FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump says he’s placing Washington police under federal control and activating the National Guard
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-is-promising-new-steps-tackle-homelessness-crime-washington-dc/17499673/
— Pritzker says President Trump ‘has no right’ to send National Guard to Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-pritzker-encourages-back-school-vaccinations-says-trump-is-violating-law-sending-national-guard-reduce-crime/17503840/
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-says-administration-looking-reclassifying-marijuana/17503437/
— Democrat elected officials gerrymander to elect Democrat candidates. Look at their Illinois 3rd Congressional District.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-illinois-vow-stay-special-session-ends-despite-st-charles-bomb-threat-greg-abbotts-arrests/17504587/
NBC5
— Trump vows to end ‘no cash bail,’ threatens crime crackdown in Chicago. “Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster,” Trump said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-vows-to-end-no-cash-bail-in-chicago-threatens-crime-crackdown/3807774/
— What is ‘no cash bail’? What to know as President Trump blasts the policy. The SAFE-T Act in Illinois banned cash bail in 2023.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/what-is-no-cash-bail-what-to-know-as-president-trump-blasts-the-policy/3807855/
— Pritzker responds after Trump calls him ‘incompetent,’ comments on his weight. “Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster,” Trump said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pritzker-responds-after-trump-calls-him-incompetent-comments-on-his-weight/3807905/
— Gerrymandering debate rages in Illinois as Texas lawmakers remain in state. The Texas legislature still has not convened to vote on the new maps, as Democrats remain out of state despite threats and criticisms
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/gerrymandering-debate-rages-in-illinois-as-texas-lawmakers-remain-in-state/3807960/
CBS2
— Trump says he’ll “end” no cash bail in Chicago while announcing National Guard deployment to D.C.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-no-cash-bail-chicago-national-guard-dc/
— Democrat candidates win because Democrat elected officials gerrymander.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/dick-durbin-texas-democrats-redistricting-fight/
FOX32
— Texas Democrats remain in Illinois amid redistricting fight
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1689395
— After Trump threatens Chicago with National Guard, Pritzker, Johnson push back
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1689390
WTTW
— Which Republicans Are Seeking Statewide Office in Illinois in 2026? So Far, Hardly Any.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/11/which-republicans-are-seeking-statewide-office-illinois-2026-so-far-hardly-any
— Federal Judge Allows Chicago to Join Lawsuit to Stop Trump from Yanking Funding Sanctuary Cities
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/11/federal-judge-allows-chicago-join-lawsuit-stop-trump-yanking-funding-sanctuary-cities
WGN RADIO
— Trump to send National Guard into Washington, said Chicago could follow
https://wgnradio.com/news/trump-to-send-national-guard-into-washington-said-chicago-could-follow/
— Why can’t the Trump Tower find tenants?
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/block-club-chicagos-mack-liederman-why-cant-the-trump-tower-find-tenants/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump says he’s placing Washington police under federal control and deploying the National Guard
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/trump-homelessness-washington/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/trump-big-bill-mass-deportations-congress/
— Our politics focus on what to do ‘for’ voters. That threatens the economy.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/jim-nowlan-our-politics-focus-on-what-to-do-for-voters-that-threatens-the-economy/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders say Trump’s warning about replicating a DC police takeover in Chicago an empty and illegal threat
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/08/11/donald-trump-trump-federal-takeover-dc-police-national-guard-chicago-threat-jb-pritzker
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/08/11/snap-cuts-economy-trump-big-beautiful-bill-marc-morial
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders promote Democrat Wheaton City Council member Erica Bray-Parker to succeed retiring Republican Amy Grant for the 47th state House district seat.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250811/illinois-state-politics/wheaton-city-councilwoman-running-for-state-house-seat/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump calls Johnson, Pritzker ‘incompetent’ — and hints at Chicago police takeover
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-threatens-chicago-police-takeover-slams-johnson-pritzker
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/trump-decision-marijuana-classification-coming
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give Blacks more preference.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/trumps-actions-highlight-threats-black-communities-opinion
— For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Democrat leaders of federal agencies decry/despise/hate Republican-led budget cuts. First, they deal with those cuts by getting rid of any remaining Republican employees. Next, they get rid of their Democrat employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. And last, their Democrat employees 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.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/federal-downsizing-leaves-still-employed-workers-vulnerable
— Federal job cuts take a bite out of Chicago’s economy. According to my Democrat and RINO critics/opponents, federal jobs should be given to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I am none of the aforesaid. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. Because I refused to become a Democrat, they ever-increasingly did everything that they could to get rid of me. I would not have survived for almost 3 years as a postal employee if I had not taken job-related undergraduate business courses at UIC 1966-1968 and NIU in 1969. I would not have survived for almost 9 years as an IRS employee if I had not a) taken graduate evening business courses at Loyola 1972-1976 and accounting courses DePaul 1976-1980 and b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I would not have survived for almost 18 years as a GAO employee if I had not a earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) became a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earned a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/federal-jobs-cuts-ripple-through-chicago-region
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The federal government is the largest employer in the Chicago area, although at nearly 48,000 it’s a modest slice of a 5 million-strong area workforce. At the start of the year, the federal workforce nationwide was 3 million and 82,000 in Illinois. DOGE’s program is disproportionately stinging African American employees like Cherry. Of the federal workforce, 18.6% are Black, while Black people account for 13.7% of the U.S. population. And Black workers are an even bigger presence — 20% or more — at a number of departments including the Postal Service, Education Department, Department of Housing & Urban Development, Treasury Department and Department of Veterans Affairs — all of which have been hit with job cuts since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January. The federal government is a significant employer of women of color, with Black women, Latinas and Asian women all having a greater presence in the federal workforce compared to the private sector, the National Women’s Law Center reports. “Federal employment is one of the few job sectors where Black women have had meaningful access to upward mobility,” Juliana Stratton, lieutenant governor of Illinois, and Cherita Ellens, president and CEO of Women Employed, wrote recently in a Chicago Tribune commentary essay. With above-average pay and solid benefits, federal employment has provided a path to the middle class not just for Black workers but for women and other disadvantaged groups. The government’s commitment to equal opportunity dating to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has made public service an attractive sector for career advancement that may be less accessible in the private sector. The Trump administration’s purge of offices that promote equal opportunity and diversity and inclusion has particularly affected the employment of Black Americans. “The federal government has played a unique role in the labor history of Black Americans,” economic researcher Joseph Dean wrote in a February report by the Washington, D.C., nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “The decades-long progress made by Black federal employees is in serious danger of being upended in a fraction of time it took to build,” Dean wrote. “Federal employment opportunities provide substantial economic independence and stability for Black middle class Americans.”)
25 NEWS NOW
— Which Republicans are seeking statewide office in 2026? So far, hardly any. Politicians set to gather at State Fair this week, unofficially kicking off 2026 election season.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/11/which-republicans-are-seeking-statewide-office-2026-so-far-hardly-any/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Thus far, just two lesser-known Republicans have expressed interest in challenging Pritzker in 2026. A similar group of lesser-known candidates is considering a U.S. Senate run, but there has been no news about anyone running for comptroller, treasurer or secretary of state. . .In the Senate race, four Republicans have filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and are actively raising money. Former Illinois Republican Party Chair Don Tracy is reportedly considering running for either governor or Senate and is expected to make an announcement soon. Ted Dabrowski, the president of conservative research site Wirepoints, is also considering running for governor. . .Bob Fioretti, who has unsuccessfully run for several offices as a member of both parties, is reportedly circulating petitions to run for attorney general. But even as petition-gathering begins, no other candidates are publicly known to be interested in running for other statewide offices. Notable names, including U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood and former Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter have declined to run for governor or Senate.)
FOX ILLINOIS
— DC Democrats rally against Trump’s deployment of National Guard
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/dc-trump-announcement-national-guard-district-residents-rally-against-deployment-federal-contro-section-740-home-rule-act-photo-watch-video-protests-crime-teen-violence
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-11/factories-from-ge-to-kraft-heinz-lose-immigrant-workers-stressing-those-who-remain
KHQA
— State Senator Jil Tracy files suit against Texas lawmakers hiding out in Illinois
https://khqa.com/news/local/state-senator-republican-jil-tracy-files-suit-petition-calls-for-arrest-complaint-against-texas-lawmakers-democrats-hiding-out-in-illinois-texas-redistricting-map-gop-plan-rigged-scheme-conservative-majority-2026-midterm-elections
WJBL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.wjol.com/loan-applications-for-all-cannabis-social-equity-licensees-set-to-open-today-august-11th/
SIU
— Democrats use DEI to get of Republicans who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://news.siu.edu/2025/08/081125-siu-celebrates-diversity-inclusion-during-belonging-week-2025.php
CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicagoreader.com/performing-arts/rhinestone-digest/rhinestone-digest-august-2025-parody-and-legality/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Will Trump Tower’s Riverfront Retail Space Ever Get A Tenant?
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/11/will-trump-towers-riverfront-retail-space-ever-get-a-tenant/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-359/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump deploys National Guard to D.C., federal government to take over metro police department
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/trump-deploys-national-guard-dc-federal-government-take-metro-police/
— Teachers unions’ political obsession harms children. Racial quotas, forced grade inflation don’t constitute advocacy for educators.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/teachers-unions-political-obsession-harms-children/
— Arab money flooding American universities. Opaque foreign funding in our schools is a national security problem.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/arab-money-flooding-american-universities/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Major New York hotel-turned-shelter ends operations after city ends contract
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3496193/major-new-york-hotel-migrant-shelter-ends-city-contract-eric-adams/
NEW YORK POST
— Zohran Mamdani benefits from rent-stabilization, affirmative action programs meant for less-fortunate
https://nypost.com/2025/08/11/opinion/zohran-mamdani-benefits-from-rent-stabilization-affirmative-action-programs-meant-for-less-fortunate/
FEDERALIST
— Politico Hacks Insist Gerrymandering Is Different When Democrats Do It
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/11/politico-hacks-insist-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it/
FOX BUSINESS
— Trump calls to get rid of sanctuary cities as he declares ‘public safety emergency’ in Washington, DC
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6376798033112
FOX NEWS
— Illinois Democrats tell feds to stop trying to ‘usurp’ state authority over immigration. Rep Jesus Garcia and Sen Dick Durbin led the letter to DOJ and DHS.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-democrats-tell-feds-stop-trying-usurp-state-authority-over-immigration
NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
— Why is Cook County in Illinois doling out $2M to the Chicago Abortion Fund?
https://nrlc.org/nrlnewstoday/2025/08/why-is-cook-county-in-illinois-doling-out-2m-to-the-chicago-abortion-fund/
PJ MEDIA
— Trump Takes Over D.C. Police, Vows to Revolutionize ’Slums’
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/08/11/breaking-trump-takes-over-dc-police-vows-to-revolutionize-slums-n4942593
THOMAS MOORE SOCIETY
— Cook County Doles Out $2M Grant to Bankroll Abortion Fund. Meanwhile, the Land of Lincoln continues to target pregnancy help ministries.
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/news/cook-county-doles-out-2m-grant-to-bankroll-abortion-fund
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Map shows governor approval rating
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-governor-approval-rating-2111902
POLITICO
— Teamsters pour money into GOP, shifting away from Dems. After years of loyally backing Democrats, Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien is diversifying the union’s PAC to support Republicans, too.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/11/teamsters-donations-00502709
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FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/10/letters-081025/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Higher education pays off in Illinois. Without my 1970 bachelor’s degree in management from NIU, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 and IRS in 1971. Without my taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Without my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, GAO would not have hired me in 1980. Without my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986. Without my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 and my earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors would have succeeded in forcing me to retire sooner than they did.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/higher-education-economic-mobility/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/06/immigrants-deportations-shrinking-health-care-workforce
NORTHWEST HERALD
— Which McHenry County offices are up next year and who’s running for reelection? Nominating petitions are circulating for the March 2026 primary election.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/08/10/which-mchenry-county-offices-are-up-next-year-and-whos-running-for-reelection/
HERALD REVIEW
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://herald-review.com/opinion/columnists/article_975e3036-fc97-549f-9b12-62ece3f00ee8.html
WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-judicial-picks/507-c6195acd-84c9-4ff9-8d62-3482e2d0f813
EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-illinois-texas-politics/
OAK LAWN PATCH
— Robert Cruz: IL-GOP on life support. Can the il-GOP swing the pendulum and compete. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders must focus on defending and advancing the Republican Party platform.
https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/il-gop-life-support
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/11/texas-dems-preach-defiance-in-chicago-00502628
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who is your Republican Precinct Committeeman (PC)? Is he/she running again? I am running again to be the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 Republican PC in Wheaton. Google AI’s overview of the Republican Precinct Committeeman position is at: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22precinct+committeeman%22+republican I was appointed as an Assistant PC in 1999 and then as a PC in 1999 to fill a vacancy. I was elected PC in 2000 and reelected every 2 years since. I served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010 and I served on all the MTRO fundraising committees 2000-2010. But those who continue to dominate MTRO a) rudely terminated as me as MTRO webmaster in 2004 and 2010, b) rudely defeated me when I ran for the open MTRO Treasurer office in 2004, c) rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, d) rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and e) rudely ended my Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee membership in 2024. They have never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer. They continue to demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being too conservative. They ever-increasingly blame me, blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, blame my serving as the Milton Township campaign coordinator for Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial campaign in 2002, blame my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership 2003-2007, blame my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship 2005-2012, and blame my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2012 for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They especially blame me for Jim Ryan losing to Blagojevich in 2002. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/10/sordid-history-gerrymandering/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump’s Full-Court Press on Immigration
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-full-court-press-on-immigration/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump cracks down on covert affirmative action with admissions transparency order
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-cracks-down-on-covert-affirmative-action-with-admissions-transparency-order/
DAILY WIRE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-gov-says-his-states-gerrymandering-is-ok-because-democracy
FEDERALIST
— Is Equal Outcome the Same as Equal Opportunity. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/disparate-impact-is-equal-outcome-the-same-as-equal-opportunity
FOX NEWS
— Vance calls on Republicans to take ‘decisive action’ to counter Democratic gerrymandering. Vance says Democrats benefit from illegal immigration through skewed census counts and gerrymandered maps.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jd-vance-calls-republicans-take-decisive-action-counter-democratic-gerrymandering
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376777340112
— Trump DOJ to fight ‘race-based gerrymandering.’ Illinois 3rd Congressional District is race-based gerrymandering.
