@JamesTVlietstra@laurenboebert@POTUS In the winter, you won’t see daylight until 9 am
Work that requires daylight will be delayed, causing the workday to begin later & last longer into the evening.
After work activities will need to be pushed back.
Dump DST, keep STD year round.
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.
She was 28 years old. She was a girl from Brooklyn who had spent years doing soap operas and bit parts nobody remembers. She was up against 4 of the most respected British actresses alive. When her name was called, the audience gasped. Then the rumors started. And what Hollywood did to her that night — before and after — is the part of the story that still makes people angry today.
Her name is Marisa Tomei.
And this photograph was taken on March 29, 1993, at the 65th Academy Awards — the night she walked to that stage and changed the conversation about what an Oscar winner is supposed to look like.
She was born on December 4, 1964, in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Her father Gary was a trial lawyer. Her mother Patricia was an English teacher who worked tirelessly to help her daughter soften the hard Brooklyn edges in her voice — not because she was ashamed of where they came from, but because she understood that the world would try to use that accent against her daughter.
She was right. And she was wrong. Because eventually, that exact accent won her the highest acting award in the world.
Marisa fell in love with theater at age 12.
Her parents took her to see A Chorus Line on Broadway. She sat in that theater and felt something irreversible happen inside her. She walked out and told her family she was going to be an actress.
She attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn. She was in every production she could find. She played Pippin on stage. She delivered a Julius Caesar oration in junior high that made her teachers pay attention. She was the kind of student that a drama program quietly organizes itself around.
She enrolled at Boston University to study theater.
Then, while still a student, she was cast in 19 episodes of the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns — playing a teenager named Marcy Thompson. She was 19 years old. She left Boston University.
She went to New York City instead.
She auditioned for everything. She took classes at NYU. She did off-Broadway theater. She made her film debut in a single line in The Flamingo Kid in 1984 — starring Matt Dillon, directed by Garry Marshall. She had an uncredited role in the 1984 cult film The Toxic Avenger. She played a college roommate in the first season of A Different World — the Cosby Show spinoff starring Lisa Bonet — in 1987.
Small roles. Bit parts. The daily grind of a working actress in New York who has not yet caught the break she can feel coming.
Then, in 1991, she appeared in Oscar alongside Sylvester Stallone. A comedy. A flop. Critics were not kind.
Nobody was paying much attention.
Then came My Cousin Vinny.
The film was a 1992 courtroom comedy about 2 college students from New York who are wrongly accused of murder in rural Alabama. Joe Pesci played Vinny — a brash, inexperienced lawyer defending his cousin. And Marisa Tomei played Mona Lisa Vito — Vinny's fiancée from Brooklyn. A woman who stamps her foot, chews her gum, wears her hair enormous, and knows more about automotive mechanics than anyone in the courtroom has ever seen.
It was, on paper, a supporting role in a lightweight comedy.
Marisa Tomei turned it into something that audiences could not look away from.
She was funny in a way that required tremendous precision. Every gesture was specific. Every line reading landed exactly where it needed to land. The great scene — the 1 scene that every critic cited — is the moment Mona Lisa Vito takes the witness stand as an expert automotive mechanic and proceeds, with stunning authority and a Brooklyn accent thick enough to cut with a knife, to dismantle the prosecution's case completely.
Even Roger Ebert — who was only mildly positive about the film overall — said her performance was a high point. He wrote that he would like to see this couple again.
The Academy nominated her for Best Supporting Actress.
Her fellow nominees were Judy Davis for Husbands and Wives. Joan Plowright for Enchanted April. Miranda Richardson for Damage. Vanessa Redgrave for Howards End.
All 4 of them were British. All 4 were veterans with decades of celebrated work. Vanessa Redgrave was considered the overwhelming favorite. Industry insiders barely acknowledged Tomei as a serious contender.
The presenter that night was Jack Palance — 73 years old, fresh off his own triumphant Oscar win the previous year, known for his 1-armed pushups at the podium.
He opened the envelope.
He said: "Marisa Tomei."
The audience gasped.
She walked to the stage. She gave a speech full of genuine gratitude and joy, thanking her family and her cast.
