FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-area-food-banks-small-businesses-feel-impact-president-donald-trumps-sweeping-new-tariffs/16123883/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKVkjubiPl4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pZuNfAQjdk
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/fact-check-trumps-misleading-tariff-chart/3713631/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/a-look-at-the-financial-impact-of-president-trumps-tariffs/3713603/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/kelly-evans-the-trump-tariffs-heres-what-we-know/3712805/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-tariffs-reactions-april-03-2025-live-updates/3712750/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-area-retailers-consumers-concerned-effects-tariffs/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/rep-raja-krishnamoorthi-weighs-in-on-president-trumps-latest-tariffs/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-announcement-sends-stock-market-plunging/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-car-dealers-trump-tariffs-price-hikes
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619476
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619254
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619138
— Democrat and RINO leaders vehemently oppose home schooling.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619259
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racists.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/03/chicago-police-continued-target-black-latino-drivers-traffic-stops-2024-advocacy-group
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://wgnradio.com/news/trump-sued-over-china-tariffs/
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/ap-these-are-the-places-affected-by-trumps-tariffs/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use low-income students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/03/k-12-schools-must-say-no-to-dei-to-receive-federal-money-administration-says
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/04/04/families-turn-to-illinois-attorney-general-to-help-bring-back-surgeries-for-transgender-youth
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hundreds of Democrats protest at Northbrook Tesla dealership against Elon Musk and DOGE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/hundreds-protests-at-northbrook-tesla-dealership-against-musk-doge/
— Partisan politics in Naperville’s nonpartisan election raises questions over how future races will be run
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/naperville-election-council/
— Illinois Democrat leaders join Democrat leaders in 18 other states suing to block Trump’s election order
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/illinois-states-sue-trump-election-order/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/editorial-trumps-foolish-tariffs-take-the-us-economy-back-centuries/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/answering-your-questions-about-president-trumps-vast-new-tariffs/
— Sanctuary cities pose an unacceptable risk to public safety
https://www.thedailynewsonline.com/opinion/fabbricatore-sanctuary-cities-pose-an-unacceptable-risk-to-public-safety/article_aa45c31e-f001-11ef-b918-dbbf5c6fa882.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly spin everything that Trump says or does against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/trumps-changes-federal-government/
— To vote for Democrat candidates is to promote more poverty and crime. To vote for Democrat candidates is to promote more 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. To vote for Democrat candidates is to get of Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/04/ballot-initiative-illinois-voters/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use low-income students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/03/k-12-schools-must-say-no-to-dei-to-receive-federal-money-administration-says
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/03/trump-dei-diversity-steinberg
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/03/donald-trump-tariffs-global-trade-congress-republicans-mona-charen
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-news-car-prices-chicago
DAILY HERALD
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250403/nation-and-world-politics/sources-trump-moves-to-fire-several-national-security-officials-over-concerns-theyre-not-loyal-sou/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/these-chicago-stocks-took-worst-beating-after-trump-tariffs
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/finance-banking/wall-street-reacts-global-tariff-upheaval
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/understanding-trumps-tariff-will-take-time-and-consultants
— Democrat and RINO law firms fight Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/opinion-big-law-must-stop-caving-trumps-demands
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Reparations Committee discusses DNA ancestry testing
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/04/city/reparations-committee-discusses-dna-ancestry-testing-updates-from-reparations-business-climate-survey/
SOUTHERN
— Musk still plans a major role in midterm elections despite loss in Wisconsin
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/03/musk-still-plans-a-major-role-in-midterm-elections-despite-loss-in-wisconsin-sources/
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/gov-pritzker-slams-trumps-tax-on-working-families-following-mexico-trade-mission-81217.cfm
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-says-things-are-going-very-well-after-worst-stock-market-drop-in-years-over-tariffs/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-what-to-know-about-the-trump-tariffs-upending-global-trade-and-markets/
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-moves-to-fire-several-national-security-officials-over-concerns-theyre-not-loyal-ap-sources/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders use troubled veterans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-03/trumps-va-is-ending-a-rescue-program-thats-saved-17-000-military-veterans-homes
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-03/brutal-day-for-stocks-dow-plunges-almost-1-700-points-on-new-trump-tariffs
CHALKBEAT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/03/trump-policies-on-gender-mobilize-lgbtq-students-and-school-staff/
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/03/hands-off-anti-trump-protests-saturday-chicago-area
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Election turnout numbers: “Voter turnout for the April 1 election was 286,301 or 16.9 percent. That tops the previous Consolidated election turnout in 2023 which was 57,400 and 2021 which totaled 70,747. Early Voting also exceeded previous years with 97,697 suburban voters casting an early ballot compared with 57,400 in 2023 and 24,311 in 2021,” Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon said in a release.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/04/rep-danny-davis-weighing-2026-00271841
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-282/
— DuPage Democrats say they flipped 38 offices. If those in DuPage County who voted for Democrats were asked why they did that, what would they say?
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/03/roundup-dupage-dems-say-they-flipped-38-offices-rock-island-elects-black-mayor-after-police-shooting-meyerhoffman-over-gregorykern-in-belleville/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois townships vote to fix pensions, gerrymandering and unfunded mandates
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-townships-vote-to-fix-pensions-gerrymandering-and-unfunded-mandates/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump tariffs to hit autos, iPhones, food and more
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/3/trump-tariffs-hit-autos-iphones-food/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum says ‘good relationship’ with US spared country from reciprocal tariffs
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/3369760/mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-good-relationship-us-trump-spared-reciprocal-tariffs/
— Education Department threatens K-12 funding unless schools adhere to Trump’s anti-DEI orders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3369969/education-department-threatens-k-12-funding-schools-adhere-trump-anti-dei-orders/
AMERICAN FAMILY RADIO
— Media Malfeasance
https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2025/04/media-malfeasance/
AMERICAN THINKER
— With the border secure, Trump cleans up Biden’s excesses on parole, TPS
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/with_the_border_secure_trump_cleans_up_biden_s_excesses_on_parole_tps.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— DNC, Schumer, Jeffries sue Trump over preventing illegals from voting
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/03/dnc-schumer-jeffries-sue-trump-over-preventing-illegals-from-voting-1533793/
— Mexico-born judge orders Trump admin. to restore legal aid to unaccompanied illegal alien children
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/03/mexico-born-judge-orders-trump-admin-to-restore-legal-aid-to-unaccompanied-illegal-alien-children-1533692/
DAILY SIGNAL
— We Were Paying for What? Trump HHS Slashes Hundreds of Millions in Woke LGBTQ Grants.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/03/we-were-paying-what-trump-hhs-cuts-woke-lgbtq-grants/
DAILY WIRE
— ‘We Do Not Ask Permission From Far-Left Democrats’: Vance Scorches Dems Over Deportations
https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-do-not-ask-permission-from-far-left-democrats-vance-scorches-dems-over-deportations
EPOCH TIMES
— US Markets Down Upon Global Tariff Announcement. Energy, technology, and consumer discretionary sectors took the hardest hits, with losses around 7 percent. Industrials and financials fell by about 5 percent.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/us-markets-down-upon-global-tariff-announcement-5836531
FOX NEWS
— Illinois homeschool bill would create a ‘pipeline to the criminal justice system for parents’: Dem lawmaker. IL’s Homeschool Act, slammed by critics as ‘government overreach’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-homeschool-bill-would-create-pipeline-criminal-justice-system-parents-dem-lawmaker
JUDICIAL WATCH
— HUD, DHS Team up to End Subsidized Public Housing for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.judicialwatch.org/subsidized-housing-illegal-immigrants/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lays Off 900, Kept Chief DEI Officer. Neela Rajendra has been rebranded as “Chief of the Office of Team Excellence and Employee Success.” The move is a clear attempt to bypass the restrictions against DEI now being implemented.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/nasas-jet-propulsion-laboratory-lays-off-900-kept-chief-dei-officer/
NEWSMAX
— House Democrats Demand Answers on IRS Staff Cuts. During the 1980s and 1990s, Democrat and Republican leaders let Gingrich gut GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/house-dems-irs/2025/04/03/id/1205601/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— China imposes 34% reciprocal tariffs on imports of US goods in retaliation for Trump’s trade war
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/business/china-us-tariffs-retaliation-hnk-intl/index.html
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/countries-worldwide-weigh-in-on-trumps-tariffs-announcement/
NEW YORK TIMES
— More Americans Can’t Afford Medical Care. The Democrat Party platform promotes dependency on government and charity, poverty, and crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/health/health-care-costs-gallup.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/04/india-trump-tariffs-modi-trade/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/republicans-who-were-against-tariffs-now-downplay-trumps/2025/04/03/3f76184e-de3a-4b43-8988-72ed7ae6f365_video.html
USA TODAY
— Trump’s tariffs on cars will create good jobs and increase wages in America. No longer does America fully manufacture its own automobiles. We largely assemble high-value parts made overseas. I worked part-time on the Chrysler assembly line in Belvidere in early 1970.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/04/02/trump-tariffs-auto-imports-ford-toyota-honda/82754296007/
UNION LEADER
— ACLU fights for the rights of criminals and illegals
https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letter-aclu-fights-for-the-rights-of-criminals-and-illegals/article_79619792-cd55-4ef9-ad0d-67f1c7d15eff.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What the Illinois Home Schooling Bill Reveals About Democrats. The lack of school choice in the state is fueling the left’s broader assault on educational freedom.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-the-illinois-home-schooling-bill-reveals-about-democrats-c683be85
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-tariffs-trade-war-stock-market-04-03-2025
— The Census Defines the Poverty Rate Up. Its flawed income measure leads to the overpayment of welfare, including Medicaid, to recipients.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-census-defines-poverty-down-measure-poor-welfare-transfer-payments-f09be540
BLOOMBERG
— GOP Considering New Tax Bracket Of Up To 40% For Millionaires
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/republicans-debate-hiking-top-tax-rate-to-40-for-millionaires
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April 3, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois GOP suffered major election losses in suburbs that are critical for its rebuilding effort
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/illinois-gop-suburban-election-struggles/
— Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs as some Republicans vote to halt taxes on Canadian imports
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/senate-rebukes-trumps-tariffs/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/04/02/trump-liberation-day-tariffs-manufacturing-inflation-trade-wars
— Pritzker tries to bolster Illinois ties with Mexico, even as country prepares for Trump tariffs
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/02/jb-pritzker-mexico-trade-mission-trump-tariffs
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Judge extends pause on firing federal probationary employees in Illinois. If I had not already served my probationary period working for IRS, my Democrat GAO superiors would have fired me immediately after I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/judge-extends-pause-firing-federal-probationary-employees
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker and Mexico
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/02/jb-pritzker-mexico-trade-mission-trump-tariffs
— What’s in Trump’s sweeping new tariff plan?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/whats-trumps-sweeping-new-tariff-plan/16120384/
— Wisconsin and Florida elections provide early warning signs to Trump and Republicans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/wisconsin-florida-elections-provide-early-warning-signs-trump-republicans/16119269/
NBC5
— Democrats celebrate gains made in Chicago suburbs, Wisconsin. Gov. JB Pritzker says the results signal Democratic momentum and a rejection of the Trump administration.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/democrats-celebrate-gains-made-in-chicago-suburbs-wisconsin/3712524/
— Trump announces sweeping 10% tariffs on all countries
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-tariffs-tiktok-musk-april-02-2025-live-updates/3711695/
— As Trump aims to promote US manufacturing with new tariffs, many brace for backlash
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-aims-promote-manufacturing-with-new-tariffs-many-brace-backlash/3712621/
CBS2
— Trump imposes sweeping new tariffs
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-imposes-sweeping-new-tariffs/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-unwraps-his-plan-for-new-tariffs/
FOX32
— Pritzker says suburban Chicago election results were rejection of Trump
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1618566
— Rally against Trump, Musk to be held in Chicago area on Saturday
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/anti-trump-musk-rally-chicago
— Illinois lawmakers criticize Trump’s tariffs, say he’s ‘enamored’ with them despite economic risks
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1618626
SOUTHERN
— Democrats vow to fight Trump’s tariffs ‘tooth and nail’
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/02/democrats-vow-to-fight-trumps-tariffs-tooth-and-nail-as-they-slam-chaotic-trade-war/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Senate Republicans move forward with their budget plan to promote Trump’s agenda
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-02/senate-republicans-move-forward-with-their-budget-plan-to-promote-trumps-agenda
DARIEN PATCH
— Downers Grove Township GOP Swept Away. Democrats win in landslides in supervisor and trustee races, according to unofficial returns.
https://patch.com/illinois/darien-il/downers-grove-township-gop-swept-away
ELMHURST PATCH
— York Township Republicans Defeated: Unofficial Returns. The Democratic supervisor hopeful, who the GOP clerk tried to keep off the ballot, wins in landslide.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/york-township-republicans-defeated-unofficial-returns
EVANSTON PATCH
— Hands Off 2025 Protest Planned For Saturday In Evanston
https://patch.com/illinois/evanston/hands-2025-protest-planned-saturday-evanston
POLITICO
— ELECTION RESULTS: Illinois GOP suffered major election losses in suburbs that are critical for its rebuilding effort: In DuPage, where Democrats came out big winners, GOP Chair Kevin Coyne said “it was obviously a very disappointing night” and that “Republicans faced ‘a perfect storm’ — trying to navigate campaigns in the era of Trump, Pritzker’s spending on Democratic infrastructure and the Democrats’ longtime advantage in delivering mail-in voting, which Trump has criticized and Republicans have been slow to adopt,” by the Tribune’s Rick Pearson.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/03/pritzker-sees-tariff-troubles-00268081
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-488/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-281/
— Ives tries to explain ‘complete wipeout,’ says GOP needs ‘Trumpian type of voice’ in 2026
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/02/ives-tries-to-explain-complete-wipeout-says-gop-needs-trumpian-type-of-voice-in-2026/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you asked the Republican candidates on the ballot in your precinct who lost why they lost, what would they say? If you asked the leaders of your Republican township and county party organizations and the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party why Republican candidates lost, what would they say? What impact will April 1, 2025 Republican losses have on the November 3, 2026 election? How strongly will qualified Republicans be discouraged to run? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents attribute their successes to? My critics/opponents attribute their successes to meritocracy. But they 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. In my defense, my parents never attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were wealthy, who bought them cars, who paid for their college education, who got them jobs, etc. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How will Illinois Democrat and RINO leaders use April 1, 2025 Republican losses? They will ever-increasingly do more to drive Republicans out of Illinois. They will especially drive out those Republicans who share Trump’s demographics. Trump is conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How will the April 1, 2025 Democrat victories in your township, municipality, and school district impact you? Poverty and crime will ever-increasingly increase. There will be more and more and more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, and diminishment of Second Amendment rights. There will be more and more and more Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, there will be more and more and more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and notional origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— New teacher contract: CTU wins, CPS wins…Chicago taxpayers lose
https://wirepoints.org/new-teacher-contract-ctu-wins-cps-winschicago-taxpayers-lose-wirepoints/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Links to Contested Election Race Results in McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/02/links-to-contested-election-race-results-in-mchenry-county/
— Voter Turnout Remains Dismal
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/02/voter-turnout-remains-dismal/
— Crystal Lake Grade School District 47 Election Results, Personal PAC Big Winner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/01/crystal-lake-grade-school-district-47-election-results-personal-pac-big-winner/
— Grafton Township Democrats Win Control of Township Board
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/01/grafton-township-democrats-win-control-of-township-board/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— As Trump aims to curb mail-in voting, some Illinois lawmakers look to expand it
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b5149676-f1ea-4cb8-ac4e-0bf94061de7a.html
CHICAGO’S MORNING ANSWER
— Breakthrough Ideas’ Jeanne Ives goes over our local election results
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1otnClLQWC0
JOHN BIVER
— Even Astronauts are Not Guaranteed the Right Stuff for Politics
https://johnbiver.com/even-astronauts-are-not-guaranteed-the-right-stuff-for-politics/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICA GREATNESS
— Democrats File Lawsuit To Block Trump’s Executive Order Requiring U.S. Citizenship to Vote
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/02/democrats-file-lawsuit-to-block-trumps-executive-order-requiring-u-s-citizenship-to-vote/
BLAZE
— Mass deportation or bust: Trump’s one shot to get it right
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/mass-deportation-or-bust-trumps-one-shot-to-get-it-right
BREITBART
— On Mexico-US border, Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ brings fears for future
https://www.breitbart.com/news/on-mexico-us-border-trumps-liberation-day-brings-fears-for-future/
— Is Musk’s political career descending to Earth?
