FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— City of Chicago employee accused of threatening Republican Illinois senator
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/city-chicago-employee-accused-threatening-235906336.html
CBS2
— Volunteers keep McCormick Place kitchen busy preparing Thanksgiving meals for thousands in need. DD: Under the Democrats, more and more and more people are in need.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/fight2feed-volunteers-mccormick-place-thanksgiving-meals/
FOX32
— CPS advises immigrant parents to plan child care amid arrest fears. DD: What percent of CPS parents and students are in America illegally?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1746794
WTTW
— For Some People With Criminal Records, Illinois’ Clean Slate Act Could Offer a New Beginning. DD: When I was 49 years old in 1997, I knew that there would be no new beginnings for my career. My Democrat GAO superiors had forced me to retire. Previously, they had delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. Previously, my Democrat IRS superiors had never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions, and disallowed my travel vouchers. Previously, my Democrat Post Office superiors had disallowed my sick leave requests and forced me to resign.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/25/some-people-criminal-records-illinois-clean-slate-act-could-offer-new-beginning
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FBI seeks interviews with Democrats who urged US troops to defy illegal orders
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/democrats-urged-troops-defy-orders/
— AI: The death of American education
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/opinion-education-teachers-artificial-intelligence/
— Readers share what is making them thankful. DD: I am thankful that my critics/opponents in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois have let me serve as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999. I am thankful that they let me serve as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2021, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster 2008-20210 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. I am thankful that they let me stop video gambling in Wheaton in 2009 and the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019. Obviously, the aforesaid is sarcastic. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/letters-112525-thankful/
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County Clerk censured by county board
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251125/local-politics/dupage-county-clerk-censured-by-county-board/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & WCIA & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— More people are addicted to marijuana, but fewer of them are seeking help. Cannabis use among young adults has reached historic levels, with nearly 18 million Americans using marijuana daily in 2022. DD: Pot is poison. If not stopped, it will destroy America.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/more-people-are-addicted-to-marijuana-but-fewer-of-them-are-seeking-help-experts-say/article_274f1ddd-2ac8-52ac-96c6-c3d9d2834df9.html
https://www.wcia.com/health/ap-health/ap-more-people-are-addicted-to-marijuana-but-fewer-of-them-are-seeking-help-experts-say/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-more-people-are-addicted-to-marijuana-but-fewer-of-them-are-seeking-help-experts-say/amp/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Millions of illegal migrants got jobs in US due to being paid under the table. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/millions-of-illegal-migrants-got-jobs-in-us-due-to-being-paid-under-the-table-report-donald-trump-manufacturing-citizenship-fraud
WAND TV & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PREOUD & WCIA
— They relied on marijuana to get through the day. But then days felt impossible without it. As daily cannabis use rises to historic levels in the U.S., some longtime users are finding it harder to quit. DD: Pot is poison. If not stopped, it will destroy America.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/they-relied-on-marijuana-to-get-through-the-day-but-then-days-felt-impossible-without/article_a6f1d658-1d2e-525d-954f-6e41bf9784f9.html
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-they-relied-on-marijuana-to-get-through-the-day-but-then-days-felt-impossible-without-it/
https://www.wcia.com/health/ap-health/ap-they-relied-on-marijuana-to-get-through-the-day-but-then-days-felt-impossible-without-it/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly focus on getting Latinos to blame their problems on Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-11-25/new-poll-shows-latino-support-for-trump-is-slipping
DUPAGE COUNTY
— DuPage County Board Censures Clerk Jean Kaczmarek
https://www.dupagecounty.gov/county_board/dupage_county_board_censures_clerk_jean_kaczmarek_1590.php
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— GOP senator introduces bill to protect Netanyahu from arrest in New York
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/25/gop-senator-introduces-bill-protect-netanyahu-arrest-new-york/
— Trump’s comments on H-1B visa program drops hard truth about American education. Uncomfortable truth about failing public schools and teachers unions blocking reform. DD: Graduate accounting courses at DePaul and the Becker CPA Review course helped me pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. Undergraduate and graduate internal auditing courses at Roosevelt and Institute of Internal Auditors Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) review courses helped me pass the CIA examination on my first attempt in 1981.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/25/trumps-comments-h-1b-visa-program-drops-hard-truth-american-education/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago leaders have let teenage criminals take over the city
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3898690/chicago-leaders-have-let-teenage-criminals-take-over-the-city/
— The road to the Chicago train fire attack
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3898591/road-to-chicago-train-fire-attack-lawrence-reed-arrests/
— Bessent says Mamdani is ‘clearly’ a leader in Democratic Party after ‘great campaign’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3898241/scott-bessent-mamdani-clearly-leader-democratic-party-after-great-campaign/
— Marjorie Taylor Greene embodies the inanity of populism
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3898513/marjorie-taylor-greene-embodies-inanity-populism/
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3897813/republicans-against-illegal-immigration-not-legal-immigration/
NEW YORK POST
— After a 40-year hiatus, the Communist Party USA is back on the ballot — and already has three people in office.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/25/us-news/communist-party-wins-big-in-local-elections-after-40-year-break/
— Trump brutally mocks ‘big, fat slob’ Pritzker during White House turkey pardon ceremony
https://nypost.com/2025/11/25/us-news/trump-mocks-big-fat-slob-j-b-pritzker-at-white-house-turkey-pardon-event/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Biden team pressured airports to house migrants despite safety warnings
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/11/25/biden-team-pressured-airports-to-house-migrants-despite-safety-warnings-bombshell-report-states-1605609/
BREITBART
— University of Minnesota Offers ‘Whiteness Pandemic’ Resources for ‘Antiracist’ Parenting
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/11/25/university-of-minnesota-offers-whiteness-pandemic-resources-for-antiracist-parenting/
CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE
— This Week In Waste. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, they have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.cagw.org/this-week-in-waste-november-21-2025/
FOX NEWS
— Scott Bessent declares Zohran Mamdani is ‘clearly’ leader of the Democratic Party
https://www.foxnews.com/media/scott-bessent-declares-zohran-mamdani-clearly-leader-democratic-party-leader-cnbc-interview.amp
— University of Minnesota site warns of a ‘whiteness pandemic,’ urges White parents to ‘re-educate.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly focus on getting non-Whites to blame their problems on Republicans.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/university-minnesota-site-warns-whiteness-pandemic-urges-white-parents-re-educate
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Federally Funded University of Minnesota Lab Dedicated to Combatting ‘White Pandemic’
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/university-of-minnesota-paper-calls-white-families-most-powerful-systems-involved-in-systemic-racism/
PJ MEDIA
— Biden Admin Pressured Airports to House Illegal Aliens
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/11/25/biden-admin-pressured-us-airports-to-house-illegal-aliens-n4946387
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump slams Illinois officials over train arson: ‘A man arrested 72 times—and they let him out again’
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-slams-illinois-officials-over-train-arson-a-man-arrested-72-times-and-they-let-him-out-again
TOWNHALL
— Remember All the Illegals Sleeping in Airports? The Biden Administration Was Behind It All.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/11/25/biden-admin-housing-illegals-in-airports-n2666972
— New Yorkers Should Be Scared of Mamdani’s Pro-Crime, Anti-Police Appointees
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/11/25/mamdani-criminal-legal-committee-wants-to-empty-jails-n2666978
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Bessent: Mamdani ‘clearly the leader of the Democratic Party’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5622112-treasury-secretary-bessent-mamdani/
CBS NEWS
— FBI opens inquiry into 6 Democrats appearing in video that urged defying illegal orders
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-inquiry-six-democrats-illegal-orders-video/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Indiana Lawmakers Are Poised to Vote on Redistricting After All
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/indiana-redistricting-republicans.html
NEW REPUBLIC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly focus on getting Blacks to blame their problems on Republicans.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203615/anti-blackness-isnt-part-trump-agenda-it-heart
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
MEAWW
— DHS links 1,150% spike in ICE assaults to ‘sanctuary politicians’ rhetoric. DHS said the spike in assaults reflected a broader rise in threats against immigration officers and warned that rhetoric from several leaders had intensified risks.
https://news.meaww.com/dhs-links-1-150-spike-in-ice-assaults-to-sanctuary-politicians-rhetoric
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.
November 25, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
FOX32
— 2 Chicago alders push new measures after teen takeover leaves 14-year-old dead. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiigm-Hr6_s
WGN9
— Renewed push for a Chicago “snap” curfew after teen takeover, shooting incidents in the Loop. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/renewed-push-for-a-chicago-snap-curfew-after-teen-takeover-shooting-incidents-in-the-loop/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erI3CHN1Uvw
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Blue Line horror brings a day of reckoning for the SAFE-T Act and hapless electronic monitoring in Cook County.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/editorial-blue-line-attack-lawrence-reed-tim-evans-cook-county-judges-electronic-monitoring/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/chicago-street-vendors-ice/
— DD: How thankful are you? According to my critics/opponents, I have never been thankful enough. According to them, I did not really earn what I have and I certainly do not disserve what I have. They stress that I avoided the Vietnam War draft with student deferments and a financial hardship deferment 1966-1971; that my parents provided me with room and board while I took classes at UIC 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969; that I graduated debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE; that S.S Kresge hired me in 1964, the Post Office in 1966, Firestone Stores in 1970, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980; that IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974; that GAO promoted me in 1986; that I earned master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a professional license in 1981; that a bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air in 1964 and new cars in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1978, etc.; that I bought real estate when I was 24, 25, and 27; that I got married in 1978 and we bought a home that year and had one built in 1984; and that we gave up trying to have children and we did not adopt or become foster parents. According to my critics/opponents, I owe everything that I have to my benefitting from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/opinion-thanksgiving-plymouth-civil-war/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Fatal Loop ‘teen takeover’ leaves families, peers reeling. After 14-year-old Armani Floyd’s death Friday, his peers at a South Shore after-school basketball group struggled with losing a friend whom they thought of as family. The violence has revived a City Council snap curfew measure vetoed by the mayor in the summer. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/11/24/armani-floyd-teen-takeover-project-swish
SUBURBAN LIFE
— Proposal to restrict, monitor ICE in Downers Grove rejected by Village Council. Resolution called for prohibiting agents from staging on village property.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/11/25/proposal-to-restrict-monitor-ice-in-downers-grove-rejected-by-village-council/
WTVO
— Illinois bill aims to restrict driver’s licenses to U.S. citizens only
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/illinois-bill-aims-restrict-driver-220716476.html
POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Underwood to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/11/25/underwood-tours-broadview-ice-facility-00667974
(FROM THE NEWSLETTER: Dec. 2: Chris Cleveland, a former Republican Party chair in Chicago, is holding a fundraiser for his campaign to run for the Indiana Statehouse. Headliner is political activist and former Illinois state Rep. Jeanne Ives. Details here ( https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000019a-b37c-d739-a3ba-fffcab890000 )
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What have been your critics’/opponents’ biggest failures? My critics/opponents have failed to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000. They have failed to stop me from serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999. They failed to stop me from serving as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2021. They failed to stop me from serving as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012. They failed to stop me from serving as the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster 2008-20210 and 2000-2004. They failed to stop me from serving as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007. They failed to stop me from serving as an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004. They failed to stop me from being a GAO employee 1980-1997. They failed to stop GAO from promoting me in 1986. They failed to stop me from being an IRS employee 1971-1980. They failed in stop IRS from promoting me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. They failed from to stop me from being a Post Office employee 1966-1969. They failed to stop me from stopping video gambling and pot sales in Wheaton. They failed to stop me from filing lawsuits. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The solution to America’s cost-of-living crisis. Robin Hood economics don’t work. DD: The cost-of-living in DuPage County is very high. I bought a new townhome in University Park after my IRS salary had increased from $55,850/year to $68,315/year in today’s dollars when I was 24 years old in 1972. But if that townhome had been built in DuPage County, I could not have afforded it. When my wife and I got married in 1978, we were able to buy a home in Wheaton ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 ) a) because my IRS salary was $108,978/year in today’s dollars, b) because of my wife’s salary, and c) because my wife had saved enough for the down payment.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/solution-americas-cost-living-crisis/
— DOGE without Musk is still buzz-sawing through government waste. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/decentralized-doge-still-buzz-sawing-government-waste/
NEW YORK POST
— Here’s why Trump believes he has upper hand over Mamdani after surprise lovefest in Oval Office
https://nypost.com/2025/11/24/business/heres-why-trump-believes-he-has-upper-hand-over-zohran-mamdani-after-surprise-lovefest-in-oval-office/
AMAC
— Witness the Catastrophic Results of Identity Theft by Illegal Immigrants
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/witness-the-catastrophic-results-of-identity-theft-by-illegal-immigrants/
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Senate and Trump on a Collision Course Over the Leadership of the GAO
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/senate-and-trump-on-a-collision-course-over-the-leadership-of-the-gao/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Gene L. Dodaro is not a household name. He is a mild-mannered man who is rarely seen without a necktie and dark suit, and who speaks in a flat, matter-of-fact tone. He has worked for the federal government since 1973. Yet, his retirement in December may well set off a separation-of-powers battle royale between President Donald Trump and Congress. Dodaro is the head of the Government Accountability Office, which has been a thorn in the president’s side during his second term. And by law, Trump gets to nominate the next Comptroller General, as the GAO’s leader is termed. Long before there was the Department of Government Efficiency, there was the GAO, which regularly publicly exposes governmental cost overruns and failed policies that squander taxpayer dollars. Congress established the nonpartisan agency in 1921 to audit agencies and help lawmakers root out fraud and rein in the federal deficit. Today, GAO may be best known for its frequent reporting on “improper payments” flowing from executive agencies, which amounted to more than $160 billion last year. The agency’s deep-dive investigations of federal agency operations, such as the use of solitary confinement in federal prisons, often stoke congressional oversight. Trump has made it a policy to bring to heel government watchdogs his administration views as needlessly interfering in matters best left to executive branch officials. Trump has fired or demoted at least 20 inspector generals, whose job it is to uncover illicit doings by executive branch agencies, since returning to office in January. The president also canned the heads of the Office of Government Ethics and the Office of Special Counsel, both of whom set policies aimed at curbing mischief by federal officials. Earlier this year, the White House sought to embed a team of individuals from the DOGE in GAO. The agency rebuffed them and released a letter it sent to DOGE that declared, “GAO is a legislative branch agency that conducts work for Congress. As such, we are not subject to DOGE or Executive Orders.” Repeatedly, the White House has clashed with GAO over its legal opinions faulting various executive agencies for failing to spend congressionally appropriated funds. Last month, for example, Dodaro’s team deemed illegal the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s “withholding, delaying, or effectively precluding the obligation or expenditure of budget authority” for a few disaster mitigation and relief programs. Subsequently, Russ Vought, the head of the president’s Office of Management and Budget, told executive agency heads that GAO’s reports and legal opinions should be considered “non-binding” on them. In September, the clash flared up again. Vought criticized GAO, telling a conference of conservatives, “We are not big fans of GAO. They are a quasi-legislative independent entity … something that shouldn’t exist.” Dodaro defended his agency in a statement to the media. “Clearly, Russell Vought does not value transparency and accountability,” Dodaro said. “GAO’s mission is to support Congress in carrying out its constitutional responsibilities. During my tenure as Comptroller General alone, GAO’s work has saved taxpayers over $1.2 trillion and resulted in tens of thousands of improvements to how federal programs work.” Dodaro’s 15-year term expires on Dec. 29, and Trump quite probably would prefer he be replaced with someone who would call off GAO’s oversight dogs. At first blush, it might appear the president is likely to get his way. The GOP-controlled Senate has shown itself willing to vote for weak or ill-qualified nominees for high positions. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for example, was made the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services despite having little management experience and some crank ideas about health. Yet, a closer look suggests the president may face an uphill battle in the Senate. Republican senators have been willing to deep-six Trump appointees, particularly to low-profile positions. Trump has withdrawn a record high of 48 nominations this year. In recent weeks, they have forced the withdrawal of nominees to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Export-Import Bank, and the Office of Special Counsel. They also appear to be rejecting Trump’s proposed ambassador to Kuwait. Many, if not most, senators value GAO’s work. Unlike, say, communications from lobbyists, interest groups, and their political parties, GAO reports and opinions are factually-based. The agency does not get more money or rewards from helping a legislator understand why fraudsters can rip off the federal SNAP food program. GAO’s value would be greatly diminished if senators approved a new comptroller general who viewed himself as the president’s advocate and defender. Nor does it appear likely that Trump could circumvent the Senate and install an acting head of GAO. The law empowers the GAO deputy director to take over the top position when Dodaro’s term ends, and it requires Congress to form a commission headed by the majority and minority leaders of both chambers to propose potential nominees for the president’s consideration. And not to be forgotten is that Congress rebuffed Trump the last time he attempted this maneuver. This spring, his acting appointees were turned away from the Library of Congress and the Copyright Office, with the support of both Senate and House GOP leaders.)
