FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Trump’s third-term talk freezes the potential 2028 Republican field
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-third-term-2028-republican-field/3731227/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz
— A couple who bought their first home in 2023 on the Northwest Side and soon discovered a “putrid” odor is suing the seller, their inspector and their real estate agent after finding voluminous amounts of cat feces and urine in an unfinished attic.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/25/homebuyers-nightmare-grandview-capital-living-space-attic-hoarder-cat-poop-pee
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/trump-first-100-days/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting “faith leaders” to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/opinion-federal-government-assault-protests/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders say “Trump voters reflect on controversial first 100 days of second term.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/trump-first-100-days/
— FRONT PAGE: With US Sen. Dick Durbin retiring, Illinois’ tradition of upstate-downstate senators is in peril
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/with-us-sen-dick-durbin-retiring-illinois-tradition-of-upstate-downstate-senators-is-in-peril/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/opinion-america-return-statue-of-liberty-immigration/
DAILY HERALD
— Another risk facing public transit: As hearing showed, lawmakers need to deal with public safety as much as with financial security. I used public transportation in 1971 and 1973-1997. In 1971 and 1973-1980 while I worked for IRS in the Loop and 1980-1997 while I worked for GAO in the Loop.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250426/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-another-risk-facing-public-transit-as-hearing-showed-lawmakers-need-to-deal/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois sues to block Trump from freezing school funding over DEI. Democrat teachers use DEI to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-sues-block-trump-school-fund-freeze-over-dei
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— While Durbin runs out his term, others run for his job
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-while-durbin-runs-out-his-term-others-run-for-his-job/article_44e7ba73-6841-47f3-a4f5-2398c2ee6b72.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Even a member of the moribund Illinois Republican Party — Peoria U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood — indicated interest. From the outside looking in, a GOP candidate would appear to be the political equivalent of a kamikaze pilot in this reflexively Democratic state. Perhaps that’s why another Republican, former state Rep. Tom Demmer, issued a statement that parodied candidates’ expressions of interest. “Following today’s announcement from Sen. Durbin, I’m preparing to have conversations to consider the potential formation of a tentative exploratory committee to look in to the possibility of floating my candidacy. I hope to have potential decisions narrowed down sometime within the next 12-24 months. Get ready to stay tuned,” Demmer tweeted.)
STARVED ROCK MEDIA
— Pritzker has been contacted by the U.S. Department of Labor to remind him that unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in the country illegally. The letter was sent to all 50 governors in the U.S. Citing the executive order “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders,” the letter said it is critical that officials ensure American taxpayer dollars do not go toward encouraging or rewarding illegal immigration to the United States.
https://www.starvedrock.media/news/state/illinois-quick-hits-no-unemployment-for-illegals-pritzker-endorses-stratton/article_84e9e2c0-16d6-5234-86e3-3f5f483e12c1.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders claim to speak for Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-only-about-half-of-republicans-say-trump-has-focused-on-the-right-priorities-ap-norc-poll-finds/
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/entertainment-news/ap-white-house-journalists-use-annual-press-dinner-to-celebrate-first-amendment/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight school choice. If my parents had not sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest to stay with the Missouri Synod 1961-1962, I would not have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my Crete-Monee High School class in 1966, or get accepted by UIC in 1966.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-republican-led-states-keep-adding-school-voucher-programs-even-as-critics-worry-about-cost/
WAND TV
— To promote diversity is to promote discrimination.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trumps-attack-on-diversity-takes-center-stage-as-boston-remembers-1965-freedom-rally-led-by/article_c4c9b9b9-b545-5004-af74-4f305858cb06.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts. According to my critics/opponents, a) the Post Office should hired a Black instead of me in 1966, b) IRS should have hired a Black instead of me in 1971 and promoted Blacks instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and c) GAO should have hired a Black instead of me in 1980 and promoted a Black instead of me in 1986. My critics/opponents are overjoyed that my Democrat superiors took so many adverse actions against me and especially my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire in 1997 and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-27/federal-work-shaped-a-black-middle-class-now-its-destabilized-by-trumps-job-cuts
AXIOS CHICAGO
— According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/25/chicago-college-student-debt-trump-save-money
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Pritzker, Durbin’s “Surprise” and the Musical Chairs of Illinois
https://johnkassnews.com/pritzker-durbins-surprise-and-the-musical-chairs-of-illinois/
JOHN BIVER
— Illinois Republicans and Conservatives are Failing in Every Direction. (COMMENT: I should write about Democrat and RINO success in destroying the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois.)
https://johnbiver.com/illinois-republicans-and-conservatives-are-failing-in-every-direction/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees was illegal because it was not performance-based. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of me. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors. They used that subjectivity a) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to give me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals, d) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) to force me to retiree when I was 49 years old in 1997. The following frustrated their painting me as being a poor performer: a) my earning an MBA in 1976, b) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, f) my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) my earning a master’s degree in finance in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Spectacle of arresting Wisconsin judge is important: A message has to be sent. My Democrat superiors used me to send strong messages. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How have your critic/opponents used you to send messages? Leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) rudely terminated my membership on the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. Republican leaders of Wheaton rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. Leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015. Republican leaders rudely ended my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012 and my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007. They almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter in 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have your critics/opponent taken adverse actions against you, and if so, why? My critics/opponents have taken many big adverse actions against me a) because they 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 wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money, b) because they are Democrats or RINOs, and/or c) because I have sued them. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopilinois.com
— What have your critics/opponents used against you the most? My critics/opponents have used against me the most a) my fighting Democrat promotion of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and 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, b) my having been a federal employee for almost 30 years and especially my having been an IRS employee for almost 9 years and my having been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, c) my demographics and especially my being a draft avoider, Protestant, and German American, and/or d) my having sued them. But of course, my critics/opponents use pretexts. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on equal outcome? My critics/opponents promote equal outcome, that is, according to them, no matter what your demographics are, you should be as successful at what you do as those who do not share your demographics, and if you don’t, it is because of discrimination. According to my critics/opponents, if minorities and/or females are less successful doing something than Whites and/or men are, it is because Whites and/or men discriminated against them. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. Few of those who took those examinations were minorities and/or women. Even fewer passwd the examinations on their first attempt. According to my critics/opponents, I passed the examinations because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against women. But in my defense, 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 died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21, my mother never attended high school, and I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What should you tell your children about up-or-out? If your children are White and/or male, you should tell them that Democrats and RINOs will use up-or-out to get rid of them if they are not making at least $100,000 by age 25, $200,000/year by age 30, $300,000 by age 35, $400,000 by age 40, etc. Because of that, unless your children become Democrats, they should do everything that they can to get good grades, to get the best ACT/SAT score that they can, to get accepted by the best college that they can, and to pick the right major. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors used up-or-out to get rid of me. The Democrats who run the federal government use up-or-out to get rid of their employees who are not Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran and who they do not promote to GS-13 ($117,807) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of me because I am not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran and because I did not make GS-12 ($99,069) until I was 25 and I did not make GS-13 until I was 38. They did that notwithstanding my earning an MBA in business when I was 27, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents, low-level federal jobs should be Black jobs. According to my critics/opponents, a) the Post Office should hired a Black instead of me in 1966 when I was 18, b) IRS should have hired a Black instead of me in 1971 and promoted Blacks instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and c) GAO should have hired a Black instead of me in 1980 and promoted a Black instead of me in 1986. My critics/opponents are overjoyed that my Democrat superiors took so many adverse actions against me and especially that my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— What’s at stake for Illinois colleges with DEI policies. To promote DEI is to promote discrimination.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3392534/whats-at-stake-for-illinois-colleges-with-dei-policies-under-discussion/
