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April 24, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois and 11 other states sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/lawsuit-tariff-policy/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Rep. Darin LaHood considering GOP primary bid for Sen. Dick Durbin’s seat. LaHood is considering and is open to a primary run for the U.S. Senate seat, according to a source with direct knowledge of the congressman’s thinking. The congressman has about $5.8 million cash on hand to help a potential bid.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/23/darin-lahood-gop-primary-bid-consideration-senate-dick-durbin
— Stellantis still on track to reopen Belvidere plant, as automakers adjust for tariffs. The company said it still plans to reopen the plant near Rockford in 2027, which is expected to employ 1,500 union workers.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/04/24/stellantis-track-reopen-belvidere-plant-uaw-automakers-adjust-tariffs
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Tinson said the Windsor assembly plant in Ontario, Canada, is resuming operations this week on two shifts. “As a result, more than half of the employees from Sterling Stamping, Indiana Transmission, Kokomo Transmission and Kokomo Casting who were put on temporary layoff when production was paused the week of April 7 also will return to work to support the Windsor operations,” she said.)

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-executive-orders-april-23-2025-live-updates/3728421/

CBS2
— Pritzker weighs possible boycott of El Salvador over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/governoer-jb-pritzker-el-salvador-possible-boycott-kilmar-abrego-garcia/

NPR ILLINOIS
— President Trump on Wednesday signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools. One of the actions takes aim at college and university accreditors, organizations the White House says have “abused their authority by imposing discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-based standards.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-23/trump-signs-executive-actions-on-education-including-efforts-to-rein-in-dei

WGLT
— Under the Democrats, soon, everyone in America will be om Medicaid.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-23/mclean-county-health-providers-worry-about-medicaid-cuts

ILLINOIS TIMES
— What percent of farming is dependent on federal spending?
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/a-loss-for-illinois-farmers-and-food-banks-20073034

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-498/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Political Earthquake Rocks Illinois as Dick Durbin Announces Retirement, Triggering a Scramble to Replace No. 2 Democrat in U.S. Senate
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/04/political-earthquake-rocks-illinois-as-dick-durbin-announces-retirement-triggering-a-scramble-to-replace-no-2-democrat-in-u-s-senate.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have Democrats used disparate impact against you? According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and females do. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and females, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. To hire and promote Democrats who were Black, Hispanic, and female, they also stopped requiring other qualifications. That rendered worthless my earning an MBA in business when I was 27, my earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32, my earning four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and my earning a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. I should write about the aforesaid. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Why do fewer Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females take the CPA examination than Republican White males? Why do fewer Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females pass the examination on their first attempt than Republican White males? According to Democrats, it is because Republicans discriminate against Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females. That is why Democrats make Republican White males pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents a) attribute their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents promote a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Social media reacts to Dick Durbin’s ‘long overdue’ retirement
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3389144/dick-durbin-retirement-reaction-social-media/

NEW YORK POST
— Deported alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving convicted smuggler’s car during Tennessee traffic stop
https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/us-news/deported-alleged-ms-13-gangbanger-kilmar-abrego-garcia-was-driving-convicted-smugglers-car-during-tennessee-traffic-stop/
— Paramount, CBS settle discrimination lawsuit over DEI policies punishing straight white males
https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/media/paramount-cbs-settle-discrimination-lawsuit-over-dei-policies-punishing-straight-white-males/

BLAZE
— Mass deportations are critical to America’s future
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/mass-deportations-are-critical-to-americas-future

BREITBART
— Harvard Fights to Continue Racial Discrimination
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/04/23/schweizer-harvard-fights-to-continue-racial-discrimination/

CENTER SQUARE
— Many colleges, universities ignore Trump’s warning to ditch DEI or lose funding
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_265c6fe2-0385-40c6-a98f-2dd83ac09f47.html

DAILY CALLER
— El Salvador Has Become Democrats’ New ‘Epstein Island’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/23/greg-gutfeld-democrats-el-salvador-visit-kilmar-abrego-garcia/

DAILY WIRE
— Trump’s Nationalism Signals a Return to Strength
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/interview-r-r-reno

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Considering Auto Tariff Exemptions. What about Dodge Chargers? I just bought a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/trump-considering-auto-tariff-exemptions-white-house-confirms-5846599

FOX NEWS
— Chicago residents blast a possible Pritzker presidential run: ‘No chance to win.’ Chicago residents didn’t hold back when asked what a Pritzker presidency might mean for the country.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-residents-blast-possible-pritzker-presidential-run-no-chance-win
— Pritzker moves to boycott El Salvador for aiding Trump over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention. Pritzker said the move was in response to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-moves-boycott-el-salvador-aiding-trump-over-kilmar-abrego-garcias-detention
— Trump praises Elon Musk as ‘patriot, a brilliant guy, and a friend of mine’ amid DOGE exit. Trump praised Elon Musk during an Oval Office exchange Wednesday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-praises-elon-musk-patriot-brilliant-guy-friend-mine-amid-doge-exit

NATIONAL REVIEW
— President Trump Signs Three Really Good Executive Orders on Civil Rights. The first targets the “disparate impact” approach to civil-rights enforcement. According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and women. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and women, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/president-trump-signs-three-really-good-executive-orders-on-civil-rights/

TOWNALL
— Trump Signs Multiple Executive Orders on Education, Including Against Accreditors Using DEI
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2025/04/23/new-trump-executive-order-goes-after-dei-used-by-higher-education-accreditors-n2656007

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Pritzker orders Illinois to boycott El Salvador over Abrego Garcia’s detention
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5264139-pritzker-orders-illinois-to-boycott-el-salvador-over-abrego-garcias-detention/

CNN
— Russia launches deadly strikes on Ukraine’s capital as Trump accuses Zelensky of harming peace talks
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/europe/russia-strikes-kyiv-trump-zelensky-crimea-intl-hnk/index.html

MSN
— Trump says “”We don’t really want Canada to make cars for us, to put it bluntly. We want to make our own cars.” What is Trump’s position on my buying a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus that was made in Canada?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trump-now-says-he-doesn-t-want-canadian-cars-how-his-anti-canada-rhetoric-is-boosting-mark-carney-s-chances-ahead-of-the-vote/ar-AA1DvJPU
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Trump said on Wednesday he doesn’t want Canadian cars and claimed Canada would “cease to exist” without the United States — remarks that extend his sharp criticism of the country just days before Canadians head to the polls on Monday. “We don’t really want Canada to make cars for us, to put it bluntly. We want to make our own cars,” Trump said. Trump also suggested that he might increase import taxes on cars from Canada. “So when I put tariffs on Canada, they’re paying 25%, but that could go up in terms of cars. When we put tariffs on, all we’re doing is we’re saying, ‘We don’t want your cars, in all due respect.”)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-pope-francis-history-of-criticizing-trump-and-embracing-lgbtq-rights-rankled-conservative-catholics/ar-AA1DiUr6

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/podcasts/the-daily/trump-venezuela-gang-members-deportations.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/nyregion/deportation-trump-jamaica.html
— Inside a Union’s Fight Against Trump’s Federal Job Cuts. Leaders of the union representing government workers say their battle is galvanizing but also alarming. “It’s insulting to say,” one said, “that we are lazy.” I worked for GAO 1980-1997. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized, it would not have been able to take the adverse actions against me that it did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/business/economy/government-union-trump-musk.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/opinion/us-china-asia-tariffs.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote a) same sex marriage and b) interracial marriage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/same-sex-marriage.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump orders changes to civil rights rules. According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and women. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and women, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/23/trump-executive-orders-education-accreditation/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The new order Trump signed Wednesday instructs the attorney general to “repeal or amend” Title VI regulations that include disparate impact liability.)

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/04/23/trump-approval-poll-economy-100-days/83217866007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been a liberal Democrat.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/04/22/pope-francis-world-affairs-impact-influence/83191480007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Elite Universities in Trump’s Crosshairs Are Drumming Up Cash. Princeton, Harvard and Brown are among the schools issuing debt. They are counting on the next U.S. President to be a Democrat or a RINO.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-college-universities-cash-federal-funding-fa001311
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-24-25/card/china-says-no-talks-ongoing-with-trump-administration-yXdly6y82T1iyWKYug3F
— Will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters succeed in driving Tesla out of business to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish those who voted for Trump?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-has-a-deep-hole-to-pull-out-of-15815d7e
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whos-afraid-of-renaud-camus-home-office-united-kingdom-free-speech-immigration-aacafc8a
— The Class of 2025 Tries to Crack a Chilly Job Market for College Grads. What frustrated your job search? For me, it included potential employers viewing me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Further, my GPA was not that great because I had spent far too many hours delivering mail for the Park Forest Post Office instead of studying.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/the-class-of-2025-tries-to-crack-a-chilly-job-market-for-college-grads-0589c4af

ATLANTIC
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Trump to destroy those who voted for Trump to destroy America.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/tesla-earnings-elon-musk-doge/682551/

April 23,2025 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— RESTORING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND MERITOCRACY
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— US Sen. Dick Durbin says he won’t run for sixth term. I remember, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, distributing campaign literature and getting sign locations in my precinct for Durbin’s Republican opponents Curran in 2020, Oberweis in 2014, Sauerberg in 2008, and Durkin in 2002. Further, I remember, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, doing that for Duckworth’s opponent Salvi in 2022, for Kirk in 2016 and 2010, and Keyes in 2004. Because they all were statewide races, my critics/opponents had a harder time blaming me and blaming my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for Republican defeats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/us-sen-dick-durbin-says-he-wont-run-for-sixth-term/
— Democrat leaders say that orders to leave the country — some for US citizen — sow confusion among immigrants
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/orders-to-leave-the-country-some-for-us-citizen-sow-confusion-among-immigrants/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Senate race to replace Durbin boasts ‘at least a dozen’ serious contenders
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/23/dick-durbin-senate-reelection-decision-krishnamoorthi-underwood-stratton

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Durbin’s retirement sets off a stampede — and a massive generational shift in Illinois politics
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dick-durbin-retirement-sets-race-open-seats-illinois
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The GOP appears less poised to field a competitive Senate candidate in what is now a heavily Democratic state, but there has been some discussion about Richard Porter, an attorney who serves as the state’s Republican national committeeman. Also being touted by some Republicans is Rep. Ray LaHood, who represents Peoria and other downstate areas.)
— Durbin makes it official: He won’t seek re-election
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dick-durbin-will-not-seek-re-election-senate

ABC7
— Illinois among 12 states suing Trump administration to stop tariff policy
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-among-12-states-suing-president-donald-trumps-administration-stop-tariff-policy/16232793/
— Trump administration looking at $5K ‘baby bonus’ to incentivize public to have more children
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-looking-baby-bonus-incentivize-public-have-more-children/16231863/

FOX32
— Trump says he’ll reduce tariffs against China ‘substantially’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1629873

WTTW
— Long-Stalled Push for Reparations in Chicago Moving Forward
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/23/slow-moving-push-reparations-chicago-moving-forward-johnson-says

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/04/23/illinois-families-brace-for-possible-medicaid-cuts/82673254007/

STATELINE & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-deportation-el-salvador/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-administration-is-still-resisting-the-judges-orders-in-abrego-garcia-deportation-case/

CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— The 10 Pols Who Could Replace Dick Durbin
https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/february-2024/the-10-pols-who-could-replace-dick-durbin/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: When U.S. senator Peter Fitzgerald announced his retirement in 2004, 16 candidates ran to succeed him. “Don’t you think it would be cool to be a senator?” one remarked. (Barack Obama, a state senator at the time, won — you might have heard of him.) . . . 5. Darin LaHood
The GOP will run a candidate, too, and LaHood is likely to be it. The last two times an Illinois Republican won a Senate race were 1998 and 2010 — nonpresidential years when a Democrat was in the White House, which seems to indicate that a Joe Biden reelection would help LaHood. (The Democrats also ran weak candidates those years.) Of the three Illinois Republicans in Congress, LaHood, elected to the House in 2015, is the most moderate. He’s from Peoria, which is Middle America personified. “He’s a guy who is politically disciplined and has not alienated the base,” says a conservative activist. “He can appeal to independents, too. He’s not a crazy MAGA.” Democrats would attack LaHood on abortion (he opposes) and voting with Trump on issues such as repealing Obamacare. He needs “to keep the race on economics and the lack of federal leadership, particularly with the border crisis,” the activist says.)

