FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do more to protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/ice-courthouses-petition/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/02/editorial-broadview-ice-immigration-protests-pritzker-katrina-thompson/
— FRONT PAGE: Northwestern students boycotting antibias training. DD: I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980 and GAO 1980-1997. They forced all their employees, including me, to take such “training.” All that training was designed to promote more hatred against Republicans, and especially against Republicans like me who were conservative, 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/2025/10/01/northwestern-university-students-boycott-bias-training/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Micol Bez has three weeks to make a choice. The Northwestern University graduate student has spent years studying political epistemology and abolitionism. Now, she is prepared to risk everything — her Ph.D. dissertation, her student status and her visa — in an act of protest she calls “a question of moral clarity.” Bez is part of a group of students boycotting Northwestern’s controversial antibias training video, which critics say conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Those who refuse to complete the online training will be unable to enroll in fall classes, the university said, which could jeopardize their academic standing if they miss the final course registration deadline. “I’m in a profound moral crisis,” said Bez, who is a member of the student group Northwestern Graduate Workers for Palestine. Her refusal to engage in the training, which makes it “impossible to structurally critique Israel, its policies, the apartheid and the ongoing genocide,” she said, is her taking a stand against Northwestern serving “misinformation to thousands of students.”)
— What a federal government shutdown means for Illinois. . .while government offices continue to stay open for their most important operations, so-called nonessential work is suspended, paychecks are not issued and many workers are furloughed until Congress approves a new funding plan. President Donald Trump has amped up the threats this time around, saying he plans to fire employees, rather than just furlough them, a move he says will hurt Democrats. DD: I was a federal worker in Chicago in 1971 and then 1973-1997. In 1971, I was one of the last Republicans who IRS hired. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. If I was still a federal worker, to punish Trump, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now, figuratively, if not literally.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/what-a-federal-government-shutdown-means-for-illinois/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois federal workers heavily stressed as government shutdown yanks paychecks. For federal workers living paycheck to paycheck, the shutdown could mean choosing between paying for groceries or prescriptions, says National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) National President Doreen Greenwald. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. While I was a NTEU member 1971-1980, my IRS salary increased from $55,850/year to $112,280/year in today’s dollars. In my defense, during that time, I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and I almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/10/01/government-shutdown-impact-illinois-chicago-federal-workers
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/broadview-immigration-processing-center-detention-ice-dhs
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/10/01/raoul-student-visa-rule
NBC5
— Chicago’s federal workers face uncertainty amid government shutdown. The City of Chicago has more than 33,000 federal workers. DD: I was a federal worker in Chicago in 1971 and then 1973-1997. In 1971, I was one of the last Republicans who IRS hired. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. If I was still a federal employee, to punish Trump, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now, figuratively, if not literally.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicagos-federal-workers-face-uncertainty-amid-government-shutdown/3832531/
WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly treat Pat Brady as being the spokesman for all Republicans in Illinois. I should write about the many anti-conservative actions he has taken.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-trumps-military-meeting-government-shutdown-and-more/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— In a posting Wednesday on the Kane GOP Facebook page, party chairman Andro Lerario and Aurora Township Republican Danny Souri announced their candidacy for Illinois governor and lieutenant governor. DD: Facebook is a Democrat website. Credible Republican candidates in Illinois a) have websites, b) issue press releases and media advisories, and c) include diersen@aol.com on their press release and media advisory email lists.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/10/02/kane-gop-chairman-says-hell-run-for-illinois-governor-in-2026/
LINCOLN COURIER
— New program looks to address lawyer shortage in Illinois
https://www.lincolncourier.com/story/news/state/2025/10/02/new-program-would-address-lawyer-shortage-in-illinois/86345520007/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats voted for a shutdown. Now they have to find a way out
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-democrats-voted-for-a-shutdown-now-they-have-to-find-a-way-out/amp/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders get the Pope to equate illegals with unborn babies.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/nx-s1-5560169/pope-leo-xiv-says-inhuman-treatment-of-immigrants-in-the-u-s-isnt-pro-life
IPM NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do more to protect their illegals.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/standing-up-to-ice-in-the-suburbs-the-peoples-patrol-puts-its-faith-in-resistance/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— According to state estimates, more than 153,000 federal workers in Illinois will be affected by the shutdown, with as many as 45,000 potentially furloughed. While essential services like Social Security and mail delivery will continue, other programs — including some supporting public health, housing and a veterans hotline — face disruption.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/02/shutdown-showdown-pritzker-blames-trump-00591582
ILLINOIZE
— Why Darren Bailey is Running Again
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/why-darren-bailey-running-again
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-603/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— $725,000 in Democrat Cash Fuels Ted Dabrowski’s GOP Governor Run
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/725000-in-democrat-cash-fuels-ted-dabrowskis-gop-governor-run.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats go all in on health care, betting it’s still a winning message for their flailing party
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/1/democrats-go-health-care-betting-still-winning-message-flailing-party/
NEW YORK POST
— Kash Patel severs FBI’s ties with James Comey-backed Anti–Defamation League after group ripped Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA
https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/kash-patel-cuts-fbis-ties-with-the-anti-defamation-league-after-group-called-charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa-extremist/
AMAC
— New Poll Shows Big Problems for Democrats
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/new-poll-shows-big-problems-for-democrats/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Red states rising
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/red_states_rising.html
BLAZE
— Did the FBI SHADOW BAN Charlie Kirk? Censorship EXPOSED
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-coverup/did-the-fbi-shadow-ban-charlie-kirk-censorship-exposed
BREITBART
— Musk: ‘Cancel Netflix for the Health of Your Kids’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/10/01/elon-musk-cancel-netflix-for-the-health-of-your-kids/
— ADL Drops ‘Glossary of Extremism’ over One-Sided Criticism of Charlie Kirk. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being an extremist. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/01/adl-drops-glossay-of-extremism-over-one-sided-criticism-of-charlie-kirk/amp/
FOX NEWS
— Musk joins Netflix exodus over pro-trans cartoon, whose creator was accused of condemning Charlie Kirk
https://www.foxnews.com/media/musk-joins-netflix-exodus-over-pro-trans-cartoon-whose-creator-accused-condemning-charlie-kirk
— Here’s what Trump wants to do to reshape the federal government during the shutdown. President says shutdown allows administration to cut ‘vast numbers of people’ and programs.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/heres-what-trump-wants-do-reshape-federal-government-during-shutdown?lid=vhfrpzikofy0
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Descendants of Former Slaves Given College Admissions Preferences Under California Legislation. DD: In my defense, I have always stressed that while all my ancestors immigrated during 1840s and 1850s, they have always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/descendents-of-former-slaves-given-college-admissions-preferences-under-california-legislation/
NEW AMERICAN
— What Killed Charlie Kirk? “Trans” Ideology Did — and It’s Killing America, Too. DD: My critics/opponents promote LGBTQ.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/what-killed-charlie-kirk-trans-ideology-did-and-its-killing-america-too/
NEWSMAX
— Musk Calls SPLC ‘Evil,’ Says Group Should Be Shut Down
https://www.newsmax.com/us/elon-musk-splc-propaganda/2025/10/02/id/1228730/
PJ MEDIA
— Creator of Netflix Transgender Cartoon Gets Shredded for Smearing Charlie Kirk As a ‘Nazi’
https://pjmedia.com/michaelcantrell/2025/10/01/creator-of-netflix-transgender-cartoon-gets-shredded-for-smearing-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi-n4944356
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Musk becomes first person to hit $500 billion net worth
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/musk-becomes-first-person-hit-net-worth-500-billion-2025-10-01/
NEWSWEEK
— DD: Democrat leaders get to Pope to equate innocent unborn with guilty killers
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-leos-abortion-comment-sparks-backlash-10812905
MSN
— Musk Doubles Down On ‘Cancel Netflix’ Calls Over Trans Character And Director’s Charlie Kirk Post
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/musk-doubles-down-on-cancel-netflix-calls-over-trans-character-and-director-s-charlie-kirk-post/ar-AA1NFpvw
YAHOO
— LGBTQ-promoters say “MAGA Rages at Netflix Thanks to Triggered Elon Musk Post.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maga-rages-netflix-thanks-triggered-084853769.html
REUTERS
— US Supreme Court to hear arguments in Trump bid to fire Fed’s Cook; leaves her in job for now. DD: I succumbed to my Democrat GAO superiors’ threats and took their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 in 1997. What if I had stayed on the job? Who had standing to come to my defense? It would have been my Republican U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives. It would have been Speaker Hastert. It would have been Bush.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-supreme-court-hear-arguments-over-trump-bid-fire-feds-cook-2025-10-01/
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders get to Pope to equate innocent unborn with guilty killers
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-abortion-pro-life-death-penalty/
NEW YORK TIMES
— After Kirk’s Death, Turning Point Vows to Go On. That May Be Easier Said Than Done. Despite a surge in new campus chapters, there is a void left by Charlie Kirk’s murder that has implications for the entire MAGA movement. DD: Will hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-hates assassinate the next Turning Point leader too?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/us/politics/charlie-kirk.html
— Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads. A new analysis of political advertisers found that the platform profits from ads that include deepfakes and other content prohibited by its own policies. DD: Facebook is a Democrat website. Credible Republican candidates in Illinois a) have websites, b) issue press releases and media advisories, and c) include diersen@aol.com on their press release and media advisory email lists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/technology/facebooks-political-ads-deepfakes-scams.html
— Trump is seeking to deprive millions of Americans of their health insurance. DD: Knowing that the federal government would pay 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums for life if I could survive until retirement helped me endure my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/opinion/government-shutdown-health-care-democrats.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration seeks to exert control over government shutdown. Officials canceled projects in Democratic states, posted partisan messages on government websites and warned that federal layoffs will begin soon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/01/government-shutdown-deadline-congress-funding/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/30/citizens-seek-damages-after-violent-ice-arrests/86419733007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more hatred against Trump and Hegseth.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/09/30/trump-training-grounds-us-cities-military/86438472007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/10/02/government-shutdown-trump-republicans/86459131007/
MIAMI TIMES ONLINE
— DD: All the many minorities and females that were promoted over me were Democrats or RINOs a) who had less experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were younger than me, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/opinion/charlie-kirk-vs-elite-black-women-a-case-of-insecurity-or-racism/article_6ac5020b-3d89-4a78-a710-01e2397897b8.amp.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Can the Democrat Party Break Free from the Left? DD: Can the Republican Party break free from RINOs?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-democrats-break-free-of-the-left-dc202c58
— FRONT PAGE: America’s Most Dog-Friendly City Has Had Enough. In San Francisco, pets put their paws on cafe counters, roam sports bars and lick gym-goers during sit-ups.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americas-most-dog-friendly-city-has-had-enough-6c0ec18b
AUDACY
— DD: America should focus on meritocracy. If my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors had focused on meritocracy instead of Affirmative Action and DEI, I might still be a federal employee. In my opinion, they would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year, before I was 40. But instead, they wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They flushed down their toilets 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.audacy.com/wwl/news/local/why-shouldnt-our-military-return-to-a-focus-on-meritocracy
HUFFINGTON POST
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters hate Kirk.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charlie-kirk-fired-lawsuits_n_68dc38f1e4b0f3800bccf07e
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Hundreds of federal agents flood Chicago to dismantle Tren de Aragua gang
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DF22rN0Df4ZE
— Trump to bar funding of entities that do diversity work abroad. DD: To promote diversity is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trump-to-bar-funding-of-entities-that-do-diversity-work-abroad-report/amp_articleshow/124268586.cms
— White House sets hiring, foreign enrolment terms for colleges to get funding advantage
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/white-house-sets-hiring-foreign-enrolment-terms-for-colleges-to-get-funding-advantage-report/amp_articleshow/124268312.cms
— ‘Serve Americans, not illegal aliens’: VP Vance slams Democrats
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/serve-americans-not-illegal-aliens-vp-vance-slams-democrats-calls-it-a-democratic-shutdown/videoshow/124264700.cms?from=mdr
INDIA TIMES
— Netflix allegedly loses $15.1 billion after Elon Musk calls out ‘transgender woke agenda’; streamer faces mass subscription cancellations
https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/netflix-allegedly-loses-15-1-billion-after-elon-musk-calls-out-transgender-woke-agenda-streamer-faces-mass-subscription-cancellations/articleshow/124271627.html
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— Damning report on Tyler Robinson’s roommate, Lance Twiggs’s troubled past
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/charlie-kirk-shooting-damning-report-on-tyler-robinsons-roommate-lance-twiggss-troubled-past-101759354868809.html
— Why Musk wants you to cancel Netflix subscription
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/why-elon-musk-wants-you-to-cancel-netflix-subscription-charlie-kirk-shooting-hamish-steele-101759381964593.html
Tag: abortion
October 1, 2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— Democrats Shut Down Government Over Free Healthcare for Illegals
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/fact-democrats-shut-down-government-over-free-healthcare-for-illegals/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders blame Republican leaders for the shutdown.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-tourists-feeling-effects-federal-government-shutdown-pullman-national-monument-museum-parks/17919548/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/government-websites-displaying-messages-blaming-democrats-shutdown/17918723/
— Democrat leaders decry that “4 detained by federal agents at Bronzeville shelter, 37 arrested at South Shore apartment building.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-immigration-enforcement-4-custody-federal-agents-raid-shelter-bronzeville-dhs-officials-say/17919772/
NBC5
— On day one of shutdown, White House says layoffs are ‘imminent.’ The shutdown began at 12:01 a.m. after the Senate failed to pass two partisan government.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-government-shutdown-gaza-israel-hamas-october-01-2025-live-updates/3831967/
— DD: How soon will Democrat leaders officially declare their Second Civil War against Republicans? Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/when-chicago-becomes-melting-pot-for-us-soldiers-and-federal-agents-what-can-go-wrong/3831735/
CBS2
— DD: Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Hegseth. Of course, Duckworth hates me because I fight race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/duckworth-slams-hegseths-stance-on-women-serving-in-the-military/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders decry that “ICE detains 4 people outside Chicago homeless shelter.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/bronzeville-feds-shelter-arrests
WGN9
— Anti-Semitic graffiti found in Hyde Park
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/chicago-hyde-park-antisemitic-graffiti-investigation/
WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/30/it-all-has-stop-broadview-officials-call-ice-end-use-chemical-munitions-rubber-bullets
— Pritzker Expects Trump to ‘Keep the Militarization Going’ Despite Government Shutdown
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/01/pritzker-expects-trump-keep-militarization-going-despite-government-shutdown
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders say “What a federal government shutdown means for Illinois.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/what-a-federal-government-shutdown-means-for-illinois/
— Race for Kane County treasurer in 2026 election begins to take shape
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/candidates-enter-kane-county-treasurer-race/
— Democrat leaders decry that “Bondi and Hegseth rally federal agents and troops in Memphis as part of crime task force.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/federal-agents-troops-memphis/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/sudden-unexpected-infant-death-babies/
— The wild case of Ian Roberts, Des Moines school superintendent, illustrates how employers ignore immigration law. DD: If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/ian-roberts-des-moines-iowa-superintendent-immigration/
— Dogs belong outside, not under my feet at a restaurant.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/column-chicago-dogs-allowed-restaurants-washington/
— DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wanted my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to see the many big adverse actions that they took against me. My RINO superiors in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization want all Republicans to see the many big adverse actions that they take against me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/column-donald-trump-fealty-retribution-chapman/
— DD: For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/opinion-us-history-civics-education-democracy/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders blame Republican leaders for the shutdown.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251001/nation-and-world-politics/many-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-shutdown-will-impact-local-workers-airports-and-services-stakeho/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders say “ICE’s Broadview facility has become a de facto detention center, minus the rules and oversight.”
