FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump says he’ll ‘look’ at deporting Musk as feud reignites. “We might have to put DOGE on Elon,” the president said on Tuesday.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-says-hell-look-deporting-musk-feud-reignites-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/16904283/
— Trump says migrants would need to know ‘how to run away from an alligator’ to flee Florida facility. The center is informally known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-will-visit-remote-immigration-detention-site-florida-everglades-informally-known-alligator-alcatraz/16901151/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-agents-midwest-jurisdiction-recently-arresting-more-have-no-prior-criminal-convictions-charges/16908927/
NBC5
— Paramount to pay $16 million in settlement with Trump over ’60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris interview. Trump’s lawyer said the president had suffered “mental anguish” over the editing of the interview by CBS News. What has caused you to suffer mental anguish? For me, it includes my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. It has caused me more mental anguish because I had earned a) job-relate master’s degrees in 1997, 1980, and 1976, b) job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, and c) a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/paramount-16-million-settlement-trump-60-minutes-kamala-harris-interview/3780781/
— Tesla shares drop on Musk, Trump feud ahead of Q2 deliveries
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/tesla-shares-drop-on-musk-trump-feud-ahead-of-q2-deliveries/3780694/
FOX32
— Durbin, Duckworth slam Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ after Senate passage
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/durbin-duckworth-slam-trump-big-beautiful-bill-senate-passage
— Trump tours ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in Florida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRLIICsLsJY
— Chicago mayor wants tax on ‘ultra-rich’ Mayor Brandon Johnson says President Trump’s tax bill could make Chicago’s deficit worse.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1667619
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Skeptical aldermen urge Chicago police to not work with ICE on Trump deportations. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/skeptical-aldermen-urge-chicago-police-001100812.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders empowered Biden to bring many millions of illegals into America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/02/column-donald-trump-supreme-court-checks-and-balances-chapman/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/07/01/democrats-deride-senate-trump-activists-target-house-vote
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more pot.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/illinois-marijuana-business-licenses-unused-social-equity
— To what extent is your hospital dependent on Medicaid?
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/trump-tax-bills-health-care-cuts-threaten-rural-hospitals
STATELINE
— Syverson pledges to fight Illinois sanctuary policies in re-election bid
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/syverson-pledges-to-fight-illinois-sanctuary-policies-in-re-election-bid/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/01/trump-vowed-to-deport-the-worst-of-the-worst-but-new-data-shows-a-shift-to-also-arresting-non-criminals/
— Democrat leader ever-increasingly promote Mamdani.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/01/trump-falsely-questions-zohran-mamdanis-citizenship-threatens-to-arrest-him-over-ice-operations/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-florida-cooperation-with-immigration-enforcement-sparks-fears-people-will-disappear-into-jails/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-337/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker: 2% support in potential presidential candidate poll
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzker-2-support-in-potential-presidential-candidate-poll-wirepoints-quickpoint/
— Illinois and Chicago haven’t balanced the budget in forever, but the lie goes on
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-and-chicago-havent-balanced-the-budget-in-forever-but-the-lie-goes-on-wirepoints-on-the-shaun-thompson-show/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker slams ‘big ugly bill,’ warns of job losses, hospital closures.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e3b61732-a602-4272-8f82-341455e8762a.html
— Trump withholds $6.8 billion in federal funding from schools
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_3448d9ca-ef1e-48aa-a767-cd50ea0d3134.html
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago AM560 Axes Local Morning Radio Personality Amy Jacobson, Keeps Florida-based Host Dan Proft in Cost-Cutting Move
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/07/chicago-am560-axes-local-morning-radio-personality-amy-jacobson-keeps-florida-based-host-in-cost-cutting-move.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In a shocking cost-cutting move Tuesday, Chicago’s AM560 The Answer terminated longtime morning host Amy Jacobson, as the struggling conservative station grapples with declining relevance – fueled in part by its own hosts repeatedly attacking prominent, respected Trump supporters. Jacobson, a beloved and nearly 16-year veteran of the station made the unexpected announcement late Tuesday on X, writing: “After 15 1/2 years at WIND AM560 radio, due to staffing reductions, today was my last day on the air.” For years, Jacobson co-hosted Chicago’s Morning Answer alongside Dan Proft – a polarizing and hyper-local media figure who delivers commentary on Chicago politics from his home base in south Florida. In 2022, Proft relocated to Florida, while studio executives scrambled to hide the fact that he no longer broadcasts from the Chicagoland suburban studio. Besides hosting a Chicago radio show remotely from Florida, Proft has built a fortune as a political consultant for Illinois campaigns — but unfortunately, most of his candidates have ended up losing. His track record is as disappointing as former Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus’ 14-32 record before being fired in 2024. While Jacobson – who many believed represented the heart and soul of the morning show, will no longer