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/arts-culture/trump-immigration-actions-are-only-latest-in-white-supremacy-tradition-20072014

PRITIZKER
— Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred.
https://gov.illinois.gov/news/press-release.31180.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Question of the day: If LaHood does run for US Senate, what do you believe are his chances in both the primary and the general?
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/question-of-the-day-3727/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-291/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CHICAGOLAND JOURNAL
— Aaron Del Mar Returns as Cook County GOP Chairman After Overwhelming Vote
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/aaron-del-mar-returns-as-cook-county-gop-chairman-after-overwhelming-vote/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood Campaign Says Durbin Retirement “Long Overdue”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/lahood-campaign-says-durbin-retirement-long-overdue/
— Durbin Retiring, Second Tier Dems Ready for Fight
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/durbin-retiring-second-tier-dems-ready-for-fight/
— Second Old Illinois Member of Congress–Jan Schakowsky–Says Bye-Bye, People Lining Up
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/second-old-illinois-member-of-congress-jan-schakowsky-says-bye-bye/
— Month after Characterizing Trump to Nazis Pritzker Calls for End to Hate Crimes, Reports Big Hike Since Biden Took Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/month-after-characterizing-trump-to-nazis-pritzker-calls-for-end-hate-crimes-big-hike-since-biden-took-office/
— Passenger Pot Citation in Cary after Car Stopped for Missing Headlight, Bill To End Smell Test Passes Illinois Senate (with Roll Call)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/passenger-pot-citation-in-cary/
— McHenry Awarded $771,000 to Revitalize Riverside Drive, Woodstock Gets $1 Million for Opera House Block
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/mchenry-awarded-771000-to-revitalize-riverside-drive-woodstock-gets-1-million-for-opera-house-block/
— State Claims 6 to 1 Benefit from Subsidizing Filming
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/state-claims-6-to-1-benefit-from-subsidizing-filming/
— Randi Freese Reports McHenry County Share of Most Recent Opioid Settlement Unknown at This Point
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/randi-freese-reports-mchenry-county-share-of-most-recent-opioid-settlement-unknown-at-this-point/
— Illinois Pot Taxes Drive Pot Shop Growth in SW Michigan
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/illinois-pot-taxes-drive-growth-in-sw-michigan/
— Trump-Endorsed Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Bryon Donalds Speaking to State GOP Fundraiser Friday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/trump-endorsed-florida-gubernatorial-candidate-bryon-donalds-speaking-to-state-gop-fundraiser-friday/
— Details on Walgreen’s Whistleblower Opioid Settlement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/details-on-walgrens-whistleblower-opioid-settlement/
— Congressional Dems Vote to Keep Taxing Tips
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/congressional-dems-vote-to-keep-taxing-tips/
— Court Shuts Down Rockford Abortion Clinic
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/court-shuts-down-rockford-abortion-clinic/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— An abortion clinic operating in a residential neighborhood in Illinois lost its legal fight with neighbors after a state court reversed the facility’s zoning approval.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/23/neighbors-win-court-battle-home-based-abortion-clinic/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Britain bans French philosopher who conceptualized the ‘great replacement’ theory, from entering country
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/britain_bans_french_philosopher_who_conceptualized_the_great_replacement_theory_from_entering_country.html

BREITBART
— Americans Overwhelmingly Side with Trump on Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/23/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-side-with-trump-on-deportations/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Durbin Announces Retirement, Leaving a Power Vacuum
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/23/prospect-durbins-retirement-shakes-up-illinois-democrats/

FOX NEWS
— If we can’t deport illegals, here’s how we can make it impossible to stay
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-we-cant-deport-illegals-heres-how-we-can-make-impossible-stay

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Durbin retirement tees up competitive Senate primary in Illinois
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5263818-dick-durbin-retirement-senate/

NEWSWEEK
— Who Might Run for Dick Durbin’s Soon-to-Be Vacant Senate Seat?
https://www.newsweek.com/dick-durbin-retirement-potential-candidates-illinois-senate-2063156
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On the Republican side, Representative Darin LaHood also told NOTUS he would not “close the door” on a Senate run. “I’ve had a lot of people encourage me to think about doing it,” he told the publication.)

CNN
— Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in Senate, announces he won’t seek reelection.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/politics/dick-durbin-senate-retirement

CBS NEWS
— Trump signs executive order to influence college accreditation process
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-signs-executive-order-to-eliminate-woke-ideology-in-college-accreditation-process/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Durbin, No. 2 Senate Democrat, to Retire After 44 Years in Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/dick-durbin-retires-senate.html
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-approval-rating.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in manipulating/dominating young people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/23/trump-presidency-news/

POLITICO
— Durbin was first elected to the Senate in 1996, succeeding Democratic Sen. Paul Simon. In the primary that year, Durbin defeated Pat Quinn, who would later become governor of Illinois. In the general election that year, Durbin defeated Al Salvi, the husband of Kathy Salvi, who now chairs the Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/dick-durbin-retiring-from-senate-illinois-00305833

WIKIPEDIA
— 2026 United States Senate election in Illinois
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois
(FROM THE POSTING: Republican primary: Declared: John Goodman, former police officer ( https://goodmanforillinois.com/meet-john/ ). Publicly expressed interest: Darin LaHood, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 16th congressional district (2015–present) Potential: Jim Durkin, former minority leader of the Illinois House of Representatives (2013–2023) from the 82nd district (2006–2023) and 44th district (1995–2003), Mary Miller, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 15th congressional district (2021–present). Declined: Mike Bost, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 12th congressional district (2015–present))

April 23, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Some 5 million Americans with defaulted student loan payments will have their loans sent for collections on May 5. Where did the money come from to pay for your undergraduate degree? Mine came from my washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, and working on an automotive assemble line. The aforesaid enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charge SE. But my GPA suffered.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/default-student-loans-debt-collection-trump-administration-announces-end-period-leniency-began-during-covid-pandemic/16217800/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-student-visas-revoked-illinois-indiana-college-students-celebrate-order-donald-trump-admin-reinstate/16225550/

FOX32
— ‘It’s unsafe’: Chicagoans sound off about migrant crowds outside Home Depot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzhpIMM2iy0

WTTW
–Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/22/pritzker-balances-messaging-some-dems-encourage-party-avoid-lgbtq-issues
— Ever-increasingly, leaders of universities in Illinois reject Trump’s election.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/22/illinois-university-leaders-join-condemnation-trump-administration-s-unprecedented

WLS AM
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wlsam.com/2025/04/22/gorka-to-newsmax-due-process-push-for-illegals-strange/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois GOP has to do better than the likes of Thomas DeVore, lockdown critic
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/devore-misconduct-attorney-general-gop/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson will head to Springfield again, to demand Chicago ‘receives its just due’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/mayor-brandon-johnson-springfield-chicago-just-due/
— Several police departments disperse large crowd of juveniles from Sky Zone in Orland Park
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/police-disperse-juveniles-sky-zone-orland-park/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/opinion-illinois-immigration-crackdown-protect-communities/
— Pritzker calls it ‘ironic’ that inaugural committee accepted donation from Chinese firm Trump has criticized.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/gov-jb-pritzker-calls-it-ironic-that-inaugural-committee-accepted-donation-from-chinese-firm-trump-has-criticized/
— What did you do for Earth Day? I spent about an hour pulling out blown-in plastic trash from the wetlands west of my Iron Gate Motor Condo in Naperville.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/orland-grasslands-earth-day/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Gotion, a Republican target, gave big to Trump inaugural
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/gotion-target-trump-gave-1-million-inauguration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly attack Musk to attack Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-treasurer-co-signs-letter-tesla-board

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, everyone in America will be on Medicaid.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/04/23/illinois-families-brace-for-possible-medicaid-cuts/82673254007/

SOUTHERN
— How marginalized are you? Who marginalizes you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that Republicans marginalize you: Democrat, RINO, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizen of a foreign country, have less money than others, have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozer, gambler, stoner, prostitute, etc.
https://thesouthern.com/life-entertainment/faith/siu-s-father-brown-pope-francis-legacy-is-advocating-for-the-marginalized-forgotten/article_139e56eb-5ede-52eb-a9ee-448ac0f406c4.html

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat universities will ever-increasingly oppose Trump.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/23/opinion/harvard-is-resisting-the-trump-administrations-invasive-demands-nu-should-follow-suit/

JOURNAL GAZETTE
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columnists/judgment-day-drawing-nigh/article_ba1d63e7-b9fd-4210-a47b-0577c76944c8.html

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicagodefender.com/illinois-legislative-black-caucus-condemns-trumps-attack-on-dei-pledges-to-defend-racial-equity-in-the-workplace/

WJBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/04/22/his-dad-would-be-ashamed-of-him-large-rally-in-uptown-normal-to-protest-rep-lahood/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote AOC.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-23/the-next-aoc-young-democrats-are-aiming-to-topple-incumbents-inside-their-own-party

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-22/nationwide-anti-trump-protests-arrive-in-small-town-northern-illinois

WAND TV
— Public education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/education/multiple-university-presidents-in-illinois-sign-letter-criticizing-federal-government-overreach/article_4762b0ab-a8a7-4a5b-bcee-f54282cb9674.html

WIFR
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/04/23/illinois-voting-advocates-worry-bill-requiring-citizenship-proof-vote/

WVIK
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote globalism, that is, they ever-increasingly promote cheap foreign labor and making America more and more and more dependent on foreign countries, that is, they ever-increasingly promote the destruction of America.
https://www.wvik.org/2025-04-22/the-global-economy-will-be-hit-hard-by-trumps-tariffs-imf-warns

25 NEWS NOW
— Trump administration mulls $5,000 baby bonus to boost population
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/22/trump-administration-mulls-5000-baby-bonus-boost-population-report-says/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s policies.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/23/trump-policies-dominate-peoria-town-hall-with-rep-sorensen/

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/pritzker-balances-messaging-as-some-dems-encourage-party-to-avoid-lgbtq-issues-20068650

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/22/chicagos-venezuelan-community-in-limbo-amid-trumps-push-to-end-deportation-protections/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-497/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-290/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Escaping Illinois Doesn’t Mean You’ve Escaped Pritzker
https://johnkassnews.com/escaping-illinois-doesnt-mean-youve-escaped-pritzker/

