FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois Democrats condemn Trump’s executive order to dismantle Department of Education
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-education-illinois-democrats-condemn-president-donald-trumps-executive-order-dismantle/16058847/
— Congressman Sean Casten Downers Grove town hall shut down by police after protester jumps on stage. In another instance, a woman in the audience stood up and yelled at Casten about U.S. support going to Israel.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/democrat-us-rep-sean-casten-downers-grove-town-hall-shut-down-police-pro-palestinian-protester-jumps-stage/16058039/
— Former Trump Tower Chicago board member alleges racketeering scheme, retaliation in new lawsuit.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-trump-tower-chicago-board-member-onisim-dorneanu-alleges-racketeering-scheme-retaliation-new-lawsuit/16059400/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhoatbT4Lo
NBC5
— Trump AG highlights three Tesla arson cases, adding to White House defense of Musk’s company.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-ag-highlights-three-tesla-arson-cases-adding-to-white-house-defense-of-musks-company/3703111/
— Tough lesson for Chicago employees of US Education Dept.: they’re gone. Friday is final day at Ed’s Office for Civil Rights; NBC5 Investigates what will happen to hundreds of complaints and open cases. I should write about the audit work that GAO would have done if Gingrich had not gutted the agency during the 1980s and 1990s.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/tough-lesson-for-chicago-employees-of-us-education-dept-theyre-gone/3703088/
CBS2
— Musk says Tesla has activated security cameras on vehicles at dealerships amid attacks
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-elon-musk-dealerships-security/
— Pritzker and Underwood hold Romeoville event about protecting Social Security. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, everything that Republicans want harms everyone, and especially Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-jb-pritzker-lauren-underwood-romeoville-social-security/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders get doctors and patients to rally against Trump-backed Medicaid cuts.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-doctors-patients-rally-against-trump-backed-medicaid-cuts-im-furious
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more Medicaid. What percent are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_YkiIS49s
WTTW
— Thousands of Venezuelans in Illinois Could Lose Deportation Protections by April
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/20/thousands-venezuelans-illinois-could-lose-deportation-protections-april
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/trump-closing-education-department-executive-order/
— Sen. Seth Lewis: Just trust Chicago? Not when it comes to public transit
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/opinion-metra-public-transit-fiscal-cliff-chicago/
— US Rep. Sean Casten’s town hall cut short amid protests over Israel and Gaza
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/casten-town-hall-shut-down/
— If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/amid-discontent-at-classical-station-wfmt-employees-announce-intent-to-unionize/
— HUD Midwest director, other longtime Chicago staff retiring early amid Trump administration threats, cuts to agency. I should write about the tremendous amount of work experience that my Democrat GAO Chicago office superiors flushed down their toilets when they got rid of their Republican employees who were the following 1980-1997 because of Gingrich budget cuts: White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/hud-midwest-director-staff-retire-trump/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Eight Chicago-based U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development staffers with more than 180 years of service collectively have retired or are retiring later this year as the agency undergoes scrutiny and faces cuts from billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and President Donald Trump.)
— Pritzker’s Illinois Democratic Party targets Richard Irvin as he seeks third term as Aurora mayor.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/21/richard-irvin-aurora-mayor-governor-bid/
CHICAGO SUN-TINES
— A flood of emails, ‘intimidation’ allegations as homeschooling advocates fight regulation. The measure that is dividing the state Capitol would require homeschooling families to notify their school districts when they decide to homeschool and require administrators to have a minimum high school education.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/20/home-school-regulation-proposed-legislation-illinois-general-assembly
— Don’t take it as a joke when Trump and his allies say he’ll run again in 2028. “I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028,” Steve Bannon said. “We’ll see what the definition of term limit is.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/20/president-trump-third-term-2028-no-joke-constitution-22nd-amendment-se-cupp
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2025/03/20/dispensary-33s-chicago-weed-shops-employee-owned
— Is the Flamingo endangered? Trump fires workers who look after federal artwork. The General Services Administration owns a wide assortment of collector-quality sculptures, paintings and other art from top-tier artists, most of it accessible to the public and now at risk under President Trump. Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ) featured a big picture of me and the Flamingo. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/03/20/flamingo-sculpture-trump-firings-general-services-administration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they are anti-American if not America-haters.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/03/21/trump-american-exceptionalism-dangerous-wars-america-james-huffman
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump Organization sued over alleged malfeasance at Chicago tower.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/trump-sued-over-alleged-malfeasance-chicago-tower
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject the rule of law unless they can use it to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/donald-trump-seeks-retribution-against-lawyers-op-ed
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://chicagocrusader.com/could-trumps-anti-dei-initiatives-spark-the-return-of-jim-crow/
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Democrat leaders get doctors and patients to rally against Trump-backed Medicaid cuts.
https://www.bnd.com/news/politics-government/article302415079.html
SOUTHERN
— DNC reports record February grassroots fundraising haul
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/21/dnc-reports-record-february-grassroots-fundraising-haul/
NPR ILLINOIS
— 3 people face federal charges for Tesla attacks. Such acts are domestic terrorism.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-20/3-people-face-federal-charges-for-tesla-attacks-are-such-acts-domestic-terrorism
— Since the 1960s, ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO leaders have forced employers to give more and more and more preference to minorities and to females. I should write about the tremendous preference that my employers gave.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-20/with-trumps-crackdown-on-dei-some-women-fear-a-path-to-good-paying-jobs-will-close
WAND TV
— Proposal requiring contraception, medication abortion at public college health centers heads to House floor. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/proposal-requiring-contraception-medication-abortion-at-public-college-health-centers-heads-to-house-floor/article_4fd237ae-fefc-4348-a465-37e386740b43.html
25 NEWS NOW
— Illinois bill would require public higher ed. institutions to provide contraception, abortion medication. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/03/20/illinois-bill-would-require-public-higher-ed-institutions-provide-contraception-abortion-medication/
KWQC
— Illinois Republicans push gerrymandering lawsuit. I should write about the 2015 gerrymandering of my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/03/21/illinois-republicans-push-gerrymandering-lawsuit/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— More than 80% of cannabis users admit to driving within hours of consuming. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Anticipate/expect that vehicle accidents will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/more-than-80-of-cannabis-users-admit-to-driving-within-hours-of-consuming-report/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-479/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-272/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Homeschooling and the hypocrisy of Illinois politicians
https://wirepoints.org/homeschooling-and-the-hypocrisy-of-illinois-politicians-wirepoints/
JOHN BIVER
— How to Help Political Judges and Lawyers: Teach Law in High Schools
https://johnbiver.com/how-to-help-political-judges-and-lawyers-teach-law-in-high-schools/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. My precinct having three different ballot styles complicates matters. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois Federation of Teachers spends $46.1M on state politics
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-federation-of-teachers-spends-46-1m-on-state-politics/
FROM INATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— It’s absolutely legal to deport hate-monger Mahmoud Khalil.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/20/opinion/its-absolutely-legal-to-deport-hate-monger-mahmoud-khalil/
— Trump accuses federal judge of trying to ‘usurp’ his presidential power amid legal fight over deportation flights
https://nypost.com/2025/03/21/us-news/trump-accuses-federal-judge-of-trying-to-usurp-his-presidential-power-amid-legal-fight-over-deportation-flights/
CENTER SQUARE
— Michigan Senate passes resolution promoting Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/article_cb2fcc40-cdcc-4492-bc98-e92cac978a07.html
EPOCH TIMES
— Attorney General Announces Federal Charges for Tesla Dealership Attacks. ‘If you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars,’ Pam Bondi says.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/attorney-general-announces-federal-charges-against-3-tesla-attackers-warns-against-domestic-terrorism-5828736
FOX NEWS
— Fox News Poll: Voters are split on Trump policies. Banning trans women from women’s sports is the most popular, closing the DoEd much less so.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-are-split-on-trump-policies
— Canadian politician claims Trump admin’s ’51st state’ rhetoric is an ‘act of war’ ‘That’s an act of war,’ a Canadian member of Parliament said of the Trump admin’s tariffs and ’51st state’ comments. Many countries, including Mexico, want to take America.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/canadian-politician-claims-trump-admins-51st-state-rhetoric-act-war
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Slimmed-Down Education Dept. Will Focus On Fighting DEI Discrimination. Under Trump’s Executive Order the revamped DoEd will be fully aligned with our mission of fighting discrimination done in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/03/slimmed-down-education-dept-will-focus-on-fighting-dei-discrimination/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The ABA Should Have No Role in the Judicial Nomination Process.
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/the-aba-should-have-no-role-in-the-judicial-nomination-process/
NEWSMAX
— Trump Admin Sends New Group of Migrants to Gitmo
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-administration-migrants-gitmo/2025/03/20/id/1203719/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly reject Trump’s election, that is, Democrats ever-increasingly reject democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-republicans-attack-democrats-actblue.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats are anti-manufacturing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/20/trump-manufacturing-mirage/
— Musk steps up criticism of judges, offers $100 to voters who will do the same. The billionaire’s political group will pay Wisconsin voters who sign a petition against ‘activist judges’ ahead of a state Supreme Court race. The judges in Diersen v. GAO rejected meritocracy and promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about Diersen v. GAO.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/20/musk-trump-impeach-judges/
HARTFORD CUURANT
— 67,000 White South Africans have expressed interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status. They should be advised that as soon as the next Democrat President is elected. Affirmative Action and DEI will resume, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination will resume.
https://www.courant.com/2025/03/20/south-africa-trump-white-refugees/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Tesla Recalls Most Cybertrucks. More than 46,000 of the electric vehicles have potential exterior panel issue, federal agency says.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-recalls-most-cybertrucks-71ef6fee
— Trump Signs Order Seeking to Abolish Education Department. Existing law doesn’t allow the president to unilaterally shut an agency established by Congress.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-education-department-executive-order-e88561b5
FOWARD
— How Pritzker uses the Holocaust to position himself as the (Jewish) face of Trump resistance. Pritzker, one of five Jewish governors, has taken a combative tone against President Trump in rallying Democrats after election loss.
https://forward.com/news/705526/jb-pritzker-trump-holocaust/
PBS
— Legal Showdown Over Sanctuary Laws Tests Federal vs. State Power Again. Federal law trumps state and local laws.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12031821/legal-showdown-over-sanctuary-laws-tests-federal-vs-state-power-again
FED SMITH
— Federal Workforce Freedom Act Would Ban Federal Employee Union Representation. If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/03/17/legislation-would-ban-union-representation/
AXIOS
— Trump suggests sending Tesla vandals to El Salvador prisons
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/trump-musk-tesla-protests-el-salvador-prisons
ECOMOMITC TIMES
— As Barron Trump turns 19, US President reveals what the business college student plans to do for a career. As a business student when I turned 19 in 1967, I planned on a career in the automotive industry. But that all ended in 1971 when a) I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, b) my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I gave him my 2-week notice, and c) Oldsmobile withdrew its offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/as-barron-trump-turns-19-us-president-reveals-what-the-business-college-student-plans-to-do-for-a-career/articleshow/119303470.cms?from=mdr
INDIAN EXPRESS
— We are looking for you: Trump says those ‘sabotaging’ Tesla cars may face up to 20 years in jail
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/donald-trump-tesla-attack-jail-term-elon-musk-9898438/lite/
Tag: abortion
March 19, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENRT-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DuPage Democrats hold ‘Tesla takedown’ rally outside Lisle dealership, protesting Elon Musk’s DOGE. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars. I currently own nine. They especially despise/hate Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/group-holds-lisle-protest-outside-tesla-car-dealership-opposition-donald-trump-elon-musks-doge-cuts/16046354/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYt3-L9Oszw
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “I mean, here’s Elon Musk, working for literally nothing, giving up literally billions of dollars for his activism and his patriotism, and all he is doing is saving our country,” said Mark Rice, a Republican who ran in the 2024 election to represent Illinois’ 8th Congressional District. . .Calls for protests and boycotts of Tesla have revved up across the country with reports of vandalism against Tesla vehicles and dealerships. . .The DuPage County GOP chairman released a statement on the protest, saying, “It is ridiculous that the DuPage Democrats are harassing and intimidating a local business that has contributed significantly to the Village of Lisle’s economy. This is why the Democratic Party has the lowest approval ratings that it has had since there has been polling. We are not long removed from violent protests and looting that destroyed businesses across the suburbs. Of late, Tesla locations have been vandalized across America. This thinly veiled attempt by DuPage Democrats to cancel and scare a local business over political differences is repugnant. Americans are done with it and, increasingly, done with the Democratic Party.”)
CBS2
— Over 100 people protest at Tesla dealership in Lisle.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/over-100-people-protest-tesla-dealership-lisle-illinois/
FOX32
— Trump administration rehiring nearly 25K fired workers after court order. In Diersen v. GAO, a court ruled that federal agencies can force their employees to retire if they became active members in class action lawsuits that charge reverse discrimination and/or age discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-administration-rehiring-fired-workers-court-order
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pentagon is cutting up to 60,000 civilian jobs. About a third of those took voluntary resignations. During the 1980s and 1990s, because of Republican budget cuts, the Democrats who ran GAO cut 3,000 jobs or half of GAO’s workforce. Even though they focused on cutting their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time, I nevertheless survived until 1997. I would not have survived that long if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (finance), 1980 (accounting), and 1976 (business), b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting), and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA).