— Democrats need to come to grips with 2030 census reality. Illegals should be counted separately and they should not count for allocation of congressional seats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3391436/democrats-face-2030-census-reality/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Congress Must Repair Biden’s Destructive Immigration Policies
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/27/congress-must-repair-bidens-destructive-immigration-policies/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Woke Ideology Requires Antisemitism
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/woke_ideology_requires_antisemitism.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Spectacle of arresting Wisconsin judge is important: A message has to be sent. My Democrat superiors used me to send strong messages. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/26/scott-jennings-says-spectacle-of-arresting-wi-judge-important-a-message-has-to-be-sent-1539253/
BREITBART
— Rod Blagojevich on Running for Senate as MAGA Republican: ‘Never Say Never’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/04/26/exclusive-rod-blagojevich-on-running-for-senate-as-maga-republican-never-say-never/
— Blagojevich: Democrats Are ‘Going to Run Far to the Left’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/04/26/exclusive-rod-blagojevich-democrats-are-going-to-run-far-to-the-left/
DAILY CALLER
— Federal, state and local law enforcement carried out Operation Tidal Wave in Florida, arresting nearly 800 illegal immigrants during the four-day operation.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/26/dhs-spox-touts-major-success-in-florida-after-nabbing-nearly-800-illegals-in-4-days/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Labor Dept Threatens States Giving Unemployment Benefits To Illegals. “Unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in our country illegally.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-labor-dept-threatens-states-giving-unemployment-benefits-to-illegals
FOX NEWS
— Trump Reverses Biden’s Student-Loan Forgiveness. The Education Department wants its money back. Did you get a student loan? I did not. If I had gotten a student loan, my GPA would have been higher. To earn money for tuition and books, instead of studying, I a) washed dishes 1964-1966, b) delivered mail 1966-1969, c) sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, d) collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and e) audited federal agencies in 1980 and 1992-1997.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371977493112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lowest-100-day-approval-rating-80-years/story?id=121165473
CBS NEWS
— Kennedy Center cancels week of events celebrating LGBTQ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbtq-rights-dc-kennedy-center-cancels-week-of-events/
AOL
— Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees was illegal because it was not performance-based. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of me. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors. They used that subjectivity a) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to give me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals, d) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) to force me to retiree when I was 49 years old in 1997. The following frustrated their painting me as being a poor performer: a) my earning an MBA in 1976, b) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, f) my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) my earning a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://www.aol.com/trumps-mass-firings-federal-probationary-194951617.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump to promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/marin-tesla-owners-musk.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/trump-crypto-musk-spacex.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/100-days-trump-world.html
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/business/media/white-house-correspondents-dinner.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Mexico
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/mexico-united-states-migration.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-american-values.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-poll-approval-rating-100-days/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-polls-policies/
— Trump’s team isn’t dissuaded by the challenges of their first 100 days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-presidency-100-days/
— Democrats seize on a new issue to use against the GOP: Social Security
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/social-security-cuts-democrats-trump-republicans/
POLITICO
— Democrat and RINO leaders disapprove of Trump’s immigration policies.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/26/trump-immigration-polling-100-days-00311687
NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/05/a-hundred-days-of-ineptitude
Month: April 2025
April 26, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— A Milwaukee County circuit judge was arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-fbi-allegedly-helping-undocumented-immigrant-evade-arrest/16247147/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-988-hotline-suicide-prevention-service-lgbtq-youth-would-eliminated-leaked-budget-proposal/16248201/
NBC5
— Who is Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge arrested by the FBI? The FBI took Dugan into custody Friday on the courthouse grounds — the same building federal immigration agents entered last week in search of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/who-is-hannah-dugan-milwaukee-judge-arrested-by-the-fbi/3730907/
WTTW
— Stratton Secures Pritzker’s Backing in Senate Bid, Positions Herself as ‘Fighter’ of Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/25/stratton-secures-pritzker-s-backing-senate-bid-positions-herself-fighter-trump
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/24/federal-judge-blocks-trump-yanking-funding-16-sanctuary-cities-counties-ruling-could
WBEZ
— ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around U.S.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/04/25/ice-international-students-legal-status-visa-reversal
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Milwaukee judge arrested in deportation case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arresta-a-jueza-de-milwaukee-acusada-de-ayudar-a-un-hombre-a-evadir-a-autoridades-migratorias/
— Who is Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/who-is-milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan/
— Kennedy Center’s events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration canceled. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/kennedy-centers-lgbtq-celebration-canceled/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their international students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/illinois-academics-relieved-after-trump-administration-restores-legal-status-of-some-international-students/
— Cutting candy from SNAP won’t fix the bigger problem of growing dependency. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/snap-sugar-soda-benefits-ban-health/
— Judge blocks Trump administration from nixing collective bargaining for most federal employees. According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are grossly overpaid, that is, GAO, IRS, and the Post Office grossly overpaid me. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/judge-blocks-trump-administration-federal-employees/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/26/trump-trade-war-illinois-soybean-farmers/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want more success in getting Blacks hate Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/25/anti-donald-trump-protests-black-participation
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/04/16/americans-victimhood-doge-cuts-joker-batman-elon-musk-trump-dannagal-young-kevin-arceneaux
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/25/trump-administration-motherhood-marriage-sexual-assault-sexist-ivf-baby-bonus-adultry-mona-charen
— State treasurer offers no-cosigner loans to Illinois students trying to pay for college. The Funding U Illinois No-Cosigner Loan program is open to Illinois residents attending public or private colleges and universities. The fixed annual percentage rate ranges from 7.99% to 9.49%, and the program won’t take a student’s credit score into account. If I had not had to work my way through college, my GPA word have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/25/education-no-cosigner-loans-college-money
— Casino crime logs show thefts, fights, patrons passing counterfeit bills
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/25/casino-crime-illinois-chicago-ballys-rivers-harrahs-gambling
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of helping a man evade immigration agents and is arrested
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250425/crime/fbi-arrests-wisconsin-judge-on-charges-of-obstructing-immigrant-arrest/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Car condo project pitched for Lake Zurich would include clubhouse, luxury car dealership. I should write about Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville and its unit owners. I have attended many events there since its opening. I bought a small unit there in 2020. I sold it and bought a bigger unit in 2023. I sold it and bought a bigger unit this year. If you are interested in muscle cars, especially Corvettes, Chargers, Mustangs, and Thunderbirds, please let me know.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250425/business/car-condo-project-pitched-for-lake-zurich-would-include-clubhouse-luxury-car-dealership/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The developer of the Sanctuary of Lake Zurich residential community wants to build a different kind of condo project in town. Luxury still would be the watchword but these units would be used to store classic and rare cars, some worth millions of dollars. And there is a ready market, says Romeo Kapudija. “It’s shocking to me how many rare cars are out there and how much they’re valued at but this is a very popular business model right now and type of development and they’re selling out across the country,” he explained to the Lake Zurich village board this week during a courtesy review of Luxe Corsa Car Condominiums. . .Kapudija said the market is hot for these types of developments, referencing Iron Gate in Naperville and another planned in Barrington as examples of their popularity. Iron Gate Motor Condos was among the first in Illinois to offer space exclusively for classic, collector or exotic vehicles. Ground was broken on 50 acres near Interstate 88 and Route 59 in 2014. “Proof of concept didn’t exist when I started,” said commercial builder, car enthusiast and founder Tom Burgess. “I had to go out of state and bring in people who could explain it” to city officials. Popularity fueled expansion to include 40,000 square feet of auto-related retail. “It turned into more than just the condos,” he said. “There’s a huge car community in Chicagoland. It’s deep and broad. It’s amazing.”)
