FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after a ‘brief and sudden illness. DD: I remember speaking with Graham at a fundraiser for Henry Hyde.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-sen-lindsey-graham-dies-71-brief-sudden-illness-office-says/19490033/
(FROM GOOGLE AI: Senator Lindsey Graham and former Congressman Henry Hyde were key Republican figures who worked together most notably as House managers during the 1998–1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. The two maintained a close political and personal bond, frequently aligning on conservative constitutional principles and the pro-life movement.)
— Bridgeview delays ‘Little Palestine Way’ sign unveiling amid claims of political interference. DD: Ever-increasingly, immigrants talk and/or act like they remain loyal to their motherland if not like they came to America to turn America into their motherland.
https://www.aol.com/articles/bridgeview-delays-little-palestine-way-222250000.html
NBC5
— DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers? What did you do when you were at teen? I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivering mail 1966-1969.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/hundreds-of-youth-explore-chicago-as-part-of-my-block-my-hood-my-citys-downtown-day/3960320/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly diminish Second Amendment rights.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/12/editorial-the-7th-circuit-made-the-right-decision-on-illinois-assault-weapons-ban/
— Trump suggests a standing order to attack Iran if it assassinates him. But JD Vance would make the call.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/11/trump-vance-iran/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly punish America to punish Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/12/state-funded-america-250-commemorations-kept-mellow-as-federal-funding-cuts-still-sting-in-illinois/
— Illinois Republicans aren’t just losing. They’re disappearing. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. According to political consultants in Illinois who want Republican candidates to continue to lose in Illinois, Republican candidates in Illinois should continue to become ever-increasingly more Democrat Lite if not anti-conservative if not RINO. But Republican candidates in Illinois should advocate conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. They should cite how their following conservative principles and the aforesaid planks helped them succeed. I attribute my successes in life to my following conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/19/bailey-dabrowski-proft-republican-politics-illinois-gop-ilgop-elections/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/08/charles-selle-column-gop-voters/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/12/courthouse-immigration-arrests/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers? What did you do when you were at teen? I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivering mail 1966-1969.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/07/11/my-block-my-hood-my-city-downtown-day-teen-takeovers
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Illinois state government hiring for 38 metro-east jobs, including one that pays up to $139,764 per year. DD: In today’s dollars, when I was 22 in 1971, after I had earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU when I was 21, my IRS starting salary was $56,409/year. In today’s dollars, when I was 31, after I had earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year, my starting GAO salary was only $89,703/year. It would have been $113,402, if not $118,984/year (GS-13 Step1), if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.aol.com/news/illinois-state-government-hiring-38-134933231.html
CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— How Illinois Became a One-Party State. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. According to political consultants in Illinois who want Republican candidates to continue to lose in Illinois, Republican candidates in Illinois should continue to become ever-increasingly more Democrat Lite if not anti-conservative if not RINO. But Republican candidates in Illinois should advocate conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. They should cite how their following conservative principles and the aforesaid planks helped them succeed. I attribute my successes in life to my following conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.chicagomag.com/news/opinion-how-illinois-became-a-one-party-state/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Aug. 8, 2001, George Ryan stood on the steps of the Kankakee County Courthouse and announced he would not seek a second term as governor of Illinois. Ryan’s governorship had been tainted by the licenses-for-bribes scandal, for which he would eventually spend five years in federal prison. Ryan knew he was un-reelectable, but he used the occasion to take a parting shot at the right wing of his party. “I worry for the Republican Party — the party of Lincoln under whose banner I have proudly served all of my life,” he said. “If we’re to be successful, we need to listen more and shout less. We need to moderate our positions. I learned a long time ago that winning public office is about addition and not subtraction, and I would hope that the party folks are listening.” Ryan had once been an archconservative. As speaker of the state House in the early 1980s, he worked with Phyllis Schlafly to stamp out the Equal Rights Amendment. But he won the governorship by running to the left of his Democratic opponent — Southern Illinois congressman Glenn Poshard — on gay rights and abortion. As governor, he instituted a moratorium on the death penalty and, just before leaving office, commuted all death sentences to life in prison. Like any successful politician, Ryan could tell which way the wind was blowing. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, as America’s Red vs. Blue divide developed, Illinois was turning Blue. In 2002, the Democrats took complete control of the state, winning the governorship for the first time in 30 years and the state senate for the first time in more than a decade. Part of their success was due to the national political trends Ryan had observed; part was due to Ryan himself. As the third and last in a 26-year run of Republican governors, his corruption had damaged the brand of a party that had overstayed its welcome.)
MAYOR BROWN
— What Employers Need to Know About “Anti-American” Bias in the Workplace. DD: I am 100% German American. German is one of the worst national origins to have because of WWI, WWII, and the Holocaust. In my defense, I have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2026/03/what-employers-need-to-know-about-anti-american-bias-in-the-workplace
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Political Friends
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/27/political-friends/
— Health Care at Illinois Prisons and ICE Detention Centers, Underwood v. Mullin
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/27/health-care-at-illinois-prisons-and-ice-detention-centers-underwood-v-mullin/
— Unemployment Rises 19% in McHenry County Over Last Year
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/29/unemployment-rises-19-in-mchenry-county/
— State To Gather Height of Water Needed to Flood Structures Along Fox River & Chain of Lakes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/29/state-to-gather-height-of-water-needed-to-flood-structures-along-fox-river-chain-of-lakes/
–Democrats Assumed $500 Million Too Much To Spend
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/30/democrats-assumed-500-million-too-much-to-spend/
— An Astounding Reason the CTA “Needs a Bailout”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/30/an-astounding-reason-the-cta-needs-a-bailout/
— Early Voter Says She Was “Testing the System” When She Also Voted on Election Day
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/30/early-voter-says-she-was-testing-the-system-when-she-also-voted-on-election-day/
— Block Club Chicago Analyzes Uses of Force by Immigration Officers in Operation Midway
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/30/block-club-chicago-analyzes-uses-of-force-by-immigration-officers-in-operation-midway/
— Wilcox Holding Bull Valley Golf Club Outing July 13th
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/07/01/wilcox-holding-bull-valley-golf-club-outing-july-13th/
— But Not in Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/07/01/but-not-in-illinois/
— Brian Sager To Continue Representing McHenry County on Commuter Rail Agency
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/07/01/brian-sager-to-continue-representing-mchenry-county-on-commuter-rail-agency/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— U.S. extends work permits for immigrants with temporary protected status. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/11/us-extends-work-permits-immigrants-temporary-protected-status/
— The vile evil attacking Erika Kirk must be condemned.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/10/vile-evil-attacking-erika-kirk-must-condemned/
— Could birthright citizenship be the next Roe v. Wade? It took nearly 50 years for conservatives to see Roe v. Wade overturned. They’re hoping it won’t take that long to nix Trump v. Barbara, last month’s decision on birthright citizenship.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/11/could-birthright-citizenship-next-roe-v-wade/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump’s welcome crackdown on illegal immigrant truckers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/4642674/trump-welcome-crackdown-illegal-immigrant-truckers/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Selling Our Birthright. The Myth of Birthright Citizenship: What the Fourteenth Amendment Really Says.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/selling-our-birthright/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Naturalization Acts of 1790 and 1795, which offered citizenship to “any alien, being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years.” . . . 14th Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State where in they reside.”)
NEW YORK POST
— Capitalists fight back: NY Dem launches campaign to counter socialist wave sweeping party.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/11/us-news/ny-democrat-launches-campaign-to-counter-socialist-wave-sweeping-party/
1819
— Combatting the rise of socialism in America
https://1819news.com/news/item/kristin-landers-combatting-the-rise-of-socialism-in-america
AMERICAN THINKER
— Platner may be gone, but the new leftist Democrat party remains. Graham Platner was not an anomaly: The spoiled scion of an affluent family perfectly represents the Jacobin takeover of the Democrat party.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/platner-may-be-gone-but-the-new-leftist-democrat-party-remains/
— Did JD Vance just attack meritocracy and Milton Friedman? Why yes, he did, and that, along with his continued failure to make a clean break from the increasingly lunatic Tucker Carlson, worries me.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/did-jd-vance-just-attack-meritocracy-and-milton-friedman/
BLAZE
— Democratic Socialists of America will seek to RADICALLY upend the federal government in platform update.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/democratic-socialists-new-platform-govt
BREITBART
— Trump Delays Shutdown of Haitians’ Temporary Protected Status. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/07/11/trump-delays-shutdown-of-haitians-temporary-protected-status/amp/
— Los Angeles Gives Free Pass to Illegal Alien Food Vendors While Restaurants Must Comply Or Get Fined and Even Shut Down.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/07/11/exclusive-los-angeles-gives-free-pass-to-illegal-alien-food-vendors-while-restaurants-must-comply-or-get-fined-and-even-shut-down/amp/
CITIZEN FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Immigration Enforcement Has Benefitted American Workers. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://cis.org/Camarota/Has-Immigration-Enforcement-Benefitted-American-Workers
DAILY SIGNAL
— Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., died of a “brief and sudden illness” on Saturday, his Senate office announced early Sunday morning. DD: I remember speaking with Graham at a fundraiser for Henry Hyde.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/12/republican-senator-lindsey-graham-dead-71/
(FROM GOOGLE AI: Senator Lindsey Graham and former Congressman Henry Hyde were key Republican figures who worked together most notably as House managers during the 1998–1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. The two maintained a close political and personal bond, frequently aligning on conservative constitutional principles and the pro-life movement.)
FOX NEWS
— NYC map omits Little Italy. DD: My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Crete was “little Germany” when I lived their 1948-1972.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/die-hard-actor-robert-davi-blasts-mamdani-nyc-map-omits-little-italy
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— White House Report Details the Wokeification of the Smithsonian American History Museum.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/07/white-house-report-details-the-wokeification-of-the-smithsonian-american-history-museum/
PJ MEDIA
— American Houses Are for American People.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/07/12/secretary-turner-american-houses-are-for-american-people-n4954931
— Michigan State University Spends Almost $900,000 on Five DEI Staffers.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/07/11/michigan-state-university-spends-almost-900000-on-five-dei-staffers-n4954930
TOWNHALL
— The ghost of communism is indeed haunting America. How could that be? Didn’t we win the Cold War? In the late 1980s, the Berlin Wall came down, and the Eastern European nations threw off the yoke of Marxist bondage. Then in the early 1990s, the Soviet Union — the “evil empire” as Ronald Reagan called it— imploded.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jerrynewcombe/2026/07/12/is-there-a-spectre-haunting-america-n2679079
— Equal Protection Wasn’t Supposed to Be Negotiable. DD: Federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Unions provide some protection. But GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized when I transferred from IRS in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to take the many big adverse actions against me that they did. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. But even though I was a union member at the time, a) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and b) my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. That was because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are one or more of the aforesaid. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/07/12/equal-protection-wasnt-supposed-to-be-negotiable-n2679251
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: The Democrat Party is ever-increasingly becoming the Socialist Party. DD: To work for a socialist employer is like working for a Democrat employer. The federal government is a Democrat employer. To advance working for a socialist employer you have to be a socialist. To advance working for a Democrat employer you have to be a Democrat. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. If I had been a Democrat, they would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service, currently $197,200/year, long before I was 40. I had earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But my Democrat superiors flushed all that down their toilets because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5962999-democrats-defeat-trump-policies/
CBS NEWS
— DOJ threatens criminal action against states that allow noncitizens to vote.
https://www.aol.com/articles/doj-threatens-criminal-action-against-013522000.html
ASSOCIATE PRESS
— Federal appeals court upholds Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons. DD: According to Google AI, “A semiautomatic firearm automatically performs the reloading steps but requires a separate trigger pull for every individual shot. One Pull, One Round: Pulling and holding the trigger fires only one single bullet. Self-Loading Action: The firearm uses the internal energy of the fired cartridge (gas, recoil, or blowback) to automatically eject the empty casing and chamber a fresh round. Manual Reset: The shooter must completely release (reset) the trigger and pull it again to fire the next shot.”
https://www.aol.com/articles/federal-appeals-court-upholds-illinois-005044000.html
AOL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.aol.com/news/self-deported-mps-teachers-aide-022654449.html
— For Texans making the state’s median household income of $84,084 in 2026, it would take 7.2 years to save enough money for a down payment on a house with the state’s typical home value of $302,187. DD: For you, how many months did it take to save enough money for your first down payment? For me, back in the good old days, it took only 25 months. Where did the money come from for your first down payment? When I was 24 in 1972, HUD made the new townhome that I bought in University Park ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ ) affordable. I could not have afforded to buy that townhome if it had cost more. In today’s dollars, I paid about $180,000 for it and my down payment would have been about $36,000. In today’s dollars, my IRS Revenue Officer salary had just increased from $56,409/year to $68,999/year. The down payment came from what I had earned working for IRS for 15 months and for a Firestone Store part-time for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that. According to Zillow, the townhome is currently worth $92,200. That says worlds about real estate values in University Park.
https://www.aol.com/news/much-longer-texans-must-save-210001679.html
CNBC
— DD: Democrats exist to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/11/worst-states-to-live-in-america-2026.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71. Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas. DD: I remember speaking with Graham at a fundraiser for Henry Hyde.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/us/politics/lindsey-graham-dead.html
(FROM GOOGLE AI: Senator Lindsey Graham and former Congressman Henry Hyde were key Republican figures who worked together most notably as House managers during the 1998–1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. The two maintained a close political and personal bond, frequently aligning on conservative constitutional principles and the pro-life movement.)
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting socialism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/nyregion/dsa-upstate-new-york.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/nyregion/dsa-young-voters-primary-ny.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Teen takeovers confound cities struggling to define the problem — and find solutions. A spate of sometimes violent gatherings has stoked demands for action. But officials know they need to provide outlets for the many teens who are not breaking laws. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers? I did not need an outlet when I was a teen because I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivering mail 1966-1969.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/07/11/teen-takeovers-confound-cities-struggling-define-problem-find-solutions/
— Trump attacks ‘communists.’ Both want a bigger government role in the economy. The president has had the federal government take partial ownership of nearly two dozen companies since returning to the White House.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/12/trump-attacks-communists-pushes-bigger-government-role-economy/
NEW YORK SUN
— Democrats’ Turn to Socialism Offers GOP a Golden Opportunity. The best path Republicans have to defy historical trends and retain both houses of Congress comes in the form of a concerted campaign against far-left policies.
https://www.nysun.com/article/democrats-turn-to-socialism-offers-gop-a-golden-opportunity
USA TODAY
— Lower-income wages catching up with fastest growth in 3 years. DD: What did you do to increase you earning power? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when in 1970 when I was 21. I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 46, and 47. I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2026/07/09/lower-income-wages-fastest-growth-june/90859814007/
FOX BALTIMORE
— Rural Illinois wants to split from Chicago and form a new state, it’s not alone. DD: Democrats despise/hate farms, farming, and farmers. My great grandparents on my father’s side were farmers. My grandparents on my mother’s side were farmers. During the 1950s, I spent lots of time at their farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/rural-illinois-wants-to-split-from-chicago-and-form-a-new-state-its-not-alone-cook-county-idaho-oregon-portland-indiana
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— In New York and Britain, Socialism Is on the March. It’s no longer just vibes; socialists in Britain and elsewhere want to nationalize the means of production. DD: To work for a socialist employer is like working for a Democrat employer. The federal government is a Democrat employer. To advance working for a socialist employer you have to be a socialist. To advance working for a Democrat employer you have to be a Democrat. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. If I had been a Democrat, they would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service, currently $197,200/year, long before I was 40. I had earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But my Democrat superiors flushed all that down their toilets because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/in-new-york-and-britain-socialism-is-on-the-march-1448f618
FORTUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting socialism.
https://fortune.com/2026/07/11/white-collar-socialists-tech-workers-working-class-dsa-members-blue-collar-economic-anxiety/
24/7 WALL STREET
— Musk qualifies for a maximum Social Security benefit of just $5,181 per month ($62,172/year) if he waits until age 70 to claim. DD: My critics/opponents are furious that my Social Security is now $18,712/year and that my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is $68,640/year. In my defense, I paid into Social Security for 10 years and I paid into CSRS for almost 30 years.
https://www.aol.com/articles/elon-musk-world-first-trillionaire-143410000.html
— The 2027 COLA Is Coming. Medicare’s Premium Hike Could Swallow Most of the Raise Before It Hits the Bank. DD: My critics/opponents were, are, and will always be furious a) that I got COLAs when I was a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997 and b) that I have gotten COLAs as a federal retiree since 1997 and as a Social Security recipient since 2010.
https://247wallst.com/personal-finance/2026/07/11/the-2027-cola-is-coming-for-this-retiree-medicares-premium-hike-could-swallow-most-of-the-raise-before-it-hits-the-bank/
MARKETS TODAY
— How the Social Security special minimum benefit works. DD: DD: My critics/opponents were, are, and will always be furious that I benefit from the special minimum benefit. My salary was low when I washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, delivering mail, and pumped more gasoline.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/how-the-social-security-special-minimum-benefit-works/ss-AA25QHUd
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Social Security Special Minimum Benefit was introduced in 1972 to ensure a baseline income for retirees with long histories of low earnings. It is based on years of coverage rather than lifetime average wages, with payments ranging from $53.50 to over $1,100 per month in 2026. Fewer people now qualify due to slower price-indexed growth, but it remains an important safety net, particularly for women and long-term low-wage earners.)
