FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against ICE
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-agents-spotted-church-rogers-park-chicago-gov-pritzker-speaks-national-guard-ruling-broadview-protests-continue/17994356/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against ICE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/trump-immigration-blitz-chicago-wards/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/chicago-marathon-immigration-illinois-pilsen/
— Residents cope with food deserts in Harvey, Chicago Heights, Richton Park and Park Forest. DD: I washed dishes in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. I chipped slag and pumped gasoline in Chicago Heights in 1966. I delivered mail in Park Forest 1966-1969. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances in Chicago Heights 1970-1971. I pumped gasoline in Chicago Heights 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes in Harvey 1972-1973. My father worked in Chicago Heights 1941-1969. I was born in Chicago Heights in 1948.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/food-deserts-harvey-chicago-heights-richton-park/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against ICE. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly equate their runaway slaves with their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/10/13/chicago-fugitive-slave-act-ice-fuentes-immigration-claudia-fegan-linda-rae-murray
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/13/poll-chicagoans-national-guard-policing-deportation-campaign-norc-university-of-chicago
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Springfield now faces the $2B question: How much to invest in mass transit’s future. DD: I used mass transit in 1971 and then 1973-1997. A major reason why my wife and I bought a home in Wheaton in 1978 and had one built in Wheaton in 1984 was their being in walking distance of Wheaton train stations.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/springfield-weighs-2b-fix-chicago-transit-system
STATELINE
— ‘National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk’ is Tuesday, October 14, 2025
https://www.mystateline.com/news/national-day-of-remembrance-for-charlie-kirk-is-this-week-what-to-know/
WHEATON PATCH
— 12 Wheaton Students Named Semifinalists For National Merit Scholarships. DD: Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. In my defense, during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966, I spent far too many hours washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights instead of studying. Consequently, my ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/12-wheaton-students-named-semifinalists-for-national-merit-scholarships/ar-AA1NirxA
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Appeals Court rejects Trump administration bid to lift TRO in Illinois’
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6cec4a79-4cac-42fa-b104-2943ffcddc4b.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Kash Patel severs FBI’s ties with James Comey-backed Anti–Defamation League after group ripped Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA
https://www.aol.com/news/kash-patel-severs-fbi-ties-205327655.html
— Biden admin weaponized DOJ to target Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA to put movement ‘out of business’
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-claims-biden-admin-weaponized-104731208.html
BREITBART
— Truckers Gain Wages as ICE Detains Highway Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/12/truckers-gain-wages-as-ice-detains-highway-illegals/
— DHS Reveals New York City Gave Indian Illegal Alien ‘No Name Given’ Commercial Driver’s License
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/12/dhs-reveals-new-york-city-gave-illegal-alien-no-name-given-drivers-license/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Biden DOJ Sought Direction From Leftist Group That Put Turning Point USA on a ‘Hate Map’ Shortly Before Charlie Kirk’s Assassination. However Bad You Think Biden’s DOJ Was, New Documents Show It Was Even Worse
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/12/biden-doj-sought-direction-splc-leftist-group-that-put-turning-point-usa-hate-map-shortly-before-charlie-kirks-assassination/
FOX NEWS
— Students are more motivated than ever to continue Charlie Kirk’s mission. DD: Who is leading TPUSA in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382659911112
— Harvard charging $13K for DEI certificate on ‘bias’ and ‘privilege’ Classes include ‘Understanding Race and Racism’ and ‘Power and Privilege in Systems’ DD: According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/harvard-charging-13k-dei-training-bias-privilege
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/harvard-launches-13k-dei-certificate-on-bias-and-privilege-is-it-a-valuable-career-move-or-an-overpriced-ideological-course/articleshow/124508068.cms
— Pope Leo says family based on ‘union between a man and a woman,’ defends dignity of unborn
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-leo-says-family-based-union-between-man-woman-defends-dignity-unborn
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Demented Democrats
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/demented-democrats-week-at-legal-insurrection/
NEWSMAX
— Tuesday, October 14: National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/charlie-kirk-national-day/2025/10/12/id/1230016/
— Trump Moves to Purge ‘Woke’ Ideology From Colleges. DD: All my critics/opponents are woke. To be woke is to blame your problems on those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/donald-trump-college-dei/2025/10/12/id/1230043/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— ‘National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk’ is Tuesday, October 14, 2025
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5527054-national-day-of-remembrance-for-charlie-kirk-is-this-week-what-to-know/
YAHOO
— Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois for being overweight
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-national-guard-troops-replaced-153000480.html
AOL
— Harvard Quietly Ends ‘Minority Recruitment Program’ Amid Battle With Trump Admin. DD: UIC accepted me when I was 18 in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992 because they could not find a qualified minority, female, and/or veteran to accept.
https://www.aol.com/articles/harvard-quietly-ends-minority-recruitment-175414037.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame conservatives for all the problems that those who are the following have: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/business/economy/black-unemployment-federal-layoffs-diversity-initiatives.html
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Kirk-hating Kirk-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/27/us/politics/charlie-kirk-debate.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly prefer international students over American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/06/upshot/us-international-student-travel.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/09/world/americas/drug-trafficking-venezuela.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: More People Feel the Strain Of a Shutdown. DD: How dependent on federal spending are those in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/government-shutdown-effects.html
USA TODAY
— How To Choose The Right College Major. DD: My biggest career mistake was not majoring in accounting from the beginning. I erroneously believed that because I was not strong in math, I could never pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate evening accounting courses until I was 27 in 1976. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession viewed me as being much too old. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.usatoday.com/press-release/story/16252/how-to-choose-the-right-college-major-student-career-decision-guide/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Assessment first: Use personality tests, skills evaluations, and values assessments to understand natural strengths before picking a major. Research reality: Look beyond salary figures to examine job market trends, daily responsibilities, and long-term career satisfaction rates in chosen fields. Timing matters: The 15-25 age window offers optimal decision-making opportunities before life circumstances make career changes more difficult. Avoid pressure: Don’t let parental expectations, peer choices, or social media influence override personal interests and natural abilities. Get expert help: Professional career advice can provide structured guidance to help students make confident decisions within weeks rather than years of trial and error.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What Is the One Trait That Makes for a Great Manager? DD: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who arranged 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/business/c-suite/manager-strengths-rellocating-talent-f0add2da
— Giving Career Advice to Kids Has Never Been Harder. DD: Were you viewed as being college material? I was not. 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 could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/career-advice-children-ai-148983e5
— DD: I owned a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T 1994-2005. I owned a 1969 Dodge Charger SE 1968-1971. I have owned my 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max since 2012. I have owned my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus since March of this year.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/the-texan-who-scored-a-1968-cincinnati-bengals-themed-dodge-charger-d1753412
MUST READ ALASKA
— Anchorage Republican Women’s Club Gives $1,000 to Turning Point USA
https://mustreadalaska.com/anchorage-republican-womens-club-gives-1000-to-turning-point-usa-uaa/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Government Accountability Office Issues Scathing Report on Army Readiness
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/government-accountability-office-issues-scathing-report-on-army-readiness/ar-AA1O5tBT
POLITICO
— Inside Uthmeier’s path to a critical Trump endorsement in Florida. DD: Of the candidates on the Republican primary ballot in your county, which ones are seeking Trump’s endorsement?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/12/uthmeier-florida-trump-endorsement-00603089
— The impending retirement that could rock Capitol Hill. The director of the Government Accountability office will step down in a few short months, leaving a void atop the agency that has found the White House guilty of violating congressional spending law. DD: GAO is just a shell of what it once was. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/17/gao-trump-impoundment-spending-00569967
FROM OTHER SOURCES
GOOGLE AI
— Good old days. DD: When were your good old days? Mine included 1971-1981 when a) I bought new cars in 1971, 1973, and 1978, b) IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) I bought real estate in 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1978, c) I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) I got married in 1978, e) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, f) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, g) I passed the Certified Internal Auditing examination on my first attempt in 1981, and h) I became a licensed CPA in 1981. They include 1986-1988 when a) GAO assigned me to audits of IRS and b) promoted me in 1986.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22good+old+days%22
Tag: age
October 12, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/gov-jb-pritzker-national-guard-trump-levers-of-power/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/silverio-villegas-children-foster-care-idaho/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/ice-fears-chicago-school-districts/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/opinion-donald-trump-national-guard-chicago-free-speech/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/editorial-april-perry-ice-national-guard-justice-department/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Oak Park.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/oak-park-gender-affirming-care-discussion/
— Lapel pins awarded to honor area Vietnam era veterans. DD: I should write about those who have used against me my avoiding the Vietnam War draft the most. I would focus on my Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans. They blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/vietnam-war-brad-schneider-pins/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Duckworth, Durbin demand feds not use Chicago Harbor Lock on river as backdrop for social media videos
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/duckworth-durbin-demand-feds-not-use-chicago-harbor-lock-on-river-as-backdrop-for-social-media-videos
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly coverup their poverty and their crime in Chicago.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251011/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-a-celebration-of-chicago-the-disparagement-in-our-national-politics-of-our-ci/
EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— DD: Fundraising success indicates electability
https://www.theintelligencer.com/opinion/article/money-shouldnt-decide-illinois-senate-race-21090956.php
MILWAUKEE COURIER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint Derek Chauvin as being a typical conservative White male Republican.
https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2025/10/11/remembering-george-floyd-we-are-the-stewards-of-his-story/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to ‘reclaim’ the explorer’s legacy
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-11/trump-issues-a-columbus-day-proclamation-to-reclaim-the-explorers-legacy
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Newsom approves agency to administer slavery reparations. DD: Affirmative Action is reparations. To get even more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders promise Blacks even more reparations.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/3846786/newsom-approves-agency-administer-slavery-reparations/
NEW YORK POST
— Cornell MBA council warns ‘non-marginalized’ students to avoid minority recruiting events. DD: All my critics/opponents attribute all my successes in my life to my benefitting from marginalization of minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/cornell-mba-council-warns-non-marginalized-students-to-avoid-minority-recruiting-events-report/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Renowned chef who catered for George W Bush deported, stuns Texas town. DD: I have always helped elect in general elections candidates who won Republican primary elections. Far too often, those candidates were the lesser of two evils.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/10/renowned-chef-who-catered-for-george-w-bush-deported-stuns-texas-town-1591643/
BREITBART
— Gavin Newsom Signs Bill to Build Reparations Bureaucracy. DD: Affirmative Action is reparations. To get even more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders promise Blacks even more reparations.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/11/gavin-newsom-signs-bill-to-build-reparations-bureaucracy/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— Michigan State University opens $38 million ‘sanctuary’ for ‘minorities’ DD: Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have attributed my successes in my life to my benefitting from oppression of minorities and females. In my defense, 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 the many minorities and females who were promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/michigan-state-u-opens-38-million-sanctuary-for-minorities/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The MSU Multicultural Center (MCC), guided by a student-developed mission, aims to provide a supportive space for students from historically oppressed backgrounds to learn, grow, and access the resources necessary to succeed and graduate from a predominantly white institution,” the room reservation page for the center states.)
