FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Pritzker expected to announce run for 3rd term this week. To vote for Pritzker is to vote for more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-expected-announce-run-3rd-term-thursday-news-conference-sources-say/16836578/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7.com/post/immigrant-rights-activists-call-out-lapd-alleged-collaboration-with-ice-los-angeles-raids/16841651/
NBC5
— Pritzker set to announce he’s running for a third term.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/gov-pritzker-set-to-announce-hes-running-for-a-third-term-sources/3775005/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/3-years-after-dobbs-new-threats-to-funding-remain-a-concern-for-illinois-abortion-clinics/3775330/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/3-years-after-dobbs-new-threats-to-funding-remain-a-concern-for-illinois-abortion-clinics/3775572/
FOX32
— Aurora residents questioned why the Juneteenth flag wasn’t officially raised, while a Pride flag ceremony earlier in the month was held as planned under the previous administration. Mayor John Laesch said he’s scaling back city-run flag raisings to be more fiscally responsible, instead encouraging community-led celebrations.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/juneteenth-flag-dispute-aurora-sparks-backlash-against-new-mayor
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/06/24/after-objections-cpd-agrees-officers-will-not-search-vehicles-based-smell-raw-cannabis
— Trump Administration Scrambles to Rehire Key Federal Workers After DOGE Firings. In a completely different world, when Bush got elected in 2000, he and Hastert, Fitzgerald, and Hyde would have a) reformed GAO b) gotten rid of my GAO superiors who had wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, and c) had GAO rehire me. I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I had earned a) a CPA license, b) master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, and c) professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. If GAO had been reformed, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/06/24/trump-administratioen-scrambles-rehire-key-federal-workers-after-doge-firings
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/06/24/on-dobbs-anniversary-illinois-is-more-crucial-than-ever-for-abortion-access
WGN RADIO
— How would you grade JB Pritzker’s job as governor? To vote for Pritzker is to vote for more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-how-would-you-grade-jb-pritzkers-job-as-governor/#/questions
— Mike Johnson says War Powers Act is unconstitutional
https://wgnradio.com/hill-politics/mike-johnson-says-war-powers-act-is-unconstitutional/amp/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Top candidates for the US House in Illinois’ 2nd, 7th, 8th and 9th districts for the 2026 election.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/24/illinois-house-top-candidates-2nd-7th-8th-9th/
— Effort to require Chicago businesses install security cameras gets pushback. Because the Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more crime, the need for security cameras ever-increasingly increases.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/25/effort-chicago-businesses-security-cameras-pushback/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/25/opinion-lgbtq-hotline-services-988/
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250624/illinois-state-politics/gov-jb-pritzker-is-aiming-for-his-third-term-amid-a-presidential-buzz-reports-say/
CRAIN’s CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/verano-launches-experimental-cannabis-store-arizona
— Push for mandatory security cameras puts City Hall at odds with biz and the ACLU. Because the Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more crime, the need for security cameras ever-increasingly increases. Because the Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more crime, the need for security cameras ever-increasingly increases.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/mandatory-security-camera-effort-gets-biz-pushback
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— GOP is depending on the kindness of political strangers
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-gop-is-depending-on-the-kindness-of-political-strangers/article_b8065aa5-67db-4f42-bb1d-294376a22583.html
MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— Tracy running for re-election in 50th Senate District, vows to continue fight against Pritzker policies
https://muddyrivernews.com/top-stories/tracy-running-for-re-election-in-50th-senate-district-vows-to-continue-fight-against-pritzker-policies/20250624215030/
SOUTHERN
— Trump says no vacations until Congress passes his megabill
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/24/trump-says-no-vacations-until-congress-passes-his-megabill/
WAND TV
— Pritzker to announce run for third term as Illinois governor
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-to-announce-run-for-third-term-as-illinois-governor/article_cf9d2611-c42b-4967-9f15-26ea5e094564.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s spending cuts.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-lawsuit-challenges-billions-of-dollars-in-trump-administration-funding-cuts/
— Federal judge orders Trump administration to release EV charger funding in 14 states. I bought a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. I do not anticipate/expect ever using a public EV charger for it.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-federal-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-release-ev-charger-funding-in-14-states/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— No one wants bad jobs. Because all the jobs that I had were viewed as being bad jobs, all my superiors had a hard time recruiting and retaining qualified minorities and females. Because of Affirmative Action and DEI, qualified minorities and females could get better jobs elsewhere. Consequently, my superiors ever-increasingly a) lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards and b) gave their minority and female employees more preference. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. It all culminated in my superiors replacing me with my Black subordinate when I was 49 years old in 1997. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and no professional license like the one I had.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/challenges-persist-for-women-minorities-breaking-into-illinois-skilled-trades/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— IL-06 REMATCH: Republican Niki Conforti is running for the seat held by Democratic Congressman Sean Casten. The two faced each other in 2024, too. “With our strong foundation from the 2024 election and my background in business and policy, I am confident we can flip this seat in 2026,” Conforti said in announcing her campaign. “People feel disenfranchised. Something needs to give, and I am the change agent.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/06/25/pritzker-to-announce-a-run-for-3rd-term-00422675
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-539/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-332/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— GOP: IL parole board changes hinder keeping violent criminals off streets.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_39532cab-7713-455d-a3ae-a0c4a83c0ea1.html
WIREPOINTS
— School districts should always ask voter permission for tax hikes…that’s not happening in Illinois
https://wirepoints.org/school-districts-should-always-ask-voter-permission-for-tax-hikes-not-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois lawmakers only attach price tags to 10 of 3,859 bills. The price tag for Affirmative Action and DEI has been many trillions of dollars.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-lawmakers-only-attach-price-tags-to-10-of-3859-bills/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who pays the price of Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI? The more of the following that you are, the more that you pay for AA and DEI: lower income, 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 you are the, the more that Democrats and RINOs make you pay the price of affirmative Action. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— All my employers, including GAO, IRS, and the Post Office, were Democrat Affirmative Action and DEI employers. That is, they all gave big time preference to their employees who were Democrat and minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in been in America for a long time. That is, they all discriminated against their employees who were Republican and White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid, I never would have made it to GS-13 Step 10, currently $153.151/year, if I had not a) earned a job-related professional license, b) earned six job-related professional certifications, c) earned three job-related master’s degrees, d) earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, e) passed the Federal Employee Entrance Examination, and f) passed the postal employment test. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who got promoted over you and why? All my coworkers who got promoted over me were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in been in America for a long time. They all had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. All my employers were Democrat employers that used Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, budget cuts, and/or veterans preference to waste the careers of and to get rid of their Republican employees. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In a completely different world, when Bush got elected in 2000, he and Hastert, Fitzgerald, and Hyde would have a) reformed GAO b) gotten rid of my GAO superiors who had wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, and c) had GAO rehire me. I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I had earned a) a CPA license, b) master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, and c) professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. 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. If GAO had been reformed, there would be no need for DOGE. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents promote? My critics/opponents promote wokeness/wokeism, that is, they promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What were your circumstances at your birth? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school. I had to and I did work my way through college. But according to my critics/opponents, I was able to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, and earn a professional license because I benefitted tremendously from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics, that is, I benefitted tremendously from discrimination against minorities, females, younger people, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors had not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www-gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s deportation machine hits stride as ICE arrests, detention set new records.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/23/trumps-deportation-machine-hits-stride-ice-arrests-detention-set-new/
— Trump’s deportation plans are working, and Americans approve. So far this year, ICE has deported 207,000 illegal aliens.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/24/trumps-deportation-plans-working-americans-approve/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pritzker to announce he is running for a third term
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3452503/pritzker-to-announce-running-third-term-governor/
— Over 80% back Trump’s deportation of criminal illegal immigrants.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3452439/illegal-immigration-trump-deportation-rasmussen-poll/
NEW YORK POST
— Lefty group behind ‘economic blackout’ launches McDonald’s boycott
https://nypost.com/2025/06/24/business/mcdonalds-boycott-taking-place-this-week-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Divorcing Wokeness. My critics/opponents promote wokeness/wokeism, that is, they promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/25/silicon-valleys-red-pill-decade-part-one-divorcing-wokeness/
AMMOLAND
— DOJ Files Amicus Brief Opposing Illinois’ “Assault Weapons” Ban. Back in the bad old days under Bush, DOJ sided with GAO in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), that is, DOJ promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, DOJ promoted up-or-out, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/06/doj-files-amicus-brief-opposing-illinois-assault-weapons-ban/#
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— How deportations help American workers. If they could have, all my employers would have hired illegals instead of me. Democrat and RINO employers want cheap labor. They want employees who they can exploit.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/25/victor-joecks-how-deportations-help-american-workers-1553863/
BLAZE
— Trump’s ICE busts 11 illegal Iranian nationals: Terror suspect, ex-sniper, and another with Hezbollah ties.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trumps-ice-busts-11-illegal-iranian-nationals-terror-suspect-ex-sniper-and-another-with-hezbollah-ties
BREITBART
— ICE Agents Arrest Dozens of Illegal Aliens Working at Louisiana Racetrack, Pennsylvania Construction Site
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/24/ice-agents-arrest-dozens-of-illegal-aliens-working-at-louisiana-racetrack-pennsylvania-construction-site/
— Leftists Call for McDonald’s Boycott over DEI Rollback: Hit Their Wallets for ‘Real Equality’
https://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2025/06/24/about-more-than-burgers-and-fries-leftists-call-for-mcdonalds-boycott-over-dei-rollback/
DAILY CALLER
— Even Most Democrats Say No To Latest Attention-Seeking Trump Impeachment Attempt
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/24/democrats-impeach-trump-iran-strikes/
— Students For Fair Admissions Versus Harvard Brings Back Meritocracy
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/24/opinion-students-for-fair-admissions-versus-harvard-brings-back-meritocracy-casey-ryan/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump’s Culture War Offensive Is Working
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/24/trumps-culture-war-offensive-is-working/
EPOCH TIMES
— Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani Claims Victory in NYC’s Mayoral Democratic Primary, Cuomo Concedes. Mamdani, a New York state assemblyman, led the first-round of tallying with 43.5 percent of the vote.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/cuomo-concedes-nyc-democratic-primary-with-mamdani-in-lead-5877819
FOX NEWS
— Chicago Teachers Union president suggests children belong to the school system. Some Chicago schools spending $93,000 per student while operating at one-third capacity after losing 70,000 students.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-teachers-union-president-suggests-children-belong-them
— More Iranians with criminal histories arrested by ICE in Trump’s security sweep: ‘Worst of the worst’ Officials tout being ‘full throttle on identifying and arresting known or suspected terrorists’ as Iran sleeper cell threat looms.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/more-iranians-criminal-histories-arrested-ice-trumps-security-sweep
FOX NEWS RADIO
— NYC Resigns Hotel Contract for Illegals/Homeless. Getting free housing, free food, free clothing, free medical care, free education, free etc. are big reasons a) to come to America illegally, b) to stay in America illegally, and c) to vote for Democrats.
https://radio.foxnews.com/2025/06/24/nyc-resigns-hotel-contract-for-illegals-homeless/
LIFE NEWS
— Worst Abortion Biz in America Opens Center to Kill Viable Babies in Abortions
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/06/24/worst-abortion-biz-in-america-opens-center-to-kill-viable-babies-in-abortions/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Trump Admin Tells California to Remove Gender Ideology from Sex Education Program
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-admin-tells-california-to-remove-gender-ideology-from-sex-education-program/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-record-59000-immigrant-detainees-half-no-criminal-record/
— Florida to receive federal funds to build immigration detention sites, including “Alligator Alcatraz.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alligator-alcatraz-florida-immigration-detention-centers-dhs-secretary-noem/
REUTERS
— Judge rules Trump cannot end union bargaining for federal workers. My critics/opponents are vehemently anti-union. I was a union member for almost 12 years. According to my critics/opponents, during those almost 12 years, my salary would not have increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars if I had not been a union member. In my defense, during those almost 12 years, I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIIU. I earned an MBA from Loyola. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. I almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/us-judge-blocks-trumps-elimination-union-bargaining-federal-workers-2025-06-25/
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/25/ice-immigration-courts-deportation/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/22/immigrant-domestic-violence-survivors-ice-deportation/84246931007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/06/24/medicaid-cuts-hiv-aids-medication-prep-funding/84286896007/
FORTUNE
— All my employers, including GAO, IRS, and the Post Office, were Democrat Affirmative Action and DEI employers. That is, they all gave big time preference to their employees who were Democrat and minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in been in America for a long time. That is, they all discriminated against their employees who were Republican and White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid, I never would have made it to GS-13 Step 10, currently $153.151/year, if I had not a) earned a job-related professional license, b) earned six job-related professional certifications, c) earned three job-related master’s degrees, d) earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, e) passed the Federal Employee Entrance Examination, and f) passed the postal employment test.
https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/supreme-court-workplace-bias-reverse-discrimination-ames-vs-ohio/
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-06-24/dobbs-anniversary-abortion-access-continues-to-be-threatened
CRAIN’S DETROIT BUSINESS
— How a tiny Michigan tourist town became Weed City, USA. My critics/opponents in Wheaton want pot. Ever-since I led the successful fight in 2019 to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton, they have done everything that they can to destroy me. My critics/opponents in Wheaton want video gambling. Ever-since I led the successful fight in 2009 to stop video gambling in Wheaton, they have done everything that they can to destroy me.
https://www.crainsdetroit.com/cannabis/how-new-buffalo-township-became-weed-city-usa
LAW 360
— Democrat and RINO employers vehemently oppose E-Verify. I should write about that. All my employers would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have. Democrat and RINO leaders want cheap labor. They want employees who they can exploit.
https://www.law360.com/articles/2356901/e-verify-restrictions-are-not-preempted-illinois-argues
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/47_approve_of_sanctuary_states
BROOKINGS
— Pathways to the Middle Class: Balancing Personal and Public Responsibilities. What were your circumstances at your birth? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school. I had to and I did work my way through college. But according to my critics/opponents, I was able to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, and earn a professional license because I benefitted tremendously from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics, that is, I benefitted tremendously from discrimination against minorities, females, younger people, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/pathways-to-the-middle-class-balancing-personal-and-public-responsibilities/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The defining narrative of the United States of America is that of a nation where everyone has an opportunity to achieve a better life. Americans believe that everyone should have the opportunity to succeed through talent, creativity, intelligence, and hard work, regardless of the circumstances of their birth.)
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in forcing LGBTQ on everyone. My critics/opponent promote LGBTQ.
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/24/lgbtq-transgender-representation-growing-elections
AUTO GUIDE
— Why is there so much hatred promoted against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV?
