July 21, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 28 shot, 6 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-16-shot-4-fatally-gun-violence-city-police-say/17195012/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/ice-arrests-increase-across-chicago-under-trump-many-with-no-convictions-data-shows/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/trump-deportation-letters-chicago-children/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, dependency on government ever-increasingly increases.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/snapshot-of-food-insecurity-in-illinois-and-the-u-s/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/in-the-wake-of-snap-cuts-feeding-hungry-illinoisans-falls-more-than-ever-on-food-pantries/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for pollution and bad weather.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/aspen-climate-chicago-rally/

DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County Fair opening Thursday, July 24. I should write about Republican participation in the fair since 1978 and especially since 1999.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250721/submitted-content/dupage-county-fair-opens-with-animals-axe-throwing-and-drone-light-shows/

SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/20/when-the-raids-started-fear-spread-la-mayor-bass-on-trumps-deportation-efforts/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Affirmation Action, DEI, and other laws anyways required my employers to give preference to my coworkers who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/business/article_4795d6bd-a173-476c-bad6-1db4d3ee182b.html

RIVER BENDER
— Did your father earn enough money so that your mother could stay home and raise you? Because my father did, my critics/opponents have always used that to paint me as being filthy rich. But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. Because of that, I had to work my way through college. What was your mother’s earning potential? My mother’s earning potential was very limited because she never attended high school.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-durbin-help-reintroduce-bill-to-help-families-get-the-affordable-child-care-they-need-84462.cfm
–Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/idhs-preserves-lgbtqia-youth-support-on-988-lifeline-amid-federal-cuts-84450.cfm

FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) fight deportation of their illegals and b) push pot..
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/vigil-held-in-las-vegas-for-man-who-died-after-ice-raid-at-cannabis-farm
— Trump touts record GOP support amid Epstein files backlash
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-touts-record-gop-support-amid-epstein-files-backlash-truth-social-maga-billionaire-convicted-sex-offender-jeffrey-epstein-attorney-general-pam-bondi-ghislaine-maxwell-client-list-transcripts

DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in DeKalb. I successfully resisted pot pushers while was a NIU student there 1969-1970.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/07/20/city-of-dekalb-gives-final-ok-to-cannabis-dispensary-tasting-rooms/?

ELMHURST PATCH
— Sexism Claims Against Addison Township Consultant
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/sexism-claims-against-addison-township-consultant

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-555/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Blago Works Lincolnshire Party
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/21/blago-works-lincolnshire-party/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— White House says Trump will ‘not support amnesty’ when asked about Dignity Act. Needless-to-say, no one who comes to America illegally or stays in America illegally should get citizenship.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-says-trump-will-not-support-amnesty-when-asked-about-dignity-act/ar-AA1IO02m
— Democrat and RINO leaders want to make America more and more and more dependent on illegal labor.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3476746/karen-bass-la-cant-rebuild-after-wildfires-without-immigrant-labor/

NEW YORK POST
— NY awarded more than $600M to ‘sanctuary’ groups helping defy Trump, federal immigration law
https://nypost.com/2025/07/20/us-news/ny-awarded-more-than-600m-to-sanctuary-groups-helping-defy-trump-federal-immigration-law/

COLLEGE FIX
— University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign affiliates reported Young Americans for Freedom to the bias team around 50 times for hosting conservative commentator Elisha Krauss.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/dangerous-pro-israel-event-reported-50-times-to-university-of-ilinois-bias-team-public-records/

FOX NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-mayor-bass-dodges-question-whether-all-illegal-immigrants-city-should-allowed-stay
— Far too many civil rights groups exist get rid of those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/civil-rights-group-declares-state-140858175.html

TOWNHALL
— No Amnesty Ever
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/07/21/read-our-lips-no-amnesty-ever-n2660661

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Pence: Trump hasn’t changed Republican Party
https://www.aol.com/pence-trump-hasn-t-changed-185514537.html
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5411271-trump-vows-to-push-agenda-amid-criticism/

NBC NEWS
— Vance’s and Marco Rubio’s Senate successors avoid GOP primary drama. Primaries are nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents wanted Jim Ryan to win the 2002 Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary. Because I supported Pat O’Malley who lost in that primary and because Blagojevich won the general election, my critics/opponents continue to do everything that they can to destroy me. My critics/opponents wanted Andy McKenna to win the 2004 Illinois Republican U.S. Senate primary. They falsely claim that I supported Jack Ryan in that primary to falsely justify their continuing to do everything that they can to destroy me because Ryan withdrew after winning the primary and Obama won the general election.
https://www.aol.com/vances-marco-rubios-senate-successors-090000696.html

CBS NEWS
— ICE head says agents will arrest anyone found in the U.S. illegally, crack down on employers of unauthorized workers
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-head-todd-lyons-agents-will-arrest-anyone-found-illegally-crack-down-on-employers/
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trumps-approval-dipping-cbs-news-poll-finds/

MSN
— The Dignity Act would encourage more illegal immigration.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-lawmakers-ridicule-republican-colleague-s-bill-to-allow-some-migrants-to-obtain-citizenship-no-amnesty/ar-AA1IRQuv
— How many inmates in Illinois, in your county, in your township, and in your municipality are illegals?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-asks-san-diego-sheriff-for-data-on-all-noncitizen-inmates-despite-state-law/ar-AA1IOUey

MSN & AOL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they are not only anti-American, but that they hate America. They ever-increasingly promote those who invade, infiltrate, infest, and destroy America.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/were-settlers-fox-news-personality-dismisses-nation-of-immigrants-idea/ar-AA1IJL9f
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pete-hegseth-announces-dangerous-expansion-of-ice-s-powers/ar-AA1ISdpq
https://www.aol.com/newsom-escalates-trump-immigration-feud-185110057.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Federal court says Arkansas can enforce ban on critical race theory in classrooms. To promote critical race theory is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.livingstonparishnews.com/stories/federal-court-says-arkansas-can-enforce-ban-on-critical-race-theory-in-classrooms,174006

YAHOO
— Musk Caught Filing for Benefits Meant for Small Businesses Run by Minorities. Politics is nasty/vicious. I should write about my critics/opponents who hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the new town home in the HUD-financed University Park that I bought when I was 24 years old in 1972 was meant for minorities.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-neuralink-caught-filing-164520479.html

AOL
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting hatred against Trump.
https://www.aol.com/democrats-more-motivated-vote-2026-151138434.html

NEWSWEEK
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/map-shows-donald-trump-s-approval-rating-in-each-state-after-six-months/ar-AA1IX2eg
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/economic-warning-as-more-than-half-million-people-could-leave-us-this-year/ar-AA1IQ9ON

NEW YORK TIMES
— Google ever-increasingly steers everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/us/politics/trump-google-prosecute.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations. Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/reparations-bill-amid-headwinds-could-skirt-californias-affirmative-action-ban/ar-AA1IyUv1
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-07-20/volunteers-flock-to-immigration-courts-to-support-migrants-arrested-in-the-hallways

NEW YORK SUN
— Far-Left Mamdani Would Be Wrong Turn for Democrats, Who Need To Move Beyond Intersectional Obsessions and Woke Grievances. The party’s problem is structural, and it requires a rethink and a reboot from soup to nuts.
https://www.nysun.com/article/far-left-mamdani-would-be-wrong-turn-for-democrats-who-need-to-move-beyond-intersectional-obsessions-and-woke-grievances

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/19/trump-immigration-medicaid-cuts-economy-failure/85259690007/
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/19/trump-education-department-cuts-school-funding/85259833007/
— That news article on Google? Its headline may have been written by a political campaign. Google ever-increasingly steers everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/08/13/kamala-harris-article-google-ads/74789965007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/20/trump-jeffrey-epstein-white-house-political-crisis/85287607007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Real Risk to the Electric Grid. Power shortages are coming thanks to wind and solar subsidies. Here’s how they distort energy investment.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-real-risk-to-the-energy-grid-wind-solar-power-data-shortage-c297e93b
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-detention-tent-cities-5c2e135d?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1

BARRON’S
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/trumppoll

BLOOMBERG
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-07-20/how-elon-musk-s-trump-feud-and-wild-bets-threaten-his-empire

FORBES
— Employee Training As A Strategic Investment For Long-Term Growth. IRS invested in me. The first 6 months that I worked for IRS in 1971 was classroom training. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22revenue+officer%22+IRS+training  After 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, I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980. GAO audits IRS. My Democrat GAO superiors wasted what I learned working for IRS. They kept me off audits 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, or veteran.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2025/04/17/employee-training-as-a-strategic-investment-for-long-term-growth/

MOTLEY FOOL
— Department of Justice Steps Back From Marijuana Enforcement. I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.aol.com/2013-08-30-department-of-justice-steps-back-from-marijuana-en.html

LEGAL NEWSLINE
— IL trial lawyer campaign pushes Pritzker to OK lawsuit expansion law. All my critics/opponents side with the defendants in all the lawsuit that I filed. I should write about that.
https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/il-trial-lawyer-campaign-pushes-pritzker-to-ok-lawsuit-expansion-law/article_06aa308f-dda9-4ea6-8fbd-3a98c3ebc8e9.html

IMMIGRATION FORUM
— The Dignity Act would encourage more illegal immigration.
https://immigrationforum.org/article/the-dignity-act-of-2025-bill-summary/

PBS
— Google faces off against U.S. government attempt to break up company in search monopoly case. Google ever-increasingly steers everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/google-faces-off-against-u-s-government-attempt-to-break-up-company-in-search-monopoly-case

MINT
— Hegseth Orders Tech Companies To STOP Using ‘Cheap Chinese Labour’ For Sensitive US Cloud Services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iu2C1yj8Wc

PHYS
— Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that to hint/imply/argue/shout a) that my parents were filthy rich and/or b) that I am not college material.
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scholar-meritocracy-schools-redefine-purpose.html

INDEPENDENT
— Trump threatened tough punishment for employers who hired migrant workers. So far only a handful have faced the wrath. If they could have, all my employers would have hired illegals instead of me. Illegals work for less money and are easier to exploit.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/trump-threatened-tough-punishment-for-employers-who-hired-migrant-workers-so-far-only-a-handful-have-faced-the-wrath/ar-AA1HIk6K

SPECTATOR
— America’s top medical schools still hire by race. Ever-increasingly, everyone in health care in America is more and more and more of the following: citizens for foreign countries, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time
https://thespectator.com/topic/americas-top-medical-schools-still-hire-by-race/

July 20, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/19/immigrant-medicaid-access/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/19/trump-wall-street-journal-epstein-lawsuit/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, sooner or later, we will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/in-the-wake-of-snap-cuts-feeding-hungry-illinoisans-falls-more-than-ever-on-food-pantries/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders eve-increasingly use Pope Leo to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/lgbtq-inclusion-chicago-catholics/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Vandals target immigration organizations in Little Village
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/07/19/vandals-target-immigration-organizations-in-little-village

DAILY HERALD
— Republican state Sen. Don DeWitte of St. Charles will not seek reelection to the 33rd District seat in 2026.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250719/news/state-sen-dewitte-wont-seek-reelection/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Companies warn Illinois will be ‘toxic tort’ capital if bill is signed, but lawyers call it ‘fundamental fairness’ All my critics/opponents side with all the defendants in all the lawsuits I filed. I should write about that.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250719/illinois-state-politics/companies-warn-illinois-will-be-toxic-tort-capital-if-bill-is-signed-but-lawyers-call-it-fundame/
— Economic mobility top priority of Krishnamoorthi’s Senate campaign. 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.dailyherald.com/20250719/news/economic-mobility-top-priority-of-krishnamoorthis-senate-campaign/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250718/news/rep-underwood-demands-answers-over-reckless-ice-activity-in-joliet/

NBC5
— Several Chicago suburbs ranked among safest places to live in the US. Naperville is ranked 19th.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/several-chicago-suburbs-ranked-among-safest-places-to-live-in-the-us/3793464/

FOX32
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1677376
— Democrat leaders decry EPA employees losing jobs because of Republican budget cuts. Virtually no one decried 3,000+ GAO employees losing their jobs because of Republican budget cuts 1980-1997 while I worked for the agency.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/epa-research-development-office-layoffs-scientists-fired

SOUTHERN
— MAGA supporters rally around Trump following WSJ article. According to my critics/opponents, I am a MAGA supporter. But I am a conservative. I am a platform Republican. Many MAGA supporters would disagree that I am a MAGA supporter.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/19/we-are-so-back-maga-supporters-rally-around-trump-following-wsj-article/

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— I did not even try to get a student loan. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I washed dishes during my junior and senior years and the summer in between. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. But because I worked my way through college, I was able to buy a new townhome in University Park when I was 24 in 1972.
https://chicagocrusader.com/unsettling-accounts-illinois-confronting-growing-student-loan/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With $49,000 in student loan debt, Josue Villalpando figured becoming a homeowner was a long way off. “The thought of purchasing a home was definitely floating around, however I never actually looked into it knowing that I had such a big burden with my student loans,” he said. A recent graduate of the University of Illinois Chicago, Villalpando, 29, took out private loans to pay for college. Unlike federal student loans, private loans typically have higher interest rates and fewer forgiveness programs, making them harder for borrowers to pay off. Then, his fiancé came across the SmartBuy program – an initiative set up by the state to help incentivize residents to purchase a home while paying off their student loan debt, one of the leading factors delaying homeownership among young adults. SmartBuy pays up to $40,000 in student loans and contributes up to $5,000 towards a down payment or closing costs at the time of purchase.)