FOX NEWS
— Atlantic article likens Charlie Kirk to George Floyd, sparking online fury
https://www.aol.com/news/atlantic-article-likens-charlie-kirk-151941835.html
NEWSMAX
— Trump Admin’s Immigration Raids Blamed for Potential Food Supply Crisis. DD: What percent of food industry workers are illegals? What percent of food industry jobs are bad jobs?
https://www.newsmax.com/us/immigration-migrants-farm-workers/2025/10/11/id/1229953/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Gingrich on Trump’s shutdown layoffs: ‘He’s willing to take the heat’ DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5551386-trump-gingrich-federal-layoffs/
AOL
— NFL Removing ‘End Racism’ Message From End Zones. DD: Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have attributed my successes in my life to my benefitting from discrimination against minorities and against females. In my defense, 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 the many minorities and females who were promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/nfl-removing-end-racism-message-120600237.html
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-life-and-style/gay-harlem-renaissance-exhibit-new-york-historical-rcna236671
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-roslindale-restaurant-pride-flag-ripped-down/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “We’re in a Worse Place Than We Were Under Nixon.” DD: My Democrat Post Office superiors, my Democrat Firestone Store boss, and my Democrat IRS superiors who were veterans hated Nixon. They blamed Nixon for America losing the Vietnam War. They took their hatred against Nixon out against me. My Democrat Post Office superiors denied my sick leave requests and forced me to resign. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I gave him my 2-week notice. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers and my education deductions and never promoted me beyond GS-12. They were furious that I was a Republican and that I avoided the Vietnam War draft.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/opinion/letitia-james-donald-trump-nixon.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders say “Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration.” DD: All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. The aforesaid was true for my Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/black-leaders-trump.html
— 1 in 5 millennials, Gen Zers gifted down payment for home from their parents. DD: Where did the down payment for your first home come from? For me, back in the good old days when I was 24 in 1972, it came from what I had earned and saved a) working for IRS for 15 months and b) working part-time for Firestone Stores for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that. The money I earned and saved during that time also enabled me a) to buy a new 1972 Corvette in October of 1971 and b) pay for tuition and books for graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/realestate/parents-money-down-payment-home-buying.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump escalates his use of federal power to target Democratic states. Democrats see a pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly, while Trump has declared his intent to hurt liberal areas and policies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/12/trump-blue-states-target-red-states/
— DD: What percent of food industry workers are illegals? What percent of food industry jobs are bad jobs?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/11/immigration-crackdown-food-prices/
— DD:: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/10/ice-immigrants-protest-signs-dc/
— Trump is in ‘excellent’ health, White House says, amid questions about second exam. Outside physicians asked why the president was making a return trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, six months after undergoing medical tests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/11/trump-physical-doctor/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/11/lgbtq-queer-youtubers-national-coming-out-day/86569357007/
MIAMI HERALD
— Vance Responds to Joy Reid Calling Him ‘Mediocre’ DD: My critics/opponents have always stressed a) that my ACT score was only 24, b) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, c) that I never got any scholarships, d) that GPAs at UIC, NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT were not that great, and d) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great.
https://www.newsbreak.com/miami-herald-1592483/4287110141419-vance-responds-to-joy-reid-calling-him-mediocre
WSBTV
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Atlanta
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/thousands-attend-atlanta-pride-festival-piedmont-park-this-weekend/PZEZBVOW7VDHRA4C52KCZSJERE/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— DD: What decisions did you make that were career limiting? I spent far too many hours washing dishes while I was in high school instead of studying. I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I spent far too many hours delivering mail while I was earning my bachelor’s degree instead of studying. I should have majored in accounting. I did not become a Democrat. I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-recover-after-mistake-bad-decision-at-work-2021-9
INC.
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly prefer foreign employees over American employees.
https://www.inc.com/entrepreneurs-organization/why-your-workforce-strategy-must-go-global/91248906
U.S. CENSUS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that those who are the following have: minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/09/poverty-rates-for-blacks-and-hispanics-reached-historic-lows-in-2019.html
EQUITABLE GROWTH
— America’s job-quality crisis and how to revive workers’ pay, dignity, job advancement, and economic well-being. DD: According to my critics/opponents, a) all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and b) I was always grossly overpaid. In my defense, to qualify myself for better paying jobs, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree (management), b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), c) I earned six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and d) I earned a job-related professional license (CPA). Nevertheless, I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars. The fact that few qualified minorities and women wanted the federal jobs that I had proves that they were bad jobs. Qualified minorities and females could always get better jobs in the private sector.
https://equitablegrowth.org/americas-job-quality-crisis-and-how-to-revive-workers-pay-dignity-job-advancement-and-economic-well-being/
HUFFINGTON POST
— Don Lemon Flames Hegseth As ‘Not Qualified’ To Be Defense Secretary. DD: What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree (management) when I was 21. I earned three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance) when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting) when I was 30 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license (CPA) when I was 32. But by the time I earned the aforesaid, it was too late, I was views as being too old to have a successful career. That would not have been the case if I had been a minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.aol.com/articles/ex-cnn-host-flames-hegseth-214110998.html
October 11, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump asks appeals court to intervene after judge blocks National Guard deployment to Illinois. Justice Department lawyers say U.S. District Judge April Perry “impermissibly second-guessed the Commander in Chief.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/10/trump-asks-appeals-court-to-intervene-after-judge-blocks-national-guard-deployment-to-illinois
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Transgender Movement is Not Just About Men in Girls’ Sports.
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/child-exploitation/the-transgender-movement-is-not-just-about-men-in-girls-sports/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who do your critics/opponents call losers? SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=losers My critics/opponents call federal employees losers who are White, male, and/or nonveteran and who do not make GS-13 ($117,807) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. My critics/opponents stress that I did not make GS-13 until I was 38 in 1986 and that I never made GS-14. In my defense, I stress that Democrats run the federal government and I never became a Democrat and a) that I did not earn job-related master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) that I did not earn job-related professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) that I did not earn a job-related professional license until I was 32. Further, my critics/opponents call Republican Precinct Committeemen (RPC) losers who are White, male, and/or nonveteran and who not become township party leaders, county party leaders, and Illinois Republican Party leaders. Extremely few RPCs become party leaders. My critics/opponents stress that while I have been a RPC since 1999, I have never been a party leader. In my defense, I stress that I am a conservative, that is, that I am a platform Republican. – Dave Diersen
https://www.google.com/search?q=losers
— What do your critics/opponent do? My critics/opponents increasingly make it clear that they are anti-conservative, if not conservative-haters. They ever-increasingly blame conservatives for their problems, for your problems, and for everyone’s problems. They ever-increasingly dismiss, belittle, badmouth, isolate, ostracize, marginalize, blacklist, cancel, demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservatives. They ever-increasingly take adverse actions against conservatives. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who are/were a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— QUESTION: What has motivated anti-conservatives and conservative-haters to promote more hatred against conservatives recently? ANSWER: Trump’s successes and Kirk’s assignation. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Enough of Chuck Schumer’s shutdown scam. Democrats are willing to harm Americans to safeguard illegals’ benefits.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/10/enough-chuck-schumers-shutdown-scam/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Newsom approves agency to administer slavery reparations. DD: Affirmative Action is slavery reparations.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/3846786/newsom-approves-agency-administer-slavery-reparations/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Trump Administration Lays Off Last of Minority Business Development Agency. The move effectively shutters the agency, which had already faced dramatic cuts. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, a) there would be no need for DOGE and b) I might still be a GAO employee.
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/trump-administration-lays-off-last-of-minority-business-development-agency/
— DD: Democrats and RINOs will never stop using Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/why-democrats-are-finally-giving-up-on-dei/
NEW YORK POST
— Illegal migrant trucker with ‘No Name Given’ on NY driver’s license ID’d, arrested in Oklahoma
https://nypost.com/2025/10/11/us-news/illegal-migrant-trucker-with-no-name-given-on-ny-drivers-license-idd-arrested-in-oklahoma/
BREITBART
— Robert De Niro Pushes Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Anti-Trump October 18 Protest Campaign
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/10/10/watch-robert-de-niro-pushes-nationwide-no-kings-anti-trump-protest-campaign/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— Academics continue hypocritical whining about ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/academics-continue-hypocritical-whining-about-freedom-and-democracy/
DAILY CALLER
— ICE Nabs Illegal Migrant Truck Driver With ‘No Name’ Listed On Driver’s License
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/10/ice-nabs-migrant-trucker-with-no-name/
— Migrant ‘Invaders’ Under Biden Led To Government Shutdown
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/10/c-span-caller-says-migrant-invaders-under-biden-led-to-government-shutdown/
— The Politics Of The Shutdown, Obamacare, Crime And Deportations
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/11/opinion-the-politics-of-the-shutdown-obamacare-crime-and-deportations-larry-elder/
FOX NEWS
— Biden-era ‘unvetted’ immigrants nabbed after Virginia highway gunfire as border debate hits governor’s race
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-era-unvetted-immigrants-nabbed-after-virginia-highway-gunfire-border-debate-hits-governors-race
— New York in the hot seat after ICE busts Illegal immigrant with ‘NO NAME GIVEN’ on license. ICE arrested 91 illegals who were operating commercial motor vehicles with driver’s licenses granted by sanctuary states.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blue-state-hot-seat-after-ice-busts-illegal-immigrant-with-no-name-given-license
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Harvard Cashing in on DEI With $13,760 Certificate Program. “You will gain critical knowledge and skills to address bias and marginalization and to foster an inclusive corporate culture.” DD: Democrats and RINOs will never stop using Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/harvard-cashing-in-on-dei-with-13760-certificate-program/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Teacher Training and Licensure Are Serious Problems; Oklahoma Has an Unserious Solution
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/teacher-training-and-licensure-are-serious-problems-one-red-state-has-an-unserious-solution/
NEW AMERICAN
— Media’s Illegal-alien Sob Stories Are Meant to Deceive
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/manipulation-medias-illegal-alien-sob-stories-are-meant-to-deceive/
NEWSMAX
— ICE Arrests Illegal Driving Rig With N.Y. License for ‘No Name Given’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ice-semitruck-illegal-alien/2025/10/10/id/1229893/
— Use Shutdown for Cuts in ‘Bloated’ Washington. DD: To justify gutting GAO, Gingrich charged GAO with being bloated. My Democrat GAO superiors used that charge to deem its employees like me who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749/year and were the following as being bloat: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/marlin-stutzman-washington-shutdown/2025/10/10/id/1229790/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/lonesome-cowboys-movie-theater-police-raid-atlanta-lgbtq-movement-pride/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Blocking Chicago Guard Deployment, Judge Questions Government’s Veracity. The Trump administration’s “perceptions are not reliable,” a federal judge wrote, explaining why she has temporarily blocked the deployment of troops to the Chicago area.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/politics/ice-national-guard.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Republicans shrank the agency from over 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me for that by wasting my career, by taking adverse actions against me, and by forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/politics/federal-layoffs-government-shutdown.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: The Democrat Party exists to get rid of Trump and everyone who voted for Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/11/trump-war-military-domestic-national-guard/
BALTIMORE SUN
— Chef who used to cater events for President George W. Bush gets deported
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/10/chef-who-used-to-cater-events-for-president-george-w-bush-gets-deported/
EL PASO TIMES
— Abbott warns against road markings seen as ‘social, political or ideological messages’