BLAZE
— Chip Roy’s immigration blitz hits the lawless left and the squish right
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/chip-roys-immigration-blitz-hits-the-lawless-left-and-the-squish-right
BREITBART
— White House delays announcement of new healthcare cost plan. DD: What has cut your healthcare costs? For me, it was my working for the federal government for almost 30 years. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, the federal government paid 72% of my health insurance premiums. That helped me endure my Democrat superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me. My critics/opponents ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the 72% health insurance subsidy a) that I got when I was federal employee, b) that my wife got when she was a federal employee 1968-1970, c) that I will always get as a federal retiree, and d) that my wife has gotten since we got married in 1978 and will always get.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/white-house-delays-announcement-of-new-healthcare-cost-plan/amp/
— Clinton-Appointed Judge Stops Trump’s IRS from Helping ICE Locate Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/24/clinton-appointed-federal-judge-stops-trumps-irs-from-helping-ice-locate-illegal-aliens/amp/
DAILY WIRE
— The Somali Takeover Of Minneapolis Is Worse Than We Thought
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-somali-takeover-of-minneapolis-is-worse-than-we-thought
FOX NEWS
— Chicago Police Department accused of operating race-based hiring system in civil rights complaint. America Legal First is requesting the Department of Justice investigate city’s hiring practices.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-police-department-accused-operating-race-based-hiring-system-civil-rights-complaint
— Chemistry between Trump and Mamdani was ‘undeniable’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385538235112
— Nassau County, a county that neighbors New York City, to install cameras and security technology along its border with the city because of Mamdani’s election.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-suburb-makes-major-security-move-city-border-after-mamdani-victory
— Ohio uncovers over 1,000 noncitizens ‘appearing’ registered to vote, sends cases to DOJ for prosecution
https://www.aol.com/news/ohio-uncovers-over-1-000-163623568.html
— Video shows wild neighborhood street takeover as violent mob pummels couple, burns truck. Violent confrontation erupted in New York City neighborhood as drivers performed donuts on residential lawns. DD: Yesterday, I raked leaves off all of my almost 5,000 square foot lawn.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-shows-wild-neighborhood-street-takeover-violent-mob-pummels-couple-burns-truck
— Biden team forced airports to house migrants, risking safety. Cruz says administration allowed improperly vetted individuals to fly throughout US while diverting air marshals.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/bombshell-report-alleges-biden-team-pushed-airports-house-migrants-risking-safety?lid=7tzujt4ayy79
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Sanctuary Policies Let Dangerous Criminal Aliens Stay Free Until ICE Arrests Them
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/hed-tbd-chicago-raid-nets-violent-criminal-illegal-aliens-freed-by-sanctuary-policies
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Wheaton College Is Abandoning Its Conservative Alumni. DD: Wheaton College’s conservatism was a big reason why my wife and I a) bought a home in Wheaton in 1978 and b) had a home built in Wheaton in 1984.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/02/wheaton-college-is-abandoning-its-conservative-alumni/
TOWNHALL
— Just Imagine What We Could Do If Democrats Weren’t Evil
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/11/25/just-imagine-what-we-could-do-if-democrats-werent-evil-n2666952
— Reclaiming America’s Story, Before Her 250th Birthday
https://townhall.com/columnists/mark-weaver/2025/11/25/ben-franklin-n2666956
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Yet, as America nears its 250th birthday, we’re still subjected to revisionist accounts by historians who let personal ideology guide their conclusions. Their accounts drip with presentism, fixating on flaws while ignoring the revolutionary ideals that make us exceptional. Their echo chamber rings with the same off-key refrains about slavery and purported systemic racism. Let’s be clear: to all their shame, nearly every country in the world saw slavery within its borders. Some still do. Yet America is the only major country that ever fought a civil war to end it. Chattel slavery in southern states doesn’t define America; how we ended it — and that we ended it — does. Those who falsely allege systemic racism here ignore our constitutional provisions that guarantee equal protection of the law. It took more than a century for those promises to be kept, but they’ve never been stronger. Instances of racism exist because sin exists, and no country has done as much as America to quell it. Immigrants of every skin color seek to come here because they recognize that racism doesn’t define America — the muscular body of law that redresses individual cases of it does. No nation populated by imperfect humans can ever be perfect, but America stretches closest to that unreachable goal.)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
— Project Firewall partnership leads to enhanced federal enforcement against discriminatory hiring practices. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20251124
(FROM THE NEWS RELEASE: U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Deputy Secretary Keith Sonderling applauded the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today for taking action to help prevent discrimination against American workers. The EEOC released new and updated educational materials to reaffirm and emphasize legal protections against national origin discrimination, which can include preferring foreign workers by advertising job openings as only available to H-1B visa holders. The EEOC’s efforts were a result of the department’s recently announced H-1B enforcement initiative Project Firewall, which aims to safeguard the rights, wages, and job opportunities of highly skilled American workers. The ongoing project ensures employers prioritize qualified Americans when hiring and includes enforcement actions to hold employers accountable if they abuse the H-1B visa program.)
WESTERN JOURNAL
— ‘Chanting Bring in Trump’: After Wildly Violent Chicago Weekend, Trump Says He’s Being Begged to Save the Blue City. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.westernjournal.com/chanting-bring-trump-wildly-violent-chicago-weekend-trump-says-begged-save-blue-city/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Democratic senators request GAO probe of Trump official’s conduct in criminal referrals
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/democratic-senators-request-gao-probe-trump-officials-conduct-criminal-referrals-2025-11-17/
CBS NEWS
— Pentagon investigating Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy “illegal orders.” DD: Have you defied orders? While I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997, virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. All of my subordinates were minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, and/or had major performance problems. I never defied orders to give them preference. But that was not enough for my Democrat superiors. Because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, they ever-increasingly wasted my career, ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me, and ultimately forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/video/pentagon-investigating-sen-mark-kelly-over-video-urging-troops-to-defy-illegal-orders/
NEW YORK TIMES
— How Rural Kids Got Left Behind. DD: For me, it was fortunate that UIC was in commuting distance from my parents’ home in Crete. But commuting ate up lots of time and money and caused me lots of stress.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/opinion/rural-education-jobs.html
WASHINGTON POST
— One agency can push back on Trump — but probably not for long. GAO is Congress’s watchdog. Soon, Trump gets to nominate its new leader. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/27/trump-shutdown-gao/
— AP renews legal fight to end White House ban. AP which sued the government after being barred from covering White House events, presented its case to a circuit court panel. DD: I have been the GOPUSA Illinois reporter since 2000. I should write about Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who do not want me to report on what they say or do. I would focus on those who have tried the hardest to bar me from attending their press conferences.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/ap-white-house-gulf-of-america/
WASHINGTON REPORTER
— Secretary Scott Turner launches HUD hotline to protect Americans in public housing. DD: What percent of those in America illegally are in public housing?
https://washingtonreporter.news/p/scoop-secretary-scott-turner-launches
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Colleges ease the dreaded admissions process as the supply of applicants declines. DD: UIC would not have admitted me in 1966 if I had not gotten an ACT score of 24 and graduated in the upper 20% of my class.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-25/college-admission-process-easier-less-stressful-as-applicant-pool-declines
USA TODAY
— Trump’s DOGE is done after less than a year. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/23/donald-trump-elon-musk-doge/87434764007/
— 10 cities where women are most likely to outearn their husbands. DD: Ever since my wife and I got married in 1978, my critics/opponents have been envious of her income. According to them, without her income and if we had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, or d) become a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/11/20/cities-where-women-outearn-men/87324762007/
— Americans with six-figure incomes are in ‘survival mode.’ DD: I did not earn $100,000/year in today’s dollars until I was 26 years old in 1976.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/11/14/americans-with-six-figure-incomes-in-survival-mode/87253991007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Greene’s Resignation Highlights Cracks in the MAGA Coalition
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/potomac-watch-strassel/wsj-opinion-marjorie-taylor-greenes-resignation-highlights-cracks-in-the-maga-coalition/9C71EC40-6987-4CFF-9A0B-76F3A9B79CBC
— The Volunteerism Drought. DD: What volunteer work do you, that is, what unpaid work do you do? I spend my own money and 10-15 hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-volunteerism-drought-725e37e3
SPECTRUM NEWS
— Pair of Democratic senators press for information on hiring, training standards for ICE agents. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, to hire, retain, and promote more young Democrat minorities and females, they ever-increasingly lowered standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/news/2025/11/21/pair-of-democratic-senators-press-for-information-on-hiring–training-standards-for-ice-agents
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey are pressing the Department of Homeland Security for information on its standards and practices for hiring and training new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, warning the administration’s full-force effort to surge the number of officers it employs suggests it may be “cutting corners” and “loosening” requirements.)
FAST COMPANY
— DOGE is dead, but the damage is still with us. Here’s a look back at some of its most egregious moves. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91448169/doge-dead-how-much-damage-elon-musk-department
NPR
— The American dream feels impossible for many young voters, who see no political fix. DD: When I was young, I had the American dream. That motivated me a) to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) to earn job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) to earn job-related professional certification when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) to earn a job-related professional license when I was 32. But if I was young today, I doubt that I could find that motivation.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/31/nx-s1-5590153/young-voters-american-dream-economy
REASON
— Trump Embraces Mamdani Socialism as ‘Practical’
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/11/24/trump-embraces-mamdani-socialism-as-practical/
JUST THE NEWS
— GAO warns that IRS hasn’t implemented most recommendations to improve agency operations. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted my knowledge of IRS. When I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, I brought with me the knowledge of IRS operations that I had gained by working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. The Democrats who ran GAO kept off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/gao-says-irs-hasnt-implemented-most-their-recommendations-improve
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hasn’t implemented most of the Government Accountability Office’s “priority recommendations” and is still struggling with deep-rooted operational problems, according to a new report ( https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-108066.pdf ) released publicly this week. “GAO identified 30 priority recommendations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Since then, IRS has implemented five of those recommendations by designating a dedicated unit for addressing business identity theft fraud and assessing how online services may reduce taxpayer burden, among other things,” the GAO said. “In addition, GAO removed one recommendation related to reporting by third-party service providers, because it no longer warrants priority attention.” In a letter to Acting IRS Commissioner Scott Bessent, Comptroller General Gene Dodaro highlighted urgent areas in need of attention, including the widening tax gap, taxpayer services, and cybersecurity. The GAO flagged 26 open high-priority recommendations and 204 other open recommendations that remain unresolved.)
GAO
— Surveillance: Potential Effects on Workers and Roles of Federal Agencies. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they monitored me very closely to find things to use against me, that is, to get rid of me. To make my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates envious of me, my Democrat GAO superiors stressed what I had including a) three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license, b) my wife’s income and job benefits, c) our having no dependents, d) our home in Wheaton, e) our cars, f) our being debt-free, g) our retirement savings, h) etc. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government always painted themselves as being grossly underpaid. They always stressed the tremendous cost of raising children.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-107126
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
MEAWW
— Trump Responds to Question on Forgiving Marjorie Taylor Greene. DD: My critics/opponents will never forgive me for my supporting Pat O’Malley instead of Jim Ryan in the 2002 Republican gubernatorial primary. They will never forgive me for my promoting planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject. They will never forgive me for my including links in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter to articles that they do not like. They will never forgive me for the lawsuits that I filed against them.
https://news.meaww.com/video/trump-responds-to-question-on-forgiving-marjorie-taylor-greene
November 24, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— $10K reward being offered for information in teen’s Loop shooting death; concerns over violence. Some Chicago leaders worry downtown violence could deter holiday tourists. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/cook-county-crime-stoppers-offering-10k-reward-information-armani-floyd-downtown-chicago-shooting-concerns-violence/18202512/
— Pentagon launches review into Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over video to troops.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pentagon-says-launching-review-democratic-sen-mark-kelly/18202243/
— Local advocates concerned over Trump admin. omission of nursing as professional degree program. The policy change limits access to federal loans for graduate students pursuing advanced nursing degrees.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/did-trump-sign-bill-reclassifying-nursing-chicago-area-advocates-concerned-omission-professional-degree/18204718/
FOX32
— Underwood tours Broadview ICE facility, finds ‘unacceptable’ conditions
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/underwood-broadview-ice-facility
WGN RADIO
— Could a curfew have prevented past weekend’s teen takeover in the Loop? DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://wgnradio.com/bob-sirott/could-a-curfew-have-prevented-past-weekends-teen-takeover-in-the-loop/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Investigation continues into pair of downtown shootings, including one that took the life of ‘vibrant’ teen Friday night. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/investigation-downtown-shootings-armani-floyd/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the high cost of healthcare.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/plan-extend-obamacare-subsidies/
— Pentagon says it’s investigating Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy ‘illegal orders.’ DD: Have you defied orders? While I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997, virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. All of my subordinates were minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, and/or had major performance problems. I never defied orders to give them preference. But that was not enough for my Democrat superiors. Because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, they ever-increasingly wasted my career, ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me, and ultimately forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/pentagon-mark-kelly-video/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Underwood tours Broadview ICE facility and warns deportation blitz isn’t over. The Democratic congresswoman said staffing for Chicago area ICE facilities is expected to triple in coming months.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/24/lauren-underwood-broadview-ice-facility-tour-operation-midway-blitz
— Fatal Loop ‘teen takeover’ leaves families, peers reeling. After 14-year-old Armani Floyd’s death Friday, his peers at a South Shore after-school basketball group were left struggling. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/11/24/armani-floyd-teen-takeover-project-swish
SUBURBAN LIFE
— ‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’. Poverty tough to overcome for some DuPage County residents. DD: The cost of living in DuPage County is very high. I bought a new townhome in University Park when I was 24 years old in 1972 and my salary had just increased from $55,850/year to $68,315/year in today’s dollars. But if that townhome had been built in DuPage County, I could not have afforded it.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/11/24/robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-poverty-tough-to-overcome-for-many-dupage-county-residents/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “There is a broad misconception that there is no poverty in DuPage County,” said Kara Murphy, president of the DuPage Health Coalition, a nonprofit that connects essential healthcare services to low-income individuals. It is true that “on balance” DuPage County is a more affluent community, “but it is also a populous community with just under one million residents,” she said at the Nov. 20 event. “There are more low-income families living in DuPage County than the entire population of 89 of the 100 counties in Illinois,” Murphy said. Murphy added that DuPage County communities must support “individuals at every income level.” “The strongest and most thriving communities create space and opportunities for people who are low-wage, medium-wage and high-wage earners. Communities that are only accessible to individuals at the highest income levels will experience incredible deficits in their ability to provide all the services that all the community needs. We need a diversity of opportunities for people in different places in their life cycles.” To determine income eligibility for assistance programs, many organizations in DuPage County utilize income levels that are 250% or even 300% of the federal poverty level. “Because the reality is the federal poverty level is dramatically inadequate to be able to meet basic needs,” Murphy said. Based 2023 data, using the 200% mark of the federal poverty level, there are 142,000 individuals living in poverty and that number is dramatically increasing, said Amy Van Polen, CEO of Bridge Communities, a nonprofit that provides transitional housing to families facing homelessness. “Those are the fastest growing numbers of our community,” Van Polen said. “Forty-four percent of renters in this county are rent burdened, meaning that they pay more than 30% of their income toward rent. That is not sustainable.” Many college educated individuals who are “20 something or 30 something” are finding it difficult to find affordable housing, she said. “Lots of $3,000-a-month, one-bedroom apartments are being built.”)
FOX ILLINOIS
— Vance is backing up Trump who called for the arrest and trial of Democratic lawmakers featured in a video calling for intelligence and military service members to defy the president’s “illegal orders.”
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/vance-supports-trump-calling-for-arrest-slotkin-video-stirs-rand-paul-llegal-orders-seditious-behavior
WMBD
— Illinois U.S. Senate candidate runs to end military support for Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7z5I16vV_I
BOLINGBROOK PATCH
— Will County Board Candidates File Dueling Election Objections, 1 Removed From Ballot. The two candidates also filed objections against each other in the precinct committeeperson race, and the other was removed from the ballot.
https://patch.com/illinois/bolingbrook/will-county-board-candidates-file-dueling-election-objections-1-removed-ballot
WHEATON RECORD
— CACE Lecture Examines Christian Nationalism and Trump’s Second Term
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/11/24/cace-lecture-examines-christian-nationalism-and-trumps-second-term/
— Student-Planned Panel Discusses Immigration Crackdown and Christian Response
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/11/24/student-planned-panel-discusses-immigration-crackdown-and-christian-response/
— “Let’s talk about Chemical Abortion”
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/11/24/lets-talk-about-chemical-abortion/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Amid GOP governor candidates, Dabrowski says he knows how to fix Illinois
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_788d6262-c266-4311-af6c-bc96cd216bf0.html
— State reps: Pritzker turns ‘blind eye’ to Chicago’s public safety crisis
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_cfbde8b3-4965-4d7a-a0a6-d8bf61bbfc60.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pentagon says Sen. Kelly could be recalled to active duty, face court martial for video to troops
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/pentagon-says-sen-kelly-could-recalled-active-duty-face-court-martial/
— Decentralized DOGE is still buzz-sawing through government waste. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/decentralized-doge-still-buzz-sawing-government-waste/
— Associated Press asks court to restore its special access to Trump’s White House
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/associated-press-asks-court-restore-special-access-trumps-white-house/
— Blagojevich: From big shoulders to big exodus: Chicago’s collapse under leftist leadership. Once the heart of American innovation and industry, the Second City now bleeds jobs, residents and hope
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/big-shoulders-big-exodus-chicagos-collapse-leftist-leadership/
— Mamdani’s catastrophic socialist vision may herald in America’s freedom rebirth
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/24/mamdanis-catastrophic-socialist-vision-may-herald-americas-freedom/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DD: Noncitizens steal American jobs. All my employers would hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take the bad jobs that I had to take. Their parents bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3895435/where-illegal-immigrants-find-work-in-the-us/
— Restoring the American dream of homeownership.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3897283/restoring-american-dream-homeownership/
NEW YORK POST
— Assaults on immigration agents skyrocket 1,150% since Trump took office as sanctuary city rhetoric fuels disturbing rise
https://nypost.com/2025/11/24/us-news/assaults-on-ice-agents-skyrocket-1150-since-trump-took-office/
— NYPD needs to quash violent car-meetup ‘street takeovers’ IMMEDIATELY
https://nypost.com/2025/11/24/opinion/nypd-needs-to-quash-violent-car-meetup-street-takeovers-immediately/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Cornell grad student union backs ‘armed resistance by any means necessary’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/cornell-grad-student-union-backs-armed-resistance-means-necessary/29019
FOX NEWS
— Trump’s fight with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a warning sign for Republicans. DD: My Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party leaders vehemently disagreed with my supporting Pat O’Malley instead of Jim Ryan in the Republican gubernatorial primary in 2002. I led O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. Even though I did everything that I could to help Ryan win the general election, they not only have never forgiven me, they continue to punish me big time. They blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for Ryan’s defeat. I should write about that.
https://foxillinois.com/news/armstrong-army-strong/donald-trumps-fight-with-marjorie-taylor-greene-is-a-warning-sign-for-republicans
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Republican Party under Trump has always been a coalition held together by energy, grievance, and a sense of shared purpose. But coalitions — even fearsome ones — require space for internal disagreement. They require room for ideological variance, strategic differences, and the occasional intra-party critique. Without that space, a movement begins to cannibalize its own allies, mistaking loyalty for uniformity and criticism for betrayal. . .There is also a deeper strategic issue. Disagreement, when handled well, strengthens a movement. It forces reflection. It sharpens arguments. It prevents blind spots. In a party that is trying to build a durable America First agenda with real policy depth, suppressing dissent is a recipe for stagnation. Trump’s greatest strength has always been his ability to break political orthodoxies; he should not now create a new orthodoxy that is just as brittle as the one he once shattered. Republicans need a healthy internal dialogue, not a chorus line. If Trump wants a party that will govern successfully — not merely idolize him — he must recognize that even loyal supporters will occasionally challenge him. And sometimes, they should. A strong leader does not see disagreement as betrayal. A strong leader sees it as proof that the movement he built is maturing, thinking, and preparing for the responsibilities of lasting power. . .If the GOP becomes a party where dissent is punished and loyalty is the only ideology, it will implode not because of Democrats — but because of its own refusal to let its members say, “We support you, but here’s where we disagree.”
