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
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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
— 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
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
April 28, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-approval-rating-100-days-is-lowest-any-president-past-80-years-abc-newswashington-postipsos-poll-shows/16260005/
ABC7 & NBC5 & FOX32 & WGN RADIO & CHICAGO TRIBUNE & NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST & NBC NEWS & CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker. Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump and the Democrat Party platform, that is, 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 the rest of the Democrat Party platform. Under Pritzker, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. Under Pritzker, poverty and crime will ever-increasingly increase.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-potential-2028-democratic-presidential-candidate-headlines-new-hampshire-fundraiser/16262580/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/jb-pritzker-headlines-major-democratic-fundraiser-amid-presidential-race-talk/3731560/
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pritzker-2028-new-hampshire-fundraiser
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/ap-jb-pritzker-a-potential-2028-democratic-presidential-candidate-headlines-new-hampshire-fundraiser/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/pritzker-potential-presidential-candidate/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/politics/jb-pritzker-2028-new-hampshire-trump-democrats.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/pritzker-democratic-party-new-hampshire/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/jb-pritzker-implores-democrats-fight-trump-new-hampshire-rcna203229
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-speaks-new-hampshire/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/musk-washington-popularity-fallen/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/28/chicago-head-start-donald-trump-budget-cuts-impact-childcare-preschool-brighton-park
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/04/28/lgbtq-chicagoans-art-project-intergenerational
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat and RINO leaders decry that Trump inauguration got millions from Illinois residents and companies
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250427/nation-and-world-politics/trump-inauguration-got-millions-from-illinois-residents-and-companies-reports-shows/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Donors using Chicago-area addresses included Chicago Cubs co-owner and former Republican National Committee finance chair Todd Ricketts of Wilmette; former Illinois Republican National Committee representative Richard W. Porter of Northfield; and Lake Forest resident Laura Seidensticker, according to a report filed April 20 with the Federal Election Commission. Additionally, Huizenga Capital Management chair Heidi Huizenga used the company’s Oak Brook address for her donation despite living in Florida. Chicago-area companies that contributed to the Jan. 20 inauguration included Lake County’s Abbott Laboratories, McDonald’s Corp. of Chicago and Motorola Solutions, also of Chicago.)
— Illinois lawmakers stop in Buffalo Grove to protest federal funding cuts
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250427/news/illinois-lawmakers-stop-in-buffalo-grove-to-protest-federal-funding-cuts/
WGN9
— More than 100 immigrants detained at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado
https://wgntv.com/news/more-than-100-immigrants-detained-at-an-illegal-after-hours-nightclub-in-colorado/
WGN RADIO
— Rep. Cabello wants to create an Illinois Department of Government Efficiency. If you would apply for that department, what would you stress? I would stress a) that I worked 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, b) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step-1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) that I became a licensed CPA, d) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, e) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, f) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, and g) that I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/rep-cabello-wants-to-create-an-illinois-department-of-government-efficiency/
NORTHWEST HERALD
— Veterans rally in McHenry against ‘goal’ to cut tens of thousands of VA jobs. Rally draws political speakers like contender for Congress Kat Abughazaleh.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/04/27/veterans-rally-in-mchenry-against-goal-to-cut-tens-of-thousands-of-va-jobs/
SOUTHWEST REGIONAL PUBLISHING
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://southwestregionalpublishing.com/2025/04/27/anti-immigrant-protesters-rally-near-chicago-holiday-inn/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump says Columbus Day will now just be Columbus Day
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-says-columbus-day-will-now-just-be-columbus-day/article_8c28c376-7418-5a47-a00a-4d5c14a7ac0b.html
KSDK
— Communities rally to defend Native American mascots in Illinois bill dispute. What about the Crete-Monee Warriors?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni9GIsmyGqo
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— A kick-off campaign for a ballot measure targeting sanctuary status has been moved to a new location after owners of 115 Bourbon Street, where the event was originally to be held, were subject to threats, according to Terry Newsome, a MAGA Republican and Jan. 6 protester who’s helping organize the Wednesday event with the Save Illinois Coalition. The kick-off is now at Belvedere Banquets in Elk Grove Village instead. . .More than a hundred Jewish members of Northwestern University’s faculty and staff are pushing back against claims that there is “widespread antisemitic harassment” at the school.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/28/duckworth-endorses-stratton-for-durbin-seat-illinois-00312142
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-500/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— 2024 data: Not a single child tested proficient in math in 80 Illinois schools. For reading, it was 24 schools.
https://wirepoints.org/2024-education-fail-not-a-single-child-tested-proficient-in-math-in-80-illinois-schools-for-reading-its-24-schools-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you would apply to work for Cabello’s Illinois Department of Government Efficiency and/or Musk’s DOGE, what would you stress? I would stress a) that I worked 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, b) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step-1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) that I became a licensed CPA, d) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, e) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, f) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, and g) that I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What if anti-conservative leaders had not had their operatives and their dupes destroy TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC)? Under my chairmanship, TAPROOT would still be holding monthly breakfast meetings, an August picnic, and a December Christmas party. Speakers at those events would still be advocating conservative principles. They would still be advocating the Republican Party platform including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about those anti-conservative leaders who had their operatives and their dupes destroy TAPROOT and ICRC. I would focus on those who reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you fight against that your critics/opponents fight for. I fight against race and gender based preference giving. My critics/opponents fight for race and gender based preference giving. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females. But neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. Further, virtually all federal employees are Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they gave tremendous preference to their Democrat employees who were minority and/or female. All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats and many if not most of them were minority and/or female. They all had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Duckworth calls Trump a “draft-dodging coward.” Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me. My Democrat Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO superiors always stressed to my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I did not enlist and that I got student draft deferments 1966-1970 while I attended UIC and NIU and that I got a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They have always stressed that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars in 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1978, etc., b) buy real estate in 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1978, c) earn a bachelor’s degree in 1970 and master’s degrees in 1976 and 1980, d) pass the CPA examination in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981, e) become a licensed CPA in 1981, or f) get married in 1978. My Democrat superiors got my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were veterans to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— DOGE IL – $237 Million to Racial, Ethnic and Religious NGOs in FY 25 IL Budget
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/04/26/doge-il-237-million-to-racial-ethnic-and-religious-ngos-in-fy-25-il-budget
— DOGE IL – Illinois Fails to Prosecute Government Employees Despite Investigations Showing Malfeasance
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/04/26/doge-il-illinois-fails-to-prosecute-government-employees-despite-investigations-showing-malfeasance
— SCOTUS Hears Case on LGBTQ Books Forced on Little Ones
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/04/24/scotus-hears-case-on-lgbtq-books-forced-on-little-ones
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— House budget proposes $46.5 billion for border wall
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/27/house-budget-proposes-465-billion-border-wall/
— Democrats’ weird fixation on sex is making our children sick. Mental, physical and moral contagions all have a cause.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/27/democrats-weird-fixation-sex-making-children-sick/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— A baby bonus won’t solve our fertility crisis, marriage will
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3391451/baby-bonus-wont-solve-fertility-crisis-marriage-will/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump’s $5K push present won’t bring more babies — we have better ways to reverse sinking birth rates. According to my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors all had children and/or spouses who had and little or no income. They all decried how time-consuming and expensive raising their children was.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/27/opinion/trumps-5k-bonus-wont-bring-more-babies-heres-what-will/
— How Democrats wage war on the ‘rule of law’ — and weaponize it against Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/04/27/opinion/how-the-democrats-are-waging-war-against-the-rule-of-law/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Forget Trump’s blue suit. What about those so-called ‘transgender’ mourners at the Pope’s funeral?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/forget_trump_s_blue_suit_what_about_those_so_called_transgender_mourners_at_the_pope_s_funeral.html
— The illegal alien raid in Colorado reveals a cancer in our military.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/the_illegal_alien_raid_in_colorado_reveals_a_cancer_in_our_military.html
BREITBART
— White House Releases Video Encouraging Illegal Aliens to Self Deport: ‘Take Me Home’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/26/white-house-releases-video-encouraging-illegal-aliens-to-self-deport-take-me-home/
— Police Bust Illegal Accused of Swiping DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Purse
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/04/27/report-police-bust-illegal-accused-of-swiping-dhs-secretary-kristi-noems-purse/
DAILY WIRE
— Democrat leaders want a future in which those who have demographics that vote for Democrats run everything. Those demographics are: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-says-dems-lack-vision-for-the-future
FEDERALIST
— Rate Of Serious Or Life-Threatening Complications After Abortion Pill Is 22 Times Higher Than FDA Claims
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/28/study-rate-of-serious-or-life-threatening-complications-after-abortion-pill-is-22-times-higher-than-fda-claims/
FOX NEWS
— Homan sends fiery message to judges seeking to obstruct Trump’s immigration agenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etgb6Iy6Otg
JUST THE NEWS
— Federal workers are waging a resistance against Trump agenda.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/federal-workers-paid-taxpayers-openly-defying-trump-agenda-will-voters
PJ MEDIA
— Democrats’ Latest Immigration Propaganda Stunt Just Blew Up in Their Faces
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/27/democrats-latest-immigration-propaganda-stunt-just-blew-up-in-their-faces-n4939284
— This is What Happens When Law Enforcement Works Together on Illegal Immigration
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/04/27/this-is-what-happens-when-law-enforcement-works-together-on-illegal-immigration-n4939276
TOWNHALL
— Why Are the Democrats So Desperate?
