We need to call this what it is: another illegal, extreme, and dangerous attempt to take power away from the American people and hand it over the wealthiest man in the world, Elon Musk, who wishes to decide which U.S. citizens can and can’t vote.
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To be in the Trump inner circle you have to be a great liar. You will be given talking points to stick to. Just be angry at all times and deny deny deny. Stick to alternate facts. Point fingers at others. Distort the truth. Never take accountability
Distract with other announcements.
Be like Trump
We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper.
Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.
Governor: let them do this. The map is going to look like 1964 and we can turn the tables then. Repukes and poor rural people don’t have passports/can’t get them. We the left overwhelmingly have the means to get them / have them. This likely helps us…
@govpritzker.illinois.gov The right and lawful thing to do. It should be a given. It used to be congressional republicans who were incapable of this; now it’s both fed and private agencies and institutions who receive federal funding. It’s extortion…”comply or die.” What comes next frightens me.
Thank you. Sadly, I live in a red state with a red governor and I will be surprised if he doesn't just jump right on this new "requirement" right away.
I wish the other dem governors would be as outspoken. They are a huge disappointment. They care more about their run for 2028 than the immediate emergency.
Pritzker is a scumbag. His blind trust companies holds stock in some of Illinois top contractors - to the tune of $20 billion - probably more now. One of those companies is Centene Corp, a large IL Medicaid contractor.
I know Illinois follows the law of the land, but could you guys just invade and annex the eastern half of Iowa real quick? Then you can go right back to being a law-abiding democracy, I promise
Thank you for your leadership, Governor Pritzker. From your statements to the graduating class at Northwestern, to your State of the State earlier this year, you have exemplified the righteous mix of compassion and dedication to the law. We need this template more than ever.
In the face of these attacks on voting rights, Illinois will continue to administer free and fair elections while standing up for strong, secure, and accessible democracy.
I searched MY governor's timeline to see if the richest state in the nation is also taking a stand to defend our voting rights, and instead I saw a bunch of posts about arresting people, and Anna fucking Wintour
In order to do this we must ensure those to volunteer at polling places must be vetted.
Groups like Shannon Adcock’s Awake Illinois were recruiting & training “volunteers” & harvesting ballots all through FB & other social media. We have the receipts they turned this into a jim crow election
Have you Beloveds seen what they are doing to the poor SwastiKKKars?🤪
#teslatakedown
My favorite thing is being underestimated⭐️
Poor MAGAs have no idea how powerful we all are together, and how many of us there are. They won't stand a chance when we start pouring into streets to remove them
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Uh, @govmaurahealey.bsky.social, I think it’s time for a goddamn statement please. From a MA resident who proudly voted for you and is regretting it more and more with each passing day of silence from you 😔
Well she sure has showed me she ain’t no leader. I was 10,000% behind her from the beginning but if she couldn’t rise to this moment she’s as limp as Schumer.
And there's a beautiful elections clause that gives states the right to run elections so long as they don't violate the Constitution or laws passed by Congress
Trump's job is to execute*the laws" passed by Congress and defend the Constitution
Our elections are neither free nor fair right now- and they have not been for a long time. We are kidding ourselves because we are drowning in voter suppression and we are ruled by a minority.
Trump just signed an executive order that could block millions from voting. It’s unconstitutional, dangerous, and a power grab disguised as 'election integrity.' Here’s why this move threatens our democracy—and why we must act now to stop it
The president is the chief enforcement officer of the US. The executive branch is limited to enforcing laws. Executive Orders have impact only in that they reference methodologies for enforcing existing laws. If an EO speaks to anything other than how to enforce a specific law, it's worthless.
This is what I expect to see and feel in our leaders! True spine backed by pure simple authenticity. It can’t be bought,faked or denied. Ya either get it or you don’t! Straighten up, unequivocally get it — or get out of the way! @housedemocrats.bsky.social
@democrats.senate.gov
This is great JB. But can you please not call musk the wealthiest or richest man in the world?? He probably isn't, it's all on paper. And if he is the richest by what? $75 compared to the next richest guy? I've seen people refer to him as Trump's megadonor. I like it.
Listen I hate the man and want everyone to find him as gross and stupid and evil and annoying as I do. But it’s 2025, everyone’s net worth is “only on paper”, especially everyone with more than a million dollars. And Elon is factually the wealthiest man in the world, we can’t manifest that away.