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/18/pentagon-job-cuts/
— Nominations are open for 2025 Chicago Top Workplaces (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that GAO will win this a) because Democrats run GAO and b) because they give their Democrat employees tremendous preference, and especially those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans that GAO hired.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/top-workplaces-nominations-2025/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/column-lgbtq-hotel-chicago-nothalsted-washington/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hundreds rally against Musk, Trump at Tesla dealership in Lisle. The company’s stock market value and reputation have taken hits since the billionaire joined the Trump administration to lead the Department of Government Efficiency.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/photography/2025/03/18/photos-hundreds-rally-against-musk-trump-at-tesla-dealership-in-lisle
— Chicago Sun-Times to lose 20% of staff after buyout offer. Columnists, editorial writers and many more head for the exits as the paper’s nonprofit owner, Chicago Public Media, deals with fiscal hardship.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/03/18/chicago-sun-times-lose-20-staff-buyout-offer
DAILY HERALD
— ‘Tesla Takedown’ protest drives crowd to Lisle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYt3-L9Oszw
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker likens Trump’s tenure to the Great Chicago Fire. Pritzker ever-increasing promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/jb-pritzker-likens-trump-tenure-great-chicago-fire
WGN RADIO
— Parents urged to teach kids about drug dangers on social media. Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://wgnradio.com/news/fentanyl-crisis/parents-urged-to-teach-kids-about-drug-dangers-on-social-media/
SOUTHERN
— Concerns about the FAA’s air traffic control system date back decades. I worked for GAO on an audit of FAA’s traffic control system in the early 1980s.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/19/concerns-about-the-faas-air-traffic-control-system-date-back-decades/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In 1990, Government Accountability Office Transportation Issues Director Kenneth Mead told a congressional subcommittee that although the FAA had made progress, the agency had “inexperience in developing large-scale, highly automated systems” and was “still experiencing problems in modernizing the ATC system.”)
WAND TV
— Violent attacks on Tesla dealerships spike as Musk takes prominent role in Trump White House. Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk’s electric-car company are cropping up from coast to coast and even overseas.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/violent-attacks-on-tesla-dealerships-spike-as-musk-takes-prominent-role-in-trump-white-house/article_dd6fcf1d-f611-5b89-9bed-239ba4fa82dd.html
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois Republicans urge Democrats to stop supporting illegal immigration. Outstanding.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/03/18/watch-illinois-republicans-urge-democrats-to-stop-supporting-illegal-immigration/
WIFR
— Illinois lawmakers propose bills on illegal immigration in the state. Outstanding.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2025/03/19/illinois-lawmakers-propose-bills-illegal-immigration-state/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Poll: AOC best reflects Democrats’ ‘core values’ over Pelosi, Obama. What does that say about Democrats? I should write about the positions that Democrats in my precinct have on the current issues of the day. Democrats and ever-increasingly promote more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/aoc-best-reflects-democrats-core-values-over-pelosi-obama-poll
NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal judge blocks Trump effort to ban transgender troops from military service. Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGHTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-18/federal-judge-blocks-trump-effort-to-ban-transgender-troops-from-military-service
— Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-18/researchers-fear-grants-for-studies-on-health-disparities-may-be-cut-in-anti-dei-push
ELMHURST PATCH
— National Politics At Elmhurst City Meetings? Anticipate/expect that the Democrat leaders of your municipality will ever-increasingly promote more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/national-politics-elmhurst-city-meetings
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Democrat teachers to make students sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/03/18/illinois-conservative-group-files-federal-complaint-title-ix/
LOYOLA PHOENIX
— Loyola is ever-increasingly an arm of the Democrat Party.
https://loyolaphoenix.com/2025/03/chicagos-leaders-stand-up-for-the-city-and-gainst-ice/
POLITICO
— Casten and over 100 other House Democrats sent a letter demanding the Government Accountability Office create and maintain a database to track delays in the disbursement of funds to Americans. That move two months after the White House froze federal funds associated with the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and put major infrastructure projects on pause. Because of Gingrich, GAO is less than a shell of what it once was.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/19/pritzkers-quiet-dig-at-durbin-00236635
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Removing homeless encampments could be violation of human rights. How soon will Democrat and RINO leaders succeed in setting up a homeless encampment in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct?
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/19/illinois-encampments-unhoused-legal-rights
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-477/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-270/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DUPAGE GOP
— Chairman’s Statement on Tesla Takedown. It is ridiculous that the DuPage Democrats are harassing and intimidating a local business that has contributed significantly to the Village of Lisle’s economy. This is why the Democratic Party has the lowest approval ratings that it has had since there has been polling. We are not long removed from violent protests and looting that destroyed businesses across the suburbs. Of late, Tesla locations have been vandalized across America. This thinly veiled attempt by DuPage Democrats to cancel and scare a local business over political differences is repugnant. Americans are done with it and, increasingly, done with the Democratic Party.
https://dupagegop.com/
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Milton Township GOP Chair Castle: ‘We must reject candidates like Chris LeVan, John Monino, and Elizabeth Buffy Higgins Beard’
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/670497432-milton-township-gop-chair-castle-we-must-reject-candidates-like-chris-levan-john-monino-and-elizabeth-buffy-higgins-beard
WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker’s real record on jobs
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzkers-real-record-on-jobs-wirepoints/
— There’s an open invitation to commit crimes in Chicago because the chance of getting caught is negligible
https://wirepoints.org/theres-an-open-invitation-to-commit-crimes-in-chicago-because-the-chance-of-getting-caught-is-negligible-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— 100 to 1 in opposition to Illinois Homeschool Act ahead of hearing
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_82b4c780-0363-11f0-a788-638324956a18.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— If AOC is its future, the Democratic Party is hopelessly lost. Ever-increasingly Democrats promote more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/18/opinion/if-aoc-is-their-future-the-democrats-are-hopelessly-lost/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals working for Congress — addendum.. If my employers had been able to hire illegals instead of me, they certainly would have.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/illegals_working_for_congress_addendum.html
BREITBART
— Trump Haters Hit Tesla Facilities in Las Vegas, Kansas City with Arson Attacks. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/03/18/trump-haters-hit-tesla-facilities-in-las-vegas-kansas-city-with-arson-attacks/
— 38K Chinese Illegal Aliens Living in U.S. Despite Being Ordered Deported
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/18/report-38k-chinese-illegal-aliens-living-in-u-s-despite-being-ordered-deported/
— Democrats use the Constitution to destroy Republicans.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/03/18/sanders-should-frighten-every-american-that-trump-doesnt-respect-our-constitution/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Chicago college interim president says ‘DEI is in our blood’ at ‘Diversity Campus Town Hall.’ Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/chicago-college-interim-president-says-dei-blood-diversity-campus-town-hall/27683
DAILY CALLER
— America Can’t Be Safer If Dems And Their ‘Rogue Judges’ Keep Inundating Country With Illegal Aliens
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/18/brandon-gill-tren-de-aragua-james-boasberg-impeachment/
FOX NEWS
— Illinois parents, lawmakers sound alarm over proposed homeschooling bill: ‘Direct assault on families’ Parents would be required to fill out a ‘homeschool declaration form’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-parents-lawmakers-sound-alarm-proposed-homeschooling-bill-direct-assault-families
— Jewish Tesla owner ‘speechless’ after finding Nazi symbol on his Cybertruck. Avi Ben Hamo joins ‘Fox & Friends’ after his Cybertruck was vandalized with the image of a Swastika and the word ‘Elon,’ saying he no longer feels safe in New York. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370187212112
— Trump says Elon Musk haters also hate America. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370209436112
NEWSMAX
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/georgementz/dei-diversity-equity/2025/03/18/id/1203352/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Website Exposes Tesla Owners’ Personal Data. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.newsweek.com/dogequest-tesla-elon-musk-doxxing-website-2046920
USA TODAY
— Trump wants benefits for those who purchase cars ‘made in America.’ None fully are. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/trump-wants-benefits-for-cars-made-in-usa/81614278007/
WYOMING PUBLIC RADIO
— Wyoming bans sanctuary cities and ranked choice voting. Outstanding.
https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/politics-government/2025-03-18/wyoming-bans-sanctuary-cities-and-ranked-choice-voting
NEWS 18
— Tesla Vehicles Torched In Las Vegas Arson Attack, Elon Musk Calls It ‘Insane’ My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.news18.com/viral/tesla-vehicles-torched-in-las-vegas-arson-attack-elon-musk-calls-it-insane-aa-9266948.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DeSantis: Good Riddance to the U.S. Education Department. Florida shows how states can lead in ensuring that children learn.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ron-desantis-good-riddance-to-the-u-s-education-department-387e2ea3
— FRONT PAGE: Morgan Stanley Went Big on DEI, and No One Is Happy About It. Black and white employees say the efforts added to a divisive culture. Now, as political pressure rises, the bank is watering down initiatives. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, and Republican budget cuts big time to get of their Republican employees.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/morgan-stanley-corporate-dei-what-happened-4a61427c
— FRONT PAGE: RS Retreats From Some Audits as Agency Slashes Workforce. Officials put faith in shift to technology, but others see dangers in cutting thousands of jobs
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/internal-revenue-service-doge-taxes-f00ac956
PLURBUS NEWS
— Fired federal workers set states scrambling. Processing a wave of claims from former federal workers will “absolutely” require more resources.
https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/fired-federal-workers-set-states-scrambling/
FED SMITH
— Trump Calls for Eliminating More Federal Agencies. President Trump has issued an Executive Order that requires making cuts to 7 federal entities that he has deemed unnecessary. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it in the 1980s and 1990s, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had formed a team to reform GAO, I would have volunteered to be a member of that team. I would have stressed a) that I had worked for GAO since 1980 and the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in1981, d) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and e) that I earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/03/15/trump-calls-for-eliminating-more-federal-agencies/
LIBERAL PATRIOT
— The Blue State Exodus Should Scare Democrats. The electoral consequences could be massive. Democrats ever-increasingly promote more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-blue-state-exodus-should-scare
INDEPENDENT
— Violent attacks on Tesla spread from coast to coast – and overseas. In Donald Trump’s first term, his properties became a natural place for protest. In the early days of his second term, Tesla is filling that role. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-elon-musk-trump-cybertruck-las-vegas-fire-b2717706.html
March 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/17/families-impacted-by-ice-raids-denounce-trump-administrations-arrests-file-emergency-motion/
— Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin. My ancestors on my father’s side immigrated from what is now Germany in 1844. They worked in a Chicago brick factory until 1854 when they had saved enough money to homestead a farm in southeast Crete Township.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/16/irish-chicago-kilgubbin/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with foreign countries against America.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/03/17/denmark-europe-boycott-us-goods-trump-tariffs-trade-greenland-eu-musk-tesla
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/03/17/trump-administration-deports-hundreds-immigrants-court-order-el-salvador
DAILY HERALD
— Illinois could legalize internet gambling. Casinos say it will hurt them.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250317/business/illinois-could-legalize-internet-gambling-casinos-say-it-will-hurt-them/
ABC7
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Kinzinger.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-biden-pardons-ex-rep-adam-kinzinger-jan-6-committee-member-fires-back-claim-are-invalid/16040145/
NBC5
— Trump says autopen voids Biden’s pardons for Jan. 6 committee. Trump has argued that the committee members are guilty of unspecified “major crimes.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-biden-autopen-voids-jan-6-pardons/3699413/?os=dio____ref%3Dapp&ref=app
FOX32
— A French Parliament member wants America to return the Statue of Liberty. Far too many foreign countries despise/hate America. Far too many of them dump their problematic citizens on America.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/raphael-glucksmann-statue-liberty-back
— MN lawmakers want to define ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ as a mental illness. Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOIs blame Trump for all their problems, for all your problems, and for all of everyone’s problems.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/mn-lawmakers-want-make-trump-derangement-syndrome-mental-illness
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad. I should write about my critics/opponents who blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I would focus on a) those candidates, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, c) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and d) conservative and religious leaders and activists. It is called scapegoating.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1609814
WGN RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders want Democrats and RINOs to punish Tesla owners because of Musk, that is, because of Trump.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-is-it-okay-to-vent-doge-criticism-on-tesla-owners/#/questions
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-476/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-269/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinoisans haven’t yet connected the dots between bad policies, bad outcomes and the politicians they vote for.
https://wirepoints.org/illinoisans-havent-yet-connected-the-dots-between-bad-policies-bad-outcomes-and-the-politicians-they-vote-for-wirepoints-on-the-crisis-cast/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad. I should write about my critics/opponents who blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I would focus on a) those candidates, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, c) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and d) conservative and religious leaders and activists. It is called scapegoating. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it in the 1980s and 1990s, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had formed a team to reform GAO, I would have volunteered to be a member of that team. I would have stressed a) that I had worked for GAO since 1980 and the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in1981, d) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and e) that I earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do you deal with your critics/opponents? I should write about my critics/opponents and how they use their adverse actions against me against me. I would start with my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— What Exactly is in the Homeschool Bill – HB 2827?
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/what-exactly-is-in-the-homeschool-bill-hb-2827/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Musk: Democrats used $200 billion to ‘buy’ votes of illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3349807/musk-democrats-200-billion-buy-votes-illegal-immigrants/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Trump Admin Launches Probe Into Big Law DEI Policies. The EEOC is asking white shoe firms to provide detailed information about their hiring practices.