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2025/04/28/why-are-the-democrats-so-desperate-n2656167
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more hated against Trump and against those who voted for Trump. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting that hatred in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-republicans-in-the-toughest-swing-districts-become-hard-to-find-for-people-angry-about-trump/
MSN
— How successful have hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters been promoting more hatred against Trump? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-first-100-days-approval-rating-double-digits-below-biden-obama-poll/ar-AA1DIL8q
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/he-s-totally-blown-it-trump-warned-his-polling-numbers-are-about-to-get-much-worse/ar-AA1DHQjh
NBC NEWS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly glorify and praise Harvard.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-university-showdown-trump-administration-rcna202468
CBS NEWS
— Man arrested for stealing Kristi Noem’s bag was in America illegally
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/krist-noem-bag-stolen-arrest/
— Democrat leaders want refugees because refugees vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want refugees because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/douglas-brinkley-gerald-ford-and-americas-moral-obligation-to-refugees/
— NOVEMBER 24, 2024 FLASHBACK: Musk’s DOGE is hiring. Here’s the kind of person he’s looking for. If I had applied, I would have stressed a) that I worked 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, b) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step-1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) that I became a licensed CPA, d) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, e) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, f) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, and g) that I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-trump-doge-government-job-how-to-apply/
— Duckworth calls Trump a “draft-dodging coward.” Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me. My Democrat Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO superiors always stressed to my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I did not enlist and that I got student draft deferments 1966-1970 while I attended UIC and NIU and that I got a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. My Democrat superiors got my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were veterans to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/at-dnc-sen-tammy-duckworth-uses-her-personal-history-to-call-out-donald-trump/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing fight “made in America.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-car-industry-tariffs.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump to Sign Order Requiring Nationwide List of Sanctuary Cities and States. Action comes after legal setbacks in president’s bid to target Democratic jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with immigration enforcement.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-sign-order-requiring-nationwide-list-of-sanctuary-cities-and-states-dbcc5ada
— Obscure Element Has the EV Industry in a Panic. The rare-earth mineral dysprosium, used for magnets in electric-vehicle motors, is among exports China slowed in response to Trump’s trade war.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/dyspro-what-why-an-obscure-element-has-the-ev-industry-in-a-panic-70623bf4
— Trump Tightens Control of Federal Workforce as Musk Pulls Back From DOGE. The administration’s HR wing is approving new federal positions and firings, judging employees on their ‘faithful administration’ of the president’s policies. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly got rid of their employees like me who opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tightens-control-of-federal-workforce-as-musk-pulls-back-from-doge-bd025673
April 27, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Trump’s third-term talk freezes the potential 2028 Republican field
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-third-term-2028-republican-field/3731227/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz
— A couple who bought their first home in 2023 on the Northwest Side and soon discovered a “putrid” odor is suing the seller, their inspector and their real estate agent after finding voluminous amounts of cat feces and urine in an unfinished attic.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/25/homebuyers-nightmare-grandview-capital-living-space-attic-hoarder-cat-poop-pee
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/trump-first-100-days/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting “faith leaders” to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/opinion-federal-government-assault-protests/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders say “Trump voters reflect on controversial first 100 days of second term.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/trump-first-100-days/
— FRONT PAGE: With US Sen. Dick Durbin retiring, Illinois’ tradition of upstate-downstate senators is in peril
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/with-us-sen-dick-durbin-retiring-illinois-tradition-of-upstate-downstate-senators-is-in-peril/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/opinion-america-return-statue-of-liberty-immigration/
DAILY HERALD
— Another risk facing public transit: As hearing showed, lawmakers need to deal with public safety as much as with financial security. I used public transportation in 1971 and 1973-1997. In 1971 and 1973-1980 while I worked for IRS in the Loop and 1980-1997 while I worked for GAO in the Loop.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250426/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-another-risk-facing-public-transit-as-hearing-showed-lawmakers-need-to-deal/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois sues to block Trump from freezing school funding over DEI. Democrat teachers use DEI to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-sues-block-trump-school-fund-freeze-over-dei
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— While Durbin runs out his term, others run for his job
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-while-durbin-runs-out-his-term-others-run-for-his-job/article_44e7ba73-6841-47f3-a4f5-2398c2ee6b72.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Even a member of the moribund Illinois Republican Party — Peoria U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood — indicated interest. From the outside looking in, a GOP candidate would appear to be the political equivalent of a kamikaze pilot in this reflexively Democratic state. Perhaps that’s why another Republican, former state Rep. Tom Demmer, issued a statement that parodied candidates’ expressions of interest. “Following today’s announcement from Sen. Durbin, I’m preparing to have conversations to consider the potential formation of a tentative exploratory committee to look in to the possibility of floating my candidacy. I hope to have potential decisions narrowed down sometime within the next 12-24 months. Get ready to stay tuned,” Demmer tweeted.)
STARVED ROCK MEDIA
— Pritzker has been contacted by the U.S. Department of Labor to remind him that unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in the country illegally. The letter was sent to all 50 governors in the U.S. Citing the executive order “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders,” the letter said it is critical that officials ensure American taxpayer dollars do not go toward encouraging or rewarding illegal immigration to the United States.
https://www.starvedrock.media/news/state/illinois-quick-hits-no-unemployment-for-illegals-pritzker-endorses-stratton/article_84e9e2c0-16d6-5234-86e3-3f5f483e12c1.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders claim to speak for Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-only-about-half-of-republicans-say-trump-has-focused-on-the-right-priorities-ap-norc-poll-finds/
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/entertainment-news/ap-white-house-journalists-use-annual-press-dinner-to-celebrate-first-amendment/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight school choice. If my parents had not sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest to stay with the Missouri Synod 1961-1962, I would not have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my Crete-Monee High School class in 1966, or get accepted by UIC in 1966.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-republican-led-states-keep-adding-school-voucher-programs-even-as-critics-worry-about-cost/
WAND TV
— To promote diversity is to promote discrimination.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trumps-attack-on-diversity-takes-center-stage-as-boston-remembers-1965-freedom-rally-led-by/article_c4c9b9b9-b545-5004-af74-4f305858cb06.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts. According to my critics/opponents, a) the Post Office should hired a Black instead of me in 1966, b) IRS should have hired a Black instead of me in 1971 and promoted Blacks instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and c) GAO should have hired a Black instead of me in 1980 and promoted a Black instead of me in 1986. My critics/opponents are overjoyed that my Democrat superiors took so many adverse actions against me and especially my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire in 1997 and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-27/federal-work-shaped-a-black-middle-class-now-its-destabilized-by-trumps-job-cuts
AXIOS CHICAGO
— According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/25/chicago-college-student-debt-trump-save-money
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Pritzker, Durbin’s “Surprise” and the Musical Chairs of Illinois
https://johnkassnews.com/pritzker-durbins-surprise-and-the-musical-chairs-of-illinois/
JOHN BIVER
— Illinois Republicans and Conservatives are Failing in Every Direction. (COMMENT: I should write about Democrat and RINO success in destroying the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois.)
https://johnbiver.com/illinois-republicans-and-conservatives-are-failing-in-every-direction/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees was illegal because it was not performance-based. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of me. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors. They used that subjectivity a) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to give me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals, d) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) to force me to retiree when I was 49 years old in 1997. The following frustrated their painting me as being a poor performer: a) my earning an MBA in 1976, b) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, f) my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) my earning a master’s degree in finance in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Spectacle of arresting Wisconsin judge is important: A message has to be sent. My Democrat superiors used me to send strong messages. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How have your critic/opponents used you to send messages? Leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) rudely terminated my membership on the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. Republican leaders of Wheaton rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. Leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015. Republican leaders rudely ended my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012 and my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007. They almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter in 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have your critics/opponent taken adverse actions against you, and if so, why? My critics/opponents have taken many big adverse actions against me a) because they destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money, b) because they are Democrats or RINOs, and/or c) because I have sued them. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopilinois.com
— What have your critics/opponents used against you the most? My critics/opponents have used against me the most a) my fighting Democrat promotion of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, 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, b) my having been a federal employee for almost 30 years and especially my having been an IRS employee for almost 9 years and my having been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, c) my demographics and especially my being a draft avoider, Protestant, and German American, and/or d) my having sued them. But of course, my critics/opponents use pretexts. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on equal outcome? My critics/opponents promote equal outcome, that is, according to them, no matter what your demographics are, you should be as successful at what you do as those who do not share your demographics, and if you don’t, it is because of discrimination. According to my critics/opponents, if minorities and/or females are less successful doing something than Whites and/or men are, it is because Whites and/or men discriminated against them. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. Few of those who took those examinations were minorities and/or women. Even fewer passwd the examinations on their first attempt. According to my critics/opponents, I passed the examinations because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against women. But in my defense, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21, my mother never attended high school, and I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What should you tell your children about up-or-out? If your children are White and/or male, you should tell them that Democrats and RINOs will use up-or-out to get rid of them if they are not making at least $100,000 by age 25, $200,000/year by age 30, $300,000 by age 35, $400,000 by age 40, etc. Because of that, unless your children become Democrats, they should do everything that they can to get good grades, to get the best ACT/SAT score that they can, to get accepted by the best college that they can, and to pick the right major. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors used up-or-out to get rid of me. The Democrats who run the federal government use up-or-out to get rid of their employees who are not Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran and who they do not promote to GS-13 ($117,807) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of me because I am not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran and because I did not make GS-12 ($99,069) until I was 25 and I did not make GS-13 until I was 38. They did that notwithstanding my earning an MBA in business when I was 27, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, my earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32, my earning four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and my earning a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents, low-level federal jobs should be Black jobs. According to my critics/opponents, a) the Post Office should hired a Black instead of me in 1966 when I was 18, b) IRS should have hired a Black instead of me in 1971 and promoted Blacks instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and c) GAO should have hired a Black instead of me in 1980 and promoted a Black instead of me in 1986. My critics/opponents are overjoyed that my Democrat superiors took so many adverse actions against me and especially that my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— What’s at stake for Illinois colleges with DEI policies. To promote DEI is to promote discrimination.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3392534/whats-at-stake-for-illinois-colleges-with-dei-policies-under-discussion/
— Democrats need to come to grips with 2030 census reality. Illegals should be counted separately and they should not count for allocation of congressional seats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3391436/democrats-face-2030-census-reality/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Congress Must Repair Biden’s Destructive Immigration Policies
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/27/congress-must-repair-bidens-destructive-immigration-policies/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Woke Ideology Requires Antisemitism
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/woke_ideology_requires_antisemitism.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Spectacle of arresting Wisconsin judge is important: A message has to be sent. My Democrat superiors used me to send strong messages. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/26/scott-jennings-says-spectacle-of-arresting-wi-judge-important-a-message-has-to-be-sent-1539253/
BREITBART
— Rod Blagojevich on Running for Senate as MAGA Republican: ‘Never Say Never’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/04/26/exclusive-rod-blagojevich-on-running-for-senate-as-maga-republican-never-say-never/
— Blagojevich: Democrats Are ‘Going to Run Far to the Left’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/04/26/exclusive-rod-blagojevich-democrats-are-going-to-run-far-to-the-left/
DAILY CALLER
— Federal, state and local law enforcement carried out Operation Tidal Wave in Florida, arresting nearly 800 illegal immigrants during the four-day operation.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/26/dhs-spox-touts-major-success-in-florida-after-nabbing-nearly-800-illegals-in-4-days/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Labor Dept Threatens States Giving Unemployment Benefits To Illegals. “Unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in our country illegally.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-labor-dept-threatens-states-giving-unemployment-benefits-to-illegals
FOX NEWS
— Trump Reverses Biden’s Student-Loan Forgiveness. The Education Department wants its money back. Did you get a student loan? I did not. If I had gotten a student loan, my GPA would have been higher. To earn money for tuition and books, instead of studying, I a) washed dishes 1964-1966, b) delivered mail 1966-1969, c) sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, d) collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and e) audited federal agencies in 1980 and 1992-1997.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371977493112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lowest-100-day-approval-rating-80-years/story?id=121165473
CBS NEWS
— Kennedy Center cancels week of events celebrating LGBTQ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbtq-rights-dc-kennedy-center-cancels-week-of-events/
AOL
— Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees was illegal because it was not performance-based. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of me. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors. They used that subjectivity a) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to give me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals, d) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) to force me to retiree when I was 49 years old in 1997. The following frustrated their painting me as being a poor performer: a) my earning an MBA in 1976, b) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, f) my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) my earning a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://www.aol.com/trumps-mass-firings-federal-probationary-194951617.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump to promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/marin-tesla-owners-musk.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/trump-crypto-musk-spacex.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/100-days-trump-world.html
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/business/media/white-house-correspondents-dinner.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Mexico
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/mexico-united-states-migration.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-american-values.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-poll-approval-rating-100-days/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-polls-policies/
— Trump’s team isn’t dissuaded by the challenges of their first 100 days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-presidency-100-days/
— Democrats seize on a new issue to use against the GOP: Social Security
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/social-security-cuts-democrats-trump-republicans/
POLITICO
— Democrat and RINO leaders disapprove of Trump’s immigration policies.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/26/trump-immigration-polling-100-days-00311687
NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/05/a-hundred-days-of-ineptitude
April 24, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois and 11 other states sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/lawsuit-tariff-policy/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Rep. Darin LaHood considering GOP primary bid for Sen. Dick Durbin’s seat. LaHood is considering and is open to a primary run for the U.S. Senate seat, according to a source with direct knowledge of the congressman’s thinking. The congressman has about $5.8 million cash on hand to help a potential bid.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/23/darin-lahood-gop-primary-bid-consideration-senate-dick-durbin
— Stellantis still on track to reopen Belvidere plant, as automakers adjust for tariffs. The company said it still plans to reopen the plant near Rockford in 2027, which is expected to employ 1,500 union workers.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/04/24/stellantis-track-reopen-belvidere-plant-uaw-automakers-adjust-tariffs
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Tinson said the Windsor assembly plant in Ontario, Canada, is resuming operations this week on two shifts. “As a result, more than half of the employees from Sterling Stamping, Indiana Transmission, Kokomo Transmission and Kokomo Casting who were put on temporary layoff when production was paused the week of April 7 also will return to work to support the Windsor operations,” she said.)