https://www.breitbart.com/news/is-musks-political-career-descending-to-earth/
— US Democrats at last see reason for cheer
https://www.breitbart.com/news/shot-in-the-arm-us-democrats-at-last-see-reason-for-cheer/
— Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump from Defunding Free Lawyers for Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/02/biden-appointed-judge-stops-trump-free-lawyers-migrants/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Claims Historic Low In Migrant Crossings
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/02/trump-hits-lowest-border-level-in-history/
FOX NEWS
— DOGE volunteer credits Trump for unprecedented effort to curb ‘jaw-dropping’ Social Security fraud
https://www.foxnews.com/media/doge-volunteer-credits-trump-unprecedented-effort-curb-jaw-dropping-social-security-fraud
— Restoring Meritocracy My critics/opponents attribute their successes to meritocracy, but they 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. In my defense, my parents never attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/restoring-meritocracy-trump-administration-cuts-dei-as-factor-in-state-department-promotions/
PJ MEDIA
— The Trump Effect: The Border Crossing Numbers That Democrats Don’t Want You to See
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/02/the-trump-effect-the-border-crossing-numbers-that-democrats-dont-want-you-to-see-n4938520
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Tren de Aragua Are Effectively Terrorists, They’re Here Illegally, I Don’t Want Them Here
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/02/scott_jennings_tren_de_aragua_are_effectively_terrorists_theyre_here_illegally_i_dont_want_them_here.html
TOWNHALL
— ‘Operation Take Back America’ Is in Full Force
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2025/04/02/operation-take-back-america-n2654886
— When Journos Report a Deportation ‘Sob Story,’ Be Sure to Check the Context and Fine Print
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/print/2654819
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Tesla sales plunge: Biggest decline in history
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/business/tesla-sales
WASHINGTON POST
— Pardoned by Trump, Rod Blagojevich has new job: Lobbying for Bosnian Serbs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/02/rod-blagojevich-bosnian-serb-lobbying/
— Over a dozen states weigh laws that ban Pride flags in government buildings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/02/pride-flag-bans-state-government-buildings/
April 2, 2025
All eight Republican township candidates on my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 ballot lost because the Democrats in the township, including my precinct, voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump. How successful were your Republican township candidates? Ever since my wife and I moved to Milton Township in 1978, all of the Milton Township elected officials have been Republican. Since 2000, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, I have done much to help elect and reelect Republican Milton Township candidates, including hand-delivering their campaign literature to the residences in my precinct (currently 400) that have at least one Republican or one Independent registered voter.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Richard Irvin concedes defeat to John Laesch in Aurora mayoral race
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/richard-irvin-concedes-defeat/
— Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau concedes defeat in bid for third term
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/orland-park-mayoral-race-results/
— Evanston voters re-elect Daniel Biss as mayor, per unofficial results
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/evanston-mayor-election-results/
— Illinois AG Kwame Raoul warns legal community against ‘being complicit’ with Trump. Federal law trumps state and local law.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/illinois-ag-kwame-raoul-warns-legal-community-against-being-complicit-with-trump/
— Lawsuit claims Chicago approval for cannabis store in Streeterville was illegal
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/streeterville-cannabis-store/
— Wisconsin votes to enshrine voter ID requirement in state constitution
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/wisconsin-election-education-official-voter-id-amendment/
— Democratic-backed Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, cementing liberal majority
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/wisconsin-supreme-court-race-control/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/trump-liberation-day/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use pollution to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/trump-epa-pollution-climate-change/
— Democrats on Illinois’ high court must recuse themselves on gerrymandering. I should write about the gerrymandering my precinct in 2015.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/opinion-illinois-gerrymandering-state-supreme-court/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/01/trumps-tariff-smarter-trade-strategy-american-workers-environment-manufacturing-ben-jealous
DAILY HERALD
— School board incumbents fare well in DuPage County
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250401/local-politics/school-board-incumbents-fare-well-in-dupage-county/
— Burket edges past Fasules in Glen Ellyn village president’s race; mayors losing in other DuPage towns
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250401/local-politics/burket-edges-past-fasules-in-glen-ellyn-village-presidents-race-mayors-losing-in-other-dupage-town/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Republicans eye $25,000 SALT cap as Trump’s tax cuts take shape. I started itemizing in 1972 and my wife and I in 1978. We paid less federal income tax because we itemized. But SALT ended our itemizing.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-tax-cuts-gop-eyes-raising-salt-cap
— Democrat leaders promote the lawyer leading Jenner’s battle with Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/jenner-blocks-rep-trump-case-michael-attanasios-backstory
ABC7
— Aurora mayoral election: Two-term incumbent Richard Irvin concedes race to challenger John Laesch. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss is projected to win a second term in office.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/aurora-mayor-election-2025-voters-head-polls-mayoral-race-incumbent-richard-irvin-facing-challenger-john-laesch/16114822/
— Jason House projected to win Dolton mayoral election, replacing Tiffany Henyard: ‘It’s a new day’ State Sen. Napoleon Harris projected to win the Thornton Township supervisor election.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dolton-illinois-election-results-today-voters-seek-replace-tiffany-henyard-mayor-thornton-township-supervisor/16116392/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC8_DMNhvFo
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “financial experts” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-news-today-financial-experts-raising-concerns-consumer-protections-costs-current-administration/16116870/
NBC5
— Suburban Chicago race results
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/2025-illinois-election-results-wisconsin-supreme-court/3711433/
— Chicago suburb hires private security to help patrol amid police shortage
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-suburb-winnetka-private-security-police-help/3711369/
— Liberal wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, GOP keeps House specials
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-tariffs-wisconsin-florida-elections-april-01-2025-live-updates/3710727/
CBS2
— Dodge wins in Orland Park, Biss wins another term in Evanston
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2025-municipal-elections-chicago-suburbs/
— Chicago area school district prepares for potential drop in federal funding
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-area-school-district-prepares-for-potential-drop-in-federal-funding/
WGN9
— Illinois court rules lawsuit against maker of gun used in Highland Park mass shooting can proceed. What if he had used an SUV to kill people?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-court-rules-lawsuit-against-222626925.html
FOX32
— Illinois election results
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-election-results-live-updates
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Duckworth to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617771
— Trump administration begins mass layoffs of federal workers. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. The agency shrank from more than 6,000 to less than 3,000. It was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617888
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use farmers to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617885
WBEZ
— Because Democrats run Illinois, 25% of Illinois residents are on Medicaid.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/04/01/potential-medicaid-cuts-leave-25-of-illinois-at-risk
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Venezuelans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/04/01/venezuelans-in-chicago-relieved-their-deportation-protection-is-safe-for-now
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/04/01/the-rundown-what-tariffs-could-mean-for-your-budget
EFFINGHAM DAILY NEWS
— Effingham GOP celebrates second Trump presidency. How strongly have the leaders of your county and township Republican organizations celebrated Trump’s second presidency?
https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/local_news/effingham-gop-celebrates-second-trump-presidency/article_4146c186-2160-42a8-9b6a-04b4e65258fb.html
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use foreign college students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/01/some-foreign-college-students-are-being-targeted-for-deportation-what-rights-do-they-have/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Dan Brady wins Bloomington mayor race
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/your-local-election-hq/dan-brady-wins-bloomington-mayoral/
— Democrats ever-increasingly call you a racist if you do not promote illegal immigration.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/no-tip-for-illegal-customers-leave-racist-note-for-lax-server/
— — Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-trump-is-set-to-announce-reciprocal-tariffs-in-a-risky-move-that-could-reshape-the-economy/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Trump and Musk support not enough to overturn the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-02/trump-and-musk-support-not-enough-to-overturn-the-wisconsin-supreme-courts-liberal-majority
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use bad weather to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-04-01/weather-experts-say-federal-cuts-could-impact-forecasting
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s executive orders to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-01/administration-lawyers-make-missteps-in-defending-trumps-orders
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/transgender-day-of-visibility-means-resistance-and-solidarity-for-c-us-lgbtq-community/
CWB CHICAGO
— New law would ban fines, criminal penalties for homeless people occupying public land
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/04/new-law-would-ban-fines-criminal-penalties-for-homeless-people-occupying-public-land.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Election Night winners and losers
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/02/election-night-winners-and-losers-00265592
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In DuPage County, Democratic Party Chair Reid McCollum said “we’re leading in 48 of 49 partisan races and only down in the one by 35 votes. Several of our townships have never had an elected Dem, and it’s sweep after sweep tonight,” via BlueSky. . .Greg Hart elected Hinsdale president)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-487/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-280/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How successful were your Republican township candidates? All eight of my Republican Milton Township candidates lost both townshipwide and in my precinct. Ever since my wife and I moved to Milton Township in 1978, all of the Milton Township elected officials have been Republican. The eight lost in this election because the Democrats in the township voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— The numbers don’t lie. Illinoisans aren’t prospering, our neighbors are.
https://wirepoints.org/the-numbers-dont-lie-illinoisans-arent-prospering-our-neighbors-are-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
JOHN KASS
— NPR & Public Television: Leftists Using Government to Take Your Money Without Asking
https://johnkassnews.com/npr-public-television-using-government-to-take-your-money/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL Attorney General vows to use resources to sue Trump administration
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4cfeb377-1e98-4d45-98fa-0f44547b8106.html
ILLINOIS RECORD
— Inside DuPage County Sheriff Mendrick’s Social Media Meltdown
https://www.illinoisrecord.com/p/inside-dupage-county-sheriff-mendricks
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Vallas: Brandon Johnson’s war against Chicago’s Black community
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-brandon-johnsons-war-against-chicagos-black-community/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREITBART
— DOGE Reportedly Finds Millions of Illegals on Social Security Rolls
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/01/irs-ice-partnershiptrump-administration-nears-historic-deal-as-doge-reportedly-finds-millions-of-illegals-on-social-security-rolls/
— Democrats Appointed 92% of Judges Blocking Trump Agenda: ‘Judicial Coup D’Etat’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/01/democrats-appointed-92-of-judges-blocking-trump-agenda-judicial-coup-detat/
DAILY CALLER
— Anti-Musk Group Behind ‘Day Of Action’ Against Tesla Offers Tips On ‘Jail Support,’ Finding ‘Target’s’ Home Address
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/01/anti-musk-group-behind-day-of-action-against-tesla-offers-tips-on-jail-support-finding-targets-home-address/
— How Small Town America Stopped A Chinese Communist Party Takeover
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/01/small-town-michigan-stopped-chinese-communist-party-takeover-gotion/#google_vignette
DAILY SIGNAL
— Hegseth Bids Adieu to Military Wokeness
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/01/hegseth-bids-adieu-to-military-wokeness/
FOX NEWS
— ‘A bubble of unreality’: Illinois GOP chair blasts governor for Mexico trade agreement. Illinois GOP Chair Kathy Salvi joins ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss Gov. JB Pritzker signing a trade agreement with Mexico despite business fleeing the state.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370868324112
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump demands Republicans defund, ‘totally disassociate’ from NPR, PBS
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-demands-republicans-defund-totally-disassociate-from-npr-pbs
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trumps-tariffs-cause-recession-experts/story?id=120329597
— Democratic base’s anger puts some party leaders on shaky ground
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/democratic-bases-anger-puts-party-leaders-shaky-ground-120326767
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Venezuelans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-deported-238-venezuelans-el-salvador-dozens-have-active-asylum-cases-2025-04-01/
MSN
— Pritzker Bans Capitol Rioters Pardoned by Trump From Being Hired for Government Jobs. Constructively, after my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49years old in 1997, they banned me from being hired for any job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/illinois-governor-bans-capitol-rioters-pardoned-by-trump-from-being-hired-for-government-jobs/ar-AA1yclU8
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/01/elon-musk-social-security-immigrants/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— In Chicago, the Union Wins Again. Teachers get hefty raises, while test scores and enrollment fall.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chicago-teachers-union-contract-public-schools-students-brandon-johnson-e9f4b64e?mod=opinion_lead_pos4
— U.S. Looks for More Countries to Take Migrants. Officials say they have asked several countries in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Migrants prefer America because Democrat and RINO leaders give citizens of foreign countries tremendous preference over citizens of America.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-looks-for-more-countries-to-take-migrants-3db9af5a
— The Campus DEI Retreat Is a Tactical Withdrawal. Colleges are learning to rebrand and lie low during the Trump years. Enjoy the sanity while it lasts.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-campus-dei-retreat-is-a-tactical-withdrawal-enjoy-it-while-it-lasts-636f88d0
— Mike Johnson Loses Battle to Limit GOP Rebels’ Power. House speaker fails to kill proposal allowing proxy voting by House lawmakers who are new parents. All my Democrat GAO superiors were parents who hinted/implied/argued/shouted a) that parents should get more preference and b) that I was unfairly advantaged because I was not a parent.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mike-johnson-republican-proxy-voting-parents-3a48ccf4
FORBES
— Duckworth ever-increasingly takes the lead in promoting more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYiV7gWpnc
NPR
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/1242229709/trump-dei-ban-whats-lost
INDEPENDENT
— Democrats want to punish Trump in the 2026 midterms. All eight Republican township candidates on the ballot in my precinct lost because the Democrats in the township voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-want-punish-trump-2026-184520308.html
March 23, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Thieves break into vehicles at 15 locations in O’Hare area. Under the Democrats, crime ever-increasingly increases. How much will crime have to increase before Republicans are elected again in DuPage County?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-thieves-target-least-15-vehicles-ohare-oriole-park-norwood-police-warn/16070925/
— Pritzker tries to chart a path for national Democrats to counter Trump
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-tries-chart-path-national-democrats-counter-president-donald-trump/16068496/
NBC5
— Suburban postal workers hold rally amid uncertainty over Trump administration cuts. The Park Forest Post Office would not have hired me in 1966 a) if it had not gotten extra money to deal with the 1966 Christmas rush and b) if it could have found a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would have taken the job. I qualified myself a) by passing the postal employment examination, b) by earning a high school diploma, c) by passing a truck driving test, and d) by owning a car that I could use to deliver mail with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIwx1j_j3Bk
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/immigrant-advocates-chicago-protests-may-day-preview/
— GOP grapples with mounting frustration over DOGE cuts. What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on government spending?
