FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS2
— Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupt Rep. Sean Casten’s town hall.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/pro-palestinian-protesters-interrupt-rep-sean-castens-town-hall/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in River Forest.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/river-forests-pride-walk-sparks-strong-community-support-kick-off-pride-month
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give Blacks more preference over non-Blacks.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/03/justice-department-investigation-of-racial-hiring-at-city-hall-also-highlights-president-donald-trumps-own-hiring-record/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/03/opinion-china-threat-pete-hegseth-taiwan-strait/
— Nominations deadline extended for 2025 Chicago Top Workplaces. Because GAO’s employees are many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following and because GAO gives preference big time to its employees who are the following, anticipate/expect that they will nominate GAO: Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/top-workplaces-nominations-deadline-extended/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago and Cook County.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/06/02/pride-flag-raising-chicago-cook-county-johnson-preckwinkle
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-culture/2025/06/03/imho-queens-chicago-live-show-darby-lynn-cartwright-alexis-p-bevels
SOUTHERN
— Republican area legislators come down hard on new state budget.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/02/249598/
— Trump responds to Boulder attack in social media post, seizes on suspect’s immigration status.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/02/trump-says-boulder-attack-will-not-be-tolerated/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for inflation and for everything else that is bad.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/02/trumps-hike-of-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-could-raise-these-prices/
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/bill-ensuring-medication-abortion-access-amid-uncertainty-with-trumps-fda-heads-to-pritzker/article_2e26ddfb-4726-4b10-9e42-99b36c877911.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-02/time-is-running-out-for-thousands-after-trump-ends-their-temporary-protected-status
WIFR
— Fewer and fewer and fewer political jurisdictions want to be sanctuaries. To be a sanctuary is to promote mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/06/02/you-cant-force-states-do-federal-governments-job-counties-appear-list-sanctuary-cities/
— Pot is bad for your heart.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/06/03/marijuana-may-be-bad-your-heart-whether-smoked-or-taken-edibles-study-suggests/
WGLT
— Homeless encampment residents in Normal continue to relocate after planned deadline
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-06-02/homeless-encampment-residents-in-normal-continue-to-relocate-after-planned-deadline
CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their domination of education in America.
https://chicagoreader.com/columns-opinion/staff-notes/attack-college-trump-speech/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/02/cta-launches-annual-pride-train-to-run-on-red-line-through-june/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-526/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-318/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois taxpayers to pay $1 billion more for approved $55B budget
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e4ffa949-7e2c-404c-8906-65b5aa799b76.html
WIREPOINTS
— The good intentions of our lawmakers don’t pan out for Illinois residents.
https://wirepoints.org/the-good-intentions-of-our-lawmakers-dont-pan-out-for-illinois-residents-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders and their mainstream news media want everyone to assume that voters want the Democrat Party platform, that is, that voters want more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Trump’s critics/opponents, Trump is motivated by revenge. GAO audits IRS. According to my critics/opponents, revenge motivated me to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and to ask to be assigned to audits of IRS. They stressed the adverse actions that IRS had taken against me including disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowing my education expenses in 1978, and never promoting me beyond GS-12. In my defense, I stressed that the many codes of conduct that I was under prohibited that. I became a CPA in 1979, Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, licensed CPA in 1981, and a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. Their revenge argument was a pretext. The real reason was that the Democrats who run IRS and GAO do not want Republicans to audit IRS. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Young people are skeptical of the American Dream. What are your demographics? Because of my bad demographics, if I was young today, I would be skeptical of the American dream. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of America. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat employers always pay their Democrat employees more than they pay their Republican employees. Sooner, later, if not always, my Democrat superiors in the federal government paid my Democrat coworkers more than they paid me notwithstanding their having less work experience than they had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How successful have the schools near you been making their students anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In the Age of Trump, National Politics Dominate Republican Primaries. What offices are on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates for those offices? What do you know about them? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. More recently, my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024 and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Trump Puts ‘Anti-American Radicals’ on Notice. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. – Dave Diersen
http;//www.gopillinois.com
— Did you read Money Magazine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_(financial_website) )? If you read its February 1978 4-page article on me ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ), you would have concluded that the magazine did not pick me for the article to give me financial advice, but a) to foist negative government employee stereotypes on me, b) to paint me as being grossly overpaid, and c) to get IRS to disallow my education deductions. The article caused me many big problems, not the least of which was IRS’s disallowing my education deductions. Ever since the article was published, my critics/opponents have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years. I had been promoted in 1972, 1973, and 1974. In today’s dollars, my salary was $108,978/year. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I was taking graduate accounting courses at DePaul. I owned a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building. I rented out a town home in University Park since 1976 that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I bought new in 1971. My daily driver was a 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN THINKER
— Marxist hate derangement on the ropes?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/06/marxist_hate_derangement_on_the_ropes.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Supreme Court to consider challenge from GOP Illinois rep questioning mail-in ballot counting law.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/02/supreme-court-to-consider-challenge-from-gop-illinois-rep-questioning-mail-in-ballot-counting-law-1548043/
BLAZE
— Trump keeps endorsing the establishment he vowed to fight.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trump-keeps-endorsing-the-establishment-he-vowed-to-fight
BREITBART
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/02/trump-era-target-majorly-tones-down-childrens-pride-month-apparel/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— Illinois soon could be next state to mandate abortions on campus.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/illinois-soon-could-be-next-state-to-mandate-abortions-on-campus/
DAILY CALLER
— Illinois Dems Lay Budget Woes At Trump’s Feet After Taxing Their Citizens Into Ground.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/02/illinois-democrats-blame-trump-budget-woes-pritzker/
— Previously-Woke Companies Retreat From Pride Month During Trump 2.0
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/02/companies-back-down-pride-month-messaging/
DAILY WIRE
— Weeks Before Illegal Alien Terror Attack, Colorado Dems Passed Law Shielding Illegals From ICE. The law prevents data sharing with immigration authorities and dedicates the money taken from violators to fund deportation defense.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/weeks-before-illegal-alien-terror-attack-colorado-dems-passed-law-shielding-illegals-from-ice
FEDERALIST
— Trump Isn’t Destroying Harvard. Harvard Has Destroyed Itself.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/02/trump-isnt-destroying-harvard-harvard-has-destroyed-itself/
— Boulder Attack Shows Why Trump Is Right To Revoke Visas For Anti-American Views.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/02/boulder-attack-shows-why-trump-is-right-to-revoke-visas-for-anti-american-views/
— If Only SCOTUS Cared About Protecting Americans’ Rights As Much As They Do Illegal Aliens.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/03/if-only-scotus-cared-about-protecting-americans-rights-as-much-as-they-do-illegal-aliens/
MRC TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/oh-no-cbs-fears-trans-foreigners-wont-travel-us-pride-month-over-safety
NEWS BUSTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsbusters.org/node/289260/print
NEWSMAX
— Education Dept Nixes Pride Month for ‘Title IX Month’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/department-of-education-title-ix-month-linda-mcmahon/2025/06/02/id/1213330/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/suicide-hotline-lgbtq/2025/06/02/id/1213337/
TOWNHALL
— Trump Puts ‘Anti-American Radicals’ on Notice. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/06/02/trump-blasts-boulder-killer-and-wokeness-that-enabled-him-n2658026
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— PBS grooms children with Pride post
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5329282-republicans-pbs-pride-post-grooming/
CBS NEWS & AOL
— Democrat and RINO leaders continue to use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colleges-less-diversity-admissions-post-affirmative-action/
https://www.aol.com/news/first-college-class-affirmative-action-174200515.html
CNN
— Supreme Court agrees to hear absentee ballot appeal from Illinois congressman Bost
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/02/politics/mike-bost-supreme-court-absentee-ballot
— Young people are skeptical of the American Dream. What are your demographics? Because of my bad demographics, if I was young today, I would be skeptical of the American dream. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of America.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/politics/age-divide-cnn-poll-republicans-democrats
YAHOO
— Vance accuses universities of racial bias against whites and Asians.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jd-vance-accuses-universities-racial-141710699.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— In the Age of Trump, National Politics Dominate Republican Primaries. What offices are on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates for those offices? What do you know about them?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/nyregion/new-jersey-governor-republican-primary.html
— Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to Illinois Mail-In Ballot Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/politics/supreme-court-mail-ballots.html
— A Fiery Brief Fueled by Conservatives Helped Put Trump’s Tariffs in Peril. A coalition including leading figures on the right said the president’s program did violence to the Constitution. One judge cited it eight times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/trump-tariffs-court-brief.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Tulsa to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly replace American students with students from foreign countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/opinion/international-students-harvard-trump.html
— A 1,400-County Crisis for Democrats
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/podcasts/the-daily/trump-election-democrats-republicans.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Supreme Court will consider reviving Republican challenge to Illinois law on mail ballots.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/02/supreme-court-trump-mail-ballots/f2de2aac-3fc6-11f0-b78e-5ddff7eb1e49_story.html
— Red states tell colleges: Race and gender classes are out, civics in. Lawmakers in Utah, Ohio and Florida have mandated classes on civics and Western civilization and cut classes on race and gender from graduation requirements. How successful have the colleges near you been making their students anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/06/02/republican-state-laws-university-college-classes/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-06-02/tariffs-trade-war-donald-trump-international-trace-court-federalist-society-leonard-leo
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/01/stonewall-trump-trans-lgbtq-monument/82636933007/
FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeseq/2025/06/02/affirmative-action-was-just-the-start-now-racial-progress-is-reversing/
BLOOMBERG GOVERNMENT
— Democrat leaders promote Black female Democrat candidates for U.S. Senate in Illinois.
https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/democrats-of-color-vie-in-milestone-race-in-lincolns-home-state
MOTLEY FOOL
— Race, Ethnicity, and Personal Finance in America. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, those who are the following have more money than those who are not the following because they discriminate against those who are not the following: conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, that is, because the aforesaid discriminate against those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.fool.com/money/research/study-race-personal-finance-america/
GOVERNING
— New Illinois Budget Increases Taxes by $1 Billion. The largest increases are on taxes of tobacco, vaping and sports betting, but there are also various changes to corporate rates and collections.
https://www.governing.com/finance/new-illinois-budget-increases-taxes-by-1-billion
STATISTA
— Educational attainment distribution in the United States from 1960 to 2022. I earned a bachelor’s degree (management) in 1970 when only 10.7% of Americans had a bachelor’s degree. I earned my first master’s degree (business) in 1976, my second (accounting) in 1980, and my third (finance) in 1997. I earned my first professional certification (accounting) in 1979, my second (internal auditing) in 1981, my third (fraud examination) in 1990, my fourth (government financial management) in 1994, my fifth (financial services auditing) in 1996, and my sixth (forensic accounting) in 1997. I earned a professional license (CPA) in 1981. My critic/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed the aforesaid. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attainment-in-the-us/
DAILY BEAST
— According to Trump’s critics/opponents, Trump is motivated by revenge. GAO audits IRS. According to my critics/opponents, revenge motivated me to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and to ask to be assigned to audits of IRS. They stressed the adverse actions that IRS had taken against me including disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowing my education expenses in 1978, and never promoting me beyond GS-12. In my defense, I stressed that the many codes of conduct that I was under prohibited that. I became a CPA in 1979, Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, licensed CPA in 1981, and a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. Their revenge argument was a pretext. The real reason was that the Democrats who run IRS and GAO do not want Republicans to audit IRS.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-rages-at-author-michael-wolff-over-harvard-claim/
HR BREW
— Democrat employers always pay their Democrat employees more than they pay their Republican employees. Sooner, later, if not always, my Democrat superiors in the federal government paid my Democrat coworkers more than they paid me notwithstanding their having less work experience than they had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025/06/02/trump-anti-dei-priorities-equal-pay
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May 31, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/2025/05/30/the-racial-reckoning-five-years-later-a-few-wins-and-one-major-loss
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250530/news/neighbors-oppose-marijuana-dispensary-proposed-near-bartlett-day-care-center/
— Soon, under Pritzker, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250530/submitted-content/donations-needed-for-west-suburban-community-pantrys-summer-meals-program-as-family-visits-rise-20/
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wandtv.com/medication-abortion-to-be-added-on-college-campuses-passes-il-senate/video_4fdf96bf-468f-5aa2-8d3e-e816b6bcc56f.html
WIFR
— Illinois program tries to rid people of medical debt, but for many help comes too late. Medical debt has become a key obstacle to upward economic mobility, with many failing to receive debt relief. What did you do to avoid medical debt? I always assured that I had health insurance.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/30/illinois-program-tries-rid-people-medical-debt-many-help-comes-too-late/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s downsizing of GAO to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-appeals-court-keeps-block-on-trump-administrations-downsizing-of-the-federal-workforce/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote child care subsidies. My father earned enough money during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s that my mother could stay home and raise me and my brother. But he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly in 1969 wane he was 47 and I was 21. Consequently, I had to work my way through college.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/we-are-at-the-mercy-of-child-care/
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— Soon, under Pritzker, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/gov-pritzker-visits-springfield-food-pantry-amid-proposed-unprecedented-federal-snap-cuts/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS CENTER SQUARE
— IL Democrats propose $55B budget with $7K legislator pay hike, tax increase
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e68b4087-b4f8-4563-ba13-4d42031d0f8e.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Lawmakers considering adding more than $64.5 billion in pension costs in final hours of budget negotiations
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/lawmakers-considering-adding-more-than-64-5-billion-in-pension-costs-in-final-hours-of-budget-negotiations/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— A recently retired SEC attorney demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump. SEE: https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-doge-sec-retirement-27ea213a When GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, SEC would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited SEC and other federal financial industry regulators for the previous 8 years at the GS-13 Step 4-10 Levels, currently $129,588-$153,151/year. I had just earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT. For that matter, IRS would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,675/year. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112.280/year. I became a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor in 1981, and Public Accountant in 1979. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980 and in business in 1976. – Dave Diersen
www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Harvard rejected Trump. Did you apply to Ivy League universities? I did not. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my 1997 IIT degree, my 1980 DePaul degree, my 1976 Loyola degree, and my 1970 NIU degree are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. They stress that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump has a grudge against Harvard because it rejected him and/or his son. Since I was 19 years old in 1968, my Democrat superiors in the federal government have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have a grudge against federal agencies because they took adverse actions against me. To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. In my defense, the codes of ethics that I have been under since 1979 prohibit me from holding grudges. I became a CPA in 1979 and a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— USDA still discriminating against white farmers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3426279/usda-still-discriminating-against-white-farmers-watchdog-says/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump’s Tariffs Deliver Record $23 Billion Revenue in May. May 22 was the largest day for tariff revenue collections.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/trumps-tariffs-deliver-record-23-billion-revenue-in-may-5865544
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Harvard faces growing calls to tap into its endowment in Trump fight. It won’t be easy. What losses of income have you suffered? In today’s dollars, a) I have suffered a $86,371/year loss of income since 1997, that is $1.85 million, b) my GAO salary was $153,151/year in 1997 and my Civil Service Retirement System pension is only $66,780/year or 56% less, and c) my IRS salary in 1972 was $68,315/year. Further, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors forced me to suffer a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5326114-harvard-endowment-trump-funding-fight-mcmahon/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s downsizing of GAO to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-firings-doge-lawsuit-4d2d9be4dcefa1c76876fb9b1860c3c7
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/world/international-students-visas-us-trump-intl
— Trump’s mass firings at several agencies will remain on hold, appeals court rules. If Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts had been stopped, I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I would still be GAO employee.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/politics/appeals-court-decline-trump-request-resume-mass-firings
— Trump called it a disaster. Biden blocked it. Now Trump is traveling to Pittsburgh to celebrate Japan’s takeover of US Steel
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/trump-us-steel-nippon-deal
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbbsXZqA7Ew
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsFjNVD_WKw
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH GRAPHIC: The Democrats’ problems run deep, nearly everywhere. This is where voters shifted toward President Trump in each of the last three elections. I should write about the ever-increasing Democrat invasion of DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct since 1978. Because of that, ever-increasingly, leaders of the DuPage County Republican Central Committee and the Milton Township Republican Organization have moved to the left, that is, they have a) dumped more and more and more planks in the Republican Party platform and b) dumped more and more and more Republican Precinct Committeemen like me who support those planks.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-politics-democrats.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/aclu-trump-venezuelan-immigrants-alien-enemies-act.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to Chinese students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/trump-china-student-visas-crackdown-risks.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/asia/us-science-cuts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/china-international-students-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/health/trump-hiv-cuts.html
— The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/google-search-antitrust-chrome.html
— For Federal Workers, Musk’s Chain Saw Still Reverberates. For me, Gingrich’s chain saw still reverberates. My Democrat GAO superiors used his budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/federal-workers-musk-doge.html
— Complaints Languished as Johnson’s Delays Hobbled House Watchdog. The speaker waited more than four months to constitute the Office of Congressional Conduct, preventing it from investigating lawmakers. He has yet to name enough members to allow it to operate at full strength.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/johnson-office-of-congressional-conduct.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s visa clampdown plunges 275,000 Chinese students into uncertainty. Chinese students make up nearly a quarter of all international students in the United States. Here’s who they are and what they’re studying. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to Chinese students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/29/chinese-students-data-visa/
— Trump orders could end Chinese drone sales in the U.S. In WWIII, which countries will side with China against America?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/30/trump-executive-orders-china-drones/
— Trump and Musk try to smooth over a threatened rift. Trump and Musk hold an Oval Office news conference as the billionaire officially steps away from his government role.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/30/trump-musk-try-smooth-over-threatened-rift/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly anti-American military.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/05/29/trump-military-parade-washington-dc-compare-countries/83740378007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk, that is, against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/29/elon-musk-tesla-doge-beautiful-bill-leaving-trump/83907213007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/30/trump-judge-blocks-tariffs-agenda/83926026007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— It’s High Times for State-Subsidized Pot Businesses. Marijuana-use disorder is soaring among the very populations advocates of legalization aim to help.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/its-high-times-for-state-subsidized-pot-businesses-marijuana-use-disorder-3f6aaa15?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
FORBES
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Musk abuses drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81dSmnEARBE
BARRON’S
— A recently retired SEC attorney demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump. When GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, SEC would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited SEC and other federal financial industry regulators for the previous 8 years at the GS-13 Step 4-10 Levels, currently $129,588-$153,151/year. I had just earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT. For that matter, IRS would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,675/year. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112.280/year. I became a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor in 1981, and Public Accountant in 1979. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980 and in business in 1976.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-doge-sec-retirement-27ea213a
BUSINESS INSIDER
–Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more government fraud, waste, and abuse. Their wasting my federal career is just one small example.
