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 19, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— 30-mile protest against President Trump policies links Aurora to Chicago. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/hands-chicagoland-rally-30-mile-protest-president-donald-trump-policies-links-aurora-chicago-ogden-avenue/16462021/
— Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-president-joe-biden-diagnosed-prostate-cancer-routine-exam-hospital-philadelphia/16461073/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hands Across Chicagoland event stretches from Aurora to Chicago to protest Trump administration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/hands-across-chicagoland-event-stretches-from-aurora-to-chicago-to-protest-trump-administration/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stuebner was one of over 18,000 gathered over a 30-mile stretch across DuPage and Cook counties from Aurora to Chicago on Sunday to protest Trump administration policies, per a news release from the Hands Across Chicagoland event organized by the Democratic Party of DuPage County, Indivisible Illinois, the Illinois Federation of Teachers and other political organizations across the Chicago area. The idea was to “form a human chain of solidarity against Trump’s illegal and authoritarian actions and the GOP’s failure to defend the Constitution,” per the release. Protestors signed up in advance based on their ZIP code, and lined the sidewalk along Ogden Avenue and 26th Street, from Aurora to the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago, on Sunday afternoon. The idea arose out of past protests organized by the DuPage Democratic party, according to the group’s chair Reid McCollum. In March, the group hosted a “Tesla Takedown DuPage” protest against Elon Musk’s efforts to slash and restructure the federal government and decided they wanted to stage a protest that stretched further. Sunday’s demonstration was spurred on by the Trump administration sending individuals — like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the United States — to detention centers, McCollum said. The protest’s goal is to reach a significant number of people passing by the protest so that the people of the U.S. won’t “just slide into authoritarianism without fighting back,” McCollum said. Amongst a few dozen protestors gathered in Lisle, several local officials offered their remarks. Standing in front of an inflatable chicken meant to be a caricature of President Trump, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Matteson, told The Beacon-News that these kinds of demonstrations show that people are “ready to resist” the Trump administration. She described concerns about Medicaid, SNAP and tariffs as some of the everyday issues that are affecting ordinary residents’ lives.
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. To come into a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/opinion-immigration-us-donald-trump-jb-pritzker/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/19/trump-maga-fake-news-right-wing-media-lies-fox-propaganda-democracy-andy-shaw

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Is Gov. JB Pritzker the wealthiest person in Illinois? Here’s the top 5.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/05/19/top-5-richest-people-in-illinois-according-to-forbes/83669860007/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/05/19/thousands-line-ogden-avenue-to-protest-trump-administration/

WIFR
— Democrat leaders want Walmart to charge more to punish Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/18/trumps-tariffs-may-mean-walmart-shoppers-pay-more-his-treasury-chief-acknowledges/

TRIBE
— What’s it like to raise teens in 2025? What did you do when you were a teen? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail.
https://thetriibe.com/2025/05/whats-it-like-to-raise-teens-in-2025/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump order targets barcodes on ballots. Democrats object.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-order-targets-barcodes-on-ballots-theyve-long-been-a-source-of-misinformation/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-515/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Open borders + sanctuary status + free benefits + Gov. Abbott = Chicago population growth
https://wirepoints.org/open-borders-sanctuary-status-free-benefits-gov-abbott-chicago-population-growth-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who has had since 2015, who is having, and who will have the biggest impact on you/? For me, because I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, it is Trump. Since 2015, I have ever-increasingly included links to articles that involve Trump in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. My critics/opponents despise/hate Trump, and according to them, my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters promote Trump. Since 2015, to punish me, my critics/opponents 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. My critics/opponents 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Release of an important IVF report is approaching. 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they 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, they have always boasted that they 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

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Federal Dollars Going to Perv-Promoting Institutions of Baser Learning. On May 8, 2025, Northwestern University’s student newspaper the Daily Northwestern cheerily reported on Sex Week, a three-day event during which free sex toys were distributed at the student union, Norris University Center. Students lined up for the freebies which included “phallic-shaped, glitter-covered candles. … dildos and vibrators,” and “cute, little, squishy penis toys.”
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/15/federal-dollars-going-to-perv-promoting-institutions-of-baser-learning

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump unleashes on justices after Supreme Court blocks Tren de Aragua deportations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/18/trump-unleashes-justices-supreme-court-blocks-tren-de-aragua/
— Bruce Springsteen scorns blessings of being born in the U.S.A.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/16/bruce-springsteen-scorns-blessings-born-usa/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Owner of Trump-themed Huntley shop says local officials are targeting her business
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3411133/owner-trump-themed-shop-local-officials/
— There is only one reason Democrats want to make it easier for noncitizens to vote. They vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3413664/only-one-reason-democrats-want-easier-noncitizen-voting/
— Rubio says people should be ‘celebrating’ US welcoming South African immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3415297/rubio-says-people-should-be-celebrating-us-welcoming-south-african-immigrants/

NEW YORK POST
— The end is near for on-the-job reverse discrimination — another blow to DEI. My Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of their Republican subordinates 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://nypost.com/2025/05/18/opinion/the-end-is-near-for-reverse-discrimination-a-blow-to-dei/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people. My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they 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, they have always boasted that they 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.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/

BREITBART
— Tim Walz Claims ICE Agents Are ‘Trump’s Modern Gestapo’ Chasing ‘Folks’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/18/tim-walz-claims-ice-agents-trumps-modern-gestapo-chasing-folks/

DAILY CALLER
— Hillary Clinton Appears To Have Learned Nothing From 2016 ‘Basket Of Deplorables’ Remark. I should write about past and present leaders of the following who have ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed/demonized/denigrated/condemned conservatives like me the most: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/18/hillary-clinton-appears-to-have-learned-nothing-from-2016-basket-of-deplorables-remark/

FEDERALIST
— The Ongoing Failure Of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/19/the-ongoing-failure-of-affirmative-action/

PJ MEDIA
— The Spirit Needed to Win Our Culture War
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/18/the-spirit-needed-to-win-our-culture-war-n4939922
— DEI Deathwatch Vol. XXI: Chicago Mayor Explains Black Hiring Preferences. 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://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/05/18/dei-deathwatch-vol-xxi-chicago-mayor-explains-black-hiring-preferences-n4939927

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Trump warns America’s businesses: Eat my tariffs, or pay the price
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/business/trump-tariffs-price-consumers

AOL
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly call Trump and those who voted for him Nazis.
https://www.aol.com/tim-walz-suggests-ice-trump-025837320.html
— ‘My Coworkers Think I’m DOGE’—A Federal Worker Says, ‘I Receive Mean Looks And Conversations Are Straight-Up Dying When I Walk By’ What did your coworkers do to get pay increases and promotions? My Democrat coworkers in the federal government did everything that they could to help their Democrat superiors and supervisors get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.aol.com/coworkers-think-im-doge-federal-010031089.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump’s big bill advances in rare weekend vote, but conservatives demand more changes
https://apnews.com/article/republicans-tax-cuts-house-trump-johnson-border-f03b7e9cc3015ef9a0ece37b76bc5f66

NEWSWEEK
— Trump called for a “major investigation” into celebrities who aided Kamala Harris’s 2024 election campaign, including Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé, saying their appearances were potentially illegal contributions.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-investigation-beyonce-bruce-springsteen-performances-2073941

NBC NEWS
— Key House committee advances Trump agenda bill after appeasing conservatives
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/key-house-committee-advances-trump-agenda-bill-conservatives-rcna207555

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html
— Key House Panel Approves Trump’s Megabill After Conservatives Relent
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/18/us/trump-news-updates
— Inside the I.V.F. Deliberations at the White House as Key Report Nears. 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 have had 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.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/ivf-policy-white-house.html
— Everyone Hates ‘Debanking’ But Is Unclear on What to Do. What do the leaders of your bank think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-debanking-crypto.html
— DOGE Seeks to Investigate GAO. GAO rejected the request, saying it reports to Congress and is exempt from oversight by Elon Musk’s budget-cutting group. The Democrat who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/doge-musk-gao-accountability-office.html

USA TODAY
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/23/what-is-a-rino-in-gop-politics/73817513007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/15/red-states-join-trump-dei-fight/83518866007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/

TAMPAS FREE PRESS
— Victor Davis Hanson Predicts Democratic Shift To Centrist In 2028
https://www.tampafp.com/victor-davis-hanson-predicts-democratic-shift-to-centrist-in-2028/

DESERET NEWS
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/05/18/jason-riley-affirmative-action-myth-dei/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-approval-rating-charts-eaf089db

REASON
— According to Democrat leaders a) only Whites discriminate and b) only Whites should pay for the sins of their forefathers.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/18/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees/

CHRISTIAN SICENCE MONITOR
— Belvidere aims for economic revival – but will Trump tariffs help?
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0519/trump-tariffs-midwest-manufacturers?icid=rss

RAW STORY
— Snubbed: Pope gives JD Vance just 17 seconds — but has long meetings with other leaders
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-pope-2672071466/

AUTOPIAN
— Direct competitors of the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the muscle car. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle car’s direct competitors?
https://www.theautopian.com/dodge-is-blaming-the-tariffs-for-killing-the-charger-daytona-r-t-a-car-seemingly-no-one-wanted-anyway/

SAVING ADVICE
— 7 Cars That Only The 1% Can Afford. The 5 vehicles that I have at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville are among the least expensive ones there: 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2021 Chevrolet Malibu Premier, 2019 Ford Escape Titanium, and 2005 Corvette.
https://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2025/05/15/10156332_7-cars-that-only-the-1-can-afford.html

May 13, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope’s oldest brother against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/05/12/pope-leo-brother-louis-prevost-magna-facebook-nancy-pelosi
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Which Democrat leaders want Pritzker to run for President. Which want him to instead run for Governor again?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/05/13/gov-jb-pritzker-reelection-third-term-president
— The Catholic church’s social service arm in Chicago uses lobbying firm that also represents abortion provider. Catholic Charities uses Cozen O’Connor for state government lobbying. So does Rush University Medical Center, which performs abortions, and CVS Health, whose pharmacies dispense prescriptions that end pregnancies.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/12/catholic-charities-lobbyist-abortion-provider-chicago-cardinal-blase-cupich-rush-university-cozen-oconnor

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/editorial-jb-pritzker-house-republicans-sanctuary-states/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/mundelein-cannabis-store-proposal/
— Illinois homeowners insurance premiums up 50% over three years
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/illinois-homeowners-insurance-premiums/
— Depression, isolation and substance use all are up. Are Illinois teens OK? Back in the good old days, back when I was in high school in the 1960s, I could be optimistic about earning a college degree even though no one saw me as being college material. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease, my vision could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. During my junior and senior years, I spent my weekday evenings and Saturdays and full-time during the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my graduating class. Nevertheless, I got accepted by UIC.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/teens-depression-drinking-drugs-technology/
— The school board president is trying to nix the superintendent requirement. Why does it matter? 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://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/cps-superintendent-explainer/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/opinion-pete-hegseth-naval-academy-books-removed/

ABC7
— Harvey residents seek investigation into mayor’s office after alderwoman arrested during meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUDlrc5TVOg
— Trump defends Qatar jumbo jet offer, says would be ‘stupid’ to turn away free plane
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-defends-qatar-jumbo-jet-offer-says-would-stupid-turn-away-free-plane/16393995/

NBC5
— ‘We will not hide’: Little Village committed to Mexican Independence Day parade. The recent wave of rising political tensions is not stopping the community from hosting its annual event.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/we-will-not-hide-little-village-committed-to-mexican-independence-day-parade/3743882/

WGN9
— Little Village Mexican Independence Day Parade to proceed despite ICE concerns
https://wgntv.com/news/little-village-mexican-day-parade-2025-chamber-commitment/
— Illinois ranks 36th out of the 50 states. Under the Democrats, for those in Illinois, the more of the following that they are, the bleaker that their future is: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Anticipate/expect that the more of the aforesaid that those in Illinois are, the sooner that they will leave Illinois.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/where-illinois-ranks-among-best-states-in-country-in-list-by-u-s-news-world-report/

FOX32
— House GOP unveils spending bill that includes massive Medicaid cuts. What percent are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Why are they on Medicaid?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/money/house-republicans-medicaid-cuts
— Illinois teens say they drink nearly twice as much as U.S. average. I have never been a drinker. I discourage drinking. If I had been a drinker, with all my limitations, I would not have been able to earn an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, earn a bachelor’s degree, earn three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, earn a professional license, etc.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/illinois-teens-say-they-drink-nearly-twice-as-much-as-us-average-survey-finds/ar-AA1EztEo
— Controversy swirls over Trump Qatar trip, gifted plane
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1640122

WGN RADIO
— Alder pulls back the curtain on Mayor Johnson’s patronage scheme
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-alder-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-mayor-johnsons-patronage-scheme/

SOUTHERN
— Trump defends Qatar jumbo jet offer, says it would be ‘stupid’ to turn away free plane
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/12/trump-defends-qatar-jumbo-jet-offer-says-it-would-be-stupid-to-turn-away-free-plane/
— Trump administration defends white South African refugee program amid group’s US arrival. Anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/12/trump-administration-defends-white-south-african-refugee-program-amid-groups-us-arrival/

STATELINE
— States are telling sheriffs whether they can — or can’t — work with ICE. Cooperation between sheriffs and ICE lies at the heart of Trump’s immigration policy. Federal law trumps state law. What is your county sheriff’s position on this?
https://stateline.org/2025/05/13/states-are-telling-sheriffs-whether-they-can-or-cant-work-with-ice/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-bill-odor-cannabis-probable-cause/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Ethics experts worry about the implications of Trump accepting Qatar’s luxury plane
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-12/ethics-experts-worry-about-the-implications-of-trump-accepting-qatars-luxury-plane

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— IRS Ramps Up Collections. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I should write about those who continue to use that against me the most.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1026164/clear-start-tax-warns-taxpayers-irs-ramps-up-collections-amid-office-closures-and-funding-push/

WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.wqad.com/article/tech/science/environment/trumps-cuts-federal-climate-research-illinois-impact/526-c4365134-ca06-46a4-8081-e522120ad75c

WHEATON PATCH
— Expansion Sought By St. Michael Church To Accommodate More Students. The church and school is seeking zoning approval to expand its property to better serve its more than 500 students.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/expansion-sought-st-michael-church-accommodate-more-students

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— On the GOP side. Congressman Darin LaHood “said he had been talking with Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the majority leader, and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the chairman of the Senate GOP campaign committee, about entering the race.” And former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he’s weighing a run, too.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/13/tensions-rise-dominoes-fall-00343872

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-511/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-303/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— DOJ asks for preliminary injunction against Illinois over E-Verify obstruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqubx_uurNI
— Funding proposal for higher education schools in Illinois meeting opposition
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7ce0769e-4548-484f-9ec7-4c8064712e65.html

WIREPOINTS
— Tax cuts, Gov. Pritzker?
https://wirepoints.org/tax-cuts-gov-pritzker-wirepoints/
— The Bally’s ripoff
https://wirepoints.org/the-ballys-ripoff-wirepoints/
— Illinois politicians will always find new ways to take your money.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-politicians-will-always-find-new-ways-to-take-your-money-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
— Politics Is Threatening to Erode the Quality of the Chicago Fire Department
https://wirepoints.org/paul-vallas-politics-is-threatening-to-erode-the-quality-of-the-chicago-fire-department-chicago-contrarian/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “In both hiring and promotion, the Chicago Fire Department has embraced a DEI-driven agenda that has led to political grandstanding and the dangerous erosion of standards. There is growing pressure on the Fire Academy to carry minority candidates who do not meet basic physical requirements. This is not only irresponsible — it is dangerous.”)