https://www.aol.com/watch-trump-doj-fight-race-210941546.html
PJ MEDIA
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/10/the-left-is-trying-to-have-it-both-ways-on-gerrymandering-n4942582
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
— Illinois family battles state’s race-based scholarship. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.
https://pacificlegal.org/illinois-family-battles-states-race-based-scholarship/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Reince Priebus: The House Is Already Completely Gerrymandered — There Are What, 10 Competitive Seats Out Of 435?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/reince_priebus_the_house_is_already_completely_gerrymandered_–_there_are_what_10_competitive_seats_out_of_435.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/eric_holder_gop_gerrymandering_is_a_threat_to_our_democracy_dems_must_gerrymander_to_save_our_democracy.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The damaging effects of shifting from equal opportunity to ‘equal outcomes.’ My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/529262-the-damaging-effects-of-shifting-from-equal-opportunity-to-equal-outcomes/
MSN
— Since the 1960s, ever-increasingly, all those above me have been under ever-increasing pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, they have been under ever-increasing pressure to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-many-women-on-the-board-fewer-companies-are-saying/ar-AA1JTlM7
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Attacked California’s Congressional Maps. Republicans Want to Save Them. The independent body that redraws the state’s political maps isn’t perfect, many Republicans say. But they prefer that to the gerrymander that Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to offset one proposed in Texas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/california-redistricting-independent-commission.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/supreme-court-voting-redistricting.html
— Minimum Wage in L.A. Could Rise to $30 an Hour. In today’s dollars, I started earning $32.84/hour when I was 23 years old in 1972. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I had worked for IRS for 15 months and for Firestone Stores for 7 months before that. I had completed 3 graduate evening business courses at Loyola.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/minimum-wage-olympics-losangeles.html
— Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos. Young adults without jobs that provide insurance find that their options are limited and expensive. The problem is about to get worse. The federal government paying 72% of my health insurance helped withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/health/young-adults-health-insurance-26.html
— FRONT PAGE: The more that fight Trump, the more that Democrat leaders promote you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/politics/mayor-bass-los-angeles-raids.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Cannabis Poisonings Are Rising, Mostly Among Kids. As products like weed gummies proliferate, more children and teens are suffering symptoms including seizures and life-threatening breathing problems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/health/cannabis-poisoning-children.html
— Unions Push Democrats to Win Back Members Who Went to Trump. My critics/opponents despise/hate unions. I was a union member for almost 12 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/politics/democrats-labor-unions-nevada.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-school-choice-elections/
NEW YORK SUN
— Vance Assails 2020 Census as Flawed, Demands Complete Do-Over as Redistricting War Rages. Argument over mid-decade redistricting takes a new turn as the vice president declares U.S. Census Bureau made ‘major statistical error’ in 2020.
https://www.nysun.com/article/vance-assails-2020-census-as-flawed-demands-complete-do-over-as-redistricting-war-rages
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-texas-reopens-the-gerrymander-wars/20F020D8-3963-4D25-9BAB-9B28FFB903B9
— Equity, Equality, Fairness and Good Sense. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/equity-equality-fairness-and-good-sense-11612903580
— Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Solve U.S. Chip-Making Dilemma. Because Chevrolet suspended Malibu production in 2021 because of chip shortage, I bought one off the showroom floor instead of ordering one.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trumps-tariffs-wont-solve-u-s-chip-making-dilemma-c5aec29b
— Make Cars Beautiful Again. Congress quietly axed the fuel-economy standards that help drive the ugliness.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/make-cars-beautiful-again-design-auto-requirements-policy-e08fcfac
— FRONT PAGE: More Job Hunters Seek Pricey Help To Land New Roles. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they made it impossible for me to get a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hunting-expenses-resume-linkedin-887b4bd2
FORBES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2krf_LvgI1o
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/edi-meritocracy-why-hard-understand
AXIOS
— Which federal workers could lose protections under Trump order. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. 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 who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/28/trump-executive-order-federal-workforce
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/out-of-control-republicans-are-viciously-attacking-a-congresswoman-with-calls-to-deport-her/ar-AA1KcZAb
DAILY KOS
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/10/2337315/-Americans-hate-gerrymandering-Texas-Republicans-don-t-care
BUSINESS STANDARD
— How quota system looks across the globe. Around the world, quota systems in government jobs are employed as a tool to enhance the representation of historically marginalized or underrepresented groups. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. 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 who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.tbsnews.net/analysis/how-does-quota-system-look-across-globe-894951
August 7, 2025
For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Rhonda Belford: Democrats can’t fight for democracy in Texas while undermining it in Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/opinion-illinois-gerrymandering-texas-redistricting/
(FROM THE LETTER: Gov. JB Pritzker is once again talking about gerrymandering — just not in Illinois. This week, he welcomed Texas Democratic legislators to Oakwood, Illinois, to denounce Republican redistricting efforts in that state. But while Pritzker lectures red states about fairness, he continues to ignore the glaring problems in his own backyard. Don’t forget that in 2021, Pritzker signed one of the most blatantly and aggressively gerrymandered congressional maps in the country, drawn and passed by his own party. The map created districts with lines that make my grandchildren’s scribblings look like Pablo Picasso’s. It’s a stark contrast from when Pritzker was on the campaign trail. He promised to veto any map that was “in any way drafted or created by legislators, political party leaders and/or their staffs or allies.” Pritzker campaigned with a message of hope and fairness and moving past Democrats’ history of corruption. Then, at his first opportunity, Pritzker broke that promise without hesitation. “Fairness” wasn’t on Illinois Democrats’ minds. Now, as he positions himself to run for president, Pritzker is outraged. While standing on his giant soapbox and projecting his moral authority, he floated the idea of redrawing even more favorable maps in Illinois. That’s not democratic leadership; it’s partisan gamesmanship. That map gave Democrats a clear advantage in 14 of Illinois’ 17 congressional districts and earned an “F” for fairness from the nonpartisan Princeton Gerrymandering Project. The maps weren’t an accident. They deliberately cut out two Republican-leaning seats and helped lock in Democratic control. Let that sink in: The same man who signed, supported and pushed one of the worst partisan gerrymanders in the nation is now upset that other states are following his lead. Instead of looking in the mirror or pushing for national changes, Pritzker responds by threatening additional partisan moves that will continue to divide our state. Illinois families deserve better. They deserve fair representation, not districts drawn in backrooms to silence opposition and insulate power. When maps are rigged to favor one party, voters lose faith in our elections and our country’s founding principles. The truth is, with Democratic supermajorities in Springfield, there’s no one who can force Illinois Democrats to do the right thing and clean up partisan games — they need to do it themselves. If Pritzker truly wants to lead on voting rights and gerrymandering, he should start by honoring the promise he made to Illinois voters: to support an independent redistricting commission and end partisan gerrymandering in our state. The phrase “fix your own house before criticizing your neighbor” has never been more apt. And until Pritzker refuses to rein in Illinois’ partisan splintering map, his lectures about Texas ring hollow. Gerrymandering matters, and both Republicans and Democrats should do their part in making sure that there is a system that doesn’t play political games. But our country won’t learn how to draw better maps from the man who inked Illinois’ most gerrymandered script. Until then, his speeches about fairness will continue to ring hollow. You can’t fight for democracy in Texas while undermining it in Illinois. The phrase “fix your own house before criticizing your neighbor” has never been more apt. And until Pritzker refuses to rein in Illinois’ partisan splintering map, his lectures about Texas ring hollow. Gerrymandering matters, and both Republicans and Democrats should do their part in making sure that there is a system that doesn’t play political games. But our country won’t learn how to draw better maps from the man who inked Illinois’ most gerrymandered script. Before our governor lectures Texas on fairness, he should take a long, hard look at his own record — and start living up to the promises he made to the people of Illinois. Rhonda Belford is an Illinois Republican national committeewoman and president of the Republican County Chairmen’s Association of Illinois. She leads the 12th District State Central Committee.)
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/gov-jb-pritzker-colbert-texas-dems/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/immigrant-detention-indianapolis-speedway/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/latest-federal-sanctuary-list-chicago-illinois-cook-county/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump dismisses civil rights, fair housing cases in Chicago to focus on ‘real concerns’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/08/06/trump-general-iron-housing-environmental-racism
— Vance heading to Indiana, expected to push for redistricting ahead of midterms. The vice president will meet with Indiana Gov. Mike Braun to discuss redistricting the 1st and 7th congressional districts. The visit comes as Texas Democrats have taken refuge in the Chicago suburbs amid a similar effort in Texas.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/06/jd-vance-indiana-remap-bid-gov-mike-braun-meeting-midterms
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250807/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-too-much-to-ask-illinois-officials-please-keep-our-voter-data-private/
ABC7
— Trump announces Apple investing another $100 billion in US manufacturing
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-will-highlight-apples-plans-invest-100-billion-more-us-raising-total-600/17453133/
— Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/senator-dick-durbin-join-texas-democrats-illinois-halt-redistricting-effort/17449674/
NBC5
— Homeland Security removes age limits for ICE recruits to boost hiring for Trump deportations. Currently, ICE applicants must be 21 years old and no older than 37 or 40, depending on what position they are applying for. I have ever-increasingly fought age discrimination since I was 25 in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors used “up-or-out” to deem me too old to ever be promoted to GS-13. I finally made GS-13 when I was 38, but not until after I a) earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/homeland-security-age-limits-ice-recruits-deportations/3805515/?amp
FOX32
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1687252
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1686683
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/08/06/immigrants-deportations-shrinking-health-care-workforce
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— In Illinois, Democrat leaders have had their greatest success gerrymandering.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/06/gerrymandering-in-illinois-is-it-legal-stephen-colbert-pritzker-redistricting-district-map/85543930007/
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/07/pritzker-said-fleeing-texas-legislators-are-welcome-in-illinois/85551253007/
STATELINE
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/colbert-pritzker-redistricting-maps/
WGLT
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-08-06/gov-pritzker-says-illinois-could-retaliate-if-gop-redistricts-in-texas
WRIC
— Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/texas-democrats-who-fled-to-illinois-forced-to-evacuate-hotel-after-bomb-threat/
WAND TV
— Indiana plans to hold up to 1,000 illegal immigrants in ‘The Speedway Slammer’
https://www.wandtv.com/news/indiana-plans-to-hold-up-to-1-000-illegal-immigrants-in-the-speedway-slammer/article_54d196be-5f59-5636-be2a-ffb18926e5d8.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump’s immigration policies are having an impact in our workforce. With fewer illegals, wages will increase.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-06/trumps-immigration-policies-are-having-an-impact-in-our-workforce
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-05/the-politics-driving-the-push-for-gerrymandering
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-06/how-the-trump-administration-is-rolling-back-access-to-birth-control-in-the-u-s
— Trump calls for U.S. census to exclude for the first time people with no legal status
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-07/trump-calls-for-u-s-census-to-exclude-for-the-first-time-people-with-no-legal-status
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders prefer foreign students over American students.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-what-to-know-as-trumps-immigration-crackdown-strips-tuition-breaks-from-thousands-of-students/
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/city-council-set-to-approve-third-round-of-cannabis-grants-20546631
ILLINOIZE
— Rep. Amy Grant Won’t Seek Re-Election
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/sources-rep-amy-grant-wont
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Multiple sources say Rep. Amy Grant (R-Wheaton) one of the House GOP’s most perennially endangered incumbents won’t seek re-election in 2026. Grant did not return a phone call from The Illinoize, but we’re told she has informed many of her colleagues of her plans. She was elected in 2018 to the Wheaton-based district and has overcome hard charging Democrat challenges in the past three election cycles. After being vastly outspent in 2024, she won re-election by 292 votes. No word yet on who Republicans hope to see the seat. Democrats appear high on their candidate, Wheaton Village Trustee Erica Bray-Parker.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-563/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-356/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— If Texas Republicans succeed, their map will still not be as lopsided as the current map in Illinois.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_ba674a0c-cb0e-4fde-a52e-f15de7657e6b.html
— Feds warn Illinois State University on race-based diversity.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_12efb416-dfa1-4ef0-9cc8-beffe414f4eb.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Voter Fraud Is Real — Just Ask This Convicted Democrat Operative
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/08/voter-fraud-is-real-just-ask-this-convicted-democrat-operative/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Opting Out of Controversial Public School Content
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/opting-out-of-controversial-public-school-content/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Over half of Illinoisans unhappy with Pritzker
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/over-half-of-illinoisans-unhappy-with-pritzker/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Texas Democrats Go Into Hiding at St. Charles Hotel Amid Arrest Threat From Gov. Abbott
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/texas-democrats-go-into-hiding-at-st-charles-hotel-amid-arrest-threat-from-gov-abbott.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— NYC opens first taxpayer-funded transgender homeless shelter in US: ‘Progressive political theater’
https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/us-news/nyc-opens-63m-taxpayer-funded-transgender-homeless-shelter/
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://nypost.com/video/gerrymander-much-democrats-red-hot-takes/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Ramirez desperately tries to undo her America second statement
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/06/congresswoman-desperately-tries-to-undo-her-america-second-statement-thats-not-what-you-said-1574114/
— Stanford student newspaper sues Trump because some of the writers fear deportation
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/06/stanford-student-newspaper-sues-trump-because-some-of-the-writers-fear-deportation-1574146/
BREITBART
— Abbott Files Lawsuit to Start Removal ‘Derelict Democrat Texas House Members’ Who Fled State to Block Redistricting Bill
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/08/06/abbott-files-lawsuit-to-start-removal-derelict-democrat-texas-house-members-who-fled-state-to-block-redistricting-bill/