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/manufacturers/dodge/dodge-chargers-with-combustion-engines-are-officially-in-production-44621878
Tag: cannabis
June 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Transcript: President Donald Trump addresses nation after US strikes on Iran
https://abc7chicago.com/post/transcript-president-donald-trump-addresses-nation-us-strikes-iran/16812140/
CBS2
— Illinois lawmakers respond to Trump announcing U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-lawmakers-reaction-president-donald-trump-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Embattled Kenwood shelter housing migrants and homeless Chicagoans to close in coming months.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/20/dusable-shelter-closing/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/21/lgbtq-community-protests-skrmetti-ban/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/21/northwest-indiana-lgbtq-community-celebrates-pride-month-with-resilience-caution/
— Senate Republicans want to change the tax breaks in Trump’s big bill. By Itemizing, I paid less federal income tax 1972-1977 and my wife and I paid less federal income tax doing that 1978-2017. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. They have always been especially furious that I deducted my education expenses 1972-1980 and 1992-1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/21/tax-breaks-trump-big-bill/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/ice-chicago-honduras-mother-child/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/13/heidi-stevens-as-demonstrations-over-immigration-policy-erupt-we-cant-forget-the-human-hearts-at-the-center-2-2/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, sooner or later, we will all be on Medicaid.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/06/21/medicaid-toddler-heart-transplant-kassandra-santos-marely-chavarria-santos-lurie-childrens-hospital
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/06/21/protest-supreme-court-trans-healthcare-bans-minors
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-culture/2025/06/21/pride-fest-lets-queer-chicagoans-be-themselves-i-love-the-freedom
DAILY HERALD
— The legislative shell game: GOP lawsuit draws attention to a practice that threatens faith in government
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250621/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-the-legislative-shell-game-gop-lawsuit-draws-attention-to-a-practice-that-thr/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250621/local-politics/it-was-horrific-elgin-immigrants-advocates-say-ramped-up-deportation-push-brings-fear-unease/
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Trump Says Americans Have ‘Too Many Non-Working Holidays’ On Juneteenth. Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have resented/despised/hated my having benefitted from federal holidays. I volunteered to work all federal holidays 1966-1969 and I earned overtime pay working virtually all of them.
https://chicagodefender.com/trump-says-americans-have-too-many-non-working-holidays-on-juneteenth/
SHAW LOCAL
— Ex-dairy owner Jim Oberweis to fundraise in Kane County Sunday for Florida Congressional run. But local GOP chief would like to keep political money in Illinois: ‘I’m concerned with Kane County, not with Naples, Florida.’
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/06/21/ex-dairy-owner-jim-oberweis-to-fundraise-in-kane-county-sunday-for-florida-congressional-run/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Former Illinois State Sen. Jim Oberweis is returning to Kane County for a fundraiser to support his run for Congress in Florida’s 19th District. Oberweis, formerly of Sugar Grove, is running in the 2026 Republican primary seat on Florida’s southern Gulf Coast being vacated by Byron Donalds in the 2026 primary election. The fundraiser is from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Dunham Woods Riding Club, 33W333 Army Trail Road in Wayne, according to the invitation. According to the invitation, the guest speaker will be Corey Brooks, known as Chicago’s “Rooftop Pastor,” who delivered a prayer at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Individual tickets for the Oberweis fundraiser are $250, available through RSVP@VoteJimO.com. No one from the campaign could be reached for comment. (COPY OF THE INVITATION) Even though he received an invitation, Kane County GOP Chairman Andro Lerario said he isn’t going. “With all due respect to Jim Oberweis – I like him, he’s a nice man – I’m concerned with Kane County, not with Naples, Florida,” Lerario said. “My issue is, he’s running for a position in Florida,” Lerario said. “I’ve already gone through two different situations in our party where, during the last election year, we had our own people do fundraisers in Kane County for Kari Lake and General [Michael] Flynn.” Lake lost her bid to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate and Flynn was raising money for a conservative nonprofit, America’s Future. Both fundraisers were held last year in St. Charles, records show. “These were very successful. Then they left Kane County,” Lerario said. “I don’t need another fundraiser that is going to take money out of Kane County when I have enough issues going on here. Do it in that state or that county, not here. With all due respect, we could use the money.” Oberweis, aside from being famous for ice cream, is also known for losing more elections than he has won. He lost a bid for the Illinois 14th Congressional District to Democrat Lauren Underwood in 2020. In 2008, Oberweis lost twice to Democrat Bill Foster, first in a special election for the remainder of J. Dennis Hastert’s seat and then in the general election. In 2006, Oberweis lost the GOP primary for Illinois governor. In 2002 and 2004, he lost Republican primaries in Illinois for U.S. Senate. In 2012, Oberweis won for the 25th District seat in the Illinois Senate and served two terms. In 2014, he won the GOP primary for U.S. Senate, but lost in the general election to incumbent U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, who recently announced he won’t seek reelection next year. Last year, the dairy that bears Oberweis’ family name filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. He had left the company in 2007 when he passed Oberweis Dairy on to his son.)
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump’s makeover of the Civil Service has made it easier to fire federal employees. For Democrat leaders, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. For Democrat leaders, federal employees are their Patronage Army. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled that I would become a Democrat, but I refused to do that. I carried out their orders to give preference to my Democrat subordinates, virtually all of whom were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran. But because I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, they ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me. I should write a book about the aforesaid.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-21/trumps-makeover-of-the-civil-service-has-made-it-easier-to-fire-people-critics-say
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Trump is changing long-standing norms around how the government hires and fires people, including by trying to turn tens of thousands of federal workers into at-will employees. President says it’s part of making the government more accountable. His critics contend that he is politicizing the civil service.)
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Republicans line up behind Trump after strike on Iran — with few detractors
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/republicans-line-up-behind-trump-after-strike-on-iran-with-few-detractors/
— Trump ignites debate on presidential authority with Iran strikes and wins praise from Republicans
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-wins-immediate-praise-from-republicans-in-congress-after-announcing-strikes-on-iran/
— Trump’s move against Iran may draw more criticism from MAGA’s anti-interventionists. What if America had not intervened in Vietnam?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-move-against-iran-may-draw-more-criticism-from-magas-anti-interventionists/
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote international students over American students.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/the-latest-judge-halts-trump-s-effort-to-block-harvard-from-hosting-international-students/article_f50d9bec-8274-53f2-98fd-7cc15b2d7e60.html
IPM NEWS
— Duckworth said Trump’s actions were illegal. GAO works for Congress. Democrats ran GAO’s Chicago Office while I worked them 1980-1997. If I was still working for them, because of this bombing, they would have had my Jewish superior and supervisor kill me figuratively if not literally. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans they hired. By 1997, I was one of the extremely few Republicans remaining in the office. They would have succeeded in getting rid of me sooner if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1980, and 1976, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/illinois-congressional-delegation-split-on-support-for-us-attacks-on-iran/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The Trump Administration illegally bombed Iran tonight, putting American troops and citizens at risk of retaliation and threatening to draw us into yet another Middle East war without Constitutionally-required Congressional approval. I have long said Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon. But this goal could and should have been pursued through diplomatic means first,” wrote Duckworth.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who causes your problems? Ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders shout at those who are the following that Republicans cause all their problems: liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizen of a foreign country, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozer, gambler, stoner, criminal, etc. Far too many Democrat-plant, Libertarian-plant, and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— U.S. bombs three Iranian nuclear sites
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/21/us-bombs-three-iranian-nuclear-sites-president-trump-says/
— ‘Massive’ U.S. strikes have ended Iran’s nuclear threat
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/21/donald-trump-says-massive-us-strikes-ended-irans-nuclear-threat/
— Identity politics create identity crisis among Democrats
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/20/editorial-identity-politics-create-identity-crisis-among-democrats/
— L.A. riots prove Trump is protecting the nation while the left tries to burn it down. Rather than learn from their defeat, Democrats double down on failed strategies.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/19/la-riots-prove-trump-protecting-nation-left-tries-burn/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Trump Decimates Iran’s Nuclear Sites
https://freebeacon.com/america/death-from-america-trump-decimates-irans-nuclear-sites-with-big-beautiful-bombs/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— No more sanctuary cities by the end of year.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/21/ag-pam-bondi-no-more-sanctuary-cities-by-end-of-year-1553080/
— Potential 2030 census disaster explains Dems’ ‘ride or die’ stance toward illegals
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/21/potential-2030-census-disaster-explains-dems-ride-or-die-stance-toward-illegals-1553145/
BREITBART
— Hard Anti-Trumper Adam Kinzinger: ‘Right Call’ to Bomb Iran Nuclear Facilities
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/21/hard-anti-trumper-adam-kinzinger-right-call-to-bomb-iran-nuclear-facilities/
CHRISTIAN POST
— Anarchy framed as compassion: Where is justice?
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/anarchy-framed-as-compassion-where-is-justice.html
DAILY CALLER
— Industries Long Addicted To Illegal Labor In Withdrawal As Trump Cracks Down. If they could have, all my employers would have hired illegals instead of me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/industries-long-addicted-to-illegal-labor-in-withdrawal-as-trump-cracks-down/ar-AA1H7HPH
— Chaos Unfolds As Pro-Palestine Protesters Storm Penn Station In New York.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/21/pro-palestinian-protestors-penn-station-new-york-city-israel-gaza/
— Durbin Uses Biden Cover-Up Hearing To Attack Trump’s Fitness Instead. GAO works for Congress. Democrats ran GAO’s Chicago Office while I worked them 1980-1997. If I was still working for them, because of the bombing, they would have had my Jewish superior and supervisor kill me figuratively if not literally. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans they hired. By 1997, I was one of the extremely few Republicans remaining in the office. They would have succeeded in getting rid of me sooner if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1980, and 1976, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.aol.com/democrat-senator-uses-biden-cover-153940366.html
DAILY WIRE
— Left-Wing Activists Help Illegal Child Rapist Escape From ICE
https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-activists-help-illegal-child-rapist-escape-from-ice
EPOCH TIMES
— US Strikes Iran’s Fordow Facility, 2 Other Nuclear Sites. Trump announced U.S. aircraft dropped a full payload of bombs on Iran’s Fordow facility, the main target of the strikes.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/us-strikes-irans-fordow-nuclear-facility-two-other-nuclear-sites-trump-announces-5876457
LIBERTY NATION
— MAGA Message to Trump: Go After the Employers of Illegal Aliens. Violent criminals are only part of the problem. If they could have, all my employers would have hired illegals instead of me.
https://www.libertynation.com/maga-message-to-trump-go-after-the-employers-of-illegal-aliens/
NEWSMAX
— ICE Nabs Violent Criminal Illegal Aliens in Nationwide Sweep.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ice-noem-nationwide/2025/06/21/id/1215912/
PJ MEDIA
— Trump Bombed Iran, So We May Soon Know How Many Terrorist Sleeper Cells Came into America Under Biden
https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/06/21/trump-bombed-iran-so-we-will-soon-know-how-many-terrorist-sleeper-cells-came-into-america-under-biden-n4941044
POST MILLENNIAL
— Anti-ICE activists help illegal immigrant child rapist evade Colorado arrest
https://thepostmillennial.com/anti-ice-activists-help-illegal-immigrant-child-rapist-evade-colorado-arrest-officials
TOWNHALL
— Democrats Plot to Inflate 2030 Census With Illegal Immigrants to Secure House Seats. How many illegals can Democrat leaders bring into Illinois, your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/06/21/democrats-plot-to-inflate-2030-census-with-illegal-immigrants-to-secure-house-seats-n2659198
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders say “Iran retaliation a growing concern in the U.S. after strikes.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/iran-retaliation-a-growing-concern-in-the-u-s-after-strikes-242041925828
— Ocasio-Cortez says Trump Iran strikes ‘grounds for impeachment’
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/ocasio-cortez-says-trump-iran-strikes-grounds-for-impeachment-242042949738
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders say “US inserts itself into Israel’s war with Iran, striking 3 Iranian nuclear sites.”
https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-war-nuclear-talks-geneva-news-06-21-2025-a7b0cdaba28b5817467ccf712d214579
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s big gamble in Iran is a risky moment after his pledges to keep US out of stupid wars.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-nuclear-fordo-ef530114e5297884b1c3b76a04a3b1de
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders say “Strikes on Iran mark Trump’s biggest, and riskiest, foreign policy gamble.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/strikes-iran-mark-trumps-biggest-riskiest-foreign-policy-gamble-2025-06-22/
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/pope-leo-is-shaping-up-to-be-trumps-most-effective-moral-opponent-opinio/ar-AA1H1pDq
MSN
— Target Workers Expose Shocking Price Hikes of Up to 96% Allegedly Tied to Trump’s Tariffs
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/target-workers-expose-shocking-price-hikes-of-up-to-96-allegedly-tied-to-trump-s-tariffs/ar-AA1HarIE
— New federal pension system would put more burden on new employees. I worked for the federal government 1966-1969 and 1971-1997. Federal employees hired before 1989 were under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) . Those hired after 1989 are under the less generous Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). That ever-increasingly made FERS employees resent, despise, if not hate CSRS employees. I should write about that.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/new-federal-pension-system-could-put-more-burden-on-new-employees/ar-AA1Gb6ip
— For Democrat leaders, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. For Democrat leaders, federal employees are their Patronage Army. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled that I would become a Democrat, but I refused to do that. I carried out their orders to give preference to my Democrat subordinates, virtually all of whom were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran. But because I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, they ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me. I should write a book about the aforesaid.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-essay-writing-test-is-new-sordid-strategy-to-obliterate-enemies-report/ar-AA1GNZ3T
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Donald Trump is bulldozing through decades of nonpartisan federal employment protections in a brazen attempt to transform the entire government workforce into a cadre of personal loyalists, according to alarmed federal workers and public service watchdogs. The authoritarian makeover would obliterate longstanding precedent requiring federal hiring and promotion based on qualifications and experience—replacing it with ideological purity tests that prioritize devotion to Trump over competence or constitutional duty. “These employees could be replaced with partisan loyalists — people who will obey any order, regardless of the Constitution,” warned Joe Spielberger of the Project on Government Oversight, told the Washington Post. “This elevates loyalty to an individual president over the oath of office and the best interests of the public.” Trump’s radical restructuring includes forcing new federal workers to accept easily-fired “at-will” status or pay higher retirement contributions. Even more disturbing, job applicants must now write essays explaining how they’ll advance Trump’s personal agenda—a chilling loyalty test reminiscent of authoritarian regimes. The administration’s “Merit Hiring Plan” requires candidates to answer: “How would you help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role?” the Post reported. The article added that federal workers are horrified by the transparent political screening. “That memo details this administration’s sordid strategy to turn a nonpartisan federal workforce into a merry band of MAGA loyalists,” said Aisha Coffey, an FDA communications specialist who was fired and is now on administrative leave. “The directive is clear: The civil service is to serve the president, first and foremost, and the American population last.”
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/opinion/the-supreme-court-fails-to-see-transgender-teens.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders say “With fateful decision, Trump gambles his presidency on war. Trump rose to power criticizing Middle East wars. Now he may have his own.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/22/trump-iran-bomb-consequences/
— Democrat leaders say “Trump did not prepare America for his war with Iran.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/21/iran-war-trump-israel-nuclear-strike/
LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL
— How deportations help American workers. If they could have, all my employers would have hired illegals instead of me.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/opinion-columns/victor-joecks/victor-joecks-how-deportations-help-american-workers-3387944/
CAPE CORAL BREEZE
— Oberweis: America needs a tax-limitation balanced budget amendment now!
https://www.capecoralbreeze.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-guest-opinions/2025/06/20/guest-commentary-america-needs-a-tax-limitation-balanced-budget-amendment-now/
BLOOMBERG
— House GOP Drafts Cuts to Federal Employee Pension System. According to critics/opponents, my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension (currently $66,780/year) is much too generous. They decry that it would be even higher if my Democrat superiors a) had not forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) had not delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and c) had not forced me to resign when I was 20 years old in 1969. They remain furious that I got full-time CSRS credit while I worked for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969 while I worked only part-time and that I got CSRS credit for my unused sick days. In my defense, while I worked for the federal government, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-26/house-gop-drafts-cuts-to-federal-employee-pension-system
NEWS MEDICAL
— Pot retailers found to be more concentrated in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The more pot that you smoke, the sooner that you are going to crash and die.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250602/Cannabis-retailers-found-to-be-more-concentrated-in-disadvantaged-neighborhoods.aspx
NEW YORKER
— According to Democrat leaders, Musk inflicted lasting damage to the federal government. There would have been no need for DOGE if Gingrich had reformed GAO during the 1980s and 1990s instead of gutting it.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/23/what-did-elon-musk-accomplish-at-doge
INDEPENDENT
— Rampant abuse of remote work among federal employees during Biden administration
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/federal-remote-work-investigation-biden-trump-b2774465.html
FINANCIAL TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Trump gambles his presidency as US enters war with Iran.”
https://www.ft.com/content/8f6d3c9c-9d1f-4f17-98e6-3e75d077df6b
PHYS
— Triple disadvantage for workers from lower socio-economic backgrounds. My critics/opponents have/had parents who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, got them jobs, etc. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. I had to work my way through college.