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/gop-grapples-with-mounting-frustration-over-doge-cuts/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— At state job fair, DOGE cuts hit home for federal workers. Gingrich cuts hit home for me. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/22/doge-cuts/
— Amid Musk backlash, Tesla used car market slumping in Chicago. Democrat leaders harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/22/backlash-musk-tesla-used-car-slump/
— The downside of early retirement. Because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, in today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension a) is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and b) is less than what my IRS salary was in 1972. But far worse than that, my critics/opponents have always viciously used against me my having been forced to retire early. They have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I must be an extremely bad person because I was forced to retire even though I had so many qualifications. I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years before that. GAO audits IRS. I had earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997. I had passed on my first attempt the CPA examination in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981. I had earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I had become a licensed CPA in 1981. My critics/opponents ignore/dismiss/belittle a) the fact that I had been an active member in a class action lawsuit since 1988 that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, b) the fact that Gingrich had dramatically cut GAO’s budget, and c) the fact that my Democrat GAO superiors gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, had no CPA license like the one I had, and had always ran the office’s Black History Month events.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/17/jill-on-money-advice-for-laid-off-workers/
— Trump avoided the Vietnam War draft. Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use veterans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/column-trump-administrations-dei-purge-is-disrespectful-to-veterans/
— Elon Musk and Gov. JB Pritzker among billionaires spending in pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court race
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/23/wisconsin-supreme-court-race/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025/03/22/tesla-takedown-protesters-gold-coast-elon-musk-federal-cuts
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/23/immigrant-health-care-illinois-pritzker-budget-cut
— Two Pritzker-backed proposals, including community college initiative, stalled. One bill would authorize community colleges to offer four-year bachelor’s degree programs. The other proposal centers on reforming local government structures, particularly townships.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/22/jb-pritzker-backed-community-college-four-year-degree-township-rich-miller
WQAD
— Multiple bills addressing ethics reform fail to pass in Illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3iewPB9310
WAND TV
— IL House Republicans argue Democrats missed opportunity to pass significant ethics reforms out of committee
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-house-republicans-argue-democrats-missed-opportunity-to-pass-significant-ethics-reforms-out-of-committee/article_66b92fba-3407-449b-b3a8-5f02d5836a2f.html
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— One organization held an empty chair town hall meeting in Jacksonville Saturday afternoon. After repeated attempts to contact District 15 Representative Mary Miller, frustrated residents gathered Saturday to make their voices heard. How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/jacksonville-residents-unable-to-reach-elected-congresswoman-with-questions#
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Residents told NewsChannel20 that more than 180,000 people in District 15 are enrolled in Medicaid, they also claimed Miller’s politics do not reflect their whole community.)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— HOW THE NEW YORK TIMES IS KILLING AMERICA
https://johnkassnews.com/how-ny-times-and-jacobin-friends-killed-america/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What is the Democrat Party’s strategy to win elections? It is to ever-increasingly promote more hatred against voters who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. It is to ever-increasingly shout that those who are the aforesaid are causing all the problems for those who are the following: liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, unmarried, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Federal Democrat leaders ever-increasingly rally for federal employees. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Gingrich ever-increasingly cut GAO’s budget. There were no rallies for GAO employees. The Democrats who ran GAO made its employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or who had ancestors who had been in America for a long time pay the price of Gingrich’s budget cuts. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What does the ruling class in your county, township, municipality, and school district think of you? I should write about the ruling class in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton Warrenville School District 200 thinks of me. I would focus on the adverse actions that their members have had their operatives and dupes take against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders have never fought for equal rights. Democrat leaders have always fought for superior rights for those who vote for Democrats. Those who vote for Democrats are liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, have less money than others, have financial, health and/or other problems, lack education and/or job skills, want/need/demand massive government assistance, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What percent of the registered voters in your precinct are not affiliated (NA), that is, what percent have not cast a Republican or Democrat primary ballot? Of the 1,100 registered voters in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton, 450 (41%) are NA, 375 (34%) are Republican, and 275 (25%) are Democrat. Why do so many not vote in primary elections? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The downside of early retirement. Because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, in today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension a) is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and b) is less than what my IRS salary was in 1972. But far worse than that, my critics/opponents have always viciously used against me my having been forced to retire early. They have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I must be an extremely bad person because I was forced to retire even though I had so many qualifications. I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years before that. GAO audits IRS. I had earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997. I had passed on my first attempt the CPA examination in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981. I had earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I had become a licensed CPA in 1981. My critics/opponents ignore/dismiss/belittle a) the fact that I had been an active member in a class action lawsuit since 1988 that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, b) the fact that Gingrich had dramatically cut GAO’s budget, and c) the fact that my Democrat GAO superiors gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, had no CPA license like the one I had, and had always ran the office’s Black History Month events. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Looking at Illinois Jobs and Population Decline Since Pritzker Has Been Governor (COMMENT: More and more and more Republicans in my precinct and who own Iron Gate Motor Condos have moved to Florida. That is what Pritzker wants.)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/22/looking-at-illinois-jobs-and-population/
— Marengo Democrats Mail in Support of Their Candidates
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/marengo-democrats-mail-in-support-of-their-candidates/
— Rockford Blood Bank Promotion Offers Pot
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/rockford-blood-bank-promotion-offers-pot/
— Irony in Springfield
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/18/irony-in-springfield/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illinois’ pro-abortion amendment faces religious-freedom lawsuit
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/22/illinois-diocese-sues-state-ban-discriminating-reproductive-health/
— Republicans accuse Democrat Jasmine Crockett of inciting Tesla attacks, call for FBI investigation
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/21/republicans-accuse-democrat-jasmine-crockett-inciting-tesla-attacks/
NEW YORK POST
— The Tesla attacks are proof that the left is turning on itself in orgy of liberal cannibalism
https://nypost.com/2025/03/22/opinion/the-tesla-attacks-are-proof-that-the-left-is-turning-on-itself/
DAILY SIGNAL
— The Lengths Democrats Are Willing to Go to Stop Trump
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/21/democrats-10-part-strategy-to-stopping-trump-at-any-cost/
DAILY WIRE
— Nearly Two Thirds Of Americans Support Trump’s Deportation Policy
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-support-trumps-deportation-policy-poll
EPOCH TIMES
— Marijuana Users Under Age 50 Are 6 Times More Likely to Suffer Heart Attacks
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/marijuana-users-under-age-50-are-6-times-more-likely-to-suffer-heart-attacks-study-finds-5829434
FEDERALIST
— Legal Complaint Asks Education Department To Probe Alleged Left-Wing GOTV Scheme At Colleges
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/21/legal-complaint-asks-education-department-to-probe-alleged-left-wing-gotv-scheme-at-colleges/
FOX BUSINESS
— Musk sounds off about Tesla drivers reportedly given low Uber ratings amid nationwide protests. Uber responds to viral anti-Tesla post, saying ratings should be based on ‘quality of service.’ Democrat leaders harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-sounds-off-tesla-drivers-reportedly-given-low-uber-ratings-amid-nationwide-protests
FOX NEWS
— Trump, Musk are the radical ruling class’s greatest-ever threat. What does the ruling class in your county, township, municipality, and school district think of you? I should write about the ruling class in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton Warrenville School District 200 thinks of me. I would focus on the adverse actions that their members have had their operative and dupes take against me lately.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370409270112
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— New sheriff in town, Attorney General Pam Bondi, unleashes the DOJ on unhinged Tesla vandals
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/new-sheriff-in-town-attorney-general-pam-bondi-unleashes-the-doj-on-unhinged-tesla-vandals
NEWSMAX
— Thousands of Agents Diverted to Trump Immigration Crackdown
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-immigration-crackdown/2025/03/22/id/1203910/
PJ MEDIA
— Trump Revokes Legal Status of Migrants Who Entered U.S. Under Fraud-Ridden Biden-Era Program
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/03/22/trump-revokes-legal-status-of-migrants-who-entered-us-under-fraud-ridden-biden-era-program-n4938182
TOWNHALL
— About Those 100 ‘Faith Leaders’ Who Support Reckless Government Spending
https://townhall.com/columnists/ryanbomberger/2025/03/23/about-those-100-faith-leaders-who-support-reckless-government-spending-n2654299
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use green card holders to promote more hatred against Trump. If my employers could have hired green card holders instead of me, they would have.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/us/green-card-visa-holders-deportation-fears-cec/index.html
— Musk wants to audit the Fed. Is that a good idea? (COMMENT: During the last 8 years that I worked for GAO, all the audits that I worked on involved the Fed.)
https://www.aol.com/elon-musk-wants-audit-fed-140047093.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Musk, the world’s richest man who is also overseeing a mass restructuring of the federal government, isn’t referring to the Fed’s $6.8 trillion balance sheet. The Fed’s finances and operations are already audited extensively by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and an independent accounting firm. Musk is talking about the Fed’s monetary policy decisions.)
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPOIRT
— Pritzker Tries to Chart a Path for National Democrats to Counter Trump
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-03-22/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-tries-to-chart-a-path-for-national-democrats-to-counter-trump
MSN
— Musk said he’s running his businesses with ‘great difficulty’ as Tesla stock falls 15%
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-said-he-s-running-his-businesses-with-great-difficulty-as-tesla-stock-falls-15/ar-AA1ADSz6
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Tuskegee Airmen to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/surviving-tuskegee-airmen-colorado-racism-dei-trump-53ca56d8d5e3930eccb02bc6605efd33
AOL
— Democrat leaders harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump.
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/most-americans-negative-view-elon-153929037.html
— What Trump-supporting federal workers think of his blitz to shake up the government. Gingrich cut GAO’s budget dramatically. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates punished me dramatically for that.
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-supporting-federal-workers-think-085901876.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— I.R.S. Prepares to Help Find Immigrants Targeted for Deportation. The tax agency is nearing an agreement to verify whether ICE officials have the right address for people they are trying to deport.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/politics/irs-ice-immigrants-deportation.html
— Trump Invoked the Alien Enemies Act to Speed Up Deportations. The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due process. Constructively, many countries, including Mexico, have declared war on America. Sending people into a country illegally is an act of war.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/alien-enemies-act-trump.html
— Musk Gets Ready to Enter the Restaurant Business. Democrat leaders harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/dining/elon-musk-restaurant-diner.html
— What Is DOGE? Trump Says One Thing, Government Lawyers Say Another. The Department of Government Efficiency described in court filings bears little resemblance to the no-holds-barred approach taken by Elon Musk and praised by President Trump. Because of Gingrich budget cuts, GAO is less than a shell of what it once was. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/politics/what-is-doge-elon-musk-trump.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform,” Mr. Rubio wrote on X earlier this month after announcing the cancellation of 5,200 U.S.A.I.D. contracts.)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-trans-denationalizing.html
— Without question, because of WWI, WWII, and the Holocaust, German is the worst nation origin. In my defense, I have always stressed a) that while all my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany, they all came during the 1840s and 1850s and they have always lived in northeast Illinois, b) that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, c) that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and d) that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/world/europe/kindertransport-holocaust-britain-rescue.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Party Army.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/21/judge-boasberg-trump-administration-alien-enemies-act/
— Democrat leaders have never fought for equal rights. Democrat leaders have always fought for superior rights for those who vote for Democrats. Those who vote for Democrats are liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, have less money than others, have financial, health and/or other problems, lack education and/or job skills, want/need/demand massive government assistance, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/22/trump-orban-erdogan-lgbtq-democracy/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Hundreds rally against Trump, Musk in Westwood. Democrat leaders harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-22/hundreds-rally-against-trump-musk-in-westwood
USA TODAY
— With hundreds fewer workers, can the Federal Student Aid office still function? Because of Gingrich budget cuts, GAO is less than a shell of what it once was. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/03/21/federal-student-aid-staff-layoffs/82520174007/
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/22/town-halls-republicans-democrats-doge-trump/82589214007/
TIMES LEADER
— Federal workers rally unites laborers against Trump, Musk. Because of Gingrich budget cuts, GAO is less than a shell of what it once was. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.timesleader.com/news/1689503/federal-workers-rally-unites-laborers-against-trump-musk
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Phil Glover, District 3 national vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), was the scheduled rally’s first speaker, and said that Musk and DOGE employees are not truly targeting fraud in the federal budget. Instead, according to Glover, they are slashing “shit that they don’t like.” “They’re simply going into line items that they don’t understand and they don’t know why it was ever spent. That’s Congress’ job,” Glover said. He noted that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is responsible for auditing the government and called for rally attendees to hold their elected officials accountable. “Either we stand up to this, and we let our members of Congress and the Senate know that they better stand up for us. We’re the constituents, and we can fire them just like DOGE is firing our people,” Glover said.)
BD NEWS
— Anti-Musk protesters gather outside Tesla dealership in Washington DC. Trump appointed Musk to lead efforts to downsize the federal government, which has thousands of workers in the nation’s capital. Democrat leaders harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump.
https://bdnews24.com/world/americas/459b22ac5f81
KTVU
— Hundreds protest Tesla, Elon Musk and Trump in East Bay march. Democrat leaders harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBmUEsnQarw
WKOW
— Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI) rallies with federal employees. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Gingrich ever-increasingly cut GAO’s budget. There were no rallies for GAO employees. The Democrats who ran GAO made its employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or who had ancestors who had been in America for a long time pay the price of Gingrich’s budget cuts.
https://www.wkow.com/news/rep-mark-pocan-rallies-with-federal-employees/article_1dca0972-c322-4de7-bd79-955b42c5116d.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Depressed Democrats Find Hope at Bernie Sanders Rallies. Two-time presidential candidate draws ‘insane’ crowds as he criticizes cuts by Musk and Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/bernie-sanders-rally-tour-republican-opposition-571cd417
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with their illegals. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Party Army.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-22/deportations-won-t-cure-democrat-led-cities-they-ll-get-worse
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump.