CAPITOL SKYLINE & MOTLEY FOOL
— While higher inflation often creates financial pressure, current projections suggest that the 2027 Social Security COLA could provide an unusual advantage for some retirees. If forecasts hold, next year’s increase may outpace the growth in Medicare Part B premiums for the first time since 2023, allowing many beneficiaries to keep more of their annual raise. DD: My critics/opponents were, are, and will always be furious a) that I got COLAs when I was a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997 and b) that I have gotten COLAs as a federal retiree since 1997 and as a Social Security recipient since 2010.
https://capitolskyline.com/social-securitys-2027-cola-could-bring-an-unexpected/
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2026/07/11/social-security-2027-cola-silver-lining-first-2023/
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://nul.org/news/ice-has-run-rogue-these-governors-and-mayors-are-last-line-defense-american-democracy
REASON
— Public employees are not underpaid. DD: In today’s dollars, when I was 49 in 1997, my salary was only $154,682/year working in the Democrat public sector. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if I had worked in the private sector, I never would have earned that much. In my defense, I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. If I had been a Democrat, my GAO salary would have been $197,200/year in today’s dollars.
https://reason.org/commentary/public-employees-are-not-underpaid/
RECORD
— Your Data Will Be Used Against You. DD: What do your critics/opponents use against you? My critics/opponents use the following against me: a) my demographics, b) my being conservative, c) my being Republican, d) my promoting conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject, e) my having avoided the Vietnam War draft, f) my having been a federal employee for almost 30 years, g) my having been a federal retiree for almost 29 years, h) the lawsuits that I have filed, i) their not being able to manipulate/dominate me, j) my refusing to glorify and praise them, k) my refusing to pander to them, l) my refusing to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, m) my refusing to cover up their wrong doing, and/or n) my refusing to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://therecord.media/your-data-will-be-used-against-you-author-surveillance-technology
PEW RESEARCH
— Dual income, no kids: What we know about ‘DINKs’ in the U.S. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors 1980-1997 a) decried the time and money that they spent raising their children and b) decried the little or no income that their spouses had. They used against me big time a) my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents and b) my wife’s good job. According to them, were it not for the aforesaid, we would not have been able to buy two new cars and a home in Wheaton in when we got married in 1978 and I would not have been able a) to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, c) to earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) to pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) to become a licensed CPA in 1981, or f) to have a home built in Wheaton in 1984. My Democrat GAO superiors ever-increasingly demonized, denigrated, and condemned my wife and I as being disgusting selfish rich DINKs. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/11/03/dual-income-no-kids-what-we-know-about-dinks-in-the-us/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
ECONOMIST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/07/11/checks-and-balance-newsletter-the-weirdness-of-american-socialism
NATURE
— Entrepreneurs v. wage earners. DD: My critics/opponents look down if not despise wage earners. I was a wage earner 1964-1997. Few political candidates, elected officials, and party leaders were wage earners for very long if at all.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-04338-x
Tag: age
July 9, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Chicago FBI boss Doug DePodesta forced to take early retirement over issues of fealty to Trump’s political agenda. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take early retirement when I was 49 in 1997 because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. For them, GAO existed to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. All of my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who were one, several, many, most, if not virtually all of the aforesaid and/or b) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. My critics/opponents side with my Democrat GAO superiors. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/09/chicago-fbi-boss-forced-into-early-retirement-skips-lunch-with-us-attorney-boutros/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson says Chicagoans want a ‘revolution.’ How about competence, Mr. Mayor? Mayoral rhetoric trashing business is really hammering at Chicago’s future.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/09/editorial-mayor-brandon-johnson-says-chicagoans-want-a-revolution-how-about-competence-mr-mayor/
— Chicago’s lead pipe crisis has an immediate fix. It costs $150 per home.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/09/opinion-chicago-lead-service-lines-solution/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to fight voter fraud.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/07/07/voting-rights-trump-georgia-black-native-latino-asian-ben-jealous
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to fight voter fraud.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-reviewing-us-department-justices-threat-prosecute-state-election-officials-noncitizen-voting/19472141/
DAILY EGYPTIAN
— More southern Illinois counties become news deserts as local newspapers close. Arlington Heights-based publishing house Paddock Publications shutters the doors at over half of its downstate newspapers.
https://dailyegyptian.com/124562/showcase/more-southern-illinois-counties-become-news-deserts-as-local-newspapers-close/
WGLT
— Illinois’ U.S. Senate Republican nominee Don Tracy aims to slow cost-of-living increases.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2026-07-08/illinois-u-s-senate-republican-nominee-don-tracy-aims-to-slow-cost-of-living-increases
HYDE PARK HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.hpherald.com/evening_digest/at-pride-south-side-safe-spaces-take-on-new-urgency/article_ef7824bc-f0ff-42c4-ac4b-20337153158e.html
NADIG NEWSPAPERS
— Longtime Nadig Newspapers political columnist Russ Stewart passes away, wrote about 2,500 columns.
https://nadignewspapers.com/longtime-nadig-newspapers-political-columnist-russ-stewart-passes-away-wrote-about-2500-columns/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— After Mass Shooting Linked To Teen Takeover, West Siders Say ‘All Hands On Deck’ Needed. Police and local nonprofits will open an emergency assistance center Wednesday for West Side neighbors impacted after the weekend shooting that wounded seven teens and young adults. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/08/after-mass-shooting-linked-to-teen-takeover-west-siders-say-all-hands-on-deck-needed/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/07/09/indictments-exits-and-an-old-sage-00991088
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/07/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-766/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/07/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-551/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Young People Leaving Illinois Three Times Faster Than National Average.
https://morninganswerchicago.com/mark-glennon-young-people-leaving-illinois-three-times-faster-than-national-average/#google_vignette
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— The Civil War Within Chicago’s Democratic Party.
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/civil-war-chicago-democratic-party
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What motivates you to help elect Republican candidates? For me, it includes their demonstrated commitment and ability to defend and advance the Republican Party platform including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Google AI, “Relevant work experience means any past professional or academic activity that equips you with the transferable skills, knowledge, and abilities needed to perform a specific target job.” GAO Audits IRS. To force me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed a) what I had learned working for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year, b) my having passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, and d) the fact that much of what I did for IRS was similar to what I would do for GAO. They kept me off audits of IRS’s Collection Division for all of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO but did let me work on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years. They would not have wasted my knowledge of IRS if I had been a Democrat, female, or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— New federal probe goes after H-1B visa fraud; Vance says fraudsters are stealing U.S. jobs. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/8/new-federal-probe-goes-h-1b-visa-fraud-jd-vance-says-fraudsters/
NEW YORK POST
— Vance, Labor watchdog launch immigration fraud probe to protect ‘American jobs.’ DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/08/us-news/vance-labor-watchdog-launch-immigration-fraud-probe-to-protect-american-jobs/
— Master’s degrees yielding fewest jobs in 20 years as some businesses uninterested in candidates with advanced education. DD: I spent a tremendous amount of time and money earning a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But my Democrat superiors flushed all that down their toilets because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/21/us-news/masters-degrees-hiring-at-one-of-its-worst-levels-in-20-years-been-a-bit-tough/
— Three illegal immigrants carrying AK-style rifles arrested at US-Mexico border.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/08/us-news/three-illegal-immigrants-carrying-ak-style-assault-rifles-arrested-at-us-mexico-border/
— Southern Poverty Law Center weaponized hate — and hurt the innocent.
https://www.aol.com/articles/southern-poverty-law-center-weaponized-224327000.html
AMERICAN THINKER
— Sanctuary city policies still wrecking American life. Fairfax County, Virginia is in the spotlight today, but the problem is embedded throughout the U.S. DD: Sooner or later, if not already, illegals will harm your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/new-report-shows-sanctuary-city-policies-still-wrecking-american-life/
— Smithsonian natural history museum has gone woke. And it’s time, the Trump administration admits, to do something about it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/smithsonian-natural-history-museum-has-gone-woke/
BLAZE
— Trump fully exposes the rot at the Smithsonian’s American history museum.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/mickey-mouse-represents-blackface-trump-fully-exposes-the-rot-at-the-smithsonians-american-history-museum
BREITBART
— Ten States (Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Washington, and Colorado) Enable Majority of Migrant Truckers Who Can’t Speak English.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/07/08/ten-states-enable-vast-majority-of-migrant-truckers-who-cant-speak-english/amp/
— Socialist Congressional Candidate Melat Kiros: We Can’t Tackle White Supremacy Without Reparations. DD: How much reparations do Democrat leaders want you to pay?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/07/socialist-congressional-candidate-melat-kiros-we-cant-tackle-white-supremacy-without-reparations/
DAILY CALLER
— Illinois Group Wants To Shame Companies Who Work With Firearms Industry. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly diminish Second Amendment rights.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/07/08/illinois-group-shame-companies-firearms-industry/
— Health. DD: What demonstrates your health? For me, it includes my putting together and sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/07/08/mitch-mcconnell-health-problems-joe-biden-missing-congressmen-tom-kean-jr-neal-dunn/
FOX NEWS
— Almost 200 House Dems vote against deporting people who commit welfare fraud.
https://www.aol.com/almost-200-house-dems-vote-213245693.html
JONATHAN TURLEY
— Professor Delights Chicago Crowd With Anti-American and Anti-Border Rant. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonstrate that they are anti-American if not America-haters.
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/07/07/princeton-fk-the-usa-professor-delights-chicago-crowd-with-anti-american-and-anti-border-rant/
TOWNHALL
— We’ve Had Another RINO Amnesty Betrayal. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want America to be dependent on cheap foreign labor. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/07/07/weve-had-another-rino-amnesty-betrayal-n2679000
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The newest traitorous action has been labeled the “Securing Agriculture’s Workforce Act of 2026,” which essentially amounts to allowing for the importation of the third-world to massively undercut American wages in the world of farming. But hey, at least they had the decency to use the English language this time around. The list of supporters is almost entirely Republican. Many of them are extremely vulnerable heading into the midterm elections, with some in races that Democrats are willing to spend millions of dollars on winning. Despite that, the slimeballs feel that it’s right and just to turn their backs on the voters that they need most. Looking at the list of supporters, you’ll notice that a majority are coming from deeply red states. Isn’t it funny how some of our worst “allies” are “representing” the states that should generate the most conservative leadership in the country? Trump has cleaned house of countless turncoats this cycle. Powerful, longtime incumbents are getting an early retirement because they refused to legislate responsibly. Hopefully he can do so once again in 2028.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Americans greatest achievements
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/civil-rights-moon-landings-war-wins-americans-see-countrys-greatest-ac-rcna351598
ASSOCIATED PRESS & NEWSWEEK & NEW YORK TIMES & NEW REPUBLIC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Demographics that vote for Republicans: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Demographics that vote for Democrats: liberal, minority, female, younger, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or non-citizen.
https://www.aol.com/articles/more-fox-news-white-american-122552000.html
https://www.newsweek.com/us-rejects-un-migration-replacement-claims-11939723
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/books/review/chain-of-ideas-ibram-x-kendi.html
https://newrepublic.com/article/208939/transcript-racist-theory-poisoning-politics-across-world
NEW YORK TIMES
— A Job Market Leaving Young Graduates Behind Could Scar Them for Years. DD: I spent a tremendous amount of time and money earning a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But my Democrat superiors flushed all that down their toilets because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/business/college-graduates-job-market.html
USA TODAY
— A knowledge gap, not just the economy, is holding back homebuyers. DD: I learned about buying a new townhome when I bought one in University Park when I was 24 in 1972. I learned about buying condos when I bought one in the Outer Drive East building in 1974 and 1976. My wife and learned about buying a home when we bought one in Wheaton in 1978. We learned about having a home built when we had one built in Wheaton in 1984. We learned about buying Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville when we bought one in 2020, 2023, and 2025.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2026/07/07/improve-odds-buying-home-tips/90741849007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Socialists Spell Trouble for Democrats. They can win in deep-blue districts, but they’ll weigh down the party elsewhere.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/socialists-spell-trouble-for-democrats-98ab1c32
— DD: To destroy Trump, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy America.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/wsj-poll-usa250-capitalism-democracy-940af905
PEOPLE
— America’s Greatest Achievements
https://people.com/united-states-greatest-achievements-in-250-year-history-12009117
NEWS NATION
— Bill O’Reilly pushes personal responsibility amid affordability crisis. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that if they have trouble affording something, it is Trump’s fault. What did you do to help you afford things? I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivering mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/oreilly-pushes-personal-responsibility-amid-affordability-crisis/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: O’Reilly disagreed with Cuomo that underemployment is holding Americans back. He said that if you need money and your job isn’t providing it, it’s up to you to make that change. “If you’re not making any money in your job,” O’Reilly said, “maybe you want to figure out a better job, get more skills. … If I’m in a circumstance where I’m underemployed, then I get more credentials to make more money.”)
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/editors-note/2026/07/09/how-far-can-one-supreme-court-ruling-stretch
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Diversity Is the Enemy of Meritocracy. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who were one, several, many, most, if not virtually all of the aforesaid and/or b) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/ulterior-motives/202607/do-americans-believe-diversity-is-the-enemy-of-meritocracy
July 7, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS2
— Violence interrupter says large gathering on West Side got “out of hand” before mass shooting.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/mass-shooting-west-garfield-park/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/07/opinion-pride-parade-judges-lgbtq-community/
— DD: To get even more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/06/bronzeville-exhibit-emmett-tills-legacy/
DAILY HERALD
— Age change in road tests is not enough.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260706/letters-to-the-editor/age-change-in-road-tests-is-not-enough/
MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— ‘Underdog’ Tracy says he’s ‘answering a call of duty’ by running for Durbin’s seat.
https://muddyrivernews.com/politics/underdog-tracy-says-hes-answering-a-call-of-duty-by-running-for-durbins-seat/20260707061334/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-07-06/militant-lgbtq-rights-group-the-lavender-panthers-was-founded-on-this-day-in-1973
— DD: Democrat leaders used, are using, and will forever use slavery against Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-07-07/heirs-of-odious-supreme-court-ruling-see-modern-parallels
CWB CHICAGO
— 7 people shot at huge West Side street party while cops were already at the scene.