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINSS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-win-block-trump-funding-freeze
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/25/nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-disapprove-of-trump-tariffs-with-inflation-a-broad-concern-poll/
STATELINE
— Pritzker criticizes arrest of Wisconsin judge for aiding migrant sought by ICE
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-gov-pritzker-criticizes-arrest-of-wisconsin-judge-for-aiding-migrant-sought-by-ice/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-25/rep-underwood-says-call-republicans-with-concerns-about-cuts-during-dekalb-town-hall
CITIES 92.9
— IL U.S. Rep. LaHood reacts to protesters’ Medicaid concerns
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/25/il-u-s-rep-lahood-reacts-to-protesters-medicaid-concerns/
FOX ILLINOIS
— USDA tells states to boost SNAP verification so illegal immigrants don’t get benefits. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/usda-tells-states-to-boost-snap-verification-so-illegal-immigrants-dont-get-benefits-department-of-agriculture-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-food-stamps-taxpayer-benefits-immigration
WAND TV
— Judge blocks Trump administration from nixing collective bargaining for most federal employees. According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are grossly overpaid, that is, GAO, IRS, and the Post Office grossly overpaid me. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-nixing-collective-bargaining-for-most-federal-employees/article_2a462dc8-36e1-5881-aeae-e66095a3053c.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/tariffs-could-devastate-illinois-economy/article_8c48d537-572e-4890-87eb-c115234d14da.html
WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their international students.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2025/04/23/niu-rally-defends-international-students-after-trump-administration-revokes-visas/
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-25/congressman-raises-concerns-about-tariff-chaos-and-uncertainty-during-stop-at-farm-south-of-bloomington
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-how-the-publics-shift-on-immigration-paved-the-way-for-trumps-crackdown/
— As IRS Collections Rise, Clear Start Tax Urges Taxpayers to Take Advantage of the Fresh Start Initiative. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used that against me the most. In my defense, I would not have become an IRS employee a) if Oldsmobile had not offered me a job in 1971, b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me because I accepted that offer, c) if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn its job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint, and d) if I didn’t have to have a job.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1017175/as-irs-collections-rise-clear-start-tax-urges-taxpayers-to-take-advantage-of-the-fresh-start-initiative/
(COMMENT: With IRS Enforcement Increasing in 2025, Clear Start Tax Reminds Americans They Still Have Time to Resolve Back Taxes Through Relief Programs. As the IRS steps up its collection efforts in 2024, more Americans are receiving notices, facing wage garnishments, or dealing with tax liens. In response, Clear Start Tax is urging taxpayers with unresolved IRS debt to act quickly and explore relief options under the IRS Fresh Start Initiative, a program designed to help individuals and businesses resolve back taxes affordably. The IRS recently announced renewed funding and a more aggressive stance on collections, which means taxpayers who have ignored or delayed addressing their debt could face heavier enforcement actions in the months ahead. The Urgency of Exploring Debt Resolution Programs As IRS collection efforts intensify, it’s critical for taxpayers with unresolved debt to act before enforcement escalates. The IRS Fresh Start Initiative offers structured programs designed to ease that burden, including Offer in Compromise, Installment Agreements, and Currently Not Collectible (CNC) status. These options can reduce penalties, halt wage garnishments or levies, and in many cases, allow taxpayers to resolve their debt for significantly less than the full amount owed.)
WEST CHICAGO
— Call for Community Organization to Coordinate the 2025 West Chicago Mexican Independence Day Festival
https://westchicago.org/news/call-for-community-organization-to-coordinate-the-2025-west-chicago-mexican-independence-day-festival/
CHALKBEAT
— Chicago Public Schools floats hundreds of layoffs as one option to close $529 million budget gap
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/25/cps-faces-529-million-budget-deficit/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-293/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pritzker Wants Puppet to Replace Durbin in U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/pritizker-wants-puppet-to-replace-durbin-in-u-s-senate/
— Democratic Party State Senator Gets Hung Jury in Bribery Trial
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/democratic-party-state-senator-gets-hung-jury-in-bribery-trial/
— Defenders Push for RTA Tax Hike
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/defenders-push-for-rta-tax-hike/
— County Board Member Terri Greeno Rebuts County Board Member John Collins’ Rebuttal of Tim Beck’s Take on Now “We Resist” Picketing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/24/county-board-member-terri-greeno-rebuts-county-board-member-john-collins-rebuttal-of-tim-becks-take-on-now-we-resist-picketing/
— Compensation for Home Value Loss Due to Tax Sales Being Litigated against Illinois Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/24/compensation-for-home-value-loss-due-to-tax-sales-being-litigated-against-illinois-counties/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago Teachers Union pushes kids to miss school for political rally, protest McDonald’s. According to Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-pushes-kids-to-miss-school-for-political-rally-protest-mcdonalds/
— Vallas: Pritzker, Johnson keep playing Trump card
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-pritzker-johnson-keep-playing-trump-card/
— Parents beware: Chicago Teachers Union contract is anti-student
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/parents-beware-chicago-teachers-union-contract-is-anti-student/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Hegseth tells military leaders at Pentagon to review their equal opportunity programs. Democrat leaders reject equal opportunity a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/25/pete-hegseth-tells-military-leaders-pentagon-review-equal-opportunity/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mexico instructs broadcasters to ban Kristi Noem’s ad on illegal immigration. Constructively, Mexico has declared war on America.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3391499/mexico-instructs-broadcasters-ban-kristi-noem-ad-illegal-immigration/
NEW YORK POST
— School district won’t allow child to graduate over LGBTQ health class. How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://nypost.com/2025/04/25/us-news/school-district-wont-allow-child-to-graduate-over-lgbtq-health-class/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— President Trump just delivered a knockout blow for meritocracy. Democrat leaders reject meritocracy a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/25/president-trump-just-delivered-a-knockout-blow-for-meritocracy-1538925/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Donald Trump signed a groundbreaking executive order Thursday eliminating the use of disparate impact theory by the feds. The order “restores the true promise of the Civil Rights Movement—a system that does not differentiate between Americans based on race and where success is determined by individual merit, free from discriminatory practices that prioritize group outcomes over personal achievement.” Disparate impact theory says that any disparity must be the result of discrimination, bigotry, and racism of some kind or another. So for example, if more white people than non-white people pass a firefighter’s exam, then it must be because of racism. Or if more non-white people than white people are pulled over for speeding, that too must be the result of racism and bigotry.)