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-reveals-triple-disadvantage-workers-socio.html
June 20, 2025
Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth and everything else to promote more hatred against Republicans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their mainstream news media to hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks and everyone else have.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7 & CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting faith leaders to carry out their bidding. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that GOD is a liberal Democrat who not only hates Republicans, but hates the concepts of countries and borders.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-faith-leaders-julie-contreras-michael-pfleger-lead-south-loop-immigration-facility-protest-demand-end-ice-raids/16791549/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/06/19/faith-leaders-hold-vigil-outside-ice-office-ice-is-not-the-last-word-god-is
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/19/federal-courts-unreceptive-to-claims-of-wrong-raids
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250619/news/summer-jam-celebrates-juneteenth-in-carpentersville/
— A plea for mature judgment: Court must act promptly to break DuPage standoff over unpaid bills
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250620/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-a-plea-for-mature-judgment-court-must-act-promptly-to-break-dupage-standoff-o/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Another study confirms cannabis dangers to public health
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-another-study-confirms-cannabis-dangers-to-public-health/article_a320f2e7-0949-4c80-aa42-e11300353fe3.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting LGBTQ, that is, their success in destroying traditional marriage and family.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/majority-of-republicans-support-same-sex-marriage-new-polling-shows/
ILLINOIS TIMES
— The college crisis. Regional universities struggle to attract students amid funding challenges, changing demographics. Back in the good old days, I was able to work my way through college and graduate from NIU debt-free and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1970. My parents provided me with room and board in their Crete home while I worked for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969 part-time while I took classes a UIC 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and full-time during of the summers of 1967, 1968, and 1969.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/the-college-crisis-20323878
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Ending Massive Gotion Subsidy Should Be an Obligation of Durbin, Duckworth and Krishnamoorthi
https://wirepoints.org/ending-massive-gotion-subsidy-should-be-an-obligation-of-durbin-duckworth-and-krishnamoorthi-wirepoints/
JOHN KASS
— Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. I should write about my critics/opponents who have/had the most power in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. I would focus on the aforesaid who had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://johnkassnews.com/power-corrupts-and-absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Welch defends what Republicans call ‘pork’ in Illinois budget
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_65128e73-2ae7-4748-957f-d32af5c17c6b.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Iran Strikes Israeli Hospital
https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/19/morning-greatness-iran-strikes-israeli-hospital/
AMERICAN REFORMER
— Amnesty is Political Treason. Illegal Immigration as an Assault on the Body Politic.
https://americanreformer.org/2025/06/amnesty-is-political-treason/
BREITBART
— Despite Media Narrative, Majority Support Trump Deporting Criminal Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/19/knudsen-despite-media-narrative-majority-support-trump-deporting-criminal-illegals/
— Josh Hawley Accuses Tyson Foods of Employing Illegal Aliens, Children
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/19/josh-hawley-accuses-tyson-foods-of-employing-illegal-aliens-children-while-closing-u-s-plants/
— NY Pride Pleads for Cash Donations as Corporate Donors Flee
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/19/ny-pride-pleads-for-cash-donations-as-corporate-donors-flee/
DAILY CALLER
— Universities Need To Come Clean About The Real Meaning Of ‘Meritocracy.’ According to my Democrat and RINO leaders, when Whites and males do better than minorities and females, it is because Whites and males benefit from discrimination against minorities and females. All the minorities and females who my Democrat and RINO superiors promoted over me a) had less experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/19/opinion-as-diversity-debate-roils-higher-education-universities-need-to-come-clean-about-the-real-meaning-of-meritocracy-alan-dershowitz/
DAILY WIRE
— Florida Offers ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ To House Illegal Aliens. The proposed detention facility could accommodate around 1000 illegal aliens.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-offers-alligator-alcatraz-to-house-illegal-aliens
FEDERALIST
— Democrats Will Turn Every Illegal Alien Trump Doesn’t Deport Into A Voter. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army. During the Civil War, what if Democrats had succeeded in getting Mexico and other foreign countries to join them in defeating America?
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/19/democrats-will-turn-every-illegal-alien-trump-doesnt-deport-into-a-voter/
FOX BUSINESS
— Trump claims federal holidays cost ‘billions’ as Americans observe Juneteenth. Trump previously recognized the holiday, calling it an opportunity to celebrate freedom.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-claims-federal-holidays-cost-billions-americans-observe-juneteenth
FOX NEWS
— Federal judge halts Trump’s plan to cut funding for sanctuary states that refuse to cooperate
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-halts-trumps-plan-cut-funding-sanctuary-states-refuse-cooperate
NEWSMAX
— Amnesty would incentivize more illegals to come here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey5w8mFsz-g
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Pence: American right facing ‘existential identity crisis’
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5359763-pence-warns-conservative-movement-threat/
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly have their mainstream news media promote more hatred against Republicans. The mainstream news media exists to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrats-want-new-leaders-focus-pocketbook-issues-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-06-19/
CNN
— Trump criticizes ‘non-working holidays’ on Juneteenth
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/politics/trump-non-working-holidays-juneteenth
MSN
— Ever-increasingly, the Democrat Party exists a) to give more preference to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to destroy those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-judge-slams-trump-s-anti-dei-orders-as-blatant-anti-lgbtq-discrimination/ar-AA1GQakX
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Republicans and against America.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/our-new-woke-pope-newly-minted-pontiff-s-post-slamming-jd-vance-lights-up-social-media/ar-AA1Eq13a
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president
https://apnews.com/article/trump-juneteenth-slavery-statement-holiday-28afec7cd532295437d53d3ec29f549f
NEWSWEEK
— To promote more mass/illegal immigration, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at Americans that with more foreigners in America, Americans should no longer have to take bad jobs. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-deportation-policy-collides-with-realities-of-american-labor-market/ar-AA1GTmgj
— More Workers in Illinois Are Quitting Their Jobs. The longer that you work for the federal government, the harder that it is to get a job in the private sector. I started working for the federal government when I was 18 years old in 1966. My Democrat superiors forced me to resign in 1969. Nevertheless, Firestone Stores hired me in 1970 and Oldsmobile offered me a job in 1971. But the Firestone job did not really require the bachelor’s degree in management that I had and Oldsmobile withdrew its job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-where-more-workers-are-quitting-their-jobs-2087517
CBS NEWS
— National monument honoring Emmett Till at risk of removal due to Trump’s anti-DEI initiatives, budget cuts
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-monument-honoring-emmett-till-at-risk-of-removal-trump-dei-initiatives-budget-cuts/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Juneteenth Goes Uncelebrated at White House as Trump Complains About ‘Too Many’ Holidays
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/us/politics/juneteenth-white-house-slavery.html
— Seeking Jobs and Purpose, Fired Federal Workers Form New Networks. I should write about my GAO coworkers who along with me lost their jobs because of Gingrich budget cuts and because of Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, because of race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and veterans preference. I would focus on those who shared many if not most of my demographics and who “cut deals” with my GAO superiors to keep their jobs as long as possible. I would focus on those who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/politics/federal-workers-support-groups.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump can keep National Guard in Los Angeles, appeals court rules
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/20/trump-keep-national-guard-la-ruling/
BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth and everything else to promote more hatred against Republicans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their mainstream news media to hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks and everyone else have.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/19/nation/trump-gop-juneteenth-under-attack/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders downplayed the violence in LA
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/18/trump-polls-la-protests-distraction/84230142007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth and everything else to promote more hatred against Republicans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their mainstream news media to hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks and everyone else have.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/18/juneteenth-trump-dei-backlash/84234731007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/06/19/black-wall-street-juneteenth-economic-inequality/84244714007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more DEI and Juneteenth and LGBTQ
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/18/dei-backlash-hurts-gay-trans-nonbinary-executives/84176040007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/18/juneteenth-trump-dei-backlash/84234731007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/17/lgbtq-greek-life-fraternity-sorority-inclusive/83492319007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/04/30/trump-shut-down-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-kids/83334766007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2025/06/15/lgbtq-books-pride-month-recommendations/84183914007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/06/13/lgbtq-health-centers-clinics-essential-care/83491500007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/studiog/life/2025/06/13/lgtbq-church-clergy-movement-inclusion/83491161007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Is Rioting Acceptable? If So, How Much? A judge shrugged off ‘some stray violent incidents.’ Los Angeles police sources tell a very different story.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-rioting-acceptable-if-so-how-much-06531b5b?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
FORBES
— Trump Can Retain Control Of National Guard In LA, Appeals Court Rules
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/06/20/appeals-court-allows-trump-to-retain-control-of-national-guard-in-los-angeles/
— Radical Dems Will No Longer Be Allowed To Shelter Illegals Who Threaten Public Safety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqHgTG3Zxk0
ALTERNET
— ‘Unmoored from conservative ideals’: Pence rips into MAGA for having no ‘moral foundation’
https://www.alternet.org/pence-maga-conservative/
INDEPENDENT
— Today Los Angeles, tomorrow Chicago? Tom Homan reveals how Trump wants to use National Guard more broadly
https://www.aol.com/today-los-angeles-tomorrow-chicago-214629690.html
June 19, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— ICE agents requested permission to use Dodger Stadium parking lots and were denied
https://abc7chicago.com/post/protest-dodger-stadium-gets-underway-immigration-agents-seen-nearby-amid-reports-more-ice-raids-la-county/16791397/
— Chicago veterans oppose US involvement in Israel-Iran conflict
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-area-veterans-oppose-president-donald-trump-making-hasty-decision-us-involvement-israel-iran-conflict/16792022/
CBS2
— Rahm Emanuel considering run for president
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/rahm-emanuel-considering-run-for-president-2028/
FOX32
— Senator Paul warns Trump ‘can’t bomb anyone without permission’ as Iran debate heats up
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/sen-paul-trump-iran-debate-heats-up
— Republicans divided over the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1661426
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/19/ice-raids-workers-businesses-impacted/
— Juneteenth celebrations across the US commemorate the end of slavery. In the Civil War, Democrats fought for slavery and Republicans fought against slavery. That is why all my ancestors were Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/19/juneteenth-us/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote mote hatred against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/19/mike-lee-gop-overrides-basic-decency-loyal-to-donald-trump-tucker-carlson
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-is-silent-about-juneteenth-on-a-day-he-previously-honored-as-president/article_1969e5ee-bc68-595b-8f1f-637070a6e6c3.html
CITIES 92.9
— Welch defends what Republicans call ‘pork’ in Illinois budget
https://www.cities929.com/2025/06/19/welch-defends-what-republicans-call-pork-in-illinois-budget/
FOX ILLINOIS
— 9 previously deported immigrants caught in Northwest Florida for illegal reentry
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/9-previously-deported-illegal-immigrants-caught-in-northwest-florida-for-illegal-reentry
— Marijuana use raises heart risks; experts urge tobacco-like restrictions
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/study-marijuana-use-raises-heart-risks-experts-urge-tobacco-like-restrictions
NPR ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, Democrat leaders will fight all Trump budget cuts.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-19/trumps-va-cut-a-program-thats-saving-vets-homes-even-republicans-have-questions
WRIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in Harvey
https://www.wric.com/business/press-releases/globenewswire/9470968/harvey-celebrates-nuera-cannabis-opening-with-groundbreaking-ceremony/
SUBURBAN CHICAGOLAND
— Democrat leaders promote Robin Kelly to badmouth Trump
https://suburbanchicagoland.com/2025/06/19/robin-kelly-details-what-trumps-big-ugly-bill-means-for-illinois/
SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://southsideweekly.com/this-is-what-defending-communities-from-i-c-e-looks-like/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— LaHood weighs gubernatorial run as Pritzker faces scrutiny after hearing
https://www.fwbusiness.com/news/national/article_b40864d3-d028-50a4-9187-f9b0eb37f97d.html
WIREPOINTS
— Too many state lawmakers prioritize illegal immigrants over citizens
https://wirepoints.org/too-many-state-lawmakers-prioritize-illegal-immigrants-over-citizens-wirepoints-joins-tom-miller-of-wjpf-carbondale/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Feds unearth cartel’s sophisticated 2,900-foot border tunnel in California
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/19/feds-unearth-cartels-sophisticated-2900-foot-border-tunnel-california/
— L.A. riots prove Trump is protecting the nation while the left tries to burn it down. Rather than learn from their defeat, Democrats double down on failed strategies.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/19/la-riots-prove-trump-protecting-nation-left-tries-burn/
— Democrats and media want to normalize the L.A. riots because they have lost the immigration argument. Most of us don’t throw Molotov cocktails or toss chunks of concrete from overpasses.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/19/democrats-media-want-normalize-la-riots-lost-immigration-argument/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Durbin counters GOP hearing on Biden fitness with Trump gaffe montage
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3445772/durbin-counters-gop-biden-hearing-fitness-trump-gaffe-montage/
— What, to the American, is Juneteenth?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3447520/what-to-the-american-is-juneteenth/
NEW YORK POST
— Eric Adams’ $1B hotel deal for migrants
https://nypost.com/2025/06/19/opinion/eric-adams-1b-hotel-deal-for-migrants-whose-numbers-are-dwindling-sure-comes-with-stink/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— New York Is Providing $50 million to Cover Legal Services For Illegal Aliens
https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/18/gov-hochul-new-york-is-providing-50-million-to-cover-legal-services-for-illegal-aliens/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Congress moves to abolish sanctuary cities and states—it’s about time
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/06/congress_moves_to_abolish_sanctuary_cities_and_states_it_s_about_time.html
— Los Angeles would shrivel without its illegals
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/06/mayor_karen_bass_admits_it_los_angeles_would_shrivel_without_its_illegals.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘Who’s gonna’ milk our cows?’ Ana Navarro says we need illegals to do ‘God awful’ work. While I never milked cows, I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, etc.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/19/whos-gonna-milk-our-cows-ana-navarro-says-we-need-illegals-to-do-god-awful-work-1552631/
BLAZE
— Juneteenth deserves celebration. But turning it into a rival of the Fourth of July risks further dividing a nation that once fought a war to uphold the meaning of 1776.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/stop-trying-to-segregate-the-american-founding
BREITBART
— ICE Agents Now Face 500% Increase in Assaults While Trying to Arrest Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/19/exclusive-ice-agents-face-500-increase-in-assaults-while-trying-to-arrest-illegal-aliens/
DAILY CALLER
— Roughly One Million Illegals Estimated To Have Left US Since Trump Returned
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/19/one-million-illegals-left-us-under-trump/
HOT AIR
— Sanctuary States: Secession Lite
https://hotair.com/mitch_berg/2025/06/19/sanctuary-state-secession-lite-n3803884
MRC TV
— Chicago Clerk Suspends ID Program Serving Illegal Aliens Following ICE Subpoena
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/james-mortensen/chicago-clerk-suspends-id-program-serving-illegal-aliens-following-ice
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
FOX SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
— Oberweis meets with White House, lays out plans for congressional race. Jim Oberweis, a former owner of a dairy business and Illinois State Senator, met with White House officials on Thursday. Oberweis is running for the Florida 19th Congressional District seat.