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/07/7-people-shot-at-huge-west-side-street-party-while-cops-were-already-at-the-scene.html
CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— DD: Democrat leaders say “Belittling Chicago didn’t help Darren Bailey in his first run for governor. So if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.”
https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/august-2026/meet-your-new-neighbor-darren-bailey/
CHICAGO MAROON
— Post-graduate success overstated. DD: What was your post-graduate success? When I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 in 1970, I had to have a job. Potential employers saw me as being draft bait. I had applied for a financial hardship draft deferment to help support my mother and brother, but potential employers did not believe it would be granted. So I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was being the Retail Sales Manager for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights. But the job did not really require a college degree. To “learn the business,” I was required to dismount, mount, and balance many tires, pump lots of gasoline, change lots of engine oil and filters, change batteries, deliver major appliances to homes, etc. My Chicago Heights store boss would never had hired me, but his boss had assigned me to him. He did not have a college degree. He refused to let me start until after I passed a 2-week probationary period in the Firestone Store in Gary, Indiana. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. He disapproved of my being Protestant, my being German American, my having ancestors who had been in America since 1844, and my living in Crete. Under him, I saw that my Firestone career was bleak if not nonexistent. Consequently, I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. He rudely if not violently fired me because I had accepted that offer. I had to have a job. So I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was to be an IRS Revenue Officer. Then, oddly, puzzlingly, he then offered me a job working part-time pumping gasoline which I accepted until he “asked” me to resign at the end of 1972. The money I earned helped me a) buy a new Corvette in 1971, b) pay for four graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972, and c) buy a new townhome in University Park in 1972.
https://chicagomaroon.com/52872/news/career-advancement-appears-to-overstate-post-graduation-student-outcomes/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— State House race: Republican Ajay Gupta will be feted at a fundraiser cohosted by U.S. Senate candidate Don Tracy, former Illinois Republican Party Chair Kathy Salvi and Republican insiders Bill Hogan and Nancy Quigley in his bid to unseat Democratic state Rep. Janet Yang Rohr.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/07/07/pritzker-draws-the-ai-line-00988435
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/07/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-764/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois loses young people at more than 3 times the U.S. rate. DD: Anticipate/expect that young people who leave Illinois will overwhelming be conservative, Republican, White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrat leaders want to get rid of those who are the aforesaid.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-loses-young-people-at-more-than-3-times-the-u-s-rate/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago Among Nation’s Most Violent Cities During Fourth of July Holiday Weekend.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/07/chicago-among-nations-most-violent-cities-during-fourth-of-july-holiday-weekend.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— White House says Smithsonian pushes leftist ideology, cannot be trusted to tell America’s story.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/6/white-house-says-smithsonian-pushes-leftist-ideology-cannot-trusted/
— Mamdani’s twisted view of America.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/6/mamdanis-twisted-view-america/
— Soccer’s culture clashes with America’s values.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/6/soccers-culture-clashes-americas-values/
— The 14th Amendment was written for one people. Courts have treated the Constitution’s citizenship clause more broadly than the framers intended.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/6/14th-amendment-written-one-people/
NEW YORK POST
— Activists demand Black English be pushed on kids in California preschools.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/06/us-news/activists-demand-black-english-be-pushed-on-kids-in-california-preschools/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Why Do Jews Keep Voting for Leftists Who Hate Them? DD: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats, and far too many of them were antisemites. My Democrat antisemite superiors had my many Jewish superiors and supervisors take many big adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, and 100% German American.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/why-do-jews-keep-voting-for-leftists-who-hate-them-comments/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Has These Options to Fight Birth Tourism.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/06/even-after-scotus-citizenship-ruling-trump-has-these-options-to-fight-birth-tourism/
— Congress Can Ban Birthright Citizenship.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/06/congress-ban-birthright-citizenship/
FEDERALIST
— Democratic Socialists Who Failed At Life Are Weaponizing Envy To Destroy American Families.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/06/democratic-socialists-who-failed-at-life-are-weaponizing-envy-to-destroy-american-families/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. Working for socialists is like working for Democrats. To advance under socialists, you must be a socialist. To advance under Democrats, you must be a Democrat. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service ($197,200/year) long before I was 40. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, they never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 ($154,682/year) and they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5954347-democratic-party-socialism-debate/
ABC NEWS
— In scathing report, White House accuses Smithsonian of presenting ‘a radical view of American history.’ The Smithsonian says it is committed to “nonpartisan” scholarship.
https://abcnews.com/amp/Politics/scathing-report-white-house-accuses-smithsonian-presenting-radical/story?id=134515705
NEWSWEEK
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. Working for socialists is like working for Democrats. To advance under socialists, you must be a socialist. To advance under Democrats, you must be a Democrat. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service ($197,200/year) long before I was 40. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, they never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 ($154,682/year) and they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-socialists-communists-differences-trump-attacks-midterms-12162129
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. Working for socialists is like working for Democrats. To advance under socialists, you must be a socialist. To advance under Democrats, you must be a Democrat. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service ($197,200/year) long before I was 40. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, they never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 ($154,682/year) and they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/nyregion/dsa-economy-nyc.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. Working for socialists is like working for Democrats. To advance under socialists, you must be a socialist. To advance under Democrats, you must be a Democrat. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service ($197,200/year) long before I was 40. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, they never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 ($154,682/year) and they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/06/democrats-are-electing-socialists-republicans-are-labeling-them-communist/
USA TODAY
— DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they had to meet hiring, retention, and promotion quotas. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran and b) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less education than I had. He had less work experience than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/02/26/trump-lawsuit-affirmative-action/88291520007/
BIG NEWS NETWORK
— Indiana law targets employers hiring undocumented workers. DD: All my employers would have hired non-citizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/279171460/indiana-law-targets-employers-hiring-undocumented-workers
INVESTOPEDIA
— Less than 30% of today’s workers have a defined benefit pension, yet more than half of current retirees receive pension income. Public-sector workers are more likely to have pensions than private-sector workers, and the benefits they pay are typically much larger. DD: I got in line for a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension when I was 18 in 1966. I have been getting a CSRS pension, currently $68,640/year, since I was 49 in 1997. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. In my defense, I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS. Further, I would not have become a postal employee in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to join him in taking the postal employment test. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted because Oldsmobile had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://www.investopedia.com/why-more-retirees-rely-on-pensions-than-most-people-realize-12009683
FINANCE BUZZ
— 12 Jobs Paying Over $100,000 That Are Desperately Short of Workers Right Now. DD: I did not start earning $100,059/year in today’s dollars until I was 25 in 1974 and I had a) earned a bachelor’s degree in business when I was 21, b) worked for IRS for 3 years, and c) completed 11 graduate evening business courses. I did not start earning $118,984/year in today’s dollars until I was 38 and I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, e) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination and became a licensed CPA when I was 32, d) worked for IRS for almost 9 years, and e) worked for GAO for almost 7 years. I did not start earning $154,684/year in today’s dollars until I was 49 and I had a) earned four more job-related professional certifications, b) earned a master’s degree in finance, and b) worked for GAO for almost 18 years.
https://www.aol.com/articles/12-jobs-paying-over-100-115000000.html
FED SMITH
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. They use the subjectivity in their performance rating systems to not promote and to get rid of their Republican employees who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2026/07/07/new-opm-rule-changes-how-your-performance-rating-gets-decided/
MSHALE
— Trump: Government Jobs Won’t Make America Great Again. Fired federal employees now working in the private sector are “getting two or three times more money, and they’re doing well,” President Trump tells NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich during an exclusive one-on-one interview. Trump explains why government jobs are not jobs that “will make America great again.” DD: My critics/opponents despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees. I was a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997 and I have been a federal retiree since 1997. My critics/opponents especially despise/hate federal employees and retirees who like me are Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://mshale.com/89f3eec1/790883edeJYlUDaZ4MQ?__cf_chl_f_tk=R.6A_kFzwfaryQtRoUqhluYYCkdHLqxY4WOS828oI0E-1783413279-1.0.1.1-OiTve12ilPo9dYjzaW_ifBW1CngxP.uH4nKaH5PjZWU
ATLANTIC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. Working for socialists is like working for Democrats. To advance under socialists, you must be a socialist. To advance under Democrats, you must be a Democrat. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service ($197,200/year) long before I was 40. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, they never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 ($154,682/year) and they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/mamdani-affordability-crisis-consumer-socialism/687603/
POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. Working for socialists is like working for Democrats. To advance under socialists, you must be a socialist. To advance under Democrats, you must be a Democrat. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service ($197,200/year) long before I was 40. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, they never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 ($154,682/year) and they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/06/dsa-progressives-wisconsin-michigan-primaries-00986944
AXIOS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. Working for socialists is like working for Democrats. To advance under socialists, you must be a socialist. To advance under Democrats, you must be a Democrat. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service ($197,200/year) long before I was 40. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, they never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 ($154,682/year) and they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/06/democratic-socialists-medicare-for-all
SHRM
— Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat superiors in the federal government never put me on a PIP, but instead, they took many big adverse actions against me. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and b) forced me to resign in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I frustrated their efforts to get rid of me by earning a) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1981, and 1997, c) professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/inconsistent-reasons-provided-performance-plan-suggest-pretext
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
SPECTATOR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. Working for socialists is like working for Democrats. To advance under socialists, you must be a socialist. To advance under Democrats, you must be a Democrat. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service ($197,200/year) long before I was 40. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, they never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 ($154,682/year) and they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://spectator.com/article/why-socialism-will-fail/?edition=us
BUSINESS TIMES
— Forging a career path in the non-profit sector. Many choose to work in the sector for greater flexibility, purpose in their role as life circumstances change. DD: I would not have become a postal employee in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to join him in taking the postal employment test. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted because Oldsmobile had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My critics/opponents despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees. I was a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997 and I have been a federal retiree since 1997. My critics/opponents especially despise/hate federal employees and retirees who like me are Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/lifestyle/forging-career-path-non-profit-sector
July 6, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage Blacks to be LGBTQers.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-pride-2026-south-side-celebrates-lgbtq-community-8th-annual-festival-dusable-black-history-museum/19454298/
CBS2
— Police disperse crowd lighting fireworks in Bridgeview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgRz_nB7gWs
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump rings Wall Street’s opening bells as he ties his presidency to stock market gains.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/06/trump-rings-wall-streets-opening-bells/
— Why teens need summer jobs and why we worry they are disappearing. Part time work makes for one of the best classrooms ever invented. DD: While I was in high school and college, few of my peers did what I did. I took bad jobs. I had to work my way through college. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser. My critics/opponents did not have to take bad jobs because they had wealthy parents. I spent lots of time working the aforesaid jobs. That dragged down my ACT score and my GPA.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/06/summer-job-summer-work-brandon-johnson-teenagers-first-job/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— 7 shot, mostly teens, in West Garfield Park at ‘above and beyond chaotic’ gathering. A 17-year-old girl was in critical condition after she was shot in the chest early Sunday. A few minutes later, at least six people were shot on the same block, according to police. A long-time resident says it’s the result of ongoing rowdy gatherings in the neighborhood. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/07/05/7-shot-west-garfield-park
— DD: Democrat leaders promote the Patriot Front.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/07/05/those-patriotic-front-fellows-seem-confused-about-what-pride-means
— Illinois Democrats weigh pros and cons of using AI — ‘We must remain the master of the technology.’ DD: What does Google AI say about you? It says the following about me: David Diersen is a prominent conservative writer, editor, and political consultant based in Wheaton, Illinois, best known as the founder and editor of GOPUSA ILLINOIS. . .Diersen compiles and curates a highly active, daily aggregate newsletter focusing on Illinois Republican politics, local government news, and community updates. In 2019, he was one of 10 civic applicants who sought appointment to a vacant West District seat on the Wheaton City Council. He operates as an independent political and business consultant through Diersen Consulting. . .he holds four degrees from prominent Illinois universities. M.S. in Finance (1992 – 1997) – Illinois Institute of Technology, specializing in Financial Markets and Trading. M.S. in Accounting (1976 – 1980) – DePaul University (Driehaus College of Business). M.B.A. in Personnel Management (1972 – 1976) – Loyola University Chicago (Quinlan School of Business). B.S. in Management (1969 – 1970) – Northern Illinois University. High School Diploma (Class of 1966) – Crete-Monee High School. . .Diersen is a retired federal employee who is widely known for his daily, unpaid work compiling conservative political news. Current Status: Consultant at Diersen Consulting and independent political news aggregator. His background includes historical service with the Internal Revenue Service. He successfully passed his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) exams on his first attempts, he is primarily known for his career with the federal government and his subsequent involvement in Illinois Republican politics. Diersen worked for nearly 18 years as a Senior Evaluator for the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) from 1980 to 1997, where he audited federal agencies and programs. He took an early retirement at age 49, which he publicly stated was due to conflict with supervisors regarding his opposition to race- and gender-based preferences and his involvement in a related class-action lawsuit. (Diersen ads that he became a licensed CPA (#065012844, inactive since 2000) when he was 32 in 1981.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/us-house/2026/07/06/illinois-democrats-congress-artificial-intelligence-usage
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Gary Sinise’s Lt. Dan Band returns to Cantigny to support West Suburban Foundation for Disabled Veterans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260705/news/gary-sinises-lt-dan-band-returns-to-cantigny-to-support-west-suburban-foundation-for-disabled-vete/
— White House report brands Smithsonian leadership as radical activists who can’t be trusted.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260705/news/white-house-report-brands-smithsonian-leadership-as-radical-activists-who-cant-be-trusted/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Downtown Chicago condo market gets its wings clipped again. DD: While I worked for IRS in the Loop, I bought a one-bedroom unit in the Outer Drive East building when I was 27 in 1976 for $50,000 and sold it for $60,000 in 1978.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/real-estate/residential/ccb-condo-adjustments20260702/
(FROM GOOGLE AI: One-bedroom units in the famous Outer Drive East building (400 E Randolph St) in Chicago’s New Eastside are typically priced between $225,000 to $250,000 for buyers, or rent for around $2,250/month. These 650 to 825 sq. ft. condos include resort-style amenities like a geodesic domed indoor pool, health club, and a private shuttle.
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— AUGUST 16, 2012 FLASHBACK: GOPUSA ILLINOIS NEWSLETTERS: A bunch of political info.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2012/08/16/bernard-schoenburg-bunch-political-info/41733104007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There are lots of websites that compile political news, and I think it’s time I share one that I find quite interesting. It’s at www.gopillinois.com, and, as you can tell by its address, it has a Republican flavor. That is an understatement reinforced with the comments added by the compiler himself — DAVID DIERSEN of Wheaton. He introduced a recent UPI story about Republicans’ views on the drought and wildfires by saying: “Democrats blame everything bad, including bad weather, on Republicans, especially on Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor and non-veteran.” And talking of a New York Times article about a photographer arrested while on assignment in the Bronx, Diersen wrote that since 2000, he has been thrown out of, barred from, or not advised of news conferences “by Democrats, Democrat plants, RINOs (Republicans in name only), their operatives, and their dupes.” Thus, if you don’t want to read some very pointed comments, you may not want to go to gopillinois.com. But you would be missing a treasure of links to the day’s news and opinion. Diersen, 63, is a retired federal employee who became the Illinois editor of a national GOP website in 2000, and since 2004 has put out his own Illinois compilation every day. There’s usually about 50 articles daily, he says. He’s generally up by 3 a.m. He says he spends at least 10 hours a day on this passion of his, with no pay, and has put out links to more than 117,000 articles. As his comments above hinted, party regulars don’t always greet his work with relish. He includes dissident voices within the GOP tent, and some whose credibility is questionable. But he puts it all out there. He’s a GOP precinct committeeman, and he believes in people having information. He also wants to help elect Republican candidates who “will defend and advance the party’s platform.” The site makes available plenty of Diersen history, too, including how his “liberal Democrat superiors,” in his view, forced him to take early retirement at 49 from the U.S. General Accounting Office, “because of his opposition to race and gender based preference and his participation in a class action lawsuit” on that subject. He wouldn’t mind my telling you that he also passed his CPA and Certified Internal Auditor exams on first attempts more than three decades ago. Agree or disagree with him, but Diersen provides a bunch of interesting information — every day.)
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/07/06/dems-convention-conundrum-00987481
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Trump v. Barbara: Another Supreme Court Black Mark
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2026/07/01/trump-v-barbara-another-supreme-court-black-mark
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Unless Congress does their job of legislating, Chinese Communists can send over pregnant tourists and students to give birth to American citizens who will grow up in Communist China and be raised by parents whose allegiance will be to the Chinese Communist government. And foreigners of child-bearing age will be further incentivized to break our border laws in order to secure not only American taxpayer-funded goodies but also the blessings of American Citizenship.)
— University of Illinois & Daughters of the British Empire Host “Whole Family” Drag Tea Party
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2026/07/03/university-of-illinois-daughters-of-the-british-empire-host-whole-family-drag-tea-party
MILTON TOWNSHIP GOP
— Pre-parade pictures
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1463389885833484&set=pcb.1463392232499916
CARL SCHULTZ
— Pre-parade pictures
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1333752018728666&set=pcb.10162871552677267
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— GOP Primary Voters Remain Deeply Supportive of Israel.
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/gop-primary-voters-remain-deeply
NEW YORK POST
— Scared Hakeem Jeffries rolls out the red carpet for DSA extremists — while they prep to feast on his carcass.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/05/opinion/scared-hakeem-jeffries-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-dsa-extremists-while-they-prep-to-feast-on-is-carcass/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Instead of celebrating America’s 250th, Pope Leo honored Muslim migrants.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/instead-of-celebrating-america-s-250th-pope-leo-honored-muslim-migrants/
— Democrats Struggle to Contain the Spread of Communism in Their Party
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/mamdomino-theory-democrats-struggle-to-contain-the-spread-of-communism-in-their-party/
— Fixing the Chicago public schools.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/fixing-the-chicago-public-schools/
— Declaration of independence or dependence? DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. According to Democrat leaders, you cannot succeed in America without massive government assistance. If I had listened to Democrat leaders, because I was never in line to get government assistance, I would not have even tried to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree like I did in 1970 let alone a) three job-related master’s degrees like I did in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) six job-related professional certifications like I did in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) a job-related professional license like I did in 1981.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/declaration-of-independence-or-dependence/
BLAZE
— Pritzker says he’s one of the good billionaires, not the ones vilified by socialists.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/jb-pritzker-billionaire-ban-socialist
BREITBART
— Radical leftist Bill Ayers and a Princeton University professor led an event on Friday, the eve of America’s 250th birthday, called “250 Years of Resistance” in Democrat-run Chicago, Illinois.