And before she had even left the building, the whispers had started.
Within days, a conspiracy theory spread across Hollywood and into the entertainment press. The theory went like this: Jack Palance had misread the envelope. He had called out the wrong name. The real winner was Vanessa Redgrave. But nobody at the Academy wanted the embarrassment of admitting the mistake — so they simply let it stand.
The Hollywood Reporter insinuated it. Entertainment Weekly picked it up. It spread from there.
The Academy moved fast. Its president, Karl Malden, stated categorically that the voting was conducted correctly, that the results were verified by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse, and that the correct name had been read. Price Waterhouse confirmed it publicly. Every safeguard that existed in the Academy's voting process confirmed it.
Marisa Tomei won that Oscar. Legitimately. Completely. Without error.
But the rumor did not die.
"I was crushed," she said later in an interview. "The work speaks for itself. But the rumors were awful."
Here is what the rumor was really saying, underneath the surface.
It was saying: a girl from Brooklyn, in a comedy, playing a character with a thick accent and enormous hair, cannot possibly have beaten those women. It was saying: this kind of performance — funny, specific, physical, loud, unashamedly working-class — does not deserve to stand next to Howard's End and Enchanted April and Damage. It was saying: we did not expect you to win, and because we did not expect you, we have decided the system must be broken.
That is not a rumor about Jack Palance's eyes.
That is a rumor about who Hollywood thought deserved to be taken seriously.
Marisa Tomei kept working.
In 2001, she received her 2nd Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for In the Bedroom — a quiet, devastating film in which she played a grieving mother with subtlety and depth that silenced every person who had spent 8 years calling her 1993 win a fluke.
In 2008, she received her 3rd Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Wrestler — Darren Aronofsky's brutal film starring Mickey Rourke, in which she played a stripper navigating her own invisible expiration date with heartbreaking honesty.
3 Academy Award nominations. 1 win. Across 15 years. From a woman the industry had tried to reduce to a punchline.
And then, in 2017, she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Aunt May in Spider-Man: Homecoming — a role she carried through 3 films and a box office gross of more than $3 billion combined. An entirely new generation of moviegoers fell in love with her.
She is 61 years old now. She has never stopped working.
Look at this photograph from that March night in 1993.
She is 28 years old. She is standing at the 65th Academy Awards. She has an Oscar in her hands that she absolutely, legitimately won — and that half the room will spend the next decade trying to take from her in the only way left available to them: by simply refusing to believe it.
She believed it.
She went back to work.
And the work proved everything.
Share this with someone who needs to be reminded — that the most powerful thing you can do when the world refuses to believe in what you earned is to simply keep earning it, until they run out of excuses.
Let me ruin your June for a second.
Every year when National Gun Violence Awareness Month rolls around, the same people who have not read a single page of John Lott's 13,312-regression peer-reviewed study start posting pictures of children and demanding you feel responsible for deaths you did not cause and had nothing to do with.
So. Let us talk about children. Since they brought it up.
In 2006, the CDC recorded 642 accidental firearm deaths in the entire United States. For children under the age of ten — the number was 31. Thirteen under age five. Eighteen between five and nine.
Tragic? Absolutely. Every single one.
But here is the number that will not appear on a single "Orange Friday" awareness post: 80.
Eighty children under the age of five drown in bathtubs every year. Every. Single. Year.
ALMOST THREE TIMES as many children drown in bathtubs annually as die from ALL firearm accidents combined — including adults. And forty more drown in five-gallon water buckets. The kind you buy at Home Depot for $4.99.
I have given this information at talks and watched jaws drop, because people genuinely believe the number is in the thousands. They have been so thoroughly marinated in "gun violence awareness" content that their perception of actual risk is completely detached from reality. That is not an accident. That is the point of the campaign.
Where is Bathtub Awareness Month? Where is the congressional hearing on five-gallon bucket control? Where is the hashtag? Where are the orange ribbons for the children who drowned while their parents were in the next room?