— New York Times’ fake news headline slammed for fueling media’s information war
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/25/new-york-times-fake-news-headline-slammed-for-fueling-medias-information-war-1538939/
DAILY SIGNAL
— USDA Makes It Tougher for Illegals to Get Food Stamps.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/25/usda-makes-it-tougher-for-illegals-to-get-food-stamps/
DAILY WIRE
— Red States Consider Bills To Push Illegals To Self-Deport. Experts say that mandatory E-Verify policies are one of the most effective ways to prompt illegal alien self-deportations. Democrat and RINO employers vehemently oppose E-Verify. All my employers would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-states-consider-bills-to-push-illegals-to-self-deport
FEDERALIST
— The Nonprofit Hijacking America’s 250th Birthday Celebration Is The 1619 Project On Steroids.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/25/the-nonprofit-hijacking-americas-250th-birthday-celebration-is-the-1619-project-on-steroids/
— Three Rogue Judges Block Trump Admin Efforts To Eradicate Discriminatory DEI From Schools
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/25/three-rogue-judges-block-trump-admin-efforts-to-eradicate-discriminatory-dei-from-schools/
FOX BUSINESS
— Lara Trump: We have to cut out this woke ideology from schools
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6371944312112
LIFE NEWS
— More Illinois Women Face Medical Emergencies After Botched Abortions
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/04/25/more-illinois-women-face-medical-emergencies-after-botched-abortions/
MRC TV
— Dems Demand ‘Due Process’ for Illegal Aliens, But Obama Deported 83% Without a Judge
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/dems-demand-due-process-illegals-obama-deported-83-without-judge
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Trump Dismantles Desperate Impact
https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/president-trump-dismantles-desperate-impact/
REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— Illinois Lawmakers Push Teachers Unions’ Agenda
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/04/23/illinois_lawmakers_push_teachers_unions_agenda_1105991.html
TOWNHALL
— Democrat Chicago Mayor Uses Trump Tariffs As Opportunity to Raise Taxes
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/25/chicago-mayor-uses-trump-tariffs-as-opportunity-to-raise-taxes-n2656098
— Trump Admin Demands Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants Exploiting Food Stamp System
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/25/trump-administration-demands-crackdown-on-illegal-immigrants-at-grocery-stores-n2656115
— ‘Disparate-Impact Liability Is Dead’ Thanks to New Executive Order
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/04/25/disparate-impact-liability-executive-order-n2656073
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5268303-court-ruling-trump-anti-dei-mcmahon-harvard/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been anti-Trump, that is, as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pope-francis-funeral-vatican-rome-italy-9895e156b90aea1dde7f7ea19bf7b3e1
MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-civil-rights-act-walk-back-pete-hegseth-rcna202857
MSN
— Democrat leaders reject meritocracy a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-meritocracy-lie-is-coming-for-the-civil-rights-act/ar-AA1DDcOg
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/04/25/in-first-100-days-trump-tells-migrants-leave-the-united-states-2/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-poll-approval.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-approval-rating.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/us-citizen-deported.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-ukraine.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-migrants-due-process.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/upshot/trump-poll-numbers.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-100-days-approval.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-blackpilled.html
— According to Democrat leaders, the Pope rejected countries, governments, borders, and the rule of law, that is, the Pope was a liberal Democrat who promoted illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/26/thousands-attend-pope-francis-funeral-ceremony-helped-reimagine/
WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/26/trump-independents-second-term-soured/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/26/trump-economy-tariffs-federal-reserve-wall-street/
— Canada as hypothetical 51st state would be a ‘nightmare’ for Trump. Not that Canadians want to join the country anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/26/trump-canada-51st-state-politics/
USA TODAY
— Musk risked Tesla’s health to help our country. We should thank him, not hate him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/25/tesla-earnings-musk-doge-trump/83230018007/
WJBF
— RINO Removal Project Launches Nationwide Effort to Promote Voter Engagement and GOP Candidate Accountability. All my critics/opponents a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform and b) get rid of Republicans like me who support the planks that they reject, that is, they are RINOs.
https://www.wjbf.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/806006349/rino-removal-project-launches-nationwide-effort-to-promote-voter-engagement-and-gop-candidate-accountability/
WHBL
— According to Democrat leaders, the Pope rejected countries, governments, borders, and the rule of law, that is, the Pope was a liberal Democrat who promoted illegal immigration.
https://whbl.com/2025/04/25/how-pope-francis-touched-a-migrants-heart-saying-were-all-the-same-people/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in driving the stock market down to punish Trump and to punish those who voted for him.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economic-sentiment-spending-23d95f36
— Many Big Law Firms Shun Conservative Clients. They denounce Trump for targeting causes he opposes, but they’re guilty of the same thing.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/many-big-law-firms-shun-conservative-clients-politics-attorneys-6bf4db08
— Democrat leaders want the next Pope to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://www.wsj.com/world/the-high-stakes-in-choosing-the-next-pope-1a3d5bc0
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Probationary employees face stricter review process under new executive order. If my Democrat GAO superiors could have used probationary procedures to get rid of me, they would have. My doing the following after I transferred from IRS to GAO in early 1980 frustrated their efforts to get rid of me. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/probationary-employees-face-stricter-review-process-under-new-executive-order/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Probationary employees will now have an additional hurdle to clear before they can solidify their federal employment, according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed Thursday evening. Trump’s new order calls for the creation of “Civil Service Rule XI,” which will require agencies to review and actively sign off on probationary workers’ continued employment before they can be moved out of a probationary period. Federal employees are put into probationary periods when they first enter the civil service, or when they begin a new position, for example after getting a promotion. Once a probationary period ends — usually after one or two years of federal service — employees will automatically transition out of probationary status. “Instead of these employees becoming tenured civil servants by default, Rule XI requires agencies to affirmatively certify that finalizing their appointment after their probationary or trial period concludes advances the public interest,” the White House wrote Thursday in a fact sheet detailing the intentions of the executive order. Under current federal regulations, agencies can only remove probationary employees for issues with performance or conduct. Those rules around probationary periods spurred litigation involving the recent mass terminations of tens of thousands of probationary employees. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked an order for the Trump administration to reinstate the probationary employees. Trump’s new executive order, however, adds a new reason that probationary employees can be removed from their jobs. Under the new “Civil Service Rule XI,” agencies can also determine whether a probationary employee should remain in their job based on agency needs and the interest of the public. “It alters the reason for letting a probationer go to include the generic needs and interests of the agency, as opposed to the individual’s performance or conduct,” Debra D’Agostino, an attorney and partner at Federal Practice Group, said in an interview. “It adds this generic reason where the agency can decide that it’s not in the needs or interest of the agency to keep this person.” “Usually, if someone’s not going to satisfy their probation, it’s going to be because of performance or conduct,” Kevin Owen, a partner at Gilbert Employment Law, added. “If the administration is going to start interjecting some sort of ideological component, we’re going to start again sliding into some level of a spoils system here.”)