https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-cuts-elon-musk-deparature-next-phase-2025-5
ACCOUNTING TODAY
— DEI enters stealth mode; building the business case for DEI in accounting firms. The accounting profession would not have written me off as being too old if I had been a minority or a female. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/dei-goes-into-stealth-mode
https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/building-the-business-case-for-dei-in-accounting-firms
CPA JOURNAL
— Why Are Students Not Choosing Accounting? I should have majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU in 1969 and 1970. I erroneously did not because I was not strong in math and I thought that because of that, I could not pass the CPA examination. But I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. But by then, because I was not a minority or female, the accounting profession wrote me off as being too old.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/03/18/why-the-150-hour-rule-is-not-the-only-major-problem-2/
FED SMITH
— From DEI to Meritocracy: The Federal Government’s Shift in Hiring Practices. 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, of veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/30/from-dei-to-meritocracy-the-federal-governments-shift-in-hiring-practices/
ECONOMIC TIMES & NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
— Did Harvard reject Donald Trump? Biographer claims it’s at the heart of the feud. Did you apply to Ivy League universities? I did not. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my 1997 IIT degree, my 1980 DePaul degree, my 1976 Loyola degree, and my 1970 NIU degree are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. They stress that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/did-harvard-reject-donald-trump-biographer-claims-its-at-the-heart-of-the-feud/articleshow/121530865.cms
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2025/May/31/biographer-says-trumps-harvard-grudge-might-just-be-a-case-of-bruised-ego-and-its-not-his-son-who-got-rejected
INDIA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/harvard-president-alan-garber-jab-donald-trump-speech-2025-batch-standing-ovation-2733586-2025-05-31
NDTV WORLD
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump has a grudge against Harvard because it rejected him and/or his son. Since I was 19 years old in 1968, my Democrat superiors in the federal government have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have a grudge against federal agencies because they took adverse actions against me. To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. In my defense, the codes of ethics that I have been under since 1979 prohibit me from holding grudges. I became a CPA in 1979 and a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trumps-biographer-michael-wolff-on-why-us-president-has-a-grudge-against-harvard-barron-trump-8551375
May 29, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Musk announces departure from Trump administration as 130-day role ends.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/elon-musk-is-leaving-trump-administration-criticizing-presidents-big-beautiful-bill/16580917/
— Chinese students anxious and angry after Rubio vows to revoke visas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chinese-students-call-measure-exclusion-act-rubio-vows-revoke-visas/16585161/
NBC5
— Musk says he’s leaving the Trump administration. Musk announced his decision one day after CBS released part of an interview in which he criticized the centerpiece of Trump’s legislative agenda.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/elon-musk-leaves-trump-administration/3755771/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that Republicans cause everyone’s problems.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-budget-battle-medicaid-cuts-05282025/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Kinzinger.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/kinzinger-talks-trump-and-his-own-future-in-chicago-speech/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZlq2NbAVbU
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Musk is leaving the Trump administration after criticizing president’s ‘big beautiful bill’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/elon-musk-leaving-trump-administration/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: CTA paid some employees to stay home and to not work. Constructively, since 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.85 million in today’s dollars to force me stay home and to not work.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/cta-paid-some-employees-to-stay-home-not-work-watchdog-says/
— Illinois lawmakers ban police from ticketing and fining students for minor infractions in school.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/illinois-school-police-bill/
— Rubio says the U.S. will begin revoking the visas of Chinese students
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/us-visa-interviews-foreign-students/?preview_id=22441198
— Paul Vallas: The real reason Chicago high schoolers are missing so much school — and what to do about it
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/opinion-chicago-high-school-students-absences/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that Republicans cause everyone’s problems.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/27/budget-reconciliation-bill-scapegoating-immigrants-jobs-working-class-america-trump-ben-jealous
— Workers bristle at Trump-backed Nippon-U.S. Steel deal — ‘It’s a bad move’ President Trump approved the Japanese company’s nearly $15 billion bid for the American steelmaker last week. I worked for Firestone 1970-1972. The Japanese company Bridgestone bought Firestone in 1988.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/work/2025/05/28/us-steel-nippon-deal-trump-workers-union
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote hatred against Musk.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/28/elon-musk-desantis-trump-doge-maga-wisconsin-supreme-court-political-kryptonite-x-s-e-cupp
— CTA has paid some workers not to work since the pandemic, costing taxpayers more than $1 million. Constructively, since 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.85 million in today’s dollars to force me stay home and to not work.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/28/cta-state-inspector-general-audit-workers-paid-not-to-work-covid-pandemic
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago taxpayers are footing the bill for legal patronage
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chicagos-legal-outsourcing-costs-taxpayers-millions-op-ed
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion and LGBTQ.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-urges-american-medical-association-to-ensure-abortion-and-genderaffirming-care-providers-can-get-board-certified-without-risk-82879.cfm?
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-judge-rules-that-trump-administration-wrongly-ended-humanitarian-parole-for-hundreds-of-thousands/
WHEATON PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/kick-out-clowns-rally-protest-trump-warrenville
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Anti-Semitism in Chicago Is Part of a Broader Assault by the Left That Threatens Our Way of Life
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/anti-semitism-in-chicago-is-part-of-a-broader-assault-by-the-left-that-threatens-our-way-of-life
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-522/
— Afternoon briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-314/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois lawmakers want to kick taxpayers in the teeth with expensive pension sweetener bill
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-lawmakers-want-to-kick-taxpayers-in-the-teeth-with-expensive-pension-sweetener-bill-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What if Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI had never existed? My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA, DEI, and up-or-out to waste my career and to get rid of me. If they had not had those tools, I would have made Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year, before I was 40 in 1988 notwithstanding a) my being a Republican, b) my not earning an MBA until I was 27, c) my not passing the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30, d) my not earning a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, e) my not passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32, and f) my not becoming a licensed CPA until I was 32. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like I had and/or b) were minority, female, and/or younger than me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly lower standards to hire Democrats and RINOs. That has ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my four job-related college degrees, b) my six job-related professional certifications, and c) my job-related professional license.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/no-degree-no-problem-chicago-expanding-access-to-work/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans’ ‘big beautiful bill’ would cement Trump’s executive orders in federal law.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/28/republicans-big-beautiful-bill-would-cement-trumps-executive-orders/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— PBS prefers Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans, 4-to-1
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3423671/pbs-prefers-democrats-anti-trump-republicans-media-bias/
— GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ to cut illegal immigrants off financially
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3422891/republican-big-beautiful-bill-multi-pronged-crack-down-immigration/
— The age of Chinese Communist Party collaborators is here
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3423318/cpac-budapest-hungary-china-age-of-chinese-communist-party-collaborators-here/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump aide Stephen Miller pushes ICE to ramp up immigration arrests to 3,000 per day
https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/trump-aid-stephen-miller-pushes-ice-to-arrest-3000-per-day-report/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses. Democrats are trapped by the toxic DEI ideology they created—too afraid to reform, too broken to survive without it. When will the following dump DEI: a) Illinois Republican Party (IRP), b) your Republican county party organization. and c) your Republican township party organization? RINO IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders have always used DEI to get rid of conservatives, that is, to get rid of Republicans. I should write about that.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/29/democrats-and-their-dei-albatrosses/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Lefty elites hate you, too
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/lefty_elites_hate_you_too.html
BREITBART
— ICE Agents Arrest 40 Illegal Aliens on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket — Including Gang Member, Sex Offender
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/28/ice-agents-arrest-40-illegals-on-marthas-vineyard-nantucket/
— Rosie O’Donnell Says Millions Will Starve, Die If Republicans Pass the Big Beautiful Bill
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/05/28/watch-rosie-odonnell-says-millions-will-starve-die-if-republicans-pass-the-big-beautiful-bill/
DAILY CALLER
— DC Airport Celebrates Pride Month Amid Series Of Plane Mishaps
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/28/pride-month-reagan-national-airport-planes-collisions-mishaps/
— The Alien Enemies Act Is Compassionate … But To American Citizens, Not Illegals
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/28/invoking-alien-enemies-act-compassion-american-citizens-deportation/
EPOCH TIMES
— US to Start Revoking Visas of Chinese Students. The visa revocations will include students with connections to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in critical fields, Rubio said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/us-will-start-revoking-visas-of-chinese-students-rubio-5864719
MRC TV
— Border Apprehensions Plummet 93% as Trump’s Hispanic Approval Jumps to 60%
https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/border-apprehensions-plummet-93-trumps-hispanic-approval-jumps-60
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Trump-Vance ticket is distancing the party from a core constituency — and no one seems to mind.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/07/so-long-social-conservatives/
NEWS BUSTERS
— Borderline Certifiable: NY Times Whines ‘Citizens May Feel’ Trump Cuts to Illegal Alien Aid. How dependent on illegals are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2025/05/28/borderline-certifiable-ny-times-whines-citizens-may-feel
NEWSMAX
— Stephen Miller, Noem Press ICE to Arrest 3K Per Day
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-illegals-arrests/2025/05/28/id/1212631/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Trump administration has ramped up deportations but is still far below pace it wants. ICE deported more than 17,200 people last month, according to data obtained by NBC News, up more than 50% from February.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-ramped-deportations-still-far-wants-rcna209262
CNN
— Trump administration orders some US companies to halt sales to China
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/economy/trump-us-companies-china
— US court blocks Trump from imposing the bulk of his tariffs
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/business/us-court-blocks-trumps-tariffs
MSNBC
— As Musk exits with a whimper, Trump makes mockery of fighting government waste. GAO is supposed to fight government waste, but the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted me and my career big time. GAO audits IRS. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They also wasted what I had learned a) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance and b) passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn46Kl3-_sg
REUTERS
— US to end use of race, gender in highway, transit contracts
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-agrees-end-use-race-gender-highway-transit-contracts-2025-05-28/
NEW YORK TIMES
— A Disillusioned Musk, Distanced From Trump, Says He’s Exiting Washington. The billionaire has made clear he is frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the federal bureaucracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html
— U.S. Will ‘Aggressively’ Revoke Visas of Many Chinese Students. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the students who will have their visas canceled include people with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in “critical fields.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/china-student-visas-revoke.html
— Trump Administration Tells State Regulators It Won’t Back Some Discrimination Claims. The EEOC said it would stop paying state and local civil rights agencies for claims from transgender employees or those based on “disparate impact.” How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, to settle an EEOC complaint, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted. Because I had accepted that offer, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. I had to have a job.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/eeoc-funding-states.html
— Cuomo Proposes $20 Minimum Wage for New York City. When I started earning $19.37/hour in today’s dollars when I was 18 years old in 1966 working part-time for the Park Forest Post Office, my critics/opponents were furious. In my defense, I had passed the postal employment test, I had earned a high school diploma, I had passed a physical exam, I had passed a background investigation, I had passed a truck driving test, and I had a car that I could use to deliver mail from.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/nyregion/cuomo-minimum-wage-20-dollar.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration moves to upend $37B affirmative action program. The Transportation Department initiative, which serves an estimated 49,000 contractors, was a key lifeline for many minority and women owned businesses. To get more votes from minorities and women, Democrat leaders use government to give more preference to minorities and women.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/28/affirmative-action-dei-trump-contracting/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/28/davicito-song-ice-detained/
USA TODAY
— Should you tell your employer you’re looking for a new job? My Firestone Store boss would never have hired me when I was 21 years old in 1970. I was hired by Firestone’s district office and assigned to his store. He owned the building in Chicago Heights that the store was in. He forced me to pass a 2-week probationary period in the Firestone Store in Gary, Indiana. He disapproved of my being a draft avoider, Republican, college graduate, part-time MBA student at UIC, Protestant, German American, my ancestors having been in America since 1844, and I had been a Crete resident since 1948. He was a veteran and he blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. My on-the-job training included lots of pumping gasoline, mounting and balancing tires, changing oil and filters, changing batteries, and delivering major appliances. I made the best of it, but I did accept a job offer from Oldsmobile in early 1971. He immediately rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted that offer after he had directed me while the store was open to use a ladder, bucket, water, and SOS pads to clean the whitewalls on moldy tires that had been hanging on store’s showroom walls for many years.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/05/20/looking-for-new-job-telling-boss-tips/83677102007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: North Korea Infiltrates U.S. Remote Jobs—With the Help of Everyday Americans
https://www.wsj.com/business/north-korea-remote-jobs-e4daa727
— General Motors CEO Defends Trump Auto Tariffs. Mary Barra says tariffs can help even the playing field with foreign competitors.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/general-motors-ceo-defends-trump-auto-tariffs-d6f15ab9
— Democrat and RINO leaders want America to be more and more and more dependent on foreign countries for everything.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tariffs-may-cost-the-gop-in-2026-messaging-costs-reciprocity-72ca450c
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/mary-barra-gm-donald-trump-tariffs-automakers-ee644493
— Whistleblowers Can Stop Illegal DEI. The Justice Department expands its effort against discrimination by invoking the False Claims Act. As 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, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whistleblowers-can-stop-illegal-dei-justice-department-effort-against-discrimination-expansion-cb83c927
— Harvard Revokes Tenure of Star Professor Accused of Research Misconduct. Francesca Gino, a business professor whose research focused on why people lie and cheat, co-authored papers that included manipulated data. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the real reason why my critics/opponents have taken so many big adverse actions against me was a) that I am extremely bad person, b) that my judgment is extremely bad, c) that my motives are extremely bad, and d) that I am really a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-tenure-revoked-francesca-gino-research-misconduct-2c17e3c7
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/education-department-targets-pregnant-lgbtq-staff-protections
INC.
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/lgbtq-employees-feel-less-comfortable-in-the-workplace-according-to-a-survey/91194893
POST AND COURIER
— Trump and GOP leave conservatives stranded in wilderness. My Democrat critics/opponents demonize, denigrate, and condemn me as being a conservative. My RINO critics/opponents demonize, denigrate, and condemn me as being too conservative.
https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/commentary/trump-big-beautiful-spending-bill-conservatives/article_ab50c5f0-ab19-40ea-8fa3-9bbb166d20e0.html
NEWS ONE
— Multiple Colleges Cancel Affinity Graduations Amid Trump’s DEI Crackdown. As I graduated from NIU in 1970, Loyola in 1976, DePaul in 1980, and IIT in 1997, fewer and fewer and fewer of those who graduated with me were White males.
https://newsone.com/6189358/affinity-graduations-canceled-amid-trump-dei-crackdown/
POLITICO
— Research shows the massive hole Democrats are in. Voters see the party as being overly focused on diversity. Ever-increasingly, Democrats tell those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/22/democrats-2024-election-problem-focus-group-00195806
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/black-psychology-matters/202505/remembering-george-floyd-as-a-symbol-of-racial-injustice
YAHOO
— I should write about the bad press that car writers have given my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus. They write like they were given draft articles by the car’s direct competitors. I also own a 2013 Charger R/T Max. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T 1994-2005 and a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971.