HOT AIR
— Illegal Alien Stole a Man’s Identity and Made His Life Hell; New York Times Calls The Illegal a Victim
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/11/24/illegal-alien-stole-a-mans-identity-and-made-his-life-hell-new-york-times-calls-the-illegal-a-victim-n3809207
NEWSMAX
— States Need to Join Trump, Feds, to Destroy Islamic Militants
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/islamic-militants/2025/11/24/id/1235831/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Women set ablaze on Chicago train identified as Bethany MaGee—suspect has 72 prior arrests. 50-year-old Lawrence Reed has been arrested at least 72 times over the last 30 years.
https://thepostmillennial.com/chicago-man-charged-with-setting-woman-on-fire-has-72-prior-arrests#google_vignette
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Trump Hit With Negative Polling in Utah
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-hit-with-negative-polling-in-staunch-republican-state-11097581
— Trump Orders Broad Vetting Review of 200,000 Refugees Admitted Under Biden
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-orders-review-biden-era-refugees-11102147
JD SUPRA
— EEOC Releases Materials on National Origin Discrimination. DD: My critics/opponents have aways stressed that I am 100% German national origin. In my defense, I have always stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWI if he had not been 4-F. FROM WIKIPEDIA: “For Germany perpetrating the Holocaust and starting World War II, Germans are often stereotyped as Nazis. This stereotype, while now rare, persists to this day. After the war, the German people were often viewed with contempt because they were blamed by other Europeans for Nazi crimes. Germans visiting abroad, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, attracted insults from locals, and from foreigners who may have lost their families or friends in the atrocities. Today in Europe and worldwide (particularly in countries that fought against the Axis), Germans may be scorned by elderly people who were alive to experience the atrocities committed by Nazi Germans or by veterans who had fought against the Nazis during World War II.)
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eeoc-releases-materials-on-national-6164621/
November 24, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/chicago-immigrants-border-patrol-operation-midway-blitz/
— FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they prefer foreign students over American students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/international-student-enrollment-declines-illinois/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/24/signs-mark-ice-arrests-immigration-operation-midway-blitz
BLOCK CLUIB CHICAGO
— Boy Killed, 8 Teens Wounded In Downtown Shootings As Mayor Condemns ‘Unauthorized Events.’ The two shootings were tied to a so-called “teen takeover” near the Christmas tree lighting in Millennium Park. A $10,000 reward is being offered for information in the case.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/22/1-teen-killed-8-others-injured-in-downtown-shootings-friday-night/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/11/24/ice-raids-poised-to-shift-latino-voters-00666719
(FROM THE NEWSLETTER: PAGING DR. CASSIDY: Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy was in Oak Brook for a GOP holiday gathering talking about health-care reform. After the event, the Republican senator offered some advice for Illinois Republicans who find themselves at odds within their ranks. “Let me quote a good Illinoisan: ‘United we stand. Divided we fall,’” he said, referring to the biblical quote that Abraham Lincoln espoused. “The question is to find what unites us. I think this whole health care issue should unite us.” Also at the party: Former Congressman Bob Dold, GOP Senate Leader John Curran, GOP House Leader Tony McCombie, State Sens. Sue Rezin and Andrew Chesney, Hinsdale Village President Greg Hart, DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin, RTA Chair Kirk Dillard, former Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, businessman Jay Bergman, Lee County Industrial Development Association’s Tom Demmer, attorney and former state Rep. Keith Wheeler, grassroots activist Bill Hogan, Walgreens VP of Government Affairs Joel Baise, political operative David Walsh, fundraiser Lisa Wagner, Illinois RNC National Committeewoman Rhonda Belford and former national committee members Demetra DeMonte and Richard Porter, who was also feted for his birthday.)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Gotta Pry Leftists’ Death Grip Loose from Public Education
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/11/21/gotta-pry-leftists-death-grip-loose-from-public-education
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— The Most Dangerous Public Service Announcement in American Politics: Democrats Hint at Mutiny Against Trump
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/11/the-most-dangerous-psa-in-american-politics-democrats-hint-at-mutiny-against-trump.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— From loyalist to dissenter: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s exit raises questions about MAGA’s future
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/23/loyalist-dissenter-marjorie-taylor-greenes-exit-raises-questions/
— Mamdani keeps Trump ‘fascist’ label after White House meeting
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/23/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-elect-keeps-trump-fascist-label-white-house/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mamdani: A socialist scavenger
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3896107/zohran-mamdani-a-socialist-scavenger/
NEW YORK POST
— Mamdani vows to keep NYC a sanctuary city just days after rosy 1-on-1 with Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/us-news/zohran-mamdani-vows-to-keep-nyc-a-sanctuary-city-just-days-after-rosy-1-on-1-with-trump/
— Jasmine Crockett roasts Marjorie Taylor Greene for quitting: ‘You can’t take the heat.’ DD: I continue to take the heat to serve as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor, a role that I have had since 2000. But my critics/opponents ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, a role that I had since 2005. They ended my service as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, a role that I had since 2005. They ended my service as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member in 2007, a role that I had since 2003. They ended service as the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster in 2010 and 2004, roles that I had since 2008 and 2000.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/us-news/jasmine-crockett-roasts-marjorie-taylor-greene-for-quitting-you-cant-take-the-heat/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Insurrection Chic. Democrats now celebrate the very nullificationist tactics they once decried, embracing a neo-Confederate defiance of federal authority to undermine a president they despise.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/11/24/insurrection-chic/
AMERICAN THINKER
— NYC and Seattle: they’re going to get it good and hard
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/nyc_and_seattle_they_re_going_to_get_it_good_and_hard.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago victim who was lit on fire by criminal with 72 priors identified as churchgoing with Bible professor dad
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/11/24/victim-who-was-lit-on-fire-by-criminal-with-72-priors-identified-as-churchgoing-with-bible-professor-dad-1605139/
— Leftist losers clog Home Depot lines by buying and returning ‘ICE scrapers’ in idiotic protest
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/11/24/leftist-losers-clog-home-depot-lines-by-buying-and-returning-ice-scrapers-in-idiotic-protest-1605146/
BLAZE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing hint/imply/argue/shout that Jesus is a socialist.
https://www.theblaze.com/align/leftist-heresy-this-bible-pitch-sounds-holy-until-you-spot-the-socialist-trick
BREITBART
— When Democrats Get into Power, They Will Pack Supreme Court, Grant Amnesty to Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/23/nate-morris-moment-democrats-get-into-power-they-will-pack-supreme-court-grant-amnesty-to-illegal-aliens/amp/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Notre Dame professor distributes contraceptives to students in violation of Catholic teaching
https://www.campusreform.org/article/notre-dame-professor-allegedly-distributes-contraceptives-students-violation-catholic-teaching/29006
CATHOLIC VOTE
— EEOC issued new guidance this week warning employers not to favor foreign nationals over American workers in violation of federal law. DD: All my employers would have hire noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://catholicvote.org/feds-release-new-guidelines-aimed-at-curbing-anti-american-hiring-bias/
DAILY CALLER
— The greatest long-term cause of the affordability problem is the cost of health insurance. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, the federal government paid 72% of my health insurance premiums. That helped me endure my Democrat superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me. My critics/opponents ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the 72% health insurance subsidy a) that I got when I was federal employee, b) that my wife got when she was a federal employee 1968-1970, c) that I will always get as a federal retiree, and d) that my wife has gotten since we got married in 1978 and will always get.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/23/opinion-health-the-biggest-affordability-challenge-newt-gingrich/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Rank-and-File Doctors Oppose ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/24/most-florida-doctors-oppose-trans-treatment-for-minors/amp/
DAILY WIRE
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that the Trump administration’s economic strategy is centered on fixing “the three I’s: immigration, interest rates, and inflation,” adding that Americans are traumatized by Biden-era inflation.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bessent-trump-admin-targeting-three-is-to-restore-affordability
— Mamdani Insists He Can Work With ‘Fascist’ Trump Even Though He’s ‘Threat To Democracy’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-insists-he-can-work-with-fascist-trump-even-though-hes-threat-to-democracy
FOX NEWS
— Chicago public schools blow millions on travel expenses while students can’t read at grade level. Travel expenses jumped 2,467% from 2021 as just 30.5% of students grades 3-8 show reading proficiency.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-public-schools-blow-millions-travel-expenses-while-students-cant-read-grade-level
— Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy identifies Chicago train victim as 26-year-old Bethany MaGee while blasting city’s ‘carelessness’ and criticizes city’s crime policies.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/duffy-identifies-chicago-train-victim-26-year-old-bethany-magee-while-blasting-citys-carelessness?lid=tlfrlljfxmia
— Chicago tree lighting takes DEADLY turn as 300+ riot, attack cops. DD: How soon are Democrats going to riot in your downtown?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ygWBelX9ao
— Trump claims GOP has ‘never been so united,’ calls Greene and other Republicans ‘lowlifes’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-claims-gop-has-never-been-so-united-calls-greene-other-republicans-lowlifes.print
— Trump says he’d ‘love to see’ Greene return to politics despite recent attacks
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-says-hed-love-see-greene-return-politics-despite-recent-attacks.amp
— Trump’s wild Mamdani flip — the insults that came before the love fest
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-wild-mamdani-flip-insults-came-before-love-fest.print
— The dangers of socialism as ‘socialist ideas gain traction’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385498384112
— GOP lawmakers sound alarm on socialism as Americans struggle with soaring costs
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385494007112
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Classroom Indoctrination Is Alive and Well, Unfortunately
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/11/1896200/
PJ MEDIA
— The New Definition of Blackness: When Race Stops Meaning Race
https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2025/11/23/the-new-definition-of-blackness-when-race-stops-meaning-race-n4946320
POST MILLENNIAL
— Mamdani stands by calling Trump ‘fascist’, says he will work with him anyway
https://thepostmillennial.com/mamdani-stands-by-calling-trump-a-fascist-says-first-meeting-with-trump-was-productive
REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— Erosion of College Readiness
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/11/23/the_ideological_erosion_of_college_readiness_1149189.html
TOWNHALL
— Greene Is Gone
https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2025/11/24/greene-is-gone-n2666897
TPUSA
— Purdue University Northwest Professor Interrupts TPUSA Meeting, Calls Students ‘Fascist’
https://tpusa.com/live/purdue-university-northwest-professor-interrupts-tpusa-meeting-calls-students-fascist/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump: ‘Republican Party has never been so united’
https://thehill.com/homenews/5619902-trump-gop-unity-party/amp/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Tucker Carlson to destroy the Republican Party.
https://www.aol.com/articles/tucker-carlson-becomes-litmus-test-110000673.html
NEWSWEEK
— Republican Realignment Matrix: The Fight to Control Post-Trump MAGA.
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-realignment-matrix-the-fight-to-control-post-trump-maga-11089630
NEW YORK TIMES
— Back Home, Voters Stand by Marjorie Taylor Greene After She Stood Up to Trump. Ms. Greene’s resignation blindsided her conservative Georgia district, which had stuck by her through ups and downs, including her split with the president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/us/georgia-marjorie-taylor-greene-voters.html
— Mamdani’s Meeting With Trump Scrambled the MAGA-Sphere
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/style/mamdani-trump-reactions-fuentes-bannon.html
— DD: Democrat leaders have always shouted at everyone that Republicans are antisemites. My Democrat superiors in the federal government stressed to my many Jewish superiors and supervisors that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/politics/republicans-antisemitism-carlson-fuentes-trump.html
— Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation. DD: In Diersen v. GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors and their Democrat DOJ attorneys argued that all the adverse actions that GAO took against me were legal. They stressed that Democrat/RINO laws required them to give preference to GAO employees who were minority, female, and/or veteran, that is, that they were required to discriminate against GAO employees who were White, male, and/or non-veteran. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/opinion/trump-illegal-war.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Soldiers do not have to follow illegal orders. . .Which orders are illegal?)
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/opinion/jobs-report-immigration-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly use Greene’s resignation against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/23/trump-maga-congress-greene-gop/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/24/sanctuary-cities-new-york-homan-trump-immigration/
USA TODAY
— Top earners are saving more for retirement. Everyone else is saving less. DD: Compared to our peers, my wife and I spent far less of our income for immediate pleasures and saved far more of our income for our retirement. My critics/opponents stress that we would not have been able to save as much for our retirement if we had children.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/11/19/top-earners-saving-more-401k-retirement-income/87340925007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Generation C as in ‘Confused’ Lucidity will come when they figure out that capitalism will solve their problems. DD: Under socialism, to advance, you have to be blindly loyal to your superiors. I have never been blindly loyal to my superiors. Nevertheless, I was able get promoted to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) when I was 25 in 1974, to GS-13 (currently $117,807/year) when I was 38, and GS-13 Step 10 (currently $153,151/year) when I was 49.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/generation-c-as-in-confused-7d224d24
— The Meaning of Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Georgia isolationist isn’t likely to go quietly, as JD Vance may discover in 2028.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-meaning-of-marjorie-taylor-greene-1face47f?mod=opinion_lead_pos2
— Looking for Something to Do in Retirement. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 and b) made it impossible for me to get a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license. Because of that, I became the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/adventure-racing-new-job-retirement-1b21318f
— 10 Subtle Signs That You Are Ready to Retire. DD: None of these 10 have ever applied to me. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Earlier in 1997, I earned my sixth job-related profession certification and my third job-related master’s degree. In 1996, I earned my fifth job-related professional certification. In 1994, I earned my fourth job-related professional certification. In 1990, I earned my third job-related professional certification.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/retirement-ready-when-signs-d0c99bd3
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267993/priest-walks-from-illinois-to-new-york-against-inhumane-immigration-enforcement
PEW RESEARCH
— DD: To defeat Republican candidates, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly unite voters who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-rich, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/the-changing-demographic-composition-of-voters-and-party-coalitions/
HRD MAGAZINE
–DD: Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.hcamag.com/asia/news/general/have-a-dei-policy-well-report-you/557531
https://www.hcamag.com/ca/news/general/human-decisions-in-recruitment-mirror-ai-bias/557046
KNIGHT KRIER
— What does your future hold? The pressures of choosing future careers in high school. DD: My father often decried his not having a college degree. That put me on track to getting one. I majored in management at UIC, NIU, and Loyola. But in retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should have majored in accounting. I did not because I erroneously thought I could never pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27 in 1976. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession viewed me to be too old to have a successful career in accounting. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority or a female.
https://knightkrier.com/8605/features/what-does-your-future-hold/
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: Because those who have demographics that vote for Republican do better on standardized tests than those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders want to get rid of standardized tests.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/11/24/why-sat-poor-fit-public-universities-opinion
PSY POST
— DD: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites.
https://www.psypost.org/the-psychological-link-between-whiteness-and-americanness-begins-in-childhood/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY TELEGRAPH
— ‘Doesn’t exist’: Trump kills off Musk’s DOGE. The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has quietly disbanded, ending a controversial initiative that was once headed up by tech billionaire Elon Musk.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/
MIRROR
— Boy, 14, dies and 6 other teens shot after riot erupts at Christmas light event. DD: How soon are Democrats going to riot in your downtown?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/breaking-boy-14-dies-6-36024964
INDEPENDENT
— Trump claims people in Chicago are chanting his name and demanding he send in troops to crush ‘crime and rioting.’ President’s comments come as the Windy City suffers another violent weekend. DD: How soon are Democrats going to riot in your downtown?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-chicago-crime-national-guard-troops-b2870815.html
INDIA TODAY
— Mamdani repeats Trump is a ‘fascist, despot’ after friendly White House meeting
https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/world/us-news/story/mamdani-repeats-trump-fascist-despot-after-white-house-meeting-glbs-2824836-2025-11-24
TIMES OF INDIA
— Trump To ‘BRING IN’ Troops In Chicago? Drops Bombshell After Teens Run Riot, Kill 1 & Shoot 8. DD: How soon are Democrats going to riot in your downtown?
