FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/21/editorial-250th-birthday-america-trump-rallies-celebration/
— Illinois union leaders feel they’re not getting an adequate return on their investment in our one-party state government. DD: My critics/opponents who are/were not union members are vehemently anti-union. According to my critics/opponents, I have always been grossly overpaid. They have always been furious that while I was a union member for almost 12 years, my salary increased from $19.57/hour to $113,402/year in today’s dollars. I my defense, during that time, I earned a bachelor’s degree in business, I earned an MBA, I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, and I almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/21/editorial-unions-springfield-democrats-tim-shea-endorsements/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/21/pride-bird-sit-south-shore/
— Elon Musk is a trillionaire — but the oligarchs of Congress wield more power.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/21/opinion-elon-musk-oligarch-congress-spending/
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/22/column-donald-trump-250th-annivesary-ufc-obama-presidential-center-page/
— Illinois spends 65 cents on pensions for every dollar it spends on classrooms. DD: Since I was 49 in 1997, my critics/opponents have been furious that I get a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension. In my defense, I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire. I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/22/editorial-illinois-spends-65-cents-on-pensions-for-every-dollar-it-spends-on-classrooms/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote video gambling. I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in 2009.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/casinos-gambling/2026/06/19/chicago-video-gambling-machines-vgt-bars-restaurants
ABC7
— At least 36 shot, 6 fatally, in shootings across Chicago this weekend
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-shootings-weekend-shooting-incidents-police-department-says/19338035/
NBC5
— Trump denounces Chicago violence after weekend shootings leave at least 7 dead, 30 hurt. The wave of shootings captured Trump’s attention, with the president questioning why Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker hasn’t asked for his assistance.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-denounces-chicago-gun-violence-after-weekend-shootings-leave-at-least-7-dead-28-injured/3951762/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/local/trump-denounces-chicago-violence-after-shootings-leave-at-least-7-dead-30-hurt/3951784/
WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/uss-fertility-rate-has-declined-since-2007-its-even-worse-in-these-states/
WGN RADIO
— Why a retirement income plan matters more than ever. DD: Anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and especially if you are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://wgnradio.com/the-alpha-wealth-hour/why-a-retirement-income-plan-matters-more-than-ever/
SOUTHERN
— Gun Control Act of 1968. DD: I have had a FOID card since I was 20 years old in 1968.
https://thesouthern.com/news/gun-control-act-of-1968/image_0cbc18ad-2bce-572f-8a82-6fba20c959cd.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://thesouthern.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/sanctuary-city-crackdown-comes-up-short-in-court/html_38dba7da-b921-5d1d-ac22-3e5891e0af15.html
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint today’s Democrats as being yesterday’s Union Army and b) paint today’s Republicans as being yesterday’s Confederates.
https://pantagraph.com/life-entertainment/local/events/article_db64a777-6189-4db4-a5e8-0e49d4d660d1.html
WFIN
— Obama Center isn’t a traditional presidential library. Critics say it’s an activism center.
https://wfin.com/fox-political-news/obama-center-isnt-a-traditional-presidential-library-critics-say-its-an-activism-center/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Despite state bans, abortions have almost doubled. The reason? Pills via telehealth. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-22/despite-state-bans-abortions-have-almost-doubled-the-reason-pills-via-telehealth
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/22/bears-are-back-in-play-00969412
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-755/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIRE POINTS
— New Study Spotlights Illinois’ Oversized Pension Burden on Public Schools
https://wirepoints.org/new-study-spotlights-illinois-oversized-pension-burden-on-public-schools-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Are you married? If I had not met my outstanding wife at a church sponsored singles social event, I might never had gotten married. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious that I got married when I was 29 in 1978. To get rid of me, they had painted me being an extremely bad person because I had refused to become a Democrat. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. See Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on my wife and I at https://gopillinois.com/documents/ Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986. My wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF because we both had big fertility problems. But according to my Democrat GAO superiors, we gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents because I was a disgusting hypocritical DINK. My Democrat GAO superiors decried the time and money they spent raising their children. They decried their spouses having little or no income. According to them, if we had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, b) suffer a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31, c) earn a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, or e) become a licensed CPA when I was 32. Further, that we would not have been able to have a home built in Wheaton when I was 35. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What was your biggest mistake in life? For me, it was my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. My many Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans used my avoiding the draft with deferments against me viciously. They blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. Did you try to enlist. I did not. I have always asked myself would I have been accepted if I had tried to enlist. I was 1-A even though I could not run because I had an inherited bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. My critics/opponents have always used my health problems against me. They have always stressed that if I had been accepted, I would not have been sent into combat and that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am a disgusting unmitigated hypocritical coward. According to my many Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government, if had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., b) earn a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21, c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc. d) earn an MBA when I was 27, e) get married when I was 29, f) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, g) earn a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, h) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, or i) become a licensed CPA when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you reject, the more RINO that you are. RINOs have far more in common with Democrats and with Libertarians than with Republicans, and especially RINOs who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Most commonly, RINOs reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. RINOs want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. Far too many RINOs are Democrat plants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— The left-wing nominee for California’s 22nd Congressional District, political science professor Randy Villegas, authored an academic paper disparaging conservative residents of the Central Valley—which includes the district he seeks to represent—as creators of a “climate of fear in some Latinx immigrant communities” due to their opposition to illegal immigration.