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2026/07/05/watch-leftist-bill-ayers-and-princeton-professor-mark-fourth-of-july-at-250-years-of-resistance-event-fk-the-usa/
— New York’s First Lady Ditches America 250 to Attend Muslim Retreat on Spanish Resort Island.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/07/05/33196067new-yorks-first-lady-ditches-america-250-to-attend-muslim-retreat-on-spanish-resort-island/
DAILY SIGNAL
— News of Woke’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/05/woke-death-greatly-exaggerated/
EPOCH TIMES
— On 250th Anniversary, a Look Back at Gun Ownership in America.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/on-250th-anniversary-a-look-back-at-gun-ownership-in-america-6042334
FEDERALIST
— America’s Anti-American Public Schools Are Destroying What The Declaration Gave Us.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/03/americas-anti-american-public-schools-are-destroying-what-the-declaration-gave-us/
NEWSMAX
— Smithsonian Pushes Woke US History.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/white-house-smithsonian-woke/2026/07/05/id/1261835/
— Sanctuary policies cost lives.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/rep-mcclintock-to-newsmax-sanctuary-policies-cost-lives/ar-AA271jl8
HOT AIR
— Congress Can Ban Birthright Citizenship. Here’s How.
https://hotair.com/josh-hammer/2026/07/05/congress-can-still-ban-birthright-citizenship-heres-how-n3816599
TOWNHALL
— Chip Away at Birthright Citizenship Until We Can Finish It Off Entirely.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/07/06/chip-away-at-birthright-citizenship-until-we-can-finish-it-off-entirely-n2678807
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— 14th Amendment ‘devalued’ by ‘birthright tourism’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5954053-mike-johnson-birthright-tourism-14th-amendment/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters deride Trump, so Trump derides them back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/us/politics/trump-speech-fourth-july.html
— DD: How has EEOC impacted you? EEOC had a tremendous impact on me. When I was 22 in 1971, I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had accepted that offer, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me. Because of that, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/us/politics/trump-dei-order-eeoc-discrimination.html
— DD: When I was 49 in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors not only succeeded in forcing me to retire, they succeeded in making it impossible for me to get a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license. I should write about that. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. They would not have done that if I had not complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. They would not have done that if I had not became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with the aforesaid when I was 40 in 1988.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/my-husband-cant-get-a-job-should-i-divorce-him.html
USA TODAY
— Congress should restrict birthright citizenship.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/05/mike-johnson-birthright-citizenship-bill/90814782007/
— SAT/ACT return as student readiness questioned. DD: What harmed your SAT/ACT score? My ACT score was only 24. I spent far too many hours washing dishes in the basement of the SS Kresge in Chicago Heights instead of studying 1964-1966. My plan was to earn enough money to buy a new car to commute to/from classes at UIC and my patents’ home in Crete.
https://www.aol.com/articles/sat-returns-student-readiness-questioned-080035437.html
— Many retiring without spending plans. DD: My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2026/06/24/401k-savings-how-spend-wirhdrawal/90658270007/
— For under-40 Americans, buying a first home has never been harder. DD: Back in the good old days, I was able to buy a new townhome in University Park when I was 24 in 1972.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2026/07/03/home-prices-mortgage-rates-first-time-buyers-millennials/90773681007/
LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL
— Deport illegals to reduce inequality. DD: Illegals make those who poor in America even poorer.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/victor-joecks-deport-illegals-to-reduce-inequality/ar-AA27exbg
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Evanston’s Race Reparations in the Dock. The Justice Department joins a case on race-based payments for long-ago discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/evanstons-race-reparations-in-the-dock-e88a8c80
— Last year, 49% of adults under age 30 lived with a parent, up 12 percentage points from 2019, according to the Federal Reserve. DD: My father died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969. He was earning $50,000/year in today’s dollars. My mother had never attended high school, she had never worked outside the home, and my brother was having problems. I graduated from NIU and I got a job working for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights in 1970. I applied for and I got a financial hardship draft deferment and I helped support them in Crete until September of 1972.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/living-with-parents-finances-0c35530c
— For a Good Job by 30, Do This in Your 20s. DD: I earned a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21 in 1970. I earned an MBA when I was 27. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30. I earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32. I became a licensed CPA when I was 32. I earned four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. But by then, it was too late. My Democrat superiors in the federal government had taken too many adverse actions against me. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests when I was 19 and 20 and forced me to resign when I was 20. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers when I was 25, disallowed my education deductions when I was 29, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to retire when I was 49.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/best-chance-good-job-career-20s-c6540375
— 3 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your First 401(k). DD: Ever-since my wife and I got married in 1978, my critics/opponents have always been furious that we always put the maximums allowed into tax-deferred retirement accounts.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/first-401k-vesting-roth-fees-472152e6
— Democrats Are Seizing on Trump’s Soaring Wealth. DD: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government were filled with envy. They were ever-increasingly furious at my and my wife’s ever-increasing net worth.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democrats-are-seizing-on-trumps-soaring-wealth-as-a-campaign-opportunity-66243558
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Disparate impact. DD: Hiring, retention, and promotion requirements have a disparate impact against those who are Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. 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. I would not have survived as a federal employee for almost 30 years if I had not a) passed the postal employment test when I was 17 in 1966, b) passed the Federal Entrance Examination when I was 21, c) earned a bachelor’s degree in business when I was 21, d) earned an MBA when I was 27, e) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, f) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, g) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, h) became a licensed CPA when I was 32, i) earned four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and j) earned a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran and b) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less education than I had. He had less work experience than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. Overwhelmingly, those who passed the tests and examinations to earn the aforesaid degrees, certifications and license with me were White males.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/eeoc-targets-worker-selection-english-only-rules-in-new-agenda
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
— Want Workers to Reskill? Show Them Who They Can Become. DD: Have you reskilled? I had to reskill and I did big time. In 1988, when I was 40, my Democrat GAO superiors made it clear that they would never again assign me to audits of IRS. Because of that, in 1990, I volunteered for and I got accepted by their group that audited federal financial agencies. The leader of that group wanted/demanded that her subordinates have master’s degrees in finance. So I started taking graduate evening finance courses one at a time at IIT in 1992 and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997. But my Democrat GAO superiors flushed that down their toilets when they forced me to retire in 1997.
https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/want-workers-to-reskill-show-them-who-they-can-become
LA PROGRESSIVE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do more to destroy traditional marriage and family. According to my Democrat GAO superiors, if I had not gotten married in 1978, we would not have been able to buy two new cars and a home in Wheaton in when we got married in 1978 and I would not have been able a) to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) to afford to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, c) to earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) to pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) to become a licensed CPA in 1981, or f) to have a home built in Wheaton in 1984.
https://www.laprogressive.com/gender-discrimination/stephanie-coontz-the-marriage-crisis-is-really-a-crisis-of-inequality
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
YOUTUBE
— Left-wing believes 1619 is America’s ‘real’ anniversary. DD: How long have your ancestors been in America? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use slavery to demonize, denigrate, and condemn not only Republicans, but America. Ever-increasingly, if you are the following, the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that Democrat leaders demonize, denigrate, and condemn you: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American. Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI are reparations. Because I am all of the aforesaid, Democrat leaders have always made me pay the price of AA and DEI big time. I should write about that. My critics/opponents have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. That on my father’s side, they homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete Township and that on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a 180-acre farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. According to my critics/opponents, my ancestors stole land from Native Americans and they benefitted tremendously from slavery and that is why I have everything that I have today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDkvsJxaUt4
July 4, 2026
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hopefully, all the following Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct will walk in today’s Wheaton Independence Day parade: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. Since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Wheaton in 1999, I have encouraged Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to walk in the parades. In 2003, the day after all the announced Republican candidates for U.S. Senate (Cox, Kathuria, McKenna, Oberweis, and Ryan) walked in the parade, they all attended a picnic that I had organized in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. More than 200 attended. U.S. Senate candidate Obama and his wife walked in the parade in 2004. In 2005, I started raising $2,500/year from Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders to help sponsor the parade and fireworks. Each year I would hand-deliver 500 parade flyers to the homes and businesses along the parade route. In 2007, I raised $2,000 on short notice for an elephant to walk behind Roskam in the parade. But my critics/opponents ended my fundraising in 2021 by having the Wheaton Park District stop parade and fireworks sponsorships. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take many other big adverse actions against me. They say they want to de-politized the parade, but in fact, they want to keep Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders out of the parade. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing a) glorify and praise current illegal immigration by non-Whites into America but b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn past legal immigration by Whites into America. My critics/opponents have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. That on my father’s side, they homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete Township and that on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a 180-acre farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Google AI, “Taking one master’s course at a time isn’t lazy; it’s a pragmatic strategy for balancing rigorous graduate-level work with a demanding career, family obligations, and personal well-being. It is highly endorsed by professionals and academics alike for managing your cognitive load and avoiding burnout.” I took only one course at time when I earned my MBA from Loyola 1972-1976, my master’s degree in accounting from DePaul 1976-1980, and my master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT 1992-1997. But by then, it was too late. I did not take more than one course at a time because of tuition and book expense and because my main focus was my IRS and GAO jobs. Commuting to/from a) an evening class at UIC from Crete 1971, b) evening classes at Loyola from Crete in 1972, and c) evening classes at Loyola from University Park 1972-1974 was a hassle. When IRS promoted me to a job in the Loop in 1974, I immediately bought an Outer Drive East studio condo so I could walk to/from work and classes at Loyola. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois lawmaker Harry Benton resigns after ethics investigation, growing pressure. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They refused to put their reason for doing that in writing. Their reason was to punish me and to make an example of me for my having been an active member in a class action lawsuit since 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-lawmaker-rep-harry-benton-plainfield-resigns-ethics-investigation-pressure-speaker-emanuel-welch/19443581/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: House Republicans criticized Welch for keeping details confidential for months. House Republican Leader Tony McCombie said the situation reflects “the hypocrisy of this, the lack of accountability, the lack of transparency,” adding, “Release the report, let the public know, especially his own constituents know what this outrageous behavior is.”)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois Rep. Harry Benton resigns after investigation into conduct Speaker Welch called ‘outrageous’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/03/illinois-state-rep-harry-benton-resigns-amid-ethics-probe-speaker-welch-called-unbecoming-conduct/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks, and at everyone else, that Republicans have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have. I should write about the successes and the failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had shouting at my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I caused all their problems. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less education than I had. He had less work experience than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had (CPA).
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/07/03/america-250-civil-rights-voting-rights-black-immigrants-birthright-marc-morial
STATELINE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly diminish Second Amendment rights.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/pritzker-defends-illinois-assault-ban/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Survey: 86% of respondents said they are grateful to be American and 70% believe the nation’s founding principles remain relevant. However, nearly half of Americans (46%) don’t know that America’s 250th anniversary commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. DD: Democrats run education in America.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-07-03/nearly-half-of-americans-surveyed-dont-know-what-america-250-commemorates
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Pritzker Signs Bill Letting Illinois Residents Choose Their Gender on State IDs Without Medical Proof. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more LGBTQ and b) destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/07/pritzker-signs-bill-letting-illinois-residents-choose-their-gender-on-state-ids-without-medical-proof.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— America’s deadly delusion: Citizenship without assimilation. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight assimilation. Sadly, my ancestors were slow to assimilate. Consequently, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. All my grandparents spoke German.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4634754/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-without-assimilation/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Two birthdays apart. The mood is unmistakably different from the Bicentennial celebrations of 1976; can we rekindle a shared sense of patriotism and purpose? DD: What were you doing in 1976? I was 27 years old. I had worked for IRS for 5 years and in its Loop office for 2 years. In today’s dollars, my salary was $106,731/year. That year, I earned an MBA from Loyola and I started taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I traded in my studio condo in the Outer Drive East building to its developer for a one bedroom condo. I started renting out my University Park townhome that I had bought 4 years earlier. I owned a 1972 Corvette and my daily driver was a 1962 Chevrolet BelAir. Efforts by my Democrat IRS superiors to get rid of me were increasing. They had gotten rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. They had disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. They were making it ever-increasingly clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. My widowed mother and my brother lived in Crete.
my salary was https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/two-birthdays-apart/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Dems rage after Florida bans illegals from attending state colleges.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/07/03/dems-rage-after-florida-bans-illegals-from-attending-state-colleges-1649206/
BREITBART
— 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones: ‘Entire Existence of the United States’ Is a ‘Crime.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing a) glorify and praise current illegal immigration by non-Whites into America but b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn past legal immigration by Whites into America. My critics/opponents have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. That on my father’s side, they homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete Township and that on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a 180-acre farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/03/reparations-nikole-hannah-jones-entire-existence-united-states-crime/
CAMPUS REFORM
— An anonymous student posted a message on an app called ‘Fizz’ implying that people who agree with assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk should be murdered as well. DD: What attitudes toward Kirk do liberals and moderates, that is, anti-conservatives, have in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.campusreform.org/article/exclusive-agree-charlie-kirk-deserve-go-like-him-anonymous-student-says/30092
— DD: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/columbia-university-course-teaches-presumed-whiteness-ideal-american-citizen/30194
DAILY SIGNAL
— Democratic Socialists of America Against America 250
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/03/democratic-socialists-of-america-lefts-deep-hatred-america-we-celebrate-250th-anniversary/
EPOCH TIMES
— 10 Charts Show How America Has Changed in 250 Years
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/10-charts-show-how-america-has-changed-in-250-years-6030681
FEDERALIST
— Five Justices Put Birth Tourism Beyond The Reach Of Democracy.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/03/scotus-birthplace-citizenship-decision-is-john-roberts-roe-v-wade/
FOX NEWS
— Priebus: Democrat antisemitism: This is a leadership problem, not a messaging problem.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6400076970112
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Why Public Policy Schools Aren’t Working. DD: My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-public-policy-schools-arent-working/
PATRIOT JOURNAL
— Democratic Party Considering Name Rebrand After Socialist Candidates Sweep.
https://pjnewsletter.com/carville-formal-schism-socialist/
TOWNHALL
— America’s Homelessness System Must Pursue Self-Sufficiency, Not Simply Housing. DD: The Democrat Party platform discourages self-sufficiency. It discourages personal responsibility. It promotes dependency on government and charity. It promotes LGBTQ, that is, it promotes the destruction of traditional marriage and family. It promotes vices. It promotes blaming conservative Republicans for all problems. It promotes hatred against conservative Republicans.
https://townhall.com/columnists/michele-steeb/2026/07/03/americas-homelessness-system-must-pursue-self-sufficiency-not-simply-housing-n2678801
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS & ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more illegal immigration.
https://apnews.com/article/pope-july-4-immigration-migrants-lampedusa-1dd8b2964586f719e99faf4aaeaaf205
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/pope-marks-july-4-praying-lampedusa-migrants-died-134465857
REUTERS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump by demonizing, denigrating, and condemning America.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/america-turns-250-museums-parks-fight-preserve-countrys-troubled-history-2026-07-03/
NEWSWEEK
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Needless-to-say, that will destroy America. Those who have demographics that vote for Democrats want/need/demand massive government assistance. They lack education and/or job skills. They have health problems and/or other problems. They ever-increasingly reject capitalism and demand socialism. They ever-increasingly destroy a) those who do not share their religion and b) those who do not share their national origin. They ever-increasingly display hatred against conservatives.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-immigration-shape-future-america-three-scenarios-12145210
— Karoline Leavitt Calls Out Gen Z for Being Lazy. DD: What shows that you are not lazy? For me, it includes my earning three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job related professional license. But my critics stress that I did not earn the master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, that I did not earn the professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and that I did not earn the professional license until I was 32. By then, it was far too late.
https://www.newsweek.com/karoline-leavitt-calls-out-gen-z-for-being-lazy-12155281
MSN
— Level up your career with the right credentials. Certifications and licenses validate your expertise, enhance credibility, and often lead to higher salaries and faster career advancement. DD: My biggest accomplishments in life include my a) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 in 1979, b) passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) becoming a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) becoming a Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) becoming a Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, f) becoming a Forensic Accountant in 1997, and g) becoming a FINRA Arbitrator in 1998. Of course, my critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled the aforesaid.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/level-up-your-career-with-the-right-credentials/ss-AA277CsY
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: America-haters crow about their successes. Birthright citizenship advocates ever-increasingly make clear that they want to replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.latimes.com/delos/newsletter/2026-07-03/birthright-citizenship-win-supreme-court-latinos
BALITMORE SUN
— DD: America-haters crow about their successes. Birthright citizenship advocates ever-increasingly make clear that they want to replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/07/03/how-far-will-birthright-citizenship-go/
POST INDEPENDENT
— July 4 should not only be a celebration of our independence but also a celebration of our country’s unprecedented success in establishing freedom, opportunity, safety and economic effectiveness.
https://www.postindependent.com/opinion/whiting-column-independence-requires-responsibility/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “What has America done that’s so special?” has become a common accusation. To begin with, we came to the equivalent of a third world country and, in less than a century, established a culture possessing a level of freedom, values, and economic and political effectiveness greater than any country from which we came. If more tangibility is desired: We ended slavery in the face of its continued world presence. We eliminated the threats accompanying Hitler, Hirohito and Khrushchev and continue to protect other freedom-loving countries that do not have the capacity to do so themselves. We lead in scientific advancements, including space exploration. Our level of humanitarian and disaster relief is greater than the rest of the world combined. All one need do is travel and get away from the resorts to realize others do not possess our degree of freedom, opportunity and quality of life, and to understand why others not only desire but risk getting here. Listening to foreign World Cup spectators rave about the availability of food, products, services and freedom of movement reinforces that what we possess is not commonplace.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Attacks Socialists as He Speaks From Mount Rushmore. In speech honoring America’s 250th birthday, Trump says the American identity is under assault.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/donald-trump-mount-rushmore-695ff38e
— The Founders Are Why America Is Rich. That Legacy Is at Risk. Checks, balances and trust in personal agency made the U.S. a haven for entrepreneurs and wealth creation.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/american-institutions-founding-fathers-wealth-056bbee8
— With Expletive-Laced Flex, DSA Co-Chair Puts Dems On Notice.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/with-expletive-laced-flex-dsa-co-chair-puts-dems-on-notice-7d781517
— How to Build a Better Retirement-Spending Plan Than the 4% Rule. DD: My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is less than what my IRS salary was when I was 23 in 1972 in today’s dollars.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/retirement-planning-4-percent-rule-d5ba3a0b
FORBES
— DD: Democrats and RINOs have always, are now, and will always use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adiaharveywingfield/2026/04/28/employment-discrimination-continues-can-the-eeoc-still-address-it/
MOTLEY FOOL
— Millions of Americans Are Retiring Earlier Than They’d Planned To. You may face multiple problems if you’re forced to retire early. DD: The more of the following that you are, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. My Democrat GAO superiors’ forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. That continues to cause me tremendous problems.