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/texasregion/2025/10/09/gov-abbott-directive-on-removing-political-street-markings/86599004007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders side with MIT against Trump
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-merit-and-mit-aaf4ac58
FORTUNE
— Billionaire MacKenzie Scott doubles down on DEI with $42 million donation. DD: Democrats and RINOs will never stop using Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://fortune.com/2025/10/10/billionaire-mackenzie-scott-doubles-down-on-dei-with-42-million-donation/
October 10, 2015 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— 4 arrested during protests at Broadview ICE facility; DOJ to appeal to National Guard ruling. A judge has ordered the removal of a fence surrounding the Broadview ICE facility by Tuesday night.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/broadview-ice-facility-protest-expected-donald-trump-administration-appeals-judge-april-perrys-chicago-national-guard-ruling/17977464/
— New federal changes to commercial driver’s licenses already impacting CA truck drivers
https://abc7news.com/post/new-us-department-transportation-changes-commercial-drivers-licenses-already-impacting-california-truck/17981185/
— Chicago alderman asks Trump to consider amnesty for undocumented immigrants with clean records. Republican President Reagan in 1986 gave millions opportunity of a lifetime: United States citizenship.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-alderman-ray-lopez-asks-president-donald-trump-consider-amnesty-undocumented-immigrants-clean-records/17980847/
— WGN-TV employee detained by federal agents in Lincoln Square
https://abc7chicago.com/post/wgn-tv-employee-debbie-brockman-detained-border-patrol-agents-lincoln-foster-avenues-square-chicago-video/17980398/
NBC5
— ICE agents detain several people at O’Hare Airport rideshare parking lot
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ice-agents-detain-several-people-at-ohare-airport-rideshare-lot/3836759/
— Trump administration appeals, releases statement on National Guard ruling in Chicago
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-administration-appeals-releases-statement-on-national-guard-ruling-in-chicago/3836585/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/trump-fanning-the-flames-of-unrest-says-chicago-judge-in-ruling-against-deployment/3836366/
— Sens. Durbin and Duckworth visit Broadview ICE processing facility. Durbin said this was the fourth time they’ve requested to tour the facility with no response from ICE officials.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/sens-durbin-and-duckworth-visit-broadview-ice-processing-facility/3836809/
CBS2
— WGN-TV employee arrested by ICE agents in Lincoln Square
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/wgn-tv-employee-arrested-by-ice-agents-in-lincoln-square/
— Women arrested by ICE in front of Chicago elementary school, accused of stalking agents
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/women-arrested-ice-agents-west-side/
FOX32
— Durbin, Duckworth denied access to Broadview ICE facility amid legal disputes
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/durbin-duckworth-denied-access-broadview-ice-facility-amid-legal-disputes
— Trump administration appeals ruling blocking National Guard deployment in Chicago area
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-appeals-ruling-blocking-national-guard-deployment-chicago
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Protesters return to Broadview on Friday after judge temporarily blocks National Guard
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/ice-national-guard-chicago-1011/
— Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/firings-federal-workers-government-shutdown/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251010/dining/the-deployments-create-fear-immigration-crackdown-hurting-restaurant-staffing-reservations/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Feds conduct immigration raid at rideshare lot near O’Hare
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/feds-conduct-immigration-operation-rideshare-lot-near-ohare
DECATUR RADIO
— Teen Alcohol Use Rising To Alarming Rate In Illinois
https://www.decaturradio.com/2025/10/10/teen-alcohol-use-rising-to-alarming-rate-in-illinois/
WTHI TV
— Firings of federal workers underway as shutdown drags on, White House budget chief announces
https://www.wthitv.com/news/firings-of-federal-workers-underway-as-shutdown-drags-on-white-house-budget-chief-announces/article_5b604fd0-2e9d-58ea-8684-4a462de3709f.html
CHICAGO READER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicagoreader.com/news/make-it-make-sense/ice-arrests-protests-cook-county/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-401/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DON TRACY
— Statement from Don Tracy on Pritzker-Trump Administration Legal Dispute
https://mailchi.mp/667e0fc2f8ed/statement-from-don-tracy-on-pritzker-trump-administration-legal-dispute?e=bb81f0fe1e
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Biden-Appointed Judge With Soros Ties Blocks National Guard From Chicago as City Remains a Warzone
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/biden-appointed-judge-with-soros-ties-blocks-national-guard-from-chicago-as-city-remains-a-warzone.html
— The World Owes Trump an Apology — and the Media Owes America the Truth
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/the-world-owes-trump-an-apology-and-the-media-owes-america-the-truth.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Trump’s doctor touts president’s ‘exceptional health’ after undergoing ‘semiannual physical’
https://nypost.com/2025/10/10/us-news/trumps-doctor-touts-presidents-exceptional-health-after-undergoing-physical/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Party like it’s 1859
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/party_like_it_s_1859.html
— The new asylums
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/the_new_asylums.html
BIZPAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor predictably goes right to the race card after Trump calls for his arrest
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/09/chicago-mayor-predictably-goes-right-to-the-race-card-after-trump-calls-for-his-arrest-1591297/
BREITBART
— Chicago Residents Welcome Border Patrol in Contrast to Leftist Anti-ICE Radicals
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/10/10/watch-chicago-residents-welcome-border-patrol-in-contrast-to-leftist-anti-ice-radicals/amp/
— Illinois Teacher Arrested for Grooming, Sharing Explicit Content with Student
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/10/09/illinois-teacher-arrested-for-grooming-sharing-explicit-content-with-student/
FOX NEWS
— Trump declared in ‘excellent overall health’ by doctor after Walter Reed visit
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-declared-excellent-overall-health-doctor-after-walter-reed-visit
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Here’s How Chicago Has Been Putting Illegal Aliens Above American Citizens
https://www.westernjournal.com/chicago-putting-illegal-aliens-american-citizens/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Trump, 79, has “cardiac age” of 65-year-old, doctor says
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-79-get-second-medical-check-up-this-year-2025-10-10/
WPSD
— National Guard stands down in Illinois while troops patrol in Memphis with local police
https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/national-guard-stands-down-in-illinois-while-troops-patrol-in-memphis-with-local-police/article_e64452dd-d66e-4756-8bfb-5b5d68b98d6d.html
FORBES
— Tammy Duckworth And Dick Durbin Hand Out Water To Protesters Outside ICE Facility In Broadview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-D0rwfQus
October 8, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Texas National Guard troops expected to deploy to Broadview ICE facility Wednesday evening. Trump says Johnson, Pritzker ‘should be in jail’ for ‘failing to protect’ ICE officers
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-national-guard-chicago-area-troops-arrive-elwood-illinois-protests-expected-city-wednesday/17962765/
— Federal workers, local leaders hold rally downtown Chicago as government shutdown continues
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-workers-chicago-area-union-political-leaders-hold-rally-downtown-loop-government-shutdown-continues/17966499/
— IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as the government shutdown enters a second week
https://abc7chicago.com/post/irs-will-furlough-half-workforce-government-shutdown-enters-second-week/17965825/
— How furloughed government workers plan to weather shutdown. Roughly 750,000 federal workers have been furloughed.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/how-furloughed-government-workers-plan-weather-shutdown/17963562/
CBS2
— 500 National Guard troops arrive in Chicago area amid legal battle over deployment
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/texas-national-guard-members-deploy-chicago-area/
— Furloughed federal workers in Chicago rally against Trump’s threat of no back pay when government shutdown ends
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-furloughed-federal-workers-rally-against-trumps-threat-of-no-back/
— Pope Leo urges U.S. bishops to speak about Trump’s immigration crackdown after being shown migrants’ letters. DD: Those who want to destroy America promote mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pope-leo-trump-immigration-crackdown-migrant-letters/
— Federal judge further limits ICE ability to arrest without warrants, probable cause
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/consent-decree-ruling-ice-arrest-no-warrant-chicago/
WGN9
— Charges dismissed against 3 arrested during protest at Broadview ICE facility
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/charges-dismissed-against-3-arrested-during-protest-at-broadview-ice-facility/
FOX32
— ‘Come and get me’: Pritzker responds to Trump saying he should be in jail
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1720910
WBEZ
— Federal workers in Chicago ‘emotionally exhausted’ from government shutdown, year of uncertainty
https://www.wbez.org/work/2025/10/08/federal-workers-in-chicago-emotionally-exhausted-from-government-shutdown-year-of-uncertainty
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders seek to limit immigration enforcement in Will County
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/will-county-board-immigration-enforcement/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker responds to Trump threat to jail him, mayor over ICE: ‘Come and get me’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/08/jb-pritzker-brandon-johnson-donald-trump-truth-social-jail-threat
— Texas National Guard expected to be deployed in Chicago area tonight. The troops will be deployed Wednesday evening to the Broadview ICE facility.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/08/texas-national-guard-broadview-illinois
— U.S. Supreme Court hears Rep. Mike Bost’s case tied to Illinois mail voting law. Conservative justices signaled their openness to allowing the downstate congressman’s challenge to proceed against the state’s mail balloting law.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2025/10/08/supreme-court-mail-ballot-illinois-challenge
DAILY HERALD
— It was business as usual Wednesday at O’Hare International Airport, but concerns remain about a repeat of the Federal Aviation Administration’s ground delay issued Tuesday evening. Problems have erupted at a number of airports across the U.S. amid the government shutdown and a slight increase in sick calls from air traffic controllers, authorities said.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251008/transportation/the-situation-appears-to-be-deteriorating-ohare-is-back-to-normal-but-for-how-long-amid-shutdown/
WCIA
— IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as the government shutdown enters a second week
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-irs-to-furlough-nearly-half-of-its-workforce-as-shutdown-enters-second-week/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-399/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump is conservative. As Trump has more conservative successes, if you are conservative, anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly anti-conservatives will ignore you, dismiss you, belittle you, badmouth you, isolate you, ostracize you, marginalize you, blacklist you, cancel you, demonize you, denigrate you, condemn you, punish you. and get rid of you. It is called displaced aggression. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the faster that anti-conservatives will get rid of you. In addition to being conservative, Trump is Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago mayor says businesses must pay, wants progressive revenue from state
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_2c6e4257-6492-49d9-80ad-24aadbbea27e.html
TED DABROWSKI
— Lt. Gov. Candidate Mendoza Calls Pritzker’s False Nazi Comparisons Disqualifying
https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?e=c4ad197eda&u=fa4b4d821c51392600207140c&id=8adbd47aa6
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— McHenry County GOP Rift: Move to Oust MAGA Committeewoman Draws Comparisons to Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un-Style Censorship. DD: I should write about how the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have treated me since 1999.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/mchenry-county-gop-rift-move-to-oust-maga-committeewoman-draws-comparisons-to-xi-jinping-and-kim-jong-un-style-censorship.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In McHenry County, a storm is brewing inside the Republican Party – not against Democrats, but against one of its own. Jacqueline Garretson, a proud precinct committeewoman, conservative activist, and unapologetic supporter of President Donald Trump, is under attack from within her own ranks. Garretson has dedicated years of service to expanding the conservative movement in Illinois. She volunteers tirelessly – knocking on doors, organizing events, and raising funds to elect Republicans who actually stand for Republican values. She has become a trusted voice for the grassroots, a leader unafraid to challenge corruption or cowardice — no matter which side of the aisle it comes from. But that honesty has made her a target. Now, RINOs inside the McHenry Township Republican Organization are reportedly moving to remove Garretson from her elected position as precinct committeewoman. Her so-called “offense?” Speaking truth and calling out fake Republicans who use the GOP label but push Democrat-lite policies once in power. This isn’t just an attack on one woman – it’s an attack on the entire grassroots conservative movement. Garretson’s fight mirrors a broader pattern happening across Illinois, where establishment insiders have tried to muzzle anyone who dares to question their grip on power. Illinois Republican leaders have even attempted to silence Illinois Review – the largest conservative news publication in the state, known for exposing corruption, holding politicians accountable, and giving a voice to the forgotten Republican base. Illinois Review has been shared by President Donald Trump himself on Truth Social – a testament to its reach and credibility among real conservatives. Yet instead of embracing this powerful platform, party insiders tried to shut it down, block it from events, and cut off communication – all because it refused to play along with their backroom politics. This type of censorship is something Americans expect from dictators like Vladimir Putin, Nicolas Maduro, Kim Jong-Un, and Xi Jinping – not from Republican leaders in the Land of Lincoln. In those regimes, anyone who challenges authority is silenced, punished, and jailed. Now, that same authoritarian mindset is creeping into the Illinois GOP. The move to remove Garretson – and to silence Illinois Review – is nothing short of an assault on the First Amendment. It sends a chilling message: if you speak out, if you expose hypocrisy, if you stand with President Trump and the MAGA movement, you’ll be targeted. Grassroots conservatives in McHenry County see what’s happening, and they’re not fooled. They know that Garretson’s real “crime” is refusing to bow to establishment pressure. They know she represents a new generation of Republicans – bold, patriotic, and fiercely loyal to America First values. If the McHenry Township Republican Organization follows through with its plan to remove her, it won’t just be ousting a precinct leader – it will be signaling to every patriot in Illinois that free speech and conservative conviction are no longer welcome. But history has shown that attempts to silence the truth only make it louder. Just ask Donald Trump.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Uncle Sam ends fiscal year 2025 $1.8 trillion in the red