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Wise Up New York: Don’t Be a Chumbolone Town Like Chicago
https://johnkassnews.com/wise-up-chicago-dont-be-a-chumbolone/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who do Democrat plants ( https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Democrat+plant%22 ) work against the hardest? The more planks in the Republican Party platform that Republicans promote, the harder that Democrat plants work against those Republicans. They work extremely hard against me because I promote all the planks in the Republican Party platform, and especially its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about those Democrat plants who have worked the hardest against me since 2000. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024 and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you say to Democrat plant candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who fail/refuse to promote planks in the Republican Party platform? They most commonly fail/refuse to promote the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Because I promote those planks, Democrat plants work against me. I should write about Democrat plants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Do you fill a void? I do. With my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, I fill a tremendous Republican communication void in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. Far too many Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders fail/refuse to defend/promote the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. I defend/promote those planks. – Dave Diersen
http://wwwigopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Biden DOJ sought ‘federal hook’ to treat protesting parents as ‘domestic terrorists.’ For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. Because of that, my great great grandfather, my great grandfather, my grandfather, and my father all were Republicans who sent all their children to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3476377/biden-doj-protesting-parents-as-domestic-terrorists/
— Conservative legal gains against LGBT agenda spur pride activism.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/3475547/conservative-legal-gains-against-lgbt-agenda-spur-pride-activism/
— Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward over ‘Trump tapes’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3476531/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-against-journalist-bob-woodward/

BREITBART
— Biden AG and White House Conspired to Chill Local Parents’ School Board Protests
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2025/07/19/documents-biden-ag-white-house-conspired-chill-local-parents-school-board-protests/

DAILY CALLER
— Huckabee Reportedly Threatens Israel Over Treatment Of Christians
https://www.aol.com/huckabee-reportedly-penned-letter-lambasting-162816314.html

FOX NEWS
— Trump is the one world leader trying to pull the West away from the abyss
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375861200112
— ICE arrests illegal immigrant accused of decapitating Illinois woman after judge set him free. ICE agents tracked down and arrested Mexican national after Illinois court released him despite gruesome crime accusations.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-arrests-illegal-immigrant-accused-decapitating-illinois-woman-after-judge-set-him-free

PJ MEDIA
— Woke Educators Protect Illegals Instead of Improving Curricula for Americans. If my teachers had promoted wokeism instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic, I would not have been able to get an ACT score of 24 or graduate in the upper 20% of my class.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/19/woke-educators-protect-illegals-instead-of-improving-curricula-for-americans-n4941899

POST MILLENNIAL
— 150,000 criminal illegal immigrants arrested so far during Trump’s second term
https://thepostmillennial.com/150000-criminal-illegal-immigrants-arrested-so-far-during-trumps-second-term-wh

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— She left her federal job because of Trump. Now she’s running for office to fight his policies. Needless-to-say, the many adverse actions that my Democrat supervisors in the federal government took against me because I fought their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination motivates me to defend and advance the Republican Party platform.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/politics/democrats-federal-employees-midterms
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/politics/epstein-trump-ties-analysis

REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more government spending to protect everyone from Republicans.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-funding-cut-stalls-water-projects-increasing-risks-millions-2025-07-19/

UPI
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/07/19/lgbtq-suicide-lifeline-service/3471752970492/

MSN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/donald-told-me-trump-s-biographer-spills-new-details-on-deeper-epstein-relationship/ar-AA1IUIjh
— Top Trump Official Says Americans on Medicaid Should Replace Deported Farm Workers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/top-trump-official-says-americans-on-medicaid-should-replace-deported-farm-workers/ar-AA1IczWA

ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/makeup-artist-us-deportees-el-salvador-venezuela-congressman-123884627
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-calls-epstein-files-released-troublemakers/story?id=123890604

CBS NEWS
— I oppose illegal immigration. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got. If not that, my wages would have been lower. My critics/opponents cannot say that. Their parents had lots of money.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-immigration-crackdown-labor-shortages-california-construction-industry-builder-says/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter/

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Inspectors General Are Worried Doing Job Could Get Them Fired.  I often worked with Inspector General employees while I worked for GAO for almost 18 years and while I served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter for 13 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/inspectors-general-trump.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the Trump Administration, Watchdogs Are Watching Their Backs. The president has fired or demoted over 20 inspectors general since he took office. Employees say they are demoralized and reluctant to pursue investigations that could prompt political blowback.)
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/inside-trump-epstein-friendship.html (FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/timeline-trump-epstein.html
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/17/us/trump-news-updates
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/16/us/trump-news
— The more planks in the Republican Party platform that my Democrat plant critics/opponents reject, the harder that they work against me. 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. I should write about my Democrat plant critics/opponents who have worked the hardest against me since 2000. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024 and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/us/politics/trump-gop-platform-convention.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/america-safety-net.html
— Democrat leaders use public media to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/opinion/pbs-npr-cuts-funding.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/immigrants-ice-deportation.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/politics/immigration-senior-caregivers.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/20/trump-epstein-economy-immigration-approval/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/18/trump-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-murdoch-epstein/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/20/trump-epstein-files-political-fallout-risks/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-07-20/trump-jeffrey-epstein-sex-power-government-conspiracy

USA TODAY
— Democrat plants promote division within the Republican Party. They stress that Trump rejects some conservative principles. But Democrat plants promote those principles.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-iran-republican-party-conservatives/84538150007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/20/trump-epstein-files-evidence-election/85275266007/

BABYLON BEE
— Newsom Founds Underground Railroad To Help Mexican Kids Travel To Work The Marijuana Farms. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint their illegals as being runaway slaves.
https://babylonbee.com/news/newsom-founds-underground-railroad-to-help-mexican-kids-travel-to-work-the-marijuana-farms

LA PROGESSIVE & CHATTANOUGA TIMES FREE PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting hatred against Republicans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/exclusionism
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/jul/19/opinion-the-rights-war-against-the-truth-of-our/

PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/transgender-military-members-fight-to-continue-serving-despite-trumps-ban
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-is-publicly-known-about-trumps-yearslong-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein

NPR
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/19/nx-s1-5473430/trump-calls-release-jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-testimony

POLITICO
— Republicans’ food aid cuts will hit grocers in many towns that backed Trump. According to my critics/opponents, because I have always voted for Republican candidates, Democrats and RINOs have every right to screw me.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/19/trump-snap-food-cuts-rural-grocers-megabill-00463048

TRUTHOUT
— Trump Administration Will Shut Down 7 Major HUD Discrimination Cases. My critics/opponents have always used my buying a new townhome in University Park in 1972 against me. They a) stress that University Park was created by HUD and b) hint/imply/argue/shout that because I bought, a minority and/or female could not.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-will-shut-down-7-major-housing-discrimination-cases/

LIBERTY NATION
— DEI Goes Incognito in Academia
https://www.libertynation.com/dei-goes-incognito-in-academia/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— The Importance of Early Career Planning. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school friend had not invited me to take the postal employment examination with him earlier that year. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. If I had been active in Republican politics when I was young, the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2025/07/14/importance-early-career-planning-opinion

GOOGLE AI & PEW RESEARCH
— The influence of parents on children’s political party affiliation & Most U.S. parents pass along their religion and politics to their children. For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. Because of that, my great great grandfather, my great grandfather, my grandfather, and my father all were Republicans who sent all their children to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete.
https://www.google.com/search?q=parents+children+political+party
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/10/most-us-parents-pass-along-their-religion-and-politics-to-their-children/

July 19, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/university-chicago-medicine-is-latest-hospital-pausing-gender-affirming-care-child-patients-trump-admin-threats/17187950/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-immigration-news-ice-arrests-courts-chicago-nationwide-labeled-unlawful-new-lawsuit-trump-administration/17186490/
— Did you benefit from after school and summer programs? I did not. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I wash dishes 1964-1966. I cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline in 1966. I delivering mail 1966-1969. I had to work my way through college.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-administrations-department-education-will-release-frozen-grants-supporting-summer-school-programs/17183858/
— Alleged squatters move next-door to IL state rep. in Chicago: ‘Going to be calling the governor.’  Lawmakers argue governor should immediately sign ‘squatter bill’ passed by state legislature.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/alleged-squatters-move-door-illinois-state-rep-marcus-evans-avalon-park-chicago-going-calling-governor/17186665/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with the Fed against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/18/trumps-attacks-powell-threaten-feds-independence/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Community colleges are a bridge for students still seeking a path. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy league universities are worthless.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/next-voices/2025/07/18/chicago-city-college-community-college-education-lashaunta-moore-next-voices
— New sales tax revenue will help mass transit, but there’s still a long way to go. My critics/opponents look down on if not despise/hate mass transit users. I used mass transit big time in 1971 and then 1973-1997.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/18/illinois-sales-tax-revenue-rta-mass-transit-rich-miller
— Democrat leaders never blamed Biden for inflation, but they sure blame Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/07/18/supermarket-super-pain-trump-campaign-food-prices-inflation-tariffs

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250718/nation-and-world-politics/most-us-adults-think-the-gop-tax-bill-will-help-the-wealthy-and-harm-the-poor-ap-norc-poll-finds/

WGN RADIO
— Should Chicago allow video gambling throughout the city? I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton. Subsequently, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-should-chicago-allow-video-gambling-throughout-the-city/#/questions

WBEZ
— College still pays off, but wage gaps persist in Illinois. Even with the same college degree, students from low-income families earn less than those from middle or upper-income families. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/07/18/college-still-pays-off-but-wage-gaps-persist-in-illinois-study-finds

MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— World Population Review’s 2025 rankings for the “Most Hated States” lists Illinois No. 1.  Yikes.  World Population Review reports Illinois is one of the fastest-shrinking states in the U.S. in terms of population, and has experienced a 0.54 percent (more than half a percent) decrease in population in recent years. And it gets worse. Roughly 25 percent of Illinoisans say their state is the worst in the nation. This negativity could be partially attributed to animosity between politically liberal Chicago and the heavily conservative rural portions that make up the rest of the state. The “Most Hated” rankings were determined by compiling three indicators: The percentage of each state’s own residents who believe their state is the worst. The number of other states that hate each state the most. Each state’s population decline, the logic being that population decline reflects the flow of residents moving to another state.
https://muddyrivernews.com/opinion/daily-dirt-illinois-no-1-among-most-hated-states/20250719053500/

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAY
— Education still pays, but barriers to upward mobility persist in Illinois. How much money did your parents have? 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. My GPA suffered because of that.
https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article310956495.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It found that educational attainment is still a strong predicter of a person’s future earnings as an adult. So too is the industry that a person chooses for a career. Other factors can also influence a person’s ability to complete a higher education degree, including their race, ethnicity and gender. Class-based barriers The study also found that a person’s own economic background – whether they grew up rich or poor – also strongly influences their future earnings. Students who grew up in higher-income households tended to earn more than those who grew up in lower-income families, in part because students from higher-income families were more likely to complete a college degree than lower-income students. But perhaps most surprisingly, the study found that even among those who earn similar degrees and go to work in similar industries, a student’s own economic background influenced their future earnings. That is, students from lower-income families tend to earn less than those from wealthier families, even after they went on to earn similar credentials. Further, the study found, among students from lower-income families, Black and Latino students and women tended to earn less than their white and male counterparts.)

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISDTER
— Illinois will soon become America’s lawsuit capital—unless Gov. Pritzker acts. I should write about all the lawsuits that I filed. My critics/opponents side with the defendants in all those lawsuits.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/07/19/pritzker-can-prevent-illinois-from-becoming-americas-lawsuit-capital-opinion/85249565007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Senate Bill 328, if signed into law, will expose companies operating here to a tidal wave of out-of-state lawsuits that have nothing to do with Illinois, brought by people who don’t live in our state for incidents that didn’t happen here. It’s called litigation tourism, and Illinois will become its poster child if Governor JB Pritzker doesn’t veto SB 328.)

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders side with Bob Woodward against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trumps-lawsuit-against-bob-woodward-dismissed/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-348/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Lots of Illinois Tax Money Going to Non-Government Organizations through Legislative Pork
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/18/lots-of-illinois-tax-money-going-to-non-government-organizations-through-legislative-pork/

WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker Presides Over an Illinois Pension Mess
https://wirepoints.org/dabrowski-bacharach-op-ed-jb-pritzker-presides-over-an-illinois-pension-mess-wall-street-journal/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— GAO falsely claims to be nonpartisan. The House Republican Appropriators Committee recently tried to slash GAO’s funding nearly in half. Because I was one of GAO’s few remaining Republican employees, my Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich GAO funding cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. What if Speaker Johnson reformed GAO and offered me $50,000 to rejoin the agency? I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The U.S. Comptroller General ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptroller_General_of_the_United_States ) runs GAO. Who does Trump want the next U.S. Comptroller General to be? If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.  – Dave Diersen
http//www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Mamdani and Sanders demonstrate far-left hypocrisy
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/18/editorial-mamdani-sanders-demonstrate-far-left-hypocrisy/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin offering former ICE agents up to $50K in bonuses to rejoin agency. What if Speaker Johnson reformed GAO and offered me $50,000 to rejoin the agency?
https://nypost.com/2025/07/18/us-news/trump-admin-offering-former-ice-agents-up-to-50k-in-bonuses-to-rejoin-agency/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Former State Department Bureaucrats Show Why Trump Fired Them. My critics/opponents side with my Democrat GAO superiors against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination the most.
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/former-state-department-bureaucrats
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Proving the point: Nearly a half dozen disgruntled former bureaucrats gathered before a crowd (if you can call it that) outside Foggy Bottom on Friday. They attempted to rally support for themselves and other “recently fired State Department employees.” They failed. Organizer Michael Duffin, who was fired from State despite holding three graduate degrees, promoted the rally by asking for former U.S. ambassadors and other “senior officials” to attend and speak. Apparently nobody was interested—a Free Beacon reporter was one of the only people in attendance. Speakers instead included Steven Ramsey, a former USAID contractor and Fulbright alumnus who read a version of the Nazi-era “First They Came” poem that he “adapted for the context we’re in right now.” “First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out because I was not an immigrant,” he said after noting that the original poem came “from 1930s Germany.” Several individuals eventually applauded. Duffin did not read a poem, but he did post a screenshot of his farewell email to colleagues in the buildup to the rally. It too made a Nazi comparison: “In the musical ‘Sound of Music,’ the Von Trapp family escaped the Nazis while performing ‘So long, farewell,'” wrote Duffin. “As the curtain descends on my State Department career I feel like it’s strangely appropriate to share with you some lyrics to that song.” Bravo.)