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/01/broadview-immigration-processing-center-detention-ice-dhs
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Durbin declines lifetime achievement award from Chicago archdiocese amid controversy
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/10/01/dick-durbin-has-turned-down-an-award-from-the-chicago-archdiocese/86450730007/
STATELINE
— Illinois lawmakers clash on healthcare for undocumented immigrants amid shutdown
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-lawmakers-clash-on-healthcare-for-undocumented-immigrants-amid-shutdown/
— Pritzker claims Trump has dementia. DD: According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you are mentally ill.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/pritzker-claims-trump-has-dementia/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats want to prioritize illegal immigrants over Americans, Vance says of shutdown
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/democrats-want-to-prioritize-illegal-immigrants-over-americans-vance-says-of-shutdown-white-house-government-spending-funding-bill-health-care-insurance-premiums-illegal-immigration-immigrants-president-donald-trump-chuck-schumer
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Illinois House Republicans: “let ICE do its job”
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/illinois-house-republicans-let-ice-do-its-job/article_28adfd6c-e77b-479a-a040-7efbaf0758c6.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: NPR Illinois functions as an arm of the Democrat Party
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-09-30/trump-administration-uses-taxpayer-dollars-to-blame-democrats-for-government-shutdown
— Stratton aims to bring Pritzker administration policies to national stage. DD: Pritzker promotes more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-10-01/stratton-aims-to-bring-pritzker-administration-policies-to-national-stage
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their homeless and their illegals.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/01/bronzeville-homeless-shelter-residents-traumatized-after-feds-chase-arrest-4-people/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-394/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— GOP rep, Dem alderman: Sanctuary policies drove immigration enforcement surge
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f42a2385-2944-4050-9fe3-674ea17964fc.html
— Pritzker blames Trump for partial government shutdown
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_10b94358-a840-4c45-a699-b7600d107563.html
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Democrats Force Shutdown Over Health Care for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/democrats-force-shutdown-over-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The Schumer shutdown. A Democrat-caused debacle through and through.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/1/schumer-shutdown/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ICE and Border Patrol arrest 800 illegal immigrants during Chicago blitz
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3832627/ice-chicago-border-patrol-arrest-800-illegal-immigrants-during-blitz/
— A Republican state lawmaker and a Democratic Chicago alderman agree that sanctuary policies are the reason federal agencies have ramped up their presence in Illinois.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3833451/gop-rep-democrat-alderman-sanctuary-policy-drove-immigration-surge/
NEW YORK POST
— Senate Dems block bid to end government shutdown as agencies set to lay off 750K employees daily
https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/senate-dems-block-fresh-bid-to-end-government-shutdown-as-agencies-set-to-lay-off-750k-employees-daily/
— Mamdani’s perverse need to destroy the Jewish state is driving his campaign
https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/opinion/mamdanis-perverse-need-to-destroy-the-jewish-state-is-driving-his-campaign/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrats believe constitutional rights protect illegal aliens but not American citizens
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/democrats_apparently_believe_constitutional_rights_protect_illegal_aliens_but_not_american_citizens.html
BREITBART
— Vance Debunks Left’s Lies on Govt. Shutdown in Response to Breitbart’s Matt Boyle at WH Press Briefing.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/01/jd-vance-debunks-lefts-lies-on-govt-shutdown-in-response-to-breitbarts-matt-boyle-at-wh-press-briefing/
— Illegal Migrants Were Issued 18-Wheeler Licenses in NY, IL, CA with ‘No Name Given’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/01/officials-illegal-migrants-were-issued-18-wheeler-licenses-ny-il-ca-no-name-given/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Purdue ends $34.9 million DEI-linked program after federal funding canceled. DD: I did not earn master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48. I did not earn professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 46, and 48. I did not earn a professional license until I was 32. If f could have benefitted from Affirmative Action and DEI, I would have earned the aforesaid much sooner.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/purdue-ends-349-million-dei-linked-program-federal-funding-canceled/28710
EPOCH TIMES
— Impact of Government Shutdown on Social Security: What to Know
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/impact-of-government-shutdown-on-social-security-what-to-know-5922966
FEDERALIST
— Dems Choose To Shut Down Govt. Rather Than Restrict Free Health Care For Illegals
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/01/dems-choose-to-shut-down-govt-rather-than-restrict-free-health-care-for-illegals/
PJ MEDIA
— Yes, Democrats Shut Down the Government to Give Illegals Free Healthcare
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/10/01/yes-democrats-shut-down-government-to-give-illegals-free-healthcare-n4944329
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more abortion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-dick-durbin-says-overwhelmed-pope-leo-defended-abortion-related-cr-rcna234990
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-misleads-claim-democrats-shut-give-health-care-illegal-immigrants-rcna234905
REUTERS
— White House freezes funds for Democratic states in shutdown slap
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-begins-shut-down-most-operations-after-congress-fails-advance-2025-10-01/
NEWSWEEK
— ICE Agents Rappel From Black Hawk Helicopters Into Chicago for Major Raid
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-rappel-black-hawk-helicopters-chicago-10809228
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter onto the rooftops of Chicago residential buildings, launching a sweeping immigration enforcement operation targeting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members, according to NewsNation. The operation, led by ICE with support from the FBI and U.S. Border Patrol, was designed to apprehend high-priority targets connected to the Venezuelan crime syndicate that U.S. authorities have accused of trafficking, violence, and other cross-border crimes. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January designating Mexican drug cartels and other Latin American criminal groups like the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as terrorist organizations. His administration is ramping up immigration enforcement operations in Chicago after he threatened to deploy the National Guard to quell crime in the city. Nearly 300 federal agents and officers descended upon a five-story apartment complex in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, where U.S. Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino has claimed members of Tren de Aragua have been operating, according to NewsNation. The outlet reported that roughly 30 undocumented immigrants were taken into custody, several of them suspected of gang affiliation. Bovino told NewsNation that the operation proceeded “very smoothly” after federal officers and agents spent several days training for the targeted enforcement effort. Bovino, who is overseeing the ongoing operation in Chicago, added that residents of the South Side should expect an increased federal presence in the area.)
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in protecting their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sanctuary-cities-crackdown-results/
— DD: Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Hegseth. Of course, Duckworth hates me because I fight race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tammy-duckworth-pete-hegseth-women-in-military-fitness/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Drones, Helicopters, Hundreds of Arrests: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown in Chicago So Far.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/us/trump-chicago-immigration-national-guard.html
WALL STREET JKOURNAL
— DD: If you took out a student loan, your GPA should have been higher, and therefore, you should have gotten a better paying job. Because I worked my way through college, my GPA was lower. One year out, in today’s dollars, my salary was only $55,850/year, two years out, it was $68,315/year, three years out, it was $82,655/year, and four years out, it was $99.069/year.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/student-loan-debt-gen-x-619cffda
SPLC
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/hate-crimes-awareness-month-kicks-off/
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/october-is-hate-crimes-awareness-month/
October 1, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-protest-broadview-illinois-leaders-address-situation-surrounding-facility/17909029/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abc7.com/post/pope-leo-xiv-intervenes-us-abortion-debate-chicago-cardinal-blase-cupich-giving-award-illinois-senator-dick-durbin/17916373/
NBC5
— Portion of major street in downtown Chicago shut down by anti-ICE protest. Several groups including the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA) and Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression took part in an “emergency protest.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/anti-ice-protesters-shut-down-portion-of-wacker-drive-in-downtown-chicago/3831786/
CBS2
— Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as “training grounds”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-25th-amendment-military-training-grounds/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Government shutdown begins as nation faces new period of uncertainty
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/government-shutdown-begins-as-nation-faces-new-period-of-uncertainty/
— Democrat leaders have “Hundreds gather to protest ICE, federal push to deploy military to Illinois.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/immigration-national-guard-downtown-protest-trump-pritzker/
— DD: FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/broadview-mayor-rips-feds-protests/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/president-donald-trump-pete-hegseth-military-training/
— Jewel-Osco agrees to pay $1.9 million to resolve EEOC disability investigation. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because my Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted that offer and because I was helping support my mother and brother, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/jewel-osco-eeoc/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker calls for 25th Amendment after Trump ‘training grounds’ remark
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-urges-25th-amendment-after-trump-chicago-remarks
SHAW LOCAL
— Duckworth slams Hegseth’s ‘highest male standard’ policy for military as ‘deeply degrading’ Marine veteran and state Rep. Kifowit joins in denouncing statements. DD: To hire, retain, and promote more Democrat minorities and females, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/09/30/duckworth-slams-hegseths-highest-male-standard-policy-for-military-as-deeply-degrading/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: To defeat Republican candidates, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly drive the American economy down.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-us-consumer-confidence-declines-again-as-americans-fret-over-prices-job-market/amp/
— To promote wokeness/wokeism is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-how-woke-went-from-an-expression-in-black-culture-to-a-conservative-criticism/
— Civil rights agency drops a key tool used to investigate workplace discrimination. DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-civil-rights-agency-drops-a-key-tool-used-to-investigate-workplace-discrimination/
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ILLINOIS
— Candidate Forums. DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would be hosting candidate forums. If I was still an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer, I would be urging the organization to host candidate forums.
https://www.lwvil.org/candidateforum
CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/trump-threatens-war-chicago-response/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— US Senate race: Republican Don Tracy held a kickoff fundraiser for his Senate campaign at Saputo’s in Springfield on Tuesday. We hear about 70 “friends, supporters and family” of Tracy’s attended, including state Sen. Jil Tracy, state Reps. Michael Coffey and Brandun Schweizer, Sangamon County Board Chair Andy Van Meter, Sangamon County Republican Chair Dianne Barghouti-Hardwick and businessman Kevin Crumly, who hosted the event.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
— GOP pushback: House Republican Leader Tony McCombie criticized Pritzker for rejecting the increased enforcement. “The governor can’t claim that he wants to work with law enforcement to remove criminals while at the same time promoting policies that make our communities less safe,” she said in a video. And Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison called recent comments by Pritzker and Johnson “divisive, inflammatory and reckless.” The Illinois Republican Party, meanwhile, is selling merchandise pegged off the immigration enforcement raids. One hat reads: “Chicago ICE Word To Your Mother.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-602/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Chicago’s Rules for Radicals Spread Out Across America. DD: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are disciples of Saul Alinsky.
https://johnkassnews.com/chicago-rules-for-radicals/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— As time goes on, it is ever-increasingly clear that my critics/opponents who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote, most commonly its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. The more of the aforesaid planks that they reject, the more and bigger adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and dupes take against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Trump calls Pritzker ‘loser’ as governor prepares for troop deployment lawsuit
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a4ce97d7-b5aa-4fe1-92f5-de151c1cdfe5.html
— Illinois student struggles continue as enrollments decline. DD: My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree, b) three master’s degrees, c) six professional certifications, and d) a professional license.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_24f0c23a-5e34-405a-8fa1-52ac3bee5e0f.html
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Educators Are Teaching Your Kids to Revere Cop Killers
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-educators-teaching-your-kids-cop-killers
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ‘Word to Your Mother’: Illinois GOP’s Bizarre New Apparel Rollout
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/word-to-your-mother-illinois-gops-bizarre-new-apparel-rollout.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal layoffs strain D.C. region as Trump administration threatens more cuts
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/federal-layoffs-strain-dc-region-trump-administration-threatens-cuts/
— The U.S. Postal Service policy banning people from bringing firearms into post offices violates the Constitution, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/post-office-gun-ban-unconstitutional-judge-rules/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— UPenn Provost Resigns After Boosting Social Media Post Likening Charlie Kirk to ‘Hitler Youth’ Mann, who will remain a professor at the Ivy League university, has courted controversy with a series of public outbursts in recent months.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/upenn-provost-resigns-after-boosting-social-media-post-likening-charlie-kirk-to-hitler-youth/
— AI Dubs Charlie Kirk’s Killer ‘Right-Wing.’ My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being right-wing.
