Anne Caprara

Wait I’m sorry daylight savings is this weekend? Did someone send out a memo? Is it on the calendar? The sun needs to let us know I have a lot going on.

Americans don’t like war - for very good reasons. And this locker room talk might feel good while playing Call of Duty with the bros - but I assure you it’s widely unpopular with regular people who don’t want their kids and grandkids to go to war or their tax dollars spent to send them there.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

I also just learned that @jbpritzker.bsky.social has appointed me to be “Special Envoy for the Shield of New Illinois”

If you are in line to post a Kristi Noem getting fired joke - STAY IN LINE.

I’m ready to vote for any candidate who runs on promising to end this winter. Give me negative ads about the corporate overreach of big winter. Run against actual snowflakes. Promise to eradicate both kinds of ICE. Vow to raise temperatures while lowering costs. A platform we can all support.

Maybe - and I know this is so crazy - but maybe Democrats should just go out and campaign against Trump and his policies bc they are massively unpopular and start worrying more about being seen as insufficiently tough and less about how to be a somewhat Republicany Democrat. Just a thought.

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

Yes

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

Henry. First of all this is very illuminating thank you. Second of all yes I would like to come to Aurora for a demonstration.

You are a gentleman and a patriot, Johnny Two Hats

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.

Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.

Unidos somos América.