https://fortune.com/2025/03/22/tesla-investors-elon-musk-drags-stock-price-down/
FORBES
— Pro- And Anti-DOGE Protesters Demonstrate Outside Tesla Dealership In Illinois. Democrat leaders harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQy4r-8tPpg
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders have never fought for equal rights. Democrat leaders have always fought for superior rights for those who vote for Democrats. Those who vote for Democrats are liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, have less money than others, have financial, health and/or other problems, lack education and/or job skills, want/need/demand massive government assistance, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/22/equal-rights-amendment-state-constitutions
TIMES OF INDIA
— The Trump administration is scrutinizing federal consultancies like Booz Allen and Accenture, demanding clear reports on their government contracts and cost-cutting plans. Accenture’s stock fell due to reduced US government work. The investigation aims to curb waste and spending in the $759 billion federal contract market, affecting major firms such as IBM and General Dynamics.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/donald-trump-government-sends-warning-letter-to-10-highest-paid-consulting-companies-with-march-31-deadline-explain-and-in-language-that-a-15-year-old-should-understand/articleshow/119338009.cms
March 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump calls Tesla dealership vandals terrorists, compares actions to Jan. 6
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-calls-tesla-vandalism-suspects-terrorists-compares-actions-jan-6-vowing-send-el-salvador-prisons/16063808/
— Democrat leaders ask a judge to force ICE to regularly release details on immigration arrests in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/groups-asking-judge-lawsuit-force-ice-regularly-release-details-immigration-arrests-chicago/16065322/
NBC5
— Major League Baseball removes ‘diversity’ references from MLB Careers home page. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred had launched a Diversity Pipeline Program in 2016. Democrats and RINOs use diversity to get of Republicans. To promote diversity is to discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/mlb/mlb-removes-references-diversity-mlb-careers-home-page/3703939/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Stricter truck pollution rule would prevent 500 deaths a year in Chicago region
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/18/illinois-truck-pollution/
— Naperville Election 2025: Council candidates weigh in on city’s role in supporting DEI. To support DEI is to support race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/21/naperville-city-council-election-candidate-diversity-inclusion/
— Transgender-related locker room complaint puts Lake County middle school in national spotlight. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/transgender-related-locker-room-complaint-puts-lake-county-middle-school-in-national-spotlight-the-girls-want-their-privacy-back/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago cops have been making fewer traffic stops, but more are ending in violence
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/03/21/chicago-police-department-dexter-reed-traffic-stops
WGN RADIO
— Rep. Wilhour on why he opposes homeschooling bill
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/rep-wilhour-parents-have-the-right-to-educate-as-they-see-fit/
JOURNAL COURIER
— Illinois law challenged by Catholic Diocese over hiring based on abortion beliefs. Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs destroy you if you do not promote abortion.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/illinois-law-catholic-diocese-lawsuit-20234153.php
NPR ILLINOIS
— DEI is race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-21/is-planting-trees-dei-trump-administration-cuts-nationwide-tree-planting-effort
WLDS
— Davidsmeyer Has Been Regular Voice of Opposition On State Budget, Illegal Immigration Policies During Current ILGA Session
https://wlds.com/davidsmeyer-has-been-regular-voice-of-opposition-on-state-budget-illegal-immigration-policies-during-current-ilga-session/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Durbin, Pritzker put pressure on Republicans to oppose cuts to key programs. Thousands of Illinoisians could lose coverage from Medicaid cuts, governor warns. Soon, as Democrat and RINO leaders destroy America, everyone in America will want/need/demand Medicaid.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/durbin-pritzker-put-pressure-on-republicans-to-oppose-cuts-to-key-programs/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-273/
— Playing the Trump card in Aurora
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/21/playing-the-trump-card-in-aurora/
— Republicans argue that Pritzker township elimination plan would raise property taxes
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/21/republicans-argue-that-pritzker-township-elimination-plan-would-raise-property-taxes/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What are the biggest differences between the Democrat and Republican Parties? The Democrat Party requires its leaders to defend and advance all the planks its platform. The Republican Party not only does not do that, it lets it leaders who reject planks in the Republican Party platform destroy those Republicans who support those planks. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you reject, the more of a RINO that you are. I should write about those RINO leaders of the following who reject the most planks: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP). Most commonly, they reject the 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 would focus on those RINO leaders who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately including a) ending my membership in the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. Which planks in the Republican Party platform do you support? Ever-increasingly, the more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the more that Democrats and RINOs do to destroy you. I support all the planks in 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. RINOs reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. Because I support the aforesaid planks, the following have taken many big adverse actions against me since 2000: past and present a) RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP), b) RINO leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and c) RINO conservative and religious leaders and activists. I should write about the aforesaid RINOs. I would focus on the aforesaid RINOs who had their operatives and dupes a) end my membership in the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Republicans should be advised that Democrat and RINO employers use up-or-out to not hire Republicans and to get rid of their Republicans employees. The Democrats who run the federal government use use-or-out to get rid of their Republican employees who they did not promote to GS-13 ($117,807/year) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211/year) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749/year) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200/year) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. My Democrat superiors in the federal government never promoted me beyond GS-13 and did not promote me to GS-13 until I was 38. They would never have promoted me to GS-13 if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, b) earned job-related professional licenses when I was 30 and 32, and c) earned a job-related professional license when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— QUESTION: What encourages people to come to America? ANSWER: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to citizens of foreign countries a) who are minority, female, younger, b) who lack education and/or job skills, and/or c) who want/need/demand massive government assistance. Democrat leaders want the aforesaid because they vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want the aforesaid because RINOs want cheap labor. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Democratic Party Attorney General Reuses to Defend Remap Challenge by Republicans
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/democratic-party-attorney-general-refuses-to-defend-remap-challenge-by-republicans/
— Republicans Not Only Ones in Congress Having Town Hall Meetings Disrupted
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/republicans-not-only-ones-in-congress-having-town-hall-meetings-disrupted/
— Algonquin Township Supervisor Randy Funk Spend $7,598.81 to Mail Self-Serving Pre-Election Township Newsletter
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/algonquin-township-supervisor-randy-funk-spend-7598-81-to-mail-self-serving-pre-election-township-newsletter/
— Southern Illinois State Senator Says Township Consolidation Might Raise Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/southern-illinois-state-senator-says-township-consolidation-might-raise-taxes/
— Mental Health Board Saves Money on IT by Allowing County Government to Do It
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/mental-health-board-saves-money-on-it-by-allowing-county-government-to-do-it/
— Lesperance Summarizes Twelve Years as Nunda Township Road Commissioner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/20/lesperance-summarizes-twelve-years-as-nunda-township-road-commissioner/
— McDOT’s Scott Hennings Mass Transit Testimony to Senate Transportation Committee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/20/mcdots-scott-hennings-mass-transit-testimony-to-senate-transportation-committee/
— Conservation District Plans to Continue Borrowing WITHOUT Voter Approval
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/20/conservation-district-plans-to-continue-borrowing-with-voter-approval/
— Mike Lesperance Mails in Support of His Campaign for Re-Election as Nunda Township Road Commissioner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/19/mike-lesperance-mails-in-support-of-his-campaign-for-re-election-as-nunda-township-road-commissioner/
— No New Net Non-Government Jobs Under Pritzker
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/19/no-new-non-government-jobs-under-pritzker/
— Looks as if Chief Justice John Roberts Needs Lesson in Constitutional Law
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/18/looks-as-if-chief-john-justice-roberts-needs-lesson-in-constitutional-law/
— Population Shifts from Democratic to Republican States Favor Republicans
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/18/population-shifts-from-democratic-to-republican-states-favor-republicans/
— Marengo Park District Schedules EASTER Egg Hunt
— https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/18/marengo-park-district-schedules-easter-egg-hunt/
— Rob Parrish Makes Two Mailings in Support of His Campaign for Nunda Township Road Commissioner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/18/rob-parrish-makes-two-mailings-in-support-of-his-campaign-for-nunda-township-road-commissioner/
— Illinois Road Condition Not Up to Rank of Second Highest Gas Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/18/illinois-road-condition-not-up-to-rank-of-second-highest-gas-taxes/
— Democrats Seem in Disagreement as to Favored Huntley School District Candidates
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/17/democrats-seem-in-disagreement-as-to-favored-huntley-school-district-candidates/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Leftists display willingness to harm anyone who gets in the way, and America pays the price.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/21/editorial-leftists-display-willingness-harm-anyone-gets-way/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Wokeness finds new life south of the border
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3355427/wokeness-finds-new-life-south-of-the-border/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrat mayor vows to keep Minneapolis a ‘safe haven’ for illegal immigrants: ‘We love you’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/21/us-news/democrat-mayor-vows-to-keep-minneapolis-a-safe-haven-for-illegal-immigrants-we-love-you/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Trump Puts #TakeDownTesla Vandals on Notice, Says the ‘Sick Terrorist Thugs’ Should Get 20 Year Sentence in El Salvadoran Prison
https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/21/trump-puts-takedowntesla-vandals-on-notice-says-the-sick-terrorist-thugs-should-get-20-year-sentence-in-el-salvadoran-prison/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Reclaiming Control of America’s Immigration System
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/reclaiming_control_of_america_s_immigration_system.html
BREITBART
— Tuberculosis cases in the US rose to their highest levels in more than a dozen years
https://www.breitbart.com/news/tuberculosis-cases-in-the-us-rose-to-their-highest-levels-in-more-than-a-dozen-years/
DAILY CALLER
— Republicans Aren’t The Only Ones Facing Rabid Town Halls
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/21/democrat-town-halls-glenn-ivey-debbie-dingell-schumer-budget-shutdown/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Chip Roy’s New Bills Aim to Ensure No One Is ‘Indoctrinated to Hate Our Country’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/21/exclusive-chip-roys-new-bills-aim-ensure-no-one-indoctrinated-hate-country/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Vows Toughest Penalties For ‘Terrorists’ Attacking Tesla. “I view these people as terrorists,” Trump said.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-vows-toughest-penalties-for-terrorists-attacking-tesla
EPOCH TIMES
— Tesla Trade-Ins Spike Amid Musk Backlash and Competitors Capturing More EV Market Share. How soon, if already, will Democrat and RINO leaders officially call for boycotting Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/tesla-trade-ins-spike-amid-musk-backlash-and-competitors-capturing-more-ev-market-share-edmunds-reports-5829231
FEDERALIST
— Illinois Bill Would Let Failing School System Send Homeschooling Parents To Jail
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/21/illinois-bill-would-let-failing-school-districts-send-homeschooling-parents-to-jail/
— The Biden Education Department Burned $100M On ‘Anti-Racist’ Social Workers And DEI For K-12 Schools
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/20/the-biden-education-department-burned-100m-on-anti-racist-social-workers-and-dei-for-k-12-schools/
— California’s Massive Medicaid Shortfall Would Disappear If It Quit Paying $8B For Illegals’ Health Care
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/21/californias-massive-medicaid-shortfall-would-disappear-if-it-quit-paying-8b-for-illegals-health-care/
FOX NEWS
— Trump admin pulling legal status for more than 530K migrants. The roughly 532,000 migrants have been told to leave the U.S. before their humanitarian parole and work permits are canceled on April 24.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-pulling-legal-status-more-than-530k-migrants
NEW AMERICAN
— Boston, Minneapolis Mayors Repeat Vow to Break Law Against Harboring Illegals
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/boston-minneapolis-mayors-repeat-vow-to-break-law-against-harboring-illegals/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPOTT
— Trump Revokes Legal Status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-03-21/trump-revokes-legal-status-for-530-000-cubans-haitians-nicaraguans-and-venezuelans
CBS NEWS
— U.S. to revoke legal status of more than a half-million migrants, urges them to self deport
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-to-revoke-legal-status-of-over-a-half-million-migrants-chnv/
— Tesla trade-ins spike amid anti-Elon Musk backlash
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-trade-ins-record-high-musk-backlash/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Biden, Harris, Clinton and More. The tally of names read like President Trump’s enemies list, from Letitia James to Liz Cheney.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/politics/trump-security-clearances-biden-harris-clinton.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump escalates threats against those who destroy Tesla vehicles. Trump wrote on social media that people who vandalize vehicles made by Tesla — the company owned by Trump ally Elon Musk — could get lengthy jail sentences.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/21/trump-tesla-vehicles-elon-musk-bondi-vandalism/
NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— Political Affiliation Discrimination: Know Your Rights Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO employers will ever-increasingly a) not hire Republicans and b) get rid of their Republican employees. Democrat employers hire Democrats. RINO employers hire RINOs. The federal government is a Democrat employer.
https://natlawreview.com/article/political-affiliation-discrimination-know-your-rights
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The increased interest in this topic comes amid a highly charged political environment and the decision by the Trump Administration to terminate the employment of civil service employees across a wide array of government agencies. Additionally, many employees are unclear about their rights and obligations as their employers are retreating from commitments to corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in response to the Administration’s aggressive efforts to eradicate DEI initiatives. These actions have left many employees in a state of confusion regarding their rights around these issues. Legal protections for discrimination based on political affiliation vary widely based on state law. Below is a broad overview of employment protections across the United States, but as these can vary even by local jurisdiction, contacting an employment attorney with specific questions about your legal protections may be the best course of action. . .There are currently no federal protections for private sector employees from workplace discrimination based solely on political affiliation. If you are a federal employee and you believe that you have been discriminated against because of your political affiliation, you may be entitled to some protections under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CRSA). Learn more on KBK’s political affiliation discrimination practice as it relates to federal workers here. If you are a federal employee looking for legal support services regarding recent federal government layoffs, see KBK’s Federal Employment Resources page here.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Why Many Americans Are On Board With Federal Worker Firings. Some envision bloat and cushy jobs. ‘Let ’em go; get rid of them.’ Who do you know who is/was a federal employee? I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. Who do you know who is/was a federal retiree? I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years. I should write about my critics/opponents who say that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican and who despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees the most. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would not have become a postal employee in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to join him in taking the postal employment examination. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/why-many-americans-are-on-board-with-federal-worker-firings-d5d58e98
— The Illinois Assault on Home-Schoolers. Democrats want to impose new rules and bureaucracy on parents.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/illinois-homeschool-act-democrats-education-public-schools-6065d5ab?mod=opinion_lead_pos3
BLOOMBERG
— McKinsey Piles ‘Up or Out’ Pressure on Some US Consultants. Democrat and RINO employers use up-or-out to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-27/mckinsey-piles-up-or-out-pressure-on-some-us-consultants
— Work Visa Sponsorship H1-B: Foreign Students Struggle to Find Jobs in Trump Era. All my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/work-visa-sponsorship-h1-b-foreign-students-struggle-to-find-jobs-in-trump-era
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Home Depot Drops Diversity Language as Trump Targets DEI Efforts
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/home-depot-drops-diversity-language-as-trump-targets-dei-efforts
FORTUNE
— JPMorgan renames DEI program ‘DOI’ following political backlash
https://fortune.com/2025/03/21/jpmorgan-dimon-trump-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-doi-politics-backlash/
FORBES
— Democrat and RINO employers use up-or-out to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2018/11/23/managing-up-or-out-sounds-harsh-but-can-be-effective/
FISHER PHILLIPS
— EEOC Issues Guidance on Unlawful Workplace DEI Programs. How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me because I had accepted that offer. I had to have a job. The aforesaid directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS.
https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/news-insights/eeoc-issues-guidance-on-unlawful-workplace-dei-programs-top-takeaways-for-employers.html
ARMY
— Is “Up or Out” Holding Us Back? Democrat and RINO employers use up-or-out to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.army.mil/article/247749/is_up_or_out_holding_us_back
LINKEDIN
— Overcoming Ageism at Any Career Stage. Democrat and RINO employers use up-or-out, that is, age discrimination, to waste the careers of their Republican employees and to get rid of them. To fight that, a) I earned an MBA when I was 27, a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and a master’s degree in finance when I was 48, b) I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt when I was 30 and 32, c) I became a licensed CPA when I was 32, and d) I earned additional job-related professional licenses when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. The Democrats who run the federal government use up-or-out to get rid of their Republican employees who they do not promote to GS-13 ($117,807/year) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211/year) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749/year) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200/year) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. I did not make GS-13 until I was 38 in 1986.
https://www.linkedin.com/events/7302825370712477696/
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Many federal employees ordered to submit recent accomplishments. GAO audits IRS. If I had gotten such an email while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, I would have stressed how they wasted my knowledge of IRS. Before I transferred from IRS to GAO, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I would also have stressed how they wasted what I had learned a) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance and b) passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/03/federal-employees-ordered-submit-recent-accomplishments-second-musk-email/403425/
IMMIGRATION FORUM
— Democrat and RINO leaders have joined with leaders of Mexico and other foreign counties to have their citizens invade, conquer, and destroy America. Democrat and RINO leaders should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://immigrationforum.org/article/invasion-influx-in-a-time-of-falling-border-encounters/
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— GOP Viewed More Favorably Than Democrats
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/gop_viewed_more_favorably_than_democrats
March 21, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois Democrats condemn Trump’s executive order to dismantle Department of Education
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-education-illinois-democrats-condemn-president-donald-trumps-executive-order-dismantle/16058847/
— Congressman Sean Casten Downers Grove town hall shut down by police after protester jumps on stage. In another instance, a woman in the audience stood up and yelled at Casten about U.S. support going to Israel.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/democrat-us-rep-sean-casten-downers-grove-town-hall-shut-down-police-pro-palestinian-protester-jumps-stage/16058039/
— Former Trump Tower Chicago board member alleges racketeering scheme, retaliation in new lawsuit.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-trump-tower-chicago-board-member-onisim-dorneanu-alleges-racketeering-scheme-retaliation-new-lawsuit/16059400/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhoatbT4Lo
NBC5
— Trump AG highlights three Tesla arson cases, adding to White House defense of Musk’s company.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-ag-highlights-three-tesla-arson-cases-adding-to-white-house-defense-of-musks-company/3703111/
— Tough lesson for Chicago employees of US Education Dept.: they’re gone. Friday is final day at Ed’s Office for Civil Rights; NBC5 Investigates what will happen to hundreds of complaints and open cases. I should write about the audit work that GAO would have done if Gingrich had not gutted the agency during the 1980s and 1990s.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/tough-lesson-for-chicago-employees-of-us-education-dept-theyre-gone/3703088/
CBS2
— Musk says Tesla has activated security cameras on vehicles at dealerships amid attacks
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-elon-musk-dealerships-security/
— Pritzker and Underwood hold Romeoville event about protecting Social Security. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, everything that Republicans want harms everyone, and especially Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-jb-pritzker-lauren-underwood-romeoville-social-security/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders get doctors and patients to rally against Trump-backed Medicaid cuts.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-doctors-patients-rally-against-trump-backed-medicaid-cuts-im-furious
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more Medicaid. What percent are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_YkiIS49s
WTTW
— Thousands of Venezuelans in Illinois Could Lose Deportation Protections by April
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/20/thousands-venezuelans-illinois-could-lose-deportation-protections-april
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/trump-closing-education-department-executive-order/
— Sen. Seth Lewis: Just trust Chicago? Not when it comes to public transit
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/opinion-metra-public-transit-fiscal-cliff-chicago/
— US Rep. Sean Casten’s town hall cut short amid protests over Israel and Gaza
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/casten-town-hall-shut-down/
— If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/amid-discontent-at-classical-station-wfmt-employees-announce-intent-to-unionize/
— HUD Midwest director, other longtime Chicago staff retiring early amid Trump administration threats, cuts to agency. I should write about the tremendous amount of work experience that my Democrat GAO Chicago office superiors flushed down their toilets when they got rid of their Republican employees who were the following 1980-1997 because of Gingrich budget cuts: White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/hud-midwest-director-staff-retire-trump/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Eight Chicago-based U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development staffers with more than 180 years of service collectively have retired or are retiring later this year as the agency undergoes scrutiny and faces cuts from billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and President Donald Trump.)