AMAC
— POLL: What is the PRIMARY method you use to receive news about current events and issues? Based on how they treat me, far too many read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for opposition research against me.
https://amac.us/poll/primary-method-news/

BLAZE
— The GOP establishment lost to Trump — now it’s rebranding as ‘neo-MAGA’
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-gop-establishment-lost-to-trump-now-it-s-rebranding-as-neo-maga

BREITBART
— Military Bases in Indiana, New Jersey Will Be Converted to Migrant Holding Centers
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/07/18/military-bases-in-indiana-new-jersey-will-be-converted-to-migrant-holding-centers/

CAMPUS REFORM
— University of Oklahoma boasts ‘safe place’ for illegal alien students. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992, but they would have admitted illegals instead of me if they could have.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/university-of-oklahoma-boasts-safe-place-for-illegal-alien-students-/28254

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— America First, or ‘Refugees’ First?  The ‘Tent’ movement doesn’t seem to be in line with Trump policies.
https://cis.org/Rush/America-First-or-Refugees-First

DAILY CALLER
— Blue City Sheriffs Scoff At DOJ Request For Information On Illegals
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/18/california-sheriffs-scoff-at-doj-request/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Will Fight Back Against the Big Bank Woke Agenda. What does your bank think of you?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/18/the-days-of-big-banks-targeting-conservatives-are-over-trump-is-restoring-sanity-to-the-finance-industry/

FOX BUSINESS
— Trump has the authority to abolish wokeness from government policy
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6375806546112

FOX NEWS
— The surprising ways illegals evaded border security, until now
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375805980112
— Zohran Mamdani is the face of the new Democratic Party, RNC chairman says
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375792242112
— Trump is ‘very serious’ about prosecuting individuals assaulting ICE agents
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375781578112
— Biden team coordinated on school memo calling parents ‘domestic terrorists.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-doj-white-house-coordinated-controversial-school-boards-memo-documents-reveal

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Venezuelans Deported by Trump to El Salvador Are Traded for Americans Held Hostage by the Maduro Regime
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/venezuelans-deported-by-trump-to-el-salvador-are-traded-for-americans-held-hostage-by-the-maduro-regime/

REAL CLEAR MARKETS
— The $100,000 Retiree Club Is Growing Way Too Fast In Illinois. My Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is $66,780/year. My critics/opponents have always decried my CSRS pension. In my defense, while I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, I paid 7% of my salary into the CSRS. During that time, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2025/07/17/the_100000_retiree_club_is_growing_way_too_fast_in_illinois_1122603.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Now, there are nearly 32,000 in the $100k club. An extra 20,000 government retirees making that much is a sign Illinois’ public pension systems are out of control. Plus, there are many more state retirees getting close to that benchmark: the state’s 239,384 pensioners now average $93,558.)

TOWNHALL
— Noem Slams Leftist Media for Coddling Criminal Illegals with Sob Stories
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/07/18/kristi-noem-forces-fake-news-outlets-to-look-at-the-criminal-illegals-they-are-peddling-sob-stories-for-n2660607

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ROLL CALL
— Bill backed by House Republican Appropriators Committee would slash funding for GAO nearly in half. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://rollcall.com/2025/07/10/appropriators-advance-legislative-branch-bill-without-gao-cuts/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The smallest of the 12 spending bills, the legislative branch bill is also typically the least controversial. But the House’s proposed cuts to GAO funding have put it in the spotlight, drawing the condemnation of Democrats and outside groups, who characterized the move as a political attack after the watchdog found on at least two occasions that the Trump White House illegally barred the release of appropriated funds. More than 100 House Democrats this week joined a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson and Appropriations Chair Tom Cole, R-Okla., arguing the funding reduction to the independent watchdog would “significantly weaken its ability to deliver future savings throughout the government.” Also this week, dozens of outside groups signed on to two separate letters similarly calling for the restoration of funds. “No federal agency is perfect, but the GAO’s more than 100-year history is a success story overall, with an average return on investment of $123 for every $1 expended,” said one letter, led by the R Street Institute and signed by about a dozen other center-right groups. “As Congress’s fiscal watchdog, the GAO has identified hundreds of billions of dollars in savings along with opportunities to reduce duplication and mismanagement.” The Library of Congress, which was targeted by the White House in May when President Donald Trump fired its director Carla Hayden and Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, also would avoid a deep cut. Perlmutter filed a lawsuit challenging her firing, which is ongoing, and Democrats have floated changing the process by which directors of legislative branch agencies, like the Library of Congress, Government Publishing Office and the GAO, are appointed. Murray briefly spoke about her draft amendment regarding the positions, but it was not put to a vote. She said she wanted to continue to discuss the issue with Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine. “Right now, the appointing process for the heads of these agencies involves the executive branch. That does not make a lot of sense, no matter who the president is. And I do believe it’s time to modernize this process and make sure that agency heads are appointed by the legislative branch,” Murray said.)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders shout that the GOP tax bill will help the wealthy and harm the poor.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/most-u-s-adults-think-the-gop-tax-bill-will-help-the-wealthy-and-harm-the-poor-ap-norc-poll-finds
— Billy Long will be sworn in as IRS commissioner, taking over an agency he once sought to close. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,661/year.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/07/18/billy-long-irs-commissioner/amp/

CBS NEWS
— Trump files $10 billion lawsuit over Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Epstein report
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter/
— Bondi tours Alcatraz as part of Trump’s plan to reopen former prison
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/pam-bondi-alcatraz-prison-san-francisco-bay-penitentiary-trump-plans/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders covered up Biden’s health problems, but trumpet Trump’s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/trump-chronic-venous-insufficiency.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Justice Dept. asks for names, records of noncitizens in California jails
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/18/justice-department-immigration-california-inmates-noncitizens-list/

POLITICO
— The GOP vs. the GAO. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2025/05/27/the-gop-vs-the-gao-00369890
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republicans are declaring war against the Government Accountability Office. GOP lawmakers and White House officials are ramping up public criticism of the nonpartisan watchdog arm of Congress as it complicates President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government and grab power from the legislative branch. GAO investigates bad behavior at federal agencies and issues recommendations for how they can improve. A flurry of conflicts, including a run-in with DOGE, are inflaming tensions as GAO chief Gene Dodaro makes the rounds on Capitol Hill to defend the agency. Trump doesn’t have the power to remove Dodaro, as he did former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, but he could make Dodaro’s tenure at the office unpleasant by calling on Republicans to impeach or remove him through a joint resolution. At stake, as Jennifer Scholtes, Jordain Carney and Katherine Tully-McManus report this morning, is GAO’s independence — which some Republicans are openly attacking. “GAO has lost credibility as an independent body,” Sen. Mike Lee wrote on X last week. Lee’s criticism got at the heart of the right’s current frustration with GAO. The Utah Republican was responding to an earlier X post from OMB Director Russ Vought, who blasted the agency for finding the Trump administration broke the law by withholding funds approved by Congress. It was one of at least 39 GAO inquiries into whether the White House has flouted the 51-year-old Impoundment Control Act, which prevents presidents from circumventing lawmakers’ “power of the purse.” The impoundment questions aren’t the end of it. GAO rejected an attempt by Elon Musk’s DOGE to land a team at the agency, arguing GAO wasn’t subject to DOGE or executive orders. And GAO faced tensions with Senate Republicans in recent weeks after the agency advised that they couldn’t use the Congressional Review Act to fast-track the termination of a California emissions standard. They decided to anyway. GAO is standing its ground. At a recent hearing, Dodaro stressed the agency’s desire to stay out of political crosshairs. “We’re just responding to help Congress,” Dodaro said. “We’re not trying to influence things one way or the other. We’re nonpartisan. We’re asked a question; we give an answer. It doesn’t matter who it is.”)
— GAO is targeted by House Republicans in new spending bill. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
The Legislative Branch appropriations subcommittee aims to cut Congress’ own budget by $51 million.
(FROM THE ARTICLE: House Republicans are aiming to slash funding for the nonpartisan watchdog for waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government by nearly half in the next fiscal year, according to spending bill text released Sunday night. The House Appropriations subcommittee funding Congress and its support agencies, led by chairman David Valadao (R-Calif.), is set to mark up their fiscal 2026 measure Monday evening, with the full committee set to act Thursday. The Legislative Branch bill would provide $6.7 billion — $51 million below the current funding level, which was set in fiscal 2024. Per tradition, the House bill does not touch any Senate funding. “Chairman Valadao’s bill puts the American people first — in strengthening the institutions that represent them, protecting effective governance, and safeguarding taxpayer dollars,” said House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) in a statement. The deepest cuts in the bill are to the Government Accountability Office, an arm of Congress that would see a $396.5 million reduction from current levels to $415.4 million. GAO has served as the nation’s chief investigator of wrongdoing at federal agencies for more than a century, but has been fighting for months as Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration have attempted to undercut its legal conclusions and independence. Now, they are attempting to shrink the agency into submission as it pursues nearly 40 investigations into whether the White House is illegally withholding, or “impounding,” money Congress had previously approved. Also tucked into the bill is a major policy change that would eliminate the GAO’s ability to bring civil action against the executive branch over impoundments of funds. “GAO’s work makes it possible for the legislative branch to hold government accountable,” said Daniel Schuman, executive director of the American Governance Institute. “Congress needs independent expert advice, which is exactly what GAO provides.”)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/23/congress/gao-targeted-house-republicans-00417754

ED SOURCE
— Trump wants to cut college access programs for low-income students. What was your college access program? Mine was taking college preparatory courses in high school, getting the best ACT score that I could, graduating in the upper 20% of my class, and working enough part-time hours during the school years and full-time during the summers to pay for my college expenses and to buy new cars to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and jobs and classes at UIC and NIU.
https://edsource.org/2025/trio-program-funding-threats-california/736767

July 18, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: Trump administration hands over Medicaid data to ICE. What percent of illegals are on Medicaid?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/afternoon-briefing-trump-administration-hands-over-medicaid-data-to-ice/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/chicago-set-as-flagship-city-for-good-trouble-protests-planned-across-the-country-thursday-against-trump/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/cicero-resident-stopped-unmarked-agents/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/18/chicago-history-july-18/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/18/opinion-immigrant-rights-chicago-poll/
— Democracy thrives on competition. Run for office. The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINOs leaders discourage you from running: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/18/opinion-elections-candidates-democracy-illinois-gop/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/live/chicago-good-trouble-protest-john-lewis-trump
— City Council members pushing to legalize video gambling — at Chicago airports or even citywide. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton. Subsequently, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/07/17/city-council-legalize-video-gambling-chicago-airports-citywide
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/17/jeffrey-epstein-list-maga-pam-bondi-s-e-cupp

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250717/news/good-trouble-lives-on-rally-draws-hundreds-in-elgin/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Argonne and Fermi may dodge DOGE budget cuts. GAO’s Chicago office was not able to dodge Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely for that. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Previously, they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. The forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/technology/argonne-fermilab-may-avoid-budget-cuts-energy-chief-says

ABC7
— Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE. What percent of illegals are on Medicaid?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-gain-access-medicaid-recipients-personal-data-agreement-department-homeland-security-trump-admin/17165162/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPYWw45Zxzo

NBC5
— WSJ says Trump sent Epstein a ‘bawdy’ 50th birthday letter. Trump to sue.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-sent-jeffrey-epstein-bawdy-50th-birthday-letter-wsj/3792338/
— Democrat leaders have always used PBS and NPR to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pbs-npr-fundings-cuts-now-head-to-trumps-desk-how-will-public-radio-tv-in-illinois-be-impacted/3792533/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/lgbtq-crisis-support-hotline-shutdown/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-good-trouble-protests-trump-rally
— What kind of “help” do you need/want/demand from the federal government? The biggest “help” that I needed, but that I did not get, was protection against political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/americans-trump-policies-helped-them-poll
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/lgbtq-youth-support-option-ends-on-national-crisis-line-after-trump-administration-cuts

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/17/illinois-will-continue-providing-lgbtq-youth-support-988-suicide-prevention-hotline-amid
— Number of Unhoused Chicagoans Dropped 60% But Remains at All-Time High. The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/17/number-unhoused-chicagoans-dropped-60-remains-all-time-high-survey-found

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders use public media to promote more hated against Republicans
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/07/17/the-rundown-illinois-public-media-stations-brace-for-cuts
https://www.wbez.org/nation-world/2025/07/17/public-media-senate-cuts-npr-pbs