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Eighteen, But Not All Incumbent Black Members of Congress Endorse Robin Kelly for U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/eighteen-but-not-all-incumbent-black-members-of-congress-endorse-robin-kelly-for-u-s-senate/
— Fox River Valley State Senator Positioning Himself to Lead the Way to Higher RTA Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/fox-river-valley-state-senator-positioning-himself-to-lead-the-way-to-higher-rta-taxes/
— Parkinson’s Found Higher Near Golf Courses
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/parkinsons-found-higher-near-golf-courses/
— Why Are County’s Proposed Zoning Signs So Small?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/why-are-countys-proposed-zoning-signs-so-small/
— Kat Gets Major Boost from Chicago Tribune
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/kat-gets-major-boost-from-chicago-tribune/
— Moraine Hills State Racks Up 774,000 Visitors
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/11/moraine-hills-state-parks-racks-up-774000-visitors/
— Prison Rape Returns to the News
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/11/prison-rape-returns-to-the-news/
— Left Out of the Chicago Tribune’s Retrospective Look at the Thompson Center
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/11/left-out-of-the-chicago-tribunes-retrospective-look-at-the-thompson-center/
— Man Arrested in Marengo with Cock Fighting Paraphernalia & Six Roosters
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/10/man-arrested-in-marengo-with-cock-fighting-paraphernalia/
— Blacks Doing Worst in Chicago
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/10/blacks-doing-worst-in-chicago/
— Jack Franks’ Finest Hour
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/10/jack-franks-finest-hour/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— SEIU Illinois spends just 3% of members’ money representing workers. NTEU spent lots of time and money representing me in Diersen v. IRS. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11-0
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/seiu-illinois-spends-just-3-of-members-money-representing-workers/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— JD Vance will be the nominee in 2028
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3408875/jd-vance-republican-nominee-2028-jim-banks/

NEW YORK POST
— Qatar’s ‘Palace in the Sky’ jet is NOT a ‘free gift’ — and Trump shouldn’t accept it as one
https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/opinion/no-pres-trump-qatars-palace-in-the-sky-jet-isnt-a-free-gift-and-you-shouldnt-accept-it-as-one/

AMAC
— Democrats Normalizing Violence
https://amac.us/newsline/society/democrats-normalizing-violence/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Al Sharpton disapproves of South African refugees fleeing black violence
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/12/al-sharpton-disapproves-of-south-african-refugees-fleeing-black-violence-1542752/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Episcopal Church ends partnership with US gov’t over white Afrikaners resettlement dispute
https://www.christianpost.com/news/episcopal-church-cuts-ties-with-us-govt-over-white-afrikaners.html

DAILY CALLER
— House GOP Plans To Strip Billions From States That Give Illegal Migrants Free Healthcare. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/12/house-gop-plan-would-strip-billions-from-states-that-give-illegal-migrants-free-healthcare/
— House GOP Floats Proposal To Ensure Non-Citizens Do Not Receive Tax-Funded Food Stamps
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/12/exclusive-house-gop-floats-proposal-to-ensure-non-citizens-do-not-receive-tax-funded-food-stamps/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Administration Is Exposing the Hubris of Institutional DEI
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/12/trump-administration-exposing-hubris-institutional-dei/

FEDERALIST
— Medical School Accreditor Suspends ‘Diversity’ Requirements After Trump Executive Order
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/13/medical-school-accreditor-suspends-diversity-requirements-after-trump-executive-order/

FOX NEWS
— Democrats’ bizarre affection for illegal aliens. President Trump was elected president last year by Americans furious that Joe Biden had allowed millions of people to storm across our border illegally
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-democrats-bizarre-affection-illegal-aliens

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Top Medical School Accreditor Suspends Diversity Requirements After Trump Executive Order
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/top-medical-school-accreditor-suspends-diversity-requirements-after-trump-executive-order/

ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Trump Admin Rapidly Increasing Weekly Deportation Flights
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-admin-rapidly-increasing-weekly-deportation-flights/

PIERS MORGAN
—  ‘My brother the pope is not woke,’ says Louis Prevost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML2M9icrrKw

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— GOP to increases the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap from $10,000 to $30,000
https://thehill.com/newsletters/business-economy/5296471-house-gop-unveils-sweeping-tax-plans/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Hate filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/democracy-trump-voice-america-usaid-state-department-f5959e4d3b8d21f22a8c88bfc89842b8

ABC NEWS
— Pope rejects ‘war of words,’ applauds journalists
https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/pope-leo-xiv-live-updates-pope-delivers-anti/?id=121703106

CBS NEWS
— White South Africans arrive in U.S. after Trump administration grants refugee status. Anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-south-africans-afrikaners-arrive-us-trump-administration/

NEWSWEEK
— New Bill Could Ban Pornography Across US
https://www.newsweek.com/pornography-ban-us-bill-2071409

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity. When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/trump-crypto-coin-auction.html
— Trump Declares High-Speed Internet Program ‘Racist’ and ‘Unconstitutional’  Trump denounced the Biden-era Digital Equity Act as “woke handouts based on race,” raging in a social media post against a broad effort to improve high-speed internet access.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/trump-biden-digital-equity-act.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/harvard-trump-court-case-negotiation.html
— Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/pope-leo-american-catholic.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/world/asia/pope-leo-voice-platform.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/republicans-budget-cuts-medicaid.html

USA TODAY
— $7,500 EV tax credit hasn’t gone away — at least not yet. Eligibility requirements for cars include an MSRP under $55,000. Therefore, my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus is not eligible.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/05/10/ev-federal-tax-credit-2025/83537061007/
— To his classmates in Chicago, Pope Leo was the right pick. How were you viewed when you were in high school? No one saw me as being college material. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease, my vision could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. During my junior and senior years, I spent my weekday evenings and Saturdays and full-time during the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my graduating class. Nevertheless, I got accepted by UIC.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/10/pope-leo-xiv-chicago-classmates-st-mary-assumption/83523767007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/04/guatemalan-mother-immigration-fast-track-deportation/83443273007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The GOP Surrenders on Medicaid. The House bill shrinks from a fight over able-bodied men on the dole.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/medicaid-reform-house-republicans-budget-bill-gop-entitlements-8201c7e5
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/an-american-pope-in-the-era-of-trump-prevost-leo-xiv-83d2488b
— Jonathan Clements gave people financial advice. Money Magazine did not select me to be the subject of its February 1978 “One person’s finances” article ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ) to give me financial advice. It selected me because it intended to and it did a) paint me as being grossly overpaid, b) foist negative government employee stereotypes on me, and c) get IRS to disallow my education deductions. I should write about that.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-wsjs-jonathan-clements-wants-to-leave-a-living-legacy-19f1738d

NEBRASKA EXAMINER
— How have you dealt with those who defame you? So far, my policy has been to forgive them. But I am reconsidering that. I am considering writing about them. Possibly suing them. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/18/jury-deliberating-whether-2020-nebraska-gop-campaign-mailer-defamed-legislative-candidate/

SILVER SPRING PATCH
— Free Virtual Workshop for our 50+ Displaced Federal Employees/Contractors
https://patch.com/maryland/silverspring/calendar/event/20250515/97765a5d-61fe-406f-af78-329c6a802c6e/free-virtual-workshop-for-our-50-displaced-federal-employees-contractors

INSURANCE BUSINESS
— Illinois lawmakers question fairness of insurance rates. State targets ZIP codes, credit scores, and age in insurance rate study.
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/illinois-lawmakers-question-fairness-of-insurance-rates-532122.aspx
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Supporters of the measure say it responds to long-standing complaints from consumers who believe non-driving-related variables unfairly increase their premiums. According to Wandreeka McBride, chief of staff to Rep. Rita Mayfield, the bill reflects concerns raised by residents who feel burdened by pricing tied to financial or demographic data. “These practices can disproportionately impact low-income communities and communities of color, leading to higher premiums for individuals who may already face economic challenges. Further regulation may be necessary to ensure that underwriting practices are both fair and transparent,” McBride told AM Best.)
— Illinois bill against auto insurance ‘bias’ gets major backing. Insurance industry, on the other hand, expresses strong opposition.
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/auto-motor/bill-against-auto-insurance-bias-gets-major-backing-478834.aspx

BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE
— Is There Any Way to Resuscitate the Seventh Amendment Right to Jury Trial? Law professor Suja Thomas discusses why precious few cases ever make it to a jury and how this trend could be reversed. Have you been denied due process? I have. Four times courts denied my 7th Amendment rights. I should write about that.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/there-any-way-resuscitate-seventh-amendment-right-jury-trial
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Amendment VII: In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. The American Bar Association commissioned a four-year study in 2016 to examine why there are so few federal civil jury trials in the United States. According to its findings, “The percentage of federal lawsuits decided by jury trial dropped from 5.5 percent in 1962 to 0.8 percent in 2013. The percentage of federal criminal cases decided by jury trial dropped from 8.2 percent in 1962 to 3.6 percent by 2013.” The reasons for the decline aren’t hard to discern: jury trials are less predictable, slower, and more expensive for civil litigants. While lawyers and judges say the benefits of jury trials outweigh their costs, they aren’t the ones spending the money to litigate their civil claims. No responsible attorney should ever promise a client that they will win at trial or recommend that a client not at least try to negotiate in good faith to reach a settlement short of trial. Yet there still must be a role for the jury in our legal system. There still must be a way for a litigant to get a jury of peers to render judgment in a dispute. The framers of the Constitution understood this, or at least tried to. One of the least controversial components of the Bill of Rights is the Seventh Amendment’s guarantee of a right to a federal civil jury trial.)

NEWS PRESS
— Have you been denied due process? I have. Four times courts denied my 7th Amendment rights. I should write about that.
https://www.news-press.com/story/opinion/2025/05/11/due-process-under-threat-for-everyone-including-citizens-opinion/83509311007/

WESTLAW
— What adverse actions have been taken against you? My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests and forced me to resign. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers and education deductions and never promoted me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472 (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 when I was 49 years old. The aforesaid is more significant a) because I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) because I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) because I earned six job-related professional certifications, and d) because I earned a job-related professional license.  The aforesaid is more significant a) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My Democrat superiors would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://today.westlaw.com/Document/Ic77f069f2f5d11f0b346bf2b04662841/View/FullText.html

May 12, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump admin poised to accept luxury jet as gift for Trump from Qatar
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-administration-poised-accept-boeing-747-8-jumbo-jet-gift-new-air-force-qatar-royal-family-sources/16382889/

WTTW
— Pope Leo XIV Indicates He Will Closely Follow Francis
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/10/pope-leo-xiv-indicates-he-will-closely-follow-francis-says-ai-represents-major-challenge

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— First group of 49 white South Africans leaves for the US after Donald Trump offered them refugee status
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/white-south-africans-trump-refugee-status/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/editorial-china-tariffs-trump-consul-general/
— Qatar says no final decision made on gifting Donald Trump a jet to use as Air Force One
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/qatar-says-no-final-decision-made-on-gifting-trump-a-jet-to-use-as-air-force-one/
— Who will fill Dick Durbin’s US Senate seat in Illinois? Here are the candidates. Will LaHood walk in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade this year? His father  was considering running for governor when he walked in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade in 2005. I spoke with him before that parade kicked off.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/dick-durbin-senate-seat-illinois-candidates/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Darin LaHood, U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, 16th. While the eventual Democratic nominee is expected to have the advantage in a state where party members have held all statewide elected offices since 2019, Republican U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood of Peoria has acknowledged he is considering a Senate bid. LaHood, the son of former longtime GOP congressman and Obama transportation secretary Ray LaHood, had nearly $5.9 million in his federal campaign fund as of April 1. One of only three House Republicans in Illinois’ 17-member congressional delegation, LaHood has served since 2015 in Congress and has been a strong supporter of Trump.)
— Illinois grows more soybeans than any other state. What happened to the Republican support? During the 1950s and early 1960s, I spent lots of time at my grandparents’ farm along the Indiana border in Grant Park. They grew lots of soybeans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/editorial-soybeans-illinois-lab-funding-gop-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/09/east-aurora-newcomer-center/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against everyone who voted for Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/11/united-states-donald-trump-robert-francis-prevost-pope-leo