https://autos.yahoo.com/supercars-burned-bright-fizzled-fast-130010976.html
May 23, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-bars-harvard-enrolling-international-students/16508338/
— Mag Mile Chicago police stops and searches challenged as unlawful. I walked the Mag Mile weekday evenings 1974-1976 to/from my IRS job in the Loop and graduate business classes at Loyola and my Outer Drive East studio condo.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mag-mile-shakedown-magnificent-chicago-police-stops-searches-challenged-unlawful-drivers-speak-abc7-team/16512120/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-5/23/2025
NBC5
— Motive, possible writings of alleged gunman in D.C. museum shooting investigated. According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday, alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez bought a ticket to the American Jewish Committee’s annual Young Diplomat’s reception just three hours before the event began.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/motive-possible-writings-of-alleged-gunman-in-d-c-museum-shooting-investigated/3752247/
— How did man charged in fatal Jewish museum shooting get gun on plane from Chicago. One motive was shouted and repeated by the Chicago man as he was arrested, officials said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/how-did-man-charged-in-fatal-jewish-museum-shooting-get-gun-on-plane-from-chicago/3752227/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/hate-groups-usa-decline-influence-grows-report/3752407/
— ‘Investment, not tariffs,’ says Japan’s PM following telephone talks with Trump. The U.S. is charging a 25% tariff on imports of autos, a mainstay of Japan’s trade with the U.S. and a key driver of growth for the economy.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-immigration-japan-harvard-may-23-2025-live-updates/3752558/
CBS2
— D.C. shooting suspect graduated from UIC, was part of Chicago activist scene
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/elias-rodriguez-dc-shooting-israeli-embassy-staff-what-to-know/
WGN9
— Agents raid East Albany Park residence amid probe into killing of Israeli Embassy staffers
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/fbi-raids-east-albany-park-residence-amid-investigation-into-fatal-shooting-of-israeli-embassy-staffers-in-dc/
— Officials beef up security at Chicago-area Jewish institutions following ‘act of terror’
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/hate-is-not-an-american-value-state-officials-react-to-fatal-shooting-of-2-israeli-embassy-staffers-in-dc/
WTTW
— Chicago Man Charged With Murdering 2 Israeli Embassy Staffers in DC Told Police ‘I Did It for Palestine,’ Records Say
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/22/fbi-searching-chicago-home-suspect-after-2-staff-members-israeli-embassy-killed-shooting
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump has amassed $600 million in political donations. Here’s how he plans to use it.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/president-donald-trump-campaign-donations/
— Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the Education Department. I should write about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/trump-mass-layoffs-education-department/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Charges filed against Chicago man in the fatal shooting near DC Jewish museum
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/alleged-dc-shooter-israeli-embassy/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/chicago-immigration-court-arrests/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students over American students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/international-students-legal-status/
— Trump organization to pay $4.8M to settle fish-kill lawsuit against its Chicago high-rise
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/trump-organization-to-pay-4-8m-to-settle-fish-kill-lawsuit-against-its-chicago-high-rise/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/illinois-medicaid-gender-affirming-care/
— U. of C. students protest trustees’ ties to Israel as war in Gaza continues
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/university-chicago-palestinian-protest/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Feds charge Elias Rodriguez with murder in embassy shooting: ‘I did it for Gaza’ Authorities say Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, continued to fire on one of the two Israeli Embassy employees as she tried to crawl away.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/05/22/feds-charge-chicago-man-with-murder-in-embassy-shooting-i-did-it-for-gaza
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05/22/elias-rodriguez-chicago-israeli-embassy-staffers-dc
— Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul takes leading role in fighting Trump. ‘We are winning’ Illinois AG Kwame Raoul is a key figure in the Democratic legal battle against Trump’s executive orders and policies. And he believes Democrats are winning.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/05/23/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-fight-against-donald-trump
— They came to a hearing at Chicago’s immigration court, then got arrested. Arrests at immigration courts across the nation this week have rattled people showing up for hearings.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/22/ice-agents-hallways-immigration-court-trump-mass-arrest
— Trump Tower fish-kill lawsuit settled with state for $4.8 million. Illinois Attorney General, Sierra Club and Friends of the Chicago River sued the building operator over violations of environmental law.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/05/22/trump-tower-lawsuit-illinois-settled-friends-of-chicago-river-fish-sierra-club
— ‘Big, beautiful bill’ is another big example how GOP has abandoned conservatism. I should write about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/22/big-beautiful-bill-trump-conservatism-s-e-cupp
— I had to work my way through college. If I had not had to do that, my GPA would have been higher. Instead of studying, I worked far too many hours a) washing dishes during my junior and senior years in high school 1964-1966 and b) delivering mail while I attended UIC 1966-1968 and NIU in 1969.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/21/chicagoans-with-student-debt-stressed-as-trump-gop-cut-back-relief
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ‘Vital step’ to ending discrimination: Senate approves bill raising age for senior road exams
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250522/transportation/vital-step-to-ending-discrimination-senate-approves-bill-raising-age-for-senior-road-exams/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause hate crimes.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250523/news/police-say-attackers-called-her-a-slur-why-arent-the-suspects-charged-with-a-hate-crime/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— A year ago, Oberweis Dairy was in bankruptcy. Now it’s launching an expansion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/retail/oberweis-dairy-expand-chicago-st-louis-and-florida
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2025/05/22/planned-parenthood-illinois-warns-about-dire-consequences-of-medicaid-cuts/83799626007/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Soon, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/22/genevas-northern-illinois-food-bank-frets-over-trump-food-aid-cuts/
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/22/city/activists-rally-for-climate-legislation-in-springfield-during-annual-climate-action-lobby-day/
WMBD
— RNC Chairman delivers message to central Illinois GOP on how to turn area and state red
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/22/rnc-chairman-delivers-message-to-central-illinois-gop-on-how-to-turn-area-and-state-red/
WTVO
— Illinois bill to allow mothers paid breaks to breastfeed passes House. While I worked for GAO in Chicago during the 1990s, it gutted its smoking room and turned it into a lactation room.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-bill-allow-mothers-paid-191756705.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— GAO has long done DOGE-like work. I should write a book about GAO. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $117,807-153,151/year. Instead of reforming GAO, Gingrich gutted GAO. Because of that, and because I was one of their very few Republican employees, they wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They flushed down their toilets a) my three job-related master’s degrees, b) my six job-related professional certifications, and c) my job-related professional license. I should write a book about GAO. Further, I should write a book about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-21/gao-has-long-done-doge-like-work
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has attempted to embed itself in another agency. This time, it’s the Government Accountability Office. The office has refused, but as NPR’s Chris Arnold reports, many experts say, rather than try to elbow its way in the door, DOGE should have been asking GAO for help all along. CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: For months, DOGE has been strong-arming its way into government agencies, gaining access to sensitive data and helping to fire workers. Doing that at the Government Accountability Office, that would be way over the line, says David Walker. He used to run the GAO. DAVID WALKER: The DOGE team needs to read the Constitution again. There are three separate and equal branches of government. ARNOLD: GAO operates under the legislative branch – in other words, Congress – not the White House. WALKER: DOGE has zero authority to review GAO’s operations. ARNOLD: Walker’s been nominated to positions by both Republican and Democratic presidents, and he says GAO and DOGE supposedly have a very similar mission – to root out waste, fraud and abuse, except, he says, that GAO has been doing that for decades, has a staff of several thousand people and it’s really good at it. WALKER: GAO’s like a longstanding professional football team, and DOGE has some very bright people, but it’s more like a much smaller pickup football team from MIT. It’s like intramurals, OK? ARNOLD: Over the past 15 years, GAO says its recommendations have resulted in $725 billion in savings and revenue increases. It just came up with an updated list of proposals. It says that could save another hundred billion or more. Just one example – it’s been studying a space-based laser communication system that the Defense Department’s designing. GAO says it’s found a tweak to the program that could save hundreds of millions of dollars. The White House didn’t respond to NPR’s request for comment but has defended DOGE for finding waste, fraud and abuse. And the current head of the GAO recently said that DOGE lately has been engaging more with GAO about some of its recommendations. Still, David Walker says poor planning and inadequate coordination with Congress have hamstrung DOGE. WALKER: DOGE way overpromised on savings, originally promising 2 trillion. They now claim that they’ve saved about 170 billion. But in reality, I think the real savings is maybe one-tenth to one-fifth of what they claim because only Congress can cut spending. ARNOLD: Walker says, so far, DOGE has mostly been targeting programs that the Trump administration just doesn’t like and indiscriminately firing people. Linda Bilmes is a government efficiency expert at the Harvard Kennedy School. She says that DOGE could have learned a lot from GAO. LINDA BILMES: One of the real tragedies of the whole DOGE effort is that they just ignored this kind of expertise and they didn’t tap into the knowledge base of the people already working in government. ARNOLD: She says the chance to work alongside Elon Musk to help reform government lured in a lot of very talented young people. Some of them were students of hers at Harvard. BILMES: I know firsthand some of the individuals who work for Elon Musk, but they were not leveraged in terms of their own talents. They were put in charge of a website that they had no idea what it was and asked to fire people, and they really were put into positions in which they were entirely unsuited for. ARNOLD: Meanwhile, as far as DOGE trying to embed itself in GAO, there’s another thorny issue there. GAO currently has dozens of investigations underway into whether the Trump administration improperly froze funding that was already allocated by Congress. David Walker again. WALKER: There clearly is a conflict of interest there. DOGE shouldn’t be anywhere close to looking at what GAO’s doing in connection with those activities. ARNOLD: The current head of GAO recently told Congress that the Trump administration was not immediately responsive to its investigations.)
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Charting her course as a “Big Tent” Republican. Pamela “Denise” Long seeks 2026 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/charting-her-course-as-a-big-tent-republican-20196900
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A little-known candidate seeking the Republican nomination for Richard Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat says the GOP needs to adopt a “big tent” mentality that encourages bipartisan cooperation and prioritizes substantive solutions over partisan rhetoric. Pamela “Denise” Long, 52, a longtime contributor to Newsweek and Real Clear Politics, is leveraging her experience as a journalist, political analyst and adjunct professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to carve out a space in the crowded field to replace Durbin. Durbin, 80, a Springfield Democrat, is retiring from Congress after five terms in the Senate and seven in the House. Long says she built her experience by dissecting complex policy issues in a bipartisan manner, particularly those affecting Black voters, immigration, economic mobility and environmental protections. She has challenged both major parties to reconsider their outreach strategies. On her side, she’s ascribing to so-called Big Tent Republicanism, which says that certain conservative positions, such as abortion bans or transgender issues, while important to Republicans, push away moderates and liberals open to cooperation on issues that affect nearly every resident, such as property taxes, gerrymandering and budgeting. Long said she wants her candidacy to reflect a focus on those widespread national issues while offering bipartisan criticism and praise when it is called for. “For me, I champion President Donald Trump when he takes actions that align with the principles of conservatism and constitutionality,” she said. “When he deviates from that, as with (former President Joe) Biden and any other candidate, I call those things out. So, I’m not partisan in that way. My focus is on the best interest of the nation.” Long said one example bringing conservative and liberal issues together is her support for increasing environmental protection in the U.S., but implementing it in issues that bring attention to conservative interests. “Being able to take something like environmental policy and be able to apply it to these modern-day issues like immigration is one method to increase environmental protections without incurring too much animosity from any one side,” Long said. Long said she wants to see more investment in urban infrastructure that has been abandoned, rather than support Trump’s plans to allow development and commercial usage of federally protected lands, including national parks. “One thing which unnerves me is how much of our urban infrastructure has degraded and has just been left rotting in many cities, and I would like to see more development,” said Long. “Development of the dilapidated infrastructure that already exists rather than developing our national parks and green space, I think that could bring more jobs to urban residents.” As a Black woman, Long sees the persistent issues facing African American communities and agrees with the conservative sentiment against handouts or excessive support. But she argues that giving job opportunities, career advancements and a general ability to move out of poverty is a large part of that attitude as well. “I think it is important for Black Americans to hear that our federal government is looking for ways to pull them into the workforce,” said Long. “It’s not handholding as much as it is recruitment and making sure that folks realize that they’re pointing to avenues leading to jobs. We must look at recruitment, retention, development and promotion. At what point do we start thinking about the current and potential future state of our economy and what it’s going to look like? Do we somehow work to offer apprenticeships to students in middle school, shadowing perhaps in high school?” Long says her time as an occupational therapist has shifted her view of prisoners and felons to be viewed as people first, criminals second. She supports the idea of low-level and nonviolent criminals having the ability to either work off their crimes or build themselves up in prison to better support their rehabilitation outside of confinement. While she did clarify violent criminals and felons like murderers and rapists require more nuance based on the case, the goal is to produce a rehabilitated member of society. Helping former convicts get their lives together after their due punishment is the way to do that. “Sequestering a human being from society is a solid punishment by itself; you shouldn’t have to be faced with rape, beatings or dehumanizing treatment,” said Long. “You should be sequestered, rehabilitated, strengthened and developed so that you can be moved forward into society and hit the ground running to be productive. I also think that they should maintain their right to vote. They need to be engaged with the society that they’re going to be coming back into. People who are engaged with society and see a path forward and find a vision for themselves, sometimes for the first time, are less likely to offend.”)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-519/
— Evening roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-311/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Here come more pension sweeteners…(aka tax hikes) My critics/opponent have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension as being too generous. They are furious that I earned full-time CSRS credit while I worked only part-time for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. They are furious that I got CSRS credit for my more than a year of unused sick leave. In today’s dollars, my CSRS pension is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and less than what my salary was in 1972
https://wirepoints.org/video-here-come-more-pension-sweeteners-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What differentiated you from your coworkers? I took undergraduate business courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I took a graduate evening business course while I worked for the Democrats who ran Firestone Stores in 1971. I took graduate evening business courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1972-1976. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I took graduate evening accounting courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1976-1980 and GAO in 1980. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. I took graduate finance courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1992-1997. I earned a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997. None of my coworkers came close to doing what I did. Of course, my critics/opponents use what I did against me. They hint/imply/argue/shout that because I did the aforesaid and nevertheless my Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO superiors wasted my career, took many adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire in 1997, I must have been an extremely bad person. They ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact a) that I have always been a conservative Republican, b) that all my superiors were Democrats, c) that they never would have taken the adverse actions against me that they did if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, d) that I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and e) that I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation in 1988. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The ‘pro-Palestinian’ movement is pro-terrorist
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3419729/the-pro-palestine-movement-is-pro-terrorist/
NEW TORK POST
— Israeli Embassy terror bares the evil targeting Jews — and America
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/opinion/israeli-embassy-terror-bares-evil-aimed-at-jews-and-america/
— How left-wing Chicago social justice warrior Elias Rodriguez allegedly became homegrown anti-Israel terrorist
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/us-news/homegrown-terror-dc-jewish-museum-shooting-suspect-elias-rodriguezs-path-to-self-radicalization/
AMERICAN WIRE NEWS
— Reporter William J. Kelly asks Chicago mayor point blank, ‘Why are you a racist?’
https://americanwirenews.com/reporter-asks-chicago-mayor-point-blank-why-are-you-a-racist/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Reporter William J. Kelly asks Chicago mayor point blank, ‘Why are you a racist?’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/22/reporter-asks-chicago-mayor-point-blank-why-are-you-a-racist-1545534/
— Disney World suspends migrant workers following Supreme Court brief
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/22/disney-world-suspends-migrant-workers-following-supreme-court-brief-1545543/
BREITBART
— Lockheed ‘Doubles Down’ on Eviscerating DEI After Completing Review Complying with Trump Executive Order on Ending Controversial Practice
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/22/exclusive-lockheed-martin-drops-diversity-equity-inclusion-policies-comply-trump-executive-order/
DAILY WIRE
— Med School Caught Rejecting White And Asian Applicants With Better Scores Than Minorities It Accepts. Statistics show that little has changed at the medical school two years after affirmative action was overturned.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/med-school-caught-rejecting-white-and-asian-applicants-with-better-scores-than-minorities-it-accepts
EPOCH TIMES
— What’s in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’? The House passed the legislation in a 215–214 vote. It now heads to the Senate.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/whats-in-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-5861362
FEDERALIST
— Democrat-Run States Risk Billions To Push Race Discrimination In Schools. Democrat educators hint/imply/argue/shout
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/23/democrat-run-states-risk-billions-to-push-race-discrimination-in-schools/
— The Left Indulges Anti-White Racism In South Africa Because They Want The Same Thing Here
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/22/the-media-dismiss-anti-white-violence-in-south-africa-because-it-undermines-their-agenda/
NEWSMAX
— Alleged D.C. Shooter Leftist Activist, Biden Backer
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/shooter-terrorism-political/2025/05/22/id/1211966/
— Trump Spending Bill Would Hike Taxes on Elite Colleges. What do those who have degrees from elite colleges think of you? My critics/opponents who have degrees from elite colleges, their operatives, and their dupes look down on me if not despise me if not hate me. I should write about them and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me lately.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/trump-bill-taxes/2025/05/23/id/1212080/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/22/crime_rates_of_illegal_migrants_underreported_152825.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
TIME
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies.