WIREPOINTS
— It’s hard to tell when Illinois will ‘break,’ but eventually Illinoisans will connect the dots and demand change.
https://wirepoints.org/its-hard-to-tell-when-illinois-will-break-but-eventually-illinoisans-will-connect-the-dots-and-demand-change-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Illinois metro areas have the nation’s 1st-, 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-highest property taxes. People leave because they simply can’t pay that anymore.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-metro-areas-have-the-nations-1st-2nd-3rd-and-4th-highest-property-taxes-people-leave-because-they-simply-cant-pay-that-anymore-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slo/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Liberals and moderates use DEI to get rid of conservatives. White-haters use DEI to get rid of Whites. Male-haters use DEI to get rid of males. Older people-haters use DEI to get rid of older people. Protestant–haters use DEI to get rid of Protestants. German American-haters use DEI to get rid of German Americans. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman? If you are, anticipate/expect ever-increasing hatred against you from those who voted for Harris. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats run the federal government. According to them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you consider majoring in accounting? Did you consider a career in accounting? The accounting profession and IRS and GAO had no interest in me a) because I was not a minority or a female, b) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, c) because I did not major in accounting until I was 27, d) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, e) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, f) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination until I was 32, and g) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, while I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great. Further, the experience that I gained working for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years (the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year) and for GAO for almost 18 years (the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year) was not viewed favorably. Further, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and took adverse actions against me. Further, GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and took adverse actions against me including always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and forcing me to retire when I was 49. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How strongly are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punishing Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish Republicans to punish Americans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— The left’s hatred of Trump boils over: Death threats spread to just about anyone working for him. Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman? If you are, anticipate/expect ever-increasing hatred against you from those who voted for Harris. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/22/lefts-hatred-trump-boils-death-threats-spread-anyone-working/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump slams SCOTUS for ridiculous idea of giving trials to all illegals. Democrat and RINO judges and justices deny Republicans their 7th Amendment right to trials. I should write about that.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/22/trump-slams-scotus-for-ridiculous-idea-of-giving-trials-to-all-illegals-1538008/

BLAZE
— Trump lashes out at Supreme Court for blocking deportations
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-lashes-out-at-supreme-court-for-blocking-deportations

DAILY SIGNAL
— GOP Lawmakers Showcase How Trump ‘Restored Law and Order’ to US Borders
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/22/exclusive-gop-lawmakers-showcase-how-trump-restored-law-and-order-to-us-borders/

EPOCH TIMES
— Tesla’s First-Quarter Profits Tumble 71 Percent. Will Democrat leaders succeed in driving Tesla out of business, and if so, how soon? How will that impact the EV industry? How will that impact America?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/teslas-1st-first-quarter-profits-tumble-71-percent-5845648

FOX NEWS
— Gore compares Trump admin to Hitler’s Third Reich. Trump faced similar comparisons from political rivals during 2024 presidential campaign.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/al-gore-compares-trump-admin-hitlers-third-reich

PJ MEDIA
— SCOTUS Sides With Illegal Aliens Again
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/04/22/breaking-scotus-again-sides-with-illegal-aliens-n4939139

REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— Trump’s Migrant Hunt Digs Into the IRS and Social Security
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/04/23/trumps_migrant_hunt_digs_into_the_irs_and_social_security_1105145.html

TOWNHALL
— Young Conservatives Rise Against Wokeness. Liberals and moderates use wokeness to get rid of conservatives.
https://townhall.com/podcasts/townhallreview/2025/04/23/the-pendulum-swings:-young-conservatives-rise-against-wokeness–%7C-charlie-kirk-with-megyn-kelly

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Gore compares Trump administration to Nazis
https://thehill.com/homenews/5260405-gore-compares-trump-third-reich/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Harvard.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/harvard-takes-lead-in-fight-against-trumps-higher-ed-agenda/amp/

NBC NEWS
— Gore likens the Trump administration’s ‘attacks on liberty’ to Nazi Germany
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/al-gore-likens-trump-administrations-attacks-liberty-nazi-germany-rcna202357
— Gore compares Trump administration’s actions to Nazi Germany’s attacks on the truth
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/gore-compares-trump-administration-s-actions-to-nazi-germany-s-attacks-on-truth-238082629661

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html
— How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had to have a job, I then accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/eeoc-trump-dei-law-firms.html
— To Escape the Grind, Young People Turn to ‘Mini-Retirements.’ Some young people are spending their savings on an extended break earlier in their careers rather than waiting until retirement. I did not take any days off at all while I worked for Firestone Stores August 1970-December 1972 and for IRS June 1971-June 1973.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/young-people-work-mini-retirement.html

USA TODAY
— New York Times compares Trump to Hitler. Media allows an ugly double standard. It’s extremely insulting to the 77 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump for The New York Times to publish an opinion piece that compares the president to Adolf Hitler.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/23/larry-david-essay-hitler-trump/83209680007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/22/musk-tesla-first-quarter-earnings/83217370007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about the success that they had importing their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/23/trump-afghanistan-refugee-resettlement-immigration/83126557007/

LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER
— Kentucky among the ‘most federally dependent states.’ How will Trump cuts affect it? How dependent on federal spending are the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article302508724.html

WOAI
— Return to Sender: More Illegals Self-Deporting
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2025-04-22-return-to-sender-more-illegals-self-deporting/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Tesla Profit Sinks, Hurt by Backlash Over Elon Musk’s Political Role. CEO says he will spend significantly less time on DOGE starting in May; electric-vehicle maker’s net income falls 71%. How strongly are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punishing Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish Republicans to punish Americans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-tsla-q1-earnings-report-2025-f7120a39
— How America Lost Manufacturing. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights because his employers moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and less regulation.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-america-lost-manufacturing-reporter-1980s-watched-us-industries-fail-to-adapt-926753f0?mod=opinion_lead_pos5

FORBES
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D-IL) ever-increasingly promotes more class warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dk2pmRluDiuQ

HUFFINGTON POST
— Gore Likens Trump Admin To Nazi Germany: ‘Trying To Create Their Own Version Of Reality’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/al-gore-donald-trump-administration-nazi-germany_n_68078b17e4b00edf27f4ce86

GOVERNING
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Liberals and moderates use DEI to get rid of conservatives. White-haters use DEI to get rid of Whites. Male-haters use DEI to get rid of males. Older people-haters use DEI to get rid of older people. Protestant–haters use DEI to get rid of Protestants. German American-haters use DEI to get rid of German Americans.
https://www.governing.com/policy/the-conservative-case-for-dei

ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— The Rise and Retreat of DEI. The accounting profession and IRS and GAO had no interest in me a) because I was not a minority or a female, b) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, c) because I did not major in accounting until I was 27, d) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, e) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, f) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination until I was 32, and g) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, while I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great. Further, the experience that I gained working for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years (the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year) and for GAO for almost 18 years (the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year) was not viewed favorably. Further, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and took adverse actions against me. Further, GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and took adverse actions against me including always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and forcing me to retire when I was 49.
https://www.icpas.org/information/copy-desk/insight/article/spring-2025/the-rise-and-retreat-of-dei-navigating-the-uncertain-future-of-workplace-culture

NARFE
— Democrats run the federal government. According to them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.narfe.org/blog/2025/04/22/opm-proposed-rule-aims-to-remove-competitive-service-protections-for-50000-feds/

TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Liberal and moderate Jews ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservative Jews.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-100-chicago-area-rabbis-cantors-condemn-trumps-crackdown-on-campus-antisemitism/

INDEPENDENT
— Musk to ‘significantly’ step back from DOGE role after Tesla profits plunge
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-doge-tariffs-china-stocks-live-updates-b2737788.html
— Gore compares Trump team to Nazi Germany saying they are ‘trying to create their own preferred version of reality’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/al-gore-trump-nazi-germany-b2737278.html

GURADIAN
— Gore draws parallels between Trump and early Nazi Germany
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/apr/22/al-gore-trump-early-nazi-germany

April 22, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Powell against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/04/21/wall-street-dollar-tumble-trump-repeat-attacks-federal-reserve-chair-powell
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/22/rep-jesus-garcia-advocates-slam-purge-of-immigrants-from-social-security
— Democrats always want more government money for education because Democrats use education to crank out good little Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/22/illinois-funding-higher-education-politics

FOX32
— Illinois Dems slam Trump admin over Social Security staff cuts. Democrat and RINO leaders did not slam Gingrich over his GAO staff cuts during the 1980s and 1990s. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. Reforms could have included a) requiring that at least one-third of GAO employees at each grade level be Republican and b) requiring that all requests for GAO to do work be bipartisan.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1628597

STATELINE
— Pritzker poised to run for president in 2028. How does that impact Republican decisions to run for governor in 2026?
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-gov-pritzker-2028-presidential/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— A growing number of Republican-led states are taking aim at driver’s licenses issued by other states to illegals. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/some-gop-states-are-targeting-drivers-licenses-issued-to-immigrants-illegally-in-the-us/article_76f63623-d923-5777-b0c4-f2915029fa43.html

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot and promote reparations.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/22/city/poetic-justice-how-cannabis-fuels-evanstons-reparations/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— School districts must follow stringent background checks when considering potential employees. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/04/18/roll-call-school-districts-must-follow-stringent-background-checks-when-considering-potential-employees/

WSPY
— Conservative Group looks to form Kane DOGE. Should I form a DuPage DOGE? I would draw on what I learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) becoming a licensed CPA, d) becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant, Financial Services Auditor, Government Financial Manager, Fraud Examiner, Internal Auditor, and Public Accountant, and e) earning master’s degrees in finance, accounting, and business.
https://www.wspynews.com/news/local/conservative-group-looks-to-form-kane-doge/article_89dc72fb-597d-497a-9b84-585366768479.html

WCPT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/04/21/illinois-lt-gov-juliana-stratton-talks-administrations-successes-standing-up-to-trump-with-wcpts-richard-chew/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders use Durbin to promote more hatred against Hegseth and against Trump.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/22/durbin-derides-hegseth-as-petty-00302356

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-496/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— ‘Record’ number of Illinois jobs: Don’t be a chump.
https://wirepoints.org/record-number-of-illinois-jobs-dont-be-a-chump-wirepoints-quickpoint/
— Illinois metro areas take the top four spots for nation’s highest property taxes. Rockford takes the crown.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-metro-areas-take-the-top-four-spots-for-nations-highest-property-taxes-rockford-takes-the-crown-wirepoints/

ILLINOIS RECORD
— Cook County GOP Chair Candidates
https://www.illinoisrecord.com/p/cook-county-gop-chair-candidates

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly slam Trump budget cuts. Democrat and RINO leaders did not slam Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts during the 1980s and 1990s. The agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. Reforms could have included a) requiring that at least one-third of GAO employees at each grade level be Republican and b) requiring that all requests for GAO to do work be bipartisan. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Trump administration is resuming collections from student loan borrowers in default. If you had to work your way through college, how would your life have been different if you had not had to do that? My high school, undergraduate, and graduate GPAs would have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes while I was a Crete-Monee student 1964-1966. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours a) delivering mail while I was a UIC and NIU student 1966-1969, b) selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances while I was a UIC student in 1971, c) pumping gasoline while I was a Loyola student in 1972, d) collecting delinquent taxes while I was a Loyola and DePaul student 1972-1980, and e) auditing federal agencies while I was a DePaul student in 1980 and an IIT student 1992-1997. Further, my 1979 CPA examination scores would have been higher if I had studied instead of collected delinquent federal taxes. Further, my 1981 Certified Internal Auditor examination scores would have been higher if I had studied instead of audited federal agencies. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If you could do it over again, would you have had the same college major? I would have majored in accounting instead of management. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30 years old in 1979. By then, the accounting profession considered me to be far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, and/or veteran. It is called reverse discrimination and age discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Should I form a DuPage DOGE? I would draw on what I learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) becoming a licensed CPA, d) becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant, Financial Services Auditor, Government Financial Manager, Fraud Examiner, Internal Auditor, and Public Accountant, and e) earning master’s degrees in finance, accounting, and business. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Catholic Church faces ideological crossroad after Pope Francis’ death.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/21/catholic-church-faces-ideological-crossroad-pope-francis-death/