— Dem TX State Rep. Jones Compares Congressional Redistricting to the Holocaust
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/05/dem-tx-state-rep-jones-compares-congressional-redistricting-to-the-holocaust/
DAILY CALLER
— Liberal Media Dutifully Ignoring Illinois’ Blatant Gerrymandering Hypocrisy
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/06/liberal-media-dutifully-ignoring-illinois-blatant-gerrymandering-hypocrisy/
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/06/texas-democrats-redistricting-gerrymandering-illinois-ron-hart/
— Noem announced in a Fox & Friends interview on Wednesday that ICE is ending its age cap for officer applications. I have ever-increasingly fought age discrimination since I was 25 years old in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors used “up-or-out” to deem me too old to ever be promoted to GS-13. I finally made GS-13 when I was 38, but not until after I a) earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/06/kristi-noem-announces-end-of-age-cap-for-ice-applications/
DAILY WIRE
— Mr. Hypocrisy: Pritzker Bashes Texas Maps, Forgets His Own Power Grabs In Illinois
https://www.dailywire.com/news/mr-hypocrisy-pritzker-bashes-texas-maps-forgets-his-own-power-grabs-in-illinois
FEDERALIST
— Dems Furious At Prospect Of Losing Their Monopoly On Gerrymandering
https://thefederalist.com/videos/purnell-dems-furious-at-prospect-of-losing-their-monopoly-on-gerrymandering/
FOX NEWS
— Pritzker defies FBI: ‘Unwelcome’ to pursue Texas Democratic lawmakers. Pritzker argues no federal law broken as Republicans seek arrests over Texas redistricting stalemate.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-governor-defies-fbi-unwelcome-pursue-texas-democratic-lawmakers
— Shouldn’t members of Congress love America first? Not if you’re a Democrat. Rep. Delia Ramirez didn’t just celebrate her Guatemalan roots. Before world leaders, she elevated the country that her parents fled above the nation she was elected to represent.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/06/democrats-delia-ramirez-guatemala-anti-america/85522222007/
— Trump DOJ to fight ‘race-based gerrymandering,’ Dhillon says amid Texas redistricting battle. Texas redistricting battle began with DOJ push to ensure state’s districts were in line with federal voting rights laws. Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District is race-based gerrymandering.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-trump-doj-fight-race-based-gerrymandering-dhillon-says-amid-texas-redistricting-battle
— Colbert confronts Pritzker with map showing Illinois gerrymandering. ‘It’s like a stinger on a scorpion,’ Colbert said of one Illinois district
https://www.foxnews.com/media/colbert-confronts-jb-pritzker-map-showing-illinois-gerrymandering
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376614530112
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/colbert-confronts-jb-pritzker-map-120007545.html
— Dems wanted to draw every Republican out of Maryland but now lambast Texas redistricting. The ‘Patapsco Pterodactyl’ formed as part of a Democratic push to oust Republicans through redistricting.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-wanted-draw-every-republican-out-maryland-now-lambast-texas-redistricting
— Dems gerrymandered the vote beyond recognition
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376637385112
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dems-gerrymandered-the-vote-beyond-recognition-stephen-miller/vi-AA1K3ePZ
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-labels-texas-redistricting-push-a-power-grab-undermines-our-democracy
— Trump administration arrests ‘worst of the worst’ criminal illegal immigrants in enforcement sweep. Five men with convictions for firearm possession, burglary, child indecency and drug distribution targeted.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-administration-arrests-worst-worst-criminal-illegal-immigrants-enforcement-sweep
NATIONAL REVIEW
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/gerrymandering-meh/
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-gops-gerrymandering-battle-goes-national/
NEWSBUSTERS
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/08/06/colbert-lets-pritzker-dodge-question-illinois-gerrymandering
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/08/06/tapper-claims-gop-worst-offenders-when-it-comes
NEWSMAX
— ‘Speedway Slammer’ will get illegals out of here quickly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmAEdIzm2No
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Porter: We Welcome Texas Dems Bringing Attention to Absurd Illinois Gerrymandering
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/06/porter_we_welcome_texas_dems_bringing_attention_to_absurd_illinois_gerrymandering.html
— Pritzker’s Presidential Ambitions Are Sinking Him at Home
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jb-pritzkers-presidential-ambitions-sinking-110541880.html
TOWNHALL
— Home Depot Hide-and-Seek
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/08/06/ice-raids-la-home-depot-foot-chases-ensue-n2661487
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Illinois Gov Admits State’s Congressional Map Looks Like It Was Drawn by a ‘Kindergarten Class’
https://www.westernjournal.com/illinois-gov-admits-states-congressional-map-looks-like-drawn-kindergarten-class/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— It’s Pritzker’s party: Hell yes, he’s messing with Texas, and he’s not sorry.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5437052-its-pritzkers-party-hell-yes-hes-messing-with-texas-and-hes-not-sorry/
— Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote hatred against Republicans
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5438788-texas-democrats-bomb-threat-illinois/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pritzker to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5438411-jb-pritzker-donald-trump-texas-redistricting-midterms/
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5436443-trump-abbott-gerrymandering-texas/
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5440204-pritzker-law-texas-democrats-arrest/
NBC NEWS
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/redistricting-important-3-charts-rcna223163
CBS NEWS
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/history-gerrymandering-us-politics/
CNN
— White House plans increase in federal law enforcement in DC over crime as Trump threatens to bring in National Guard
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/politics/national-guard-washington-dc-crime-trump
MSNBC
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weeknight/watch/-this-is-bigger-than-texas-tx-congressman-warns-of-nationwide-gerrymandering-threats-244488773529
MSN
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/jb-pritzker-refuses-to-rule-out-gerrymandering-in-illinois-because-gop-has-thrown-the-rule-book-out/ar-AA1K017U
NEWSWEEK
— Illinois Removes Nearly 700,000 People From Health Care Plan
https://www.newsweek.com/illinois-removes-nearly-700000-people-health-care-plan-2109093
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.newsweek.com/illinois-jb-pritzker-texas-democrats-fbi-trump-2109980
NEW YORK TIMES
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/redistricting-states.html
— Trump Announces Additional $100 Billion Apple Investment in U.S. The White House said the pledge would bring more of the company’s supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/trump-apple-investment.html
— Columbia and Brown to Disclose Admissions and Race Data in Trump Deal. A widely overlooked part of a settlement with the two universities could profoundly alter how elite schools determine who gets accepted. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly crowed about their success in hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. That is, they ever-increasingly crowed about their success in not hiring, not retaining, and not promoting Republicans who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. By the time my GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, all of my Chicago office superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/nyregion/columbia-brown-admissions-trump.html
— My critics/opponents had parents who had lots of money. They bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. With the money that I earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air when was 16 in 1964. With the money that I earned delivering newspapers and washing dishes, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966. With the money that I earned cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, and delivering mail, I paid for my UIC and NIU college expenses and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967 and a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/upshot/trump-college-admissions-race-wealth.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape. Fort Bliss is preparing to detain at least 1,000 undocumented immigrants starting this month on the Mexican border.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/07/trump-fort-bliss-migrants-detention/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-08-06/essential-california-house-gerrymander-challenge
BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrats can’t gerrymander themselves out of their gerrymandering problem
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/opinion/gerrymandering-democrats-house-districts/
TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Homan Rips Ramirez For Declaring Allegiance To Guatemala
https://www.tampafp.com/border-czar-tom-homan-rips-illinois-rep-ramirez-for-declaring-allegiance-to-guatemala/
KANSAS CITY STAR
— New Plan to Eliminate DEI Influence at Naval Academy. In my defense, notwithstanding tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI pressure on my superiors in the federal government, a) I survived for almost 3 years working for the Democrats who ran the Post Office, b) I survived for almost 9 years working for the Democrats who ran IRS and even got promoted to GS-12 Step 5, currently $112,280/year, and c) I survived for almost 18 years working for the Democrats who ran GAO and even got promoted to GS-13 Step 10, currently $153,151/year.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-city-star-1592484/4160113274198-new-plan-to-eliminate-dei-influence-at-naval-academy
WCBM
— Ramirez Says She’s More Proud to Be Guatemalan Than American. I am 100% German American. Many, if not most, if not virtually all of my critics/opponents are anti-German American, if not German-American-haters. In my defense, I stress that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-f.
https://wcbm.com/national-headline/democrat-congresswoman-says-shes-more-proud-to-be-guatemalan-than-american/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Gerrymandering and Pritzker’s Inferno. Democrats’ hypocrisy is worthy of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gerrymandering-and-jb-pritzkers-inferno-5a12ade2
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gerrymandering-deepens-the-political-divide-903e24b2
BLOOMBERG
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-06/the-texas-gerrymandering-fight-could-ignite-a-national-fire?embedded-checkout=true
NPR
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493278/texas-redistricting-map-democrats-counter
FINDLAW
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/federal-courts/210649/
ATLANTIC
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/democrats-redistricting-republicans-gerrymandering-texas/683775/
NEW REPUBLIC
— I never did farm work. But I did do yard work, deliver newspapers, wash dishes, clean golf shoes, chip slag, pump gasoline, deliver mail, work on an automotive assembly line, sell tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pump more gasoline, collect delinquent federal taxes, and audit federal agencies. My critics/opponent ever-increasingly make it clear that they would never have stooped to take the jobs that I took. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198834/trump-undocumented-immigrants-naturally-made-work-farms
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservative groups. I should write about the following who demonized, denigrated, and condemned the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois the most: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. The aforesaid succeeded in destroying ICRC in 2007 and TAPROOT in 2012.
https://www.aol.com/emil-bove-consulted-far-legal-191800961.html
ROLLING STONE
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/gerrymandering-texas-republicans-map-trump-explained-1235401621/
INC.
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/workplace-diversity-and-social-programs-thrive-by-going-undercover/91223812
MS. MAGAZINE
— To get more votes from minorities, females, younger people, poor people, LGBTQers, non-married people, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those who have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, illegals, etc., Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy Whites, males, older people, non-poor people, heterosexuals, married people, Protestants, German Americans, those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, citizens of America, etc.
https://msmagazine.com/2025/08/06/men-mental-health-crisis-boys-trump-vance-violent-suicide-drugs/
GUARDIAN
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/06/supreme-court-texas-redistricting-gerrymandering
August 4, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Gov. Abbott orders arrests of Texas Democrats who fled to Illinois to halt GOP redistricting plan
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-plan-staying-illinois-2-weeks-halt-redistricting-gov-greg-abbott-threatens-loss-seats/17426930/
NBC5
— Illinois officials face pushback over Texas gerrymandering criticisms. Critics say Illinois’ maps are just as gerrymandered as Texas’ would be under a proposed law that has sparked controversy.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-officials-face-pushback-over-texas-gerrymandering-criticisms/3804336/
— Rep. Darin LaHood won’t run for Illinois governor, he says. LaHood also revealed he would not run for U.S. Senate.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/rep-darin-lahood-wont-run-for-illinois-governor-he-says/3804440/
— Redistricting clash escalates in Texas after Democrats scatter
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-trade-tariff-texas-redistricting-august-04-2025-live-updates/3804074/
CBS2
— Pritzker says redrawing Illinois district map “on the table” in response to Texas redistricting push
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pritzker-illinois-district-map-texas-democrats/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Tesla awards CEO Musk millions of shares valued at about $29 billion
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/tesla-elon-musk-share/
— Democrats prevent Texas House from moving forward with Trump-backed congressional map
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/texas-house-congressional-map/
— Why dozens of Democrats left Texas and how Republicans want to punish them
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/democrats-texas-republicans/
— Texas Democrats who fled to Chicago to deny GOP’s congressional redistricting effort speak out
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/watch-live-texas-democrats/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Public Schools needs $1.6 billion more from the state to provide an adequate education
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/08/04/chicago-public-schools-budget-deficit
— Pritzker’s signature on police pension bill adds pressure for state bailout and city property tax hike. The bill will cost the city $60 million more in 2027, and by 2055, city pension payments will be $750 million higher than they are now. It adds one more big pressure point onto Mayor Brandon Johnson, who already has said he won’t raise property taxes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/08/04/jb-pritzker-police-pension-bill-brandon-johnson-pressure-chicago-budget-state-bailout
DAILY HERALD
— Former GOP official Porter won’t run for Durbin’s Senate seat
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250804/us-congress-politics/gop-official-porter-wont-run-for-durbins-senate-seat/
— ‘We will hide them at our own legal peril’: DuPage Democratic leader pledges to protect Texan lawmakers
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250804/nation-and-world-politics/we-will-hide-them-at-our-own-legal-peril-dupage-democratic-leader-pledges-to-protect-texan-lawmak/
— Geneva woman Jessica Breugelmans running for Republican nomination for state Senate
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250804/news/geneva-woman-running-for-republican-nomination-for-state-senate/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push Blacks to be pot pushers.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/how-black-owned-label-can-help-grow-cannabis-brands-oped
WAND TV
— New DPS policies target students and visitors smelling of marijuana, other ‘distracting’ odors
https://www.wandtv.com/news/education/new-dps-policies-target-students-and-visitors-smelling-of-marijuana-other-distracting-odors/article_3450f262-c6fa-41ce-963a-452589331826.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Ahead of the new school year, Decatur Public Schools updated its district policies to emphasize banning marijuana and other “offensive” odors in its facilities. A DPS flyer said that students who come to school smelling like marijuana or other “distracting” odors will be instructed to call home for a change of clothes, or be picked up to change. Visitors who smell of marijuana or other “distracting” odors will be asked to leave the premises. The district justified the changes by saying that marijuana has an odor that causes/triggers allergic reactions, affecting indoor air quality and putting others at risk of getting sick. The district added that marijuana potentially has cancer-causing chemicals that put students, staff and others at risk. That policy went into effect July 1. According to the DPS 61 student code of conduct and parent handbook, those who use marijuana for medical purposes must provide a medical card upon request.)
