Illinois is set to lose “another major business” as hardware wholesaler True Value will move its headquarters to neighboring Indiana. The move adds to the “growing list of well-known employers that have chosen to leave the state,” the Illinois Senate GOP said. “Do it Best Group recently announced that it will move True Value’s headquarters from Chicago to Fort Wayne, Indiana. True Value, a longtime Chicago-based hardware wholesaler, was acquired by Do it Best in 2024 after filing for bankruptcy,” the Illinois Senate GOP added. More below: After 78 years in Chicago, True Value’s HQ is bolting to Fort Wayne, Indiana. Pritzker called Indiana a low-wage state that isn’t attractive to anyone. Hundreds of jobs just chose Indiana over his Illinois anyway. Another one fleeing his sky-high taxes and endless regulations.… pic.twitter.com/WrmQA60Bun — Jen (@IlliniJen) July 5, 2026 The Illinois Senate GOP stated: For many employers, the challenges of doing business in Illinois continue to grow. High taxes, rising costs, burdensome regulations, and uncertainty about the state’s future are making it harder for businesses to invest, expand, and create jobs. When businesses leave, it does not just impact corporate headquarters; it affects workers, families, communities, and the state’s overall economy. Senate Republicans have continued to push for reforms aimed at supporting workers, encouraging investment, and helping businesses create and retain jobs in Illinois. Those proposals include: Senate Bill 3786 would create a Legacy Tax Credit for businesses headquartered in Illinois to encourage investment, job retention, and long-term economic growth. Senate Bill 3873 would make Illinois’ Research and Development Tax Credit permanent, giving employers more certainty as they invest in innovation and job creation. Senate Bill 3792 would eliminate Illinois’ income tax on tips, allowing service industry workers to keep more of their hard-earned money. Illinois should be a place where businesses want to grow and where families can build a future, but until Governor Pritzker and his allies take action to improve the business climate, reduce costs, and make Illinois more competitive, the state risks seeing more employers and opportunities move elsewhere. Meanwhile, Illinois could potentially also lose one of professional football’s most beloved franchises to Indiana. The Chicago Bears are contemplating building a new stadium in Indiana. UPDATE: Chicago Bears Take The Next Step Towards FLEEING Chicago and Illinois Altogether! Yahoo Sports explained further: Adam Schefter has claimed the Chicago Bears' proposed move to Hammond, Indiana is no bluff, describing the stadium push as close to a done deal. The Bears' stadium saga has dragged through Chicago, Arlington Heights, and now Northwest Indiana, but this latest turn feels different. That is why Schefter's wording matters. This was not framed as simple leverage against Illinois, but as a real step toward moving one of the NFL's most historic teams across state lines. Speaking in an ESPN clip, Schefter explained why the Bears' Hammond stadium plan has suddenly become much more serious. He said: "Well, it's amazing because we saw last week that the Bears board of directors voted on Thursday night to advance the stadium development in Hammond, Indiana." Schefter then added important context about where things stand: "The exact site is still to be selected. I reached out to one guy after the vote and word started getting out, and his exact words to me, I will read them to you from his text." Then came the line that will worry Chicago fans most: "I was like, 'is this real? Are they moving to Indiana' and he said: 'Yeah, it is. It's not a bluff. There is more work to do but barring anything strange, it's a done deal.'" The project has been reported as a huge stadium development that could reach the $5 billion range, with Indiana offering major incentives to lure the Bears over the border. The key issue is certainty. Illinois has struggled to deliver a clean stadium path, whether through the lakefront vision or Arlington Heights, while Indiana has moved aggressively. The post Blue State To Lose “Another Major Business” – Adds To Growing List appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

Andrew Gillum was supposed to be the future of the Florida Democratic Party. Instead, he keeps ending up in police reports. The former Tallahassee mayor and 2018 Democratic nominee for Florida governor was arrested July 2 in Daphne, Alabama, on drug charges. The Daily Caller News Foundation reports Daphne police took Gillum into custody and booked him into the Baldwin County Jail on drug-related charges. He was released the following day. DCNF identifies Gillum as the former Tallahassee mayor and 2018 Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee, the man who won that primary in a major upset before narrowly losing the general election to now-Gov. Ron DeSantis. The outlet also points to the larger arc here: Gillum was once treated as a major Democratic rising star, but the years after 2018 have brought repeated scandal, legal trouble, and public embarrassment. It also notes the race was so close that DeSantis’ victory remained one of the narrowest and most consequential wins of the 2018 cycle. This latest arrest now puts Gillum back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. The specifics of the stop are what stand out. Fox 13 Tampa Bay reports officers stopped Gillum around 10:45 p.m. on U.S. Highway 98 near North Main Street after they say he was driving erratically. Police identified the driver as Andrew Gillum, 46, of Tallahassee. Fox 13 reports an officer spotted a glass pipe sitting on the center console, and that sighting led to a search of the