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Lawmakers have just days to save Metra, Pace and CTA from massive cuts. How important is/was Metra to you? A big reason why my wife and I bought a home in Wheaton in 1978 and had one built in Wheaton in 1984 was that they were in walking distance from Metra. We both worked in the Loop.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250511/transportation/are-we-going-over-the-cliff-lawmakers-have-just-days-to-save-metra-pace-and-cta-from-massive-cuts/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pope’s old Dolton house tells a familiar south suburban story. I lived in 1286 Wood street in Crete 1954-1972. I should write about that home. My grandparents had it built in 1926. My parents inherited it from them. My brother and I inherited it from our parents. I inherited it when my brother died. It had been regularly maintained and upgraded, but not after my father died suddenly in 1969. SEE: https://www.estately.com/listings/info/1286-wood-street-crete-il-60417
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/popes-childhood-home-tells-south-suburban-story
— Small businesses need Congress to make Trump tax cuts permanent
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/small-biz-needs-trump-tax-cuts-be-permanent-opinion
— What happens when employers have to pay a higher minimum wage. Did you work for the minimum wage? I did part-time while I was a junior and senior in high school and the summer in between 1964-1966. With the money that I earned and saved, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint (a poor man’s GAO) in May of 1966. It was red, black interior, 3-speed Hurst on the floor, and 3.55 rear end. I used it to get to/from a) jobs during the summer of 1966, b) classes at UIC 1966-1967, and c) my Park Forest Post Office job 1966-1967. I sold it and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in December of 1967.  SEE: https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/higher-minimum-wage-workers-employers
— Pritzker’s EV vision faces speed bumps as key projects falter
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/editorial/ev-plans-stall-stellantis-lion-electric-pull-back-editorial

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Part of the fabric of the Midwest: Central Illinois county fairs kick off in late May. What is the status of your county’s fair?
https://www.sj-r.com/story/entertainment/2025/05/12/county-fair-season-in-illinois-starts-in-late-may-what-to-know/83133115007/

JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Overwhelmingly, nonprofits exist to promote the Democrat Party platform
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-and-regional/article_e08a4c8b-adf6-5c76-878a-3bec6e50793f.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-late-abortions-are-rare-the-us-just-lost-a-clinic-that-offered-the-procedure-for-over-50-years/

NPR ILLINOIS & WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-05-11/what-trumps-cuts-to-federal-climate-research-could-mean-for-illinois
https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2025-05-11/what-trumps-cuts-to-federal-climate-research-could-mean-for-illinois

WQRF
— UAW: Stellantis has scrapped plans for battery plant, parts hub in Belvidere
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/uaw-stellantis-has-scrapped-plans-for-battery-plant-parts-hub-in-belvidere/ar-AA1EyTYf

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-510/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Why do people get involved in Republican politics? For far too many, it is to get the Republican Party to strike the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in its platform. I promote the aforesaid planks. I should write about those Republican candidates, elected officials, party leaders, activists, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, etc. in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois a) who reject one or more of the aforesaid planks and b) who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. I would focus on those who reject the equal opportunity plank. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who wants you to pay more taxes? My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes. According to them, I can and should pay more taxes a) because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) because I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, and c) because my wife and I gave up trying to have children. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were wealthy and who bought them cars, paid for their colleges expenses, got them jobs, etc. I would focus on those who benefitted the most from Affirmative Action and/or DEI, that is, who benefitted the most from race and/or gender based preference giving. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To get more votes from minorities and from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give minorities and women more preference. All the minorities and women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) were Democrats, b) had less work experience than I had, c) had less education than I had, d) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or e) had no professional license like the one I had. All were younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If your critics/opponents were asked what limited your career, what would they say? Mine would stress a) that my ACT score was only 24, b) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, c) that while I have four college degrees, my GPAs were not that great, none of the colleges are Ivy League, and I did not earn my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, d) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, I did not do that until I was 30 and 32 and my scores were not that great, e) that while I became a licensed CPA, it was not until I was 32, and f) that while I earned four more professional certifications, it was not until I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. My critics/opponents ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact a) that my superiors were always under tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians to give preference to their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, b) that I avoided the Vietnam War draft, c) that I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and d) that I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation when I was 40. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What lists are/were you on? Mine include a) Vietnam War draft avoiders, b) federal employees who never made GS-14, c) employees who complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination, d) lawsuit filers, and e) employees who were forced to retire early. What do you think of people who are/were on the aforesaid lists? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, 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, national origin discrimination, and even worse things. Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, want the Pope to promote the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ever-increasingly, to be a Democrat is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor 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
–138 registered Republican voters in my precinct (38% of its 361 registered Republican voters) who voted in the April 1, 2025 election. In a precinct letter that I am considering sending, I would a) thank them for voting, b) recap the April 1, 2025 election results, c) list the offices on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in our precinct, and d) stress my efforts to encourage the Milton Township Republican Organization to promote Wheaton’s and Glen Ellyn’s  July 4, 2026 Independence Day parades and to encourage Republican participation in those parades. I hope that Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Illinois statewide, Illinois senate and house, DuPage countywide, and DuPage County District 4 will all have entries. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Purple Prose from Enemies of Chicago Children: the CTU
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/08/purple-prose-from-enemies-of-chicago-children-the-ctu

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans seek distance from Trump’s willingness to hike taxes on wealthiest Americans. Who wants you to pay more taxes? My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes. According to them, I can and should pay more taxes a) because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) because I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, and c) because my wife and I gave up trying to have children. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were wealthy and who bought them cars, paid for their colleges expenses, got them jobs, etc. I would focus on those who benefitted the most from Affirmative Action and/or DEI, that is, who benefitted the most from race and/or gender based preference giving.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/11/republicans-seek-distance-trumps-willingness-hike-taxes-wealthiest/
— Democrats can’t seem to give up the transgender madness
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/11/democrats-cant-seem-give-transgender-madness/
— Biden administration gave protected status to Afghans despite terrorism flags. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem moves to end Temporary Protected Status
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/12/joe-bidens-dhs-gave-protected-status-afghans-despite-terrorism-flags/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Donald Trump, Pope Leo XIV and Mercy. MAGA and Catholicism aren’t at odds—mercy has borders, and a new American pope offers hope for unity between faithful patriots and the Church they call home.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/12/donald-trump-pope-leo-xiv-and-mercy/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Will Trump Suspend Habeas Corpus for Illegals?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/will_trump_suspend_habeas_corpus_for_illegals.html
— What Do Democrats Do Next?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/what_do_democrats_do_next.html

BLAZE
— Who can lead the Democrats out of the wilderness? Ever-increasingly, to be a Democrat is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/who-can-lead-the-democrats-out-of-the-wilderness

FOX NEWS
— The ‘corrupt media enterprise’ is bitter about losing to Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372683766112

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— The Democrat mainstream news media not only had no problem with Biden’s Executive Orders, it promoted them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/legal-experts-habeas-corpus-stephen-miller-rcna206130

CNN
— Trump is visiting three of the world’s richest nations. Here’s what’s on their wish lists. What is on your enemies’ wish lists? My enemies want the Republican Party to strike its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents and the planks they want stricken. I would focus on my critics/opponents who want the equal opportunity plank stricken.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/11/middleeast/trump-visit-gulf-arab-states-saudi-uae-qatar-intl

REUTERS
— Trump plans to accept luxury 747 from Qatar to use as Air Force One
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/trump-set-accept-luxury-747-qatar-use-air-force-one-abc-news-says-2025-05-11/

NEWSWEEK
— Trump Will Get To Keep Qatar Jet Even After He Leaves Office
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-qatar-plane-air-force-one-2070761
— Trump Responds to Qatar Plane Backlash: ‘World Class Losers’
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-responds-qatar-plane-backlash-2070758

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-family-generations-trump-memorial-651841d216202f1a8fa25476dab799fc

NEW YORK TIMES
— In Illinois Senate Race, Old Grudges and a Test of Pritzker’s Power. Few policy differences have emerged among the Democrats vying to replace the retiring Senator Richard J. Durbin, while Gov. JB Pritzker’s influence looms large.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/illinois-senate-race-durbin-pritzker.html
— Trump Is Said to Be Getting Qatari 747 for Air Force One, and Post-Presidency Travel
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/11/us/trump-news
— Google ever-increasingly steers everyone a) to websites that promote liberal leaders, that is, Democrat leaders, and the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote conservative leaders, that is, Republican leaders, and the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/technology/google-chrome-monopoly-remedies.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Qatar’s gift to Trump reveals a loophole big enough to fly a jumbo jet through. A $400 million present shows how presidential libraries remain a blind spot in U.S. corruption law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/11/qatar-jumbo-jet-gift-loophole/

USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/12/supreme-court-trump-transgender-military-ban/83499410007/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasing use the Pope to get rid of those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/10/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq-issues-advocates-hopeful/83413859007/

PALM BEACH POST
— Pope Leo XIV and Trump graduated from colleges less than 20 miles away from each other. Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from America, graduated from Villanova University, mere miles from the Wharton School of Business, Trump’s alma mater.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2025/05/12/pope-leo-chicago-trump-graduate-villanova-theological-union/83573642007/

DES MOINES REGISTER
— To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give women more preference. All the women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) were Democrats, b) had less work experience than I had, c) had less education than I had, d) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or e) had no professional license like the one I had. All were minority, younger than me, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time..
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2025/05/11/pete-hegseth-wps-woke-divisive-military-safety-leadership/83502722007/

TENNESSEE OUTLOOK
— What lists are/were you on? Mine include a) Vietnam War draft avoiders, b) federal employees who never made GS-14, c) employees who complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination, d) lawsuit filers, and e) employees who were forced to retire early. What do you think of people who are/were on the aforesaid lists?
https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/12/trumps-massive-deportation-database-puts-students-at-risk-advocates-warn/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The GAO Tries to Save a Bad Biden Rule. It bows to Democrats and ignores its own clear precedent. GAO is run by Democrats. When I was 31 years old in 1980, I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. They did everything that they could to waste my career and to get rid of me. They forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS. 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 them. 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 years old in 1997.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-gao-tries-to-save-a-bad-biden-rule-california-emissions-regulations-waivers-2b0434ca

WALLET HUB
— Best & Worst Places to Start a Career. The more of the following that you are, the more that Illinois is the worse state to start a career in: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-cities-to-start-a-career/3626

CEO TODAY
— Qatar’s $400M Jet Gift to Trump Sparks Outrage: Is This the New Air Force One?  Reports suggest that Qatar may be gifting former U.S. President Donald Trump a $400 million luxury jet—raising serious questions about ethics, influence, and international diplomacy. As both critics and allies react with suspicion, the gesture could mark a new chapter in the blurred lines between politics, power, and foreign interests.
https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2025/05/qatars-400m-jet-gift-to-trump-sparks-outrage-is-this-the-new-air-force-one/

NPR
— Trump is looking to use the IRS for his own political ends. Nixon tried it, too. 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 for America’s 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.kosu.org/politics/2025-05-12/trump-is-looking-to-use-the-irs-for-his-own-political-ends-nixon-tried-it-too

ATLANTIC
— Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, 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, national origin discrimination, and even worse things. Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, want the Pope to promote the aforesaid.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/anti-christian-bias-task-force/682755/

ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.epi.org/blog/trump-attacks-on-temporary-immigration-protections-like-tps-hurt-the-economy-and-strip-millions-of-their-workplace-rights/

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Gold walls, opulent furnishings: All about $400m ‘flying palace’ from Qatar
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-trump-qatari-jet-gold-walls-opulent-furnishings-all-about-400m-flying-palace-from-qatar-which-trump-will-use-as-air-force-one/articleshow/121103068.cms

GUARDIAN
— US presidential gifts and the rules governing them. Reports that Donald Trump’s administration is planning to accept a jet valued at $400m from Qatar have raised ethical questions over gifts from foreign leaders. I should write about the gifts that my critics/opponents have given their operatives and their dupes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/us-presidential-foreign-gifts-laws-rules-ntwnfb

SABC NEWS
— 50 white South Africans relocated to the US as refugees. They should be advised that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85I6rwxIzoc

May 11, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-president-donald-trumps-cuts-federal-climate-research-could-mean-illinois/16371824/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote tax increases
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/the-trump-tax-cut-debate-is-heating-up-here-are-the-key-issues-and-who-stands-to-benefit/3742665/
— Your ACT/SAT score impacts you for the rest of your life. My critics/opponents have always stressed that my ACT score was only 24.
https://wgntv.com/news/features/chicago-student-achieves-record-sat-score/
— Nashville group cancels events surrounding MLS game, cites immigration arrests. Many in the group also boycotted the game vs. Charlotte.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/nashville-cancels-events-mls-game-immigration-arrests/3742811/

CBS2
— Trump administration threatens more arrests after showdown outside ICE detention center
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trump-administration-threatens-more-arrests-after-showdown-outside-ice-detention-center/

FOX32
— Brandon Johnson praises court order blocking Trump’s federal job cuts. A judge on Friday halted Trump’s plan to cut federal jobs. Johnson calls it a win for workers. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrats run the federal government. They use budget cuts first to get rid of any remining Republican employees and then to get rid of any remaining non-Democrat employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. That is what happened at GAO 1980-1997 in response to Gingrich budget cuts. I should write about that. Because I am all of the aforesaid, because I complained about discrimination, and because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with discrimination in 1988, I never would have survived those 18 years if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1639280
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-mayor-praises-court-order-215706745.html

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) fight budget cuts and b) promote tax increases
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/republican-economic-priorities-trump-era/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/weather-enthusiasts-illinois-noaa/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/transgender-issues-strength-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote discrimination against Whites in South Africa. According to Democrat leaders, non-Whites do not discriminate against Whites.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/trump-white-south-africans-refugees-persecution/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/trump-habeas-corpus-deportations/
— Dolton hopes ties to Pope Leo XIV will burnish town’s image and spur growth
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/dolton-residents-officials-image-pope-leo/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasing do everything that they can to use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/column-pope-leo-xiv-page/
— The Vietnam War has had a tremendous impact on me. I should write a book about that. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me the most.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/opinion-vietnam-lessons-us-50-years/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders crow that “Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies.” Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/05/10/judge-pauses-much-of-trump-administrations-massive-downsizing-of-federal-agencies
— Credit the Chicago nuns for Robert Prevost’s rise to pope. Pope Leo XIV is this: a Catholic schoolboy of a certain age and era who was taught by the nuns.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/08/credit-the-chicago-nuns-for-robert-prevosts-rise-to-pope
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that Blacks have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/09/homeownership-race-black-white-inequities-mortgage-lending-great-recession-alden-loury