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER & MORRIS HERALD NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.sj-r.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2025/07/17/good-trouble-lives-on-rally-at-the-illinois-capitol-see-photos/85266878007/
https://www.shawlocal.com/morris-herald-news/2025/07/17/people-gather-in-morris-to-make-good-trouble-by-protesting-trump-administration-policies/

SOUTHERN
— Musk floods X with posts attacking Trump over Epstein
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/17/its-a-cover-up-musk-floods-x-with-posts-attacking-trump-over-epstein/

STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-maintains-lgbtq-youth-support-on-988-hotline-amid-federal-cuts/

WMBD
— Number of Illinois jobs reach record high in June. What percent of the jobs in Illinois are bad jobs, that is, what percent are the jobs that my critics/opponents would never stoop to take?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/number-illinois-jobs-reach-record-212616651.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-347/


FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES


WASHINGTON TIMES
— Zohran Mamdani blowing away the competition in Democrats’ free-for-all. How many Democrats in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct would vote for Mamdani?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/17/zohran-mamdani-blowing-away-competition-democrats-free/
— Trump orders release of grand jury transcripts from Epstein case
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/17/trump-orders-release-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts/
— Trump says salacious Epstein letter attributed to him is ‘fake,’ and plans lawsuit against WSJ
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/17/trump-epstein-letter-wall-street-journal-attributed-fake-plans/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump creates new classification of non-career federal government worker. My Democrat superiors in the federal government put advancing the Democrat Party platform above all else, that is, they put wasting the careers of and getting rid of their Republican employees above all else. They certainly wasted my career and got rid of me. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3475158/trump-new-classification-non-career-federal-government-worker/
— The true cost of today’s ‘free’ public education
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3469115/the-true-cost-of-todays-free-public-education/

NEW YORK POST
— Bondi, Burgum tour Alcatraz as Trump wants to ‘renovate and reopen’ notorious island prison
https://nypost.com/2025/07/17/us-news/bondi-and-burgum-tour-alcatraz-as-trump-seeks-to-renovate-and-reopen-notorious-island-prison/

BREITBART
— Chicago Medical Center ‘Pauses’ Transgender Treatment for Minors After Trump’s Executive Order
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2025/07/17/chicago-medical-center-pauses-transgender-treatment-for-minors-after-trumps-executive-order/
— Trump’s Deputies Use Medicaid Data to Help ICE Find Migrants. How many illegals are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/07/17/trumps-deputies-use-medicaid-data-to-help-ice-find-migrants/

DAILY CALLER
— Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee is introducing a bill Thursday to codify President Donald Trump’s executive order to restore equal opportunity and meritocracy in the workplace. Lee’s Restoring Equal Opportunity Act seeks to remove “disparate impact” on minorities in civil rights law, putting equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome. According to my critics/opponents, when those who have demographics that vote for Republicans do better than those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, it because Republicans discriminate against Democrats. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/17/mike-lee-disparate-impact-workplace-trump-executive-order/
— Liberal Groups Aim To Make Immigration Courts Safe Haven For Illegals
https://ijr.com/liberal-groups-aim-to-make-immigration-courts-safe-haven-for-illegals/

DAILY WIRE
— Republicans Just Launched An Open Revolt Against Trump’s Deportation Operation. Yes, we have multiple prominent Republicans declaring that illegal aliens are not, in fact, criminals.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-just-launched-an-open-revolt-against-trumps-deportation-operation
— Annoying Libs Just Don’t Learn: The Biggest Ways Dems Have Fallen Right Back Into Wokeness. Liberals are doubling down on all of the things that sent them to the woodshed on November 5, 2024.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/annoying-libs-just-dont-learn-the-biggest-ways-dems-have-fallen-right-back-into-wokeness

WESTERN JOURNAL
— White House Lining Up Replacement for RINO Senator Who Keeps Opposing Trump Bills. I should write about leaders of the following who have done the most to defeat conservative candidates, that is, who have done the most to defeat Republican candidates: Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization.
https://www.westernjournal.com/white-house-lining-replacement-rino-senator-keeps-opposing-trump-bills/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— House passes Trump’s $9 billion DOGE cuts package. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need do DOGE.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/house-trump-doge-cuts-bill
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/video/988-lgbtq-youth-crisis-lifeline-vrtc

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump fires Maurene Comey. My Democrat GAO superiors fired me, that is, they forced me to retire. I should write about that.
https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-fear-is-the-tool-of-a-tyrant-fired-federal-prosecutor-maurene-comey-tells-colleagues/

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/immigrant-father-us-30-years-challenging-warrantless-ice-arrests-rcna219277
— Congress to hand Trump billions to recruit more ICE agents
https://www.aol.com/congress-set-hand-trump-billions-211624975.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Congress Agrees to Claw Back Foreign Aid and Public Broadcast Funds
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/senate-vote-trump-bill-pbs-npr-foreign-aid.html
— How diverse is your precinct? My DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton is extremely diverse in terms of household income, housing values, and household net worth.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/25/nyregion/nyc-mayor-election-results-map-mamdani-cuomo.html
— Not that I could have gotten a student loan, but my working my way through college instead of getting a student loan enabled me to a) graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE, b) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, c) pay for graduate business and accounting courses 1972-1980, d) buy a new town home University Park in 1972, d) buy a studio condo in downtown Chicago in 1974, e) buy a one bedroom condo in downtown Chicago in 1976, f) get married in 1978, f) buy a home in Wheaton with my wife in 1978, g) etc.
https://www.nytiges.com/2025/07/15/your-money/student-loans/student-loan-repayment-plans.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/17/good-trouble-protests-john-lewis-trump/
— Trump tells Justice to seek release of Epstein grand jury testimony. White House tries to calm political furor over the Epstein case as Trump threatens to sue Wall Street Journal over new allegation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-epstein-grand-jury-testimony/
— White House defends handling of Epstein files, chides press for coverage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-presidency-news/
— White House shares diagnosis in rare acknowledgment of Trump’s age. Trump has chronic venous insufficiency, White House physician says, a diagnosis common in people over 70. How old are you? I am 76. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my age against me the most.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-health-chronic-venous-insufficiency/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/18/antisemitism-task-force-dei-universities-trump/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— WSJ says Trump sent lewd birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein; president vows to sue
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-17/trump-denies-sending-epstein-lewd-message-drawing
— ICE is gaining access to trove of Medicaid records. How many illegals are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-17/ice-getting-access-to-medicaid-records-sparks-new-fears-across-california

BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/metro/black-america-in-state-of-emergency-report-says/

USA TODAY
— PBS, NPR push liberal propaganda. Trump is right to cut their funding.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/18/trump-npr-pbs-defunded-budget-cuts/85255733007/
— Trump is right to shrink our government. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need do DOGE.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/17/trump-federal-government-layoffs-state-department-education/85245671007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2025/07/17/good-trouble-protests-july-17-trump-live/85207089007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/16/trump-no-bond-policy-immigration-detainees-ice/85207175007/

SLATE
— College Isn’t for Everyone. Let’s Stop Pretending It Is. When you were in high school, were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. Nevertheless, I took college preparatory courses. I got an ACT score of 24. I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. I got accepted by UIC. My father often decried his not having a college degree.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/03/college-isnt-for-everyone-lets-stop-pretending-it-is.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. Thumps says it is fake.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796
— Of the 50 elements deemed critical to the American economy and national security by the U.S. Geological Survey, the United States is 100% dependent on foreign suppliers for 12 of them and is more than 50% reliant on non-domestic sources for another 29. Democrat and RINO leaders have no problem with that.
https://deloitte.wsj.com/sustainable-business/how-the-united-states-can-enhance-critical-minerals-supply-7dc347e8
— Congress Approves Trump’s Plan Clawing Back Foreign Aid, Public Media Funding. House follows Senate in passing measure rescinding $9 billion of federal spending.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senate-passes-bill-to-cancel-funds-for-foreign-aid-public-media-20ddf921
— The Economics of DIY. I have always done more DIY than my peers.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-diy-and-opportunity-cost-for-americans-f6fbf17d

MOTLEY FOOL
— Laid off in your 60s? Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you should anticipate/expect that you will be gotten rid of: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/07/13/laid-off-60s-social-security-unemployment/84746588007/

DUCKWORTH
— Did your father earn enough money so that your mother could stay home and raise you? Because my father did, my critics/opponents have always used that to paint me as being filthy rich. But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. Because of that, I had to work my way through college. What was your mother’s earning potential? My mother’s earning potential was very limited because she never attended high school.
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-durbin-help-reintroduce-bill-to-help-families-get-the-affordable-child-care-they-need


July 17, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/shane-gillis-trump-epstein-files-2025-espys-monologue/3791309/

WGN9
— Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfs0XMqGg3E

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that if businesses owned by minorities, women, people with disabilities, and veterans do not get contracts, it is because of discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/opinion-illinois-contract-procurement-job-creation-minorities/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois leaders blast State Farm as it hikes home insurance rates
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/07/16/illinois-leaders-attack-state-farm-as-it-hikes-home-insurance-rates

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad, including bad weather.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250716/nation-and-world-politics/noaa-was-developing-tool-to-help-communities-prepare-for-extreme-rainfall-trump-officials-stopped-i/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250716/nation-and-world-politics/trump-slams-his-own-supporters-who-are-angered-over-how-his-team-has-handled-the-epstein-case/

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/07/16/rush-medical-center-halts-gender-affirming-care-for-new-patients-under-18

WGLT
— Democrat leaders had no problem when inflation raged under Biden.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-07-16/inflation-picks-up-in-june-as-trumps-tariffs-start-to-impact-prices
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-tries-to-blame-others-as-tensions-rise-around-handling-of-epstein-case/

FOX ILLINOIS
— GOP lawmaker pushes for policy fix to border crisis
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/gop-pushes-for-policy-fix-to-border-crisis-non-governmental-organizations-faith-illegal-immigration-biden-administration-grants-work-facilitate-republicans
(FROM THE ARTICLE: During a fiery House Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday, Republicans accused non-governmental organizations– many of which were faith-based groups– of incentivizing illegal immigration during the Biden administration by providing services or support to migrants, even though many of the same Republicans voted to fund grants that helped facilitate their work. During the hearing titled “An Inside Job: How NGOs Facilitated the Biden Border Crisis,” Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., accused many of the NGOs of acting as a “launching pad for mass illegal immigration.” “FEMA provided grants to numerous NGOs, many of whom were operating at the southwest border,” Guest said. “These groups spent billions of taxpayers’ dollars.”)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-553/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Richard Porter Visits McHenry County Executive Committee Meeting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/17/richard-porter-visits-mchenry-county-executive-committee-meeting/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BREITBART
— Trump Signs Law Classifying Fentanyl-Related Substances as Schedule I Drugs
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/16/trump-signs-law-classifying-fentanyl-related-substances-schedule-one-drugs/

DAILY WIRE
— Congresswoman Mary Miller Says Pornography Is ‘A Rot In Our Culture’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/congresswoman-mary-miller-says-pornography-is-a-rot-in-our-culture

FEDERALIST
— Leftist Bureaucrats In Charge Of Government-Run Media Refuse Peaceful Transition Of Power
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/16/leftist-bureaucrats-in-charge-of-government-run-media-refuse-peaceful-transition-of-power/

FOX NEWS
— Illinois’ population is aging ‘faster’ than the rest of the country. Under Pritzker, if you are young, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is in Illinois: conservative, Republican, White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/news/illinois-population-aging-faster-rest-000045392.html

NEWSMAX
— Majority of Deportees Pose a Threat
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/tom-homan-immigration-ice/2025/07/16/id/1219012/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/lgbtq-crisis-lifeline-hotline/2025/07/16/id/1218983/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Trump Administration Deports ‘Uniquely Barbaric’ Migrants to Little-Known Nation
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-administration-deports-uniquely-barbaric-migrants-little-known-nation/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump administration is considering possible changes to its immigration enforcement policy as it relates to farm and hospitality workers. Ever-increasingly, Americans fail/refuse to take the bad jobs that I took. My critics/opponents cannot say that. Their parents had lots of money. They bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://thehill.com/immigration/5405518-homan-hints-trump-farm-worker-policy-is-coming/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5402940-lgbtq-lifeline-988-hotline-closure-the-trevor-project-suicide-mental-health-trump-cuts/

CNN
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/politics/trump-powell-epstein-poll-numbers-analysis

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSAwo11A3Z4

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/illinois/articles/2025-07-17/nationwide-protests-planned-against-trumps-immigration-crackdown-and-health-care-cuts

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUmdFmAmHoM
— Trump holds signing ceremony for the HALT Fentanyl Act
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-live-trump-holds-signing-ceremony-for-the-halt-fentanyl-act-243343941517

NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-files-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/republicans-congress-trump-epstein.html
— My critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. They falsely paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/politics/university-virginia-president-trump-dei-jefferson-council.html
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/trump-dei-race-gender-mental-health.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/politics/trump-political-enemies-evil.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/immigration-trump-ice-raids.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/16/trump-epstein-obama-biden-comey-democrats-conspiracies/5a3b8b6a-6293-11f0-bf70-56d8888ebb94_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/hud-section-8-vouchers-congress-budget-cuts/e153b408-62c3-11f0-bf70-56d8888ebb94_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/hud-section-8-vouchers-trump-budget-cuts/bcd06c34-62c3-11f0-bf70-56d8888ebb94_story.html
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/16/trump-dei-george-mason-university/

