June 30, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow that they can manipulate the stock markets.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/daily-open-the-sp-500s-high-is-a-gift-from-trump-that-can-be-taken-away/3778857/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/daily-open-the-sp-500-hits-a-high-but-as-trump-gives-so-can-he-take/3778759/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use ICE mistakes to fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/30/ice-false-arrest-asylum-chicago/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump celebrates Tillis’s decision to retire. My critics/opponents celebrated when their operatives and their dupes succeeded in taking adverse actions against me. Those adverse actions included a) ending my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024, b) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) gerrymandering my precinct in 2015, d) ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, e) ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee in 2007, and f) defeating my bid to serve as the Milton Township Republican Organization Treasurer in 2004. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-celebrates-tilliss-decision-to-retire/

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders decry that Trump is building a national citizenship system
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-06-30/the-trump-administration-is-building-a-national-citizenship-system

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-29/marchers-cap-pride-month-with-celebration-and-protest

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/29/chicago-pride-parade-kicks-off-in-lakeview-showing-citys-support-for-lgbtq-neighbors/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/29/us-cities-capping-lgbtq-pride-month-mix-party-protest/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Duke Law Journal Sent a Secret Memo to Minority Applicants Telling Them They’d Get Extra Points for Writing About Their Race. Memo offers a snapshot of how personal statements can be used to skirt affirmative action ban. Since the 1960s, Democrats and RINOs have used Affirmative Action and DEI to give preference to Democrats and to RINOs who are minority and/or female, that is, to discriminate against Republicans who are White and/or male.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/duke-law-journal-sent-a-secret-memo-to-minority-applicants-telling-them-theyd-get-extra-points-for-writing-about-their-race/

NEW YORK POST
— My critics/opponents either are woke or paint themselves as being woke.  To be woke is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America or a long time.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/30/business/jaguars-woke-ad-shows-just-how-out-of-touch-companies-are-with-consumers/

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— DEI Is Unconstitutional
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/dei-is-unconstitutional/

FOX NEWS
— Trump’s new American doctrine means peace through strength has returned
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-new-american-doctrine-means-peace-through-strength-has-returned

REAL CLEAR MARKETS
— Is Dell Too Woke For Federal Government Work?
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2025/06/30/is_dell_too_woke_for_federal_government_work_1119624.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on Medicaid. Since I became a federal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance. Since I got married in 1978, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my wife’s health insurance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMtT66AEZd4

NEWSWEEK
— Growing concerns over immigration raids have led several cities and communities across Los Angeles County to cancel or postpone their Fourth of July celebrations this year.
https://www.newsweek.com/news-california-cancelled-immigration-ice-raids-2092384

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/nyc-pride-parade-march.html
— Trump Wants America to Make iPhones. Here’s How India Is Doing It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/business/apple-foxconn-india.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/latinos-los-angeles-immigration.html

USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly focus on driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/29/trump-approval-rating-polls-big-beautiful-bill/84375953007/

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— Biden illegally ever-increasingly encouraged citizens of foreign countries to illegally seek asylum in America.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/fresno-county-immigrant-ice-20379955.php

SAN FRANCISCO STANDARD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/29/sf-pride-parade-2025/

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
— Biden did the most to promote illegal immigration, but Bush and Obama did too.
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/06/29/the-key-difference-between-obama-and-trump-on-immigration/

WCCS RADIO
— How Socialist Muslims pulled off a 20-year takeover of the Democratic Party
https://www.wccsradio.com/rss/asra-nomani-how-socialist-muslims-pulled-off-a-20-year-takeover-of-the-democratic-party/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump’s Criticism of Fed’s Rate Decisions Not Necessarily a Threat to Its Independence. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich has always been extremely critical of GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee. In any event, GAO would not have 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, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-criticism-of-feds-rate-decisions-not-necessarily-a-threat-to-its-independence-bis-says-e3784329

FORBES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Durbin to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV_qxypzdrE
— Adverse Employment Action. To get rid of me because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, a) 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, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericbachman/2021/11/15/what-counts-as-an-adverse-employment-action-in-discrimination-and-retaliation-cases/

CONSULTING
— McKinsey pressures staff to get promoted or get lost. Has up-or-out been used against you? My Democrat superiors in federal government started using up-or-out against me when I was 25 years old in 1974 because they had not promoted me to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. I finally did make GS-13 in 1986, but not until after I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) 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, and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran.
https://www.consulting.us/news/10481/mckinsey-pressures-staff-to-get-promoted-or-get-lost

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— It’s Becoming Rarer for Federal Agencies and Employees to Settle Over Adverse Actions. My critics/opponents stress that the following Republican leaders could have, but failed/refused to get GAO to settle in Diersen v. GAO: Gingrich, Bush, Hastert, Fitzgerald, and Hyde. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2020/01/its-becoming-rarer-federal-agencies-and-employees-settle-over-adverse-actions/162813/

POLITICO
— Pope Leo looks to MAGA megadonors to shore up Church finances
https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-leo-maga-megadonors-church-finance-united-states-conservative/
— Trump tried to fire them. But these Democratic appointees are still on the job. I should write about a) my Democrat GAO superiors who fired me when I was 49 years old in 1997, that is, who forced me to retire and b) the Republican leaders who could have, but failed/refused to get GAO to settle in Diersen v. GAO: Gingrich, Bush, Hastert, Fitzgerald, and Hyde. SEE:  https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/30/trump-firings-federal-agencies-00432223

NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/29/nx-s1-5450322/pride-march-new-york-budapest-san-francisco
— DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement

PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-06-30/reproductive-health/il-abortion-services-continue-to-skyrocket-straining-provider-resources/a97465-1

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.