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/trump-to-bring-in-troops-in-chicago-drops-bombshell-after-teens-run-riot-kill-1-shoot-8/videoshow/125524309.cms
— ‘LOWLIFES’: Trump Blasts Marjorie Greene, Rand Paul & Massie In Explosive Attack On GOP ‘Rebels’
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/lowlifes-trump-blasts-marjorie-greene-rand-paul-massie-in-explosive-attack-on-gop-rebels/videoshow/125530795.cms
— Caste Discrimination in US. DD: What Caste were you born into? My parents never attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/caste-discrimination-in-us-dalit-activist-thenmozhi-soundararajans-groundbreaking-survey-and-advocacy/articleshow/125523137.cms
BUSINESS INSIDER
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. When Republicans cut federal budgets, Democrats use those cuts to get rid of their Republican employees starting with those who are White, male, older, or nonveteran. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Republicans ever-increasingly cut GAO’s budget. I never would have survived for almost 18 years if I had not earned three job-related master’s degrees, earned six job-related professional certifications, and earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.businessinsider.com/military-spouse-retire-early-doge-trump-regret-vote-2025-4
November 23, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— 14-year-old killed, 8 teens injured in chaotic downtown Chicago shootings during ‘teen takeover’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/five-shot-state-street-chicago-theater-police/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasing glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/chicago-children-left-behind-immigration/
— Five stages of job loss. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors’ success in forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 continues to have a tremendous negative impact on me. I had earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 48, 31, and 27. I had earned job-related professional certifications when I was 48, 47, 45, 41, 32 and 30. I had earned a job-related professional license when I was 32. I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I would have been eligible for regular retirement when I was 55. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is dramatically less. The stigma of being forced to retire early is tremendous.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/17/jill-on-money-five-stages-of-job-loss/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Jobs create structure and routine, they provide an outlet for talent, social connection and a sense of safety and control,” she said. So even if you are prepared for a potential cut, the emotional impact is significant. Melnick invoked Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s “Five stages of grief”: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, as a way to understand why a job loss can be so devastating.)
DAILY HERALD
— The United States is not united at all. We live in two countries, divided by politics, wealth, health and education. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for all problems.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251120/syndicated-columnists/time-to-end-two-nations-split-by-health-education-and-wealth/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Citizens of the red states that voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024 are far poorer than blue states that did not. Mississippi, for example, has a per capita income about half of that of Massachusetts. Nine of the top 10 states in per capita income are blue. Nine of the bottom 10 are red.
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Kane Electoral Board overrules objections in GOP committeeperson race. Cindy Ignoffo to remain on March 17 primary ballot. DD: My critics/opponents succeeded in getting a registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me for Precinct Committeeman in 2000. She lost thanks largely to Hultgren and Roskam endorsing me. They have not been able to get someone to run against me since then. In 2015, they gerrymandered my precinct to force me to run against Ives. But the precinct lines were redrawn.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/11/23/kane-electoral-board-overrules-objections-in-gop-committeeperson-race/
NPR ILLINOIS
— A look at what led to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation and its impact. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump. Who wants you to resign? Ever since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999, my critics/opponents who dominate the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) have tried very hard to get me to resign. I should write about them. MTRO rudely unsuccessfully ran one of their operatives/dupes against me for Precinct Committeeman in 2000. MTRO rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010. The Illinois Center Right Coalition rudely tried to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006 and in rudely ended my membership on its Steering Committee in 2007. TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois rudely got me to not run again for chairman in 2012. Wheaton rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for its Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. The Illinois Republican Party rudely ended my membership on its State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. My Democrat Post Office superiors rudely got me to resign when I was 20 years old in 1969. My Democrat Firestone Store manager rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat IRS superiors rudely got me to transfer to GAO in 1980. My Democrat GAO superiors rudely got me to retire in 1997.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-11-22/a-look-at-what-led-to-rep-marjorie-taylor-greenes-resignation-and-its-impact
CWB CHICAGO
— ‘Complete lawlessness’: Critics slam mayor as Loop mob attack and shootings shock Chicago
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/11/complete-lawlessness-critics-slam-mayor-as-loop-mob-attack-and-shootings-shock-chicago.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— How a City Dies: Woman Burned Alive on CTA by a Violent Career Criminal Who Was Enabled by Democrat Judges
https://johnkassnews.com/woman-burned-alive-on-cta-democrats-brush-it-off-as-isolated/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do those who have taken adverse actions against you have in common? My critics/opponents who have had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and paise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. They reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform. Most commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of clout and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Nearly 550 truck drivers cited for not understanding English in Illinois YTD
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_609f15f0-482b-4530-92ca-ef38e45ae4fa.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois lawmakers again push disguised ‘retirement tax’
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-lawmakers-again-push-disguised-retirement-tax/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— New York and Virginia Democrats prepare to advance socialism in 2026. DD: Which Democrat and RINO leaders advance socialism in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth personal responsibility. They promote dependency on government and dependency on charity.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/22/editorial-new-york-virginia-democrats-prepare-advance-socialism-2026/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Why Democrats are embracing socialism. DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been pushing socialism in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watch/2410397/
— State Department orders diplomats to pressure Western nations to end ‘mass migration’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3894937/state-dept-orders-diplomats-directly-pressure-western-nations-end-mass-migration/
— K-12 public spending nears $1 trillion in U.S. DD: My parents’ sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. All that notwithstanding my being viewed as not being college material. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. I got no scholarships or student loans. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green colorblindness. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3895973/k-12-public-spending-1-trillion-us-study/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump says Chicagoans are ‘chanting bring in Trump’ after violent downtown riot leaves 8 shot, 1 dead
https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/us-news/trump-says-chicago-are-calling-for-action-after-recent-crime-wave-in-democrat-city/
— ‘Antisemitic’ activist Linda Sarsour: Mamdani mayoral win shows hating Israel can ‘send you to City Hall’ DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/us-news/antisemitic-activist-linda-sarsour-mamdani-mayoral-win-shows-hating-israel-can-send-you-to-city-hall/
— Homan rips violent clashes at California pot farm where illegal minors were working, blames Dems’ ‘Nazi’ rhetoric
https://www.aol.com/tom-homan-rips-violent-clashes-122949153.html
— Illegal migrants sparked riot after ramming attack on Border Patrol SUV in Chicago
https://www.aol.com/news/illegal-migrants-sparked-riot-ramming-194544289.html
— LA mayor Bass worries ICE raids will leave ‘nobody to do childcare.’ DD: How many illegals are providing childcare in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.aol.com/news/la-mayor-bass-worries-ice-104755445.html
— ICE arrests illegal immigrant selling counterfeit goods on Canal Street
https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/us-news/ice-calls-nyc-a-revolving-door-for-criminal-illegal-aliens/
— DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/opinion/trumps-meeting-with-mamdani-comes-as-a-shock-and-promise-that-there-is-hope-for-nyc/
AIR FORCE ACADEMY
— Academic Excellence: Two Cadets Earn Rhodes Scholarships. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who have stressed the most that I did not get any scholarships.
https://www.usafa.edu/academic-excellence-two-cadets-earn-rhodes-scholarships/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Smile that Ate the City: The parable of Mamdani. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/the_smile_that_ate_the_city_the_parable_of_mamdani.html
— Critical Race Theory Deserves to be labeled as ‘hate speech’ DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been pushing CRT in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/critical_race_theory_deserves_to_be_labeled_as_hate_speech.html
— Is there really an affordability crisis, or is there a choice crisis? DD: Compared to our peers, my wife and I spent far less of our income for immediate pleasures and saved far more of our income for our retirement. My critics/opponents stress that we would not have been able to save as much for our retirement if we had children.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/is_there_really_an_affordability_crisis_or_is_there_a_choice_crisis.html
— House resolution condemns socialism
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/house_resolution_condemns_socialism.html
— The 10 Guiding Principles of MAGA
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/the_10_guiding_principles_of_maga.html
— The Chinese military is here and ready. Are we?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/the_chinese_military_is_here_and_ready_are_we.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Those of us paying attention noticed that among the illegals flowing over our borders during Biden’s Handlers’ term were thousands—perhaps tens of thousands—of military aged, fit Chinese men. We also took note that no one enters or leaves China without the commie’s consent, and the people showing up at our borders didn’t walk across the Pacific. The Biden DHS was eventually forced to grudgingly admit that at least some of those guys just might be members of the Chinese military. They didn’t inform us what they did with them, so we can reasonably believe most, if not all, remain in American and we have no idea of their locations or identities. We also know China, through various cutouts, has been buying up large swaths of American farmland, and plenty of that adjacent to military installations. The Bidenites were unconcerned, even helpful to the commies. Sure, a few congressmen raised alarms, but our number one international “competitor” undergoing a massive military buildup to include intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles, continues to buy land in places that allow them to spy on our military installations—and worse. In Terrorist attacks in America: just a matter of time? in July of last year I noted then tens or hundreds of Islamist terrorists in America would be most likely to carry out close range attacks on civilians, while the Chinese military would likely focus on sabotage of our water, electric and communication hubs and our military capabilities. Commander Salamander points out one highly likely target: Whitman Air Force Base in Missouri. Why Whitman? It’s our sole B2 Stealth Bomber base, housing our 19 remaining B2s. One would think our CONUS–Continental US—military installations would be very secure. Most aren’t. Security consists largely of a few entrance facilities/gates guarded by a few military police officers and huge expanses of land secured only with tall chain link fences and reaction forces of military police in lightly armored vehicles. Some facilities have motion detectors and video cameras, but that’s not universal.)
BLAZE
— The radical nonprofit that is destroying state education
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-radical-nonprofit-that-is-destroying-state-education
BREITBART
— Maher: White Dems So ‘Afraid of Being Called Racist’ They Move to Fringe, Pritzker Can’t Call Out Lefty Excess as Well
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/11/22/maher-white-dems-so-afraid-of-being-called-racist-they-move-to-fringe-pritzker-cant-call-out-lefty-excess-as-well/
DAILY CALLER
— Homan Torches New York City For Blocking Immigration Authorities From Doing Their Jobs
https://www.aol.com/kidding-tom-homan-torches-york-153104243.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— Does Mamdani Know Best? New York City Is About to Find Out. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/22/does-mamdani-know-best-new-york-city-about-find-out/
FEDERALIST
— Disparate impact is equal outcome. DD: Equal outcome is the opposite of equal opportunity. To get more votes from minorities and from women, Democrat and RINO leaders fight for equal outcome instead of for equal opportunity. To fight for equal outcome is to fight against equal opportunity. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, if Whites and men do better at something, it is because they benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against females. I became a licensed CPA. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I earned four other job-related professional certifications. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. Because few minorities and few females have done that, Democrat and RINO leaders have especially shouted at minorities and at females that I was able to do the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against females. In my defense, I stress that neither of my parents attended college. That my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. That my mother never attended high school. That I had to work my way through college.
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/disparate-impact-is-equal-outcome-the-same-as-equal-opportunity
FOX NEWS
— Trump says Chicagoans are ‘chanting bring in Trump’ after violent downtown riot leaves 8 shot, 1 dead. Several teens shot, multiple officers attacked during 300-person riot in Chicago Loop.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-chicagoans-chanting-bring-trump-after-violent-downtown-riot-8-shot-1-dead
— Mamdani doesn’t seem to understand the ‘failed history’ of socialism. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385448358112
— Trump is playing ‘four-dimensional chess’ after meeting with Mamdani. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385454234112
— What’s next following the Trump-Mamdani White House meeting? DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc8TRMmuJgc
— Wave of car attacks on ICE agents follows incendiary rhetoric from target-city leaders. Chicago mayor calls enforcement operations ‘terrorism’ while California officials denounce ‘cruel attacks.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wave-car-attacks-ice-agents-follows-incendiary-rhetoric-from-target-city-leaders
— Chicago crime drops sharply after federal operation targeting criminal illegal immigrants
https://www.aol.com/news/dhs-chicago-crime-drops-sharply-215538055.html
— Wave of car attacks on ICE agents follows incendiary rhetoric from target-city leaders
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wave-car-attacks-ice-agents-follows-incendiary-rhetoric-from-target-city-leaders.print
— Illegal alien kills 8-year-old girl in car crash, given license by sanctuary state
https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/us-news/illegal-alien-kills-8-year-old-girl-in-car-crash-given-license-by-sanctuary-state/
ICE
— ICE continues to arrest violent criminal illegal aliens in Chicago, including those convicted of domestic battery, aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child and armed robbery.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-continues-arrest-violent-criminal-illegal-aliens-chicago-including-those
NEWSMAX
— ‘America First’ Meets Charlotte’s Left Head On
https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/deportations-charlotte-foreign/2025/11/21/id/1235581/
PJ MEDIA
— ICE Arrests 3500 Criminal Illegals in Houston
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/11/22/ice-arrests-3500-criminal-illegals-in-houston-n4946294
REAL CLEAR POLICY
— The Great Feminization Began with Education. DD: Most of my teachers were men at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961, at Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962, at UIC 1966-1968 and 1971, at NIU 1969-1970, at Loyola 1972-1976, at DePaul 1976-1980. at Becker CPA Review 1978-1979, at Certified Internal Auditor review courses 1980-1981, and at IIT 1992-1997.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/11/22/the_great_feminization_began_with_education_1149124.html
TOWNHALL
— Mamdani Endorses Activist Who Blamed 9/11 on ‘Capitalism’ and ‘White Supremacy’ DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/11/22/meet-mamdanis-replacement-in-the-city-council-n2666821
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
UPI
— House resolution seeks to raise threshold for censuring member to 60%. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who almost succeeded in getting their operatives and dupes to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/US/2025/11/22/House-resolution-seeks-raise-member-censure-60-from-majority/5681763845093/
REUTERS
— DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ with eight months left on its charter. DD: There would have been no need for DOGE if Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/
CNN
— November 21, 2025 — Trump praises Mamdani, Marjorie Taylor Greene announces resignation. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump. Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump. Who wants you to resign? Ever since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999, my critics/opponents who dominate the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) have tried very hard to get me to resign. I should write about them. MTRO rudely unsuccessfully ran one of their operatives/dupes against me for Precinct Committeeman in 2000. MTRO rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010. The Illinois Center Right Coalition rudely tried to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006 and in rudely ended my membership on its Steering Committee in 2007. TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois rudely got me to not run again for chairman in 2012. Wheaton rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for its Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. The Illinois Republican Party rudely ended my membership on its State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. My Democrat Post Office superiors rudely got me to resign when I was 20 years old in 1969. My Democrat Firestone Store manager rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat IRS superiors rudely got me to transfer to GAO in 1980. My Democrat GAO superiors rudely got me to retire in 1997.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-mamdani-epstein-news-11-21-25
MSN
— Marjorie Taylor Greene Releases Resignation Video; Hits Out At Republicans, Democrats. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh7gdd-h6FQ
NEWSWEEK
— Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Next Move? What Polls Tell Us. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greenes-next-move-polls-11094626
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Heaps Praise on Mamdani. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump. What if I had heaped praise on my critics/opponents? If I had, would they have not had their operatives and their dupes take so many big adverse actions against me? My critics/opponents heap praise on each other. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/21/us/trump-news
— The Surprise Ending to the Trump-Mamdani Buddy Movie Has Heads Spinning. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/nyregion/mamdani-trump-reaction-meeting.html
— Back Home, Voters Stand by Marjorie Taylor Greene After She Stood Up to Trump. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/us/georgia-marjorie-taylor-greene-voters.html
— DD: For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/opinion/university-higher-education-trump-politics.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/opinion/ice-immigration-green-card-detention.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price. Thousands of undocumented workers rely on fraudulent Social Security numbers. DD: How many fraudulent Social Security numbers are being used in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/undocumented-worker-stolen-identity-dan-kluver.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Exit by Greene Sign of Future for GOP. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-republicans.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad. My critics/opponents have more difficulty blaming me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for defeats suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct after they succeeded in a) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2021, b) ending my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship 2005-2012, and c) ending my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership 2003-2007.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/23/donald-trump-executive-branch-power/
— AOC built her own political machine. Now she’s deciding her next move. Seven years after she leapt onto the national stage as an outsider, she’s learned an inside game and is considering a run for Senate or president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/22/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-senate-president-democrats/
— How billionaires took over American politics. The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. DD: Pritzker has taken over Illinois.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/billionaires-politics-money-influence/
— What Trump and Mamdani have said about each other — then and now. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/22/trump-mamdani-quotes-white-house-insults/
— Administration again denies FEMA disaster relief for Illinois, Pritzker says. Officials in jurisdictions led by Democrats have viewed the denials of aid as politically driven. DD: I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. All their employment decisions were politically driven. The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 so that they could hire a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran to replace me. My Democrat IRS superiors refused to promote me to GS-13 so that they could promote one of my Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran coworkers instead of me. My Democrat GAO superiors refused to promote me to GS-14 so that they could promote one of my Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran coworkers instead of me. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me resign in 1997 so that they could give my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, who had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/22/fema-aid-illinois-pritzker/
— Trump-Marjorie Taylor Greene breakup shakes MAGA: ‘Mom and Dad are separated’ DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-AA1QNCdX
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Congress Turns Chaotic as Lawmakers Target Each Other. House leaders want to change the rules to rein in censure votes after week of fighting. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who almost succeeded in getting their operatives and dupes to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/house-representatives-censure-votes-chaos-db3a33b7
USA TODAY
— Mamdani defends DEI alongside Al Sharpton at civil rights event
https://www.aol.com/articles/zohran-mamdani-defends-dei-alongside-203740622.html
BLOOMBERG
— Wall Street Wants Everyone Using AI Except Job Applicants. DD: The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-20/wall-street-wants-everyone-using-ai-except-its-job-applicants?embedded-checkout=true
FORTUNE
— Trump defends socialism in Mamdani meeting the same day House GOP passes resolution condemning it. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://fortune.com/2025/11/22/trump-socialism-zohran-mamdani-bernie-sanders-fdr/
— When should I refinance my mortgage? DD: As interest rates came down, my wife and I refinanced our mortgages several times.
https://fortune.com/article/when-to-refinance-mortgage/
FORBES
— Mamdani Grilled On His Past Shock Statements About Trump. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yl2TAL2raE
INC.