— Pritzker’s Illinois Democratic Party targets Richard Irvin as he seeks third term as Aurora mayor.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/21/richard-irvin-aurora-mayor-governor-bid/
CHICAGO SUN-TINES
— A flood of emails, ‘intimidation’ allegations as homeschooling advocates fight regulation. The measure that is dividing the state Capitol would require homeschooling families to notify their school districts when they decide to homeschool and require administrators to have a minimum high school education.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/20/home-school-regulation-proposed-legislation-illinois-general-assembly
— Don’t take it as a joke when Trump and his allies say he’ll run again in 2028. “I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028,” Steve Bannon said. “We’ll see what the definition of term limit is.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/20/president-trump-third-term-2028-no-joke-constitution-22nd-amendment-se-cupp
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2025/03/20/dispensary-33s-chicago-weed-shops-employee-owned
— Is the Flamingo endangered? Trump fires workers who look after federal artwork. The General Services Administration owns a wide assortment of collector-quality sculptures, paintings and other art from top-tier artists, most of it accessible to the public and now at risk under President Trump. Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ) featured a big picture of me and the Flamingo. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/03/20/flamingo-sculpture-trump-firings-general-services-administration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they are anti-American if not America-haters.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/03/21/trump-american-exceptionalism-dangerous-wars-america-james-huffman
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump Organization sued over alleged malfeasance at Chicago tower.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/trump-sued-over-alleged-malfeasance-chicago-tower
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject the rule of law unless they can use it to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/donald-trump-seeks-retribution-against-lawyers-op-ed
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://chicagocrusader.com/could-trumps-anti-dei-initiatives-spark-the-return-of-jim-crow/
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Democrat leaders get doctors and patients to rally against Trump-backed Medicaid cuts.
https://www.bnd.com/news/politics-government/article302415079.html
SOUTHERN
— DNC reports record February grassroots fundraising haul
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/21/dnc-reports-record-february-grassroots-fundraising-haul/
NPR ILLINOIS
— 3 people face federal charges for Tesla attacks. Such acts are domestic terrorism.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-20/3-people-face-federal-charges-for-tesla-attacks-are-such-acts-domestic-terrorism
— Since the 1960s, ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO leaders have forced employers to give more and more and more preference to minorities and to females. I should write about the tremendous preference that my employers gave.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-20/with-trumps-crackdown-on-dei-some-women-fear-a-path-to-good-paying-jobs-will-close
WAND TV
— Proposal requiring contraception, medication abortion at public college health centers heads to House floor. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/proposal-requiring-contraception-medication-abortion-at-public-college-health-centers-heads-to-house-floor/article_4fd237ae-fefc-4348-a465-37e386740b43.html
25 NEWS NOW
— Illinois bill would require public higher ed. institutions to provide contraception, abortion medication. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/03/20/illinois-bill-would-require-public-higher-ed-institutions-provide-contraception-abortion-medication/
KWQC
— Illinois Republicans push gerrymandering lawsuit. I should write about the 2015 gerrymandering of my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/03/21/illinois-republicans-push-gerrymandering-lawsuit/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— More than 80% of cannabis users admit to driving within hours of consuming. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Anticipate/expect that vehicle accidents will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/more-than-80-of-cannabis-users-admit-to-driving-within-hours-of-consuming-report/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-479/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-272/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Homeschooling and the hypocrisy of Illinois politicians
https://wirepoints.org/homeschooling-and-the-hypocrisy-of-illinois-politicians-wirepoints/
JOHN BIVER
— How to Help Political Judges and Lawyers: Teach Law in High Schools
https://johnbiver.com/how-to-help-political-judges-and-lawyers-teach-law-in-high-schools/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. My precinct having three different ballot styles complicates matters. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois Federation of Teachers spends $46.1M on state politics
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-federation-of-teachers-spends-46-1m-on-state-politics/
FROM INATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— It’s absolutely legal to deport hate-monger Mahmoud Khalil.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/20/opinion/its-absolutely-legal-to-deport-hate-monger-mahmoud-khalil/
— Trump accuses federal judge of trying to ‘usurp’ his presidential power amid legal fight over deportation flights
https://nypost.com/2025/03/21/us-news/trump-accuses-federal-judge-of-trying-to-usurp-his-presidential-power-amid-legal-fight-over-deportation-flights/
CENTER SQUARE
— Michigan Senate passes resolution promoting Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/article_cb2fcc40-cdcc-4492-bc98-e92cac978a07.html
EPOCH TIMES
— Attorney General Announces Federal Charges for Tesla Dealership Attacks. ‘If you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars,’ Pam Bondi says.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/attorney-general-announces-federal-charges-against-3-tesla-attackers-warns-against-domestic-terrorism-5828736
FOX NEWS
— Fox News Poll: Voters are split on Trump policies. Banning trans women from women’s sports is the most popular, closing the DoEd much less so.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-are-split-on-trump-policies
— Canadian politician claims Trump admin’s ’51st state’ rhetoric is an ‘act of war’ ‘That’s an act of war,’ a Canadian member of Parliament said of the Trump admin’s tariffs and ’51st state’ comments. Many countries, including Mexico, want to take America.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/canadian-politician-claims-trump-admins-51st-state-rhetoric-act-war
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Slimmed-Down Education Dept. Will Focus On Fighting DEI Discrimination. Under Trump’s Executive Order the revamped DoEd will be fully aligned with our mission of fighting discrimination done in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/03/slimmed-down-education-dept-will-focus-on-fighting-dei-discrimination/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The ABA Should Have No Role in the Judicial Nomination Process.
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/the-aba-should-have-no-role-in-the-judicial-nomination-process/
NEWSMAX
— Trump Admin Sends New Group of Migrants to Gitmo
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-administration-migrants-gitmo/2025/03/20/id/1203719/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly reject Trump’s election, that is, Democrats ever-increasingly reject democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-republicans-attack-democrats-actblue.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats are anti-manufacturing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/20/trump-manufacturing-mirage/
— Musk steps up criticism of judges, offers $100 to voters who will do the same. The billionaire’s political group will pay Wisconsin voters who sign a petition against ‘activist judges’ ahead of a state Supreme Court race. The judges in Diersen v. GAO rejected meritocracy and promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about Diersen v. GAO.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/20/musk-trump-impeach-judges/
HARTFORD CUURANT
— 67,000 White South Africans have expressed interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status. They should be advised that as soon as the next Democrat President is elected. Affirmative Action and DEI will resume, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination will resume.
https://www.courant.com/2025/03/20/south-africa-trump-white-refugees/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Tesla Recalls Most Cybertrucks. More than 46,000 of the electric vehicles have potential exterior panel issue, federal agency says.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-recalls-most-cybertrucks-71ef6fee
— Trump Signs Order Seeking to Abolish Education Department. Existing law doesn’t allow the president to unilaterally shut an agency established by Congress.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-education-department-executive-order-e88561b5
FOWARD
— How Pritzker uses the Holocaust to position himself as the (Jewish) face of Trump resistance. Pritzker, one of five Jewish governors, has taken a combative tone against President Trump in rallying Democrats after election loss.
https://forward.com/news/705526/jb-pritzker-trump-holocaust/
PBS
— Legal Showdown Over Sanctuary Laws Tests Federal vs. State Power Again. Federal law trumps state and local laws.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12031821/legal-showdown-over-sanctuary-laws-tests-federal-vs-state-power-again
FED SMITH
— Federal Workforce Freedom Act Would Ban Federal Employee Union Representation. If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/03/17/legislation-would-ban-union-representation/
AXIOS
— Trump suggests sending Tesla vandals to El Salvador prisons
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/trump-musk-tesla-protests-el-salvador-prisons
ECOMOMITC TIMES
— As Barron Trump turns 19, US President reveals what the business college student plans to do for a career. As a business student when I turned 19 in 1967, I planned on a career in the automotive industry. But that all ended in 1971 when a) I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, b) my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I gave him my 2-week notice, and c) Oldsmobile withdrew its offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/as-barron-trump-turns-19-us-president-reveals-what-the-business-college-student-plans-to-do-for-a-career/articleshow/119303470.cms?from=mdr
INDIAN EXPRESS
— We are looking for you: Trump says those ‘sabotaging’ Tesla cars may face up to 20 years in jail
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/donald-trump-tesla-attack-jail-term-elon-musk-9898438/lite/
March 20, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders advance homeschooling bill as thousands of Republicans pack Capitol to voice opposition.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/lawmakers-advance-homeschooling-bill-as-thousands-pack-capitol-to-voice-opposition/
— Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/tesla-dupage-naperville-musk-trump-doge-cuts/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Illegals use schools to avoid deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/immigration-crackdown-brews-cps-fear/
— Social Security Administration to require in-person identity checks for new and existing recipients
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/social-security-in-person-checks/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/19/gov-jb-pritzker-donald-trump-elon-musk-washington-dc-speech
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mahmoud Khalil.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/19/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-free-speech-first-amendment-president-trump-rubio-deportation-jacob-sullum
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/13/epa-cuts-doge-environment-water-pollution-national-parks-federal-government-trump-musk-tesla
— City Council bashes Trump administration for detaining man who helped lead protests at Columbia University
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/19/columbia-university-protests-palestinians-gaza-mahmoud-khalil-trump-protests-detention-council-resolution
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250319/crime/violent-attacks-on-tesla-dealerships-spike-as-musk-takes-prominent-role-in-trump-white-house/
— ‘Stay away’: Judge orders accused Tesla vandal to keep off company’s property. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250319/news/stay-away-judge-orders-accused-tesla-vandal-to-stay-off-companys-property/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Civic groups step up calls for expanding Illinois sales tax to services
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-sales-tax-should-apply-services-civic-groups-say?share-code=17424213918081665-195b08b2133&utm_id=gfta-ur-250319
ABC7
— Democrat bill aims to discourage/stop homeschooling.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-homeschool-laws-bill-hb-2827-aims-add-more-oversight-homeschooling-state-not-want/16051675/
WTTW
— Democrat House Panel Advances Bill to Discourage/Stop Homeschooling
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/19/illinois-house-panel-advances-bill-strengthen-homeschooling-oversight
— Democrats ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/19/trump-administration-s-anti-dei-efforts-now-aimed-college-campuses-including-illinois
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2025/03/20/lgbtq-communities-in-central-illinois-respond-to-trump-policies/82310955007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/university-illinois/ui-departments-navigating-carefully-amid-uncertainty-over-trumps-actions/article_58f6b448-a374-4161-9078-7912cc956c4c.html
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— How dependent are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct on federal spending?
https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article302289829.html
RIVER BENDER
— Rep. Davidsmeyer Focused on Stopping Illegal Immigration
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/rep-davidsmeyer-focused-on-stopping-illegal-immigration-80757.cfm?
