Month: August 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/dehumanizing-inside-the-broadview-ice-facility-where-immigrants-sleep-on-cold-concrete/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/30/charles-selle-deportations/
— Indiana Gov. Braun greenlights state police, agencies to cooperate with ICE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/indiana-gov-braun-greenlights-state-police-agencies-to-cooperate-with-ice/
— Former Kane County Coroner Rob Russell announces bid for sheriff
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/24/former-coroner-rob-russell-joining-sheriff-race/
— The mainstream news media exists to get rid of Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/column-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-maga-support-page/
— State control of Chicago Public Schools grows likelier as budget crisis intensifies
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-state-control-chicago-public-100000308.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Anticipate/expect that your critics/opponents will use the jobs that you get against you.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/08/01/job-hunting-tips-teenagers

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTUTE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/news/a-chilling-effect-on-justice-ice-argues-courthouse-immigration-arrests-make-sense-but-local-oppo/
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-karma-and-epa-policy-local-weather-conditions-add-worrisome-irony-to-proposed/

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Hundreds of motorcycles ride to raise fentanyl awareness Saturday in Kane and DuPage counties. Grieving families, elected officials and law enforcement agencies unite to spread awareness.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/08/03/hundreds-of-motorcycles-ride-to-raise-fentanyl-awareness-saturday-in-kane-and-dupage-counties/

STARVED ROCK MEDIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.starvedrock.media/wlpo/protests-against-trump-still-strong-in-ottawa/article_e63a907e-deec-4b98-b796-5ce1b50e7ed2.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-appeals-court-keeps-order-blocking-trump-administration-from-indiscriminate-immigration-sweeps/

WJBC
— Illegals Reduce US Workers’ Wages. When I was young, if there had been as many illegals as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, but if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/08/01/homan-to-newsmax-illegals-reduce-us-workers-wages/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders oppose work requirements for Medicaid.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-02/how-the-new-work-requirements-for-medicaid-could-impact-some-states
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-02/from-the-clinics-to-the-capitol-links-anti-abortion-movement-to-far-right-extremism

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Milton Township Under Criminal Investigations
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2025/08/milton-township-under-criminal-investigations/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTOM EXAMINER
— End the ‘mission creep’ of Temporary Protected Status. To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat and RINO leaders give them protected status: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non- German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, have less money than others, citizens of foreign countries, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3488896/trump-afghanistan-temporary-protected-status/

NEW YORK POST
— Texas Roadhouse hit with civil rights complaint alleging DEI discrimination in hiring practices. All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they bragged about the preference that gave to their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/business/texas-roadhouse-hit-with-discrimination-civil-rights-complaint-for-dei-hiring-practices/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Texas Roadhouse wrote that it is committed to “attracting, retaining, engaging, recognizing, and developing a workforce that mirrors the diversity of our guests” and provided a chart breaking down the percentages of their employees and managers who were either women or people of color in its 2024 10-K annual report. . .According to the Texas Roadhouse 2024 sustainability report, the company takes DEI factors such as gender and race into consideration when determining nominees to its Board of Directors.)

DAILY CALLER
— Senate Confirms Trump’s Pick for U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, Brian Burch, who resides in Chicago
https://www.aol.com/senate-confirms-trump-vatican-pick-214131318.html
— Universities Use Social Credit To Bypass Affirmative Action Ban. What social credits do you get? I get no social credits because I promote personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, enforcement of immigration laws, discouragement of vices, Second Amendment rights, and equal opportunity. That is, I get no social credits because I oppose the promotion of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, more gun controls, 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.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/02/opinion-universities-use-social-credit-to-bypass-affirmative-action-ban-casey-ryan/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As the situation appears, Dialogue portfolios are nothing more than a system modeled after the Chinese Communist Party’s Social Credit System that essentially blacklists Chinese citizens from society if they hold the wrong opinions. Under China’s system, citizens can gain a bad social credit score by daily activities deemed negative by the government. This can include posting opinions on social media or making too many frivolous purchases. A negative social credit score can lead to bans from traveling, throttled internet speeds, or rejections from universities – which sounds eerily similar to the intent of Dialogue portfolios. The last thing college applicants in America need is a dystopian measure to filter out perceived wrongthink. The Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action for universities was to help ensure everyone has an equal opportunity. These “Dialogues” appear to be a purity test that is even worse than affirmative action. While affirmative action is awful, at least there was a chance for universities to admit students of differing viewpoints. Dialogue portfolios give universities the explicit power to reject students solely because of the opinions they hold.)

