Scott Reynolds

Co-founder of a marketing agency. Homeschool Dad. Passionate about education. Fan of the weather. Best wife in kids in the game.

[Scott Reynolds @ScottThinks]

Never fails.

[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.

[Scott Reynolds @ScottThinks]

@stoolpresidente Yes

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Let me ruin your June for a second.

Every year when National Gun Violence Awareness Month rolls around, the same people who have not read a single page of John Lott's 13,312-regression peer-reviewed study start posting pictures of children and demanding you feel responsible for deaths you did not cause and had nothing to do with.

So. Let us talk about children. Since they brought it up.

In 2006, the CDC recorded 642 accidental firearm deaths in the entire United States. For children under the age of ten — the number was 31. Thirteen under age five. Eighteen between five and nine.

Tragic? Absolutely. Every single one.

But here is the number that will not appear on a single "Orange Friday" awareness post: 80.

Eighty children under the age of five drown in bathtubs every year. Every. Single. Year.

ALMOST THREE TIMES as many children drown in bathtubs annually as die from ALL firearm accidents combined — including adults. And forty more drown in five-gallon water buckets. The kind you buy at Home Depot for $4.99.

I have given this information at talks and watched jaws drop, because people genuinely believe the number is in the thousands. They have been so thoroughly marinated in "gun violence awareness" content that their perception of actual risk is completely detached from reality. That is not an accident. That is the point of the campaign.

Where is Bathtub Awareness Month? Where is the congressional hearing on five-gallon bucket control? Where is the hashtag? Where are the orange ribbons for the children who drowned while their parents were in the next room?

There are none. Because the campaign was never about children. It was never about safety. If it were about safety, they would be equally outraged about cars — which killed 1,305 children that same year. Or fire. Or drowning. But they are not. The selective fury lands exclusively on firearms. And if you are a scientist, which I happen to be, you do not get to cherry-pick your data based on which conclusion you prefer. Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism.

Now let us talk about what the actual data says about guns and safety, because John Lott ran 13,000-plus statistical regressions across every county in America and the results are not ambiguous.

Fifty-six percent of convicted felons surveyed in a ten-state study said they would NOT attack a target they believed was armed. Fifty-six percent. The deterrence is real, it is documented, and it functions whether or not a shot is ever fired. The firearm you carry protects your neighbor whether your neighbor knows it or not.

When states passed right-to-carry laws, multiple-victim public shootings — what the media insists on calling "mass shootings" to maximize terror ��� dropped by 67 percent. Deaths in those events dropped by 75 percent. Injuries by 81 percent. States that adopted these laws virtually ELIMINATED mass public shootings within four to five years. The remaining events? They happened almost exclusively in the specific locations where guns remained banned. The gun-free zones. The places we hang the sign that only the law-abiding ever read.

There were between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses in the United States last year alone, depending on which of fifteen national polls you consult. A JAMA Network Open study from March 2025 estimated 489,000 DGUs in which a firearm was actually discharged. The Department of Justice's own National Crime Victimization Survey puts the conservative floor at 65,000 defensive uses per year against assaults, robberies, and home invasions.

No dead body. No coverage. No awareness month.

Here is one more number for you: 74. Seventy-four percent of convicted felons in a National Institute of Justice survey said they actively avoided homes they believed were occupied by armed residents. Criminals respond to incentives. That is not ideology — that is basic deterrence theory, and it is confirmed by the people who actually commit the crimes.

I also want you to think carefully about something the Supreme Court already settled. DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989). Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005). Two separate rulings establishing that the government has NO legal obligation to protect you as an individual. None. You are your own first responder. That is not my opinion — that is settled constitutional law from the highest court in this country.

So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the one demanding you surrender the tool you use to protect yourself.

I want fewer people dead. That is why I know the data. That is why I read the book. That is why I am furious every June when emotion and fundraising replace science and evidence in a "debate" that has actual life-or-death consequences for real people.

You want to honor the children? Honor ALL of them. The ones who drowned. The ones who died in car crashes. And the ones who will never be born because a woman alone in her house at 2 a.m. had no way to stop what was coming through her door.

But what do I know — I am only a published textbook author, a science teacher, a father of four, and a combat medic who spent his career reducing human suffering and who actually read the peer-reviewed data before forming an opinion.

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[Scott Reynolds @ScottThinks]

Keep on doin you, Bernie.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.