https://www.fox4now.com/news/local-news/oberweis-meets-with-white-house-lays-out-plans-for-congressional-race
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-deportation-undocumented-immigrants-policy-change-rcna213356
— One could question why I did not succumb earlier than I did to my Democrat GAO superiors’ ever-increasing tremendous pressure on me to retire. I could have taken their early retirement “offer” when I was 45 years old in 1993, but I nevertheless survived until I was 49 years old in 1997. Obvious reasons include my Civil Service Retirement System would have been even smaller. During those 4 years, I became a Certified Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant and I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading. If I had not taken their “offer” in 1997, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until I was 55 in 2003. They had made it very clear that they would have made those 6 years a living hell for me.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/-i-still-want-to-serve-transgender-servicemembers-face-uncertain-future-under-trump-admin-241934405786
FOX HOUSTON
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/immigrants-fear-arrest-ice-asylum-202822163.html
TIME
— How have Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI impacted you? My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 and replaced me with 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, and had no professional license like I had. My critics/opponents applaud that, that is, they applaud AA and DEI, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. My Democrat GAO superiors would not have replace me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://time.com/charter/7295388/what-building-black-power-could-mean-for-workplaces/
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— In the Civil War, Democrats fought for slavery and Republicans fought against slavery. That is why all my ancestors were Republicans.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/juneteenth-federal-holiday-trump-dei.html
MS. MAGAZINE
— For Women to Have Real Political Power, We Need Quotas. Since the 1960s, all those above me have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to meet race and gender quotas, goals, and targets. Because of my bad demographics, that ever-increasingly rendered worthless my 1970 job-related bachelor’s degree, my 1976, 1980, and 1997 job-related master’s degrees, my 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 job-related professional certifications, and my 1981 job-related professional license.
https://msmagazine.com/2024/10/22/women-politics-quotas-usa/
GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/families-legal-asylum-cbpone-border-trump
June 6, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Republicans urge Trump and Musk to end their feud
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/trump-musk-feud/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/ice-chicago-immigrants-detained/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/ice-subpoenas-chicago-records-city-id-immigrants/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/trump-travel-ban-chicago/
— C. William Pollard, former Wheaton College administrator became cleaning company CEO, dies at 86
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/c-william-pollard-former-wheaton-college-administrator-became-cleaning-company-ceo-dies-at-86/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/06/06/outside-immigration-center-in-broadview-tears-and-tension-as-supporters-demand-release-of-those-detained
— Way too much fell through the cracks at the Statehouse
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/06/illinois-budget-statehouse-energy-taxes-environment-legislative-leaders
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marketing-media/companies-sponsor-pride-chicago-other-parades-struggle
ABC7
— A day after blistering exchange, Trump calls Musk ‘man who has lost his mind’ Trump has not responded to Musk’s attack regarding the alleged sex trafficker.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-calls-elon-musk-man-has-lost-mind-day-blistering-exchange/16675485/
NBC5
— Trump considers getting rid of his Tesla on heels of Musk feud. The cars that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-considers-getting-rid-of-his-tesla-on-heels-of-elon-musk-feud/3762366/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-responds-chicago-ice-arrests-south-loop/
FOX32
— 68-acre horse farm in Crete converted into recovery site for men
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/68-acre-horse-farm-will-county-recovery-site-men
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/06/05/south-loop-immigration-arrests-spark-outrage-calls-for-changes-to-citys-sanctuary-law
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/06/06/chicagos-immigrant-community-sad-and-numb-over-trumps-new-travel-ban
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with foreign countries against America
https://www.news-gazette.com/governments-denounce-trumps-travel-ban-and-vow-to-push-back-against-us/article_037b3ae3-12a1-56bd-90a3-ceb5c7b203c8.html
RIVER BENDER
— Accounting Major Ralph Wideman Delivers Address At Illinois High School Diploma Graduation. Career counseling is very important. My not majoring in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970 was a very big career mistake. I erroneously thought that I could not pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/accounting-major-ralph-wideman-delivers-address-at-illinois-high-school-diploma-graduation-83241.cfm?
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow gutting of Education Department. Gingrich gutted GAO during the 1980s and 1990s. If he had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-gutting-of-education-department/
WROK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in Mundelein
https://1440wrok.com/ixp/721/p/miracle-mundelein-cannabis-festival/
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racist
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-06-06/analysis-black-drivers-more-likely-to-be-stopped-by-campus-police-in-illinois-including-at-isu
NPR ILLINOIS
— No ‘going back’ for Musk after calling for Trump impeachment, says Bannon.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-06/no-going-back-for-elon-musk-after-calling-for-trump-impeachment-says-steve-bannon
CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more LGBTQ
https://chicagoreader.com/performing-arts/rhinestone-digest/rhinestone-digest-june-2025-pride/
SUBURBAN CHICAGOLAND
— Gay Community endorses Robin Kelly for the U.S. Senate
https://suburbanchicagoland.com/2025/06/06/gay-community-endorses-robin-kelly-for-the-u-s-senate/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-322/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois Senate Republicans sue peers over last-minute, $55B budget vote
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-senate-republicans-sue-peers-over-last-minute-55b-budget-vote/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Watchdog group says Biden White House used three different autopen signatures. Autopen use ‘exploded’ as Biden faded cognitively.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/6/watchdog-group-says-biden-white-house-used-three-different-autopen/
— Senate Judiciary Committee declassifies FBI’s files outlining plot to undermine Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/6/editorial-senate-judiciary-committee-declassifies-fbis-files/
NEW YOK POST
— Here’s how much Elon Musk’s government contracts are really worth — as Trump threatens to cut them
https://nypost.com/2025/06/05/us-news/heres-how-much-elon-musks-government-contracts-are-really-worth/
— Elon Musk signs off on suggestion Trump should be impeached, removed from office
https://nypost.com/2025/06/05/us-news/elon-musk-signs-off-on-suggestion-trump-should-be-impeached-removed-from-office/
BREITBART
— Killers, Rapists, Child Predators, Domestic Abusers Among Illegals Arrested by ICE Agents
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/06/exclusive-killers-rapists-child-predators-domestic-abusers-among-illegals-arrested-ice-agents-sanctuary-massachusetts/
— Left-Wing Groups Publish ICE Agent Locations, Hoping to Disrupt Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/06/06/left-wing-groups-publish-ice-agent-locations-hoping-to-disrupt-deportations/
FEDERALIST
— College Degrees And Income Aren’t The Only Measures Of Educational Success. My father often decried his not having a bachelor’s degree. That motivated me to get one.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/06/data-shows-college-degrees-and-income-arent-the-only-measures-of-educational-success/
— Republicans Have No Good Reason To Vote Against Funding Mass Deportations. Democrat and RINO leaders should pay for deporting their illegals.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/06/republicans-have-no-good-reason-to-vote-against-funding-mass-deportations/
TOWNHALL
— Biden Program Coordinated with UN to Bring Illegals Here at Our Expense. Democrat and RINO leaders should pay for deporting their illegals.
https://townhall.com/columnists/james-fitzpatrick/2025/06/06/biden-program-coordinated-with-un-to-bring-illegals-here-at-our-expense-n2658264
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) said it was “deeply disturbing” that a Sikh delivered a prayer in the House chamber on Friday — after apparently mistaking him for a Muslim man. The since-deleted post Friday morning sparked immediate bipartisan criticism.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5337130-illinois-republican-mary-miller-sikh-muslim-prayer/
MSN
— Musk’s Net Worth Plunges Nearly $30 Billion Amid Trump Feud. What did you do that diminished your net worth? I opposed my Democrat superiors’ political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/elon-musk-s-net-worth-plunges-nearly-30-billion-amid-trump-feud/ar-AA1Gax80
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/05/us/trump-news-travel-ban
NEW REPUBLIC
— Russia Offers Elon Musk Asylum as Fight With Trump Intensifies. Russian officials are having a field day with the sudden Musk-Trump feud.
https://newrepublic.com/post/196256/russia-offers-elon-musk-asylum-fight-trump-intensifies
June 6, 2025
How strongly will Democrat and RINO leaders use the Trump/Musk feud against all Republicans?
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump-Musk feud explodes with claim president is in Epstein files. Trump has not responded to Musk’s attack regarding the alleged sex trafficker.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-says-hes-disappointed-elon-musk-tesla-ceo-doubles-down-criticism/16667318/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trumps-resurrected-travel-ban-12-countries-affect-minority-families-chicago-area-refugee-groups-say/16669189/
NBC5
— Trump and Musk feud explodes online and turns personal. The world’s most powerful man and richest man are lobbing threats and insults on their rival social media platforms, sparked by disagreements over Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-very-disappointed-elon-musk-criticism-gop-bill/3761322/
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ continues assault on Obamacare.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill-continues-assault-on-obamacare/3761424/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/juneteenth-parade-steps-off-next-week/
WGN9
— Elon Musk’s stock plummets among Republicans
https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/elon-musks-stock-plummets-among-republicans/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders want big government spending on those who have demographics that vote for Democrats
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/05/illinois-rental-assistance-program-funding-cut/
— Trump and Musk relationship flames out
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/05/trump-musk-social-media/
— Democrats and RINOs run governments. They use budget cuts to get rid of any remining Republican employees.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/opinion-chicago-budget-cps-transit/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/opinion-leave-it-to-beaver-1950s-nostalgia-conservatives/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/06/05/chicagos-immigrant-community-sad-and-numb-over-trumps-new-travel-ban
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/06/05/newly-minted-u-s-citizens-celebrate-naturalization-at-rate-field-its-a-dream-come-true
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders want to promote more LGBTQ in Mount Prospect
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250605/news/residents-ask-mount-prospect-to-fly-pride-flag-but-village-sticks-to-flag-policy/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/hemp-derived-thc-would-be-banned-under-federal-budget-bill
— McDonald’s keeps ‘core’ inclusion programs despite DEI backlash. Democrat employers use “inclusion” a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get of their Republican employees.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/mcdonalds-keeps-inclusion-programs-despite-dei-backlash
— Because pot sellers are losing sales to hemp, they want to ban hemp.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/hemp-derived-thc-would-be-banned-under-federal-budget-bill
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump and Musk’s bromance crumbles: Billionaire bashes bill as Trump fires back
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-very-disappointed-in-musk-after-tech-mogul-criticizes-spending-bill
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump threatens to cut ‘crazy’ Musk’s government contracts
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-threatens-to-cut-crazy-musks-government-contracts/
WQAD
— Illinois congressional leaders raise concerns about the future of the Rock Island Arsenal. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors threw me off audits of IRS and assigned me to a 6-month long audit of the Rock Island Arsenal in 1989.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SnODrSRvdU
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://www.wglt.org/2025-06-05/trumps-travel-ban-includes-afghanistan-where-thousands-await-u-s-resettlement
SOUTH SIDE PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://patch.com/illinois/southside/11th-chicago-juneteenth-parade-steps-next-week-east-garfield-park
WHEATON PATCH
— Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton is the best golf course Illinois has to offer, according to a new ranking developed by golfers themselves. The Chicago Golf Club is south and east of my precinct. Golf Lane and Golf Circle are in my precinct.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/best-golf-course-il-golf-digest-says
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Golf Digest deploys 1,700 professionally trained low-handicap golfers to continually assess the golf courses. The rankings are based on more than 80,000 evaluations over 10 years looking at criteria such as short options, challenge, design variety, conditioning, aesthetics, and character. Established in 1892, Chicago Golf Club stands out as one of five golf clubs that founded the United States Golf Association in 1894, its website states. Its original location at Belmont Golf Club in Downers Grove made history in 1893 as the first 18-hole golf course in the United States. In 1894, the club moved to its current home in Wheaton on Warrenville Road. Chicago Golf Club was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. There are plenty of other courses in Illinois that prioritize the aesthetics of their fairways and greens and test the golfers who play on them with a variety of challenges. . .Wheaton’s Cantigny Golf came in at #35 on Golf Digest’s new list.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-529/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-321/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago’s Mayor Johnson wants the ultra rich to ‘step up.’ They’re more likely to step out.
https://wirepoints.org/chicagos-mayor-johnson-wants-the-ultra-rich-to-step-up-theyre-more-likely-to-step-out-wirepoints/
— Illinois’ New Budget: Hypocrisy and Deceit Are Now Grotesque in the General Assembly.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-new-budget-hypocrisy-and-deceit-are-now-grotesque-in-the-general-assembly-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Feds paid $80 billion to bogus Social Security numbers during pandemic
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/6/feds-paid-80-billion-bogus-social-security-numbers-covid-19-pandemic/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Converted Democrat David Jolly launched bid for Florida governor. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all my critics/opponents who falsely claim to be Republican will officially become Democrats and will announce that they have always done everything that they could to destroy Republicans and to destroy the Republican Party. They certainly destroyed the Illinois Center Right Coalition, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Milton Township Republican Organization, etc.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3432187/converted-democrat-david-jolly-bid-florida-governor/
NEW YORK POST
— Steve Bannon calls on Trump to deport Elon Musk: ‘Strong belief that he is an illegal alien’
https://nypost.com/2025/06/05/us-news/steve-bannon-calls-on-trump-to-deport-elon-musk-strong-belief-that-he-is-an-illegal-alien/
— Liberals turn killers, racists, and haters into martyrs
https://nypost.com/2025/06/05/opinion/douglas-murray-liberals-turn-killers-racists-and-haters-into-martyrs/
AMERICAN THINKER
— How ‘Equity’ debases education. According to my critics/opponents, I was able to do the following not because of meritocracy, but because I benefitted from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger than me, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time: a) earn master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, b) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, d) become a licensed CPA, and e) earn four more job-related professional certifications.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/06/how_equity_debases_education.html
BREITBART
— Rand Paul: My Goal Is Not to Stop Big Beautiful Bill, But ‘Make It Better’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/05/exclusive-sen-rand-paul-my-goal-is-not-to-stop-big-beautiful-bill-but-make-it-better/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump’s Tariffs Will Slash Deficits by $2.8 Trillion Over 10 Years
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trumps-tariffs-will-slash-deficits-by-2-8-trillion-over-10-years-cbo-5867890
— Trump, Musk Trade Barbs Amid Break Over Policy Bill. The relationship ruptured in real time online, spurred by disagreement over the deficit impact of Trump’s policy bill.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-says-hes-very-disappointed-with-musk-over-criticism-of-gop-megabill-5868450
FOX NEWS
— Republican lawmakers stand firm against Musk’s ‘Kill the Bill’ assault on Trump’s agenda. House Speaker Johnson attempts peace talks as world’s richest man refuses to return calls and threatens GOP unity.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-lawmakers-stand-firm-against-musks-kill-bill-assault-trumps-agenda
— Supreme Court rules unanimously in favor of straight Ohio woman who claimed discrimination. Ohio employee’s victory eliminates higher standard of proof for majority groups in discrimination cases. The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO held me to a higher standard of proof because I was a White male who charged his Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination. While I worked for GAO, the majority of its employees were White males, but I doubt that they are now. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always had quotas, goals, and targets for LGBTQers, but they were unofficial. They always met those quotas, goals, and targets. Of course, that meant getting rid of their employees like me who did not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-rules-unanimously-favor-straight-ohio-woman-who-claimed-discrimination
— Americans are tired of leftists creating standards for everyone they don’t hold themselves to
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373927020112
— ‘Gone too far’: GOP lawmakers rally around Trump after Musk raises Epstein allegations. ‘Elon crossed the line today,’ Rep. Chip Roy told Fox News Digital.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gone-too-far-gop-lawmakers-rally-around-trump-after-musk-raises-epstein-allegations
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— When Titans Collide: Trump-Musk Feud Spirals Out of Control
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/when-titans-collide-trump-musk-feud-spirals-out-of-control/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Straight Woman in Discrimination Case. The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO held me to a higher standard of proof because I was a White male who charged his Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination. While I worked for GAO, the majority of its employees were White males, but I doubt that they are now. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always had quotas, goals, and targets for LGBTQers, but they were unofficial. They always met those quotas, goals, and targets. Of course, that meant getting rid of their employees like me who did not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-straight-woman-in-discrimination-case/
NEWSMAX
— Trans US Woman Seeks Asylum in Canada Citing Trump. Democrat and RINO leaders are ever-increasingly successful in promoting LGBTQ. How successful have they been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/transgender-canada-donald-trump/2025/06/05/id/1213809/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump and Musk break up, and Washington holds its breath
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-donald-trump-28263ffbfc191602b3657618138ee585
— Investors dump Tesla stock following war of words between Elon Musk and Donald Trump
https://apnews.com/article/musk-tesla-robotaxi-trump-tax-bill-budget-359f8ddd3739793b3c5e8ab92d191879
CBS2
— Trump threatens to cut off Elon Musk’s federal subsidies. That could cost Tesla and SpaceX billions.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-elon-musk-federal-subsidies-cost-tesla-spacex-billions/
— Trump and Musk trade insults and accusations as public feud reaches new heights
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-german-chancellor-merz-meeting-white-house-today-2025-06-05/
CNN
— Musk calls for President Trump’s impeachment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q61fLCh_LZA
— Allies tried to broker Trump-Musk peace. An Epstein files allegation complicated things
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-musk-epstein-files-accusation
CNBC & MSN
— From bromance to bitter feud — a timeline of Trump and Musk’s relationship
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/a-timeline-of-donald-trump-and-elon-musks-relationship.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/from-bromance-to-bitter-feud-a-timeline-of-trump-and-musk-s-relationship/ar-AA1Gca62?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds
CNBC
— Trump and Musk’s breakup spills into the markets
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/cnbc-daily-open-trump-and-musks-breakup-spills-into-the-markets.html
— Trump and Musk feud draws reactions from billionaires, politicians and pundits. Here’s who said what
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/trump-musk-feud-draws-reactions-from-billionaires-politicians-and-pundits.html
MSNBC
— ‘Our enemies are celebrating’: How the Trump-Musk feud endangers America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSuMLXpMiA4
— Musk inadvertently gives away the game in spat with Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUI0DkK7Las
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the midst of Donald Trump and Elon Musk throwing insults and threats at each other on their respective social media platforms, Musk accused Donald Trump of being ungrateful to Musk for purchasing the election for him, an admission of sorts that his support for Trump was transactional.)
