{"id":124399,"date":"2026-02-13T16:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=124399"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:41:03","slug":"favorite-tweets-34389","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=124399","title":{"rendered":"Favorite tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Illinois politicians cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>Say no to every referendum. Defund them every chance you get.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker \u201ctemporarily\u201d doubled income taxes to \u201cfix the pensions\u201d, and as soon as the first decrease came up he said sorry, it\u2019s permanent.<\/p>\n<p>And the pensions were never fixed. https:\/\/t.co\/dkXtFcT5sP<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OwenGregorian\/status\/2022348478580773313\">Feb 13, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom http:\/\/twitter.com\/OwenGregorian<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois politicians cannot be trusted. Say no to every referendum. Defund them every chance you get. Pritzker \u201ctemporarily\u201d doubled income taxes to \u201cfix the pensions\u201d, and as soon as the first decrease came up he said sorry, it\u2019s permanent. And the pensions were never fixed. https:\/\/t.co\/dkXtFcT5sP &mdash; Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) Feb 13, 2026 from http:\/\/twitter.com\/OwenGregorian &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=124399\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite tweets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-124399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124400,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124399\/revisions\/124400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124399"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=124399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}