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2026/06/14/millions-of-americans-retiring-earlier-than-plan/
RON SMITH LAW
— Fired for cause. DD: Have adverse actions been taken against you “for cause?” My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that GAO forced me to retire “for cause” when I was 49 in 1997. They stress the adverse actions that my GAO superiors had taken against me previously. 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 forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Previously, my IRS superiors had never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. Previously, my Post Office superiors had forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that Democrats run GAO, Democrats despise/hate Republicans, and I have always been a Republican, b) that all my GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors who took the aforesaid actions against me were Democrats, c) that I had been an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation since 1988, and d) that I had ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I must have been guilty of “gross malfeasance or negligence” or even worse things because the many big aforesaid adverse actions were taken against me even though I had a) earned job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, b) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1981, and 1976, and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.lawwv.com/blog/2021/june/what-does-it-mean-to-be-fired-for-cause-/
ROBERT REICH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing a) glorify and praise current illegal immigration by non-Whites into America but b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn past legal immigration by Whites into America. My critics/opponents have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. That on my father’s side, they homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete Township and that on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a 180-acre farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/america-should-offer-asylum-for-the
NATRIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
— DD: America-haters crow about their successes. Birthright citizenship advocates ever-increasingly make clear that they want to replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://nul.org/news/citizenship-birthright-weve-earned-and-intend-keep
SPLC
— SPLC turns Native Americans against Whites.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/america-250-indigenous-perspective/
— Young Americans rethink the Fourth of July. DD: What makes you proud to be American? For me, it includes my being able to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 when I was 21, job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 46, and 47, and a job-related professional license when I was 32 EVEN THOUGH a) neither of my parents attended college, b) my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, d) he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969, e) my mother never attended high school, f) my ACT score was only 24, g) I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and h) I had to work my way through college. Further, I was able a) to buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., b) to buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., and c) to get married when I was 29.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hopewatch/young-americans-thoughts-fourth-july/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
AL JAZEERA
— DD: America-haters crow about their successes. Birthright citizenship advocates ever-increasingly make clear that they want to replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/7/4/at-250-america-is-still-deciding-who-belongs
July 1, 2026 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump pushes legislation to end birthright citizenship after SCOTUS decision. House Speaker Johnson says Congress will discuss a constitutional amendment.
https://abc7chicago.com/story/president-trump-pushes-legislation-end-birthright-citizenship-scotus-decision/19427323/
— DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-says-he-thinks-us-president-donald-trump-has-dementia-during-cnn-interview/19430261/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3JgY5_b2PQ
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote E. Jean Carroll against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jean-carroll-attorneys-say-time-pay-scotus-rejects-trump-appeal/19431342/
NBC5
— Dozens of shots fired in ‘gang-on-gang’ attack in River North that left 1 dead. Downtown Alderman Brendan Reilly requested “increased late-hour police presence in downtown Chicago during the summer months and especially heading into the July 4th weekend” in response to the shooting.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dozens-of-shots-fired-in-gang-on-gang-attack-in-river-north-that-left-1-dead/3956149/
FOX32
— Court blocks Trump administration’s student loan forgiveness overhaul. DD: I had to work my way through college and I did. But my GPA suffered. I spent far too many hours delivering mail instead of studying.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/court-blocks-trump-administrations-student-loan-forgiveness-overhaul
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Congress created Public Service Loan Forgiveness in 2007 to encourage college graduates to work in government and nonprofit jobs. The Trump administration’s overhaul amounted to a major reworking of a program that has canceled loans for more than 1 million Americans.)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders and other anti-Americans ever-increasingly encourage pregnant women who are citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/30/editorial-on-the-birthright-matter-the-u-s-constitution-is-pretty-clear/
— Illinois Speaker Welch calls on Rep. Harry Benton to resign. DD: My Democrat Post Office superiors called for me to resign and succeeded in forcing me to resign in 1969 by falsely claiming that I was not available to work enough part-time hours. I was available to work every Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Holiday, and every day that NIU was not in session. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. My Democrat GAO superiors called for me to retire and succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 by threatening me with severe adverse actions if I did not retire. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/01/illinois-speaker-welch-calls-on-rep-harry-benton-to-resign-after-probe-of-his-conduct/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago marijuana mogul gets year in prison for laundering cash used to book jets for cocaine trafficker. DD: In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2026/07/01/cannabis-marijuana-berger-ivy-hall-illinois
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/06/30/supreme-court-says-states-can-ban-trans-girls-from-playing-womens-sports
WAND TV
— Illinois launches America 250 website, events celebrating state history. DD: My ancestors have lived in northeast Illinois since 1844, mainly in Crete and in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/illinois/illinois-launches-america-250-website-events-celebrating-state-history/article_75fbc74a-d0b2-4640-93ba-389e5930da16.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— How valuable is a college degree? DD: If I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970. If I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have hired me in 1971. If I have not been taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, my Democrat IRS superiors would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If I had not earned an MBA from Loyola and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have hired me in 1980.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-30/statewide-how-valuable-is-a-college-degree
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more voter fraud.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-07-01/a-federal-law-bans-late-voter-roll-purges-republicans-are-pushing-to-reinterpret-it
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Duckworth blasts Trump refusal to sign housing bill. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors refused to promote me beyond GS-13. My Democrat IRS superiors refused to promote me beyond GS-12. My Democrat Post Office superiors refused to promote me beyond GS-4. Beyond that, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors a) disallowed my education deductions in 1978 and b) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/il-dems-blast-trump-refusal-to-sign-housing-bill/article_75f125b2-909e-4aad-aba1-018826a321a0.html
ILLINOIS PUBLIC MEDIA
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/as-pride-month-ends-midwest-splits-on-lgbtq-rights
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS & CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— New Illinois Republican Party chair hopes for ‘JB fatigue’ in tough midterm. More consistent fundraising, better unity part of Bob Grogan’s long-term goals. DD: Far too many Republican leaders in Illinois not only fail/refuse to promote the Republican Party platform, they get rid of Republicans like me who promote the platform.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/new-illinois-republican-party-chair-hopes-for-jb-fatigue-in-tough-midterm/
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-republican-party-illinois-midterms-20260701/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “We have to go back to the Reagan rule, where if somebody agrees with us 80% of the time, they’re not a 20% traitor,” Grogan said. “You know, they are actually part of our team, and that our entire Republican team is better than the entire Democratic team, and we need to pull together. We can’t purge our way to 51%” of the vote.)
CITY OF WHEATON
— 1976 – The Bicentennial We Remember. DD: My wife and I bought a home in Wheaton in 1978 and we had one built in Wheaton in 1984 because it was overwhelmingly religious, conservative, and Republican.
https://www.wheaton.il.us/1422/1976-The-Bicentennial-We-Remember
RAMIREZ
— DD: Democrat leaders and other anti-Americans ever-increasingly encourage pregnant women who are citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America.
https://ramirez.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ramirez-sen-markey-introduce-resolution-reaffirm-congresss-commitment
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/07/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-548/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Because of the Supreme Court birthright ruling and because of the tremendous benefits of American citizenship, more and more and more pregnant women who are citizens of foreign countries will give birth in America. What will they do with their babies? – Dave Diersen
http://www.goillinoius.com
(ACCORDING TO GOOGLE AI: United States citizenship unlocks exclusive civic, legal, and economic privileges that are unavailable to lawful permanent residents (green card holders). The most critical advantage is absolute protection from deportation, guaranteeing your right to remain in the U.S. permanently. The primary benefits of U.S. citizenship are divided into several key categories: Civic and Political Rights Voting Power: You gain the exclusive right to vote in federal elections and influence national leadership. Public Office: You become eligible to run for elected positions, including the U.S. Congress. Jury Service: You can participate directly in the legal system by serving on a jury. Expanded Family Immigration Priority Sponsorship: You can sponsor immediate relatives (spouse, parents, minor children) with no annual visa caps or wait times. Extended Family: You gain the unique ability to petition for adult siblings and married children. Automatic Citizenship for Kids: Minor children with permanent residency automatically derive citizenship when you naturalize. Children Born Abroad: In most cases, your children born outside the U.S. automatically become citizens. Global Mobility and Freedom Powerful Passport: You can travel visa-free or visa-on-arrival to more than 180 destinations globally. No Travel Restrictions: You can stay outside the U.S. indefinitely without risk of abandoning your residency status. Consular Assistance: You receive full protection and support from U.S. embassies and consulates while abroad. Financial and Career Opportunities Federal Employment: You unlock high-level government, law enforcement, and intelligence careers restricted to citizens. Educational Aid: You gain full access to exclusive federal college grants, scholarships, and low-interest financial aid. Unrestricted Benefits: You eliminate immigration-related caps on critical public safety nets like Social Security and Medicare. Cost Savings: You permanently end the financial burden and administrative hassle of renewing your Green Card.)
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago minimum wage increases could reduce opportunities. Hourly pay in the city rises every year per ordinance. On July 1 it goes to $17.05.
DD: I worked for the minimum wage 1964-1966. In today’s dollars, it was $13.43-$12.97/hour.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-minimum-wage-increases-could-reduce-opportunities/
— How a school district cut chronic absenteeism by 65%. DD: I rarely missed classes while I attended Trinity Lutheran Grade School 1953-1961, Hope Lutheran Grade School 1961-1962, Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, UIC 1966-1968, NIU 1969-1970, UIC in 1971, Loyola 1972-1976, DePaul 1976-1980, Becker CPA Review 1978-1979, Roosevelt 1980-1981, IIA Certified Internal Auditor Review in 1981, and IIT 1992-1997.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/how-a-school-district-cut-absenteeism-by-65/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Pritzker Signs More Than 60 Bills Into Law as Illinois Moves Further Left.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/07/pritzker-signs-more-than-60-bills-into-law-as-illinois-moves-further-left.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Anchor babies hit surge status, totaling 9 percent of U.S. births. DD: What are the demographics of anchor babies? What will their mothers do with them?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/2/anchor-babies-hit-surge-status-totaling-9-percent-us-births/
— Marxist tycoon is funding a China-backed influence campaign against AI data centers. DD: China want to rule the world.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/30/neville-roy-singham-funding-china-backed-influence-campaign-ai-data/
— U.S. Air Force Major arrested at Capitol while demonstrating for Trump’s impeachment. DD: During the last 11 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO, I was a GS-13. GS-13 is the civilian equivalent of a Major in the military. While they never had me arrested for being an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/1/us-air-force-major-arrested-capitol-demonstrating-trumps-impeachment/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Maj. Jason Watson calls for President Trump’s impeachment, risking his military career. He attended a press conference led by the Removal Coalition outside the Capitol. Watson accused Trump of violating the Constitution and committing impeachable offenses.
He cited violations of the War Powers Act regarding military strikes against Iran and Venezuela. Watson claimed these actions resulted in deaths and injuries to service members. U.S. Air Force Maj. Jason Watson was arrested Wednesday while demonstrating at the Capitol for the impeachment of President Trump. Capitol police said they arrested Maj. Watson for demonstrating on the Capitol steps, which is against the law unless the demonstrator is with a member of Congress. Maj. Watson was initially accompanied by Rep. Al Green, Texas Democrat, after an impeachment press conference led by the Removal Coalition, a grassroots organization. When the congressman left the area, police officers told Maj. Watson to stop his demonstration or he would be arrested. “The man refused our lawful orders and was then arrested for 22-1307 Crowding, Obstructing, and Incommoding,” a Capitol Police spokesperson said. “It is important to note that there are plenty of other spots on Capitol Grounds where demonstrating is allowed.” Maj. Watson is risking his active-duty military career to publicly call for Mr. Trump’s impeachment.)
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Depression is real. It’s also a sad excuse for Tom Kean Jr.’s disappearance. DD: My critics/opponents have always done everything that they could to make me depressed and angry. They have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4632921/depression-sad-excuse-tom-kean-jr-disappearance/
— The pro-life movement is in jeopardy. Can it pull through? DD: I should write about my many critics/opponents who reject the right to life plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4632544/pro-life-movement-jeopardy-next-steps-post-roe-dobbs/
NEW YORK POST
— DOJ vows ‘birth tourism’ crackdown after Supreme Court rules against Trump in birthright citizenship case.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/01/us-news/doj-vows-birth-tourism-crackdown-after-supreme-court-rules-against-trump-in-birthright-citizenship-case/
— Anchor babies reach nearly 10% of all US births. DD: What are the demographics of anchor babies? What will their mothers do with them?
https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/us-news/anchor-babies-reach-nearly-10-of-all-us-births-new-data/
— DD: Democrat leaders and other anti-Americans ever-increasingly encourage pregnant women who are citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/30/opinion/supremes-nod-to-reality-in-three-huge-rulings/
— Nationwide, Democrats elect and embrace socialists who hate America.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/01/opinion/nationwide-democrats-elect-and-embrace-socialists-who-hate-america/
DAILY SIGNAL
— The Democrat Left’s Socialist Wave Will Come for Religion Next.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/01/socialist-warning-bishop-barron/
— How the Trump Administration Made It Easier to Institutionalize the Mentally Ill.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/30/how-trump-administration-institutionalize-mentally-ill/
FEDERAIST
— Citizenship Has Become A Financial Product Ripe For Exploitation By Birth Tourists And Illegals.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/01/citizenship-has-become-a-financial-product-ripe-for-exploitation-by-birth-tourists-and-illegals/
(ACCORDING TO GOOGLE AI: United States citizenship unlocks exclusive civic, legal, and economic privileges that are unavailable to lawful permanent residents (green card holders). The most critical advantage is absolute protection from deportation, guaranteeing your right to remain in the U.S. permanently. The primary benefits of U.S. citizenship are divided into several key categories: Civic and Political Rights Voting Power: You gain the exclusive right to vote in federal elections and influence national leadership. Public Office: You become eligible to run for elected positions, including the U.S. Congress. Jury Service: You can participate directly in the legal system by serving on a jury. Expanded Family Immigration Priority Sponsorship: You can sponsor immediate relatives (spouse, parents, minor children) with no annual visa caps or wait times. Extended Family: You gain the unique ability to petition for adult siblings and married children. Automatic Citizenship for Kids: Minor children with permanent residency automatically derive citizenship when you naturalize. Children Born Abroad: In most cases, your children born outside the U.S. automatically become citizens. Global Mobility and Freedom Powerful Passport: You can travel visa-free or visa-on-arrival to more than 180 destinations globally. No Travel Restrictions: You can stay outside the U.S. indefinitely without risk of abandoning your residency status. Consular Assistance: You receive full protection and support from U.S. embassies and consulates while abroad. Financial and Career Opportunities Federal Employment: You unlock high-level government, law enforcement, and intelligence careers restricted to citizens. Educational Aid: You gain full access to exclusive federal college grants, scholarships, and low-interest financial aid. Unrestricted Benefits: You eliminate immigration-related caps on critical public safety nets like Social Security and Medicare. Cost Savings: You permanently end the financial burden and administrative hassle of renewing your Green Card.)
