Brian Harrington

Dad 4x, Serial Entrepreneur, Snack Food Influencer / LaSalle Lax Coach, Loyola Greyhound4Life. Team Travis, If Not Me Then Who?

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

The math here defies reasonable logic. I see no reasonable way the 3rd place candidate suddenly starts beating #1 and #2 4 days after the election. This is third world country stuff we’re watching.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[Brian Harrington @HarringtonBrian]

I’d be interested to hear the opinions of some of my combat friend veterans on Scott Pelley’s assertion that he’s been in combat, risking his life.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley on being fired: “I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.”
https://t.co/LYNUy96E8l

[Brian Harrington @HarringtonBrian]

Can we just make a rule that you can’t host #ncaa regional lacrosse games if you have football lines on your field?

[Brian Harrington @HarringtonBrian]

@Chris_Jast @Inside_Lacrosse BU ahead of Loyola is a travesty and you should be publicly shamed.

[Jordan Matthews @jmattjmattjmatt]

As a first-year coach I had the honor of working with @eli_stowers3 every day. Coaching is easy when your players possess his level of athleticism, intelligence, and playmaking ability. AND he’s an even better person. @Eagles fans, you’re going to LOVE him!

[Brian Harrington @HarringtonBrian]

Frankie Fleetwood is my spirit animal. #masters

[Brian Harrington @HarringtonBrian]

@BookerCorrigan What a guy.

[Brian Harrington @HarringtonBrian]

I can guarantee anybody giving @BookerCorrigan shit has never met Booker. Settle down nerds.

[Brian Harrington @HarringtonBrian]

@CaptainCons In shorts

[ἐκον βρω @EconBreau]

Socialism is the theory that if you abolish profit, bread will somehow bake itself out of moral superiority.

[Moy Miz @moymiz]

The Muslim world is divided about Iran:

Muslim countries in favor of removing the regime:

Jordan 🇯🇴
Kuwait 🇰🇼
UAE 🇦🇪
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Oman 🇴🇲
Qatar 🇶🇦
Bahrain 🇧🇭

Muslim countries against the removal of the regime:

Great Britain 🇬🇧
France 🇫🇷
Spain 🇪🇸

[Brian Harrington @HarringtonBrian]

@CBSPhiladelphia Let me fix this for you.

“2 men light and throw 2 explosive devices into a crowd in New Your City while yelling Allahu Akbar.”

[Brian Harrington @HarringtonBrian]

@NBCPhiladelphia Was this headline written by a kindergartner?

[Brian Harrington @HarringtonBrian]

Ridiculousness

[Matthew Seedorff @MattSeedorff]

NEW: Runners in the Los Angeles Marathon will be able to stop at mile 18 and still receive a finisher medal this weekend.

Organizers say it’s an option for participants who are having a tough race day.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

U.S. Bitcoin merchant adoption keeps growing.

This is what you should be paying attention to.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

This name should not be redacted in the Epstein files.

This person should be exposed and investigated.

And who were they talking about?!

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

In my 16-year career, I have NEVER witnessed the government respond as quickly to an investigation as it has to our recent story on federal contractor fraud.

In the last 72 hours,
⁃ SBA launches investigation into ATI & suspends all contracts.
⁃ Anti-Trust division of the DOJ announces investigation into ATI.
⁃ Treasury Secretary Bessent announced immediate suspension of $253 million worth of contracts to ATI.
- GSA announces support.

People often tell me nothing will be done to the subjects of our undercover investigations - but we are seeing swift action taken by this admin.

This contractor fraud goes so much deeper than ATI & there’s a lot corruption waiting to be to exposed. The American people deserve justice & we will work with this administration to bring accountability.

@SBA_Kelly @SBAgov @gailaslater @TheJusticeDept @SecScottBessent @USTreasury @USGSA

[Brian Harrington @HarringtonBrian]

The tolerant left is at it again.

[Nick Minock @NickMinock]

🚨 New: A man is charged in Loudoun County with threatening to shoot Virginia lawmaker Republican Del. Geary Higgins. After Higgins sent a message informing the public about a sign a woman held at an Arlington School Board rally targeting Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, a man allegedly texted Higgins, “F*** off Geary. I will shoot u @ yer next public rally. Then send you memes with the photos. I know where your f***in kids are too.”

More details: https://t.co/RHom2qc8k3