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250510/nation-and-world-politics/trump-team-mulls-suspending-the-constitutional-right-of-habeas-corpus-to-speed-deportations-can-it/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasing do everything that they can to use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250510/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-a-chicago-pontiff-new-popes-origins-are-a-source-of-pride-but-it-is-his-mis/

WBEZ
— What was your childhood home? Mine was an apartment atop my grandfather’s hardware store in downtown Crete 1948-1953. The building was torn down in 1966 for a gas station. Then it was his home at 1286 Wood Street in Crete. My parents inherited it, then my brother and I inherited it, and then I inherited it.
https://www.wbez.org/religion/2025/05/10/chicagoans-want-pope-leo-xiv-to-remember-his-humble-beginnings

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Dems will have to fight each other for right to fight Trump
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-dems-will-have-to-fight-each-other-for-right-to-fight-trump/article_6598c7a6-4576-40b0-ae9c-a7a98df2eab9.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/transgender-issues-are-a-strength-for-trump-ap-norc-poll-finds/article_54dc6d2e-2bdd-5b97-babe-2c8c48bcd4ee.html

SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/10/do-trumps-tariffs-put-small-businesses-at-greater-risk-experts-weigh-in/

ST. LOUIS TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/column/article_24ef8087-cef0-4b3c-864e-ff01fe90d61c.html

NEWS CHANEL 20
— Democrat Illinois lawmakers ever-increasingly push for healthcare funding for illegals amid budget cuts
https://newschannel20.com/newsletter-daily/illinois-lawmakers-push-for-immigrant-healthcare-funding-amid-budget-cuts#

25 NEWS NOW
— To promote DEI is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, that is, to promote DEI is to promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump.
https://www.25newsnow.com/video/2025/05/11/diversity-display-peoria-schools-host-multicultural-fair/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them. I was a union member while I worked for the Post Office 1966-1969 and for IRS 1971-1980. I should write about my critics/opponents who use that against me the most.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-11/federal-employee-unions-fight-for-survival-as-trump-tries-to-eviscerate-them

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— According to Democrat leaders, non-Whites do not discriminate against Whites.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/world/ap-trump-is-bringing-white-south-africans-to-the-us-as-refugees-but-what-persecution-are-they-facing/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders and for other hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Sooner or later, everything will come out in the wash. Sooner or later, it will become clear that all my critics/opponents a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks, b) 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 dudes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money, c) blame me for all of their problems, your problems, my problems, and everyone’s problems, and/or d) despise/hate those who share my demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write a book about Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on Republican participation in the parades. I would focus on those who have worked the hardest to diminish/end Republican participation. I served as the Republican fundraiser for the parades 2005-2021. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end what I did. I have urged the Milton Township Republican Organization to encourage Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress District 3, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois senate, Illinois house, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, etc. to participate in this year’s parade. In 2007, I succeeded in raising $2,000 on short notice so that an elephant could walk behind U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/ and https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-2023/  – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— JULY 5, 2017 FLASHBACK: Republicans who participated in Wheaton’s outstanding Independence Day Parade this morning were: DuPage State’s Attorney Bob Berlin; DuPage County District 4 officials Grant Eckhoff, Tim Elliott, Amy Grant, and Tim Whelan; James Mendrick for DuPage Sheriff; Frank Bibbianno for DuPage Sheriff; Karen Wilson for DuPage Judge; and the Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC).  Republicans who walked with entries included Ron Almiron, Lori Carlson, Joseph Caruso, Flo Dangelo, Sal Falbo, Chris Heidorn, Pat Hinchey, Marty Keller, Larry LaVanway, Antonio Lollino, Paula McGowen, Ron Menna, David Norck, Thommen Poozhikunnel, Mary Rash, Pat Ryan, and Janet Shaw. Gary Muehlfelt drove the truck that pulled the outstanding MTRCC float. Peter Breen, Mike Connelly, and Jeanne Ives could not participate in the parade because of the Democrats.  Peter Roskam participated in a different parade. This year, for the 12th year in a row, “DuPage Republicans” helped sponsor the parade and fireworks. “DuPage Republicans” was one of the two $2,500 “Star” sponsors and again sponsored the Wheaton high school bands and the Tunes of Glory Pipes and Drums parade entries.  Because of a last minute shortage of banner carriers, I had the honor of helping carry the “Sponsored by DuPage Republicans” banner ahead of the Tunes of Glory Pipes and Drums. Outstandingly, again this year Tim Whelan coordinated Republican use of the “DuPage Republicans” booth at the fireworks. This year again, I delivered flyers to the residences and businesses on the parade route. The flyers listed the Republican entries in the parade and the Republicans who helped sponsor entries. Outstandingly, the flyers were printed courtesy of Alpha Graphics. This year, outstandingly, Roger Claar is a $500 contributor, Chris Nybo is a $250 contributor, Phil Suess is a $150 contributor, and Bob Berlin, Peter Breen, Mike Connelly, Grant Eckhoff, Tim Elliott, Amy Grant, Gwen Henry, Paul Hinds, Jeanne Ives, Marty Keller, Deanne Mazzochi, Paula McGowen, James Mendrick, Peter Roskam, Darlene Ruscitti, and Tim Whelan are $100 contributors. Please thank them for helping sponsor the parade and fireworks. This year was the 10th anniversary of an elephant walking behind Roskam in the parade.  For that 2007 parade, I had the honor of raising $2,000 on short notice from DuPage Republicans to sponsor that elephant. – Dave Diersen
https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal judge warns Trump can’t sidestep his order with latest sanctuary city play
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/10/federal-judge-warns-trump-cant-sidestep-order-latest-sanctuary-city/

WAHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3407546/transgender-issues-strength-for-trump-ap-norc-poll/
— Republicans are afraid to defund Planned Parenthood
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3406464/republicans-afraid-defund-planned-parenthood/
— US Customs and Border Protection employees told not to use DEI terms. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3407031/customs-border-protection-employees-told-no-dei-terms/
— Media can blur faces, but not the effects of illegal immigration
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3406858/media-cannot-blur-effects-of-illegal-immigration/

TOWNHALL
— Throw The Book At Illegals-Loving Insurrectionist Democrats
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/05/11/throw-the-book-at-illegals-loving-insurrectionist-democrats-n2656870

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Big Government Is Chaos: Trump’s 2026 Budget Is a Step Toward Sanity
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/10/big-government-is-chaos-trumps-2026-budget-is-a-step-toward-sanity/

FOX NEWS
— Will President Trump protect the Christian Afghan refugees who fled here to escape martyrdom? President Trump is a champion for persecuted Christians
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/president-trump-protect-christian-afghan-refugees-who-fled-here-escape-martyrdom

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSN
— Leo XIV looks like a Never Trumper Republican, based on his voting record
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/leo-xiv-looks-like-a-never-trumper-republican-based-on-his-voting-record/ar-AA1EslB4
— Democrat leaders blame Trump for Chicago’s Michelada Fest being cancelled
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/why-cancelling-michelada-fest-will-leave-a-gaping-hole-in-chicagos-summer-season-our-culture-is-being-targeted/ar-AA1Els2G
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/chicago-s-michelada-fest-cancels-2025-edition-over-artist-visa-uncertainty-under-trump/ar-AA1EhBnJ
— I should write about being forced to retire early. It has a tremendous negative impact on the rest of your life.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/what-if-you-had-a-plan-to-retire-comfortably-by-age-60/ar-AA1Ecvzr
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Whoopi Goldberg
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/whoopi-goldberg-schools-trump-wh-press-sec-with-a-brutal-lesson-on-wokeness/ar-AA1y70E9

AOL
— I should write about being forced to retire early. It has a tremendous negative impact on the rest of your life.
https://www.aol.com/americans-1-26-million-retire-110023927.html

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting the mainstream news media to drive Trump’s approval ratings down.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-economy-plunges-new-low-2070511
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about all the lawsuits that they have filed against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trumps-legal-woes-deepen-with-major-lawsuit-from-15-states/ar-AA1ExgmK

YAHOO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-deportation-database-puts-students-103000423.html
— According to Democrat leaders, non-Whites do not discriminate against Whites.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-south-african-refugees-arrive-131805439.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders want to keep disparate impact. Those who are the following are negatively impacted by Democrat laws: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-civil-rights.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Jeanine Pirro.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-pirro-interim-prosecutor.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Russia and China against America
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000010157380/how-xi-and-putin-got-closer.html
–Democrat teachers ever-increasingly crank out good little Democrats
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/us/education-politics-learning.html
— How Much Are We Paying for Newsletters? GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter subscriptions are worth at least $3,000/year. But I send them our free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. All the time, money, experience, ability, and motivation needed to put the newsletters together and to send them comes from me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/business/substack-newsletter-subscription-costs.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The Pope grew up in a Catholic enclave on Chicago’s South Side. That community is gone now. My parents had me baptized in Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete in 1948. They sent me Trinity Lutheran Grade School 1953-1961. But then transferred to Hope Lutheran Church and Grade School in Park Forest in 1961 to stay with the Missouri Synod. Hope Lutheran is gone now, but Trinity Lutheran continues on. SEE: https://www.trinitycrete.org/ .
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/us/pope-leo-childhood-chicago-catholics.html

WASHINGTON POST
— The hidden ways Trump, DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/11/trump-government-operations-halt-funding-cuts/
— Hegseth ever-increasingly fights Affirmative Action and DEI in the military, that is, he ever-increasingly fights race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in the military.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/09/hegseth-affirmative-action-service-academies/

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
— College Majors That Lead to Low Paying Jobs. What were your majors? Mine were business (1966-1976), accounting (1976-1980), and finance (1992-1997).  If I could do it over again, I would have majored in accounting first because I was able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. But by then, according to the accounting profession, I was much too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.universitymagazine.ca/college-majors-that-lead-to-low-paying-jobs/

ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Whites and men will forever discriminate against non-Whites and against women, and because of that, non-Whites and women will forever need massive Affirmative Action and massive DEI, that is, they will forever need massive race and gender preference giving, that is, Whites and men will forever have to be gotten rid of.
https://www.epi.org/blog/trump-led-attacks-on-equity-are-setting-the-stage-for-our-next-public-health-crisis/

GOOGLE AI
— Sooner or later, everything will come out in the wash. Sooner or later, it will become clear that all my critics/opponents a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks, b) 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 dudes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money, c) blame me for all of their problems, your problems, my problems, and everyone’s problems, and/or d) despise/hate those who share my demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22sooner+or+later%22+%22come+out+in+the+wash

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
— Canadian car show kicks out Tesla, citing safety concerns amid Musk protests. Tesla was at the Iron Gate Motor Condo car show yesterday in Naperville.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/canadian-car-show-kicks-out-tesla-citing-safety-concerns-amid-musk-protests-20250319-p5lkvr.html

May 5, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— When does Illinois’ gas tax increase, and what decides how much it goes up?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/when-does-illinois-gas-tax-increase-and-what-decides-how-much-it-goes-up/3737450/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-takes-credit-for-good-parts-of-economy-blames-bad-parts-on-biden/3737382/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/protesters-hold-may-the-4th-resistance-event-in-daley-plaza/
— Trump says he’ll reopen Alcatraz, order 100% tariff on foreign movies
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-says-hell-reopen-alcatraz-order-100-tariff-on-foreign-movies/
— 3 dead, 6 hurt in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-may-2-to-5/

CBS2 & CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders want due process, but only for past, present, and future Democrat voters. My Democrat GAO superiors denied me due process when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Democrat judges and justices denied me due process in Diersen v. GAO by granting GAO summary judgement, that is, by denying me my 7th Amendment rights.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-says-hes-unsure-whether-citizens-non-citizens-in-u-s-deserve-due-process/
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-in-a-new-interview-says-he-doesnt-know-if-he-backs-due-process-rights/article_d49d3224-ce57-59ad-9811-4c578803127c.html
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-04/during-tv-interview-president-trump-questions-due-process-rights-of-u-s-residents

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/walk-from-aurora-to-elgin-puts-focus-on-experience-of-immigrants/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “arts” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/editorial-national-endowment-arts-grants-trump/
— Illinois is Uncle Sam’s piggy bank again. But Pritzker must follow the law.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/editorial-illinois-is-uncle-sams-piggy-bank-again-but-gov-jb-pritzker-must-follow-the-law/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote their foreign students and b) promote more hatred against Jews.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/05/trump-pro-palestinian-activists-jailing-deporting-immigrants-chinese-asian-american-rick-baldoz

WAND TV
— Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-says-he-will-reopen-alcatraz-prison/article_21657477-4cc7-588f-9e25-d9a7d9e2b4a0.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their judicial branch against Trump.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/america-s-long-history-of-checks-and-balances-is-being-tested-by-trump-like-rarely/article_2b84824d-f4b4-5579-b0a9-611436295987.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats run education in America. Under them, college students ever-increasingly take college courses a) that are not job-related and/or b) that depend on government spending. What were your majors? Mine were business (1966-1976), accounting (1976-1980), and finance (1992-1997).  If I could do it over again, I would have majored in accounting first because I was able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-04/how-the-trump-administration-has-impacted-these-college-seniors-career-plans
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give more and more and more preference to their foreign students.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-04/trump-administration-confirms-targeting-international-students-with-minor-offenses

WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/04/rockford-protesters-search-unified-message-against-trump-administration/

LOCAL 4 NEWS
— Pritzker ever-increasingly discourages those who are the following from visiting Illinois: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94rgnLz9B84

EFFINGHAM RADIO
— To what extent are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on foreign countries and on their citizens?
https://www.effinghamradio.com/2025/05/05/illinois-celebrates-world-trade-month/