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/ai-dubs-charlie-kirks-killer-right
AMERICAN THINKER
— Situational Outrage: How Democrats Normalize Political Violence
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/situational_outrage_how_democrats_normalize_political_violence.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Pritzker likens Trump to Putin, claims he has dementia, demands 25th Amendment be invoked
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/01/pritzker-likens-trump-to-putin-claims-he-has-dementia-demands-25th-amendment-be-invoked-1589272/
BLAZE
— Musk cancels Netflix subscription over Charlie Kirk mockery and transgender indoctrination
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trans-netflix-elon-musk-kirk
BREITBART
— Musk Leads Mass Netflix Membership Cancellations After Company’s Children’s Cartoon Creator Smears Charlie Kirk as a ‘Nazi’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/30/elon-musk-leads-mass-netflix-membership-cancellations-after-companys-childrens-cartoon-creator-smears-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi/
— Creator of Netflix Trans Children’s Cartoon ‘Dead End Paranormal Park’ Under Fire for Smearing Charlie Kirk as a ‘Nazi’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/30/creator-of-netflix-trans-childrens-cartoon-dead-end-paranormal-park-under-fire-for-smearing-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi/
— Hegseth Rebukes DEI, Fat Troops: ‘We Are Done with That Sh*t’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/30/pete-hegseth-rebukes-dei-fat-troops-we-are-done-with-that-sht/
— Maxine Waters on Healthcare for Illegals: ‘Healthcare for Everybody’ DD: Knowing that the federal government would pay 72% of my and my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums for life if I could survive until retirement helped me endure my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/30/maxine-waters-on-healthcare-for-illegals-healthcare-for-everybody/
— Chicago Mayor Johnson: President Trump ‘Is an Unstable Human Being’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/09/30/chicago-mayor-johnson-president-trump-is-an-unstable-human-being/
CAMPUS REFORM
— UNC professor linked to group responsible for posters celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination
https://www.campusreform.org/article/unc-professor-linked-group-responsible-posters-celebrating-charlie-kirks-assassination/28703
— Iowa State fires employee who said Charlie Kirk is ‘rotting in hell’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/iowa-state-fires-employee-said-charlie-kirk-rotting-hell/28700
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— Durbin declines Chicago Archdiocese award after global backlash over pro-abortion views
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266875/dick-durbin-declines-chicago-archdiocese-award-after-global-backlash-over-pro-abortion-views
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/pope-leo-xiv-comments-on-cupichs-plan-to-bestow-award-on-illinois-senator
DAILY CALLER
— Charlie Kirk’s ‘Protege’ Brilyn Hollyhand Doesn’t Cut It
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/30/brilyn-hollyhand-charlie-kirk-campus-tours-new-york-post/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Democrats Take Heat Over Health Care for Illegal Aliens
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/30/democrats-take-heat-over-healthcare-for-illegal-aliens/
DAILY WIRE
— Hillary Clinton Rips White Christian Men, Sparks Outrage Weeks After Charlie Kirk Assassination. DD: To vote for Democrats is to promote more hatred against those who are White, Christian, and/or male.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-rips-white-christian-men-sparks-outrage-weeks-after-charlie-kirk-assassination
FOX NEWS
— TPUSA chapter support soars after Charlie Kirk assassination. DD: Who is leading the TPUSA effort in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380350416112
— DNC chair calls for DC, Puerto Rico statehood, filibuster elimination, says Trump admin a ‘fascist regime’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dnc-chair-calls-dc-puerto-rico-statehood-filibuster-elimination-says-trump-admin-fascist-regime
— Rogan calls out self-described ‘progressives’ who celebrated the ‘public execution’ of Charlie Kirk. Rogan in disbelief at seeing ‘normal people,’ including housewives and bank workers, cheer activist’s death.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rogan-calls-out-self-described-progressives-who-celebrated-public-execution-charlie-kirk
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380443240112
NATIONAL REVIEW
— George Washington U Students Believe Charlie Kirk Got What He Deserved
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/george-washington-u-students-believe-charlie-kirk-got-what-he-deserved/
PJ MEDIA
— The ‘Disparate Impact’ Flim-Flam Is Ending. DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/09/30/the-disparate-impact-flim-flam-is-ending-n4944299
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF WAR
— Hegseth Says Promotions, Retention to be Based on Meritocracy. DD: To hire, retain, and promote more Democrat minorities and females, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4318944/hegseth-says-promotions-retention-to-be-based-on-meritocracy-not-quotas/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— ‘Get your cell phones out’: Pritzker urges public to post footage of federal agents. DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly protects his illegals.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5528466-jb-pritzker-chicago-illinois-federal-law-enforcement/
ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pope-intervenes-us-abortion-debate-raising-means-pro-126108885
CBS NEWS
— DD: The hate-filled Trump-hating Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tammy-duckworth-accuses-trump-playbook-authoritarianism-military-address/
NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S. Begins Shutdown That Could Lead to Mass Layoffs and Service Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/30/us/trump-government-shutdown-hegseth
— DD: The Voice of America has existed to promote Democrats and the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/voa-voice-of-america-layoffs.html
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/30/ice-chaos-broadview-illinois-wants-them-out/86409208007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Rise of ‘Accidental Landlords’ Is Bad News for Investors Who Bet Big on Rentals. DD: I was a landlord 1976-1984 because I decided to rent out my University Park town home rather than sell it at a loss.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/homeowners-rental-market-landlords-c2f6604f
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/polls/israel-gaza-war-us-poll.html
— FRONT PAGE: DD: The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down,
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/polls/trump-approval-poll.html
POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/30/congress/pope-leo-dick-durbin-00589172
— DD: Democrat Chicago leader hatred against Trump has only grown since March 11, 2016 when they forced Trump to cancel a rally at UIC.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-cancels-chicago-rally-protests-220660
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY MAIL
— FBI probes ‘militant Armed Queers’ group for ties to Charlie Kirk suspect… as evidence of its FOREIGN funding grows and deleted posts are revealed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15130313/FBI-Charlie-Kirk-Armed-Queers-foreign-funding.html
INDEPENDENT
— Teen hailed as Charlie Kirk ‘protégé’ is ripped by MAGA crowd after private jet video: ‘Country club’ conservative. Brilyn Hollyhand, who calls himself ‘The Internet’s Youngest Voice of Reason’ online, was ripped into by online users and even fellow right-wing influencers associated with Turning Point USA.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/brilyn-hollyhand-maga-charlie-kirk-private-jet-b2836655.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ilhan Omar because she says that Charlie Kirk’s record of ‘bigotry, hatred and white supremacy’ means there is no legacy to honor.
https://www.aol.com/articles/charlie-kirk-record-bigotry-hatred-101819797.html
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
— Musk Cancels Netflix Over ‘Pro-Transgender Kids Show’
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-joins-netflix-boycott-mass-cancellations-grow-heres-kids-show-comments-that-1745951
September 27, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WLS
— Protester detained near Broadview ICE facility was carrying gun. Is today’s Broadview yesterday’s Fort Sumter? Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/protest-expected-broadview-ice-facility-101906073.html
ABC7
— Protester detained near Broadview ICE facility was carrying gun. Is today’s Broadview yesterday’s Fort Sumter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guTOrzIWcXM
— Agents chase after protesters, smoke and pepper bullets deployed outside Broadview ICE facility. Is today’s Broadview yesterday’s Fort Sumter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byews1aX7XI
NBC5
— Clashes erupt as protests continue outside suburban ICE processing facility. Is today’s Broadview yesterday’s Fort Sumter?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/clashes-erupt-as-protests-continue-outside-suburban-ice-processing-facility/3830191/
CBS2
— Tensions, clashes continue in Broadview between protesters and ICE agents. Is today’s Broadview yesterday’s Fort Sumter?
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/tensions-clashes-continue-in-broadview-between-protesters-and-ice-agents/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/protesters-return-to-broadview-ice-facility-on-friday/ar-AA1NlNOV
FOX32
— Protest activity continues at Broadview ICE processing facility. Is today’s Broadview yesterday’s Fort Sumter?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1714839
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/protest-activity-continues-broadview-ice-020625005.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/09/26/trump-america-founding-fathers-authoritarianism-hatred-ignorance-mona-charen
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/09/26/corecivic-ice-immigration-customes-enforcement-donald-trump-broadview-corrections-corporation-america
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Maternity care gaps widen as more Chicago-area hospitals cut obstetrics. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote mote abortion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/more-chicago-area-hospitals-cutting-delivery-services
SOUTHERN
— Deadly shooting at Dallas ICE facility follows trend of sniper-type incidents
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/09/26/deadly-shooting-at-dallas-ice-facility-follows-trend-of-sniper-type-incidents-experts/
EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— The Intelligencer interviews U.S. Senate candidate Don Tracy. GAO works for Congress. I worked for GAO as an Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. Previously, I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/watch-full-interview-il-republican-don-tracy-21069640.php
WQAD
— FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious that I attended Bob Dole’s rally in Wheaton in 1996. They forced me to retire in 1997.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/nation-world/fbi-fires-agents-photographed-kneeling-during-2020-racial-justice-protest/507-8c00af5e-22d1-4298-a123-63c9556927fd
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
LAKE & MCHENRY COUNTY SCANNER
— Democrat running for election in congressional district covering Lake, McHenry counties mocks Charlie Kirk after assassination
https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2025/09/26/democrat-running-for-election-in-congressional-district-covering-lake-mchenry-counties-mocks-charlie-kirk-after-assassination/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Charlie Kirk’s South Korean campaign. He understood the new government’s threat to Christianity.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/26/charlie-kirks-south-korean-campaign/
NEW YORK POST
— Head of Iowa school district arrested for avoiding deportation, found with handgun after chase.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/us-news/des-moines-public-schools-superintendent-ian-roberts-detained-by-ice-iowa-school-board-confirms/
— Erika Kirk Talks Late Husband’s Legacy on Rare ‘The Charlie Kirk Show’ Appearance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5QcwjGZEcQ
AMERICAN REFORMER
— Charlie Kirk, Christian Nationalist
https://americanreformer.org/2025/09/charlie-kirk-christian-nationalist/
BREITBART
— Charlie Kirk Saw It Coming: Former FBI Director Comey Now Faces Federal Trial
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/26/charlie-kirk-saw-coming-former-fbi-director-comey-faces-federal-trial/
— Wikipedia Editors Spread Lies About Charlie Kirk Following Assassination
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/09/26/wikipedia-editors-spread-lies-about-charlie-kirk-following-assassination/
CHRISTIANITY TODAY
— How successful have Democrat and RINO leaders been getting Blacks and the leaders of the churches in your county, township, municipality, and school district to promote hatred against Kirk?