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/trump-admin-launches-probe-into-big-law-dei-policies/
NEW YORK POST
— Federal judges’ Trump hate is only harming the courts themselves
https://nypost.com/2025/03/17/opinion/how-federal-judges-trump-hate-is-harming-the-courts/
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY
— Trump Administration Brings Changes to the Federal Hiring System. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://americansforprosperity.org/policy-corner/trump-administration-brings-changes-to-the-federal-hiring-system-a-brief-look-at-president-trumps-schedule-f-policy-career-policy-and-civil-service-reform/
BLAZE
— History affirms Trump’s right to use the Alien Enemies Act against gangs
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/history-affirms-trumps-right-to-use-the-alien-enemies-act-against-gangs
BREITBART
— Pritzker Dumping Healthcare Program for Older Illegal Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/17/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-dumping-healthcare-program-older-illegal-migrants/
— DOJ Argues ‘Court Lacks the Jurisdiction’ After Judge Blocks Trump Use of Alien Enemies Act
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/17/doj-argues-court-lacks-jurisdiction-judge-blocks-trump-use-alien-enemies-act/
— Left Portrays Pro-Hamas Activist Mahmoud Khalil as Victim of Trump’s Deportation Policy
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/17/left-portrays-mahmoud-khalil-as-victim-of-trumps-deportation-policy/
— Socialist Venezuela Compares Trump Deporting Tren de Aragua Thugs to the Holocaust
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/03/17/hold-for-ezra-socialist-venezuela-compares-trump-deporting-tren-de-aragua-thugs-to-the-holocaust/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Colleges and universities are not backing away from wokeness. They are putting it under the table, off the books.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/our-colleges-and-universities-arent-backing-away-from-wokeness/
NEWSBUSTERS
— The Media Protest Trump Deportations of Illegal Alien Gangbangers to El Salvador’s CECOT Prison
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/03/18/unhinged-media-now-protest-trump-deportations-illegal-alien
TOWNHALL
— 95 Percent of Federal Employees Express Liberal Views at Work. As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates got ever-increasingly anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacob-sagert/2025/03/18/95-percent-of-federal-employees-express-liberal-views-at-work-n2653950
— Democrat Gov: I Won’t Allow Trump to Take Illegal Aliens ‘Off the Streets.’ Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/03/17/hochul-speaking-on-ice-and-illegal-aliens-in-nyc-n2653928
— DEI-Obsessed Democrats Are Doing This on Purpose
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/03/17/arlington-cemetery-removes-pages-on-black-veterans-and-women-n2653943
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Under Biden, constructively, Americans were barred from everything if they did not promote LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5199691-third-challenge-trump-order-transgender-troops/
— Harvard is expanding free tuition in diversity push My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. Nevertheless, he believed that was too much to qualify for financial scholarships. And as my critics/opponents have always stressed, I did not qualify for scholastic scholarships because my ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. Therefore, I worked my way through college.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5198613-harvard-free-tuition-diversity-ivy-league-supreme-court/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Harvard University announced Monday it will be expanding free tuition to more students, a move adopted by other schools since the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action could no longer be used in college admissions. Harvard said students from families making less than $200,000 a year will not be charged for tuition, expanding on a previous decision to make the school completely free, covering tuition, housing and other costs, for those coming from families making less than $100,000 a year.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Hard-Line Tactics Are Driving Down Illegal Migration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/americas/mexico-trump-migration.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly oppose a) all Trump budget cuts and b) all Trump spending increases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/nyregion/columbia-research-grants-trump.html
— Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-order-voice-of-america.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/americas/el-salvador-venezuela-deportations-families.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/trump-china-trade-war.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ask “Do Americans Approve of President Trump?”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump’s Grievance-Filled Speech Makes Clear His Quest for Vengeance Is Personal.” I should write about my critics/opponents and how they use their adverse actions against me against me. I would start with my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-speech-doj-retribution.html
— Trump Appoints Michael Flynn, Walt Nauta and Other Allies to Oversee Military Academies. Among other appointees were Charlie Kirk, Sean Spicer and the daughter of Steve Bannon. President Trump purged several of the military oversight boards last month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-military-academies-flynn-nauta.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in promoting more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-economy-polling.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/upshot/abortion-bans-births-study.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration moves to reinstate thousands of probationary employees. After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that because I had served my probationary period when I was an IRS employee, they could not just fire me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/17/trump-administration-reinstates-fired-probationary-workers/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly paint their illegals as being GOD-LIKE.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/17/trump-presidency-news/
USA TODAY
— Trump has promised to rid the government of “waste, fraud and abuse.” But he’s fired many of the people who look for it in schools. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/03/16/education-department-waste-fraud-abuse-cuts/82370646007/
SACRAMENTO BEE
— Soon, if not already, everyone in healthcare will be most, if not virtually all of the following: non-Republican, liberal, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article302217539.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly paint their illegals as being GOD-LIKE.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-deportations-gang-members-james-boasberg-tom-homan-nayib-bukele-ms-13-tren-de-aragua-6e377106
BUSINESS STANDARD
— US to undocumented immigrants: Leave now or pay up to $700 per day
https://www.business-standard.com/finance/personal-finance/us-to-undocumented-immigrants-leave-now-or-pay-up-to-700-per-day-125031800940_1.html
POLITICO
— Trump stacks military academy boards with MAGA loyalists, including Michael Flynn, Charlie Kirk, and Steve Bannon’s daughter. Just kidding, but will Trump form a GAO oversight board and appoint me to it?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/michael-flynn-charlie-kirk-trump-appointments-00234637
PBS
— The history of civil service and the impact of Trump’s slashing of the workforce. For Democrats, government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2025/03/the-history-of-civil-service-and-the-impact-of-trumps-slashing-of-the-workforce
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY
— Trump is the right’s tool to dismantle a century of progress
https://www.peoplefor.org/trump-rights-tool-dismantle-century-progress
March 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-threatens-new-tariffs-canada-including-250-tax-dairy/15992544/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more gender based preference giving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF5ujLyO_7E
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Something should be done’: Illinois Democratic lawmakers hear from public frustrated about President Donald Trump’s initiatives (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/09/something-should-be-done-illinois-democratic-lawmakers-hear-from-public-frustrated-about-president-donald-trumps-initiatives/
— Hundreds gather to criticize Trump, Musk’s spending cuts at ‘Takedown Tesla’ protest (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/08/hundreds-gather-to-criticize-trump-musks-spending-cuts-at-takedown-tesla-protest/
— FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/08/fema-national-fire-training-academy/
— Five years ago, COVID gripped the world in fear. Now local scientists, doctors warn Trump’s policies are weakening public health. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/09/five-years-later-pandemic-response-fears-return/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Purdue star blows whistle on Illinois’ ‘Orange Krush’ fans, alleging racist comments directed at brother, 13. The teams played Friday night at State Farm Center.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/college-sports/2025/03/08/purdue-boilermakers-trey-kaufman-renn-illinois-fans-racist-state-farm-center
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more preference for women.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250308/nation-and-world-politics/we-wont-be-silent-hundreds-show-support-for-international-womens-day-in-geneva/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats lost in the wilderness of their own making (COMMENT: From what I see, Democrat leaders plan on winning again by promoting even more a) dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and nation origin discrimination. From what I see, Democrat leaders plan on winning again by promoting even more hatred against Trump, against the 77 million who voted for Trump, and especially against those who share Trump’s demographics. Trump is conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, German American, and his ancestor have been in America for a long time.)
https://johnkassnews.com/democrats-lost-in-the-wilderness-of-their-own-making/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Rep. Martin McLaughlin, R-Barrington, says Illinois’ liberal policies are to blame for the state’s poor demographic showing.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7a35b4be-fb9a-11ef-8f9c-e3450e6997a2.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you say to the following who state that they are Republican, but who ever-increasingly paint themselves as being moderate/centrist, RINO, Democrat Lite, anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican: candidates, elected officials, and party leaders? Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In your precinct, how many voted for Harris? 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. Who do the hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters in your precinct take their hatred of Trump out against? Anticipate/expect it will be against their Republican Precinct Committeeman. I will get a measure of that hatred while I hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and marked sample ballots for the April 1, 2025 election to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. – Dave Diersen
http://gopillinois.com
— How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? As Democrats move into DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, more and more and more are dependent of government spending. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Republicans and their Republican Party platform create prosperity and safety. Democrats and their Democrat Part platform create poverty and crime. Republicans created a prosperous DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. But as Democrats ever-increasingly move in and take over, poverty and crime increase. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The less money that your parents have/had, the less money that you have, the less protection that you have against political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I had to work my through college. My father never made more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. The more of the following that you are, the more that you will be forced to pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. If my parents had not sent me Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, I never would have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my class, earn a bachelor’s degree, earn three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, and earn a professional license. – Dave Diersen
http:///www.gopillinois.com
— All during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they ever-increasingly fought Republican-led budget cuts. I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. My Democrat GAO superiors took their hatred against Republicans out on me. They took many adverse actions against me and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that. SEE: NBC NEWS: “You lose all hope: Federal workers gripped by mental health instability amid Trump cuts. In interviews with NBC News, many federal workers shared stories of overwhelming stress, personal crises, rapid weight loss, panic attacks and more” at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-gripped-mental-health-instability-trump-cuts-rcna194485 – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Employers have an extremely low opinion of federal employees. Democrats run the federal government. Democrats despise/hate Republicans. I should write about that. The longer that you are a federal employee, the more impossible it is to get a job in the private sector. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been an unemployed federal retiree for more than 27 years. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school classmate had not asked me to join him taking the postal employment test. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 a) if I had not taken the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 as backstop if I could not get a job in the private sector and b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. SEE: MSN: Nearly 12,000 federal employees file unemployment claims in DC at https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nearly-12-000-federal-employees-file-unemployment-claims-in-dc/ar-AA1AtTS5 – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What has harmed your Republican Precinct Committeeman’s credibility? My credibility has been harmed big time by the many big adverse action that the following have taken against me since 1999. past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) conservative and religious leaders and activists, d) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, and e) Republican donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, campaign volunteers, etc. I should write about the aforesaid. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I took delivery of my red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV yesterday. If you share my interest in the car, please let me know. I owned a 1969 Dodge Charger SE 1968-1971. Some at NIU called me “Daytona Dave” because I drove it to Daytona Beach for the 1969 and 1970 spring breaks. SEE: TOP SPEED: 10 Ways The Dodge Charger Daytona EV Will Change Muscle Cars Forever at https://www.topspeed.com/how-dodge-charger-daytona-ev-change-muscle-cars-forever/ FROM THE ARTICLE: “The Dodge Charger Daytona name carries a legacy of power, performance, and bold design. First introduced in 1969 as a revolutionary muscle car built for NASCAR dominance, the original Daytona became an icon, breaking records and turning heads with its striking aerodynamic design. Over the decades, the Daytona has symbolized Dodge’s relentless pursuit of speed and innovation.” – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democratic politicians continue race-baiting hysteria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3341274/democratic-politicians-continue-race-baiting-hysteria/
— Democrats kneel for criminals but won’t stand for a child cancer survivor
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3340576/democrats-kneel-criminals-wont-stand-child-cancer-survivor-dj-daniel/
— DOGE must audit and disarm the IRS (COMMENT: GAO audits IRS. Democrats run GAO and IRS and do not want Republicans employees. Nevertheless, I worked for IRS for almost 9 years for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3340559/department-of-government-efficiency-must-audit-disarm-irs/
— The less money that your parents have/had, the less money that you have, the less protection that you have against political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I had to work my through college. My father never made more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. The more of the following that you are, the more that you will be forced to pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3311108/dei-and-deviancy-wealth-doesnt-always-buy-protection/
NEW YORK POST
— Purdue’s Trey Kaufman-Renn alleges Illinois fans hurled racist taunts at family
https://nypost.com/2025/03/08/sports/purdues-trey-kaufman-renn-alleges-illinois-fans-hurled-racist-taunts/
— Some House members have mental faculties so diminished they can no longer do their jobs — and others voting drunk, high: lawmakers
https://nypost.com/2025/03/08/us-news/some-house-members-have-mental-faculties-so-diminished-they-can-no-longer-do-their-jobs-and-others-voting-drunk-high-lawmakers/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Does mourning brutally murdered children who are white mean you are a ‘white supremacist?’ Some leftists think so.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/does_mourning_brutally_murdered_children_who_are_white_mean_you_are_a_white_supremacist_some_leftists_think_so.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, everything that Trump says and does creates economic worries.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-economic-worries-mount-as-trump-implements-tariffs-cuts-workforce-and-freezes-spending/ar-AA1AuInz
— What do you say to the following who state that they are Republican, but who ever-increasingly paint themselves as being moderate/centrist, RINO, Democrat Lite, anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican: candidates, elected officials, and party leaders? Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-opposition-principles-first-076bf16a73a9c66f10ad3a2fbc0df1c1
MSN
— ‘Cruel and Disrespectful’: Musk’s Ultimatum To Federal Workers Sparks Backlash (COMMENT: If I was still a federal employee, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cruel-and-disrespectful-musk-s-ultimatum-to-federal-workers-sparks-backlash/ss-AA1AfHY1
— Nearly 12,000 federal employees file unemployment claims in DC (COMMENT: Employers have an extremely low opinion of federal employees. Democrats run the federal government. Democrats despise/hate Republicans. I should write about that. The longer that you are a federal employee, the more impossible it is to get a job in the private sector. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been an unemployed federal retiree for more than 27 years. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school classmate had not asked me to join him taking the postal employment test. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 a) if I had not taken the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 as backstop if I could not get a job in the private sector and b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nearly-12-000-federal-employees-file-unemployment-claims-in-dc/ar-AA1AtTS5
YAHOO
— Millions of Americans will get a Social Security boost thanks to new law — find out if (and when) you’ll get paid (COMMENT: Yesterday, Social Security deposited $3,237.90 into my checking account for 2024. Great, but I hoped that it would have been more.)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/millions-americans-social-security-boost-103400386.html
ABC NEWS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, everything that Trump says and does harms everyone.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/funding-cuts-could-harm-global-efforts-to-fight-tuberculosis-who-warns/ar-AA1AoKkh
NBC NEWS
— ‘You lose all hope’: Federal workers gripped by mental health instability amid Trump cuts. In interviews with NBC News, many federal workers shared stories of overwhelming stress, personal crises, rapid weight loss, panic attacks and more. (COMMENT: All during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they fought Republican-led budget cuts. I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. My Democrat GAO superiors took their hatred against Republicans out on me. They took many adverse actions against me and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-gripped-mental-health-instability-trump-cuts-rcna194485
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/activists-march-for-lgbtq-shows-at-kennedy-center/3862284/
CBS NEWS
— DHS administering lie detector tests to employees in effort to find leakers
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-lie-detector-tests-employees-leakers-immigration-raids/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say that “Musk Is Making Republicans Sweat and Giving Democrats a New Target.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-politics.html
— State Republicans Eager to Climb on Cost-Cutting Bandwagon
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/us/state-doge-oklahoma.html
— Democrats say “Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/us/politics/veterans-affairs-doge-cuts.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/08/medicaid-cuts-rural-hospitals/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/09/trump-mexico-asylum-migrants-refugees/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-09/donald-trump-race-gender-dei-pete-hegseth-cq-brown-college-military-amazon-target-boycott-robin-abcarian
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks, and at everyone else, that Trump is a racist.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/03/08/trump-dei-black-people-fight-racism-civil-rights/81609951007/
HUFFINGTON POST
— How many of those on Medicaid voted for Trump and why?
