Brendyn Ford

Indiana Bears & Chicago Cubs | Culver’s #1 Fan

[Illinois Review @IllinoisReview]

The Bears Aren’t Bluffing: They’re Choosing Indiana Over Illinois https://t.co/PlsUCkA8AP

[Burns @therealburns3]

If the Bears moving less than a quarter mile over the border is the reason you leave the fanbase after years and years of misery you were never a Bear in the first place

[Brendyn Ford @YouFoundBrendyn]

@DarrenBaileyIL You also would have lost the Bears.

https://t.co/fxdrDIq8Hf

[Darren Bailey @DarrenBaileyIL]

I love the Bears. Like millions of Illinoisans, I want them to stay in Illinois.

But the collapse of the mega projects bill is ultimately good news for homeowners.

Illinois families already pay some of the highest property taxes in America. Homeowners don’t get special tax deals. Small businesses don’t get special tax deals. They pay what they owe. I don’t think billion-dollar sports franchises and developers should play by a different set of rules.

The hard truth is that Illinois has backed itself into a corner. Decades of bad decisions and kicking the can down the road has left us in a position where it’s difficult to compete with states like Indiana without asking taxpayers to shoulder more of the burden. Indiana has far more flexibility to throw incentives around. Illinois doesn’t.

What bothered me most about this process was the rush. Governor Pritzker and legislative leaders were willing to move heaven and earth to push through a complicated, decades-long tax deal for billion-dollar interests in the final hours of session.

That was reckless. It was irresponsible. And above all, it was selfish.

Where is that same urgency for the homeowner getting crushed by property taxes? Where is that same urgency for families watching their tax bills climb year after year? Where is that same urgency for seniors wondering if they can afford to stay in the homes they spent a lifetime paying for?

Springfield always seems to find time for the wealthy and well-connected. It never seems to find time for the people paying the bills.

And that's what I hate about this debate. I love the Bears. I want them here. But I can't look a homeowner struggling to pay their property tax bill in the eye and tell them they should subsidize a stadium for a franchise worth billions of dollars.

If I were governor, my message to the Bears ownership would be simple: you own the land, you own the team, and you should build the stadium yourselves.

There is no easy answer here. If the Bears leave, it will be painful and disappointing. But asking middle-class families to pick up the tab is not the solution.

Illinois homeowners have sacrificed enough already.

[Frank Calabrese @FrankCalabrese]

I think the Bears stadium in Arlington Heights is dead without PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) legislation. Taxes without PILOT would be $54 million a year, per the Cook County Treasurer report. Will the collapse of the PILOT bill force the Bears to consider staying in Chicago?

[Brendyn Ford @YouFoundBrendyn]

Ok that was cool

[Underdog MLB @UnderdogMLB]

PCA crushes a homer 444 feet while Cardinals fans chant "overrated"

[m @downbadbears]

Repost to make a Caleb Williams hater angry

[Michael Busch Lover @BuschMVP]

Shota Imanaga in 2026

[Happ Hater @HappHate_]

HAPP BENCHED AGAIN!!!

[Happ Hater @HappHate_]

Happ literally every at bat

[Brendyn Ford @YouFoundBrendyn]

Watching Ian Happ and Seiya Suzuki at bats with RISP

[𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗦 📀 @AlbumTalksHQ]

NOBODY:

ABSOLUTELY NOBODY:

MY BRAIN EVERY 10 MINUTES ⤵️

[Seyram @__theSeyram]

You people said what? Drake elimination? Lmao you can’t fake influence all the brands hoping on

[Brendyn Ford @YouFoundBrendyn]

@TerryMillerBSU @OpoyChase We’re in “position to win” territory now

Holy cope brother

[litquidity @litcapital]

The Gemini team seeing Google invest in their largest competitor

[Next Gen Stats @NextGenStats]

The Bears’ 2026 draft class ranks as the most athletic class league-wide by average NGS athleticism score at 83.

Each of Chicago’s first six picks earned an NGS athleticism score of 76 or better.

@ChicagoBears | #DaBears

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.

It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.

You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

[⚚Sage @belikesagee]

When the coworker with the lightest workload says they're "stressed' and you're fighting for your life every shift.

[Lissa♥️♥️ @lizzkelly7]

The fake urgency created in corporate life for absolutely no reason is one of the worst things humans have invented.