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-08-04/professors-calling-for-northwestern-leaders-to-stand-up-to-the-trump-administration-first-listen
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-354/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Top Illinois GOP Donors Sit Out Upcoming Primary
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/sources-top-illinois-gop-donors-sit-out-upcoming-primary.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Gov. Pritzker to Fight Gerrymandering with… More Gerrymandering?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/08/gov-pritzker-to-fight-gerrymandering-with-more-gerrymandering/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Firing the government’s statically incompetent statisticians. Isn’t it about time? Of course, my Democrat superiors in the federal government hinted/implied/argued that they wasted my career, took adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire because I was incompetent. It is called pretext. But they were frustrated a) by my earning a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) by my passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, c) by my earning four more job-related professional certifications, and d) by my earning a job-related professional license.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/4/firing-governments-statically-incompetent-statisticians/
— Not sorry for immigration enforcement. Without borders, we have no country.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/4/sorry-sorry-immigration-enforcement/
TOWNHALL
— Texas House Approves Arrest Warrants for Democrats Who Fled to Illinois to Block Redistricting Vote
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/08/04/texas-house-approves-arrest-warrants-for-democrats-who-fled-to-illinois-to-block-redistricting-vote-n2661402
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Pritzker says Texas Democrats who fled state will be protected amid arrest threats
https://thehill.com/homenews/5434627-redistricting-battle-texas-illinois/
— Redistricting fights explode across US
https://thehill.com/newsletters/evening-report/5435411-texas-redistricting-political-war/
CBS NEWS
— State Department may require some travelers to post $15,000 bond for business or tourism visas
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-department-visa-bond-pilot-program/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Will Slow, but May Not Stop, the Rise of Electric Vehicles
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-electric-vehicles.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump moves to bar nearly all abortions at Veterans Affairs hospitals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/04/veterans-va-abortion-trump/
— Democrats are becoming a) more liberal, b) bigger advocates of mass/illegal immigration, and c) less proud to be American.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/04/democratic-party-change-under-trump-polls/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats are ever-increasingly becoming more anti-car, anti-American nameplate car, and anti-American nameplate muscle car.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/americas-love-affair-with-the-car-has-soured-over-money-4b73670f
— China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/china-western-defense-industry-critical-minerals-3971ec51
BUSINESS INSIDER
— What does our choice of vehicle reveal about our political preferences?
https://www.businessinsider.com/car-models-owned-by-republicans-democrats-american-politics-jeep-2024-10
CAR BUZZ
— 10 Muscle Cars That Prove America Does It Best. Cars I used to own include a 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS, 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint (a poor man’s GTO), 1968 Oldsmobile 442, 1968 Dodge Charger R/T, and 1969 Dodge Charger SE. Cars I currently own include a 1972 and 2005 Chevrolet Corvette, 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX, 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, and 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus. Please let me know if you share my interest in any of the aforesaid cars.
https://carbuzz.com/10-muscle-cars-showing-america-does-it-best/
GOOGLE AI
— Republican politicians and car choices
https://www.google.com/search?q=Republican+politicians+and+car+choices
August 4, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Texas Democrats plan on staying in Illinois for 2 weeks to halt redistricting
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-plan-staying-illinois-2-weeks-halt-redistricting-gov-greg-abbott-threatens-loss-seats/17426930/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: As political petition passing begins, Illinois Democrats have flood of candidates; Republicans have a trickle. Democrat and RINO leaders and their mainstream news media ever-increasingly treat the anti-conservative anti-Republican anti-Trump Pat Brady as being the spokesperson for the Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/petition-passing-starts-for-2026-election/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: So far, no major GOP candidates have emerged for U.S. Senate or most of the statewide offices. Democrats Gov. JB Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and Treasurer Mike Frerichs are all seeking reelection. DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick is the only announced candidate for governor of any political stature, and he reported July 1 having only $100,000 in cash on hand in his political fund to take on the billionaire Pritzker. Others are said to be weighing a bid, including former state GOP Chair Don Tracy, Palatine Township Highway Commissioner Aaron Del Mar and Ted Dabrowski, president of the conservative advocacy group Wirepoints. On Sunday, Richard Porter, an attorney and former Republican national committeeman from Illinois, used social media to announce he would not seek the GOP nomination for Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat. “After close consultations with my family and friends, I have decided not to pursue this opportunity,” Porter wrote in a Facebook post. “I intend to stay involved in the effort to turn around Illinois.” Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair on Aug. 14 may prove to be an important event for the party, depending upon whether potential candidates use the day to announce a decision to run.)
— Adding $11 billion to Chicago’s liabilities was a decision that lacked courage, Gov. Pritzker. Alas, the Governor just dug Chicago’s fiscal hole far deeper.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/editorial-jb-pritzker-police-fire-pensions-chicago/
— How postsecondary opportunities for students are changing for the better. My father often decried that he did not get promotions because he did not have a bachelor’s degree. That motivated me to earn not only a job-related bachelor’s degree, but three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/opinion-postsecondary-degree-programs-states/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Americans are losing faith in higher education. Nearly half of adults believe a college degree is less important to get a well-paying job than it was 20 years ago, and only a quarter believe a four-year degree is a very important part of getting a job that pays well. The question of value is front and center for policymakers across the country and in Washington.)
ILLINOIZE
— Top Republicans Critical of Illinois GOP Recruitment. According to reports, Richard Porter has decided to not run for U.S. Senate. My critics/opponents stress that the following have never recruited me to run for any office: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. According to the aforesaid, I am “too conservative.”
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/top-republicans-critical-gop-recruitment
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Republican Richard Porter has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Dick Durbin, according to his social media post to friends. “I intend to stay involved in the effort to turn around Illinois.” Here’s his post
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000198-7386-d0d9-a7be-f396cc9b0000
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago homicides lowest in decade, but so is arrest rate
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-homicides-lowest-in-decade-but-so-is-arrest-rate/
WIREPOINTS
— The whopping lie behind huge, new pension liability imposed by Springfield on Chicago
https://wirepoints.org/the-whopping-lie-behind-huge-new-pension-liability-imposed-by-springfield-on-chicago-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Legal group accuses Rutgers University of discrimination against white students in granting scholarships. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrating me, and condemned me for my not getting any scholarships, for my getting an ACT score of only 24, for my only just barely getting into the top 20% of my high school class, for my having to work my way through college, for my not getting a degree from an Ivy League university, etc.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/us-news/legal-group-accuses-rutgers-u-of-discrimination-against-white-students/
BREITBART
— Boston Democrats Opened Housing to Illegals Who Can’t Pay the Rent. Illegals illegally come to America illegally because Democrat and RINO leaders illegally invite them. Illegals come to America with nothing. That is, they come to America needing/wanting/demanding that America provide them with everything including housing, food, clothing, medical care, education, transportation, jobs, etc. Needless-to-say, Democrat and RINO leaders should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/03/boston-democrats-opened-housing-to-migrants-who-cant-pay-the-rent/
EPOCH TIMES
— Texas Democrats Leave the State to Prevent Redistricting Vote. The exodus could expose the Lone Star State lawmakers to fines, and other penalties—including the possibility of arrest.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-democrats-leave-the-state-to-prevent-redistricting-vote-5896083
NEWSMAX
— Texas Dems Arrive in Illinois to Block Trump’s Redistricting Maps
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/texas-democrats-leave-state-congressional-map-vote/2025/08/04/id/1221138/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Leftist Outrage Erupts At California Plan To Stop Paying Criminal Illegals’ Legal Bills
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/leftist-outrage-erupts-at-california-plan-to-stop-paying-criminal-illegals-legal-bills/ar-AA1JolYY
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump defends firing labor statistics chief. In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), the Democrats who ran GAO defended their wasting my career and forcing me to retire by hinting/implying/arguing/shouting that GAO treated me exactly like Congress wanted GAO to treat its employees like me who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran, that is, to waste their careers of and to get rid of them to make way for their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5434438-trump-defends-firing-labor-statistics-chief/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Many Democrats see their political party as being “weak” or “ineffective”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/they-roll-right-over-many-democrats-think-their-party-is-weak-ap-norc-poll-finds
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/nyregion/new-york-immigrant-arrests-trump.html
— White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge. My Democrat GAO superiors viciously used against me my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. They stressed that the cost was covered by my wife’s insurance. They ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact that our doctor advised against it because we both had fertility problems. According to my Democrat GAO superiors, if we had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and d) become a licensed CPA in 1981. All my Democrat GAO superiors had children and spouses who had little no income. They all strongly decried the time and money they had to spend to raise their children. They all hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if they had not had children, they would have professional certifications, master’s degrees, and a professional license like me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/03/trump-administration-ivf-care/
— Laura Loomer succeeds in getting Trump to dump Jen Easterly. I should write about my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors who succeeded in getting the Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO to dump me. They all stressed that I was conservative, Republican, draft-avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/west-point-easterly-trump-loomer.html
USA TODAY
— Democrats have devolved into a clown show. Democrats lose elections because they promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/04/trump-vance-republicans-democrats-harris-future/85462114007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under President Joe Biden, inflation hit a 40-year high, Russia invaded Ukraine, Hamas brutally attacked Israel and Iran built a robust nuclear program. Then Americans learned, while he was running for reelection, that Biden suffered from serious cognitive decline, raising questions about what the Democratic Party knew and when. Americans lost trust that Democrats were transparent and honest.)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/03/what-would-doj-epstein-files-contain/85306180007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/03/trump-epstein-scandal-vance-president/85481602007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ICE is recruiting agents with $50,000 signing bonuses. 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://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/02/ice-recruiting-signing-bonus-incentives-immigration-officers/85478464007/
FLORIDA PATCH
— I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 years old in 1981. My critics/opponents have always viciously ignored, dismissed, and belittled that. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://patch.com/florida/lakeland/john-stossel-raises-important-topic-tortured-bureaucrats-impact-licensing
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Racial Gerrymanders in the Dock. The Supreme Court will hear what could be a voting rights landmark. Democrat leaders will forever shout that Blacks and Hispanics will forever need preference big time because Republicans will forever discriminate against them.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/racial-gerrymanders-in-the-dock-31f93146
— Four Ways to Prepare for When Your Adult Kids Need Financial Help. Many parents continue to support their children after they graduate from college. It helps to start planning for that, just in case.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/adult-children-financial-help-tips-54a7c601
— It’s a Tough Job Market for New College Grads. Is an Advanced Degree Worth It? The temptation for young adults is great, as they struggle to find jobs. The key is to do the numbers. When I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21 in 1970. Immediately going on to earn an MBA was not an option for me because I had to have a job to help support my mother and brother. I took the only job offer that I got, to be the Retail Sales Manager in the Chicago Heights Firestone Store. The job did not really require a college degree. I did not earn an MBA until I was 27 in 1976. By then, it was too late.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/advanced-degree-graduates-job-market-5450de28
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
— Qualifications When I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, I was qualified to transfer as a GS-13 Step 1, currently $117,807/year. But my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to transfer as a GS-9 Step 10, currently $88,809/year, a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars. They ignored/dismissed/belittled a) that GAO audits IRS, b) that I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which as a GS-12 Step 1-5, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. They would have transferred me as a GS-13 if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates viciously used against me my having to take a pay cut to transfer. I made GS-13 in 1986, but only after I had a) completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and c) became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4
GOOGLE AI
— Political recruitment If you had run for a government office or a political office, what would have stressed? I would have stressed a) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which as a GS-12 Step 1-5, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) that I earned an MBA from Loyola, a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and a master’s degree in finance from IIT, d) that I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, e) that I earned four more job-related professional certifications, and f) that I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=7bb187fa02092698&sxsrf=AE3TifMd3VPsMy2JnrWybKuN-BV9ORgeqQ:1754293415076&q=recruit+candidates+%22qualifications%22
August 2, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker signs police and fire pension bill expected to cost Chicago billions
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-signs-005100717.html
CHICAGO SUIN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/08/01/illinois-sues-the-trump-administration-to-protect-access-to-gender-affirming-care
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/29/maga-trump-epstein-kash-patel-bondi-mona-charen
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/08/02/hate-illinois-journalism-job-cuts-immigrants-christianity-maga-summer
DAILY HERALD
— Trump administration requests voter data from Illinois elections
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/news/trump-administration-requests-voter-data-from-illinois-elections/
— Kelly leans on experience in Illinois’ Democratic Senate primary. Politics is nasty/vicious. When I ran for the open Milton Township Republican Organization Treasurer position in 2004, I stressed my experience. At that time, I was serving as the Illinois Center Right Coalition Treasurer. I had served as the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter Treasurer for 3 years. I was a licensed CPA. I had passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I had a master’s degree in accounting. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years and for GAO for almost 18 years. But my opponent had his operatives and his dupes demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me. He got 69 votes and I got only 13. He blamed me big time for George Ryan’s problems and for Jim Ryan’s loss to Blagojevich. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/news/kelly-leans-on-experience-in-illinois-democratic-senate-primary/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against corporations.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/08/02/new-legislation-would-provide-corporate-accountability-opinion/85442384007/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders drive the stock market down.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/01/stocks-tumble-after-trump-unveils-sweeping-new-tariffs/
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— What if you had gotten a student loan? For me, my GPA would have been higher because I spend far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://chicagodefender.com/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-limits-student-loan-forgiveness-for-millions/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Trump causes all the problems that Blacks have. What are your demographics? Who causes your problems?