— Most Gen-Z Employees See Traditional Career Paths Coming to an End. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government denied me traditional career paths. They would not have done that is I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/most-gen-z-employees-see-traditional-career-paths-coming-to-an-end/91255920
LAW 360
— Meet The Judge Weighing EEOC Disparate Impact Cases. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders use disparate impact to get more votes from minorities and from women. They fight for equal outcome instead of for equal opportunity. To fight for equal outcome is to fight against equal opportunity. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, if Whites and men do better at something, it is because they benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against females. I became a licensed CPA. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I earned four other job-related professional certifications. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. Because few minorities and few females have done that, Democrat and RINO leaders have especially shouted at minorities and at females that I was able to do the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against females. In my defense, I stress that neither of my parents attended college. That my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/2409090/meet-the-judge-weighing-eeoc-disparate-impact-cases
TIME
— Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Resignation Laments MAGA’s Failures. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.aol.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-resignation-laments-150319232.html
HUFFINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. Of course, according to Democrat leaders, there is no such thing as an illegal. According to Democrat leaders, anyone and everyone in the world can and should come into America and stay in America. Democrats leaders will use them to get rid of Republicans once and for all starting with Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, heterosexual, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/articles/why-republicans-falsely-claiming-democrats-161259456.html
— DD: What do your critics/opponents stress about you to discredit you? Mine stress the success that they have had getting their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me. In 2024, they rudely ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks. In 2015, they rudely gerrymandered my precinct. In 2012, they rudely ended my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship. In 2010 and 2004, they rudely ended my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster. In 2007, they rudely ended my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership. In 2006, they almost got ICRC to rudely censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. In 2004, they rudely defeated me (69 to 13) when I ran for an open MTRO Treasurer position. In 2004, they rudely ended my American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board membership in 2004. MTRO rudely unsuccessfully ran one of their operatives/dupes against me for Precinct Committeeman in 2000. In 1997, my critics/opponents forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would stress what they have in common.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-demagoguery-political-strategy_l_68069b30e4b052543c13a003
AXIOS
— Inside Trump and Mamdani’s surprising bond of convenience. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump. Leaders of poor people want to unite the poor against the non-poor. Leaders of minorities want unite minorities against Whites. Leaders of younger people want unite the young against the old. Leaders of non-Protestants want to unite non-Protestants against Protestants.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/22/trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-bond
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
INDEPENDENT
— Trump addresses Marjorie Taylor Greene feud after dubbing her a ‘traitor’ as MAGA faithful turn on each other. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump. Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-administration-news-today-mamdani-mtg-b2870472.html
WION
— Trump Says He’d Love to See Greene Returns to Politics. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GeyXWoniA0
MEAWW
— Trump is obviously in love with Mamdani. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://news.meaww.com/trumps-obviously-in-love-with-mamdani-ms-no-ws-nicolle-wallace-after-oval-office-meeting
AL JAZEERA
— Mamdani says Israel is ‘committing genocide’ in Gaza at Trump meeting. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/11/22/mamdani-says-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza-at-trump-meeting
— ‘Really great mayor’: Trump showers Mamdani with praise. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/11/22/really-great-mayor-trump-showers-zohran-mamdani-with-praise
— Trump again slams Democrats who urged US troops to refuse illegal orders. Despite outcry over earlier attack, Trump doubles down and calls for rivals who issued message to military to be jailed. DD: According to hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters, all of Trump’s orders are illegal. According Vietnam War protesters, the Vietnam War was illegal. I was not a Vietnam War protestor. I went in for my physical in 1966 and I was deemed 1-A. I did not appeal that even though I could not run because I had a bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20-20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. Nevertheless, since 1966, my critics/opponents have painted me as being a Vietnam War protestor because I got four student deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/23/trump-again-slams-democrats-who-urged-us-troops-to-refuse-illegal-orders
JERUSALEM POST
— Greene considers 2028 White House run as she quits Congress amid Trump feud. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/greene-considers-2028-white-house-092856292.html
— The US political right’s rising hostility to Israel cannot be ignored. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government stressed to my many Jewish superiors and supervisors that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978. In my defense, I stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI. That my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII. That my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F. Further, I stressed that while I was a Lutheran, I was a Missouri Synod Lutheran, not a more conservative Wisconsin Synod Lutheran.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-874790
JEWISH BREAKING NEWS
— Schumer Pushes Senate Resolution Condemning Neo-Nazi Influencer Nick Fuentes. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Fuentes to destroy Republicans.
https://jewishbreakingnews.com/schumer-pushes-senate-resolution-condemning-neo-nazi-influencer-nick-fuentes/
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— Marjorie Taylor Greene pension: Laura Loomer slams ‘greedy woman’; how much will Congresswoman get after resignation? DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Greene to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/marjorie-taylor-greene-pension-laura-loomer-slams-greedy-woman-how-much-will-congresswoman-get-after-resignation/ar-AA1QXqWl
HANS INDIA
— ‘Great honour’: Says Trump after meeting Mamdani. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.thehansindia.com/news/international/great-honour-says-trump-after-meeting-mamdani-1025536
TIMES OF INDIA
— Is Vance jealous of Mamdani? Fox News anchor says Trump prefers the socialist as his ‘running mate.” DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/125506636.cms
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/is-jd-vance-jealous-of-zohran-mamdani-fox-news-anchor-says-trump-prefers-the-socialist-as-his-running-mate/articleshow/125506636.cms
— ‘Good boy’ Mamdani and Trump ‘in control’: Body language expert decodes White House meeting. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/good-boy-mamdani-and-trump-in-control-body-language-expert-decodes-white-house-meeting/articleshow/125507481.cms
— Trump-Mamdani love-fest lights up US politics. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/trump-mamdani-love-fest-lights-up-us-politics/articleshow/125507231.cms
TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Surging LGBTQ enrollment in Jewish seminaries signals ‘astounding’ shift in US rabbinate
https://www.timesofisrael.com/surging-lgbtq-enrollment-in-jewish-seminaries-signals-astounding-shift-in-us-rabbinate/amp/
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Laura Loomer seethes over Mamdani’s surprisingly smooth Oval office meeting with Trump. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/laura-loomer-seethes-over-zohran-mamdanis-surprisingly-smooth-oval-office-meeting-with-trump/articleshow/125507358.cms
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
— Trump Now ‘Comfortable’ With Socialist Mamdani. DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-now-comfortable-socialist-zohran-mamdani-who-fumbled-fascist-question-1757199
BUSINESS TIMES
— Trump’s Praise of Mamdani Sparks GOP Revolt as Conservatives Warn of ‘Normalizing Communism.’ DD: Those who promote Mamdani want to destroy Trump.
https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/176010/20251122/donald-trump-praise-of-mamdani-sparks-gop-revolt-as-conservatives-warn-of-normalizing-communism.htm
BUSINESS INSIDER
— ‘Entitled,’ ‘complacent,’ and ‘sloppy’: Inside the workplace tension at the world’s largest HR organization. DD: Human resource management was a) my undergraduate major at NIU 1969-1970 and b) my area of concentration for my 1976 MBA from Loyola. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, they both should have been accounting.
https://www.aol.com/articles/entitled-complacent-sloppy-inside-workplace-101301246.html
November 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they have determined that they cannot retake the federal government unless they illegally bring more illegals into America and illegally keep them in America illegally.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/chicago-border-patrol-resistance/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/senator-ruben-gallego-chicago-immigration/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/illinois-national-guard-housed-at-state-site-as-questions-about-trump-deployment-costs-grow/
— How do we support young people’s desire to serve society? DD: I wanted a career in the automotive industry. I would not become a postal employee when I was 18 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. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. I would not have become a GAO employee in 1980 if my Democrat superiors had not made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/opinion-idealism-human-service-job-training/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I never imagined that after graduating from college and working in the offices of a respected consulting firm in the Midwest, one day I would walk away from what looked like a secure and enviable path. But after months spent helping companies squeeze out higher profits, I began to wonder, like Leo Tolstoy, whether a life devoted entirely to success could ever feel meaningful. So I left. I traded corporate perks for the uncertainty of a spiritual vocation and committed myself to religious leadership, social entrepreneurship, adult education, academia and activism. In the years since, I have founded nonprofits, launched incubators, taught thousands of students and worked alongside people confronting some of the most pressing injustices of our time. Such decisions are rare, exposing an unsettling moral decline in American life. The issue isn’t talent but moral guidance. Many capable youths chase high pay, influenced by peers, families and looming debt. Fields such as tech, finance and medicine are vital, but fewer opt for work that benefits the human spirit, such as teaching, supporting vulnerable populations or advocating for justice.)
CITIES 92.9
— Pritzker suggests he’s open to tweaking SAFE-T Act after train passenger fire
https://www.cities929.com/2025/11/21/pritzker-suggests-hes-open-to-tweaking-safe-t-act-after-train-passenger-fire/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Epstein Scandal Rocks Pritzker Orbit – IL GOP Leaders, Campaigns Remain Quiet
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/11/epstein-scandal-rocks-pritzker-orbit-il-gop-leaders-campaigns-remain-quiet.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker Facing Federal Criminal Probe on Thornley Matter: We Have All the Background.
https://wirepoints.org/pritzker-facing-federal-probe-on-thornley-matter-we-have-all-the-background-wirepoints/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Destructive Myth of Gender Affirming Care
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/child-exploitation/the-destructive-myth-of-gender-affirming-care/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREITBART
— Republicans Call Out ‘Despicable’ Democrats After Majority Refuse to Condemn Socialism
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/21/gop-calls-out-despicable-democrats-after-majority-refuse-to-condemn-socialism/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— Why Americans are fleeing public schools
https://www.thecollegefix.com/why-americans-are-fleeing-public-schools-a-case-study/
DAILY CALLER
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly equate Mamdani’s socialist beliefs with the teachings of Jesus.
https://www.aol.com/articles/cnn-panelist-compares-zohran-mamdani-163023099.html
— Liberal Women Role Play As Illegal Immigrants And Teach Volunteers How To Resist ICE
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/21/charlotte-role-play-dilworth-united-methodist-church/
DAILY CITIZEN
— Clarence Thomas Becomes Nation’s Fifth Longest-Serving Supreme Court Justice
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/clarence-thomas-becomes-nations-fifth-longest-serving-supreme-court-justice/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Investor Arrested After Bringing Up Epstein, Ratchets Up Lawsuit Against Berkshire Hathaway
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/21/investor-arrested-after-bringing-up-epstein-ratchets-up-lawsuit-against-berkshire-hathaway/
EPOCH TIMES
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/5-key-takeaways-from-trumps-white-house-meeting-with-mamdani-5948367
FEDERALIST
— Illegal Aliens Are A Major Constituency Of The Democrat Party
https://thefederalist.com/videos/hemingway-illegal-aliens-are-a-major-constituency-of-the-democrat-party/
FOX NEWS
— Federal probe demands Chicago Teachers Union explain missing financial audits since 2020
https://www.foxnews.com/media/education-committee-demands-chicago-teachers-union-explain-missing-financial-audits-since-2020
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myzhwe7hQKk
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385430766112
NEWSMAX
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtdPOaQvRZE
PJ MEDIA
— DOJ Takes on California’s Loans, Scholarships for Illegal Aliens. DD: My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships or student loans.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/11/21/doj-takes-on-californias-loans-scholarships-for-illegal-aliens-n4946258
— California Gave Illegals Goodies While Abandoning Palisades Fire Victims
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/11/21/california-gave-illegals-goodies-while-abandoning-palisades-fire-victims-n4946270
TOWNHALL
— Republicans Cannot Prevail by Offering a ‘Soft’ Version of Socialism
https://townhall.com/columnists/juliorivera/2025/11/22/republicans-cannot-prevail-by-offering-a-soft-version-of-socialism-n2666867
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV8OIajrctc
— Trump defends sedition accusation over video by Democrats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5XMuAWplq8
CBS NEWS
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/first-meeting-between-trump-mamdani-is-cordial-complimentary/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zohran-mamdani-mayor-meeting-1770204af103afa00ee9b5d97cd401c7
CNN
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/politics/trump-mamdani-oval-office-meeting
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-mamdani-epstein-news-11-21-25
MSN
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/trump-expresses-great-confidence-in-mamdani-in-oval-office-lovefest/ar-AA1QUQUg
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/donald-trump-congratulates-democratic-socialist-zohran-mamdani-on-his-election-victory/vi-AA1QUMUl
NEWSWEEK
— Nursing Is No Longer Counted as a ‘Professional Degree’ by Trump Admin
https://www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-professional-degree-trump-admin-11079650
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Calls Democrats’ Video to Military ‘Punishable by Death’
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/20/us/trump-news-epstein-cheney
— Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January. DD: Who wants you to resign? Ever since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999, my critics/opponents who dominate the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) have tried very hard to get me to resign. I should write about them. My Democrat Post Office superiors rudely got me to resign when I was 20 years old in 1969. My Democrat Firestone Store manager rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat IRS superiors rudely got me to transfer to GAO in 1980. My Democrat GAO superiors rudely got me to retire in 1997. MTRO rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010. The Illinois Center Right Coalition rudely tried to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006 and in rudely ended my membership on its Steering Committee in 2007. TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois rudely got me to not run again for chairman in 2012. Wheaton rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for its Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. The Illinois Republican Party rudely ended my membership on its State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns.html
— Most Immigrants Support Border Enforcement, but Not Mass Deportations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/us/politics/immigrants-poll-enforcement.html
— Trump’s All-but-Forgotten Border Wall Reaches an Angry Laredo, Texas. Once the symbol of the president’s immigration policies, the wall has been eclipsed by his deportation efforts, but with $46.5 billion from Congress, construction is ramping up on the Rio Grande.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/trump-border-wall-laredo-texas.html
— A fertility agenda that can unite left and right. DD: In 1988, my Democrat GAO superiors adopted a fertility agenda to get rid of me. Duckworth would have loved that agenda. They used my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents to hint/imply/argue/shout that I lied about our trying to have children. Since 1980, I had requested to be assigned to in-town audits to help our trying to have children. In 1989, to punish me, they threw me off in-town audits, assigned me to a bad 6-month out-of-town audit, gave me unfair performance expectations, gave me an unfair performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://nytimes.pressreader.com/the-new-york-times
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/21/zohran-mamdani-donald-trump-oval-office/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/21/trump-mamdani-oval-office/
WCNC
— Questions raised over Charlotte landscaper’s arrest by CBP. DD: The son of one of my GAO superiors started a landscaping business. But he was driven out of business by his competitors who used cheap illegal labor.
https://www.wcnc.com/video/news/local/questions-raised-over-charlotte-landscapers-arrest-by-cbp/275-4bdd5b4e-3e62-4dbe-836c-51d28f38c0c1
FORBES
— Socialism: The Antithesis Of The American Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axGRJ_TmDz4
BLOOMBERG
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-21/trump-and-mamdani-find-common-ground-in-their-goals-for-nyc
POLITICO
— Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns from Congress after clash with Trump. The former Trump loyalist said she will step down Jan. 5. DD: Ever since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999, my critics/opponents who dominate the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) have tried very hard to get me to resign. I should write about them. My Democrat Post Office superiors rudely got me to resign when I was 20 years old in 1969. My Democrat Firestone Store manager rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat IRS superiors rudely got me to transfer to GAO in 1980. My Democrat GAO superiors rudely got me to retire in 1997. MTRO rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010. The Illinois Center Right Coalition rudely tried to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006 and in rudely ended my membership on its Steering Committee in 2007. TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois rudely got me to not run again for chairman in 2012. Wheaton rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for its Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. The Illinois Republican Party rudely ended my membership on its State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns-from-congress-after-clash-with-trump-00665972
NATION
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mamdani-trump-white-house-meeting-analysis/
ATLANTIC
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-mamdani-white-house-meeting/685028/
DAILY BEAST
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-runs-to-fox-news-to-salvage-donald-trumps-mamdani-humiliation/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-anchor-brian-kilmeade-gobsmacked-by-donald-trumps-mamdani-meeting/
AXIOS
— House members want to make it harder to censure each other. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who almost succeeded in getting their operatives and dupes to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/house-censure-mills-plaskett-mike-johnson
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GLOBE AND MAIL
— To get more votes from minorities and from women, Democrat leaders fight for equal outcome instead of equal opportunity. To fight for equal outcome is to fight against equal opportunity. According to Democrats, if Whites and men do better at something, it is because they benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against females. I became a licensed CPA. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I earned four other job-related professional certifications. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. Because few minorities and females have done that, Democrats have especially shouted at minorities and at females that I was able to do the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against females. In my defense, I stress that neither of my parents attended college. That my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-globe-and-mail-alberta-edition/20251122/282424175508626
BBC
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqd42gl0qo
CBC
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6988856
DAILY MAIL
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15315513/Insider-Trump-soft-Mamdani-socialist-Oval-Office.html
INDEPENDENT
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mamdani-meeting-white-house-new-york-b2870222.html
INDIA TODAY
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/trending-news/story/plot-twist-of-2025-the-trump-mamdani-collab-internet-was-not-expecting-2824206-2025-11-22
TIMES OF INDIA
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/fascist-jihadist-next-to-each-other-trump-mamdani-grilled-at-wh-meet-watch-viral-moment/amp_articleshow/125497916.cms
INDIAN EXPRESS
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/trump-mamdani-oval-office-meeting-defence-communist-lunatic-to-very-rational-10379584/
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/fascist-vs-jihadist-old-remarks-brought-up-in-cordial-trump-mamdani-meet-key-moments-101763780241501.html
SKY NEWS
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://news.sky.com/story/trump-epstein-files-vote-release-saudi-crown-prince-mbs-khashoggi-latest-live-us-politics-13471576
https://news.sky.com/story/anyone-expecting-a-showdown-when-trump-met-mamdani-got-a-pretty-big-surprise-13473803
JERUSALEM POST
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-874761
ONE NEWS PAGE
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20251122/17586736/He-Is-Different-Trump-Promises-MASSIVE-Support.htm
https://www.onenewspage.com/n/India/1zs8c647hx/Did-peace-deals-Trump-repeats-role.htm
AL JAZEERA
— Hate-filled America-hating America-haters are overjoyed with and emboldened by the Trump-Mamdani meeting.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/22/great-meeting-key-takeaways-from-trump-mamdani-white-house-meeting
November 21, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump, Mamdani promise to work to help NYC and tackle affordability amid cordiality
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-mamdani-meet-oval-office-mayor-elect-pushes-affordability-agenda/18185786/
— Durbin: Trump’s deployment of National Guard in Illinois cost taxpayers nearly $20M
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trumps-deployment-national-guard-illinois-cost-taxpayers-20m-sen-dick-durbin/18186965/
— Judge prohibits IRS from sharing sensitive taxpayer data with ICE to aid its immigration crackdown
https://abc7chicago.com/post/judge-prohibits-irs-sharing-sensitive-taxpayer-data-ice/18187113/
NBC5
— Trump and Mamdani go from adversaries to allies after White House meeting
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-mamdani-washington-dc-meeting/3854391/
CBS2
— Detained protesters accuse feds of using them as props for Kristi Noem’s visit to Broadview ICE facility
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/protesters-arrested-broadview-ice-kristi-noem-gregory-bovino-promotional-video/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison ends reelection bid, leaving Republican primary uncontested
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/cook-county-sean-morrison-drops-out/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison, a Republican, announced Thursday he will not run for reelection next year, leaving former Commissioner Elizabeth Doody Gorman as the only Republican candidate for his seat. Morrison has represented the 17th District, which includes a wide swath of the southwest suburbs including Orland Park, Palos Heights and Lemont, since 2015. He was appointed to replace Gorman, who held the position from 2002 to 2015 before resigning to accept a job at an accounting firm in the private sector. Gorman supported Morrison as her successor. . .Morrison was reelected in 2018 and 2022. Gorman ran to unseat Morrison once before in 2022, but lost in the primary. With Morrison dropping out and the filing deadline past, she will run uncontested in the primary. Gorman has been on the Regional Transportation Authority board since 2021, and was formerly executive director of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. “I was probably just as surprised as anybody else, and, you know, wish him and his wife and kids well in their next chapter,” Gorman said Friday.)