https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/black-clergy-and-christians-grapple-with-charlie-kirks-legacy/
COLLEGE FIX
— Leftists’ latest complaint: Charlie Kirk didn’t debate the right way
https://www.thecollegefix.com/leftists-latest-complaint-charlie-kirk-didnt-debate-the-right-way/
DAILY CALLER
— Charlie Kirk’s Widow Reveals Plans For The Future Of TPUSA, His Radio Show
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/26/charlie-kirks-widow-reveals-plans-for-the-future-of-tpusa-his-radio-show/
— Professor Removed For Calling Charlie Kirk ‘Nazi’ Reinstated By Court. Anticipate/expect that the more of the following that you are, the more that Democrats and RINOs will call you a Nazi: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if you have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. To call someone a Nazi in America today is like calling someone a Jew in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/26/professor-removed-for-calling-charlie-kirk-nazi-reinstated-by-court/
— Transgender Democrat Drops Out Of Race After Trying To Fundraise Off Hating Charlie Kirk
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/26/transgender-democrat-laura-benjamin-wisconsin-charlie-kirk/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Council President Daring to Honor Charlie Kirk Leads to Walkouts. Your attitude toward Kirk shows your attitude toward conservatives.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/26/council-president-daring-to-honor-charlie-kirk-leads-to-walkouts/
— Megyn Kelly and Glenn Youngkin Honor Charlie Kirk’s Legacy at Virginia Tech
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/26/megyn-kelly-glenn-youngkin-honor-charlie-kirks-legacy-virginia-tech/
FOX NEWS
— Charlie Kirk’s faith was ‘catching fire’ on college campuses
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6380170341112
— Georgia businessman’s billboard honoring Charlie Kirk sparks nationwide response. Wayne Robinson, a Georgia businessman and Steak ‘n Shake franchisee in Rome, created a viral billboard tribute to slain activist Charlie Kirk.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380118124112
— Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin stares down death penalty case with limited defense options. Will Robinson argue that he did what Democrat and RINO leaders wanted him to do?
https://www.aol.com/articles/charlie-kirks-accused-assassin-stares-203223970.html
— Iowa school superintendent arrested by ICE, facing prior weapons charges, found with loaded handgun. Ian Andre Roberts was living illegally in U.S. after his student visa expired.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/iowa-school-superintendent-arrested-ice-facing-prior-weapons-charges-allegedly-found-loaded-handgun
HOMELAND SECURITY
— Days After the Dallas Terrorist Attack on ICE, Rioters Gather Outside an ICE Broadview, IL Facility and Chant “Arrest ICE, Shoot ICE.” Is today’s Broadview yesterday’s Fort Sumter?
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/26/days-after-dallas-terrorist-attack-ice-rioters-gather-outside-ice-broadview-il
NEWSMAX
— Trans Dem Candidate Exits House Race After Smearing Kirk
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/laura-benjamin-derrick-van-orden-charlie-kirk/2025/09/26/id/1228032/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5522812-freedom-of-speech-in-education-brought-to-forefront-after-kirk-assassination/amp/
— Kinzinger: Comey indictment all about Trump intimidation. To intimidate me, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, 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 GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472/year pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. To intimidate me, my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions, and disallowed my travel vouchers. To intimidate me, my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign and disallowed my sick leave requests. Of course, my critics/opponents have no problem with the aforesaid.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5524685-comey-indictment-kinzinger-trump-strategy/amp/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Workers commenting on Kirk’s death learn the limits of free speech in and out of their jobs. The Democrats who run the federal government get rid of federal employees who oppose their race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-workplace-speech-firing-29717a8612ccedebabc7cba29e7ef627
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Online Threats of Violence Lead to Arrests After Charlie Kirk’s Killing
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/minnesota/articles/2025-09-26/online-threats-of-violence-lead-to-arrests-after-charlie-kirks-killing
REUTERS
— Is today’s Broadview yesterday’s Fort Sumter?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ice-tactics-inflame-tensions-new-york-chicago-other-cities-2025-09-26/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly analogize Trump to George Wallace.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/us/politics/political-violence-kirk-trump.html
— Are you a White male conservative whose ancestors been in America for a long time? If yes, anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly do more to get rid of you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/us/hegseth-wounded-knee.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly side with Comey against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/us/politics/trump-retribution-comey-indictment.html
USA TODAY
— ICE fires anti-crowd projectiles at Chicagoans aiming to shut down Trump’s Midway Blitz. Anti-immigration enforcement protesters have been gathering outside the local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at nearly all hours in an effort to have the facility shut down. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/26/chicago-resists-trumps-midway-blitz-ice-fires-projectiles/86376942007/
KANSAS CITY STAR
— Conservatives Announce Tour in Honor of Charlie Kirk
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-city-star-1592484/4259272116323-conservatives-announce-tour-in-honor-of-charlie-kirk
— Washington Post Reporter Says She Was Fired Over Kirk Post. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious that I attended Bob Dole’s rally in Wheaton in 1996. They forced me to retire in 1997.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-city-star-1592484/4259250579479-wapo-reporter-says-she-was-fired-over-kirk-post
DESERET NEWS
— Erika Kirk vows to continue Charlie Kirk’s legacy
https://www.deseret.com/the-west/2025/09/26/erika-kirk-appearance-on-the-charlie-kirk-show-friday/
MIAMI NEW TIMES
— Black People Are Taught to Hate White People
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/broward-teacher-black-people-are-taught-to-hate-white-people-40490418/
MKFM
— Charlie Kirk’s movement is growing in the wake of his assassination – as is the chasm in US politics. https://www.mkfm.com/news/videos/charlie-kirks-movement-is-growing-in-the-wake-of-his-assassination-as-is-the-chasm-in-us-politics/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— America Is Losing Its Ability to Deter China. Beijing is relentlessly building its military as its leaders issue ominous threats against Taiwan.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-is-losing-its-ability-to-deter-china-2f1105cc?mod=opinion_lead_pos8
JD SUPRA
— EEOC to Close All Pending Disparate Impact Investigations by September 30, 2025. According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eeoc-to-close-all-pending-disparate-8881352/
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
— Anti-conservative religious leaders, that is, anti-Republican religious leaders, despise/hate Kirk. According to them, Jesus was a liberal Democrat who promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, that Jesus promotes dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, 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.
https://www.ncregister.com/news/revival-at-charlie-kirk-s-memorial
PACER
— Charlie Kirk’s death sparks free speech in workplace debate. The Democrats who run the federal government get rid of federal employees who oppose their race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.thepacer.net/charlie-kirks-death-sparks-free-speech-in-workplace-debate/
TMZ
— Advocated For The Death Penalty Before Being Killed
https://www.tmz.com/2025/09/26/charlie-kirk-death-penalty-thoughts/
OK MAGAZINE
— Why Charlie Kirk Assassin’s Lover Lance Twiggs Was Kicked Out of His Strict Mormon Household Before Age 18
https://okmagazine.com/p/charlie-kirk-assassin-lover-lance-twiggs-kicked-out-mormon-home/
PEOPLE
— Megyn Kelly Goes Viral for Tense Argument with College Student About Trump and Charlie Kirk’s Death. “Trump has every right to loathe his enemies,” Kelly said when a Virginia Tech student accused the president of heightening political tensions. I should write about my critics/opponents who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. I would focus on those on those who ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee and ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks.
https://people.com/megyn-kelly-goes-viral-argument-with-virginia-tech-student-11819599
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Erika Kirk announces release of unseen Charlie Kirk speeches and interviews; promises “a lot of content”
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/erika-kirk-announces-release-of-unseen-charlie-kirk-speeches-and-interviews-promises-a-lot-of-content-for-fans/amp_articleshow/124176129.cms
NTD
— TPUSA Expands to Carry on Charlie Kirk’s Legacy
https://www.ntd.com/what-the-people-say-tpusa-expands-to-carry-on-charlie-kirks-legacy_1093143.html
TIMES OF INDIA
— Is today’s Broadview yesterday’s Fort Sumter? Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BalhWxJNH54
September 26, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Smoke, pepper bullets deployed on protesters in clashes outside Broadview ICE facility
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-operation-midway-blitz-protest-expected-broadview-facility-friday-sw-side-tamale-vendor-held/17885390/
CBS2
— Fundraiser held for tamale vendor Laura Murillo detained by ICE in Back of the Yards
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/fundraiser-tamale-vendor-laura-murillo-ice-chicago/
WGN9
— Protestors clash with agents outside Broadview ICE processing facility amid ongoing demonstrations
https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/protestors-clash-with-agents-outside-broadview-ice-processing-facility-amid-ongoing-demonstrations/
WTTW
— Trump’s Transportation Department Pulls Trail and Bike Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/26/trump-s-transportation-department-pulls-trail-and-bike-grants-deemed-hostile-cars
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Feds fire baton rounds, more tear gas at ICE protesters in Broadview
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/26/ice-baton-rounds-tear-gas-chicago/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Broadview mayor says ICE is ‘making war on my community’ after latest protest at immigration facility. Federal officers again fired rubber pellets and chemical irritants into a crowd of protesters gathered Friday outside the fenced-off compound.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/26/protest-heats-up-again-outside-broadview-ice-facililty
— Illinois Dems press Chicago ICE director for Broadview facility oversight, details on deportation operations. Members of the Illinois delegation were scheduled to meet with an ICE Chicago field office director on Friday but were told the meeting had to be rescheduled to a later date.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/26/illinois-dems-press-chicago-ice-director-for-broadview-oversight-details-on-chicago-deportation-operations
— City Council leader wants to raise maximum age for starting police officer to 55. Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th) argued there are plenty of jobs, particularly in policing, that could be performed by rookies in their 50s. Police and fire union leaders branded the proposal “crazy.” My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, that is, so far, they have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from working.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/09/26/chicago-police-maximum-age-entry-level-officer-proposal-gilbert-villegas
— Bid to atone for slavery’s sins ignites racially charged City Council clash. A resolution offering an apology to Black Chicagoans for the scourge of slavery passes overwhelmingly but sparks outrage when four Council members vote against the symbolic move.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/09/26/chicago-trump-slavery-apology-alderpeople-lamont-robinson-nick-sposato-city-council
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Four alderpersons voted against a resolution offering Black Chicagoans an apology for America’s enslavement of their ancestors, producing a racially charged clash within the City Council and a final roll call that one supporter called “appalling.” Alds. Raymond Lopez (15th), Nick Sposato (38th), Anthony Napolitano (41st) and James Gardiner (45th) sparked outrage from some of their colleagues for refusing to endorse the resolution, which ultimately passed. The measure sponsored by Ald. Lamont Robinson (4th) issued a formal apology from the City Council “to the Black citizens of Chicago for the historical injustices of slavery, segregation, systemic racism, and the policies that have perpetuated racial inequality.” It overwhelmingly passed 43-4 but not without fireworks at a marathon City Council meeting Thursday. “Shame on you!,” Robinson shouted after Lopez, Sposato, and Napolitano announced they would vote against the resolution. “You have to be able to share with your constituents, your Black constituents — in all damn 50 wards — why you would say no to this resolution. Shame on you!” Robinson said. While the City Council is no stranger to racially charged debates on how to address the city’s long, continued history of segregation and inequity, the “no” votes against the symbolic resolution came as a shock to some of the Council’s most level-headed members. “I was hoping this would be a unanimous one — of all the things we can unanimously support,” said Ald. Maria Hadden (49th), who is Black. “This is a surprising, shocking, appalling piece.” The debate played out against a national backdrop of the Trump administration’s crusade against diversity goals in government and businesses and its efforts to sanitize how Americans look back on the evils of slavery. This month, President Donald Trump ordered the National Park Service to remove from a Georgia historic site an iconic 1863 photograph titled “The Scourged Back” of a formerly enslaved man bearing the scars of past whippings on his back. Gardiner, a Northwest Side alderperson, didn’t explain his no vote. In a brief comment, Napolitano said he voted no because there has been “just as much harm done” to this city “over the last couple of years” as in the past. Sposato, a supporter of Trump, said he would not take responsibility for sins of the past. “There’s a lot of blame to go around, but certainly not the city of Chicago, certainly not my family,” Sposato said. “I apologize to absolutely nobody. I want my name off there. I do not want to be associated with this.” Lopez, a Southwest Side alderperson, said he wouldn’t endorse the resolution because Chicago’s “own economy was not slave driven.” Lopez noted that the city became a haven for freed men and women escaping southern slavery. Half a million people came to Chicago as part of the Great Migration. Lopez said the City Council should focus instead on how to correct current-day injustices “as opposed to constantly looking backwards.” “If we want to talk about the injustices to the Black community, I want to talk about where we have failed. We don’t have to look that far back,” Lopez said. Hadden acknowledged Lopez’s point that the city “didn’t directly deal in enslaved people,” but she rebutted that “the money that built this city and controlled the power did.” She further argued that Lopez and Sposato’s arguments against the resolution were “emblematic of some of the worst behavior that we’re seeing coming out of DC.” “Those who would accuse us of going backwards by recognizing fact and truth, I challenge that sentiment. We’re not the ones going backwards,” Hadden said. “Recognition and apology is part of repair… which are necessary to moving forward.” The resolution notes that slavery thrived in the Midwest after French explorers introduced it to the region in the mid-1700s. Even after Illinois was deemed a “free” state in 1818, state laws in place through the Civil War “subjected free Black residents to oppressive restrictions, including the denial of voting rights.” It goes on to state that following slavery’s abolition in 1865, Black Chicagoans continued to face racial discrimination through redlining, segregation, housing discrimination and other systemic inequities “which persist today.” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson last year issued a formal apology from the city as a whole to Black Chicagoans through an executive order when he created a task force to study possible economic reparations for Black residents. Evanston, the city’s neighbor to the north, approved the country’s first reparations program for Black residents years ago.)