https://www.aol.com/gop-sen-josh-hawley-warns-110010376.html
NEW YORKER
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/09/trump-mexico-asylum-migrants-refugees/
DAILY KOS
— Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. GAO audits IRS. Democrats run GAO and IRS. Nevertheless, I worked for IRS for almost 9 years for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3/8/2308932/-Trump-through-Musk-uses-government-waste-race-handout-code-words-to-destroy-it-for-tax-cut
GUARDIAN
— Democrats say that “Chaos on campuses as schools warn Trump cuts could harm US for decades.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/trump-universities-higher-education-cuts
TIMES
— More Americans seeking asylum in Ireland since Trump’s comeback. Growing political unease in the United States has led many people to seek sanctuary in stable EU countries.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/more-americans-seeking-asylum-in-ireland-since-trumps-comeback-57kngc03j
March 3, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— How will Canadian and Mexican tariffs impact Chicago-area businesses and consumers?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/how-will-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-impact-businesses-consumers-little-village-chicago-beyond/15974088/
— Dow drops nearly 650 points after Trump announces Canadian and Mexican tariffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-says-tariffs-mexico-canada-will-start-tuesday/15973614/
NBC5
— Shocking video shows speeding car crash into suburban home, burst into flames. Two people inside the vehicle were pronounced dead on the scene, Woodridge officials said
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/shocking-video-shows-speeding-car-crash-into-suburban-home-burst-into-flames/3687294/
FOX32
— Debate over Chicago’s sanctuary policies intensifies as federal lawmakers seek answers from Mayor Johnson
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/debate-chicago-sanctuary-policies-federal-lawmakers-seek-answers-mayor-johnson
WTTW
— Illinois Bill Aims to Add More Oversight of Homeschooling
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/03/illinois-bill-aims-add-more-oversight-homeschooling
WBEZ
— Elon Musk’s DOGE moves to cancel leases for federal offices across Illinois. The Trump administration is aiming to unload half the buildings the government owns and cancel 50% of leases for offices across the country. (COMMENT: Outstandingly, the last 8 years that I worked for GAO 1990-1997 were in new space in the new 200 West Adams building in the Loop.)
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/03/03/musks-doge-moves-to-cancel-leases-for-federal-offices-across-illinois
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Elon Musk’s DOGE moves to cancel leases for federal offices across Illinois. The Trump administration is aiming to unload half the buildings the government owns and cancel 50% of leases for offices across the country. (COMMENT: Outstandingly, the last 8 years that I worked for GAO 1990-1997 were in new space in the new 200 West Adams building in the Loop.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/03/03/elon-musk-doge-leases-federal-offices-illinois
DAILY HERALD
— Legislation aims to help first-time homebuyers (COMMENT: Back in the good old days, I was able to save enough for a down payment for a new town home in University Park when I was 24years old in 1972. The money came from what I had earned a) working for IRS in Chicago and then Harvey for the previous 15 months, b) working part-time for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights for the previous 18 months, and c) working for that store full-time for the 7 months before that. During that time, I also earned enough to a) help support my mother and brother, b) buy a new 1972 Corvette, and c) pay for tuition and books for graduate evening business courses at Loyola.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250303/real-estate/legislation-aims-to-help-first-time-homebuyers/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— GSA moves to close some SEC regional offices, including Chicago’s
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/gsa-moves-close-chicago-sec-office?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter-BreakingNews-20250303
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Focused on Trump, Pritzker blasts administration’s actions in Kane County speech. Stars of Illinois Democratic Party speak at Kane County Democrats fundraising dinner.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/03/03/focused-on-trump-pritzker-blasts-administrations-actions-in-kane-county-speech/
STATELINE
— Rep. McCombie reintroduces bill to repeal Illinois pro-abortion laws, faces activists in Pecatonica
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/rep-tony-mccombie-abortion-bill-protests/
WCIA
— IL Republican lawmakers file batch of bills to boost relief for families
https://www.wcia.com/news/capitol-news/il-republican-lawmakers-file-batch-of-bills-to-boost-relief-for-families/
ST. LOUIS TODAY
— Illinois congresswoman aims bills to help farmers, unions, federal workers
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/column/joe-holleman/article_6fbfdf96-f7df-11ef-ad7d-833ad2b84dcc.html
CHICAGO MAROON
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://chicagomaroon.com/45816/news/2025-aaac-social-justice-talk-examines-challenges-to-racial-social-and-cultural-equity/
CWB CHICAGO
— At illegal street takeover, bystander tosses explosive into passing motorist’s car
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/03/at-illegal-street-takeover-bystander-tosses-explosive-into-passing-motorists-car.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-259/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-465/
— Do you support or oppose allowing community colleges, with some restrictions, to offer four-year degrees? (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League colleges are worthless.)
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/03/question-of-the-day-3720/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The Democrats boycotting Trump’s presidential address to Congress
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3335952/democrats-boycotting-trump-presidential-address-congress/
DAILY WIRE
— AOC Admits She Was Openly Advising Illegals On How To Avoid Law Enforcement. AOC faced considerable heat online over her remarks.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-admits-she-was-openly-advising-illegals-on-how-to-avoid-law-enforcement
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Admin Pauses Aid to Ukraine. The news follows a tense exchange between Trump and the Ukrainian president at the Oval Office last week.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-admin-pauses-aid-to-ukraine-5819502
FOX NEWS
— Rooftop Revelations: Illinois state superintendent prizing ‘diversity over education’ reflects ‘failure’ Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks calls out Illinois state superintendent for telling school districts to defy the Trump’s administration’ abolishment of DEI.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369562475112
NEWSMAX
— Affirmative Action Calif.-Style Discriminates Against Minorities
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/students-fair-admissions/2025/03/03/id/1201133/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the summer of 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ended the practice of affirmative action, or race-based admission practices in its decision in a pair of cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions. But California is not only still driving race-based admissions practices, it’s shifted the policy into overdrive, and the California university system is now the target of a lawsuit because of it. Weirder yet, the person who filed the lawsuit is himself a member of a minority group, but he’s a member of the wrong one — he’s Asian, and his credentials are amazing.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— A hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-hater says “Trump is the right’s tool to dismantle a century of progress.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5169412-elon-musk-cpac-maga-movement-fascism/
MSN
— Trump Halts Military Aid To Ukraine, Wants Kyiv To Accept Peace Negotiations With Russia
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/us-president-trump-halts-military-aid-to-ukraine-wants-kyiv-to-accept-peace-negotiations-with-russia/ar-AA1AbohU
— Trump halts all military aid to Ukraine after White House clash with Zelensky
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/trump-halts-all-military-aid-to-ukraine-after-white-house-clash-with-zelensky/ar-AA1AbfMf
REUTERS
— Trump locks in Canada, Mexico tariffs to launch on Tuesday; stocks tumble
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-decide-us-tariff-levels-mexico-canada-tuesday-deadline-approaches-2025-03-03/
CBS NEWS
— Democrats invite fired federal workers to Trump’s address to Congress (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors fired me in 1997, that is, they forced me to retire. What if my U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde and my U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald had invited me to Congressional addresses? My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Hyde and Fitzgerald sided with GAO against me.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-invite-fired-federal-workers-trump-address-congress/
NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S. Suspends All Military Aid to Ukraine, Trump Official Says
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/03/us/trump-news-congress
WASHINGTON POST
— Would Americans accept Trump’s concessions to Russia? It’s clear that President Donald Trump is pressuring Ukraine to make concessions. But Americans aren’t sold on giving up territory, and many are concerned about Russia’s threat.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/03/trump-concessions-russia-polling/
ATLANTIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/chicago-immigrants-ice-raids/681855/
February 25, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Federal employees in Chicago react to confusion over ‘disrespectful’ Musk email request. Trump administration also looking to sell off a number of government-owned buildings, including a couple in Chicago. (COMMENT: I worked in the Kluczynski building 1973-1980 for IRS and then for GAO 1980-1981. If I was still working for GAO, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-employees-chicago-react-confusion-disrespectful-president-donald-trump-elon-musk-doge-email-request/15952453/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Some people working in the Kluczynski federal building were walking on eggshells Monday morning. One 40-year Treasury Department veteran did not want to go on camera, but called the current climate “overwhelming and mentally distressing.”)
FOX32
— USPS rallies against Trump’s possible agency takeover. “Fight like hell” is what USPS workers are saying in response to President Donald Trump’s proposal to take over the agency. (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1598376
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in manipulating and in dominating religious leaders.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1598601
WGN RADIO
— OPM tells HR leaders that response to Musk is ‘voluntary’
https://wgnradio.com/news/opm-tells-hr-leaders-that-response-to-musk-is-voluntary/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— US refuses to blame Russia for Ukraine war, splitting with European allies in UN votes
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/24/us-russia-ukraine-war/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Former two-term Gov. Jim Edgar diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/24/former-gov-jim-edgar-pancreatic-cancer/
CHICAGO SUN-TMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Trump’s cozying up to Russia comes as ‘slap in the face’ to Ukrainian Americans in Chicago. “It’s a betrayal of that ideal that I believe made America what it is — a place in the world where those that don’t have hope can look forward to hope,” said Walter Tun, whose Ukrainian parents immigrated to the U.S. after World War II.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/ukraine/2025/02/24/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-war-third-anniversary-chicago-ukrainians
— Passengers at O’Hare know flying is safe, but some have concerns after plane crashes (COMMENT: I often flew out of O’Hare a) as a GAO employee 1980-1997 and b) with my wife on her business trips to luxury resorts 1978-1992.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/02/24/air-travel-safety-anxiety-transportation
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Sooner or later, if not already, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will a) be handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250224/news/new-building-expands-peoples-resource-centers-capacity/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly spin everything negatively against Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-forum-whats-ahead-medicaid/medicaid-funding-cuts-could-hit-illinois-hard
SOUTHERN
— Democrats outline playbook to target House Republicans on Medicaid, budget and DOGE
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/25/democrats-outline-playbook-to-target-house-republicans-on-medicaid-budget-and-doge/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— New bill would raise age in which Illinois seniors need to take a driving test
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/02/25/new-bill-would-raise-age-illinois-seniors-need-to-take-driving-test/79226496007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Did Pritzker’s ‘Nazi’ ploy have intended effect for 2028?
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-did-pritzkers-nazi-ploy-have-intended-effect-for-2028/article_ec56f494-f2e5-11ef-9823-e7e608d77383.html
STATELINE
— No property tax on new homes? Rockford considers extending 3-year program (COMMENT: My wife and I had a home built in Wheaton in 1984. I should write about our fight to get its assessed valuation lowered because of construction defects and unrecorded easements. SEE: https://casetext.com/case/diersen-v-joe-keim-builders-inc )
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/no-property-tax-on-new-homes-rockford-considers-extending-3-year-program/
NPR ILLINOIS
— U.S. Office of Special Counsel asks for stay of terminations of six probationary federal employees fired over the past two weeks. (COMMENT: When I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious that could not just fire me because I had served my probationary period working for IRS.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-24/federal-watchdog-agency-intervenes-in-trumps-purge-of-probationary-employees
AXIOS
— Illinois schools will teach LGBTQ+ history despite federal pushback
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/02/25/illinois-schools-transgender-history-curriculum
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-461/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker’s budget proposal maintains spending levels on abortions (COMMENT: To vote for Democrats is to promote abortion.)
https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/extra/news/pritzker-s-budget-proposal-maintains-spending-levels-on-abortions/article_f47e1142-8cb7-547c-90c3-911d68a72187.html
WIREPOINTS
— Beyond the Nazi accusations. What you should know about Gov. Pritzker’s budget address
https://wirepoints.org/beyond-the-nazi-accusations-the-many-deflections-in-gov-pritzkers-2026-budget-address-wirepoints/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Lakewood Set to Give Golf Discounts to All Sorts of Insiders
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/25/lakewood-set-to-give-golf-discounts-to-all-sorts-of-insiders/
— Fourth Mailing by Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Danijela Sandberg
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/25/fourth-mailing-by-algonquin-township-road-commissioner-danijela-sandberg/
— Politico Covers McHenry County GOPAC Fundraiser Featuring Lara Trump
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/25/politico-covers-mchenry-county-gopac-fundraiser-featuring-lara-trump/
— McLaughlin Calls Out Democrats for Again Seeking to End Flat Rate Income Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/24/mclaughlin-calls-out-democrats-for-again-seeking-to-end-flat-rate-income-tax/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I am a platform Republican. To run for an office as a Republican is to obligate yourself to defend and advance the Republican Party platform if elected. I help elect Republican candidates because if they are elected, they are obligated to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. But sadly, if not outrageously, if not disgustingly, if not tragically, after they are elected as Republicans, far too many fail/refuse to defend/advance the Republican Party platform. But nevertheless, I continue to help elect them because Democrat elected officials are much worse. There are many RINOs, but there are virtually no DINOs. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What if you were ordered to report what you accomplished during the last 7 days? I put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sent them out. Between Tuesday, February 18, and Monday, February 24, they included links to 522 articles. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America foe a long time. More than 77 million voted for Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— GAO is supposed to be doing what DOGE does, plus much more. Bur GAO is just a shell of what it once was. That is because Gingrich gutted GAO instead of reforming it. Because of that, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Before that, they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. GAO did not unionize until 2007. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The federal government is not nonpartisan. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who despise/hate Republicans. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats. I should write about that. I would use as examples the three federal agencies that I worked for: GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and Post Office 1966-1969. I would use as examples the adverse actions that the aforesaid took against me to waste my career and to get rid of me because I was a Republican who complained about their use of budget cuts, up-or-out, subjectivity in job assignment and performance appraisal systems, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination to not hire Republicans, to not retain Republicans, to not promote Republicans, and to get rid of Republicans. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you been collateral damage? I want to believe that my big GAO employment problems 1980-1997 were simply collateral damage caused by Republican budget cuts. But Hastert and my Republican U.S. Senators and Representatives not coming to my defense in Diersen v. GAO argues against that. It argues that they did not really oppose GAO’s political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. It argues that they rejected the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform. According to my critics/opponents, they did not come to my defense because they believed that I was a bad employee. In my defense, while I worked for GAO, I earned two job-related master’s degrees, five job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. Previously, while I worked for IRS, I earned a job related master’s degree and a job-related professional certification. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How much religious, political, government, and/or financial clout do your critics/opponents have. My critics/opponents have tremendous religious, political, government, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. Because of that, virtually no one has come to my defense since I moved to Wheaton in 1978. Everyone especially fears my critics/opponents who I have sued and their lawyers. They are especially wealthy, vicious, and vindictive. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Musk forges ahead with DOGE demand for list of federal workers’ tasks. Says failure to respond a second time could result in firing.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/25/elon-musk-forges-ahead-doge-demand-list-federal-workers-tasks/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Defunding the teacher trainers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3328504/defunding-teacher-trainers/
AMERICAN CONSERVAIVE
— The Distraction of Mexico’s 10,000 Troops. The Mexican president must disband her country’s network of NGOs that bring millions of illegals to the U.S. border. (COMMENT: To send people into a country illegally is an act of war.)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-distraction-of-mexicos-10000-troops/
BREITBART
— Governors Ask President Trump to Let Them Import Foreign Workers
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/24/governors-ask-president-trump-to-let-them-import-foreign-workers/
— Survey Reveals Trump’s Mass Deportation Policy Has 62% Approval
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/24/nolte-survey-reveals-trumps-mass-deportation-policy-has-62-approval/
DAILY CALLER
— GOP Senator Suffers Brain Bleed After Slipping On Ice (COMMENT: Brain bleeds are very serious. The one that I suffered slipping on ice picking up newspapers on my driveway stopped me from putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out for a while. I still have not fully recovered and I probably never will.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/25/gop-senator-suffers-brain-bleed-after-slipping-on-ice/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer suffered a brain injury Sunday afternoon after slipping on ice in the backyard of his North Dakota home. Cramer, 64, said he was hospitalized and diagnosed with a “severe concussion, a seizure and a slight brain bleed” in a statement posted to Facebook Monday evening. He said he did not know when he plans to return to Washington, D.C., but that he could return quickly for a critical vote if necessary.