CHICAGO MAROON
— College Republicans Reflect on Trump’s First 100 Days in Office. If I had been active in Republican politics, a) the Post Office would not have hired me in 1966, b) IRS would not have hired me in 1971, and c) GAO would not have hired me in 1980.
https://chicagomaroon.com/47308/news/ucdems-and-college-republicans-reflect-on-trumps-first-100-days-in-office/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning edition
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-505/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— The Real Scandal in Bally’s Chicago Deal: Exploiting Minorities While Pretending to Help
https://wirepoints.org/the-real-scandal-in-ballys-chicago-deal-exploiting-minorities-while-pretending-to-help-wirepoints/
— Illinois increasingly surrounded by school choice states. Gov. Abbott signs universal school choice into Texas law.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-increasingly-surrounded-by-school-choice-states-gov-abbott-signs-universal-school-choice-into-texas-law-wirepoints/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Libs of TikTok Pick Up Craig Wilcox Brandon Johnson Critique
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/04/libs-of-tiktok-pick-up-craig-wilcox-brandon-johnson-critique/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

AMERICAN THINKER
— The NYT bemoans that Trump has cut over $800 million in spending on LGBTQ+ health issues
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/the_nyt_bemoans_that_trump_has_cut_over_800_million_in_spending_on_lgbtq_health_issues.html

BLAZE
— Trump and Musk tag-team to deflate the woke power structure
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trump-and-musk-tag-team-to-deflate-the-woke-power-structure

CAMPUS REFORM
— These colleges received $300M+ in donations for DEI
https://www.campusreform.org/article/colleges-received-300m-donations-dei-/27888

COLLEGE FIX
— Trump DOE investigates Chicago-area district over ‘privilege walks,’ racist lessons
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-doe-investigates-chicago-area-district-over-privilege-walks-racist-lessons/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Asylum Seekers Primarily Responsible for Large Spike in Homelessness
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/05/study-asylum-seekers-primarily-responsible-for-large-spike-in-homelessness/

FOX NEWS
— ICE leader scolds sanctuary cities resisting Trump’s deportation laws
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DUvGOyZNNRrA

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Americans are looking at these campuses, like Harvard, and saying, why are we paying for this?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/americans-are-looking-at-these-campuses-like-harvard-and-saying-why-are-we-paying-for-this/amp/

PJ MEDIA
— Dear Democrats, We the People Have Had Enough of Your Illegal Immigrants’ Violence
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2025/05/05/the-morning-briefing-dear-democrats-we-the-people-have-had-enough-of-your-illegal-immigrants-violence-n4939467

POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump admin slashes NIH research funding for LGBTQ health issues
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-admin-slashes-nih-research-funding-for-lgbtq-health-issues

TOWNHALL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get Whites to hate their own ancestors and to revile their accomplishments as being ill-gotten. This self-hatred has been the root of the modern decline of the West, and could very well ultimately lead to the end of Western civilization as we know it.
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2025/05/05/race-and-the-biggest-mass-psyop-in-human-history-n2656525

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump confirms he offered to send troops into Mexico, but says Sheinbaum ‘so scared of the cartels she can’t walk’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5282312-trump-tariffs-us-troops-mexico-sheinbaum-cartels/

ABC NEWS
— Trump threatens tariff on all movies produced abroad
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates-trump-threatens-100-tariff/?id=121461146

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) fight deportation of their illegals and b) do not want sheriffs to work with ICE.
https://www.newsweek.com/sheriff-trump-admin-intimidating-police-ice-collaboration-2067799
— Which US Cities Canceled Cinco de Mayo Parades Amid Immigration Crackdown
https://www.newsweek.com/cinco-de-mayo-parades-canceled-immigration-chicago-2067809

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— A former bartender emerges as a Trump resistance leader. Are you in politics? If so, what did you do before that? I audited federal agencies for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I collected delinquent taxes 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 earned a CPA license. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://apnews.com/article/pritzker-trump-ocasio-cortez-democrats-resistance-message-9d4f7868892629e34df7ea1e29dc0b34

MSN
— Lara Trump confronts Elon Musk over allegiance to her father-in-law, Donald. 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 coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lara-trump-confronts-elon-musk-over-allegiance-to-her-father-in-law-donald/ar-AA1E7wHI

REUTERS
— Those who have benefitted the most from Biden’s giving them the most preference are consider moving to Europe.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fearful-trump-some-americans-look-make-life-europe-2025-05-04/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/health/trump-administration-slashes-research-into-lgbtq-health.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000010122048/how-trumps-cuts-are-stifling-lgbtq-health-research.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use “democracy” to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/05/trump-pro-democracy-global-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/05/transgender-hud-fair-housing-trump-lgbtq-turner/48a02a2e-2971-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trumps-wants-judges-who-will-skip-trials-before-deportation/2025/05/05/6143206b-cff5-4a71-b9b2-19b443d87464_video.html
— The U.S. welcomed Indian students. Under Trump, they fear for their future. U.S. colleges host more than 300,000 students from India. As the Trump administrations targets foreign students for deportation, many are rethinking their plans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/05/india-student-visas-revoked-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/05/pritzker-president-trump-resistance/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/05/american-democracy-under-trump/

USA TODAY
— Trump’s national parks proposal: Cut $1 billion, transfer many sites to states
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/04/trump-budget-proposal-cuts-to-parks/83428514007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discredit Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/04/trump-interview-abc-time-mental-decline/83391080007/
— Average Americans struggle with savings. Many continue to live paycheck to paycheck. According to my critics/opponents, I have always been grossly overpaid. In my defense, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/01/americans-one-crisis-away-from-homelessness/83388068007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders want the next Pope 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.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/05/03/conclave-smoke-signals-chimney-stoves/83429402007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/05/05/the-next-pope-odds-rise-parolin-tangle/83415163007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Is Harvard Complying With the Tax Code? Section 501(c)(3) bars campaigning and makes clear propaganda isn’t the same as education.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-harvard-complying-with-the-tax-code-exemption-political-educational-speech-b4a24ed4
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will cause a recession, and even worse things, to destroy Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-says-hes-not-worried-about-a-recession/DB83B00E-5E69-42DE-A0DE-82A2D6898BB5
— The Politics of EVs Have Changed. Thirty-five Democrats joined the GOP to repeal California’s EV mandate. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. What is your attitude toward EVs and toward those who buy them?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-politics-of-evs-has-changed-house-vote-california-waiver-1f951a68
— Democrat leaders want the next Pope 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.wsj.com/opinion/the-world-needs-a-second-john-paul-ii-venezuela-cuba-nicaragua-human-rights-9f3c08a4
— Government Should Fund Religious Schools. The Establishment Clause was a barrier, but recent decisions have changed that. My parents had a lot less money because they a) sent a me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod and b) sent my brother to Trinity 1958-1961 and then to Hope 1962-1968. Because of that, I had to work my way through college 1966-1970.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/government-should-fund-religious-schools-f50922dc
— New AI tools give users insight on how skills in one field can transfer to a different one. When I was 31 years old in 1980, I transferred from IRS to GAO. My Democrat and IRS and GAO superiors outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically ignored, dismissed, and belittled the many skills that I had gained working for IRS for almost 9 years that would transfer directly to what I would do for GAO. In addition, they ignored, dismissed, and belittled a) my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) my passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, and d) the fact that GAO audits IRS. They outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically used the aforesaid to force me to take $23,472/year pay cut to transfer.  I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/not-sure-whats-next-for-your-career-ask-ai/2e83d12c-6538-4272-81c2-ec2362e39d16

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do everything that they can to get more votes from their five million student loan deadbeats.
https://www.businessinsider.com/five-years-student-debt-relief-suddenly-over-trump-default-collections-2025-5

BUZZFEED
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Constitution to destroy Republicans.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/donald-trumps-comment-about-upholding-the-constitution

THE AGE
— ‘The reckoning is here’: Have the Democrats found a billionaire of their own (Pritzker) to take down Trump?
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/when-you-see-a-danger-you-yell-top-democrat-unleashes-call-to-arms-against-trump-20250429-p5luxp.html

GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s attacks on the Democrat news media. I should write about those who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican and who have attacked me and attacked my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most. I would focus on those who 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 dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/patsy-widakuswara-voice-of-america-lawsuit-trump-administration-press-freedom

May 4, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/may-day-2025-3rd-rallies-downtown-chicago-continue-efforts-unite-president-trumps-administrations-policies/16314144/
— US imposes sanctions on Mexican cartel linked to drug trafficking and fuel-theft network
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-imposes-sanctions-mexican-cartel-linked-drug-trafficking-fuel-theft-network/16311920/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing fight to keep their control of NPR and PBS
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/npr-and-pbs-vow-to-fight-trumps-funding-cuts/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-coalition-trump-agenda-march/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptrxIgBqb_s

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/may-day-protests-stretch-3-days-chicago-activists-rally-against-trump-policies
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABfj-b6Qus

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing fight to keep their control of NPR and PBS
https://www.wbez.org/pressroom/2025/05/03/letter-from-the-ceo-public-media-is-a-public-good-and-its-under-threat

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: With the state’s grocery tax set to end, many municipalities are adopting their own, even as food prices climb. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for rising food prices. Then again, they ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/illinois-grocery-tax-municipalities/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/03/far-left-groups-try-to-grow-chicago-ranks-at-rally-against-donald-trump-at-union-park/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/03/at-evanston-may-day-rally-protesters-decry-trump-administration-cuts/
— Democrat Chicago leaders allege that there has been a crime downturn and take credit for that.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/column-chicago-crime-brandon-johnson-donald-trump-page/
— Many, if not most, if not virtually all nonprofits are arms of the Democrat Party.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/opinion-nonprofit-funding-federal-cuts/
— Today in History: Haymarket Square demonstration turns deadly. Virtually all my Republican critics/opponents are vehemently anti-union. According to them, union members are grossly overpaid. They stress that while was a union member 1966-1969 and 1971-1980, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars. They ignore/dismiss/belittle that during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned a job-related master’s degree, and c) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/today-in-history-haymarket-square-demonstration-turns-deadly/
— American women are having fewer children. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that your children are, the bleaker that their future is: American, conservative, Republican, White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/editorial-should-we-worry-about-american-women-having-fewer-kids/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Sooner or later, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be on Medicaid.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/03/trump-musk-tax-cuts-rich-economy-doge-federal-funding-medicaid-health-insurance-ralph-martire

DAILY HERALD
— New Illinois, an organization that wants to create a state separate from Chicago and urban Cook County, drew about 60 people to a meeting Saturday at the Palatine Township Republican Organization office. Illinois counties that are run by Democrats are completely different from Illinois counties that are run by Republicans. Sooner or later, Illinois counties that are run by Democrats promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ (the destruction of traditional marriage and family), abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about the Democrat invasion, infiltration, infestation, conquering, and inevitable destruction of DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250503/news/new-illinois-supporters-meet-in-palatine-discuss-urban-rural-divide/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Any separation would have to be passed by the Illinois General Assembly as well as by the United States Congress. The last successful separation measure was the split of West Virginia from Virginia. West Virginia arrived at statehood in 1863 but its final composition wasn’t determined until an 1871 Supreme Court ruling.)
— GOP balks at approving even a fraction of Musk’s DOGE cuts. During the 1980s and 1990s, RINO senators and RINO representatives did not balk at Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts. The Democrats who ran GAO used Gingrich’s budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s remaining Republican employees including me. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250502/nation-and-world-politics/gop-balks-at-approving-even-a-fraction-of-musks-doge-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing fight efforts to reduce voter fraud.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250503/nation-and-world-politics/doj-civil-rights-division-to-focus-on-voting-conspiracies-and-prioritize-trump-election-order-memo/
— How dependent on Communist China are the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250503/business/nowhere-to-turn-small-businesses-dependent-on-imports-from-china-are-feeling-more-desperate-2/

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather
https://chicagodefender.com/when-the-heat-and-storms-come-lies-will-not-save-us/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/article_c1806378-b12c-48bc-a8d0-1907b655fe6d.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/watch-now-illinois-u-s-rep-marie-newman-and-republican-marjorie-taylor-greene-feud-over/article_4e95cb54-d6ea-5e81-bd42-fd929ba23925.html

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE & ILLINOIS VALLEY & DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE & HERALD NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/03/st-charles-hands-off-rally-targets-trump-policies-musks-actions/
https://www.shawlocal.com/illinois-valley/2025/05/04/mostly-people-are-fearful-of-losing-our-democracy-protest-takes-place-in-princeton/
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/03/laborers-in-dekalb-protest-trump-era-attacks-on-unions-higher-education/
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/05/03/were-going-to-come-back-anti-trump-protesters-return-to-joliet-streets-for-may-day-rally/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Musk slams critics for Nazi comparisons: ‘Character assassination’
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/musk-slams-critics-for-nazi-comparisons-character-assassination/?nxsparam=4
— Democrat leaders use indigenous-activists against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-indigenous-activists-see-trumps-columbus-day-rhetoric-as-cause-for-continued-advocacy/
— Trump brands his opponents as communists. Today’s Democrats have no problem with communism. They promote socialism. Socialism is a step on the road to communism.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-brands-his-opponents-as-communists-a-label-loaded-with-the-baggage-of-american-history/

NPR ILLINOIS
— After paying people to leave, one federal agency is scrambling to fill positions
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-03/after-paying-people-to-leave-one-federal-agency-is-scrambling-to-fill-positions
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-03/economic-uncertainty-remains-amid-trumps-tariffs
— Sweeping cuts hit NEA after Trump administration calls to eliminate the agency
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-03/sweeping-cuts-hit-nea-after-trump-administration-calls-to-eliminate-the-agency

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-05-03/trumps-trade-war-contracts-the-economy-but-job-market-holds-up
— Mexico’s president says she rejected Trump’s plan to send US troops across the border. Constructively, Mexico had declared war on America. FROM GOOGLE AI: The US military maintains a significant global presence with thousands of troops and hundreds of bases across nearly every continent. While the exact number of bases is difficult to determine due to varying classifications and ongoing changes, estimates range from 750 to over 900. The US has the largest number of overseas military bases compared to any other country, accounting for roughly 75-85% of the total. Key Locations and Troop Distribution: Japan, Germany, and South Korea: These countries host the largest number of US military bases and troops. Japan alone has over 50,000 US troops. Middle East: The US maintains a considerable military presence in the Middle East, with forces in numerous countries and on ships in the region’s waters, particularly in response to threats from Iran and its affiliated groups. Europe: The US has a significant military presence in Europe, particularly in countries like Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, with many bases being NATO interoperable.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-05-04/mexicos-president-says-she-rejected-trumps-plan-to-send-us-troops-across-the-border

