FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Illinois politicians spend millions in campaign funds on meals, sometimes at swanky restaurants. Often it’s for fundraisers or meetings, or as a thank-you to election volunteers. But it’s sometimes difficult to know whether political figures are living high on the hog off their campaign funds, which isn’t allowed.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2026/05/14/illinois-campaign-funds-spending-millions-chicago-loop-springfield-restaurants
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: All of my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/14/opinion-citizenship-denaturalization-donald-trump/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Republican resistance to Iran war grows in the Senate as Murkowski flips
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/republican-resistance-to-iran-war-grows-in-the-senate-as-murkowski-flips/article_a357aab7-1604-5e22-bfbd-b747675360f1.html
HOMEWOOD FLOSSMOOR PATCH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://patch.com/illinois/homewood-flossmoor/h-f-pride-fest-set-celebrate-diversity-inclusion
BUR RIDGE PATCH
— Mayor Fires Back Over Burr Ridge Restaurateur’s Arrest. The arrest of Burr Ridge restaurant owner Filippo “Gigi” Rovito has become a subject in a DuPage County political race.
https://patch.com/illinois/burrridge/mayor-fires-back-over-burr-ridge-restaurateurs-arrest
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: The Democrat Party’s long game is to replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Demographics that vote for Republicans: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Demographics that vote for Democrats: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/05/14/chicago-plays-dncs-long-game-00920081
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-737/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Hundreds of New ICE Officers to Deploy Across More than 40 States
https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/13/hundreds-of-new-ice-officers-to-deploy-across-more-than-40-states/
BREITBART
— Tuberville Urges English Language in Schools, Colleges
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2026/05/13/gop-sen-tommy-tuberville-urges-english-language-everyone-schools-colleges/amp/
DAILY SIGNAL
— GOP Attorneys General Tout Crime Crackdown as Democrats Push Bail Reforms
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/13/gop-attorneys-general-tout-crime-crackdown-as-democrats-push-bail-reforms/
SPEAKER JOHNSON
— There is Not a Single Democrat Who Believes Border Security or Immigration Enforcement Should Exist. “They have proved that time and time again, both by their word and by their votes.”
https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2883
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Says Americans’ Economic Pain Is Not a Consideration for the Iran War
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/politics/trump-iran-war-americans-economy.html
— Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S. One of the settlement terms under review is for the I.R.S. to drop any audits of the president, his family members and businesses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/trump-suit-irs.html
— Xi Is Planning for China’s Final Victory Over the U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/opinion/xi-trump-summit-china-us.html
— China Increasingly Views Trump’s America as an Empire in Decline
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/china-trump-xi-decline.html
WAFB
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, those who are the following will be ever-increasingly under-represented: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wafb.com/2026/05/13/cleo-fields-vows-fight-louisiana-redistricting-plan-map-advances/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/california-cannabis-dispensary-business-d11981eb
FORBES
–DD: To hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, and/or younger, Democrat employers ever-increasingly replace objective criterial with subjective criteria.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2025/03/12/objective-hiring-pitfalls-to-avoid/
ISSUES & INSIGHTS
— DD: What is your opinion of federal employees and federal retirees? According to this article, they are the least productive and most overpaid people in the country. I was cursed as being a postal employee 1966-1969, an IRS employee 1971-1980, and a GAO employee 1980-1997. I have been cursed as being a federal retiree since 1997. In my defense, I would not have become a postal employee in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to take the postal employment test with him. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if my Firestone Store boss had not fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, an offer that Oldsmobile withdrew saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://issuesinsights.com/2026/05/11/the-hidden-gem-in-aprils-jobs-report/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The jobs report is even better than advertised, because it included a loss of 9,000 federal workers. That wasn’t how mainstream news outlets covered the report. They were busy on Friday, warning about “several red flags” and that “the solid-looking topline employment numbers mask underlying weakness in the labor market.” Given these “experts” inability to forecast anything accurately, especially when President Donald Trump is in office, we will take those “red flags” with a substantial grain of salt. What can’t be denied, however, is that Trump is making good on this goal of shrinking the size of the federal workforce. Yes, the protests against federal jobs cuts are long over (those were, what, seven protest topics ago?), but the cuts keep coming. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that in every month but one since Trump took office, the number of federal workers has declined. And the increase in February of this year was due to the Post Office hiring people. Not counting postal workers, nearly a thousand federal workers lost their jobs. So far this year, the federal workforce has shrunk by 57,000 workers (nearly 59,000 if you exclude postal workers). Since Trump took office, the federal workforce has been downsized by 345,000. As a result, there are fewer people employed by the federal government today than at any time since 1966. Fewer federal workers means less money spent on some of the least productive, most overpaid people in the country. But even so, if the federal workforce has shrunk so sharply, why is federal spending through the roof? That’s because roughly two-thirds of federal spending these days is in the form of entitlement checks – for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, housing subsidies, college subsidies, etc., etc. Nevertheless, laying off federal workers is a welcome start.)
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Demographics that vote for Republicans: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Demographics that vote for Democrats: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.epi.org/blog/a-more-diverse-workforce-isnt-dei-motivated-discrimination-its-just-demographic-change-how-trump-is-weaponizing-the-eeoc-against-the-workers-it-was-built-to-protect/
AXIOS
— Affordability is reshaping consumers’ car choices. DD: Back in the good old days, I could afford to a) buy a new 1966 Pontiac Sprint when I was 17 in 1966 with the money I earned washing dishes for the minimum wage part-time for 15 months and full-time for 3 months, b) buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 when I was 19 with the money I earned delivering mail for part-time for 10 months and full-time for 3 months, and c) buy a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE when I was 20 with the money I earned delivering mail for part-time for 9 months and full-time for 3 months.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/13/car-affordability-survey-santander
POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/10k-rulings-ice-mandatory-detention-trump-analysis-00914195
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
ABC MONEY
— DuPage County Property Tax 2026 , Why Bills Are Up 3.83% Even as the Tax Rate Fell
https://www.abcmoney.co.uk/2026/05/dupage-county-property-tax-2026-why-bills-are-up-3-83-even-as-the-tax-rate-fell/