STATELINE
— Pritzker coming to Rockford on Friday to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump policies
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/gov-pritzker-coming-to-rockford-on-friday-to-discuss-negative-impacts-of-trumps-policies/
— BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: ‘Bleed for Weed’ event in Freeport will trade blood donations for cannabis. Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/freeport-blood-drive-cannabis-vouchers/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the military.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/19/judge-calls-out-militarys-history-of-discrimination-in-blocking-trumps-transgender-soldier-ban/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats use their law firms to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-19/experts-say-trumps-targeting-of-law-firms-is-unprecedented
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-19/jamie-raskin-is-leading-the-democrats-legal-strategy-against-the-trump-administration
WTVO ROCKFORD
— Police charge 27-year-old for vandalizing newly built Illinois Tesla dealership. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-charge-27-old-vandalizing-154339551.html
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Mayor’s Office, Police Skip Immigration Committee Hearing Amid Federal Lawsuit. The City Council’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights met for the first time in nearly eight months to discuss what’s being done to support the city’s immigrants.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/19/mayors-office-police-skip-immigration-committee-hearing-amid-federal-lawsuit/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Democrat teachers to make students sexually active LGBTQers.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/19/conservative-groups-target-illinois-and-chicagos-protections-for-lgbtq-students/
NORTHERN STAR
— NIU removes DEI language from its website
https://northernstar.info/123972/news/niu-removes-dei-language-from-its-website/
DARIAN PATCH
— Darien Official’s Marijuana Assertion Questioned. An alderman seeking re-election said the local dispensary brings in “only about” $40,000 in sales taxes. My critics/opponents in Wheaton continue to be furious that I stopped the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://patch.com/illinois/darien-il/darien-officials-marijuana-assertion-questioned
POLITICO
— Former Illinois state Sen. Jim Oberweis — a Republican now living in Bonita Springs, Florida — was the first Republican to announce a candidacy for the congressional seat set to be vacated by Rep. Byron Donalds as he runs for governor of the Sunshine State.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/20/illinois-man-becomes-florida-man-00239360
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-478/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-271/
— Homeschoolers descend on Springfield by the thousands to protest regulatory bill
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/19/homeschoolers-descend-on-springfield-by-the-thousands-to-protest-regulatory-bill/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— DuPage Democrats are harassing and intimidating a local business
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/670599946-dupage-county-republicans-dupage-democrats-are-harassing-and-intimidating-a-local-business
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— A front page top of fold article in today’s USA TODAY is titled “How Trump and Musk made federal employees America’s favorite punching bag. Why do Americans hate federal employees? Musk and Trump are stoking long-running resentment of the federal government and civil servants for their own political purposes.” I should write a book about how people view/treat federal employees and federal retirees. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years. Of course, in my book, I would use as examples how my critics/opponents in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois have viewed/treated me. Of course, they deny my having been a federal employee and my being a federal retiree have anything to do with it. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout and who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, because of Republican budget cuts, the agency was almost always under hiring freezes and/or promotion freezes. The agency shrank from over 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees. I was one of the last Republicans that GAO hired. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely because of those Republican budget cuts. I would not have survived for almost 18 years if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) became a licensed CPA in 1981. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— So far, since I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.8 million in today’s dollars to stop me from working. that is, they forced me to retire. – Dave Diersen
http://www/gopillinois.com
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Dozens of medical schools on DEI ‘watchlist’ as two face civil rights complaint
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3352629/medical-schools-dei-watchlist-civil-rights-complaint/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrats’ silence is damning as leftist Tesla violence explodes. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/19/opinion/democrats-silence-is-damning-as-leftist-violence-explodes/
AMERICAN WIRE NEWS
— GOP proposal allows victims of sanctuary policies to sue: ‘put law on side of American citizens, not criminal illegals’
https://americanwirenews.com/gop-proposal-allows-victims-of-sanctuary-policies-to-sue-put-law-on-side-of-american-citizens-not-criminal-illegals/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— GOP proposal allows victims of sanctuary policies to sue: ‘put law on side of American citizens, not criminal illegals’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/03/19/gop-proposal-allows-victims-of-sanctuary-policies-to-sue-put-law-on-side-of-american-citizens-not-criminal-illegals-1530229/
CENTER SQUARE
— Top prosecutor calls Tesla violence ‘domestic terrorism’ Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_8a275082-c8d9-4f2f-8234-ee70567c2ef5.html
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Freezes Millions In Federal Funds For Ivy League School Allowing Men In Women’s Sports
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/19/trump-admin-freezes-millions-in-federal-funds-for-ivy-league-school-allowing-men-in-womens-sports/
FOX BUSINESS
— Tesla vandals should be persecuted relentlessly for what they’re doing. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6370240595112
FOX NEWS
— Trump signs executive order to abolish the Department of Education
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-signs-executive-order-abolish-department-education-more-top-headlines
— Trump, Republicans at record-high ratings as Democrats falter. Plus, early job ratings for Vance, Rubio and Musk
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-trump-republicans-record-high-ratings-democrats-falter
— Illinois families protest Democrat bill that would restrict homeschooling.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370242545112
— Trump: Removing criminals is a presidential job, not for a local judge to decide. President Donald Trump addresses criticism after deporting illegal migrant criminals on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370204307112
— Judge who blocked key Trump executive order has long history of left-wing activism, Dem donations. Judge Reyes has donated more than $38,000 to Democratic campaigns and groups since 2008.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-who-blocked-key-trump-executive-order-has-long-history-left-wing-activism-dem-donations
MRC TV
— Jimmy Kimmel Eggs On Violent Vandalism & Arson Against Tesla. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/justine-brooke-murray/jimmy-kimmel-eggs-violent-vandalism-arson-against-tesla
PJ MEDIA
— Pritzker Is Looking to Be the Savior of the Democratic Party
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/03/19/il-gov-jb-pritzker-is-looking-to-be-the-savior-of-the-democratic-party-he-should-save-illinois-first-n4938081
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— White House Condemns Democrats Over Silence On Tesla Attacks. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5203612-white-house-condemns-tesla-attacks/
— Bondi labels Tesla vandalism ‘domestic terrorism’
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5202981-bondi-labels-tesla-vandalism-domestic-terrorism/
— The mainstream news media promotes illegal immigration for the Democrat Party.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5200817-immigration-trump-agenda-news-outlets/
CNN
— Police end Casten’s Downers Grove town hall after fiery confrontations
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/politics/video/police-end-dem-lawmakers-town-hall-after-fiery-confrontations
— Trump’s moves to hollow out government could be difficult to undo
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/politics/trump-musk-federal-government-reagan/index.html
MSN
— Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters commit domestic terrorism.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-ag-bondi-call-tesla-protests-domestic-terrorism-are-they/ar-AA1BgJn8
— Sean Hannity: This is full on domestic terrorism. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sean-hannity-this-is-full-on-domestic-terrorism/vi-AA1Bh2ks
— Musk Calls It ‘Extreme Domestic Terrorism’ After Website Publishes Data On US Tesla Owners. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/elon-musk-calls-it-extreme-domestic-terrorism-after-website-publishes-data-on-us-tesla-owners/vi-AA1BeLWj
— ‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters planning ‘biggest day of action’ Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/tesla-takedown-protesters-planning-biggest-day-of-action/ar-AA1Bhmu2
ABC NEWS
— Attorney general calls Tesla arson attacks ‘nothing short of domestic terrorism’ Tesla dealerships have faced attacks since Elon Musk begin his White House role. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tesla-vehicles-vandalized-us-musk-began-white-house/story?id=119910817
NBC NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/families-deported-venezuelans-are-distraught-loved-ones-sent-el-salvad-rcna196950
ABC SAN FRANCISCO
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, because of Republican budget cuts, the agency was almost always under hiring freezes and/or promotion freezes. The agency shrank from over 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees. I was one of the last Republicans that GAO hired. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely because of those Republican budget cuts. I would not have survived for almost 18 years if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://abc7news.com/post/university-california-freeze-hiring-systemwide-citing-trump-threats-possible-budget-cuts/16054451/
NEWSWEEK
— Trump Will Run Again in 2028, Steve Bannon Says
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-will-run-again-2028-steve-bannon-says-2046954
— Trump Admin ‘Can’t Wait’ to Jail People Who Burn Teslas. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-cant-wait-jail-people-who-burn-teslas-kevin-oleary-says-2047603
NEW YORK TIMES
— Bondi Calls Tesla Vandalism ‘Domestic Terrorism,’ Promising Steep Consequences. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/politics/tesla-vandalism-domestic-terrorism.html
— Reinstated, but Not Back to Work: Fired Workers Linger in ‘Limbo’ More than a dozen federal agencies have reinstated employees and immediately placed them on administrative leave, according to court filings. So far, since I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.8 million in today’s dollars to stop me from working. that is, they forced me to retire.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/fired-federal-workers-reinstated-place-administrative-leave.html
— Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/musk-donations-congress-judges.html
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will do everything that they can a) to cause a recession and b) to blame it on Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/business/economy/trump-recession-tariffs-inflation.html
WASHINGTON POST
— My critics/opponents have always a) glorified and praised those judges who have ruled against me and b) demonized, denigrated, and condemned those judges who have ruled in my favor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/19/trump-presidency-news/
— Fear, chaos and missing paperwork: DOGE stories from federal workers. A lesson I learned in business school still holds true today: You can’t take a chain saw to change your firm — or government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/19/doge-federal-workers-stories/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrats and RINOs run just about everything in America, in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Wheaton, and in Wheaton Warrenville School District 200. They use DEI to destroy Republicans. Constructively, they require everyone to submit diversity statements, that is, to agree to use DEI to destroy Republicans. Because I refuse, they destroy me.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-19/uc-eliminates-diversity-statement-requirement-faculty-hiring
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: How Trump and Musk made federal employees America’s favorite punching bag. Why do Americans hate federal employees? Musk and Trump are stoking long-running resentment of the federal government and civil servants for their own political purposes. I should write a book about how people view/treat federal employees and federal retirees. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years. Of course, in my book, I would use as examples how my critics/opponents in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois viewed/treated me. Of course, they deny my having been a federal employee and my being a federal retiree have anything to do with it. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout and who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/19/federal-employees-trump-musk-hate-layoffs/82233377007/
— Attacks against Tesla property considered ‘domestic terrorism,’ says AG Pam Bondi. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/19/tesla-attacks-domestic-terrorism-pam-bondi-trump/82540722007/
— The Democrat Party exists to destroy not only Republicans but to destroy America.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/18/democrats-trump-failing-voters-poll/82494628007/
— Tesla removed from Vancouver International Auto Show due to safety concerns. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/03/19/vancouver-auto-show-tesla/82556297007/
— Big problem emerges in IRS return-to-office mandate: Not enough desks While I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1990, I often shared diskspace with my coworkers. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were beyond furious I got not only my own desk, but a preferred corner office in a new building in 1990. But that all ended in 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my office to my Black subordinate.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/12/irs-pauses-rto-order-tax-customer-service-layoffs/82310948007/
— Welcome back to Earth, astronauts! Um, a few things have changed since you left. Welcome back from the ISS, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore! Before you officially ‘re-enter’ our country, we are going to need you both to present your passports and proof of citizenship.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/19/nasa-astronauts-return-spacex-musk-trump/82531816007/
— Trump defies judge on deportations. We’re on the cusp of a constitutional crisis.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/18/trump-deportation-venezuela-el-salvador-defy-judge/82498769007/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Donald Trump’s third term ‘jokes’ are serious
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/19/s-e-cupp-donald-trumps-third-term-jokes-are-serious/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Tesla Vehicles Set on Fire in ‘Targeted Attack’ in Las Vegas. Police are hunting for a suspect who set fire to the electric vehicles outside a Tesla facility in Las Vegas. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.wsj.com/video/tesla-vehicles-set-on-fire-in-targeted-attack-in-las-vegas/0DE87EC9-0825-4158-A982-380654C679C4
— Attorney General Bondi pledges federal prosecutions against hate-filled Trump-hating Tesla-burning domestic terrorists. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/bondis-campaign-against-domestic-terrorism-starts-with-tesla-foes-ce18fcc1
— Is This Any Way to Run a Budget? The federal government gives less scrutiny to its spending than a private company—or your family. Since 2000, I have urged Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) leaders to budge, that is, to develop budges annually, to get them approved by the membership, and to follow them. But my MTRO critics/opponents have always furiously fought that and won.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-this-any-way-to-run-a-budget-federal-government-spending-70bb7876
POLITICO
— ‘Deeply concerned’: Crash victims’ families ask DOT not to water down Tesla oversight. The families of several people killed or seriously injured in crashes involving Teslas using self-driving technologies are asking Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy not to allow Elon Musk to influence crash probes or oversight rules.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/deeply-concerned-crash-victims-families-ask-dot-not-to-water-down-tesla-oversight-00236890
AUTO GUIDE
— Why Your Tesla Could Soon Be Uninsurable. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/manufacturers/tesla-manufacturers/why-your-tesla-could-soon-be-uninsurable-44617513
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, students who are minority and/or female should always be given preference over students who are White and/or male.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/03/20/fallacy-treating-every-student-same-opinion
GUARDIAN
— Hate-filled America-hating America-haters ever-increasingly promote Badar Khan Suri.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/trump-administration-attempting-to-deport-pro-palestinian-student-at-georgetown-university
CGTN
— Las Vegas Tesla service center set on fire, labeled as domestic terrorism. Democrats harm Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump to harm Republicans.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-20/Las-Vegas-Tesla-service-center-set-on-fire-labeled-domestic-terrorism-1BTiyNk5g6k/p.html
March 19, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENRT-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DuPage Democrats hold ‘Tesla takedown’ rally outside Lisle dealership, protesting Elon Musk’s DOGE. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars. I currently own nine. They especially despise/hate Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/group-holds-lisle-protest-outside-tesla-car-dealership-opposition-donald-trump-elon-musks-doge-cuts/16046354/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYt3-L9Oszw
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “I mean, here’s Elon Musk, working for literally nothing, giving up literally billions of dollars for his activism and his patriotism, and all he is doing is saving our country,” said Mark Rice, a Republican who ran in the 2024 election to represent Illinois’ 8th Congressional District. . .Calls for protests and boycotts of Tesla have revved up across the country with reports of vandalism against Tesla vehicles and dealerships. . .The DuPage County GOP chairman released a statement on the protest, saying, “It is ridiculous that the DuPage Democrats are harassing and intimidating a local business that has contributed significantly to the Village of Lisle’s economy. This is why the Democratic Party has the lowest approval ratings that it has had since there has been polling. We are not long removed from violent protests and looting that destroyed businesses across the suburbs. Of late, Tesla locations have been vandalized across America. This thinly veiled attempt by DuPage Democrats to cancel and scare a local business over political differences is repugnant. Americans are done with it and, increasingly, done with the Democratic Party.”)
CBS2
— Over 100 people protest at Tesla dealership in Lisle.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/over-100-people-protest-tesla-dealership-lisle-illinois/
FOX32
— Trump administration rehiring nearly 25K fired workers after court order. In Diersen v. GAO, a court ruled that federal agencies can force their employees to retire if they became active members in class action lawsuits that charge reverse discrimination and/or age discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-administration-rehiring-fired-workers-court-order
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pentagon is cutting up to 60,000 civilian jobs. About a third of those took voluntary resignations. During the 1980s and 1990s, because of Republican budget cuts, the Democrats who ran GAO cut 3,000 jobs or half of GAO’s workforce. Even though they focused on cutting their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time, I nevertheless survived until 1997. I would not have survived that long if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (finance), 1980 (accounting), and 1976 (business), b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting), and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA).
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/18/pentagon-job-cuts/
— Nominations are open for 2025 Chicago Top Workplaces (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that GAO will win this a) because Democrats run GAO and b) because they give their Democrat employees tremendous preference, and especially those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans that GAO hired.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/top-workplaces-nominations-2025/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/column-lgbtq-hotel-chicago-nothalsted-washington/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hundreds rally against Musk, Trump at Tesla dealership in Lisle. The company’s stock market value and reputation have taken hits since the billionaire joined the Trump administration to lead the Department of Government Efficiency.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/photography/2025/03/18/photos-hundreds-rally-against-musk-trump-at-tesla-dealership-in-lisle
— Chicago Sun-Times to lose 20% of staff after buyout offer. Columnists, editorial writers and many more head for the exits as the paper’s nonprofit owner, Chicago Public Media, deals with fiscal hardship.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/03/18/chicago-sun-times-lose-20-staff-buyout-offer
DAILY HERALD
— ‘Tesla Takedown’ protest drives crowd to Lisle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYt3-L9Oszw
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker likens Trump’s tenure to the Great Chicago Fire. Pritzker ever-increasing promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/jb-pritzker-likens-trump-tenure-great-chicago-fire
WGN RADIO
— Parents urged to teach kids about drug dangers on social media. Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://wgnradio.com/news/fentanyl-crisis/parents-urged-to-teach-kids-about-drug-dangers-on-social-media/
SOUTHERN
— Concerns about the FAA’s air traffic control system date back decades. I worked for GAO on an audit of FAA’s traffic control system in the early 1980s.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/19/concerns-about-the-faas-air-traffic-control-system-date-back-decades/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In 1990, Government Accountability Office Transportation Issues Director Kenneth Mead told a congressional subcommittee that although the FAA had made progress, the agency had “inexperience in developing large-scale, highly automated systems” and was “still experiencing problems in modernizing the ATC system.”)