You're way over impressed by money. I really do not fucking care if musk is the richest or second richest guy on earth. Wealth on paper can disappear with stock market things. My tweet was about not calling him that because it's praise. And he's vile and dangerous.
That’s not praise and we’re not side stepping this reality by agreeing never to call Musk rich. He’s objectively the richest man in the world, and he is an apartheid emerald mine nepo baby. I’m not impressed by Elon Musk or his wealth lmao. But we cant tax the rich if we dont admit that theyre rich.
And a stock market crash hurts everyone else far more than it hurts Elon Musk. Normal people need it, retirees especially need the market to survive to keep up their 401k accounts healthy. So pointing out that his wealth is in stocks is tedious, most everyone’s wealth is in real estate and stocks.
His net worth is mostly in stock that virtually everyone agrees is ridiculously overvalued. If any loans for which it’s collateral are called in, its value will drop by an order of magnitude. So take the worth of his TSLA shares and divide it by 10 to get his real-world net worth.
We’re playing imagination games here. I mean that would be sooooo sick god i would drink so many beers to celebrate. But the market currently agrees that tsla is worth 902 billion dollars so we cant say that everyone agrees that it’s ridiculously overvalued - tesla has a literal market value lol.
We’re deep into a bull market even after the trump tariff shakedown. So i agree that it’s all technically over-valued but that doesn’t mean elon’s net worth can be calculated any differently than jeff bezos’s. If TSLA is hyper-over-valued than so is AMZN.
That’s something pretty specific to Musk and TSLA too; even when significantly overvalued, most publicly traded companies aren’t overvalued to such an extreme degree. TSLA’s PE of 140 should be close to Ford’s 7.05, Toyota’s 7.56, Honda’s 6.88, etc. Or even Apple’s 35.5 (normal for a tech company).
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Distract with other announcements.
Be like Trump
Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.
The sooner we accept this reality the better we will understand it and know how to combat it.
This Nazism is on the rise in Europe and South America.
To not say what you truly believe is some version of a lie.
It would take Marshall-Plan-like scale, but it’s absolutely achievable.
Looking at you @governor.ca.gov
#joshshapiro
Nice projection, tubby!
It’s only a matter of time before people wake up.
What worries me, though?
They’re already laying the groundwork to rig the midterms.
Time is running out!
Thanks for standing up to these bastards.
I wish I was joking
I’m all for giving kids wings to make their own choices but keep their feet grounded FFS 😒
Groups like Shannon Adcock’s Awake Illinois were recruiting & training “volunteers” & harvesting ballots all through FB & other social media. We have the receipts they turned this into a jim crow election
It's a stain on our city.
#teslatakedown
My favorite thing is being underestimated⭐️
Poor MAGAs have no idea how powerful we all are together, and how many of us there are. They won't stand a chance when we start pouring into streets to remove them
💙🇺🇸💪🏼🏴☠️
That’s why we call Trump followers a cult. They’re not republicans. They’re Trump supporters. If Trump turned against republicans, they would too.
Trump's job is to execute*the laws" passed by Congress and defend the Constitution
Not to invent stuff on his own
https://jasonegenberg.substack.com/p/the-executive-order-that-could-destroy
Hopefully he wont take advice from his podcast guests
JFC what an asshole he has turned out to be
Any way you can get Dick Durbin to stop being a Trump-enabling dipshit?
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This is what I expect to see and feel in our leaders! True spine backed by pure simple authenticity. It can’t be bought,faked or denied. Ya either get it or you don’t! Straighten up, unequivocally get it — or get out of the way! @housedemocrats.bsky.social
@democrats.senate.gov
He's claiming sole power to threaten and (if it's his whim) to console
Playing God is not going to end well for him, our job is to keep his blasphemous pretenses from destroying us
TAKE SOME DAMN NOTES FROM THE GOV.
It is accurate to call Elon the richest man in the world, and he has 50% MORE wealth than Jeffrey Bezos. A lot more than $75 lol
Why don’t you just get a job at MSNBC because what you’re saying here has no basis in fact.
I don’t think there’s any part of Statesman in you. Every day you try to scare the citizens of Illinois.
When are you lowering State income tax?