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[Jeanne Ives @JeanneIves]

Governor DeSantis and Governor Pritzker each just signed their 8th state budgets. The contrast couldn't be starker. And the lesson is that who you elect matters. Change out the politicians and you get different policies.
For reference, Florida is 1.8x more populous than IL, 23.37m people compared to 12.71m people. Now consider these points:
1. FL general revenue budget is $52B, IL is $56B. Because state's have different ways of budgeting, lookimg at the total FY27 budgets, FL =$117B, IL=$130B. This doesn't make sense.
2. Pritzker advocated for and signed the largest budget in state history this year and in previous years. DeSantis has lowered the amount spent every year for the last four years and vetoed over $10B in spending during his time in office. Pritzker's budget is up $16B since he took office.
3. Pritzker brags about his credit upgrades, but IL has the worst state credit rating, FL has the best credit rating.
4. FL has a rainy day fund of $18B. IL rainy day fund is $2B.
5. FL is pushing $78B in road programs and moving planned projects ahead 5-15 years. IL can't even get projects planned, permitted and built in a timely manner, so many projects are left undone and money sits in an account collecting interest. And now that surplus interest is being sent to the CTA to bail them out.
6. DeSantis has given back over $9B in taxes. Pritzker has raised taxes every year for a total of over $77B according to IPI.
9. FL is giving $5,000 signing bonuses for police officers. IL politicians want to defund the police.
10. FL is on the cusp of eliminating property taxes for 60% of home owners and they have no state income tax. IL has the highest property taxes, plus individial income and estate taxes, high corporate taxes, and there's been no attempt to meaningfully lower property taxes.
Yes, elections have consequences. But, it can all ve reversed. DeSantis barely got elected 8 years ago. Your vote matters.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This earthquake video from Venezuela is absolutely insane and sad.

[Carlos A. Lopez @LosTalksPats]

Former #Patriots WR Josh Gordon says Tom Brady made him and other teammates live with him during the offseason.

“He made us live with him in the offseason. Like train right there, his wife making us food and everything like that. It’d be me, [Julian] Edelman, and [Rob Gronkowski]… We would just do the most crazy routine of like standing in one spot and at least 50 times you just catching one specific pass... Alex Guerrero, his coach, is just holding the gun, like a speedometer for baseball, that was just clocking if it stays at 62 miles per hour… Meanwhile your hands are just f***ing taking a beating… That’s about the craziest s**t... He’s obsessive, bro. That’s the craziest s**t. When you see how hard people prepare.”

(🎥 N3on on Kick)

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

Today the @Cubs' Dansby Swanson:

hit a grand slam
hit a 3-run HR
hit a triple
stole a base
drove in 10+ runs

Since RBI became official in 1920, no other MLB player has accomplished more than 3 of those 5 feats on the same day.

[DrNTXNews @DrNTXNews]

Texas Instruments is dropping $60 billion on four massive chip plants in Sherman Texas.

Drive I-75 north and see for yourself — there are apartment complexes going up fast to house foreign workers for the 60,000+ jobs.

Is Sherman ready to become Little India?

[GENO™️ @WeldrSkeltr]

🚨 Backyard SUMMER just got UPGRADED! 🌊😎
Coleman’s Lazy River is the ultimate new twist on backyard swimming fun — endless floating, zero lines, pure family vibes for the WHOLE crew! ☀️👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
Just in time for the 4th of July fireworks… imagine this in YOUR yard?! 🇺🇸💦

Who’s ready to build their own mini version this weekend? Drop your setup ideas below! 🛠️🔥 (Tag a friend who NEEDS this!)
What are you floating on first? 👇 #LazyRiverGoals #BackyardParadise #FourthOfJulyReady

[ABC News @ABC]

An Illinois man captured the moments a tornado ripped through and destroyed his home in Effingham on Wednesday night. The resident of the home, Trevor Kreke, appears to be in disbelief, thanking God as he sat in the remains of his home. https://t.co/IeF2TNHeBo

[Over-Slot Baseball @OverSlot_]

The 2027 Mississippi State pitching staff has a chance to be historic and generational. Perhaps one of the greatest staffs of all time.