WREX
— Democrat leaders always fight for more government spending.
https://www.wrex.com/news/illinois-news/plan-to-overhaul-higher-education-funding-meets-u-of-i-opposition/article_212dc72f-eef5-4af9-b9de-eb9f244f5471.html

25 NEWS NOW
— Trump jokes that he’d “like to be Pope,” but then said, “I don’t know. I have no preference.”
https://www.25newsnow.com/video/2025/05/03/trump-jokes-that-hed-like-be-president/

IPM NEWSROOM
— Democrat leaders fight government spending cuts, but they did not fight Gingrich’s cutting GAO’s budgets 1980-1997.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/npr-stations-targeted-for-cuts-by-trump-have-provided-lifelines-to-listeners-during-disasters/

CWB CHICAGO
— Mag Mile mail thief had 52 credit cards, was on pretrial release for the same thing
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/05/mag-mile-mail-thief-had-52-credit-cards-was-on-pretrial-release-for-the-same-thing-chicago-police.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN BIVER
— What a Volunteer Organization Like the GOP is Unable to Do
https://johnbiver.com/what-a-volunteer-organization-like-the-gop-is-unable-to-do/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Which Republican candidates are going to walk in Wheaton’s 2025 Independence Day parade? There will be a U.S Senate office, five Illinois statewide offices, and five DuPage countywide offices on the November 3, 2026 ballot. At the 2000 Illinois Republican Party State Convention in Springfield, I urged Governor George Ryan to invite Bush to walk in Wheaton’s 2000 Independence Day parade. While Bush did not walk in that parade, he and Cheney did walk in Naperville’s 2000 Labor Day parade. I was there at the rally before the parade started when the “open mike” incident occurred because the Bush team refused to let Ryan introduce Bush. Dole walked with Edgar in Wheaton’s 1996 Independence Day parade. Obama and his wife walked in Wheaton’s 2004 Independence Day parade. I served as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks from 2005 until Democrat and RINO DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton leaders succeeded in having their operatives and dupes end that in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are the biggest losses that you have suffered? Mine include the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had wasting my career and forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They flushed down their toilets my almost 27 years of work experience, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. But worse than that, since 1997, far too many Republican leaders have sided with my Democrat superiors and have used the aforesaid to hint/imply/argue/shout that I disserved the aforesaid because I am a very bad person and even worse things. I should write about those Republican leaders who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— The Line-Up to Replace Schakowsky
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/the-line-up-to-replace-schakowsky/
— Johnsburg Pro-Life Ministry Exec Reacts to Federal Court Decision’s Significant Victory, Partial Set-Back
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/johnsburg-pro-life-ministry-exec-reacts-to-federal-court-decisions-significant-victory-partial-set-back/
— Democrats Ahead in Filling Empty Precincts with Workers on the Ground
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/democrats-ahead-in-filling-empty-precincts-with-workers-on-the-ground/
— Democrats Get Another Candidate to Replace Schakowsky–Justin Ford
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/democrats-get-another-candidate-to-replace-schakowsky/
— Defenders Make Another Pitch for RTA Tax Hike
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/defenders-make-another-pitch-for-rta-tax-hike/
— Trump Administration Risks Being Labeled in Favor of Prison Rape with Elimination of Funding for the National Prison Rape Resource Center, Problem Seems to Still Exist in Cook County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/02/trump-administration-risks-being-labeled-in-favor-of-prison-rape-with-elimination-of-funding-for-the-national-prison-rape-resource-center/
— Potty-Mouthed Democrats Stimulate Editorial Cartoon
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/02/potty-mouthed-democrats-stimulate-editorial-cartoon/
— Underwood Not Throwing in Towel to Pritzker’s Choice
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/02/underwood-not-throwing-in-towel-to-pritzkers-choice/
— UPDATE: Duckworth Endorses Stratton for U.S. Senate, Israeli May Be Stimulus for Pritzker Displeasure with Underwood
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/02/duckworth-endorses-stratton-for-u-s-senate/
— Did Underwood Hurl Indirect Attack at Pritzker?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/03/did-underwood-hurl-indirect-attack-at-pritzker/
— Looking at Kane County GOP Election Loses and Replacement Possibilities for Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Should He Run for Durbin’s Seat
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/03/looking-at-kane-county-gop-election-loses-and-replacement-possibilities-for-congressman-raja-krishnamoorthi-should-he-run-for-durbins-seat/
— City/Village Fathers and Mothers Forced to Take Responsibility for Taxing Groceries, “Free Money” Days Partially Gone
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/04/city-village-fathers-and-mothers-forced-to-take-responsibility-for-taxing-groceries-free-money-days-partially-gone/
— “Red State” Picks Up on My Question about Why 314 Action Fund, a PAC, Considers Lauren Underwood, a Nurse, a Scientist
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/04/red-state-picks-up-on-my-question-about-why-314-action-fund-a-pac-considers-lauren-underwood-a-nurse-a-scientist/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Microsoft hires anti-Trump law firm
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3398418/microsoft-support-europe-hires-anti-trump-law-firm/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump suggests Vance, Rubio could succeed him — as he gives final answer on a third term
https://nypost.com/2025/05/04/us-news/president-trump-suggests-jd-vance-marco-rubio-could-succeed-him-as-he-gives-final-answer-on-a-third-term/

BLAZE
— Who are the Leftist Judges Trying to Sabotage Trump’s Agenda?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3zQ9FOHdcU

BREITBART
— Showdown Looms as Homan Explores Case Against AOC for Obstructing Immigration Enforcement
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/03/showdown-looms-as-tom-homan-explores-case-against-aoc-for-bstructing-immigration-enforcement/
— Radical LGBTQ+ Stonewall Group’s Charity Status Questioned in Row over Supreme Court Trans Ruling
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/05/03/lgbtq-stonewall-groups-charity-status-questioned-in-row-over-supreme-court-trans-ruling/
— Costco, Levi’s, and Other Companies Stubbornly Cling to DEI Policies
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/05/03/costco-levis-other-companies-stubbornly-cling-dei-policies/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump’s Push for Equal Rights and Against Quotas
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/03/trumps-push-for-equal-rights-and-against-quotas/

EPOCH TIMES
— US Tariff on Auto Parts Goes Into Effect. If the United States had been as dependent on foreign countries as it is now, it would never have won WWI or WWII.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trumps-25-percent-auto-part-tariff-goes-into-effect-5851640
— Mexican President Said She Rejected Trump Offer to Deploy US Troops to Mexico. Constructively, Mexico had declared war on America. FROM GOOGLE AI: The US military maintains a significant global presence with thousands of troops and hundreds of bases across nearly every continent. While the exact number of bases is difficult to determine due to varying classifications and ongoing changes, estimates range from 750 to over 900. The US has the largest number of overseas military bases compared to any other country, accounting for roughly 75-85% of the total. Key Locations and Troop Distribution: Japan, Germany, and South Korea: These countries host the largest number of US military bases and troops. Japan alone has over 50,000 US troops. Middle East: The US maintains a considerable military presence in the Middle East, with forces in numerous countries and on ships in the region’s waters, particularly in response to threats from Iran and its affiliated groups. Europe: The US has a significant military presence in Europe, particularly in countries like Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, with many bases being NATO interoperable.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/mexican-president-said-she-rejected-trump-offer-to-deploy-us-troops-to-mexico-5851892

FOX NEWS
— Texas Gov. Abbott signs $1 billion voucher program into law, capping off win for school choice advocates. ‘Gone are the days that families are limited to only the schools assigned by government,’ Gov. Abbott said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-gov-abbott-signs-1-billion-voucher-program-law-capping-off-win-school-choice-advocates
— Dem gov’s new campaign message man once said ‘religious right’ united by ‘white supremacy’  The Arizona governor’s recent hire is just the latest in a series of tumultuous staffing issues Hobbs has faced.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-govs-new-campaign-message-man-once-said-religious-right-united-white-supremacy
— AOC taunts Homan after DOJ referral threat over deportations. Homan suggested AOC’s previous advice for migrants may have crossed a line.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/come-me-aoc-taunts-tom-homan-after-doj-referral-threat-over-deportations
— Trump questions judges who block deportations of ‘criminals, including murderers’  federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act was ‘unlawful’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-questions-judges-who-block-deportations-criminals-including-murderers

NEWSMAX
— Trump Media Quits Delaware for ‘Pro-business’ Florida
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/trump-media-delaware-florida/2025/05/03/id/1209437/

PJ MEDIA
— Is the Era of Sanctuary Cities and States Going to Come to an End? For a city or a state to declare itself a sanctuary is to declare war on America.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/03/is-the-era-of-sanctuary-cities-and-states-going-to-come-to-an-end-n4939453

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Pritzker’s Trump posture ramps up 2028 chatter
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5280477-illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-trump-critics/

NBC NEWS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters a) drove the stock market down to punish Trump and b) decry the stock market’s comeback.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/stocks-unleash-remarkable-comeback-after-volatile-month-trump-tariffs-rcna204213

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://www.newsweek.com/may-day-50501-protests-list-weekend-2067558

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000010122048/how-trumps-cuts-are-stifling-lgbtq-health-research.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/health/trump-administration-slashes-research-into-lgbtq-health.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/opinion/trump-polls-popularity-dei.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Trump brands his opponents as communists. Today’s Democrats have no problem with communism. They promote socialism. Socialism is a step on the road to communism.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-05-04/trump-brands-his-opponents-as-communists-a-label-loaded-with-the-baggage-of-american-history

DALLAS MORNING NEWS
— Rogers: Who’s a RINO — Cornyn or Paxton? Texas oligarchy uses the wrong criteria for choosing leaders. RINOs are Republicans who reject planks in the Republican Party platform and who get rid of Republicans who support those planks. Most commonly, they reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about the biggest past and present RINO leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, etc. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2025/05/03/rogers-whos-a-rino-cornyn-or-paxton/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hate filled Trump-hating Trump-haters decry that Trump’s tariffs are lifting some U.S. manufacturers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-s-tariffs-are-lifting-some-u-s-manufacturers/ar-AA1E8iki

MONEY INC.
— 20 Worst Jobs in America. I did not have any of these jobs, but I did do yard work (1962-1964), deliver newspapers (1962-1966), wash dishes (1964-1966), clean golf shoes, chip slag, and pump gasoline (1966), deliver mail (1966-1969), work on an automotive assembly line (1970), sell tires, automotive services, and major appliances (1970-1971), pump more gasoline (1971-1972), collect delinquent taxes (1971-1980), and audit federal agencies (1980-1997).
https://moneyinc.com/20-worst-jobs-in-america/

May 1, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders organize May Day protests
https://abc7chicago.com/post/may-day-2025-thousands-expected-protest-march-rally-downtown-chicago-union-park-grant/16292225/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Senate votes down resolution to block Trump’s global tariffs amid economic turmoil
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/30/senate-vote-tariffs/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— How dependent is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct on federal spending?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/04/30/trump-americorps-cuts-include-grant-terminations-for-12-million-in-illinois-programs
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their foreign students. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if they could have admitted foreign students instead of me, they would have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/30/uic-student-has-legal-status-restored-but-only-after-leaving-us

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in Mundelein.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250430/business/company-shifts-plans-for-new-cannabis-dispensary-in-mundelein-to-different-site/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Under globalism, the rest of the world has prospered at the expense of America’s future.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing-logistics/rivian-stockpiled-batteries-asia-trump-tariffs

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— A crackdown on diversity programs is reshaping college graduation ceremonies. Some colleges are canceling graduation ceremonies that recognize individual cultures or groups. Diversity is divisive.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/a-crackdown-on-diversity-programs-is-reshaping-college-graduation-ceremonies/article_0c8f7250-9f85-59f7-9342-c4d5921b0fee.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote socialism.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-30/may-day-protesters-will-rally-nationwide-against-the-war-on-working-people

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Senate resolution to scrap Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs fails despite some GOP support
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/senate-resolution-to-scrap-trump-liberation-day-tariffs-fails-despite-some-gop-support/amp/

WAND TV
— For Black men, fashion has been a tool of self-expression — and a way they’ve been judged. Clothing as message.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/for-black-men-fashion-has-been-a-tool-of-self-expression-and-a-way-theyve/article_96dbc781-4929-55d9-a211-1aa0642395e7.html

EVANSTON NOW
— To get more votes from renters, some Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that homeowners discriminate against them. How many rental units are there in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://evanstonnow.com/new-council-heavy-with-homeowners/

EVERGREEN PARK PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Casten.
https://patch.com/illinois/evergreenpark/sean-casten-tells-ep-town-hall-fight-our-democracy-or-lose-it

ILLINOIS TIMES
— I should write about those Republican leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who are the most anti-conservative, that is, who are the most anti-Republican. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/illinois-republicans-need-diversity-of-views-a-bigger-tent-20101601
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/recognizing-the-spirit-of-abraham-lincoln-20102511

DICK DURBIN
— Durbin ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQyAn-YX4NQ

CHUY GARCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) that Jesus is a liberal Democrat, that is, that Jesus is anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and b) that Jesus promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, that Jesus promotes dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the 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. How strongly have Democrat leaders taken control of your church?.
https://x.com/RepChuyGarcia

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-503/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) that Jesus is a liberal Democrat, that is, that Jesus is anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and b) that Jesus promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, that Jesus promotes dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the 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. How strongly have Democrat leaders taken control of your church?. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Newly elected Cook County GOP chairman Del Mar seeks to breathe new life into party: ‘We’re just going to cut the bull****’
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/671055397-newly-elected-cook-county-gop-chairman-del-mar-seeks-to-breathe-new-life-into-party-we-re-just-going-to-cut-the-bull