vehicle. According to the report, officers recovered several rolled marijuana cigarettes and three packages of a substance that later tested positive for methamphetamine. Fox 13 also tied the arrest back to Gillum’s Florida political career, noting he served as Tallahassee mayor before losing the 2018 governor’s race to DeSantis by roughly 30,000 votes. A late-night traffic stop in Daphne led to drug charges against Andrew Gillum, a former nominee for Florida governor. Police said officers recovered several rolled marijuana cigarettes and three packages of a substance that tested positive for meth. https://t.co/bZCmmnTaRA — WEAR ABC 3 (@weartv) July 7, 2026 Gillum was booked on possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia, and marijuana possession. WCTV reports the Baldwin County jail roster showed Gillum taken into custody July 2 at 10:44 p.m. local time and released July 3. The station listed the charges as possession of dangerous drugs, drug paraphernalia, and second-offense marijuana possession. It also reported that Daphne police said the stop happened on Highway 98 near North Main Street after erratic driving. WCTV said one officer noticed a glass pipe on the center console, and the later search allegedly turned up rolled marijuana cigarettes plus three packs of a substance that tested positive for methamphetamine. Local reporting also confirmed that the dangerous-drugs charge is a felony, while the marijuana and paraphernalia counts are misdemeanors. That puts one felony and two misdemeanors on the books from a single late-night traffic stop. According to a news release I obtained from Daphne Police, marijuana cigarettes and methamphetamine were found in Gillum's car. He's facing one felony and two misdemeanors. https://t.co/GrjntxU8BJ — Jeff Butera (@BayNews9Jeff) July 7, 2026 Gillum served as Tallahassee mayor from 2014 to 2018 before running for governor. That race was close. He came within less than a percentage point of DeSantis, losing by fewer than 34,000 votes. The years since have been rough for the man Democrats once treated as a national name in waiting. A 2020 incident at a Miami Beach hotel drew heavy public scrutiny, though no charges were filed against Gillum in that episode. Then came a 2022 federal campaign-related case. AP reports his 2023 trial ended with a hung jury on conspiracy and wire-fraud counts and an acquittal on a charge of lying to the FBI. AP also confirmed the Alabama arrest, reporting that Gillum was stopped for erratic driving in Daphne and charged after police said they found marijuana and meth in the vehicle. The report said court records for the new case were not yet available, and lawyer or comment information was not immediately available at the time of publication. AP also noted Gillum had been a co-host of the politically themed Native Land Pod, which won an NAACP Image Award in 2025. That detail matters because Gillum had not fully disappeared from Democratic media circles before this arrest. That means the criminal case still has to move through Alabama, but the political damage is already obvious. The 2018 Florida governor’s race will go down as one of the great sliding-doors moments in American politics. Ron DeSantis, after “begging” for President Trump’s endorsement, eked out a 0.4 percent win over the Democratic mayor of Tallahassee, Andrew Gillum. In the years since,… pic.twitter.com/TD99tUPnTH — The Spectator (@TheSpectator) July 7, 2026 Florida made its choice in 2018, and it looks better every year. DeSantis went on to build one of the strongest Republican records in the country while the man he narrowly beat kept turning up in headlines like this one. The next steps for Gillum will play out in an Alabama courtroom, not on any campaign trail. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Former Democrat Rising Star Andrew Gillum Arrested AGAIN, Police Say Meth And Marijuana Found In Vehicle appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Texas to enforce, at least for now, a law that requires app stores to verify users’ ages and for minors to obtain parental consent before downloading apps or making in-app purchases. “In a pair of brief, unsigned orders issued on Monday afternoon, the justices turned down requests to reinstate orders by a federal judge in Austin that barred the state from implementing the law,” SCOTUSblog reports. “There were no public dissents from the orders,” it added. The Supreme Court allowed Texas to continue enforcing its App Store Accountability Act, which requires age verification and parental consent before minors can download apps or make in-app purchases. pic.twitter.com/bwMCuioxm8 — SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) July 6, 2026 SCOTUSblog explained further: The law at the center of the dispute is the Texas App Store Accountability Act, also known as SB 2420. There are two separate sets of challengers in the case. The first set, led by a group known as Students Engaged in Advancing Texas, which says that its members “use mobile apps to teach other kids how to get involved in policymaking,” went to federal court last October to challenge the law before it could go into effect on Jan. 1, 2026. The second challenger, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, a trade group that represents (among others) app stores and app developers, filed a similar challenge the same day. In both cases, the challengers argue (among other things) that SB 2420 violates the First Amendment. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman issued an order in December that temporarily blocked the state from enforcing SB 2420. But last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit put Pitman’s orders on hold, prompting the challengers to come to the Supreme Court a few days later. In their filing asking the Supreme Court to reinstate Pitman’s orders, the students told the justices that the 5th Circuit’s decision “would render virtually the entire internet—not to mention the distribution of every book, newspaper, magazine, movie, or record album—‘commercial speech’ the government could more readily ban, restrict, edit, or compel. That is clearly wrong.” Moreover, they noted, Texas already shields children from accessing adult content online, in a separate law that the Supreme Court upheld last year. Therefore, the students said, SB 2420’s stated goal of protecting them “from ‘accessing harmful or inappropriate content’ … is not a valid government interest.” In its own brief, the CCIA argued that the 5th Circuit’s decision “has upset the status quo by allowing the Act to be enforced for the first time, exposing app stores and millions of app developers to potential liability” and subjecting them to “enormous and unrecoverable compliance costs.” And in any event, the group added, the app stores that the CCIA’s members operate already “provide various, voluntary tools that enable parents to control their children’s exposure to apps and content.” When Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill into law in May 2025, Texas became the second state to pass an age-verification law. Republican Governor Signs Bill Requiring Age Verification To Download Apps Critics said the bill essentially mandates digital ID to access apps. “In Texas, Apple and Google will now be the bouncers at the front door of the internet, checking IDs for every app download,” Reclaim The Net wrote last year. In Texas, Apple and Google will now be the bouncers at the front door of the internet, checking IDs for every app download.https://t.co/81ONgZUwxX — Reclaim The Net (@ReclaimTheNetHQ) May 29, 2025 Opponents of the bill also cited the attack on privacy and online anonymity by requiring verification of an individual’s identity with their digital presence. Attorney Tom Renz called it "Digital Track & Trace in disguise." Watch below: App Store Accountability Act = Digital Track & Trace in disguise. They define “personal data” as anything linked or reasonably linkable to your kid, including pseudonymous data they can reconnect. But they exclude de-identified and publicly available data. That’s the lie.… pic.twitter.com/tAXJLvwFAY — Tom Renz (@RenzTom) July 7, 2026 More from the Associated Press: Plaintiffs’ lawyers argued that the law impermissibly seeks to limit access to content protected by the First Amendment, including news and educational material. “Equity and the public interest support relief because protecting First Amendment rights — and parents’ rights to supervise their children as they see fit, not as the government tells them they should — is always in the public interest,” wrote attorneys for Students Engaged in Advancing Texas. Attorneys from Paxton’s office argued that the law protects children from “dangerous modern products.” “A child with access to an app store and a mobile device (such as a tablet or smartphone) can potentially download any number of software applications, potentially agreeing to invasions of the child’s privacy and sale of the child’s data and be exposed to any conceivable content without parental consent or even parental knowledge,” they wrote. The post Supreme Court Upholds Controversial Red State Age Verification Law, For Now appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

A former Wisconsin judge helped a wanted illegal alien evade federal agents inside her own courthouse, got convicted of felony obstruction, and walked out with a fine. No prison. Just $5,000. Former Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was sentenced on July 8, 2026, and the number that matters is zero days incarcerated. BREAKING: Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan is avoiding prison time with a $5,000 fine after being convicted of felony obstruction for helping a Mexican migrant evade ICE agents inside a Milwaukee courthouse. Federal prosecutors argued Dugan violated her judicial oath, but the… pic.twitter.com/h4HHPg11rY — Fox News (@FoxNews) July 8, 2026 Fox News reports that Dugan was ordered to pay the $5,000 fine and will serve no prison time, despite the felony conviction. The felony obstruction count carried up to five years. Federal prosecutors asked for a sentence between 15 and 21 months. Fox also notes she was convicted of felony obstruction and acquitted of concealing an individual to prevent arrest. That split verdict still left Dugan with a serious federal conviction tied to a courthouse immigration arrest. The case traces back to April 18, 2025. ICE agents came to the Milwaukee County courthouse because Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican national, had illegally reentered the country after being removed and was scheduled for a state battery hearing. According to Fox, prosecutors said Dugan sent agents off to the chief judge’s office and steered Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out a back door. Agents caught him anyway after a brief foot chase. The Justice Department laid out the sequence when it announced the criminal complaint in April 2025. Federal agents were trying to execute a lawful arrest warrant for Flores-Ruiz, a man who had already been removed once and was newly charged in Milwaukee County with domestic abuse-related battery. DOJ said agents planned a simple, public hallway arrest after his court appearance. Dugan allegedly confronted them, ordered them away, told them they needed a judicial warrant, and demanded they head to the chief judge’s office. Then, according to DOJ, she personally escorted Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out through