DAILY HERALD
— ‘It’s a black hole’: Broadview ICE facility sparks complaints of inhumane conditions
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250926/nation-and-world/broadview-ice-facility-sparks-complaints-of-inhumane-conditions/
— As Illinois congressional delegation seeks answers, ICE cancels meeting
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250926/news/as-illinois-congressional-delegation-seeks-answers-ice-cancels-meeting/
— Bailey jumps into the governor’s race for a second time with Palatine’s Del Mar
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250925/illinois-state-politics/bailey-jumps-into-the-governors-race-for-a-second-time-with-palatines-del-mar/
WGLT
— During B-N stop, conservative governor candidate Ted Dabrowski vows to fight for economic change in Illinois
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-09-26/during-b-n-stop-conservative-governor-candidate-ted-dabrowski-vows-to-fight-for-economic-change-in-illinois
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-391/
— Wirepoints’ deficit spending continued as assets were further depleted ahead of staff exodus
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/26/wirepoints-deficit-spending-continued-as-assets-were-further-depleted-ahead-of-staff-exodus/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— How Erika Kirk is transforming America after husband Charlie’s assassination
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/26/erika-kirk-transforming-america-husband-charlies-assassination/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— House Republicans move to end mail delivery of abortion pill
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3825635/house-republican-bill-end-mail-delivery-abortion-pill-mifepristone/
— After Dallas ICE shooting Democrats want to ban all guns
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3826529/dallas-ice-shooting-democrats-gun-control-hunting-rifles/
— The married-with-children party vs. the single-and-childless party
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3820260/married-with-children-vs-single-and-childless/
BREITBART
— Illinois: Rioters Chant ‘Kill ICE! Shoot ICE!’ at Migrant Detention Center
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/26/sanctuary-state-illinois-rioters-chant-kill-ice-shoot-ice-outside-detention-center-holding-criminal-illegal-aliens/amp/
DAILY SIGNAL
— ICE Continues Arrests of ‘Criminal Illegal Aliens’ Following Dallas Shooting
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/26/exclusive-ice-continues-arrests-criminal-illegal-aliens-following-dallas-shooting/
FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— ICE is Increasingly Taking the “Sanctuary” out of Sanctuary Jurisdictions
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/09/26/ice-increasingly-taking-sanctuary-out-sanctuary-jurisdictions
FOX NEWS
— Chicago anti-ICE protesters block vehicles, get hit with tear gas and pepper balls
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-anti-ice-protesters-block-vehicles-get-hit-tear-gas-pepper-balls
— Protestors face off with Illinois ICE agents
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380155512112
— Protest turns violent outside Illinois ICE facility
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380153714112
NEW AMERICAN
— The 1619 Project: Mostly Marxist Myth
https://thenewamerican.com/opinion/book-reviews/the-1619-project-mostly-marxist-myth/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Supreme Court lets Trump withhold $4 billion in foreign aid approved by Congress
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-foreign-aid-funding/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hegseth to Push ‘Warrior Ethos’ in Meeting of Top Generals
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-to-push-warrior-ethos-in-meeting-of-top-generals-9cfd7fb4?mod=djemwhatsnews
— Trump Pledges That Others Will Be Indicted After Comey
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-doj-indictments-fbi-james-comey-49910fd3
NEW YORK SUN
— Judge To Hear Arguments in Lawsuit Over ‘Racist Reparations’ Program in Evanston
https://www.nysun.com/article/judge-to-hear-arguments-in-lawsuit-over-racist-reparations-program-in-evanston-illinois
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Masked protesters clash with ICE, attack vehicles at Broadview facility in Illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DNIRE0ndzvm8
September 26, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called President Trump out for politicizing government departments after the indictment of former FBI director James Comey Thursday. My Democrat superiors in the federal government took many/big adverse actions against me because I was a Republican.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/mayor-johnson-said-he-wants-to-call-trump-a-name-after-comey-indictment/3829726/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— US Border Patrol boats dock along Chicago Harbor Lock as part of immigration blitz
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/ice-us-border-patrol-lake-michigan/
— Chicago archbishop’s decision to honor Dick Durbin stirs Catholic abortion debate. To vote for Democrats is to promote abortion. To what extent have Democrats taken over the churches in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/chicago-archbishop-dick-durbin/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Rooftop agents fire apparent tear gas, pepper balls at protesters outside Broadview ICE facility. An ICE agent on the roof of the facility, 1930 Beach St., has begun firing apparent chemical agents about 7:50 a.m. and several protesters surround an SUV.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/26/protest-heats-up-again-outside-broadview-ice-facililty
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Lead sponsor calls off vote to legalize video gambling in Chicago. My critics/opponents will never forgive me for my stopping video gambling and the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-video-gambling-vote-called
FOX ILLINOIS
— Camaro driver on ‘weed gummies’ rear-ends cruiser because he doesn’t like cops: police
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/camaro-driver-on-weed-gummies-allegedly-slammed-into-cruiser-because-he-didnt-like-cops-crime-criminal-acts-dangerous-driving-behavior-substance-alcohol-cincinnati-american-muscle-car-involved-accidents-body-cam-footage-county-jail-felony-charges
WLKY
— Tucker Carlson replacing Charlie Kirk at Indiana University event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sLY79Cp_4U
NEWS NATION
— Democrat leaders promote more protests at ICE processing center in Broadview
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/broadview-illinois-ice-protest-updates/
WHEATON PATCH
— Man Spray Painted Trump Insult On Carol Stream Police Station. The man is also accused of spray painting “profane graffiti” on Chrissy’s Gaming Bar & Grill and 7-Eleven.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/man-accused-spray-painting-f-k-donald-dump-carol-stream-police-station
DUPAGE COUNTY
— Man Charged with Hate Crime for Allegedly Spray-Painting Profane Graffiti on Police Station and Nearby Businesses
https://www.dupagecounty.gov/state_s_attorney/man_charged_with_hate_crime_for_allegedly_spray-painting_1540.php
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-599/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Trump suggests Somali president ‘take back’ Rep. Ilhan Omar after she trashed Charlie Kirk’s legacy. What percent of those who come to America do so for bad reasons?
https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/us-news/trump-suggests-somali-president-take-back-rep-ilhan-omar-after-she-trashed-charlie-kirks-legacy/
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-suggests-somali-president-back-025439201.html
— Leftist gun club tied to violence recruiting on Georgetown campus echoes Charlie Kirk killing: ‘Hey fascist! Catch!’
https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/us-news/leftist-gun-club-tied-to-violence-recruiting-on-georgetown-campus-echoes-kirk-killing-hey-fascist-catch/
BREITBART
— Border Patrol Deploys Marine Units to Chicago River for Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/09/25/exclusive-border-patrol-deploys-marine-units-to-chicago-river-for-trumps-operation-midway-blitz/amp/
— Trump orders crackdown on ‘left wing terrorism’
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-orders-crackdown-on-left-wing-terrorism-in-escalation-of-a-campaign-against-political-rivals/amp/
CHRISTIAN POST
— MLB player defends missing game to attend Charlie Kirk’s memorial service; says they connected on ‘faith’
https://www.christianpost.com/news/mlb-player-defends-missing-game-to-attend-charlie-kirks-memorial.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— The Left’s Hatred Runs Deep, Even in Congress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaQYDvoxF2c
DAILY TORCH
— More Americans Say They are Conservative Than Any Other Group As America Reaches A Turning Point And Nearly Two-thirds Reject Liberalism. All my critics/opponents are anti-conservative if not conservative-haters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/kirk-critics-fired-free-speech.html
DAILY WIRE
— Charlie Kirk’s Death Sparked a Student Uprising
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/charlie-kirk-s-death-sparked-a-student-uprising
FEDERALIST
— Axios, NYT Blame Republicans For Noticing Leftist Motives Of ‘Anti-ICE’ Shooter
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/25/axios-nyt-blame-republicans-for-noticing-leftist-motives-of-anti-ice-shooter/
FOX NEWS
— There’s been a ‘decided shift’ to faith on college campuses since Kirk’s death. Anticipate/expect that more and more and more hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will claim to be religious. I should write about hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois who claim to be religious and who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380129849112
— Left-wing campus culture on ‘full display’ in Georgetown flyers mocking Charlie Kirk assassination
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380118044112
— Georgetown takes action after campus organization mocks Charlie Kirk’s death
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380106386112
JUDICIAL WATCH
— Hearing is scheduled for Friday, September 26, 2025, in the class action civil rights lawsuit filed against Evanston on behalf of six individuals over the city’s reparations program. To what extent do your critics/opponents hold you responsible for the problems that Blacks have?
https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/federal-court-hearing-in-judicial-watch-class-action-lawsuit-against-reparations-set-for-friday/
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Meet the Criminals Anti-ICE Protesters Are Trying to Protect. To vote for Democrats is to promote crime, poverty, and illegal immigration.
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/ice-illegal-aliens-sanctuary-city-leaders-dhs
NEWS BUSTERS
— ‘Weird, Egregious’: Mets Announcer Rips Cubs Rookie for Attending Charlie Kirk Memorial
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/steve-malzberg/2025/09/25/weird-egregious-mets-announcer-rips-cubs-rookie-attending
— Late-Night Shows Have a History of Violent Talk About Republicans. Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/steve-malzberg/2025/09/24/late-night-shows-have-history-violent-talk-about-republicans
NEWSMAX
— Attorney for Kirk Suspect Once Top Public Defender. Will she argue the Kirk brought it on himself? Will she argue that conservatives caused Kirk’s assignation?
https://www.newsmax.com/us/kathryn-nester-tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk/2025/09/25/id/1227938/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Here are all the Democrat, left-wing media lies about Charlie Kirk debunked by those who knew him best. “Charlie believed in meritocracy. Let the best man or woman win.” My critics/opponents reject meritocracy. They want only those who share their demographics to win.
https://thepostmillennial.com/here-are-all-the-democrat-left-wing-media-lies-about-charlie-kirk-debunked-by-those-who-knew-him-best
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— James Comey indicted on federal obstruction, perjury charges. My Democrat superiors in the federal government never indicted me, but a) my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1069, b) my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12, and c) my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, 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 GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5521599-james-comey-fbi-director-indicted-trump-investigation/
— Republicans seek documents from social media platforms after Kirk assassination
https://www.aol.com/articles/republicans-seek-documents-social-media-160327821.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Attack on Dallas ICE Was ‘Very Definition of Terrorism,’ Prosecutor Says. Federal officials said the gunman intended to shoot immigration agents, calling it a “tragic irony” that three detainees were struck, one fatally.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/us/politics/dallas-ice-shooting.html
— Hate-filled Kirk-hating Kirk-haters hate conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/kirk-critics-fired-free-speech.html
— Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters decry that “Trump’s Cultural Push Begins With Universities.”
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010414443/trumps-cultural-push-begins-with-universities.html
— There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined. What do you say to those Americans who have done the most to empower China? In WWIII, which countries will side with China against America?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/business/china-factory-robots.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: What Declines in Reading and Math Mean for the U.S. Work Force. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/us/what-declines-in-reading-and-math-mean-for-the-us-work-force.html
USA TODAY
— Hawaii trips are pricey. My IRS coworker and I could afford trips to Hawaii, Mexico, Jamaica, and the Bahamas 1973-1976 because we were National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) members and we therefore could take advantage of NTEU vacation packages.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2025/09/21/cheap-hawaii-vacation-expert-tips/85960335007/
— Trump White House prepares for mass layoffs in looming government shutdown. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of GAO’s employees like me who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$195,200/year and who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I was all of the aforesaid plus they had only promoted me to GS-13 even though I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years, I had thee job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), I had six job-related professional certifications (accounting, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and I had a job-related professional license (CPA).