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/8/uncle-sam-ends-fiscal-year-2025-18-trillion-red/
— America’s children are getting dumber
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/8/americas-children-getting-dumber/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats’ blue-state failures are becoming a political problem
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3821729/democrats-blue-state-failures-political-problem/
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE
— The Radical Left’s Shutdown Puts Americans Last, Illegals First
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/the-radical-lefts-shutdown-puts-americans-last-illegals-first
BREITBART
— 2.2 Million Decline in Foreign Population Thanks to Record Low Illegal Immigration and Migrants Returning Home
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/08/golden-age-2-2-million-decline-foreign-population-thanks-to-record-low-illegal-immigration-migrants-returning-home/
DAILY SIGNAL
— White House Memo Exposes Democrats’ History of Pushing Health Care for Illegals
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/08/exclusive-white-house-memo-exposes-democrats-history-expanding-health-care-illegals/
FOX NEWS
— Trump calls Chicago mayor and Illinois governor ‘grossly incompetent’ in new White House video
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-chicago-mayor-illinois-governor-grossly-incompetent-new-white-house-video
— DHS fact-checks Pritzker’s claims about ICE as Texas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382290226112
— Pritzker hurls ‘dementia’ claim at Trump amid National Guard feud despite defending Biden’s mental fitness. Illinois governor previously defended Biden’s mental fitness after special counsel report.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pritzker-hurls-dementia-claim-trump-amid-national-guard-feud-despite-defending-bidens-mental-fitness
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Ending Affirmative Action Will Take More Than Supreme Court Decisions
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/ending-affirmative-action-will-take-more-than-supreme-court-decisions/
NEWSMAX
— US Bishops Say Pope Urging Them to Speak Up for Illegals. DD: Those who want to destroy America promote mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/pope-catholic-church/2025/10/08/id/1229449/
— Chicago Mayor Should Be Jailed for Not Protecting ICE Agents
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rudy-giuliani-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson/2025/10/07/id/1229431/
PATRIOT POST
— Chicago Mayor Hoping His ICE-Free Zones Work Better Than His Gun-Free Zones
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/121552-chicago-mayor-hoping-his-ice-free-zones-work-better-than-his-gun-free-zones-2025-10-08
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Porter: Illinois is “One Step Short of Insurrection” Simply to Advance Pritzker’s Career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo2YenOQZJo
TOWNHALL
— Don’t Believe Google’s Claim That It’s Done Blacklisting Conservatives
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryschilling/2025/10/08/dont-believe-googles-claim-that-its-done-blacklisting-conservatives-n2664599
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Pritzker Has Had it With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump. The Illinois governor, a potential presidential candidate, is fighting the presence of National Guard troops and the activities of ICE agents in Chicago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/pritzker-trump-national-guard-chicago.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Supreme Court seems ready to revive GOP challenge to Illinois mail-in ballot law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/08/supreme-court-mail-ballots-republican-elections-trump/c559219c-a47d-11f0-a79e-ccb5b1f59130_story.html
TEXAS TRIBUNE
— Texas GOP to consider blocking lawmakers from 2026 primary ballot in first test of new censure rule
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/08/texas-republican-party-censures-rule-44-primary-ballot/
https://myparistexas.com/texas-gop-to-consider-blocking-lawmakers-from-2026-primary-ballot-in-first-test-of-new-censure-rule/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Republican Party of Texas’ governing board is set to meet in the state Capitol on Saturday to consider censuring state representatives who party leaders deem insufficiently conservative to bear the GOP brand, potentially banning them from the 2026 Republican primary ballot. The tribunal will be the first of its kind, a daylong meeting to determine whether 10 Texas House Republicans tried to thwart GOP priorities during the Legislature’s 140-day session earlier this year. Although many Republicans lauded the 2025 session as the most conservative ever, some party activists believe members of House leadership scuttled long-sought GOP priorities and should be barred from the primary ballot under an untested rule adopted at the Texas GOP’s 2024 convention. . .The effort comes after delegates at last year’s convention expanded Rule 44 — the part of the Texas GOP’s rulebook dealing with censures — to bar officials from the primary ballot if they have been censured within the last two years. Lawmakers can be reprimanded for working against the state party’s legislative priorities or the broader principles outlined in the party platform and preamble. For members facing censures Saturday, the transgressions include voting for Burrows as speaker and approving this year’s House rules package, which banned Democrats from serving as committee chairs but left them with other means of influence. Activists in the party initially teased a more sweeping effort to censure the 36 House Republicans who joined with Democrats to elevate Burrows to the speakership in January. But enthusiasm within the party to invoke Rule 44 has waned after the Burrows-led House shepherded numerous conservative bills to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk, and as Abbott and President Donald Trump have thrown their support behind the first-term speaker. Some within the party have argued the infractions don’t merit such a drastic maneuver as denying ballot access, which critics have long framed as an illegal tactic that runs afoul of democratic norms. “Rule 44 is not a campaign strategy, it is not a substitute for the primary,” SREC member Rolando Garcia wrote on social media recently. “It is an extraordinarily penalty intended to be used sparingly on only the most egregious cases.” How Rule 44 came to be In 2023, the divide between the business-oriented establishment and the socially conservative grassroots of the Texas GOP reached a boiling point. However, those tensions had been simmering for years. The Texas GOP first defined Rule 44 at the party’s 2016 convention in Dallas, allowing local party leaders to initiate censures against their elected officials for three violations of the party platform. The language also allowed the state party and local parties to campaign against a censured official.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Bad Blood Between Trump and Pritzker Goes Back Decades. The president and Illinois governor have had a tense relationship their entire political careers.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pritzker-illinois-governor-relationship-9db5ab09
DAILY KOS
— DD: To get more votes from minorities, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that minorities have.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/8/2347596/-This-Is-White-Privilege-at-Its-Most-Dangerous
October 7, 2025
WHITE HOUSE
— Chicago Mayor’s “ICE-Free Zones” Shield Violent Criminal Illegals, Abandon Citizens
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/chicago-mayors-ice-free-zones-shield-violent-criminal-illegals-abandon-citizens/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois National Guard to patrol Chicago area, as troops depart from Texas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-national-guard-patrol-chicago-area-troops-depart-texas-trump-threatens-use-insurrection-act/17956187/
— Tracking surge in immigration enforcement operations
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-federal-intervention-latest-president-trumps-immigration-enforcement-possible-national-guard-deployment-live-updates/17758521/
— Trump threatens use of Insurrection Act
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-pritzker-address-trumps-effort-deploy-national-guard-illinois-pentagon-authorizes-chicago-mission/17949147/
WGN9
— Federal troops headed to Illinois as lawsuit against Trump administration seeks to halt deployment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmZOxBw6k7g
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago gang member solicited murder of Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/chicago-gang-member-solicited-murder-bovino/
— ‘Our people hire our people’: Long before DOJ probe into Mayor Brandon Johnson, racial politics coursed through City Hall hiring. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/mayor-brandon-johnson-racial-politics-city-hall-hiring/
— Chicago can’t shrug off the unease random attacks create
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/editorial-chicago-random-attacks-women-mental-health/
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight assimilation. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Their slow assimilation held them back. All my grandparents spoke German. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/cps-hispanic-heritage-month/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. I never became a Democrat even though I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees. Democrat efforts to make me a Democrat were frustrated my majoring in management, business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251007/syndicated-columnists/trumps-latest-invitation-to-universities/
— DD: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251006/news/cold-comfort-new-cooler-freezer-help-palatine-food-pantry-fight-food-insecurity/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Illinois diversity commission’s budget ballooning but results lag. DD: Democrats and RINOs use diversity to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_05a70ee4-5c31-4ac2-a881-96f4f779be65.html
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— 27 Police Officers Among Those Injured By Tear Gas During Weekend Protest, Chicago’s Top Cop Says. Police Supt. Larry Snelling also disputed the claim pushed by federal officials that Chicago police ignored calls for help during a chaotic scene Saturday afternoon in Brighton Park.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/06/27-police-officers-among-those-injured-by-tear-gas-during-weekend-protest-chicagos-top-cop-says/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-606/
— Selected press releases. DD: It would be great if Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois would include diersen@aol.com on their press release lists and their press advisory lists.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/07/selected-press-releases-live-updates-308/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Ugaste Previews Fall Veto Session
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/07/ugaste-previews-fall-veto-session/
— Press Release about Chicago ICE Arrests
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/press-release-about-chicago-ice-arrests/
— Can One Believe One’s Lying Eyes, Officers under Attack? Did or Didn’t Chicago Police Refuse to Assist Ice
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/can-one-believe-ones-lying-eyes/
— Fox River Grove Planning To Cut Electric Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/fox-river-grove-planning-to-cut-electric-tax/
— Homeland Security Claims Pritzker Is Lying
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/homeland-security-claims-pritzker-is-lying/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illinois Democrats escalate confrontation with Trump’s ICE sweeps, National Guard deployments
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/6/illinois-sues-stop-trump-sending-national-guard/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Campuses Brace for Pro-Hamas Protests on Anniversary of Oct. 7
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/campuses-brace-for-pro-hamas-protests
AMAC
— Rotten Core of Public Education on Full Display With Illegal Alien Superintendent
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/rotten-core-of-public-education-on-full-display-with-illegal-alien-superintendent/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘Woke’ Pope digs at Trump in call for open borders: ‘New missionary age.’ DD: Mass/illegal immigration will destroy America.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/06/woke-pope-digs-at-trump-in-call-for-open-borders-new-missionary-age-1590407/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pope Leo XIV did not mention President Trump by name, but it was clear to many who heard his address to Catholics on Sunday that he was taking a shot at U.S. immigration policies. Conservative Catholics, hopeful that the new pope, who was elected in May, would not be as far-left as his predecessor, the late Pope Francis, were sorely disappointed as Sunday’s Mass in St. Peter’s Square took on political overtones. Days after criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration policies, Leo urged the thousands gathered for the service – and Catholics around the globe – to open their “arms and hearts” to migrants, not distinguishing between legal and illegal immigration. The first pope to have been born in the United States, Leo said migrants must not be treated with “the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination.” He urged Catholics to “open our arms and hearts to them, welcoming them as brothers and sisters, and being for them a presence of consolation and hope.” “On Sunday, the pope said the global Church was experiencing ‘a new missionary age’ in which it was tasked with offering ‘hospitality and welcome, compassion and solidarity’ to migrants fleeing violence or searching for a safe place to live,” Reuters reported. “In the communities of ancient Christian tradition, such as those of the West, the presence of many brothers and sisters from the world’s South should be welcomed as an opportunity, through an exchange that renews the face of the Church,” he said, speaking from a prepared text. The Pope’s official account on X has also made his thoughts quite clear on the issue. Last week, the Pope appeared to take a jab at Trump when speaking with reporters. “Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life,” Leo said. “I would reject that there is inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the United States under this administration,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back. “There was, however, significant, inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the previous administration as they were being trafficked and raped and beaten, in many cases killed over our United States southern border.” The Pope’s latest swipe against US immigration policy earned heated criticism on social media.