NEW YORK POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Powell against Trump.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-needs-to-end-his-war-with-jerome-powell-now-one-way-or-another/
— Democrat leaders used the Pope to promote LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-pope-francis-history-of-criticizing-trump-and-embracing-lgbtq-rights-rankled-conservative-catholics/ar-AA1DiUr6

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Harvard Law School Professors Politicize the Rule of Law
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/22/harvard-law-school-professors-politicize-the-rule-of-law/

BLAZE
— Mayo Clinic rebrands woke DEI initiatives to dodge Trump’s ban
https://www.theblaze.com/news/mayo-clinic-rebrands-woke-dei-initiatives-to-dodge-trumps-ban

BREITBART
— Trump Successfully Gets Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport from U.S.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/21/reports-trump-successfully-gets-illegal-aliens-to-self-deport-from-u-s/
— Trump has successfully stopped the inflow of economic migrants via the southern border, so he should invite more economic migrants via the nation’s airports, says the Wall Street Journal.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/21/wall-street-journal-trumps-less-illegal-migration-allows-more-legalized-migration/
— Four More Democrats Travel to El Salvador to ‘Pressure Trump Administration’ to Return Illegal Migrant
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/21/four-more-democrats-travel-el-salvador-pressure-trump-administration-return-illegal-migrant/

FEDERALIST
— The Left’s Sudden Crusade For ‘Due Process’ Is A Political Smokescreen To Defend Mass Migration
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/21/the-left-sudden-crusade-for-due-process-is-a-political-smokescreen-to-defend-mass-migration/
— Republicans In Congress Look To Stop ‘Judicial Coup D’Etat’
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/21/republicans-in-congress-aim-to-stop-judicial-coup-detat/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Trump Administration Moves to Block Illegal Aliens From Collecting Social Security Benefits
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/executive/trump-administration-block-illegal-aliens-social-security

FOX NEWS
— Trump will attend Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome despite contentious past: ‘Look forward to being there!’ Trump’s relationship with Pope Francis was one marked by ideological differences and sometimes tension.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-attend-pope-francis-funeral-rome-despite-contentious-past-look-forward-being-there

NEWSMAX
— World Now Needs a More Conservative Pope
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/pope-francis-fred-fleitz-conservative/2025/04/21/id/1207764/
— Trump: Radical Left ‘Always Threatening Our Judges’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-posts-immigration/2025/04/21/id/1207769/
— With Voter Support, Trump Moves Forward With His Agenda
https://www.newsmax.com/jeffcrouere/democrats-courts-trump-agenda/2025/04/21/id/1207695/
— Why Is U.S. Giving Billions to Private Universities Like Harvard?
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/harvard-public-funding-trump-administration/2025/04/21/id/1207706/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5259657-trump-courts-migrant-deportations/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Abrego Garcia to destroy Trump.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5259208-if-trump-flouts-the-abrego-garcia-rulings-the-constitution-is-done/

ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ask “Who are the top contenders to be the next pope?” and say “Experts weigh in.”
https://abcnews.go.com/International/top-contenders-pope-experts-weigh/story?id=121011243

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Hegseth against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFblPSNamas
— Democrat leaders ask “Who will be the next pope?” and say “Here’s a list of some of the possible top candidates.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-will-be-the-next-pope-list-of-possible-candidates/

CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/us/harvard-lawsuit-trump-administration-explainer/index.html

REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval ratings down.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-rating-dips-many-wary-his-wielding-power-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-04-21/
— Public education exists in America to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-academic-leaders-unite-against-trumps-higher-education-policies-2025-04-22/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-visa-cuts-tariff-hikes-turn-chinese-students-away-american-dream-2025-04-22/
— Democrat leaders used the Pope against conservatives.
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/world/pope-francis-shook-up-church-with-simplicity-raising-conservative-ire/ar-AA1DiHIq

NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-administration-missteps.html
— Democrat leaders used the Pope against conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/21/world/pope-francis-updates-vatican#francis-faced-defiant-conservative-us-catholic-leaders
— Democrat law firms ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/eeoc-trump-dei-law-firms.html
— Democrat leaders ask “Is the Era of Student Loan Forgiveness Officially Over?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/podcasts/the-daily/student-loan-forgiveness.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Hegseth.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/21/pete-hegseth-signal-chat-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s tariffs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/21/trump-tariff-recession/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/21/harvard-sues-trump-administration-funding-antisemitism/
— Democrat leaders say “What Pope Francis’s papacy meant for the U.S. church.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/21/pope-francis-us-catholic-church-vatican/
— Democrat leaders ask “Who will be next pope after Francis?” and say “Key contenders ahead of conclave.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2025/04/21/next-pope-after-francis-conclave-contenders/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/21/supreme-court-aclu-deportations-alien-enemies-act/

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders crow about their success in moving the Pope to the left.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/pope-francis-legacy-us.html
— Millions of Student Loan Borrowers Are Behind on Payments
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/business/student-loan-borrowers-payments.html
— Gen Z Re-evaluates Its Budgets. What have you spent more money on than your peers? For me, it includes tuition and books, real estate, and new cars. What have you spent less money on than your peers? For me, it include immediate pleasures and dogs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/business/tariffs-gen-z-budgets.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-powell-ocasio-cortez-birthright.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make children sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/supreme-court-childrens-books-gay-trans.html

USA TODAY
— Harvard shunned conservatives. It deserves to be defunded by Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/21/trump-harvard-federal-funding-freeze-dei/83138590007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make children sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/04/22/supreme-court-lgbtq-books-case/83159626007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/20/supreme-court-lgbtq-storybooks-religion/83123106007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/22/supreme-court-childrens-books-lgbtq-issues-parents-rights/82977579007/
— Democrat leaders used the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/02/pope-francis-lgbtq-issues-legacy-catholic-church/80338152007/

EYEWITNESS NEWS
— Pritzker likely to run for 2028 presidential election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZRQTlOnsRY

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Dow Heads for Worst April Since 1932. How far down will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters drive the stock market to destroy America to destroy Trump?
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-22-25/card/dow-heads-for-worst-april-since-1932-aAYmUHTfFPxPtuWmxty4
— Accountability Returns to Student Loans
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/accountability-returns-to-student-loans-forgiveness-borrower-debt-payment-9508da8d

FORTUNE
— Not all degrees are a waste of time and money: These majors will lead to six figure salaries after college. If you could do it over again, would you have had the same major? I would have majored in accounting instead of management. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30 years old in 1979. By then, the accounting profession considered me to be far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, and/or veteran. It is called reverse discrimination and age discrimination.
https://fortune.com/article/not-all-degrees-are-a-waste-of-time-and-money-these-majors-will-lead-to-six-figure-salaries-after-college/

PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjfXVUozQ2Q

NPR
— Trump administration is resuming collections from student loan borrowers in default. If you had to work your way through college, how would your life have been different if you had not had to do that? My high school, undergraduate, and graduate GPAs would have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes while I was a Crete-Monee student 1964-1966. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours a) delivering mail while I was a UIC and NIU student 1966-1969, b) selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances while I was a UIC student in 1971, c) pumping gasoline while I was a Loyola student in 1972, d) collecting delinquent taxes while I was a Loyola and DePaul student 1972-1980, and e) auditing federal agencies while I was a DePaul student in 1980 and an IIT student 1992-1997. Further, my 1979 CPA examination scores would have been higher if I had studied instead of collected delinquent federal taxes. Further, my 1981 Certified Internal Auditor examination scores would have been higher if I had studied instead of audited federal agencies.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371723/trump-administration-collections-on-defaulted-student-loans

POLITICO
— Anticipate/expect Democrat leaders to ever-increasingly compare the Trump administration to Nazi Germany. How soon will governments, employers, organizations, etc. officially ban German Americans?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/al-gore-compares-trump-administration-to-third-reich-hitler-00302348

NEW REPUBLIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194029/fascist-trump-resembles-incompetent-mussolini

HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders use the Pope to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jimmy-kimmel-trump-pope_n_680721ade4b052543c13cd8a

HR DRIVE
— The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.hrdive.com/news/exclusive-job-offers-protected-groups-present-greatest-legal-risk/745875/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/04/22/will-trump-follow-law-punishing-harvard

GUARDIAN
— Public education exists in America to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration

April 21, 2025 Evening Edition

April 21, 2025

CNN
— Pope Francis dies at 88
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/europe/pope-francis-dies-intl/index.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Pope Francis dies at 88
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pope-francis-has-died-vatican-camerlengo-announces/16213828/
— Democrat leaders divide those who have demographics that vote for Democrats against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/american-revolution-anniversary-250-years-america-went-war-independence-divided-nation-battles-legacy/16205829/
— Video shows cars drag racing, drifting in Lakeview street takeover. Lakeview today, your street tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-street-takeover-racing-video-shows-cars-drag-drifting-ashland-avenue-west-diversey-parkway-lakeview/16212001/

CBS2
— 4 dead, 11 others hurt in Chicago shootings during Easter weekend
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-april-18-to-21/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/20/column-donald-trump-abrego-garcia-deportations-immigration-page/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more booze.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/geneva-liquor-license-ban-highland-park/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) reject Trump’s election and b) fight Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/democratic-state-lawmakers-start-to-move-on-promise-to-be-a-check-on-donald-trump/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2025/04/20/4-20-pot-cannabis-weed-holiday-easter-thc
— Under the Democrats, soon, everyone will be low income.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-affairs/2025/04/18/federal-program-liheap-utility-bills-cut-trump-budget-plan
— What do you do? I put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out. What do my critics/opponents do? They discourage me from putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/20/birding-glenview-park-district-techny-reservoir

JOUNAL COURIER
— My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/the-rich-need-pay-taxes-dean-baker-20272732.php

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/04/20/hundreds-protest-trump-and-musk-in-red-mchenry-county/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/article_84d2c1eb-2537-415c-9819-6954b195aefc.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Senate GOP braces for primary headaches after 2024 break. Which Republicans do you anticipate/expect will run for U.S. Senate in Illinois in 2026?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/senate-gop-braces-for-primary-headaches-after-2024-break/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-marijuana-holiday-4-20-coincides-with-easter-and-passover-this-year-heres-what-to-know/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/where-do-efforts-to-legalize-reschedule-marijuana-stand/

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/marijuana-holiday-4-20-coincides-with-easter-and-passover-this-year-heres-what-to-know/article_8f03cfef-f09d-53e0-9e8b-e95ab58f4cec.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-20/trump-faces-bipartisan-criticism-over-abrego-garcia-deportation

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-04-20/protestors-across-the-u-s-rally-against-the-trump-administration

WSIL TV
— Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years. Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/marijuana-hospital-visits-linked-to-dementia-diagnosis-within-5-years-study-finds/article_25b902f0-4a72-541b-b4b9-7b0a69a068a4.html

NORTHERN STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://northernstar.info/125465/news/residents-from-dekalb-and-sycamore-rally-to-protest-the-trump-administration/

DAILY ILLINI
— Under the Democrats, soon, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/champaign-urbana/2025/04/20/budzinski-trump-medicaid/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/21/pritzkers-national-brand-00300745
— Joseph Severino says he plans to run for governor in 2026 as a Republican. He made his announcement on conservative podcaster Shaun Thompson’s show on AM 560. Severino previously ran for Congress in the 10th District in 2022 as a Republican and 2024 as an Independent. Severino has yet to file paperwork with the state. Also in the GOP race for governor is DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, who announced in February and has $100,000 in his campaign fund, according to filings with the state.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/21/pritzkers-national-brand-00300745