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-executive-orders-april-23-2025-live-updates/3728421/
CBS2
— Pritzker weighs possible boycott of El Salvador over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/governoer-jb-pritzker-el-salvador-possible-boycott-kilmar-abrego-garcia/
NPR ILLINOIS
— President Trump on Wednesday signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools. One of the actions takes aim at college and university accreditors, organizations the White House says have “abused their authority by imposing discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-based standards.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-23/trump-signs-executive-actions-on-education-including-efforts-to-rein-in-dei
WGLT
— Under the Democrats, soon, everyone in America will be om Medicaid.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-23/mclean-county-health-providers-worry-about-medicaid-cuts
ILLINOIS TIMES
— What percent of farming is dependent on federal spending?
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/a-loss-for-illinois-farmers-and-food-banks-20073034
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-498/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Political Earthquake Rocks Illinois as Dick Durbin Announces Retirement, Triggering a Scramble to Replace No. 2 Democrat in U.S. Senate
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/04/political-earthquake-rocks-illinois-as-dick-durbin-announces-retirement-triggering-a-scramble-to-replace-no-2-democrat-in-u-s-senate.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have Democrats used disparate impact against you? According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and females do. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and females, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. To hire and promote Democrats who were Black, Hispanic, and female, they also stopped requiring other qualifications. That rendered worthless my earning an MBA in business when I was 27, my earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32, my earning four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and my earning a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. I should write about the aforesaid. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Why do fewer Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females take the CPA examination than Republican White males? Why do fewer Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females pass the examination on their first attempt than Republican White males? According to Democrats, it is because Republicans discriminate against Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females. That is why Democrats make Republican White males pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents a) attribute their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents promote a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) 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 my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Social media reacts to Dick Durbin’s ‘long overdue’ retirement
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3389144/dick-durbin-retirement-reaction-social-media/
NEW YORK POST
— Deported alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving convicted smuggler’s car during Tennessee traffic stop
https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/us-news/deported-alleged-ms-13-gangbanger-kilmar-abrego-garcia-was-driving-convicted-smugglers-car-during-tennessee-traffic-stop/
— Paramount, CBS settle discrimination lawsuit over DEI policies punishing straight white males
https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/media/paramount-cbs-settle-discrimination-lawsuit-over-dei-policies-punishing-straight-white-males/
BLAZE
— Mass deportations are critical to America’s future
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/mass-deportations-are-critical-to-americas-future
BREITBART
— Harvard Fights to Continue Racial Discrimination
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/04/23/schweizer-harvard-fights-to-continue-racial-discrimination/
CENTER SQUARE
— Many colleges, universities ignore Trump’s warning to ditch DEI or lose funding
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_265c6fe2-0385-40c6-a98f-2dd83ac09f47.html
DAILY CALLER
— El Salvador Has Become Democrats’ New ‘Epstein Island’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/23/greg-gutfeld-democrats-el-salvador-visit-kilmar-abrego-garcia/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump’s Nationalism Signals a Return to Strength
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/interview-r-r-reno
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Considering Auto Tariff Exemptions. What about Dodge Chargers? I just bought a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/trump-considering-auto-tariff-exemptions-white-house-confirms-5846599
FOX NEWS
— Chicago residents blast a possible Pritzker presidential run: ‘No chance to win.’ Chicago residents didn’t hold back when asked what a Pritzker presidency might mean for the country.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-residents-blast-possible-pritzker-presidential-run-no-chance-win
— Pritzker moves to boycott El Salvador for aiding Trump over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention. Pritzker said the move was in response to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-moves-boycott-el-salvador-aiding-trump-over-kilmar-abrego-garcias-detention
— Trump praises Elon Musk as ‘patriot, a brilliant guy, and a friend of mine’ amid DOGE exit. Trump praised Elon Musk during an Oval Office exchange Wednesday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-praises-elon-musk-patriot-brilliant-guy-friend-mine-amid-doge-exit
NATIONAL REVIEW
— President Trump Signs Three Really Good Executive Orders on Civil Rights. The first targets the “disparate impact” approach to civil-rights enforcement. According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and women. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and women, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/president-trump-signs-three-really-good-executive-orders-on-civil-rights/
TOWNALL
— Trump Signs Multiple Executive Orders on Education, Including Against Accreditors Using DEI
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2025/04/23/new-trump-executive-order-goes-after-dei-used-by-higher-education-accreditors-n2656007
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Pritzker orders Illinois to boycott El Salvador over Abrego Garcia’s detention
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5264139-pritzker-orders-illinois-to-boycott-el-salvador-over-abrego-garcias-detention/
CNN
— Russia launches deadly strikes on Ukraine’s capital as Trump accuses Zelensky of harming peace talks
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/europe/russia-strikes-kyiv-trump-zelensky-crimea-intl-hnk/index.html
MSN
— Trump says “”We don’t really want Canada to make cars for us, to put it bluntly. We want to make our own cars.” What is Trump’s position on my buying a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus that was made in Canada?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trump-now-says-he-doesn-t-want-canadian-cars-how-his-anti-canada-rhetoric-is-boosting-mark-carney-s-chances-ahead-of-the-vote/ar-AA1DvJPU
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Trump said on Wednesday he doesn’t want Canadian cars and claimed Canada would “cease to exist” without the United States — remarks that extend his sharp criticism of the country just days before Canadians head to the polls on Monday. “We don’t really want Canada to make cars for us, to put it bluntly. We want to make our own cars,” Trump said. Trump also suggested that he might increase import taxes on cars from Canada. “So when I put tariffs on Canada, they’re paying 25%, but that could go up in terms of cars. When we put tariffs on, all we’re doing is we’re saying, ‘We don’t want your cars, in all due respect.”)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-pope-francis-history-of-criticizing-trump-and-embracing-lgbtq-rights-rankled-conservative-catholics/ar-AA1DiUr6
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/podcasts/the-daily/trump-venezuela-gang-members-deportations.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/nyregion/deportation-trump-jamaica.html
— Inside a Union’s Fight Against Trump’s Federal Job Cuts. Leaders of the union representing government workers say their battle is galvanizing but also alarming. “It’s insulting to say,” one said, “that we are lazy.” I worked for GAO 1980-1997. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized, it would not have been able to take the adverse actions against me that it did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/business/economy/government-union-trump-musk.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/opinion/us-china-asia-tariffs.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote a) same sex marriage and b) interracial marriage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/same-sex-marriage.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump orders changes to civil rights rules. According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and women. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and women, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/23/trump-executive-orders-education-accreditation/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The new order Trump signed Wednesday instructs the attorney general to “repeal or amend” Title VI regulations that include disparate impact liability.)
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/04/23/trump-approval-poll-economy-100-days/83217866007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been a liberal Democrat.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/04/22/pope-francis-world-affairs-impact-influence/83191480007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Elite Universities in Trump’s Crosshairs Are Drumming Up Cash. Princeton, Harvard and Brown are among the schools issuing debt. They are counting on the next U.S. President to be a Democrat or a RINO.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-college-universities-cash-federal-funding-fa001311
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-24-25/card/china-says-no-talks-ongoing-with-trump-administration-yXdly6y82T1iyWKYug3F
— Will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters succeed in driving Tesla out of business to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish those who voted for Trump?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-has-a-deep-hole-to-pull-out-of-15815d7e
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whos-afraid-of-renaud-camus-home-office-united-kingdom-free-speech-immigration-aacafc8a
— The Class of 2025 Tries to Crack a Chilly Job Market for College Grads. What frustrated your job search? For me, it included potential employers viewing me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Further, my GPA was not that great because I had spent far too many hours delivering mail for the Park Forest Post Office instead of studying.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/the-class-of-2025-tries-to-crack-a-chilly-job-market-for-college-grads-0589c4af
ATLANTIC
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Trump to destroy those who voted for Trump to destroy America.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/tesla-earnings-elon-musk-doge/682551/
April 23, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Some 5 million Americans with defaulted student loan payments will have their loans sent for collections on May 5. Where did the money come from to pay for your undergraduate degree? Mine came from my washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, and working on an automotive assemble line. The aforesaid enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charge SE. But my GPA suffered.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/default-student-loans-debt-collection-trump-administration-announces-end-period-leniency-began-during-covid-pandemic/16217800/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-student-visas-revoked-illinois-indiana-college-students-celebrate-order-donald-trump-admin-reinstate/16225550/
FOX32
— ‘It’s unsafe’: Chicagoans sound off about migrant crowds outside Home Depot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzhpIMM2iy0
WTTW
–Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/22/pritzker-balances-messaging-some-dems-encourage-party-avoid-lgbtq-issues
— Ever-increasingly, leaders of universities in Illinois reject Trump’s election.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/22/illinois-university-leaders-join-condemnation-trump-administration-s-unprecedented
WLS AM
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wlsam.com/2025/04/22/gorka-to-newsmax-due-process-push-for-illegals-strange/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois GOP has to do better than the likes of Thomas DeVore, lockdown critic
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/devore-misconduct-attorney-general-gop/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson will head to Springfield again, to demand Chicago ‘receives its just due’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/mayor-brandon-johnson-springfield-chicago-just-due/
— Several police departments disperse large crowd of juveniles from Sky Zone in Orland Park
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/police-disperse-juveniles-sky-zone-orland-park/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/opinion-illinois-immigration-crackdown-protect-communities/
— Pritzker calls it ‘ironic’ that inaugural committee accepted donation from Chinese firm Trump has criticized.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/gov-jb-pritzker-calls-it-ironic-that-inaugural-committee-accepted-donation-from-chinese-firm-trump-has-criticized/
— What did you do for Earth Day? I spent about an hour pulling out blown-in plastic trash from the wetlands west of my Iron Gate Motor Condo in Naperville.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/orland-grasslands-earth-day/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Gotion, a Republican target, gave big to Trump inaugural
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/gotion-target-trump-gave-1-million-inauguration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly attack Musk to attack Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-treasurer-co-signs-letter-tesla-board
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, everyone in America will be on Medicaid.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/04/23/illinois-families-brace-for-possible-medicaid-cuts/82673254007/
SOUTHERN
— How marginalized are you? Who marginalizes you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that Republicans marginalize you: Democrat, RINO, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizen of a foreign country, have less money than others, have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozer, gambler, stoner, prostitute, etc.
