Jacob Kaplan 🇺🇦

Executive Director - Cook County Democratic Party. Lawyer. Lifelong Chicagoan. Student of history.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Leaked audio: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers asking for officers at polling stations to intimidate voters

"We called the RNC early and said hey... Let's put police officers, retired or off-duty police officers as our poll watchers in Detroit because go ahead, try to intimidate them. Please."

[Cook County Dems @cookcodems]

As you fill out your mail in ballot or head to the polls to early vote, don't forget to vote for all our #DemApproved nominees and retention judges!

[Cook County Dems @cookcodems]

Thanks to everyone who made last night's annual reception a huge success! A special thanks to Governor @JBPritzker for keynoting our event, and congratulations again to all of our great honorees. Onward to victory November 3!

[Cook County Dems @cookcodems]

See everyone tonight! Tickets still available: https://t.co/K33Pgeapgd

[Cook County Dems @cookcodems]

Our annual reception is a week from today! Purchase tickets now: https://t.co/K33Pge9RqF

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

since becoming president again, Trump has promised:
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
-$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms
no checks have been issued

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Dear world:

Please accept out apology for the idiocy of our current president and the cravenness of his apparatchiks. Hang in there and we will be back, one day soon, on the side of sanity and decency.

Sincerely,

Patriotic Americans of goodwill

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

What does it say about Trump's soul that he bombed a school full of Iranian girls and won't admit it, and then hid like a scared little bitch while his staff, secret service and press acted as decoys? Pipe down about morality, ICE propagandist.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Just the President of the United States casually saying Somalis aren’t smart and have no aptitude. I probably have the woke mind virus, but this is an insanely racist and gross thing to say. Trump is trash.

[Jacob Kaplan 🇺🇦 @JacobFC]

@JoshLipnik So sorry for your loss Josh

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

I can't think of a more man baby quote than saying "I'll be criticized - what's new" to try to alibi yourself while doing something you know is wrong. Unbelievably pathetic. I have more respect for the unapologetic fascists and pricks.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

“Listen to his words” - @BillAckman

@NYCMayor’s words:

“Ours is a nation working each day towards the perfection in which it was conceived. A nation striving each day to better itself. Therein lies the work of America — the striving, the bettering, the reaching towards perfection.  

What a privilege each of us has, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses, to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before. What power each of us holds, to bring America ever-closer to the greatness so many have seen when they looked upon these shores — the greatness that, for 250 years, has been America.  

Thank you. God Bless America, God Bless New York City, and happy Fourth of July.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

It’s so disgusting watching these guys pretend to be shocked by a well established long term status quo which has proved to be a great benefit to our entire society.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

The most racist man I’ve ever met.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States.

Here's the National Archives:

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

I’d like to think we’re not yet actually a Third World country, though we do have a cartoonishly Third World “leader”.

https://t.co/EbsgDajiZY

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

What a truly evil way to treat people who risked their lives for the United States

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Its insane some rightists have taken up anti-flight from parts of the degrowth left

There are definitely places it can be replaced by HSR, and its fuel made more efficient, but flight is incredible! One of the best parts of the modern world! We're never getting rid of that!

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

An absolute insane person. My god.