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-495/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Which offices will be on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct? Do you anticipate/expect helping elect candidates for those offices? What discourages you from doing that? For me, it includes far too many Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their losses and/or near losses. I should write about those candidates and their major donors, political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers. Most commonly, they have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I painted them as being more conservative than they wanted to be painted and that caused them to lose. I would focus on the aforesaid candidates who rejected the most planks in the Republican Party platform. I have long since stopped helping elect candidates in nonpartisan elections and Republican primary elections a) because far too many of those candidates who lost those elections and primaries blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats and b) far too many of those candidates who won Republican primaries buy lost general elections blamed their defeats on my support for their opponents in the primaries. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are the following doing to elect Republicans on November 3, 2026: the leaders of a) the Illinois Republican Party, b) your Republican county party organization, and c) your Republican township party organization? They need to defend and advance the Republican Party platform, that is, they need to defend and advance conservative principles. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you stress to defend and advance conservative principles? I stress the successes that I have had because I have always followed conservative principles. I earned a bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 47. I earned professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a professional license when I was 32. I bought new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. I bought real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc. I got married when I was 29. I was able to do the aforesaid notwithstanding my parents never having attended college, my father having been only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never having attended high school, and my having to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you promote that your critics/opponents use against you? My critics/opponents use my promoting the Republican Party platform, that is, my promoting conservative principles. They especially use my promoting the platform’s personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving) planks. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents do? My critics/opponents destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What jobs have you had? According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and that should have been given to minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. I did yard work 1962-1964, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are your demographics? My critics/opponents look down on, if not despise, if not hate those who share my demographics. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older (born in 1948), non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844. Further, I was a Crete resident 1948-1972 and I have been a Wheaton resident since 1978. Further, I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, including almost 9 years working for IRS, and I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How envious were your coworkers? My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were full of envy. They always painted themselves as being financially disadvantaged. They decried my earning a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, my earning master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 47, my earning professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, my earning a professional license when I was 32, my buying new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., my buying real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., my getting married when I was 29, etc. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I would never have been able to do the aforesaid a) if I had not avoided the draft and b) if my wife and I had children. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents stress a) that my parents were Protestant and German American, b) that neither of my parents attended college, c) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, d) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, e) that my mother never attended high school, f) that I had to work my way through college, g) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, h) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, i) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, and j) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court makes ‘unprecedented’ intervention to block Trump’s latest round of gang deportations. Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/20/supreme-court-makes-unprecedented-intervention-block-trumps-latest/
— Democrats would rather destroy America than support Trump.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/18/democrats-would-rather-destroy-america-support-trump/
— My critics/opponents destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/20/250-years-lexington-concord-still-fight-freedom/
— If America abandons Israel, God will abandon America. Democrat leaders want America to abandon Israel.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/20/america-abandons-israel-god-abandon-america/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— New York chooses DEI over students
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3380175/new-york-public-school-officials-refuse-dei-mandate-trump/

NEW YORK POST
— Conservatives rage against Supreme Court for reining in Trump.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/20/us-news/conservatives-rage-against-supreme-court-for-reining-in-trump-time-to-start-deporting-rogue-judges/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Higher Education Should Learn From Hillsdale
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/21/higher-education-should-learn-from-hillsdale/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Malicious compliance bedevils our military
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/malicious_compliance_bedevils_our_military.html

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Jobs Americans Will Do: Just About All of Them. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and that should have been given to minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. I did yard work 1962-1964, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997.
https://cis.org/Report/Jobs-Americans-Will-Do-Just-About-All-Them

EPOCH TIMES
— Made-in-America Entrepreneurs See Opportunities in Global Tariffs. By sourcing materials domestically and thinking locally, U.S.-based companies say they’re in a better position to survive—and thrive.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/made-in-america-entrepreneurs-see-opportunities-in-global-tariffs-5842569

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— JD Vance Was Right: Cheap Foreign Labor Is an “Addiction.” My brother lost manufacturing jobs because his employers moved to Mexico.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/04/10/jd-vance-cheap-foreign-labor-addiction

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Trump Admin Should Unleash The False Claims Act To End Discrimination In Higher Education. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But because of my bad demographics, I doubt that they would today.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/trump-admin-should-unleash-the-false-claims-act-to-end-discrimination-in-higher-education/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Many schools (including almost all “elite” universities) view their maintenance of Kendian “discrimination for the right reasons” programs in admissions, hiring, promotions, tenure, and funding to be moral imperatives, and thus either are flatly refusing to abide by the Trump administration’s demands, and/or are continuing their discriminatory programs sub rosa.)

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Wokeness in Medicine Hasn’t Been Cured Yet
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/wokeness-in-medicine-hasnt-been-cured-yet/

POWER LINE
— Who Says Democrats Aren’t Pro-Crime?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/who-says-democrats-arent-pro-crime.php

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Harvard Law School Professors Politicize the Rule of Law
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/20/harvard_law_school_professors_politicize_the_rule_of_law_152680.html

TOWNHALL
— New CNN Poll Shows American Support Deporting All Illegal Aliens
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/04/21/new-cnn-poll-shows-american-support-deporting-all-illegals-n2655744
— The Radical Left’s Plan to Stop Trump and His Agenda
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2025/04/21/the-radical-lefts-plan-to-stop-trump-and-his-agenda-n2655823

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Trump takes aim at Biden, “Radical Left Lunatics” and the courts in Easter Sunday message.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-easter-sunday-message-biden-courts-left/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-college-bbe09c081d8a47fcb5616c8fa3b23cee

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/churches-easter-ice-sensitive-locations-rcna201825

NEW YORK TIMES
— TOP OF FOLD: State Dept. Faces Plan for Big Cuts. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be a GAO employee. Virtually all GAO employees are Democrats. Reforms could have included a) requiring that at least one-third of GAO employees at each grade level be Republican and b) requiring that all requests for GAO to do work be bipartisan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/trump-state-department-overhaul.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/business/china-deflation-trump-tariffs.html
— Carmakers Highlight American Roots in Bid to Influence Trump. Wary of directly criticizing the president’s trade policies, automakers are emphasizing how much they have already invested in U.S. manufacturing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/business/cars-trump-tariffs-us-manufacturing.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly manipulate and dominate religion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/opinion/easter-christianity-jesus-trump.html
— With Harvard Threat, Trump Tries to Bend the I.R.S. to His Will. Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that. I should write about my Democrat IRS superiors. I should focus on those who a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) stopped me from being promoted beyond GS-12, d) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, e) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer to GAO in 1980, and f) stopped GAO from assigning me to audits of IRS except 1986-1988.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/trump-irs.html

USA TODAY
— Trump names fifth person to lead IRS this year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/18/trump-replacing-irs-acting-commissioner/83163716007/
— Harvard shunned conservatives. It deserves to be defunded by Trump. President Donald Trump is trying to reform an education system that excludes conservative students and faculty while promoting a leftist agenda that most Americans have rejected.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/21/trump-harvard-federal-funding-freeze-dei/83138590007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH GRAPHIC: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/global/trump-tariffs-us-markets-treasurys-dollar-7d9777d7
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-us-economic-relations-tariffs-cold-war-ddb43fca
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly polarize those who have demographics that vote for Democrats against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-polarization-prior-beliefs-bias-information-b7b0e99f
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly make their students sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gender-storytime-at-the-supreme-court-first-amendment-parental-rights-opt-out-04a15281
— I Really Like Electric Cars. These Technologies Would Make Me Love Them. I’ve been buying EVs for more than 10 years. But innovations on the horizon will make a big difference to me—and lots of other skeptical consumers. Diersen asks how will my critics/opponents use my buying a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV against me?
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/ev-technology-innovation-4e25c1d5
— Washington State’s Tax on Tesla. Olympia designs a tax targeting Elon Musk and his company’s carbon emissions credits. How soon will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters drive Tesla out of business?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/washington-state-tesla-tax-elon-musk-electric-vehicles-4441b8e2
— Government Jobs Insulated DC From Economic Volatility. Not Any More. Spending cutbacks hurt local business; ‘This is our Detroit moment’
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/washington-dc-economy-trump-job-cuts-359c8645

BUSINESS INSIDER
— In an Easter post, Trump said the businessmen who’ve criticized his tariffs are bad at both business and politics. What percent of wealth that rich people have has been from exploiting cheap labor and lack regulations in foreign countries? My brother lost manufacturing jobs because his employers moved to Mexico.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-businessmen-against-tariffs-are-bad-at-business-and-politics-2025-4

KIPLINGER
— What are your demographics? My critics/opponents look down on, if not despise, if not hate those who share my demographics. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older (born in 1948), non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844. Further, I was a Crete resident 1948-1972 and I have been a Wheaton resident since 1978. Further, I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, including almost 9 years working for IRS, and I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years.
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/can-you-define-baby-boomers-look-at-trump-and-harris

AMERICAN PROSPECT
— We Never Had Free Trade. The U.S. trading system since the 1970s has screwed American workers. But the main culprits are the American capitalists who devised the system, not foreigners. My brother lost manufacturing jobs because his employers moved to Mexico.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-08-we-never-had-free-trade/

GOOGLE AI
— Envious coworkers. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were full of envy. They always painted themselves as being financially disadvantaged. They decried my earning a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, my earning master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 47, my earning professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, my earning a professional license when I was 32, my buying new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., my buying real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., my getting married when I was 29, etc. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I would never have been able to do the aforesaid a) if I had not avoided the draft and b) if my wife and I had children.
https://www.google.com/search?q=envious+coworkers

GOOGLE AI
— Caste system. What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents stress a) that my parents were Protestant and German American, b) that neither of my parents attended college, c) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, d) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, e) that my mother never attended high school, f) that I had to work my way through college, g) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, h) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, i) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, and j) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Caste+%22born+into

POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/20/pritzker-tktktk-00296824

PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/photos-anti-trump-protesters-rally-in-cities-and-towns-across-the-country

INTERCEPT
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racists.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/20/trump-racism-white-demographic-fears-immigration/

DAILY MAIL
— Trump official calls for Americans to be paid reparations over trauma caused by Biden’s migrant crisis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14630377/stephen-miller-americans-reparations-illegal-migration.html
— Drag queens slammed for mocking Christians and hosting ‘hunky Jesus’ contest at woke Easter show for kids
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14630709/Drag-queens-mocking-Jesus-woke-Easter-kids.html

April 20, 2025

April 19, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

FOX32
— Johnson jabs at Trump during DC mayors conference
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1627478

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— For trans athletes in high schools sports, IHSA says it will follow state law not Trump executive order. Federal laws trump state and local laws. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/04/18/for-trans-athletes-in-high-schools-sports-ihsa-says-it-will-follow-state-law-not-trump-executive-order

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/18/420-cannabis-holiday-alcohol/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/18/420-cannabis-holiday-alcohol/

DAILY HERALD
— At Foster town hall, concerns over Social Security, tariffs – and if Democrats wants to impeach Trump again.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250418/news/at-foster-town-hall-concerns-over-social-security-tariffs-and-if-democrats-wants-to-impeach-trum/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Education in America ever-increasingly exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/big-ten-schools-band-together-fight-trump-attacks-report
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/advocates-decry-trump-plan-cut-hiv-support-funding

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/18/for-trans-athletes-in-high-schools-sports-ihsa-says-it-will-follow-state-law-not-trump-executive-order