be on air, she is however, launching a new venture, writing, “I am still processing this but I am happy to announce I have launched AmyJacobsonLive.com where I will be hosting a weekly podcast, posting behind-the-scenes blogs, live streaming.” It’s widely known across northern Illinois that AM560 hosts Shaun Thompson — who broadcasts his Chicago-based show from Naples, Florida — and Jeanne Ives frequently criticize prominent Trump supporters on air, including this publication, the only major conservative news outlet in Illinois ever shared by President Donald Trump on his personal Truth Social page. In September 2023, Ives criticized a local event featuring Donald Trump Jr., falsely claiming it struggled to sell tickets. During the 2024 presidential primary, she endorsed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over former President Donald Trump — despite Trump leading DeSantis by more than 35 points at the time. In an April 2023 interview with Crain’s Chicago Business, Ives gave a blunt on-the-record response about IR, saying, “I don’t read their garbage.” Similarly, Thompson – a close friend of Proft and his Florida-based realtor – has dismissed the Trump-supporting publication as a “rag.” In June 2023, IR editor-in-chief and Trump administration advisor Mark Vargas resigned from AM560 as their Sunday evening radio host after Thompson went on a vile, racist rant after calling-into Black and Right Radio – calling the co-host a “moron with the taffy apple head,” as the two sparred over politics. Thompson continued his hate-filled rant aimed directly at the cohost, telling him, “you’re a disgrace, you shouldn’t go near a microphone, you’re too stupid.” But Thompson didn’t stop there – he escalated the insult on air by telling the Black co-host, “80 percent of you people are morons; 80 percent of you idiots who pretend to be Republican.” As Vargas pointed out in his resignation letter, “This vile and disgusting behavior does not represent my values. The phone calls and texts that I have received over the last few days only echo the shock and disgust that I felt while listening to Saturday’s show. It’s hard to listen too – and for very good reason. And while Shaun continues to be one of the most promoted and celebrated on-air radio personalities at the station, I cannot in good conscience continue hosting my radio show, sharing a microphone and a studio with an individual that’s so full of anger – and can say such terrible things. Therefore, I resign, effective immediately.” The station wasted no time removing Jacobson from its website and social media platforms on Tuesday — a move likely to send shockwaves through its already limited listener base.)
FROM INATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Justice Dept. wants to revoke citizenship for naturalized U.S. criminals, gangsters and fraudsters
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/1/justice-dept-wants-revoke-citizenship-naturalized-us-criminals/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Federal officials eye Hollywood’s discrimination quotas for Oscar winners
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3459604/federal-officials-eye-hollywood-discrimination-oscars-quota/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump: ‘If DOGE looks at Musk, we’re gonna save a fortune’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzwY1TGr6i0
— The Democratic party we knew died the same way it lived – with fear and hate.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/01/opinion/the-democratic-party-we-knew-died-the-same-way-it-lived-with-fear-and-hate/
BREITBART
— LGBTQ Pride Group Founder and J.K. Rowling Hater Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Child Rape
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/07/01/lgbtq-pride-group-founder-and-j-k-rowling-hater-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison-for-child-rape/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump said he will “take a look” at deporting Elon Musk after the former federal employee once again criticized his “Big Beautiful Bill.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/01/donald-trump-elon-musk-white-house-deport-south-africa-big-beautiful-bill/
FEDERALIST
— Trump Needs A Massive Drone Fleet To Defend U.S. Interests And Deter Its Enemies
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/01/trump-needs-a-massive-drone-fleet-to-defend-u-s-interests-and-deter-its-enemies/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago abortion clinic opens offering controversial third-trimester abortions. Hope Clinic said it was ‘excited’ to offer abortions through ‘all trimesters.’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-abortion-clinic-opens-offering-controversial-third-trimester-abortions
— Trump: If Zohran Mamdani defies ICE, ‘we’ll have to arrest him’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf7B9daysQQ
— Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani if he doesn’t comply with ICE officials. ‘I think he’s terrible. He’s a communist,’ President Donald Trump said Tuesday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-threatens-arrest-mamdani-he-doesnt-comply-ice-officials
— Trump ‘working on’ deportation exemptions for illegal farm and hospitality workers. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got. My critics/s/opponents cannot say that because their parents had lots of money. They bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-working-on-deportation-exemptions-for-illegal-farm-and-hospitality-workers
— Journalist arrested while covering anti-Trump protest granted bail amid deportation battle. I have been a GOPUSA reporter since 2000. I should write about the times that I was thrown out of political events, denied access to political events, punished for attending political events, severely discouraged from attending political events, etc. I would focus on Republican political events in Wheaton, Milton Township, and DuPage County.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/journalist-arrested-while-covering-anti-trump-protest-granted-bail-amid-deportation-battle
NEWS BUSTERS
— Republican leaders promote legal immigration. Democrat and RINO leaders promote illegal immigration. Should Republican leaders pass a “bad jobs” bill? That is, a bill that would grant citizens of foreign countries work permits for bad jobs that Americans ever-increasingly fail/refuse to take, including the bad jobs that I took?