Could it hold three first round picks? Five Top 100 picks?

A deep dive and analytic breakdown on the boys of Starkville.

👇STORY👇

[Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Gitmo99]

China's "Sky Ladder" (Tianti) is a 168-meter (551-foot) suspended via ferrata ladder located on Mount Qixing in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province. Suspended 5,000 feet above the valley floor, it challenges thrill-seekers to climb near-vertical rock faces with an awe-inspiring and terrifying drop directly below.
The Sky Ladder is the grand finale of an intense 1.4-kilometer via ferrata (a mountain route equipped with steel cables, handrails, and metal rungs).
While climbers are suspended over a massive abyss, they are constantly clipped into a heavy-duty steel safety cable system.

[Mike Rodriguez @mikedeportes]

According to what former MLB player Yadier Molina posted on his Instagram account, the plane that crashed in which the pilot and co-pilot, the only people on board, lost their lives was heading to Texas to pick up him and his family. The accident occurred in La Romana, Dominican Republic. #YadierMolina

[dank @cptdankkk]

Rob Gronkowski says he lived off $50,000 as an NFL rookie because he understood the NFL meant "Not For Long"

"My agent gave me a $50,000 advance for what's going to come in the marketing world for myself. I just had to pay him back within the first $50,000 I made"

"I was able to purchase my first car, which was a 2008 Escalade, and then to be able to pay rent once I got to New England. And then from there on out, I really didn't need any other money"

"I was getting free meals at the facility. I just kind of needed gas money. You go out, the drinks are free or you pay for one, you get 10 free when you're when you're on the Patriots up in the Boston area"

"So I wasn't really spending much money at all, especially when it got to the season. I mean, you're inside that building and everything's handed to you on a daily basis from breakfast all the way to dinner"

"I just lived off my marketing dollars. I was living a low-level life. I had a condo with a roommate that was on the team as well. We're paying $1,500 a month in rent while in the NFL"

"I was very frugal and that's how I got away with it. Not having any lavish purchases, the first couple years in the league and just banking away what I was making because I truly understood that the NFL stands for not for long"

[AllieJade @AllieJade1]

A front seat view of what it's like to ride the Top Thrill Dragster, Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio. 420 ft tall!
Would you ride it?

[wildcat979 @wildcat979]

@Update_Kentucky What the hell is he waiting on? Make up your freaking mind. This is bs.

[Landon Howell @landonhowell]

Still thinking about how Dick Trickle kept a pack of cigarettes and a lighter in the car and would smoke mid-race.

[Jen @IlliniJen]

JUST IN: 15 people held at gunpoint in Chicago’s trendy River North, Streeterville, and Lakeview over recent weeks. Robbers forced cash app transfers, stole phones, kidnapped some in a black BMW, and drained accounts on the spot.

Right on cue, one stunned local says: “I mean, this is supposed to be a safe area.”

Meanwhile, @ChicagosMayor brags that last summer was Chicago’s safest in 60 years while rolling out his new 2026 Summer Safety Plan of youth jobs and safe spaces.

Nothing to see here, Chicago.

Our “safe areas” clearly just need more investments.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

EXPOSED 🚨 California Democrats are paying people to be homeless

Homeless man moved across country to California to be homeless

“How long you been in San Francisco?”

Homeless man “Since June. If you're gonna be homeless, it's pretty f*cking easy here. I mean, if we're gonna be realistic, they pay you to be homeless here”

“When you said that San Francisco pays people to be homeless, what did you mean by that? You mean that literally?”

Homeless man “$200 food stamps and $620 bucks cash a month — it's free money, dude. This right now is literally by choice. Literally by choice. Like, why would I want to pay rent? I'm not doing. I got a cell phone that I have Amazon Prime and Netflix on”

“How was that hard to get?”

Homeless man “F*cking phone call, bro. F*cking phone call.”

This is the scam,

- California Democrats pay these people to be homeless
- The homeless problem never goes gets solved
- They can then justify laundering billion and billions are year to their NGOs and get filthy rich

This is the Homeless Industrial Complex