https://freebeacon.com/california/climate-of-fear-california-dem-house-candidate-suggested-conservatives-in-his-district-created-hostile-environment-for-latinx-immigrant-communities/
NEW YORK POST
— GM replaces more than 1,000 workers with 50 robots at flagship Detroit plant: ‘We’re disgusted.’ DD: I worked part-time on an automobile assembly line when I was a NIU student in 1970.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/21/us-news/gm-replaces-more-than-1000-workers-with-50-robots-at-flagship-detroit-plant/
— Juneteenth: A reminder that affirmative action undermines equality. DD: My critics/opponents want Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI a) because they have personally benefitted from it, b) because they are personally benefitting from it, c) because they want to benefit from it, d) because they use it to pander to minorities and to females, and/or e) because they use it to curry favor with minorities and with females. My critics/opponents have not had to pay the price of AA or DEI. My critics/opponents use AA and DEI to get rid of those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/articles/juneteenth-reminder-affirmative-action-undermines-023440000.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Communities around California and the nation are gathering this weekend to celebrate Juneteenth, the traditional day marking liberation from slavery. It is a day that reminds us that we ought to be equal under the law. And Californians believe opportunity should be based on merit and hard work, not race. That is why every time the voters of California are asked to change the state constitution to allow for affirmative action, defined as preferential treatment for government jobs or admission to public universities based on background characteristics, they say no. Time and again. But the debate is reemerging once again — this time in the form of Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7, a proposal that would repeal protections approved by voters in 1996 through Proposition 209.)
BREITBART
— Gun-Controlled Chicago: At Least 27 Shot Friday Into Saturday Evening.
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/06/21/gun-controlled-chicago-at-least-27-shot-friday-into-saturday-evening/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-trans-students-still-confused-and-abandoned-two-years-after-discussion-group-shut-down/
DONALD TRUMP
— Presidential Message on Father’s Day
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/06/presidential-message-on-fathers-day/
EPOCH TIMES
— Military Hopefuls Hit the Pool to Get a Jump on Selection. DD: Did you try to enlist. I did not. I have always asked myself would I have been accepted if I had tried to enlist. I was 1-A even though I could not run because I had an inherited bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. My critics/opponents have always used my health problems against me. They have always stressed that if I had been accepted, I would not have been sent into combat and that proves beyond a doubt that I am a disgusting unmitigated hypocritical coward. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/military-hopefuls-hit-the-pool-to-get-a-jump-on-selection-6045631
FOX NEWS
— DD: When people cause accidents and when people commit crimes, what percent of the time are they using pot? In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton. I have never used pot and I never will use pot. If I had used pot, I would never have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399041238112
— LA moves closer to allowing noncitizen voting, sparking election mayhem concerns. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399046310112
— Rep Burchett rips Democrats over voter ID, says they allow ‘illegals’ to vote.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399042910112
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Chick-fil-A doubles down on wokeness
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/other/chick-fil-a-doubles-down-on-wokeness-after-getting-backlash-for-gay-marriage-stunt/ar-AA1SpKrE
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrats have always done everything that they could to turn native Americans against Republicans, and especially since the Civil War. Ever-increasingly, if you are a Republican, the longer that your ancestors have been in America and the more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat leaders demonize, denigrate, and condemn you: conservative, White, male, non-poor, Protestant, and/or German American. My critics/opponents have always stressed a) that all my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s, b) that on my father’s side, they homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete Township in 1854, c) that on my mother’s side, they soon after sharecropped a 180-acre farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border, and d) that they all were Republicans.