https://thesouthern.com/life-entertainment/faith/siu-s-father-brown-pope-francis-legacy-is-advocating-for-the-marginalized-forgotten/article_139e56eb-5ede-52eb-a9ee-448ac0f406c4.html
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat universities will ever-increasingly oppose Trump.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/23/opinion/harvard-is-resisting-the-trump-administrations-invasive-demands-nu-should-follow-suit/
JOURNAL GAZETTE
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columnists/judgment-day-drawing-nigh/article_ba1d63e7-b9fd-4210-a47b-0577c76944c8.html
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicagodefender.com/illinois-legislative-black-caucus-condemns-trumps-attack-on-dei-pledges-to-defend-racial-equity-in-the-workplace/
WJBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/04/22/his-dad-would-be-ashamed-of-him-large-rally-in-uptown-normal-to-protest-rep-lahood/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote AOC.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-23/the-next-aoc-young-democrats-are-aiming-to-topple-incumbents-inside-their-own-party
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-22/nationwide-anti-trump-protests-arrive-in-small-town-northern-illinois
WAND TV
— Public education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/education/multiple-university-presidents-in-illinois-sign-letter-criticizing-federal-government-overreach/article_4762b0ab-a8a7-4a5b-bcee-f54282cb9674.html
WIFR
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/04/23/illinois-voting-advocates-worry-bill-requiring-citizenship-proof-vote/
WVIK
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote globalism, that is, they ever-increasingly promote cheap foreign labor and making America more and more and more dependent on foreign countries, that is, they ever-increasingly promote the destruction of America.
https://www.wvik.org/2025-04-22/the-global-economy-will-be-hit-hard-by-trumps-tariffs-imf-warns
25 NEWS NOW
— Trump administration mulls $5,000 baby bonus to boost population
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/22/trump-administration-mulls-5000-baby-bonus-boost-population-report-says/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s policies.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/23/trump-policies-dominate-peoria-town-hall-with-rep-sorensen/
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/pritzker-balances-messaging-as-some-dems-encourage-party-to-avoid-lgbtq-issues-20068650
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/22/chicagos-venezuelan-community-in-limbo-amid-trumps-push-to-end-deportation-protections/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-497/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-290/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Escaping Illinois Doesn’t Mean You’ve Escaped Pritzker
https://johnkassnews.com/escaping-illinois-doesnt-mean-youve-escaped-pritzker/
WIREPOINTS
— It’s hard to tell when Illinois will ‘break,’ but eventually Illinoisans will connect the dots and demand change.
https://wirepoints.org/its-hard-to-tell-when-illinois-will-break-but-eventually-illinoisans-will-connect-the-dots-and-demand-change-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Illinois metro areas have the nation’s 1st-, 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-highest property taxes. People leave because they simply can’t pay that anymore.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-metro-areas-have-the-nations-1st-2nd-3rd-and-4th-highest-property-taxes-people-leave-because-they-simply-cant-pay-that-anymore-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slo/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Liberals and moderates use DEI to get rid of conservatives. White-haters use DEI to get rid of Whites. Male-haters use DEI to get rid of males. Older people-haters use DEI to get rid of older people. Protestant–haters use DEI to get rid of Protestants. German American-haters use DEI to get rid of German Americans. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman? If you are, anticipate/expect ever-increasing hatred against you from those who voted for Harris. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats run the federal government. According to them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you consider majoring in accounting? Did you consider a career in accounting? The accounting profession and IRS and GAO had no interest in me a) because I was not a minority or a female, b) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, c) because I did not major in accounting until I was 27, d) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, e) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, f) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination until I was 32, and g) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, while I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great. Further, the experience that I gained working for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years (the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year) and 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) was not viewed favorably. Further, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and took adverse actions against me. Further, GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and took adverse actions against me including always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and forcing me to retire when I was 49. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How strongly are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punishing Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish Republicans to punish Americans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The left’s hatred of Trump boils over: Death threats spread to just about anyone working for him. Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman? If you are, anticipate/expect ever-increasing hatred against you from those who voted for Harris. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/22/lefts-hatred-trump-boils-death-threats-spread-anyone-working/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump slams SCOTUS for ridiculous idea of giving trials to all illegals. Democrat and RINO judges and justices deny Republicans their 7th Amendment right to trials. I should write about that.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/22/trump-slams-scotus-for-ridiculous-idea-of-giving-trials-to-all-illegals-1538008/
BLAZE
— Trump lashes out at Supreme Court for blocking deportations
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-lashes-out-at-supreme-court-for-blocking-deportations
DAILY SIGNAL
— GOP Lawmakers Showcase How Trump ‘Restored Law and Order’ to US Borders
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/22/exclusive-gop-lawmakers-showcase-how-trump-restored-law-and-order-to-us-borders/
EPOCH TIMES
— Tesla’s First-Quarter Profits Tumble 71 Percent. Will Democrat leaders succeed in driving Tesla out of business, and if so, how soon? How will that impact the EV industry? How will that impact America?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/teslas-1st-first-quarter-profits-tumble-71-percent-5845648
FOX NEWS
— Gore compares Trump admin to Hitler’s Third Reich. Trump faced similar comparisons from political rivals during 2024 presidential campaign.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/al-gore-compares-trump-admin-hitlers-third-reich
PJ MEDIA
— SCOTUS Sides With Illegal Aliens Again
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/04/22/breaking-scotus-again-sides-with-illegal-aliens-n4939139
REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— Trump’s Migrant Hunt Digs Into the IRS and Social Security
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/04/23/trumps_migrant_hunt_digs_into_the_irs_and_social_security_1105145.html
TOWNHALL
— Young Conservatives Rise Against Wokeness. Liberals and moderates use wokeness to get rid of conservatives.
https://townhall.com/podcasts/townhallreview/2025/04/23/the-pendulum-swings:-young-conservatives-rise-against-wokeness–%7C-charlie-kirk-with-megyn-kelly
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Gore compares Trump administration to Nazis
https://thehill.com/homenews/5260405-gore-compares-trump-third-reich/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Harvard.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/harvard-takes-lead-in-fight-against-trumps-higher-ed-agenda/amp/
NBC NEWS
— Gore likens the Trump administration’s ‘attacks on liberty’ to Nazi Germany
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/al-gore-likens-trump-administrations-attacks-liberty-nazi-germany-rcna202357
— Gore compares Trump administration’s actions to Nazi Germany’s attacks on the truth
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/gore-compares-trump-administration-s-actions-to-nazi-germany-s-attacks-on-truth-238082629661
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html
— How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had to have a job, I then accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/eeoc-trump-dei-law-firms.html
— To Escape the Grind, Young People Turn to ‘Mini-Retirements.’ Some young people are spending their savings on an extended break earlier in their careers rather than waiting until retirement. I did not take any days off at all while I worked for Firestone Stores August 1970-December 1972 and for IRS June 1971-June 1973.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/young-people-work-mini-retirement.html
USA TODAY
— New York Times compares Trump to Hitler. Media allows an ugly double standard. It’s extremely insulting to the 77 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump for The New York Times to publish an opinion piece that compares the president to Adolf Hitler.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/23/larry-david-essay-hitler-trump/83209680007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/22/musk-tesla-first-quarter-earnings/83217370007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about the success that they had importing their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/23/trump-afghanistan-refugee-resettlement-immigration/83126557007/
LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER
— Kentucky among the ‘most federally dependent states.’ How will Trump cuts affect it? How dependent on federal spending are the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article302508724.html
WOAI
— Return to Sender: More Illegals Self-Deporting
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2025-04-22-return-to-sender-more-illegals-self-deporting/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Tesla Profit Sinks, Hurt by Backlash Over Elon Musk’s Political Role. CEO says he will spend significantly less time on DOGE starting in May; electric-vehicle maker’s net income falls 71%. How strongly are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punishing Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish Republicans to punish Americans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-tsla-q1-earnings-report-2025-f7120a39
— How America Lost Manufacturing. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights because his employers moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and less regulation.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-america-lost-manufacturing-reporter-1980s-watched-us-industries-fail-to-adapt-926753f0?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
FORBES
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D-IL) ever-increasingly promotes more class warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dk2pmRluDiuQ
HUFFINGTON POST
— Gore Likens Trump Admin To Nazi Germany: ‘Trying To Create Their Own Version Of Reality’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/al-gore-donald-trump-administration-nazi-germany_n_68078b17e4b00edf27f4ce86
GOVERNING
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Liberals and moderates use DEI to get rid of conservatives. White-haters use DEI to get rid of Whites. Male-haters use DEI to get rid of males. Older people-haters use DEI to get rid of older people. Protestant–haters use DEI to get rid of Protestants. German American-haters use DEI to get rid of German Americans.
https://www.governing.com/policy/the-conservative-case-for-dei
ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— The Rise and Retreat of DEI. The accounting profession and IRS and GAO had no interest in me a) because I was not a minority or a female, b) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, c) because I did not major in accounting until I was 27, d) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, e) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, f) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination until I was 32, and g) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, while I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great. Further, the experience that I gained working for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years (the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year) and 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) was not viewed favorably. Further, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and took adverse actions against me. Further, GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and took adverse actions against me including always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and forcing me to retire when I was 49.