https://time.com/7288251/alien-enemies-act-repealed/
CNN
— Which countries will join with China against America in WWIII?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/china/china-harvard-trump-students-ban-int-hk
— Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tariff if it doesn’t build iPhones in America
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/economy/trump-threatens-tariff-apple
ABC NEWS
— Judge says Trump has power to impose tariffs, but punts lawsuit to different court. The judge cites the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-trump-power-impose-tariffs-punts-lawsuit-court/story?id=122099656
NBC NEWS
— Trump’s image of dead ‘white farmers’ came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa. President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of the video to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as part of what he falsely presented as proof of mass killings of white South Africans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/africa/trump-image-dead-white-farmers-congo-not-south-africa-rcna208699
— MAGA world turns against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
https://www.aol.com/maga-world-turns-supreme-court-221051688.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/briefing/five-years-after-floyd.html
— Trump’s New Position on the War in Ukraine: Not My Problem. In a reversal, President Trump appears to have backed off joining a European push for new sanctions on Russia, seemingly eager to move on to doing business deals with it. Those who voted for Trump anticipated/expected that he would drive Russia out of Ukraine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/trump-ukraine-russia.html
— Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students. The move was a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the college to fall in line with President Trump’s demands. The following prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America: a) Democrat and RINO leaders and b) Democrat and RINO employers. Democrats want citizens of foreign countries because they want socialism if not communism. RINOs want citizens of foreign countries because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html
— Republicans Harness Tax Code to Punish Trump’s Political Nemeses. Immigrants and wealthy universities, as well as foreign companies, would see higher taxes under the House-passed bill. I paid less federal income tax 1972-1977 and my wife and I paid less federal income tax 1978-1980 and 1992-1997 because we deducted my job-related education expenses. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. I should write about that. Who do you know who deducted their job-related education expenses? I deducted graduate evening a) business courses while I worked for IRS 1972-1976, b) accounting courses while I worked for IRS 1977-1979 and for GAO in 1980, and c) finance courses while I worked for GAO 1992-1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/republicans-taxes-trump-opponents.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/opinion/ice-raids-nashville-immigrants.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-administration-fine-undocument-immigrants.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump welcomes Afrikaners but turns his back on all other refugees. President Trump’s embrace of far-right theories about South Africa led to the resettlement of some 50 White Afrikaners as refugees to the United States this month.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/23/trump-ramaphosa-afrikaners-refugees-south-africa/
— Administration bars Harvard from having foreign students, says thousands must transfer. The Trump administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/president-donald-trump/7fb883aa-3707-11f0-9c9e-0db2d748bea7_story.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat educators use DEI to crank out good little Democrats
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/trump-k-12-public-school-funding-dei-order/83458073007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Supreme Court Lets Trump Fire Agency Officials, but Moves to Protect Fed. Order suggests justices will soon eliminate congressional power to insulate agencies from the White House. In Diersen v. GAO, ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), the courts reaffirmed GAO’s power to waste the careers of and to get rid of its Republican employees, and especially those like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-lets-trump-fire-nlrb-and-merit-board-members-cc2dc09a
FORTUNE
The following prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America: a) Democrat and RINO leaders and b) Democrat and RINO employers. Democrats want citizens of foreign countries because they want socialism if not communism. RINOs want citizens of foreign countries because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/23/trump-ban-international-students-affect-us-companies/
FAST COMPANY
— Democrat leaders badmouth Tesla to badmouth Musk to badmouth Trump.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91338704/tesla-cybertruck-is-officially-a-flop
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/resident-scholar/2025/05/23/king-misrepresented-anti-dei-congressional-hearing
PROPUBLICA
— Foreign countries are illegally ever-increasing illegally sending their citizens illegally into America, that is, foreign countries are ever-increasingly invading America illegally.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courts
GUARDIAN
— Which countries will join with China against America in WWIII?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/may/23/harvard-university-international-students-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-us-politics-latest-news
May 20, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DOJ investigating Chicago hiring practices amid backlash over Mayor Johnson’s viral comments. 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://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-justice-opens-civil-rights-investigation-chicago-hiring-practices-letter-mayor-brandon-johnson/16472280/
— Ashli Babbitt’s family to receive $5M to settle lawsuit with Trump administration.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ashli-babbitts-family-receive-5-million-settlement-trump-admin-sources/16471666/
NBC5
— Former Chicago Public Schools students say they were groomed by teachers. A months-long investigation by NBC 5 Investigates has uncovered allegations of grooming and teacher misconduct dating back more than a decade at one Chicago public school.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/lessons-in-betrayal-former-chicago-public-schools-students-say-they-were-groomed-by-teachers/3749386/
— DOJ investigates Chicago’s hiring practices following comments by Mayor Johnson. Justice officials are investigating whether the city is violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/doj-investigates-chicagos-hiring-practices-following-comments-by-mayor-johnson/3749322/
— Trump allies shift from well-wishes to suggesting Biden hid his cancer diagnosis
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/donald-trump-allies-suggest-biden-hid-cancer-diagnosis/3749387/
CBS2
— Southwest Side Chicago alderman, state rep said city extended use of migrant shelter without notice
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-extended-use-migrant-shelter-notice/
— Trump questions why Biden’s cancer wasn’t caught earlier
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-questions-why-bidens-cancer-wasnt-caught-earlier/
— Justice Department opens discrimination investigation into Chicago city hiring practices.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/justice-department-discrimination-investigation-chicago-city-hiring-practices/
WGN9
— First Trump $1,000 ‘self-deport’ flight conducted by DHS.
https://wgntv.com/news/national/first-trump-1000-self-deport-flight-conducted-by-dhs/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/illinois-mulls-ending-a-health-program-for-some-immigrants-living-in-the-us-illegally/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/19/illinois-lawmakers-discuss-budget-priorities-legislative-deadline-looms
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/05/19/how-birthright-citizenship-ruling-could-affect-illinois
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/trump-venezuelans/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/chicagos-venezuelan-migrants-face-uncertainty-after-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protected-status/
— Cupich says Pope Leo XIV will champion the environment, immigrants. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/pope-leo-chicago-visit/
— Justice Department investigating Mayor Brandon Johnson for racially motivated hiring.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/justice-department-chicago-alleged-racially-motivated-hiring/
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/garrison-school-four-rivers-oversight/
— Chicago’s south and southwest suburbs see population declines — but there are bright spots in census estimates
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/south-suburbs-population-drop-census/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Those seeing decreases of at least 2% but below 3% included Bridgeview, Crestwood, Harvey, Matteson, Oak Forest, Olympia Fields, Palos Hills and Tinley Park. Suburbs having losses over the four years of at least 3% included Alsip, Blue Island, Calumet City, Chicago Heights, Country Club Hills, Dolton, Evergreen Park, Flossmoor, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Lansing, Markham, Midlothian, Oak Lawn, Park Forest and South Holland.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Justice Department launches probe into City Hall’s hiring practices, claims they’re solely race-based. The Trump administration on Monday opened a civil rights investigation into Chicago’s hiring practices one day after Mayor Brandon Johnson boasted about the record number of African-Americans he has hired for top city jobs.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/19/justice-department-probe-city-hall-hiring-practices-brandon-johnson-woodlawn
— Venezuelans in Illinois could be deported after Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protected status. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end the Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans, including in Illinois. — Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/19/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protections-from-some-venezuelans-deportations-could-follow
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting vice in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250519/news/new-pot-dispensary-tattoo-parlor-get-approval-from-elgin-city-council/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump officials launch hiring probe after Johnson touts number of Black advisers
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-doj-investigating-chicago-hiring-discrimination
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “social justice” a) to promote more hatred against Republicans and b) to get more votes from minorities and females.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/siue-east-st-louis-center-for-the-performing-arts-gives-social-justice-rhythm-and-motion-during-its-spring-dance-recital-82614.cfm
NPR ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-05-20/in-the-fight-for-youth-transgender-health-care-illinois-remains-at-the-forefront
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-19/trump-administration-cuts-school-mental-health-grants
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pritzker to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-says-every-state-faces-financial-challenges-under-trump-but-is-optimistic-illinois-will-have/article_1d68e4ce-9dcb-4e4c-ba07-e9f0c328b9aa.html
JOLIET PATCH
— 2024 Tesla Faces Seizure After Joliet Police Find Marijuana Inside: The EV belongs to Mokena residents Eddy Curry and Mitchell Rashada and is now the subject of a Will County civil forfeiture.
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/2024-tesla-faces-seizure-after-joliet-police-find-pot-forfeiture
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Trump attacks City Hall’s discrimination. It easier for Democrat employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. It is harder for Republican employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. Democrats want to work for Democrats. Republicans want to work for Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/20/trump-attacks-chicago-city-hall-diversity-00358327
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-516/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-308/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Higher and higher salaries means Chicagoans’ public pension problem gets bigger and bigger.
https://wirepoints.org/higher-and-higher-salaries-means-chicagoans-public-pension-problem-gets-bigger-and-bigger-wirepoints-on-full-measure-with-sharyl-attkisson/
— Why expand in Illinois when there’s little economic growth?
https://wirepoints.org/what-one-business-owner-said-to-me-why-expand-in-illinois-when-theres-little-economic-growth-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, Firestone Stores in 1970, 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. After I graduated from NIU when I was 21 years old in 1970, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from Firestone Stores. But that job did not really require a college degree. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me in 1971 because I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. He would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. All during my entire life, employers that might have hired me were under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat leaders to hire Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1970 (management) bachelor’s degree, b) my 1976 (business), 1980 (accounting), and 1997 (finance) master’s degrees, c) my 1979 (accounting), 1981 (internal auditing), 1990 (fraud examination), 1994 (government financial management), 1996 (financial services auditing), and 1997 (forensic accounting) professional certifications, and d) my 1981 professional license (CPA). Because I complained about the aforesaid, a) my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969, b) my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and my education deductions in 1978 and never promoted me beyond GS-12, and c) my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and forced me to retire in 1997. My RINO critics/opponents have no problem with what my Democrat superiors did to me. Actually, they applaud it. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What makes candidates for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc. Since 1999, RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed a) the almost 18 years of experience that I gained working for GAO, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) the almost 9 years of experience that I gained working for IRS, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) my bachelor’s degree in management, d) my master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, e) my professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and f) my CPA license. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you avoid the Vietnam War draft? Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The bronze statue of Melania Trump in Slovenia has been chopped off at the feet and stolen. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What did your superiors require you to do? Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
JEFF BERKOWITZ
— Does the IL GOP have competitive US Senate & GOV candidates on deck for 2026? What makes a candidate for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc.
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/does-the-il-gop-have-competitive
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— What’s in the Homeschooling Regulation Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/whats-in-the-homeschooling-regulation-bill/
— Nunda Township Officials Sworn into Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/nunda-township-officials-sworn-into-office/
— Connie Cain Flips Parties, Running for Kane County Treasurer as Democrat after Being Fired by GOP Treasurer Chris Lauzen
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/connie-cain-flips-parties-running-for-kane-county-treasurer-as-democrat-after-being-fired-by-gop-treasurer-chris-lauzen/
— No New Face for Conservation District Board, John Henning Being Appointed to a Second Run
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/no-new-face-for-conservation-district-board-john-henning-being-appointed-to-a-second-run/
— Poor Loser Randy Funks Out for the Fifth Time
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/poor-loser-randy-funks-out-for-the-fifth-time/
— Possible Taxes You Might Want to Ask Your Local Democrat to Oppose
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/possible-taxes-you-might-want-to-ask-your-local-democrat-to-oppose/
— With Two Weeks Left in Legislation Session, Sosnowski Gives Take on the Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/with-two-weeks-left-in-legislation-session-sosnowski-gives-take-on-the-budget/
— Rest of Algonquin Township Officials Sworn In
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/rest-of-algonquin-township-officials-sworn-in/
— Another Mailing Asking Voters to Call Sue Ness about Cost of Pension Increases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/another-mailing-asking-voters-to-call-sue-ness-about-cost-of-pension-increases/
— Underwood Not Running for U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/underwood-not-running-for-u-s-senate/
— Is This the Year that Democrats Will Start Taxing Services?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/is-this-the-year-that-democrats-will-start-taxing-services/
— Huntley’s Move to Shut Down Trump Store on Route 47 Making Regional News
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/huntleys-move-to-shut-down-trump-store-on-route-47-making-regional-news/
— $500,000 Judgement for Sending Campaign Postcard Found False–“Reckless Regard of the Truth”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/500000-judgement-for-sending-campaign-postcard-found-false-reckless-regard-of-thetruth/
— A Stupidity of the Chicago School System I Missed
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/a-stupidity-of-the-chicago-school-system-i-missed/
— Homeland Security Calls Out “Fake News” in Press Releases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/homeland-security-calls-out-fake-news-in-press-releases/
— GOP Precinct Committeeperson & Candidate Training in Rockford May 31st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/gop-precinct-committeeperson-candidate-training-in-rockford-may-31st/
— Census Reports McHenry County Growth Tips, Plus Population Gains and Losses for All Municipalities
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/census-reports-local-growth-tips-population-gains-and-losses-for-all-mchenry-county-municipalities/
— Data Centers among Reasons Electricity Prices Going Up in June
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/data-centers-among-reasons-electricity-prices-going-up-in-june/
— Daniel Biss Raises Big Money in Day after Announcement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/daniel-biss-raises-big-money-in-day-after-announcement/
— Chicago Republican Infighting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/chicago-republican-infighting/
— DeWitte Points to Pritzker’s Budget Having Increased 40% Since He Took Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/dewitte-points-to-pritzkers-budget-having-increased-40-since-he-took-office/
— Handful of Local Officials Miss Deadline for Filing Income Disclosure Forms
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/handful-of-local-officials-miss-deadline-for-filing-income-disclosure-forms/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Washington awash with suspicion of a Biden cancer cover-up
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/washington-awash-suspicion-biden-cancer-cover/
— Trump hammers illegal immigrants with full weight of law, criminal prosecutions up 45-fold
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/trump-hammers-illegal-immigrants-full-weight-law-criminal/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Brandon Johnson touts diverse administration, says black people run Chicago because ‘we’re most generous’ Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3415666/brandon-johnson-diverse-administration-black-people-most-generous/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/brandon-johnson-touts-diverse-administration-says-black-people-run-chicago-because-we-re-most-generous/ar-AA1F4UqR
AMERICAN THINKER
— Will the Supreme Court Succumb to Democratic Party Pressure?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/will_the_supreme_court_succumb_to_democratic_party_pressure.html
— Trump throws back stink bombs at celebrities
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/trump_throws_back_stink_bombs_at_celebrities.html
— Biden was not a decent man, nor was he a public servant
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/joe_biden_was_not_a_decent_man_nor_was_he_a_public_servant.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/
— Flailing Schumer tries to blame DOGE for Mexican ship’s Brooklyn Bridge collision
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/flailing-schumer-tries-to-blame-doge-for-mexican-ships-brooklyn-bridge-collision-1544487/
BLAZE
— Schumer tries to blame Trump for lethal Mexican boat crash into Brooklyn Bridge — but DHS fires back
https://www.theblaze.com/news/schumer-trump-cuauhtemoc-lethal-crash
— ‘Self-deport’ flights begin as some illegal migrants take advantage of Trump’s tempting offer
https://www.theblaze.com/news/self-deport-flights-begin-as-some-illegal-migrants-take-advantage-of-trump-s-tempting-offer-report
BREITBART
— Department of Homeland Security Conducts First Self-Deportation Charter Flight of 64 Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/20/department-of-homeland-security-conducts-first-self-deportation-charter-flight-of-64-migrants/
— U.S. hits Indian travel agencies facilitating illegal migration with visa bans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/u-s-hits-indian-travel-agencies-facilitating-illegal-migration-with-visa-bans/
— Trump’s immigration crackdown targets Washington restaurants
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trumps-immigration-crackdown-targets-washington-restaurants/
— Trump administration agrees to pay nearly $5M to settle suit over Ashli Babbitt shooting in Capitol
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-administration-agrees-to-pay-nearly-5m-to-settle-suit-over-ashli-babbitt-shooting-in-capitol/
— Supreme Court allows Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status for Venezuelans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-revoke-temporary-protected-status-for-venezuelans/
DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Sudden Cancer Diagnosis Doesn’t Add Up, Doctors Say
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/joe-biden-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-doesnt-add-up-doctors-presidency/
— Trump Suggests Biden Diagnosis Could Be Part Of Bigger Conspiracy
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/donald-trump-joe-biden-cancer-diagnosis-conspiracy-cover-up/
— Cash Flowing Into Anti-ICE Group’s Coffers Came From Chinese Gov’t-Linked Sources
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/cpc-bankrolled-by-chinese-government-linked-sources/
DAILY SIGNAL
— There’s No Love Like the Democrats’ Love of Illegal Alien Criminals
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/theres-no-love-like-the-democrats-love-of-illegal-alien-criminals/
DAILY WIRE
— Biden Has Terminal Cancer. The Cover Up Was Way Worse Than We Thought.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1599-member-exclusive
EPOCH TIMES
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove Protected Status for Venezuelans
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-remove-protected-status-for-venezuelans-5859993
TOWNHALL
— Trump Admin’s ICE Operation Nets Over 400 Arrests and 500 Deportations, Targeting Criminal Immigrants
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/05/19/ice-arrests-422-undocumented-immigrants-deports-528-in-houston-operation-n2657306
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSNBC & NPR
— Democrat leaders want sellers to use Trump’s tariffs to raise their prices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnYR-zYpU0
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5387330/trump-tariffs-china-collect-manufacturing-revenue
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff. I should write about my RINO leaders who are White and/or male and who promote Affirmative Action and DEI. They a) want votes from minorities and/or from females and/or b) have children who are minority and/or female.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-afrikaners-trump-refugees-ramaphosa-c87264523d555a64c0588d8734bba83a
MSN
— My critics/opponents attribute their successes to meritocracy. They attribute my and everyone else’s successes to their benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/the-case-for-meritocracy/ar-AA1EeV7W
REUTERS
— US launches unit to target DEI policies at colleges with civil fraud probes
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-launches-unit-target-dei-policies-colleges-with-civil-fraud-probes-2025-05-20/
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-sides-venezuelan-man-seeking-return-us/story?id=121968260
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/most-venezuelans-not-at-immediate-risk-despite-tps-decision-immigration-attorney-says/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Melania Trump (the Statue) Vanishes in Slovenia. The bronze sculpture, erected near Ms. Trump’s hometown in eastern Slovenia, was chopped off at the feet and stolen, the police said. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/world/europe/slovenia-melania-trump-statue.html
— DOJ to use false claims act to pursue institutions over their discrimination efforts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/false-claims-act-dei-harvard.html
— The Miners Who Lost Their Jobs, but Not Their Faith in Trump’s Tariffs. With demand for steel down and a trade war underway, miners in the Iron Range of Minnesota are feeling the hit. But they hope better times are ahead. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be working for GAO. But I was collateral damage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/business/trump-tariffs-mining-steel.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Putin is stringing Trump along, and Trump doesn’t seem to realize it. As Putin stonewalls Trump’s ceasefire efforts, the U.S. president extends him patience and goodwill.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/19/putin-ukraine-ceasefire-trump/
BOSTON GLOBE
— Those who have demographics that vote for Republicans are more likely to enlist.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/20/opinion/military-recruiting-rebound-trump-biden/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders want the Pope to promote the anti-Catholic Democrat Party platform, that is, they want him to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/16/pope-leo-catholic-church-lgbtq-harrison-butker/83626547007/
— What should I do if my duties don’t match my job description? What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a) three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/05/13/job-duties-dont-match-description-hr/83410689007/
— Thousands of federal employees are on a roller coaster of being fired, rehired. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/federal-employees-fired-rehired-await-court-decision/83600693007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: These fired federal employees are considering running for public office. ‘It’s forced a choice’: Fired federal workers prepare to run for office. Democratic groups want to help. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/fired-federal-workers-run-politics-office/79329174007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip Biden Status From Venezuelan Migrants
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-migrant-legal-status-a2fc2f8d
— Will Anyone Take the Factory Jobs That Trump Wants to Bring Back to America? The president has pledged to bring more factory work back to U.S., but many manufacturing jobs are already going unfilled. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. Those jobs included two factory jobs: chipping slag and working on an automotive assembly line.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/will-anyone-take-the-factory-jobs-trump-wants-to-bring-back-to-america-f6cd377b
INC.
— Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/businesses-csr-corporate-social-responsibility-policies-trump/91190849
FAST COMPANY
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91310203/it-costs-nearly-300000-to-raise-a-child-in-2025
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
— Are/were you collateral damage? I have been collateral damage since 1964 because I have always been a Republican and virtually all those above me have been Democrats or RINOs.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0403/trump-tariffs-immigration-signal-doge
MEDICAL NEWS
— Study reveals high rates of cannabis use disorder in older US veterans. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250519/Study-reveals-high-rates-of-cannabis-use-disorder-in-older-US-veterans.aspx
EDUCATION WEEK
— Boys Are Struggling in School. What Can Be Done? It’s time to take a hard look at gender equity.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-boys-are-struggling-in-school-what-can-be-done/2025/05
POLITICO
— How Congress could crush Trump’s Qatari plane gift. Lawmakers are weighing everything from sticking amendments in defense legislation to holding up nominees as they try to stop the president from accepting the foreign-owned aircraft.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/19/trump-qatar-jet-gift-congress-block-00357593
AXIOS
— Swift, Beyoncé, Springsteen: Trump’s new political foes are pop stars
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/19/trump-celebrity-investigations-feud-taylor-swift-beyonce-bruce-springsteen
TIMES OF INDIA
— ‘Could he be more racist?’ Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson slammed for ‘only hiring black people’ comment in viral speech. My critics/opponents have always given preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always discriminated against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/could-he-be-more-racist-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-slammed-for-only-hiring-black-people-comment-in-viral-speech/articleshow/121265000.cms
May 17, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WGN9
— Illinois Democrat leaders focus on turning Illinois farmers against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/farming-anxieties-rise-among-illinoisans-as-trade-war-affects-crop-exports/ar-AA1EVUzf
FOX32
— Democrat and RINO leaders got the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s Alien Enemies Act deportations. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/supreme-court-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump’s bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/supreme-court-rejects-trump-deportations/
— Democrat leaders say that the Republican tax bill is filled with illogicalities, craven giveaways
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/editorial-republicans-tax-bill-tips-salt-overtime/
— Under Trump, Republican leaders fight Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, they fight race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/trump-dei/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/16/tariffs-trump-maga-corruption-democracy-america-voters-mona-charen
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/05/16/chicago-catholics-pope-leo-xiv-marriage-lgbtq
— House speaker on Crespo ouster: ‘Can’t allow someone to go rogue’ “He’s free to speak his mind. He’s free to vote his conscience,” House Speaker Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch, said, but added that no one would be allowed to use their official leadership roles “to pursue an agenda that is antithetical to our shared goals” of passing a budget. Since I was 53 years old in 2001, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have rudely dumped me forever because I supported Pat O’Malley in the primary for governor instead of their candidate Jim Ryan. I ran O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. They continue to blame me not only for Ryan’s loss in the 2002 general election, but for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since then. I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/16/emanuel-chris-welch-fred-crespo-ouster-house-commitee-seperate-budget-rich-mller
DAILY HERALD
— GOP candidates for state offices will host discussion in St. Charles Saturday morning
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250516/illinois-state-politics/gop-candidates-for-state-offices-will-host-discussion-in-st-charles-saturday-morning/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250517/news/illinois-seeks-to-prevent-feds-from-tying-funding-for-states-to-immigration-enforcement/
WBEZ
— A quarter of Chicago high schoolers missed more than a month of school last year. When you were in grade school and high school, how many days did you miss? I missed extremely few.
https://www.wbez.org/
SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote protests against Trump
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/05/15/thousands-to-line-ogden-avenue-sunday-to-protest-trump-administration/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— AUGUST 16, 2012 FLASHBACK: GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters: A bunch of political info — daily
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2012/08/16/bernard-schoenburg-bunch-political-info/41733104007/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Republicans forge their tax bill in Trump’s image, with ‘MAGA accounts’ and more
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-republicans-forge-their-tax-bill-in-trumps-image-with-maga-accounts-and-more/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DOGE tried assigning a team to GAO. GAO refused. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They wasted my career and they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They rudely flushed down their toilet a) my three job-related master’s degrees (business-1976, accounting-1980, and finance-1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997), c) my job-related professional license (CPA-1981), and d) what I had learned about IRS by working for it for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year). They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-16/doge-tried-assigning-a-team-to-the-government-accountability-office-it-refused
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5401008/doge-gao-congress
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its attempts to expand its reach beyond executive branch agencies, this time seeking to embed in an independent legislative watchdog that finds waste, fraud and abuse in the government. But the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a legislative branch entity that helps audit government spending and suggest ways to make it more efficient, rejected that request on Friday by noting that GAO is not subject to presidential executive orders. The request to GAO had cited President Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order creating DOGE, which, despite its name, is not a formal agency. DOGE’s request to GAO and its response was first reported by NOTUS. A spokesperson for GAO confirmed DOGE’s outreach, and reiterated that “as a legislative branch agency, GAO is not subject to Executive Orders and has therefore declined any requests to have a DOGE team assigned to GAO.” In an announcement to employees posted Friday afternoon, GAO leadership said they sent a letter to Acting Administrator of DOGE Amy Gleason and notified members of Congress, according to a copy of the notice shared with NPR by an employee not authorized to speak publicly. The GAO regularly releases reports that highlight ways to improve government efficiency, like a May 13 review of federal programs with fragmented, overlapping, or duplicative actions it says could save over $100 billion in spending. But there’s been little overlap between GAO’s work and DOGE’s actions so far. “DOGE’s attempted intrusion into an independent, nonpartisan legislative branch agency is a direct assault on our nation’s sacred separation of powers,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which oversees GAO, in a statement to NPR. “DOGE cannot and must not have any access to GAO. Oversight Democrats are monitoring this situation closely and stand behind GAO’s well-established status as a critical legislative branch agency.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about DOGE’s attempts to place a team at GAO. . .DOGE’s efforts to embed at GAO also heighten growing tensions between Congress and the executive branch. Last week, President Trump abruptly fired the Librarian of Congress, a year before the end of her term — raising concerns from members of Congress including Senate Majority leader John Thune. Meanwhile, the watchdog agency has dozens of investigations underway into whether the White House violated the law by freezing funding that had already been allocated by Congress. “ We have right now 39 different investigations underway,” Gene Dodaro, the current head of the GAO, told a Senate hearing on Apr. 29. “We’re trying to get the information from the agencies about what their legal position is for not expending the money,” Dodaro told lawmakers.)
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/community/springfield-pridefest-celebrates-15th-year-on-saturday/article_b8a69af1-3e9c-4178-ae65-55fc98fd9fe5.html
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Vacancy Tax On Landlords Could Help Fill City’s Affordable Housing Gap, UChicago Students Say. I was a reluctant landlord 1976-1984 because I could sell my University Park town home only if I sold it at a big loss.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/16/vacancy-tax-on-landlords-could-help-fill-citys-affordable-housing-gap-uchicago-students-say/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-307/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The state and the media refuse to ask the proper questions about Chinese companies in Illinois
https://wirepoints.org/the-state-and-the-media-refuses-to-ask-the-proper-questions-about-chinese-companies-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
JEFF BERKOWITZ
— IL GOP US Senate & GOV candidates can win in 2026
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/il-gop-us-senate-and-gov-candidates
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Illinois Freedom Caucus: “Cut the Waste & Bloat”
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/illinois-freedom-caucus-cut-the-waste-bloat-in-budget/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Kids and Marijuana – A Bad Combination
https://illinoisfamily.org/marijuana-2/kids-and-marijuana-a-bad-combination/
— Papal Warmup
https://illinoisfamily.org/faith/papal-warmup/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL prioritizes $3.2B for immigrants, leaves working families behind
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b7099305-d374-404e-8bfd-ee4bc3037919.html
— Illinois home to 15th largest share of roads in poor conditions across country. The smaller the vehicle that you drive, the more adversely that you are impacted by bad roads.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e4846ca4-5b89-4254-b9de-8a0437342e10.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Under Trump, Republican leaders fight Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, they fight race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Since I was 53 years old in 2001, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have rudely dumped me forever because I supported Pat O’Malley in the primary for governor instead of their candidate Jim Ryan. I ran O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. They continue to blame me not only for Ryan’s loss in the 2002 general election, but for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since then. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— DOGE has tried to assign a team to GAO. GAO refused. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They wasted my career and they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They rudely flushed down their toilet a) my three job-related master’s degrees (business-1976, accounting-1980, and finance-1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997), c) my job-related professional license (CPA-1981), and d) what I had learned about IRS by working for it for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year). They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that minorities, females, younger people, and veterans should get reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. All my coworkers who were the aforesaid and who my Democrat superiors 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. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors and supervisors who despised/hated me the most because I was a Republican and/or because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I would focus on my Democrat superiors who flushed down their toilets my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The White House has launched a Drudge Report lookalike website. I should write about the many GOPUSA ILLINOIS lookalike websites and newsletters that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes publish since 2005. Sooner or later, they all go dark. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— India’s Caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am low Caste. They have aways stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that my mother never attended high school, and d) that I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ernst & Young was one of the many CPA firms that had no interest in me because I was too old, that is, a) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, b) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, c) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, and d) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, I was not a minority, female, or veteran. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you attend you senior prom? I did not. I was not viewed as being college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I had spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I was viewed as being draft bait. I had been accepted by UIC, but UIC is not Ivy League. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Federal employees do not have to take a vow of poverty. But few federal employees make GS-13 ($117,807/year). Fewer make GS-14 ($139,211/year). Even fewer make GS-15 ($163,749/year). Extremely few make Senior Executive Service (SES) ($195,200/year). Becoming a federal employee severely limits your earning potential. Unless you are a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government waste your career and get rid of you if they do not promote you to GS-13 by age 25, GS-14 by age 30, GS-15 by age 35, and SES by age 40. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines. They especially use against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. In my defense, I did not earn a) my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) my professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45 , 47 and 48, and c) my professional license until I was 32. Further, I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Congresswoman leading reparations movement says wealthy Black Americans deserve payments, too. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors 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.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/16/rep-summer-lee-leading-reparations-movement-says-wealthy-black/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Harvard slams ‘abusive and retaliatory’ DOJ investigation over race-based admissions. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if they could have found a qualified minority, female, younger person, and/or veteran, they would have admitted them instead of me.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3414475/harvard-slams-doj-investigation-race-based-admissions/
— GOP should be codifying Trump’s executive orders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3413695/gop-not-dems-should-codify-trump-executive-orders-lauren-boebert/
NEW YORK POST
— Supreme Court again blocks quick deportations under Alien Enemies Act in new blow to Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/supreme-court-again-blocks-quick-deportations-under-alien-enemies-act-in-new-blow-to-trump/
— Trump’s ‘knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution’ is tackling long-festering ills no one else would
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/opinion/trump-is-taking-on-long-festering-ills-no-one-else-would-via-his-knock-down-drag-out-counterrevolution/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘U.S. owes us a debt’: Dems demand trillions in reparations ‘NOW’ Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors 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.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/16/u-s-owes-us-a-debt-dems-demand-trillions-in-reparations-now-1543940/
BREITBART
— Trump Slams SCOTUS for Ruling on Alien Enemies Act: ‘This Decision Will Let More Criminals Pour’ In
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/16/ttrump-slams-scotus-for-ruling-on-alien-enemies-act-this-decision-will-let-more-criminals-pour-in/
DAILY CALLER
— IRS Quietly Puts On New Face, Ousts Anti-Trump Spokeswoman With Drunk Driving Record. I should write about my Democrat IRS superiors and supervisors who despised/hated me the most because I was a Republican and/or because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I would focus on those who a) disallowed my travel vouchers, b) disallowed my education deductions, and c) stopped me from being promoted to GS-13. I would focus on those who flushed down their toilets my earning master’s degrees in business and accounting and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/16/exclusive-irs-ousts-anti-trump-spokeswoman-arrest-record/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Bashes Supreme Court Following Order Further Blocking Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Illegal Gang Members
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/16/trump-bashes-supreme-court-following-order-further-blocking-use-of-alien-enemies-act-to-deport-illegal-gang-members/
FOX NEWS
— Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to deport Venezuelan migrants under Alien Enemies Act. Conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the court’s decision.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-blocks-trump-effort-deport-venezuelan-migrants-under-alien-enemies-act
— Trump says Comey knew ‘assassination’ meaning behind deleted social media post. President Trump claims deleted Instagram post was deliberate call for assassination as Justice Department investigates.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-says-comey-knew-assassination-meaning-behind-deleted-social-media-post
— Trump admin wants 20K National Guard troops to help with mass deportation effort
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/trump-admin-wants-20k-national-guard-troops-to-help-with-mass-deportation-effort/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— House Democrat Launching Resolution for U.S. to Spend ‘Trillions’ on Reparations. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors 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://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/house-democrat-launching-resolution-for-u-s-to-spend-trillions-on-reparations/
MRC TV
— Trump Signs EO Redirecting Funds Used to Help Illegals to Build a National Center for Homeless Vets
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/nick-kangadis/trump-signs-eo-redirecting-funds-used-help-illegals-build-national-center
NEWSMAX
— Academia’s ‘Mafia’ Cares Little for American Dream, Students
https://www.newsmax.com/parthachakraborty/columbia-sinwar-stem/2025/05/16/id/1211267/
PJ MEDIA
— Most U.S. Voters Want Deportations to Continue
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/16/poll-most-us-voters-want-deportations-to-continue-n4939865
POST MILLENNIAL
— Dem lawmakers demand TRILLIONS in reparations for black Americans. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors 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://thepostmillennial.com/dem-lawmakers-demand-trillions-in-reparations-for-black-americans
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5302561-trump-administration-diversity-equity-inclusion/
— White House launches Drudge Report lookalike site. I should write about the many GOPUSA ILLINOIS lookalike websites that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes publish since 2005. Sooner or later, they all go dark.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5277015-white-house-drudge-report-dupe-site/
ABC NEWS
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-weigh-blocks-trumps-order-end-birthright/story?id=121710507
NBC NEWS
— Conservatives block Trump’s big tax breaks bill in a stunning setback. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, named with a nod to Trump, is teetering at a critical moment.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/conservatives-block-trumps-big-tax-breaks-and-spending-cuts-bill-in-a-stunning-setback/3747778/
ASSOCIATED PRESS & NEWS NATION NOW
— Police investigate disappearance of Melania Trump’s statue in her native Slovenia
https://apnews.com/article/melania-trump-statue-slovenia-9440b43a0a6771256522290fb219efce
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/melania-trump-statue-slovenia-stolen/
CNN
— India’s Caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am low Caste. They have aways stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that my mother never attended high school, and d) that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.news8000.com/news/national-world/india-s-caste-system-is-controversial-and-discriminatory-so-why-is-it-being-included-in/article_87c15db9-3951-5039-a397-265ef3c3efde.html
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/takeaways-from-the-supreme-court-arguments-on-birthright-citizenship-and-nationwide-injunctions/ar-AA1ER4zr
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-workers-eeoc-trump-texas-lgbtq-harassment-ab89a52aca37c3b0319ed665852d6252
MSN
— American Pope promises to have an ‘active social media presence’ after using his old account to criticize Trump. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy not only Trump, but to destroy all those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/american-pope-promises-to-have-an-an-active-social-media-presence-after-using-his-old-account-to-criticize-trump/ar-AA1EIpLH
MSNBC & PRETORIA NEWS & NATION
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, a) only Whites discriminate and b) only Whites should pay for the sins of their forefathers.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-afrikaners-apartheid-refugees-genocide-rcna206660
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/pretoria-news/20250516/281672555844566
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/white-south-african-refugees-trump/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. They ever-increasingly do everything that they can to drive his approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Republicans Push to End Immigrant Benefits in Democratic States. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/immigrant-trump-states-california.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/nyregion/nyc-migrants-legal-help-ending.html
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010163960/can-trump-really-end-birthright-citizenship.html
— How many able-bodied people are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/opinion/medicaid-work-requirements-pointless.html
WASHINGTON POST & MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-deportation-el-salvador/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/supreme-court-trump-venezuelan-migrants-gang/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/trump-immigration-asylum-lawsuit-courts/46e1364c-320e-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d6-LRpPzwA
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump bashes Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift on Truth Social
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/16/trump-bruce-springsteen-taylor-swift/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/trans-organizers-describe-prides-importance-under-trump/2025/05/16/85974861-97af-46c7-a279-e585e43a2fec_video.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Pope Took a Vow of Poverty. He May Still Need to File U.S. Taxes. The first American pontiff has special circumstances but may want to file a return even if he doesn’t owe anything. Federal employees do not have to take a vow of poverty. But few federal employees make GS-13 ($117,807/year). Fewer make GS-14 ($139,211/year). Even fewer make GS-15 ($163,749/year). Extremely few make Senior Executive Service (SES) ($195,200/year). Becoming a federal employee severely limits your earning potential. Unless you are a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government waste your career and get rid of you if they do not promote you to GS-13 by age 25, GS-14 by age 30, GS-15 by age 35, and SES by age 40. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines. They especially use against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. In my defense, I did not earn a) my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) my professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45 , 47 and 48, and c) my professional license until I was 32. Further, I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/pope-leo-xiv-us-taxes-f7f1de28
— It Was a Mistake to Skip My Senior Prom. Did you attend you senior prom? I did not. I was not viewed as being college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I had spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I was viewed as being draft bait. I had been accepted by UIC, but UIC is not Ivy League.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/never-be-too-cool-for-your-own-life-why-it-was-a-mistake-to-skip-my-senior-prom-c7900da0
— Americans Are Redefining Old Age. Are you old? I am 76. If you are old, what are you doing with your life? I spend 10+ hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/americans-in-their-80s-and-90s-are-redefining-old-age-5f8ae8a6?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
BLOOMBERG
— Chicago Taps Ernst & Young to Close $1 Billion Gap as Trump Threatens Funds. Ernst & Young was one of the many CPA firms that had no interest in me because I was too old, that is, a) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, b) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, c) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, and d) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, I was not a minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/chicago-taps-ey-to-close-1-billion-gap-as-trump-threatens-funds
FAST COMPANY
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91335032/trump-attacks-digital-equity-act-rural-internet
POLITICO
— Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit, citing rising debt. What percent of Moody’s employees despise/hate Trump?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/moodys-downgrade-us-debt-00355217
ATLANTIC & NPR
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/supreme-court-national-injunctions/682824/
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5399779/supreme-court-justices-seem-divided-in-birthright-citizenship-arguments
PEW RESEARCH
— Among Republicans, conservatives are less likely to trust information from national news media. The mainstream news media exists to elect and to reelect Democrats.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/05/08/republicans-have-become-more-likely-since-2024-to-trust-information-from-news-outlets-social-media/
May 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— IRS criminal investigators in Chicago being ‘deputized’ as immigration enforcers under Trump administration plan. I worked for GAO for 3 years on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) while I was a GS-13 Step 1-3, currently $117,807-$125,661/year. I worked with CID employees for 5 1/.2 years while I was an IRS Revenue Officer at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/irs-criminal-investigators-in-chicago-being-deputized-as-immigration-enforcers-under-trump-administration-plan/
— Trump marvels at wealth of his Arab hosts while he eyes White House and Air Force One upgrades
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/trump-arab-hosts-air-force-one-upgrades/
— Redirect migrant funds to empower Chicago’s youths. What did you do get accepted by a college? I a) took college preparatory courses, b) earned an ACT score of 24, and c) graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/opinion-chicago-teen-takeovers-migrant-funds/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Have you been on a do not hire list? When I was 49 years old in 1997, constructively, if not literally, my Democrat GAO superiors put me on everyone’s do not hire list when they forced me to retire. Previously, they had a) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and d) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/14/lincoln-park-high-school-administrators-removed-chicago-public-schools-do-not-hire-list
DAILY HERALD
— ‘The claims against me are unfounded’: Huntley Trump store’s eviction trial delayed
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250514/local-politics/the-claims-against-me-are-unfounded-huntley-trump-stores-eviction-trial-delayed/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/medicaid-illinois-danger-several-fronts
RIVERSIDE BROOKFIELD LANDMARK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their May 18 protest against Trump
https://www.rblandmark.com/2025/05/13/protest-anti-trump-human-chain-brookfield/
WAND TV
— Gun rights activists take to Springfield as state Democrats look to pass multiple gun laws
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/gun-rights-activists-take-to-springfield-as-state-democrats-look-to-pass-multiple-gun-laws/article_e8a4c3cd-f397-4e49-9209-29e68b38c1ca.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-senate-committee-approves-bill-ensuring-medication-abortion-access-amid-uncertainty-with-trumps-fda/article_f126e72a-d598-44c2-b49b-01a58b3272c1.html
WCIA
— Retirement Wave Hits CPA Industry. Why did the CPA industry have no use for me? I was too old. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. If I had majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, my entire life would have been different.