DAILY SIGNAL
— DOGE Follows GAO in ‘Identifying Trillions of Dollars Lost’ (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/24/comer-doge-follows-gao-identifying-trillions-dollars-lost/
EPOCH TIMES
— US Votes Against Ukraine-Drafted UN Resolution Seeking Full Russian Withdrawal (COMMENT: What does the Republican Party platform say about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/us-votes-against-ukraine-drafted-un-resolution-seeking-full-russian-withdrawal-5815380
— Afrikaners Stand in Line for Trump’s Refugee Offer. Tens of thousands of white Afrikaners want to move to the United States to escape alleged racial persecution in South Africa. (COMMENT: But if a Democrat or RINO is elected U.S. President in 2028, America will immediately go back to discriminating against Whites, that is, America will immediately reinstate Affirmative Action and DEI.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/afrikaners-stand-in-line-for-trumps-refugee-offer-5813397
FOX NEWS
— Noem ends Biden-era use of controversial app to allow migrants to board flights, except to self-deport. Trump ordered the shutdown of the CBP One app to parole migrants last month.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/noem-ends-biden-era-use-controversial-app-allow-migrants-board-flights-except-self-deport
— Woke actors have toxic empathy
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369283984112
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Trump Agency Heads Ignore Musk’s Ultimatum to Federal Employees, in Farcical Episode
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/02/trump-agency-heads-ignore-musks-ultimatum-to-federal-employees-in-farcical-episode/
TOWNHALL
— ‘Did Not Know It Was Even Possible to Go That Low’: You Won’t Believe Chicago Mayor’s Favorable Ratings
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2025/02/24/did-not-know-it-was-even-possible-to-go-that-low-you-wont-believe-chicago-mayors-approval-rating-n2652711
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The federal government is not nonpartisan. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who despise/hate Republicans. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats. I should write about that. I would use as examples the three federal agencies that I worked for: GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and Post Office 1966-1969. I would use as examples the adverse actions that the aforesaid took against me to waste my career and to get rid of me because I was a Republican who complained about their use of budget cuts, up-or-out, subjectivity in job assignment and performance appraisal systems, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination to not hire Republicans, to not retain Republicans, to not promote Republicans, and to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-america-s-civil-service-must-remain-nonpartisan/ar-AA1thDR8
CBS NEWS
— Trump praises Musk for email threatening termination to federal workers (COMMENT: Of course, my critics/opponents would stress to Trump a) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and that I was a union member for almost 12 of those years, b) that I never made GS-14 and that I was forced to retire early even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license, and c) that I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years.)
https://www.cbs19.tv/video/news/local/president-donald-trump-praises-elon-musk-for-email-threatening-termination-to-federal-workers/501-1e6be9de-a762-47cb-9db2-38ebc643c5e8
MSN
— Trump Didn’t Campaign on Decimating the Federal Government (COMMENT: Trump got elected by promising to defend and advance the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-didn-t-campaign-on-decimating-the-federal-government/ar-AA1zHNDh
— 10 Fast Cars From The ’60s That No One Talks About (COMMENT: The list includes 1962 Chevy Impala SS. I owned one 1989-2005. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious that I bought and owned that collector car.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/other/10-fast-cars-from-the-60s-that-no-one-talks-about/ar-AA1zB6kv
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Ex-Secret Service agent and conservative media personality Dan Bongino picked as FBI deputy director (COMMENT: One of my close friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent.)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fbi-bongino-patel-cad5f4ea22ada9768ea90a08168568d1
NEW YORK TIMES
— Musk deepened the confusion and alarm of workers across the federal government Saturday by ordering them to summarize their accomplishments for the week, warning that a failure to do so would be taken as a resignation. (COMMENT: What did your accomplish during the last week? I put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sent them out. Since Tuesday, February 18, 2025, they included links to 522 article.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/us/politics/elon-musk-email-federal-employees.html
— America and Russia Are on the Same Side Now
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/opinion/russia-europe-trump-vance.html
DALLAS NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly analogize illegals to runaway slaves.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2025/02/25/why-are-christians-fleeing-persecution-among-trumps-deportees/
ORLANDO SENTINEL
— DeSantis creates a Florida DOGE to audit universities, local governments (COMMENT: GAO is supposed to be doing what DOGE does, plus much more. Bur GAO is just a shell of what it once was. That is because Gingrich gutted GAO instead of reforming it. Because of that, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Before that, they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. GAO did not unionize until 2007.)
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/02/24/desantis-to-create-a-florida-doge-to-audit-universities-local-governments/
KXLY
— USPS workers rally against Trump (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC18AT46N70
KGET
— Federal employee unions expand lawsuit to Musk firing threat if they don’t justify work (COMMENT: I was a union member while I worked for the Post Office 1966-1969 and for IRS 1971-1980. If GAO had been unionized when I worked for it 1980-1997, I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://www.kget.com/video/federal-employee-unions-expand-lawsuit-to-musk-firing-threat-if-they-don%e2%80%99t-justify-work/10484134/
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL
— Analyzing DOGE actions one month into Trump’s second administration (COMMENT: I want to believe that my big GAO employment problems 1980-1997 were simply collateral damage caused by Republican budget cuts. But Hastert and my Republican U.S. Senators and Representatives not coming to my defense in Diersen v. GAO argues against that. It argues that they did not really oppose GAO’s political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. It argues that they rejected the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform. According to my critics/opponents, they did not come to my defense because they believed that I was a bad employee. In my defense, while I worked for GAO, I earned two job-related master’s degrees, five job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. Previously, while I worked for IRS, I earned a job related master’s degree and a job-related professional certification.)
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/democracy-governance/analyzing-doge-actions-one-month-trumps-second
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Even if legal and institutional safeguards eventually rein in some of the collateral damage, it will take years for government to recover from the shocks of his tenure.)
FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91282124/a-practical-guide-to-doing-dei-work-in-a-hostile-era
NPR
— U.S. votes against a U.N. resolution urging Russia’s withdrawal from Ukraine (COMMENT: According to Democrat and RINO leaders, if you support Trump, you support Putin. But what does the Republican Party platform say about this? Trump got elected by promising to defend and advance the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/g-s1-50473/un-ukraine-resolution-russia
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In a win for Ukraine on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, the U.N. General Assembly on Monday adopted two resolutions calling for an end to the war, while rejecting a U.S. draft that never mentioned Moscow’s aggression. Instead, both resolutions make clear Russia was the aggressor. The United States, reflecting the extraordinary turnaround under President Donald Trump, joined Russia in voting against a Europe-backed Ukrainian resolution. The U.S. then abstained from voting on its own resolution after Europeans succeeded in amending it. It was a setback for the Trump administration in the 193-member world body, whose resolutions are not legally binding but are seen as a barometer of world opinion.)
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Trump Didn’t Campaign on Decimating the Federal Government
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-didnt-campaign-on-decimating-the-federal-government.html
ACLU
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America foe a long time. More than 77 million voted for Trump.
https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/state-and-local-governments-are-saying-no-to-trumps-radical-agenda
WORKERS WORLD
— Black History Month, every day!
https://www.workers.org/2025/02/84011/
ECONOMIC TIMES
— IRS will lay off roughly 7,000 employees amid tax filing season in Trump downsizing spree (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980.)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-irs-layoffs-will-lay-off-roughly-7000-employees-amid-tax-filing-season-in-trump-downsizing-spree-10-point-explainer/articleshow/118448606.cms
February 21, 2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— When There Are No Illegal Immigrants, There Is No Need for Shelters
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/when-there-are-no-illegal-immigrants-theres-no-need-for-shelters/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Father Pfleger, faith leaders call for boycott of Target after company scales back DEI initiatives
https://abc7chicago.com/post/target-boycott-father-michael-pfleger-among-faith-leaders-calling-consumer-company-scales-back-dei-initiatives/15942947/
— Judge blocks Trump’s executive order ending federal support for DEI programs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dei-judge-blocks-president-donald-trumps-executive-order-ending-federal-support-diversity-equity-inclusion-programs/15943426/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://abc7chicago.com/post/11-year-old-jocelynn-rojo-carranza-dies-suicide-days-chatter-rumors-ice-raids-gainesville-isd-school/15942540/
WGN9
— Fired IRS employee Vanessa Marie Rollins searching for health insurance after recent cancer diagnosis (COMMENT: I worked for IRS in its downtown Chicago office in 1971 and 1973-1980, its Harvey office 1972-1973, its 63rd & Halsted office in 1973, and its Joliet office 1973-1974.)
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-irs-federal-job-cuts-trump/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Judge blocks Donald Trump’s executive order ending federal support for DEI programs
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/21/judge-trump-dei-programs/
DAILY HERALD
— Darby Hills’ appointment to state Senate on hold as Republicans reopen applications for McConchie’s seat
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250221/illinois-state-politics/republicans-reopen-applications-for-mcconchies-suburban-senate-seat/
SOUTHERN
— Fired IRS employee decries irony of being hired to ‘make the IRS ‘more efficient’ (COMMENT: The purpose of GAO’s audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) that I worked on for GAO for 3 years was to help IRS CID close the tax gap.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/21/fired-irs-employee-decries-irony-of-being-hired-to-make-the-irs-more-efficient/
RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth Slams SecDef Hegseth’s Order to Cut Defense Budget by Eight Percent for the Next Five Years (COMMENT: SEE: Downsizing the U.S. General Accounting Office at https://www.gao.gov/assets/Downsizing_at_the_U.S._General_Accounting_Office.pdf )
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-slams-secdef-hegseths-order-to-cut-defense-budget-by-eight-percent-for-the-next-five-years-79912.cfm
(FROM THE GAO REPORT: In 1995, Congress sent a legislative branch appropriations bill to the President, which he signed, that reduced the fiscal year 1996 budget of the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) by 15 percent. At the same time, Congress indicated that it would be calling for an additional 10 percent
reduction in GAO’S budget for fiscal year 1997. In order to accommodate those reductions, GAO determined that it would have to trim its workforce
from the fiscal year 1995 level of approximately 4,350 employees’ to 3,500 employees (a loss of 850 positions) by the beginning of fiscal year 1997.)
FOX ILLINOIS
— Kristi Noem deputizes hundreds of State Department agents for immigration enforcement
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/kristi-noem-deputizes-hundreds-of-state-department-agents-for-immigration-enforcement-dhs-department-of-homeland-security-trump-mass-deportations-illegal-immigration-ice
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— MAGA is ‘a Nazi movement’: Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested at city council meeting (COMMENT: Under Pritzker’s lead, anticipate/expect that those in Illinois who voted for Harris (3 million) will ever-increasingly call those who voted for Trump (2.4million) Nazis.)
https://newschannel20.com/news/nation-world/maga-is-a-nazi-movement-former-nfl-punter-chris-kluwe-arrested-at-city-council-meeting-california-huntington-beach-city-council-minnesota-vikings-president-donald-trump-politics-make-america-great-again-red-hat-swastika
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise them because of Trump budget cuts.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-administration-looks-to-slash-hud-workers-tackling-the-housing-crisis/
WGLT
— IRS cuts over 6,000 jobs in the middle of tax season
https://www.wglt.org/2025-02-20/irs-cuts-over-6-000-jobs-in-the-middle-of-tax-season
WOC 1420
— Former John Deere Employee Sues For Age Discrimination (SEE: Diersen v. GAO at: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://woc1420.iheart.com/content/2025-02-21-former-john-deere-employee-sues-for-age-discrimination/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A former John Deere employee is suing the agricultural equipment maker for age discrimination. Sixty-one year-old Terence Murphy of Geneseo, Illinois says he was fired last summer after 26 years, and his job filled days later by a 33 year-old woman. In the suit, Murphy says his performance ratings were excellent. He says the new hire had no prior experience in the position, and lacked his credentials. Murphy’s attorneys say statistics show Deere fired employees over age 60 at a rate 7.5% higher than those under age 40. Deere & Company says it can’t comment on pending litigation.)