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/shannon-sauders/2025/07/01/demonizing-immigrants-latino-producer-digs-trump-morning-joe
NEWSMAX
— DeSantis Supports GOP Efforts to Redo Census Before 2026
https://www.newsmax.com/us/florida-census-legislative-districts/2025/07/01/id/1217197/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump calls for census of Americans ONLY, with proof of citizenship to ‘bring our elections back’
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-calls-for-census-of-americans-only-with-proof-of-citizenship-to-bring-our-elections-back
TOWNHALL
— Trump Vows to Keep Illegals Off Census: ‘We Want to Bring Our Elections Back’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/07/01/trump-admin-seeking-ways-to-exclude-illegals-from-being-counted-in-the-united-states-census-n2659707
FROM INATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— EEOC targets law firms over DEI practices. How has EEOC impacted you? EEOC ended my career in the automotive industry. When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me because I had accepted that job offer. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS.
https://www.aol.com/news/equal-employment-opportunity-commission-targets-164204309.html
ABC NEWS
— Trump says he’ll ‘look’ at deporting Musk as feud reignites. “We might have to put DOGE on Elon,” the president said on Tuesday.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hell-deporting-musk-feud-reignites/story?id=123372908
— House Republicans race toward a final vote on Trump’s tax bill, daring critics to oppose.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/house-republicans-race-final-vote-trumps-tax-bill-123399588
NBC NEWS
— ‘You’ll always be my friend’: Trump and Ron DeSantis put aside rivalry at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-ron-desantis-rivalry-alligator-alcatraz-friend-rcna216403
NEWSWEEK
— No Tax on Overtime Passes in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. I worked lots of overtime while I worked for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969.
https://www.newsweek.com/no-tax-overtime-passes-trump-tax-bill-2093091
MSNBC
— Democrat Leaders say what you’re feeling is the banality of cruelty from Trump and the Republican Party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0q-UoMwc3A
— Trump again floats deporting U.S. citizens: ‘Maybe that’ll be the next job’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8b0lrxFD9g
NEW YORK TIMES
— Differences Over Policy Bill Reignite the Trump-Musk Feud. Trump ratcheted up his rhetoric against Musk, at one point suggesting that he could be interested in attempting to deport him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/trump-musk-policy-bill-feud.html
— Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/business/media/paramount-trump-60-minutes-lawsuit.html
— Democrat Leaders Say Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/business/poor-americans-senate-legislation.html
— Denmark Begins Drafting Women as Russian Threat Looms. I graduated from NIU in 1970. My job search was harmed because potential employers viewed me as being draft bait.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/europe/denmark-military-draft-women-russia.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/business/poor-americans-senate-legislation.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Musk-Trump battle erupts anew over GOP spending bill. Musk threatened to launch a new political party as the president mused over fresh scrutiny of the former DOGE chief’s federal subsidies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/01/musk-trump-big-beautiful-bill/
— Since 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 was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my wife’s health insurance. In my defense, I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my critics/opponents who would never stoop to take a federal job. I would especially focus on my critics/opponents who look down on if not despise a) wage earners like I was for 33 years and b) pensioners like I have been for almost 28 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/01/least-17-million-americans-would-lose-insurance-under-trump-plan/
USA TODAY
— Several vehicles can go 600 miles on one tank. In 1969, and again in 1970, I drove from DeKalb to Daytona Beach and back in my 1969 Dodge Charger SE stopping only for gasoline.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/06/24/kia-sorento-hybrid-suv-summer-road-trip-driving-range/84317801007/
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans, and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/what-does-the-future-of-dei-programming-for-law-firms-look-like-6
FORBES
— If you earned an MBA, why did you do that? I earned an MBA because my IRS employee manual encouraged me to do that. I earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27 year old in 1976 after I completed 16 graduate evening courses, one at a time. Nevertheless, to get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education deduction. They outrageously, disgustingly, unethically, and falsely argued a) that the courses did not relate to my job duties, b) that the courses did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) that I took the courses to get a job in the private sector, and d) that the courses qualified me for a new trade or business. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeseq/2025/07/01/the-meritocracy-myth-how-mba-admissions-reward-privilege-not-potential/
NPR
— The Trump admin is withholding over $6 billion in education grants for schools.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5453457/trump-school-funding-grants
NIEMAN LAB
— The mainstream news media ever-increasingly serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/are-journalists-projecting-their-own-opinions-onto-the-public/
AXIOS
— What July 4 anti-Trump protests do Democrat leaders have planned in your county, township, and municipality?
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/july-4-free-america-trump-protests-usa
SPLC
— I should write about my critics/opponents a) who hinted/implied/argued/shouted the most that Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were hate groups and b) who had their operatives and their dupes destroy the organizations.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/frequently-asked-questions-about-hate-and-antigovernment-groups/
DAILY MAIL
— Trump teams up with ICE Barbie Kristi Noem to float a prosecution of CNN for ICE app report
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14866205/donald-trump-ice-kristi-noem-cnn-illegal-actions.html