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/25/trump-prepares-layoffs-government-shutdown/86341998007/
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
— How Charlie Kirk’s shooting exposed America’s divide. Your reaction to the Kirk assassination shows your attitude toward conservatives.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2025/09/24/how-charlie-kirks-shooting-exposed-americas-divide/
WCAX
— In lieu of Kirk debate, Dartmouth students to host dinner, vigil
https://www.wcax.com/video/2025/09/25/lieu-kirk-debate-dartmouth-students-host-dinner-vigil/
NEW YORK DAILY SUN
— Judge To Hear Arguments in Lawsuit Over “Racist Reparations’ Program in Evanston
https://www.nysun.com/article/judge-to-hear-arguments-in-lawsuit-over-racist-reparations-program-in-evanston-illinois
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Charlie Kirk and the New Christian GOP. Religious conservatives were part of the Reagan coalition but are far more central to the party now. What do religious conservatives think of you? My critics/opponents shout at religious conservatives that I am not a member of a church, that I do not attend church services, and that I do not give money to a church. In my defense, I proudly stress that I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I should write about those religious leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois who have had their operative and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/charlie-kirk-and-the-new-christian-gop-f9d866b0
— The ‘Anti-ICE’ Shooting in Dallas. Evidence emerges that Joshua Jahn was targeting ICE agents.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ice-shooting-dallas-joshua-jahn-f680753f?mod=opinion_lead_pos2
— For Democrats, the federal government exists to employ Democrats. Because I was not a Democrat, my Democrat superiors, Democrat supervisors, Democrat coworkers, and Democrat subordinates in the federal government did everything that they could to get rid of me. They would have gotten rid of me much sooner if I had not a) earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-young-people-learn-to-be-unhappy-c1747edf
— Democrat and RINO employers despise Americans, if not hate Americans.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-h-1b-visa-fees-legal-immigration-jobs-0d9c4194
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/h1b-visa-grassley-durbin-letter-tech-firms-8fe931e9?mod=Searchresults&pos=1&page=1
— In Diersen v. GAO, the federal courts ruled that federal employees can be fired a) for opposing Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, for opposing race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination and/or b) for being conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or having ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/supreme-court-humphreys-executor-ftc-rebecca-kelly-slaughter-independent-agencies-donald-trump-a7d8ce1d
FORTUNE
— Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters use Kirk to discourage conservatives from getting college degrees. My hate-filled conservative-hating critics/opponents are furious about what my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license enabled me to do.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/charlie-kirk-had-a-message-for-the-over-2-million-unemployed-gen-z-neet-men-you-don-t-need-college-to-make-your-dreams-happen/ar-AA1N5ohA
ATLANTIC
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/09/oklahoma-public-education-ryan-walters-teachers/684342/
ENTERTAINMENT
— Megyn Kelly gets into heated exchange over Charlie Kirk’s killing during Turning Point USA campus event
https://ew.com/megyn-kelly-heated-exchange-charlie-kirk-killing-11817941
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
MEAWW
— Texas man arrested over threat to run truck into Charlie Kirk vigil
https://news.meaww.com/texas-man-arrested-over-threat-to-run-truck-into-charlie-kirk-vigil
SKY NEWS
— Social media ‘accentuates extremism’ as evidenced by Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Facebook is a Democrat website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f58PVjx41L8
September 25, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Darren Bailey announces second run for Illinois governor
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/darren-bailey-announces-second-run-for-illinois-governor/3829430/
CBS2
— Tamale vendor arrested by ICE on Southwest Side of Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tamale-vendor-arrested-ice-agents-back-of-the-yards/
FOX32
— Man arrested for spray-painting anti-Trump, anti-Israel graffiti on Carol Stream police station, businesses
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-arrested-spray-painting-anti-trump-anti-israel-graffiti-carol-stream-police-station-businesses
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Republican Darren Bailey launches second bid for governor with strategy to connect better with Chicago voters
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/darren-bailey-launches-second-bid-for-governor/
— People giving up pets for financial reasons need help, DuPage officials say
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/dupage-pets-financial-animals-legislation-money-afford/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois braces for more patients as Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses abortions over Medicaid cuts
https://chicago.suntimes.com/abortion/2025/09/25/planned-parenthood-wisconsin-abortion-pause-illinois-patients
— Border Patrol spotted with guns on Chicago River in Trump’s latest deportation push
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/25/border-patrol-chicago-river-immigration-enforcement-greg-bovino-deportation
DAILY HERALD
— Carol Stream man faces hate crime charges after painting profane graffiti on police station
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250925/news/carol-stream-man-faces-hate-crime-charges-after-painting-profane-graffiti-on-police-station/
— Man who opened fire on ICE facility hoped attack would give agents ‘real terror,’ FBI says
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250925/crime/man-who-opened-fire-on-ice-facility-hoped-attack-would-give-agents-real-terror-fbi-says/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Abortion burden shifts to Illinois as Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses services
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/wisconsin-abortion-pause-prompts-illinois-prepare-influx
WBEZ
— Trump administration pulls millions in funding from Chicago Public Schools
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/09/25/trump-administration-pulls-millions-in-funding-from-chicago-public-schools
— Illinois braces for more patients as Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses abortions over Medicaid cuts
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/09/25/planned-parenthood-wisconsin-abortion-pause-illinois-patients
SOUTHERN
— Trump, Vance direct blame at Democrats for Dallas ICE shooting
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/09/25/trump-vance-direct-blame-at-democrats-for-dallas-ice-shooting/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Republicans Darren Bailey, Aaron Del Mar in Bloomington
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_145f0114-ba1e-49c6-96eb-7f75a35ce98a.html
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/video_5a555312-6ef7-521f-8334-b200ee2c65dd.html
WAND TV
— Darren Bailey announces second run for Illinois governor in 2026
https://www.wandtv.com/news/darren-bailey-announces-second-run-for-illinois-governor-in-2026/article_c8be4305-de7b-4f15-9093-4c52e0706a53.html
WMIX
— Darren Bailey Announces Campaign for Governor of Illinois: Putting Families First, Ending Pritzker’s Failure
https://www.wmix94.com/2025/09/25/darren-bailey-announces-campaign-for-governor-of-illinois-putting-families-first-ending-pritzkers-failure/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-390/
(FROM THE REPORT: DuPage County Forest Preserve Commissioner Tina Tyson-Dunne is running for Rep. Terra Costa Howard’s House seat…We told you this morning DuPage County Board member Lynn LaPlante has thrown her hat in the ring for the 42nd House District. Glen Ellyn Trustee Sonia Bhagwakar has also applied for the replacement appointment and is prepared to run for the seat.)
— Bailey launches 2026 campaign for governor. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders call you an extremist. Democrat and RINO leaders have lots in common.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/25/bailey-launches-2026-campaign-for-governor-dpi-labels-him-%e2%80%98extreme-maga-republican%e2%80%99/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Residents hold tribute to Charlie Kirk after Downers Grove council declines formal moment of silence
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/675505309-residents-hold-tribute-to-charlie-kirk-after-downers-grove-council-declines-formal-moment-of-silence
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— County Board Budget Meeting Leading Toward Recapturing Tax Levy Supposedly Given Up with Shift of Mental Health Board Financing from Real Estate Tax to Sales Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/25/county-board-budget-meeting-leading-toward-recapturing-tax-levy-supposedly-given-up-with-shift-of-mental-health-board-financing-from-real-estate-tax-to-sales-tax/
— Don’t Show Up for Five Criminal Court Dates, “No Problem,” Says Illinois Supreme Court
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/25/dont-show-up-for-five-criminal-court-dates-no-problem-says-illinois-supreme-court/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Inside the Pentagon’s crackdown on journalists; experts say restrictions likely face court defeat
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/25/inside-pentagons-crackdown-journalists-experts-say-restrictions/
— RFK Jr. tells governors he’s reviewing abortion pill’s safety
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/25/robert-f-kennedy-jr-tells-governors-hes-reviewing-abortion-pills/
— Radicals in Washington are trying to revoke the new employment requirements for able-bodied, working-age adults. They seem to want more Americans to be dependent on the government.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/25/democrats-infantilize-able-bodied-adults-taxpayers-expense/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Christian nationalism, Charlie Kirk, and the useful idiots of left-wing hate
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3824059/christian-nationalism-charlie-kirk-and-the-useful-idiots-of-left-wing-hate/
NEW YORK POST
— Anti-ICE shooter Joshua Jahn used Nazi battle rifle in deadly Dallas attack
https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/us-news/anti-ice-shooter-joshua-jahn-used-nazi-battle-rifle-in-attack-experts/
— Former FBI Director James Comey indicted on charges of lying to Congress, obstruction of justice
https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/us-news/former-fbi-director-james-comey-indicted-on-charges-of-lying-to-congress/
— How the teachers union uses pet politicians to smear charter schools
https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/opinion/how-teachers-union-uses-pet-politicians-to-smear-charter-schools/
BREITBART
— Border Patrol Swarms Chicago Home Depot in Dawn Immigration Raid Under Operation Midway Blitz
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/09/25/exclusive-border-patrol-swarms-chicago-home-depot-in-dawn-immigration-raid-under-operation-midway-blitz/amp/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Chicago Public Schools Offer ‘Family Planning,’ Condoms, Abortion Information to Students
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/25/chicago-public-schools-offer-family-planning-condoms-abortion-information-to-students/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Joy Reid bashes Vance, says Yale accepted him due to affirmative action. UIC accepted me in 1966 because my ACT score was 24 and I graduated in the upper 20% of my class.
https://thehill.com/video/joy-reid-bashes-jd-vance-says-yale-accepted-him-due-to-affirmative-action-rising/11108997/
— Trump officials urge nations to join effort to restrict asylum system
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-trump-officials-urge-nations-to-join-global-effort-to-restrict-the-asylum-system/
WASHINGTON POST
— White House begins plan for mass firings if there’s a government shutdown. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of GAO’s employees like me who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$195,200/year and were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I was all of the aforesaid plus they had only promoted me to GS-13 even though I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years, I had thee job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), I had six job-related professional certifications (accounting, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and I had a job-related professional license (CPA).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/25/government-shutdown-omb-firings-trump/
FROM OTHER SOURCES
KIPLINGER
— If you are working for a Democrat or RINO employer, the more of the following that you are, the more likely that you will be forced you to retire early: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/retirement-planning/what-to-do-if-you-are-forced-into-early-retirement
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTANCY
— There are few Black CPAs. GAO employs very few Black CPAs. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and replaced me with my Black CPA subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He was not a licensed CPA like I was. Of course, my critics/opponents have no problem with that.
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/topics/career-management/black-cpa-centennial/
September 24, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders oppose fence around Broadview ICE facility
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-operation-midway-blitz-fence-around-broadview-facility-raises-concerns-residents-fire-department/17876429/
NBC5
— GOP candidates for governor call for repeal of Illinois TRUST Act
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/gop-candidates-for-governor-call-for-repeal-of-illinois-trust-act/3829038/
CBS2
— Democrat officials demand DHS take down fence surrounding ICE facility
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/broadview-officials-demand-dhstake-down-fence-ice-facility/
WGN9
— Dabrowski criticizes Pritzker during presser outside Broadview ICE facility
https://wgntv.com/western-suburbs/candidate-for-il-governor-ted-dabrowski-criticizes-pritzker-during-presser-outside-broadview-ice-facility/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Hispanic culture
https://wgntv.com/hispanic-heritage-month/lane-tech-students-explore-hispanic-culture-with-pinata-crafting/#/questions/5662210
FOX32
— Dabrowski pushes to end sanctuary status
2 more bishops call on Cardinal Cupich to cancel award for pro-abortion senator
— ‘ANTI-ICE’ written on bullets found at scene of Dallas ICE shooting
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/anti-ice-engravings-shells-casings-found-scene-dallas-ice
— Chicago residents demand action on alleged prostitution surge near Midway
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-residents-demand-action-prostitution-surge-near-midway
— Trump replaces Biden portrait with autopen in Presidential Walk of Fame
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-biden-portrait-autopen
— Trump administration rehires federal employees laid off by DOGE. Maybe I will get rehired. Would I get backpay? Would it be $2.4 million ($4.3 million GAO salary not received since 1997 minus $1.9 million Civil Service Retirement System pension received in today’s dollars)?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-administration-rehires-federal-employees-doge
— Charlie Kirk could be placed on US currency under new House GOP proposal
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/charlie-kirk-coin-house-proposal
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly oppose gentrification
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/24/key-city-panel-oks-plan-designed-stop-gentrification-sparked-obama-presidential-center
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders demand ICE take down new fencing around detention center
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/broadview-ice-fence-detention/
— Artists claim anti-Trump display at Chicago library was ‘censored’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/artists-anti-trump-display-chicago-library-censored/
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Black pastors to hate Kirk. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to hate me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/charlie-kirk-black-pastors/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders order removal of fencing erected outside ICE facility in Broadview
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/23/fence-blocks-access-to-broadview-ice-facility
DAILY HERALD
— Democratic congressional candidate Bethany Johnson mocked Charlie Kirk after assassination
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250924/nation-and-world-politics/democratic-congressional-candidate-mocked-charlie-kirk-after-assassination/
— Oath Keepers founder, Jan. 6 planner Stewart Rhodes speaks at Elgin church after 3 other venues cancel amid outcry
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250924/nation-and-world-politics/oath-keepers-founder-jan-6-planner-speaks-at-elgin-church-after-3-other-venues-cancel-amid-outcry/
— ‘I will not apologize’: District 300 school board president defiant amid backlash over social media Kirk post
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250924/news/i-will-not-apologize-district-300-school-board-president-defiant-amid-backlash-over-social-media/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/24/chicago-immigration-president-donald-trump-dhs-ice
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-democrats-demand-end-to-dangerous-ice-operations-in-chicago/
— Illinois House Minority Leader: Pritzker’s budget executive order is way to raise taxes
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-house-minority-leader-pritzkers-budget-executive-order-is-way-to-raise-taxes/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-389/
— Dabrowski holds press conference outside ICE facility, says Pritzker should ‘hand over criminals in handcuffs from local and state police directly to federal authorities’
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/24/dabrowski-holds-press-conference-outside-ice-facility-says-pritzker-should-hand-over-criminals-in-handcuffs-from-local-and-state-police-directly-to-federal-authorities/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise Hispanics
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/24/the-crackdown-is-bad-for-business-and-bad-for-state-and-local-revenues/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Dabrowski says repealing the TRUST Act to end the state’s sanctuary status is his top legislative priority.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_c5857634-21b3-45dd-9f1f-1a4cc07dc4ab.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— America’s guest-worker H-1B visas sought in some unexpected fields like journalism. Trump’s crackdown targets ‘H-1B mills’ and other abuses.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/24/americas-guest-worker-h-1b-visas-sought-unexpected-fields-like/
— Former General Services Administration employees receive reinstatement offers. Maybe I will get a reinstatement offer from the next Comptroller General. Would it include backpay? Would it be $2.4 million ($4.3 million GAO salary not received since 1997 minus $1.9 million Civil Service Retirement System pension received in today’s dollars)?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/24/former-general-services-administration-employees-receive/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: GSA wasn’t the only agency targeted by DOGE. According to the Partnership for Public Service, there have been over 200,000 federal workforce reductions. The departments of Defense, Treasury and Agriculture have seen the largest reductions, while other agencies were shuttered nearly completely. Other agencies that have brought back employees include the Internal Revenue Service, Labor Department, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Park Service.)