— Trump humiliated globally while Musk live-tweets Trump’s Oval Office ‘stupidity festival’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5vvjXZK08s
REUTERS
— From bros to foes: how the unlikely Trump-Musk relationship imploded
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bros-foes-how-unlikely-trump-musk-relationship-imploded-2025-06-06/
— Musk-Trump breakup puts $22 billion of SpaceX contracts at risk, jolting US space program
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-will-decommission-dragon-spacecraft-musk-says-feud-with-trump-escalates-2025-06-05/
— Trump-Musk row slams Tesla shares, $150 billion in market value wiped out
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-shares-slide-musk-steps-up-criticism-ally-trump-2025-06-05/
MSN
— White House: ‘No plans’ for Trump to issue Pride Month proclamation
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-no-plans-for-trump-to-issue-pride-month-proclamation/ar-AA1G1Li8
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump and Musk Attack Each Other in Remarkable Break. Will Democrats start buying Teslas again?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/05/us/trump-elon-musk
— Read the Insults Hurled Between Trump and Musk
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/05/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-feud-timeline-posts.html
— The Age Issue: More of Congress Is 70-Plus Than Ever Before. How old are you? I am 76. Democrat and RINO leaders use age discrimination to get rid of Republicans. I have ever-increasingly fought age discrimination since I was 25 years old in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors started using up-or-out against me. They deemed me too be old to be promoted to GS-13. To fight that, I earned an MBA in 1976. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I transferred to GAO in 1980. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I earned more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I earned a master’s degree in finance in 1997. I should write a book about age discrimination.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/05/us/politics/congress-age.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/world/asia/myanmar-afghanistan-trump-ban.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/harvey-milk-navy-sf-hegseth.html
WASHINGTON POST
— The epic breakup of Trump and Musk’s White House bromance. Trump’s criticism illuminated the dramatic erosion in his alliance with the world’s richest man.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/05/trump-musk-fight/
— Trump, Musk and the real fiscal ‘abomination’ on the horizon. The Big Beautiful Bill is bad enough. But the trillions in U.S. debt are terrifying.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/05/trump-musk-spending-debt-entitlements/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— The Trump-Musk war: Elon and Donald go on the attack
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/06/the-trump-musk-war-trump-musk-relationship-imlodes/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTUTE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2025/06/01/stonewall-riot-veterans-recount-police-clash/83923105007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/05/trump-administration-pride-month-lgbtq-policies/84027617007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/04/harvey-milk-navy-ship-hegseth-renaming/84030017007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Trump-Musk Relationship Ruptures in Real Time
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-rips-musk-for-attacking-tax-bill-34c81d81
— Feud Between Trump and Elon Musk Escalates in Public View. A rift between President Trump and billionaire backer Elon Musk erupted Thursday with the two trading insults.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-elon-musk-feud
— The Trump-Musk ‘War of the Roses’ The erstwhile political allies will both lose this nasty divorce.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-trump-musk-war-of-the-roses-543065a0
FORTUNE
— Raging feud between Trump-Musk tanks Tesla after Trump-Xi call calmed markets
https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/trump-musk-feud-tesla-xi-china-trade-stock-market-drop/
BARRON’S
— Musk, Trump Row. What Just Happened.
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/trump-musk-tesla-djt-spacex/card/musk-trump-row-what-just-happened–MrMuYmbD1rRJBeyiShBb
BLOOMBERG
— McDonald’s Keeps ‘Core’ Inclusion Programs Despite DEI Backlash. Democrat employers use “inclusion” a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get of their Republican employees.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-05/mcdonald-s-keeps-core-inclusion-programs-despite-dei-backlash
— Elon Musk Is Trying to ‘Kill’ Trump’s Tax Bill
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-05/elon-musk-is-trying-to-kill-trump-s-tax-bill
FORBES
— California Pioneers New Quotas For LGBTQ People. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always had quotas, goals, and targets for LGBTQers, but they were unofficial. They always met those quotas, goals, and targets. Of course, that meant getting rid of their employees like me who did not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenrosenblum/2020/10/05/california-pioneers-new-quotas-for-people-of-color–lgbt-people/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Here’s how big business leaders are reacting to the Trump-Musk breakup
https://www.businessinsider.com/business-leaders-reaction-elon-musk-donald-trump-breakup-tax-bill-2025-6
FED SMITH
— New OPM Rule Would Make it Easier to Fire Federal Employees. According to my critics/opponents, because I had so many job-related master’s degrees (3) and professional certifications (6) and a professional license, I had to have been an extremely bad employee or they would not have fired me, that is, they would not have forced me to retire.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/06/04/new-opm-rule-would-make-it-easier-to-fire-federal-employees/
DAILY BEAST
— Trump-Musk Feud Heading Toward ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kara-swisher-warns-trump-musk-feud-heading-toward-mutually-assured-destruction/
BUZZ FEED
— Jim Ryan supporters have never forgiven me, and they never will, for my having supported Pat O’Malley in the 2002 Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary. I headed his campaign in Milton Township. I should write about the biggest adverse actions that they have taken against me and continue to take against me to punish me for that. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth what I did to help Jim Ryan win the general election.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/best-political-tweets-4-18-2025
POLITICO
— House passes legislation requiring SBA offices to leave ‘sanctuary cities’ Democrats argued that the bill “is all about punishing cities for their politics” and would cause disruptions for small businesses.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/05/congress/house-legislation-sba-sanctuary-cities-small-business-immigration-00390801
ATLANTIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly deny responsibility for Boulder
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-boulder-attack-immigration-policies-visa/683041/
NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ask “Just How Bad Is Trump’s New Travel Ban?”
https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/just-how-bad-is-trumps-new-travel-ban
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER
— Musk Has Grown Even Wealthier Through Serving in Trump’s Administration. As Musk attacks Trump, will Democrats start buying Teslas again?
https://campaignlegal.org/update/elon-musk-has-grown-even-wealthier-through-serving-trumps-administration
AXIOS
— Musk becomes GOP pariah after “ridiculous” Trump attacks
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/musk-trump-republican-congress-epstein-impeach
GOOGLE AI
— Legalized discrimination. In Diersen v. GAO, the Democrats who ran GAO argued that they treated me just like Congress wanted them to treat me, that is, to waste my career and to get rid of me because I was a Republican a) who objected to their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination and b) who was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. I should write about that in light of recent developments.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22legalized+discrimination%22+%22affirmative+action%22
(FROM THE POSTING: Arguments Against Affirmative Action: Reverse Discrimination: Opponents argue that affirmative action policies can discriminate against members of the dominant group by favoring minority groups in employment and education, even if those individuals are equally qualified.)
INDEPENDENT
— Musk says Trump is ‘in the Epstein files’ which is why they haven’t been made public. Elon Musk said it was ‘time to drop the really big bomb’ as the feud between the billionaire and President Donald Trump reached new heights.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-feud-epstein-files-b2764693.html
— Trump Tower is throwing a Pride month party for LGBTQ+ Republicans despite White House dodging events. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.aol.com/trump-tower-throwing-pride-month-014441655.html
GUARDIAN
— Trump aides ‘to broker peace talks’ with Elon Musk after feud. White House aides have reportedly scheduled a call on Friday with the billionaire Tesla chief executive after the pair traded insults.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/06/donald-trump-elon-musk-feud-steve-bannon-jeffery-epstein-us-politics-live-news-updates
— From White House sleepovers to Epstein allegations, how the relationship between Musk and Trump spectacularly imploded. In today’s newsletter: The rift between the Tesla owner and the US president started with a broadside about government spending – but the true explanation may be much more personal.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/06/first-edition-donald-trump-elon-musk-relationship
ECONOMIC TIMES
— From barbs to blows? 6 ways Trump can harm Musk
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/from-barbs-to-blows-6-ways-trump-can-harm-musk/articleshow/121670196.cms
— Trump-Musk bromance turns nasty as Musk threatens decommissioning SpaceX over Trump’s ‘green’ cuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq_MuiJI-MU
TIMES OF INDIA
— Trump vs Musk: Representative AOC takes humorous jab, says ‘girls are fighting’
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/trump-vs-musk-representative-aoc-takes-humorous-jab-says-girls-are-fighting/articleshow/121668717.cms
— Trump says ‘I asked him to leave’; public spat X-plodes
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/donald-trump-elon-musk-public-feud-escalates-tesla-doge-spacex-us-news-epstein-files-live-updates/liveblog/121659317.cms
— Feud intensifies: Amid public spat, Musk shares 1992 video; Trump seen with Epstein
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/feud-intensifies-amid-public-spat-elon-musk-shares-1992-video-donald-trump-seen-with-jeffrey-epstein-in-throwback-clip/articleshow/121662441.cms
— Trump vs Musk: From ‘disgusting abomination’ to Epstein ‘bombshell’; social media war spirals — timeline
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/disgusting-abomination-to-bombshell-trump-musk-feud-spirals-timeline-of-the-public-meltdown/articleshow/121662823.cms
— Elon Musk vs Donald Trump: Musk claims Trump is in the Epstein files – What we know so far
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/elon-musk-vs-donald-trump-musk-claims-trump-is-in-the-epstein-files-what-we-know-so-far/articleshow/121663538.cms
INDIA TODAY
— We’re 4-5 tweets away from national secrets: Internet grabs popcorn as Trump, Musk spar. The dramatic fallout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has captivated global attention, with their escalating feud playing out online.
https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/elon-musk-donald-trump-feud-doge-argument-epstein-files-national-secret-new-bill-tesla-spacex-2736601-2025-06-06
June 4, 2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— RESTRICTING THE ENTRY OF FOREIGN NATIONALS TO PROTECT THE UNITED STATES FROM FOREIGN TERRORISTS AND OTHER NATIONAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY THREATS
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/restricting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety-threats/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump announces travel ban affecting a dozen countries set to go into effect Monday
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/04/trump-travel-ban/
— Trump moves to block US entry for foreigners planning to study at Harvard University
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/04/trump-block-foreigners-harvard/
— US judge issues order stopping the deportation of family of man charged in Boulder firebombing
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/04/boulder-firebombing/
— Local officials, protesters clash with ICE outside office over detentions in growing escalation over Trump’s immigration tactics
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/04/ice-protesters-clash-immigration/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump signed proclamation to ban travel from 12 countries, restriction on 7 countries
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/06/04/trump-signed-proclamation-to-ban-travel-from-12-countries-restriction-on-7-countries
— Hate-filled Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/04/donald-trump-tariff-immigration-ice-foreign-students-universities-courts-jacob-sullum
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/04/donald-trump-ukraine-russia-gaza-prices-economy-big-beautiful-bill-s-e-cupp
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders push pot in Bartlett
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250604/news/controversial-marijuana-dispensary-near-bartlett-day-care-center-falls-short-of-approval-in-tie-vote/
ABC7
— Chicago minimum wage set to increase July 1. Did you ever work for the minimum wage? I did 1964-1966 washing dishes in Chicago Heights while I was a junior and a senior at Crete-Monee High School. With the money that I earned, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, a poor man’s GTO, in May of 1966, and I used it to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and summer jobs and then classes at UIC and my part-time Park Forest Post Office job. When you were in high school, did your classmates work part-time during the school year and/or full-time during the summers in between like I did? Few of my high school classmates did. There were few good jobs available. I worked far too many hours washing dishes instead of studying. Nevertheless, I took college preparatory classes, I got an ACT score of 24, I got into the upper 20% of my class, and UIC accepted me.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-minimum-wage-set-increase-july-1-changes-paid-leave-sick-time/16656187/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/paul-simon-chicago-job-corps-center-closing-end-month-us-department-labor-phasing-operations-leaving-homeless/16656546/
NBC5
— Emboldened and out of government, Elon Musk breaks with Trump’s agenda
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/elon-musk-breaks-with-trump-agenda/3760671/
— ICE agents, demonstrators clash during apparent Chicago immigration operation
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ice-agents-demonstrators-clash-during-apparent-chicago-immigration-operation/3760618/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in the northwest suburbs
https://www.aol.com/cannabis-friendly-music-festival-returning-205023257.html
FOX32
— 45% spike in marijuana use by boomers
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/boomer-marijuana-use-spike-2025
SUBURBAN LIFE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more LGBTQ on children in Downers Grove
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/06/04/a-day-of-pride-and-celebration-dg-pridefest-returns-to-fishel-park-on-saturday/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-04/worldpride-is-in-d-c-this-year-which-may-be-why-attendance-and-sponsorship-are-down
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-04/trump-wants-to-cut-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-for-controlling-hiv-aids
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump unleashes MAGA rebellion on Federalist Society. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes destroy the Illinois Center Right Coalition and then TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-unleashes-maga-rebellion-on-federalist-society/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at non-Whites that Republicans cause all the problems that non-Whites have.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/04/in-white-with-fear-chicago-born-filmmaker-tackles-links-between-white-supremacy-and-the-right/
AXIOS CHICAGO
— How dependent on foreign students are the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/06/02/trump-student-visa-crackdown-illinois-impact
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-320/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Full Scholarship to Finish College at University Center in Woodstock for One MCC Graduate Funded in Memory of Former MCC Board Member Erv LeCoque
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/full-scholarship-to-finish-college-at-university-center-in-woodstock-for-one-mcc-graduate-funded-in-memory-of-former-mcc-board-member-erv-lecoque/
— Taking Responsibility for Tax Money Received Is Good Government
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/taking-responsibility-for-tax-money-received-is-good-government/
— What Is the Relevance of “They/them” to a Chicago Tribune Story on Storks Nesting in Lincoln Park Zoo
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/what-is-the-relevance-of-they-them-to-a-chicago-tribune-story-on-storks-nesting-in-lincoln-park-zoo/
— Domestic Violence Grant Awarded to McHenry County State’s Attorney
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/domestic-violence-grant-awarded-to-mchenry-county-states-attorney/
— The Only Member of Congress to Ever Live in McHenry County, Joe Walsh, Announces Switch to Democrats
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/the-only-member-of-congress-to-ever-live-in-mchenry-county-joe-walsh-announces-switch-to-democrats/
— DeWitte Comments on Democrats’ Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/dewitte-comments-on-democrats-budget/
— $40 Million German Flavor Producing Factory Coming to Huntley
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/40-million-flavor-producing-factory-coming-to-huntley/
— Pritzker Acts to Force Hospitals to Do Abortions, Calling The, “Life-Saving”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/pritzker-acts-to-force-hospitals-to-do-abortions-calling-the-life-saving/
— West Nile Mosquito Found in Lake in the Hills
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/04/west-nile-mosquito-found-in-lake-in-the-hills/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Stephen Miller puts illegal immigration at center of GOP debate around Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3431050/stephen-miller-illegal-immigration-trump-big-beautiful-bill/
— Trump’s criticism of Rand Paul is wrong and misguided
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3430922/trumps-criticism-of-rand-paul-wrong-and-misguided/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Musk Disappointed With ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Elon labels legislation a “disgusting abomination.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/musk-disappointed-with-big-beautiful-bill/
BREITBART
— Marco Rubio Marks Tiananmen Square Massacre Anniversary: ‘The World Will Never Forget’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/04/marco-rubio-marks-tiananmen-square-massacre-anniversary-the-world-will-never-forget/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Bans New Visas for Foreign Nationals From 12 Countries. The proclamation will not limit ’the ability of an individual to seek asylum, refugee status, withholding of removal, or protection.’