USA TODAY
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, there is no such thing as “illegal.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2025/07/16/why-trump-immigration-policies-are-unconstitutional-illegal-immigrants-opinion/84640831007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/17/mike-pence-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files/85251255007/
— The Trump administration is telling organizations working to prevent teen pregnancy that they must stop teaching content that doesn’t align with the administration’s views on transgender people and parental rights or they’ll risk losing their federal funding.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/15/lgbtq-teen-pregnancy-program-trump/85190050007/

WCBM
— Here’s the House Republican Who Wants Amnesty for Illegals. My critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://wcbm.com/national-headline/heres-the-house-republican-who-wants-amnesty-for-illegals/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Can Anything Save the Democrats? As 2026 approaches, they’re disliked, divided and devoid of effective leaders.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-anything-save-the-democrats-election-voters-midterms-2026-3bfb36fe
— Mamdani and the Left’s Alliance With Radical Islam. He won’t impose Shariah on New York, but his views give plenty of reason for legitimate concern.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/mamdani-and-the-lefts-alliance-with-radical-islam-new-york-mayor-658b68ad
— Dividing Doctors by Race. A new report shows racial preferences continue at medical schools. Ever-increasingly, everyone in healthcare is a citizen of a foreign country, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or has ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/medical-schools-racial-preferences-do-no-harm-report-62470941

FORTUNE
— High income taxpayers in California and New York set for a SALT windfall in 2026.  My critics opponents were furious a) that I paid less federal income tax 1972-1977 because I itemized and b) that my wife and I paid less federal income tax 1978-2017 because we itemized. I should write about that.
https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/salt-cap-california-new-york-trump-tax-bill/

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— IRS is building a vast system to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE. Illegals use phony Social Security numbers.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/07/irs-building-vast-system-share-millions-taxpayers-data-ice/406739/

PHYS
— According to my critics/opponents, a) they owe all their successes to meritocracy and b) I owe all my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scholar-meritocracy-schools-redefine-purpose.html

July 16, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Trump lashes out at Republicans over Jeffrey Epstein file demands
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-lashes-out-at-republicans-over-jeffrey-epstein-file-demands/3790673/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— A second chance for school choice in Illinois. My patents had far less money because they paid to send me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. Ironically, the public grade school was across the street from our home. My father almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/16/school-choice-illinois-pritzker-ecca/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump budget cuts
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/07/16/china-illinois-soybean-production-research-trumps-usaid-cuts-dick-durbin


SOUTHERN
— Churches, now allowed to endorse candidates, could transform campaign finances. The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/16/churches-now-allowed-to-endorse-candidates-could-transform-campaign-finances/

RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth Stresses Urgent Need to Modernize Our Air Traffic Control Systems. I worked for GAO on an audit of FAA Air Traffic Control Systems in the early 1980s.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-stresses-urgent-need-to-modernize-our-air-traffic-control-systems-at-summit-84378.cfm?

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/arts-culture/teaching-antiracism-is-a-practice-of-freedom-20449933

RUSS STEWART
— TRUMP’S SUCCESS INFURTIATES DEMOCRATS, LEFTISTS WITH TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME
http://www.russstewart.com/russ-analysis.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-346/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— School choice is one of those 80/20 issues Illinois leaders are out-of-step on. My patents had far less money because they sent me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. Ironically, the public grade school was across the street from our home. My father almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://wirepoints.org/school-choice-is-one-of-those-80-20-issues-illinois-leaders-are-out-of-step-on-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats repeat their despicable history of encouraging defiance of federal laws
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/16/democrats-repeat-despicable-history-encouraging-defiance-federal-laws/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Effort to end freebies for illegal immigrants gets a big thumbs up
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3473245/effort-to-end-freebies-for-illegal-immigrants-gets-a-big-thumbs-up/
— Secret Service compliant with nearly half of congressional reform requests. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3470826/secret-service-reforms-congressional-requests-butler-anniversary/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3471194/women-dont-need-men-to-have-children-birth-rate-marriage/

NEW YORK POST
— New GAO Butler shooting report exposes the Secret Service’s shocking culture of incompetence. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, who had less education than I had, who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, and/or younger.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/opinion/butler-shooting-details-expose-the-secret-services-shocking-culture-of-incompetence/

BREITBART
— Trump Cuts Biden’s Parole Scheme by 100%
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/16/trump-cuts-bidens-parole-scheme-by-100-percent-as-zero-migrants-freed-into-us-last-month/
— Trump: ‘Jeffrey Epstein Hoax’ Is Left’s Latest Media Scam to Distract from My Success
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/16/trump-jeffrey-epstein-hoax-is-lefts-latest-media-scam-to-distract-from-my-success/
— General Motors Announces Plan to Expand Production of Gas-Powered Vehicles
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/15/general-motors-announces-plan-to-expand-production-of-gas-powered-vehicles-in-michigan/
— Promises Made, Promises Kept: Egg Prices Fell 19.8% in June, Down 61% Since February
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/16/promises-made-promises-kept-egg-prices-fell-19-8-in-june-down-61-since-february/

DAILY CALLER
— Here’s All The Nauseatingly Sexual Books The Left Wants Military Kids Reading
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/16/books-banned-dod-schools-sexual-topics-leftist-platitudes-military-kids/

FOX NEWS
— Trump’s controversial plan to fire federal workers finds favor with Supreme Court. Trump’s executive order for federal workforce reduction advances as Supreme Court permits mass layoffs at Education Department despite legal challenges.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-controversial-plan-fire-federal-workers-finds-favor-supreme-court

TOWNHALL
— Bills Introduced Requiring Sanctuary Cities to Repay Feds for Sending in Troops
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeremyfrankel/2025/07/16/bills-introduced-requiring-sanctuary-cities-to-repay-feds-for-sending-in-troops-n2660470

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Trump calls Epstein controversy a “Hoax” and “bulls***,” denouncing “weaklings” in GOP
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-jeffrey-epstein-hoax-republicans/

WASHINGTON POST
— The White House’s plan to downsize the federal government, in charts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/white-house-budget-federal-government/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Some Republicans Push to Protect Unauthorized Immigrants. Lawmakers say agricultural industry will be devastated if workers are deported. My critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got. My critics/opponents cannot say that because their parents had lots of money.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/immigration-law-agriculture-deportations-6d090129

FORBES
— Returning To A Past Where Only The Privileged Are Protected. According to my critics/opponents, I have always been privileged. But I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNSE83dgpcI

WTOP
— Montgomery Co. steps up to help laid-off federal workers.  No help was given to GAO employees like me who lost their jobs because of Gingrich budget cuts.
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2025/07/montgomery-county-steps-up-to-help-laid-off-federal-workers/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In response, the county council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a bill that will give displaced federal workers preferential treatment for county job openings. Only qualified veterans and people with disabilities will receive higher priority.)

PENN STATE
— Internships open up a multitude of options for hard-working student. I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. They stress a) that I did not get any scholarships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and d) that I did not get any internships. In my defense, I stress that instead of studying, I worked far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail.
https://www.psu.edu/news/bellisario-college-communications/story/internships-open-multitude-options-hard-working-student

SI LIVE
— These 19 companies will help pay for your college degree. I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. They stress a) that I did not get any scholarships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and d) that I did not get any internships. In my defense, I stress that instead of studying, I worked far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail.
https://www.silive.com/business/2025/07/these-19-companies-will-help-pay-for-your-college-degree-report-says.html

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— State Dept layoffs necessary for ‘higher quality’ workforce, deputy secretary tells lawmakers. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was a Democrat who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had one professional certification while I had six, and d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/07/state-dept-layoffs-necessary-for-higher-quality-workforce-deputy-secretary-tells-lawmakers/

ECONOMIST
— Having rich parents trumps hard work. Because my parents had enough money to send me to Missouri Lutheran Synod grade schools, my critics/opponents have always demonized them and me as being filthy rich. But my father never made more than $50,000 a year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2025/05/01/why-having-rich-parents-may-trump-hard-work

CONVERSATION
— Why it’s important to get a good job. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I got were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://theconversation.com/why-its-important-young-unemployed-australians-get-a-good-job-instead-of-just-any-job-260817

July 16, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/con-las-teoras-de-conspiracin-sobre-epstein-trump-se-enfrenta-a-una-crisis-que-l-mismo-cre/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use public broadcasting to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/16/illinois-public-broadcasting-cuts-vote-looms/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Inspector general’s quarterly report chock-full of wrongdoing by city employees
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/07/15/inspector-generals-wrongdoing-city-employees-again
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025/07/15/good-trouble-protests-chicago-john-lewis-trump

DAILY HERALD
— As more and more and more Democrats invade DuPage County, stronger security is needed in public spaces
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250716/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-sunset-pool-incident-shows-urgent-need-for-stronger-security-in-public-spaces/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at women that Republicans cause all the problems that women have.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250716/syndicated-columnists/the-gender-gap-grows-wider-and-wider/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250715/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-good-trouble-lives-on-suburban-protests/

ABC7
— How Secret Service is working to combat rising threat of politically motivated violence. One of my best friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/how-secret-service-combats-rising-threat-political-violence-minnesota-lawmakers-shot-donald-trump-assassination-attempt/17122494/
— Some Democrat leaders reluctantly slow down their promotion of LGBTQ
https://abc7chicago.com/post/rush-hospital-pausing-hormonal-health-care-new-patients-age-18/17139085/

CBS2
— ICE says many in immigration detention no longer qualify for bond hearings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ice-immigration-detention-bond-hearings/

WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/how-do-you-feel-about-ice-covering-up-their-identities/#/questions

WBEZ
— After years of poor care, preventable deaths, Illinois is changing its prison health care provider. The state is backing out of its 10-year, $4 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, but the new contractor has its own troubling track record in other states.
https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2025/07/16/after-years-of-poor-care-preventable-deaths-illinois-is-changing-its-prison-health-care-provider
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racists
https://www.wbez.org/data/2025/07/16/report-shows-big-drop-in-chicago-police-traffic-stops-but-sharp-racial-disparities-persist

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/16/good-trouble-lives-on-rallies-target-trump-see-list-of-illinois-locations-times-springfield-peoria/85211067007/

SOUTHERN
— Democrats lean into MAGA infighting over Epstein files
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/16/democrats-lean-into-maga-infighting-over-epstein-files/

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— For many countries, if they cannot exploit America, they hate America
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-07-15/trumps-tariffs-are-prompting-many-in-japan-to-rethink-relationship-with-the-u-s

WAND TV
— IDFPR launches 24 additional license types to new licensing system. I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 years old in 1981.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/idfpr-launches-24-additional-license-types-to-new-licensing-system/article_786fda3b-7aae-4fa9-b06c-be395dbe9344.html

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Intoxicating hemp remains unregulated in Illinois following legislative inaction. Regulatory attempts have failed despite Pritzker’s backing, although feds could intervene. Hemp sales cut into pot sales.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/intoxicating-hemp-remains-unregulated-in-illinois-following-legislative-inaction/

CHALKBEAT
— Illinois graduates who earn college degrees make more money, but racial disparities persist. To address “racial disparities,” my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me retire when I was 49 years old. They gave my Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. The aforesaid is political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/07/16/illinois-high-school-graduates-with-college-degrees-earn-more/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The report found that students from low-income households were less likely to obtain bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, doctoral degrees, or professional licenses than their peers from higher-income households. The report also found that the state’s high school students whose parents were among the highest earners went on to earn about 48% more than those whose parents were in the lowest-earning group. Among those who came from the same socioeconomic background, Black and Latino students earned less than Asian American and white students, the report found. Students in the study’s sample from low-income families were underrepresented in high-paying careers such as computer information sciences and engineering. Most students took jobs in accommodations and food services. Regardless of whether students had the same levels of education, degrees from the same type of program, or worked in the same industry, students from high-income households earned more than their peers who came from low-income households. On average, the gap in earnings between students from high-income households and low-income households was $5,815 even if they had the same degree.)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-552/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-345/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— The Blackmailer Jeffery Epstein, the Chicago Hitman, and the Tragedy of MAGA
https://johnkassnews.com/the-blackmailer-jeffery-epstein-the-chicago-hitman-and-the-tragedy-of-maga/

WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker hides behind CNBC business ranking for Illinois
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzker-hides-behind-cnbc-business-ranking-for-illinois-wirepoints-quickpoint/

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Vallas: Chicago’s Poor Families Deserve Better School Choices. Because my parents had enough money to send me to Missouri Lutheran Synod grade schools, my critics/opponents have always demonized them and me as being filthy rich. But my father never made more than $50,000 a year in today’s dollars.
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-poor-families-better-school-choices

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What could you have done, but did not do, to avoid the rath of those above you? I refused to a) let myself be manipulated or dominated by them, b) glorify or paise them, c) pander to them, d) serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) cover up their wrong doing, and f) give them money. Consequently, they had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— The latest heroes of the left: War criminals, gang members and human rights abusers
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/15/latest-heroes-left-war-criminals-gang-members-human-rights-abusers/
— Where’s the U.S. border? Trump asks Supreme Court to decide
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/15/wheres-us-border-trump-asks-supreme-court-decide/

NEW YORK POST
— How ‘charities,’ funded by your tax dollars, helped break immigration law
https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/opinion/how-charities-funded-by-your-tax-dollars-helped-break-immigration-law/

AMERICAN THINKER
— How do we explain the left’s hatred of America and their undying affection for criminal illegals?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/how_do_we_explain_the_left_s_hatred_of_america_and_their_undying_affection_for_criminal_illegals.html
— Poor Black Children Face a Dismal Future. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics. They were overjoyed when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate..
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/poor_black_children_face_a_dismal_future.html
— Crushing the leftists’ woke riot
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/crushing_the_leftists_woke_riot.html