https://chicagodefender.com/black-workers-at-risk-as-trump-slows-equity-focused-job-investments/
SUBURBAN LFE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/07/22/engaged-and-connected-many-protesters-doing-more-than-attending-rallies-protests-to-advocate-for-change/
NAPERVILLE PATCH
— Naperville Hispanic Heritage Festival September 13
https://patch.com/illinois/naperville/save-date-naperville-hispanic-heritage-festival
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Embattled Biden Warns of “Dark Days” Under Trump in Fiery Chicago Speech to National Bar Association
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/embattled-biden-warns-of-dark-days-under-trump-in-fiery-chicago-speech-to-national-bar-association.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Fire bad federal employees and reward good ones. According to my critics/opponents, all the many big adverse actions that my Democrat superiors in the federal government took against me were justified because I was a bad employee. In my defense, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job related professional license.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/2/trump-right-fire-bad-federal-employees-reward-good-ones/
NEW YORK POST
— Biden stumbles through speech at Chicago gala as he warns US in ‘dark days’
https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/us-news/biden-takes-aim-at-trump-as-existential-threat-to-black-americans-in-speech-to-lawyers-group/
BREITBART
— U.S.-Bound Illegal Immigration Through Panama’s Darien Gap Drops 99.98%
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/01/u-s-bound-illegal-immigration-through-panamas-darien-gap-drops-99-98/
DAILY CALLER
— Liberal Groups Aim To Make Immigration Courts Safe Haven For Illegals
https://www.aol.com/liberal-groups-aim-immigration-courts-152513289.html
FEDERALIST
— Immigration Crackdown Protects Americans From Murderers And Rapists Biden Released Into The Streets
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/01/immigration-crackdown-protects-americans-from-murderers-and-rapists-biden-released-into-the-streets/
FOX NEWS
— Illegals being deported have no one to blame but themselves. Illegals will argue that Democrat and RINO leaders invited them in.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376474118112
— Democratic states sue Trump admin over ending sex change surgeries for minors
https://www.foxnews.com/us/democratic-states-sue-trump-admin-ending-sex-change-surgeries-minors
NEWSMAX
— Illegals Reduce US Workers’ Wages. When I was young, if there had been as many illegals as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, but if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/illegal-immigrants-workers-tom-homan/2025/08/01/id/1221021/
— 2M Illegal Immigrants Ordered Deported Remain in US
https://www.newsmax.com/us/illegal-migrants-donald-trump-ice/2025/08/01/id/1220979/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump administration revokes Biden era abortion rule for veterans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at women that getting fast free abortions should be their top priority.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5433244-trump-administration-revokes-biden-era-abortion-rule-for-veterans/
MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give Blacks more preference. To give one group preference is to discriminate against other groups. My critics/opponents brag that they give preference not only to Blacks, but to all minorities, females, young people, LGBTQers, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/discrimination-black-people-ap-poll-rcna222306
AOL
— Hunter Biden Says He Would Invade Sovereign Nations To Bring Illegals Back To US
https://www.aol.com/hunter-biden-says-f-ing-204936412.html
YAHOO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage federal employees to be LGBTQers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-greenlighting-discrimination-against-220258175.html
CBS NEWS
— Everyone has always know that Biden’s parole program was illegal.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-expedited-deportations-of-those-who-entered-u-s-legally-possibly-curtailing-ice-courthouse-arrests/
ABC LOS ANGELES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7.com/post/socal-ice-raids-appeals-court-keeps-order-blocking-trump-administration-indiscriminate-immigration-sweeps/17400025/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/climate/trump-climate-skeptics-science-report.html
— Democrat leaders defend a job data report showing surprisingly weak hiring in July and large downward revisions to job growth in the previous two months.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/business/economy/trump-bls-firing-jobs-report.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mamdani.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/opinion/zohran-mamdani-progressives-left-black-voters.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders come to Erika McEntarfer’s defense. I should write about those who could have and should have come to my defense, but did not. I would focus on Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/01/who-is-erika-mcentarfer-bls-fired-by-trump/1f94b186-6f2b-11f0-aab6-8141d7095676_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. Everyone has always know that Biden’s parole program was illegal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/01/trump-parole-expedited-removals-chnv-deportations/
WPRO
— Illegals Reduce US Workers’ Wages. When I was young, if there had been as many illegals as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, but if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.997wpro.com/2025/08/01/homan-to-newsmax-illegals-reduce-us-workers-wages/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/stop-the-ice-workplace-raids-immigration-trump-illegal-5e09b05f
— Democrat leaders drive the stock market down.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/jobs-report-today-stock-market-08-01-2025
— Trump Orders Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief. GAO works for Congress. In 1997, when I was 49 years old, my Democrat GAO superiors acted like the Democrat U.S. Senators and Congressmen who represented Illinois ordered them to fire me, that is, to force me to retire. The Senators were Carol Moseley Braun and Paul Simon. The ten Democrat Congressmen included Bobby Rush, Dick Durbin, and Jesse Jackson Jr. The ten Republican Congressmen included Henry Hyde, Dennis Hastert, Ray LaHood, Harris Fawell, and Phil Crane. At that time, I was one of the very few remaining Republican employees in GAO’s Chicago Office and I was the only one who was an active member of a class action lawsuit that charged GAO with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-orders-firing-of-bureau-of-labor-statistics-chief-d8eaa272
AXIOS
— Trump admin rescinds Carter‑era DEI mandates for federal hiring. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. 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://www.axios.com/2025/08/01/trump-doj-dei-federal-hiring-carter
INDEPENDENT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Trump causes all the problems that Blacks have. What are your demographics? Who causes your problems?
https://www.aol.com/more-70-black-voters-disapprove-205101322.html
July 28, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump calls for Kamala Harris, celebrities who endorsed her, like Oprah, Beyoncé, to be prosecuted
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-calls-former-vp-kamala-harris-celebrities-endorsed-like-oprah-beyonce-prosecuted/17338450/
NBC5
— Pritzker signs new gun safety bills, with DOJ opposition emerging to laws
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/pritzker-signs-new-gun-safety-bills-with-doj-opposition-emerging-to-laws/3799637/
WTTW
— Chicago Organizers, Officials Call on ICE to Keep Away From Fiesta del Sol and Other Community Events. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/28/chicago-organizers-officials-call-ice-keep-away-fiesta-del-sol-and-other-community
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker ever-increasingly demonizes, denigrates, and condemns gun owners.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/28/illinois-gun-laws/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/07/28/fiesta-del-sol-organizers-immigrant-ice-arrests
— The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/07/28/the-rundown-trump-targets-signs-of-homelessness-not-causes
JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Former Illinois GOP Chair Don Tracy weighs run for governor
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_d10557a5-6fe8-561c-8d29-35f32083164c.html
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/carlinville-protesters-stories-illinois-macoupin-20782377.php
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with their illegals against America.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-07-28/immigrants-sue-over-trumps-mandatory-detention-no-bail-policy
BURR RIDGE PATCH
— Did Burr Ridge Mayor Post On Politics In Right Spot? Mayor Gary Grasso announced his candidacy on a page that may be seen as linked to the village government.
https://patch.com/illinois/burrridge/did-burr-ridge-mayor-post-politics-right-spot
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois GOP chair Kathy Salvi blasts Pritzker’s North Carolina speech
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_593340e7-467c-4407-a396-3e2345cf84dc.html
WIREPOINTS
— Once an Illinois showpiece E.V. maker, bankrupt Lion Electric voids warranties on school buses sold in Illinois and across the U.S.
https://wirepoints.org/once-an-illinois-showpiece-e-v-maker-bankrupt-lion-electric-voids-warranties-on-school-buses-sold-in-illinois-and-across-the-u-s-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats conduct political autopsy but ignore the real cause of death. Party driven by socialism, open borders, and gender ideology heading for more election defeats.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/28/democrats-conduct-political-autopsy-ignore-real-cause-death/
— California’s 2.2 million illegal immigrants constitute a national security crisis.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/28/californias-22-million-illegal-immigrants-constitute-national/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The True Roots of Transgenderism. The pro-family movement is surging back, aiming not just to stop transgenderism—but to roll back the entire LGBT agenda and restore a culture rooted in biology, truth, and tradition.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/28/the-true-roots-of-transgenderism/
— Democrats Are Endangering ICE Agents to Support Open Borders
https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/26/democrats-are-endangering-ice-agents-to-support-open-borders/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Law Firm Discrimination
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/law_firm_discrimination_an_insider_s_view.html
— Chicago believes it just scored a huge win over Trump’s lawsuit against ‘sanctuary’ policies – but it’s a hollow victory
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/chicago_believes_it_just_scored_a_huge_win_over_trump_s_lawsuit_against_sanctuary_policies_but_it_s_a_hollow_victory.html
— Major Shipping Line Matson Closes the Hatch on Transport of Electrical Vehicles
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/major_shipping_line_matson_closes_the_hatch_on_transport_of_electrical_vehicles.html
— It’s Time for the Administration To Start Creatively Downsizing The Federal Workforce Again. Democrats run the federal government. They use budget cuts to get rid of any remaining Republican employees.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/it_s_time_for_the_administration_to_start_creatively_downsizing_the_federal_workforce_again.html
BREITBART
— Majority Favor Deporting Migrants in the Country Illegally
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/28/immigration-poll-majority-favor-deporting-migrants-in-the-country-illegally/
COLLEGE FIX
— Drones, cameras, AI: University of Illinois real time crime center raises privacy concerns
https://www.thecollegefix.com/drones-cameras-ai-university-of-illinois-real-time-crime-center-raises-privacy-concerns/
DAILY CALLER
— Democrats Using Time Off To Travel To Red States, Try Convincing People Trump’s Bad
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/25/democrats-time-off-travel-red-states-convincing-people-trump-bad/
— Wealthy Residents Of Maine Resort Town Fret Over Losing Access To Cheap Illegal Labor
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/28/wells-maine-police-department-ice-immigrants-hospitality-economy/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Arrests of Criminal Illegal Aliens Have Made a Real Impact on Public Safety
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/28/exclusive-dhs-celebrates-falling-crime-rates-amid-removal-of-worst-of-the-worst-criminal-illegal-aliens/
FEDERALIST
— Apple Puts America At Risk By Partnering With China
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/28/apple-puts-america-at-risk-by-partnering-with-china/
— Continued Enrollment Slide For Public Schools. Most public schools are now failing in three critical areas that parents care about when deciding on their children’s K-12 education: academic rigor, student discipline, and the campus’ moral influence.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/28/heres-why-new-data-finds-continued-enrollment-slide-for-public-schools/
— ‘Riddled With Errors,’ Dirty Voter Rolls Pose Growing Threat To Election Integrity
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/28/riddled-with-errors-dirty-voter-rolls-pose-growing-threat-to-election-integrity/
— American Birth Rates Drop To Levels Of Civilizational Suicide
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/25/american-birth-rates-rates-drop-to-levels-of-civilizational-suicide/
FOX NEWS
— Dems’ sanctuary policies shield ‘gangbangers,’ harm Latino families, businesses
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-sanctuary-policies-shield-gangbangers-harm-latino-families-businesses-says-hispanic-gop-lawmaker
HEARTLAND INSTITUTE
— Electricity Generated from Wind and Solar Cannot Replace Fossil Fuels
https://heartland.org/opinion/electricity-generated-from-wind-and-solar-cannot-replace-fossil-fuels/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Dept. Education Investigates Discrimination Against American-Born Students
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/dept-education-investigates-discrimination-against-american-born-students-after-equal-protection-project-complaints/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Wall Street Journal Poll Finds Lowest Approval for Democratic Party in 35 Years
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/wall-street-journal-poll-finds-lowest-approval-for-democratic-party-in-35-years/
TOWNHALL
— Do Republicans Have a Decent Shot at Defying History in the Midterms?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2025/07/28/early-analysis-do-republicans-have-a-decent-shot-at-defying-history-in-the-midterms-n2661004
— Democrats Are the Physically Broken Party
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/kurtschlichter/2025/07/28/democrats-are-the-physically-broken-party-n2661047
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
FED SMITH
— The IRS Is Targeting Federal Workers Over Unpaid Taxes
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/07/24/irs-is-targeting-federal-workers-over-unpaid-taxes/
AGA
— Jeffrey C. Steinhoff. One could compare and contrast Steinhoff’s very successful 40-year GAO career with my failed 18-year GAO career. While both Steinhoff and I are CPAs, Certified Fraud Examiners, and Certified Government Financial Managers, I am also a Certified Internal Auditor, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant and a licensed CPA. While Steinhoff served as a National President of the Association of Government Accountants (AGA), I only served on the Executive Committee of AGA’s Chicago Chapter for 13 years. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. Steinhoff had no interest in me even though a) 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, b) I had earned an MBA in 1976, c) I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and d) I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting. I completed those requirements in 1980 and I subsequently earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997.