BREITBART
— Abbott Defies Pritzker, Greenlights Trump’s Texas National Guard Deployment to Sanctuary States
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/06/abbott-defies-pritzker-greenlights-trumps-texas-national-guard-deployment-to-sanctuary-states/
— White House Highlights ‘Predators’ Taken Off Chicago Streets Thanks to ICE
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/06/white-house-highlights-predators-taken-off-chicago-streets-thanks-ice/amp/
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— California law allowing anonymous abortion pill prescriptions endangers women
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266975/california-law-allowing-anonymous-abortion-pill-prescriptions-endangers-women-experts-say
COLLEGE FIX
— Colorado State U. renamed DEI programs to give ‘illusion’ of compliance
https://www.thecollegefix.com/colorado-state-u-renamed-dei-programs-to-give-illusion-of-compliance-complaint/
— Trump admin ends taxpayer-funded education scholarships, loans for illegal immigrants
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-admin-ends-taxpayer-funded-education-scholarships-loans-for-illegal-immigrants/
DAILY CALLER
— America’s Defense Giants Are Fueling Wokeness – And Undermining Our Military Readiness
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/07/opinion-americas-defense-giants-are-fueling-wokeness-and-undermining-our-military-readiness-dustin-devito/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago’s ‘ICE-free zones’ endanger operations, embolden protesters. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring ICE from using city parking lots and garages for operations.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-agent-says-chicagos-ice-free-zones-endanger-operations-embolden-protesters
— DHS chief slams ‘violent anarchists,’ pledges full support for federal agents
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/first-fox-dhs-chief-slams-violent-anarchists-pledges-full-support-federal-agents.amp
— Pope Leo says family based on ‘union between a man and a woman,’ defends dignity of unborn.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-leo-says-family-based-union-between-man-woman-defends-dignity-unborn
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Colleges Boost Illegal Immigrant Students
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/ny-post-op-ed-colleges-boost-illegal-immigrant-students/
NEW AMERICAN
— Border Patrol Agents Attacked in Chicago; City Declares Rebellion Against Feds to Protect Illegals
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/border-patrol-agents-attacked-in-chicago-city-declares-rebellion-against-feds-to-protect-illegals/
NEWSMAX
— White House Slams Chicago Mayor for Creating ‘ICE-Free Zones’
https://www.newsmax.com/amp/newsfront/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-jb-pritzker/2025/10/06/id/1229235/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Porter: Pritzker’s Gambit
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/06/pritzkers_gambit_153370.html
REAL CLEAR POLICY
— Democrats Want Medicaid for Illegals. Pretend They Don’t
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/10/06/dems_want_medicaid_for_illegals_pretend_they_dont_1139150.html
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Livid: Says Trump Ordered National Guard to Illinois Amid Anti-ICE Violence, Likens Troops to Invaders
https://www.westernjournal.com/pritzker-livid-says-trump-ordered-national-guard-to-illinois-amid-anti-ice-violence-likens-troops-to-invaders/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Illinois sues to stop National Guard deployment as Trump escalates clash with states
https://www.reuters.com/world/illinois-sues-block-trump-deploying-national-guard-troops-chicago-2025-10-06/
MSN
— 3 Best First Jobs To Get Promoted Fast. DD: My critics/opponents have always been furious that IRS promoted me when I was 23, 24, and 25. During that time, my salary increased from $55,850/year to $99,069/year in today’s dollars. My taking job-related graduate evening courses at Loyola during that time helped me get promoted. Extremely few of my coworkers took IRS-encouraged job-related graduate evening courses like I did. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my taking those courses gave me an unfair advantage. They stressed that I could afford those courses because I avoided the Vietnam War draft and because did not have a wife or children to support. In my defense, I helped support my mother and brother when I was 21, 22, and 23 and I worked part-time for the Chicago Heights Firestone store while I was 22, 23, and 24.
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/money/personalfinance/3-best-first-jobs-to-get-promoted-fast/ar-AA1zabGZ
NEW YORK TIMES
— National Guard Troops Are Set to Arrive in Illinois. The mobilization includes some 200 Guard troops from Texas. President Trump said he would consider invoking emergency powers to “get around” legal obstacles.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/07/us/trump-national-guard-illinois-texas
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010441484/dei-helps-everyone-white-men-included.html
— DD: I had part-time jobs while I was in high school and college during the school years and full-time during the summers. That enabled me to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, and 20, pay for my college expenses, and graduate debt-free from NIU when I was 21 in 1970 and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. But my GPA suffered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/opinion/jobs-teenagers.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/us/politics/stonewall-national-museum-trump-funding-cuts.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump presses sanctuary cities to work with ICE, but few are budging. Cities like Boston, Chicago and Portland are facing the threat of lawsuits and federal troop takeovers. But leaders in most “sanctuary cities” are not compromising on their promise to protect (their illegals).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/10/07/trump-portland-chicago-sanctuary-lawsuits-immigrants/
USA TODAY
— DD: Americans ever-increasingly refuse to take bad food industry jobs. What should be done? I washed dishes for the minimum wage 1964-1966. I was the only White male who washed dishes for the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/10/02/us-immigration-border-policy-farm/86168928007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Trump Rules for Radical Schools
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-compact-higher-education-universities-7579714b
— America’s Debt to Israel. The Jewish state has taken on many U.S. enemies since Oct. 7, 2023, even as the left turned against it.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/americas-debt-to-israel-65d09527
— Discrimination Persists at the Coast Guard. It bases eligibility for scholarships on the racial demographics of applicants’ schools.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/discrimination-persists-at-the-coast-guard-efbf4414
— DD: I should write a book about a) my critics/opponents who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican and b) the many big anti-religious, anti-conservative, and anti-Republican things that they have done.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/how-to-spot-when-youre-a-hypocrite-e2c3ecfc
BLOOMBERG
— DD: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Ever-increasingly, they do everything that they can to destroy Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-18/trump-puts-more-federal-civil-servants-under-president-s-control
POLITICO
— Newsom, Pritzker threaten to pull out of National Governors Association over Trump’s troop deployments
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/newsom-pritzker-threaten-to-pull-out-of-national-governors-association-over-trumps-troop-deployments-00595741
ATLANTIC
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. They get rid of their employees who do not give tremendous preference their employees who are minority and/or female, that is, they get rid of their employees who do not discriminate against their employees who are White and/or male.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/employee-firing-first-amendment/681702/
AXIOS
— Which federal workers could lose protections under Trump order. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. If you are a federal employee, the more of the following that you are, the fewer protections that you have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The Democrats who run the federal government get rid of federal employees who are the aforesaid because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/28/trump-executive-order-federal-workforce
October 6, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— 5 dead, 25 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-oct-3-to-6/
NBC5
— Trump to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Illinois
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-to-deploy-texas-national-guard-troops-to-chicago-pritzker-says/3833957/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Illinois Democratic lawmakers take on activist role amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote and protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/illinois-democratic-lawmakers-activist-role-immigration/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote and protect their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/05/congress-members-rally-south-shore-apartment-ice-raid
DAILY HERALD
— Scholarship brunch supports Latinx students at Elgin Community College. DD: Did you get any scholarships? My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251006/submitted-content/scholarship-brunch-supports-latinx-students-at-elgin-community-college/
— DD: As Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250708/business/prairie-food-co-op-countys-first-community-owned-grocer-opens-in-lombard/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago’s largest accounting firms buck a national trend as layoffs sweep the industry. DD: The accounting profession had no use for me when I became a licensed CPA in 1981 because I was too old, I was 32 years old, and because I was not a minority or a female. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I had worked for GAO since 1980. I had worked for IRS 1971-1980.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/data-center/chicagos-largest-accounting-firms-deloitte-pwc-ey-kpmg
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly blasts Trump.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey-trumps-immigration-policies-offer-pritzker-a-platform/article_1e7ce828-2525-4060-9dad-848b70efb1c4.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Voting is underway in California on new maps that could swing US House control, check Trump’s power. DD: How gerrymandered is your congressional district?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-voting-is-underway-in-california-on-new-maps-that-could-swing-us-house-control-check-trumps-power/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders use Bad Bunny to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Americans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-05/snl-roasts-trump-in-season-premiere-as-bad-bunny-addresses-super-bowl-criticism
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Republicans are criticizing Democrats’ opposition to the deployments. State Rep. John Cabello, who’s also a retired Rockford Police detective, said the governor is “more interested in protecting his personal political interests than protecting Illinois families.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/06/trump-orders-up-hundreds-of-troops-to-illinois-00594616
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-605/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— U of I scrutinized over perceived preference for international students
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_bba03ae6-e5c7-4e6b-82a5-44f2c63b89cc.html
WHEATON RECORD
— Campus Community Grapples With Charlie Kirk Assassination
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/10/05/campus-community-grapples-with-charlie-kirk-assassination/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago Police Ordered to ‘Stand Down’ as ICE Agent Surrounded – Legal Experts Warn of Criminal Liability
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/chicago-police-ordered-to-stand-down-as-ice-agent-surrounded-legal-experts-warn-of-criminal-liability.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Merit-based advancement is key to military excellence. DD: As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly dumped merit to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. It all culminated when I was 49 in 1997 when they forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my minority subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like I did.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/3836027/merit-based-advancement-key-military-excellence/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump to send 400 Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as anti-ICE protests continue to rage
https://nypost.com/2025/10/06/us-news/trump-sending-400-texas-national-guard-troops-to-illinois-as-anti-ice-protests-continue-to-rage-pritzker/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Legal Discrimination in the Aloha State Under Attack
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/legal-discrimination-in-the-aloha-state-under-attack/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Chicago a war zone over ICE raids, and Illinois’s governor doesn’t think there’s a problem
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/chicago_a_war_zone_over_ice_raids_and_illinois_s_governor_doesn_t_think_there_s_a_problem.html
— The Two-Tiered Justice Sham
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/the_two_tiered_justice_sham.html
BLAZE
— Woke CEOs mocked conservatives. Now the joke’s on them.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/woke-ceos-mocked-conservatives-now-the-jokes-on-them
BREITBART
— Hegseth Blasts Woke Diversity at Navy’s 250th Anniversary
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2025/10/05/pete-hegseth-blasts-woke-diversity-at-navys-250th-anniversary/
COLLEGE FIX
— National teachers’ union leftism draws federal scrutiny, calls to revisit charter
https://www.thecollegefix.com/national-teachers-union-leftism-draws-federal-scrutiny-calls-to-revisit-charter/
DAILY CALLER
— Chicago Police Told Not To Help Border Patrol Agents In Distress
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/05/chicago-police-told-not-to-help-border-patrol-agents-in-distress/
FOX NEWS
— Trump is protecting the American people from ‘terrorist states in our own hemisphere’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382079453112
— Trump ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Illinois, Oregon and other locations
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pritzker-says-trump-ordering-400-members-texas-national-guard-illinois-oregon-other-locations
HOMELAND SECURITY
— Discord, Extremism, and the Charlie Kirk Assassination: A Homeland Security Wake-Up Call
https://www.hstoday.us/perspective/perspective-discord-extremism-and-the-charlie-kirk-assassination-a-homeland-security-wake-up-call/
WESTERN JORNALISM
— Illegal Alien Who Served as School Superintendent Was Registered to Vote and Has Extensive Criminal Record
https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-alien-served-school-superintendent-registered-vote-extensive-criminal-record/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Pritzker says Trump officials ‘want to create the war zone.’ DD: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5539424-chicago-warzone-pritzker-trump/
CNN
— DD: ‘It’s frankly evil’: Casten rips Trump’s plan to lay off employees during shutdown.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/05/politics/video/layoffs-government-shutdown-trump-blame-democrats-sean-casten-intv-nrtf
AOL
— Georgia Steak ’n Shake Owner’s Charlie Kirk Billboard Sparks National Attention
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/georgia-steak-n-shake-owner-171030026.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.aol.com/news/concerns-grow-over-continued-restriction-004400211.html
https://www.aol.com/news/durbin-overwhelmed-pope-leo-support-180707754.html
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-targets-virginia-schools-over-132607509.html
REUTERS
— White House: Mass layoffs will start if shutdown talks ‘going nowhere’
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-layoffs-will-start-if-trump-sees-shutdown-talks-going-nowhere-2025-10-05/
ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appears-reveal-strike-alleged-cartel-drug-boat/story?id=126237676
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders continue their government shutdown. Trump is starting to use it against them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14V_9ERBqm8
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/trump-caribbean-strikes-drugs-kindness.html
–DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/texas-lgbtq-schools.html
— Push for Military Coverage of IVF Faces Challenge in Congress. A proposal to expand the Defense Department’s health care plan to include in vitro fertilization is moving through Congress but could die behind closed doors, again. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used my and my wife’s giving up trying to have children without trying IVF against me big time. They punished me in 1989 by throwing me off audits of IRS, by giving me a bad job assignment, by giving me unfair performance expectations, by giving me an unfair performance appraisal, and by ranking me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/military-ivf-congress.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push LGBTQ in schools. How successful have Democrat leaders been pushing LGBTQ in your school district?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/texas-lgbtq-schools.html
— White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes. The Trump administration forged ahead with plans to conduct mass layoffs, as the fiscal standoff appeared to intensify. DD: Because I was one of their very few if not only Republican employee and because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly punished me. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/us/politics/white-house-shutdown-punishment.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: I should write about those who I have done the most to help elect and to help reelect, but who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who blame me and who blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their problems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/05/national-guard-takeover-oregon-trump-immergut/
USA TODAY
— DD: From the beginning, Democrat and RINO leaders have done everything they could to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/10/04/trump-political-enemies-comey-indictment/86451565007/
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote resistance to Trump. What if Republican leaders had promoted resistance to Biden?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/trump-resistance-ice-noncooperation-21081574.php
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— False Charges of ‘Hate’ Encourage Violence. The ADL withdrew its smear of Charlie Kirk. The SPLC should follow its example. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied/argued/shouted that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC officer 2003-2007.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/false-charges-of-hate-encourage-violence-d5e07919
— Hegseth Focuses on Fitness. DD: When I was 18 years old in 1966, I was 1-A for the Vietnam War draft even though I could not run because I had a bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. My ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. What if I had tried to enlist?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-focuses-on-fitness-even-as-pentagon-goes-high-tech-723eadfb
— Federal-Worker Buyouts Are Kicking In, Darkening the U.S. Employment Picture. About 100,000 federal workers came off the payroll this week, adding strain to an already weakening labor market. DD: I became eligible for a $25,000 early retirement buyout when I was 45 years old in 1993 because of Gingrich GAO budget cuts. The $25,000 expired in 1994 and the early retirement expired in 1997. I would not be eligible for regular retirement until 2003. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/federal-worker-buyouts-are-kicking-in-darkening-the-u-s-employment-picture-4c3f044b
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
SPECTATOR WORLD
— The shocking state of the American left. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Democratic lawmakers and commentators found themselves in a quandary.