BLAZE
— Nonprofits aided the invasion — now they obstruct deportation
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/nonprofits-aided-the-invasion-now-they-obstruct-deportation

BREITBART
— Tom Cotton Introduces Bill to End Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Aliens, Terrorists
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/15/exclusive-tom-cotton-introduces-bill-to-end-birthright-citizenship-for-children-of-illegal-aliens-terrorists/

DAILY CALLER
— ICE Declares Illegal Migrants Ineligible For Bond Hearings
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/15/ice-declares-illegals-ineligible-for-bond/

DAILY WIRE
— Trump Admin Charges Business Owner For Hiring Illegal Alien Workers. The employer stands accused of paying to smuggle illegal aliens into the United States before hiring them for his restaurant. All my employers would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have. Illegals are much easier to exploit.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-charges-business-owner-for-hiring-illegal-alien-workers

FEDERALIST
— Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Says Somalia Is His ‘Home’  More and more and more come to America to turn America into their motherland. They promote “diversity.”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/15/minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-says-somalia-is-his-home/
— Democrat States Want American Taxpayers To Fund English Classes For Illegals
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/15/dem-states-want-american-taxpayers-to-fund-english-classes-for-illegals/

FOX NEWS
— How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, to settle an EEOC complaint, Oldsmobile agreed to stop hiring Whites. Because of that, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted. Because I had accepted that offer, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-refines-eeoc-approach-transgender-workplace-discrimination-claims
— AOC welcomes socialist Mamdani to nation’s capital as Dem leaders withhold endorsements. President Trump says former Gov. Andrew Cuomo ‘has a shot’ against Zohran Mamdani, while key Democratic leaders hesitate to choose socialist. What percent of the Democrats in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct would vote for Mamdani?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-welcomes-socialist-mamdani-nations-capital-dem-leaders-withhold-endorsements

HOT AIR
— ‘Queer’ Is Not About Gender; It Is an Assault on Reality Itself
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/07/15/trump-is-done-with-putin-n3804778

NEWS BUSTERS
— CNN Falsely Claims Illegals in Alligator Alcatraz Have ‘No Criminal Charges’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/shannon-sauders/2025/07/15/cnn-falsely-claims-illegals-alligator-alcatraz-have-no-criminal

NEWSMAX
— US Military Bases Libraries Have Material That Promote Gender Ideology
https://www.newsmax.com/us/military-gender-ideology-dei/2025/07/15/id/1218885/

PJ MEDIA
— Woke California Bishop Tells Illegals Not to Come to Church in Case of ICE
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/15/woke-ca-bishop-tells-illegals-theyre-exempted-from-sunday-obligation-n4941755

TOWNHALL
— Here’s the House Republican Who Wants Amnesty for Illegals. My critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/07/16/heres-the-house-republican-who-wants-amnesty-for-illegals-n2660448

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5403189-trumps-disapproval-rating-hits-record-for-second-term/

ABC NEWS
— Supreme Court allows Trump to continue effort to gut Education Department. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich should have reformed GAO instead of gutting it. If he had reformed GAO, I might still be working for GAO. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-allows-trump-continue-effort-gut-education/story?id=123747924

CBS NEWS
— Some American businesses look to expand production as Trump threatens more tariffs. What percent of what you by is made by cheap foreign labor?
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/some-american-businesses-expand-production-trump-tariff-war/

NEWSWEEK
— Trump Attacks His Own Supporters Over Jeffrey Epstein Interest
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-attacks-maga-supporters-jeffrey-epstein-interest-2099526
— My critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.newsweek.com/migrants-immigration-maria-salazar-republicans-house-2099411

NEW YORK TIMES
— Will the Conspiracists Cultivated by Trump Turn on Him Over Epstein? The fallout of the Epstein case is testing the power the president holds over his most loyal followers, many of whom have broken into open revolt against him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/politics/trump-epstein-conspiracy-theories.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/jeffrey-epstein-files-trump.html
— Federal Workers’ ‘Emotional Roller Coaster’ My Democrat GAO superiors’ success in forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 continues to harm me tremendously.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/fired-federal-workers-trump.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans break with Trump on Epstein
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/15/mike-johnson-epstein-files-democrats-house-vote/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/15/trump-third-countries-migrants-deportation/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/honduras-trans-woman-asylum-trump/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Will the ‘1619 Project’ Spoil America’s Party? As the anniversary of 1776 draws near, get ready for a resurgence of the New York Times’s false history. 1619 promoters hate America and hate Americans. The longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that they hate you.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/will-the-1619-project-spoil-americas-party-slavery-history-f1cfd9f2

CAPITOL CITY NEW
— Economic mobility top priority of Krishnamoorthi’s Senate campaign. 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://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-economic-mobility-top-priority-of-krishnamoorthis-senate-campaign/

WBUR
— When does a conservative lawmaker become moderate? After they disagree with Trump.
https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5461102/tillis-rino-trump-moderate-gop

FLORIDA POLITICS
— Jim Oberweis adds another $105K for his run in CD 19
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/747373-jim-oberweis-adds-another-105k-for-his-run-in-cd-19/

MY FEDERAL RETIREMENT
— 2026 Federal Retiree COLA Watch – FERS / CSRS / Social Security  My critics/opponents have always been furious that I got COLAs a) while I worked for the Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997 and b) that I have gotten COLAs since I retired in 1997.
https://www.myfederalretirement.com/fers-csrs-cola-watch/
— 5 Benefits of Working Past Age 65 Federal Employees Should Consider. My Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is dramatically less because my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors wasted my career and took many big adverse actions against me, including forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. My Social Security was dramatically reduced because I get a CSRS pension.
https://www.myfederalretirement.com/social-security-65/

CATO
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cato.org/testimony/case-case-returning-parole-its-proper-purpose-0

POLITICO
— How Elon Musk’s X is fueling the MAGA-Trump split. Musk invited the conspiracists back on purpose. Now they’re dividing the GOP.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/15/elon-musk-x-maga-00455128

IUNSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly prioritize citizens of foreign countries over Americans
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/retention/2025/07/16/funding-paused-migrant-education-trump-plans-cuts

DUCKWORTH
— Duckworth Secures Key Provisions to Protect Rock Island Arsenal. During the first 6 months of 1989, I worked for GAO at the Rock Island Arsenal on an audit of DOD’s 1990 ammunition budget request. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/assets/150/148194.pdf
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-secures-key-provisions-to-protect-rock-island-arsenal-support-illinois-quantum-technology-research-and-safeguard-care-for-veterans

FED SMITH
— Secrets Behind the Growing Number of Thrift Savings Plan Millionaires. TSP millionaires grew 500% in 5+ years.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/07/11/secrets-behind-the-growing-number-of-tsp-millionaires/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) provides a path to a secure retirement for federal employees. While the defined annuity under FERS is a very valuable benefit often not available to most Americans, the Thrift Savings Plan may provide the difference between a minimal retirement or one that provides many more options to enjoy your later years in life. While the argument is often made that salaries in the private sector are higher, the federal workforce has at its fingertips a way to accumulate wealth that provides a substantial retirement income—at least for those with the knowledge and discipline to take maximum advantage of this program. Here are some TSP statistics that every federal employee should keep in mind—especially those who are still relatively new to the federal workforce. In March 2020, there were 27,212 TSP millionaires, which grew to 171,023 by June 2025. This is a growth of over 500% in the number of millionaires in just over five years. The largest quarterly increase in TSP millionaires occurred between March 2020 and June 2020, with the number rising from 27,212 to 45,219 — an increase of 66%. Another significant increase was between December 2020 and March 2021, where the number of millionaires grew from 75,420 to 84,808. The number of TSP millionaires is now at its highest point, with 171,023 participant millionaires as of the end of June 2025. The average years of contributions for TSP millionaires have remained stable over the last five years, hovering around 28 years. This indicates a strong correlation between long-term contributions and achieving millionaire status in the TSP.)

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— The Temptation of Blind Loyalty. My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/202504/eyes-wide-shut-the-temptation-of-blind-loyalty

GOOGLE AI
— Personal spending priorities. What are your personal spending priorities? Mine include expenses needed to put together and to send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They include Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Naperville Sun, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Crain’s Chicago Business home delivery and website access.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22personal+spending+priorities

GOOGLE AI
— Career wasted. Did your superiors waste your career? My Democrat superiors did. But by critics/opponents disagree. They stress that my ACT score was only 24, that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, that I got no scholarships, and that I got no student loans. They stress that my college GPAs were not that great. They stress that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great. In my defense, I had to work my way through college. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes, delivering mail, pumping gasoline, collecting delinquent taxes, and auditing federal agencies.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22career+wasted

July 15, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— 20 Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration on Monday for withholding more than $6 billion in federal funds for several education programs nationwide. Many low-income families will lose access to after-school programs if the money isn’t released soon. What did you do while you were in high school? During my freshman and sophomore years, I did yard work. During all 4 years, I delivered newspapers. During my junior and senior years, I washed dishes.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/boys-girls-club-programs-threatened-trump-grant-freeze-serve-thousands-families/17116784/
— Family raises questions about death of father found unresponsive at Naperville’s Centennial Beach. The family of 27-year-old Streamwood man Manuel Jose Rosales Yajure believes the lifeguards didn’t do enough.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/manuel-jose-rosales-yajure-identified-streamwood-man-died-found-centennial-beach-naperville-police-department/17117110/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW-mqsxAuUw

NBC5
— These Republicans could challenge Gov. JB Pritzker’s reelection bid. The first day petitions can be submitted for the March primary will arrive early next month.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/these-republicans-could-challenge-gov-jb-pritzkers-reelection-bid/3789070/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/video-republican-field-takes-shape-to-oppose-pritzker-reelection-bid/3789117/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: So far, DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick and businessman Joe Severino have announced they intend to run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, but they could be joined by several others, including Rep. Darin LaHood, who is weighing options between a bid for the governor’s mansion or the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Dick Durbin. His team told NBC Chicago Political Reporter Mary Ann Ahern that he is still weighing his options ahead of the Aug. 5 start of the petition season. Aaron Del Mar, former lieutenant governor candidate and the chairman of the Cook County Republican Party, is also weighing a potential run, and he says he sees a path forward for any candidate seeking to deny Pritzker a third term in office. “There is a strong donor base, but you just need to talk to them and convince them that this state is worth investing in,” he said. “There are some concerns about running against the richest elected official in the United States. Illinois is worth saving, and worth investing in, and somebody needs to put Illinois first, and our campaign will display that same motto in action.” Ted Dabrowski, president of the media outlet Wirepoints, which focuses on economic and government issues in Illinois, is also considering a run, reaching out to donors as part of that effort, according to Ahern’s reporting.)
— Who has the advantage in the race for Dick Durbin’s Senate seat?  Three Democrats are vying for the seat, while the Republican primary remains largely up in the air. One could compare and contrast the Illinois Republican U.S. Senate 2004 primary ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois ) with the 2026 primary. All five announced candidates  (John Cox, Chirinjeev Kathuria, Andrew McKenna, Jim Oberweis, and  Jack Ryan) walked in Wheaton’s 2003 Independence Day parade and then attended a picnic in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. My critics/opponents were not only furious that Ryan won the primary instead of their candidate McKenna, they blamed me for McKenna’s defeat. I was not only the GOPUSA Illinois Editor, I was also an officer of the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. Neither organization endorsed McKenna. Ryan withdrew after he won the primary and then the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee replaced him with Alan Keyes who lost to Obama.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/who-has-the-advantage-in-the-race-for-dick-durbins-senate-seat/3789209/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On the other side of the aisle, several names have been floated on the Republican side to run for Durbin’s Senate seat. Insiders said Richard Porter is considering a bid. Porter’s largely been behind the scenes, working as a suburban attorney and former Republican national committeeman. He also worked for former President George W Bush’s administration as a domestic policy adviser to the president and counselor to former Vice President Dan Quayle. U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood is also eyeing the Senate race, but he would have to give up his congressional seat to do so. He has also been rumored to be eyeing a run for Illinois governor, but will make his decision in coming weeks. The last Illinois Republican to serve in the Senate was Mark Kirk. He lost re-election to Duckworth in 2016.)
— Democrats put aside previous misgivings to hit Trump over Jeffrey Epstein files
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/democrats-trump-administration-jeffrey-epstein-files/3788972/
— Democrat leaders promote Rosie O’Donnell
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/video-rosie-odonnell-reacts-donald-trump-threat-potentially-revoke-citizenship/3789125/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/14/chicago-officials-call-identification-requirements-ice-agents-we-are-asking

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— State Farm defends hefty 27.2% hike in Illinois homeowners insurance rates
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/state-farm-defends-illinois-homeowners-rate-increase/
— Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich should have reformed GAO instead of gutting it. If he had reformed GAO, I might still be working for GAO. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/trump-lay-off-education-employees/
— A city where every teen can find work — that should be the goal. I took the following jobs when I was a teen, but how many teens would take those jobs today? I did yard work. I delivered newspapers. I wash dishes. I cleaning golf shoes. I chipping slag. I pumping gasoline. I delivering mail. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/chicago-teen-summer-jobs/
— Wheaton 7-bedroom mansion with Tudor facade and 7 gables: $2M
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/wheaton-seven-gables-home/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This 1897 Wheaton property built by architect Jarvis Hunt is called the House of Seven Gables and was commissioned as a wedding gift by Chicago steel magnate Jay Morse. Later known as the Loretto Convent, the mansion has a Tudor facade, hand-carved woodwork and seven distinctive gables. In 2017, the entire 10,000-square-foot, 730-ton structure was relocated 500 feet and placed on a new foundation. The house now has modern infrastructure, all-new mechanicals, including zoned central heating and air conditioning, and public utilities. In the Loretto subdivision, the home has seven bedrooms, six full bathrooms, one half-bath and a newly built, attached three-car garage. There is also an unfinished lower level with 10-foot ceilings.)