https://www.agacgfm.org/Chapters/Washington-DC-Chapter/OurChapter/Chapter-Awards-2025-Winners.aspx
July 25, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
BURR RIDGE PATCH
— Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso, an attorney, has announced he would run as a Republican for chairman of the DuPage County Board. Republican candidates increasingly lose elections in DuPage County because Democrats increasingly move into DuPage County to take advantage of the prosperity and safety that Republicans created there.
https://patch.com/illinois/burrridge/burr-ridge-mayor-seeks-higher-office
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The current chairman is Democrat Deb Conroy, who is in her first term. He served on the county board from 2012 to 2018. He has been mayor twice – 2005 to 2012 and since 2019. Historically, Republicans have controlled DuPage’s government. However, that has changed in recent years as Democrats have become more popular in suburbs across the country. In his statement, Grasso described himself as “socially moderate.” But Grasso may have trouble attracting the party’s MAGA wing. In 2022, Grasso lost the Republican race for Congress to MAGA enthusiast Keith Pekau, then Orland Park’s mayor, who went on to lose to Democratic incumbent Sean Casten. In his announcement, Grasso said Burr Ridge was the first to receive busloads of migrants from Chicago without notice or information about them. He said Burr Ridge welcomed the migrants while assuring the community that all were respecting the law. He said he would protect law-abiding, taxpaying immigrants who want to become citizens. But he said he would never offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants who commit violent or serious crimes. Grasso also promoted his handling of the pandemic. He said he worked with the Village Board to provide stipends to small businesses to pay rents and salaries. He also said he found money to erect tents for restaurants rather than follow an “ill-advised” order to close them. Grasso said he was proud that Burr Ridge did not close or lose one business to COVID. “This is one of several reasons why the Village of Burr Ridge is debt-free today,” the mayor said. In his statement, Grasso noted he was chairman of the county’s 911 board. In that post, he said he led the consolidation of the county’s 21 call centers to two. He announced his Republican candidacy on his Facebook page titled, “Gary Grasso – Mayor of Burr Ridge” and labeled “Public & Government Service.” The Democratic and Republican primaries are March 17.)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/24/donald-trump-onetime-friendship-jeffrey-epstein/
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/25/opinion-harvard-university-donald-trump-free-speech/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Tribune lays off 8 from newsroom, including 5 union members. The cuts amount to about 10% of the newsroom. Meanwhile, the owner of the Tribune submitted a bid to buy the Dallas Morning News.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/07/24/chicago-tribune-newsroom-layoffs-alden-global-capital
— Last remnant of Columbus statue being removed from Grant Park as city looks to add ‘rotating art.’ The statue’s pedestal removal Thursday angered the president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, who called it a betrayal of a deal the committee had with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025/07/24/columbus-statue-pedestal-removal-grant-park-rotating-art
— Just like their flock, Catholic priests are deeply divided politically, based on their campaign contributions. The Chicago Sun-Times found that more than 70 Catholic clerics in Illinois collectively gave over $50,000 to political campaigns since 2021. The money was almost evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with President Donald Trump and his 2024 rival Kamala Harris both recipients. The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/07/25/catholic-priests-illinois-campaign-contributions-donald-trump-kamala-harris-democrats-republicans
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Former Glendale Heights village president accused of forgery, perjury
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250724/crime/former-glendale-heights-village-president-accused-of-forgery-perjury/
— Feds weigh in on lawsuit challenging how Illinois maintains voter registration rolls
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250724/illinois/feds-weigh-in-on-lawsuit-challenging-how-illinois-maintains-voter-registration-rolls/
ABC7
— How Hulk Hogan came to endorse Trump in 2024
https://abc7chicago.com/post/how-hulk-hogan-came-endorse-trump-2024/17277974/
CBS2
— Trump signs executive order aimed at making it easier to remove homeless people from the streets
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-executive-order-homeless-people/
WGN9
— Trump and Hulk Hogan forged a decadeslong bond based on wrestling, reality stardom and politics
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/ap-politics/ap-trump-and-hulk-hogan-forged-a-decadeslong-bond-based-on-wrestling-reality-stardom-and-politics/
FOX32
— CTU calls on governor to ‘Trump-proof’ Illinois and fund education
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1679977
CRAIN’S CHICAG BUSINESS
— Chicago Tribune begins newsroom layoffs in wake of failed buyouts. My Democrat GAO superiors always wanted to get rid of me and my coworkers who shared my demographics. In 1993, when I was 45 years old, they “offered” those like me who had 25 or more years of federal service a $25,000 buyout if we retired early. They succeeded in forcing me to retire 4 years later just before their “offer” expired. I would not have been eligible for regular retirement for another 6 years. Beyond the tremendous negative financial impact of being forced to retire early, it gives your critics/opponents something very big to use against you. They will hint/imply/argue/shout that the real reason why you were forced to retire early is that you are a bad person. Further, the more qualifications that you have, the more that they will hint/imply/argue/shout that the real reason why you were forced to retire early is that you are a bad person. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marketing-media/chicago-tribune-begins-newsroom-layoffs-after-buyouts-fail
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/rep-raja-krishnamoorthi-we-need-full-disclosure-of-the-epstein-files/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Sooner or later, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be on SNAP.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/07/23/illinoisans-will-see-reduced-snap-benefits-under-big-beautiful-bill/85311267007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump offers support to Musk’s car company in a surprising post as Tesla stock plunges. President Donald Trump took a break from his bitter public feud with Elon Musk by offering support to Tesla in an early morning post on Truth Social.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-offers-support-to-musks-car-company-in-a-surprising-post-as-tesla-stock-plunges/article_329095a2-843a-550d-a554-cc2fcbd32dd0.html
FOX ILLINOIS
— Obama to headline Martha’s Vineyard fundraiser amid Trump administration treason claim
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/obama-to-headline-marthas-vineyard-fundraiser-amid-trump-administration-treason-claim
NPR ILLINOIS
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-07-24/the-trump-administration-is-drastically-changing-education-in-america-whats-it-mean-for-you
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/most-americans-support-legal-access-to-abortions-in-most-cases-survey/amp/
— Trump signs bill to cancel $9 billion in foreign aid, public broadcasting funding
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-signs-bill-to-cancel-9-billion-in-foreign-aid-public-broadcasting-funding/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trumps-onetime-friendship-with-jeffrey-epstein-is-well-known-and-also-documented-in-records/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/illinois-capitol-news/majority-disapprove-of-trumps-handling-of-epstein-files-emerson-college-polling-survey/amp/
WCIA & WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wcia.com/news/national/most-americans-support-legal-access-to-abortions-in-most-cases-survey/
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/how-us-adults-feel-about-legal-abortion-3-years-after-roe-was-overturned-according-to/article_e79f9e55-bdde-507d-a47a-90564b54413f.html
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/illinois-keeps-988-services-for-lgbt-youth-20483503
CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America. They see them as being future Democrats.
https://chicagocrusader.com/raoul-praises-court-for-upholding-birthright-citizenship/
CHICAGO READER
— The great divide between Chicago and the rest of Illinois. A report on the state of our uncomfortable union. The Democrats who run Chicago despise/hate a) the rest of Illinois and b) Republicans. Democrats ever-increasingly invade, infiltrate, infest, and destroy a) the rest of Cook County and b) the collar counties.
https://chicagoreader.com/columns-opinion/opinion/divide-chicago-illinois-chris-ware/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois basically has two regions: Chicago and “downstate.” Dense Chicago is reliably Democratic, whereas downstate skews conservative, but rarely enough to flip the electoral switch. The last time Illinois voted in the federal elections for a Republican president was in 1988.)
CAPITOL CITY NOW
— Sooner or later, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be on Medicaid. How dependent is your hospital on Medicaid?
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-state-financial-officers-including-illinois-frerichs-claim-medicaid-cuts-will-put-healthcare-into-disarray/
STATE OF ILLINOIS
— Illinois Reinforces Commitment to Pay Transparency and Equity. My Democrat superiors in the federal government were always proud to report that they paid their Democrat employees more than they paid their Republican employees including me. They especially paid my Democrat coworkers more who were minority, female, veteran, and/or younger. They were especially proud to report that they forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1997. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, veteran, and/or younger, they would transferred me in as a GS-13, currently $117.807/year. Because I am a Republican, they did not assign me to audits of IRS and promote me to GS-13 until I was 38 years old in 1986. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. GAO audits IRS. I had worked IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. All my coworkers who my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who were minority, female, veteran, and/or younger and/or b) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/illinois/iisnewsattachments/31501-072425-idol-eprc-reporting-requirement-change.pdf.pdf
DURBIN
— The Only Qualification That President Trump Looks For In His Nominees Is Loyalty To Him And His MAGA Agenda. Durbin took to the Senate floor to denounce President Trump’s extreme and unqualified judicial nominees. The only employee qualifications that my Democrat superiors in the federal government looked for was being Democrat, minority, female, and/or younger. They replaced me with my Democrat Black subordinate when I was 49 years old in 1997. He had less job-related work experience than I had. He had less job-related education than I had. He had one job-related professional certification while I had six. He had no job-related professional license like the one I had.
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-on-trumps-extreme-judicial-nominees-the-only-qualification-that-president-trump-looks-for-in-his-nominees-is-loyalty-to-him-and-his-maga-agenda
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-559/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-352/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— McHenry County’s Biggest Pollical Action Committee: McHenry County GOPAC
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/25/mchenry-countys-biggest-polical-action-committee-mchenry-county-gopac/
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois is just treading water, at best
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-is-just-treading-water-at-best-wirepoints-joins-tom-miller-of-wjpf-carbondale/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump creates new classification of non-career federal government worker. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, their top priority always was hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. 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 who was minority, female, younger and/or veteran who would take the jobs. Because I failed/refused to become a Democrat, they wasted my career and they got rid of me. My critic/opponents have no problem with the aforesaid.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3475158/trump-new-classification-non-career-federal-government-worker/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In line with Trump’s approach to federal government hiring during his second administration, an emphasis will be placed on loyalty, with the classification providing another opportunity for the president to recruit people who align with his political and policy agenda.)
NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin appeals to Supreme Court to allow $783M research-funding cuts over DEI. Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/24/us-news/trump-admin-appeals-to-supreme-court-to-allow-783m-research-funding-cuts-over-dei/
COLLEGE FIX
— University of Chicago may be next to cut humanities, language majors. What you majored in says more about you than anything that you can say about yourself. I majored in management, then business, then accounting, and then finance. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight,, I should have majored in accounting first because I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt and I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-chicago-may-be-next-to-cut-humanities-language-majors/
DAILY SIGNAL
— ICE Ramps up Recruiting, Offers $50K Signing Bonuses. My critics/opponents despise/hate past, present, and future federal employees and federal retirees. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/24/ice-ramps-up-recruiting-offers-50k-signing-bonuses/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Admin Locates 13,000 Unaccompanied Minors, Arrests Hundreds Of Sponsors
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-locates-13000-unaccompanied-minors-arrests-hundreds-of-sponsors-report
FOX NEWS
— Student suspended for saying ‘illegal aliens’ in class gets cash, apology from school. Student’s counsel said school board sought to smear the teen’s mother when she attempted to stand up for her son. How strongly do the Democrats who run your school district punish students who say “illegal aliens?”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/student-suspended-saying-illegal-aliens-class-gets-cash-apology-from-school
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Medical School Accreditors Scale Back DEI Requirements After Trump Executive Order
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/medical-school-accreditors-scale-back-dei-requirements-after-trump-executive-order/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5419304-newsom-on-trump-epstein-controversy/
AOL
— Senate Republicans Want To Charge Federal Workers Thousands Of Dollars For Job Security. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign when I was 20 years old in 1969.
https://www.aol.com/senate-republicans-want-charge-federal-163110256.html
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPpbHEtu9IE
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more LGBTQ in the military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kbDeVS5sOY
https://abcnews.go.com/US/transgender-air-force-cadets-dream-joining-military-put/story?id=124048051
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-files-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/arts/television/late-night-jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/epstein-trump-birthday-book.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/epstein-files-trump-bondi-justice-department-fbi.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/migration-deportation-sudan-trump.html
— Ever-increasingly, Mamdani represents the Democrat Party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/nyregion/mamdani-democratic-party.html
— Anticipate/expect that Democrats and RINOs will ever-increasingly use AI to destroy Republicans
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/technology/trump-ai-chatbots-bias.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07/24/trump-homeless-forced-hospitalization-executive-order/
— Trump administration sues New York City for impeding immigration crackdown efforts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/24/trump-presidency-news/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/24/trump-jeffrey-epstein-relationship-controversy-timeline/
— Democrat and RINO leaders use AI to destroy Republicans. Then again, Democrat and RINO leaders use everything to destroy Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/24/trump-ai-woke-executive-order/
— IRS considers eliminating non-English language tax services. To comply with an order making English the official language, Treasury officials say, the IRS may need to get rid of free interpreters and translation services.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/24/irs-non-english-tax-services-trump-administration/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Like Trump, Obama Has Immunity
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-barack-obama-presidential-immunity-2847d7a1
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-files-pam-bondi-kash-patel-house-gop-donald-trump-todd-blanche-0aa6fa49
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-birthday-album-included-letters-from-bill-clinton-leon-black-a7cd8cb1
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-approval-rating-poll-july-2025-745b0f5f
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Republicans Must Stop Being Democrat-Lite. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. RINO, Democrat-Lite, and Democrat-plant leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) are anti-conservative and have always a) shouted that conservative candidates cannot win in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton and b) done everything that they could to defeat conservative candidates and to drive conservatives out of the IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.usnews.com/debate-club/is-the-gops-problem-in-its-strategies-or-its-policies/republicans-must-stop-being-democrat-lite
WASHINGTON POST
— Hulk Hogan was a well-known Trump supporter. Their ties go back 40 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/24/hulk-hogan-death-trump-maga-wrestlemania/
PBS
— Trump pushes cities to remove homeless people from streets
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-trump-pushes-cities-to-remove-homeless-people-from-streets
MS. MAGAZINE
— Democrats crow about their success in destroying men to get votes from women. How soon will Democrats outlaw muscle cars?