— Takeaways from Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani visit: Both men get something they want, GOP loses a punching bag
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/takeaways-trump-mamdani-visit/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Landscapers hit hard by ICE blitz, ‘accused of the crime of working’ “Operation Midway Blitz” teams might have scaled back in Chicago, but the fear — and defiance — remains. DD: The son of one of my GAO superiors started a landscaping business. But he was driven out of business by his competitors who used cheap illegal labor.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/11/21/operation-midway-blitz-ice-landscapers-human-impact
— Cook County townships to reopen property tax appeals window. DD: Republican officials in Wheaton, Milton Township, and DuPage County were furious when I appealed the assessment of the newly built 915 Cove Court in Wheaton ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/915-Cove-Ct-Wheaton-IL-60189/4447887_zpid/ ) because of construction defects and unrecorded easements. They all denied my appeal. But the Illinois Property Tax appeal Board ( https://www.ptab.illinois.gov/ ) approved it. The home had been built by an extremely powerful major Republican donor. Since then, he and his supporters have done everything that they could to destroy me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2025/11/20/township-property-tax-bill-appeal
DAILY HERALD
— Immigration agencies deny responsibility for mysterious drones spotted in Wheeling
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251121/local-politics/immigration-agencies-deny-responsibility-for-mysterious-drones-spotted-in-wheeling/
WAND TV
— ‘Claytons’ Law’ calls for English requirement, citizenship verification for Illinois licenses
https://www.wandtv.com/news/illinois/claytons-law-calls-for-english-requirement-citizenship-verification-for-illinois-licenses/article_e2576645-efc2-44f0-88a9-665f27a5d6f9.html
WGN RADIO
— Karen Conti: SAFE-T Act, man charged in CTA burning charges
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/karen-conti-safe-t-act-man-charged-in-cta-burning-charges/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/11/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-428/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump says Mamdani will be ‘great mayor’ as they exchange praise in White House meeting
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/21/trump-says-mamdani-great-mayor-exchange-praise-white-house-meeting/
— House votes to oppose socialist policies
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/21/house-votes-oppose-socialist-policies-mamdani-meets-trump/
— Texas asks Supreme Court to allow use of new GOP-friendly map
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/21/texas-asks-supreme-court-allow-use-new-gop-friendly-map/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— House Democrats split on vote denouncing socialism
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3894870/house-democrats-split-denouncing-socialism-trump-mamdani-meeting/
— Top teachers union warns educators about Republicans’ ‘arsenal of racist dog whistles’ and ‘transphobic tropes’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3895275/national-educators-association-warns-educators-republicans-transphobic-tropes/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump and Mamdani ‘giddy’ during ‘love fest’ first White House meeting, body language expert says
https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/us-news/trump-and-mamdani-look-giddy-during-first-wh-meeting-body-language-expert/
— Trump-Mamdani — the start of a beautiful friendship?
https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/opinion/trump-mamdani-the-start-of-a-beautiful-friendship/
— Trump jokes it’s OK for Mamdani to call him a ‘fascist’: ‘You can just say yes’
https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/us-news/trump-runs-cover-for-mamdani-after-mayor-elect-asked-to-explain-if-he-still-thinks-president-is-a-fascist-you-can-just-say-yes/
— Mamdani, Trump’s expected slugfest turns into a lovefest as president says socialist will make NYC ‘greater than ever before’
https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/us-news/mamdani-trumps-expected-slugfest-turns-into-a-lovefest-as-president-says-socialist-will-make-nyc-greater-than-ever-before/
— Trump says Zohran Mamdani is not a ‘jihadist’ in warm exchange during NYC mayor-elect’s White House visit
https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/us-news/trump-breaks-with-elise-stefanik-says-zohran-mamdani-is-not-a-jihadist-in-warm-exchange-during-nyc-mayor-elects-white-house-visit/
— House resolution condemning socialism splits Democrats
https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/us-news/house-passes-resolution-condemning-socialism-as-zohran-mamdani-arrives-for-trump-meeting/
— Body language expert reveals what happened during Trump and Mamdani’s meeting: ‘I was surprised’
https://nypost.com/video/body-language-expert-reveals-what-happened-during-trump-and-mamdanis-meeting-i-was-surprised/
BREITBART
— Trump Meets with Mamdani at the White House
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/21/watch-donald-trump-meets-with-zohran-mamdani-at-the-white-house/
— ICE Operation in Charlotte Exposes Huge Scale of Illegal Migration Across Construction Industry
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/11/21/ice-operation-in-charlotte-exposes-huge-scale-of-illegal-migration-across-construction-industry/amp/
DAILY CALLER
— Nearly 100 Democrats Refuse To Condemn Socialism In Party-Shattering Vote
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/21/democrats-split-house-resolution-condemn-socialism/
DAILY SIGNAL
— 127 Democrats Refuse to Vote to Condemn ‘Horrors of Socialism’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/21/127-democrats-refuse-to-vote-to-condemn-horrors-of-socialism/
DAILY WIRE
— House Passes Anti-Socialism Resolution
https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-anti-socialism-resolution-as-mamdani-visits-white-house
FOX BUSINESS
— Mamdani’s charm may be the most ‘dangerous’ thing about him
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6385423453112
FOX NEWS
— ‘Just say yes’: Trump cuts in as NYC mayor-elect Mamdani dodges on calling him a ‘fascist’ at Oval Office. Democratic socialist discusses housing crisis and public safety cooperation with president.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/just-say-yes-trump-cuts-nyc-mayor-elect-mamdani-dodges-calling-him-fascist-oval-office
— 86 Dems vote with Republicans to condemn socialism
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/86-dems-republicans-condemn-socialism-wake-mamdanis-mayoral-victory
— DOJ sues Newsom over California giving illegal immigrants college tuition benefits. Justice Department lawyers called it ‘unequal treatment’ that was ‘squarely’ at odds with federal law.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-sues-newsom-over-california-measure-giving-illegal-immigrants-college-tuition-benefits
— Big Paychecks, Bigger Problems: How a bloated bureaucracy exposes Congress’ funding failure. DD: According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me, my employment benefits were far too generous, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is far too generous, and my federal retirement benefits are far too generous. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37hour when I was 16 in 1966 to $153,151/year when I was 49 in 1997. In my defense, during that time, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.aol.com/articles/big-paychecks-bigger-problems-bloated-003400110.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A new report from a government watchdog group begs the question of why — with nearly 800,000 federal bureaucrats drawing six-figure salaries and the average payroll of the federal workforce far outpacing its size — is Washington still unable to fund the basics of government? Open The Books, a project of American Transparency, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, nonpartisan charitable organization, closely tracks government spending and released an expansive report Wednesday ahead of a looming agreement between Republicans and Democrats to reopen the government, showing the swamp has gotten bigger, richer and more secretive since 2020. The report, which analyzed all publicly disclosed federal salaries for fiscal year 2024, found a total of 2.9 million civil service employees with a total payroll of $270 billion, plus an additional 30% for benefits. While the total number of employees rose by 5% since 2020, payroll grew nearly five times as much. The current federal workforce is costing American taxpayers $673,000 per minute, $40.4 million per hour and just under $1 billion per day, according to Open The Books. This includes almost 1,000 workers who are making more than the president’s $400,000 per year salary, 31,452 non-War Department federal employees who made more than every governor of all 50 states and 793,537 people making $100,000 or more. Those making $300,000 or more have seen an 84% increase since 2020, while there has similarly been an 82% increase in those earning $200,000 or more, the report points out. During Open The Book’s investigation, the fiscal watchdog group also found that the names of 383,000 federal workers across 56 different agencies were redacted, amounting to a total of $38.3 billion in pay. According to Open The Books CEO John Hart, “You can’t have accountability without visibility.” “The Trump administration has a historic opportunity to bring much-needed transparency to the administrative state. While federal employees don’t add as much to the debt as safety net programs, defense and overall agency spending, they are an indicator of government’s growth,” Hart said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Our investigators found far too many redactions and blind spots that DOGE should have already fixed. You can’t have accountability without visibility. Taxpayers need a much clearer picture of the federal workforce than they have today.” U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has been working with Open The Books to fight for greater transparency. In a letter sent in September to Scott Kupor, the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Ernst said she had identified “numerous examples” of full-time federal employees earning two salaries while moonlighting for other agencies or government contractors, something typically prohibited under the law. Ernst pointed out that this was being done without the approval or knowledge of these workers’ managers. “The Trump administration has a historic opportunity to bring much-needed transparency to the administrative state. While federal employees don’t add as much to the debt as safety net programs, defense and overall agency spending, they are an indicator of government’s growth,” Hart said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Our investigators found far too many redactions and blind spots that DOGE should have already fixed. You can’t have accountability without visibility. Taxpayers need a much clearer picture of the federal workforce than they have today.” U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has been working with Open The Books to fight for greater transparency. In a letter sent in September to Scott Kupor, the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Ernst said she had identified “numerous examples” of full-time federal employees earning two salaries while moonlighting for other agencies or government contractors, something typically prohibited under the law. Ernst pointed out that this was being done without the approval or knowledge of these workers’ managers. “From 2021 to 2024, a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) employee held multiple other full-time government contractor jobs, frequently billing taxpayers for more than 24 hours of work in a single day,” Ernst chronicled in her letter. “In addition to HUD, she was paid by AmeriCorps and the National Institutes of Health. Since she teleworked in all three positions, she was able to hide her overlapping jobs and get away with billing taxpayers $225,866 for hours she never worked. She claimed she worked 26 hours on 13 of the 21 workdays in a single month.” Ernst also described a second example of a human resources official at the Peace Corps who was caught falsifying time cards submitted to different agencies, which led to the employee double-billing taxpayers for tens of thousands of dollars. She laid out several other examples in the letter as well. “Until recently, outside of death and taxes, the expanding Washington bureaucracy was one of the few certainties in life,” said Ernst. “I am proud to have partnered with the Trump administration and DOGE to successfully downsize the bloated bureaucracy, but there is much more work to be done to make Washington more efficient.” One can “look no further” than the “failed Schumer shutdown,” Ernst said, pointing out that taxpayers will be on the hook for more than $12 billion in back pay for 750,000 non-essential federal employees who did not work for a month and a half. In October, Ernst introduced the Non-Essential Workers Transparency Act, aimed at providing the public with an exact accounting of how much back pay the government will be required to fork over in the case of a shutdown. The bill would require executive agencies to submit detailed reports to Congress within 30 days of a lapse in appropriations that must include the total number of employees and contractors employed by the agency at the time of the shutdown, the total salaries paid by the agency during the prior fiscal year, the number of furloughed during the lapse and their annual pay, the number of employees not furloughed and the sum of their pay and a requirement that all this information be posted publicly on the agencies’ websites.)
NEWSMAX
— Dozens of House Dems Join GOP to Denounce Socialism
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/socialism-house-mamdani/2025/11/21/id/1235535/
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— House votes to condemn the ‘horrors of socialism’
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/house-votes-to-condemn-the-horrors-of-socialism-ahead-of-trumps-meeting-with-mamdani/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Jeffries votes to denounce ‘horrors’ of socialism after backing socialist Mamdani for NYC mayor
https://thepostmillennial.com/jeffries-votes-to-denounce-horrors-of-socialism-after-backing-socialist-mamdani-for-nyc-mayor
TOWNHALL
— House Votes to Condemn Socialism
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/11/21/house-debates-resolution-denouncing-socialism-n2666828
— Big Dem Donor Had Major Stake in Pot Company Busted Using Illegals, Kids in Operation
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/tomknighton/2025/11/21/big-dem-donor-had-major-stake-in-pot-company-busted-using-illegals-kids-in-operation-n2666830
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Warren: Trump ‘trying to take a little of the shine that Zohran Mamdani has’
https://thehill.com/homenews/5618262-warren-trump-mamdani-meeting/
NEWSWEEK
— Full List of Democrats Voting to Condemn Socialism
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-of-democrats-voting-to-condemn-socialism-as-mamdani-comes-to-town-11088383
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote sedition.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-democrats-video-executed-seditious-11089044
ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote sedition.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/president-trump-accuses-democratic-lawmakers-seditious-behavior-127755514
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote sedition.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-democrats-sedition-death-threat-military-rcna245156
CBS NEWS
— Trump praises Mamdani after White House meeting: “I want him to do a great job”
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/live-updates/trump-mamdani-meeting-white-house-new-york/
— Full video of Trump-Mamdani meeting as president says they “agree on a lot more” than he thought
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-full-video-trump-mamdani-meeting/
— Top 4 takeaways from the Trump-Mamdani meeting
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/trump-mamdani-white-house-meeting-takeaways/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Heaps Praise on Mamdani and New York’s Future
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/21/us/trump-news
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/11/20/katie-wilson-seattle-mayor-mamdani-socialism-democrats/87323706007/
— DD: Compared to our peers, my wife and I spent far less of our income for immediate pleasures and saved far more of our income for our retirement. My critics/opponents stress that we would not have been able save as much for our retirement if we had children.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2018/09/12/retirement-savings-4-tips-save-more-spend-less/1201342002/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote sedition.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/21/trump-threatens-death-six-democrats-sedition/87397313007/
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2025/11/21/trump-claims-sedition-post-not-threatening-democrats/87401336007/
TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Affordability Crisis Deepens: 7 In 10 Americans Say Raising Kids Is Unaffordable, Driving Down Birth Rates. DD: According to my Democrat GAO superiors, if my wife and I had children, a) I would not have been able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt, earn a master’s degree in accounting, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, become a licensed CPA, earn four more professional certifications, or earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading, b) my wife would not have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree in finance, and c) we would not have been able to have a new home built, save lots of money for our retirement, buy collector cars. etc.
https://www.aol.com/news/affordability-crisis-deepens-7-10-194250298.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation. Workers growing tired of economy in which everything seems to get more expensive.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/the-middle-class-is-buckling-under-almost-five-years-of-persistent-inflation-4d783aee
FORBES
— Speaker Johnson Says He’s ‘Very Interested In Raising The Threshold’ To Censure Members. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who almost succeeded in getting their operatives and dupes to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEcB9RiaAzA
FORBES
— House Passes Resolution To Denounce Socialism’s ‘Horrors’ With 98 Dems Voting Against
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvUr17ulnwM
ATLANTIC
— Gas-Station Weed Is Fighting for Its Life. DD: Weed is poison.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/11/thc-marijuana-hemp-loophole/685016/
POLITICO
— House votes to denounce ‘horrors’ of socialism
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/21/congress/house-denounces-horrors-of-socialism-00664412
ACLU
— DD: According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics.
https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/trumps-attempt-to-roll-back-key-civil-rights-enforcement-tool
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
INDIAN EXPRESS
— Trump-Mamdani Meeting Live Updates: Trump praises NYC mayor-elect Mamdani in Oval Office meeting, says they ‘agreed on a lot’
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/live-updates-donald-trump-is-set-to-meet-with-zohran-mamdani-at-white-house-10378890/
November 21, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Black pastors from Illinois endorse Raja Krishnamoorthi in US Senate race. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly unite those who have demographics that vote for Democrats against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans. Demographics that vote for Democrats include liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, have less money than others, have financial, health, and/or other problems, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/black-pastors-illinois-endorse-raja-235844817.html
CBS2
— Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison won’t run for reelection in 2026
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/cook-county-commissioner-sean-morrison-not-running-2026/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/11/21/defend-trump-maga-tucker-carlson-nazi-megyn-kelly-epstein-s-e-cupp
— Many Chicago suburbs not meeting state’s affordable housing requirements, report finds. The Illinois General Assembly passed the Affordable Housing Planning and Appeal Act in 2003 to help create more affordable housing in the state.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2025/11/21/chicago-suburbs-illinois-affordable-housing-requirements-impact-equity
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The communities that didn’t submit plans this year include: Barrington Hills, Campton Hills, Elmhurst, Inverness, Lake Forest, Oak Brook, Prairie Grove, South Barrington, Geneva, Hawthorn Woods, Lily Lake, River Forest and Third Lake. The majority of these communities also didn’t submit plans in the last cycle, which was 2020. The jurisdictions whose plans were noncompliant include: Deerfield, Deer Park, Frankfort, Glencoe, Glenview, Homer Glen, Lake Bluff, Lakewood, Lincolnshire, Lincolnwood, Long Grove, North Barrington, Spring Grove, Timberlane, Tower Lakes, Wayne, Western Springs, Wilmette and Winnetka. Homer Glen submitted its plan late, and it’s under review. Deer Park, Glencoe, Lakewood and Lincolnwood submitted second plans that are under review.)