WGN RADIO
— 67% of CEOs surveyed disapprove of Trump’s tariffs. CEOs overwhelming promote a) globalism, that is, dependency on foreign countries and on their cheap labor and b) the Democrat Party platform. The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://wgnradio.com/news/67-of-ceos-surveyed-disapprove-of-trumps-tariffs/

JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-regional/article_233022ce-914b-5c90-a7b1-a95e4c9294e5.html

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Lisa Edison among thousands of parents who oppose proposed homeschool legislation
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/04/18/lombard-mom-among-thousands-of-parents-who-oppose-proposed-homeschool-legislation/

DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/04/18/no-kings-anti-trump-protest-planned-for-dekalb-saturday/

SOUTHERN
— Three Southern Illinois Republican lawmakers took to social media to criticize the Illinois High School Association’s recent response to questions about how it handles transgender participation in high school athletics, calling the reply vague and lacking direction.
https://thesouthern.com/news/southern-illinois-lawmakers-push-back-on-ihsa-response-on-trans-athletes/article_e2a0a42e-3fa2-5daa-a34f-d7185ca4450e.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://thesouthern.com/life-entertainment/health/the-imapct-of-legal-cannabis-on-business-five-years-in/article_cba3043d-f4dc-5daf-af2c-ac45cce71982.html

SAUK VALLEY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.shawlocal.com/sauk-valley/2025/04/18/dixon-cannabis-dispensary-high-on-its-new-flower-collection-launch/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Judge orders Trump administration to tell fired workers they were not let go for poor performance. In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), the Democrats who ran GAO hinted/implied//argued/shouted that they forced me to retire because I was a poor performer and because of Gingrich budget cuts and not because I had become an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. They ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed that I had earned a) three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), b) six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting) and c) a job-related professional license (CPA).
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-tell-fired-workers-they-were-not-let-go-for-poor-performance/

NPR ILLINOIS & NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— The Trump administration announced it is moving forward with a new rule to reclassify some career civil servants as “at will” federal employees, a plan it says will make it easier to fire underperforming employees. My Democrat superiors in the federal government hinted/implied/argued/shouted that they took adverse actions against me because I was an underperformer. That was a pretext. In my defense, I stress that a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, d) I became a licensed CPA, and e) I earned four more job-related professional certifications. None of my coworkers who they promoted over me had done anything close to that. They all were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-18/thousands-of-federal-workers-would-be-easier-to-fire-under-trump-rule-change
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-04-18/thousands-of-federal-workers-would-be-easier-to-fire-under-trump-rule-change

NPR ILLINOIS
— Head Start advocates brace for possibility of Trump eliminating funding. Ever since my parents sent me to kindergarten at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete in 1953, my critics/opponents have falsely and maliciously hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my parents were filthy rich. But neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-18/head-start-advocates-brace-for-possibility-of-trump-eliminating-funding

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-04-18/some-asylum-seekers-wonder-if-its-worth-staying-in-the-u-s-to-fight-their-cases

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The mainstream news media in America ever-increasingly promotes the Democrat Party and its leaders far stronger than Pravda ever promoted the Communist Party and its leaders. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Just 30% of Illinois 4th graders read at proficiency standard
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d91c7486-7950-4db0-8004-b1eff240b65c.html

CHICAGO PARENT
— Best Private Schools in DuPage County. My parents sending me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod helped me get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my Crete-Monee High School class in 1966, and get accepted by UIC in 1966. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.chicagoparent.com/education/private-schools/private-schools-dupage-county/

JOIHN BIVER
— Which of Our Current GOP Leaders Want to Win and Which Don’t?
https://johnbiver.com/which-of-our-current-gop-leaders-want-to-win-and-which-dont/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Checking Up on the Oberweis Florida Campaign Finds $2 Million Loan
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/18/checking-up-on-the-oberweis-florida-campaign-finds-2-million-loan/
— Foster’s Crystal Lake Town Hall Meeting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/18/fosters-crystal-lake-town-hall-meeting/
— Conservative PACs Do Poorly in 2025’s First Quarter
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/18/conservative-pacs-do-poorly-in-2025s-first-quarter/
— Crystal Lake Randall Road Widening on Horizon
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/17/crystal-lake-randall-road-widening-on-horizon/
— Republican State Senator from Freeport Disses McHenry County Republican Party’s Fundraising
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/17/republican-state-senator-from-freeport-disses-mchenry-county-republican-partys-fundraising/
— Bob Anderson Calls for Mike Shorten to Resign from the County Board Because He Will Soon Also Be Nunda Township Supervisor
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/17/bob-anderson-calls-for-mike-shorten-to-resign-from-the-county-board-because-he-will-soon-also-be-nunda-township-supervisor/
— Opponents to Homeschooling Haven’t Given Up
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/17/opponents-to-homeschooling-havent-given-up/
— Vote by Mail Urged by Former State Rep. Mark Blatnick, Who Says He Won Using It
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/17/vote-by-mail-urged-by-mark-blatnick/
— Another Illinois Democrat Breaches to “F” Word Barrier
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/16/another-illinois-democrat-breaches-to-f-word-barrier/
— Two Shorten Allies Change Election Day Loss to Victory
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/16/two-shorten-allies-change-election-day-loss-to-victory/
— McHenry Police Use Home Surveillance Camera Video to Track Down Wisconsin Man Convicted of Buying a Car with a Fake Cashier’s Check
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/16/mchenry-police-use-home-surveillance-camera-video-to-track-down-wisconsin-man-convicted-of-buying-a-car-with-a-fake-cashiers-check/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— The Trump administration announced it is moving forward with a new rule to reclassify some career civil servants as “at will” federal employees, a plan it says will make it easier to fire underperforming employees. My Democrat superiors in the federal government hinted/implied/argued/shouted that they took adverse actions against me because I was an underperformer. That was a pretext. In my defense, I stress that a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, d) I became a licensed CPA, and e) I earned four more job-related professional certifications. None of my coworkers who they promoted over me had done anything close to that. They all were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/18/trump-administration-moves-reclassify-federal-employees-making-easier/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Indiana moves toward commission to welcome conservative Illinois counties
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3383270/indiana-commission-conservative-illinois-counties/
— Abrego Garcia’s defenders just don’t want anyone deported
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3384977/kilmar-abrego-garcia-defenders-immigration-policy/
— War is coming, and we are too complacent to stop it. In WWIII, which countries will side with China and Russia against America?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3384290/war-is-coming-complacent-to-stop-it/

NEW YORK POST
— Confidence in Democratic leadership plunges to all-time low
https://nypost.com/2025/04/18/us-news/confidence-in-democratic-leadership-plunges-to-all-time-low-poll/

BREITBART
— Democrat Party Using All of Its Power to Fight for Accused Wife Beater, Gang Member
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/04/18/stephen-miller-democrat-party-using-all-of-its-power-to-fight-for-accused-wife-beater-gang-member/

FOX NEWS
— Venezuelan migrant arrested in Chicago for 6th time in 13 months days after prosecutors drop charges. Edmonds Peraza Cortez faces felony robbery charges in Chicago.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/venezuelan-migrant-arrested-sanctuary-city-6th-time-13-months-days-after-prosecutors-drop-charges

FOX NEWS RADIO
— Democrats Stand Up For Illegals, President Trump Stands Up For Grieving Mothers
https://radio.foxnews.com/2025/04/18/democrats-stand-up-for-illegals-president-trump-stands-up-for-grieving-mothers/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Chicago Mayor Johnson To Trump On Sanctuary City Status: “We’re Not Going To Negotiate With Terrorists”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/18/chicago_mayor_johnson_to_trump_on_sanctuary_city_status_were_not_going_to_negotiate_with_terrorists.html

TOWNHALL
— Some Familiar Supreme Court Justices Joined Libs in Blocking Further Deportation Flights
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/04/19/supreme-court-shuts-down-further-deportation-flights-under-alien-enemies-act-n2655788

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aclu-alien-enemies-act-district-judge-trump-immigration/

YAHOO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/potent-policy-americas-extraordinary-evolution-on-marijuana-in-7-charts-200834879.html

AOL
— Republican Senators Aren’t Taking Up Trump On Buying A Tesla
https://www.aol.com/republican-senators-aren-t-taking-191457295.html
— Trump’s ‘External Revenue Service’ can’t replace the IRS
https://www.aol.com/news/opinion-trump-external-revenue-t-113000160.html
— What Trump-supporting federal workers think of his blitz to shake up the government. I favor reforming federal agencies instead of gutting them. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be a GAO employee. Virtually all GAO employees are Democrats. Reforms could have included a) requiring that at least one-third of GAO employees at each grade level to be Republican and b) requiring that all requests for GAO to do work be bipartisan.
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-supporting-federal-workers-think-085901876.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/us/politics/deportation-trump-abrego-garcia-el-salvador.html
— Head of I.R.S. Being Ousted Amid Treasury’s Power Struggle With Elon Musk. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/irs-scott-bessent-elon-musk.html
— Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard. An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/china-us-trump-xi-tariffs.html
— Democrat leaders say “The Trump Billionaires Who Run the Economy and the Things They Say.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/us/politics/trump-musk-billionaires-economy.html
— Democrat leaders say “Why Big Law Firms Aren’t Standing Together Against Trump’s Assault.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/business/trump-law-firms.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/19/anti-trump-protests-50501-movement-hands-off/

USA TODAY
— Trump floats plan to nix federal income tax and replace revenue with money from tariffs
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/17/trump-tariffs-income-tax/83144867007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-migrant-deportations-alien-enemies-act-759f25dd
— Trump to Replace Acting IRS Commissioner. Tax agency’s next leader is fifth so far this year.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-replace-acting-irs-commissioner-f5494a97
— I have fought age discrimination since I was 25 years old in 1973. That was when my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to deem me to be too old to ever be promoted to GS-13. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. I did not make GS-13 until I was 38 years old in 1986. By then, I had a) earned an MBA in 1976, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) transferred to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. My Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me to GS-14 even though a) I earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 and b) earned a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/questioning-bidens-capacities-was-taboo-a-year-ago-now-its-everywhere-728abd4a
— Harvard and the View From Hillsdale. The small college doesn’t take federal money. Its president, Larry Arnn, argues higher education would be far better if no one did.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/harvard-and-the-view-from-hillsdale-higher-education-federal-funding-colleges-d1a04b1a
— At NY Auto Show, Talk of Trump’s Tariffs Is Inescapable. Auto executives wanted to focus on splashy vehicle debuts; instead, tariffs dominated events and discussions. How will tariffs impact the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus that I just bought?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/at-ny-auto-show-talk-of-trumps-tariffs-is-inescapable-ab1509ae

FORBES
— The Performance Appraisal: A Workplace Evil That Must Be Destroyed Like a Blood Sucking Vampire. All my Democrat superiors and supervisors used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems against me. All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2012/07/09/performance-appraisal/
— What Counts As An “Adverse Employment Action” In Discrimination And Retaliation Cases? I should write about those who have taken many/big adverse actions against me and the pretexts that they used. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, and the federal government, c) conservative and religious leaders and activists, d) those who I have sued and their attorneys, and e) my Democrat superiors and supervisors.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericbachman/2021/11/15/what-counts-as-an-adverse-employment-action-in-discrimination-and-retaliation-cases/

BLOOMBERG
— Windsor Feels Heat of Tariffs. How will tariffs impact the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus that I just bought?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-16/canadian-auto-town-gets-an-early-taste-of-trump-s-trade-war

DETROIT NEWS
— How tariffs could upend EV adoption in America. How will tariffs impact the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus that I just bought?
https//detroitnews.com/