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— GOP Holds Wide Lead Over Democrats on Immigration.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/gop_holds_wide_lead_over_democrats_on_immigration
INSIDE PHILANTHROPY
— Class Matters Most: So Why Do Foundations Focus More on Race? What class were you born into? 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 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://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/class-matters-most-so-why-do-foundations-focus-more-on-race
April 25, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker to endorse Stratton for US Senate
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/gov-pritzker-endorsing-juliana-stratton-for-senate/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/sanctuary-city-federal-funding/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/24/cps-moves-ahead-with-a-black-student-success-plan-despite-trump-administration-threats
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/24/robert-crimo-iii-highland-park-murders-sentencing-trump-administration
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-win-block-trump-funding-freeze
— American Bar Association cuts 300 jobs after Justice Department pulls grant funding
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/aba-cuts-300-jobs-after-trump-doj-officials-pull-grants
— Illinois among states suing Trump over tariffs, trade policy
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-sues-trump-over-tariffs-trade-policy
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-elected-officials-concerned-fbi-joint-terrorism-task-forces-agents-reassigned-immigration-enforcement/16242916/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1630772
— Those who benefit from cheap foreign labor and from lax foreign regulations oppose tariffs. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights when his employers moved to Mexico to exploit cheap labor and lax regulations there.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/americans-talk-trump-tariffs-poll
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “research” to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/24/university-research-limbo-trump-administration-pauses-federal-grants
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/24/federal-judge-blocks-trump-yanking-funding-16-sanctuary-cities-counties-ruling-could
WBEZ
— Trump administration is pressuring Illinois universities to end a diversity fellowship. To promote diversity is to promote discrimination.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/24/the-trump-administration-is-pressuring-illinois-universities-to-end-a-diversity-fellowship
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/24/cps-moves-ahead-with-a-black-student-success-plan-despite-trump-administration-threats
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/04/25/trump-is-throwing-the-american-people-ukraine-to-the-wolves-opinion/83225051007/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Those who benefit from cheap foreign labor and from lax foreign regulations oppose tariffs. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights when his employers moved to Mexico to exploit cheap labor and lax regulations there.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/government-politics/article_d55dd88c-feeb-49ae-8b8d-069ea3c6ae5d.html
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/alert-judge-temporarily-halts-white-house-s-20292518.php
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Largest federal employee union, a leading Trump opponent, to lay off more than half of staff. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized when I worked for it, I might still be a GAO. employee.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-largest-federal-employee-union-a-leading-trump-opponent-to-lay-off-more-than-half-of-staff/
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO
— JANUARY 12, 2005 FLASHBACK: Ray LaHood Mulling a Run for Illinois Governor. I remember speaking with Ray LaHood before he walked in Wheaton’s 2005 Independence Day parade.
https://www.stlpr.org/other/2005-01-12/ray-lahood-mulling-a-run-for-illinois-governor.
— AUGUST 18, 2005 FLASHBACK: LaHood won’t run for IL Governor. I remember speaking with Ray LaHood before he walked in Wheaton’s 2005 Independence Day parade.
https://www.stlpr.org/other/2005-08-18/lahood-wont-run-for-il-governor
NPR ILLINOIS
— According to my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-25/they-say-they-want-americans-to-have-more-babies-whats-beneath-the-surface
CITIES 92.9
— Del Mar: Pritzker plays ‘national politics’ with El Salvador while neglecting Illinois
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/24/del-mar-pritzker-plays-national-politics-with-el-salvador-while-neglecting-illinois/
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote race based preference giving.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/25/cps-school-board-forms-black-student-committee/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— The folks who run President Donald Trump’s @RapidResponse47 handle on X posted: “Why won’t @GovPritzker take action to protect his constituents from the dangerous illegal immigrants he’s harboring in his sanctuary cities?”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/25/pritzker-to-endorse-stratton-for-senate-00309290
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-499/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-292/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Controversy growing over rule to allow transgender athletes play girls’ sports
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6fa5d122-b40c-4626-a79b-b5aa8d872c37.html
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois isn’t building homes. Housing stock is up less than 1% vs. 2020, nation’s 2nd-worst performance.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-isnt-building-homes-housing-stock-is-up-less-than-1-vs-2020-nations-2nd-worst-performance-wirepoints/
— Durbin leaving provides a chance, however small, to change Illinois’ direction. LaHood being elected on November 3, 2026 would be a big positive change in direction.
https://wirepoints.org/nothing-changes-with-senator-durbin-leaving-illinois-is-still-headed-in-the-wrong-direction-wirepoints-on-with-mike-ferguson-of-newstalkstl/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WHITE HOUSE
— STRENGTHENING PROBATIONARY PERIODS IN THE FEDERAL SERVICE I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. Because my Democrat GAO superiors soon concluded that I would never become a Democrat, they tried to use probationary procedures to get rid of me. But I had already served my probationary period while I had worked for IRS. They tried to get rid of me because I was a Republican even though I had earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-probationary-periods-in-the-federal-service/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: GAO has documented, however, that agencies have not been using probationary and trial periods as effectively as they could to remove appointees whose continued employment is not in the public interest. As a result of this failure to remove poor performers, agencies have often retained and given tenure to underperforming employees who should have been screened out during their probationary period.)
NEW YORK POST
— Trump-appointed judge orders return of second alleged gang banger deported to El Salvador
https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/us-news/trump-appointed-judge-orders-return-of-second-alleged-gang-banger-deported-to-el-salvador/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump Issues Order Eliminating Use of Disparate-Impact Liability. The order follows a ban on government affirmative action. 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 used disparate-impact to stop 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 race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-issues-order-eliminating-use-of-disparate-impact-liability/
AMERICAN THINKER
— From ‘Trump is Hitler’ to dark woke?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/from_trump_is_hitler_to_dark_woke.html
CENTER SQUARE
— Immigration policies have improved under Trump
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_c9a77dd3-f55d-4de4-adba-018ea5ddbb9f.html
— Federal regulations cost average American household $16,000 a year
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_2a8ff3aa-9722-4e06-be23-19ccb0582258.html
FEDERALIST
— Trump Admin Targets University Accreditors For Their DEI Activism
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/24/trump-admin-targets-university-accreditors-for-their-dei-activism/
FOX NEWS
— Trump continues fight to take on elite universities. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-elite universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from IIT (finance-1997), DePaul (accounting-1980), Loyola (business-1976), and NIU (management-1970) are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents who have degrees from elite universities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfu6z-mgNw
— Christian family says school district won’t allow daughter to graduate over mandatory LGBTQ health class. How successful have Democrat leaders been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/christian-family-says-school-refusing-allow-daughter-graduate-over-mandatory-lgbtq-health-class
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Newcomers to White House Press Corps Shake Up the Status Quo. “Many of the news organizations that are represented in this room have marched in lock step on false narratives.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/newcomers-to-white-house-press-corps-shake-up-the-status-quo/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Brandon Johnson Becomes Increasingly Creative in Assigning Blame
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brandon-johnson-becomes-increasingly-creative-in-assigning-blame/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump signs executive order to eliminate disparate impact in education and restore meritocracy
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-signs-executive-order-to-restore-the-true-promise-of-the-civil-rights-movement
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Being Tough on Crime Works: New Report Confirms Trump’s Blistering Impact on the Law
https://www.westernjournal.com/tough-crime-works-new-report-confirms-trumps-blistering-impact-law/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5265622-judge-finds-trumps-sanctuary-cities-order-likely-unconstitutional/
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in turning Canadians against Americans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/canadians-put-trumps-bluster-border-arrests-are-booking-far-fewer-us-v-rcna202943
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/lgbtq-suicide-prevention-hotline-trump-budget-proposal-leak/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pope-francis-funeral-catholics-relationship-a34cb1f8a6ceb147e2e112cb4e02e32c
MSN
— Durbin steps down: Could Illinois Republicans finally flip the seat?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dick-durbin-steps-down-could-illinois-republicans-finally-flip-the-seat/ar-AA1DuaAT
MSNBC
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-facing-impotence-as-courts-hand-him-loss-after-loss-court-of-public-opinion-no-less-harsh-238316101946
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3HJnD7vUrY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMV48-Qoe2k
NEWSWEEK
— Ever-increasingly, if you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat leaders call you a Nazi.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-is-pink-triangle-trump-truthing-nazi-era-symbol-sparks-lgbtq-anger/ar-AA1APiaW
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-24/us-judge-orders-return-of-second-migrant-deported-to-el-salvador
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/trump-public-school-funds-dei.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/24/trump-order-blocked-voting-citizenship/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/24/judge-rules-second-deportation-case/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/25/pope-francis-trump-relationship-funeral/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/25/polling-poorly-trumps-immigration-abuses-tanking-popular-approval/
USA TODAY
— Musk risked Tesla’s health to help our country. We should thank him, not hate him. Elon Musk, at great personal and professional cost, has devoted his time to finding ways to cut through the bureaucracy and downsize government where it makes sense.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/25/tesla-earnings-musk-doge-trump/83230018007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders use the Civil Rights Act to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/24/trump-order-civil-rights-protections-at-risk/83249915007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/24/trump-approval-rating-dei-target-costco/83242688007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/21/trump-abrego-garcia-ms13-knuckle-tattoos-supreme-court/83188108007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/trump-contractors-ice-detentions-deportations/83250623007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Harvard Is an Islamist Outpost. For decades it nurtured resentful leftists, and antisemitism united them in a common cause.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/harvard-is-an-islamist-outpost-fringe-leftist-views-eventually-united-by-antisemitism-42759e15
— Three Times Trump Softened His Stance in the Wake of Market Turmoil. Those who make lots of money exploiting cheap foreign labor and lax regulations in foreign countries oppose tariffs. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights when his employers moved to Mexico to exploit cheap labor and lax regulations there.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-tariffs-stock-market-trade-war-04-25-2025/card/video-three-times-trump-softened-his-stance-in-the-wake-of-market-turmoil-vxnxxZ7dLMI3feeaVwop
EL PASO TIMES
— Sooner or later, all the countries of the world will officially declare war on America. All the countries of the world want a piece of the America cake, if not the whole cake.