DAILY HERALD
— 9th District candidate’s gift bag stunt sets a disturbing tone
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251121/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-no-laughing-matter-9th-district-candidates-gift-bag-stunt-sets-a-disturbin/
RIVER BENDER
— DD: Democrat leaders want their illegals to get SNAP
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-calls-on-usda-to-correct-unlawful-snap-eligibility-guidance-88442.cfm
— Durbin: The Senate Has A Responsibility To Help Americans Afford Their Health Insurance. DD: My critics/opponents ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the 72% health insurance subsidy a) that I got when I was federal employee, b) that my wife got when she was a federal employee, c) that I will always get as a federal retiree, and d) that my wife has gotten since we got married in 1978 and will always get.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/durbin-the-senate-has-a-responsibility-to-help-americans-afford-their-health-insurance-88431.cfm
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump lashes out at reporter, highlighting a pattern of attacking press he dislikes. DD: My critics/opponents do not attack me publicly. Instead, they have their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who were unsuccessful Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000. I would focus on those who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-11-20/trump-lashes-out-at-reporter-highlighting-a-pattern-of-attacking-press-he-dislikes
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-11-20/president-trumps-latest-attacks-on-the-free-press
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Ballot brawls heat up
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/11/21/ballot-brawls-heat-up-00664302
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/11/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-637/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Journalism Standards, Anyone?
https://johnkassnews.com/journalism-standards-anyone/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who do your critics/opponents blame their problems on? My critics/opponents blame their problems on those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and paise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty to them personally. They destroy those like me who refuse to be blindly loyal to them. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who were unsuccessful Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000. I would focus on those who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect. I would focus on those who have lots of clout and had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To get more votes from minorities and from women, Democrat leaders fight for equal outcome instead of equal opportunity. To fight for equal outcome is to fight against equal opportunity. According to Democrats, if Whites and men do better at something, it is because they benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against females. I became a licensed CPA. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I earned four other job-related professional certifications. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. Because few minorities and females have done that, Democrats have especially shouted at minorities and at females that I was able to do the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against females. In my defense, I stress that neither of my parents attended college. That my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREITBART
— Google ‘Turned a Blind Eye’ to Defamatory AI Content Against Conservatives
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/21/exclusive-marsha-blackburn-google-turned-blind-eye-defamatory-ai-content/
— Pro-Palestinian Activists Besiege NYC Synagogue: ‘Mamdani Era Has Already Begun’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/20/pro-palestinian-activists-besiege-nyc-synagogue-mamdani-era-begun/
— Treasury Dept. Issues Rule to Prevent Illegals from Securing Income Tax Credits
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/20/exclusive-treasury-dept-issues-historic-rule-prevent-illegal-aliens-securing-income-tax-credits/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— DD: Democrat leaders fight for equal outcome instead of equal opportunity. To fight for equal outcome is to fight against equal opportunity.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/med-schools-need-alternative-strategies-to-evade-affirmative-action-ban-doctor-says/
DAILY CALLER
— Teachers’ Union Leader Claims Only Stuffing Diversity Programs Down Americans’ Throats Will Prevent Fascism
https://ijr.com/teachers-union-leader-claims-only-stuffing-diversity-programs-down-americans-throats-will-prevent-fascism/
FEDERALIST
— DD: Democrat leaders fight for equal outcome instead of equal opportunity. To fight for equal outcome is to fight against equal opportunity.
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/disparate-impact-is-equal-outcome-the-same-as-equal-opportunity
FOX BUSINESS
— Why Mamdani’s policies ‘won’t work’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBjziIpIuSU
FOX NEWS
— Mamdani is the ‘North Star’ of the Democratic Party
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385374193112
— When Trump meets Mamdani: Five capitalist messages the democratic socialist should hear. When Trump sits down with Mamdani, I hope he doesn’t lecture him. I hope he teaches him with examples of what’s worked in this country for nearly 250 years. DD: My critics/opponents blame capitalism for their problems.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/when-trump-meets-mamdani-five-capitalist-messages-democratic-socialist-should-hear
— Socialist mayor-elect reveals why she embraced her parents giving her money as a 43-year-old. DD: My parents lacked money. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/socialist-mayor-elect-reveals-why-she-embraced-her-parents-giving-her-money.print
— Top teachers union guiding gender transitions, bashing conservatives
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/uncovered-docs-show-top-teachers-union-guiding-gender-transitions-bashing-conservatives-insane-asylum.print
ONE NEWS PAGE
— We Desperately Need ICE Agents Protected So They Can Deport All Illegals
https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20251121/17585646/The-JD-Rucker-Show-We-Desperately-Need-ICE.htm
TOWNHALL
— Mamdani has promised that the NYPD will never again cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He vowed to permanently sever the partnership that allows local and federal agencies to remove dangerous offenders who are in the country illegally and commit crimes on New York streets. To the progressive activists cheering this on—it’s a victory. To anyone who cares about public safety, law, logic, or the lives of ordinary New Yorkers, it is reckless beyond measure.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2025/11/20/the-mayor-whod-prefer-you-to-die-n2666762
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Republicans Working to End Biden-era Regulation That Funded Travel for Illegal Alien Minors Who Were Getting Abortions
https://www.westernjournal.com/republicans-working-end-biden-era-regulation-funded-travel-illegal-alien-minors-getting-abortions/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: From what I see, the more of the following that you are, the more likely that you might defy Trump: liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, noncitizen, have less money than others, have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozer, gambler, stoner, and/or criminal.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5616442-maga-women-trump-gop-leadership/
— The damaging effects of shifting from equal opportunity to ‘equal outcomes’ DD: Democrat leaders fight for equal outcome instead of equal opportunity. To fight for equal outcome is to fight against equal opportunity.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/529262-the-damaging-effects-of-shifting-from-equal-opportunity-to-equal-outcomes/
ROLL CALL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote sedition.
https://rollcall.com/2025/11/20/democratic-hawks-defiant-after-trump-accuses-them-of-seditious-act/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Veteran FBI employee sues bureau after being fired over displaying a pride flag. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, that is, they fired me, because since 1988, I had been an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. SEE: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:1987cv03538/26664/433/
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-progress-pride-flag-lawsuit-83c0d9750e9bf6a11a11b858420750a2
CNN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote sedition.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/politics/hang-democrats-trump-seditious-behavior
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/politics/video/rep-deluzio-responds-seditious-behavior
— Bipartisan push to reform censure process emerges in Congress after flurry of complaints brought against lawmakers. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who almost succeeded in getting their operatives and dupes to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bipartisan-push-to-reform-censure-process-emerges-in-congress-after-flurry-of-complaints-brought-against-lawmakers/ar-AA1QQB0r
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Accuses Democrats of Sedition, ‘Punishable by Death,’ Over Message to the Military. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors turned my subordinates against me. They not only assigned me to supervise their most problematic employees, demanded that I give them big time preference, and demanded that I improve their performance. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. All the employees who they assigned me to supervise were minority, female, veteran, disabled, and/or had major health and/or other problems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/politics/trump-democrats-sedition-death-punishment.html
— DD: Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/opinion/israel-hamas-antisemitism-republicans.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/us/immigration-poll-trump-crackdown.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump: Democrats ‘traitors’ for telling military not to follow unlawful orders. The president said lawmakers who appeared in a video committed “seditious behavior” and should be arrested and put on trial for treason. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors turned my subordinates against me. They not only assigned me to supervise their most problematic employees, demanded that I give them big time preference, and demanded that I improve their performance. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. All the employees who they assigned me to supervise were minority, female, veteran, disabled, and/or had major health and/or other problems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/20/trump-democrats-seditious-behavior/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How much success have Democrats had destroying those in the following who do not promote LGBTQ: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2025/11/03/inside-stonewall-inn-bar/86853750007/
FAIRFAX COUNTY TIMES
— Socialism may be the rage in NYC, but not in Fairfax County! DD: How successful will Democrats be making America, Illinois, your county, your township, and your municipality socialist? Socialism rewards blind loyalty to government leaders over everything else. My Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors demanded blind loyalty to them personally. Even though I refused to give them that, I survived as a Post Office employee for almost 3 years, as an IRS employee for almost 9 years, and as a GAO employee for almost 18 years. I would not have been able to do that if I had not a) earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/socialism-may-be-the-rage-in-nyc-but-not-in-fairfax-county/article_af12e222-e6c0-4d44-a9d0-becfcf3a2237.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Socialism has arrived in New York, but is it wanted in Fairfax County? That question is presented to voters in the county’s Braddock District as they consider the candidates for an open seat on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in the upcoming Dec. 9 special election.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— For Americans, Family Comes First—or Does It? A new survey finds that for most of us, especially the young, personal well-being matters more. DD: How big is your family? I had one sibling, he never married, he had no children, and he has died, My parents have died. My father had one sibling, she never married, she had no children, and she has died, My mother had three siblings and they have died. Only three children of my mother’s siblings survive.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/for-americans-family-comes-firstor-does-it-61d44cae
FED SMITH
— Federal Pay Skyrockets: New Open The Books Report Shows 24% Payroll Surge Since 2020. Federal pay surged during the Biden years as locality pay areas grew, driving six‑figure salaries higher despite modest workforce growth and rising telework.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/11/19/federal-pay-skyrockets-since-2020/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The report shows that the civilian federal workforce (excluding DOD and Postal Service) reached roughly 2.9 million employees and had a disclosed payroll of $270 billion in FY 2024. That’s a 24% jump from FY 2020, when payroll stood near $217 billion. The size of the federal workforce grew by about 5% during that period. . .The biggest change is not in hiring. It is the compensation structure. The number of employees earning six-figure salaries has exploded since 2020. Federal workers earning $100,000+ jumped 49%. Those earning $200,000+ soared 82%. The number above $300,000 rose 84%. In 117 of 127 major agencies (and in the White House as well), the average salary at the time the data were calculated exceeded $100,000. As noted above, OPM data as of March 2025 showed an average federal salary of almost $110,000. The report highlights a striking trend in the federal workforce: the number of highly compensated federal employees has grown significantly. The report highlights several items, including the highest federal salaries. In FY 2024, 956 federal employees made more than the President of the United States, who has had a salary of $400,000 since 2001. There are more employees earning more than $400,000 than ever before in Open The Books’ payroll records dating back to 2010. 939 of the employees who out earned the president were medical officers at the Veterans Health Administration. Four of the employees listed are dentists. 15 doctors at the National Institutes of Health earn more than $400,000, including the four highest-paid employees in the entire federal workforce. The director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute was paid $519,246, breaking his own record for the highest federal salary in American history. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was the federal employee of the year in 2020, once held the record for being the highest-paid federal employee with a $480,654 salary in 2022. An additional 36 federal employees earned exactly $400,000, the same salary as the president. A few years ago, it was rare for any federal employee to earn more than the president. In 2019, only three federal employees made more than $400,000. Why Federal Pay Has Gone Up)
POLITICO
— In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards. The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked. DD: I should write about the success that Democrats have had in Wheaton-Warrenville School District 200. I have lived in it since 1978.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/culture-war-democrats-school-boards-00663699
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
BBC
— Is the new Pope woke? DD: To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, those who ancestors have been in America for a long time, etc.
https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct723j
AL JAZEERA
— DD: America-haters ever-increasingly promote Mamdani
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/11/21/mamdanis-democratic-socialism-is-a-promise-of-true-freedom-for-all
November 20, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Appeals court temporarily blocks release of hundreds arrested in ‘Midway Blitz’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/court-temporarily-blocks-release-hundreds-arrested-operation-midway-blitz-trump-administration-appeal/18181042/
NBC5
— Trump says Democrats’ video message to military is ‘seditious behavior’ punishable by death
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-democrats-video-message-to-military-seditious-punishable-by-death/3853922/
CBS2
— Trump condemned by Democrats after he accuses 6 lawmakers of “seditious behavior”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-democrats-seditious-behavior/
FOX32
— DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness because it destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/volunteers-sleep-outside-chicago-support-homeless-youth
WBEZ
— DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty because it destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.wbez.org/money/2025/11/19/chicago-food-pantries-unprecedented-demand-holiday-season
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Dick Cheney’s funeral brings bipartisan tributes, but Trump was not invited
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/dick-cheney-funeral/
— Injunction ruling provides new look at ‘Operation Midway Blitz,’ from tear gas to agent using ChatGPT to help write report
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/injunction-scathing-ruling-midway-blitz/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison says he won’t seek reelection. Morrison stepped down as the chair of the Cook County GOP in April, saying it was “time for new energy” in the party. This time, he said he believed public office should be “a season of contribution, not a lifetime occupation, and it is important that I lead by example.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/11/20/cook-commissioner-sean-morrison-reelection
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump says Democrats’ video message to military is ‘seditious behavior’ punishable by death
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-says-democrats-video-message-to-military-is-seditious-behavior-punishable-by-death/
FOX ILLINOIS
— ‘Quiet, piggy’: Trump appears to hiss insult at reporter who asks him about Epstein files
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/quiet-piggy-trump-appears-to-hiss-insult-at-reporter-who-asks-him-about-epstein-files-classified-documents-emails-financial-records-flight-information-island-president-donald-trump-bill-clinton-larry-summers
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/11/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-427/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUE
— Chicago Teachers Union radicalism is officially statewide
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-radicalism-is-officially-statewide-2/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Democrats Caught in ‘Election Manipulation’ Scandal as Chuy García Faces Bipartisan Rebuke for Blocking Voters’ Choice
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/11/democrats-caught-in-election-manipulation-scandal-as-chuy-garcia-faces-bipartisan-rebuke-for-blocking-voters-choice.html
— After Family Tragedy, Trump Sends Heartfelt Letter as Darren Bailey Vows to Stay in Race and ‘Fight, Fight, Fight’
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/11/after-family-tragedy-trump-sends-heartfelt-letter-as-darren-bailey-vows-to-stay-in-race-and-fight-fight-fight.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Scott Walker: End racial discrimination in the federal government
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/20/end-racial-discrimination-federal-government/
— White House ready to welcome ‘communist’ Mamdani
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/20/white-house-ready-welcome-communist-zohran-mamdani/
— Judge rules Trump’s deployment of National Guard in D.C. was illegal
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/20/judge-rules-trumps-deployment-national-guard-dc-illegal/
— Dick Cheney eulogized at Washington funeral without Trump but with prominent Democrats in the pews
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/20/dick-cheney-eulogized-washington-funeral-without-trump-prominent/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump and Vance excluded from Cheney’s funeral
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3893436/trump-and-vance-excluded-from-dick-cheney-funeral/
NEW YORK POST
— Dick Cheney funeral draws big Dem names Biden, Harris, Maddow — while Trump and Vance get benched
https://nypost.com/2025/11/20/us-news/dick-cheney-funeral-draws-big-dem-names-biden-harris-maddow-while-trump-and-vance-get-benched/
— Ad campaign tells seniors to call out ageism — as life expectancy rises in NYC
https://nypost.com/2025/11/20/us-news/ad-campaign-tells-seniors-to-call-out-ageism-as-life-expectancy-rises-in-nyc/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Mamdani admits he committed a federal crime by having illegals participate in his campaign
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/11/20/mamdani-admits-he-committed-a-federal-crime-by-having-illegals-participate-in-his-campaign-1601697/
BREITBART
— Pope Leo XIV politely rebuked the many pro-migration advocates who portray him and the Catholic Church as supporters of mass migration and as opponents of deportations.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/11/19/pope-leo-rebukes-pro-migration-advocates/amp/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— ‘Industrialized’ Fraud in the H-1B Visa Program
https://cis.org/Parsing-Immigration-Policy/Industrialized-Fraud-H1B-Visa-Program
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Appeals Court Blocks Release of Hundreds of Chicago-Area Immigration Detainees
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/chicago-immigration-seventh-circuit.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Calls for Arrest of Democrats Who Urged Troops to Disobey Illegal Orders. ‘You must refuse illegal orders,’ Democratic lawmakers said in video released this week.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-calls-for-arrest-of-democrats-who-urged-troops-to-disobey-illegal-orders-92a081eb
November 20, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Court temporarily blocks restrictions on use of force by federal immigration agents in Chicago area
https://abc7chicago.com/post/appeals-court-temporarily-blocks-restrictions-use-force-federal-immigration-agents-chicago-area/18176374/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago appeals court halts order restricting use of force by immigration agents, calling it ‘overbroad’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/chicago-appeals-court-halts-order-use-of-force-immigration-agents/
— Pritzker meets Pope in Rome, discussing Trump’s Chicago immigration crackdown. DD: As Democrat leaders ever-increasingly move further to the left, they increasingly succeed in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/gov-jb-pritzker-pope-rome-trump-immigration-crackdown/
— Illinois politicians party as Black communities fall further behind
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/opinion-black-wealth-chicago-urban-league/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker and the Pope talk ‘Operation Midway Blitz’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv/2025/11/19/jb-pritzker-pope-leo-xiv-vatican-meeting-operation-midway-blitz-chicago-beer
— Federal appeals court halts ruling that curbed use of force during immigration campaign. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the Nov. 6 preliminary injunction from Judge Sara Ellis “overbroad,” but it also promised a quick appeal process.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/19/federal-appeals-court-halts-ruling-that-curbed-use-of-force-during-immigration-campaign
DAILY HERALD
— Arlington Heights says no to immigration agents using public spaces. DD: Doing that demonstrates gross rejection of Trump’s election.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251118/news/arlington-heights-says-no-to-immigration-agents-using-public-spaces/
— DuPage County Board approves drone purchase
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251119/news/dupage-county-board-approves-drone-purchase/
EVANSTON NOW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that the Pope rejects the concepts of countries, borders, and laws, that is, that the Pope rejects America, its borders, and its laws.