a restricted jury-door exit. DOJ said that move directly resulted in Flores-Ruiz temporarily avoiding federal custody before agents caught him outside after a foot chase. This was bigger than a paperwork fight. A judge used her authority to move a previously deported illegal alien away from the agents sent to arrest him. BREAKING: Former Milkwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan, who was convicted of FELONY OBSTRUCTION for helping an illegal evade ICE, has been sentenced to NO PRISON TIME, and just a $5,000 fine This is a TOTAL miscarriage of justice. Luckily, she is BARRED from being a judge ever again… pic.twitter.com/sKfotshPTB — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 8, 2026 Local coverage from Wisconsin Public Radio fills in what the courtroom actually heard. Flores-Ruiz was set for a hearing in Dugan’s courtroom on misdemeanor domestic battery charges. Federal agents arrived with a warrant and said they planned to arrest him in the hallway afterward. Prosecutors said Dugan deliberately blew up that plan, sending some agents to the chief judge’s office while she directed Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer out a side door normally used for jurors and told them the hearing would be rescheduled virtually. WPR reports that courtroom audio played at trial captured Dugan saying she would take the heat. Prosecutors used that audio to argue she knew exactly what she was doing when the ICE arrest plan was derailed. She took the heat. It cost her $5,000. AP reported that U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman imposed the sentence and pointed to Dugan’s otherwise law-abiding life and public service. Federal sentencing guidelines called for 15 to 21 months, but Adelman was not bound by them and went a different direction. AP also reported that prosecutors argued Dugan violated her oath and put law enforcement and the public at risk. Dugan’s defense leaned heavily on the personal and professional consequences she had already faced. Adelman also noted that the agents still arrested Flores-Ruiz outside the courthouse. That is the part many Americans will find hard to swallow: the agents eventually got their man, but only after a judge was convicted of obstructing the arrest in the first place. Dugan was convicted in December 2025. She resigned her Milwaukee County judgeship in January 2026 amid impeachment threats from Wisconsin Republicans and public backlash. In court, she said she did not act with malicious intent and intended to return to public service. Her lawyer says they still plan to appeal the felony obstruction conviction. Flores-Ruiz, the man at the center of it all, was deported in November 2025. Former Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan helped an illegal alien evade arrest by ICE. She was convicted of felony obstruction, yet received only a $5,000 fine and avoided any prison time. Absolutely outrageous. A slap on the wrist for someone who abused the… — Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (@RepFitzgerald) July 8, 2026 Prosecutors put it plainly at sentencing: Dugan violated her oath and put law enforcement and the public at risk. A regular citizen convicted of obstructing federal agents mid-arrest would be looking at a very different July than the one Hannah Dugan just had. The felony conviction stands. The punishment, though, looks like a slap on the wrist. The public consequence may now rest mostly in the felony conviction, the resignation, and the political backlash. For a courthouse obstruction case involving a previously deported illegal alien, that is a very thin ending. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post JUST IN: Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan Avoids Prison Time In Obstructing Arrest of Illegal Alien appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

I do not like hearing President Trump speak like this and quite frankly it’s extremely out of character for him. He’s usually extremely intentional about his words and about the power of positive thinking and he’s very aware about the power of speaking things into existence, so this is not at all expected from him. But he just said this about Iran trying to kill him:  “And you know what, I may be gone, too, because I’m their number one target. It’s out all over the place. I’m their number one because they’re scum.” Watch here: JUST IN: President Trump says the Iranian regime is bolstering its efforts to take him out after the U.S. eliminated their leaders. “They had leaders, they're gone, and they had another set of leaders, they're gone now.” “And you know what, I may be gone, too, because I'm their… pic.twitter.com/yXCzY0gjgr — Fox News (@FoxNews) July 8, 2026 Longer clip here: REPORTER: “There's speculation that you're leaving Ankara not in the new Air Force One because of security concerns involving Iran. You've spoken today twice about them possibly assassinating you.” TRUMP: “I'm number one on the kill list for Iran” pic.twitter.com/a3QHSORopc — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July 8, 2026 But this next one was pretty funny…. When asked why he praised them last month and now says they’re scum, he said the reason is pretty simple: “I got to know them.” Hilarious! REPORTER: “Last month you said Iranian leaders were very rational people, nice to deal with, strong and smart. Today you said they're scum, sick people, and being led by sick people. What changed?” TRUMP: “I got to know them” pic.twitter.com/KZVbKTbpFl — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July 8, 2026 And so true. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post President Trump: I’m Number One On The Kill List appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.