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2025/04/25/mexico-senate-votes-to-bar-foreign-propaganda-after-dhs-ad-campaign-trump/83212989007/
WBUR
— Sooner or later, everyone outside of America will claim refugee status in America.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/04/24/afghan-refugees-promises-broken-under-trump-immigrations-plans
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DYiX-TG9UmtI
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://fortune.com/article/trump-plan-proof-of-citizenship-vote-shot-down-judge/
PBS
— Democrat teachers use DEI to make their students good little Democrats, that is, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-married people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-blocks-trump-push-to-cut-public-school-funding-over-diversity-programs
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/due_process_for_illegal_immigrants_61_of_democrats_say_yes
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
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/el-salvador-government-rejects-lawmakers-request-visit-abrego-garcia/16218278/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been a liberal Democrat.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-pope-francis-said-controversial-issues-gay-rights-immigration/16217684/
CBC2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been a liberal Democrat.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/pope-francis-remembered-for-his-commitment-to-social-justice/
WGN9
— How low will Democrat leaders drag the stock market down to destroy America to destroy Trump?
https://wgntv.com/news/stocks-and-the-dollar-tumble-as-investors-retreat-from-the-us/
WBEZ
— The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more homelessness.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/04/21/the-trump-administration-could-change-housing-policies-what-does-this-mean-for-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/theater-stages/2025/04/21/wake-of-a-dead-drag-queen-play-raven-theatre-hiv-art-nea
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more welfare for those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/21/most-in-illinois-want-more-funding-for-higher-education
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DePaul president called to testify to Congress on antisemitism
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/21/depaul-president-called-to-testify-to-congress-on-antisemitism
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-affairs/2025/04/18/federal-program-liheap-utility-bills-cut-trump-budget-plan
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Congress calls on DePaul president to testify in antisemitism probe
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/depaul-president-called-testify-antisemitism-probe
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more gambling.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/responsible-gambling-legislation-needed-illinois-op-ed
JOURNAL & TOPICS
— People Paying More In State Income Taxes, But Getting Less
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/study-shows-people-paying-more-in-state-income-taxes-but-getting-less/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2025/04/21/no-kings-550-protest-trump-in-downtown-freeport-rockford/83196052007/
CITIES 92.9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/21/illinois-officials-share-concerns-tariffs-will-impact-states-agricultural-sector/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters are doing everything that they can to destroy America to destroy Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-21/sell-usa-why-trumps-tariffs-may-be-sparking-a-historic-storm-on-wall-street
— Trump Administration to resume collections on student loan borrowers in default
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-21/trump-administration-to-resume-collections-on-student-loan-borrowers-in-default
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly spend more tax dollars to defeat Trump.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-attorney-general-requesting-15-million-budget-increase-to-address-trump-actions/article_1f5d57a9-98a5-49b9-8206-1ebe0572caed.html
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-04-21/u-s-farmers-trump-tariffs-trade-war
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, farmers are ever-increasingly dependent on government spending.
https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2025-04-21/illinois-scrambles-to-boost-locally-produced-farm-products-after-trumps-funding-freeze
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-21/protesters-in-normal-urge-congressman-darin-lahood-to-protect-medicaid-funding
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Homeschool Act proposer accused of ghost-voting.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/homeschool-act-proposer-accused-of-ghost-voting/article_3cd5b537-a1b7-4f88-9c28-d59427b694a6.html
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, farmers are ever-increasingly dependent on government spending.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-scrambles-to-boost-locally-produced-farm-products-after-trumps-funding-freeze/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-289/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— New State Senator Casts Controversial Vote
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/new-state-senator-casts-controversial-vote/
— 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/
— REBUTTAL FROM JOHN COLLINS ON TIM BECK’S “Logic Behind NOW’s ‘We Resist Rally’ Analyzed”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/logic-behind-nows-we-resist-rally-analyzed/
— RTA Seems To Be Using Tax Dollars to Raise Tax Dollar
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/rta-seems-to-be-using-tax-dollars-to-raise-tax-dollars/
— Idea That Failed on State Street Advanced for Michigan Avenue
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/6537/
— Trump v. Pritzker Feud from the Start
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/trump-v-pritzker-feud-from-the-start/
— Report on Abortion Tourism
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/report-on-abortion-tourism/
— McHenry County Doesn’t Make Top of the List of Highest Taxes Illinois Counties, But Kendall, Lake, Macon, Rock Island, Will and Winnebago Do
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/20/mchenry-county-doesnt-make-top-of-the-list-of-highest-taxes-illinois-counties-but-kendall-lake-macon-rock-island-will-and-winnebago-do/
— Remembering the Start of the American Revolution
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/19/remembering-the-start-of-the-american-revolution/
— More Anti-Trump Protests in McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/19/more-anti-trump-protests-in-mchenry-county/
— Advice to Newly-Elected Officials
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/19/advice-to-newly-elected-officials/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— China says it will punish countries that use U.S. trade talks to ostracize Beijing
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/21/china-says-punish-countries-use-us-trade-talks-ostracize-beijing/
EPOCH TIMES
— China Issues Retaliatory Sanctions on U.S. Congress Members Over Hong Kong
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/china-issues-retaliatory-sanctions-on-u-s-congress-members-over-hong-kong-5844967
FEDERALIST
— The More Christian That America Is, The Better Off American Jews Will Be
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/21/the-more-christian-that-america-is-the-better-off-american-jews-will-be/
FOX NEWS
— David Hogg and Reince Priebus clash over Trump deportation policies
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371733004112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Student loan borrowers in default face garnished wages
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-loan-debt-default-garnished-wages-payments-education-department/
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-21/pope-francis-vance-gaza-refugees-migrants
CNN
— Harvard sues the Trump administration, taking the fight over federal funding and academic freedom to court
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/us/harvard-white-house-funding
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-congress-housing-voucher-assistance-funding-cuts-26f9a716af6731e3c6445015488bab3a
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-fertility-birthrate-sexism.html
— Democrat leaders say Hegseth shared sensitive military data
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/21/us/trump-administration-news
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Mexico’s president wants to ban U.S. ads warning against migration. How soon will Mexico officially declare war on America?