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker orders state agencies to assess potential effects of more Trump tariffs. Officials told to figure out which industries are most vulnerable to trade disruptions.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/07/14/trump-tariffs-jb-pritzker-illinois-executive-order

DAILY HERALD
— Citing safety risks for election officials, McHenry County clerk seeking 35% pay hike
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250713/local-politics/citing-safety-risks-for-election-officials-mchenry-county-clerk-seeking-35-pay-hike/
— State Department firings say much about administration’s ‘reforms.’ If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. The Democrats who ran GAO used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s Republican employees like me.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250715/syndicated-columnists/state-department-firings-say-much-about-administrations-reforms/
— Why the races to succeed Krishnamoorthi, Schakowsky in Congress are packed
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250715/local-politics/why-the-races-to-succeed-krishnamoorthi-schakowsky-in-congress-are-packed/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for problems that disabled people have.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/chicago-disability-inclusion-accessibility
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/cook-county-forest-preserves-prioritize-accessible-amenities-opinion
— Pritzker signs executive order to analyze tariff impact on Illinois
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-orders-agencies-analyze-tariff-impact-illinois

WGN RADIO
— Is MAGA bigger than Trump?
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-is-maga-bigger-than-trump/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/06/26/jb-pritzker-governor-of-illinois-running-for-third-term-state-visits-tour-june-26-2025-stops/84367606007/

SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/07/14/good-trouble-lives-on-protests-in-northern-illinois-locations-times-what-you-need-to-know/

RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth Advances IVF Coverage for Military Families. If I ran for an office, my opponents would have Duckworth stress that I avoided the Vietnam War draft and that my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-secures-several-key-priorities-in-committeepassed-ndaa-to-expand-ivf-coverage-strengthen-oversight-of-domestic-military-deployments-boost-84307.cfm

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Pritzker signs executive order responding to impact of tariffs on Illinois
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/07/14/pritzker-signs-executive-order-responding-to-impact-of-tariffs-on-illinois/85199351007/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees. The Democrats who ran GAO used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of more than 3,000 GAO employees including me, but they spread it out. Virtually all those who they got rid of were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.news-gazette.com/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-lay-off-nearly-1-400-education-department-employees/article_41642fbf-3c9e-5b23-b0a7-4e125be1d826.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Republicans renew a bid to remove noncitizens from the census tally. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-07-15/republicans-renew-a-bid-to-remove-noncitizens-from-the-census-tally-behind-voting-maps

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-551/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-344/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Ibendahl: Time to Think about Getting Involved in Politics  Diersen: If you might be interested in becoming a Republican Precinct Committeeman in DuPage County, and especially in Milton Township and Wheaton, please contact me. I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Wheaton since 1999.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/15/time-to-think-about-getting-involved-in-politics/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DOJ urges federal agencies to operate ‘exclusively in English’ as much as possible. To be eligible to vote in America, you must be an American citizen. To become a naturalized American citizen, you must be proficient in English.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/14/doj-urges-federal-agencies-operate-exclusively-english-much-possible/
— Biden autopen scandal ignites firestorm over cover-up of president’s mental fitness
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/14/biden-aide-signed-autopen-pardons-thousands/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— IL construction workers highest paid in U.S. as new home building lags. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, the federal government paid me $19.37/hour when I was 18, $55,850/year when I was 22, $68,315/year when I was 23, $82,655/year when I was 24, $99,069/year when I was 25, $112,280/year when I was 29, $117,807/year when I was 38, and $153.151/year when I was 49. In my defense, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3470573/illinois-construction-workers-highest-paid-new-home-building-lags/

AMAC
— Trump Cracks Down on Colleges Giving Tuition Breaks to Illegal Aliens
https://amac.us/newsline/society/trump-cracks-down-on-colleges-giving-tuition-breaks-to-illegal-aliens/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Facts to ponder while most of the media peddles Democrat talking points
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/facts_to_ponder_while_most_of_the_media_pedals_democrat_talking_points_to_destroy_trump_and_republicans_and_to_elect_democrats.html
— Is it wrong to arrest ‘non-criminal’ illegals? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, no one is illegal.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/is_it_wrong_to_arrest_non_criminal_illegals.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— MSNBC talking head says illegals could have ‘lawful’ right to use violence against ICE
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/07/14/msnbc-talking-head-says-illegals-could-have-lawful-right-to-use-violence-against-ice-1567671/

BLAZE
— Sanctuary cities fail — but Karen Bass keeps pushing the lie
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/sanctuary-cities-fail-but-karen-bass-keeps-pushing-the-lie

BREITBART
— Omar Fateh: Rep. Boebert Opposing Free College for Illegal Aliens Is ‘White Supremacy’ — So Is Policing
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/14/omar-fateh-boebert-opposing-free-college-illegals-white-supremacy/

DAILY CALLER
— Detained Weed Farm Illegals Dems Rushed To Defend Actually Have Heinous Rap Sheets
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/14/detained-california-weed-farm-illegals-heinous-rap-sheets-democrats/
— Lefty Groups Biden Showered In Taxpayer Cash Coaching Illegals To Evade ICE
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/14/lefty-groups-biden-taxpayer-cash-coaching-illegals-ice/

DAILY WIRE
— Nearly 400 Illegals Arrested In Raid On California Pot Farm. Federal agents also “rescued at least 14 migrant children from what looks like exploitation, forced child labor, and potentially human trafficking…”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-400-illegals-arrested-in-raid-on-california-pot-farm-dhs-says
— Plane Hijacker, Child Predators, Murderers: ICE Nabs More Than 1,300 Illegals In Houston. Those arrested include a child sex predator who has been removed from the United States four different times.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/plane-hijacker-child-predators-murderers-ice-nabs-more-than-1300-illegals-in-houston

HOT AIR
— Left Wing Failures Breed More Violence Before MidTerms
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/07/13/left-wing-failures-breed-more-violence-before-midterms-n3804749

MRC TV
— CNN Falsely Claims Illegals in Alligator Alcatraz Have ‘No Criminal Charges’
https://mrctv.org/videos/cnn-falsely-claims-illegals-alligator-alcatraz-have-no-criminal-charges

NEWSMAX
— Most Back Trump on Immigration
https://www.newsmax.com/us/poll-trump-immigration/2025/07/14/id/1218725/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— Trump’s team launches group to unseat GOP Rep. Thomas Massie. Have you been unseated? My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes unseat me as a) a member of the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, d) an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer in 2007, e) a GAO employee in 1997, and f) a postal employee in 1969. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.aol.com/trumps-team-launches-group-unseat-235301803.html

NEWSWEEK
— Los Angeles To Give Cash Assistance To Immigrants Impacted By Trump Raids
https://www.newsweek.com/los-angeles-cash-assistance-immigation-ice-raids-2098642
— Democrat leaders promote protests against Trump on July 17
https://www.newsweek.com/map-list-cities-anti-trump-protests-july-17-2096597

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/health/south-africa-aids-hiv-trump-funding-cuts.html?searchResultPosition=1

WASHINGTON POST
— Supreme Court allows deep layoffs at Education Department. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich should have reformed GAO instead of gutting it. If he had reformed GAO, I might still be working for GAO. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/14/supreme-court-education-department-/
— Trump wants to dismantle the Education Department. What would that mean? Instead of reforming GAO, Gingrich gutted GAO. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/15/education-department-dismantled-trump-explained/

USA TODAY
— Reasons why you’re not getting promoted. Democrats run the federal government. My Democrat superiors delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13 not only because I refused to become a Democrat, but because I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/30/5-mistakes-preventing-promotion/84376177007/
— Should I take a buyout. My Democrat GAO superiors always wanted to get rid of me and my coworkers who shared my demographics. In 1993, when I was 45 years old, they “offered” those like me who had 25 or more years of federal service a $25,000 buyout if we retired early. They succeeded in forcing me to retire 4 years later just before their “offer” expired. I would not have been eligible for regular retirement for another 6 years. Beyond the tremendous negative financial impact of being forced to retire early, it gives your critics/opponents something very big to use against you. They will hint/imply/argue/shout that the real reason why you were forced to retire early is that you are a bad person. Further, the more qualifications that you have, the more that they will hint/imply/argue/shout that the real reason why you were forced to retire early is that you are a bad person. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/28/jobs-buyout-layoffs-recession-economy-tips/84383588007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: You’ve been offered a buyout. Your employer wants to pay you to quit. It’s a big chunk of change. Should you accept? Companies offer buyouts to thin the ranks, spending money in the short term to save money in the long run. Employers often leverage buyouts to avoid layoffs. And that thought, alone, should give you pause. The Trump administration offered buyouts to the entire federal workforce this year, aiming to reduce it by as much as 10%. Roughly 75,000 workers accepted.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Now Trump Says Forget Jeffrey Epstein. He urges MAGA to give up a conspiracy tale that he and his allies promoted.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/now-trump-says-forget-jeffrey-epstein-9ca7d378
— Is Your Salary Too High for Today’s Job Market? My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, the federal government paid me $19.37/hour when I was 18, $55,850/year when I was 22, $68,315/year when I was 23, $82,655/year when I was 24, $99,069/year when I was 25, $112,280/year when I was 29, $117,807/year when I was 38, and $153.151/year when I was 49. In my defense, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/is-your-salary-too-high-for-todays-job-market/84ae9a22-052e-43de-98ff-e859592134f8
— Democrat and RINO leaders illegally ever-increasingly illegally encourage citizens of foreign countries to bring their children illegally into America illegally and to illegally keep them in America illegally.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-immigration-reform-gallup-polling-border-ice-deportations-c69218cf
— Family Reunions Become Harder to Keep. My family reunions were big during the 1950s and early 1960s on my father’s side in Crete and on my mother’s side in Grant Park.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/what-it-takes-to-keep-those-family-reunions-picnics-and-funfetti-cupcakes-going-f083fb7f

WASHINGTON MONTHLY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/14/america-is-now-a-police-state/

NEWSBREAK
— Trump Store in Huntley Illinois Closes After Eviction Battle
https://www.newsbreak.com/century-homes-america-322339187/4107185611986-trump-store-in-huntley-illinois-closes-after-eviction-battle

NATION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint Democrats as having been the Union Army in the Civil War and b) paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-confederacy-slavery-racism/

TAMMY DUCKWORTH
— Duckworth is a Democrat minority female veteran U.S. Senator. She demands answers regarding State Department layoffs. GAO works for Congress. If Duckworth had been a U.S. Senator during the 1980s and 1990s, would she have demanded answers regarding Gingrich’s gutting of GAO? My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s Republican employees like me who were not minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-booker-sfrc-colleagues-demand-answers-regarding-state-department-layoffs

FED SMITH
— What the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Means for Federal Employees. Federal employees dodged a bullet on proposed benefits cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill, but there are other important tax changes to be aware of.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/07/10/what-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-means-for-federal-employees/

July 14, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 21 shot, 3 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-6-shot-1-fatally-gun-violence-city-police-say/17086053/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/record-festival-turnout-after-federal-agents-are-spotted-in-chicago/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/chicago-ice-lawsuit/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois Democrat leaders blame Trump for vaccine-preventable-illnesses
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/07/14/illinois-official-calls-out-trump-administration-for-dangerous-misinformation/84540517007/
— Democrat leaders decry Trump’s firing the Librarian of Congress. No one decried my Democrat GAO superiors firing me, that is, forcing me to retire in 1997. No one decried my Democrat Post Office superiors firing me in 1969, that is, forcing me to resign. Of course, my critics/opponents stress that. GAO works for Congress. They especially stress that neither Hyde, Fitzgerald, Hastert, nor Bush decried my GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old. Constructively, since 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.86 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/07/14/former-librarian-of-congress-joins-mellon-foundation/84693514007/

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— How dependent on Medicaid funding are the nursing homes in your area? To avoid having to go on Medicaid, my outstanding aunt, who never attended college, worked as a key-punch operator, lived frugally, and saved more than $600,000 for her retirement.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/state/2025/07/14/study-579-us-nursing-homes-at-risk-of-closing-over-medicaid-cuts/84538477007/

QUAD CITY TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://qctimes.com/article_e3741520-d1a7-433d-81a6-36bca8cc0036.html

WHEATON PATCH
— What did you focus on when you were young? I focused on earning job-related college degrees, job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license to qualify myself for better paying jobs.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/calendar/event/20250715/cf201694-f4b4-4237-bdb3-c8e122796c4b/dupagepads-young-professionals-council-kick-off