— Roberts’ Argument For Birthplace Citizenship Is Self-Defeating.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/01/roberts-the-sacred-bond-between-nation-and-citizen-requires-us-to-blow-it-up/
FOX NEWS
— Vance calls SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling a ‘major mistake,’ warns of more birth tourism.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/vance-calls-scotus-birthright-citizenship-ruling-major-mistake-warns-more-birth-tourism.amp
— Anchor babies are here to stay. DD: What are the demographics of anchor babies? What will their mothers do with them?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399846573112
https://www.fox.com/watch/clip/6399846573112/greg-gutfeld-anchor-babies-are-here-to-stay
https://www.aol.com/news/greg-gutfeld-anchor-babies-stay-220044145.html
— House hearing ERUPTS in fury over sanctuary city policies.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399929733112
TOWNHALL
— A House hearing on the impacts of sanctuary cities turned into a shouting match between Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD). Democrats, of course, treated Jessica Gorman with disdain. She’s the mother of Sheridan, who was shot and killed by an illegal alien earlier this year. What’s painfully clear again is that Democrats prioritize the rights and needs of illegal aliens over American citizens.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/07/01/hearing-on-sanctuary-cities-turned-into-a-full-blown-fight-between-these-two-house-members-n2678639
FROM NATIONAL CENTER LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-vows-illinois-protect-trans-athletes-supreme-court-decision/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders and other anti-Americans ever-increasingly encourage pregnant women who are citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America. DD: What are the demographics of anchor babies? What will their mothers do with them?
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-06-30/birthright-citizenship-should-never-have-been-in-question
GAO
— Priority Open Recommendations: Internal Revenue Service. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted my knowledge of IRS. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 (1986-1988) of the almost 18 years that I worked for them. I had worked for IRS 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108992
(FROM THE REPORT: In September 2025, GAO identified 26 priority recommendations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Since then, IRS has implemented one of those recommendations. In June 2026, GAO identified an additional two priority recommendations, bringing the total to 27. GAO is highlighting the following three areas that warrant timely and focused attention: Managing agency transformation, Addressing the tax gap, and Improving the taxpayer experience. Addressing GAO’s recommendations in these areas can help inform IRS’s transformation efforts, strengthen its tax enforcement and revenue collection while reducing taxpayer burden, and inform its resource decisions to best improve the taxpayer experience. Taking action to implement all of GAO’s open priority recommendations could significantly improve operations across IRS.)
SPLC
— DD: My critics/opponents are anti-conservative if not conservative-haters. They have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the chairman of TAPROOT from 2005 until 2012 when they succeeded in destroying the organization. I served as an ICRC Steering Committee member from 2003 until 2007 when they succeeded in destroying the organization.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/guides/reporting-hard-right-hate-extremist-movements/
FROM FOREIGN SCOURCES
TIMES OF INDIA
— DD: Trump eyes stopping pregnant women from coming to America after the Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/pregnant-women-cant-come-to-this-country-trump-administration-eyes-crack-down-on-birth-tourism-after-us-supreme-court-ruling-on-birthright-citizenship/articleshow/132118836.cms
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— Why Indians will benefit the most by US Supreme Court’s order on birthright citizenship. DD: What are the demographics of anchor babies? What will their mothers do with them?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/why-indians-will-benefit-the-most-by-us-supreme-court-s-order-on-birthright-citizenship-explained/ar-AA26YCji
June 30, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Illinois Democrat leaders praise mail-in ballot decision.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/supreme-court-mail-ballots-ruling-illinoisans-praise-decision-affirming-election-administration-largely-state-control/19415869/
FOX32
— DD: Ever-increasingly, to drive Trump down, Democrat leaders drive America down.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/american-pride-reaches-lowest-level-quarter-century-poll
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans have caused all the problems that Blacks have had, are causing all the problems that Blacks are having, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks will have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that with my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less education than I had. He had less work experience than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had (CPA).
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/30/opinion-evanston-reparations-housing-discrimination/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) flood America with citizens of foreign countries and b) put them on track to vote for Democrats. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260630/syndicated-columnists/days-of-disgrace-america-tells-refugees-to-pound-sand/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago told us it was insolvent. Then it made the problem larger.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/commentary/ccb-pension-crisis-constitutional-amendment-oped-20260626/
— DD: Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success to destroying Illinois Republicans. I was born in 1948. Because I have always been a Republican, if I had been born later, I never would have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-hinz-election-threats-250-anniversary-democracy-20260629/
— Illinois joins states’ lawsuit to kill Medicaid work requirements. DD: Democrat leaders do everything they can to put more people on Medicaid.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/ccb-illinois-lawsuit-medicaid-work-requirements-20260629/
INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE
— Teen employment teaches responsibility and builds confidence. DD: I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivering mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970.
https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2023/05/11/time-for-a-real-job-teen-employment-is-an-easy-win-win/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Half of states sue Trump administration over its strict interpretation of Medicaid work rules. DD: Democrat leaders do everything they can to put more people on Medicaid.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/half-of-states-sue-trump-administration-over-its-strict-interpretation-of-medicaid-work-rules/article_bae07ffb-9825-5a55-baeb-43822e9d5467.html
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newschannel20.com/news/national-day-of-action-highlighting-us-diversity-and-rally-for-equality/article_6d939b08-611b-4c39-8352-a575b452d4d1.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to fight voter fraud.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/30/illinois-keeps-counting-as-trump-fumes-00981156
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-546/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois lawmaker promotes welfare water aid bill as critics raise concerns over federal expansion.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_df353254-f66d-45d8-a570-b7096eeb805f.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Google AI, “If you can’t beat them, join them” is a popular proverb meaning that when you cannot defeat a competitor or opponent, it is often more practical to stop fighting them and instead cooperate, adopt their methods, or join their side.” My critics/opponents who state that they are Republican are Democrat Lite. Constructively, they have joined the Democrat Party. They reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. Most Commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. They ever-increasingly destroy those like me who promote the aforesaid planks. To get rid of me, they have taken many big adverse actions against me since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Far-left candidates expose Democratic Party’s radical turn.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/29/far-left-candidates-expose-democratic-partys-radical-turn/
AMERICAN THINKER
— LGBTQ ‘pride’ destroys families.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/lgbtq-pride-destroys-another-family/
CENTER SQUARE
— Federal workforce shrank by 256,000 in 2025. DD: While worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Gingrich-led budget cuts to cut the agency from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees. Virtually all the employees they got rid of were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_ed41f1cd-509e-4ff8-b0e1-344ff411f2f9.html
DAILY CALLER
— Inside Classroom Battle That Will Decide If Freedom Survives Next Generation. DD: My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/29/rooke-texas-state-board-education-bible-english-literature-american-founding/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: American liberty, as described in the Declaration of Independence, rests on the idea that rights come from a Creator and that people are capable of self-government under higher moral standards. Without basic exposure to the Christian principles that informed those ideas, students struggle to see why restraint, personal responsibility, and conscience matter more than raw individual desire. Even more worrisome is the rise in thought that our rights are not endowed by our Creator but by the government.)
FEDERALIST
— What Part Of ‘The Right To Keep And Bear Arms’ Do Democrat States Not Understand?
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/29/what-part-of-the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms-do-democrat-states-not-understand/
FOX NEWS
— Conservatives revolt after Trump-appointed Barrett joins liberals in ‘shockingly wrong’ mail ballot ruling. The 5-4 decision held that federal law sets no standard for when ballots must be received to be counted.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservatives-revolt-after-trump-appointed-barrett-joins-liberals-shockingly-wrong-mail-ballot-ruling
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/actress-leslie-jones-declares-traditional-marriage-legalized-slavery-may-well-involve-whip-chains
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Black Communities and Firearm Violence.
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/new-data-on-black-communities-and-firearm-violence
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— Vatican issues sweeping defense of traditional marriage. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-issues-sweeping-defense-traditional-marriage-pushing-back-polygamy
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/is-the-era-of-the-traditional-family-over-in-america-survey-suggests-yes
REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— News of Woke’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/06/30/alive_and_kicking_news_of_wokes_death_is_greatly_exaggerated_1191570.html
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Meet Trump’s New ICE Director Nominee, Who Was Patrolling Oklahoma Highways for Illegals Just Months Ago. DD: How successful is/was your career? My critics/opponents have always stressed that I only made GS-13 Step 10, currently $154,682/year, and that I was forced to retire when I was 49 in 1997 a) even though I became a licensed CPA, b) even though I became a Certified Forensic Accountant, Financial Services Auditor, Government Financial Manager, Internal Auditor, and Public Accountant, and c) even though I earned master’s degrees in finance, accounting, and business. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the aforesaid proves that I am an extremely bad person if not even worse things.
https://www.westernjournal.com/meet-trumps-new-ice-director-nominee-patrolling-oklahoma-highways-illegals-just-months-ago/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans have caused all the problems that Blacks have had, are causing all the problems that Blacks are having, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks will have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that with my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less education than I had. He had less work experience than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had (CPA).
https://www.wvua23.com/news/some-paid-the-ultimate-price-to-enact-voting-rights-their-survivors-see-america-turning-backward/article_6dd16ade-b2b2-5711-ad0c-84ab1b1057d3.html
CBS NEWS
— Supreme Court expands presidential firing power. DD: Federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Unions provide some protection. But GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized when I transferred from IRS in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to take the many big adverse actions against me that they did. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. But even though I was a union member at the time, a) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and b) my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. That was because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are one or more of the aforesaid. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-ftc-slaughter-humphreys-executor/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/heritage-foundation-women.html
— The Purging of General Donahue Is a Breaking Point. DD: My critics/opponents had no problem with if not applauded a) my Democrat superiors in the federal government purging me, b) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, and other political organizations purging me, c) leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton and other governments purging me, d) leaders of TAPRROT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, and other conservative organizations purging me, and e) leaders of religious organizations purging me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/opinion/hegseth-donahue-military-purge.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: To badmouth Trump, Democrats ever-increasingly badmouth America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/06/29/freedom-trucks-offer-simplified-upbeat-story-americas-founding/
— DD: ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are politically biased.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/06/24/are-ai-chatbots-like-chatgpt-politically-biased-we-tested-them/
USA TODAY
— Planning to work in retirement? Don’t count on it. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and made it impossible for me to find work appropriate for my work experience, professional license, professional certifications, and education.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2026/06/20/most-americans-plan-to-work-in-retirement-few-actually-do/90603686007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— America Is the Land of Endless Choice, Except in Politics. There’s a case to be made for a two-party system, but what do you do when your party loses its mind? DD: RINO leaders want conservatives like me to leave the Republican Party.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-is-the-land-of-endless-choice-except-in-politics-abea9604
— Trump Should Be Able to Fire Junior Employees, Too. Civil-service protections keep the president and the people from holding the government accountable. DD: Federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Unions provide some protection. But GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized when I transferred from IRS in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to take the many big adverse actions against me that they did. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. But even though I was a union member at the time, a) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and b) my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. That was because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are one or more of the aforesaid. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-should-be-able-to-fire-junior-employees-too-71204356
MORNINGSTAR
— Think you are facing age discrimination? Don’t get bitter, do this. DD: All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20260604230/think-you-are-facing-age-discrimination-dont-get-bitter-do-this
FORTUNE
— The Supreme Court upholds Fed independence by saving Lisa Cook’s job. DD: Have adverse actions been taken against you “for cause?” My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that GAO forced me to retire “for cause” when I was 49 in 1997. They stress the adverse actions that my GAO superiors had taken against me previously. 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 forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Previously, my IRS superiors had never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. Previously, my Post Office superiors had forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that I have always been a Republican, b) that all my GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors who took the aforesaid actions against me were Democrats, c) that I become an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation since 1988, and d) that I had ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I must have been guilty of “gross malfeasance or negligence” or even worse things because the many big aforesaid adverse actions were taken against me even though I had earned job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, I had earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1981, and 1976, and had earned a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://fortune.com/2026/06/29/supreme-court-fed-independence-lisa-cook-us-debt-treasury-bonds/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Justices ruled 5–4 on Monday that President Donald Trump was wrong to try ousting Fed Governor Lisa Cook last August because she didn’t receive due process. Trump’s bid to fire her—the first such attempt ever—came as he was demanding the Fed lower interest rates, despite data showing inflation remained elevated, the result, in part, of his tariffs. While Fed officials can be removed “for cause,” which has been interpreted to mean gross malfeasance or negligence, Cook was accused of committing mortgage fraud before joining the Fed. She has denied the charges and said she wasn’t given the chance to rebut the claims. Lower courts agreed with her. “Under our precedents, Cook was entitled to notice and some opportunity to respond prior to her termination,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. He also asserted the Trump administration’s argument that a president can remove a member of the Fed “at any time, for any reason, without any notice before, and without any judicial check” would render the “for-cause protection into little more than at-will employment.” Protecting the Fed from the whims of a president is vital to the central bank’s duty to set monetary policy free of political considerations, Roberts explained.)
FEDERAL RETIREMENT
— OPM Proposes Eliminating Time-in-Grade Rule. DD: My critics/opponents have always been furious that my IRS manager (Dave) promoted me as soon as I was eligible to GS-9 (currently $68,999/year) when I was 23 in 1972, to GS-11 (currently $83,483/year) when I was 24, and to GS-12 (currently $100,059/year) when I was 25. My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of Dave for doing that. According to them, those promotions should have been given to my Democrat IRS coworkers who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. Dave was impressed that I was taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola. None of my coworkers did anything like that.
https://www.myfederalretirement.com/eliminating-time-in-grade-federal-employees/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For decades, one of the most predictable aspects of a federal career has been the time-in-grade (TIG) requirement. In most cases, General Schedule (GS) employees have had to spend 52 weeks at their current grade before becoming eligible for promotion to the next higher grade. However the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has proposed eliminating the federal government’s time-in-grade requirement for competitive service employees. If finalized, agencies could promote qualified employees based on their abilities and qualifications instead of waiting for a one-year clock to expire. For some employees, this could mean faster career advancement and higher lifetime earnings. For agencies, it could provide greater flexibility in recruiting and retaining talented employees. However, it also raises questions about consistency and fairness in promotion decisions. Key Takeaways. If this rule becomes final: The one-year time-in-grade requirement would be eliminated. Employees would still have to meet all qualification and specialized experience requirements.
Promotions would not become automatic. Agencies would have greater flexibility in deciding when employees are ready for promotion.
Faster promotions could increase lifetime earnings, TSP contributions, and potentially a federal employee’s High-3 average salary used to calculate a FERS pension.)
NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans have caused all the problems that Blacks have had, are causing all the problems that Blacks are having, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks will have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that with my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less education than I had. He had less work experience than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had (CPA).
https://nationalcenter.org/ncppr/2026/06/29/what-americas-250th-anniversary-means-for-black-america/
BROOKINGS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-unfinished-work-of-the-civil-rights-movement/
BRITANNICA
— Bakke decision, ruling in which, on June 28, 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court declared affirmative action constitutional but invalidated the use of racial quotas. DD: I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980 and GAO 1980-1997. They rejected Bakke. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Bakke-decision
VANGUARD
— DD: What do your critics/opponents hold you responsible for? My critics/opponents hold me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters responsible for all the defeats suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000. They hold me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters responsible for the failure of efforts to directly elect Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members. They hold me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters responsible for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. They blame my advocacy for conservative principles and for planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://davisvanguard.org/2026/01/personal-responsibility-vs-systemic-issues/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
CATHOLIC WORLD REPORT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that GOD rejects the concepts of countries, borders, and the rule of law. They ever-increasing hint/imply/argue/shout that GOD condemns Trump and that GOD condemns those voted for Trump, and especially those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2026/06/29/procession-urges-dignity-and-respect-for-migrants-at-border-crossing/
June 26, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/06/26/steep-growth-in-same-sex-couples-on-the-far-southeast-side-south-shore-hegewisch-census-gay-lesbian-chicago
https://chicago.suntimes.com/wnba/2026/06/25/the-wnba-is-doing-it-for-the-gays
https://chicago.suntimes.com/arts-and-culture/2026/06/26/chicago-area-trans-authors-representation-pride
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Gary Grasso: Linking Italian Americans to the mob in news stories needs to stop
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/26/opinion-italian-americans-news-reporting-mafia-associations/
— Civil servants should refuse to implement cruel policies, even if it costs them. DD: My fighting political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government cost me big time. To advance in the federal government, you have to be a Democrat. If I had become a Democrat, even though I was not a minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who ran the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 because I earned three job-related masters degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. None of my coworkers came anywhere near close to doing what I did. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/26/opinion-immigrant-deporations-donald-trump-civil-servants-shackelford/
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/26/chicago-syrian-immigration-tps-supreme-court/
SOUTHERN
— Postal Service says it will not deliver ballots if states refuse to turn over voter lists under Trump proposal.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2026/06/25/postal-service-says-it-will-not-deliver-ballots-if-states-refuse-to-turn-over-voter-lists-under-trump-proposal/
WIFR TV
— Illinois Lt. Gov. candidates focus on affordability in pitch to Rockford voters.
https://www.wifr.com/2026/06/26/illinois-lt-gov-candidates-focus-affordability-pitch-rockford-voters/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXqPe5WpDWg
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/25/chicagos-played-a-key-role-in-lgbtq-history-here-are-9-historical-sites/
— Video gambling. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton. My critics/opponents continue to use that against me big time.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/25/is-chicago-ever-getting-video-gambling-machines-bars-wait-for-answers-as-city-council-spars/
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2026/06/25/chicago-public-schools-slow-to-roll-out-black-student-success-plan/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/26/coaching-candidates-on-israel-00977430
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-759/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To advance under socialism, you have to be a socialist. To advance in the federal government, you have to be a Democrat. If I had become a Democrat, even though I was not a minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who ran the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 because I earned three job-related masters degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. None of my coworkers came anywhere near close to doing what I did. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you reject, the more RINO that you are. RINOs have far more in common with Democrats and with Libertarians than with Republicans, and especially RINOs who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Most commonly, RINOs reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. RINOs want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. Far too many RINOs are really Democrat plants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. How strongly do the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct promote the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform? RINO and Democrat plant leaders want Republican candidates to downplay, if not ignore, if not work against the aforesaid planks. RINO and Democrat plant leaders want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. The Whig Party collapsed in the mid-1850s because it failed/refused to oppose slavery. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. My critics/opponents want me to leave the Republican Party. They want me to stop sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They want me to resign as a Republican Precinct Committeeman. They want the Republican Party to officially change its name to the Democrat Lite Party. According to them, I am far too conservative. They reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote. They reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. They are RINOs if not Democrat plants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— There are far too many RINO leaders in the Republican Party. There are no DINO leaders in the Democrat Party. That is why the Republican candidates are defeated why Democrat candidates are elected. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Another Chicago Hate Scare Goes up in Smoke.