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-04-21/mexicos-president-says-u-s-ads-warning-against-migration-are-not-welcome
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— As Catholic Church Enters New Era, Conservative U.S. Members Push It Right. The conservative wing is reviving old practices and growing more assertive in the battle for the future of the Church—and the nation.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/conservative-catholic-maga-pope-vance-b2a4497b
— Harvard Is Suing the Trump Administration
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-sues-trump-administration-lawsuit-0f00e894
BLOOMBERG
— Behind Trump’s imperial presidency (and Elon), there’s Russell Vought
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-russell-vought-doge-musk-trump/
— All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or 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.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2024-07-29/white-men-the-most-likely-to-get-hired-even-with-dei-finds-research
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 66% Agree: Deport Illegals to ‘Liberate’ America
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/66_agree_deport_illegals_to_liberate_america
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
How much success have Democrat leaders had organizing protests against Trump in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE IN THE NAPERVILLE SUN: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/18/420-cannabis-holiday-alcohol/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-cuts-threats-fuel-protests-025500813.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/19/supreme-court-blocks-deportations/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Lightfoot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/19/editorial-no-president-trump-lori-lightfoot-is-neither-evil-nor-a-dope/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for high drug prices.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/20/illinois-drug-intermediaries-pharmacies/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/20/cook-county-jails-population/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/04/19/50501-chicago-protest-trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/04/18/easter-sermons-chicago-priests-pastors
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
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 use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/04/18/chicago-manufacturer-freedman-seating-reels-devastating-tariffs
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250419/news/anti-trump-protesters-turn-out-to-rallies-across-country/
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protest-protesters-daley-plaza-downtown-oppose-trumps-policies-immigration-federal-funding-reproductive-rights/16204461/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-pastor-leads-event-support-black-owned-business-amid-dei-rollbacks/3726185/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/50501-protest-daley-plaza-chicago-donald-trump/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/anti-trump-50501-movement-protest-fills-daley-plaza/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgNbAvAGdP0
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://wgntv.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-anti-trump-protesters-turn-out-to-rallies-in-new-york-washington-and-other-cities-across-country/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/50501-protests-april-19-2025
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-trans-athlete-ban-response
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote international students over American students.
https://wgnradio.com/news/aclu-sues-trump-administration-for-targeting-international-students/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders use Trump tariffs to get companies to charge their customers more.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/19/these-companies-said-they-will-raise-prices-in-response-to-trumps-tariffs/
DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/04/20/hundreds-march-in-dekalb-to-declare-no-kings-at-anti-trump-protest/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/04/19/protesting-the-protestors-counter-protesters-at-hands-off-rally-condemn-their-treatment/
KENDALL COUNTY NOW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kendall-county-now/2025/04/19/this-is-a-moment-in-history-hundreds-protest-trump-administration-at-yorkville-rally/
SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Foster.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/04/17/at-rep-foster-town-hall-concerns-about-social-security-tariffs-and-if-dems-wants-to-impeach-trump-again/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.rrstar.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2025/04/19/no-kings-no-tyrants-300-protest-trump-in-rockford-see-photos/83179321007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/anti-trump-protesters-rally-in-new-york-washington-and-elsewhere-across-the-country/article_6e4ae27b-456e-5a16-b9e4-5ad9a00c95e5.html
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/community/belleville/article304590666.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-19/anti-trump-protests-this-weekend-turn-focus-to-community-action
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-19/protesters-unite-against-trump-in-hundreds-of-rallies-across-the-u-s
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-anti-trump-protesters-turn-out-to-rallies-in-new-york-washington-and-other-cities-across-country/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/peoria-protest-trump-musk/
25 NEWS NOW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/19/hundreds-gather-downtown-peoria-oppose-trump-musk/
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/anti-trump-protesters-rally-in-new-york-washington-and-elsewhere-across-the-country/article_a01213d3-5ae5-5ec7-a77a-84bcf069b4c2.html
WGEM
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.wgem.com/2025/04/19/anti-trump-protestors-rally-outside-white-house/
WCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-marijuana-holiday-4-20-coincides-with-easter-and-passover-this-year-heres-what-to-know/
WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsiu.org/politics-elections/2025-04-19/trump-administration-and-the-courts-continue-to-clash-over-immigration
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-19/bloomington-among-cities-in-series-of-nationwide-protests-against-trump-administrations-policies
WVIK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.wvik.org/2025-04-19/protesters-unite-against-trump-in-hundreds-of-rallies-across-the-u-s
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/photoshundreds-demonstrate-against-the-trump-administration-in-urbana/
ILLINOIS PUBLIC RADIO
— To give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group. To give preference to illegals is to discriminate against Blacks.
