Emily Brooke

Christian, wife, mother, daughter, friend, bibliophile, and pro-life advocate.

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

Getting to hear your baby’s heartbeat for the first time is surreal. No baby bump yet, but there’s already a second heart inside me, beating away. Pregnancy is simultaneously so ordinary, and an absolute miracle. #elevenweeks #fetaldevelopment #prolife

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

@megbasham Megan I was a huge fan of you before, but if that’s a basset hound you may be my soul sister.

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

@bethanyshondark And the “get fixed” comment. What was the Chesterton quote about when people treat animals like humans, they’ll treat humans like animals? I bet she has a doodle she sends to daycare.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

Conservatives don’t buy children.
Conservatives don’t deliberately deprive children of mothers.

And conservatives don’t support “conservatives” doing either of these things.

We aren’t conserving anything if we aren’t conserving the family.

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

Crossing this bridge on a perfectly clear day was one of the most terrifying experiences I have had driving. I cannot imagine doing it with any impaired visibility.

[Dave Bondy @DaveBondyTV]

The Mackinac Bridge is hidden by Canadian wildfire smoke.

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

Your pub's flag isn't on the moon

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

Welp, Ope… I don’t know about that.

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Reminder that 95° and humid is better than 10° and a wind chill

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

How is it possible, that in the Year or Our Lord 2026, we have no magical miracle migraine pill?

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

I think there is something so divinely inspired about the anniversary of the Dobbs decision coinciding with the Feast of St. John the Baptist—the one who, in the womb, recognized the pre born Jesus for who He was.

[Di (Yee) - Currently away @nguyenhdi]

Flannery O'Connor on the teaching of literature in school:
"And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed."

[Charles Correll III @_CharlesCorrell]

It’s like watching Tocqueville live tweet Democracy in America, and I think that’s beautiful

[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.

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

@Legal_Ministry @DKSports Actually, it made me a single friend he came up to me afterwards to say he agreed with me. But still.

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

@Legal_Ministry @DKSports I voiced concern about the legalization of sports betting at a county GOP meeting. It…did not make me any friends.

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

Closet finish in Indy history AND a the most lead changes. Even when the Sun don’t shine, IMS brings the drama 🏁🏎️

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

Green and white flag this is insane #indy500

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Maturing is realizing this is a bigger deal than the Super Bowl

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

The annual Pentecost tradition (today!) at Rome's Pantheon is a moment of extraordinary beauty.

It occurs every year on the seventh Sunday after Easter. At noon, after the Holy Mass, thousands of rose petals are dropped through the oculus of the mighty dome.

As the petals fall, a choir sings "Veni Sancte Spiritus," known as the Golden Sequence, a masterpiece of sacred Latin poetry.

This is to celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Virgin Mary and the Apostles.

The rose petal ritual likely dates back to 607 AD when the pagan temple became a Christian church.

[Emily Brooke @EBMcNally]

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/artists you’ve seen live:

1. John Mayer
2. NEEDTOBREATHE
3. Goo Goo Dolls
4. Matchbox Twenty
5. Garth Brooks
6. George Strait
7. Tim McGraw
8. Martina McBride
9. Jimmy Buffet
10. Zac Brown Band

[Lisa Cooper 🦬🦬🦬 @LaLaLisaCooper]

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/artists you’ve seen live:

1. La Dispute
2. The Get Up Kids
3. Rilo Kiley
4. Ben Folds
5. Emery
6. Good Old War
7. Connor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band
8. Nobunny
9. Snowing
10. ‘68

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

All this gibble gabble about Nolan’s Odyssey and NO ONE can see the objectively correct solution.

Muppet Odyssey. Everyone would love it. Helen of Troy could be green or blue … or a pig … and no one would care.

It’s perfect. All we need is to pick out the token real human. It’s your call …