There are none. Because the campaign was never about children. It was never about safety. If it were about safety, they would be equally outraged about cars — which killed 1,305 children that same year. Or fire. Or drowning. But they are not. The selective fury lands exclusively on firearms. And if you are a scientist, which I happen to be, you do not get to cherry-pick your data based on which conclusion you prefer. Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism.
Now let us talk about what the actual data says about guns and safety, because John Lott ran 13,000-plus statistical regressions across every county in America and the results are not ambiguous.
Fifty-six percent of convicted felons surveyed in a ten-state study said they would NOT attack a target they believed was armed. Fifty-six percent. The deterrence is real, it is documented, and it functions whether or not a shot is ever fired. The firearm you carry protects your neighbor whether your neighbor knows it or not.
When states passed right-to-carry laws, multiple-victim public shootings — what the media insists on calling "mass shootings" to maximize terror — dropped by 67 percent. Deaths in those events dropped by 75 percent. Injuries by 81 percent. States that adopted these laws virtually ELIMINATED mass public shootings within four to five years. The remaining events? They happened almost exclusively in the specific locations where guns remained banned. The gun-free zones. The places we hang the sign that only the law-abiding ever read.
There were between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses in the United States last year alone, depending on which of fifteen national polls you consult. A JAMA Network Open study from March 2025 estimated 489,000 DGUs in which a firearm was actually discharged. The Department of Justice's own National Crime Victimization Survey puts the conservative floor at 65,000 defensive uses per year against assaults, robberies, and home invasions.
No dead body. No coverage. No awareness month.
Here is one more number for you: 74. Seventy-four percent of convicted felons in a National Institute of Justice survey said they actively avoided homes they believed were occupied by armed residents. Criminals respond to incentives. That is not ideology — that is basic deterrence theory, and it is confirmed by the people who actually commit the crimes.
I also want you to think carefully about something the Supreme Court already settled. DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989). Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005). Two separate rulings establishing that the government has NO legal obligation to protect you as an individual. None. You are your own first responder. That is not my opinion — that is settled constitutional law from the highest court in this country.
So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the one demanding you surrender the tool you use to protect yourself.
I want fewer people dead. That is why I know the data. That is why I read the book. That is why I am furious every June when emotion and fundraising replace science and evidence in a "debate" that has actual life-or-death consequences for real people.
You want to honor the children? Honor ALL of them. The ones who drowned. The ones who died in car crashes. And the ones who will never be born because a woman alone in her house at 2 a.m. had no way to stop what was coming through her door.
But what do I know — I am only a published textbook author, a science teacher, a father of four, and a combat medic who spent his career reducing human suffering and who actually read the peer-reviewed data before forming an opinion.
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How do I know the media is brainwashing people?
Obama's ICE Chief received the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service for removing over 900,000 illegal aliens.
Trump's ICE Chief is called a Nazi.
It is the same person.....Tom Homan....
The only difference? The narrative.
HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.
Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible]
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent]
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following.
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments!
The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though.
Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so but it’s worth a try.
How many people can YOU send this to?
I want to be really clear in my response. I am not going to retract anything, I stand by every single word. Labour are calling for me to apologise. The answer is no.
Industrial rape across almost every town and city in Britain.
Sexual torture. Murder. Endless rape.
I sat there for two weeks, listening to these girls.
I heard how one girl was raped by a dog, as Muslim men bet on what the animal would do.
Girls drugged and locked in cages, like rats.
Another, raped by 700 men over three years.
Dozens and dozens of these stories through our inquiry, and we are barely scratching the surface.
This was allowed to happen EXACTLY because politicians were cowards, refusing to discuss it.
I will not make that same mistake. I said what I said, and I meant it.
The Labour Party have blood on their hands, yet they think they can demand an apology from me for highlighting the systemic evil they allowed to infect our entire country?
They can piss off.
I am angry about it. Furious. When you hear directly from these girls about what they have been through, it changes the way you see politics. Forever.
Our report will be out very soon.
When that happens, I don’t want any apologies from the Labour Party. I don’t care about that.
I want to see those politicians responsible for covering up this atrocity behind bars for what they have done to these girls.
Bill Maher fires back at Billie Eilish and leftist “kids” who “don’t know what the f*ck” America is about.