WQAD
— Employment law experts break down age discrimination lawsuit against John Deere (SEE: Diersen v. GAO at: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://www.wqad.com/article/money/business/john-deere/john-deere-wrongful-termination-lawsuit-age-discrimination/526-5c13b394-2ec9-4933-b724-eb26b9746e13
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Illinois schools chief tells districts to follow state law, not Trump threats (COMMENT: Federal Trumps State Law.)
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/02/21/illinois-schools-chief-says-keep-teaching-black-history-after-trump-letter/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-253/
— ILGOP calls out Jewish governor for ‘vile, antisemitic attacks”
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/21/ilgop-calls-out-jewish-governor-for-vile-antisemitic-attacks/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
— ILGOP Responds To Pritzker’s Vile, Antisemitic Attacks
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
(THE PRESS RELEASE: Lost in the shuffle of the grandstanding and hypocrisy from Governor Pritzker’s budget speech was the dangerous, divisive rhetoric he used – comparing President Trump and the Republican Party to Nazi’s. During Wednesday’s budget speech, Pritzker referred to Nazi’s six times, painting an inaccurate and dangerously partisan picture of the Republican Party. As Pritzker continues to prepare for his 2028 run for President, ILGOP Chair Kathy Salvi released the following statement: “JB Pritzker stoops to a new low and needs to be condemned by both Democrats and Republicans. His disgusting and repulsive attack on Republicans and this administration comes at a time when President Trump and Republicans are supporting Israel and the Jewish people as they defend themselves from barbaric terrorists. Meanwhile, JB Pritzker is standing with criminal illegals and further dividing our great nation. At the Illinois Republican Party, we continue to fight with the Trump Administration to combat an unprecedented wave of antisemitism and will always call out Pritzker’s repulsive language. Bottom Line: In their effort to combat vile, antisemitic attacks like those by Governor Pritzker on Wednesday, President Trump and Republicans are fighting antisemitism in the United States.)
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Those who have demographics that vote for Democrats benefit from DEI. Those who have demographics that vote for Republicans are harmed by DEI. Demographics that vote for Democrats are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Demographics that vote for Republicans are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Stopping the illegal alien invasion. January was the lowest month of people illegally crossing the border since May 2020.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/stopping-illegal-alien-invasion/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Fires Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Charles Q Brown. Trump will nominate Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine to replace the general.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-fires-joint-chiefs-of-staff-gen-chair-charles-q-brown-5814407
FOX BUSINESS
— Chicago resident says his city believes it’s ‘more important’ to take care of illegals than Americans
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6369166557112
— Red state businesses put on notice if they intentionally hire illegal immigrants: ‘Stiff penalties’ The bill would give the Montana prosecutors resources to enforce the law.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/red-state-businesses-put-on-notice-intentionally-hire-illegal-immigrants-stiff-penalties
NEWSMAX
— Military Bases to Be Used to House Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/us/immigration-deportation-ice/2025/02/21/id/1200023/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Elon Musk becomes a new power center at CPAC. The tech billionaire stole the show Thursday, a surprise guest who wielded a chainsaw to symbolize his government cuts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/elon-musk-becomes-new-power-center-cpac-rcna193097
— At town halls, Republicans feel the heat from Trump and Musk’s firing and cutting spree. The White House said the incidents represent just a handful of critics. Others noted similarities to earlier backlash against disruptive moves in Washington.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/town-halls-republicans-feel-heat-trump-musks-firing-cutting-spree-rcna193164
CBS NEWS
— White House pushes back on criticism of Trump spending cuts
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/white-house-pushes-back-on-criticism-of-trump-spending-cuts/
MSNBC
— Not all Republicans want Musk’s chainsaw approach to spending cuts
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/joe-not-all-republicans-want-musk-s-chainsaw-approach-to-spending-cuts-232576069725
USA TODAY
— What is DOGE dividend check? Will Illinoisans get a $5,000 stimulus check?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/02/21/will-illinoisans-get-5000-doge-stimulus-check-heres-what-to-know/79440259007/
— More than one way to slice a workforce: How Trump’s cuts differ from Clinton’s.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/21/clinton-trump-federal-workers-jobs/79306710007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the wake of mass layoffs under President Donald Trump’s new administration, some have compared the government-shrinking initiative to a 1990s effort under President Bill Clinton, when about 400,000 jobs were cut from the federal workforce.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Illinois Cancels Henry Hyde. Progressives stripped the late GOP Congressman’s name from a courthouse over abortion.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dupage-county-democrats-henry-hyde-courthouse-illinois-abortion-hyde-amendment-bffcbb8d
POLITICO
— AP sues Trump officials after being barred from some White House events. The lawsuit says First and Fifth Amendment rights were violated.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/21/associated-press-lawsuit-trump-officials-white-house-00205504
JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE
— Who is calling who a Nazi? “Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s comparison of the Trump administration to the Nazi regime is deeply disturbing and unacceptable,” said Rabbi David Katz, executive director of the Israel Heritage Foundation.
https://www.jns.org/who-is-calling-who-a-nazi/
February 18, 2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— EXPANDING ACCESS TO IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ALL AGENCIES
https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘We are the patriots’: Chicago federal employees protest mass firings in Federal Plaza (COMMENT: I have always been a Republican. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I share many demographics with Trump. If I was still a federal employee, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/18/federal-employees-protest-mass-firings/
— Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/18/trump-schools-end-dei-programs/
— Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for ‘radical transparency’ from government
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/18/trump-will-sign-new-executive-orders-while-his-first-joint-tv-interview-with-musk-airs-in-prime-time/
— Soon, if not already, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/dupage-naperville-homeless-winter-emergency-shelter/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/chicago-immigration-resource-guide
— Trump’s Friday firings leave EPA Chicago office with fewer scientists, staff. Dozens of probationary employees were cut because they didn’t have job protections.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/02/18/trump-fires-epa-chicago-scientists-staff-environmental-protection-agency
DAILY HERALD
— Suit asks court to block appointment of McConchie successor in Senate
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250218/illinois-state-politics/suit-asks-court-to-block-appointment-of-mcconchie-successor-in-senate/
— College of DuPage board names top pick for president
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250218/news/college-of-dupage-board-names-top-pick-for-president/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: COD Trustee Andrew Manno, who co-chairs the presidential search committee, told the board last month that it had selected about a dozen or so candidates to appear before the committee for interviews. The committee held those interviews over a span of two days — “over long, long hours” — and was able to narrow the search down to four candidates, Manno said in January. Both the board and the committee agreed to follow a “hybrid confidential approach” to “ensure that COD has the best quality candidates that the country has to offer,” Manno said previously.)
ABC7
— Judge declines to immediately block Elon Musk or DOGE from federal data or layoffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/white-house-claims-elon-musk-does-not-run-doge-new-filing/15925645/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-leaders-speak-undocumented-business-owners-deportations-illinois-hispanic-chamber-commerce-offers-legal-adivce/15926782/
NBC5
— Republicans consider cuts, work requirements for Medicaid. Eighty million U.S. adults and children are currently enrolled in the nearly-free health care coverage offered to the poorest Americans.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/health/republicans-consider-cuts-work-requirements-medicaid/3677068/
CBS2
— Mentoring program helping Black high school students prepare for college success (COMMENT: To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of my IRS mentor who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors got rid of my GAO mentor who arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/onegoal-mentoring-program-black-high-school-students-college/
FOX32
— Illinois federal employees protest against Trump’s layoffs. Federal workers held a rally at Federal Plaza in Chicago, protesting planned layoffs under President Donald Trump. The Trump administration offered buyouts to nearly 2 million federal employees, leading to 75,000 resignations. Thousands of probationary workers, including EPA employees, were fired without warning, sparking outrage. (COMMENT: I have always been a Republican. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I share many demographics with Trump. If I was still a federal employee, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-federal-employees-protest-against-trumps-layoffs
WTTW
— Are You a Federal Worker in Illinois? We Want to Hear From You. (COMMENT: Would WTTW be interested in hearing about how my Democrat GAO superiors used Republican-led budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997?)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/17/are-you-federal-worker-illinois-we-want-hear-you
— Fired EPA Workers in Chicago Rally Against Trump’s Mass Government Layoffs
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/18/fired-epa-workers-chicago-rally-against-trump-s-mass-government-layoffs
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/18/committee-advances-bill-ban-vehicle-searches-based-smell-cannabis
VERMILION COUNTY FIRST
— Chief Budgeteer Senator Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) joined Illinois Senate Republican Leader Senator John Curran (R-Downers Grove) and Deputy Leader Senator Sue Rezin (R-Morris) to call on Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to commit to transparent accounting of taxpayer spending and to deliver a budget that does not include tax increases on Illinois families and businesses in tomorrow’s address.
https://vermilioncountyfirst.com/2025/02/18/illinois-senate-republicans-call-for-no-new-taxes-transparent-accounting-in-budget/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Illinois Republican Senate members say Democrats state budget is flawed
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/watch-live-illinois-republican-senate-members-discuss-budget/
— Florida is rushing to enforce new immigration laws.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-florida-is-rushing-to-enforce-new-immigration-laws-heres-what-to-know/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump’s border czar says ICE arrests way up, illegal border crossings way down
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-effect-has-migrants-thinking-twice-about-crossing-the-border-white-house-says-illegal-immigration-border-security-politics-ice-arrests-public-safety
WQAD
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wqad.com/video/news/politics/illinois-politics/planned-parenthood-of-illinois-offering-medication-abortion-pills-through-app/526-3295b9a7-c293-4033-9d3d-4a4e89a2c287
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wqad.com/video/news/politics/illinois-politics/illinois-committee-advances-bill-to-ban-vehicle-searches-based-on-smell-of-cannabis/526-3f033835-2d5d-4df9-b093-e19bb4879010
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Eliminating immigrant spending, boosting education funding top Senate Republican budget priorities. Gov. JB Pritzker set to give budget address Wednesday.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/eliminating-immigrant-spending-boosting-education-funding-top-senate-republican-budget-priorities/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Residents, Advocates Fear An Encampment Clearing As Tensions At Gompers Park Rise. Though the city said a planned March 5 moving event doesn’t mean the encampment will be cleared, similar events have led to the dismantling of tent cities, advocates said.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/02/18/residents-advocates-fear-an-encampment-clearing-as-tensions-at-gompers-park-rise/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-250/
— Poll unsurprisingly finds Trump/Musk and their actions unpopular in Illinois, except for a close division on immigration (COMMENT: 2.4 million in Illinois voted for Trump/Vance.)
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/18/poll-unsurprisingly-finds-trumpmusk-and-their-actions-unpopular-in-illinois-except-for-a-close-division-on-immigration/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Bill would eliminate property taxes for Illinois homeowners after 30 years of residency (COMMENT: I have lived in Illinois for more than 76 years and in Wheaton for almost 47 years. I have paid real estate taxes for more than 52 years.)
https://www.aol.com/bill-eliminate-property-taxes-illinois-213600444.html
— Pritzker to deliver proposed Illinois budget amid mounting spending pressures
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d154e64e-ee38-11ef-ad97-eb573b7a9e65.html
— Government efficiency caucus formed
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1951acf4-ee41-11ef-8dfc-47160dadc270.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Because Secret Service Clearance Is Required Wednesday Deadline to Buy Tickets to See Lara Trump at McHenry County/Joe Tirio Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/18/because-secret-service-clearance-is-required-wednesday-deadline-to-buy-tickets-to-see-lara-trump/
— Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Danijela Sandberg’s Opponent Prematurely Declares Victory
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/18/algonquin-township-road-commissioner-danijela-sandbergs-opponent-prematurely-declares-victory/
— Illinois Policy Institute Tees Up Opposition to Progressive Income Tax Proposals by Democrats
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/18/illinois-policy-institute-tees-up-opposition-to-progressive-income-tax-proposals-by-democrats/
— Looks Like I Was Wrong on Netflix Subject for “Monsters – Season 3”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/18/looks-like-i-was-wrong-on-netflix-subject-for-monsters-season-3/
— Grafton Township Republican Party Issues Endorsements for Township Trustee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/18/grafton-township-republican-party-issues-endorsements-for-township-trustee/
— Another View of the Replacement Process for State Senator Dan McConchie
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/18/another-view-of-the-replacement-process-for-state-senator-dan-mcconchie/
— The Censures of Algonquin Township Supervisor Randy Funk – Part 2
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/18/the-censures-of-randy-funk-part-2/
— McHenry County Administrator Peter Austin Gets 5.3% Raise
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/18/mchenry-county-administrator-peter-austin-gets-5-3-raise/
ILLINOIS RECORD
— A leaked Video shows the Illinois GOP seemingly lying about their 2024 election get out the vote impact
https://www.illinoisrecord.com/p/a-leaked-video-shows-the-illinois
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illegal immigrants now paying up to $30,000 as cartels raise prices under Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/18/illegal-immigrants-paying-30-000-cartels-raise-pri/
WASHINGTON EXAMINAR
— CPAC theme: ‘America is back on track’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3322407/cpac-theme-america-back-on-track/
AMERICAN WIRE
— Biden admin doled out 10 BILLION to illegals in just one year, shocking probe finds
https://americanwirenews.com/biden-admin-doled-out-10-billion-to-illegals-in-just-one-year-shocking-probe-finds/
CENTER SQUARE
— New guidance seeks to end use of ‘race preferences, stereotypes’ in school admissions
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_127ef2e4-ee26-11ef-a6c4-878910db08f2.html
— IRS tax gap grows to $600 billion as DOGE looks for savings (COMMENT: I worked for GAO for 3 years 1986-1988 on audits of IRS Criminal Investigation Division efforts to close the tax gap.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_ecd0de72-ee0c-11ef-848d-ebb54839938d.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency take a look at one of the federal government’s most-disliked agencies, the Internal Revenue Service, some point to a persistent problem: the tax gap. The tax gap is the difference between what taxpayers pay the IRS voluntarily and on time and what they actually owe the IRS. The projected annual gross tax gap for tax year 2022 was $696 billion, with about $90 billion of that paid late or through IRS enforcement, according to the IRS.)
