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[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

Penn State student Billy Schmidt, 22, was shot and killed just yards from his South Philadelphia home in an apparent armed robbery.

Surveillance video captured him chasing two young men and yelling, "Give me back my phone" before the gunman shot him in the chest.

Another senseless death caused by entitled thugs.

Please pray for his family. 🙏

[🇺🇸 @cdavlin3]

@DoodlesTrks Oven is the only method I use now, and yep, still a pain

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

You guys absolutely need to see this! This is Rodney Smith Jr and through his organization he’s connected 6000 children to help in the community by mowing lawns for free for those in need.

This is what real patriotism and community service looks like! Let’s get him to DC!

[🇺🇸 @cdavlin3]

@joekent16jan19 @themarketswork Our government encourages it

[🇺🇸 @cdavlin3]

@BigFish3000 @KristySwansonXO When we relocated out of state I mailed 3 forms to my last county in Ca where I voted to have myself and 2 adult kids removed

[🇺🇸 @cdavlin3]

@RisingRachel1 @Shawn53226125 @ImMeme0 That's bizarre.

[🇺🇸 @cdavlin3]

@AnubisA27593 @Shawn53226125 @ImMeme0 Do they merge their flag? Its a desecration of the US flag to do this.

[🇺🇸 @cdavlin3]

@Erik_Pressman @GigglingGanon Nope. The should have confirmed instead of grabbing him first

[🇺🇸 @cdavlin3]

@ChaosTV Stop harassing people.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Netanyahu knows Americans are sick of funding Israel’s wars. So now he’s working with Congress to hide military aid inside Pentagon co-production deals.

That means MORE U.S. tax dollars for Israel, with even LESS oversight.

Not gonna happen!

[🇺🇸 @cdavlin3]

@azcentral That sounds awful

[Eric Rice @EA_Rice]

I live here, this is straight up propaganda. Prices are dropping because Americans are leaving the area and Indians are the primary buyers of the houses.

2 weeks ago my best friend sold his house to an Indian family and moved to Tennessee. Monday morning another friend, same story.

In fact I have seen a surge, not a decrease in foreigners over the last few months…with my own eyes.

[🇺🇸 @cdavlin3]

@RepDonBacon Do your constituents?

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Israel & its lobby are attempting a complete takeover of our gov thru a myriad of bills.

One bill virtually no one is talking about is @SenTomCotton’s Section 622, of the FY27 Intelligence Authorization Act which locks US into permanent unbreakable intel entanglement with Israel

[🇺🇸 @cdavlin3]

@dec2024ac1 @CollegeFix And intl students

[🇺🇸 @cdavlin3]

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[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

NU HÄNDER DET.

Idag på Sveriges nationaldag så införs nya krav för att kunna bli svensk medborgare.

▪️Man måste ha ett skötsam och hederligt liv.

▪️Man måste kunna Svenska.

▪️Man måste kunna försörja sig själv.

Detta borde ju ha varit en självklarhet från första början.

[The Appalachian Podcast @GetOnTap]

On this day in 1944 a little town in the Blue Ridge Mountains with about 3200 people would lose 20 sons, with 19 coming on Omaha Beach during the first wave.

The “Bedford Boys” were made up primarily from Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, and trained for two years in England before leading the charge for one of the greatest battles in history. Bedford would lose 23 sons in total, making it the highest per capita loss of life of any town, which led Congress in to designate Bedford as the site of the D-Day Memorial, dedicated in 2001.

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

@RealAlexJones Ya’ll at InfoWars need to talk about ALL 5 of these bills and provisions because collectively, it’s a complete takeover.

[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.

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

Eric Trump claims that "80%" of his dad's company is Jewish:

"They used to say that our family hated Jewish people. It’s kind of ironic, considering how hard I fight for Israel, and the fact that 80% of the employees of my organization are Jewish, probably 50% of my best friends are Jewish and my sister is an Orthodox Jew."