Bill Taylor

[Bill Taylor @bestbill1]

@Statesdontexist @libsoftiktok Provide the definition with resources, not opinion please. Educate us!

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A German soccer fan who flew to the USA but was fearful about coming because of news about criminals and people being mean...

...breaks down into TEARS, live on air saying he has FALLEN IN LOVE with America after a random man named "Bob" in Boston gave him a ride home after he was stuck at a game with no way back to his hotel

The German soccer fan's name is Sebastian, he said after meeting Bob, he extended his entire trip.

He said leaving America will hurt worse than watching Germany get knocked out of the World Cup.

"I fall in love with America. I'm sorry, it's just so emotional. Americans are not rude... if we are together, we can achieve great things."

THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Challenge Accepted! Javon of Carter Lake,Iowa has stepped up to make a difference and accepting our 50 yard challenge , committing to mow 50 free yards for those in need in his community. This is what it’s all about. Welcome to the family, Javon!

[David Gebala @DavidGebala]

There's my girl ❤️ \m/(>.<)\m/

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

The Daily Script:
“Katie was killed by an illegal immigrant...but gun violence...”

I have heard this response many times, and I genuinely do not understand what it has to do with the way my daughter Katie died.

First responders had to pry open the destroyed vehicle she was a passenger in and struggle to pull her lifeless body from the wreckage after an illegal immigrant driving drunk, with too many red flags to list in this post, crashed into them.

Illinois still gave him credentials to drive on our roads and live in our communities?
Why?
.@GovPritzker?
.@Giannoulias ?
.@KwameRaoul?
Still waiting for answers and accountability...

Yet somehow, the conversation immediately pivots to “gun violence.”

That response creates a false equivalence.

Acknowledging that Katie was killed because of preventable immigration and public safety failures does not minimize the tragedy of gun violence any more than discussing gun violence minimizes the pain of families who have lost loved ones to drunk driving, addiction, or other preventable causes.

We do not honor victims by forcing every tragedy into the same political narrative.
We honor them by honestly confronting the specific circumstances that led to their deaths and holding accountable those responsible for the policies that made those circumstances possible.

Let me be clear: losing a child in any way is horrific. Every parent who buries a son or daughter carries a pain no family should ever have to endure.

But when a child is lost because of preventable public policy failures pursued for political gain, that burden becomes even heavier.

When leaders knowingly ignore foreseeable risks, dismiss legitimate concerns, and prioritize ideology over public safety, they are making choices that carry real-world consequences for innocent families.

Katie's death was not an unavoidable tragedy.
It was preventable.

If anything, the people shouting this at me should recognize we likely share the same concern: politicians whose reckless policies create environments where public safety continues to deteriorate in multiple ways at once.

When governments allow millions of people to enter the country with inadequate vetting, no meaningful health screenings, and little regard for existing immigration laws, they accept risks on behalf of American families without their consent.

Some people who come here seek a better life.
But any serious person understands that among millions of unvetted entrants, many will come with harmful intentions, criminal histories, or dangerous behaviors.

Those risks are magnified when governments incentivize, fund, and shield unlawful presence while dismissing legitimate public safety concerns as political inconveniences.

What never made sense to me is why some of the same voices who demand accountability for "gun violence" refuse to acknowledge the role policy failures play in crimes committed by those who should not have been here in the first place.

Why is one form of preventable violence treated as urgent while another is ignored because it conflicts with a preferred political narrative?

And why is every public safety problem presented as having only one acceptable solution: restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens?

That decades-old one-trick-pony approach has clearly not solved the problem.

Real public safety begins with intellectual honesty.

Different causes of violence require different solutions, and pretending otherwise serves politics, not families.

Shouldn't we be bolder, more creative, and more curious about why violence keeps happening in the first place?

Who is behind the violence?
How are repeat offenders cycling endlessly through the system?
Why are so many violent offenders already known to authorities?

Why are broken families, addiction, gangs, failing schools, mental health collapse, and cultural decay so often ignored in favor of simplistic political slogans?

Real public safety problems are multifaceted.

Serious people should be willing to confront all of it, not demand one ideological solution while everything continues to get worse.

Meanwhile, my daughter Katie is still gone.

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

.@GovPritzker,
with assists from: @giannoulias, @SenatorDurbin, @SenDuckworth, @ToniPreckwinkle, @KwameRaoul, @illinoisdems

It has been 17 months since my daughter, Katie, was killed on the streets of Urbana.

Our family carries the heavy weight of losing Katie.
I live with the unbearable reality that I was not there for her final breaths, and her siblings now carry a grief that will shape the rest of their lives.

This is not a statistic. This is generational trauma inflicted on an innocent family.

Yet for all this time, you have chosen silence.

You speak forcefully on issues across Illinois and across the country.

You seek national attention and present yourself as a leader of conviction. But when policies in your own state leave devastation behind, you refuse to acknowledge the human cost.

Not once have you publicly said Katie's name.
Not once have you responded to the letter I sent you in January 2026.
Not once have you spoken directly to the family living with the consequences.

Leadership is not measured by how loudly you speak when the cameras are on.
Genuine leadership means recognizing the death and devastation that can result from your policies, acknowledging the families left behind, and having the wisdom to course-correct when those policies fail.

Silence in the face of loss is not neutrality. It is a decision about whose pain deserves to be seen.

Katie was loved beyond words.
She mattered.
Her life had immeasurable value.

Refusing to acknowledge Katie's life and death, our pain, or reconsider policies that contributed to this tragedy speaks more to your character than it ever could about our loss.

@GovPritzker say her name. Katie.

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