https://will.illinois.edu/dialogue/episode/a-dialogue-about-why-many-black-people-are-staying-home-from-political-protests
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The cars that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself. I just bought a new loaded 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Please let me know if you share my interest in the car. I continue to own a 2013 Charger R/T Max that I bought new in 2012. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T 1994-2005. I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971. I also own a 2005 and a 1972 Chevrolet Corvette and a 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Drag queen group mocks Jesus, Christianity in Easter show marketed to kids
https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/drag-queen-group-mocks-christianity-in-easter-show-for-kids/
— The huge outpouring of support for Karmelo Anthony — who allegedly stabbed another teen in the heart — should scare all of us
https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/opinion/support-for-alleged-stabber-karmelo-anthony-highlights-victim-industrial-complex/
— NYC woman who left swastika brick on Cybertruck is a woke therapist who blamed Elon Musk for tantrum. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk. To promote hatred against Musk is to promote more hatred against EVs and more hatred against EV owners. I just bought a new loaded 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/nyc-woman-charged-in-cybertruck-hate-crime-is-woke-therapist/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/20/us-news/trump-white-house-releases-tren-de-aragua-gang-members-rap-sheets-photos-after-scotus-deportation-freeze/
https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/supreme-court-blocks-new-deportations-of-of-venezuelans-under-18th-century-wartime-law-alien-enemies-act/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illinois’s insane leftism now propping up bordering states!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/illinois_s_insane_leftism_now_propping_up_bordering_states.html
— DOGE shows just how deep illegal immigration rot goes
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/doge_shows_just_how_seep_illegal_immigration_rot_goes.html
BLAZE
— Telling America’s story is too important to leave to radicals.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/telling-americas-story-is-too-important-to-leave-to-radicals
— Trump’s border blitz puts military muscle to work
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trumps-border-blitz-puts-military-muscle-to-work
BREITBART
— Stephen Miller Urges Reparations for Migration’s Damage to Americans. My critics/opponents promote mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/19/stephen-miller-urges-reparations-for-migrations-damage-to-americans/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/thousands-protest-trump-across-u-s-in-second-day-of-action/
— UK Bans French ‘Great Replacement’ Philosopher Renaud Camus From Entering Country. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Demographics that vote for Democrats include liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, want/need/demand massive government assistance, lack education and/or job skills, and have financial, health, and/or other problems.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/04/19/uk-bans-french-great-replacement-philosopher-renaud-camus-from-entering-country/
— Therapist Who Committed Tesla Hate Crime Blames Elon Musk
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/04/19/nyc-police-therapist-who-committed-tesla-hate-crime-blames-elon-musk/
DAILY CALLER
— Blue States Are Keeping DEI On Life Support
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/19/blue-states-keeping-dei-life-support-trump-admin/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Tesla Continues to Reign Supreme Despite Leftist Violence
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/19/tesla-continues-to-reign-supreme-despite-leftist-violence/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/19/supreme-court-issues-order-pausing-deportations-under-alien-enemies-act/
DAILY WIRE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotus-blocks-trump-from-deporting-alleged-tren-de-aragua-gang-members
FOX NEWS
— Illinois trans athlete policy brewing conflict within state. Rep. Blaine Wilhour called on Illinois school districts to take action and ban trans athletes.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/illinois-transgender-athlete-policy-sparks-controversy-state
— Expert sounds alarm on Trump’s tariffs: ‘Too high, too fast’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54HVgd9oitw
NEWSMAX
— Trump is ‘prioritizing the American people’ and not ‘illegal aliens’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc4c0zKRHcA
TOWNHALL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/19/federal-judge-denies-emergency-request-to-block-imminent-deportation-flights-under-alien-enemies-act-n2655793
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5257441-anti-trump-demonstrators-rally-across-the-us/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5256292-schools-parents-trump-trade-war-trump-tariffs/
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/politics/video/anti-trump-protests-hands-off-protesters-musk-digvid
— Trump administration sent letter of demands to Harvard University in error
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/us/harvard-trump-administration-letter-mistake/index.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/politics/supreme-court-alien-enemies-act-order/index.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly turn Canada against Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/americas/canada-election-carney-poilievre-intl-latam/index.html
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-protesters-rally-against-trump-across-us-2025-04-19/
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.newsweek.com/anti-trump-50501-protesters-warn-theyre-fighting-fascism-2061821
MSNBC
— Cheap labor isn’t China’s only advantage over the United States. China graduates almost twice as many STEM-oriented Ph.D.s in science and technology programs than the U.S. does.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-tariffs-china-education-deficit-rcna201951
MSN
— Musk’s Tesla Zapped by Trump’s Tariff Storm
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/shock-charge-musk-s-tesla-zapped-by-trump-s-tariff-storm/ar-AA1DfkTi
— Tesla to delay US launch of affordable EV, a lower-cost Model Y
https://www.msn.com/en-in/autos/news/tesla-to-delay-us-launch-of-affordable-ev-a-lower-cost-model-y-reports/ar-AA1DcH6s
— Tesla delays affordable Model Y release until 2026. Needless-to-say, my critics/opponents are furious that I could afford to buy a new loaded 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/tesla-delays-affordable-model-y-release-until-2026/ar-AA1DeC4Y
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk. To promote hatred against Musk is to promote more hatred against EVs and more hatred against EV owners. I just bought a new loaded 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/pure-evil-tesla-whistleblower-slams-monster-elon-musk-and-wants-to-drag-him-to-court/ar-AA1DecXN
AOL
— Since 1965, Democrat and RINO leaders have ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/trump-revokes-workplace-discrimination-rules-203613130.html
YAHOO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/protesters-target-trump-admin-policies-222704745.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-trump-50501-protests-ahead-175204493.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-trump-protesters-mobilize-hundreds-192544875.html
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/no-kings-protesters-across-country-march-against-trump-musk/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-trump-rallies-hands-off-administration-washington-new-york-boston/
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/philadelphia-protest-today-trump-no-kings/
— Car buyers say they are not racing to the dealership amid tariffs
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/car-buyers-not-racing-dealership-amid-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/supreme-court-blocks-trump-deporting-alleged-gang-members-migrants-texas-facility/
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-trump-administration-not-deport-venezuelans-now-rcna201949
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/us/politics/trump-protests-nyc-florida-la.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/us/politics/supreme-court-deportation-protocol-venezuela.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/us/politics/trump-deportation-courts-venezuelan-migrants-texas.html
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/19/us/trump-news
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/business/economy/tariffs-business-strategy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/business/tariffs-china-us-farmers.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000010111503/how-china-and-the-eu-are-reacting-to-trumps-tariffs.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.” The Democrats who ran GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized in 1997, I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/business/economy/government-union-trump-musk.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/20/trump-clashes-with-courts-immigration/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-04-19/anti-trump-protesters-turn-out-to-rallies-in-new-york-washington-and-other-cities-across-country
DETROIT FREE PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/04/19/metro-detroit-protesters-rally-against-trump-administration/83142535007/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Fed chief Powell
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/18/trumps-critcism-powell-rates/83144615007/
— To get more votes from Latinos, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give Latinos more preference over non-Latinos.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/19/despite-trump-anti-dei-push-latino-museum/83162003007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders and the rest of America’s enemies want America to be totally dependent on foreign countries for everything.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/19/trump-tariffs-america-economy-jobs-china/83143659007/
— Democrats and RINOs cause everything that is bad and then blame Republicans for everything that is bad.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/19/trump-easter-egg-hunt-prices-ruined/83121697007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/20/trump-tariff-trade-wars-2028-china-economy/83096052007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/20/trump-insurrection-act-1807-military-border/83142329007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Pritzker Is Acting Like He Wants to Be President. He is one of the top Democrats being watched as the party searches for a way out of the political wilderness. Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump and against those who share Trump’s demographics.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/americas-second-richest-elected-official-is-acting-like-he-wants-to-be-president-8b30efa0
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-migrant-deportations-alien-enemies-act-759f25dd
FORBES
— Tesla Protests And Vandalism Surge: Justice Department Announces Charges Against Sixth Alleged Vandal. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk. To promote hatred against Musk is to promote more hatred against EVs and more hatred against EV owners. I just bought a new loaded 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/04/19/tesla-protests-and-vandalism-surge-justice-department-announces-charges-against-sixth-alleged-vandal/
NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/19/nx-s1-5369483/anti-trump-protests-50501-tesla-takedown
PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/supreme-court-temporarily-blocks-trump-from-deporting-more-venezuelan-migrants
NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/28/donald-trumps-deportation-obsession
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/19/anti-trump-protesters-new-york-washington-00299718
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s tariffs.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/first-shockwaves-of-trumps-tariffs-are-about-to-hit-the-world-economy/articleshow/120449995.cms
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/no-kings-in-america-anti-trump-protests-erupt-across-the-us-from-new-york-to-washington-and-beyond/articleshow/120446663.cms
DAILY MAIL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14628887/Appalling-rap-sheets-cartel-thugs-Trump-deport-judges-demand-process-ILLEGALS.html