https://www.icpas.org/information/copy-desk/insight/article/spring-2025/the-rise-and-retreat-of-dei-navigating-the-uncertain-future-of-workplace-culture
NARFE
— Democrats run the federal government. According to them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.narfe.org/blog/2025/04/22/opm-proposed-rule-aims-to-remove-competitive-service-protections-for-50000-feds/
TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Liberal and moderate Jews ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservative Jews.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-100-chicago-area-rabbis-cantors-condemn-trumps-crackdown-on-campus-antisemitism/
INDEPENDENT
— Musk to ‘significantly’ step back from DOGE role after Tesla profits plunge
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-doge-tariffs-china-stocks-live-updates-b2737788.html
— Gore compares Trump team to Nazi Germany saying they are ‘trying to create their own preferred version of reality’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/al-gore-trump-nazi-germany-b2737278.html
GURADIAN
— Gore draws parallels between Trump and early Nazi Germany
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/apr/22/al-gore-trump-early-nazi-germany
April 21, 2025
CNN
— Pope Francis dies at 88
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/europe/pope-francis-dies-intl/index.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Pope Francis dies at 88
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pope-francis-has-died-vatican-camerlengo-announces/16213828/
— Democrat leaders divide those who have demographics that vote for Democrats against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/american-revolution-anniversary-250-years-america-went-war-independence-divided-nation-battles-legacy/16205829/
— Video shows cars drag racing, drifting in Lakeview street takeover. Lakeview today, your street tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-street-takeover-racing-video-shows-cars-drag-drifting-ashland-avenue-west-diversey-parkway-lakeview/16212001/
CBS2
— 4 dead, 11 others hurt in Chicago shootings during Easter weekend
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-april-18-to-21/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/20/column-donald-trump-abrego-garcia-deportations-immigration-page/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more booze.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/geneva-liquor-license-ban-highland-park/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) reject Trump’s election and b) fight Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/democratic-state-lawmakers-start-to-move-on-promise-to-be-a-check-on-donald-trump/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2025/04/20/4-20-pot-cannabis-weed-holiday-easter-thc
— Under the Democrats, soon, everyone will be low income.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-affairs/2025/04/18/federal-program-liheap-utility-bills-cut-trump-budget-plan
— What do you do? I put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out. What do my critics/opponents do? They discourage me from putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/20/birding-glenview-park-district-techny-reservoir
JOUNAL COURIER
— My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/the-rich-need-pay-taxes-dean-baker-20272732.php
NORTHWEST HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/04/20/hundreds-protest-trump-and-musk-in-red-mchenry-county/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/article_84d2c1eb-2537-415c-9819-6954b195aefc.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Senate GOP braces for primary headaches after 2024 break. Which Republicans do you anticipate/expect will run for U.S. Senate in Illinois in 2026?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/senate-gop-braces-for-primary-headaches-after-2024-break/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-marijuana-holiday-4-20-coincides-with-easter-and-passover-this-year-heres-what-to-know/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/where-do-efforts-to-legalize-reschedule-marijuana-stand/
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/marijuana-holiday-4-20-coincides-with-easter-and-passover-this-year-heres-what-to-know/article_8f03cfef-f09d-53e0-9e8b-e95ab58f4cec.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-20/trump-faces-bipartisan-criticism-over-abrego-garcia-deportation
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-04-20/protestors-across-the-u-s-rally-against-the-trump-administration
WSIL TV
— Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years. Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/marijuana-hospital-visits-linked-to-dementia-diagnosis-within-5-years-study-finds/article_25b902f0-4a72-541b-b4b9-7b0a69a068a4.html
NORTHERN STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://northernstar.info/125465/news/residents-from-dekalb-and-sycamore-rally-to-protest-the-trump-administration/
DAILY ILLINI
— Under the Democrats, soon, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/champaign-urbana/2025/04/20/budzinski-trump-medicaid/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/21/pritzkers-national-brand-00300745
— Joseph Severino says he plans to run for governor in 2026 as a Republican. He made his announcement on conservative podcaster Shaun Thompson’s show on AM 560. Severino previously ran for Congress in the 10th District in 2022 as a Republican and 2024 as an Independent. Severino has yet to file paperwork with the state. Also in the GOP race for governor is DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, who announced in February and has $100,000 in his campaign fund, according to filings with the state.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/21/pritzkers-national-brand-00300745
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-495/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Which offices will be on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct? Do you anticipate/expect helping elect candidates for those offices? What discourages you from doing that? For me, it includes far too many Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their losses and/or near losses. I should write about those candidates and their major donors, political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers. Most commonly, they have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I painted them as being more conservative than they wanted to be painted and that caused them to lose. I would focus on the aforesaid candidates who rejected the most planks in the Republican Party platform. I have long since stopped helping elect candidates in nonpartisan elections and Republican primary elections a) because far too many of those candidates who lost those elections and primaries blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats and b) far too many of those candidates who won Republican primaries buy lost general elections blamed their defeats on my support for their opponents in the primaries. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are the following doing to elect Republicans on November 3, 2026: the leaders of a) the Illinois Republican Party, b) your Republican county party organization, and c) your Republican township party organization? They need to defend and advance the Republican Party platform, that is, they need to defend and advance conservative principles. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you stress to defend and advance conservative principles? I stress the successes that I have had because I have always followed conservative principles. I earned a bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 47. I earned professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a professional license when I was 32. I bought new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. I bought real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc. I got married when I was 29. I was able to do the aforesaid notwithstanding my parents never having attended college, my father having been only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never having attended high school, and my having to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you promote that your critics/opponents use against you? My critics/opponents use my promoting the Republican Party platform, that is, my promoting conservative principles. They especially use my promoting the platform’s personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving) planks. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents do? My critics/opponents destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What jobs have you had? According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and that should have been given to minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. I did yard work 1962-1964, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are your demographics? My critics/opponents look down on, if not despise, if not hate those who share my demographics. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older (born in 1948), non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844. Further, I was a Crete resident 1948-1972 and I have been a Wheaton resident since 1978. Further, I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, including almost 9 years working for IRS, and I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How envious were your coworkers? My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were full of envy. They always painted themselves as being financially disadvantaged. They decried my earning a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, my earning master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 47, my earning professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, my earning a professional license when I was 32, my buying new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., my buying real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., my getting married when I was 29, etc. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I would never have been able to do the aforesaid a) if I had not avoided the draft and b) if my wife and I had children. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents stress a) that my parents were Protestant and German American, b) that neither of my parents attended college, c) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, d) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, e) that my mother never attended high school, f) that I had to work my way through college, g) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, h) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, i) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, and j) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court makes ‘unprecedented’ intervention to block Trump’s latest round of gang deportations. Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/20/supreme-court-makes-unprecedented-intervention-block-trumps-latest/
— Democrats would rather destroy America than support Trump.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/18/democrats-would-rather-destroy-america-support-trump/
— My critics/opponents destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/20/250-years-lexington-concord-still-fight-freedom/
— If America abandons Israel, God will abandon America. Democrat leaders want America to abandon Israel.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/20/america-abandons-israel-god-abandon-america/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— New York chooses DEI over students
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3380175/new-york-public-school-officials-refuse-dei-mandate-trump/
NEW YORK POST
— Conservatives rage against Supreme Court for reining in Trump.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/20/us-news/conservatives-rage-against-supreme-court-for-reining-in-trump-time-to-start-deporting-rogue-judges/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Higher Education Should Learn From Hillsdale
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/21/higher-education-should-learn-from-hillsdale/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Malicious compliance bedevils our military
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/malicious_compliance_bedevils_our_military.html
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Jobs Americans Will Do: Just About All of Them. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and that should have been given to minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. I did yard work 1962-1964, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997.
https://cis.org/Report/Jobs-Americans-Will-Do-Just-About-All-Them
EPOCH TIMES
— Made-in-America Entrepreneurs See Opportunities in Global Tariffs. By sourcing materials domestically and thinking locally, U.S.-based companies say they’re in a better position to survive—and thrive.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/made-in-america-entrepreneurs-see-opportunities-in-global-tariffs-5842569
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— JD Vance Was Right: Cheap Foreign Labor Is an “Addiction.” My brother lost manufacturing jobs because his employers moved to Mexico.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/04/10/jd-vance-cheap-foreign-labor-addiction
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Trump Admin Should Unleash The False Claims Act To End Discrimination In Higher Education. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But because of my bad demographics, I doubt that they would today.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/trump-admin-should-unleash-the-false-claims-act-to-end-discrimination-in-higher-education/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Many schools (including almost all “elite” universities) view their maintenance of Kendian “discrimination for the right reasons” programs in admissions, hiring, promotions, tenure, and funding to be moral imperatives, and thus either are flatly refusing to abide by the Trump administration’s demands, and/or are continuing their discriminatory programs sub rosa.)
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Wokeness in Medicine Hasn’t Been Cured Yet
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/wokeness-in-medicine-hasnt-been-cured-yet/
POWER LINE
— Who Says Democrats Aren’t Pro-Crime?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/who-says-democrats-arent-pro-crime.php
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Harvard Law School Professors Politicize the Rule of Law
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/20/harvard_law_school_professors_politicize_the_rule_of_law_152680.html
TOWNHALL
— New CNN Poll Shows American Support Deporting All Illegal Aliens
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/04/21/new-cnn-poll-shows-american-support-deporting-all-illegals-n2655744
— The Radical Left’s Plan to Stop Trump and His Agenda
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2025/04/21/the-radical-lefts-plan-to-stop-trump-and-his-agenda-n2655823
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump takes aim at Biden, “Radical Left Lunatics” and the courts in Easter Sunday message.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-easter-sunday-message-biden-courts-left/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-college-bbe09c081d8a47fcb5616c8fa3b23cee
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/churches-easter-ice-sensitive-locations-rcna201825
NEW YORK TIMES
— TOP OF FOLD: State Dept. Faces Plan for Big Cuts. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be a GAO employee. Virtually all GAO employees are Democrats. Reforms could have included a) requiring that at least one-third of GAO employees at each grade level be Republican and b) requiring that all requests for GAO to do work be bipartisan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/trump-state-department-overhaul.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/business/china-deflation-trump-tariffs.html
— Carmakers Highlight American Roots in Bid to Influence Trump. Wary of directly criticizing the president’s trade policies, automakers are emphasizing how much they have already invested in U.S. manufacturing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/business/cars-trump-tariffs-us-manufacturing.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly manipulate and dominate religion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/opinion/easter-christianity-jesus-trump.html
— With Harvard Threat, Trump Tries to Bend the I.R.S. to His Will. Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that. I should write about my Democrat IRS superiors. I should focus on those who a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) stopped me from being promoted beyond GS-12, d) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, e) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer to GAO in 1980, and f) stopped GAO from assigning me to audits of IRS except 1986-1988.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/trump-irs.html
USA TODAY
— Trump names fifth person to lead IRS this year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/18/trump-replacing-irs-acting-commissioner/83163716007/
— Harvard shunned conservatives. It deserves to be defunded by Trump. President Donald Trump is trying to reform an education system that excludes conservative students and faculty while promoting a leftist agenda that most Americans have rejected.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/21/trump-harvard-federal-funding-freeze-dei/83138590007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH GRAPHIC: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/global/trump-tariffs-us-markets-treasurys-dollar-7d9777d7
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-us-economic-relations-tariffs-cold-war-ddb43fca
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly polarize those who have demographics that vote for Democrats against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-polarization-prior-beliefs-bias-information-b7b0e99f
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly make their students sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gender-storytime-at-the-supreme-court-first-amendment-parental-rights-opt-out-04a15281
— I Really Like Electric Cars. These Technologies Would Make Me Love Them. I’ve been buying EVs for more than 10 years. But innovations on the horizon will make a big difference to me—and lots of other skeptical consumers. Diersen asks how will my critics/opponents use my buying a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV against me?