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— State legislators oppose Chicago mayor’s desire for more taxpayer dollars
https://www.dailygazette.com/news/business/nerd_wallet/watch-state-legislators-oppose-chicago-mayor-s-desire-for-more-taxpayer-dollars/article_9d089685-b288-501b-84d5-040e0bc68cd1.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Marter Says Underwood Supporter Wishes Him Dead
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/marter-says-underwood-supporter-wishes-him-dead/
— Blago as GOP U.S. Senate Candidate?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/30/blago-as-gop-u-s-senate-candidate/
— POW/MIA Honor Chair Donated to Courthouse by Rolling Thunder Chapter 2
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/29/pow-mia-honor-chair-donated-to-courthouse-by-rolling-thunder-chapter-2/
— LaHood on Trump’s First 100 Days, NPR Disagrees, Sun-Times’ Take
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/29/lahood-on-trumps-first-100-days/
— Americans for Prosperity Use Mail To Bring Pressure on Ness Not to Vote for Costly Pension Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/americans-for-prosperity-use-mail-to-bring-pressure-on-ness-not-to-vote-for-costly-pension-bill/
— UPDATE: McHenry County Attendees at Illinois GOP Bryon Donalds Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/mchenry-county-attendees-at-illinois-gop-bryon-donalds-fundraiser/
— Debate Continues Between Republican and Democratic Party Board Members
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/debate-continues-between-republican-and-democratic-party-board-members/
— Ex-District 300 Superintendent Norm Wetzel Has 28th Highest Public Pension
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/ex-district-300-superintendent-norm-wetzel-has-28th-highest-public-pension/
— Intriguing Fire Protection District Intergovernmental Cooperation in Western McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/intriguing-fire-protection-district-intergovernmental-cooperation-in-western-mchenry-county/
— More on the Closure of a Rockford Abortion Clinic
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/27/more-on-the-closure-of-a-rockford-abortion-clinic/
— Demonstrators and LaHood in Different Parts of His District
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/26/demonstrators-and-lahood-in-different-parts-of-his-district/
— Deep State – 1967 — Goldwater Supporter in Johnson Administration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/26/deep-state-1967/
— Still Another Unfunded Mandate on the Horizon for Schools
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/26/still-another-unfunded-mandate-on-the-horizon-for-schools/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Bondi celebrates arrests that ‘make America safe again’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3396145/pam-bondi-100-days-celebrates-arrests-make-america-safe-again/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump admin to charge asylum application fee, Dems in an uproar
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/30/trump-admin-to-charge-asylum-application-fee-dems-in-an-uproar-1540083/

BLAZE
— Illegal aliens aren’t just ‘guests’ — they’re future voters
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/illegal-aliens-arent-just-guests-theyre-future-voters

BREITBART
— Trump’s Mass Deportation Goals Require Advanced Technology
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/30/ice-chief-todd-lyons-trumps-mass-deportation-goals-require-advanced-technology-akin-to-amazon-fedex/

COLLEGE FIX
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn pro-lifers.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/pro-lifers-misuse-bible-to-consolidate-white-political-power-ucla-event/
— Harvard ends racially segregated grad ceremonies, renames DEI office amid battle with Trump
https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-cuts-funding-for-racially-segregated-graduation-ceremonies/
— Northwestern University edits job titles to erase references to DEI
https://www.thecollegefix.com/northwestern-university-edits-job-titles-to-erase-references-to-dei/

DAILY CALLER
— The Democrats’ New Fad Is Violent Rhetoric
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/30/opinion-the-democrats-new-fad-is-violent-rhetoric-haley-kennington/
— Trump Addresses Liberal Spin On Whether He’ll Gut Entitlements. To what extent are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on entitlements?
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/01/trump-chris-cuomo-medicaid-entitlements/

FOX NEWS
— Kamala Harris comes knives out against Trump in first speech since leaving office: ‘Absolute chaos’  Harris claimed that under the Trump administration ‘we are seeing the wholesale abandonment’ of American ideals. According to Democrat leaders, America exists to give more preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-comes-knives-out-against-trump-first-speech-since-leaving-office-absolute-chaos

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Illegal Aliens Aren’t Fugitive Slaves
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/illegal-aliens-arent-fugitive-slaves/

NEWSMAX
— Trump’s First 100 Days Causing Dems to Have ‘Mental Breakdown’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/craig-shirley-donald-trump-democrats/2025/04/30/id/1208936/
— Military Rebounding Under Trump Leadership
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pete-hegseth-donald-trump-sean-parnell/2025/04/30/id/1209026/

PJ MEDIA
— Woke Judge Tramples Law With New Border Enforcement Ruling
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/04/30/woke-judge-tramples-law-with-new-border-patrol-ruling-n4939380

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— To promote diversity is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/news/thomson-reuters-drops-diversity-inclusion-201922820.html

ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote May Day protests against Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/activists-rally-worldwide-day-us-protests-targeting-trump-121345294

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying America to destroy Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/u-s-economy-slowed-sharply-this-year-under-second-trump-administration/

CNN
— According to Democrat leaders, America exists to give more preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/kamala-harris-speech-trump/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/politics/video/kamala-harris-trump-performance-digvid
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/trump-gdp-economy-golden-age-recession-perception/index.html
— Vance casts tie-breaking Senate vote to kill bipartisan effort to rebuke Trump’s trade policy
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/senate-republicans-democrats-trump-tariffs/index.html

MSN
— Tesla board searching for new CEO to replace Musk
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/tesla-board-searching-for-new-ceo-to-replace-elon-musk-report/ar-AA1DXKFT

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to Blacks. To give preference to one group is to discriminate against other groups.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-chicago-schools-black-students.html
— Under globalism, the rest of the world has prospered at the expense of America’s future.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/business/bank-of-japan-gdp-forecast.html
— Student Debt Collections Restart on May 5. More than five million borrowers are in default, and millions of others are projected to be on the precipice. Did you get a college loan? I did not. If I had gotten one, my GPA would have been higher. I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying. If my GPA had been higher, that would have helped me get a better job after I graduated debt-free from NIU in 1970.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/business/student-loans-collections.html
— My Democrat superiors in the federal government had great success getting my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-antisemitism-jews-israel.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly a) side with America’s enemies, and b) promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/100-days-trump-world.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote socialism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/01/march-holiday-may-day-labor-workers-union/3389a3cc-2642-11f0-ae6d-e4db528eba27_story.html

USA TODAY
— 77 million Americans voted for Trump. After 100 days, few of them regret it. President Donald Trump is delivering on what he said he would do, and, for the most part, his voters appreciate it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/29/trump-polls-approval-rating-voters/83271813007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in driving the economy down to punish Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-us-economy-republicans-congress/83290133007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-approval-rating-polls-down-economy/83349237007/
— Democrats and RINOs use wokeness/wokeism to destroy Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/01/is-trump-winning-dei-fight/83368731007/
— Return on a college investment: These majors pay the highest premiums. In retrospect and with benefit of hindsight, I would have majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970. I erroneously thought that I could never pass the CPA examination. But I not only passed it, I passed it on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. But by then, the accounting profession viewed me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/24/is-college-degree-worth-it-graduate-income/83216369007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk. Hate filled Trump-haters ever-increasingly punish Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-musk-ceo-search-board-0ce61af9
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Under globalism, the rest of the world has prospered at the expense of America’s future. I should write about the factory jobs in Chicago Heights that my brother lost when his employers moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulations.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/us-gdp-q1-2025-1f82f689
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/first-quarter-gdp-economy-tariffs-donald-trump-trade-policy-ee60db88
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/are-factory-jobs-worth-protecting-economy-manufacturing-production-fa969bea

NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote socialism.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5382560/may-day-protests-history-trump

POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying America to destroy Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/30/democrat-group-trump-economic-messaging-warning-00314778

FED SMITH
— House Oversight Committee Advances Benefits Cuts Package
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/04/30/house-oversight-committee-advances-benefits-cuts-package/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Among the cuts in the legislation are raising the FERS contribution rate to 4.4% for all federal employees, eliminating the FERS annuity supplement and switching from a high-3 average salary to high-5. There also is a provision that would give newly hired federal employees the option to elect to serve as at-will employees in exchange for higher take home pay with a lower FERS contribution rate. Accepting the at-will status option would keep the FERS contribution rate at 4.4%, but retaining civil service protections would add 5% to the retirement contribution (9.4% total). Another provision would require federal employees to pay a $350 fee to reduce frivolous employee appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) regarding agency disciplinary adverse actions. The proposed cuts were being considered as the House Oversight Committee looked to slash $50 billion from the overall federal budget as it debated its portion of the larger overall FY 2025 spending bill. In remarks he made at Wednesday’s markup session, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said: World-class employment benefits provided to federal employees are well-known, which can include eleven paid holidays; various incentives and awards; health, life, and long-term care insurance; flexible spending accounts; student loan repayment and forgiveness plans; generous leave and workplace flexibilities; and childcare, professional development, and commuter subsidies. The simple truth is that a significant amount of the costs associated with all of these benefits are funded by hardworking taxpayers in the private sector and increasingly now federal government borrowing. The legislation before us today advances important budgetary reforms that will save taxpayers money. Democrats as well as one Republican voted against the legislation in Wednesday’s markup session. Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH) opposed cutting pensions for federal employees as part of the deficit reduction, and he had said prior to the markup session that he would be voting against the bill. He wrote in a statement on X: The goal of reconciliation should be to reduce overall government spending by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse and reducing needless and unnecessary spending. I oppose any and all efforts to reduce federal spending by taking money from the hard-earned pensions of federal workers. Employee benefits are not a gift. They are earned. I will not support and will not vote for the Oversight Committee’s current budget reconciliation proposal reducing earned pension benefits for current federal employees. In remarks he made at the markup session, Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) said: This partisan bill threatens to further undermine the federal workforce, by reducing the take-home pay, benefits, and workforce protections of 2.4 million federal employees, most of whom are middle-class American workers and a third of whom are military veterans. This is more of the same; an unprecedented assault and political purge of the civil service. The legislative package now advances to the House Budget Committee. Turner also said he thinks that changes are likely to be made to the legislation as it progresses through the legislative process, namely that the cuts to federal employee pensions to which he was opposed would ultimately be eliminated. During Wednesday’s markup session, he reiterated his opposition to the legislation, saying, “I believe that making changes to pension retirement benefits in the middle of someone’s employment is wrong. Changing the rules, especially when someone’s already been vested, is wrong.” He also added, “I have talked to enough people on the House floor that I do think that this [pension cuts] will not be included in the final bill, and that this bill ultimately will have to be changed if it’s going to be included in the ultimate budget reconciliation.” Whether any of these proposed cuts become reality will be determined by what makes it into the final budget legislation if and when it becomes law. As Congressman Turner noted, changes are likely to be made as it goes through the legislative process. FedSmith will continue to provide any updates as they become available.)

PHYS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use diversity to get rid of Republicans.
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-trump-diversity-undermine-merit-decades.html

April 29, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump marks his first 100 days in office with a rally in Michigan
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-ease-auto-tariffs-faced-us-automakers/16277133/
— Trump pushes back against economic anxieties in ABC interview
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-abc-interview-president-pushes-back-economic-anxieties-says-china-will-eat-tariffs/16279517/
— Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
https://abc7chicago.com/post/wisconsin-supreme-court-suspends-hannah-dugan-judge-arrested-accused-helping-eduardo-flores-ruiz-evade-ice/16280292/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use wokeness/wokeism to get rid of Republicans. Further, those who are anti-conservative, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time use wokeness/wokeism to get rid of those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time.
https://abc7.com/post/trump-100-days-america-faces-woke-divide-president-donald-says-history/16276880/
— Federal workers on DOGE impact during Trump’s first 100 days: ‘We want to come back to work’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-100-days-look-elon-musks-doge-plan-cut-down-government-waste-lay-off-federal-workers/16278493/
— Montgomery Trump loyalists believe tariffs will improve economy, support mass government layoffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/voters-red-montgomery-illinois-express-support-donald-trump-tariffs-government-cuts-dept-veterans-affairs-more/16280034/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago joins lawsuit to block Trump’s dismantling of federal bureaucracy. The lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of exceeding presidential authority and violating the constitutional separation of powers that gives Congress control of the federal purse strings.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/04/29/chicago-lawsuit-trump-musk-downsize-federal-bureaucracy

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration joins lawsuit against Trump to block federal worker firings
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/mayor-brandon-johnson-lawsuit-trump-federal-worker-firings/
— Trump cuts federal programs that promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, programs that promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, that is, he cuts programs that discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/hegseth-ending-woke-program/

WGN RADIO
— John Kass: Sounds like Pritzker is ready for a donnybrook
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-sounds-like-jb-pritzker-is-ready-for-a-donnybrook/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Johnson joins lawsuit seeking to prevent Trump’s federal government overhaul
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-mayor-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-government-cuts

CHALK BEAT
— Trump administration launches investigation into Chicago Public Schools’ Black Student Success Plan. Were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother attended high school. nevertheless, I got an ACT score of 24, graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class, and got accepted by UIC.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/29/trump-administration-investigates-cps-black-student-success-plan/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-295/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS GOP
— 100 Days of WINS
https://illinois.gop/newsroom/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois appellate court justice James Knecht says the arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan was “reminiscent of King George, Hitler and Mussolini.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_aa9631af-36a1-417b-abba-623d07b32a51.html
https://www.ktbs.com/news/national/illinois-judge-slams-arrest-of-wisconsin-judge-as-reminiscent-of-hitler/article_9cbd0816-9042-52d5-b83e-7ff3bdc66b4e.html
https://www.aol.com/news/illinois-judge-slams-arrest-wisconsin-193700543.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— House Republicans propose fees for electric, hybrid cars
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/29/house-republicans-propose-fees-electric-hybrid-cars/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pritzker: The angriest Democrat in the room
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3395273/angriest-democrat-jb-pritzker-in-the-room/

