FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— MAGA YouTube star who spurred federal crackdown in Minneapolis to speak at Illinois GOP gala. The Illinois Democratic Party is calling Nick Shirley’s inclusion proof that the GOP “has completed their transformation into an extremist MAGA organization.” State Republicans, on the other hand, are praising the 24-year-old YouTube star as “one of the fastest rising independent journalists in America, known for going where mainstream media won’t.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2026/06/11/nick-shirley-maga-youtube-star-illinois-republican-party-gala-keynote-speaker
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Grogan on Thursday responded to criticisms of Shirley, telling the Sun-Times “JB Pritzker and Illinois Democrats are terrified of Nick Shirley coming to Illinois after he exposed billions of dollars in fraud in Minnesota and California.” “Illinois is next,” Grogan said.)
— Mayor Johnson will ask City Council committee to repeal video gambling in Chicago. Brandon Johnson wants the City Council’s Committee on Workforce Development to meet Monday to consider an ordinance that would essentially reverse the Council’s decision to allow video gambling in the city. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton, and in 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2026/06/11/mayor-brandon-johnson-repeal-video-gambling-bid-chicago
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Dillard sends veiled warning shot to Mayor Brandon Johnson over CTA leadership
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/11/rta-cta-brandon-johnson/
— Hillary Clinton urges grassroots movement at Rainbow PUSH, warns of ‘revolution to turn the clock back.’ DD: For Democrat leaders, progress is getting rid of Trump and getting rid of those who share his demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/11/hillary-clinton-prizker-chicago-push-convention/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois needs clearer rules for removing problem police officers. DD: Because I refused to become a Democrat, the longer that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, the more that they did to remove me.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/commentary/ccb-illinois-should-fix-police-decertification-opinion-20260611/
(FROM THE EDITORIAL: Based on the recently published “SAFE-T Act Policing Workgroup Recommendations,” the current state of police decertification in Illinois reflects a painful truth: Illinois has made progress on decertification reform, which removes the legal authority to serve as a police officer in that state, but the current system still leaves significant gaps that undermine public trust, accountability and transparency. Illinois still relies too heavily on police departments to identify and report officer misconduct to the Illinois Law Enforcement Training & Standards Board. That approach is insufficient. Community members, civilian oversight authorities and state’s attorneys often become aware of serious misconduct long before law enforcement leadership acts.)
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they ever-increasingly promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The more that they succeed, the bleaker the future is for those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The more that Democrat leaders succeed, anticipate/expect that more that those who are the aforesaid will give up and not even try to earn a college degree.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-dei-contract-rules-kwame-raoul-trump-20260611/
ABC7
— Rahm Emanuel urges Bears to get serious on stadium talks, explains Chicago’s World Cup absence
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-urges-bears-get-serious-stadium-talks-speaks-presence-knicks-game/19278303/
— ‘Broadview Six’ grand jury fallout expands; federal prosecutors could be called to testify. Misconduct allegations raised in more federal cases.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/broadview-case-grand-jury-fallout-expands-federal-prosecutors-could-called-testify-misconduct-allegations-expand/19272206/
CBS2
— Pete Buttigieg and Hillary Clinton speak at 1st Rainbow PUSH convention since Rev. Jesse Jackson’s death
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pete-buttigieg-hillary-clinton-rainbow-push-conference/
FOX32
— Pritzker to still attend Bears’ games if team moves to Indiana
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-8b8b1i94fuaiwde0
WGN RADIO
— Pat Brady, SVP of Mercury Public Affairs, former chairman for the Illinois Republican Party, joins Lisa Dent to discuss Rahm Emanuel’s possible presidential campaign, Illinois Comptroller, Susana Mendoza’s mayoral run, and the likelihood of Mayor Brandon Johnson winning the mayoral race.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-looking-into-rahm-emanuels-presidential-run/
CAPITOL CITY NOW
— New IL GOP chair hopes for gains. Bob Grogan says Democrats are still big spenders.