https://thespectator.com/topic/the-shocking-state-of-the-american-left/
DAILY MAIL
— Pritzker says Trump to deploy 400 National Guard troops from Texas to ‘invade’ liberal states
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15165203/Illinois-Governor-JB-Pritzker-Trump-National-Guard.html
TIMES OF INDIA
— How Trump’s 10-point memo directs US universities to ban race and sex in hiring and admissions
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/explained-how-trumps-10-point-memo-pushes-us-universities-to-take-race-and-sex-out-of-hiring-and-admissions/articleshow/124316871.cms
INDEPENDENT
— Trump looking to ban transgender people from having a gun and declaring them ‘mentally ill’
https://www.aol.com/trump-looking-ban-transgender-people-183556531.html
October 3, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— New barricades erected near Broadview ICE facility in effort to limit protesters from blocking street. Local and state authorities installed the barriers Thursday to allow room for protests but also keep the street clear. Demonstrators trying to block federal vehicles from entering and leaving the facility have been met with numerous rounds of rubber pellets and chemical agents that officials say endanger nearby residents and first responders.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/02/local-authorities-to-place-barricades-outside-broadview-ice-facility-to-protect-first-amendment-rights
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/02/cardinal-timothy-dolans-charlie-kirk-catholic-church-marc-morial
— DD: Democrats a) love it when DOJ prosecutes Republicans and b) hate it when DOJ prosecutes Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/02/trump-law-revenge-comey-adam-schiff-letitia-james-jacob-sullum
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/03/opinion-ice-officer-escalation-protests-chicago/
DAILY HERALD
— District 300 school board member removed as president but avoids censure for Charlie Kirk post. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251002/news/district-300-school-board-member-removed-as-president-but-avoids-censure-for-charlie-kirk-post/
— Trump administration approval of new abortion drug infuriates the right
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251002/nation-and-world-politics/trump-administration-approval-of-new-abortion-drug-infuriates-the-right/
SUBURBAN LIFE
— DD: Democrat leaders organize “No Kings” protests in DuPage County October 18
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/10/02/organizers-reveal-details-of-dupage-no-kings-protests/
— Woodridge cancels Hispanic Heritage event after some vendors withdraw
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/10/02/woodridge-cancels-hispanic-heritage-event/
EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— Seven questions with U.S. Senate candidate Don Tracy
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/seven-questions-senate-candidate-don-tracy-21078169.php
BELLEVILE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Local U.S. attorney deals with furloughs, questions about partisan messaging
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article312357794.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders always want to give more preference to international students over American students.
https://www.nprillinois.org/education-desk/2025-10-02/new-student-visa-rule-blasted-by-illinois-attorney-general-raoul
CHICAGO READER
— Five anti-ICE protesters face federal charges
https://chicagoreader.com/news/make-it-make-sense/ice-protest-seminary-bookstore-planetarium-union/
ILLINOIS PATCH
— The Best School Districts In Chicago-Metro Area
https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/these-are-best-school-districts-chicago-metro-area-new-ranking-says
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-395/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How do you view federal employees? While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee. My critics/opponents in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, and Illinois Center Right Coalition have always ignored, dismissed, belittled, and/or badmouthed what I did for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year and for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do you view federal employees and federal retirees? According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me and my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is much too generous. 1997, my GAO salary was $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My critics/opponents stress that while my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, I have gotten a $66,780/year in today’s dollars CSRS pension since then, that is, I have suffered only an $86,371/year (56%) loss of income in today’s dollars since then, that is, I have suffered only a $2.4 million loss in income since 1997. In my defense, in 1997, I had three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six-job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— From what I see, under the Democrats in Illinois and under the RINOs in Illinois, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is in Illinois: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. Back in the good old days, even though I am all of the aforesaid, I was able earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, and earn a professional license. I was able to get and keep jobs that enabled me a) to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, and 29, b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) get married when I was 29, d) etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Catalina Lauf Wheatley Files for Congress in Bryon Donalds’ District
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/02/catalina-lauf-wheatley-files-for-congress-in-bryon-donalds-district/
— Sosnowski on Illinois Sanctuary State Policies
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/02/sosnowski-on-illinois-sanctuary-state-policies/
— State Offers Electric Vehicle Subsidy as Federal Program Ends
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/state-offers-electric-vehicle-subsidy-as-federal-program-ends/
— Keicher Files 14-Foot Bill to Protect Law Enforcement and Those Targeting Them (and Inspired Demonstrators)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/keicher-files-14-foot-bill-to-protect-law-enforcement-and-those-targeting-them/
— Dabrowski Says Pritzker Should Prioritize Literacy Over Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/dabrowski-says-pritzker-should-prioritize-literacy-over-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-efforts/
— State Reps. Jeff Keicher and Joe Sosnowski Holding Thursday Huntley Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/state-reps-jeff-keicher-and-joe-sosnowski-holding-wednesday-huntley-fundraiser/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— How the DOJ went after Trump’s allies. Jack Smith targeted Republican movers and shakers. DD: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who arranged 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.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/2/doj-went-trumps-allies/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Huckabee rebuts rumors that Charlie Kirk had turned anti-Israel
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watch/2363138/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Democrats Lament Lost Wages for Federal Workers as Their Paychecks Roll In
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/democrats-lament-lost-wages-for-federal
NEW YORK POST
— ICE Arrests Over 900 Illegal Migrants During Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGkibz6Isk
— Trump sharpens ax on government shutdown day two — with ‘thousands’ of federal firings planned
https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/us-news/trump-sharpens-ax-on-government-shutdown-day-two-with-thousands-of-federal-firings-planned/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Coffee shop attacked for honoring Charlie Kirk now sees huge sales surge, ‘flooded with righteous people’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/02/coffee-shop-attacked-for-honoring-charlie-kirk-now-sees-huge-sales-surge-flooded-with-righteous-people-1589689/
— University response to students ‘thanking’ Charlie Kirk’s killer ‘very telling’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/02/university-response-to-students-thanking-charlie-kirks-killer-very-telling-1589614/
BREITBART
— Rep. Mary Miller on Chicago Crime: Democrats ‘Don’t Care About the People They Represent’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/02/exclusive-rep-mary-miller-on-chicago-crime-democrats-dont-care-about-the-people-they-represent/amp/
— Trump Pressures Elite Universities to Accept More Americans over Foreigners
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/02/trump-pressures-elite-universities-to-accept-more-americans-over-foreigners-dei/
CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Hegseth’s Historic Speech, And Why Many Generals Probably Hated It. DD: My critics/opponents who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America as long as mine have been promote race and gender based preference giving, that is, they reject meritocracy, but outrageously, they attribute their personal successes to meritocracy.
https://conservativehq.com/post/pete-hegseths-historic-speech-and-why-many-generals-probably-hated-it
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Meritocracy is the foundational element of being the best at anything and everything. So, why would any General or Admiral be opposed to or criticize the restoration of meritocracy in our military, and the accompanying dismantling of the social engineering and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies that have plagued our military and crippled its effectiveness for over two decades? Simple – because, after eight years of Obama and four years of Biden, many in the audience got where they are either directly through DEI policies or indirectly by being DEI cheerleaders, even as they knew deep in their hearts such policies were wrong and detrimental to the combat effectiveness of the formations they lead.)
DAILY CALLER
— Black Podcaster Explains How DEI Programs Harm Minorities. DD: All the minorities and all the females who Democrats and RINOs advanced over me a) were younger than me, b) had less experience than I had, c) had less education than I had, d) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or e) had no professional license like the one I have.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/02/black-podcaster-explains-how-dei-programs-harm-minorities/
DAILY SIGNAL
— ICE to Patrol Super Bowl in Response to NFL’s Pick for Halftime Show
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/02/ice-patrol-super-bowl-response-nfls-pick-halftime-show/
DAILY WIRE
— Illegal Aliens Ram Cars Into ICE Agents In Two Separate Attacks. The two attacks occurred in the Chicago area.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-illegal-aliens-ram-cars-into-ice-agents-in-two-separate-attacks-dhs-says
FOX NEWS
— Dems rage over feds targeting migrant gang members
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380755685112
— Putin responds to American conservative’s murder: ‘A disgusting atrocity’
https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-leader-responds-american-conservatives-murder-a-disgusting-atrocity
— Trump sees ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to cut government during shutdown. Trump to meet with OMB Director Russell Vought to identify which agencies are ‘political scam’ for potential cuts. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for a DOGE.
While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, they ever-increasingly use Gingrich’s cutting GAO’s budgets to get rid of not only its few remaining Republican employees, but its employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sees-unprecedented-opportunity-cut-government-during-shutdown
HOMELAND SECURITY
— Two Vehicles Used as Weapons Against ICE Officers in Operation Midway Blitz in Separate Incidents
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/02/two-vehicles-used-weapons-against-ice-officers-operation-midway-blitz-separate
NEWS BUSTERS
— NY Times Sides with Anti-Kirk Ghouls Against Libs of TikTok ‘Smear Campaigns’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/10/02/ny-times-sides-anti-kirk-ghouls-against-libs-tiktok-smear-campaigns
NEWSMAX
— 2 ‘Criminally Deranged’ Illegals Ram ICE Officers With Cars in Chicago
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/dhs-illegal-immigrants-ice/2025/10/03/id/1228874/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Johnson, Pritzker and Chicago’s Rules for Radicals. DD: My critics/opponents are disciples of Saul Alinsky.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/10/02/johnson_pritzker_and_chicagos_rules_for_radicals_654450.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Patel terminates FBI’s relationship with ADL amid fallout from Kirk shooting
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5535569-kash-patel-fbi-adl/amp/
MSNBC
— We are ‘angry at being treated as political pawns’: Furloughed USDA worker. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlC-wsVkKMg
MSN
— The 50 colleges with the biggest surge in applicants over the past 5 years. DD: UIC accepted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if minorities and/or females had applied, they would been accepted instead of me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/the-50-colleges-with-the-biggest-surge-in-applicants-over-the-past-5-years/ss-AA1NJKNG
CNBC
— Musk is telling his followers to cancel Netflix subscriptions
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/elon-musk-calls-for-canceling-netflix-whats-happening.html
— What the government shutdown means for federal workers—hundreds of thousands are required to keep working without pay. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/what-the-government-shutdown-means-for-federal-workers.html
NBC NEWS
— Federal workers share shutdown anxieties
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-workers-share-shutdown-anxieties-young-trump-supporters-expres-rcna235348
NBC BOSTON
— Financial resources for furloughed federal employees. If you are a furloughed federal employee worried about paying your bills, there are some options out there to help. DD: According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me and my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is much too generous. 1997, my GAO salary was $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My critics/opponents stress that while my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, I have gotten a $66,780/year in today’s dollars CSRS pension since then, that is, I have suffered only an $86,371/year (56%) loss of income in today’s dollars since then, that is, I have suffered only a $2.4 million loss in income since 1997. In my defense, in 1997, I had three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six-job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA).
https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/consumer/financial-resources-furloughed-federal-employees/3819639/
NEW YORK TIMES
— How the Shutdown Is Affecting Federal Services and Workers. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/30/us/politics/government-shutdown-furloughs.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Departments also designated some employees, such as federal law enforcement officers, active-duty troops and air traffic controllers, as “essential.” Many will work without pay while the shutdown persists. . .Activities that will cease. . .Non-essential research and data collection.