WAND TV
— Violent attacks on Tesla dealerships spike as Musk takes prominent role in Trump White House. Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk’s electric-car company are cropping up from coast to coast and even overseas.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/violent-attacks-on-tesla-dealerships-spike-as-musk-takes-prominent-role-in-trump-white-house/article_dd6fcf1d-f611-5b89-9bed-239ba4fa82dd.html
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois Republicans urge Democrats to stop supporting illegal immigration. Outstanding.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/03/18/watch-illinois-republicans-urge-democrats-to-stop-supporting-illegal-immigration/
WIFR
— Illinois lawmakers propose bills on illegal immigration in the state. Outstanding.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2025/03/19/illinois-lawmakers-propose-bills-illegal-immigration-state/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Poll: AOC best reflects Democrats’ ‘core values’ over Pelosi, Obama. What does that say about Democrats? I should write about the positions that Democrats in my precinct have on the current issues of the day. Democrats and ever-increasingly promote more 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.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/aoc-best-reflects-democrats-core-values-over-pelosi-obama-poll
NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal judge blocks Trump effort to ban transgender troops from military service. Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGHTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-18/federal-judge-blocks-trump-effort-to-ban-transgender-troops-from-military-service
— Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-18/researchers-fear-grants-for-studies-on-health-disparities-may-be-cut-in-anti-dei-push
ELMHURST PATCH
— National Politics At Elmhurst City Meetings? Anticipate/expect that the Democrat leaders of your municipality will ever-increasingly promote more 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.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/national-politics-elmhurst-city-meetings
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Democrat teachers to make students sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/03/18/illinois-conservative-group-files-federal-complaint-title-ix/
LOYOLA PHOENIX
— Loyola is ever-increasingly an arm of the Democrat Party.
https://loyolaphoenix.com/2025/03/chicagos-leaders-stand-up-for-the-city-and-gainst-ice/
POLITICO
— Casten and over 100 other House Democrats sent a letter demanding the Government Accountability Office create and maintain a database to track delays in the disbursement of funds to Americans. That move two months after the White House froze federal funds associated with the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and put major infrastructure projects on pause. Because of Gingrich, GAO is less than a shell of what it once was.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/19/pritzkers-quiet-dig-at-durbin-00236635
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Removing homeless encampments could be violation of human rights. How soon will Democrat and RINO leaders succeed in setting up a homeless encampment in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct?
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/19/illinois-encampments-unhoused-legal-rights
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-477/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-270/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DUPAGE GOP
— Chairman’s Statement on Tesla Takedown. It is ridiculous that the DuPage Democrats are harassing and intimidating a local business that has contributed significantly to the Village of Lisle’s economy. This is why the Democratic Party has the lowest approval ratings that it has had since there has been polling. We are not long removed from violent protests and looting that destroyed businesses across the suburbs. Of late, Tesla locations have been vandalized across America. This thinly veiled attempt by DuPage Democrats to cancel and scare a local business over political differences is repugnant. Americans are done with it and, increasingly, done with the Democratic Party.
https://dupagegop.com/
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Milton Township GOP Chair Castle: ‘We must reject candidates like Chris LeVan, John Monino, and Elizabeth Buffy Higgins Beard’
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/670497432-milton-township-gop-chair-castle-we-must-reject-candidates-like-chris-levan-john-monino-and-elizabeth-buffy-higgins-beard
WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker’s real record on jobs
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzkers-real-record-on-jobs-wirepoints/
— There’s an open invitation to commit crimes in Chicago because the chance of getting caught is negligible
https://wirepoints.org/theres-an-open-invitation-to-commit-crimes-in-chicago-because-the-chance-of-getting-caught-is-negligible-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— 100 to 1 in opposition to Illinois Homeschool Act ahead of hearing
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_82b4c780-0363-11f0-a788-638324956a18.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— If AOC is its future, the Democratic Party is hopelessly lost. Ever-increasingly Democrats promote more 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.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/18/opinion/if-aoc-is-their-future-the-democrats-are-hopelessly-lost/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals working for Congress — addendum.. If my employers had been able to hire illegals instead of me, they certainly would have.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/illegals_working_for_congress_addendum.html
BREITBART
— Trump Haters Hit Tesla Facilities in Las Vegas, Kansas City with Arson Attacks. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/03/18/trump-haters-hit-tesla-facilities-in-las-vegas-kansas-city-with-arson-attacks/
— 38K Chinese Illegal Aliens Living in U.S. Despite Being Ordered Deported
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/18/report-38k-chinese-illegal-aliens-living-in-u-s-despite-being-ordered-deported/
— Democrats use the Constitution to destroy Republicans.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/03/18/sanders-should-frighten-every-american-that-trump-doesnt-respect-our-constitution/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Chicago college interim president says ‘DEI is in our blood’ at ‘Diversity Campus Town Hall.’ Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/chicago-college-interim-president-says-dei-blood-diversity-campus-town-hall/27683
DAILY CALLER
— America Can’t Be Safer If Dems And Their ‘Rogue Judges’ Keep Inundating Country With Illegal Aliens
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/18/brandon-gill-tren-de-aragua-james-boasberg-impeachment/
FOX NEWS
— Illinois parents, lawmakers sound alarm over proposed homeschooling bill: ‘Direct assault on families’ Parents would be required to fill out a ‘homeschool declaration form’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-parents-lawmakers-sound-alarm-proposed-homeschooling-bill-direct-assault-families
— Jewish Tesla owner ‘speechless’ after finding Nazi symbol on his Cybertruck. Avi Ben Hamo joins ‘Fox & Friends’ after his Cybertruck was vandalized with the image of a Swastika and the word ‘Elon,’ saying he no longer feels safe in New York. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370187212112
— Trump says Elon Musk haters also hate America. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370209436112
NEWSMAX
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/georgementz/dei-diversity-equity/2025/03/18/id/1203352/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Website Exposes Tesla Owners’ Personal Data. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.newsweek.com/dogequest-tesla-elon-musk-doxxing-website-2046920
USA TODAY
— Trump wants benefits for those who purchase cars ‘made in America.’ None fully are. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/trump-wants-benefits-for-cars-made-in-usa/81614278007/
WYOMING PUBLIC RADIO
— Wyoming bans sanctuary cities and ranked choice voting. Outstanding.
https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/politics-government/2025-03-18/wyoming-bans-sanctuary-cities-and-ranked-choice-voting
NEWS 18
— Tesla Vehicles Torched In Las Vegas Arson Attack, Elon Musk Calls It ‘Insane’ My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.news18.com/viral/tesla-vehicles-torched-in-las-vegas-arson-attack-elon-musk-calls-it-insane-aa-9266948.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DeSantis: Good Riddance to the U.S. Education Department. Florida shows how states can lead in ensuring that children learn.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ron-desantis-good-riddance-to-the-u-s-education-department-387e2ea3
— FRONT PAGE: Morgan Stanley Went Big on DEI, and No One Is Happy About It. Black and white employees say the efforts added to a divisive culture. Now, as political pressure rises, the bank is watering down initiatives. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, and Republican budget cuts big time to get of their Republican employees.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/morgan-stanley-corporate-dei-what-happened-4a61427c
— FRONT PAGE: RS Retreats From Some Audits as Agency Slashes Workforce. Officials put faith in shift to technology, but others see dangers in cutting thousands of jobs
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/internal-revenue-service-doge-taxes-f00ac956
PLURBUS NEWS
— Fired federal workers set states scrambling. Processing a wave of claims from former federal workers will “absolutely” require more resources.
https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/fired-federal-workers-set-states-scrambling/
FED SMITH
— Trump Calls for Eliminating More Federal Agencies. President Trump has issued an Executive Order that requires making cuts to 7 federal entities that he has deemed unnecessary. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it in the 1980s and 1990s, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had formed a team to reform GAO, I would have volunteered to be a member of that team. I would have stressed a) that I had worked for GAO since 1980 and the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in1981, d) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and e) that I earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/03/15/trump-calls-for-eliminating-more-federal-agencies/
LIBERAL PATRIOT
— The Blue State Exodus Should Scare Democrats. The electoral consequences could be massive. Democrats ever-increasingly promote more 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.
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-blue-state-exodus-should-scare
INDEPENDENT
— Violent attacks on Tesla spread from coast to coast – and overseas. In Donald Trump’s first term, his properties became a natural place for protest. In the early days of his second term, Tesla is filling that role. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-elon-musk-trump-cybertruck-las-vegas-fire-b2717706.html
March 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Scum,’ ‘crooked’ elections and ‘corrupt’ media. What Donald Trump said inside the Justice Department.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/14/what-trump-said-inside-the-justice-department/
— University of Chicago under investigation as part of Trump’s anti-DEI initiative (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/14/universities-investigated-for-dei/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Dems split on bill to avert government shutdown
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/14/illinois-democrats-shutdown-federal-budget-vote-reaction-durbin-duckworth-casten
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders get Black faith leaders to threaten corporations if they do not restore DEI. Democrat and RINO corporations use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://chicagodefender.com/black-faith-leaders-to-corporations-restore-dei-or-lose-our-business/
ABC7
— Appeals court allows Trump to enact anti-DEI executive orders
https://abc7chicago.com/post/appeals-court-lifts-blocks-trumps-orders-restricting-diversity-equity-inclusion-programs/16024964/
NBC5
— Appeals court lifts blocks on Trump’s orders restricting DEI programs (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/appeals-court-lifts-blocks-on-trumps-orders-restricting-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-programs/3698406/
CBS2
— Chicago area food pantries, farmers say federal funding cuts causing ‘sense of panic’ (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more will be dependent on food pantries.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-food-pantries-farmers-federal-funding-cuts-panic/
FOX32
— Chicago university under investigation in Trump’s anti-DEI campaign (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-university-under-investigation-trumps-anti-dei-campaign
— Trump Tower protests: 150 Mahmoud Khalil supporters storm Midtown building; 90+ arrested (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mahmoud Khalil and what he does.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/students-storm-trump-tower-support
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSIONESS
— Trump administration targets University of Chicago over DEI (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/uchicago-investigated-trump-administration
WBEZ
— Trump takes aim at Chicago again — this time with a federal task force on antisemitism (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mahmoud Khalil and what he does.)
https://www.wbez.org/city-hall/2025/03/14/federal-task-force-antisemitism-schools-campus-chicago-brandon-johnson-bondi-justice-department
— Trans people facing gender-affirming care bans flee to Illinois, shield law states (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.)
https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/2025/03/14/trans-people-facing-gender-affirming-care-bans-flee-to-illinois-shield-law-states
STATELINE
— Illinois GOP introduce bills to reduce property taxes and address migration issues
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-republicans-propose-property-tax-bills/
RIVER BENDER
— Pritzker, Stratton, Statements On Government Funding Bill In Congress (COMMENT: What about statements in opposition?)
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/pritzker-stratton-statements-on-government-funding-bill-in-congress-80607.cfm
WJBC
— In remarks to teachers union, Pritzker lashes out at Trump’s education cuts (COMMENT: Few objected to Gingrich’s dramatic GAO budget cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors used those cuts along with the following to waste my career and to get rid of me: Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans preference.)
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/03/14/in-remarks-to-teachers-union-pritzker-lashes-out-at-trumps-education-cuts/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump reclaims a DOJ reshaped in his wake (COMMENT: Biden shaped his DOJ. All presidents shape their DOJs. The DOJ that Bush shaped 2000-2008 sided with GAO in Diersen v. GAO. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. To side with GAO is promote Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans’ preference.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-14/trump-reclaims-a-justice-department-reshaped-in-his-wake
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Most disapprove of Trump’s approach to Ukraine, Russia
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/most-disapprove-of-trumps-approach-to-ukraine-russia-survey/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump calls European Union ‘nasty’ for its treatment of American businesses
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-calls-european-union-nasty-for-its-treatment-of-american-businesses
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-268/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals Working for Congress?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/illegals_working_for_congress.html
BREITBART
— Trump Administration to Modernize IRS, Make Agency ‘Most Efficient and Effective’ for Taxpayers (COMMENT: Democrat IRS and GAO leaders do not want Republicans to audit IRS. They certainly did not want me to audit IRS. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of that almost 18 years that I worked for GAO 1980-1997. They did that even though I had a) worked for IRS for almost 9 years 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a master/s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997, c) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981, and e) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/14/trump-admin-to-modernize-irs-make-agency-most-efficient-and-effective-for-taxpayers/
— Actor John Cusack Compares Trump Buying a Tesla to Hitler, Calls Musk ‘Only Immigrant I Wanted Deported’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/03/14/actor-john-cusack-compares-trump-buying-a-tesla-to-hitler-calls-musk-only-immigrant-i-wanted-deported/
— Trump touts law-and-order vision, sounds off on past grievances with DOJ, FBI
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-touts-law-and-order-vision-sounds-off-on-past-grievances-with-doj-fbi/
FOX NEWS
— Trump rallies support for ‘tough on crime’ agenda at DOJ visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J1u244Kv_8
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Vance booed by Kennedy Center crowd in wake of Trump takeover
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/14/vice-president-jd-vance-booed-kennedy-center-crowd-wake-trump/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Pentagon Schools Instruct Use of Minecraft to Promote DEI Trojan Horse (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/14/pentagon-schools-instruct-use-minecraft-promote-dei-trojan-horse/
FEDERALIST SOCIETY
— FOID Cards and the Second Amendment at the Illinois Supreme Court
https://fedsoc.org/scdw/foid-cards-and-the-second-amendment-at-the-illinois-supreme-court
FOX NEWS
— Reparations fight hits Congress as GOP looks to defund new DC task force. DC is expected to form a slavery reparations task force this year.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reparations-fight-hits-congress-gop-looks-defund-new-dc-task-force
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Appeals court allows Trump administration to enforce ban on DEI programs, for now (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/appeals-court-allows-trump-administration-enforce-ban-dei-programs-now-rcna196551
REUTERS
— Countries considered for Trump’s potential new travel ban (COMMENT: What do say to countries a) that despise/hate America and/or b) that illegally send their citizens into American and/or illegally keep their citizens in America to destroy America?)
https://www.reuters.com/world/countries-considered-trumps-potential-new-travel-ban-2025-03-15/
MSN
— ‘Chilling’: NYT reveals list of words banned by Trump’s ‘anti-woke’ initiatives
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chilling-nyt-reveals-list-of-words-banned-by-trump-s-anti-woke-initiatives/ar-AA1AvE2k
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-order-voice-of-america.html
— Appeals Court Lets Trump’s DEI Crackdown Proceed (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-dei-court-ruling.html
— Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries. A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States. (COMMENT: Based on their actions, far too many who come to America despise/hate Americans who are Jewish, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. All those who come to America illegally and/or stay in America illegally a) want/need/demand massive government assistance, b) lack education and/or job skills, and/or have severe financial, health, and/or other problems.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html
— Trump Administration Expels South Africa’s Ambassador to the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had lashed out on social media over comments critical of President Trump that the ambassador had made to a think tank in Johannesburg.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/south-africa-ambassador-marco-rubio.html
— Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale. The president and his allies accuse South Africa of discriminating against and killing white people, and warn that it could happen in America if attempts to promote diversity aren’t stopped. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/world/africa/south-africa-whites-trump.html
USA TODAY
— Trump talks tough on antisemitism while Musk reposts vile Hitler excuse
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/15/elon-musk-hitler-trump-antisemitism/82408339007/
BLOOMBERG
— A Fair Workplace? Not Everywhere. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers do not treat their employees who are the following fairly: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The more of the aforesaid that their employees are, the more unfairly that Democrat and RINO employers treat them.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1999-04-26/a-fair-workplace-not-everywhere
STARS & STRIPES
— ‘What’s happening to veterans is not right’: Thousands attend rally on National Mall to protest cuts to jobs, services (COMMENT: During all the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they always protected their Democrat employees who were veterans from the adverse impacts of Republican budget cuts.)