https://www.wcia.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/812689749/as-retirement-wave-hits-cpa-industry-prohorizons-guides-firm-owners-through-smooth-transitions/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-funds-from-migrants-sent-back-home-help-fuel-some-towns-economies-a-gop-plan-targets-that/
— How Project 2025 has guided the Trump administration
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-13/how-project-2025-has-guided-the-trump-administration
SOUTH SIDE PATCH
— 11 Students Sickened, Taken To Hospital After Eating Marijuana Edibles At South Side Chicago School. The students got sick just after 2 p.m. at Fort Dearborn Elementary School, at 9025 S. Throop St. in the Brainerd neighborhood. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://patch.com/illinois/southside/11-students-sickened-taken-hospital-after-eating-marijuana-edibles-south-side
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-513/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-305/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats Drag America Into the Mouth of Their Madness
https://johnkassnews.com/a-civilization-that-descends-into-madness/
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— IL Freedom Caucus Statement on IGOLD rally in Springfield
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/il-freedom-caucus-statement-on-igold-rally-in-springfield/
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois politicians killed school choice. Now the federal government could deliver it anyway.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-politicians-killed-school-choice-now-the-federal-government-could-deliver-it-anyway-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write about the ever-increasing success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters, that is, the ever-increasing success that Democrat leaders and their mainstream news media are having promoting more and more and more hatred against Trump. I should write about their ever-increasing success in promoting more and more and more hatred against those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters paint you? They paint me as being blindly loyal to Trump a) because Trump and I share so many demographics and b) because of what I do as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor. But they are wrong. I have never been blindly loyal to any politician and I never will. I am loyal to conservative principles and to the Republican Party platform. My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What percent of the students are female in the college(s) that you graduates from? Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, the future is bleaker for males, and especially for males who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Notwithstanding the fact that I am all of the aforesaid, I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But that was many years ago. All those who were promoted over me were Democrats a) who were female, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When you were in college, what did you major in? I should have majored in accounting. If I had majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, my entire life would have been different. I did not start taking graduate accounting course until I was 27. Because of that, the CPA industry had no use for me. I was too old. Further, I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have ever considered taking a pay cut? To force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that much of what I had done for IRS for almost 9 years was very similar to what I would do for GAO, b) that GAO audits IRS, c) that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. I earned that degree in 1980. The aforesaid helped me pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, GAO would have offered me a $5,527/year (5%) pay increase to $117,807/year (GS-13) in today’s dollars to transfer. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Buffett is stepping down at age 94. How has age discrimination impacted you? When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to ever be promoted to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. I ultimately got promoted to GS-13, but not until I was 38 and I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO when I was 31, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, and e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— South African president calls refugees ‘cowards’ after arrival in US
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3410821/south-african-president-afrikaner-refugees-us-cowards/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Presently, many Afrikaner activists and observers believe the group is being purposefully subjected to violence from the black majority, with the government being complicit. Attacks against white Afrikaner farmers are a highly controversial matter. The government doesn’t keep statistics regarding the number of white farmers killed, but news of particularly brutal attacks has enraged many Afrikaners. These attacks are often accompanied by extensive torture, rape, and mutilation. The South African government has emphatically denied any bias against Afrikaners and has maintained that white farmers are victims of a larger crime wave. However, the White House has been unambiguous in its assessment of the situation. “Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white,” Trump said Monday. “But whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa, and the newspaper and the television media don’t even talk about it.” “I don’t care about their race, their color, their height, their weight — I don’t care about anything,” Trump continued. “I just know that what’s happening is terrible.” Trump also punished South Africa on a diplomatic level. He withheld the U.S. government’s participation in the G20 summit scheduled to be held in South Africa later this year. South African Ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool was declared a persona non grata and ordered to leave the country by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called him a “race-baiting politician who hates America and hates [Trump].”)
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— MSNBC declares South African asylum seekers are ‘descendants of white supremacists.’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/14/msnbc-declares-south-african-asylum-seekers-are-descendants-of-white-supremacists-1543501/
CENTER SQUARE
— Antisemitism watchdog calls for IRS probe of nonprofit supporting anti-Israel protests
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_9925f97b-0456-480b-8256-17ecd9b3d93e.html
COLLEGE FIX
— Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1 as graduation speakers. For Democrats, the purpose of education is to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/democrats-outnumber-republicans-5-to-1-as-graduation-speakers/
DAILY SIGNAL
— White House Praises House Panel for Booting Illegals Off Medicaid
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/14/white-house-praises-house-panel-for-booting-illegals-off-medicaid/
— Democrats Defend Medicaid Coverage for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/14/white-house-praises-house-panel-for-booting-illegals-off-medicaid
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Strikes $244 Billion in Deals With Qatar, Including ‘Historic’ Boeing Jet Sale. Qatar Airways signed a $96 billion agreement to acquire up to 210 American-made 787 Dreamliner and 777X aircraft from Boeing.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/qatar-airways-signs-agreement-to-buy-160-boeing-planes-5857662
FEDERALIST
— Here Are 16 Of The Most Egregious Injunctions Barring The Trump Administration From Doing Its Job
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/14/here-are-16-of-the-most-egregious-injunctions-barring-the-trump-administration-from-doing-its-job/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Arizona State to Focus on ‘Gender Equity’ for Women Even Though Campus is 70% Female. What percent of the students are female in the college(s) that you graduates from? Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, the future is bleaker for males, and especially for males who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Notwithstanding the fact that I am all of the aforesaid, I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But that was many years ago. All those who were promoted over me were Democrats a) who were female, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/arizona-state-to-focus-on-gender-equity-for-women-even-though-campus-is-70-female/amp/
NEWSMAX
— Alien Enemies Act Will Keep US Safe
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/pam-bondi-immigration-habeus-corpus/2025/05/14/id/1210991/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting sellers to use Trump’s tariffs to raise prices.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/business/walmart-prices-tariffs
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/trump-law-firms-attacks.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders use a “pregnant Cuban emigre” to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/14/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-immigration-trump/aa603c82-3078-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/14/pope-leo-lgbtq-catholics/
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/13/trump-lies-china-tariffs-qatar-jet/83583303007/
DESERET NEWS
— Utah Democrats hope for revival as Gov. JB Pritzker scheduled to speak at convention. New poll finds only 35% of Democrats are optimistic about future of party.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/05/14/utah-democrats-debate-how-to-respond-to-donald-trump/
SC TIMES
— Trump’s U.S. Attorney pick for Minnesota has never been a prosecutor. To force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that much of what I had done for IRS for almost 9 years was very similar to what I would do for GAO, b) that GAO audits IRS, c) that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. I earned that degree in 1980. The aforesaid helped me pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, GAO would have offered me a $5,527/year (5%) pay increase to $117,807/year in today’s dollars to transfer.
https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2025/05/15/trump-nominates-daniel-rosen-as-minnesotas-next-u-s-attorney/83604701007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE. Buffett is stepping down at age 94. How has age discrimination impacted you? When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to ever be promoted to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. I ultimately got promoted to GS-13, but not until I was 38 and I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO when I was 31, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, and e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.wsj.com/business/warren-buffett-reveals-he-stepped-down-after-finally-feeling-his-age-b060251f
— FRONT PAGE: Women Are Drinking More—and Doctors Are Worried
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/women-alcohol-use-health-risks-86999148
— Democrats Are Stuck in the Soup. The party is both too old and too extreme. It needs to look to history for a way out.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-are-stuck-in-the-soup-c6cad7b2
— Welcome to the Post-Progressive Political Era. For decades, the right lost almost every battle in the culture. But now the left has clearly gone too far.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/welcome-to-the-post-progressive-political-era-history-culture-4ad308c1
— Career Advice for 2025 Graduates. Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/career-advice-for-2025-graduates-c79b5126
— I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them jobs.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/529-plans-college-savings-alternatives-tips-958b2556
— My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-market-overpaid-salary-9eeabbaa
BANKRATE
— What to do if you are dropped from your home insurance
https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/homeowners-insurance/dropped-from-home-insurance/
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE
— Our Mission: To protect consumers by providing assistance and information, by efficiently regulating the insurance industry’s market behavior and financial solvency, and by fostering a competitive insurance marketplace.
https://idoi.illinois.gov/
ILLINOIS FAIR PLAN
— About Us: The Illinois FAIR Plan Association provides basic and affordable property insurance to applicants in the state of Illinois who are unable to purchase coverage through the standard insurance market for reasons beyond their control. The Illinois FAIR Plan is considered to be one of the top FAIR Plans in the country based the products and services it offers, its excellent working relationship with the Department of Insurance, and the support it has received from the Industry including their effective participation on the Governing Committee. Who We Are: The Illinois FAIR Plan Association is a not-for-profit property insurance association supported by nearly 500 Illinois insurance companies.
https://www.illinoisfairplan.com/about.html
May 14, 2025
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write a book about Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on Republican participation in those parades. I would focus on those who are working the hardest to diminish/end Republican participation in this year’s Wheaton and Glen Ellyn parades. They argue that the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) cannot afford the $1,500 cost of entry fees and candy for the parades. In 2007, I succeeded in raising $2,000 on short notice so that an elephant could walk behind U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam in Wheaton’s 2007 parade. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/ I served as the Republican fundraiser for the Wheaton Independence Day parades 2005-2021. In my book, I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end what I did. I have urged MTRO to encourage Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congressional District 3, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois senate, Illinois house, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, etc. to participate in this year’s parades. Please join me in urging MTRO to participate in the parades. Please join me in urging Republican candidates to participate in the parades. I certainly hope that LaHood walks in both parades. His father walked in Wheaton’s 2005 parade. I spoke with him before the parade kicked off. Bob Dole walked in Wheaton’s 1996 parade, Jim Ryan in its 2002 parade, and Obama and his wife in its 2004 parade. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Will the Illinois GOP show up for the 2026 state elections?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-illinois-republican-party-candidates-2026-funding/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: We are in the important pre-primary phase of the 2026 elections in Illinois (circulation of petitions opens in September), when prospective candidates strut their endorsements — and money raised — in efforts to scare off possible opponents. In our basically one-party state, Democratic wannabes are coming off a long bench to make their cases. In contrast, Republicans have no bench of experienced, well-known prospects to speak of. Because of extreme gerrymandering, the GOP has few state legislators and no statewide officials whatsoever. Attractive but no-name candidates are being counseled by Republican insiders that this is a no-win year for the GOP and it’s better to stay out. Will the GOP even show up with a slate of credible candidates for the U.S. Senate, the governorship and all other statewide offices? After all, the party in the White House generally does poorly in the midterm election. And Gov JB Pritzker has more money than Croesus ($3.7 billion, according to Forbes) and seemingly giddy enthusiasm for spending it. Recent history shows he stands ready to bankroll all the Democratic statewide candidates with more than enough money to blow away the opposition. After all, he wants to show national Democrats that he leads his party to victory up and down the line. GOP woes don’t end there. Illinois Republicans are divided into a downstate (outside the seven metro Chicago counties) that is enthusiastically pro-Donald Trump, versus the suburbs, where moderates and Democrats reign. For example, DuPage County and its 920,000 residents used to be largely white and GOP. But the times, they are a’changin’. According to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), a language other than English is now spoken at home in nearly one-third of the households in the six counties surrounding Cook. Republican George Ryan won the governorship in 1998 with 70% of the DuPage County vote, whereas Trump garnered 42% of that county’s vote in 2024. GOP nominees for the U.S. Senate and governorship will have to declare their position on Trump, a no-win situation: Come out strongly for Trump and lose the suburbs or come out against Trump and watch voters downstate sit on their hands in November. Be wishy-washy on Trump, and lose votes across the board. And who will bankroll GOP candidates in the face of such dour prospects? Billionaire Ken Griffin has departed Illinois for Florida, with his millions for GOP causes. Make no mistake: Big money has replaced party organization as the engine of candidate success. Lightning does strike, however. In 2004, little-known state Sen. Barack Obama entered a crowded field that sought an open seat in the U.S. Senate. Trailing in the polls throughout in the Democratic primary, Obama surged to victory when, near the end of the primary, the front-runner’s candidacy imploded almost overnight as a result of juicy revelations of messy marital discord. In the general election campaign that followed, the attractive GOP nominee dropped out of the race because of sexual peccadilloes revealed in unsealed divorce records, and Obama skated into the U.S. Senate. The rest, as they say … I expect there will be no-name and, maybe otherwise, very attractive candidates on the ballot next year for the GOP but with little money. I have mentioned money several times in this essay. In the past decade, Pritzker has spent $400 million on his own and associates’ campaigns. A Democrat, he even sabotaged the Republican primary campaign for governor in 2022. In that year, according to this newspaper, Pritzker spent $24 million to boost the nomination of possibly the weakest of his possible opponents for the general election. Pritzker’s money advertised that Darren Bailey was “too extreme” for Illinois — which was, irony definitely intended, an attractive message for a big swath of conservative GOP primary voters. Shameful politics. Big money, corrosive of democracy, could be the overarching issue for Republican candidates in 2026: “You can’t buy my vote! Don’t let JB Pritzker continue to buy elections in Illinois!” Lightning does strike. But you have to show up.)