WASHINGTON POST
— The shutdown is only proving Trump’s point. The president argues that the federal bureaucracy is useless. Shutdowns tend to reinforce that view.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/03/government-shutdown-trump-democrats-politics/
USA TODAY
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise them.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/01/looming-layoffs-federal-workers/86456233007/
MIAMI HERALD
— House members have voted to table a censure resolution against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over her comments following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.newsbreak.com/miami-herald-1592483/4270538385687-four-gop-lawmakers-join-democrats-in-214-213-vote
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOIP OF FOLD: Trump Threatens Far-Reaching Cuts at Federal Agencies. President to meet with budget chief to discuss cuts, says shutdown gave him an ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to slash government’s size.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-to-meet-with-budget-chief-to-discuss-cuts-to-agencies-0ac5a7cb
BARRON’S
— Shutdown Layoffs Could Hit ‘Thousands’ of Federal Workers
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/government-shutdown-news-100325/card/shutdown-layoffs-could-hit-thousands-of-federal-workers-white-house-says-ojM7zWAyKDRvrzSJF8fZ
FORBES
— Netflix Stock Drops Again—Now Down 2.4% Since Musk’s Call For Cancellations
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/10/02/netflix-stock-drops-again-now-down-24-since-musks-call-for-cancellations/
LAW 360
— Illinois Panel Backs Whistleblower’s $3.5M Retaliation Verdict. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I ever-increasingly blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/discrimination/articles/2395319/ill-panel-backs-whistleblower-s-3-5m-retaliation-verdict-
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with drug cartels.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/02/trump-administration-caribbean-drug-cartels
October 1, 2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— Democrats Shut Down Government Over Free Healthcare for Illegals
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/fact-democrats-shut-down-government-over-free-healthcare-for-illegals/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders blame Republican leaders for the shutdown.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-tourists-feeling-effects-federal-government-shutdown-pullman-national-monument-museum-parks/17919548/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/government-websites-displaying-messages-blaming-democrats-shutdown/17918723/
— Democrat leaders decry that “4 detained by federal agents at Bronzeville shelter, 37 arrested at South Shore apartment building.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-immigration-enforcement-4-custody-federal-agents-raid-shelter-bronzeville-dhs-officials-say/17919772/
NBC5
— On day one of shutdown, White House says layoffs are ‘imminent.’ The shutdown began at 12:01 a.m. after the Senate failed to pass two partisan government.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-government-shutdown-gaza-israel-hamas-october-01-2025-live-updates/3831967/
— DD: How soon will Democrat leaders officially declare their Second Civil War against Republicans? Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/when-chicago-becomes-melting-pot-for-us-soldiers-and-federal-agents-what-can-go-wrong/3831735/
CBS2
— DD: Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Hegseth. Of course, Duckworth hates me because I fight race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/duckworth-slams-hegseths-stance-on-women-serving-in-the-military/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders decry that “ICE detains 4 people outside Chicago homeless shelter.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/bronzeville-feds-shelter-arrests
WGN9
— Anti-Semitic graffiti found in Hyde Park
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/chicago-hyde-park-antisemitic-graffiti-investigation/
WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/30/it-all-has-stop-broadview-officials-call-ice-end-use-chemical-munitions-rubber-bullets
— Pritzker Expects Trump to ‘Keep the Militarization Going’ Despite Government Shutdown
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/01/pritzker-expects-trump-keep-militarization-going-despite-government-shutdown
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders say “What a federal government shutdown means for Illinois.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/what-a-federal-government-shutdown-means-for-illinois/
— Race for Kane County treasurer in 2026 election begins to take shape
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/candidates-enter-kane-county-treasurer-race/
— Democrat leaders decry that “Bondi and Hegseth rally federal agents and troops in Memphis as part of crime task force.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/federal-agents-troops-memphis/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/sudden-unexpected-infant-death-babies/
— The wild case of Ian Roberts, Des Moines school superintendent, illustrates how employers ignore immigration law. DD: If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/ian-roberts-des-moines-iowa-superintendent-immigration/
— Dogs belong outside, not under my feet at a restaurant.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/column-chicago-dogs-allowed-restaurants-washington/
— DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wanted my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to see the many big adverse actions that they took against me. My RINO superiors in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization want all Republicans to see the many big adverse actions that they take against me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/column-donald-trump-fealty-retribution-chapman/
— DD: For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/opinion-us-history-civics-education-democracy/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders blame Republican leaders for the shutdown.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251001/nation-and-world-politics/many-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-shutdown-will-impact-local-workers-airports-and-services-stakeho/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders say “ICE’s Broadview facility has become a de facto detention center, minus the rules and oversight.”
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/01/broadview-immigration-processing-center-detention-ice-dhs
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Durbin declines lifetime achievement award from Chicago archdiocese amid controversy
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/10/01/dick-durbin-has-turned-down-an-award-from-the-chicago-archdiocese/86450730007/
STATELINE
— Illinois lawmakers clash on healthcare for undocumented immigrants amid shutdown
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-lawmakers-clash-on-healthcare-for-undocumented-immigrants-amid-shutdown/
— Pritzker claims Trump has dementia. DD: According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you are mentally ill.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/pritzker-claims-trump-has-dementia/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats want to prioritize illegal immigrants over Americans, Vance says of shutdown
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/democrats-want-to-prioritize-illegal-immigrants-over-americans-vance-says-of-shutdown-white-house-government-spending-funding-bill-health-care-insurance-premiums-illegal-immigration-immigrants-president-donald-trump-chuck-schumer
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Illinois House Republicans: “let ICE do its job”
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/illinois-house-republicans-let-ice-do-its-job/article_28adfd6c-e77b-479a-a040-7efbaf0758c6.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: NPR Illinois functions as an arm of the Democrat Party
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-09-30/trump-administration-uses-taxpayer-dollars-to-blame-democrats-for-government-shutdown
— Stratton aims to bring Pritzker administration policies to national stage. DD: Pritzker promotes more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-10-01/stratton-aims-to-bring-pritzker-administration-policies-to-national-stage
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their homeless and their illegals.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/01/bronzeville-homeless-shelter-residents-traumatized-after-feds-chase-arrest-4-people/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-394/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— GOP rep, Dem alderman: Sanctuary policies drove immigration enforcement surge
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f42a2385-2944-4050-9fe3-674ea17964fc.html
— Pritzker blames Trump for partial government shutdown
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_10b94358-a840-4c45-a699-b7600d107563.html
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Democrats Force Shutdown Over Health Care for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/democrats-force-shutdown-over-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The Schumer shutdown. A Democrat-caused debacle through and through.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/1/schumer-shutdown/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ICE and Border Patrol arrest 800 illegal immigrants during Chicago blitz
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3832627/ice-chicago-border-patrol-arrest-800-illegal-immigrants-during-blitz/
— A Republican state lawmaker and a Democratic Chicago alderman agree that sanctuary policies are the reason federal agencies have ramped up their presence in Illinois.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3833451/gop-rep-democrat-alderman-sanctuary-policy-drove-immigration-surge/
NEW YORK POST
— Senate Dems block bid to end government shutdown as agencies set to lay off 750K employees daily
https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/senate-dems-block-fresh-bid-to-end-government-shutdown-as-agencies-set-to-lay-off-750k-employees-daily/
— Mamdani’s perverse need to destroy the Jewish state is driving his campaign
https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/opinion/mamdanis-perverse-need-to-destroy-the-jewish-state-is-driving-his-campaign/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrats believe constitutional rights protect illegal aliens but not American citizens
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/democrats_apparently_believe_constitutional_rights_protect_illegal_aliens_but_not_american_citizens.html
BREITBART
— Vance Debunks Left’s Lies on Govt. Shutdown in Response to Breitbart’s Matt Boyle at WH Press Briefing.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/01/jd-vance-debunks-lefts-lies-on-govt-shutdown-in-response-to-breitbarts-matt-boyle-at-wh-press-briefing/
— Illegal Migrants Were Issued 18-Wheeler Licenses in NY, IL, CA with ‘No Name Given’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/01/officials-illegal-migrants-were-issued-18-wheeler-licenses-ny-il-ca-no-name-given/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Purdue ends $34.9 million DEI-linked program after federal funding canceled. DD: I did not earn master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48. I did not earn professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 46, and 48. I did not earn a professional license until I was 32. If f could have benefitted from Affirmative Action and DEI, I would have earned the aforesaid much sooner.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/purdue-ends-349-million-dei-linked-program-federal-funding-canceled/28710
EPOCH TIMES
— Impact of Government Shutdown on Social Security: What to Know
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/impact-of-government-shutdown-on-social-security-what-to-know-5922966
FEDERALIST
— Dems Choose To Shut Down Govt. Rather Than Restrict Free Health Care For Illegals
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/01/dems-choose-to-shut-down-govt-rather-than-restrict-free-health-care-for-illegals/
PJ MEDIA
— Yes, Democrats Shut Down the Government to Give Illegals Free Healthcare
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/10/01/yes-democrats-shut-down-government-to-give-illegals-free-healthcare-n4944329
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more abortion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-dick-durbin-says-overwhelmed-pope-leo-defended-abortion-related-cr-rcna234990
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-misleads-claim-democrats-shut-give-health-care-illegal-immigrants-rcna234905
REUTERS
— White House freezes funds for Democratic states in shutdown slap
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-begins-shut-down-most-operations-after-congress-fails-advance-2025-10-01/
NEWSWEEK
— ICE Agents Rappel From Black Hawk Helicopters Into Chicago for Major Raid
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-rappel-black-hawk-helicopters-chicago-10809228
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter onto the rooftops of Chicago residential buildings, launching a sweeping immigration enforcement operation targeting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members, according to NewsNation. The operation, led by ICE with support from the FBI and U.S. Border Patrol, was designed to apprehend high-priority targets connected to the Venezuelan crime syndicate that U.S. authorities have accused of trafficking, violence, and other cross-border crimes. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January designating Mexican drug cartels and other Latin American criminal groups like the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as terrorist organizations. His administration is ramping up immigration enforcement operations in Chicago after he threatened to deploy the National Guard to quell crime in the city. Nearly 300 federal agents and officers descended upon a five-story apartment complex in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, where U.S. Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino has claimed members of Tren de Aragua have been operating, according to NewsNation. The outlet reported that roughly 30 undocumented immigrants were taken into custody, several of them suspected of gang affiliation. Bovino told NewsNation that the operation proceeded “very smoothly” after federal officers and agents spent several days training for the targeted enforcement effort. Bovino, who is overseeing the ongoing operation in Chicago, added that residents of the South Side should expect an increased federal presence in the area.)