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-hate-scare-up-in-smoke
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— New York socialist surge reveals warning signs for Schumer.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/4625908/new-york-socialist-surge-warning-signs-schumer/
NEW YORK POST
— Dems stunned after anti-Israel, anti-capitalist socialists sweep NYC primaries.
https://www.aol.com/articles/dems-stunned-anti-israel-anti-110912894.html
— Antisemitism: From New York to LA, a new political scourge.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/opinion/antisemitism-rises-along-with-socialism-in-new-york-la/
— Entitlement of NYC’s Knicks trash-can thief exposes the ingrained flaws of the DEI movement.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/opinion/entitlement-of-nycs-knicks-trash-can-thief-exposes-the-ingrained-flaws-of-the-dei-movement/
CAMPUS REFORM
— UCLA fellowship gives students $7,000 for immigration activism work
https://www.campusreform.org/article/ucla-fellowship-gives-students-7000-immigration-activism-work/30137
CHRISTIAN POST
— Supreme Court sides with Trump on ending TPS for Haitians and Syrians, rules illegals outside US aren’t arrivals.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/scotus-sides-with-trump-on-ending-tps-policy-on-asylum-seekers.html
COLLEGE FIX
— North Carolina lawmakers override governor’s vetoes to pass sweeping DEI bans.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/north-carolina-lawmakers-override-governors-vetoes-to-pass-sweeping-dei-bans/
CONTRARIAN
— Tucker Carlson’s Reason For Leaving The GOP Is Unpatriotic. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. My critics/opponents want me to leave the Republican Party. They want me to stop sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They want me to resign as a Republican Precinct Committeeman. They want the Republican Party to officially change its name to the Democrat Lite Party. According to them, I am far too conservative. They reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote. They reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. They are RINOs if not Democrat plants.
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/tucker-carlsons-reason-for-leaving
DAILY SIGNAL
— America’s New Socialists Are Coming From the Upper Class.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/25/americas-new-socialists-upper-class/
FEDERALIST
— Treasury Department Pushes Debanking Illegal Aliens.
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/executive/treasury-department-pushes-debanking-illegal-aliens
FOX BUSINESS
— Trump vows US will ‘NEVER’ be a communist country after NY socialist primary victories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dttU99MiJgc
FOX NEWS
— Socialism vs capitalism: House Dems clash over what NY election results mean for party.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/socialism-vs-capitalism-house-dems-clash-ny-election-results-mean-party
— Progressives are getting ‘OBLITERATED’ by democratic socialists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4g1coj5LXY
— The rise of socialism within the Democratic Party. Candidates endorsed by Mamdani are winning primaries. They’re on the wrong side of normal.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399320949112
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399387253112
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399403734112
— ‘Allure’ of socialism is always going to exist. DD: The allure of being a Democrat in the Democrat federal government. If I had become a Democrat, even though I was not a minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who ran the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 because I earned three job-related masters degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. None of my coworkers came anywhere near close to doing what I did.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399414842112
— Democrats sound alarm over party’s socialist shift
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399403734112
— The Democrat Party’s Socialist Civil War
https://radio.foxnews.com/2026/06/25/the-democrat-partys-socialist-civil-war/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Kansas U. Course Teaches How to ‘Deconstruct Gender’ Through ‘Queer Theory’
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/kansas-u-course-teaches-how-to-deconstruct-gender-through-queer-theory/
NEWS BUSTERS
— Sanitizing the Hateful Mamdani-Endorsed Radicals.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2026/06/25/newsbusters-podcast-sanitizing-hateful-mamdani-endorsed-radicals
— CNN Excited About Socialist Shift: ‘The Revolution is Being Televised’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/james-waterman/2026/06/25/cnn-excited-about-socialist-shift-revolution-being-televised
NEWSMAX
— Democrats Handed Party to Socialists.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/brandon-gill-zohran-mamdani-democrats/2026/06/25/id/1260937/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
C-SPAN
— Trump Delivers Remarks at Faith & Freedom Conference. He was joined by administration officials, Republican lawmakers, and conservative activists. DD: Who are the leading conservative activists in Illinois? How do they treat me and treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters?
https://www.c-span.org/event/campaign-2026/president-trump-delivers-remarks-at-faith-freedom-conference/444473
AOL
— Socialism no longer feared within Democratic Party.
https://www.aol.com/articles/socialism-no-longer-feared-within-070000000.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/opinion/ice-jobs-economy-immigration.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate. DD: I did not start earning $25/hour in today’s dollars until after I had earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU in 1970.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/25/bill-raise-minimum-wage-25-an-hour-will-be-introduced-senate/
— After wins by democratic socialists, centrist Democrats unite to push back.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/25/centrist-democrats-unite-against-democratic-socialists/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/06/25/what-supreme-court-rulings-mean-americas-immigrants-nation/
— Meet the megadonors pouring more than $1.3 billion into the 2026 election. Billionaires and newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk make up the top individual donors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2026/06/25/these-are-biggest-individual-donors-2026-election-cycle/
NEW YORK SUN
— Democrats’ Socialist Surge Sets Up a Dilemma for Hakeem Jeffries. If he decides to legitimize the radicals, he will put every Democratic candidate in the country on the line.
https://www.nysun.com/article/democrats-socialist-surge-sets-up-a-dilemma-for-hakeem-jeffries
USA TODAY
— New York’s democratic socialist sweep is a warning for USA.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/06/26/mamdani-democratic-socialists-win-ny-warning/90690699007/
— ‘Eternal debt of gratitude’: Trump, conservative leaders celebrate Charlie Kirk. DD: What positions do the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct have on Charlie Kirk? What positions do the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township party organization have on Charlie Kirk?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/21/charlie-kirk-memorial-service-live-updates/86203128007/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/06/18/karmelo-anthony-verdict-parents-black-children/90527039007/
POST REGISTER
— DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you reject, the more RINO that you are. RINOs have far more in common with Democrats and with Libertarians than with Republicans, and especially RINOs who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Most commonly, RINOs reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. RINOs want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. Far too many RINOs are Democrat plants.
https://www.postregister.com/opinion/guest_column/opinion-its-time-to-meet-in-the-middle/article_54699edd-ca4b-40a3-a36d-3e680033d960.amp.html
FLORIDA’S VOICE
— Conservative leaders endorse Dan Green for Florida’s 9th Congressional District. DD: Who are the conservative leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton Warrenville School District 200? How do they treat me and treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters?
https://flvoicenews.com/conservative-leaders-and-veterans-endorse-dan-green-for-floridas-9th-congressional-district/
FORBES
— AMERICA’S BEST EMPLOYERS FOR DIVERSITY. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/lists/best-employers-diversity/
CHALKBEAT
— DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used the subjectivity in their pay-for-performance system to get rid of their Republican employees 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.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/25/teacher-merit-pay-benefits-student-learning-in-texas-and-south-carolina/
PBS
— Charlie Kirk helped shape a conservative force for a new generation. DD: What positions do the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct have on Charlie Kirk? What positions do the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township party organization have on Charlie Kirk?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-charlie-kirk-helped-shape-a-conservative-force-for-a-new-generation
SALON
— DD: My critics/opponents attribute their successes in life to meritocracy. They attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/25/the-white-working-class-myth-that-made-jd-vance/
June 25, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/local/group-of-lgbtq-runners-find-refuge-from-the-noise-of-the-world/3953283/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/how-to-watch-the-2026-chicago-pride-parade-live-as-it-rolls-through-the-citys-north-side/3953232/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/new-cancer-report-reveals-major-progress-disparities-in-research-and-care/3953259/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/advocates-warn-that-federal-cuts-will-impact-hiv-aids-programs-in-chicago/ar-AA26odrn
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/24/jb-pritzker-electronic-abortion-records/
DAILY HERALD
— Independent governor hopeful Corbett’s place on ballot affirmed after Bailey campaign pulls objection.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260624/illinois-state-politics/indie-governor-hopeful-corbetts-place-on-ballot-affirmed-after-bailey-campaign-pulls-objection/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Bally’s escalates fight over video gambling, threatening legal action. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton. My critics/opponents continue to use that against me big time.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-ballys-casino-city-council-20260524/
PEORIA JOUNAL STAR
— DD: To promote more hatred against Trump, Democrat leaders promote more hatred against America.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/25/all-of-us-nationwide-mobilizaton-june-27-usa-250-illinois-locations-chicago/90649189007/
QUAD CITY TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://qctimes.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_b75ecb32-9849-541f-8ddb-cbb6d32921bf.html
SOUTHERN
— DD: Democrat educators ever-increasingly turn Blacks against Republicans.
https://thesouthern.com/news/national/understanding-the-pitfalls-of-how-we-teach-black-history-today/html_21a1c42b-f569-52ff-aadc-843ec3b340f3.html
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2026/06/21/hegseth-women-veterans-military-ceremony-dei-woke/90580074007/
WIFR
— Mill Foundation presents grants to Rockford-area organizations that help disadvantaged youth. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I have not only always been tremendously advantaged, but I have always benefitted tremendously from discrimination against the disadvantaged, and therefore, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time. In my defense, I was a member of the working class 1964-1997. I had to work my way through college. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I should write about my critic/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2026/06/24/mill-foundation-presents-grants-rockford-area-organizations/
CITIES 92.9
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.cities929.com/2026/06/24/illinois-quick-hits-50-8m-in-cannabis-tax-funded-grants-awarded/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrats, that is, those who promote more hatred against those who are the following, applaud their successes in promoting more hatred against those who are the following: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. That is, those who promote the following applaud their successes in promoting the following: dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action, DEI, and wokeness/wokeism, that is, 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/2026/06/25/progressive-wins-rev-up-johnson-00975232
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-758/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois’ Biggest Problems Remain the Ones Politicians Prefer to Ignore
https://wirepoints.org/wirepoints-mark-glennon-on-am560-illinois-biggest-problems-remain-the-ones-politicians-prefer-to-ignore/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— After Taking Zoning Power Away from Local Governments on Battery and Solar Farms, Pritzker Wants Local Control of Data Centers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/25/after-taking-zoning-power-away-from-local-governments-on-battery-and-solar-farms-pritzker-wants-local-control-of-data-centers/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Mamdani-Led Socialist Movement Signals Democratic Party’s Leftward Takeover
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/06/mamdani-led-socialist-movement-signals-democratic-partys-leftward-takeover.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The Left is obsessed with race.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/4622676/left-fearmongering-racism-america-affirmative-action/
— The fast-growing way entrepreneurs are chasing the American dream. DD: My critics/opponents look down on wage earners. I was a wage earner 1964-1997.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4621256/franchising-entrepreneurs-chasing-american-dream-small-businesses-pizza-hut/
BREITBART
— Trump’s Reflecting Pool Critics Have Been ‘Consumed by Hatred’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/06/24/kelsey-grammer-trumps-reflecting-pool-critics-have-been-consumed-by-hatred/
— Durbin: ‘The Republican Party Is Split Into Pieces’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/06/24/durbin-the-republican-party-is-split-into-pieces/
CHRISTIAN POST
— Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their LGBT pride night caps won’t face discipline, as he seeks to reassure lawmakers and fans amid a growing debate over faith, free expression and the league’s forced adherence to LGBT ideology. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government took ever-increasingly more and bigger adverse actions against me a) because I refused to become a Democrat, b) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and c) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with the aforesaid. Democrats not only have no problem with the aforesaid, they applaud the aforesaid. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/mlb-chief-giants-players-wont-be-fined-for-bible-verses-on-caps.html
COLLEGE FIX
— Kansas regents’ new policy will stop professors from foisting DEI on students. DD: I avoided Democrat indoctrination by majoring in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/kansas-regents-new-policy-will-stop-professors-from-foisting-dei-on-students-scholar/
FOX BUSINESS
— Antisemitism is the root of Mamdani socialism, and it’s destroying New York City.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/larry-kudlow-antisemitism-root-mamdani-socialism-its-destroying-new-york-city
— The rise of socialist candidates in New York City.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6399293574112
— Wikipedia co-founder ‘KICKED OUT’ for fighting the WOKE MOB.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399275692112
PJ MEDIA
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Declares ‘Transfemicide State of Emergency’
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2026/06/24/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-declares-transfemicide-state-of-emergency-n4954304
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/24/effort-extend-army-generals-career-falls-flat-with-hegseth/
WASHINGTON POST & THE HILL
— Belief that anyone can achieve the American Dream is fading. DD: Because Democrat and RINO candidates, elected officials, and party leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn my demographics (conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844) to get more votes from those who do not share my demographics, if I was young today, I very much doubt that I could achieve what I did. I bought new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. I earned colleges degrees when I was 21, 27, 31, and 48. I bought real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc. I got married when I was 29. I earned professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a professional license when I was 32. The Democrats who ran SS Kresge when I was 16, the Post Office when I was 18, IRS when I was 22, and GAO when I was 31 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/nation/2026/06/18/belief-that-anyone-can-achieve-american-dream-is-fading-poll-finds/
https://thehill.com/business/5931333-poll-american-dream-decline/
USA TODAY
— Women may bear the brunt if Social Security benefits get cut. DD: If my critics/opponents knew that I now get about half of my wife’s Social Security because of a Bill that Biden signed, they would be furious.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2026/06/23/women-social-security-gender-gap/90641659007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Socialist Democrats of America. What the rise of the Mamdani left means for the Democratic Party and the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democratic-socialists-of-america-new-york-zohran-mamdani-primary-025e86dd
— Forget Work. Passive Income Is the New American Dream. Driven by a growing feeling that 9-to-5 jobs are a dead end, people are turning to social media to test out eccentric moneymaking schemes—along with a fair share of scams. DD: My critics/opponents look down on wage earners. I was a wage earner 1964-1997.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/passive-income-dreams-2e67ee5c
— Voters Turn Against Minimum-Wage Hikes. Oklahomans reject a $15-an-hour initiative over affordability. DD: My critics/opponents have always been furious that the Post Office paid me $19.57-$20.87/hour 1966-1969 in today’s dollars.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/voters-turn-against-minimum-wage-hikes-921df2c7
— Mamdani Deepens His Influence—and the Divide—in the Democratic Party. New York City mayor strengthens party sway nationwide by backing three primary winners in Congressional races.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/mamdani-deepens-his-influenceand-the-dividein-the-democratic-party-0c6374fc
— Mamdani Sweep in NYC Adds to Strains Between Jews and Democratic Party. Candidates highly critical of Israel won big in New York City primary.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/mamdani-sweep-in-nyc-adds-to-strains-between-jews-and-democratic-party-986b15c7
— Hegseth Cuts Army Commander’s Storied Career Short as Part of Broader Shake-Up. More general and flag officers could be squeezed out of other coveted jobs with a list expected to reach the Joint Staff next week. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-cuts-army-commanders-storied-career-short-as-part-of-broader-shake-up-686d952b
FORBES
— Is What Happened To Horses Happening To Us? Companies are rapidly adopting AI, often neglecting crucial ethical considerations and failing to define its appropriate use. DD: Starting in 1864, my ancestors on my father’s side raised and sold horses in Crete.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adriangostick/2026/06/24/is-what-happened-to-horses-happening-to-us/
BLOOMBERG LAW
— RFK Jr.’s HHS to Divert Funds From Teen Pregnancy Grant Program. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/rfk-jr-s-hhs-to-divert-funds-from-teen-pregnancy-grant-program
KANSAS REFLECTOR
— Affordability. DD: What has helped you afford things? For me, it has been the money that I earned I doing yard work 1962-1964, delivering newspapers 1962-1966, washing dishes 1964-1966, cleaning golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivering mail 1966-1969, working on an automotive assembly line in 1970, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumping more gasoline 1971-1972, collecting delinquent federal taxes 1971-1980, and auditing federal agencies 1980-1997.