— 2002 FLASHBACK: Politicians parade for voters at 4th fests. Jim Ryan, the Republican candidate for governor, began his parade marching in Wheaton in DuPage County, the heart of GOP territory in the Chicago area. Ryan looked fresh and cool after stepping out of an air-conditioned van into the boiling morning heat. He and his wife, Marie, joined the procession just as his sweaty supporters, who had been standing in the sun waiting for him, began their way down North Main Street. “All politics is local–never forget your base,” Ryan said. Indeed, blue-and-white Ryan balloons were fastened to lawn chairs, strollers and benches along the parade route. Only an occasional sign for his Democratic rival, Rod Blagojevich, could be spotted. . .. .But political jockeying surely was in play Thursday. An old political tradition holds that the more influence a politician wields, the closer he will be to the front of the parade line. For example, in GOP-laden Wheaton, U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) launched the parade, with Ryan right behind him. In third place was Republican Joe Birkett, the DuPage County state’s attorney who is running for Illinois attorney general. His Democratic rival, Lisa Madigan, was placed far back.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/07/05/politicians-parade-for-voters-at-4th-fests/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Trump-themed shop in Huntley could be closed over code issues, but owner says it’s political
— Federal judge OKs use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans who are labeled gang members
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/alien-enemies-act-deport-venezuelans/
— Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge in immigration case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/wisconsin-judge-immigration-case/
— The mainstream news media ever-increasingly serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/column-journalism-decline-chicago-local-news-washington/
— From what I see, in the Chicagoland area, jurors are overwhelmingly Democrats
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-juror-act-trial-reform-paul-st-louis/
— Why is CPS treating charter and private schools like liquor stores?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/chicago-charter-schools-vacant/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— City Council committee OKs removal of college degree requirement for city jobs. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/13/city-council-committee-paper-ceiling-college-degree-city-jobs
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote hated against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/14/five-years-george-floyds-murder-national-urban-league-racial-justice-dei-police-reform-marc-morial
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker budget team slashes state’s revenue forecast by $536 million
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-budget-office-cuts-revenue-forecast-536m
— State Farm cleared to hike California homeowner premiums 17%
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/insurance/state-farm-cleared-hike-california-homeowner-rates-17
ABC7
— Federal judge in Pennsylvania rules that Trump’s invocation of Alien Enemies Act is lawful
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-judge-pennsylvania-rules-trumps-invocation-aea-is-lawful/16406471/
— Inflation eased after Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/new-inflation-data-reveal-impacts-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs/16400850/
NBC5
— Senate Republicans react to Qatar gifting Trump a $400 million jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/watch-senate-republicans-react-to-qatar-gifting-trump-a-400-million-jet/3744811/
— Democrat leaders promote a Trump critic
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/commentator-hasan-piker-detained-ohare-airport/3744867/
— Chuck Schumer to block Trump DOJ nominees over Qatari jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/chuck-schumer-pauses-trump-justice-department-nominees-over-qatari-jet/3744418/
FOX32
— 22 Chicago students ingest weed edibles at South Side elementary school. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/22-chicago-students-ingest-weed-edibles-south-side-school
— A new SmartAsset study ranked the 10 wealthiest counties in Illinois based on income, home values, and investment income. Lake, DuPage, and Kendall counties took the top three spots. Cook County, which includes Chicago, ranked ninth overall.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-wealthiest-counties-study
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone in America will be on Medicaid. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer in America are on track to become productive members of society.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1640556
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emma Shafter to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/05/13/family-of-emma-shafer-felt-exploited-by-recent-kristi-noem-visit/83568796007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump’s plan to accept free Air Force One replacement from Qatar raises ethical and security worries
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trumps-plan-to-accept-free-air-force-one-replacement-from-qatar-raises-ethical-and-security/article_909d5190-12f5-59fe-b541-d2d9b9ed1829.html
SOUTHERN
— Republicans dodge, laugh off questions about Trump’s gift plane from Qatar
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/13/republicans-dodge-laugh-off-questions-about-trumps-gift-plane-from-qatar/
RIVER BENDER
— Attorney General Raoul Leads Coalition Suing Trump Administration Over Illegal Immigration Conditions Placed On Billions In Federal Funding. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-leads-coalition-suing-trump-administration-over-illegal-immigration-conditions-placed-on-billions-in-federal-funding-82440.cfm?
NPR ILLINOIS
— Jewish people in Israel are overwhelmingly conservative. Jewish people in America are overwhelming liberal. Enough said.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-14/multiple-trump-white-house-officials-have-ties-to-antisemitic-extremists
WGLT
— Before Trump weaponized the IRS to advance his political agenda, there was Nixon. How did Nixon impact you? Nixon was president while I worked for the Democrats a) who ran the Post Office in 1969 and b) who ran IRS 1971-1974. They despised/hated Nixon. They blamed Nixon, and therefore Republicans, for America losing the Vietnam War. They punished me, a draft avoider, to punish Nixon. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave request and forced me to resign in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, they disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and they made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They did the aforesaid even though a) I earned an MBA in 1976, b) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and c) I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-05-13/before-trump-weaponized-the-irs-to-advance-his-political-agenda-there-was-nixon
WMBD RADIO
— Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/13/illinois-seeks-to-prevent-feds-from-tying-funding-for-states-to-immigration-enforcement/
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders cite Democrat think tanks
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/12/campus/northwestern-study-finds-democrats-left-leaning-think-tanks-cite-scientific-studies-more-than-republicans/
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://newschannel20.com/question/vote-do-you-support-the-irs-sharing-data-with-ice-to-help-track-down-illegal-migrants-question-of-the-day-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-border-patrol-deportation-trump-administration
NPR ILLINOIS
— Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition. According to Democrat leaders, only Whites discriminate. White Afrikaners should anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will deport them.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-12/episcopal-church-refuses-to-resettle-white-afrikaners-citing-moral-opposition
— According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League colleges are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.nprillinois.org/education-desk/2025-05-13/new-study-suggests-changes-to-illinois-community-college-university-pipeline
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn Native Americans against Republicans.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/our-identity-has-been-frozen-in-time-how-native-american-advocates-are-influencing-springfield/
WHEATON PARK DISTRICT
— 2016 FLASHBACK: WHEATON PARK DISTRICT HOSTS INDEPENDENCE DAY “CELEBRATION!” At press time, sponsors for the Independence Day Celebration included Jerry Haggerty Chevrolet, DuPage County Republicans, and the City of Wheaton.
https://wheatonparkdistrict.com/wheaton-park-district-hosts-independence-day-celebration-july-3-and-4/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-512/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-304/
— Democrat leaders blame Trump and Musk for revenue dip. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump and Musk for everything that is bad.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/manar-trump-musk-are-to-blame-for-revenue-dip/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Illinois DOGE Profile: Centro De Trabajadores Unidos gets $4 million to help illegal aliens evade ICE
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/671354954-illinois-doge-profile-centro-de-trabajadores-unidos-gets-4-million-to-help-illegal-aliens-evade-ice
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL House Republicans call out $1B for NGOs, plan their own budget proposal
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_105bd8f5-b568-41b5-b567-bf49c03bfc51.html
— Legislation would limit how consumers can buy an electric vehicle in Illinois. I should write my experience buying a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Please let me know if you share my interest in that American nameplate muscle car. I also own a 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 Corvette, 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX, and 1972 Corvette. Phone: 630-653-0462 (home) and 630-414-6079 (cell). Email: diersen@aol.com
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1352ecca-a4b6-41f6-b0ae-b18e6dc01128.html
WIREPOINTS
— These NGO funds don’t help ordinary Chicagoans, they sustain networks that keep failed politicians in power.
https://wirepoints.org/these-ngo-funds-dont-help-ordinary-chicagoans-they-go-to-sustain-networks-that-keep-failed-politicians-in-power-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lower standards. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to a recent study, White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Is David Axelrod Pimping for Rahm?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/is-david-axelrod-pimping-for-rahm/
— Americans for Prosperity Send Second Postcard Seeking to Put Pressure on Sue Ness to Vote against Hiking Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/americans-for-prosperity-send-second-postcard-seeking-to-put-pressure-on-sue-ness-to-vote-against-hiking-taxes/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Protesters swarm House committee as Republicans take up cuts to Medicaid, taxes
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/13/protesters-swarm-house-committee-republicans-take-cuts-medicaid-taxes/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— There’s no such thing as a free jet. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3409713/trump-qatar-jet-gift-air-force-one/
— Trump’s deal for illegal immigrants will increase deportations and decrease spending
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/3410142/trump-deal-illegal-immigrants-increase-deportations-decrease-spending/
NEW YORK POST
— Officials describe persecution of South African refugees who are arrived in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te_Syuqog8A
— Trump recklessly accepting a plane from Qatar is the type of unnecessary risk that could ruin his presidency
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/opinion/michael-goodwin-trump-accepting-financial-gifts-from-qatar-is-one-of-the-many-ways-he-can-ruin-his-legacy/
BREITBART
— Saudi Arabia Sets Up Mobile McDonald’s for Trump’s Visit to the Middle East
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/saudi-arabia-sets-up-mobile-mcdonalds-for-trumps-visit-to-the-middle-east/
— Pope Leo’s Brother: The Pope Is Not Woke — He Will ‘Be Down the Middle’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/pope-leos-brother-the-pope-is-not-woke-he-will-be-down-the-middle/
FOX NEWS
— Gianno Caldwell seeks justice for brother killed in blue city ‘enamored with criminals’ rights’: alderman Gianno Caldwell’s 18-year-old brother was fatally shot, along with a female victim, in Chicago in June 2022
https://www.foxnews.com/us/gianno-caldwell-seeks-justice-brother-killed-blue-city-enamored-criminals-rights-alderman
MEGYN KELLY
— Racist and Hypocritical Left and Media Attack White Afrikaners Arriving in United States as Refugees
https://www.megynkelly.com/watch/racist-and-hypocritical-left-and-media-attack-white-afrikaners-arriving-in-united-states-as-refugees/
NRCC
— Hardworking Californians Get the Bill, Illegals Get the Benefits
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/05/13/hardworking-californians-get-the-bill-illegals-get-the-benefits-2/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Medical Schools Are Still Discriminating by Race
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/medical-schools-are-still-discriminating-by-race/
NEWSMAX
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lgbtq-rfk-hhs/2025/05/13/id/1210803/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/13/msnbc_panel_trumps_refugees_descendents_of_the_people_who_created_the_most_diabolical_system_of_white_supremacy_in_human_history.html
TOWNHALL
— Democrats Just Can’t Stop Pushing Nonsensical Assault Weapon Bans
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2025/05/13/the-democrats-just-cant-stop-pushing-nonsensical-assault-weapon-bans-n2656972
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5298112-house-democrats-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-funding-cuts/
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5296524-x-tiktok-meta-youtube-instagram-lgbtq-users-glaad/
ASSOCIATE PRESS
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly blame Trump’s tariffs for all price increases.
https://apnews.com/article/inflation-economy-tariffs-trump-5436b90e8e5a003f228c1bd08186589c
NEW YORK TIMES
— Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-immigration.html
— Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-welfare-medicaid-requirements.html
— Democrat leaders pay “researchers” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump. Who are the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How successful have they been?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-due-process-habeas-corpus.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/13/trump-democrats-sanctuary-lawsuit-immigration/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race based preference giving, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against Whites.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/13/black-doctors-scholarship-ohio/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-05-14/trump-guts-fema-as-climate-disasters-worsen
— Democrat leaders used Voice of America to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-14/voice-of-america-pbs-npr-trump
MIAMI TIMES
— White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/business/studies-show-white-women-benefit-more-from-dei-than-black-people/article_f0bb761e-334c-4151-832d-f3fa0026531a.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/12/slowing-inflation-trump-tariffs/83524058007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/14/gay-pride-month-lgbtq-forum/83583013007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/13/democratic-lawmakers-urge-kennedy-to-save-lgbtq-lifeline/83600490007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How the Ivy League Earned Donald Trump’s Ire. Too many instructors at Harvard, Columbia and elsewhere are less interested in teaching and more interested in student indoctrination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-the-ivy-league-earned-donald-trumps-ire-higher-education-colleges-universities-96631031
— The U.S. Once Built Airplanes Quickly. At its peak, a Ford factory produced one B-24 bomber an hour during World War II.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-u-s-once-built-airplanes-quickly-7e526511
— FRONT PAGE: The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send White Afrikaners back
https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/trump-afrikaner-south-africa-refugee-d5ad7b94
— How Young People Are Coping With Economic Anxiety. I should write about how my avoiding the Vietnam War draft negatively impacted my career big time.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/how-young-people-are-coping-with-economic-anxiety/3ea69cb0-9736-49c5-8f94-f5c1f9be316a
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— How successful have Democrat leaders been taking over Catholic organizations in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.ncronline.org/news/catholic-college-presidents-decry-trump-administrations-interference-higher-ed
GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/us-mexico-border-surveillance
May 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Facts to know about Chicago native, newly elected Pope Leo XIV
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/facts-to-know-about-chicago-native-newly-elected-pope-leo-xiv/3741733/
WGN9
— Prevost’s boyhood neighbors predicted he would become Pope
https://wgntv.com/news/robert-prevost-neighbors-predict-pope-leo-xiv/
WTTW
— Democrat and RINO leaders forever promote George Ryan.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/08/former-death-row-inmates-complicated-legacy-late-illinois-gov-george-ryan
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders promote Pope Leo XIV criticism of Trump and Vance
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/pope-leo-social-media-criticisms/
— Welcome, Pope Leo XIV, Chicago’s Holy Father
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/pope-leo-chicago-vatican-francis/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— The rush in Illinois to become a U.S. citizen amid immigration crackdown. As the Trump administration begins “social media vetting for anti-Americanism” among immigrants and other efforts, growing numbers are choosing to become citizens.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/09/the-rush-in-illinois-to-become-a-u-s-citizen-amid-immigration-crackdown
— Who will the Democrats nominate for U.S. President in 2028? All the current contenders are anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/07/democrats-2028-president-elections-trump-biden-mistakes-harris-candidates-pritzker-s-e-cupp
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Pope Leo XIV is a Democrat. To be a Democrat is to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-whats-in-a-name-pope-leo-xivs-choice-signals-a-commitment-to-social-justice/
NPR ILLINOIS
— First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S. They should fear that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back. Needless-to-say, they should avoid Illinois.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5391815/first-afrikaners-granted-refugee-status-due-to-arrive-in-u-s
25 NEWS NOW
— Senate bill to allow death penalty for illegal immigrants who kill Americans
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/05/08/senate-bill-allow-death-penalty-illegal-immigrants-who-kill-americans/
WINDY CITY TIMES
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://windycitytimes.com/2025/05/06/chicago-teachers-union-codifies-lgbtq-protections-in-new-contract/
CAPITOL FREE BEACON
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-509/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— GOP senators slam the latest push for higher taxes by Illinois Democrats
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_cbe4c9d3-c86d-4d6f-8371-c2ea0bfc0b4b.html
— Lion Electric bankruptcy raises concerns over state’s EV incentives
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_309a4583-df72-4cfe-80fb-db65d07d774c.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Pope Leo XIV was selected because he hates Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponent credit meritocracy for their successes, but discredit meritocracy for everyone else’s successes. Democrat and RINO leaders, that is, liberal and moderate leaders, have always used “disparate impact” to get rid of Republicans, that is, to get rid of conservatives. Conservatives do better on tests than liberals and moderates. My critics/opponents continue to be furious that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt in 1981. They stress others who passed the examinations on their first attempt and got better scores than I did. Extremely few of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal promoted over me took the CPA examination, let alone passed it, let alone passed it on their first attempt. None passed the CIA examination. I should write about my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me. They all were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) who had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. According to my critics/opponents, I passed the aforesaid examinations because the tests favored those who share my White male demographics. 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 attended high school. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a Democrat. The RINOs who ran the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) in 2000 let me publish the organization’s first website and serve as its webmaster. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a RINO. They rudely fired me as MTRO webmaster in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— George Ryan, 1934-2025. What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-obituary/3405131/george-ryan-life-obit-illinois-death-penalty/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— University of Chicago Stats Professor Cancels Midterm, Pushes Students To Join Anti-Trump Protest Instead. ‘Marching against this dangerous authoritarian administration is of utmost importance!’ Yali Amit says.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/university-of-chicago-stats-professor-cancels-midterm-pushes-students-to-join-anti-trump-protest-instead/
NEW YORK POST
— Pope Leo XIV was an active Republican primary voter and voted in 2024 presidential election
https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/pope-leo-xiv-was-an-active-republican-primary-voter-and-voted-in-2024-presidential-election/
— Pope Leo XIV in his own words: The pontiff on abortion, climate change, homosexuality, and capital punishment
https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/pope-leo-xiv-in-his-own-words-the-pontiff-on-abortion-climate-change-homosexuality-and-capital-punishment/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Makes Judge Jeanine Interim US Attorney For DC
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/trump-makes-judge-jeanine-interim-us-attorney-for-dc/
EPOCH TIMES
— What to Know About Robert Francis Prevost: The First American Pope. The Augustinian from Chicago has spent much of his time in Latin America.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/what-to-know-about-robert-francis-prevost-the-first-american-pope-5854705
FEDERALIST
— Read The New Pope’s Far-Left Takes On Immigration, Climate, Covid, And Race Relations
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/08/read-the-new-popes-far-left-takes-on-immigration-climate-covid-and-race-relations/
— There’s No ‘Sanctuary’ For Family Of Chicago Woman Killed By Illegal Alien
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/09/theres-no-sanctuary-for-family-of-woman-allegedly-killed-by-illegal-alien/
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/06/try-telling-this-dad-whose-daughter-was-killed-by-an-illegal-that-open-borders-are-compassionate/
FREE PRESS
— How Can You Be a Cop in a City (Chicago) That Hates You?