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-bans-new-visas-for-foreign-nationals-from-12-countries-5868072
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— There are Now Over 1,000 Sanctuary Jurisdictions Nationwide
https://www.fairus.org/press-release/state-and-local/sanctuary-jurisdictions-america-report
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump signs ban on entry from 12 countries, restrictions on 7 more
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-signs-travel-ban-multiple-countries/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Trump’s proclamation fully restricts and limits the entry of nationals from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, the officials said. It partially restricts the entry of people from seven countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.)
CBS MIAMI
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/video/fear-amongst-asylum-seekers-who-could-lose-work-permits/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Far too many who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform and b) have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and c) read my newsletters and/or have their operatives and their dupes read them for opposition research. If you were me, how would you deal with that? Should I start naming them? I would start with those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/technology/ftc-investigates-media-matters.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Federalist Society Is Doing Just Fine After Getting Dumped by Trump. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes destroy the Illinois Center Right Coalition and then TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/leonard-leo-trump-2cd729c8
May 30, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court for now
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-tariffs-reinstated-by-appeals-court-for-now/3756338/
FOX32
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1649490
WGN9
— Cannabis is bad for your heart
https://wgntv.com/news/trending/smoke-it-or-eat-it-cannabis-is-bad-for-your-heart-new-research-shows/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders promote assisted suicide
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/29/illinois-bill-would-allow-terminally-ill-adults-end-their-lives-medical-assistance
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,’ Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder as lawyers praise Trump choice.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/larry-hoover-trump-fbi-boss/
— Democrat leaders use Chinese students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/chinese-students-visa/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racist.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/30/traffic-stops-black-drivers-illinois-public-universities-campus-police-departments
DAILY HERALD
— ‘Huge opportunity’ or ‘stealing’ from suburbs? Senate debates funding plan to save transit
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250529/transportation/huge-opportunity-or-stealing-from-the-suburbs-senate-debates-funding-plan-to-save-transit/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/trump-move-chinese-visas-could-impact-chicago-universities
STATELINE
— Gun owners in Illinois face $10K fine if weapon is stolen and used in a crime. Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/gun-owners-in-illinois-face-10k-fine-if-weapon-is-stolen-and-used-in-a-crime/
DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/29/proposed-edible-tasting-room-for-dekalb-dispensary-gets-early-support/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-30/federal-workers-keep-americas-farms-healthy-what-now-under-trump
HOMEWOOD/FLOSSMOOR PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBT in Homewood/Flossmoor
https://patch.com/illinois/homewood-flossmoor/homewood-flossmoor-pride-fest-set-celebrate-diversity-inclusion
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Chinese students over American students.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/uncertain-future-for-chinese-students-cause-concern-at-uiuc/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-523/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-315/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The pension sweetener bill is yet another reminder that lawmakers don’t care about ordinary Illinoisans. Because State of Illinois employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Democrats politicians defend and promote them. Because federal employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Republican politicians demonize, denigrate, and condemn them.
https://wirepoints.org/the-pension-sweetener-bill-is-yet-another-reminder-that-lawmakers-dont-care-about-ordinary-illinoisans-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The sanctuary counties in Illinois that Trump just put on notice include DuPage County ( https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759 ). Is your county on the list? The following Illinois counties are on the list: Adams, Alexander; Bond, Boone, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cook, Crawford, Cumberland, DeKalb, Dewitt, Douglas, DuPage, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Franklin, Fulton, Gallatin, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jackson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lawrence, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Massac, McDonough, McLean, Mercer, Menard, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Perry, Piatt, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richland, Rock Island, Saint Clair, Saline, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Stephenson, Tazewell, Union, Vermilion, Wabash, Warren, Washington, Wayne, White, Whiteside County, Will, Williamson, Winnebago, and Woodford. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on Civil Service protections? Trump wants to cut them. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly stress that Trump is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, and for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Constructively, if not literally, Democrat and RINO leaders rank those who are under them. The more of the following that you are, the more points that they give you: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The more of the following that you do, the more points that they give you: glorify and praise them, pander to them, serve as one of their operatives or dupes, cover up their wrongdoing, and/or give them money. Of course, Democrat and RINO leaders give me no points. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Uber/Lyft and Real Estate Transfer Taxes Proposed to Bail Out CTA
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/uber-lyft-and-real-estate-transfer-taxes-proposed-to-bail-out-cta/
— Sosnowski Introduces Bill to Allow Switch of Casino Sites
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/sosnowski-introduces-bill/
— Four-Year Community College Degree Legislation Still Alive, But Severely Limited
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/four-year-community-college-degree-legislation-still-alive-but-severely-limited/
— Dems Advance Gun Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dems-advance-gun-bill/
— DeWitte Notes Dems’ Revision of Shift from RTA to NITA (Northern Illinois Transit Authority) Takes Power from Suburbs
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dewitte-notes-dems-revision-of-shift-from-rta-to-nita-northern-illinois-transit-authority-takes-power-from-suburbs/
— McLaughlin Bill for Privately-Financed Statue of Pope Leo IV on Capitol Grounds Stuck in Committee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/mclaughlin-bill-for-privately-financed-statue-of-pope-leo-iv-on-capitol-grounds-stuck-in-committee/
— Ness Goes after Trump
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ness-goes-after-trump/
— Senate Republicans on Electric Rates
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/senate-republicans-on-electric-rates/
— Ugasta’s Views on Democrats’ Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ugastas-views-on-democrats-budget/
— Johnsburg’s Kirk Donald Running for Re-Election as Vice Chairman of the McHenry County Republican Party
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/johnsburgs-kirk-donald-running-for-re-election-as-vice-chairman-of-the-mchenry-county-republican-party/
— Cook County Homeowners Beginning to Feel the Pain the Rest of Have All Along & How State Law Gives Cook County Homeowners Tax Breaks Not Seen in the Other 101 Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/cook-county-homeowners-beginning-to-feel-the-pain-the-rest-of-have-all-along-how-cook-county-homeowners-get-tax-breaks-not-seen-in-the-other-101-counties/
— For Those Interested in a Deep Dive into What DODE Did…
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/for-those-interested-in-a-deep-dive-into-what-dode-did/
— Casten Endorses Biss for Algonquin Township Congressman
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/casten-endorse-biss-for-algonquin-township-congressman/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Assisted Suicide Passes House, Moves to Senate
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/assisted-suicide-passes-house-moves-to-senate/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— DHS releases name-and-shame sanctuary list with more than 600 states, cities, counties. DuPage County is in the list.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/29/dhs-releases-name-shame-sanctuary-list-600-states-cities-counties/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago’s government-by-racism is failing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3424244/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-race-comments/
— Trump administration orders ICE to more than triple number of daily arrests
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3425621/trump-ice-triple-arrests/
NEW YORK POST
— ICE shakes up agency with ‘leadership realignment’ in push for a ‘minimum’ of 3,000 migrant arrests per day
https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/us-news/ice-shakes-up-leadership-amid-push-for-3000-migrant-arrests-per-day/
AFPI
— Massive Scale of Chinese Illegal Immigration Threatens National Security
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/massive-scale-of-chinese-illegal-immigration-threatens-national-security
CENTER SQUARE
— ICE calling law enforcement in all counties to help with deportation efforts
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_efdabd74-5fba-4c22-a3ec-1f8fef4ef79d.html
COLLEGE FIX
— K-12 schools spent $19 million in federal tax dollars on ‘restorative justice,’ ‘equitable grading.’ What depressed your GPA? For me, it was my spending far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/k-12-schools-spent-19-million-in-federal-tax-dollars-on-restorative-justice-equitable-grading/
DAILY CALLER
— Washington’s Spending Party Continues As Elon Musk Bids Farewell To Swamp
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/washingtons-spending-party-elon-musk-bids-farewell-swamp/
— FBI Tells Employees No ‘Pride’ Activities On Company Time. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ever-increasingly required their employees to attend more DEI training and events. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Democrat Black subordinate who ran the office’s Black events.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/fbi-employees-no-pride-activites-company-time-june/
EPOCH TIMES
— State Department Says It Will Expand Scrutiny of All Chinese Visa Holders in US. The department has already paused new student visa interviews worldwide and is preparing to revoke visas for Chinese nationals currently in the United States.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/state-department-says-it-will-expand-scrutiny-of-all-chinese-visa-holders-in-us-5865198
FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor calls DOGE ‘an act of war,’ compares second Trump term to Third Reich. ‘You have a president that is cutting off medicine and food [and] working to erase culture,’ Brandon Johnson claimed
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-mayor-calls-doge-an-act-war-compares-second-trump-term-third-reich
NEWSMAX
— Harvard’s Standards Have Dropped. To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly dropped their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-harvard-dei/2025/05/29/id/1212899/
PJ MEDIA
— The Education Department and the Demise of Our Schooling
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/29/the-education-dept-intellectual-silliness-and-the-demise-of-our-schooling-n4940257
TOWNHALL
— Chaos Erupts Outside Immigration Court As Protesters Clash With Police
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/29/police-arrest-dozens-protesting-outside-immigration-court-in-manhattan-n2657815
— Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2025/05/30/democrats-and-their-dei-albatrosses-n2657857
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Karl Rove: Trump tariffs could cost GOP their majorities
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5325112-karl-rove-trump-tariffs-could-cost-gop-their-majorities/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-university-slave-photos-d9c01b7926bba2a686ff325617e93ce9
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/universities-seek-lure-us-bound-students-amid-trump-crackdown-2025-05-30/
NEWSWEEK
— The Sanctuary Cities, Counties and States the Trump Admin Just Put on Notice. DuPage County is on the list.
https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759
— Levi’s ever-increasingly promotes more DEI and LGBTQ.
https://www.newsweek.com/levis-pride-collection-dei-programs-2078557
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/29/us/harvard-trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/chinese-students-rattled-by-trump-plan-to-aggressively-revoke-visas.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/trump-china-visas-tariffs.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/29/chinese-students-data-visa/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/29/harvard-international-students-hearing/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct. I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School district 200, and my precinct. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/05/29/pew-lgbtq-poll-transgender-acceptance-trump/6498f882-3c95-11f0-912d-d5f4792db3e4_story.html
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and stress that he is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, and for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/28/trump-due-process-deportations/83824951007/
— Trump lashes out at judges on tariffs, blames Federalist Society for bad legal advice
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/29/donald-trump-federalist-society-judges-tariffs-attacks/83933632007/
TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Florida Attracts Wave Of Newcomers As California, New York, & Illinois See Resident Exodus. Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct.
https://www.tampafp.com/florida-attracts-wave-of-newcomers-as-california-new-york-illinois-see-resident-exodus/
FORBES
— If Trump’s Tariffs Raise Prices Or Are Perceived To, GOP Will Be Hurt In Midterms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdn-0d7mI-w
PBS
— Trump administration pressures ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ by publishing list of places ‘deliberately obstructing’ immigration enforcement
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-pressures-sanctuary-jurisdictions-by-publishing-list-of-places-deliberately-obstructing-immigration-enforcement
FED SMITH
— Important Changes to Proposed Benefits Cuts in House-Passed Spending Bill. Trump wants to cut Civil Service protections. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/28/important-changes-to-proposed-benefits-cuts-in-house-passed-spending-bill/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Election for At-Will Employment The provision for new hires to elect at-will employment remains in the legislation as well. Newly hired federal employees could opt to become at-will employees in exchange for a lower contribution rate to FERS (the standard 4.4%). This would be an irrevocable decision per the language of the legislation as currently written. However, if employees were to choose to keep their Civil Service protections, they would pay an additional 5% contribution rate to FERS (9.4% total for most federal employees). Federal employees who opt to become at-will employees could face adverse actions, including removal, without notice or the right to appeal the action. Per the language of the bill as currently written, they “may be subject to an adverse action up to and including removal, without notice or right to appeal, by the head of the agency at which the individual is employed for good cause, bad cause, or no cause at all.”)
INSIDE HIGHTER ED
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/05/30/trump-targets-chinese-students-harsh-blow-higher
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/black-and-empowered/202505/finding-compassion-in-the-darkness-of-racism-and-discrimination
AMAZON
— Proud to be Woke. My critics/opponents act like they are proud to be woke. That is, they discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.amazon.com/Politically-Well-Informed-Socialist-Proud/dp/B0BY2LFD7S
TIMES OF INDIA
— IIT has the highest percentage of international students. IIT admitted me in 1992. But it would have admitted an international student instead of me if it could have.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/which-us-university-has-the-highest-percentage-of-international-students-well-its-not-harvard/articleshow/121513373.cms
May 26, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7 & NBC & CBS2 & FOX32 & CHICAGO TRIBUNE & CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/george-floyd-day-action-protest-federal-plaza-downtown-chicago-commemorates-5-years-police-brutality-murder/16545551/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-area-organizations-host-rally-5-years-after-george-floyds-murder/3753730/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/group-protests-chicago-anniversary-murder-george-floyd/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS_pXlHG-VE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mT28bXhpvw
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1647262
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/chicago-protest-george-floyd-anniversary/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05/25/5-years-after-george-floyds-murder-chicagoans-protest-trumps-rollback-on-police-reforms
ABC7
— At least 18 shot, 2 fatally, in Memorial Day weekend violence
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-shootings-weekend-18-shot-2-fatally-memorial-day-gun-violence-city-police-department-says/16543468/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— According to Democrat leaders, only Whites can be racist.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/south-africa-trump-ramaphosa/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Few suburban Congressional candidates met financial disclosure deadline. Federal salaries are public record. My critics/opponents have always viciously demonized, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary increased from $117,807/year in 1986 to $153,151/year in 1997. In my defense, I earned a) 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), b) job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (finance), 1980 (accounting), 1976 (business), and 1970 (management), and c) a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA).