https://msmagazine.com/2025/07/24/ms-magazine-men-masculinity-jackson-katz-special-feature/
July 24, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more LGBTQ, that is, it ever-increasingly destroys traditional marriage and family, that is, it ever-increasingly promotes homelessness.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/23/mayor-brandon-johnson-announces-40-million-to-upgrade-chicagos-homeless-shelters/
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting birthright citizenship. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/23/trump-end-birthright-citizenship/
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/23/epstein-grand-jury-records/
— Stunning rise in antisemitism in Chicago. Democrats run Chicago.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/24/opinion-antisemitism-hate-crime-report-chicago-brandon-johnson/
DAILY HERALD
— Ex-Cook deputy running for DuPage sheriff
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250723/news/ex-cook-deputy-running-for-dupage-sheriff/
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250723/syndicated-columnists/empire-falls-trump-revs-up-the-reign-of-terror-and-its-working/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago dead last among major U.S. metros on building new homes. Under the Democrats, Chicago’s future is bleaker and bleaker, and bleaker.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/chicago-last-among-major-us-metros-new-home-construction
— NASCAR wants to revive the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/sports/nascar-wants-racing-back-joliets-chicagoland-speedway
ABC7
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting birthright citizenship. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-updates-appeals-court-finds-presidents-effort-end-birthright-citizenship-unconstitutional-upholds-block/17265355/
— DuPage County Fair opens Thursday in Wheaton
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dupage-county-fair-opens-thursday-wheaton/17271594/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting birthright citizenship. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/appeals-court-finds-trump-effort-end-birthright-citizenship-unconstitutional/3796644/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting birthright citizenship. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-birthright-citizenship-ruling
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more LGBTQ and b) blame Republicans for problems that LGBTQers have.
https://www.wbez.org/theater-stages/2025/07/22/billie-jean-king-play-chicago-shakespeare-theater-tennis
JOURNAL AND COURIER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/alert-most-us-adults-still-support-legal-20783858.php
WJBC
— N.Y. Gave $600M to Groups Opposing Trump Immigration Plans
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/07/22/n-y-gave-600m-to-groups-opposing-trump-immigration-plans/
WREX
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more LGBTQ and b) blame Republicans for problems that LGBTQers have.
https://www.wrex.com/news/illinois-lawmakers-on-impact-of-988-suicide-hotline-cuts-on-lgbtq-services/article_aa1185fa-d520-44b4-8524-a0d18b6577d2.html
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Federal housing credit expansion could increase affordable rental units in Illinois. What helped you avoid having to pay rent? For me, it was my earning a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, earning an MBA when I was 27, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32. That enabled me to buy a new town home when I was 24, buy condos when I was 25 and 27, get married and buy a home when I was 29, and have a home built when I was 35.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/federal-housing-credit-expansion-could-increase-affordable-rental-units-in-illinois-report/
CHICAGO READER
— Cook County state’s attorney stops maintaining lists of discredited cops. Democrats run the federal government. Republicans are always on their lists of discredited employees. Far too many RINOs run Republican organizations in Illinois. Conservatives are always on their lists of discredited members.
https://chicagoreader.com/news/reader-investigative-reports/brady-list-eileen-oneill-burke-cook-county/
POLITICO ILLINOIS & SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders gerrymander.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/24/pritzkers-gerrymander-jab-draws-fire-00473441
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2025/07/24/pritzker-calls-texas-gops-remap-effort-cheating/85350587007/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-558/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-351/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— More Liberal Demonstrations Planned Saturday in Crystal Lake and McHenry
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/24/more-liberal-demonstrations-planned-saturday-in-crystal-lake-and-mchenry/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Illinois Democrats’ Power and Cash Leave Republicans Struggling to Compete in 2026
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/07/illinois-democrats-power-and-cash-leave-republicans-struggling-to-compete-in-2026.html
WIREPOINTS
— Broken Chicago public safety pension math: Just $6 B in assets for $68 B in payouts
https://wirepoints.org/broken-chicago-public-safety-pension-math-just-6-b-in-assets-for-68-b-in-payouts-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Have public schools declared war on parental authority?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/23/parents-wage-war-schools-secret-gender-policies-lets-pray-win/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ‘Temporary’ in name only: How TPS allows foreigners to stay in the US for years
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3477164/temporary-in-name-only-tps-program-allows-foreigners-stay-in-us-years/
— The White House is losing GOP support for the nomination of Paul Ingrassia to a key watchdog post, with at least one Senate Republican vowing to oppose him due to his sympathy for Jan. 6 Capitol rioters.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3480427/paul-ingrassia-special-counsel-shaky-ground-jan-6-comments/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin sent 6,000 ICE detainers to NYC — and nearly all of them have been ignored
https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-news/trump-admin-sent-6000-ice-detainers-to-nyc-nearly-all-of-them-have-been-ignored/
— Appeals court blocks Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship, upholding lower court order. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-news/appeals-court-blocks-trumps-effort-to-end-birthright-citizenship-upholding-lower-court-order/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Illegals are needed for redistricting purposes
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/07/23/house-dem-says-quiet-part-out-loud-illegals-are-needed-for-redistricting-purposes-1570167/
BLAZE
— 5 things Trump must do to fulfill his mass deportation mandate
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/5-things-trump-must-do-to-fulfill-his-mass-deportation-mandate
BREITBART
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/bondi-facing-democratic-calls-to-testify-following-report-she-told-trump-she-was-in-epstein-files/
— World’s top court paves way for climate reparations
https://www.breitbart.com/news/icj-begins-handing-down-watershed-climate-opinion/
https://www.breitbart.com/news/the-uns-highest-court-will-decide-wednesday-on-the-climate-obligations-of-countries/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Probes Universities Suspected Of Handing Scholarships To Illegals. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me for my not getting any scholarships.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/23/trump-admin-investigating-univerities-giving-illegals-scholarships/
— Appeals Court Upholds Block On Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/23/appeals-court-upholds-block-donald-trump-birthright-citizenship-order/
DAILY SIGNAL
— NY Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Stop Rewarding Children of ‘Lawbreakers’ With US Citizenship
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/23/exclusive-congresswoman-introduces-bill-stop-rewarding-children-lawbreakers-us-citizenship/
FOX NEWS
— Federal appeals court rules against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling made by a district court in Seattle that described Trump’s executive order as ‘unconstitutional.’ Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-appeals-court-rules-against-trumps-birthright-citizenship-executive-order
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Dept. Education Investigates Discrimination Against American-Born Students After Equal Protection Project Complaints. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But they would have admitted foreign-born students instead of me if they could have.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/dept-education-investigates-discrimination-against-american-born-students-after-equal-protection-project-complaints/
NEWSMAX
— 77 Percent Oppose Amnesty; 56 Percent: Deport Every Illegal
https://www.newsmax.com/us/mclaughlin-poll-amnesty-illegals/2025/07/23/id/1219741/
PJ MEDIA
— Colleges in Red States Rebrand DEI and Hide Illegals from ICE
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/23/collegerebrand-dei-and-hide-illegals-from-trump-n4942021
TOWNHALL
— You Won’t Believe This Pro-Abortion Legislation Championed by Democrats
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/07/23/you-wont-believe-this-pro-abortion-legislation-championed-by-democrats-n2660843
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Unfathomable Failure of Biden’s $7.5 Billion EV Charger Plan Revealed in GAO Report
https://www.westernjournal.com/unfathomable-failure-bidens-7-5-billion-ev-charger-plan-revealed-government-accountability-office-report/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/politics/trumps-epstein-nightmare-worsens-amid-new-revelations-and-a-gop-revolt
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/politics/house-republicans-epstein-trump
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Supreme Court allows Trump to remove 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The U.S. Appellate Court for the 7th Circuit allowed my Democrat GAO superiors to remove its Republican employees, including me. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-consumer-product-safety-f0ed5ff2409287440f5067d64031429d
MSNBC
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7V5cbBQFI
MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more LGBTQ and b) blame Republicans for problems that LGBTQers have.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-holds-the-line-after-cuts-to-988-suicide-prevention-services-for-lgbtq-youth/ar-AA1JaqGw
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/advocates-call-for-increased-specialized-training-as-988-optional-lgbtq-line-ends/ar-AA1IXXNW
REUTERS
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-was-told-he-is-epstein-files-wall-street-journal-reports-2025-07-23/
NEWSWEEK
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-update-polls-g
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.newsweek.com/video-jeffrey-epstein-talking-about-donald-trump-resurfaces-2103285
ABC NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-told-bondi-appeared-multiple-times-epstein-files/story?id=124014441
NBC NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-tightens-grip-jeffrey-epstein-messaging-rcna220615
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/wsj-trump-was-told-he-s-named-in-epstein-files-243736645677
CBS NEWS
— Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-unconstitutional-appeals-court/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/epstein-democrats-republicans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/trump-epstein-files-named.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/epstein-trump-republicans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/trump-epstein-distraction-timeline.html
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/trump-transgender-healthcare-california-hospitals.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Supreme Court allows Trump to remove consumer product safety regulators. The U.S. Appellate Court for the 7th Circuit allowed my Democrat GAO superiors to remove its Republican employees, including me. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/23/supreme-court-consumer-product-safety-regulators-trump/
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/23/trump-doj-epstein-files-political-fallout/
— Trump’s pick to protect federal workers shares a disdain for them. Paul Ingrassia’s nomination to head the Office of Special Counsel is at risk because of his history of scorched-earth rhetoric and extremist associations. I should write about my critics/opponents who distain/despise/hate federal employees and federal retires the most. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/24/special-counsel-trump-paul-ingrassia/
WOAI
— Dems Said Illegals Never Received Medicaid, Now Screaming Over Losing It. What percent of the illegals in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are Medicaid?
https://woai.iheart.com/content/2025-07-22-dems-said-illegals-never-received-medicaid-now-screaming-over-losing-it/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038
— Trump to Tour Federal Reserve, Ramping Up Pressure Campaign on Powell. In rare visit, president will stop by central bank, which is undergoing an extensive $2.5 billion renovation he has criticized. In 1990, my critics/opponents were furious when I got a preferred office in the new 200 West Adams building in the Loop.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/trump-to-tour-federal-reserve-ramping-up-pressure-campaign-on-powell-58df9734
— One Way to Predict Early Career Success. A complex project at a new job can play a pivotal role in how soon you are promoted. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, and coworkers were beyond furious when I got a high-profile developmental assignment when I was 25 years old in 1973. According to them, the assignment should have been given to one of my Democrat coworkers who was minority, female, and/or veteran. My taking graduate evening business courses helped me get the assignment. They were even more furious went I got promoted to GS-12 , currently $99,069/year, because of my performance on the assignment. To punish me, they a) disallowed my travel vouchers and education deductions, b) never promoted me to GS-13, and c) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. To punish the manager who had gotten me the assignment and who had promoted me, they forced him to transfer to Texas.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/promotion-new-jobs-secret-18655fa1
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punish Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/tesla-earnings-q2-tsla-stock-f94405d3
GOOGLE AI
— Age discrimination and reverse discrimination in the accounting profession. I did not start taking graduate evening 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 and become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Because of that, even though I had almost 9 years’ experience working for IRS and more than a year working for GAO when I was 32, the CPA profession, including IRS and GAO, considered me to be far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority or a female.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22late+start%22+career
HAMILTON SPECTATOR
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, when Whites and men do better than minorities and females, it is because Whites and men discriminate against minorities and females. Of course, that encourages minorities and females to despise/hate Whites and males. Since the 1960s, those above me have given tremendous preference to minorities and to females.