https://evanstonnow.com/pritzker-and-pope-discuss-immigration-raids/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders urge troops to reject ‘illegal orders’ from Trump administration. DD: While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, I always followed now orders (now illegal) to give preference to my subordinates who were minority and/or female. But because I complained about reverse discrimination, my Democrat superiors wasted my career and got rid of me.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/ex-cia-navy-lawmakers-urge-troops-to-reject-illegal-orders-from-trump-administration-elissa-slotkin-mark-kelly-stephen-miller-pete-hegseth
WCBU
— Former Illinois representatives (Bustos, Dold, and LaHood) point to district maps as undermining bipartisanship. DD: How gerrymandered are the political districts that you live in?
https://www.wcbu.org/local-news/2025-11-18/former-illinois-representatives-point-to-district-maps-as-undermining-bipartisanship
WIFR
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Rockford will ever-increasingly get rid of its residents who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/11/19/rockford-earns-perfect-score-lgbtq-inclusivity/
LAKE & MCHENRY COUNTY SCANNER
— Video shows illegal immigrants running into Warren Township High School in Gurnee to flee federal agents
https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2025/11/19/new-video-shows-illegal-immigrants-running-into-warren-township-high-school-in-gurnee-to-flee-federal-agents/
NORTHERN STAR
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters hold Trump responsible for everything that is bad. What are your critics/opponents responsible for, but hold you responsible for? My critics/opponents who are responsible for electing Republican candidates in Illinois, DuPage County, and Milton Township hold me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter responsible for Republican defeats. My Democrat superiors in the federal government were responsible for meeting Affirmative Action quotas, goals, and targets and held me responsible for difficulties they encountered doing that.
https://northernstar.info/130466/opinion/opinion-donald-trump-should-be-held-accountable/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Clergy sue ICE over access
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/11/20/clergy-sue-ice-over-access-00661380
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/11/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-636/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/11/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-426/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Thursday, November 20, 2025
https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?e=19fa91a7b3&u=7f97bb358e660a3d3fb24306a&id=1dff4d4ee0
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Ernst & Young Report Details Chicago’s Wasteful Spending: It’s Worse than You Think
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/ernst-young-report-chicago-wasteful-spending
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write about Democrats who falsely hinted/implied/argued/shouted that they were Republicans to advance in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton when Republicans ran the aforesaid. I would focus on those who advanced the most. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me. Now that Democrats run the aforesaid, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, they will all officially become Democrats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Appeals court rules in favor of DHS on crowd control tactics in Chicago
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/19/appeals-court-rules-favor-dhs-crowd-control-tactics-chicago/
— China using fentanyl to wage war on U.S.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/19/china-using-fentanyl-wage-war-us/
— ‘Sanctuary census’: Republicans say Democrats stole power through bogus 2020 count
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/19/sanctuary-census-republicans-say-democrats-stole-power-bogus-2020/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pope Leo XIV draws online backlash over climate, immigration and transgender outreach. DD: As Democrat leaders ever-increasingly move further to the left, they increasingly succeed in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3891431/pope-leo-xiv-draws-online-backlash-climate-immigration-transgender-outreach/
— Enforcing immigration laws is not the moral equivalent of the Holocaust. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly equate illegals with runaway slaves.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3892204/enforcing-immigration-laws-not-holocaust/
— Netanyahu should call Mamdani’s bluff
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3892623/netanyahu-should-call-mamdani-bluff/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrats urging troops to ‘disobey’ are playing a dangerous game
https://nypost.com/2025/11/19/opinion/dems-urging-troops-to-disobey-are-playing-a-dangerous-game/
— Mamdani’s endorsement of controversial NY assembly candidate who minimized 9/11 draws backlash
https://nypost.com/2025/11/19/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-endorsement-of-controversial-ny-assembly-candidate-who-minimized-9-11-draws-backlash/
— Gun rights groups hail Trump’s pick to lead ATF: ‘First ever truly pro-Second Amendment nominee’
https://nypost.com/2025/11/20/us-news/gun-rights-groups-hail-trumps-pick-to-lead-atf-first-ever-truly-pro-second-amendment-nominee/
— Wannabe GI Jane sues Navy after her dream of becoming first female SEAL comes to a crashing end over age. DD: My Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to get rid of me. According to them, if you are a Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran, you are out if they do not promote you to GS-13, currently $117,807/year, by age 25. Extremely few IRS employees make that aforesaid promotion deadline. I finally made GS-13 when I was 38, but not until after I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO when I was 31, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, e) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, and f) became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.aol.com/news/wannabe-gi-jane-sues-navy-113000336.html
— Jewish organizations enabled Mamdani
https://nypost.com/2025/11/19/opinion/jewish-orgs-enabled-mamdani-american-dream-on-hold-and-other-commentary/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Islamization Of The United States
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/the_islamization_of_the_united_states.html
— It’s not irrational to worry about mass Muslim migration
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/it_s_not_irrational_to_worry_about_mass_muslim_migration.html
BREITBART
— Sens. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) are leading a bill to give the National Labor Relations Board power over investigating and prosecuting employers that hire illegal aliens. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/19/exclusive-jim-banks-leads-putting-american-workers-first-act-to-more-easily-prosecute-employers-hiring-illegal-aliens/amp/
— Trump, Mamdani to meet Friday at White House
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/11/20/katie-wilson-seattle-mayor-mamdani-socialism-democrats/87323706007/
COLLEGE FIX
— Notre Dame no longer asks staff to support its Catholic mission. DD: I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/notre-dame-no-longer-asks-staff-to-support-its-catholic-mission/
— Students line up to listen to anti-socialist speaker on campus. DD: QUESTION: Who advances under socialism? ANSWER: Those who serve as operatives or dupes for government. QUESTION: Which of my federal coworkers advanced the most over me? ANSWER: Those who served as operatives or dupes the most for their Democrat superiors.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/students-line-up-to-listen-to-anti-socialist-speaker-on-campus/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump’s Education Dept Ends Free Tuition For Illegals. DD: I had to work my way through college. Consequently, my GPA suffered.
https://www.aol.com/exclusive-trump-education-dept-ends-123926748.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— New HHS Report on Transgender ‘Care’ for Minors Reveals Why Activists Try to ‘Silence Critics’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/19/new-hhs-report-transgender-care-minors-reveals-why-activists-try-silence-critics-contributor-says/
FEDERALIST
— We Need To Deport 1 Million Illegal Immigrants A Month
https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/19/we-need-to-deport-1-million-illegal-immigrants-a-month/
FOX NEWS
— Socialist group ‘By Any Means Necessary’ escalates campaign to ‘stop’ Turning Point USA. DD: Who heads TPUSA in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/socialist-group-by-any-means-necessary-escalates-campaign-stop-turning-point-usa.amp
— Rubio orders restitution for hundreds of staffers denied promotions under Biden DEI rule.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-orders-restitution-hundreds-staffers-denied-promotions-under-biden-dei-rule
— Bipartisan plan aims to make the American Dream affordable again for millions of first-time homebuyers. The median age for a first-time home buyer is now 40. DD: Back in the good old days, back in 1972, I was able to buy a new townhome when I was 24 years old.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bipartisan-plan-aims-make-american-dream-affordable-again-millions-first-time-homebuyers
— Socialism Destroys Everything It Touches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSboRoEtxs
— Mamdani backs candidate who called 9/11 ‘a terror attack that a couple of people did’
https://noticias.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-backs-candidate-who-called-9-11-terror-attack-couple-people-did
TOWNHALL
— Democrats Need Illegal Immigrants As a Permanent Underclass. DD: Democrat leaders want illegals because they vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want illegals because they want cheap labor.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/11/19/jill-filippovic-illegal-slave-wages-n2666674
U.S. HOUSE
— Sanctuary Mayors Refuse to Change Policies That Obstruct Federal Immigration Enforcement and Protect Dangerous Criminal Aliens. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly obstruct enforcement of immigration laws.
https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-sanctuary-mayors-refuse-to-change-policies-that-obstruct-federal-immigration-enforcement-and-protect-dangerous-criminal-aliens/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their illegals in Chicago
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/sights-sounds-trumps-immigration-crackdown-chicago-127699423
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly obstruct enforcement of immigration laws.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/justice-department-immigration-enforcement.html
— DD: My critics/opponents use my being conservative, Republican, Protestant, and German American to slander me as being antisemitic. They stress the many big adverse actions that my Jewish superiors in the federal government took against me. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/opinion/right-antisemitism-yoram-hazony.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010528982/understanding-the-rights-antisemitic-turn.html
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Mamdani to unite voters who are the following against Republican candidates: liberal/moderate, have less money than others, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/20/build-on-mamdanis-momentum-for-lgbtq-n-y-ers/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. How soon will the Democrat Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/11/20/katie-wilson-seattle-mayor-mamdani-socialism-democrats/87323706007/
DESERET NEWS
— DD: QUESTION: Why are fewer and fewer and fewer people getting married? ANSWERS: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer people are marriage material. What helped make you marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $108,978/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 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.
https://www.deseret.com/special-series/2025/11/14/american-family-survey-marriage-indifference-needed-family/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump’s DEI Slayer Is Just Getting Started. EEOC head Andrea Lucas is shifting the workplace watchdog’s priorities to fighting anti-Christian bias and diversity programs. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because my Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted that offer and because I needed a job because I was helping support my mother and brother, I accepted a job offer from IRS. I had wanted a career in the automotive industry. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of me.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-eeoc-chief-andrea-lucas-is-dei-slayer-just-getting-started-2d6623a6
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As head of the federal agency that fights workplace discrimination, Andrea Lucas has said two men in particular have shaped her sense of mission. One is her father, an industrial salesman who she has said was once fired after speaking up about his faith on the job. The other is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who led the agency—the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—from 1982 to 1990. As President Trump’s EEOC chair, Lucas is sharply shifting the agency’s focus to give priority to allegations of religious discrimination. It is bringing lawsuits on behalf of a truck driver who asked to wear a skirt on the job because of her Apostolic Christian beliefs and a ski-area employee fired after writing faith-related social-media posts. And it recently settled with a staffing agency that didn’t hire a Muslim job applicant after he asked for an accommodation to attend Friday prayer. The 39-year-old Christian conservative has opened investigations into law firms’ diversity practices and universities’ handling of antisemitism. The EEOC asked a judge this week to enforce a subpoena against the University of Pennsylvania. Lucas has said she is attacking the identity politics she believes has permeated workplaces and the broader culture. “Laying siege to the institutions and taking them back is the big-picture theme,” Lucas told the Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet, this summer. By targeting elite institutions, she said in the interview, “You change the culture.” Now she has the power to do more. During the government shutdown, the Senate confirmed a Trump nominee, Brittany Panuccio, as an EEOC commissioner. That gives Lucas a quorum—a minimum of three commissioners out of the full slate of five—after Trump fired two Democrats in January. One Democratic commissioner remains. With the agency’s full powers, Lucas can make good on promises to rescind guidance regarding protections for transgender and nonbinary workers and root out what the Trump administration views as unlawful diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Most notably, she will be able to sue employers on significant legal questions, potentially setting the stage for new precedents on civil-rights law. “Andrea is very pro-enforcement,” said Victoria Lipnic, who served as the EEOC’s acting chair during the first Trump administration. “The traditional trope of Republican administrations is that they’ll be hands-off about enforcement. That’s not her at all.” Lucas declined to comment. An agency spokesperson said Lucas “has emphasized a broad reset of agency priorities to be consistent with the President’s agenda, Supreme Court precedent, and our country’s founding principles of equality and individual rights.” While racial and sexual discrimination still make up a large share of claims that American workers file with the agency, Lucas has chosen to call attention to religious-discrimination allegations, which make up a small portion of claims. “In some cases, it’s been a direct 180,” Christopher DeGroff, a partner who represents employers at the law firm Seyfarth Shaw, said of the EEOC’s shift in focus since the Biden administration. To date, the EEOC has recovered more than $55 million for workers affected by Covid vaccine mandates, many of whom refused to get the vaccine for religious reasons. Lucas recently called the mandates “one of the greatest civil-rights violations in the last few decades.” It also secured a $21 million settlement from Columbia University as part of the Trump administration’s push against antisemitism at academic institutions—the agency’s largest public settlement in nearly two decades. This spring, senior agency officials asked EEOC attorneys around the country to identify discrimination claims in line with White House priorities, according to an email viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Those include discrimination resulting from employer DEI programs, along with antisemitism and anti-Christian or anti-American bias in workplaces. The EEOC filed 94 lawsuits in fiscal 2025, which ended Sept. 30, one of the lowest tallies in decades. One reason for the decrease, DeGroff said, is it takes time for regional offices to identify claims in line with the new priorities and with enough merit to file a federal complaint. Former colleagues describe Lucas as outspoken, dedicated and smart. “She has a really strong legal mind and was among the brightest associates I worked with over the years,” said Jason Schwartz, who as a leader of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s labor and employment team oversaw Lucas’s work early in her career. In her first EEOC commission term, which began in 2020, Lucas established a reputation as an independent thinker. She voted with the two Democrats to approve a lawsuit accusing a McDonald’s franchisee of discriminating against Black job applicants, according to the EEOC’s press release on the case. Her votes with Democrats regularly denied victories to the commission’s other two Republicans early in the Biden presidency, when Republicans held a majority of the commissioner seats. Lucas has taken a more strident tone from the start of Trump’s term, excoriating the Biden administration for what she has called “woke policies” and supporting the firing of her two Democratic colleagues on the commission. She hired Connor Clegg, a former digital-media strategist for the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, to join her communications team. In a June hearing to confirm Lucas for a second term, she said she erred in 2021 when she wrote on social media that the EEOC was an independent agency. Instead, she told senators, the agency answers to the White House. Hundreds of EEOC employees have retired early, accepted buyouts or left for other jobs since the start of Trump’s term, said current and former employees. Those moves have left the agency understaffed and morale low, they said. The agency’s shift on protections for transgender workers has been a particular source of confusion—and anger—among some staffers. The agency suspended work on discrimination claims related to gender identity early this year, a move Lucas said adhered to Trump’s executive order to “defend biological reality.” EEOC officials later told agency workers that they could investigate a small subset and that Lucas’s office would review investigations if staff determined discrimination likely took place, according to an email reviewed by the Journal.)
— The Economics of Income Mobility. I believe in the American dream, but the data show that some people have an advantage in realizing it. DD: According to my critics/opponents. I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics. Sadly, my father, my grandfather, and my great grandfather are examples of downward mobility. In 1902, my great grandfather had 1285 Main Street built in Crete (4,030 sq. ft. https://www.redfin.com/IL/Crete/1285-Main-St-60417/home/23199035 ). In 1926, my grandfather had 1286 Wood Street built in Crete (1793 sq. ft. https://www.redfin.com/IL/Crete/1286-Wood-St-60417/home/23199039 ). My father never had a home built. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-income-mobility-c0a5bd3e
WASHINGTON STAND
— Democrats Favor Socialism. DD: My critics/opponents favor socialism. They promote dependency on government.
https://washingtonstand.com/article/surveys-dems-favor-socialism-but-definitions-differ
WASHINGTON MONTHLY
— Mamdani Just Showed How to Unify the Democratic Party—And Win. DD: How successful will Mamdani be in uniting non-Protestants against Protestants?
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/20/mamdani-sherrill-democratic-party-affordability-agenda/
FORBES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. How soon will the Democrat Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V6lLEUu5ZQ
— Career-Limiting. DD: My refusal to become a Democrat not only limited my career, it ended my career when I was 49 years old in 1997. It stopped me from making GS-13, currently $117,807/year until I was 38 years old in 1986. It stopped me from being promoted to GS-14.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2025/10/13/the-scariest-jobs-5-tips-to-face-career-limiting-fears-reader-beware/
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, when Whites and males do better than minorities and females, it is because Whites and males have benefitted from discrimination against minorities and females.
https://hbr.org/2025/11/the-hidden-driver-of-workforce-polarization
PBS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly obstruct enforcement of immigration laws.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/justice-department-directs-prosecutors-to-investigate-state-and-local-efforts-to-obstruct-immigration-enforcement
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-pressures-sanctuary-jurisdictions-by-publishing-list-of-places-deliberately-obstructing-immigration-enforcement
NPR
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly obstruct enforcement of immigration laws.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5271541/doj-immigration-trump-memo-prosecution
— House lawmakers force a vote on bill to restore federal workers’ bargaining rights. DD: My critics/opponents are anti-union if not union-haters. They are furious that while I was a union member 1971-1980, my salary increased from $55,850/year to $112,280/ear in today’s dollars. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned an MBA, b) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, and c) I earned a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/19/nx-s1-5613344/house-lawmakers-force-a-vote-on-bill-to-restore-federal-workers-bargaining-rights
BEAST
— Pope Leo Torches Trump’s ‘Extremely Disrespectful’ Agenda. DD: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-torches-trumps-extremely-disrespectful-agenda/
FOREIGN SOURCES
PRESS READER
— DD: Under the Democrats, America produces fewer and fewer and fewer contributing members of society. Under the Democrats, more and more and more Americans are dependent on government and charity.
https://www.pressreader.com/malaysia/the-borneo-post/20251116/281771340465851
SKY NEWS
— Mamdani is ‘endorsing’ people with his same socialist views
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/rita-panahi/zohran-mamdani-is-endorsing-people-with-his-same-socialist-views/video/0183958bde6a6b1e5ddbf787bcb90e0f
TIMES OF INDIA
— Side effects of diabetes medications. DD: All three of the diabetes medications that I take have major negative side effects.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/from-erratic-weight-changes-to-gas-5-lesser-known-side-effects-of-diabetes-medications/photostory/124545863.cms
5 PILLARS
— New York mayoral election: 90% of Muslims voted for Mamdani
https://5pillarsuk.com/2025/11/08/new-york-mayoral-election-90-of-muslims-voted-for-mamdani/
OTHER SOURCES
PSYCOLOGY TODAY
— Social isolation harms your health. DD: My critics/opponents ever-increasingly isolate me because I promote conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject. Most commonly, they reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-living/202307/loneliness-harms-your-health