DAILY WIRE
— Education Dept Slashes $600 Million In Grants Promoting ‘Divisive’ Ideologies. Grants had been training teachers in CRT and gender ideology.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/education-dept-slashes-600-million-in-grants-promoting-divisive-ideologies
FEDERALIST
— United States Should Encourage Less Migration, More Stability
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/18/former-refugee-the-united-states-should-encourage-less-migration-more-stability/
FOX NEWS
— Vance to speak at CPAC’s opening day. CPAC, which dates back to 1974, is the nation’s oldest and largest annual gathering of conservative leaders and activists.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vice-president-jd-vance-speak-cpacs-opening-day
NEW AMERICAN
— Noem to Illegal Aliens and Would-be Illegals: Get Out, Stay Out, and Don’t Cross the Border
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/noem-to-illegal-aliens-and-would-be-illegals-get-out-stay-out-and-dont-cross-the-border/
NEWSMAX
— If you have a criminal record, you can’t stay here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt8YhNBsLVc
OPEN THE BOOKS
— CASH FOR MIGRANTS: FEMA NOT THE ONLY AGENCY SPENDING BIG. The Office of Refugee Resettlement has faced questions over transparency, conflict of interest.
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/5f0bfa8c-91b1-4477-baa5-b98ecf340a76?lid=q5u4w2bhnmbt
TOWNHALL
— Homan Has the Perfect Response to AOC ‘Educating’ Illegals on How to Evade ICE
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/02/18/tom-homan-aoc-update-n2652391
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump says he may impose auto tariffs of around 25%
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-auto-tariffs-25-percent/
NEWSWEEK
— Inside the Five-Star Hotel Where Deported Migrants Are Awaiting Their Fate
https://www.newsweek.com/inside-five-star-hotel-where-deported-migrants-are-awaiting-their-fate-2032899
USA TODAY
— Student asks Supreme Court to say he can wear T-shirt saying ‘There are only two genders.’ In past decisions, the Supreme Court has allowed students to wear arm bands in protest of the Vietnam War but not to hold up a “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” banner.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/16/supreme-court-student-two-genders-t-shirt-free-speech/78390509007/
LEADER
— IRS tax gap grows to $600 billion as DOGE looks for savings (COMMENT: I worked for GAO for 3 years 1986-1988 on audits of IRS Criminal Investigation Division efforts to close the tax gap.)
https://www.myleaderpaper.com/news/national/irs-tax-gap-grows-to-600-billion-as-doge-looks-for-savings/article_e3f7dd85-5ace-5b39-a934-9d543adda481.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency take a look at one of the federal government’s most-disliked agencies, the Internal Revenue Service, some point to a persistent problem: the tax gap. The tax gap is the difference between what taxpayers pay the IRS voluntarily and on time and what they actually owe the IRS. The projected annual gross tax gap for tax year 2022 was $696 billion, with about $90 billion of that paid late or through IRS enforcement, according to the IRS. The problem has been around for decades and is growing. From 2014 to 2016, the IRS estimated the tax gap was about $496 billion each year, according to a 2024 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.)
ABP
— How Big A Problem Are Illegal Indians For US? 11 Insights From Johns Hopkins Study.
https://news.abplive.com/news/world/how-big-problem-illegal-indians-us-11-insights-johns-hopkins-study-1752190
February 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS2
— Durbin, congresspeople highlight what they say would be detrimental effects of federal spending cuts (COMMENT: To what extent is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on federal spending?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/durbin-congresspeople-detrimental-effects-federal-spending-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/protesters-rally-in-chicago-against-president-trumps-policies/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFkVQUBlIoY
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-presidents-day-trump-musk-protests/
— Illinois Congressional Democrats rail against Trump, Musk cuts (COMMENT: To what extent is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on federal spending?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luDPZki4H5Q
FOX32
— Illinois Dem lawmakers push back against Trump budget cuts (COMMENT: To what extent is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on federal spending?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1594717
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/18/opinion-illinois-fighting-unconcstitutional-actions-donald-trump/
— Homer Township Reset slate challenges Freedom Caucus incumbents in Republican Primary
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/17/homer-township-republican-primary/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/02/17/protesters-march-donald-trump-nationwide-presidents-day-demonstration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/02/17/trump-presidency-republicans-maga-mean-federal-layoffs-debt-conservatives-new-party-usaid
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-17/thousands-of-people-protest-in-washington-d-c-and-across-the-u-s-on-presidents-day
WCIA
— Central Illinois federal workers face unemployment, uncertainty (COMMENT: Because of Republican-led budget cuts, all during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, I faced Democrat retaliation, that is, I faced political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about that.)
https://www.wcia.com/news/champaign-county/there-were-people-crying-central-illinois-federal-workers-face-unemployment-uncertainty/
WAND TV
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/planned-parenthood-of-illinois-expands-medication-abortion-access-through-app/article_206323fe-edf3-11ef-ab84-1f11aa00a2cd.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— TROLLING TRUMP: The Illinois Democratic Party has been trolling President Donald Trump by projecting digital phrases onto the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago’s River North neighborhood and a stream of online messaging.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/18/richard-irvin-returns-to-the-ring-00204650
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-457/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How much success have the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district had promoting fear, anger, and hatred against Trump and against those who voted for Trump? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about the tremendous negative impacts from Republican gutting GAO instead of Republican reforming of GAO. If Republicans had reformed GAO, the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, or d) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— GAO is supposed to fight waste in the federal government. But Democrats run the federal government and Democrats run GAO. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. Because I have always been a Republican, they did not want me fight waste. To get rid of me, they. a) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) delayed my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees, c) earning six job-related professional certifications, and d) earning a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents, the courts in Diersen v. GAO decided that employers can fire their employees a) because they oppose political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination and/or b) because they have performance problems. According to my critics/opponents, both of the aforesaid applied to me a) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my employer with reverse discrimination and age discrimination and b) because my employer never promoted me beyond GS-13 and always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, I had to have performance problems because they took those adverse actions against me even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But in fact, they took those adverse actions against me a) because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination and age discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents stress about you to turn people against you? My critics/opponents stress that I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, my ancestors have been in America since 1844, I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and almost 9 of which working for IRS, I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years, I have been married for almost 47 years, I have more education than they have, I have six professional certifications and a professional license, I have more real estate, vehicles, and/or money than they have, I have better health than they have, etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents stress to promote envy against you? Mine stress that I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years, that I have been married for almost 47 years, that I have more education than they have, that I have six professional certifications and a professional license, that I have more real estate, vehicles, and/or money than they have, that I have better health than they have, etc.
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Congressman Robert C. McClory’s Significant Law
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/17/congressman-robert-c-mcclorys-significant-law/
— Crystal Lake Grade School District Has 20% Fewer Students Than in 2008, But More Staff
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/17/crystal-lake-grade-school-district-has-20-fewer-students-than-in-2008-but-more-staff/
— The Censures of Randy Funk – Part 1
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/17/the-censures-of-randy-funk-part-1/
— The Contract with Peter Bensinger I Would Not Sign in the Thompson Administration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/17/the-contract-with-peter-bensinger-i-would-not-sign-in-the-thompson-administration/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
U.S. Department of HOMELAND SECURITY
— Secretary Kristi Noem announced a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to leave our country now or face deportation with the inability to return to the United States. The international ads warn criminal illegal aliens not to come to America and break its laws or they will be hunted down and deported. (COMMENT: Of course, Democrats and RINOs oppose/reject the aforesaid.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hezXQvjzCkQ
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Time to go: DHS tells illegal immigrants to ‘self-deport and stay out’ Secretary Kristi Noem vows ‘We will hunt you down’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/17/dhs-tells-illegal-immigrants-self-deport-stay/
NEW YORK POST
— AOC’s harmful migrant assistance (COMMENT: It is criminal to help people commit crimes.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/opinion/aocs-harmful-migrant-assistance-letters/
— Eric Adams is a hostage to New Yorkers’ will — not to Donald Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/opinion/memo-to-eric-adams-critics-hes-a-hostage-to-nyers-will-not-donald-trump/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Buttigieg insinuates that Trump’s IG firing spree has something to do with promoting ‘waste, fraud, and abuse’ (COMMENT: When the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago Office forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, the Democrats who ran IG offices in Chicago could have offered to hire me, but they did not. I should write about those who they hired instead of me.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/buttigieg_insinuates_that_trump_s_ig_firing_spree_has_something_to_do_with_promoting_waste_fraud_and_abuse.html
BREITBART
— Supreme Court Path for President Trump on Birthright Citizenship
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/17/scotus-path-birthright-citizenship-trump/
— Kristi Noem Warns Migrants Against Entering U.S. Illegally: ‘You Will Be Caught’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/17/kristi-noem-warns-migrants-entering-u-s-illegally-will-be-caught/
FOX BUSINESS
— DOGE critics are in favor of government waste (COMMENT: GAO is supposed to fight waste in the federal government. But Democrats run the federal government and Democrats run GAO. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. Because I have always been a Republican, they did not want me fight waste. To get rid of me, they. a) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) delayed my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees, c) earning six job-related professional certifications, and d) earning a job-related professional license.)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6368973252112
FOX NEWS
— Homan takes victory lap after illegal immigrant crossings plummet during Trump admin: ‘He is delivering’ Homan said it’s the lowest he’s seen since President Reagan was in office.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/homan-victory-lap-after-illegal-immigrant-crossings-plummet-during-trump-admin-delivering
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Dear DOGE – Why Is The U.S. Government Funding “Media Literacy” Informers And Indoctrination? DHS, Defense, and State are all involved. I know, I took the trainings. Do Secretaries Noem, Hegseth, and Rubio know?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/02/dear-doge-why-is-the-u-s-government-funding-media-literacy-informers-and-indoctrination/
NEWSMAX
— Some Shelters Close as Migrant Flow Slows
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/migrant-shelters-closing-border/2025/02/17/id/1199406/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Supreme Court could decide who Trump is allowed to fire (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, the courts in Diersen v. GAO decided that employers can fire their employees a) because they oppose political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination and/or b) because they have performance problems. According to my critics/opponents, both of the aforesaid applied to me a) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my employer with reverse discrimination and age discrimination and b) because my employer never promoted me beyond GS-13 and always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance (PFP). According to them, I had to have performance problems because they took those adverse actions against me even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But in fact, they took those adverse actions against me a) because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination and age discrimination.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2hVZ_zz94
MSN
— Hegseth reports that IRS has audited him and says he owes $33,558.16. (COMMENT: I should write about why my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education deductions when I was 29 years old in 1978. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pete-hegseth-shares-back-taxes-self-own-while-blasting-biden-irs-for-audit/ar-AA1zfqGt
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Fox News host until being nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Defense Department, Hegseth’s annual salary at the media company was north of $2 million, according to a financial disclosure report he filed as part of the confirmation process. Additionally, he earned $900,000 in speaking engagement fees over the last two years, according to the report. As Secretary of Defense, Hegseth will be paid $246,000 per year. The Trump administration is expected to soon announce substantial layoffs at the IRS. Furthermore, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is looking to gain access to the IRS’s highly-classified system for housing taxpayers’ financial information.)
ASSOCIATED PRESS & MSNBC & NEWSWEEK & LOS ANGELES & ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER & NBC BOSTON & ABC DENVER & BUSINESS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/president-donald-trump-protest-c8796556fbf20e796f42167f61c3d942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLJLFiB6bb8
https://www.newsweek.com/photos-show-trump-musk-50501-protests-across-us-2032448
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-17/presidents-day-rally-long-beach
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/02/17/on-presidents-day-in-irvine-demonstrators-rally-against-president-trump-and-elon-musk/
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/presidents-day-brings-protests-against-trumps-policies/3634753/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbNe3qG8MQ
https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/172879/20250218/no-kings-on-presidents-day-rallies-target-trump-policies-musk-s-influence.htm
NEW YORK TIMES
— What do your critics/opponents stress to promote envy against you? Mine stress that I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years, that I have been married for almost 47 years, that I have more education than they have, that I have six professional certifications and a professional license, that I have more real estate, vehicles, and/or money than they have, that I have better health than they have, etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/learning/do-you-ever-feel-envious-of-others.html
— Democrats Fear They Are Missing the Moment to Remake the Party. As President Trump steamrolls over their priorities, Democrats say they could miss the opportunity to learn lessons from their defeat and undertake needed reform. (COMMENT: From what I see, the Democrat Party will forever promote dependency on government charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. By doing the aforesaid, the Democrat Party wants to get more votes from those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, are in America illegally, boozers, gamblers, stoners, and criminals.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/democrats-trump-future.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump Targets a Growing List of Those He Sees as Disloyal. In his first month in office, the president has carried out a campaign of retribution that has little analogue in history. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty and 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 coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/trump-retribution-list.html
USA TODAY
— Federal government has wasted trillions. Trump and Musk are saying, ‘Enough!’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/17/trump-musk-doge-government-waste-national-debt/78518870007/
WEEK
— How much did Germany pay as WWI reparations? Here’s why Donald Trump’s proposed $500 billion offer for Ukraine is even worse. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked his officials to reject Donald Trump administration’s $500 billion deal, saying it does not give adequate security guarantees for Kyiv.