https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/pursuing-meritocracy-could-lead-to-a-very-dark-place/article_2678a575-cf97-5396-927e-f8bbc3f385b2.html
July 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Hunter Biden blames dad’s disastrous Trump debate on sleeping pills.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/hunter-biden-blames-ambien-for-president-bidens-terrible-trump-debate/3794408/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1678025
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/ice-arrests-increase-across-chicago-under-trump-many-with-no-convictions-data-shows/
— Democrat leaders promote video gambling. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/gambling-machines-chicago-bars-airports-aldermen/
— Banishing a reporter: Trump escalates battle with Wall Street Journal over Epstein story. I should write about those who have banished me and why.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/trump-wall-street-journal-epstein/
— Democrat leaders use vandalism against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/little-village-buildings-swastikas-vandalism/
— Democrats complain about Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/rep-brad-schneider-town-hall/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/opinion-hiv-campaign-chicago-cook-county/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump on manufacturing jobs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/22/opinion-us-manufacturing-economy-tariffs/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/07/21/illinois-lawsuit-trump-administration-undocumented-immigrants-public-benefits
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/07/22/a-family-came-to-chicago-seeking-asylum-he-was-deported-now-she-wants-to-leave
DAILY HERALD
— Homeland Security takes Bolingbrook man into ICE custody after he appears in Kane County court on DUI
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250721/news/homeland-security-takes-bolingbrook-man-into-ice-custody-after-he-appears-in-kane-county-court-on-du/
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/gov-pritzker-joins-governors-to-take-collective-action-84506.cfm
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-07-22/rockford-immigrant-families-anxious-about-increased-immigration-raids
WCIA
— Republican legislators call on IL governor to participate in federal school choice program. My parents had less money because they paid to send me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. Because of that, I had to work my way through college.
https://www.wcia.com/news/capitol-news/republican-legislators-call-on-il-governor-to-participate-in-federal-school-choice-program/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Teen gangs feud in the west side of Chicago.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/18/this-austin-space-fighting-gun-violence-has-been-designated-chicagos-first-safe-zone/
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing make children sexually active LGBTQers.
https://phimc.org/initiatives/alliance-home/youth-organizing-and-leadership/action-camp/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, more dependency on government and charity, more LGBTQ, more abortion, more mass/illegal immigration, more booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, more diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and more Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/22/pritzker-on-dems-weve-lost-our-way-00466724
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-556/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-349/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The toxic combination of Illinois’ sanctuary status and the SAFE-T Act
https://wirepoints.org/the-toxic-combination-of-illinois-sanctuary-status-and-the-safe-t-act-wirepoints-quickpoint/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hegseth held the military rank of Major in the U.S. Army National Guard. IRS promoted me to GS-12 when I was 25. The military equivalent is Captain. GAO promoted me to GS-13 when I was 38. The military equivalent is Major. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. When I was 25, I had worked for IRS for 3 years and I had completed 10 graduate evening business courses. When I was 38, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years and for GAO for almost 7 years. I had passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I had earned an MBA and a master’s degree in accounting. I had become a licensed CPA. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I never would have made GS-12 let alone GS-13. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Hunter Biden rages against Trump deportations in bizarre YouTube interview: ‘How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? Who do you think washes your dishes?’ While I never was a maid, I was a dishwasher for 18 months, yard worker for 6 months, newspaper deliverer for 48 months, golf shoe cleaner for a month, slag chipper for 3 months, gasoline pumper for 23 months, and mailman for 34 months. The aforesaid totals 133 months or 11 years.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/21/us-news/hunter-biden-rages-against-trump-deportations-in-bizarre-youtube-interview-its-a-f-ing-crime-what-theyre-doing/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Will Trump Grant Amnesty? My Republican critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/will-trump-grant-amnesty/
BREITBART
— Hunter Biden Rejects American Citizens, Praises Illegal Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-rejects-citizens-praises-illegal-migrants/
— GOP Establishment Still Has Amnesty Fetish. My Republican critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/21/rep-maria-salazar-gives-away-the-game-gop-establishment-still-has-amnesty-fetish/
— Suit Over In-State Tuition for Illegals Is Just ‘Blue State Retaliation’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/21/ellison-suit-over-in-state-tuition-for-illegals-is-just-blue-state-retaliation/
— Trump’s ‘CBP Home App’ Gets Tens of Thousands of Illegals to Self-Deport
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/21/trumps-cbp-home-app-gets-tens-of-thousands-illegals-to-self-deport/
— Harvard heads to court in $2.6B lawsuit against Trump administration
https://www.breitbart.com/news/the-latest-harvard-heads-to-court-in-2-6b-lawsuit-against-trump-administration/
— The Fed Is Like Universal Basic Income for Academic Economists
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/07/21/bessent-the-fed-is-like-universal-basic-income-for-academic-economists/
— More Than 20 Democrat AGs Seek to Reopen Federal Welfare, Aid for Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/07/21/20-democrat-ags-seek-reopen-federal-welfare-aid-illegal-aliens/
— Hunter Biden Says to Those Upset About Illegal Immigration: ‘Who Do You Think Washes Your Dishes?’ I was a dishwasher for 18 months, yard worker for 6 months, newspaper deliverer for 48 months, golf shoe cleaner for a month, slag chipper for 3 months, gasoline pumper for 23 months, and mailman for 34 months. The aforesaid totals 133 months or 11 years.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-says-fck-you-to-those-upset-about-illegal-immigration-who-do-you-think-washes-your-dishes/
— Stephen Colbert Was Propped Up by $160 Million in Left-Wing Affirmative Action
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/07/21/nolte-stephen-colbert-was-propped-up-by-160-million-left-wing-affirmative-action/
CHRISTIAN POST
— DHS blames Dems, media for fueling 830% increase in assaults on ICE agents. A major reason why people do not want to work for IRS is that so much hatred is promoted against IRS employees. I was an IRS employee for almost 9 years.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/dhs-blames-media-dems-for-830-rise-in-assaults-on-ice-agents.html
COLLEGE FIX
— UChicago Medicine ends ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors after Trump order
https://www.thecollegefix.com/uchicago-medicine-ends-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-after-trump-order/
— Universities rejected applicant pools with too many white scholars. I passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination (FSEE) when I was 21 years old in 1970. The Democrats who run the federal government killed the FSEE because too few Blacks and Hispanics passed it.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/universities-rejected-applicant-pools-with-too-many-white-scholars-records-reveal/
DAILY CALLER
— Hunter Biden Says He Would Invade Sovereign Nation To Bring Illegals Back To US. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-invade-sovereign-nation-illegals-us/
— Taxpayer-Funded Group Teaches Marxist, ‘Queer’ Resistance At Anti-Trump Summer Camp
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/21/taxpayer-funded-nonprofit-marxist-queer-resistance-anti-trump-summer-camp/
— Trump Forces Employers To Stop Turning Blind Eye To Illegal Workers
https://www.aol.com/trump-forces-employers-stop-turning-204808389.html
DAILY WIRE
— Tens Of Thousands Of Illegal Aliens Self-Deport Through CBP Home App
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tens-of-thousands-of-illegal-aliens-self-deport-through-cbp-home-app-report
FEDERALIST
— Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/21/pentagon-replaces-naval-academy-leader-who-oversaw-racist-affirmative-action-policies/
FOX NEWS
— White House flips script on Hunter Biden’s profanity-laced rant against Trump’s immigration policies. White House spokesperson references Biden’s pardon and calls out ‘Biden Crime Family’ after profanity-laced interview.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-flips-script-hunter-bidens-profanity-laced-rant-trumps-immigration-policies
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Buttigieg Handed Out $80 Billion on DEI Grants. “He was definitely pushing an agenda.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/report-buttigieg-handed-out-80-billion-on-dei-grants/
LEGAL NEWSLINE
— IL law targets E-Verify, undermines federal law. To fight E-Verify is to fight federal immigration law.
https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/il-law-targets-e-verify-undermines-federal-law-doj-says/article_60f5fbbb-6dbc-478f-98cd-99b38dc96fcb.html
MRC TV
— Hunter Biden went off on a profane rant against Americans who support enforcement of U.S. immigration law, in which he characterized illegal aliens as cooks, maids and dish washers. While I never was a cook or a maid, I was a dishwasher for 18 months, yard worker for 6 months, newspaper deliverer for 48 months, golf shoe cleaner for a month, slag chipper for 3 months, gasoline pumper for 23 months, and mailman for 34 months. The aforesaid totals 133 months or 11 years.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/hunter-biden-upset-about-illegal-immigration-fk-you
NEWS BUSTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that LGBTQers have. How successful have Democrat leaders been pushing LGBTQ on everyone in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/lucas-escala/2025/07/22/msnbcs-weekend-panel-throws-tantrum-over-lgbtq-hotline-abandonment
NEWSMAX
— Rubio: Deport Permanent Residents for Haitian Gang Aid
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/haiti-gangs/2025/07/21/id/1219506/
— Noem, Homan Take NYC Officials to Task After Officer Shot by Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/NYC-immigration-kristi-noem/2025/07/21/id/1219531/
— Lawsuit Challenges Restrictions on Head Start for Kids in the US Illegally. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/illegals-immigration/2025/07/21/id/1219500/
PJ MEDIA
— There Are Some Fights Trump Should Stay Out Of
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/21/there-are-some-fights-trump-should-stay-out-of-n4941966
STARS AND STRIPES
— Army secretary fires 4-star general for meddling in promotion process. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government designed and implemented their promotion processes to promote Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-12-10/army-general-fired-16126446.html
TOWNHALL
— Minneapolis Dems Dump Incumbent Mayor for Socialist Who Vowed to Fight Trump
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/07/21/socialist-mayoral-candidate-for-minneapolis-wins-democratic-endorsement-over-incumbent-n2660687
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Hate-fille Trump-hating Trump-haters want everyone to focus on Epstein.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-steer-conversation-away-jeffrey-epstein/story?id=123927092
CBS NEWS
— Family in Colorado seeking asylum fearful of Venezuelan gangs, says crime is getting worse around their apartment.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/family-colorado-fearful-venezuelan-gangs-crime-apartments-asylum-denver/
— Democrat leaders had no problem with raging inflation when Biden was President.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-disapprove-of-how-trump-is-handling-inflation-poll-finds/
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/video/trumps-approval-rating-slides-after-6-months-in-office-cbs-news-poll-shows/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump administration releases records on FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-7-21-2025
— Banishing a reporter: Trump escalates battle with Wall Street Journal over Epstein story. I should write about those who have banished me and why.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-epstein-wall-street-journal-b006f3ef25e6b4ab910cc3b41c865227
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-deports-grandfather-green-card-luis-leon-2101628
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry their illegals leaving America.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/economic-warning-as-more-than-half-million-people-could-leave-us-this-year/ar-AA1IQ9ON
NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/trump-news-media.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/trump-illegal-immigration-raids-arkansas.html
— Democrats exist to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opinion/are-the-democrats-dead-or-alive.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Wall Street Journal banned from Trump’s Scotland trip over Epstein story. I should write about those who have banned me and why.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/22/white-house-wall-street-journal-trump-epstein/
— Hate-fille Trump-hating Trump-haters want Republicans to focus on Epstein.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/21/trump-epstein-distractions/
— Trump intervenes to boost Hegseth aide who left military for politics. A waiver granted by the president allows Ricky Buria, a top adviser to the defense secretary, to bypass federal law and depart the Marine Corps at a rank he held only briefly. Hegseth held the military rank of Major in the U.S. Army National Guard. IRS promoted me to GS-12 when I was 25. The military equivalent is Captain. GAO promoted me to GS-13 when I was 38. The military equivalent is Major. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. When I was 25, I had worked for IRS for 3 years and I had completed 10 graduate evening business courses. When I was 38, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years and for GAO for almost 7 years. I had passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I had earned an MBA and a master’s degree in accounting. I had become a licensed CPA. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I never would have made GS-12 let alone GS-13. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/21/hegseth-ricky-buria-waiver/
BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrat and RINO leaders want Republican leaders to fight Trump. But wait, the voters elected Trump.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-gop-rolling-over-for-trump/
USA TODAY
— Trump is racking up GOP wins no one else could. What do Never Trumpers say now?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/21/trump-pbs-education-department-abortion-republican-presidents/85269657007/
— Democrat leaders decry flood of ICE agents coming to cities run by Democrats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/21/white-house-democrat-cities-flood-ice-agents/85308354007/
— Hunter Biden blames dad’s disastrous Trump debate on sleeping pills.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-joe-biden-trump-debate-ambien/85315170007/
– Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/19/trump-immigration-medicaid-cuts-economy-failure/85259690007/
KBOI
— Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes Up 58% in Chicago. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring antisemites into Chicago.
https://www.kboi.com/2025/07/21/anti-jewish-hate-crimes-up-5837-in-chicago/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Here’s What a Late-Career Layoff Looks Like in America, in 5 Charts. Many take longer to find new jobs, while others retire earlier than planned. Being forced to retire early is extremely damaging. I should write about that.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/heres-what-a-late-career-layoff-looks-like-in-america-in-5-charts-63f5c809
— 18,000 Jobs Out the Drive-Thru Window. California’s $20 minimum wage at fast-food chains has hit employment. I earned the minimum wage for 18 months washing dishes during my junior and senior years in high school 1964-1966. Adjusted for inflation, I earned $12.36/hour. If I had earned $20/hour in today’s dollars, I would not have had to work as many hours and/or I would have bought a new loaded 1966 Pontiac GAO instead of a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, a poor man’s GTO.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/california-minimum-wage-18000-jobs-fast-food-restaurants-70610af4?mod=opinion_lead_pos2
INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— Taxpayer-Funded Group Teaches Marxist, ‘Queer’ Resistance At Anti-Trump Summer Camp
https://ijr.com/taxpayer-funded-group-teaches-marxist-queer-resistance-at-anti-trump-summer-camp/
NEW YORKER
— What percent of foreign students focus on destroying Israel?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/a-federal-trial-reveals-the-sprawling-plan-behind-trumps-attacks-on-pro-palestinian-students
ATLANTIC
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.aol.com/trump-campaign-crush-media-194800857.html
SPORTS BETTING
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more gambling.
https://www.legalsportsbetting.com/news/illinois-becomes-3rd-state-to-hit-50-billion-in-sports-bets-07-16-2025/