REGULATORY REVIEW
— If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting GAO, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee. Virtually all GAO employees are Democrats. Reforms could have included a) requiring that at least one-third of GAO employees at each grade level to be Republican and b) requiring that all requests for GAO to do work be bipartisan.
https://www.theregreview.org/2019/09/23/pierce-proposal-help-congress-enact-civil-service-reforms/

ACLU
— AARP v. Trump
https://www.aclu.org/cases/aarp-v-trump

GOOD MEN PROJECT
— Democrat leaders say “When Donald Trump Went to College. Family ties or donations benefitted Donald and three of his children.” Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/when-donald-trump-went-to-college/

April 18, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— More than 1,000 international students have had visas or legal status revoked. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But they would have admitted international students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/17/international-student-visas-revoked/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/17/naperville-protest-indivisible-trump-musk/.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/17/photos-day-of-action-protests-at-northwestern-and-uic/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/18/column-donald-trump-due-process-el-salvador-prison-shackelford/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES & WBEZ
— Duckworth hammers President Trump over veterans’ care. Duckworth went off on the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to services for veterans. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times, virtually all of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrat veterans. They promoted the veterans preference and stressed that I had avoided the Vietnam War draft. According to them, Democrat veterans should have gotten all the promotions that I got. I should write about my Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans and who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/17/tammy-duckworth-donald-trump-veterans-care-daily-show
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/04/17/u-s-sen-tammy-duckworth-hammers-president-donald-trump-over-veterans-care-in-the-daily-show-interview

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Pritzker says public safety is ‘under attack by Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/17/jb-pritzker-public-safety-trump-administration-chicago-anti-violence-programs
— Nearly 1 in 4 out-of-state abortion patients come to Illinois. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/abortion/2025/04/17/out-of-state-abortion-patients-illinois-chicago-guttmacher-institute-roe-v-wade
— Trump’s termination of international student visas jolts Illinois colleges. Trump is erasing students’ immigration status without explanation. School officials at the University of Illinois Chicago, Northwestern and the University of Chicago say they’re not even receiving notification. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But they would have admitted international students instead of me if they could have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/04/17/trump-immigration-visa-terminations-illinois-college-students-uic-northwestern-university-of-chicago
— The Democrat Party ever-increasingly promotes criminals and crime.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/17/donald-trump-detain-deport-pro-palestinian-el-salvador-prison-immigrants-kilmar-garcia-mona-charen
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/17/northwestern-students-and-faculty-protest-trumps-campaign-against-higher-education
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/17/donald-trump-detain-deport-pro-palestinian-el-salvador-prison-immigrants-kilmar-garcia-mona-charen
— Trump guts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-affairs/2025/04/17/layoffs-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-cut-trump-government-downsizing
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/small-business/2025/04/17/chicagos-small-business-owners-are-stocking-up-and-bracing-for-the-impact-of-trumps-tariffs

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PHOTOS: Lisle trustee candidates separated by single vote, while Queen Bee school board race ends in a tie
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250417/local-politics/lisle-trustee-candidates-separated-by-single-vote-while-queen-bee-school-board-race-ends-in-a-tie/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Abortions in Illinois dipped only slightly in 2024 despite new hurdles. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/illinois-abortion-numbers-dip-slightly-2024

ABC7
— Judge orders suspect detained in DePaul attack on Jewish students
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-adam-erkan-due-court-hate-charges-attack-2-jewish-depaul-students-lincoln-park-campus/16190158/
— Trump says he’s in ‘no rush’ to end tariffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/italys-meloni-will-test-mettle-eu-us-bridge-when-she-meets-trump-washington/16191357/

NBC5
— Suspect accused in DePaul hate crime attack will remain in custody
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/suspect-accused-in-depaul-hate-crime-attack-will-remain-in-custody/3725195/

CBS2
— Immigrant rights groups, labor unions plan May Day march to demand end to Trump’s mass deportations. Mass/illegal immigration harms American workers. All the employers that hired me would have hired citizens of foreign countries if they could have.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/may-day-protest-rally-immigrant-rights-march-trump-administration-deportations/
— Man charged in hate crime attack on 2 Jewish students at DePaul University to stay in jail
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/adam-erkan-charged-hate-crime-attack-jewish-students-depaul-university/
— Northwestern ever-increasingly fights Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/northwestern-research-grants-trump-federal-funding-freeze/

WTTW
— Nearly 25% of All Out-of-State Abortions Took Place in Illinois Last Year. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/17/nearly-25-all-out-state-abortions-took-place-illinois-last-year-study

WBEZ
— Pritzker says public safety is under attack by Trump. The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. Democrat leaders promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2025/04/17/governor-jb-pritzker-says-public-safety-is-under-attack-by-trump-administration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/17/northwestern-students-and-faculty-protest-trumps-campaign-against-higher-education

CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Reps. Davis, Ford urge voters to “fight back” to save democracy. If you are a Republican, anticipate/expect that the Democrats in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct will ever-increasingly take more/bigger adverse actions against you to punish you because of Trump.
https://chicagocrusader.com/reps-davis-ford-urge-voters-to-fight-back-to-save-democracy/

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat colleges exist to crank out good little Democrats.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/17/lateststories/funding-freezes-at-northwestern-elite-universities-divide-federal-lawmakers/

EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/04/18/grad-students-union-protests-trump/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Jews to promote more hatred against Republicans. I should write about the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had using my many Democrat superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-17/wesleyan-university-president-says-trumps-antisemitism-fight-doesnt-protect-jews
— As Trump jettisons its staff, HUD puts its D.C. headquarters up for sale. I should write about how GAO jettisoned its staff in response to Gingrich budget cuts. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-17/as-trump-jettisons-its-staff-hud-puts-its-d-c-headquarters-up-for-sale

CITIES 92.9
— Illinois Dems push banning cops from ticketing students for breaking school rules. Democrats ever-increasingly destroy education.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/17/illinois-dems-push-banning-cops-from-ticketing-students-for-breaking-school-rules/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-the-abrego-garcia-case-pulls-democrats-into-the-immigration-debate-trump-wants-to-have/
— Ben Carson among most liked politicians
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/obama-sanders-ben-carson-among-most-liked-politicians-surveys-show/

WAND TV
— 14-year-old arrested for possession of drugs with intent to deliver on school grounds. Who are the biggest pot pushers in your school district?
https://www.wandtv.com/news/crime/police-14-year-old-arrested-for-possession-of-drugs-with-intent-to-deliver-on-school/article_a7287556-ae24-4e10-b191-ed30506a2b67.html

WTHR
— Bill to invite Illinois counties to join Indiana passes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7I7u9a7xUw

WIFR
— Illinois program can help clear old cannabis records. Pot and gambling destroys people. I led the successful efforts to stop the sale of pot and video gambling in Wheaton. Those who want pot and/or video gambling in Wheaton want to kill me. I should write about them.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/04/17/illinois-program-can-help-clear-old-cannabis-records/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Hemp Sales Banned In Parts Of Far South Side As Some Dispensary Owners Urge Tougher State Rules. Hemp sales cut into pot sales.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/17/hemp-sales-banned-in-parts-of-far-south-side-as-some-dispensary-owners-urge-tougher-state-rules/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Conservative activists are trying to get sanctuary status referendums on 2026 ballots, and they expect some Democrats could support them.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/18/activists-want-immigration-on-the-ballot-00298301

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hate Trump. What are your demographics? What will your future be? In Illinois, the more demographics that you share with Trump, the bleaker that your future is. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the sooner that Democrat and RINO leaders will get rid of you. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— Trump is in this tariff fight to even the playing field for Illinois farmers.
https://wirepoints.org/trump-is-in-this-tariff-fight-to-even-the-playing-field-for-illinois-farmers-wirepoints-joins-tom-miller-of-wjpf-carbondale/
— Illinois lawmakers ignore where the real transit savings are
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-lawmakers-ignore-where-the-real-transit-savings-are-wirepoints-quickpoint/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago Flips Red founder Zoe Leigh said Pritzker is the one who is a threat. “He is a threat to the state of Illinois being the governor. Our mayor is a threat to the city of Chicago being the mayor, because they don’t care about the Chicago citizens’ safety. If they did, we wouldn’t be a sanctuary state any more,” Leigh said. . .Chicago Flips Red vice president Danielle Carter-Walters said crimes involving noncitizen migrants were not reported. “They were not recording anything that they did illegally. They just let it slide, let it go away. We know for a fact they are not reporting the illegal alien crime,” Carter-Walters told The Center Square.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7e354608-ed86-430a-8d2f-41b41c7ffc30.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Kane County part of voter wave saying ‘no’ to more taxes
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/kane-county-part-of-voter-wave-saying-no-to-more-taxes/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago’s Failing Mayor Smears President Trump as a “Terrorist” for Threatening to Withhold Federal Funding While Harboring Dangerous Illegal Migrants
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/04/chicagos-failing-mayor-smears-president-trump-as-a-terrorist-for-threatening-to-withhold-federal-funding-while-harboring-dangerous-illegal-migrants.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court expected to consider giving Trump more firing power, overruling 90-year-old precedent. The justices and judges in Diersen v GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) ruled that federal agencies can force their employees to retire, that is, they can fire their employees, a) because they are active members in class action lawsuits that charge them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, or retaliation, b) because they oppose political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, or national origin discrimination, and/or c) because they are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/17/supreme-court-expected-consider-giving-trump-firing-power-overruling/

NEW YORK POST
— Liberals refuse to date Trump voters, Tesla owners as political polarization ‘on steroids’: DC matchmaker
https://nypost.com/2025/04/17/media/dc-matchmaker-says-political-polarization-on-steroids-as-liberals-refuse-to-date-trump-voters-tesla-owners/
— IRS workers only had to show up to work once a week in person, before Trump took over.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/18/us-news/irs-workers-only-had-to-show-up-to-work-once-a-week-in-person-before-president-trump-took-over/

DAILY CALLER
— Illinois Joins List Of States Who Are Refusing To Comply With Trump’s Executive Order On Trans Athletes
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/17/illinois-donald-trump-executive-order-transgender/

DAILY WIRE
— Most Americans Side With Trump On Illegals, Want Them ALL Deported
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-pollster-admits-most-americans-side-with-trump-on-illegals-want-them-all-deported

CENTER SQUARE
— Bill seeks to take millions in guns from federal tax collectors. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used that against me the most.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_0f1d9642-f8b3-4d06-a894-40c0333fdcb4.html
— DHS, IRS join government funding crackdown on Harvard over antisemitism charges
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_18dc2d32-b8c5-4c86-9640-9f3ae7d4c627.html

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Trump: I Was Elected To Get The Criminals and Murderers Out Of This Country, It Was The Number One Factor
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/17/trump_i_was_elected_to_get_the_criminals_and_murderers_out_of_this_country_it_was_the_number_one_factor.html
— Democrats Hate Trump So Much They Are Willing To Grovel To Illegals
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/17/hawley_democrats_hate_trump_so_much_they_are_willing_to_grovel_to_illegals_personally_escort_every_illegal.html

WHITE HOUSE
— Extension of Hiring Freeze. All during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO, the agency was almost always under Gingrich-caused hiring freezes and/or promotion freezes. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely because of that. They forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay for performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They flushed down their toilets my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. What does Gingrich have to say about that? If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/extension-of-hiring-freeze/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS & CNN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-exempt-crew-environmental-groups-harvard-5e1e0ffacfa040ccdeaf4e43fb72b5fe
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/politics/powell-trump-federal-reserve-tariffs/index.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/abrego-garcia-trump-maryland-el-salvador-2090f0dd508bbc3d2f60845842af27b4
— Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-status-international-students-07a10958bf078cb04b59d1fc9a3a27a8

MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO leaders exist to destroy Trump.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-authoritarian-push-stumbles-as-resistance-diversifies-and-grows-237812805755
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq3635knGj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWukpq9Y-gE

CBS NEWS
— Trump is drastically shrinking the size and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It is a lot easier to gut a federal agency than to reform it. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-cutting-nearly-90-percent-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/world/asia/china-xi-trump-cambodia.html
— Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/politics/harvard-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/harvard-donors-trump.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html
— With Harvard Threat, Trump Tries to Bend the I.R.S. to His Will. Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/trump-irs.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/18/trump-tax-exempt-crew-environmental-groups-harvard/514a345e-1c0a-11f0-9160-306c35f9b3a8_story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Harvard enrolls about 10,000 international students. IIT enrolled me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But they would have enrolled international students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-dhs-international-students-enrollment-e4bc3ea6
— Trump Demands Harvard’s Foreign Funding Records
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-demands-harvards-foreign-funding-records-acc11947

POLITICO
— Trump’s tighter grip on agencies turns to financial regulators. I worked for GAO on audits of federal financial industry regulators for 8 years at the GS-13 Step 3-10 Levels, currently $125,661-$153,151/year.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2025/04/18/trumps-tighter-grip-on-agencies-turns-to-financial-regulators-00298285

LINKEDIN
— My critics/opponents a) attribute their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents promote a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/meritocracy-myth-hiring-already-fair-take-challenge-jenn-tardy-vgdze

INSIDE HIGHER ID
— Public education in America exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/04/18/what-know-about-trumps-funding-threats-colleges

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Trump cannot say ‘you are fired’ to Fed chair Jerome Powell amid economic tensions. For federal employees, the more of the following that they are, the fewer protections that they have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trump-cannot-say-you-are-fired-to-fed-chair-jerome-powell-amid-economic-tensions-heres-why/articleshow/120402427.cms

April 17, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Durbin’s slow fundraising fuels speculation about his political future
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/16/us-sen-dick-durbins-slow-fundraising-fuels-speculation-about-his-political-future/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Democrats await decisions from Durbin, Pritzker that will spark high-stakes political shuffle. For now, candidates are anxiously awaiting word from both Gov. JB Pritzker and Sen. Dick Durbin, but the behind-the-scenes jockeying is in full force.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/16/illinois-democrats-dick-durbin-jb-pritzker-cook-county-pre-slating
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/16/homeland-security-trump-el-salvador-prison-due-process-migrants-venezuelan-deported-jacob-sullum

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/kilmar-abrego-garcia-doj-appeal-ruling-ordering-return-mistakenly-deported-man-el-salvador/16186959/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders use Home Alone 2 director to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/home-alone-2-director-speaks-on-president-trumps-cameo-in-film-i-cant-cut-it/3723090/

FOX32
— Chicago OKs ban on Jan. 6 rioters from city jobs. Constructively, my Democrat GAO superiors banned me not only from federal jobs, but from all jobs that were appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-ban-jan-6-rioters-city-jobs
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1626128

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/16/chicago-appearance-fed-chair-jerome-powell-warns-tariff-sparked-uncertainty-and-asserts

WBEZ
— Chair of Illinois Republican Party on tariffs, deportations, and what’s ahead
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/04/16/chair-of-illinois-republican-party-on-tariffs-deportations-and-whats-ahead

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Durbin to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/16/us-sen-dick-durbin-calls-trumps-tariffs-reckless/83090317007/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/video_3b626a2a-2426-521f-9885-bb05c5c03dda.html

SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders use Home Alone 2 director to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/15/home-alone-2-director-calls-donald-trump-cameo-a-curse-wish-it-was-gone/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump administration issues order to stop construction on New York offshore wind project
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-administration-issues-order-to-stop-construction-on-new-york-offshore-wind-project/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Under the Democrats, soon, if not already, everyone in healthcare will be citizens of foreign countries, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-04-16/new-medical-license-pathway-for-international-doctors-could-alleviate-illinois-shortage
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s budget cuts against him. The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more homelessness.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-16/trump-administration-has-gutted-an-agency-that-coordinates-homelessness-policy

DAILY LINE
— Raoul defends requested $15 million budget increase amidst legal challenges to Trump
https://www.thedailyline.com/raoul-defends-requested-15-million-budget-increase-legal-challenges-trump-administration

ADVOCATE
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, they ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. Anticipate/expect that more and more and more of the students in your school district will be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.advocate.com/news/chicago-teachers-union-lgbtq-inclusion

AXIOS CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/16/saturday-anti-trump-administration-protests-chicago-50501

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois is a net taker of federal money…Indianans and Floridians are paying for our failures
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-is-a-net-taker-of-federal-money-indianans-and-floridians-are-paying-for-our-failures-wirepoints-on-the-shaun-thompson-show/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— In your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct, how wany voted for Harris in the November 5, 2024 election and how many voted for Democrats in the April 1, 2025 election? If you are a registered Republican voter, what do those Democrat voters think of you? What do they blame you for? According to them, you put Trump in office. Democrat leaders and their mainstream news media ever-increasingly a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump and everything that Trump says and does and b) hint/imply/argue/shout that local Democrats should punish local Republicans to punish Trump. If you are a Republican registered voter, anticipate/expect that local Democrats will ever-increasingly ostracize you if not take adverse actions against you. What are the following doing to defend/advance Trump: a) the leaders of your Republican township and county party organizations, b) the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, c) Republican elected officials in your area, and d) conservative and religious leaders and activists in your area? – Dave Diersen
http://www-gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Three Ahead by Virtue of Write-In Votes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/16/three-ahead-by-virtue-of-write-in-votes/
— Pritzker Skips McHenry County in Pre-Apprenticeship Grants
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/15/pritzker-skips-mchenry-county-in-pre-apprenticeship-grants/
— McHenry Mayor Wayne Jett Spends $67,689.82 in Romp to Victory
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/15/mchenry-mayor-wayne-jett-spends-67689-82-in-romp-to-victory/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— America’s educational free fall continues. Our children are paying the price as they enter adulthood.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/16/americas-educational-free-fall-continues/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Schools are evading Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3382676/schools-evading-trump-anti-dei-executive-order-parents-defending-education-report/

NEW YORK POST
— Proposed bill taking aim at IRS would strip agency of guns, ammo
https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/us-news/proposed-bill-taking-aim-at-irs-would-strip-agency-of-guns-ammo/

BREITBART
— Democrats Seek to Conduct ‘Welfare Checks’ on Illegal Aliens Deported to El Salvador
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/16/democrats-seek-to-conduct-welfare-checks-deported-illegals-in-el-salvador/
— ‘He’s Already Home’: White House Slams Efforts to Return Deported Salvadoran Illegal Migrant
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/16/hes-already-home-white-house-slams-efforts-return-deported-salvadoran-illegal-migrant/

CENTER SQUARE
— Trump’s goal to end taxes on Social Security benefits gets bipartisan support
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_eaf6d013-96af-4e1c-a267-377e37a059a0.html

DAILY WIRE
— Trump Blocks Illegals From Receiving Social Security After Biden Let 2 Million Enroll. The move aims to remove monetary incentives for illegal aliens to come to the United States.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-blocks-illegals-from-receiving-social-security-after-biden-let-2-million-enroll

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Anti-Israel Activists Still Pushing Poisonous Ethnic Studies Curriculum in California
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/anti-israel-activists-still-pushing-poisonous-ethnic-studies-curriculum-in-california/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— New Yorkers Cheer as ICE Rounds up Same Criminal Illegals Democrats Defend to the Death
https://www.westernjournal.com/new-yorkers-cheer-ice-rounds-criminal-illegals-democrats-defend-death/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-17/u-s-stocks-drop-as-nvidia-slides-and-the-fog-of-trumps-trade-war-thickens

CNN
— Democrat colleges ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/federal-funding-harvard-demands-trump/index.html
— Trump blasts Fed Chair Powell, saying his ‘termination cannot come fast enough’
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/economy/trump-fed-chair-powell-termination/index.html

CBS NEWS
— Army delivered armored combat vehicles to southern border ahead of Trump’s order authorizing military to occupy federal land
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/army-delivered-armored-combat-stryker-vehicles-southern-border-fort-bliss-el-paso-texas/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/guantanamo-trump-migrants-without-criminal-records/

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Sanders and AOC ever-increasingly speak for Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/bernie-sanders-aoc-trump-democrats.html
— I.R.S. Is Said to Be Considering Whether to Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status. Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-irs-harvard.html
— Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/trump-doge-regulations.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/world/americas/trump-migrants-deportations.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/tattoos-gangs-tren-de-aragua-immigration.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/china-us-trump-xi-tariffs.html
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/briefing/trump-targets-k-12.html
— Trump Lashes Out at Fed Chair for Not Cutting Rates Faster.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/business/economy/trump-jerome-powell-fed.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump wants to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status. Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/16/harvard-tax-trump-irs-law/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/16/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-irs/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/16/trump-china-tariffs-emanuel-weaker/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/16/powell-inflation-trump-tariffs-economy/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/16/california-sues-trump-tariffs-newsom/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/16/nvidia-amd-china-trump-chips/
— Trump’s war on wind goes further than expected as it stops New York project
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/16/offshore-wind-new-york-trump/
— Education in America ever-increasingly exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/16/trump-harvard-columbia-universities-higher-ed/

USA TODAY
— Tesla is under attack, why Americans are abandoning the brand and Elon Musk. What do Molotov cocktails, protests, and mass share selloffs all have in common? They’re all being used against Tesla because of its CEO’s affiliation to the administration.
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/money/cars/2025/04/15/elon-musk-and-tesla-american-car-brand-attack/83045305007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers. The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over money and privacy.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-children-mothers-ashley-st-clair-grimes-dc7ba05c
— Democrat and RINO leaders side with Harvard against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/video/white-house-trump-wants-to-see-harvard-apologize/083F8004-5188-44CE-8248-2AADE5281EB9
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-gets-trump-fatigue-trade-economy-policy-politics-41109d6d

BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-17/xi-urges-asian-family-unity-as-trump-pressures-trade-partners

DAILY SHOW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Duckworth to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcCsm3wKStk

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Ever-increasingly, education exists in America to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/diversity-equity/2025/04/17/can-universities-still-diversify-faculty-hiring

CAR SCOOPS & CAR AND DRIVER & HOT CARS & TORQUE NEWS & THE DRIVE
— Why is so much hatred being promoted against the 2025 Dodge Charger R/T? What are the demographics of those who buy the car? I bought a new 1969 Charger SE in 1968 and owned it until it was stolen in 1971. I bought a 1968 Charger R/T collector car in 1994 and sold it to buy a new 2005 Corvette in 2005. I bought a new 2013 Charger R/T Max in 2012 and I continue to own it. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger R/T Plus.
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/04/dodge-desperate-to-move-charger-daytona-evs-prays-6500-discount-might-lure-buyers/
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a64412261/2024-dodge-charger-daytona-ev-test/
https://www.hotcars.com/charger-ev-prices-tank-dodge-hits-panic-button/
https://www.torquenews.com/3768/2025-dodge-charger-daytona-adds-new-blue-color-fans-want-know-when-they-can-get-hemi
https://www.thedrive.com/news/dodges-new-charger-daytona-website-looks-like-a-promo-cd-rom-from-1999