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-new-il-gop-chair-hopes-for-gains/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It’s time for a change at the Illinois Republican Party. Bob Grogan ousted Kathy Salvi this year as chair of the state party. He is a former DuPage County auditor. Comparing the two parties, he said, “I think it’s the ability to change and actually sort of hold people in check. But I also have a faith that the basis of our grass roots, for instance, is just people who believe in principles; the other side, the way they maintain power is through contract and patronage, and that’s just not as much in the lifeblood of Republicans.” The GOP holds no statewide offices, three of the seventeen U.S. House seats, and a superminority of each chamber in the Illinois General Assembly. Democrats, said Grogan, have “never seen a new tax that they don’t like, the spend money like a drunken sailor, the corruption side of things.” Grogan cited those to back up his contention that Democrats are “destroying the state.”)
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Pritzker defends level of engagement with state lawmakers amid Bears flop. The governor only had one scheduled meeting with top megaprojects negotiators in May.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/pritzker-defends-level-of-engagement-with-state-lawmakers-amid-bears-flop/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Aldermen say lawmakers failed to address illegal cannabis sales near schools. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot. Democrats are pot pushers. Ever-increasingly, they push children to use pot. The more pot they get children to use, the faster that children crash and burn. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_aaa2bbd3-2e1e-43e0-808a-f4c6003a7e22.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Rioting is never justified
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/11/editorial-rioting-never-justified/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The Justice Department declared this week that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s “disparate-impact” policies are unconstitutional, tossing aside a rule, long criticized by conservatives, that saw racial discrimination whenever a policy resulted in outcomes that differed among people of different races — regardless of whether the policy had anything to do with race. DD: According to my critics/opponents, whenever Whites and/or males do better at something than minorities and/or females, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against minorities and/or females.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4602345/doj-targets-disparate-impact-hiring-practices/
NEW YORK POST
— San Francisco Unified School District shelled out nearly $400,000 to extreme ”ethnic studies” consultants obsessed with defunding the police and tearing down capitalism rather fixing the students’ appalling reading and math scores.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/11/us-news/sf-district-spent-thousands-on-ethnic-studies-consultants-as-test-scores-fell/
DAILY CALLER
— Governor, Pick One: The Bears Or Illegal Aliens? William J Kelly pressed Illinois Governor JB Pritzker about the financial drain of illegal aliens in the city as the Chicago Bears seem poised to move to Indiana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnC-16Vq5B8
FOX NEWS
— Rep. Mark Harris urges treasury to strip SPLC of tax exempt status. DD: My critics/opponents side with SPLC.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6398151598112
— Rhode Island teacher who called slain Charlie Kirk ‘garbage’ honored in high school yearbook.
https://www.aol.com/articles/rhode-island-teacher-called-slain-190248000.html
MINDING THE CAMPUS
— American Graduates Need Not Apply. A senior partner at a large U.S. company admits corporations will skirt H-1B restrictions—leaving American graduates behind. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens work for less money. They are easier to exploit.
https://mindingthecampus.org/2025/12/29/american-graduates-need-not-apply/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Senate defense policy bill excludes IVF provision. DD: In the 1980s, my Democrat GAO superiors used against me big time my and my wife’s giving up trying to have children without trying IVF, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5920930-senate-defense-bill-excludes-ivf-coverage/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Currently, service members’ Tricare insurance only covers fertility services for military members whose infertility was caused by a serious or severe illness or injury while on active duty. Duckworth has been trying to change that by requiring Tricare to cover infertility diagnosis and treatment, including IVF. Her provision would also direct the secretary of Defense to create a program on fertility-related care coordination to address the unique needs of military families.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Erika Kirk Lays Out a Vision for the Conservative Christian Woman. With birth rates in steep decline, marriage falling out of fashion and the future of MAGA up in the air, Turning Point USA held its annual women’s leadership conference.
https://www.wsj.com/style/turning-point-usa-womens-summit-erika-kirk-97abb601
BANGOR DAILY NEWS
— Maine is among at least six states not sending a delegation to President Donald Trump’s state fair. The other states are California, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Oregon,
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/06/11/politics/washington/maine-boycott-donald-trump-great-american-state-fair/
ROBERT REICH
— Experience, Knowledge, and Talent Need Not Apply. DD: Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 would not have hired me if I had not passed the CPA examination on my first attempt and earned an MBA, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971, would not have hired me if I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business and passed the Federal Service Entrance examination, and c) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966 would not have hired me if I had not earned a high school diploma and passed the postal employment test. Because I refused to become a Democrat, they ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/experience-knowledge-and-talent-need
SPLC
— DD: My critics/opponents attribute their successes in life to meritocracy. They attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/what-is-white-privilege-really/