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/ev-technology-innovation-4e25c1d5
— Washington State’s Tax on Tesla. Olympia designs a tax targeting Elon Musk and his company’s carbon emissions credits. How soon will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters drive Tesla out of business?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/washington-state-tesla-tax-elon-musk-electric-vehicles-4441b8e2
— Government Jobs Insulated DC From Economic Volatility. Not Any More. Spending cutbacks hurt local business; ‘This is our Detroit moment’
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/washington-dc-economy-trump-job-cuts-359c8645
BUSINESS INSIDER
— In an Easter post, Trump said the businessmen who’ve criticized his tariffs are bad at both business and politics. What percent of wealth that rich people have has been from exploiting cheap labor and lack regulations in foreign countries? My brother lost manufacturing jobs because his employers moved to Mexico.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-businessmen-against-tariffs-are-bad-at-business-and-politics-2025-4
KIPLINGER
— What are your demographics? My critics/opponents look down on, if not despise, if not hate those who share my demographics. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older (born in 1948), non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844. Further, I was a Crete resident 1948-1972 and I have been a Wheaton resident since 1978. Further, I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, including almost 9 years working for IRS, and I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years.
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/can-you-define-baby-boomers-look-at-trump-and-harris
AMERICAN PROSPECT
— We Never Had Free Trade. The U.S. trading system since the 1970s has screwed American workers. But the main culprits are the American capitalists who devised the system, not foreigners. My brother lost manufacturing jobs because his employers moved to Mexico.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-08-we-never-had-free-trade/
GOOGLE AI
— Envious coworkers. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were full of envy. They always painted themselves as being financially disadvantaged. They decried my earning a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, my earning master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 47, my earning professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, my earning a professional license when I was 32, my buying new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., my buying real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., my getting married when I was 29, etc. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I would never have been able to do the aforesaid a) if I had not avoided the draft and b) if my wife and I had children.
https://www.google.com/search?q=envious+coworkers
GOOGLE AI
— Caste system. What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents stress a) that my parents were Protestant and German American, b) that neither of my parents attended college, c) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, d) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, e) that my mother never attended high school, f) that I had to work my way through college, g) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, h) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, i) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, and j) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Caste+%22born+into
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/20/pritzker-tktktk-00296824
PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/photos-anti-trump-protesters-rally-in-cities-and-towns-across-the-country
INTERCEPT
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racists.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/20/trump-racism-white-demographic-fears-immigration/
DAILY MAIL
— Trump official calls for Americans to be paid reparations over trauma caused by Biden’s migrant crisis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14630377/stephen-miller-americans-reparations-illegal-migration.html
— Drag queens slammed for mocking Christians and hosting ‘hunky Jesus’ contest at woke Easter show for kids
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14630709/Drag-queens-mocking-Jesus-woke-Easter-kids.html
April 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— More than 1,000 international students have had visas or legal status revoked. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But they would have admitted international students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/17/international-student-visas-revoked/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/17/naperville-protest-indivisible-trump-musk/.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/17/photos-day-of-action-protests-at-northwestern-and-uic/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/18/column-donald-trump-due-process-el-salvador-prison-shackelford/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES & WBEZ
— Duckworth hammers President Trump over veterans’ care. Duckworth went off on the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to services for veterans. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times, virtually all of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrat veterans. They promoted the veterans preference and stressed that I had avoided the Vietnam War draft. According to them, Democrat veterans should have gotten all the promotions that I got. I should write about my Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans and who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/17/tammy-duckworth-donald-trump-veterans-care-daily-show
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/04/17/u-s-sen-tammy-duckworth-hammers-president-donald-trump-over-veterans-care-in-the-daily-show-interview
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Pritzker says public safety is ‘under attack by Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/17/jb-pritzker-public-safety-trump-administration-chicago-anti-violence-programs
— Nearly 1 in 4 out-of-state abortion patients come to Illinois. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/abortion/2025/04/17/out-of-state-abortion-patients-illinois-chicago-guttmacher-institute-roe-v-wade
— Trump’s termination of international student visas jolts Illinois colleges. Trump is erasing students’ immigration status without explanation. School officials at the University of Illinois Chicago, Northwestern and the University of Chicago say they’re not even receiving notification. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But they would have admitted international students instead of me if they could have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/04/17/trump-immigration-visa-terminations-illinois-college-students-uic-northwestern-university-of-chicago
— The Democrat Party ever-increasingly promotes criminals and crime.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/17/donald-trump-detain-deport-pro-palestinian-el-salvador-prison-immigrants-kilmar-garcia-mona-charen
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/17/northwestern-students-and-faculty-protest-trumps-campaign-against-higher-education
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/17/donald-trump-detain-deport-pro-palestinian-el-salvador-prison-immigrants-kilmar-garcia-mona-charen
— Trump guts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/consumer-affairs/2025/04/17/layoffs-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-cut-trump-government-downsizing
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/small-business/2025/04/17/chicagos-small-business-owners-are-stocking-up-and-bracing-for-the-impact-of-trumps-tariffs
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PHOTOS: Lisle trustee candidates separated by single vote, while Queen Bee school board race ends in a tie
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250417/local-politics/lisle-trustee-candidates-separated-by-single-vote-while-queen-bee-school-board-race-ends-in-a-tie/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Abortions in Illinois dipped only slightly in 2024 despite new hurdles. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/illinois-abortion-numbers-dip-slightly-2024
ABC7
— Judge orders suspect detained in DePaul attack on Jewish students
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-adam-erkan-due-court-hate-charges-attack-2-jewish-depaul-students-lincoln-park-campus/16190158/
— Trump says he’s in ‘no rush’ to end tariffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/italys-meloni-will-test-mettle-eu-us-bridge-when-she-meets-trump-washington/16191357/
NBC5
— Suspect accused in DePaul hate crime attack will remain in custody
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/suspect-accused-in-depaul-hate-crime-attack-will-remain-in-custody/3725195/
CBS2
— Immigrant rights groups, labor unions plan May Day march to demand end to Trump’s mass deportations. Mass/illegal immigration harms American workers. All the employers that hired me would have hired citizens of foreign countries if they could have.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/may-day-protest-rally-immigrant-rights-march-trump-administration-deportations/
— Man charged in hate crime attack on 2 Jewish students at DePaul University to stay in jail
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/adam-erkan-charged-hate-crime-attack-jewish-students-depaul-university/
— Northwestern ever-increasingly fights Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/northwestern-research-grants-trump-federal-funding-freeze/
WTTW
— Nearly 25% of All Out-of-State Abortions Took Place in Illinois Last Year. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/17/nearly-25-all-out-state-abortions-took-place-illinois-last-year-study
WBEZ
— Pritzker says public safety is under attack by Trump. The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. Democrat leaders promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2025/04/17/governor-jb-pritzker-says-public-safety-is-under-attack-by-trump-administration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/17/northwestern-students-and-faculty-protest-trumps-campaign-against-higher-education
CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Reps. Davis, Ford urge voters to “fight back” to save democracy. If you are a Republican, anticipate/expect that the Democrats in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct will ever-increasingly take more/bigger adverse actions against you to punish you because of Trump.
https://chicagocrusader.com/reps-davis-ford-urge-voters-to-fight-back-to-save-democracy/
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat colleges exist to crank out good little Democrats.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/17/lateststories/funding-freezes-at-northwestern-elite-universities-divide-federal-lawmakers/
EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in organizing protests against Trump.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/04/18/grad-students-union-protests-trump/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Jews to promote more hatred against Republicans. I should write about the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had using my many Democrat superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-17/wesleyan-university-president-says-trumps-antisemitism-fight-doesnt-protect-jews
— As Trump jettisons its staff, HUD puts its D.C. headquarters up for sale. I should write about how GAO jettisoned its staff in response to Gingrich budget cuts. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-17/as-trump-jettisons-its-staff-hud-puts-its-d-c-headquarters-up-for-sale
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois Dems push banning cops from ticketing students for breaking school rules. Democrats ever-increasingly destroy education.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/17/illinois-dems-push-banning-cops-from-ticketing-students-for-breaking-school-rules/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-the-abrego-garcia-case-pulls-democrats-into-the-immigration-debate-trump-wants-to-have/
— Ben Carson among most liked politicians
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/obama-sanders-ben-carson-among-most-liked-politicians-surveys-show/
WAND TV
— 14-year-old arrested for possession of drugs with intent to deliver on school grounds. Who are the biggest pot pushers in your school district?
https://www.wandtv.com/news/crime/police-14-year-old-arrested-for-possession-of-drugs-with-intent-to-deliver-on-school/article_a7287556-ae24-4e10-b191-ed30506a2b67.html
WTHR
— Bill to invite Illinois counties to join Indiana passes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7I7u9a7xUw
WIFR
— Illinois program can help clear old cannabis records. Pot and gambling destroys people. I led the successful efforts to stop the sale of pot and video gambling in Wheaton. Those who want pot and/or video gambling in Wheaton want to kill me. I should write about them.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/04/17/illinois-program-can-help-clear-old-cannabis-records/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Hemp Sales Banned In Parts Of Far South Side As Some Dispensary Owners Urge Tougher State Rules. Hemp sales cut into pot sales.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/17/hemp-sales-banned-in-parts-of-far-south-side-as-some-dispensary-owners-urge-tougher-state-rules/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Conservative activists are trying to get sanctuary status referendums on 2026 ballots, and they expect some Democrats could support them.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/18/activists-want-immigration-on-the-ballot-00298301
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hate Trump. What are your demographics? What will your future be? In Illinois, the more demographics that you share with Trump, the bleaker that your future is. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the sooner that Democrat and RINO leaders will get rid of you. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Trump is in this tariff fight to even the playing field for Illinois farmers.
