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Living in Smyrna TN with my wife Pam (@pkgoodenough). Retired from logistics work. Sing w Nash Symph Chorus, St. B’s Episcopal, Bass 2

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@NBCNews I just need to know where “very slightly drunk” lies on the drunkenness continuum… is it between very drunk and slightly drunk? Or is very slightly less drunk than slightly drunk? Inquiring minds want to know…

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@BBCWorld

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@FoxNews Hmmm… that thing that “never happens” just keeps happening…

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@AmFootballin 🇪🇸

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@europapress Hay (en el mismo Gobierno de España) quienes quieren acabar con España. Es un fin legítimo acabar con ellos…

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[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.

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@SOrbit31914 Dr. No, Doctor Leonard Bones McCoy, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Dr. Strangelove, Doctor My Eyes…

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@AntiLeftMemes No… but close!

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@elespanolcom @JCorbachoUC Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Pete Sampras, Patrick Stewart… no, habrá sido Perro Sanxez

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@AntiLeftMemes I don’t respond to stupid a$$holes

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

Statement from Chairman George H. McCaskey and President & CEO Kevin Warren:

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

🗣️ Mauricio Pochettino on Brenden Aaronson missing training to get married. "The human being is always at the front of my mind.

"Players need to plan their lives, and the decision [to get married in late May] was made more than two years ago before I took charge.

"At the time, FIFA didn't allow a national team to play a warm-up game before 1 June and that was why they planned [the wedding].

"I wanted to allow Brenden to go. I know the type of professional player he is. It’s a good thing to let him celebrate...

"In the past, maybe people thought we [coaches] are all dictators. Maybe when I was a player, it was impossible. My old coaches would have said, 'I don’t care about you and your kids' [laughs].

"But today's society has evolved. Now we think about these things in more human terms than in the past.

"We were all happy. I am happy. He’s happy. His wife is happy."

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@rwilliamsdc @ChrisCillizza Get up off your kneepad now. And stop swallowing.

[Marcos de Quinto @MarcosdeQuinto]

No estamos ante una crisis política, no. Esto ya no va de política, sino va de que acabamos de descubrir que una banda de criminales estaba a punto de hacerse con el Estado. Solo les quedaba destruir la UCO y anular a algunos jueces para poder hacer lo que quisieran y perseguir a quienes nos opusiéramos a ellos.

Todavía no han sido vencidos, simplemente han sido descubiertos. Por ello, hoy más que nunca la ciudadanía ha de estar alerta para plantar cara a estos delincuentes.

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@ChrisMi94378056 @Footballtweet

[Muy.Mona/🇪🇸💚 @Capitana_espana]

Hay que tuitearlo todos los días.

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@SOrbit31914 Dr. Who

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@gaceta_es @RafaelNieto46 … que también comienza con la letra “P”…

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@gaceta_es @RafaelNieto46 El periodismo de verdad ya está muerto. Se ha degenerado en otra profesión, la etiquetada como “la más vieja del mundo”…