BREITBART
— Trump’s Labor Department to Revoke Federal Funds from States Giving Unemployment Benefits to Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/28/trumps-labor-department-to-revoke-federal-funds-states-giving-unemployment-benefits-illegals/
— Venezuela Prepares Marxist May Day Rallies Demanding Release of U.S.-Deported Tren de Aragua Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/04/29/venezuela-prepares-marxist-may-day-rallies-demanding-release-of-u-s-deported-tren-de-aragua-illegals/

CAMPUS REFORM
— UW-Madison lecture to explore how ‘White Innocence’ leads to death of black infants.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/uw-madison-lecture-explore-white-innocence-leads-death-black-infants/27887

DAILY SIGNAL
— Pritzker Calls for ‘Disruption’ to ‘Punish’ Republicans. Hate-filled Democrat and RINO Trump-hating leaders have their operatives and their dupes punish Republicans. They have had their operatives and dupes take many adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/29/jb-pritzker-calls-disruption-punish-republicans/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Delivers 100th Day Achievement Speech in Michigan
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/live-6pm-april-29-trump-delivers-100th-day-achievement-speech-in-michigan-5848903
— White House Responds to Mexican President After She Calls US Ads ‘Discriminatory’
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/white-house-responds-to-mexican-president-after-she-calls-us-ads-discriminatory-5846987

NEWSMAX
— 66,463 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Trump’s First 100 Days
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-criminal-aliens-arrests/2025/04/29/id/1208808/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
–The Democrat Party is the party of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. It is the party of hatred against conservatives, Republicans, Americans, Whites, males, older people, married people, non-poor people, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5272478-jb-pritzker-democratic-party-agenda/

NEW YORK TIMES
— White House Attacks Amazon Over Idea of Showing Tariffs’ Cost
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-amazon-tariffs-prices.html

April 29, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5 & CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker. To promote Pritzker is to promote more hatred against Trump and against those who share his demographics. Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-facing-questions-about-a-possible-presidential-run/3732576/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY2Mccqf-r4

WGN9
— Is a summer of street takeovers ahead for Chicago?
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/is-a-summer-of-street-takeovers-ahead-for-chicago/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats are doubling down on vulgar language.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/democrats-fbomb-politics-swearing/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Tesla, that is, against Musk, that is, against Trump. If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/28/northbrook-protesters-demand-constitutional-rights-prevention-of-fascism/
— FRONT PAGE: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/column-donald-trump-100-days-depetris/
— Political uniformity is bad for democracy — and for Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/28/politics-dnc-republicans-hogg-democrats/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/04/29/donald-trump-first-100-days-presidency-chicago-illinois-impact
— Top White House aide says Pritzker’s call for mass protests ‘could be construed as inciting violence’  President Donald Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller cited assassination attempts and criticized the destruction of property as a protest tactic, saying it “sits directly adjacent to attacks on humans.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/28/white-house-chief-of-staff-says-pritzkers-call-for-mass-protests-could-be-construed-as-inciting-violence
— The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/support-cst?tpcc=FY25-WPFD-Email-PrintSub-

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250428/nation-and-world/white-house-focuses-on-border-crackdown-as-it-marks-100-days-for-trumps-second-term/

EVANSTON NOW
— Local rabbis, Jewish NU profs push back on Trump. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://evanstonnow.com/local-rabbis-jewish-nu-profs-push-back-on-trump/

PBS CHICAGO
— Democrat Leaders Say that Trump is Politicizing the Fight Against Antisemitism. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.pbs.org/video/some-say-trump-administration-is-politicizing-the-fight-against-antisemitism-sycucy/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government spending. To what extent are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on government spending?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-28/what-happens-when-the-federal-government-stops-funding-university-research

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Tuition, fees rising at Illinois universities. Back in the good old days, I was able to work my way through college and graduate from NIU debt-free in 1970 and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/tuition-fees-rising-at-illinois-universities-as-state-funding-lags-inflation-pace/

ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— 2025 Award Recipients  I should write about my critics/opponents who have ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the 4-part CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 in 1979 and my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981. I would focus on those who stressed that they and others got better scores on the parts than I did.
https://www.icpas.org/about-us/icpas-awards/2025-award-recipients

CWB CHICAGO
— Adults arrested during downtown ‘teen trend’ failed to appear in court
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/04/adults-arrested-during-downtown-teen-trend-failed-to-appear-in-court-alderman-says.html

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/27/hamburger-marys-the-iconic-drag-diner-reopening-in-edgewater/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders eve-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/29/stephen-miller-attacks-jb-pritzker-over-new-hampshire-speech-00314775

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-501/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL GOP chair calls to investigate Pritzker for criminal incitement
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a217f5d6-f72f-4220-b11d-9529962fd347.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS

— The mainstream news media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him. – Dave Diersen

http://www.gopillinois.com

— The more demographics that you share with a candidate, the more likely that you will vote for that candidate. How many demographics do you share with Trump? Anticipate/expect that the more that you do, the more success that Pritzker will have making those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct hate you. Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write about the success that Pritzker has had in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the more steps that you should take to protect yourself from hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters. – Dave Diersen

http://www.gopillinois.com


ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Top Illinois pensioners invest $1, get $25 back in retirement benefits. If my Democrat GAO superiors had not forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and I was still working for GAO at the same salary, in today’s dollars, I would have paid $296,612 into the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) instead of getting $1,847,580 from the CSRS.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/top-illinois-pensioners-invest-1-get-25-back-in-retirement-benefits/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump requires truck drivers to speak English with new executive order
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/28/donald-trump-requires-truck-drivers-speak-english-new-executive-order/

NEW YORK POST
— Pritzker doubles down on calls for people to ‘mobilize’ against Trump: ‘Five-alarm fire’
https://nypost.com/2025/04/29/us-news/jb-pritzker-doubles-down-on-calls-for-people-to-mobilize-against-trump-five-alarm-fire/
— Despite faux fanfare and outrage, DOGE hasn’t even scratched the federal budget monster
https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/opinion/despite-faux-fanfare-and-outrage-doge-hasnt-even-scratched-the-federal-budget-monster/
— Trump is restoring merit — by slaying rules that enforce reverse discrimination. My critics/opponents promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-restores-merit-by-slaying-reverse-discrimination/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— The process due illegals is deportation
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/29/victor-joecks-the-process-due-illegals-is-deportation-1539719/

BREITBART
— Pritzker: Trump Has ‘Taken Us Off the Rails,’ He ‘Lied to the American People’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/28/pritzker-trump-has-taken-us-off-the-rails-he-lied-to-the-american-people/

FEDERALIST
— The First 100 Days: Trump Restores The Southern Border
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/29/the-first-100-days-trump-restores-the-southern-border/

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down. What is your approval rating? The more that you promote the Republican Party platform, that is, the more that you promote conservative principles, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders drive your approval rating down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-first-100-days-approval-rating-double-digits-below-biden-obama-poll/ar-AA1DIL8q%3Focid%3Dhpmsn

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use wokeness and wokeism to destroy Republicans
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-war-woke-sides-issue-dividing-country/story?id=121125797

CNN
— Democrat and RINO leaders succeed in getting Canada to elect a hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/americas/canada-election-results-carney-poilievre-intl-hnk/index.html

MSNBC
— ‘The reckoning is here’: Pritzker calls out ‘do-nothing Democrats’ Do nothing? What about the Democrats in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct who voted for Democrats in the April 1, 2025 election?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/reckoning-gov-pritzker-calls-nothing-004805453.html

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Best Cars for Recent Graduates in 2025. Did your parents have enough money to buy you cars? My parents did not. Because of that, a) I did yard work 1962-1964 and bought a 1958 Chevy Bel Air in 1964, b) I washed dishes 1964-1966 and bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint (a poor man’s GTO) in 1966, c) I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail 1966-1967, and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, d) I delivered mail in 1968 and bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, e) I deliver mail, worked on an automotive assembly line, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances, and collected federal taxes 1970-1971 and bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971. My father died suddenly in 1969.
https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/best-new-cars-for-recent-college-grads

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use children of illegals to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/us-citizen-children-deported.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/harvard-dei-law-review.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURES: Trump White House Reshapes Media Coverage. I should write about those who have used Jeff Gannon against me the most. SEE: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-blogger-controversy/ and https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/washington/web-site-owner-says-he-knew-of-reporters-2-identities.html
https://nytimes.pressreader.com/the-new-york-times
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, if not already, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) getting welfare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/food-banks-trump-cuts-aid.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly focus on making Blacks hate Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/28/trump-black-diversity-dei/

NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST
— Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-antisemitism-jews-israel.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/28/antisemitism-scapegoat-jews/times.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-antisemitism-jews-israel.html

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/29/trump-eggs-prices-immigration-canada-congress-budget-spain-blackout-beyonce-eagles/83339166007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, 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 and more hatred against conservatives, Republicans, Americans, Whites, males, older people, married people, non-poor people, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/04/28/pope-francis-joe-biden-mercy/83316390007/

DESERT NEWS
— Republicans unveil plan to charge asylum application fees for first time in history. The more money that citizens of foreign countries have, the higher asylum application fees they should pay.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/04/28/republicans-unveil-immigration-plans/

TRI STATE PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.tspr.org/2025-04-28/the-trump-administration-continues-to-crack-down-on-illegal-immigration

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Those who benefit the most from cheap foreign labor and from lax foreign regulations fight Trump’s tariffs the most.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-100-days-second-term-tariffs-economy-china-ukraine-6abc2198
— MAGA Loyalists Are Gaining a Foothold in D.C. Lobbying. According to hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters, I am a Trump loyalist. But Trump loyalists vehemently disagree.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-maga-lobbyists-upending-washington-with-mcdonalds-and-bear-hunting-a37e3d06
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-sign-order-requiring-nationwide-list-of-sanctuary-cities-and-states-dbcc5ada

24/7 WALL STREET
— New York May Close Tesla Dealerships. If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://247wallst.com/politics/2025/04/28/new-york-may-close-tesla-dealerships/

FORTUNE
— New York lawmakers are moving to shut down Elon Musk’s Tesla sales across the EV-friendly state.  If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://fortune.com/2025/04/28/elon-musk-tesla-sales-new-york-state-government/

FORBES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the more steps that you should take to protect yourself from hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IFU7lvLmM

FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91324404/how-trump-has-gutted-dei-in-his-first-100-days

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
—  The ups and downs of electric vehicles over more than a century. What are the demographics of those who my EVs? What are the demographics of those who buy 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EVs? I just bought one.
https://autos.yahoo.com/quiet-quirky-ups-downs-electric-110000070.html

AUTO GUIDE
— Dodge Charger Daytona EV Could Get Better Batteries in 2026. Nevertheless, my 6,000-pound 2025 Dodge Charger R/T Plus does the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH. Level 1 charging is fast enough for me. But because Dodge gave me a free $600 Level II charger, I had it installed along with a 220V 50 Amp outlet in my Iron Gate Car Condo for $1,125.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/manufacturers/dodge/dodge-charger-daytona-ev-could-get-better-batteries-soon-44619442
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stellantis and Factorial Energy have validated a semi-solid-state battery with 375 Wh/kg energy density, offering faster charging and improved cold-weather performance, with real-world testing set to begin in Dodge Charger Daytona EVs in 2026. Weight savings could be substantial, with up to 2,000 pounds cut from total vehicle mass, improving EV efficiency, performance, and reducing manufacturing costs. Production challenges remain, with high costs and manufacturing difficulties still to overcome before the technology can be widely adopted.)
— Should We Worry About The Ford Mustang’s Future? I bought a new 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium in 2023.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/manufacturers/ford/should-we-worry-about-the-ford-mustang-s-future-44619454
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Gasoline-powered Ford Mustang sales fell 31.6% in Q1 2025, while the electric Mustang Mach-E outsold the traditional coupe for the first time. High prices, economic pressures, and a colder-than-average winter contributed to the Mustang’s declining demand. Overall Ford brand sales slipped 1.2%, highlighting growing consumer interest in EVs as traditional models like the Explorer and Expedition also saw sales declines.)

HUFFINGTON POST
— Pritzker Calls For ‘Mass Protests,’ Says Democrats’ Strategy Is ‘Stale’  “These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” the Illinois Democrat said in a fiery speech.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jb-pritzker-mass-protests_n_681002d4e4b0c99c9f2412c1

NEW REPUBLIC
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194527/trump-war-higher-education-isnt-just-crushing-dissent

MEDIA MATTERS
— Pritzker “all but threatened half the country with violence”
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/hannity-illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-all-threatened-half-country-violence

ROLLING STONE
— Trump Shrinks, But Can’t Shake Isaac Hayes Copyright Lawsuit. A judge trimmed some claims but says the allegation Trump “personally selected” the song “Hold On, I’m Coming” for campaign rallies can proceed. Should I write about those “Republican” candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who do not want me to promote them? They paint themselves as being moderate, centrist, RINO, Democrat Lite, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, if not Democrat plant. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/donald-trump-isaac-hayes-copyright-infrintement-lawsuit-1235327134/

JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
— Pritzker accuses Trump of ‘disparaging the very foundation of Judaism’  Pritzker, Illinois’ Jewish governor, also called for mass protest in his address, prompting backlash. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.jta.org/2025/04/28/united-states/j-b-pritzker-accuses-trump-of-disparaging-the-very-foundation-of-judaism

TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Over 550 rabbis, cantors sign letter accusing Trump of ‘abusing’ antisemitism issue. American clergy, mostly from non-Orthodox movements, say US administration exploiting real threat ‘to divide Americans, undermine democracy, and harm other vulnerable communities. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-550-rabbis-cantors-sign-letter-accusing-trump-of-abusing-antisemitism-issue/amp/

GB NEWS
— Musk blamed for poor Tesla sales as activists launch boycott over right-wing ties – ‘No product can fix this’  If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars/elon-musk-poor-tesla-sales-boycott

BUSINESS RECORDER
— Government subsidies and tax credits are crucial for a big push in EV adoption. What are the demographics of those who my EVs? What are the demographics of those who buy 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EVs? I just bought one.
https://www.brecorder.com/news/40359786/2nd-ev-conference-brings-together-industry-leaders-policymakers-financiers-others