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250525/us-congress-politics/few-suburban-congressional-candidates-met-financial-disclosure-deadline/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Only three of the more than two dozen candidates for congressional seats serving the North, West or Northwest suburbs turned in federal financial disclosure reports by a May 15 deadline, a Daily Herald analysis revealed. One, 9th District Democratic hopeful and internet personality Kat Abughazaleh, is a political newcomer whose campaign has received national media attention. The other two — Republicans Niki Conforti of the 6th District and Jim Marter of the 14th — are campaign veterans who lost previous bids for federal office. Designed to reveal potential conflicts of interest, the disclosure reports detail information about the source, type and amount of a candidate’s income, personal investments, spousal income, gifts, contracts and more. They’re published online at disclosures-clerk.house.gov. . .A Glen Ellyn resident, Conforti is making her third run at the 6th District seat held by Democrat Sean Casten of Downers Grove since 2019. Last November, Casten beat Conforti by 8 percentage points; she placed third in the 2022 GOP primary. Conforti spent less than $151,000 on her 2024 campaign, a sum dwarfed by the roughly $2.4 million Casten spent. The Conforti campaign ended the first quarter of this year with less than $9,800 in the bank. Casten ended the quarter with more than $947,000 saved. Conforti reported income this year and last from consulting and from an unidentified employer. She didn’t respond to emails asking for more information about that job. She listed bank, credit union and retirement accounts among her assets, and reported a partnership in a Palos Park limited liability company called Existential Matrix. . .An Oswego resident whose four-year term on his local library board ends this week, Marter will make his sixth bid for federal office in 2026. Democratic incumbent Lauren Underwood of Naperville, who’s represented the 14th District since 2019 and is running again, beat Marter by 10 percentage points in November. Marter spent $322,950 on his 2024 congressional campaign, a fraction of the nearly $3.9 million Team Underwood spent. His campaign ended the first quarter with about $5,500 saved, while Underwood ended the quarter with $1.1 million banked. According to his report, Marter’s primary source of income is a global information technology company called Tenthpin Management Consultants. He previously had been a software consultant. Marter reported bank and retirement accounts, life insurance policies and a coin collection among his assets.)
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/05/25/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-fight-against-donald-trump
DEKALB DAILY JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in DeKalb.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/25/edible-tastings-anyone-dekalb-dispensary-proposes-new-in-house-cannabis-experience/
DEPAULIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://depauliaonline.com/77499/news/how-a-trade-war-could-impact-illinois-farmers/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Glenbard South H.S. Senior Wears Keffiyeh to Accept Diploma–Administrators Do Nothing
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/23/glenbard-south-h-s-senior-wears-keffiyeh-to-accept-diploma-administrators-do-nothing
— Illinois’ Most Despicable Lawmaker Kelly Cassidy Hits New Low
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/21/illinois-most-despicable-lawmaker-kelly-cassidy-hits-new-low
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Reick Punches Holes in School Mental Health Screening Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/22/reick-punches-holes-in-school-mental-health-screening-bill/
— Keicher Continues Criticism of Tax Increment Districts
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/23/keicher-continues-criticism-of-tax-increment-districts/
— Keicher-Initiated Idea to End Discrimination against Seniors Concerning Drivers License Tests Passes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/23/keicher-initiated-idea-to-end-discrimination-against-seniors-concerning-drivers-license-tests-passes/
— No Warning from Health Department about Unsanitary Conditions at Applebee’s
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/no-warning-from-health-department-about-unsanitary-condictions-at-applebees/
— Legislature Attacks Human Trafficking
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/legislature-attacks-human-trafficking/
— Defenders Urge Tax Hike to Bail Out RTA Again
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/defenders-urge-tax-hike-to-bail-out-rta-again/
— Congressional Republicans Pass Gas Tax Replacement Fee for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/25/congressional-republicans-pass-gas-tax-replacement-fee-for-electric-and-hybrid-vehicles/
Illinois Has the Mostest Local Governments
— https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/25/illinois-has-the-mostest-local-governments/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump agenda bill’s proposed increase to debt ceiling draws pushback from fiscal hawk in Senate
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/25/rand-paul-kentucky-republican-threatens-oppose-big-beautiful-bill/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— US spent over $6 billion on military recruitment in past three years. Did you try to enlist.? I did not. If I had, would I have been accepted? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green colorblindness. Nevertheless, I was 1-A for the draft. What if I had appealed?. My critics/opponents have always used against me my being 1-A and my avoiding the draft with student draft deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3421763/united-states-spent-over-6-billion-military-recruit-three-years/
(FROM A RELATED ARTICLE: There are five exercises in the test: Three-repetition maximum deadlifts, hand-release push-ups with arm extensions, a sprint-drag-carry exercise, holding the plank position, and finally, a two-mile run.)
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, to keep their jobs and to get promoted, my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who shared my demographics, that is, were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time said there was no political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, veterans preference, religious discrimination, or national origin discrimination. I should write about the aforesaid who helped my Democrat superiors waste my career and get rid of me the most.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/24/insider-case-closed-john-bolton-tells-cnn-theres-no-white-genocide-in-south-africa-1546034/
DAILY CALLER
— Illegal Migrants Can Now Book Their Own Deportation Flights. What percent illegally return to America illegally?
https://www.aol.com/illegal-migrants-now-book-own-150052440.html
EPOCH TIMES
— Beyond Lt. Dan: Gary Sinise Reflects on Grief, Gratitude, and a Life Devoted to Honoring America’s Heroes
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/beyond-lt-dan-gary-sinise-reflects-on-grief-gratitude-and-a-life-devoted-to-honoring-americas-heroes-5862874
TOWNHALL
— This Is Why the Southern Poverty Law Center Claims Turning Point USA Is an ‘Extremist’ Group. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were extremist groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and I was the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/25/this-is-why-the-southern-poverty-law-center-claims-turning-point-usa-is-an-extremist-group-n2657616
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The SPLC put out an article on Thursday, labeling TPUSA as an “anti-government extremist group” for its supposed promotion of white nationalist conspiracy theories, hawkish immigration stance, and Christian nationalism — which has become one of the left’s favorite buzzwords over recent years. Of course, when the organization uses the term “extremist,” they really mean, “anyone who isn’t a progressive.”)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Foreign students at Harvard taking US spots. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with foreign students. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966, but they would have admitted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5318381-trump-targets-harvard-over-foreign-students/
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with foreign students. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966, but they would have admitted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-defends-move-to-block-international-students-from-attending-harvard/
NEWSWEEK
— Anticipate/expect that Trump will get more and more and more support from young voters who are White and/or male. Democrat leaders give tremendous preference to young voters who are minority and/or female, that is, they discriminate against young voters who are White and/or male.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-ratings-young-americans-2075210
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Pope Leo XIV declares ‘I am Roman!’ as he completes formalities to become bishop of Rome. What if you had never left your hometown? I left my hometown of Crete for University Park when I was 24 years old in 1972. I left University Park for Chicago in 1976. I left Chicago for Wheaton when I got married in 1978. The Democrats and RINO who run Wheaton have never accepted me. They continue to treat me as my being a newcomer. They stress that I never attended any schools or churches in Wheaton, that I never sent any children to Wheaton schools, etc. I am too conservative for them, that is, I am too Republican for them. I should write about the biggest adverse actions that they have taken against me. I would focus on those who despise/hate my demographics the most.
https://apnews.com/article/rome-pope-bishop-ceremony-basilicas-ae01507115934e82a15e5f6758d08637
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://coloradosun.com/2025/05/21/immigration-schools-colorado-trump-administration/
CNN
— Trump wants a ‘baby boom,’ but an ultra-conservative agenda may hurt IVF access. I should write what my Democrat GAO superiors did to punish me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. According to them, if my wife and I had children, a) I would not have been able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, become a licensed CPA in 1981, etc. and b) my wife would not have been able to keep her good job and earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. All my GAO superiors had children and spouses who had little or no income. They always decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/25/us/ivf-access-babies-trump-administration
MSN
— Could you pass the Army’s new physical fitness test? Did you try to enlist.? I did not. If I had, would I have been accepted? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green colorblindness. Nevertheless, I was 1-A for the draft. What if I had appealed?. My critics/opponents have always used against me my being 1-A and my avoiding the draft with student draft deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/could-you-pass-the-army-s-new-physical-fitness-test/ar-AA1FncMS
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There are five exercises in the test: Three-repetition maximum deadlifts, hand-release push-ups with arm extensions, a sprint-drag-carry exercise, holding the plank position, and finally, a two-mile run.)
— Trump Criticizes Biden`s DEI Policies in West Point Commencement Speech. Democrat and RINO leaders used DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/watch-trump-criticises-biden-s-dei-policies-in-west-point-commencement-speech/vi-AA1FqAbm
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders continue to use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-race-civil-right-white-men.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-race-civil-right-white-men.html
— We look at “triple-trending counties,” where either the Republicans or the Democrats gained vote share in all of the last three presidential elections. I should write about why Democrat candidates are getting more votes in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. I should write about past and present DuPage County Republican Central Committee and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders who blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for that. Previously, they blamed what I did as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010179976/the-counties-where-trump-made-gains.html
— What have you done that has put you in crosshairs? While I was young, I avoided the draft. While I was a federal employee, I refused to become a Democrat, I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. Since I became Wheaton resident in 1978, I successfully fought the installation of a traffic signal at Harrison and President, I filled lawsuits against Wheaton, its powerful developer, Milton Township, and DuPage County, and I successfully led efforts to stop video gambling and the sale of pot. Since I have been a Milton Township Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, I have sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000, I led Pat O’Malley’s 2002 Republican gubernatorial campaign in Milton Township, I served as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, and I served as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/nyregion/lamonica-mciver-newark-assault-charges.html
— Trump seeks extensive data on international students in pressure campaign to control Harvard. What about getting data on federal employees? All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/may/25/trump-seeks-extensive-student-data-in-pressure-cam/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/police-killings-george-floyd.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-republicans.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Senators eye more budget bill cuts despite House speaker’s plea for few changes. The biggest hurdle in the Senate for Trump’s tax and immigration bill could come — like it did in the House — from deficit hawks who demand more cuts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/25/senate-tax-bill-spending-cuts/
USA TODAY
— Because Democrats run the federal government, to get promoted in the federal government, you have to promote the Democrat Party platform, and especially its Affirmative Action and DEI planks, that is, you have to promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. That stopped IRS from promoting be beyond GS-12 and stopped GAO from promoting me beyond GS-13. I never would have made GS-13 if I had not earned an MBA, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, earned a master’s degree in accounting, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, and became a licensed CPA.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/05/24/dei-medical-schools-wont-be-graded/83815603007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump and against the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-lawsuits-fight-d5f8ec8a
ECON LIB
— My critics/opponents who 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, a) say they owe all their successes in life to meritocracy and b) blame all their failures in life on those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critic/opponents who continue to blame me and my GOIPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their failures in life.
https://www.econlib.org/the-ethics-of-inequality/
ADVOCATE
— Democrat leaders evert-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/kennedy-center-drag-season
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting sellers to raise their prices. For 2 weeks while I was an IRS Revenue Officer trainee in 1971, Nixon had me and my classmates make phone calls to fight inflation.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/25/trump-tariffs-brands-increase-prices
GOOGLE AI
— The decline of American muscle cars was a multi-faceted process, primarily driven by government regulations and economic factors in the 1970s. My critics/opponents despise/hate cars, and especially American nameplate cars, and especially American nameplate muscle cars. I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, a new 1972 Chevy Corvette in 1971, a 1962 Chevy Impala SS show car in 1989, a new 1990 Ford Thunderbird LX in 1989, a new 1993 Thunderbird in 1992, a 1968 Charger R/T show car in 1994, a new 1996 Thunderbird LX in 1995, a new 2005 Corvette in 2005, a new 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max in 2012, a new 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium in 2023, and a new 2025 Charger Daytona R/T Plus this year. I continue to own the 1972 Corvette, 1996 Thunderbird, 2013 Charger, 2023 Mustang, and 2025 Charger. If you share my interest in any of the aforesaid American nameplate muscle cars, please let me know.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22american+nameplate+muscle+cars”
May 20, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DOJ investigating Chicago hiring practices amid backlash over Mayor Johnson’s viral comments. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-justice-opens-civil-rights-investigation-chicago-hiring-practices-letter-mayor-brandon-johnson/16472280/
— Ashli Babbitt’s family to receive $5M to settle lawsuit with Trump administration.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ashli-babbitts-family-receive-5-million-settlement-trump-admin-sources/16471666/
NBC5
— Former Chicago Public Schools students say they were groomed by teachers. A months-long investigation by NBC 5 Investigates has uncovered allegations of grooming and teacher misconduct dating back more than a decade at one Chicago public school.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/lessons-in-betrayal-former-chicago-public-schools-students-say-they-were-groomed-by-teachers/3749386/
— DOJ investigates Chicago’s hiring practices following comments by Mayor Johnson. Justice officials are investigating whether the city is violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/doj-investigates-chicagos-hiring-practices-following-comments-by-mayor-johnson/3749322/
— Trump allies shift from well-wishes to suggesting Biden hid his cancer diagnosis
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/donald-trump-allies-suggest-biden-hid-cancer-diagnosis/3749387/
CBS2
— Southwest Side Chicago alderman, state rep said city extended use of migrant shelter without notice
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-extended-use-migrant-shelter-notice/
— Trump questions why Biden’s cancer wasn’t caught earlier
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-questions-why-bidens-cancer-wasnt-caught-earlier/
— Justice Department opens discrimination investigation into Chicago city hiring practices.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/justice-department-discrimination-investigation-chicago-city-hiring-practices/
WGN9
— First Trump $1,000 ‘self-deport’ flight conducted by DHS.
https://wgntv.com/news/national/first-trump-1000-self-deport-flight-conducted-by-dhs/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/illinois-mulls-ending-a-health-program-for-some-immigrants-living-in-the-us-illegally/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/19/illinois-lawmakers-discuss-budget-priorities-legislative-deadline-looms
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/05/19/how-birthright-citizenship-ruling-could-affect-illinois
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/trump-venezuelans/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/chicagos-venezuelan-migrants-face-uncertainty-after-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protected-status/
— Cupich says Pope Leo XIV will champion the environment, immigrants. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/pope-leo-chicago-visit/
— Justice Department investigating Mayor Brandon Johnson for racially motivated hiring.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/justice-department-chicago-alleged-racially-motivated-hiring/
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/garrison-school-four-rivers-oversight/
— Chicago’s south and southwest suburbs see population declines — but there are bright spots in census estimates
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/south-suburbs-population-drop-census/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Those seeing decreases of at least 2% but below 3% included Bridgeview, Crestwood, Harvey, Matteson, Oak Forest, Olympia Fields, Palos Hills and Tinley Park. Suburbs having losses over the four years of at least 3% included Alsip, Blue Island, Calumet City, Chicago Heights, Country Club Hills, Dolton, Evergreen Park, Flossmoor, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Lansing, Markham, Midlothian, Oak Lawn, Park Forest and South Holland.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Justice Department launches probe into City Hall’s hiring practices, claims they’re solely race-based. The Trump administration on Monday opened a civil rights investigation into Chicago’s hiring practices one day after Mayor Brandon Johnson boasted about the record number of African-Americans he has hired for top city jobs.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/19/justice-department-probe-city-hall-hiring-practices-brandon-johnson-woodlawn
— Venezuelans in Illinois could be deported after Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protected status. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end the Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans, including in Illinois. — Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/19/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protections-from-some-venezuelans-deportations-could-follow
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting vice in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250519/news/new-pot-dispensary-tattoo-parlor-get-approval-from-elgin-city-council/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump officials launch hiring probe after Johnson touts number of Black advisers
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-doj-investigating-chicago-hiring-discrimination
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “social justice” a) to promote more hatred against Republicans and b) to get more votes from minorities and females.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/siue-east-st-louis-center-for-the-performing-arts-gives-social-justice-rhythm-and-motion-during-its-spring-dance-recital-82614.cfm
NPR ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-05-20/in-the-fight-for-youth-transgender-health-care-illinois-remains-at-the-forefront
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-19/trump-administration-cuts-school-mental-health-grants
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pritzker to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-says-every-state-faces-financial-challenges-under-trump-but-is-optimistic-illinois-will-have/article_1d68e4ce-9dcb-4e4c-ba07-e9f0c328b9aa.html
JOLIET PATCH
— 2024 Tesla Faces Seizure After Joliet Police Find Marijuana Inside: The EV belongs to Mokena residents Eddy Curry and Mitchell Rashada and is now the subject of a Will County civil forfeiture.
