September 24, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders oppose fence around Broadview ICE facility
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-operation-midway-blitz-fence-around-broadview-facility-raises-concerns-residents-fire-department/17876429/

NBC5
— GOP candidates for governor call for repeal of Illinois TRUST Act
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/gop-candidates-for-governor-call-for-repeal-of-illinois-trust-act/3829038/

CBS2
— Democrat officials demand DHS take down fence surrounding ICE facility
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/broadview-officials-demand-dhstake-down-fence-ice-facility/

WGN9
— Dabrowski criticizes Pritzker during presser outside Broadview ICE facility
https://wgntv.com/western-suburbs/candidate-for-il-governor-ted-dabrowski-criticizes-pritzker-during-presser-outside-broadview-ice-facility/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Hispanic culture
https://wgntv.com/hispanic-heritage-month/lane-tech-students-explore-hispanic-culture-with-pinata-crafting/#/questions/5662210

FOX32
— Dabrowski pushes to end sanctuary status
2 more bishops call on Cardinal Cupich to cancel award for pro-abortion senator
— ‘ANTI-ICE’ written on bullets found at scene of Dallas ICE shooting
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/anti-ice-engravings-shells-casings-found-scene-dallas-ice
— Chicago residents demand action on alleged prostitution surge near Midway
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-residents-demand-action-prostitution-surge-near-midway
— Trump replaces Biden portrait with autopen in Presidential Walk of Fame
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-biden-portrait-autopen
— Trump administration rehires federal employees laid off by DOGE. Maybe I will get rehired.  Would I get backpay?  Would it be $2.4 million ($4.3 million GAO salary not received since 1997 minus $1.9 million Civil Service Retirement System pension received in today’s dollars)?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-administration-rehires-federal-employees-doge
— Charlie Kirk could be placed on US currency under new House GOP proposal
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/charlie-kirk-coin-house-proposal

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly oppose gentrification
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/24/key-city-panel-oks-plan-designed-stop-gentrification-sparked-obama-presidential-center

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders demand ICE take down new fencing around detention center
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/broadview-ice-fence-detention/
— Artists claim anti-Trump display at Chicago library was ‘censored’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/artists-anti-trump-display-chicago-library-censored/
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Black pastors to hate Kirk. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to hate me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/charlie-kirk-black-pastors/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders order removal of fencing erected outside ICE facility in Broadview
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/23/fence-blocks-access-to-broadview-ice-facility

DAILY HERALD
— Democratic congressional candidate Bethany Johnson mocked Charlie Kirk after assassination
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250924/nation-and-world-politics/democratic-congressional-candidate-mocked-charlie-kirk-after-assassination/
— Oath Keepers founder, Jan. 6 planner Stewart Rhodes speaks at Elgin church after 3 other venues cancel amid outcry
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250924/nation-and-world-politics/oath-keepers-founder-jan-6-planner-speaks-at-elgin-church-after-3-other-venues-cancel-amid-outcry/
— ‘I will not apologize’: District 300 school board president defiant amid backlash over social media Kirk post
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250924/news/i-will-not-apologize-district-300-school-board-president-defiant-amid-backlash-over-social-media/

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/24/chicago-immigration-president-donald-trump-dhs-ice

STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-democrats-demand-end-to-dangerous-ice-operations-in-chicago/
— Illinois House Minority Leader: Pritzker’s budget executive order is way to raise taxes
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-house-minority-leader-pritzkers-budget-executive-order-is-way-to-raise-taxes/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-389/
— Dabrowski holds press conference outside ICE facility, says Pritzker should ‘hand over criminals in handcuffs from local and state police directly to federal authorities’
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/24/dabrowski-holds-press-conference-outside-ice-facility-says-pritzker-should-hand-over-criminals-in-handcuffs-from-local-and-state-police-directly-to-federal-authorities/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise Hispanics
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/24/the-crackdown-is-bad-for-business-and-bad-for-state-and-local-revenues/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Dabrowski says repealing the TRUST Act to end the state’s sanctuary status is his top legislative priority.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_c5857634-21b3-45dd-9f1f-1a4cc07dc4ab.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— America’s guest-worker H-1B visas sought in some unexpected fields like journalism. Trump’s crackdown targets ‘H-1B mills’ and other abuses.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/24/americas-guest-worker-h-1b-visas-sought-unexpected-fields-like/
— Former General Services Administration employees receive reinstatement offers. Maybe I will get a reinstatement offer from the next Comptroller General.  Would it include backpay?  Would it be $2.4 million ($4.3 million GAO salary not received since 1997 minus $1.9 million Civil Service Retirement System pension received in today’s dollars)?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/24/former-general-services-administration-employees-receive/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: GSA wasn’t the only agency targeted by DOGE. According to the Partnership for Public Service, there have been over 200,000 federal workforce reductions. The departments of Defense, Treasury and Agriculture have seen the largest reductions, while other agencies were shuttered nearly completely. Other agencies that have brought back employees include the Internal Revenue Service, Labor Department, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Park Service.)
— Democrats in off-year races strive to put boogeyman Trump on the ballot
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/24/democrats-year-races-strive-put-boogeyman-trump-ballot/
— Hate speech does not exist in law, only in the minds of bureaucrats. How landmark rulings set the standard that government may not punish offensive words.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/24/hate-speech-exist-law-minds-bureaucrats/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats’ rhetoric endangers ICE officers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3821714/democratic-rhetoric-endangers-ice-officers/
— Democratic Party isolation is getting worse
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3822995/democratic-party-isolation-is-getting-worse-political-violence/
— Left-wing donors push for woke education agenda as scores hit all time low
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3821791/left-wing-donors-push-for-woke-education-agenda/
— Voters don’t trust Democrats to run a lemonade stand
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3822559/voters-dont-trust-democrats-to-run-a-lemonade-stand/

NEW YORK POST
— Dallas sniper had anti-ICE messages written on ammo; 1 dead, 2 wounded
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/us-news/dallas-sniper-had-anti-ice-messages-written-on-ammo-fbi/
— Excellence over wokeness: New rankings reveal the REAL top medical schools
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/opinion/excellence-over-wokeness-new-rankings-reveal-the-real-top-medical-schools/
— Vance tears into Democrats, calls out Gavin Newsom after Dallas ICE shooting: ‘You can go straight to hell’
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/us-news/vance-tears-into-democrats-calls-out-gavin-newsom-after-dallas-ice-shooting/
— Democrat ‘Nazi’ rhetoric about ICE has inspired tragic violence
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/opinion/democrat-nazi-rhetoric-about-ice-has-inspired-tragic-violence/
— Google gives fresh proof the Biden admin was a censorship machine
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/opinion/google-gives-fresh-proof-biden-admin-was-a-censorship-machine/

AMERICAN THINKER
— The lesbian sorority gets a crack at governing America
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/the_lesbian_sorority_gets_a_crack_at_governing_america.html

CATHOLIC VOTE
— 2 more bishops call on Cardinal Cupich to cancel award for pro-abortion senator Durbin
https://catholicvote.org/2-more-bishops-call-on-cardinal-cupich-cancel-award-pro-abortion-senator/

LIFE NEWS
— Catholic Bishop Blasts Award for Dick Durbin: “Goes Against Catholic Moral Principles”
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/09/23/catholic-bishop-blasts-award-for-dick-durbin-goes-against-catholic-moral-principles/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Employers want immigrants because employers want cheap labor.
https://finance-commerce.com/2025/09/americans-poll-legal-immigration-benefits/

CBS NEWS
— Judge won’t reinstate 8 Inspector Generals (IG) fired by Trump. While worked for GAO 1980-1997, I often worked with IG employees.  While served on the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter Executive Committee 1983-1996, I often worked with IG employees.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-government-watchdogs-inspector-generals-fired-by-trump/

POLITICO
— White House to agencies: Prepare mass firing plans for the shutdown. In memo, the Trump administration says the Reduction in Force plans would go beyond standard shutdown furloughs. Democrats run federal agencies. They use Republican budget cuts first to get rid of their employees who are Republican and then their employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/24/white-house-firings-shutdown-00579909

FROM OTHER SOURCES

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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.