https://www.thefp.com/p/chicago-police-suicides
NEW AMERICAN
— New Pope’s X Feed Reveals Far-left Sympathies, but Traditional Catholics Still Hope for the Best
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/new-popes-x-feed-reveals-far-left-sympathies-but-traditional-catholics-still-hope-for-the-best/
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Pope Leo XIV Previously Criticized Trump’s Deportation Policies
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/pope-leo-xiv-previously-criticized-trumps-deportation-policies-while-damning-allegations-of-abuse-resurface/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Newly-Elected American Pope Has Taken Multiple Shots at the Trump Administration in Recent Months
https://www.westernjournal.com/newly-elected-american-pope-taken-multiple-shots-trump-administration-recent-months/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Pope Leo XIV voted in 2024 U.S. general election — here’s which primaries he’s voted in
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-robert-prevost-voting-records-republican-democratic-primaries/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Chicago-born pope — formerly Cardinal Robert F. Prevost — is registered to vote in the Chicago suburb of New Lenox, Ill., and has a mixed voting history of participating in primaries for both parties, according to voting records shared with CBS News and data from the Illinois State Board of Elections. There is no party registration in Illinois, but to vote in a primary you have to choose a party’s ballot to vote on. Prevost has voted in more Republican primaries than Democratic, and the last primary election he voted in was the 2016 Republican presidential primary. . .He voted in the Republican primaries in 2012, 2014 & 2016, including the presidential primaries in 2012 and 2016. L2 Data records show he last voted in a Democratic primary in 2010. He had also voted in the party’s presidential primary in 2008. He has voted in at least nine general elections, including in five presidential election cycles: 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2024. There’s no record of him voting in the 2016 or 2020 general election. Records show he also voted in a “consolidated general election” in April 2001, when local Illinois offices were on the ballot.)
— Here’s what Pope Leo XIV has posted about politics — and the Trump administration — on social media
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-xiv-social-media-account-trump-vance-criticism/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a
MSN
— Pope Leo XIV’s attacks on ‘homosexual lifestyle’ spark fears in Catholic LGBTQ+ community
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pope-leo-xiv-s-attacks-on-homosexual-lifestyle-spark-fears-in-catholic-lgbtq-community/ar-AA1Eqh25
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Catholic Chicagoans Celebrate as Native Son Pope Leo XIV Becomes First American Pope. Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision was announced that a native son, Cardinal Robert Prevost, had been elected pope.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-05-08/catholic-chicagoans-celebrate-as-native-son-pope-leo-xiv-becomes-first-american-pope
NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST & NEWSWEEK & CNN & REUTERS & MSN & POLITICO & DAILY BEAST & PEOPLE & ADVOCATE & MEDIA MATTERS & RAW STORY & UNHERD & IRISH STAR & REASON & DAILY VOICE & NEW REPUBLIC & POLITICO
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will do everything that they can to paint Pope Leo XIV as being a Democrat, that is, as being anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq-gay.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/pope-leo-xiv-robert-francis-prevost.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-views-political-robert-prevost/
https://www.newsweek.com/what-pope-leo-said-lgbtq-issues-2069889
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-leo-sparks-maga-criticism-2069864
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/politics/video/biden-pope-leo-xiv-election-reaction-bash-vrtc
https://www.reuters.com/world/before-becoming-pontiff-pope-leo-levied-criticism-trump-vance-2025-05-08/
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/new-pope-robert-prevost-s-voting-history-as-his-stance-on-abortion-and-party-registration-revealed/ar-AA1EqsIj
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/trump-welcomes-new-american-born-pope-and-says-he-can-t-wait-to-meet-him-despite-leo-xiv-once-blasting-vance/ar-AA1Eq5aK
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maga-goes-into-meltdown-branding-pope-leo-xiv-woke-marxist-and-never-trump-er/ar-AA1Er6jj
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/marxist-pope-maga-rages-against-new-pope-for-being-critical-of-trump-s-policies/ar-AA1Eqgqv
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/leo-american-pope-worldview-00337247
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-popes-voting-record-reveals-real-thoughts-on-trump-analyst/
https://people.com/where-does-pope-leo-xiv-stand-lgbtq-issues-what-we-know-11731335
https://www.advocate.com/voices/vatican-message-trump-opinion
https://www.mediamatters.org/jack-posobiec/jack-posobiec-criticizes-pope-leo-xiv-promoting-anti-trump-and-anti-bukele-articles-0
https://www.rawstory.com/jack-posobiec-pope-leo/
https://unherd.com/newsroom/pope-leo-xiv-heralds-a-renewal-of-catholic-social-justice/
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/irish-catholics-respond-first-american-35196239
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/presidential-elections-pope-leo-voted-35196053
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-and-immigration/
https://dailyvoice.com/virginia/arlington/robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv-blasted-trump-on-x/
https://newrepublic.com/post/195017/new-pope-robert-prevost-lgbtq-immigration
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/pope-leo-tweets-social-media-00337322
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/leo-american-pope-worldview-00337247
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/health/migrants-health-care-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Leo XIV’s New Lenox brother recalls feeling of ‘disbelief’ over his sibling becoming pope
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/05/09/pope-leo-xiv-brother-john-prevost/0772f2be-2c93-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/07/pride-flag-ban-utah-idaho/83493956007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight to keep their control of their colleges
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/08/trump-research-funding-cuts-china/83417543007/
NEW YORK TIMES & BLOOMBERG LAW & ECONOMIST
— My critics/opponent credit meritocracy for their successes, but discredit meritocracy for everyone else’s successes. Democrat and RINO leaders, that is, liberal and moderate leaders, have always used “disparate impact” to get rid of Republicans, that is, to get rid of conservatives. Conservatives do better on tests than liberals and moderates. My critics/opponents continue to be furious that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt in 1981. They stress others who passed the examinations on their first attempt and got better scores than I did. Extremely few of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal promoted over me took the CPA examination, let alone passed it, let alone passed it on their first attempt. None passed the CIA examination. I should write about my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me. They all were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) who had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. According to my critics/opponents, I passed the aforesaid examinations because the tests favored those who share my White male demographics. 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 attended high school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-civil-rights.html
https://news.bgov.com/litigation/doj-ends-longstanding-disparate-impact-suit-over-nyc-fire-hiring
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/05/08/trump-knocks-down-a-controversial-pillar-of-civil-rights-law
STATE JOURNAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.state-journal.com/opinion/guest-columnist-the-new-barbarians-at-the-gates/article_9382434e-bd53-40da-a0a1-e11d989f392f.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What Does Your Car Model Say About You? My critics/opponents despise/hate cars, and especially American nameplate cars, and even more especially American nameplate muscle cars.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-does-your-car-model-say-about-you-55f7faa1
FORTUNE
— Pension fund has voted to block new investments in Tesla: ‘Musk has destroyed the brand’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/pension-fund-tesla-lehigh-elon-musk/
FAST COMPANY
— You can buy the new pope’s childhood Dolton home for $199,000. Robert Prevost’s former house is about to become a landmark.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91326862/you-can-buy-the-new-popes-childhood-home-for-199000
BUSINESS INSIDER
— The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a Democrat. The RINOs who ran the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) in 2000 let me publish the organization’s first website and serve as its webmaster. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a RINO. They rudely fired me as MTRO webmaster in 2004.
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-left-republican-party-register-democrat-2016-10
DAILY MAIL
— How a humble Chicago schoolboy Robert Prevost with a veteran father rose to become America’s first Pope
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14693031/robert-prevost-american-pope-leo-childhood-beginnings.html
INDEPENDENT
— According to Democrat leaders, Pope Leo XIV is anti-Trump.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-xiv-new-robert-prevost-conclave-vatican-live-updates-b2747726.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maga-woke-american-pope-leo-xiv-b2747600.html
GUARDIAN
— Unearthed comments from new pope alarm LGBTQ+ Catholics. Previous negative remarks by Pope Leo XIV about ‘homosexual lifestyle’ at odds with papacy of Pope Francis.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq
May 8, 2025 Evening Edition
FOX NEWS
— Trump Hails ‘Great Honor’ of First American Pope
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-politics-newsletter-trump-hails-great-honor-first-american-pope
— Pritzker accused of ‘insulting’ ICE with sanctuary policies as Noem, Angel families protest
https://www.foxnews.com/media/illinois-gov-pritzker-accused-insulting-ice-sanctuary-policies-noem-angel-families-protest
ILLINOIS GOP
— ILGOP Celebrates New Pope And Chicago Native, Cardinal Robert Prevost
https://illinois.gop/newsroom/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost elected pope, taking name Leo XIV
https://abc7chicago.com/post/2025-is-new-pope-cardinal-robert-francis-prevost-1st-american-chicago-elected-catholic-church-leader/16358670/
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/2025-papal-conclave-cardinals-gather-elect-pope-vatican-city-rome/16339118/
WLS AM
— New Pope Registered Republican in Illinois; Trump Critic
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wlsam.com/2025/05/08/new-pope-registered-republican-in-illinois-trump-critic/
WBEZ
— DePaul president faces off against GOP members of Congress. Conservative lawmakers who questioned DePaul President Robert Manuel were accused of using antisemitism claims to chill free speech.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/05/07/depaul-president-faces-off-against-gop-members-of-congress
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago native Robert Prevost becomes the first American pope in history
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/robert-prevost-pope/
— Robert Prevost was ‘the pride and joy of every priest and nun’ at St. Mary’s on Chicago’s South Side
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/robert-prevost-chicago-pope-xiv/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders accuse Congressional Republicans of political witch hunt in antisemitism hearing involving DePaul president. University president Robert Manuel faced three hours of heated questions.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/07/depaul-president-faces-off-against-gop-members-of-congress
DAILY HERALD
— At home in New Lenox, new pope’s brother found out like everyone else
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250508/news/it-was-a-shocking-moment-new-popes-brother-lives-in-new-lenox/
— Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, overcame a taboo against a US pontiff
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250508/religion/prevost-now-pope-leo-xiv-overcame-a-taboo-against-a-us-pontiff/
— Trump says he is naming Fox News host and former judge Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor in DC
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250508/nation-and-world-politics/trump-says-he-is-naming-fox-news-host-and-former-judge-jeanine-pirro-as-top-federal-prosecutor-in-dc/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— The new pope is from Chicago. Here are some of his ties to Illinois
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/05/08/new-pope-is-from-chicago-here-are-some-of-his-ties-to-illinois/83516559007/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Central Illinois bishops greet new pope ‘with hearts full of joy and hope’
https://pantagraph.com/life-entertainment/local/faith-values/article_a5c62ee3-422e-42e3-8dd4-23258ad65fdf.html
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders use “social justice” to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/whats-in-a-name-pope-leo-xivs-choice-signals-a-commitment-to-social-justice/article_2ecfa121-cf15-57b1-ad99-3066a475a21e.html
— Wisconsin Republicans kill marijuana legalization
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/wisconsin-republicans-kill-marijuana-legalization-and-tax-increases-for-millionaires/article_a345cc22-1a98-5f33-99aa-3954b9bbcf88.html
RIVER BENDER
— After Sec. Noem’s Springfield Visit, Davidsmeyer Again Calls for End of Illinois’ Failed Sanctuary Policy
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/after-sec-noems-springfield-visit-davidsmeyer-again-calls-for-end-of-illinois-failed-sanctuary-policy-82245.cfm?
— Attorney General Raoul Files Lawsuit To Stop Illegal Termination Of Federal Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Funding
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-files-lawsuit-to-stop-illegal-termination-of-federal-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-funding-82248.cfm?
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are on Medicaid?
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/senator-duckworth-leads-vigil-against-medicaid-cuts-82271.cfm?
WEST SUBURBAN JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://westsuburbanjournal.com/welch-house-democrats-rally-in-response-to-trump-officials-rhetoric-during-illinois-visit/
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/fighting-back-against-trump-20133313
FOX ILLINOIS
— Republicans push college presidents to protect Jewish students
https://foxillinois.com/news/connect-to-congress/house-gop-continues-to-push-colleges-to-do-more-to-combat-antisemitism-on-campus-haverford-college-depaul-university-california-polytechnic-state-university-house-education-committee
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-08/americans-are-already-seeing-trumps-tariffs-kick-in-they-sent-in-receipts-to-prove-it
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote segregation.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trumps-anti-dei-push-doesnt-stop-black-kentucky-grads-from-holding-an-off-campus-celebration/
IPM ILLINOIS
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are on Medicaid?
https://ipmnewsroom.org/republicans-have-medicaid-in-their-crosshairs-and-illinois-residents-who-depend-on-it-are-worried/
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
— Illinois Youth Survey finds troubling substance use trends
https://news.illinois.edu/illinois-youth-survey-finds-troubling-substance-use-trends/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Robert Prevost, first American pope in history of the Catholic Church, will take the name Leo XIV
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/8/robert-prevost-1st-american-pope-history-catholic-church-take-name/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The SALT terrorists holding Trump’s agenda hostage need to put up or shut up. SALT ended itemization. By itemizing, my wife and I paid less federal income tax starting in 1978 when we got married and I paid less federal income tax starting in 1972.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3405221/salt-deduction-terrorists-holding-trump-agenda-hostage-put-up-or-shut-up/
BREITBART
— Rep. Hageman Introduces ‘No Student Visas for Sanctuary Cities Act’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/07/exclusive-rep-hageman-introduces-no-student-visas-for-sanctuary-cities-act/
FEDERALIST
— Where Was Democrats’ Outrage When Obama And Biden Deported Illegal Alien Housekeepers And Gardeners?
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/08/where-was-democrats-outrage-when-obama-and-biden-deported-illegal-alien-housekeepers-and-gardeners/
HUMAN EVENTS
— Jack Posobiec criticizes Pope Leo XIV for “promoting anti-Trump and anti-Bukele articles regarding the deportations of criminal illegals”
https://www.mediamatters.org/jack-posobiec/jack-posobiec-criticizes-pope-leo-xiv-promoting-anti-trump-and-anti-bukele-articles-0
LIVE ACTION
— First American pope in history has strong record of defending sanctity of human life
https://www.liveaction.org/news/first-american-pope-record-sanctity-human-life/
NEWSMAX
— New Pope Registered Republican in Illinois; Trump Critic
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/pope-leox-iv-voter-registration-republican/2025/05/08/id/1210160/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Pope Leo XIV Has Voted Often in Illinois, Public Records Show. He voted in November’s presidential election with an absentee ballot, according to records from a suburban Chicago county.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/pope-leo-xiv-politics-voting.html
NBC NEWS
— New pope’s social media posts offer some insight into his politics. On social media before he became pope, Robert Prevost expressed support for gun reform and immigration — and showed some disagreement with the Trump administration.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pope-leo-social-media-posts-vance-rcna205677
NEWSWEEK
— Is Robert Prevost a Republican?
https://www.newsweek.com/robert-prevost-political-afiliation-what-we-know-2069880
CBS NEWS
— Pope Leo XIV grew up in Dolton studied and taught in Chicago area
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pope-leo-xiv-born-in-chicago-grew-up-dolton-illinois/
WCCS RADIO
— ‘Democracy in crisis?’ DC universities offering Trump-themed class this fall. Democrats and RINOs use democracy to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.wccsradio.com/rss/democracy-in-crisis-dc-universities-offering-trump-themed-class-this-fall/
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow that “Trump’s Policies Have Been Stopped by Courts More Than 200 Times.”
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/cannabis/trumps-policies-have-been-stopped-by-courts-more-than-200-times
TPM
— MAGA Melts Down Over First American Pope
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/maga-melts-down-over-first-american-pope
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 71% of Democrats Want Elon Musk in Prison
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/71_of_democrats_want_elon_musk_in_prison
DODGE GARAGE
— Next-Level Muscle: Why the 2025 Dodge Charger EV Impresses EV Fans
https://www.dodgegarage.com/news/article/owners-clubs/2025/04/next-level-muscle-why-the-2025-dodge-charger-ev-converts-a-loyal-enthusiast.html
TORQUE NEWS
— My Fourth EV Is A 2025 Charger EV, After Owning Model Y, Mustang Mach-E, And F-150 Lightning, This Electric Muscle Car Finally Gets Everything Right
https://www.torquenews.com/17998/my-fourth-ev-2025-charger-ev-after-owning-model-y-mustang-mach-e-and-f-150-lightning-electric/amp