June 8, 2026 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Justice Department moves to strip citizenship from 17 people in unprecedented denaturalization push
https://abc7chicago.com/post/doj-moves-strip-citizenship-17-people-unprecedented-denaturalization-push-donald-trump-administration/19259005/

WGN9
— Illinois’ new social media tax explained. DD: My critics/opponents would love it if the Democrats who run Illinois would tax me lots of money for each GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter that I send out.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-new-social-media-tax-explained/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois’ new budget includes a variety of new taxes. One of those targets social media companies that operate in the state. Here’s how it’s supposed to work: Platforms that have 100,000 to almost half a million users will be taxed 10¢ a month for each user. That’s the lowest tier. It increases for middle tier platforms with 500,000 users to just shy of a million users. That charge will be $40,000 a month and an additional 25¢ a month for each user above the half a million mark. The highest tax tier is for platforms with a million or more users. Their fee is $165,000 a month on top of 50¢ a month for each user beyond the million mark. The tax is projected to raise $200 million a year, and social media platforms can’t pass along the fees to their users.)

WBEZ
— Northwestern researcher among group kicked out of conference for distributing paper critical of Trump. DD: I should write the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they reported their candidates’ wrong doing.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2026/06/08/northwestern-researcher-among-group-kicked-out-of-conference-for-distributing-paper-critical-of-trump

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Proposed Illinois law would shut down unlicensed intoxicating hemp shops. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Because intoxicating hemp competes with pot, Democrat leaders want intoxicating hemp to be regulated.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/08/hemp-marijuana-laws-lllinois-federal/
— DD: Democrat leaders cheer congressional Republicans who show newfound willingness to rebuff Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/08/trump-massie-hawley-cornyn-redistricting-anti-weaponization-fund-irs-audits/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Aurora.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/08/upcoming-pride-month-events-aurora/

DAILY HERALD
— Could a Bears move give Illinois Republicans midterm momentum?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260608/illinois-state-politics/could-a-bears-move-give-illinois-republicans-midterm-momentum-experts-weigh-in/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa application fee rejected by judge. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/ccb-h1b-visa-fee-rejected-20260608/
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating ex-federal prosecutors attack Boutros. They charge him with letting political considerations infect his prosecutorial decisions. The Republicans who ran DOJ under Bush sided with my Democrat GAO superiors in Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf  To side with my Democrat GAO superiors is to promote the Democrat Party platform. That is, to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-andrew-boutros-prosecutors-rebuke-broadview-6-20260608/

RIVER BENDER
— DD: Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media serves as a spokesperson for the Democrat Party.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-joins-markey-senate-democrats-in-calling-for-affordability-safety-worker-priorities-in-surface-transportation-bill-94087.cfm?

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-538/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Republican to offer Bears stadium bill, new property tax initiatives.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_771cdfd4-a412-4b3e-8874-47828886543c.html
— Illinois State Rep. Bill Hauter, a Republican physician and graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, sharply criticized reports that the school is promoting “equitable assessments” in medical education. DD: Democrats run the federal government. They use the subjectivity in their performance management systems to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my attention was drawn to the aforesaid because my undergraduate degree was in personnel management and my MBA area of concentration was personnel management.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_9fa5073c-4a1e-4014-ad5a-082b2508946d.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Platner’s bid tests how much personal baggage Maine voters will tolerate. DD: Far too often, far too many candidates have run for offices as Republicans, but they should not have because they have far too much baggage. Voters hold Republican candidates to far higher standards than they hold Democrat candidates. I should write the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they reported their candidates’ wrong doing.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/8/platners-bid-tests-much-personal-baggage-maine-voters-tolerate/
— Foreign service has become a haven for leftists
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/7/foreign-service-become-haven-leftists/
— Government about to defund national parks and fund abortion
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/8/government-defund-national-parks-fund-abortion/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Homan says most anti-ICE protesters at New Jersey’s Delaney Hall are not state residents.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4598964/homan-anti-ice-protesters-delaney-hall-new-jersey/
— Six injured in stabbing at NYC’s Penn Station, day before Trump attends Game 3 of NBA Finals.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/4598639/stabbing-at-nyc-penn-station-day-before-trump-attends-game-3-of-nba-finals/
— There’s no spinning California’s disgraceful, third-world vote-counting mess
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4599135/cannot-spin-california-disgraceful-third-world-vote-counting/

NEW YORK POST
— Tom Homan reveals plans set to flood NYC with more ICE agents
https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/us-news/tom-homan-reveals-plans-are-in-place-to-flood-nyc-with-more-ice-agents-than-youve-ever-seen/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Homan says ICE ‘Nazi’ rhetoric has led to 8K percent surge in death threats against officers and their families.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/08/homan-says-ice-nazi-rhetoric-has-led-to-8k-percent-surge-in-death-threats-against-officers-and-their-families-1644805/

DAILY SIGNAL
— DOJ Moves to Denaturalize Immigrants Who Lied on Citizenship Applications About Egregious Crimes.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/08/doj-denaturalize-immigrants-lied/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Fallout from Video Release Expands: Police Sought to Cast Henry Nowak as Aggressor. Europe Reacts with Demonstrations and “Taking a Knee” Movement while Media Deflects in Wake of Henry Nowak Killing.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/fallout-from-video-release-expands-police-sought-to-cast-henry-nowak-as-aggressor/

LIFE ZETTE
— Teen Takeover Chaos Forces Ohio Church to Cancel Festival After Massive Brawls and 11 Arrests. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.lifezette.com/2026/06/teen-takeover-chaos-forces-ohio-church-to-cancel-festival-after-massive-brawls-and-11-arrests-watch/

NUMBERS USA
— 219,000 Fewer Teens Working – Don’t Expand H-2 Visas! DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser.
https://www.numbersusa.org/message-action/

REPUBLICAN BALLOT NEWS
— Twelve Shot as Chaos Breaks Out Near Toledo Festival
https://republicanballotnews.com/twelve-shot-as-chaos-breaks-out-near-ohio-street-festival/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump calls on Thune to fire Senate parliamentarian. DD: My critics/opponents do not publicly call for adverse actions to be taken against me. Instead, they have their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me for them. They had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) end my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) end my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, e) end my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2010 and 2004, f) end my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, g) almost get ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, and h) defeat my bid for the open as a MTRO Treasurer position in 2004. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5915219-trump-parliamentarian-thune-save-america-act/

SPLC
— DD: SPLC exists to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/june-2026-intelligence-project-dispatch-trends-incidents-of-the-hard-right/

FROM OTHER SOURCES

FEED SPOT
— Top 100 Political RSS Feeds. DD: GOPUSA ILLINOIS is ranked 6th for State and local US political coverage focused on individual states and metros across America. I should write about my critics/opponents who have their operatives and their dupes work the hardest a) to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading them. My critics/opponents have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. They make it clear that they can and that they will destroy anyone who encourages people to read my newsletters.
https://rss.feedspot.com/political_rss_feeds/

LINKED IN
— Editor roles with over $100K/yr salary. DD: I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000.  All of the money needed to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out every day comes from my Civil Service Retirement System pension, my Social Security, and my retirement savings. All of the time, experience, ability, and motivation to put the newsletter together and to send them out comes from me. GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter subscriptions are worth a least $1,000/year. But I send them out free of charge, without any advertising, and without any donation requests. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I do not want anyone to call my tunes.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4414534224&f_SB2=4&f_TPR=r604800&geoId=103644278&keywords=Editor&trk=eml-email_career_insights_01-top~insights~cta-0-view~job~openings

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.