Jeremy

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[Remarks @remarks]

JUST IN: 🇯🇵🇺🇸 Tokyo, Japan will be illuminated in red, white, and blue to celebrate America's 250th Independence Day.

[Philadelphia Eagles @Eagles]

Go Birds from the start

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Senate passes bill to limit big investors from purchasing additional single-family homes.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

It's OK to love America.

[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.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Spencer Pratt to Nithya Raman on homelessness:“I’ll go below the freeway tomorrow with her to find some of these people she’s going to ‘offer treatment’ for. She’s going to get stabbed in the neck. These people don’t want a bed—they want fentanyl…”

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

California is trying to pass a bill that would criminalize investigative journalism with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown.

The proposed bill is titled AB 2624 and was made after I exposed mass fraud by immigrant groups in America.

Under AB 2624, government-funded entities like the Somali “Learing” Daycare centers would be protected from being exposed if they operated inside California.

The enemy truly is within. When our politicians would rather protect fraudsters and illegal migrants, it’s time for us to stand up or face mass oppression from the traitors who “rule” over us.

[PBD Podcast @PBDsPodcast]

.@patrickbetdavid on how there is something special about farmers that no AI will ever be able to replace.

"There is something so beautiful about what a farmer does that an AI language learning model will never, ever get my heart the way a farmer gets my heart."

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Kentucky family turns down a $26M offer to their farm into a data center.

The offer is roughly 10X the rate for farmland in the area.

Major respect!

“Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful & most noble employment of man.” George Washington

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

[JJ Watt @JJWatt]

Genuine question on a restaurant situation:

You walk up to a counter to order.
You find your own table and seat yourself.

If you order coffee, they hand you a cup and you go fill it up yourself.

If you order food, they hand you a buzzer and when it goes off, you go pick it up yourself.

The iPad has a “20%, 25%, 30%, Other” tip option, with 20% already preselected.

What’s your move?

[Justis Mosqueda @JuMosq]

Don't cut that player. Go call the Dallas Cowboys right now

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

It goes without saying, but you should not believe anything you read on this platform for the next 48 hours at least.

[Luke Rudkowski @Lukewearechange]

Never forget the gaslighting that they put you through

[SPORTSRADIO 94WIP @SportsRadioWIP]

Former Sixers GM Billy King on Allen Iverson: "Allen never asked for, 'Give me this guy or that guy.' Every year he would tell me, 'This is the best roster I've ever had,' because he believed in himself."

[Jeremy @jshimko22]

@EliotShorrParks Noooooooo.

Screams Ben Simmons / no work ethic, all over again!

[Word On The Birds @WordOnTheBirds]

One high-ranking league source who was in the room said, “Lurie was like a guy trying to convince his girlfriend why she shouldn’t leave him.” Throughout his pitch, Lurie was emotional, passionate and — at one point — crude. He said the fact that his team came up with a play so unstoppable that the rest of the league had no other choice but to try to ban it was “like a wet dream for a teenage boy.” Toward the end of his address, he told the assembled owners that, regardless of the day’s result, he and his franchise would walk out winners, with Super Bowl rings to show for it.

Lurie is the goat. 🐐

(Via: @DMRussini)

[Philadelphia 76ers @sixers]

#tbt to when we won the 1996 draft lottery and ended up getting this guy…