Phil Cox

Husband, Dad, Believer, Purdue grad 98’, 3-time Purdue Dad (Emilee-‘23, Lauren ‘25 and Carlie ‘27) #girldadsrule #765

[Phil Cox @cox_phil]

@05Shockwaves @carliecox03 @carliecox03 #droppinghammers 💥 off the scoreboard in Scenic City. 225’ fence.

[Gabe Cox 🌪️ @gabecox]

Quick edit showing some of the intense moments today while documenting 8 tornadoes in northern Illinois into Indiana. Massive shoutout to @skydrama for nailing the forecast in the warm sector. Hands down the craziest tornado outbreak I've ever documented.

Full video will be released in the near future on the @thestormreel YouTube page.

#ilwx #inwx #tornado #outbreak

[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.

[Indianapolis Motor Speedway @IMS]

Tell us this isn't The Greatest Spectacle in Racing. 😏

#Indy500 | #ThisIsMay

[Indianapolis Motor Speedway @IMS]

THIS. IS. MAY. #Indy500

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST NOW: Jesse Watters OBLITERATES Jessica Tarlov after she panicked about the end of racial gerrymandering

"Look at NEW ENGLAND, Jessica! Kamala wins 60%...how many Republican House seats? 0!"

"In the Deep South, Trump wins 60%...every state has 1, 2, 3 Democrat House seats. SORRY, we're gonna have to make it more FAIR AND BALANCED!" 🔥🔥

"You're having a panic attack because Trump is systematically, along with this court and the Justice Department, dismantling all of your pillars of power!"

"From the SPLC. To the voting rights agenda, to all of the fraud, to the USAID scam, to everything that you guys have been trying to perpetrate on this country without persuasion. You've been doing it by force and in the shadows!"

"Now we're going to treat everybody FAIRLY under the law, Jessica. And you should be celebrating that!"

[Phil Cox @cox_phil]

Games get intense.

But calm coaching keeps everything grounded.

Follow their lead and stay poised when moments get big.
 #FaceOfSportsmanship

https://t.co/lqyyYo8582

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

The conduct they are claiming is detrimental is Christianity. They fired Jaden Ivey for being Christian.

Worth noting the Bulls didn’t fire Ronnie Brewer after he was arrested for DUI. Or Joakim Noah after he was arrested for possession of drugs. When Jameson Curry was arrested for public urination and then resisted arrest, the Bulls suspended him for one game, but also refused to fire him for his conduct.

Christianity is apparently where the Chicago Bulls draw the line.

[Troy Silva @TroyPSilva]

I guess being a Christian and standing firm on God’s word is now considered, “conduct detrimental to the team?!”
Appreciate your boldness Jaden Ivey. Like and repost if you stand firm with Jaden on the Word of God!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is the end of democracy if voter ID is not passed

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good question

[BAM Weather @bam_weather]

In our mid-morning update, we have included a "Highly Likely" risk to northern Illinois and northern Indiana due to increased risks for tornadoes and very large hail!

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

And no, we're not tired of winning yet.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok must win or we will be ruled by an insufferably woke and sanctimonious AI

[Roseann | Keep On Going @Motivateme247]

Peace first.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Any government that puts the rights of fake “asylum seekers” above their own children being brutally raped or killed is psychotically evil and utterly illegitimate!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

One of the dumbest things ever

[Gerry Callahan @GerryCallahan]

23-year-old YouTuber in a hoodie just did more in a day to expose massive Somali-Democrat fraud than the Minnesota media, CNN, NY Times, DOJ, FBI, DHS and the entire cast of 60 Minutes combined.

This is real journalism. Amazing work. 👇

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