https://wirepoints.org/trump-is-in-this-tariff-fight-to-even-the-playing-field-for-illinois-farmers-wirepoints-joins-tom-miller-of-wjpf-carbondale/
— Illinois lawmakers ignore where the real transit savings are
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-lawmakers-ignore-where-the-real-transit-savings-are-wirepoints-quickpoint/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago Flips Red founder Zoe Leigh said Pritzker is the one who is a threat. “He is a threat to the state of Illinois being the governor. Our mayor is a threat to the city of Chicago being the mayor, because they don’t care about the Chicago citizens’ safety. If they did, we wouldn’t be a sanctuary state any more,” Leigh said. . .Chicago Flips Red vice president Danielle Carter-Walters said crimes involving noncitizen migrants were not reported. “They were not recording anything that they did illegally. They just let it slide, let it go away. We know for a fact they are not reporting the illegal alien crime,” Carter-Walters told The Center Square.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7e354608-ed86-430a-8d2f-41b41c7ffc30.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Kane County part of voter wave saying ‘no’ to more taxes
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/kane-county-part-of-voter-wave-saying-no-to-more-taxes/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago’s Failing Mayor Smears President Trump as a “Terrorist” for Threatening to Withhold Federal Funding While Harboring Dangerous Illegal Migrants
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/04/chicagos-failing-mayor-smears-president-trump-as-a-terrorist-for-threatening-to-withhold-federal-funding-while-harboring-dangerous-illegal-migrants.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court expected to consider giving Trump more firing power, overruling 90-year-old precedent. The justices and judges in Diersen v GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) ruled that federal agencies can force their employees to retire, that is, they can fire their employees, a) because they are active members in class action lawsuits that charge them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, or retaliation, b) because they oppose political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, or national origin discrimination, and/or c) because they are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/17/supreme-court-expected-consider-giving-trump-firing-power-overruling/
NEW YORK POST
— Liberals refuse to date Trump voters, Tesla owners as political polarization ‘on steroids’: DC matchmaker
https://nypost.com/2025/04/17/media/dc-matchmaker-says-political-polarization-on-steroids-as-liberals-refuse-to-date-trump-voters-tesla-owners/
— IRS workers only had to show up to work once a week in person, before Trump took over.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/18/us-news/irs-workers-only-had-to-show-up-to-work-once-a-week-in-person-before-president-trump-took-over/
DAILY CALLER
— Illinois Joins List Of States Who Are Refusing To Comply With Trump’s Executive Order On Trans Athletes
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/17/illinois-donald-trump-executive-order-transgender/
DAILY WIRE
— Most Americans Side With Trump On Illegals, Want Them ALL Deported
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-pollster-admits-most-americans-side-with-trump-on-illegals-want-them-all-deported
CENTER SQUARE
— Bill seeks to take millions in guns from federal tax collectors. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used that against me the most.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_0f1d9642-f8b3-4d06-a894-40c0333fdcb4.html
— DHS, IRS join government funding crackdown on Harvard over antisemitism charges
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_18dc2d32-b8c5-4c86-9640-9f3ae7d4c627.html
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Trump: I Was Elected To Get The Criminals and Murderers Out Of This Country, It Was The Number One Factor
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/17/trump_i_was_elected_to_get_the_criminals_and_murderers_out_of_this_country_it_was_the_number_one_factor.html
— Democrats Hate Trump So Much They Are Willing To Grovel To Illegals
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/17/hawley_democrats_hate_trump_so_much_they_are_willing_to_grovel_to_illegals_personally_escort_every_illegal.html
WHITE HOUSE
— Extension of Hiring Freeze. All during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO, the agency was almost always under Gingrich-caused hiring freezes and/or promotion freezes. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely because of that. They forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. 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. They flushed down their toilets my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. What does Gingrich have to say about that? If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/extension-of-hiring-freeze/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS & CNN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-exempt-crew-environmental-groups-harvard-5e1e0ffacfa040ccdeaf4e43fb72b5fe
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/politics/powell-trump-federal-reserve-tariffs/index.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/abrego-garcia-trump-maryland-el-salvador-2090f0dd508bbc3d2f60845842af27b4
— Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-status-international-students-07a10958bf078cb04b59d1fc9a3a27a8
MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO leaders exist to destroy Trump.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-authoritarian-push-stumbles-as-resistance-diversifies-and-grows-237812805755
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq3635knGj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWukpq9Y-gE
CBS NEWS
— Trump is drastically shrinking the size and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It is a lot easier to gut a federal agency than to reform it. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-cutting-nearly-90-percent-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/world/asia/china-xi-trump-cambodia.html
— Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/politics/harvard-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/harvard-donors-trump.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html
— With Harvard Threat, Trump Tries to Bend the I.R.S. to His Will. Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/trump-irs.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/18/trump-tax-exempt-crew-environmental-groups-harvard/514a345e-1c0a-11f0-9160-306c35f9b3a8_story.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Harvard enrolls about 10,000 international students. IIT enrolled me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But they would have enrolled international students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-dhs-international-students-enrollment-e4bc3ea6
— Trump Demands Harvard’s Foreign Funding Records
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-demands-harvards-foreign-funding-records-acc11947
POLITICO
— Trump’s tighter grip on agencies turns to financial regulators. I worked for GAO on audits of federal financial industry regulators for 8 years at the GS-13 Step 3-10 Levels, currently $125,661-$153,151/year.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2025/04/18/trumps-tighter-grip-on-agencies-turns-to-financial-regulators-00298285
LINKEDIN
— My critics/opponents a) attribute their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents promote a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) 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 my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/meritocracy-myth-hiring-already-fair-take-challenge-jenn-tardy-vgdze
INSIDE HIGHER ID
— Public education in America exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/04/18/what-know-about-trumps-funding-threats-colleges
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Trump cannot say ‘you are fired’ to Fed chair Jerome Powell amid economic tensions. For federal employees, the more of the following that they are, the fewer protections that they have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trump-cannot-say-you-are-fired-to-fed-chair-jerome-powell-amid-economic-tensions-heres-why/articleshow/120402427.cms
April 15, 2025
The mainstream news media ever-increasingly exists to help Democrat leaders promote more hatred against Trump.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use student visa revocations to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/depaul-student-visa-revoked-vishnu-nali-slated-graduate-june-fighting-f1-termination-court-complaint-says/16172304/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use farmers to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-tariff-updates-donald-trump-tariffs-impacting-illinois-farmers-like-john-bartman-exports-soybeans-china/16172797/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use used car prices to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/tariffs-impact-on-used-car-prices-already-being-felt-at-dealerships/3722128/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/pritzker-addresses-political-future-trump-administration-in-presser/3722224/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/father-mistakenly-deported-over-bulls-hat-wont-be-released-el-salvador-president-says/3721940/
CBC2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker to promote mor hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/gov-pritzker-addresses-security-after-pennsylvania-arson-other-matters/
— Antisemitic graffiti found on several buildings at Northwestern University
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/antisemitic-graffiti-buildings-northwestern-university/
WGN9
— Illinois Democrats mull next moves after strong showing in April elections. Anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, the more demographics that you share with Trump, the faster that Democrats and RINOs will destroy you. Trump is conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/illinois-democrats-dupage-county-pritzker-durbin-stratton/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— It’s time to lift Illinois’ moratorium on new nuclear plants
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/15/editorial-nuclear-power-moratorium-pritzker/
— Momentum builds for nuclear power in Illinois as state aims to reach Pritzker’s energy goals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/14/momentum-builds-for-nuclear-power-in-illinois-as-state-aims-to-reach-gov-jb-pritzkers-energy-goals/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/14/el-salvador-maryland-man/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Mayor Johnson pushes environmental equity law after feds allege racist policies. An ordinance is expected to be introduced Wednesday. City Hall promised President Joe Biden’s administration that it would change its practice of dumping polluting businesses on low-income Black and Latino communities, threatening public health. Democrats run Chicago.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/04/14/brandon-johnson-environmental-racism-ordinance-hud-pollution-chicago
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250414/local-politics/tariffs-are-on-tariffs-are-off-pritzker-dives-into-trade-transit-and-why-suburbs-went-blue/
— Democrats invaded, infested, and conquered DuPage County to take advantage of the prosperity and safety that Republicans created there. Now they want to obliterate the county’s history. Under the Democrats, poverty and crime will ever-increasingly increase in DuPage County. Under the Democrats, there will be more and more a) welfare, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) 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. DuPage County residents will have to spend more and more and more money on protecting their personal safety. They will have to avoid leaving their residences at night. They will need to know where the “no go” zones are and to avoid them. More and more and more employers will not hire Republicans and they will get rid of their Republican employees. More and more and more organizations will not admit Republican members and they will get rid of their Republican members. And even worse things. How many voted for Harris in your precinct? 478 did in my precinct.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250415/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-dupage-heritage-gallery-renovation-an-opportunity-to-make-exhibit-more-educati/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Court strikes down another abortion speech restriction
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey-court-strikes-down-another-abortion-speech-restriction/article_c46d5c7d-ec8f-46be-94c5-4673b53a0cca.html
HERALD NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/04/15/joliet-council-receptive-to-cannabis-dispensary-on-jefferson-st/
JOURNAL COURIER
— Getting the IRS on the phone is more difficult this tax filing season. Have you ever phoned IRS with a tax question? If you did during the 1974 filing season, the IRS employee who answered your call was one of my subordinates. Back then, as a 25-year-old GS-11 (currently $82,655/year) IRS Revenue Officer, I supervised all of the IRS employees, which included a rotating staff of about 90 IRS Revenue Agent trainees, in IRS’s new downtown Chicago office who answered taxpayer questions using IRS’s new tollfree CentiPhone system. Because of my job performance, the IRS manager who had given me that developmental opportunity and who had promoted me in 1972 and 1973 promoted me to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) in 1974.)