“I want to… say something about Western civilization. Kids, you don’t know what the f*ck it is.”
“They think Western means white—and white means bad. First of all, everything bad that white people did, people of color did it, too. The Japanese before World War II and during World War II. And Genghis Khan, and I could go on and on.”
“The left is very down on America, very down on the West. And it’s ironic because the West has also given us everything that makes your life good here. Don’t ask Billie Eilish or Chappell Roan about what the Western values are, because they’ll just say it’s about oppression.”
“But it’s not about oppression. It’s about rule of law. It’s about respect for minorities. It’s about democracy. It’s about scientific inquiry. These are all good things that came from the Western world. I wish that schools would teach that again.”
🚨 JUST IN: Stephen Miller lays it out PERFECTLY
Imagine a "native Minnesotan who works as a lineman...worried about his ability to support for and provide his family."
"And then imagine that he has a neighbor who's a SOMALI REFUGEE who arrived two years ago and has a Mercedes and NO financial stress and no worries at all in the entire world and never seems to ever go to work at all because he just went to an office in the state, lied on a piece of paper, and got unlimited free money forever for life!"
"THAT is the system that is being run and that is the corruption that this task force under the leadership of the Vice President is going to demolish."
@TRUMPNEWS_QQ
Every single word here is a lie. Charlie’s love will last me a lifetime. The Lord is the only one who can ever fill that most painful void.
On May 14th I was home in Arizona celebrating my son’s 2nd birthday. Blake (who is about to be engaged to his longtime gf) was a dear friend of my husband’s and I am grateful for his continued support, just like hundreds of others.
Your deranged obsession with me and blatant disregard for any form of truth whatsoever is deeply disturbing and I am praying you get the help you so clearly need.
Brush off the Dorito dust and go touch grass.
Dear Brett Michaels,
I read your weak-ass beta boy excuse to why you're dropping out of the 250th celebration concert. You thought this celebration was going to be about unity?
How cute bro.
(pats your head and gives you a treat)
Unity stopped the moment they labeled half the country "deplorables," "MAGA extremists," and domestic terrorists.
Unity stopped when they stole an election and planted a vegetable at the White House.
Unity stopped when they cheered lawfare against political opponents while ignoring their own scandals.
Unity stopped once they indicted President Trump and tried to assassinate him four times.
Unity stopped the minute they assassinated Charlie Kirk.
Unity is gone Brett.
We are way past that.
We have a better chance of a civil war than we have of unity.
Most of the fans you have left are people like me, not the blue haired pronoun people.
Enjoy irrelevance ya has-been.
In freedom,
Mr. Star-Spangled MAGA
🚨JAW-DROPPING TRUTH FROM STEPHEN MILLER: "This was the plan all along - to get them here illegally so they can get free government benefits, get hooked to welfare and be able to participate in American elections. This was an attack on democracy by the Democrat Party!"
"The Biden admin devised a scheme to fly illegal aliens into the country and then to escort them en masse across the border by the millions and to give them something known as 'parole,' which gives them a work permit, which gives them a social security number, which gives them access to the VOTING BOOTH."
Do you believe that this was an ATTACK on our democracy?
Bill Maher asks how Mississippi is kicking California’s ass in education, and Texas is “blowing them away” in green energy for “way less money.”
“Did you know that a black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading as one in California? Mississippi is kicking our ass in education and for way less money. We’re 37th in fourth-grade reading, they’re ninth.”
“Texas is kicking our ass in green energy. The average time to get solar panels connected there is three to four months. About 1,000 days faster than it took me. Remember when I was trying to get my solar hooked up? It would have been quicker to build a windmill.”
“Texas has passed California in solar and blows away California when it comes to wind and energy storage. How does a state with no pro-climate policies produce better climate results than a state where here, even though we have so much better bumper stickers on our Priuses?”
“I’ll tell you why. Because you’re allowed to build there because every third person in Texas isn’t someone whose job it is to make sure nothing gets done.”
“Democrats, these are your issues: education, race, the environment.”
“And I say this with love: you’re losing to the Waffle House, car-on-the-lawn states.”
Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?
You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.
You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."
They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.
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