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/2024-tesla-faces-seizure-after-joliet-police-find-pot-forfeiture
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Trump attacks City Hall’s discrimination. It easier for Democrat employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. It is harder for Republican employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. Democrats want to work for Democrats. Republicans want to work for Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/20/trump-attacks-chicago-city-hall-diversity-00358327
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-516/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-308/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Higher and higher salaries means Chicagoans’ public pension problem gets bigger and bigger.
https://wirepoints.org/higher-and-higher-salaries-means-chicagoans-public-pension-problem-gets-bigger-and-bigger-wirepoints-on-full-measure-with-sharyl-attkisson/
— Why expand in Illinois when there’s little economic growth?
https://wirepoints.org/what-one-business-owner-said-to-me-why-expand-in-illinois-when-theres-little-economic-growth-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, Firestone Stores in 1970, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. After I graduated from NIU when I was 21 years old in 1970, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from Firestone Stores. But that job did not really require a college degree. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me in 1971 because I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. He would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. All during my entire life, employers that might have hired me were under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat leaders to hire Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1970 (management) bachelor’s degree, b) my 1976 (business), 1980 (accounting), and 1997 (finance) master’s degrees, c) my 1979 (accounting), 1981 (internal auditing), 1990 (fraud examination), 1994 (government financial management), 1996 (financial services auditing), and 1997 (forensic accounting) professional certifications, and d) my 1981 professional license (CPA). Because I complained about the aforesaid, a) my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969, b) my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and my education deductions in 1978 and never promoted me beyond GS-12, and c) my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and forced me to retire in 1997. My RINO critics/opponents have no problem with what my Democrat superiors did to me. Actually, they applaud it. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What makes candidates for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc. Since 1999, RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed a) the almost 18 years of experience that I gained working for GAO, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) the almost 9 years of experience that I gained working for IRS, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) my bachelor’s degree in management, d) my master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, e) my professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and f) my CPA license. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you avoid the Vietnam War draft? Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The bronze statue of Melania Trump in Slovenia has been chopped off at the feet and stolen. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What did your superiors require you to do? Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
JEFF BERKOWITZ
— Does the IL GOP have competitive US Senate & GOV candidates on deck for 2026? What makes a candidate for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc.
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/does-the-il-gop-have-competitive
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— What’s in the Homeschooling Regulation Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/whats-in-the-homeschooling-regulation-bill/
— Nunda Township Officials Sworn into Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/nunda-township-officials-sworn-into-office/
— Connie Cain Flips Parties, Running for Kane County Treasurer as Democrat after Being Fired by GOP Treasurer Chris Lauzen
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/connie-cain-flips-parties-running-for-kane-county-treasurer-as-democrat-after-being-fired-by-gop-treasurer-chris-lauzen/
— No New Face for Conservation District Board, John Henning Being Appointed to a Second Run
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/no-new-face-for-conservation-district-board-john-henning-being-appointed-to-a-second-run/
— Poor Loser Randy Funks Out for the Fifth Time
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/poor-loser-randy-funks-out-for-the-fifth-time/
— Possible Taxes You Might Want to Ask Your Local Democrat to Oppose
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/possible-taxes-you-might-want-to-ask-your-local-democrat-to-oppose/
— With Two Weeks Left in Legislation Session, Sosnowski Gives Take on the Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/with-two-weeks-left-in-legislation-session-sosnowski-gives-take-on-the-budget/
— Rest of Algonquin Township Officials Sworn In
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/rest-of-algonquin-township-officials-sworn-in/
— Another Mailing Asking Voters to Call Sue Ness about Cost of Pension Increases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/another-mailing-asking-voters-to-call-sue-ness-about-cost-of-pension-increases/
— Underwood Not Running for U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/underwood-not-running-for-u-s-senate/
— Is This the Year that Democrats Will Start Taxing Services?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/is-this-the-year-that-democrats-will-start-taxing-services/
— Huntley’s Move to Shut Down Trump Store on Route 47 Making Regional News
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/huntleys-move-to-shut-down-trump-store-on-route-47-making-regional-news/
— $500,000 Judgement for Sending Campaign Postcard Found False–“Reckless Regard of the Truth”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/500000-judgement-for-sending-campaign-postcard-found-false-reckless-regard-of-thetruth/
— A Stupidity of the Chicago School System I Missed
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/a-stupidity-of-the-chicago-school-system-i-missed/
— Homeland Security Calls Out “Fake News” in Press Releases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/homeland-security-calls-out-fake-news-in-press-releases/
— GOP Precinct Committeeperson & Candidate Training in Rockford May 31st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/gop-precinct-committeeperson-candidate-training-in-rockford-may-31st/
— Census Reports McHenry County Growth Tips, Plus Population Gains and Losses for All Municipalities
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/census-reports-local-growth-tips-population-gains-and-losses-for-all-mchenry-county-municipalities/
— Data Centers among Reasons Electricity Prices Going Up in June
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/data-centers-among-reasons-electricity-prices-going-up-in-june/
— Daniel Biss Raises Big Money in Day after Announcement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/daniel-biss-raises-big-money-in-day-after-announcement/
— Chicago Republican Infighting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/chicago-republican-infighting/
— DeWitte Points to Pritzker’s Budget Having Increased 40% Since He Took Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/dewitte-points-to-pritzkers-budget-having-increased-40-since-he-took-office/
— Handful of Local Officials Miss Deadline for Filing Income Disclosure Forms
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/handful-of-local-officials-miss-deadline-for-filing-income-disclosure-forms/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Washington awash with suspicion of a Biden cancer cover-up
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/washington-awash-suspicion-biden-cancer-cover/
— Trump hammers illegal immigrants with full weight of law, criminal prosecutions up 45-fold
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/trump-hammers-illegal-immigrants-full-weight-law-criminal/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Brandon Johnson touts diverse administration, says black people run Chicago because ‘we’re most generous’ Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3415666/brandon-johnson-diverse-administration-black-people-most-generous/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/brandon-johnson-touts-diverse-administration-says-black-people-run-chicago-because-we-re-most-generous/ar-AA1F4UqR
AMERICAN THINKER
— Will the Supreme Court Succumb to Democratic Party Pressure?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/will_the_supreme_court_succumb_to_democratic_party_pressure.html
— Trump throws back stink bombs at celebrities
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/trump_throws_back_stink_bombs_at_celebrities.html
— Biden was not a decent man, nor was he a public servant
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/joe_biden_was_not_a_decent_man_nor_was_he_a_public_servant.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/
— Flailing Schumer tries to blame DOGE for Mexican ship’s Brooklyn Bridge collision
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/flailing-schumer-tries-to-blame-doge-for-mexican-ships-brooklyn-bridge-collision-1544487/
BLAZE
— Schumer tries to blame Trump for lethal Mexican boat crash into Brooklyn Bridge — but DHS fires back
https://www.theblaze.com/news/schumer-trump-cuauhtemoc-lethal-crash
— ‘Self-deport’ flights begin as some illegal migrants take advantage of Trump’s tempting offer
https://www.theblaze.com/news/self-deport-flights-begin-as-some-illegal-migrants-take-advantage-of-trump-s-tempting-offer-report
BREITBART
— Department of Homeland Security Conducts First Self-Deportation Charter Flight of 64 Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/20/department-of-homeland-security-conducts-first-self-deportation-charter-flight-of-64-migrants/
— U.S. hits Indian travel agencies facilitating illegal migration with visa bans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/u-s-hits-indian-travel-agencies-facilitating-illegal-migration-with-visa-bans/
— Trump’s immigration crackdown targets Washington restaurants
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trumps-immigration-crackdown-targets-washington-restaurants/
— Trump administration agrees to pay nearly $5M to settle suit over Ashli Babbitt shooting in Capitol
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-administration-agrees-to-pay-nearly-5m-to-settle-suit-over-ashli-babbitt-shooting-in-capitol/
— Supreme Court allows Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status for Venezuelans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-revoke-temporary-protected-status-for-venezuelans/
DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Sudden Cancer Diagnosis Doesn’t Add Up, Doctors Say
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/joe-biden-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-doesnt-add-up-doctors-presidency/
— Trump Suggests Biden Diagnosis Could Be Part Of Bigger Conspiracy
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/donald-trump-joe-biden-cancer-diagnosis-conspiracy-cover-up/
— Cash Flowing Into Anti-ICE Group’s Coffers Came From Chinese Gov’t-Linked Sources
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/cpc-bankrolled-by-chinese-government-linked-sources/
DAILY SIGNAL
— There’s No Love Like the Democrats’ Love of Illegal Alien Criminals
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/theres-no-love-like-the-democrats-love-of-illegal-alien-criminals/
DAILY WIRE
— Biden Has Terminal Cancer. The Cover Up Was Way Worse Than We Thought.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1599-member-exclusive
EPOCH TIMES
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove Protected Status for Venezuelans
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-remove-protected-status-for-venezuelans-5859993
TOWNHALL
— Trump Admin’s ICE Operation Nets Over 400 Arrests and 500 Deportations, Targeting Criminal Immigrants
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/05/19/ice-arrests-422-undocumented-immigrants-deports-528-in-houston-operation-n2657306
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSNBC & NPR
— Democrat leaders want sellers to use Trump’s tariffs to raise their prices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnYR-zYpU0
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5387330/trump-tariffs-china-collect-manufacturing-revenue
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff. I should write about my RINO leaders who are White and/or male and who promote Affirmative Action and DEI. They a) want votes from minorities and/or from females and/or b) have children who are minority and/or female.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-afrikaners-trump-refugees-ramaphosa-c87264523d555a64c0588d8734bba83a
MSN
— My critics/opponents attribute their successes to meritocracy. They attribute my and everyone else’s successes to their benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/the-case-for-meritocracy/ar-AA1EeV7W
REUTERS
— US launches unit to target DEI policies at colleges with civil fraud probes
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-launches-unit-target-dei-policies-colleges-with-civil-fraud-probes-2025-05-20/
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-sides-venezuelan-man-seeking-return-us/story?id=121968260
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/most-venezuelans-not-at-immediate-risk-despite-tps-decision-immigration-attorney-says/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Melania Trump (the Statue) Vanishes in Slovenia. The bronze sculpture, erected near Ms. Trump’s hometown in eastern Slovenia, was chopped off at the feet and stolen, the police said. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/world/europe/slovenia-melania-trump-statue.html
— DOJ to use false claims act to pursue institutions over their discrimination efforts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/false-claims-act-dei-harvard.html
— The Miners Who Lost Their Jobs, but Not Their Faith in Trump’s Tariffs. With demand for steel down and a trade war underway, miners in the Iron Range of Minnesota are feeling the hit. But they hope better times are ahead. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be working for GAO. But I was collateral damage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/business/trump-tariffs-mining-steel.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Putin is stringing Trump along, and Trump doesn’t seem to realize it. As Putin stonewalls Trump’s ceasefire efforts, the U.S. president extends him patience and goodwill.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/19/putin-ukraine-ceasefire-trump/
BOSTON GLOBE
— Those who have demographics that vote for Republicans are more likely to enlist.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/20/opinion/military-recruiting-rebound-trump-biden/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders want the Pope to promote the anti-Catholic Democrat Party platform, that is, they want him to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/16/pope-leo-catholic-church-lgbtq-harrison-butker/83626547007/
— What should I do if my duties don’t match my job description? What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a) three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/05/13/job-duties-dont-match-description-hr/83410689007/
— Thousands of federal employees are on a roller coaster of being fired, rehired. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/federal-employees-fired-rehired-await-court-decision/83600693007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: These fired federal employees are considering running for public office. ‘It’s forced a choice’: Fired federal workers prepare to run for office. Democratic groups want to help. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/fired-federal-workers-run-politics-office/79329174007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip Biden Status From Venezuelan Migrants
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-migrant-legal-status-a2fc2f8d
— Will Anyone Take the Factory Jobs That Trump Wants to Bring Back to America? The president has pledged to bring more factory work back to U.S., but many manufacturing jobs are already going unfilled. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. Those jobs included two factory jobs: chipping slag and working on an automotive assembly line.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/will-anyone-take-the-factory-jobs-trump-wants-to-bring-back-to-america-f6cd377b
INC.
— Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/businesses-csr-corporate-social-responsibility-policies-trump/91190849
FAST COMPANY
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91310203/it-costs-nearly-300000-to-raise-a-child-in-2025
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
— Are/were you collateral damage? I have been collateral damage since 1964 because I have always been a Republican and virtually all those above me have been Democrats or RINOs.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0403/trump-tariffs-immigration-signal-doge
MEDICAL NEWS
— Study reveals high rates of cannabis use disorder in older US veterans. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250519/Study-reveals-high-rates-of-cannabis-use-disorder-in-older-US-veterans.aspx
EDUCATION WEEK
— Boys Are Struggling in School. What Can Be Done? It’s time to take a hard look at gender equity.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-boys-are-struggling-in-school-what-can-be-done/2025/05
POLITICO
— How Congress could crush Trump’s Qatari plane gift. Lawmakers are weighing everything from sticking amendments in defense legislation to holding up nominees as they try to stop the president from accepting the foreign-owned aircraft.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/19/trump-qatar-jet-gift-congress-block-00357593
AXIOS
— Swift, Beyoncé, Springsteen: Trump’s new political foes are pop stars
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/19/trump-celebrity-investigations-feud-taylor-swift-beyonce-bruce-springsteen
TIMES OF INDIA
— ‘Could he be more racist?’ Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson slammed for ‘only hiring black people’ comment in viral speech. My critics/opponents have always given preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always discriminated against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/could-he-be-more-racist-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-slammed-for-only-hiring-black-people-comment-in-viral-speech/articleshow/121265000.cms