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-03-14/veterans-rally-national-mall-17143611.html
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
— What is it like to argue before the Supreme Court? (COMMENT: I argued Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange before the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, in 1996. SEE: https://casetext.com/case/diersen-v-chicago-car-exchange and https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-7th-circuit/1385001.html I should write about the material factual errors in the decision. I argued Diersen v. GAO before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2000-2005. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf I should write about the material factual errors in the decision.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhxlH18iHg
POLITICO
— Trump calls for imprisoning his opponents in bellicose speech at Justice Department. For more than an hour, he delivered an insult-laden speech that shattered the traditional notion of DOJ independence. (COMMENT: Biden shaped his DOJ. All presidents shape their DOJs. The DOJ that Bush shaped 2000-2008 sided with GAO in Diersen v. GAO. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. To side with GAO is promote Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans preference.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/14/trump-doj-speech-prison-opponents-00231438
March 12, 2025
Ever-increasing, the mainstream news media serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders say “Trump checks out Teslas at White House as Musk’s auto company stock sinks.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-checks-teslas-white-house-elon-musks-auto-company-stock-sinks/16008302/
— Democrat leaders say “Nearly half of Department of Education workforce to be eliminated.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-education-layoffs/16008462/
— Democrat leaders say “US Dept. of Education cuts could profoundly impact schools, students.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI5RApBsoxI
— Democrat leaders say “USDA cuts two programs worth roughly $1B, impacting local schools, food banks and farmers.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/usda-cuts-programs-worth-roughly-1b-impacting-local-schools-farmers-food-banks-including-northern-illinois-bank/16009649/
— Democrat leaders call for boycott of retailers who cut DEI programs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-leaders-inspired-boycott-retailers-cut-dei-programs-encourage-purposeful-local-spending/16008915/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders say “Rally at University of Chicago in support of Columbia University pro-Palestine activist after ICE arrest.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/university-of-chicago-rally-columbia-university-pro-palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more people rely on food banks.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-area-food-bank-programs-usda-funding/
FOX32
— Democrats say “Illinois Republicans slam Democrats for focusing on ‘bad bills’ amid budget crisis.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-republicans-slam-democrats-bad-bills
— Democrat leaders say “Illinois Republicans slam bills that Democrats are prioritizing.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ix8_GtqXQ
— Democrat leaders say “Durbin calls out Trump, Musk partnership.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMCahOgoiEM
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders say Illinois farmers criticize USDA funding freezes
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/11/farmers-usda-general-assembly/
— Democrat leaders say “Illinois farmers, schools and food banks will lose millions with USDA funding cuts.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/03/11/illinois-farmers-schools-food-banks-department-agriculture-cuts-trump
— Democrat leaders say “Chicago needs a new presidentially appointed U.S. Attorney Immediately.” My critics/opponents were overjoyed Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney General Patrick Fitzgerald who sided with the Democrats who ran GAO in Diersen v. GAO.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/12/editorial-us-attorney-chicago-trump/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders say “Some CPS teachers claim REACH evaluation system disproportionately targets Black educators.” (COMMENT: When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and replaced me with my Black subordinate who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had one professional certification while I had six, and d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/12/cps-teacher-evaluation-biased/
— Democrat leaders say “Access is not a trophy the White House can hand out to its favorite reporters.” (COMMENT: Needless-to-say, I am not a favorite reporter of those who want/demand that I a) glorify and praise them, b) pander to them, c) serve as one of their operatives or dupes, d) cover up their wrong doing, and/or e) give them money.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/28/heidi-stevens-white-house-reporters-access/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/03/12/trans-people-facing-gender-affirming-care-bans-flee-to-illinois-shield-law-states
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders say “DuPage County to pay $11 million to settle lawsuit over detainee’s death in jail.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250311/news/dupage-county-to-pay-11-million-to-settle-lawsuit-over-detainees-death-in-jail/
— Democrat leaders endorse the non-Republican candidates in the Wheaton Warrenville School District 200 race.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250312/endorsements/dist-200-school-board-blatner-ebbesen-hanlon-paver/
— Kevin Coyne: Board’s egregious conduct
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250312/letters-to-the-editor/boards-egregious-conduct/
(FROM THE LETTER: In 20 years of being deeply involved in DuPage County politics, I have never seen elected officials behave as disrespectfully and unprofessionally as the numerous Democratic Board members during the recent hearing on whether or not the board would remove Henry Hyde’s name from our county courthouse. The incredibly insulting idea to cancel the name of the prolific Henry Hyde was bad enough. But to cut off public comment on the proposal, after just 30 minutes, was something none of the many current and former officials in attendance had ever seen before. It was a terrible insult to all of the people who cared deeply about the legacy of Henry Hyde. People came from all over to speak at this hearing. Sadly, the majority of the board did not care to hear them. While these board members try to paint Hyde as a conservative extremist, Hyde’s legacy is not extreme and is very nuanced. Yes, Hyde was pro-life and he sponsored the Hyde Amendment (a bill that both Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy also voted for). Hyde led on the Brady Bill and Family Leave Act. Jesse Jackson Jr. gave remarks at Hyde’s memorial services and pointed to Hyde’s ability to work across the aisle. Hyde was very bipartisan in approach, a concept that is unfortunately lost by politicians today…certainly by the Democratic members of the DuPage County Board. Hyde’s collaborating and inclusive approach to legislating is sorely missed. We should do our best to remember his name and style, not forget it. Hopefully residents learn about what happened at this hearing. It was evident to all in attendance that the Board cared a whole lot more about pandering to their political activists than about good government.)
JOURNAL COURIER
— Democrat leaders say “Federal workers deserve respect, not cruelty.” (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees the most. According to them, federal employees are grossly overpaid and their benefits are far too generous, and for federal retirees, their pensions and health insurance benefits are far too generous. I was a despised/hated federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a despised/hated federal retiree for more than 27 years. While I was a federal employee, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is $66,780/year. The federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums. In my defense, while I was a federal employee, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.)
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/federal-workers-deserve-respect-not-cruelty-20210388.php
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s USDA cuts hurt Illinois farmers and food-insecure communities.”
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-farmers-trump-usda-cuts/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders say “Trump cuts vital Illinois food programs, impacting farmers and food banks.”
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/trump-cuts-vital-illinois-food-programs-impacting-farmers-and-food-banks
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders say “Stocks slump as worry grows over Trump tariffs and a possible recession.” How far will Democrat leaders drive stocks down?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-11/stocks-slump-as-worry-grows-over-trump-tariffs-and-a-possible-recession
— Trump administration slams brakes on government’s adoption of electric vehicles (COMMENT: I just bought a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV. Please let me know if you share my interest in the car.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-12/trump-administration-slams-brakes-on-governments-adoption-of-electric-vehicles
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s policies are destabilizing mental health care for veterans.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-12/trumps-policies-are-destabilizing-mental-health-care-for-veterans-sources-say
25 NEWS NOW
— Democrat leaders push more pot in Pekin
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/03/12/new-cannabis-dispensary-coming-pekin/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders have always backed Democrat candidates in non-partisan elections.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/partisan-politics-infiltrating-non-partisan-local-illinois-elections/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-265/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats Rally Support for Their Terrorist Hamas Campus Cheerleader
https://johnkassnews.com/democrats-rally-support-for-their-hamas-campus-cheerleader/
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago continues to be the nation’s bloodiest city when it comes to the sheer number of homicides
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-continues-to-be-the-nations-bloodiest-city-when-it-comes-to-sheer-number-of-homicides-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Have you been a candidate? Have you been primaried? In 1999, I was the Assistant Precinct Committeeman (PC) for the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton. The PC for that precinct resigned and endorsed me to me to be appointed to fill the vacancy, and that happened in December of 1999. But for the 2000 election, my Milton Township Republican Organization critics/opponents recruited a female registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me. I won because both Peter Roskam and Randy Hultgren endorsed me in writing. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are/were you bureaucratic bloat? To deal with Gingrich-led Republican budget cuts in the 1990s, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997. They did not do that to my coworkers who were also eligible to retire, but who were Democrat, minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I had more work experience, more education, and/or more professional certifications than all my coworkers who my Democrat GAO superiors did not force to retire. I was the only one in the office who had a professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees the most. According to them, federal employees are grossly overpaid and their benefits are far too generous, and for federal retirees, their pensions and health insurance benefits are far too generous. I was a despised/hated federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a despised/hated federal retiree for more than 27 years. While I was a federal employee, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is $66,780/year. The federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums. In my defense, while I was a federal employee, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at veterans that they are especially hard-hit by federal cuts. While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times, virtually all my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were veterans. Ever since I became a federal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, to turn them against me, my Democrat superiors stressed to them that I avoided the Vietnam War draft and they ever-increasingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted at them that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) earn master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, d) earn a professional license when I was 32, e) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., f) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, g) go on vacations when I was 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, etc., g) get married when I was 29, h) buy collector cars when I was 40 and 45, i) etc. I should write about my Democrat superiors who were veterans and who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
— Democrats run the federal government. They determine which of their employees suffer the most when Republicans cut their budgets. Potential federal employees who are the following should be warned that they will suffer the most when Republicans cut their agency’s budgets: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents have always painted my federal salary, benefits, and pension as being entitlements instead of earned. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents a) were wealthy, b) paid for their college expenses, and/or c) got them good jobs in the private sector. My parents were not wealthy. I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. I would focus on my critics/opponents who never applied for a federal job or who applied and were rejected a) because they lacked qualifications and/or b) because they could not pass a background investigation. Even though I was conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office hired me in 1966, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980. I had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Debt, Deficits and DOGE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/opinion-debt-deficits-and-doge.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden’s final tally: 8.3 million new immigrants, most of them here illegally
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/12/joe-bidens-final-tally-83-million-new-immigrants-illegally/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Sean Hannity among latest string of celebrities to buy Teslas in solidarity
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/3343919/sean-hannity-among-celebrities-buy-teslas-musk/
NEW YORK POST
— Columbia University refuses to help DHS identify pro-Hamas protesters for deportation
https://nypost.com/2025/03/11/us-news/columbia-university-refusing-to-help-id-anti-israel-protesters-for-deportationwhite-house/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Will the MAGA Barbarian Invasion Succeed?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/will_the_maga_barbarian_invasion_succeed.html
BREITBART
— Democrats Opened the Border Because They Can’t Win Elections with Only American Votes
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/11/expert-witness-democrats-opened-the-border-because-they-cant-win-elections-with-only-american-votes/
— Trump Administration Is Working To Exclude Illegals From Welfare Programs (COMMENT: How many illegals are Democrats and RINO leaders giving welfare to in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Illegals are going to vote for Democrats, if they aren’t already.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/11/trump-admin-working-to-exclude-illegals-from-welfare-programs/
FOX NEWS
— Education secretary says department took first steps to eliminate ‘bureaucratic bloat.’ (COMMENT: Are/were you bureaucratic bloat? To deal with Gingrich-led Republican budget cuts in the 1990s, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997. They did not do that to my coworkers who were also eligible to retire, but who were Democrat, minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I had more work experience, more education, and/or more professional certifications than all my coworkers who my Democrat GAO superiors did not force to retire. I was the only one in the office who had a professional license.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369901522112
NEWSMAX
— Musk Eyes Social Security, Entitlements for Cuts Amid Widespread Fraud
https://www.newsmax.com/us/doge-cuts-entitlements/2025/03/10/id/1202240/
PJ MEDIA
— Here’s Why Trump Is Calling for a Republican Congressman to Be Primaried (COMMENT: Have you been a candidate? Have you been primaried? In 1999, I was the Assistant Precinct Committeeman (PC) for the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton. The PC for that precinct resigned and endorsed me to me to be appointed to fill the vacancy, and that happened in December of 1999. But for the 2000 election, my Milton Township Republican Organization critics/opponents recruited a female registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me. I won because both Peter Roskam and Randy Hultgren endorsed me in writing.)
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/11/heres-why-trump-is-calling-for-a-republican-congressman-to-be-primaried-n4937786
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— Democrat leaders say “Fired Federal Worker Who Voted for Trump Didn’t Expect the Devastation His Administration Would Cause.” (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. They determine which of their employees suffer the most when Republicans cut their budgets. Potential federal employees who are the following should be warned that they will suffer the most when Republicans cut their agency’s budgets: 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.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/i-feel-a-little-bit-betrayed-fired-federal-worker-who-voted-for-trump-says-she-didn-t-expect-the-devastation-his-administration-would-cause-to-her-life/ar-AA1AGLqd
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Trump Vows to Buy a Tesla to Support Musk After Shares Plunge. The president defended Elon Musk, a key donor and adviser, after shares in the electric-car maker hit their lowest point since before Election Day.” (COMMENT: All the cars and the SUV that I have bought are American nameplate.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-elon-musk-tesla.html
— Democrat leaders say “Musk Suggests His Team Will Scrutinize Social Security and Entitlement Spending.” (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always painted my federal salary, benefits, and pension as being entitlements instead of earned. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents a) were wealthy, b) paid for their college expenses, and/or c) got them good jobs in the private sector. My parents were not wealthy. I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. I would focus on my critics/opponents who never applied for a federal job or who applied and were rejected a) because they lacked qualifications and/or b) because they could not pass a background investigation. Even though I was conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office hired me in 1966, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980. I had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/musk-doge-social-security-entitlement-spending.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/business/economy/immigrant-workers-deportation-fears.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders say “U.S. revamps immigration app to add ‘self-deportation’ function.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/11/cbp-home-self-deportation-app-immigration/
— Democrat leaders say “White House insists Musk cuts to Social Security, Medicare won’t affect benefits. Elon Musk alleged that up to $700 billion in entitlement spending could be “waste and fraud,” raising alarm among Democrats.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/11/white-house-insists-musk-cuts-social-security-medicare-wont-affect-benefits/
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS
— Democrat leaders say “New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 19 other attorneys general last Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for illegally firing thousands of probationary federal workers.” (COMMENT: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that because I had served my probationary period when I was an IRS employee, they could not just fire me.)
https://hudsonvalleypress.com/2025/03/12/james-sues-trump-administration-over-firings-of-federal-workers/
LAKE COUNTY NEWS
— Democrat leaders say “5 reasons veterans are especially hard-hit by federal cuts.” (COMMENT: While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times, virtually all my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were veterans. Ever since I became a federal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, to turn them against me, my Democrat superiors stressed to them that I avoided the Vietnam War draft and they ever-increasingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted at them that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) earn master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, d) earn a professional license when I was 32, e) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., f) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, g) go on vacations when I was 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, etc., g) get married when I was 29, h) buy collector cars when I was 40 and 45, i) etc. I should write about my Democrat superiors who were veterans and who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://lakeconews.com/news/81048-5-reasons-veterans-are-especially-hard-hit-by-federal-cuts
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Federal law requires employers to give veterans an advantage in hiring over people who have not served in the military. Under the 1944 Veterans Preference Act, employers should hire veterans over other candidates and retain veterans over other employees during layoffs. The idea is to compensate for the economic loss of serving in the military and acknowledge the government’s obligation, especially, to support disabled veterans. Due to this veterans preference, nearly 30% of federal workers are veterans, half of whom are disabled. This means that veterans, who make up 6.1% of the U.S. population, are disproportionately affected by federal worker cuts. One estimate is that of the 38,000 federal employees fired in the first five weeks of the Trump administration, 6,000 are veterans.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders say “A Big Downside of Retirement: We Have More Time to Worry About Our Health.” (COMMENT: Since 2000, my promoting conservative principles and the Republican Party platform has harmed my health big time. Instead of exercising, I put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out.)
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/retirement-health-worries-b25bf759
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders say “Vandalize Tesla property and the White House will prosecute you as a domestic terrorist, Trump pledges.”
https://fortune.com/2025/03/12/president-trump-vandalize-tesla-property-domestic-terrorist-elon-musk/
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders say “Smugglers Charge $550 to Move Migrants Away From Trump’s America.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-11/smugglers-are-charging-550-to-move-migrants-away-from-the-us
FLORIDA POLITICS
— Democrat leaders say “Jim Oberweis becomes first Republican to file for Byron Donalds’ seat in Congress.”
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/725612-jim-oberweis-becomes-first-republican-to-file-for-byron-donalds-seat-in-congress/
SPLC
— The U.S. Department of Education has acted like it was an arm of the Democrat Party.
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/splc-president-condemns-actions-dismantle-department-education/