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Illinois gerrymandering more extreme than Missouri map rejected by Supreme Court https://t.co/dJjR3UsuXj

Need better attorneys in IL I suppose

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Illinois tax burden up $85.6 billion under Pritzker as he enacts 63 tax and fee hikes https://t.co/wTqy85rKCu

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Criminally bad: https://t.co/wT81zJXjV6

[Kenny Webster @KennethRWebster]

Normalize shaming commies

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The Food Stamp Reform Is Working – Wall Street Journal https://t.co/ruSxAPKeBs via @withemes

Yay!!

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High taxes vs. low taxes: Which states are winning the population war? https://t.co/6txv9AK8w2

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

One of the most badass American videos I’ve ever seen 🇺🇸🔥

[Joshua Garrison @Bearded_Bigot]

I bring home a trapped coyote and let it loose in the kitchen.

Hackles up. Teeth bared. Pissing on the floor.

My wife says, "Get it out."

I tell her that is a very unwelcoming and unchristian way to speak about a future house pet.

The children back into the hallway.

I tell them it's a rescue.
I tell them fences are fear.
I tell them cages are barbaric.
I tell them the old rules were cruel.
I tell them it will domesticate in time.

Then I grab my lunchbox and leave them to live with my principles.

When I get home, there is blood on the floor, and the experts who sold me on compassion are already explaining why nobody could have seen this coming.

Anyway, that's Western migration policy.

[Me @elivinicizz]

Who didn’t see this coming?

Chicago Teachers Seek Billions in Special Session for “What We Are Owed” – Jonathan Turley https://t.co/fKzRX1qdMm via @withemes

[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.

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Let’s not forget. A review of Pritzker scandals https://t.co/z9M7rF1W9u

[Katie Pavlich Tonight @KatiePavlichNN]

WATCH: @bungarsargon brings the facts about data used to claim political violence is a "both sides" issue.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Dear President Trump, Thomas Sowell is an American treasure. Please consider honoring him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I can’t think of a greater representative of American values.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Thomas Sowell points out that slavery was a universal evil rather than something local to any specific civilization.

[Phil McAlister @phil_mcalister]

The situation in Illinois is operating exactly how it's been designed by the democrats

They've built it by funneling as much taxpayer money as possible to two groups

1. Unions

2. Migrants and their communities via healthcare and welfare spending.

Both of these segments also have attached contractors, NGOs, advocacy groups, etc all dependent on the flow of dollars confiscated from those who earned them.

This creates a system of well organized institutions who get out the vote and donate to the party monolithically.

Sprinkle in a solid segment of run of the mill liberals who choose their politics based on what they think it signals about the type of person they are, and you've got a coalition thst will never lose.

[Shannon 🇺🇸I stand with America @thewriterme]

Watching a liberal slowly wake up.