— Democrats in off-year races strive to put boogeyman Trump on the ballot
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/24/democrats-year-races-strive-put-boogeyman-trump-ballot/
— Hate speech does not exist in law, only in the minds of bureaucrats. How landmark rulings set the standard that government may not punish offensive words.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/24/hate-speech-exist-law-minds-bureaucrats/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats’ rhetoric endangers ICE officers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3821714/democratic-rhetoric-endangers-ice-officers/
— Democratic Party isolation is getting worse
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3822995/democratic-party-isolation-is-getting-worse-political-violence/
— Left-wing donors push for woke education agenda as scores hit all time low
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3821791/left-wing-donors-push-for-woke-education-agenda/
— Voters don’t trust Democrats to run a lemonade stand
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3822559/voters-dont-trust-democrats-to-run-a-lemonade-stand/
NEW YORK POST
— Dallas sniper had anti-ICE messages written on ammo; 1 dead, 2 wounded
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/us-news/dallas-sniper-had-anti-ice-messages-written-on-ammo-fbi/
— Excellence over wokeness: New rankings reveal the REAL top medical schools
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/opinion/excellence-over-wokeness-new-rankings-reveal-the-real-top-medical-schools/
— Vance tears into Democrats, calls out Gavin Newsom after Dallas ICE shooting: ‘You can go straight to hell’
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/us-news/vance-tears-into-democrats-calls-out-gavin-newsom-after-dallas-ice-shooting/
— Democrat ‘Nazi’ rhetoric about ICE has inspired tragic violence
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/opinion/democrat-nazi-rhetoric-about-ice-has-inspired-tragic-violence/
— Google gives fresh proof the Biden admin was a censorship machine
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/opinion/google-gives-fresh-proof-biden-admin-was-a-censorship-machine/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The lesbian sorority gets a crack at governing America
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/the_lesbian_sorority_gets_a_crack_at_governing_america.html
CATHOLIC VOTE
— 2 more bishops call on Cardinal Cupich to cancel award for pro-abortion senator Durbin
https://catholicvote.org/2-more-bishops-call-on-cardinal-cupich-cancel-award-pro-abortion-senator/
LIFE NEWS
— Catholic Bishop Blasts Award for Dick Durbin: “Goes Against Catholic Moral Principles”
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/09/23/catholic-bishop-blasts-award-for-dick-durbin-goes-against-catholic-moral-principles/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Employers want immigrants because employers want cheap labor.
https://finance-commerce.com/2025/09/americans-poll-legal-immigration-benefits/
CBS NEWS
— Judge won’t reinstate 8 Inspector Generals (IG) fired by Trump. While worked for GAO 1980-1997, I often worked with IG employees. While served on the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter Executive Committee 1983-1996, I often worked with IG employees.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-government-watchdogs-inspector-generals-fired-by-trump/
POLITICO
— White House to agencies: Prepare mass firing plans for the shutdown. In memo, the Trump administration says the Reduction in Force plans would go beyond standard shutdown furloughs. Democrats run federal agencies. They use Republican budget cuts first to get rid of their employees who are Republican and then their employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/24/white-house-firings-shutdown-00579909
FROM OTHER SOURCES
REMAX
— FOR SALE: 821 Plamondon Road, Wheaton – $899,900
https://ronlewis.remax.com/holp/listing/103/12462951
September 23, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Fencing put up outside Broadview ICE facility after protests
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-operation-midway-blitz-fencing-put-outside-broadview-facility-protests/17870950/
— Missing NY girl found in Blue Island with men in country illegally
https://abc7chicago.com/post/missing-rochester-new-york-girl-found-blue-island-illinois-men-country-illegally-us-marshals-say/17871734/
— Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters promote Kimmel
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jimmy-kimmel-returns-late-night-glen-powell-ethan-hawke-peyton-manning-appear-guests/17872219/
— Five takeaways from President Trump’s UN speech
https://abc7chicago.com/post/takeaways-president-trumps-united-nations-speech-tuesday/17871642/
CBS2
— Fence goes up outside ICE facility in Broadview. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/fence-goes-up-outside-ice-facility-in-broadview-illinois/
— White House threatens to withhold funding to CPS over Black Student Success plan, transgender student guidelines. To get more votes from Blacks and from LGBTQers, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give them more preference.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/white-house-threatens-withhold-funding-cps/
WGN9
— Pritzker issued an executive order Tuesday directing state agencies to identify up to 4% of general fund appropriations next year and limit hiring and non-essential spending. Pritzker blames President Trump’s “reckless economic policies” for the move.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/pritzker-issues-executive-order-directing-agencies-to-save-more-in-2026-over-trump-policies/amp/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago Cubs’ Matt Shaw explains decision to attend Charlie Kirk memorial: ‘That was really important to my faith.’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/chicago-cubs-matt-shaw-charlie-kirk-decision/
— Trump in speech to UN says world body ‘not even coming close to living up’ to its potential
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/trump-un-speech/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson twice undercuts Chicago’s fight against crime
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-mayor-brandon-johnson-twice-100000454.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Cubs’ Matt Shaw says leaving team to attend Charlie Kirk’s memorial was ‘what was meant to be.’ “My connection with Charlie was through our [Christian] faith,” Shaw said Tuesday before a series opener against the Mets at Wrigley Field, “and that’s something that drives me every day.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs/2025/09/23/cubs-matt-shaw-charlie-kirk-memorial-leaving-team-meant-to-be
— Pointing finger at Trump’s ‘disastrous policies,’ Pritzker directs state agencies to find 4% in budget cuts. Gov. JB Pritzker says cuts are needed because of the impact to the state of the president’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which includes tax breaks for billionaires, cuts to food assistance and anticipated reductions in federal Medicaid funding.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/09/23/jb-pritzker-state-budget-cuts-donald-trump-big-beautiful-bill
DAILY HERALD
— State lawmaker Terra Costa Howard to become DuPage County judge
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250923/news/state-lawmaker-howard-to-become-dupage-county-judge/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: State Rep. Terra Costa Howard is giving up her seat in the state House to become a DuPage County Circuit Court judge. The Illinois Supreme Court announced Tuesday it is appointing Howard as resident circuit judge, effective Oct. 17. Her term will end Dec. 7, 2026. She fills a vacancy left by the retirement of Judge Paul Fullerton. Howard, a Glen Ellyn Democrat, has served as a state representative since 2019, first for the 48th District and then the 42nd District. A spokesman confirmed Costa Howard is resigning, but said a date has not been set. Costa Howard has had a solo law practice since 2003. Before that, she worked in the DuPage County public defender’s office and as a staff attorney for the DuPage court. “From my first days of working in the Chief Judge’s office and the DuPage County Public Defender’s office, to my current role as State Representative, I have worked to serve the people of DuPage County,” Costa Howard said in a news release from the Illinois Supreme Court. “I believe that every step of my career has led me toward this new challenge, and I look forward to the prospect of bringing my experience — in law and in life — to the bench.” The state constitution prohibits . judges from holding elected office.)
— Schaumburg Township GOP to host candidates for statewide offices at Saturday event. If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would be continuing to host candidate forums. I served as TAPROOT’s chairman 2005-2012. TAPROOT held breakfast meetings the third Saturday of every month except August when it held a picnic and December when it held a Christmas party. I invited all the speakers for all of its 78 events 2005-2012. I should list all those who spoke at TAPROOT events 2005-2012. Almost all of them were Republican candidates, elected officials, and/or party leaders. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes destroy TAPROOT in 2012.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250923/news/schaumburg-township-gop-to-host-candidates-for-statewide-offices-at-saturday-event/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250923/news/we-will-take-care-of-people-conroys-county-budget-plan-responds-to-threatened-federal-cuts/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Paprocki calls out Chicago archdiocese for giving Sen. Durbin lifetime achievement award
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/09/23/sen-dick-durbin-is-getting-an-award-from-the-chicago-archdiocese/86295224007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Employers want citizens of foreign countries because employers want cheap labor
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/more-americans-think-companies-benefit-from-legal-immigration-a-new-ap-norc-poll-finds/article_e2328dc1-54ee-5e0e-9d56-d54c5c2e78fb.html
MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— Thomas DeVore gets law license suspended
https://muddyrivernews.com/politics/devore-gets-law-license-suspended/20250922210335/
OAK PARK
— Marijuana and traffic. Oak Park today, your municipality tomorrow.
https://www.oakpark.com/2025/09/23/marijuana-and-traffic/
(FROM THE LETTER: Oak Park residents are facing growing public safety concerns, and the situation seems to be worsening. At the intersection of Taylor and Adams, few vehicles comes to a full stop at crosswalks — just one example of how traffic laws are being routinely ignored. This puts pedestrians at serious risk, and it’s not an isolated issue. Another concern is the frequent smell of marijuana on Oak Park streets, especially from passing vehicles. While recreational cannabis is legal in Illinois, the pervasive odor — often near schools, parks, and residential areas — has become a public nuisance and, at times, a health issue. Yet Democratic leadership has shown little interest in addressing the unintended consequences of legalization. Compounding these problems is the rise in uninsured motorists. A friend of mine was recently rear-ended by an uninsured driver whose car smelled strongly of marijuana. Beyond the financial burden, the incident highlighted the danger of impaired, unaccountable drivers. The Illinois Supreme Court’s 2024 People v. Redmond decision, which ruled that the smell of cannabis alone does not justify legal action, has made it even harder for law enforcement to respond effectively.)
WLDS
— Former GOP Attorney General candidate Thomas DeVore has law license suspended by IL Supreme Court
https://wlds.com/former-gop-attorney-general-candidate-has-law-license-suspended-by-il-supreme-court/
DURBIN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-leads-illinois-democrats-in-demanding-an-end-to-dangerous-and-reckless-immigration-operations
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-388/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Law License of Former Republican Attorney General Candidate Thomas DeVore Suspended for Sixty Days for Having Sexual Relationship with Client
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/23/law-license-of-former-republican-attorney-general-candidate-suspended-for-sixty-days-for-having-sexual-relationship-with-client/
— Cook County Jail Holding Illegal Accused of Murder, ICE Seeks Custody
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/23/cook-county-jail-holding-illegal-accused-of-murder-ice-seeks-custody/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois House Minority Leader Tony McCombie, R-Savanna says Pritzker budget cut EO a ploy for IL tax increases
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f604509a-94fe-49a9-8a4d-f88ce2ceae99.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “How about, let’s not spend $2.3 billion on health care for illegal immigrants,” McCombie told The Center Square. “That’s not even touching what we spend on the increase of costs in our schools or for housing or other wraparound programs that they are qualifying for.” McCombie said Pritzker blaming Trump and not Democratic policies impacting the economy is a smokescreen for more tax increases. “Whether it’s for transit, whether it’s for more pork projects and or, God forbid, the failing energy policies that continue to plague Illinois,” McCombie said.)
ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Milton Township Operates “Nonprofit” With Public Funds, Self-Declares It A Private Entity Not Subject To FOIA
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2025/09/milton-township-operates-nonprofit-with-public-funds-self-declares-it-a-private-entity-not-subject-to-foia/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Antifa: Ideology or Organization?
https://illinoisfamily.org/islam-sharia/antifa-ideology-or-organization/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois’ Congressional Democrats reject gerrymandering – for wrong reasons. Illinois Democrats rejected a mid-cycle redistricting plan cooked up by U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries to maximize Democratic partisan advantage in the state’s congressional district map. The reason? They don’t want to endanger their safe seats.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-congressional-democrats-reject-gerrymandering-for-wrong-reasons/
— Chicago budget rises over 2X faster than other big cities
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-budget-rises-over-2x-faster-than-other-big-cities/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump blasts U.N. at General Assembly speech, accuses it of not helping to stop wars
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/23/donald-trump-blasts-un-general-assembly-speech-accuses-helping-stop/
— More college kids are embracing political violence
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/23/happy-voice-silenced-college-kids-embracing-political-violence/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— There is no First Amendment right to obstruct law enforcement
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3818416/no-first-amendment-right-obstruct-law-enforcement/
— Trump’s silent surrender on China
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3820531/trump-trade-deal-china-tiktok-student-visas/
— Kamala Harris continues her dangerous, deceitful, and inflammatory rhetoric
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/3819658/kamala-harris-continues-her-dangerous-deceitful-and-inflammatory-rhetoric/
— Hegseth terminates Pentagon committee that advances ‘divisive feminist agenda’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3820520/pete-hegseth-terminates-pentagon-committee-divisive-feminist-agenda/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump warns Europe ‘being devastated by energy and immigration’ in UN speech
https://nypost.com/2025/09/23/us-news/trump-warns-europe-being-devastated-by-energy-and-immigration-in-un-speech/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— The battle in Broadview: How Democratic leaders are causing chaos, not ICE agents
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/23/the-battle-in-broadview-how-democratic-leaders-are-causing-chaos-not-ice-agents-1587188/
— Man of the people! Obamas vacationed on Steven Spielberg’s $250M superyacht off Italian coast
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/23/man-of-the-people-obamas-vacationed-on-steven-spielbergs-250m-superyacht-off-italian-coast-1587331/
BREITBART
— Close to 1.6 Million Illegal Aliens Already Left the Country on Their Own
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/09/23/homan-close-to-1-6-illegal-aliens-already-left-the-country-on-their-own/
CATHOLIC VOTE
— Illinois Right to Life to protest Cardinal Cupich’s decision to award pro-abortion senator
https://catholicvote.org/illinois-right-to-life-to-protest-cardinal-cupichs-decision-to-award-pro-abortion-senator/
COLLEGE FIX
— Professors bash Florida college’s plans for Charlie Kirk statue
https://www.thecollegefix.com/odious-white-supremacy-professors-bash-florida-colleges-plans-for-charlie-kirk-statue/
LIFE NEWS
— Cardinal Cupich is Wrong, Catholics Shouldn’t Honor Radical Abortion Activists
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/09/23/cardinal-cupich-is-wrong-catholics-shouldnt-honor-radical-abortion-activists/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Major Broadcasting Groups Refuse to Air Jimmy Kimmel After ABC Lifts Suspension
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/major-broadcasting-groups-refuse-to-air-jimmy-kimmel-after-abc-lifts-suspension/
NEWSMAX
— Nearly 2 Million Illegals Out of US Under Trump
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/tom-homan-donald-trump-immigration/2025/09/23/id/1227476/
— Trump to UN: ‘Your Countries Are Going to Hell’
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/un-illegals-migration/2025/09/23/id/1227528/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Hegseth axes decades-old advisory committee on women in the military
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5518114-pete-hegseth-advisory-committee-women-military/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5517888-pritzker-says-no-federal-troops/
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders decry that “Charlie Kirk left young followers all over Trump’s government. A generation of young conservatives idolized Kirk. Many have since aged into Washington jobs.” I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to take the postal employment examination with him. The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/09/23/charlie-kirk-fans-working-in-trump-government/
NATIONAL DESK
— Dr. Ben Carson criticizes media influence during Charlie Kirk memorial service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsaS4nr3w9M
September 22, 2025 Evening Edition
Democrats, RINOs, and other anti-conservatives boycott Kirk events.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders decry that federal agents fire pepper balls at their protesters as buses transport people at Broadview ICE facility
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-operation-midway-blitz-chaplain-calls-calm-outside-broadview-facility-amid-protests/17865967/
— Supreme Court allows Trump firing of FTC commissioner without cause. In Diersen v. GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors hinted/implied that they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 for cause. They had always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They had delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They had kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I had worked for GAO. They had forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. In my defense, I stressed that I had a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1981, and 1976, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979., and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/supreme-court-allows-trump-firing-ftc-commissioner/17866977/
NBC5
— Durbin’s abortion stance sparks backlash ahead of Archdiocese award
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/durbins-abortion-stance-sparks-backlash-ahead-of-archdiocese-award/3827850/
CBS2
— Protests continue after heated clashes outside Broadview ICE facility
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/protests-continue-heated-clashes-broadview-illinois-ice-facility/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders charge ICE with using excessive force
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/22/ice-denies-using-excessive-force-agency-broadens-immigration-arrests-chicago-area
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago’s budget crisis is a spending problem, not a revenue problem
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/opinion-chicago-budget-crisis-cps/
— Protesters gather in Loop Monday to demand Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs divest state investments from Israel bonds
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/illinois-treasurer-michael-frerichs-protest/
— Police make gun-related arrest No. 16 near Naperville Topgolf
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/topgolf-gun-arrests-naperville-police/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders have their protesters clash with ICE agents at Broadview facility
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/21/immigration-ice-arrest-broadview
— Democrat leaders have their operatives promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/09/20/charlie-kirk-gun-violence-farrakhan-kanye-muslims-mamdani-rummana-hussain
DAILY HERALD
— Some admirers of Charlie Kirk hope response to his death signals start of a religious revival. Why didn’t the Daily Herald report on the Kirk event Sunday Evening in Wheaton?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250922/nation-and-world/some-admirers-of-charlie-kirk-hope-response-to-his-death-signals-start-of-a-religious-revival/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250922/marijuana/cook-county-launches-cannabiz-pathways-program-to-support-entrepreneurs-in-cannabis-industry/
NORTHWEST HERALD
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot in Crystal Lake
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/09/22/new-marijuana-dispensary-cleared-to-open-in-crystal-lake/
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Which Illinois companies have the most H-1B workers? About Trump’s executive order, visa program. Needless to say, J.P. Morgan and Chase Company had no interest in me when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 even though I had a) worked on audits of federal financial industry regulators for the previous 8 years at the GS-13 Step 4-10 Levels, currently $108,978-$153,151/year, b) earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT that year, c) became a Certified Forensic Accountant that year and a Certified Financial Services Auditor a year before, a Certified Government Financial Manager 3 years before, and a Certified Fraud Examiner 7 years before, c) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt 16 years before and the CPA examination on my first attempt 18 years before, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting 17 years before, e) earned an MBA 21 years before, and f) worked on audits of IRS for 3 years and worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. J.P. Morgan and Chase Company would have offered me a job in 1997 if I had been a citizen of a foreign country, Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/22/how-many-h-1b-visas-issued-in-illinois-trump-100000-application-fee-companies-with-most-recipients/86292648007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The UCIS reported that 2,064 Illinois businesses petitioned for H-1B visas, with 14,929 of 15,136 applications being approved. Here are the top recipients: J.P. Morgan and Chase Co: 2,422)
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— Cardinal Timothy Dolan, former Milwaukee archbishop, calls slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk a ‘modern-day St. Paul’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cardinal-timothy-dolan-former-milwaukee-215914935.html
SUBURBAN CHICAGOLAND
— Hastings introduces bill to protect consumers in insurance rate setting. Of course, my critics/opponents would argue that I am unfairly benefiting from non-driving factors.
https://suburbanchicagoland.com/2025/09/22/hastings-introduces-bill-to-protect-consumers-in-insurance-rate-setting/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The measure, known as the Non-Driving Factors in Insurance Rate Setting Study Act, directs the Illinois Department of Insurance to conduct a thorough review of how insurers use criteria such as credit scores, occupations, education levels and other socioeconomic factors to determine automobile and homeowners insurance rates. . .Review whether reliance on such factors disproportionately harms low-income families, communities of color, veterans or seniors.)
DAILY LINE
— Illinois Supreme Court hears arguments on case asking for Certificate of Innocence to be awarded. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used Affirmative Action (AA) to waste my career, to take adverse actions against me, and to force me retire when I was 49 in 1997. Because of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on AA, I should be awarded a Certificate of Innocence.
https://www.thedailyline.com/illinois-supreme-court-hears-arguments-case-asking-certificate-innocence-posthumously
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-387/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois library staff to be trained with overdose antidotes under new law
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a6e25a32-c3d7-41da-af5f-6958dd47a5cd.html
CHARLIE KIM FOR CONGRESS
— I spoke with Kim and members of his team at the Iron Gate Motor Condo Car Show last Saturday.
https://www.charlieincongress.us/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Hundreds in Woodstock Watch Charlie Kirk Memorial at McHenry County GOPAC sponsored a gathering
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/22/hundreds-in-woodstock-to-watch-charlie-kirk-memorial/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Charlie Kirk’s supporters trounce opponents in crowdfunding battle
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/22/charlie-kirks-supporters-trounce-opponents-crowdfunding-battle/
— What a would-be assassin’s internet history looks like. Online life of man who targeted Kavanaugh, man accused in Kirk killing renew talk of nixing liability shield for internet sites.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/21/would-assassins-internet-history-looks-like/
NEW YORK POST
— Turning Point USA announces star-studded lineup of campus speaking dates after Charlie Kirk’s murder — with guests including Megyn Kelly, Vivek Ramaswamy
https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/us-news/turning-point-usa-announces-star-studded-lineup-of-campus-speaking-dates-after-charlie-kirks-murder/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Exposes The Vast Chasm Dividing American Society. Democrats, RINOs, and other anti-conservatives boycotted Kirk events.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/charlie_kirk_s_assassination_exposes_the_vast_chasm_dividing_american_society.html
BREITBART
— Sanctuary Illinois: Left-Wing Activists Riot on Behalf of Illegal Aliens Convicted of Domestic Abuse, Dealing Fentanyl, Drunk Driving
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/22/sanctuary-illinois-left-wing-activists-riot-on-behalf-of-illegal-aliens-convicted-of-domestic-abuse-dealing-fentanyl-drunk-driving/
DAILY CALLER
— Catholic Bishops Urge Cardinal To Cancel Award Honoring Pro-Abortion Durbin
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/22/catholic-bishops-urge-cardinal-to-cancel-award-honoring-pro-abortion-democrat/
FOX NEWS
— Violence erupts between ICE agents, protesters in Broadview
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379924048112
LIFE NEWS
— Catholic Bishops Tell Cardinal Cupich to Cancel Award for Dick Durbin
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/09/22/catholic-bishops-tell-cardinal-cupich-to-cancel-award-for-pro-abortion-senator-dick-durbin/
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
— Charlie Kirk Was ‘This Close’ to Becoming Catholic Just Prior to His Death
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/report-charlie-kirk-was-this-close-to-becoming-catholic-just-prior-to-his-death
PATRIOT POST
— Hillary Clinton Promotes Book Labeling Conservatives ‘Fascists’ One Week After Charlie Kirk Assassination. Anticipate/expect that Democrats, RINOs, and other anti-conservatives will ever-increasingly use Kirk’s assassination to get rid of conservatives once and for all.
https://pjnewsletter.com/hillary-clinton-conservatives-kirk/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— How dependent is your county, township, municipality, and school district on federal spending?
https://thehill.com/opinion/5515124-king-county-fights-trump-funding-cuts/
CBS NEWS
— “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to air Tuesday, Disney says, nearly a week after it was pulled
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jimmy-kimmel-live-return-tuesday-disney-abc/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Kimmel’s Late-Night Show to Return to ABC Tuesday
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/kimmels-late-night-show-will-return-to-air-tuesday-7450ea40
— The Supreme Court on Monday said it would formally reconsider a 90-year-old precedent that has barred presidents from removing officials of independent agencies absent misconduct or other cause. In Diersen v. GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors hinted/implied that they forced me to retire for cause. They had always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They had delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They had kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I had worked for GAO. They had forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-trump-ftc-rebecca-kelly-slaughter-cb69e8f3
— Democrats and RINOs prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/international-student-enrollment-decline-college-ad13f943
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/will-the-100-000-visa-fee-create-more-u-s-jobs-economists-arent-so-sure-8693001d