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in protecting their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sanctuary-cities-crackdown-results/
— DD: Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Hegseth. Of course, Duckworth hates me because I fight race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tammy-duckworth-pete-hegseth-women-in-military-fitness/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Drones, Helicopters, Hundreds of Arrests: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown in Chicago So Far.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/us/trump-chicago-immigration-national-guard.html
WALL STREET JKOURNAL
— DD: If you took out a student loan, your GPA should have been higher, and therefore, you should have gotten a better paying job. Because I worked my way through college, my GPA was lower. One year out, in today’s dollars, my salary was only $55,850/year, two years out, it was $68,315/year, three years out, it was $82,655/year, and four years out, it was $99.069/year.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/student-loan-debt-gen-x-619cffda
SPLC
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/hate-crimes-awareness-month-kicks-off/
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/october-is-hate-crimes-awareness-month/
October 1, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-protest-broadview-illinois-leaders-address-situation-surrounding-facility/17909029/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abc7.com/post/pope-leo-xiv-intervenes-us-abortion-debate-chicago-cardinal-blase-cupich-giving-award-illinois-senator-dick-durbin/17916373/
NBC5
— Portion of major street in downtown Chicago shut down by anti-ICE protest. Several groups including the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA) and Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression took part in an “emergency protest.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/anti-ice-protesters-shut-down-portion-of-wacker-drive-in-downtown-chicago/3831786/
CBS2
— Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as “training grounds”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-25th-amendment-military-training-grounds/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Government shutdown begins as nation faces new period of uncertainty
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/government-shutdown-begins-as-nation-faces-new-period-of-uncertainty/
— Democrat leaders have “Hundreds gather to protest ICE, federal push to deploy military to Illinois.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/immigration-national-guard-downtown-protest-trump-pritzker/
— DD: FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/broadview-mayor-rips-feds-protests/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/president-donald-trump-pete-hegseth-military-training/
— Jewel-Osco agrees to pay $1.9 million to resolve EEOC disability investigation. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because my Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted that offer and because I was helping support my mother and brother, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/jewel-osco-eeoc/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker calls for 25th Amendment after Trump ‘training grounds’ remark
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-urges-25th-amendment-after-trump-chicago-remarks
SHAW LOCAL
— Duckworth slams Hegseth’s ‘highest male standard’ policy for military as ‘deeply degrading’ Marine veteran and state Rep. Kifowit joins in denouncing statements. DD: To hire, retain, and promote more Democrat minorities and females, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/09/30/duckworth-slams-hegseths-highest-male-standard-policy-for-military-as-deeply-degrading/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: To defeat Republican candidates, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly drive the American economy down.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-us-consumer-confidence-declines-again-as-americans-fret-over-prices-job-market/amp/
— To promote wokeness/wokeism is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-how-woke-went-from-an-expression-in-black-culture-to-a-conservative-criticism/
— Civil rights agency drops a key tool used to investigate workplace discrimination. DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-civil-rights-agency-drops-a-key-tool-used-to-investigate-workplace-discrimination/
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ILLINOIS
— Candidate Forums. DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would be hosting candidate forums. If I was still an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer, I would be urging the organization to host candidate forums.
https://www.lwvil.org/candidateforum
CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/trump-threatens-war-chicago-response/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— US Senate race: Republican Don Tracy held a kickoff fundraiser for his Senate campaign at Saputo’s in Springfield on Tuesday. We hear about 70 “friends, supporters and family” of Tracy’s attended, including state Sen. Jil Tracy, state Reps. Michael Coffey and Brandun Schweizer, Sangamon County Board Chair Andy Van Meter, Sangamon County Republican Chair Dianne Barghouti-Hardwick and businessman Kevin Crumly, who hosted the event.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
— GOP pushback: House Republican Leader Tony McCombie criticized Pritzker for rejecting the increased enforcement. “The governor can’t claim that he wants to work with law enforcement to remove criminals while at the same time promoting policies that make our communities less safe,” she said in a video. And Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison called recent comments by Pritzker and Johnson “divisive, inflammatory and reckless.” The Illinois Republican Party, meanwhile, is selling merchandise pegged off the immigration enforcement raids. One hat reads: “Chicago ICE Word To Your Mother.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-602/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Chicago’s Rules for Radicals Spread Out Across America. DD: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are disciples of Saul Alinsky.
https://johnkassnews.com/chicago-rules-for-radicals/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— As time goes on, it is ever-increasingly clear that my critics/opponents who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote, most commonly its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. The more of the aforesaid planks that they reject, the more and bigger adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and dupes take against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Trump calls Pritzker ‘loser’ as governor prepares for troop deployment lawsuit
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a4ce97d7-b5aa-4fe1-92f5-de151c1cdfe5.html
— Illinois student struggles continue as enrollments decline. DD: My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree, b) three master’s degrees, c) six professional certifications, and d) a professional license.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_24f0c23a-5e34-405a-8fa1-52ac3bee5e0f.html
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Educators Are Teaching Your Kids to Revere Cop Killers
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-educators-teaching-your-kids-cop-killers
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ‘Word to Your Mother’: Illinois GOP’s Bizarre New Apparel Rollout
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/word-to-your-mother-illinois-gops-bizarre-new-apparel-rollout.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal layoffs strain D.C. region as Trump administration threatens more cuts
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/federal-layoffs-strain-dc-region-trump-administration-threatens-cuts/
— The U.S. Postal Service policy banning people from bringing firearms into post offices violates the Constitution, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/post-office-gun-ban-unconstitutional-judge-rules/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— UPenn Provost Resigns After Boosting Social Media Post Likening Charlie Kirk to ‘Hitler Youth’ Mann, who will remain a professor at the Ivy League university, has courted controversy with a series of public outbursts in recent months.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/upenn-provost-resigns-after-boosting-social-media-post-likening-charlie-kirk-to-hitler-youth/
— AI Dubs Charlie Kirk’s Killer ‘Right-Wing.’ My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being right-wing.
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/ai-dubs-charlie-kirks-killer-right
AMERICAN THINKER
— Situational Outrage: How Democrats Normalize Political Violence
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/situational_outrage_how_democrats_normalize_political_violence.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Pritzker likens Trump to Putin, claims he has dementia, demands 25th Amendment be invoked
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/01/pritzker-likens-trump-to-putin-claims-he-has-dementia-demands-25th-amendment-be-invoked-1589272/
BLAZE
— Musk cancels Netflix subscription over Charlie Kirk mockery and transgender indoctrination
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trans-netflix-elon-musk-kirk
BREITBART
— Musk Leads Mass Netflix Membership Cancellations After Company’s Children’s Cartoon Creator Smears Charlie Kirk as a ‘Nazi’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/30/elon-musk-leads-mass-netflix-membership-cancellations-after-companys-childrens-cartoon-creator-smears-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi/
— Creator of Netflix Trans Children’s Cartoon ‘Dead End Paranormal Park’ Under Fire for Smearing Charlie Kirk as a ‘Nazi’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/30/creator-of-netflix-trans-childrens-cartoon-dead-end-paranormal-park-under-fire-for-smearing-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi/
— Hegseth Rebukes DEI, Fat Troops: ‘We Are Done with That Sh*t’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/30/pete-hegseth-rebukes-dei-fat-troops-we-are-done-with-that-sht/
— Maxine Waters on Healthcare for Illegals: ‘Healthcare for Everybody’ DD: Knowing that the federal government would pay 72% of my and my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums for life if I could survive until retirement helped me endure my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/30/maxine-waters-on-healthcare-for-illegals-healthcare-for-everybody/
— Chicago Mayor Johnson: President Trump ‘Is an Unstable Human Being’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/09/30/chicago-mayor-johnson-president-trump-is-an-unstable-human-being/
CAMPUS REFORM
— UNC professor linked to group responsible for posters celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination
https://www.campusreform.org/article/unc-professor-linked-group-responsible-posters-celebrating-charlie-kirks-assassination/28703
— Iowa State fires employee who said Charlie Kirk is ‘rotting in hell’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/iowa-state-fires-employee-said-charlie-kirk-rotting-hell/28700
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— Durbin declines Chicago Archdiocese award after global backlash over pro-abortion views
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266875/dick-durbin-declines-chicago-archdiocese-award-after-global-backlash-over-pro-abortion-views
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/pope-leo-xiv-comments-on-cupichs-plan-to-bestow-award-on-illinois-senator
DAILY CALLER
— Charlie Kirk’s ‘Protege’ Brilyn Hollyhand Doesn’t Cut It
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/30/brilyn-hollyhand-charlie-kirk-campus-tours-new-york-post/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Democrats Take Heat Over Health Care for Illegal Aliens
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/30/democrats-take-heat-over-healthcare-for-illegal-aliens/
DAILY WIRE
— Hillary Clinton Rips White Christian Men, Sparks Outrage Weeks After Charlie Kirk Assassination. DD: To vote for Democrats is to promote more hatred against those who are White, Christian, and/or male.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-rips-white-christian-men-sparks-outrage-weeks-after-charlie-kirk-assassination
FOX NEWS
— TPUSA chapter support soars after Charlie Kirk assassination. DD: Who is leading the TPUSA effort in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380350416112
— DNC chair calls for DC, Puerto Rico statehood, filibuster elimination, says Trump admin a ‘fascist regime’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dnc-chair-calls-dc-puerto-rico-statehood-filibuster-elimination-says-trump-admin-fascist-regime
— Rogan calls out self-described ‘progressives’ who celebrated the ‘public execution’ of Charlie Kirk. Rogan in disbelief at seeing ‘normal people,’ including housewives and bank workers, cheer activist’s death.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rogan-calls-out-self-described-progressives-who-celebrated-public-execution-charlie-kirk
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380443240112
NATIONAL REVIEW
— George Washington U Students Believe Charlie Kirk Got What He Deserved
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/george-washington-u-students-believe-charlie-kirk-got-what-he-deserved/
PJ MEDIA
— The ‘Disparate Impact’ Flim-Flam Is Ending. DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/09/30/the-disparate-impact-flim-flam-is-ending-n4944299
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF WAR
— Hegseth Says Promotions, Retention to be Based on Meritocracy. DD: To hire, retain, and promote more Democrat minorities and females, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4318944/hegseth-says-promotions-retention-to-be-based-on-meritocracy-not-quotas/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— ‘Get your cell phones out’: Pritzker urges public to post footage of federal agents. DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly protects his illegals.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5528466-jb-pritzker-chicago-illinois-federal-law-enforcement/
ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pope-intervenes-us-abortion-debate-raising-means-pro-126108885
CBS NEWS
— DD: The hate-filled Trump-hating Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tammy-duckworth-accuses-trump-playbook-authoritarianism-military-address/
NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S. Begins Shutdown That Could Lead to Mass Layoffs and Service Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/30/us/trump-government-shutdown-hegseth
— DD: The Voice of America has existed to promote Democrats and the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/voa-voice-of-america-layoffs.html
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/30/ice-chaos-broadview-illinois-wants-them-out/86409208007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Rise of ‘Accidental Landlords’ Is Bad News for Investors Who Bet Big on Rentals. DD: I was a landlord 1976-1984 because I decided to rent out my University Park town home rather than sell it at a loss.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/homeowners-rental-market-landlords-c2f6604f
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/polls/israel-gaza-war-us-poll.html
— FRONT PAGE: DD: The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down,
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/polls/trump-approval-poll.html
POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/30/congress/pope-leo-dick-durbin-00589172
— DD: Democrat Chicago leader hatred against Trump has only grown since March 11, 2016 when they forced Trump to cancel a rally at UIC.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-cancels-chicago-rally-protests-220660
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY MAIL
— FBI probes ‘militant Armed Queers’ group for ties to Charlie Kirk suspect… as evidence of its FOREIGN funding grows and deleted posts are revealed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15130313/FBI-Charlie-Kirk-Armed-Queers-foreign-funding.html
INDEPENDENT
— Teen hailed as Charlie Kirk ‘protégé’ is ripped by MAGA crowd after private jet video: ‘Country club’ conservative. Brilyn Hollyhand, who calls himself ‘The Internet’s Youngest Voice of Reason’ online, was ripped into by online users and even fellow right-wing influencers associated with Turning Point USA.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/brilyn-hollyhand-maga-charlie-kirk-private-jet-b2836655.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ilhan Omar because she says that Charlie Kirk’s record of ‘bigotry, hatred and white supremacy’ means there is no legacy to honor.
https://www.aol.com/articles/charlie-kirk-record-bigotry-hatred-101819797.html
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
— Musk Cancels Netflix Over ‘Pro-Transgender Kids Show’
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-joins-netflix-boycott-mass-cancellations-grow-heres-kids-show-comments-that-1745951