https://kansasreflector.com/2026/06/25/politicians-love-affordability-rhetoric-but-it-hasnt-offered-path-to-urban-prosperity-in-kansas/
MADISON COUNTY JOURNAL
— Democrats take great offense at being accused of being unpatriotic — but the data don’t lie. A new NBC News poll captured the partisan gap over pride in America. Overall, 56% of Americans are extremely or very proud of the country, but only 29% of Democrats, compared to 90% of Republicans. That’s a yawning gap, and about a matter that really shouldn’t be controversial. We aren’t talking about abortion, or Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, but an elemental thing — pride in country — that in most times and places has been taken for granted. Once upon a time, that was the case here. The Gallup poll found in January 2001 that nearly 90 percent of Americans were extremely or very proud of the country. In 2017, according to Gallup, 75% of the public said they extremely or very proud of America — a low at the time — and it’s been down since. The decline has been driven largely by Democrats. Their disdain for President Trump clearly is responsible for some of the drop, but not all of it. Democrats were less proud of the country than Republicans even when Barack Obama and Joe Biden were president.
https://www.onlinemadison.com/editorials/lowry-patriotism-growing-gap-with-dems-f9b028c6/
NEW ENGLAND BIZ LAW
— When is a performance improvement plan (PIP) an adverse employment action? DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat superiors in the federal government never put me on a PIP, but instead, they took many big adverse actions against me. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and b) forced me to resign in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I frustrated their efforts to get rid of me by earning a) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1981, and 1997, c) professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://newenglandbizlawupdate.com/2026/06/24/when-is-a-pip-an-adverse-employment-action/
FED SMITH
— Federal Employee Pay Has Reached Record Levels—But the Story Is More Complicated Than It Appears. Federal salaries now average $112,456, but workforce demographics, retirements, and hiring challenges reveal a more nuanced picture of federal pay. DD: My critics/opponents who are/were not union members are vehemently anti-union. According to my critics/opponents, I have always been grossly overpaid. They have always been furious that while I was a union member when I was a postal employee for almost 3 years and then an IRS employee for almost 9 years, my salary increased from $19.57/hour to $113,402/year in today’s dollars. I my defense, during that time, I earned a bachelor’s degree in business, I earned an MBA, I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, and I almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $56,409/year when I was 22 in 1971, $68,999/year when I was 23, $83,482/year when I was 24, $100,059/year when I was 25, and $113,402/year when I was 31. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $89,703/year when I was 31, $118,984/year when I was 38, and $154,682/year when I was 49. I earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32. I became a licensed CPA when I was 32. I earned four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a master’s degree in finance when I was 48.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2026/06/05/federal-employee-pay-complicated-than-appears/
ATLANTIC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/trump-250-usa-speech/687682/
POLITICO
— Democratic socialists are coming for 2028.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/24/democratic-socialists-new-york-2028-presidential-00973341
HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR
— DEI. DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.hcamag.com/us/specialization/diversity-inclusion/former-amazon-manager-claims-dei-hire-label-led-to-his-firing/567550
https://www.hcamag.com/us/specialization/diversity-inclusion/employee-sues-intuit-alleging-manager-branded-her-a-dei-hire/564902
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
SKY NEWS
— Trump declares ‘only two genders’ as he rolls back DEI initiatives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8qG1BYmGTY
ECONOMIST
— Trump supporters need not apply. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/07/18/trump-supporters-need-not-apply
JUDICIAL PRACTICE
— Employers cannot issue reprimands if employee guilt is not proven. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government took ever-increasingly more and bigger adverse actions against me a) because I refused to become a Democrat, b) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and c) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with the aforesaid. Democrats not only have no problem with the aforesaid, they applaud the aforesaid. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://sud.ua/en/news/sudebnaya-praktika/364765-robotodavets-ne-mozhe-ogolositi-doganu-yakscho-ne-doviv-vinu-pratsivnika-verkhovniy-sud
June 23, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Those celebrating Israel’s and US’ independence in Skokie express optimism, concern about Iran talks.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/attendees-skokie-illinois-israel-independence-day-event-express-optimism-concern-us-iran-talks/19358767/
— DHS proposes 75% increase in fees for US citizenship paperwork. The proposed rule says current fees do not cover the costs of applications.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dhs-proposes-75-increase-fees-us-citizenship-paperwork/19357641/
CBS2
— Fresh wave of ICE arrests has begun, with new tactics in play.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-accountability-commission-chicago-ice-arrests-new-tactics/
FOX32
— Teen takeover problem remains unresolved. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/why-chicagos-teen-takeover-problem-remains-unresolved
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/23/zoo-same-sex-animals-pride/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Chicago faith leaders call for new Department of Gun Violence Prevention. DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. The Republican Part platform promotes prosperity and safety.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/22/department-of-gun-violence-prevention-chicago-faith-leaders/
— Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson says he’ll no longer support the Republican Party. DD: My critics/opponents who claim that they want Republican candidates to win want me to leave the Republican Party. The want me to stop sending out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and they want me to resign as a Republican Precinct Committeeman. They blame me and they blame my newsletters for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. Previously, they also blamed what I did as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012 and as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007. Most commonly, they hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I promote candidates in Republican primary elections who are too conservative to win in general elections and/or b) that I paint Republican candidates in general elections as being more conservative than they wanted to be painted. Who do you hold responsible for Republican defeats since 2000 in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Warrenville School District 200 and why?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/22/tucker-carlson-republican-party/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Daily Herald sale to Tribune Publishing is complete.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/media-marketing/ccb-daily-herald-alden-tribune-sale-esop-20260622/
WGN RADIO
— Student Loans. DD: Did you get a student loan? I did not. When I was in high school, no one saw me as being college material. At best, they thought that Prairie State Community College in Chicago Heights might accept me. I could not have gotten a student loan. But nevertheless, I took college preparatory courses, I got an ACT score of 24, I graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and I got accepted by UIC. I had to work my way through college and I did by delivering mail for the Park Forest Post Office. My critics/opponents stress that college expenses were much lower back then and that my parents provided me with room and board in their Crete home while I took classes at UIC 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969. I graduated debt-free from NIU in August of 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in business and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://wgnradio.com/bob-sirott/how-to-find-out-if-youre-eligible-for-student-loan-forgiveness/
JOURNAL COURIER
— DD: What percent of food produced in America is given by Democrat government leaders to Democrats free of charge?
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/cuts-hitting-food-assistance-recipients-22314014.php
FOX ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders say that Trump is the frontman for his own party as rival groups vie to shape America’s 250th anniversary. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn America to demonize, denigrate and condemn Trump. Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly furious at Americans because they elected Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring in America-haters from foreign countries.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-is-the-frontman-for-his-own-party-as-rival-groups-vie-to-shape-america/article_8d384901-5b7d-57bc-860d-612a44d3aad9.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to stop voter fraud.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-22/a-federal-judge-finds-a-trump-data-system-to-verify-voters-is-unlawful
— DD: So far, which of the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct a) have sought Trump’s endorsement and b) have gotten Trump’s endorsement? Which ones are unofficially or officially running as anti-Trumps?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-23/how-trumps-complete-and-total-endorsement-has-reshaped-the-republican-party
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-23/as-republican-party-looks-to-future-without-trump-in-office-utah-could-be-a-road-map
WCBU
— Peoria Riverfront Museum leader stresses its inclusion in Great American State Fair is not political. DD: Ever-increasingly, to promote more hatred against Trump, Democrat leaders promote more hatred against America because Americans elected Trump.
https://www.wcbu.org/local-news/2026-06-22/peoria-riverfront-museum-leader-stresses-inclusion-in-great-american-state-fair-is-not-political
CITIES 92.9
— ‘Half-baked’ Illinois social media tax poised to tee up court challenges. DD: Of course, to discourage/stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, my critics/opponents want the federal government, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton to tax them. They could not care less that my newsletters are not-for-profit and that all the money I spend to put them together and to send them out comes out my Civil Service Retirement System pension, my Social Security, and my retirement savings.
https://www.cities929.com/2026/06/22/half-baked-illinois-social-media-tax-poised-to-tee-up-court-challenges/
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/illinois-venezuelans-face-economic-double-whammy/article_f5d23406-e433-4383-ac55-4342c6f6ced1.html
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/22/candyland-prom-in-little-village-celebrates-lgbtq-youth/
CHOOSE CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.choosechicago.com/blog/lgbtq/what-to-eat-drink-and-do-in-boystown-chicago/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Giannoulias.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/23/local-150-makes-a-move-00970957
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-541/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What does it mean to be a conservative? It includes not doing things that are anti-conservative. It includes leading your life in accordance with conservative principles. It includes personal responsibility. It includes getting an education, getting a job, and becoming a contributing member of society and staying a contributing member of society. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What does it mean to be a conservative activist/leader? It includes not doing things that are anti-conservative. It includes promoting conservative principles. It includes promoting personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment rights, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What does it mean to be a Republican? It includes casting Republican primary ballots. It includes voting for Republican candidates in general elections. It includes not doing things that are anti-Republican. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What does it mean to be a Republican activist/leader? It includes promoting Republican candidates. I includes promoting planks in the Republican Party platform. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What does it mean to be a conservative Republican reporter/journalist? It includes publishing articles monthly, if not weekly, if not daily that promote conservative planks in the Republican Party platform, including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal agents are not enough without local buy-in, Blanche says of Chicago violence.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/22/federal-agents-not-enough-without-local-buy-todd-blanche-says-chicago/
— Trump vows to enforce law against vandalizing D.C. statues and fountains.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/22/trump-vows-enforce-law-vandalizing-dc-statues-fountains/
— Judge rules Trump’s voter database violates Americans’ privacy. DD: Your voting record is public record. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors always knew that I always cast Republican primary ballots. They always used that against me.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/22/judge-rules-trumps-voter-database-violates-americans-privacy/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats become the party of socialists and Third-Worldism.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4619261/democrats-become-party-socialists-third-worldism-new-york-city-primaries/
— Mamdani renews call to abolish ICE.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4619302/zohran-mamdani-renews-call-to-abolish-ice/
— Work permits. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponent cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4618058/resolve-refugee-crises-less-charity-more-permits/
NEW YORK POST
— Mamdani still backs his handpicked House candidate who now says she wouldn’t deport anyone — even criminals.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/us-news/mamdani-stands-by-his-handpicked-candidate-who-doesnt-want-to-deport-criminal-immigrants/
— Alberta is Canada’s Texas. It threatens secession and will vote whether to become the 51st US state.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/world-news/canadas-texas-threatens-secession-and-could-become-51st-us-state/
— Trump’s IGs are doing the job that past IGs let slide and the old guard hates it. DD: While I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, I had lots of interactions with IG employees. While I served on the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter Executive Committee for 13 years, I had lots of interactions with IG employees. I worked for GAO on an audit of EPA’s IG office in 1985. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/products/afmd-86-43
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/opinion/trumps-federal-watchdogs-are-doing-the-job-past-igs-ignored/
— California’s Glock ban sets stage for nationwide gun control. DD: Democrats want to get rid of Republicans once and for all. Because of that, Democrats want to disarm Republicans. Because of that, Republicans should be buying more and more and more firearms and ammunition for their self-defense.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/opinion/californias-glock-ban-sets-stage-for-nationwide-gun-control/
— Chicago sanctuary policies let Tren de Aragua mass shooting getaway driver walk free.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/us-news/chicago-sanctuary-policies-let-alleged-tren-de-aragua-mass-shooting-getaway-driver-walk-free/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Border crossings collapse 96 percent after Trump policy changes
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/22/border-crossings-collapse-96-percent-after-trump-policy-changes-1647324/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— DD: What percent of illegals are minority, female, and/or younger and want/need/demand massive government assistance, lack education, lack job skills, have health and/or other problems, have committed crimes, etc.? What percent are on track to be permanent wards of the state? All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponent cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://cis.org/Richwine/Course-Illegal-Immigrants-Access-Public-Health-Benefits
COLLEGE FIX
— More than half of Jesuit colleges celebrate LGBT ‘Pride Month.’ DD: To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/more-than-half-of-jesuit-colleges-celebrate-lgbt-pride-month/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Politics and Parenthood: Why Liberals Are Having Fewer Kids Than Conservatives. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/22/politics-and-parenthood-liberals-fewer-kids-than-conservatives/
FOX NEWS
— Obama Center isn’t a traditional presidential library. Critics say it’s an activism center. Illinois GOP chairman Bob Grogan says the project was sold as a library to win support before evolving into something else.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-center-isnt-traditional-presidential-library-critics-say-activism-center.amp
JUDICIAL WATCH
— Justice Dept. Joins Challenge to Evanston Reparations. DD: Did your ancestors own slaves. Mine did not. To get more votes from Blacks and to atone for their ancestors’ slave ownership, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations. If anyone should pay reparations, it should be Democrat leaders whose ancestors owned slaves. Affirmative Action (AA) is reparations. Democrat leaders have always used AA to make Republicans who are the following pay reparations: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid, my Democrat superiors in the federal government made me pay reparations big time. It culminated when they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/justice-dept-joins-challenge-to-evanston-reparations/
PJ MEDIA
— Illinois Illegal Alien Teacher Linked to Tren de Aragua Mass Shooting
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/22/illinois-illegal-alien-teacher-linked-to-tren-de-aragua-mass-shooting-n4954250
TOWNHALL
— Federal Judge Declares That Common-Sense Election Integrity Is Illegal.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/06/22/we-arent-allowed-to-have-secure-elections-according-to-this-federal-judge-n2678116
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump comments on Juneteenth weekend violence in Chicago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trump-comments-on-juneteenth-weekend-violence-in-chicago/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders decry an Indiana professor losing her job for promoting hatred against Trump in her classroom. Democrats and RINOs did not decry my losing my job for opposing Democrat political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. In fact, they applauded it. My critics/opponents promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. They despise/hate Republicans like me who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/indiana-professor-white-supremacy-lesson-maga.html
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly punish America and punish Americans for electing Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/22/america-at-250-is-anxious-about-today-pessimistic-about-whats-next/90564030007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— JD Vance’s Faith-Based Ambition. Like the vice president’s religious beliefs, his politics seem rather too conveniently flexible. DD: My parents had me baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) at Trinity Lutheran Church in 1948, sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961, sent me to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod, and had me confirmed as a MSL in 1962. My critics/opponents have always used the aforesaid against me. One could call it religious discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/jd-vances-faith-based-ambition-022f7388
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— DD: What helped you endure the negatives of your jobs? For me, the following helped me endure the ever-increasing tremendous efforts of my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me: a) I needed a job, b) the importance of the missions of the agencies that I worked for, c) federal employee benefits including the federal government paying 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums for life, and d) Civil Service Retirement System benefits. The aforesaid helped me survive for almost 18 years at GAO, for almost 9 years at IRS, and for almost 3 years at the Post Office.
https://hbr.org/2018/01/when-burnout-is-a-sign-you-should-leave-your-job
NEW YORKER
— American Dream. DD: What is/was your American dream? When I was younger, it included having a successful career in the automotive industry. But that all ended when I was 22 in 1971 when my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. I had to have a job. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. I had not specifically applied for that job. I got that offer solely a) because I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination, b) because I had earned a bachelor’s degree in business, and c) because the Democrats who ran IRS could not find a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/29/the-curious-career-of-the-american-dream
PSY POST
— Age is the strongest predictor of how people view their dating prospects. DD: If I had not met my outstanding wife at a church sponsored singles social event when I was 28 in 1977, I might never had gotten married. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious that I got married when I was 29 in 1978. To get rid of me, they had painted me being an extremely bad person because I had refused to become a Democrat. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. See Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on my wife and I at https://gopillinois.com/documents/ Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.psypost.org/the-surprising-way-income-and-age-dictate-how-we-view-the-dating-market/
SPLC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hopewatch/pride-month-reminds-lgbtq-youth-need-love-support/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
INDEPENDENT
— Pritzker rejects Trump’s call for federal help in Chicago crime crackdown
https://www.the-independent.com/bulletin/news/donald-trump-jb-pritzker-chicago-truth-social-b3001175.html
TIMES OF INDIA
— How illegals slip into city’s workforce.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/from-border-to-builder-how-illegals-slip-into-citys-workforce/articleshow/131916816.cms
ECONOMIC TIMES
— DD: What do your critics/opponents do to discredit/stop you? My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/african-proverb-of-the-day-do-not-follow-a-person-who-is-life-lessons-on-judgment-awareness-decision-making-responsibility-and-why-understanding-a-situation-matters-more-than-following-the-crowd/articleshow/131908386.cms