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Republicans lining up against Pritzker
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/14/republicans-lining-up-against-pritzker-00450761
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A few Republicans are looking to get in the ring. Ted Dabrowski and Aaron Del Mar are testing the waters, speaking with GOP insiders and potential donors about mounting campaigns. They would face DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, who’s already jumped in, and Joseph Severino who’s posted in social media that he’s running, too. Darren Bailey, who challenged Pritzker in 2024, hasn’t made any decisions yet about 2026. Jeanne Ives, who ran in 2018, says she’s not running. And though state Rep. Dan Ugaste and Posen Park District Supervisor Phil Perez toyed with the idea, neither will run for governor in 2026. Mendrick, a law-and-order candidate, has raised just $127,000 since he announced in February, according to filings with the state. Dabrowski and Del Mar, who are better known around the state for their work in policy and politics, would likely have an easier time raising funds. Del Mar is recognized in party circles across the state as he’s a former co-chair of the Illinois GOP and current Cook County Republican chair who ran as lieutenant governor alongside Gary Rabine in 2022. Dabrowski is president of Wirepoints Corp., the conservative-leaning media company. While he lacks campaign experience, he’s a former banking executive and policy wonk whose fiscal message could resonate at a time of economic uncertainty. Severino has made two unsuccessful bids for Congress, first as a Republican and then as an Independent. Along with the money challenge, messaging will be an issue for GOP candidates as Pritzker and his Democratic Party will blame Republicans and President Donald Trump for the megabill that’s giving tax breaks to the wealthy and cutting Medicaid and food assistance programs. . .Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders held a fundraiser in Barrington the other day at the home of Rick and Alisa Heidner. Among the attendees were Illinois Congressman Darin LaHood, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, state Sen. Andrew Chesney, political strategist Brett Corrigan, businessman and 2022 GOP gubernatorial candidate Gary Rabine, possible 2026 gubernatorial candidate Aaron Del Mar, Illinois National Republican Committee member Dean White, former Chicago GOP Chair Eloise Gerson and McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio.)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Troubling Case of Jeffrey Epstein
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/the-troubling-case-of-jeffrey-epstein/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— State Farm faces backlash over $523 million insurance rate hike in Illinois
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3469774/state-farm-faces-backlash-over-insurance-rate-hike-in-illinois/

NEW YORK POST
— NY scraps race-based STEM program after Asians claim discrimination
https://nypost.com/2025/07/14/us-news/ny-scraps-race-based-stem-program-after-asians-claim-discrimination/

AMRICAN THINKER
— Pot farm raided for illegals has a big history of violating labor law, donating to Democrats
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/pot_farm_raided_for_illegals_has_a_big_history_of_violating_labor_law_donating_to_democrats.html

FOX BUSINESS
— Trump says Powell should resign immediately from Federal Reserve leadership position over economic missteps. My Democrat superiors in the federal government wanted me to resign because I refused to become a Democrat. Because I refused to become a Democrat, they ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me. My RINO leaders in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party want me to become a RINO. Because I refuse to become a RINO, they ever-increasingly take more and bigger adverse actions against me.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-says-powell-should-resign-immediately-from-federal-reserve-leadership-position-over-economic-missteps

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— What websites serve those who share your demographics?
https://www.aol.com/websites-serving-harvard-undergrad-women-134724551.html

YAHOO
— To promote Affirmative Action and DEI is to promote discrimination
https://www.aol.com/finance/more-200-p-500-companies-143039217.html

CBS NEWS
— Scathing report on Trump assassination attempt released.  One of my best friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/scathing-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-released-trump-says-hes-satisfied-with-it/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding the University of Illinois with foreign students. UIC accepted me when I was 17, NIU when I was 20, Loyola when I was 23, DePaul when I was 27, and IIT when I was 43. But they all would have accepted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/dining/chinese-food-urbana-champaign-student-visa.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opinion/medicaid-pregnancy-danger.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/democrats-transgender-rights.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Senate report details failures ahead of Trump assassination attempt. One of my best friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/13/trump-assassination-attempt-senate-investigation/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/13/homan-border-czar-ice-raid-death-california/85081107007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight bringing manufacturing jobs back to America
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/29/tariffs-boost-us-manufacturing-revival/84284972007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Cleared to Lay Off Workers, Some Federal Agencies Find Many Already Left. Thousands of workers in government jobs have taken buyouts or retired early. Many say morale is low. Ever-increasingly, after I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 year old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors made I ever-increasingly clear that they wanted to get rid of me because I refused to become a Democrat. Nevertheless, to thwart their ever-increasing efforts to get rid of me, a) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) I became a licensed CPA in 1981, d) I earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. However, that was not enough. They succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/federal-layoff-plans-buyout-offers-9d115dcd
— The Federal Government Is Retreating From Student Lending. Did you get a student loan? I did not even try. Did you get any scholarships? I did not even apply. I was not viewed as being college material. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother had never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes. My critics/opponents have always stressed the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/trump-student-loans-tax-spending-bill-9dfc96eb

MOTLEY FOOL
— The 4 Banks That Rule Illinois
https://www.aol.com/news/2013-10-11-the-4-banks-that-rule-illinois.html

AUTOGUIDE
— The 10 Most Iconic American Cars. I am big on American cars. I own a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV, 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 and 1972 Corvette, and 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX. I used to own a 1958 and 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air, 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS, 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, 1968 Oldsmobile 442, 1968 Charger R/T, 1969 Charger SE, 1990 Thunderbird LX, 1994 Thunderbird, and 2016 Mustang.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/top-10/s-fourth-of-july-the-10-most-iconic-american-cars-44622346
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. Ford Mustang . . . 2. Chevrolet Corvette . . . 4. Dodge Charger . . . 5. Chevrolet Bel Air. . . 8. Pontiac GTO)

WNEM
— Tough questions to ask your boss. My Democrat superiors in the federal government made it clear that to keep your job, you not only had to be a Democrat, you had to a) defend and advance the Democrat Party platform, most importantly, its race and gender based preference giving plank and b) help them get rid of their Republican employees. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I am amazed that I survived for almost 3 years at the Post Office, for almost 9 years at IRS, and for almost 18 years at GAO. I would not have survived if I had not earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.wnem.com/2025/07/11/ask-advance-tough-questions-ask-your-boss/

TIMES OF INDIA
— Amid US federal pressure, Harvard replaces DEI offices with ‘community and culture’
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/amid-us-federal-pressure-harvard-replaces-dei-offices-with-community-and-culture/articleshow/122418960.cms
— To promote Affirmative Action and DEI is to oppose meritocracy
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/harvard-quietly-dismantles-student-diversity-offices-without-notice-is-this-the-end-of-inclusion-on-campus/ar-AA1Il8kv

WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE
— How much money did your parents have? My critics/opponents have always painted my parents, and therefore me, as having been filthy rich a) because my father made enough money that my mother could stay home and raise me and my brother and b) because they sent me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools K-8. But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/13/lomy-j13.html

INDEPENDENT
— Voters label Democrats ‘out of touch’ and ‘weak’ in latest troubling poll ahead of 2026 midterms
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/voters-label-democrats-out-of-touch-and-weak-in-latest-troubling-poll-ahead-of-2026-midterms/ar-AA1IrkEa

July 13, 2025 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— Trump Administration is Putting Americans First
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/sunday-shows-trump-administration-is-putting-americans-first/

DUPAGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
— Sheriff James Mendrick Welcomes Gary Sinise to DuPage County. Yesterday, Sheriff Mendrick had the honor of welcoming Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band to DuPage County for a powerful concert at Cantigny Park, hosted by the West Suburban Foundation for Disabled Veterans (WSFDV) as part of their Rockin’ For Our Vets event. This incredible benefit concert was held to support U.S. Veterans and their families, with all proceeds going toward housing and essential living needs for disabled veterans—a mission at the heart of WSFDV, a dedicated non-profit organization. We extend our deepest thanks to the Gary Sinise Foundation, Cantigny Park, and Michelle Senatore, co-founder and president of WSFDV, for making this event possible. The DuPage County Sheriff’s Office was proud to stand behind this meaningful cause and be part of such a heartfelt community effort.
https://www.facebook.com/dupagesheriff/posts/sheriff-james-mendrick-welcomes-gary-sinise-to-dupage-county-yesterday-sheriff-m/1147540134064543/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Furor over Epstein files sparks clash between Bondi and Bongino at the Justice Department
https://abc7chicago.com/post/furor-jeffrey-epstein-files-fallout-sparks-clash-between-pam-bondi-dan-bongino-donald-trumps-justice-department/17099169/
— Mayor Johnson calls for more state funding for CPS
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mayor-brandon-johnson-calls-more-state-funding-chicago-public-schools-chat-grand-crossing-new-life-covenant-church/17105055/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— How dependent on Medicaid funding is your hospital?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/13/safety-net-hospitals-medicaid/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had turning my Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/12/big-beautiful-bill-chicago-black-community-inequity-economic-struggles-alden-loury

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://chicagodefender.com/how-trumps-2025-budget-bill-threatens-snap-benefits-for-340000-illinois-residents/

CITIES 92.9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad, including bad weather
https://www.cities929.com/2025/07/13/illinois-congressman-pushes-for-nws-funding-as-trumps-budget-faces-scrutiny/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump threatens to take away Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship. What have your critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes take away from you? Mine had them take away a) my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) the west half of my precinct in 2015, d) my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, e) my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee in 2007, f) my membership on the America Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board of directors in 2004, g) my GAO employment in 1997, and h) my Post Office employment in 1969. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to do everything that they can a) to stop me from sending out GIOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading them.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-lashes-out-at-rosie-odonnell-threatens-to-take-away-us-citizenship/

WCIA
— My critics/opponents destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-from-tariffs-to-universities-trumps-negotiating-style-is-often-less-dealmaking-and-more-coercion/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Jeanne exposes the permanent Cook County law that waives traffic fines for low-income residents, allowing rule-breakers to avoid consequences while law-abiding citizens pay the cost. With Illinois ranking 39th in freedom nationwide, this policy change highlights a disturbing trend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbrBF6mG138

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pot sellers want hemp sales to be regulated because hemp sales cut into their pot sales
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/illinois-lawmaker-convenes-initial-meeting-to-discuss-challenges-for-states-hemp-industry/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— GOP senator, Trump back embattled AG Bondi after Epstein’s purported ‘client list’ remains unproven
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/13/john-barrasso-wyoming-republican-vouches-ag-pam-bondi-amid-maga/
— ‘Despicable’: DHS Secretary Noem rips Democrats for playing politics on Texas flooding
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/13/kristi-noem-homeland-security-secretary-accuses-democrats-playing/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad, including bad weather
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3469736/illinois-congressman-pushes-for-funding-as-trump-budget-faces-scrutiny/
— Democrats defend child labor at California marijuana farms
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3468811/democrats-defend-child-labor-california-marijuana-farms/

NEW YORK POST
— Ramaswamy: Resist the left’s Mamdani trap — fight his ideas, not his ethnicity
https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/opinion/vivek-ramaswamy-resist-the-racist-lefts-mamdani-trap/
— Top US Democrats don’t even dare denounce Zohran Mamdani’s extremism
https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/opinion/top-us-democrats-dont-even-dare-denounce-zohran-mamdanis-extremism/
— Cheering assaults on ICE, Democrat leaders want a Second Civil War against Republicans
https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/opinion/violent-attacks-against-ice-fed-by-dem-rhetoric/
— Democrat leaders fan the flames of ‘assassination culture’ against ICE
https://nypost.com/2025/07/11/opinion/dems-fan-the-flames-of-assassination-culture-against-ice/

BREITBART
— Homan: We Have Most Secure Border in History Because ‘We’re Enforcing Immigration Law’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/13/homan-we-have-most-secure-border-in-history-because-were-enforcing-immigration-law/
— Chicago: Over 2,200 Shooting Victims During Last 12 Months
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/07/13/chicago-over-2200-shooting-victims-during-last-12-months/

EPOCH TIMES
— 10 Non-Tax Policies in Trump’s Megabill That Will Affect Americans. The mammoth legislation reforms entitlements and boosts funding for border security and air traffic control.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/10-non-tax-policies-in-trumps-megabill-that-will-affect-americans-5885827

FOX BUSINESS
— Blue cities’ low quality of life does not justify the price tag
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/new-report-shows-blue-cities-quality-life-fails-justify-price-tag

FOIX NEWS
— AOC should be sued ‘into bankruptcy’ over latest attack on Trump, stunned critics seethe. Critics reference ABC’s $15M settlement with Trump after similar characterization by George Stephanopoulos. My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I am a spammer, b) that I falsely say that I am a journalist, c)that the real reason why my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career, took many/big adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 was that I have always been an extremely bad person and even worse things, and d) that all the big adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me were justified. I should sue my critics/opponents.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-should-sued-into-bankruptcy-over-latest-attack-trump-stunned-critics-seethe

PJ MEDIA
— The New ‘Superman’ Movie: Super-Woke Crap
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/07/13/the-new-superman-movie-super-woke-crap-or-truth-justice-and-the-american-way-n4941710

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat leaders attack conditions at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention facility
https://thehill.com/national-security/5398732-noem-defends-conditions-at-alligator-alcatraz-detention-facility/

ABC NEWS
— Trump backs Bondi over Epstein probe criticism
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=123527438
— Epstein files fallout has ‘real potential to influence’ Trump’s key messengers
https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/epstein-files-fallout-real-potential-influence-trumps-key-123719413

CBS NEWS
— President Trump defends cabinet amid scrutiny
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-defends-cabinet-amid-scrutiny/
— Sen. Rand Paul accuses Secret Service of “cultural cover-up” regarding Butler shooting. One of my closest friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/sen-rand-paul-accuses-secret-service-of-cultural-cover-up-regarding-butler-shooting/

HARVARD POLITICAL REVIEW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout a minorities and at females that White male Republicans cause all problems that minorities and females have.
https://theharvardpoliticalreview.com/medical-racism-motherhood/

ATLANTIC
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump and b) glorify and praise those who oppose Trump.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/don-bacon-congress-retirement/683520/