DAILY WIRE
— For The First Time In 40 Years, The Federal Government Can Judge Applicants By Merit. The move opens the door to an elite federal workforce — and a major victory for President Donald Trump. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. 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. I qualified myself for the postal job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU. I qualified myself for the GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA from Loyola, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/for-the-first-time-in-40-years-the-federal-government-can-judge-applicants-by-merit
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A decades-old court order that blocked the federal government from using tests to measure job applicants’ skills was terminated by a D.C. judge on Friday, setting the stage for an overhaul of the federal workforce that could be one of President Donald Trump’s most lasting achievements. In 1981, Angel Luevano sued the federal government over the Professional and Administrative Career Examination, a test that helped identify the best and brightest out of the tens of thousands who apply for government jobs each year. Luevano argued that the test kept too many blacks and Hispanics out of government, and, in the waning days of President Jimmy Carter’s administration, OPM agreed to pause the test for five years. Forty-four years later, the “Luevano Consent Decree” was somehow still intact. In January, the Trump administration filed a brief challenging the agreement — a feat which required reopening a decades-closed court case in which the original judge had died. The administration argued that it was doubtful the decree was ever appropriate, and that, with Supreme Court case law outlawing affirmative action, it was certainly not now. Angel Luevano is still alive, and agreed to terminate the consent decree, court papers show. Luevano was represented by lawyers from Hispanic and black civil rights groups, two of whom did not return a request for comment. For almost half a century, the federal government has operated like a college that didn’t look at SAT scores when admitting students. Rescinding the Luevano Consent Decree could take the government from safety-school status to Ivy League. “We’re making civil service great again,” Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told The Daily Wire Friday. The move opens the door to technocratic hiring assessments that allow the government to hire applicants who objectively demonstrate the most aptitude. Kupor told The Daily Wire in an interview that the move means Americans may start getting better service at government agencies, with government being more helpful and responsive. “The lasting opportunity here is: can we change the culture of the workforce in the federal government? Can we make it a high-performance culture? That will definitely be the president’s legacy, if we can make that successful,” he said. After the demise of the Professional and Administrative Career Examination and similar tests, the government began relying on “self-assessments” to sift through job applicants, as it was the only measure that saw a sufficient number of minorities enter government. Applicants simply declared how good they were at a task, with no attempt to verify it or compare them to other applicants. That led to a hiring process that rewarded boasting and fabrications as much as merit. Kupor said the de facto prohibition on government checking people’s competency before hiring them — at which point they become difficult to remove — had become particularly crippling in the modern age, with people using artificial intelligence or simply copy-and-paste to take a job advertisement’s requirements and send an application asserting that they had all those skills. The inability to use objective measures to sort the most qualified applicants from a large pool — as virtually all other large employers do — has profoundly impacted the caliber of government employees. The Luevano Consent Decree was perhaps one of the largest applications ever of the philosophy known as “disparate impact,” which holds that anything that produces racially unbalanced outcomes must inherently be racist. But the fallout went beyond just minorities, leaving little way to differentiate a brilliant white job applicant from an incompetent white applicant. OPM General Counsel Andrew Kloster told The Daily Wire in an interview that the government did not make any concessions to reach the agreement. “It was a very easy process,” he said. “They just flat out agreed. It would not have happened without the original named plaintiff agreeing to it and the judge agreeing to accept it.” “This is really kind of an understanding that disparate impact as a way to measure things is not the law of the land anymore. You have to actually show real discrimination. The explicit argument was that the objective tests themselves were racially biased, and obviously that’s bogus.” It is yet to be decided whether OPM will institute a general aptitude test across agencies. But many specific job categories are likely to have their own tests. If the government is hiring, say, computer programmers, it won’t simply ask them how good they are at a programming language. Instead, it will administer a coding test to rank applicants on a uniform scale. The hiring process used by government agencies for decades resulted in hiring that was, at best, random, and at worst, allowed the sort of cronyism and favoritism that the consent decree was supposed to avoid, Kupor said. “We’re going to be able to attract really, really good people, because they’re going to be fairly tested for their merit,” he said. “It also really does eliminate a lot of potential for a bias in the hiring process if you actually use objective standards.” “This is a win for fairness, as well as a win for getting American people the ability to get people with the appropriate skills into the right jobs.”)