https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2025/02/18/how-much-did-germany-pay-as-wwi-reparations-here-s-why-donald-trump-s-proposed-500-billion-offer-for-ukraine-is-even-worse.html
WBAL TV
— Employees across federal agencies detail impacts of layoffs, DOGE action (COMMENT: I should write about the tremendous negative impacts of Republicans gutting GAO instead of reforming GAO. If Republicans had reformed GAO, the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, or d) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/federal-employees-layoffs-impacts-doge-executive-orders/63821109
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Media Claim to Find No Fraud in Government. Then again, they also told us Biden was sharp as a tack and nothing was amiss at the border.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-media-claim-to-find-no-fraud-in-government-waste-abuse-agencies-8ed673b2
— 6 Ways to Fix the Job-Application Nightmare. Companies are needlessly hurting their reputations among potential employees. Here’s what they can do to improve the process—and attract better talent. (COMMENT: I did not apply to be an IRS employee. IRS offered me a job because I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-search-applications-fixes-476ed638
— America’s Trumpiest City Council Is Thriving—in Newsom’s California. Huntington Beach has become a laboratory for Trump-style local governance; ‘non-sanctuary city’ status and a MAGA plaque at the library. (COMMENT: How strongly do the Republican leaders of the following support Trump: a) your state senate and house districts, county, township, municipality, and school board and b) the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county and township/ward party organizations?)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americas-trumpiest-city-council-is-thrivingin-newsoms-california-e671f21c
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/race-ethnicity/2025/02/18/after-trumps-diversity-threats-what-should-colleges-do
February 17, 2025
ABC7
— Trump mug shot hung just outside Oval Office
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trumps-mug-shot-fulton-county-jail-georgia-hung-outside-oval-office-photos-show/15916528/
— Trump tours Boeing plane to highlight aircraft maker’s delay in delivering a new Air Force One
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-tours-boeing-747-plane-highlight-aircraft-makers-delay-delivering-new-air-force-presidential/15915490/
— Fired federal workers speak out on recent terminations: ‘we’re under attack by billionaires’ (COMMENT: I did more than speak out when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I filed Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf My critics/opponents side with GAO in that lawsuit, that is, they promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-layoffs-fired-workers-speak-recent-terminations-were-attack-billionaires/15915591/
WTTW
— An Illinois DOGE? Rep. John Cabello’s (R-Rockford) Proposal Would Create New Department
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/17/illinois-doge-republican-state-lawmaker-s-proposal-would-create-new-department
WBBM
— LaHood trusts Trump’s implementation of the Republican Party platform. To what extent do the Republican leaders in your county, township, municipality, and school district share LaHood’s trust? Which planks in the Republican Party platform do the aforesaid leaders accept or reject?
https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/congressman-lahood-trusts-trump-administration-musk
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/17/cook-county-health-planned-parenthood-partnership-englewood/
— Trump’s moves to end foreign aid agency hit close to home in Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/17/ctc-l-trump-usaid-spending-illinois/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Chicago area federal workers on edge as Trump guts agencies: ‘It’s devastating’ More than 48,000 federal workers in and around Chicago have been on edge for weeks as President Donald Trump aims to drastically reduce the federal workforce. (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. If I was still a federal employee, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally. When Republicans gutted GAO in the 1990s, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/02/16/federal-workers-chicago-trump-buyouts-layoffs
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/work-permit-immigration-eligibility-chicago
DAILY HERALD
— As federal workers and aid recipients reel, Trump’s team is unmoved (COMMENT: I reeled big time when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old. I filed Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250215/nation-and-world-politics/as-federal-workers-and-aid-recipients-reel-trumps-team-is-unmoved/
— Illinois leaders: Stop pushing for big government, start helping small businesses
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250215/business/illinois-leaders-stop-pushing-for-big-government-start-helping-small-businesses/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Daytona 500 resumes after lengthy rain delay; Trump on hand for start of NASCAR’s biggest race. The Daytona 500 has resumed after two weather delay totaling more than 3 1/2 hours, and with President Donald Trump set to watch the rest of the race in Florida, after he earlier led drivers on two laps around the track in his heavily armored presidential limousine known in Washington as “The Beast.”
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/daytona-500-resumes-after-lengthy-rain-delay-trump-on-hand-for-start-of-nascars-biggest/article_cbec048e-62f3-5f04-b0d8-22239f18aa2e.html
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to let the firing of whistleblower agency head proceed (COMMEMT: I was a whistleblower. I ever-increasingly blew the whistle on political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government. The Bush administration wanted me to suffer the retaliation that I did for my doing that.)
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/trump-administration-wants-the-supreme-court-to-20170946.php
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-16/protests-are-set-to-take-place-on-presidents-day-heres-why
WCIA
— Presidents dominate their DOJs. My critics/opponents stress that while Bush was president, his DOJ sided with the Democrats against me in Diersen v. GAO, that is, that Bush wanted political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-justice-departments-independence-is-threatened-as-trumps-team-asserts-power-over-cases-and-staff/
WAND TV
— Trump attends the Daytona 500 and says the spirit of NASCAR will ‘fuel America’s Golden Age’ President Donald Trump says the spirit of NASCAR will “fuel America’s Golden Age.”
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-attends-the-daytona-500-and-says-the-spirit-of-nascar-will-fuel-americas-golden/article_68c448c7-3894-5da3-ab9c-45a47a8dabd3.html
— Local federal employees in Illinois among those who’ve been fired nationally (COMMENT: During the 1980s and 1990s, I was among those Republican GAO employees who the Democrats who ran GAO punished for Republican-led budget cuts. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 because of Republican-led budget cuts.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8_KiZcXA1Q
FOX ILLINOIS
— Rubio backs Israel’s Gaza strategy as ceasefire faces uncertainty amid Hamas tensions
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/rubio-in-israel-says-hamas-must-be-eradicated-casting-further-doubt-on-gazas-shaky-cease
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What if the federal government had to look like America? It certainly does not now. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. But Republican Trump got 50% of the vote. What if 50% of federal employee had to be Republican? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. Because I am a Republican, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974 if I had not been taking graduate evening business courses. Virtually none of my coworkers had done that. Because I am a Republican, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have promoted me in 1986 if I had not earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. None of my coworkers had done anything close to that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What discourages Republicans from seeking federal jobs? Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government give preference to their employees who are Democrat, and especially to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, that is, they discriminate against their employees who are Republican, and especially against those who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. What could Trump do about the aforesaid? He could use me as an example. If I had been a Democrat, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service before I was 40 years old. But because I was a Republican, the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 even though I had a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981. Trump could force the return of meritocracy in the federal government. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, 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, younger, and/or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois shouldn’t dismiss Indiana’s overture to snap up “separatist” downstate counties
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-shouldnt-dismiss-indianas-overture-to-snap-up-separatist-downstate-counties-wirepoints/
JOHN BIVER
— USAID, DOGE and the state of Illinois 2025
https://johnbiver.com/usaid-doge-and-the-state-of-illinois-2025/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Is McHenry County Administrator’s Pending 5.3% Raise a Signal That All Non-Union Employees Will Receive the Same?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/16/is-mchenry-county-administrators-pending-5-3-raise-a-signal-that-all-non-union-employees-will-receive-the-same/
— Inside View of State Senate Appointment Process in Which Darby Hills Selected to Replace Dan McConchie
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/16/inside-view-of-state-senate-appointment-process-in-which-darby-hills-selected-to-replace-dan-mcconchie/
— Ness Attacked on Facebook by Americans for Prosperity
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/ness-attacked-on-facebook-by-americans-for-prosperity/
— Mike Buehler’s 2025 State of the County Address
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/mike-buehlers-state-of-the-county-address/
— Trump as a “Disruptor”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/trump-as-a-disruptor/
— Kane County GOP Campaigns Against Democrats’ Sales Tax Hike Referendum
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/kane-county-gop-campaigns-against-democrats-sales-tax-hike-referendum/
— Schakowsky Wonders if MANufacturers Discriminate against Women
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/schakowsky-wonders-if-manufacturers-discriminate-against-women/
— Crystal Lake Grade School Offers Mental Health/Suicide Prevention Advice
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/crystal-lake-grade-school-offers-mental-health-suicide-prevention-advice/
— Keicher Takes on TIFs
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/15/keicher-takes-on-tifs/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats hunt for Trump vulnerability, zero in on inflation
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/16/democrats-looking-trump-vulnerability-zero-inflati/
— Trump’s record-breaking start rattles Washington, rankles rivals, but earns raves from voters
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/16/trump-record-breaking-start-rattles-district-rankl/
— Time for ‘Never Trumpers’ to admit they were wrong about Donald Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/16/time-never-trumpers-admit-wrong-donald-trump/
— Trump moves to counter hatred of Christians and Jews. Left claims it doesn’t exist. (COMMENT: I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. While was a federal employee for almost 30 years, virtually none of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Protestants.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/16/trump-moves-counter-hatred-christians-jews/
— Dems fighting Trump’s cuts represent states receiving $231 billion in federal funds
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/15/dem-task-force-stop-trump-bureaucracy-overhaul-rep/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump attends Daytona 500, drives lap around track in motorcade while delivering message
https://nypost.com/2025/02/16/sports/trump-attends-daytona-500-drives-lap-around-track-in-motorcade/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Mass Deportations Are an American Tradition. Past presidents showed that removing millions of illegal aliens is achievable.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/mass-deportations-are-an-american-tradition/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Trump Speed. President Trump is not moving at light speed. He’s not moving at warp speed. He is moving even faster… he is moving at Trump speed. And the left doesn’t know what to do.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/17/trump-speed/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump is Closing the Border. Now What About Legal Immigration?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/trump_is_closing_the_border_now_what_about_legal_immigration.html
BREITBART
— House Republicans Budget Billions for Trump Border and Immigration Enforcement
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/17/budget/
— Trump’s Deputies Shrink Democrats’ Labor and Sex Trafficking Programs
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/16/trumps-deputies-shrink-federal-labor-sex-trafficking-uac-program/
DAILY CALLER
— Reince Priebus Tells Dem Panelists Their Party Is On ‘Wrong Side Of Normal’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/16/reince-priebus-democrats-wrong-normal-party-abc-news/
FOX NEWS
— Sanctuary policies protect criminal illegal aliens
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368926559112
— Sanctuary cities are illegal and unconstitutional
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368939017112
— Mayors, local officials could face arrest if they don’t comply with Trump’s mass deportations (COMMENT: Are the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district obstructing or helping with deportation of illegals?)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mayors-local-officials-could-face-arrest-if-they-don-t-comply-with-trump-s-mass-deportations/ar-AA1xJrhA
— Trump applauds ‘guts’ of NASCAR drivers ahead of Daytona 500, sends them special message. Trump took a lap in The Beast ahead of the start of the race.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trump-applauds-guts-nascar-drivers-ahead-daytona-500-sends-them-special-message?lid=5eki2yd47qmi
— Trump admin aims for killing blow to independence of ‘Deep State’ agencies (COMMENT: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, I soon learned that GAO was much more partisan, that is, anti-Republican, than IRS was.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-independent-agencies-deep-state-justice-department-dick-durbin
REAL CLEAR POLICY
— Trump’s Opening Move Against Migrant Sex Trafficking
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/02/17/trumps_opening_move_against_migrant_sex_trafficking_1091841.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump’s plan is to implement the Republican Party platform.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5146280-trump-executive-orders-government-efficiency/
CBS NEWS
— Trump administration wants Supreme Court to permit firing of whistleblower agency head (COMMENT: I was a whistleblower. I ever-increasingly blew the whistle on political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government. Because of that, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Because of that, I filed Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf But Bush sided with my Democrat GAO superiors in that lawsuit. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. My critics/opponents promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-supreme-court-permit-firing-whistleblower-agency-head/
NEW YORK TIMES
— First Test of Trump’s Power to Fire Officials Reaches Supreme Court. The court’s conservative majority may be receptive to the argument that presidents have unlimited power to remove leaders of independent agencies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/us/trump-supreme-court-special-counsel.html
— Democrats say “Trump Targets an Ideal Born of a President’s Murder. The act of violence almost 150 years ago effectively gave birth to the civil service, that class of nonpartisan experts who cannot be hired or fired for political reasons.” (COMMENT: Constructively, the Democrats who run the federal government have abolished Civil Service protections for federal employees who are Republican, and especially for those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write a book about the aforesaid.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/politics/trump-civil-service-history.html
USA TODAY
— ‘It’s a lie’: Federal workers incensed by performance language in termination letters (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that real reason why my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 was performance problems. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth a) my earning job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1980, and 1976, b) my earning job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, and c) my earning a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/17/fired-federal-workers-performance-language-doge/78886104007/
BOSTON HERALD
— Trump’s Department of Education gives schools 2 weeks to ditch DEI…or else
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/02/17/trumps-department-of-education-gives-schools-2-weeks-to-ditch-dei-or-else/
BALTIMORE SUN
— America is in the midst of a rightward shift (COMENT: Are the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county and township/ward party organizations shifting to the right?)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/02/17/america-is-in-the-midst-of-a-rightward-shift-editorial/
ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
— With 1.4 million undocumented people, Southern California will change as deportations ramp up (COMMENT: How many illegals are there in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/02/16/with-1-4-million-undocumented-people-southern-california-will-change-as-deportations-ramp-up/
T. ROWE PRICE
— You’re age 35, 50, or 60: How much should you have saved for retirement by now? It’s important to make steady progress toward saving for retirement, no matter what your age. (COMMENT: Saving for our retirement was always a priority for my wife and I. While we were both working, we spent money like only one of us had a paycheck. We always put the maximums into tax-deferred accounts. Our retirement savings are much greater because we gave up trying to have children. Sadly, my critics/opponents use the aforesaid against me. We have less retirement savings because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. We have more money because of inheritances.)
https://www.troweprice.com/personal-investing/resources/insights/youre-age-35-50-or-60-how-much-should-you-have-by-now.html
ATLANTIC
— The Coming Democratic Baby Bust. Birth rates on the left fell in the last Trump presidency. It seems likely to happen again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/democrat-baby-bust-trump-population-decline/681619/
NARFE
— Musk’s Meddling in Government Operations: A Threat to Federal Employees and National Security
https://www.narfe.org/blog/2025/02/11/elon-musks-meddling-in-government-operations-a-threat-to-federal-employees-and-national-security/
— The Importance of Smart-Sizing Federal Agencies (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it in the1980s and 1990s, there would be no need for DOGE today.)
https://www.narfe.org/blog/2025/02/11/the-importance-of-smart-sizing-federal-agencies-a-letter-from-narfe/
— Emerging Threats to the Federal Community
https://www.narfe.org/advocacy/emerging-threats/
SOUTH AFRICAN
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, all the citizens of all the countries in the world are qualified to seek asylum in America, and especially those who are marginalized/oppressed, that is, those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, poor, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, lack education and/or job skills, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/confusion-qualifies-us-asylum-in-2025/