better in this moment.

My Orangetheory instructor had a Jock Jams playlist for class today and damn if that mix doesn’t hit just as hard as it did when I was playing it on my Discman (with 15 second skip protection).

While Donald Trump and RFK Jr. push conspiracy theories over science, my administration is forging a path that puts our people first. Illinois will adopt the American Academy of Pediatrics' vaccine schedule to keep families safe.

1) Bezos current net worth = $261 billion. 2) “Journalism plays a critical role in a free society, and The Washington Post -- as the hometown paper of the capital city of the United States -- is especially important,” Bezos said in 2013, “follow the story, no matter the cost.”

I will once again ask - who did Ken Griffin endorse for President in 2024?

Where are the male reporters when this happens? Why do I never see them stick up for their female colleagues? It’s absurd. Find your courage stones ffs.

🚨 Pritzker: The monsters responsible for unleashing this havoc on American cities, whether they were firing at civilians in the streets or calling the shots from their cushy offices in Washington, need to be investigated and prosecuted.

ARIZONANS: If you have info call Pima County Sheriff’s Department at 520-351-4900.

I am just a simple country political operative but I’m pretty sure that arresting journalists, tanking the economy, engineering widespread corruption all while shooting innocent mothers and VA nurses in the head in broad daylight with 1000 witnesses is not just unpopular but politically disastrous.

Remind me again who Ken Griffin supported in the 2024 elections again?

Somehow we are on the 800th day of January.

Illinois is one of the few states in the middle of the country that protects the right to comprehensive reproductive healthcare. Supporting care here means supporting access for people who have nowhere else to turn.

Stephen Miller is 10 times more dangerous than Kristi Noem who is also dangerous. Best case scenario is that they somehow ruin each other.

I agree with Jonathan Martin’s reporting here about how to decode GOP speak on the killing of Alex Pretti. But man what an indictment on the cowardice of the modern Republican Party. Not an upstander among them.

Juliana has been a great partner for @jbpritzker.bsky.social for almost 8 years and I’m excited to vote to send her to the US Senate.

Yes I am available as a unique voice on this dynamic (also you all are sending me the same ten Insta reels and I appreciate it.)

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

Some of us have been calling it fascism since the beginning. I’m relieved people are seeing it clearly now - but we have lost valuable time to the hopes that things will go back to the way they were.

Literally nothing they tell the press or the public turns out to be true upon real investigation. Nothing.

Pritzker: "The GOP is nowhere to be found. They're the ones that scream and yell about 'federal tyranny' about interference with states' rights. And now, their president is violating states' rights and attacking our states and Republicans are nowhere to be found to talk about it."

Pritzker describes Bovino as "a small supervillain"

Pritzker: "It's like it's become some sort of secret police force for Donald Trump. They need to step back from American cities and in particular, right now, they need to withdraw from Minneapolis."

Masked federal agents in Minnesota just shot and killed another person. We must put a stop to Trump’s ICE. Now. Stop the funding, stop the occupations, stop the killings.

Vance is a smooth talker but he’s encountering 2 issues he’s not used to here: 1. Local press is much better at asking tough questions than the folks they let into the WH press room these days 2. The admin has lost credibility w/the public on immigration & they’re too arrogant to realize it.

Yet again I’d like to say that Howard Dean once did a slightly odd screech at the end of a campaign speech and everyone was like - oh he can’t be President.

"They're going to be held accountable one way or another." IL Governor JB Pritzker vows accountability for current administration officials when Trump's term comes to an end.