This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

[Scott Reynolds @ScottThinks]

@suekhim 2nd and 4th grade here. Math please :)

[Scott Reynolds @ScottThinks]

Pure gold, as always

[Éros Brousson @erosbrousson]

HOLLYWOOD IS 💀🥲

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

“I don’t think a kid is gonna be safer if an encampment is 10 feet away or 500 feet away from a school”
-Nithya Raman

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

California Democrats have increased regulatory costs to grow lettuce 1,400%

New data shows groceries are getting more expensive is because farming is getting more expensive

A Cal Poly study tracked the regulatory costs of a California lettuce farm

- In 2006, it was $109 an acre
- Today, it's more than $1,600 an acre
- That's a 1,400% increase in regulatory costs

I looked more into this and it’s absolutely correct

The study tracked a large scale commercial lettuce grower in the Salinas Valley across 2006, 2017, and 2024

2006: Regulatory compliance costs = $109.15 per acre (about 1.26% of total production costs)

2017: Rose to $977 per acre (795% increase from 2006; 8.9% of production costs)

2024: $1,600+ per acre (63.7% increase from 2017; 1,366% overall increase since 2006; now 12.6% of total production costs).

The state produces 70% of US lettuce

“That dramatic rise has come from layer upon layer of regulation, nearly two dozen of them related to food safety, air and water quality, worker health and safety, and wages.”

California needs to vote Red and stop with all these insane revaluations

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

When I was in my 20’s I was on a TV show. When Karen Bass was in her 20’s, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the LA Times was still in LA, and used to tell the truth…

[Scott Reynolds @ScottThinks]

He should have just called it a day…

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

>cop says he sees her with a phone in her right hand
>she has no right hand
>cop asks her to raise her hand to swear to God
>absolute cinema

[Scott Reynolds @ScottThinks]

I’ve been trying to show folks all of the brilliant @spencerpratt videos. They are absolutely not showing up on @YouTube search. What’s up there? They’re all over @x. Why is YouTube suppressing the truth?

(Thanks @elonmusk for keeping truth alive)

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt just unleashed this MIC DROP

"The number one question everybody has for me when they hear my plan is, how can we do that Spencer? We don't have the money.' WE HAVE THE MONEY. IT'S JUST BEING STOLEN."

Elect this man! 🔥🔥

"You pay countless tax dollars. You're taxed on your income. You're taxed on your gas. You're taxed on your property. You're taxed out the every single expensive transaction you endure is taxed."

Potholes, public safety, homeless? "WE DO HAVE THE MONEY, IT'S JUST BEING STOLEN"

"Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have sunk billions of dollars into the homeless problem, but it's all being wasted on dubious NGOs that increase drug use, hand out needles, and crack pipes, and actually give drugs to the addicts on the streets of LA."

"A developer bought a property for homeless housing, had $11 million. Days later, the city paid him $27.3 million, a $16 million flip. No new carpets, no pool addition, just straight up fraud."

[Austin Lieberman @LiebermanAustin]

Thanks to the @oasishealthapp I’ve switched from poisonous FairLife Protein Milk to Bourbon and I can’t even begin to explain how much healthier I feel.

[Scott Reynolds @ScottThinks]

@nikitabier Stage a demolition derby

[Scott Reynolds @ScottThinks]

@mattvanswol @BasedMikeLee Please reach out. I’m a homeschool dad with two young kids in California. Can give you a ton of input.

[Wendy @teachthemx3]

I have a senior on my roster who hasn’t attended my class a single day this semester. She showed up today for the first time.

We have 7 days left before grades are finalized for seniors.

My administrator just asked me to see what I can do to help her graduate.

In case anyone here is a new follower, this is why I’m leaving public education.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

"Until death, all defeat is psychological." - Marcus Aurelius

Refuse everything that would lead most people to give up.

Refuse it.
Rise from the dead 1000 times.
Commit to never stay down & never give up.
Everything you want is on the other side of struggle.

[Scott Reynolds @ScottThinks]

@dirtgonzo @Osinttechnical Have you ever been? They’re fucking awesome!

[Scott Reynolds @ScottThinks]

Holy shit! Prayers the pilots are ok. They seem to all have ejected.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Footage of the mid air collision between a pair of Navy Super Hornets/Growlers during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base moments ago.