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/06/18/native-american-perspectives-america-250-birthday-celebration/
MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS?ocid=ob-fb-enph-376
AOL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage women to join the military.
https://www.aol.com/news/hegseths-anti-woke-agenda-hits-100325789.html
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protecting-the-right-of-birthright-citizenship/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrats are ever-increasingly becoming more anti-American because America elected Trump not only once, but twice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/opinion/resistance-activist-protest-trump.html
— New Student Loans Are About to Get Pricier. DD: When I was in high school, no one saw me as being college material. At best, they thought that Prairie State College might accept me. But I took college preparatory courses, I got an ACT score of 24, I graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and I got accepted by UIC.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/your-money/student-loans-interest-rates-changes.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— After a weekend of gun violence in Chicago, Trump renews call for military intervention.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-06-21/after-weekend-of-gun-violence-in-chicago-trump-renews-call-for-intervention
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE. DD: Democrat leaders have always done everything they can to get people on SNAP and to keep people on SNAP.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/19/snap-food-stamps-work-requirements-fraud/90521556007/
— A 2024 Washington Post poll found that 9 in 10 Americans say being middle class means: A secure job. Health insurance. Being able to pay bills on time. Being able to afford emergency expenses without going into debt. Ability to save for the future. Ability to retire with dignity. DD: What helped you achieve the aforesaid? For me it was my earning a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/06/05/middle-class-inflation-food-healthcare/90275499007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— India Calls In Military, Blocks App to Lock Down College-Entrance Exam. The security measures follow a cheating scandal that forced a rerun of a test taken by two million prospective medical students. DD: I passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination (FSEE) when I was a 21-year-old NIU student in 1970. I wanted a job in the automotive industry. But I took the FSEE as a backup. Potential employers saw me as being draft bait. They did not believe that application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved.
https://www.wsj.com/world/india/india-calls-in-military-blocks-app-to-lock-down-college-entrance-exam-b9a47ef3
— The Rise of the Democratic Socialists. They’re taking over big cities and bidding for gains in Congress. DD: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat leaders want America to be like the federal government. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-rise-of-the-democratic-socialists-e2f171c0
— Live Free and Prosper. Socialists claim they haven’t experienced American prosperity. All you have to do is look around.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/live-free-and-prosper-185b520f
GULF BUSINESS
— Most candidates assume that if they were turned down for a role, their qualifications, experience or capabilities simply failed to measure up against the competition. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. 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, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://gulfbusiness.com/en/2026/jobs/the-hidden-filters-of-hiring-why-great-candidates-never-make-it-to-the-interview/
ENTREPRENEUR
— Why Am I Not Getting Promoted? DD: Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly replace their employees who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and for RINOs. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply, the more likely that you will not be promoted, and the more likely that you will be gotten rid of: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO employers want yes-people.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/why-am-i-not-getting-promoted-3-frustrating-reasons-high-performers-get-passed-over
BUSINESS JOURNALS
— DD: More than anything else, Democrat and RINO employers want yes-people.
https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2026/06/women-execs-on-how-to-get-promoted.html
HUFFINGTON POST
— DD: LGBTQ promoters ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-nuclear-family-pride-month-june_n_6a32fa19e4b04f5fa0bebee1
PBS
— 7 killed and dozens injured following series of weekend shootings in Chicago.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/7-killed-and-dozens-injured-following-series-of-weekend-shootings-in-chicago
POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/20/daca-delays-dreamers-uscis-00968561
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: According to Democrat leaders, minorities and females need government assistance to succeed because Republicans discriminate against them.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/06/22/risk-proposition-law-school-changing-opinion
PSYCOLOGY TODAY
— 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, veteran, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/divergent-minds/202606/the-long-tail-of-disadvantage
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— Happy Father’s Day. DD: What do you thank your farther the most for? I thank my father the most for his sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/festivals/happy-fathers-day-2026-wishes-150-plus-messages-images-greetings-whatsapp-status-to-share-with-your-dad-june-21-101781941584078.html
FROM OTHER SOURCES
WIKIPEDIA
— Societal effects of cars. DD: Are you interested in cars? My uncle who lived four doors south of my parents’ home in Crete got me interested in cars in the 1950s and 1960s. His wife had introduced my parents to each other. To get to/from classes at Crete-Monee High School and my dish washing job in Chicago Heights, I used the money I had earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers to buy a 1958 Chevrolet BelAir in November of 1964. To get to/from summer jobs in 1966, my Park Forest Post Office job, and classes at UIC, I used the money I had earned washing dishes to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in May of 1966. To get to/from my Post Office job and classes at UIC and then NIU, I used the money I had earned delivering mail to buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in December of 1967 and then a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in December of 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_effects_of_cars