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/politics/article/getting-the-irs-on-the-phone-is-more-difficult-20275591.php
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight/reject federal law
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-senate-bills-immigrant-workers/
SOUTHERN
— Former Attorney General candidate Thomas Devore says there is a way for Republicans to win statewide offices.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/14/former-attorney-general-candidate-says-there-is-a-way-for-republicans-to-win-statewide-offices/
— ‘Homegrowns are next’: Trump doubles down on sending American ‘criminals’ to foreign prisons
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/14/homegrowns-are-next-trump-doubles-down-on-sending-american-criminals-to-foreign-prisons/
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois GOP: Legislation addressing the state’s high taxes being ignored
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/14/illinois-gop-legislation-addressing-the-states-high-taxes-being-ignored/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting abortion.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-study-finds-more-people-are-obtaining-abortions-but-fewer-are-traveling-to-other-states-for-it/
WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use student visa revocations to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/trump-administration-revoking-visas-international-students-iowa-illinois/526-b5823a5b-b968-4e13-8147-5bba13ef824f
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students over American students.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-14/the-trump-admin-revoked-the-visas-of-several-niu-international-students-other-international-students-are-anxious
MEDILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to Blacks. I should write about the tremendous preference that my Democrat superiors in the federal government gave my Black Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates. I would focus on my Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with when I was 49 years old in 1997. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/watch-chicago-public-schools-implement-black-student-success-plan-to-close-opportunity-gaps/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— If Durbin decides not to run, there are already at least six Democratic candidates who have expressed interest in his seat, including Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton; Reps. Robin Kelly (IL-02), Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) and Lauren Underwood (IL-14); state Sen. Robert Peters; and Christopher Swann, a nonprofit leader in Chicago. . .Congressman Darin LaHood, a Republican, offered comments about Democratic Congressman Sean Casten bringing a town hall to his district. “Voters in Dixon and Lee County, and across the 16th District of Illinois, overwhelmingly supported President Trump and the America First agenda,” LaHood said in a statement to Playbook. “I am proud of my commitment to the people of IL-16 and will continue to provide high-quality constituent services, support local businesses, and meet with constituents across the 16th district as their representative in Washington, D.C.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/15/doge-targets-brookfield-zoo-00290522
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— 23 states: IL, Chicago ‘sanctuary’ laws incentivize illegal immigration, ‘spills’ burden onto other states, rest of U.S.
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/670893602-23-states-il-chicago-sanctuary-laws-incentivize-illegal-immigration-spills-burden-onto-other-states-rest-of-u-s
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Trump and the Fight to Save American Retail
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/04/opinion-president-trump-and-the-fight-to-save-american-retail.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— High Truancy Rates Say So Much About Government Schools
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/high-truancy-rates-say-so-much-about-government-schools/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Tax Day: Here’s how your $4K in state income taxes is spent
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/tax-day-heres-how-your-4k-in-state-income-taxes-is-spent/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— China recruiting current, former U.S. government officials as spies. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/14/china-recruiting-current-former-us-government-officials-spies/
— Why Trump’s tariff policy represents economic patriotism, not isolationism. How strategic trade measures protect American jobs and manufacturing sovereignty.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/14/trumps-tariff-policy-represents-economic-patriotism-isolationism/
— Liberal media distorts immigration enforcement to attack Trump’s policies. President isn’t, in any way, obligated to continue the lawless policies of his predecessors.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/14/liberal-media-distorts-immigration-enforcement-attack-trumps-policies/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— GAO auditing Musk-led DOGE. Gingrich slashed GAO’s budget by 15 percent in 1996 and 10 percent in 1997. My Democrat GAO superiors used that to force me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3377103/government-accountability-office-audit-elon-musk-doge/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Illinois Scraps Race-Based Scholarship In Wake of Free Beacon Report. Move highlights how legal threats from the Trump administration are discouraging DEI. Since 1966, my critics/opponents have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me for my not getting any scholarships. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had lots of money, who bought them cars, who paid for their college expenses, who got them jobs, etc. My having to work my way through college harmed my GPA.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/illinois-scraps-race-based-scholarship-in-wake-of-free-beacon-report/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago cancels annual parade over fears of ICE raids
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/14/sanctuary-city-cancels-annual-parade-over-fears-of-ice-raids-1536292/
EPOCH TIMES
— Harvard Professors Sue Trump Admin Over Threat to Withhold Nearly $9 Billion. Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/harvard-professors-sue-trump-admin-over-threat-to-withhold-nearly-9-billion-5841486
FEDERALIST
— Criminal Aliens Paroled By Biden Took In $1.3 Million In Taxpayer Handouts
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/14/doge-criminal-aliens-paroled-by-biden-took-in-1-3-million-in-taxpayer-handouts/
FOX NEWS
— Judge blocks Trump from revoking legal status for 530,000+ migrants who flew into US via Biden program. The migrants came into the United States from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela through the controversial CHNV mass humanitarian parole program.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-blocks-trump-from-revoking-legal-status-530000-migrants-who-flew-u-s-via-biden-program?lid=bamub24n4k70
— Cinco de Mayo parade canceled in Chicago due to fears over immigration enforcement. ‘Our people are scared,’ Hector Escobar, president of the Casa Puebla and Cermak Road Chamber of Commerce said.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cinco-de-mayo-parade-canceled-chicago-due-fears-over-immigration-enforcement
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Federal Government Freezes $2.26 Billion Funding to Harvard After It Refuses to Comply. The university accused the federal government of trying to impose ‘direct governmental regulation’ on its academic programs. Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/harvard-rejects-trump-administrations-demands-tied-to-9-billion-funding-5841811
— Harvard Won’t Comply With Trump’s Demands to Dismantle DEI, Limit Protests. Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/harvard-wont-comply-with-trumps-demands-to-dismantle-dei-limit-protests/
TOWNHALL
— El Salvador’s President Perfectly Explains Why Criminals Should Be Locked Up
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/04/14/el-salvadors-president-perfectly-explains-why-criminals-should-be-locked-up-n2655498
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump calls Xi’s tour of Southeast Asia a chance to ‘screw’ the US
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/world/video/xi-china-southeast-asia-us-trump-tariffs-digvid
MSNBC
— Trump’s attacks on the IRS will encourage wealthy tax cheats. Studies show the wealthy are more likely to underreport their income. I have always been a Republican. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years. I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years. Neither Democrats nor RINOs wanted that.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-irs-attacks-wealthy-tax-cheats-rcna199082
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat groups are preparing to be targeted by the Trump administration. I should write about the Democrat groups that dominate Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton.
https://apnews.com/article/democrats-trump-actblue-indivisible-legal-threat-fbi-42f502bcb5888b12628629710c6eb21b
— International students file legal challenges over widespread US visa revocations. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But they all would have admitted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://apnews.com/article/f1-visa-international-college-student-trump-9d4d900d328a0c205503c1178e70f1d5
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://apnews.com/article/president-trump-china-tariffs-iphone-f50e1c6ba8f8cbb7c4b463720e65f3c4
— Federal Work Force Prepares for Another Round of Mass Firings as Deadline Nears. All during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO, the agency was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes because of Gingrich budget cuts. They ever-increasingly took their anger against Gingrich out on me. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/politics/federal-workers-layoff-doge-trump.html
NBC NEWS
— Trump admin pushing immigrants to self-deport as its deportation numbers lag
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-admin-pushing-immigrants-self-deport-deportation-numbers-lag-rcna201099
NEW YORK TIMES
— Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ‘of Momentous Significance.’ Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/politics/harvard-trump.html
— Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands. Federal officials said they would freeze the money after Harvard said it would not submit to requests to overhaul hiring and report international students who break rules. Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-trump-reject-demands.html
— Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration’s Demands. Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful. Harvard exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-trump-reject-demands.html
— Biden illegally promoted illegal immigration. Biden should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/migrants-trump.html
— Why Europe Fears a Flood of Cheap Goods From China
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/world/europe/europe-china-dumping-tariffs.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump plan would slash the State Department budget by nearly half. Gingrich slashed GAO’s budget by 15 percent in 1996 and 10 percent in 1997. My Democrat GAO superiors used that to force me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/14/state-department-budget-cuts-trump-rubio/
— Were your parents wealthy? If they were not, how would your life have been different if they had been wealthy? My parents were not wealthy. because of that, I had to work my way through college. Because of that and because my employers paid none of my education expenses or paid just token amounts, my GPA suffered. Nevertheless, I a) earned a bachelor’s degree from NIU when I was 21, b) earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27, c) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31, e) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, f) became a licensed CPA when I was 32, and g) earned a master’s degree in finance when I was 48.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/10/the-incredible-impact-of-rich-parents-fighting-to-live-by-the-very-best-schools/
— Trump is ‘all for’ sending Americans to Salvadoran prison. More and more and more “Americans” act as agents for foreign countries that want to destroy America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-is-all-for-sending-americans-to-salvadoran-prison/2025/04/15/43f0d4a8-9cdc-4cb2-906e-b2d14e61df95_video.html
USA TODAY
— GAO to investigate Musk, White House-led changes at the SEC. Gingrich slashed GAO’s budget by 15 percent in 1996 and 10 percent in 1997. My Democrat GAO superiors used that to force me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/14/gao-securities-exchange-commission-sec-doge-trump/83078995007/
MIAMI HERALD
— Biden’s humanitarian parole program was illegal. Biden should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article304234666.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Compared to your peers, how much money are you saving/did you save for your retirement? Ever since my wife and I got married in 1978, we always saved as much as we could for our retirement. My critics/opponents are ever-increasingly furious about that. We were able to save more for our retirement because we gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents. According to my critics/opponents, if we had children, a) I would not have been able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, or become a licensed CPA in 1981 and b) my wife would not have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/all-roth-retirement-account-f7951b6f
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders say “Tariff-Fueled Market Rout Cost Chicago’s Pensions $1 Billion.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-14/tariff-fueled-market-rout-cost-chicago-s-pensions-1-billion
— China Orders Boeing Jet Delivery Halt as Trade War Expands
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/china-tells-airlines-stop-taking-boeing-jets-as-trump-tariffs-expand-trade-war?embedded-checkout=true
FORBES
— My critics/opponents a) attribute their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents promote a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) 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 my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2025/04/13/make-work-fair-strategies-to-combat-the-myth-of-meritocracy/
FED SCOOP
— After a slow start, GAO says it’s now hearing from DOGE. Gingrich slashed GAO’s budget by 15 percent in 1996 and 10 percent in 1997. My Democrat GAO superiors used that to force me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://fedscoop.com/gao-audit-doge-government-efficiency-work/
GOVERNING
— Amid Labor Shortages, More Companies Pay Kids’ Way Through College. Because I had to work my way through college and because my employers paid none of my education expenses or paid just token amounts, my GPA suffered. Nevertheless, I a) earned a bachelor’s degree from NIU when I was 21, b) earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27, c) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31, e) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, f) became a licensed CPA when I was 32, and g) earned a master’s degree in finance when I was 48.
https://www.governing.com/workforce/amid-labor-shortages-more-companies-pay-kids-way-through-college
NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/g-s1-60091/venezuelan-asylum-seeker-immigration-court
EDUCATION WEEK
— Democrats run education. They use Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI to give preference to Democrats over Republicans. They use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/anti-dei-policies-are-ramping-up-with-big-implications-for-college-access/2025/04