FOX NEWS
— DOJ cracking down on noncitizen voters
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376491200112

PJ MEDIA
— Democrat and RINO leaders want Trump to grant amnesty, that is, Democrat and RINO leaders want Trump to destroy the Republican Party. Those who come to America illegally and/or stay in America illegally will always vote for Democrats.
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/08/02/now-that-trump-has-really-truly-secured-our-borders-is-it-time-for-a-gop-pivot-on-immigration-n4942338

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Statisticians blast Trump over BLS firing: ‘Dangerous precedent.’  My Democrat superiors in the federal government followed a strong anti-Republican precedent when they wasted my career and forced me to retire. My RINO superiors in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois followed a strong anti-conservative precedent when they wasted me and got rid of me.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5433583-trump-bls-firing-precedent-controversy/

NEWSWEEK
— Pope Francis Critic Brian Burch Confirmed as Vatican Ambassador
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-critic-brian-burch-confirmed-vatican-ambassador-2108079

MSN
— The most competitive college in your state. In Illinois, it is the University of Chicago. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/the-most-competitive-college-in-your-state-according-to-data-and-see-the-rest-of-the-hardest-schools-to-get-into/ss-AA1JAp3M#image=14
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois: University of Chicago  #7 hardest college to get into nationwide, Acceptance rate: 7%, Net price: $36,584, SAT range: 1500-1570.  The University of Chicago boasts a low student-to-teacher ratio—5:1—as well as an affiliation with 97 Nobel laureates, 34 MacArthur “genius grant” fellows, and 23 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Saul Bellow and Thornton Wilder, who won on three occasions. The school is proud of its nationally recognized medical and law programs.)
— Trump administration rescinds Jimmy Carter‑era DEI mandates for federal hiring. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. 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. I qualified myself for the postal job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU. I qualified myself for the GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA from Loyola, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-admintration-rescinds-jimmy-carter-era-dei-mandates-for-federal-hiring/ar-AA1JKxut

NBC NEWS
— Chicago Democrats issue warnings about their mayor amid Zohran Mamdani’s rise
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chicago-democrats-issue-warnings-mayor-090042907.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion/ice-immigration-protest-resistance.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opinion/epstein-trump-polls.html

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/02/supporters-decry-ice-arrests-south-korean-student-peruvian-asylum-seeker-court-hearings/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly badmouth the American Flag.
https://www.aol.com/trump-installs-massive-flag-poles-135836687.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.aol.com/americans-views-immigration-massive-positive-190958366.html

WTOP
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly disparage Republicans.
https://wtop.com/national/2025/08/ohio-city-whose-haitian-migrants-were-disparaged-by-trump-braces-to-defend-them-against-deportation/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at young men that Trump causes all their problems.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-asked-young-men-who-voted-for-trump-to-grade-him-here-s-what-they-said/ar-AA1JG2Kl

INDEPENDENT
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Trump causes all their problems.
https://www.aol.com/more-70-black-voters-disapprove-205101322.html

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-rage-against-the-regime-protests-over-300-us-cities-hosting-anti-trump-demonstrations-today-on-jd-vances-birthday-50501-group-full-list/articleshow/123060369.cms

INDIA HERALD
— Can an Indian Citizen Have More Than One Caste Certificate in case of Inter-Caste Marriage? What Caste were you born into? I was born into a low Caste because neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school. My critic/opponents have always used the aforesaid against me. My critics/opponents have parents who have lots of money.
https://www.indiaherald.com/Breaking/Read/994838885/Can-an-Indian-Citizen-Have-More-Than-One-Caste-Certificate-in-case-of-InterCaste-Marriage

TIMES OF INDIA & MSN
— Google stops funding of 214 groups, over 50 of them related to diversity and equity. I should write about how Google has treated me and my www.gopillinois.com website.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-stops-funding-of-214-groups-over-50-of-them-related-to-diversity-and-equity-report/articleshow/123073327.cms
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/google-quietly-removes-dozens-of-dei-focused-groups-from-funding-list-amid-policy-shift/ar-AA1JLWsO

GOOGLE AI
— Too conservative, Republican  According to my critics/opponents, I have always been to conservative, that is, I promote too many planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22too+conservative%22+republican