FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-bars-harvard-enrolling-international-students/16508338/
— Mag Mile Chicago police stops and searches challenged as unlawful. I walked the Mag Mile weekday evenings 1974-1976 to/from my IRS job in the Loop and graduate business classes at Loyola and my Outer Drive East studio condo.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mag-mile-shakedown-magnificent-chicago-police-stops-searches-challenged-unlawful-drivers-speak-abc7-team/16512120/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-5/23/2025
NBC5
— Motive, possible writings of alleged gunman in D.C. museum shooting investigated. According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday, alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez bought a ticket to the American Jewish Committee’s annual Young Diplomat’s reception just three hours before the event began.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/motive-possible-writings-of-alleged-gunman-in-d-c-museum-shooting-investigated/3752247/
— How did man charged in fatal Jewish museum shooting get gun on plane from Chicago. One motive was shouted and repeated by the Chicago man as he was arrested, officials said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/how-did-man-charged-in-fatal-jewish-museum-shooting-get-gun-on-plane-from-chicago/3752227/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/hate-groups-usa-decline-influence-grows-report/3752407/
— ‘Investment, not tariffs,’ says Japan’s PM following telephone talks with Trump. The U.S. is charging a 25% tariff on imports of autos, a mainstay of Japan’s trade with the U.S. and a key driver of growth for the economy.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-immigration-japan-harvard-may-23-2025-live-updates/3752558/
CBS2
— D.C. shooting suspect graduated from UIC, was part of Chicago activist scene
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/elias-rodriguez-dc-shooting-israeli-embassy-staff-what-to-know/
WGN9
— Agents raid East Albany Park residence amid probe into killing of Israeli Embassy staffers
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/fbi-raids-east-albany-park-residence-amid-investigation-into-fatal-shooting-of-israeli-embassy-staffers-in-dc/
— Officials beef up security at Chicago-area Jewish institutions following ‘act of terror’
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/hate-is-not-an-american-value-state-officials-react-to-fatal-shooting-of-2-israeli-embassy-staffers-in-dc/
WTTW
— Chicago Man Charged With Murdering 2 Israeli Embassy Staffers in DC Told Police ‘I Did It for Palestine,’ Records Say
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/22/fbi-searching-chicago-home-suspect-after-2-staff-members-israeli-embassy-killed-shooting
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump has amassed $600 million in political donations. Here’s how he plans to use it.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/president-donald-trump-campaign-donations/
— Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the Education Department. I should write about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/trump-mass-layoffs-education-department/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Charges filed against Chicago man in the fatal shooting near DC Jewish museum
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/alleged-dc-shooter-israeli-embassy/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/chicago-immigration-court-arrests/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students over American students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/international-students-legal-status/
— Trump organization to pay $4.8M to settle fish-kill lawsuit against its Chicago high-rise
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/trump-organization-to-pay-4-8m-to-settle-fish-kill-lawsuit-against-its-chicago-high-rise/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/illinois-medicaid-gender-affirming-care/
— U. of C. students protest trustees’ ties to Israel as war in Gaza continues
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/university-chicago-palestinian-protest/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Feds charge Elias Rodriguez with murder in embassy shooting: ‘I did it for Gaza’ Authorities say Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, continued to fire on one of the two Israeli Embassy employees as she tried to crawl away.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/05/22/feds-charge-chicago-man-with-murder-in-embassy-shooting-i-did-it-for-gaza
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05/22/elias-rodriguez-chicago-israeli-embassy-staffers-dc
— Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul takes leading role in fighting Trump. ‘We are winning’ Illinois AG Kwame Raoul is a key figure in the Democratic legal battle against Trump’s executive orders and policies. And he believes Democrats are winning.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/05/23/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-fight-against-donald-trump
— They came to a hearing at Chicago’s immigration court, then got arrested. Arrests at immigration courts across the nation this week have rattled people showing up for hearings.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/22/ice-agents-hallways-immigration-court-trump-mass-arrest
— Trump Tower fish-kill lawsuit settled with state for $4.8 million. Illinois Attorney General, Sierra Club and Friends of the Chicago River sued the building operator over violations of environmental law.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/05/22/trump-tower-lawsuit-illinois-settled-friends-of-chicago-river-fish-sierra-club
— ‘Big, beautiful bill’ is another big example how GOP has abandoned conservatism. I should write about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/22/big-beautiful-bill-trump-conservatism-s-e-cupp
— I had to work my way through college. If I had not had to do that, my GPA would have been higher. Instead of studying, I worked far too many hours a) washing dishes during my junior and senior years in high school 1964-1966 and b) delivering mail while I attended UIC 1966-1968 and NIU in 1969.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/21/chicagoans-with-student-debt-stressed-as-trump-gop-cut-back-relief
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ‘Vital step’ to ending discrimination: Senate approves bill raising age for senior road exams
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250522/transportation/vital-step-to-ending-discrimination-senate-approves-bill-raising-age-for-senior-road-exams/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause hate crimes.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250523/news/police-say-attackers-called-her-a-slur-why-arent-the-suspects-charged-with-a-hate-crime/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— A year ago, Oberweis Dairy was in bankruptcy. Now it’s launching an expansion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/retail/oberweis-dairy-expand-chicago-st-louis-and-florida
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2025/05/22/planned-parenthood-illinois-warns-about-dire-consequences-of-medicaid-cuts/83799626007/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Soon, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/22/genevas-northern-illinois-food-bank-frets-over-trump-food-aid-cuts/
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/22/city/activists-rally-for-climate-legislation-in-springfield-during-annual-climate-action-lobby-day/
WMBD
— RNC Chairman delivers message to central Illinois GOP on how to turn area and state red
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/22/rnc-chairman-delivers-message-to-central-illinois-gop-on-how-to-turn-area-and-state-red/
WTVO
— Illinois bill to allow mothers paid breaks to breastfeed passes House. While I worked for GAO in Chicago during the 1990s, it gutted its smoking room and turned it into a lactation room.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-bill-allow-mothers-paid-191756705.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— GAO has long done DOGE-like work. I should write a book about GAO. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $117,807-153,151/year. Instead of reforming GAO, Gingrich gutted GAO. Because of that, and because I was one of their very few Republican employees, they wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They flushed down their toilets a) my three job-related master’s degrees, b) my six job-related professional certifications, and c) my job-related professional license. I should write a book about GAO. Further, I should write a book about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-21/gao-has-long-done-doge-like-work
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has attempted to embed itself in another agency. This time, it’s the Government Accountability Office. The office has refused, but as NPR’s Chris Arnold reports, many experts say, rather than try to elbow its way in the door, DOGE should have been asking GAO for help all along. CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: For months, DOGE has been strong-arming its way into government agencies, gaining access to sensitive data and helping to fire workers. Doing that at the Government Accountability Office, that would be way over the line, says David Walker. He used to run the GAO. DAVID WALKER: The DOGE team needs to read the Constitution again. There are three separate and equal branches of government. ARNOLD: GAO operates under the legislative branch – in other words, Congress – not the White House. WALKER: DOGE has zero authority to review GAO’s operations. ARNOLD: Walker’s been nominated to positions by both Republican and Democratic presidents, and he says GAO and DOGE supposedly have a very similar mission – to root out waste, fraud and abuse, except, he says, that GAO has been doing that for decades, has a staff of several thousand people and it’s really good at it. WALKER: GAO’s like a longstanding professional football team, and DOGE has some very bright people, but it’s more like a much smaller pickup football team from MIT. It’s like intramurals, OK? ARNOLD: Over the past 15 years, GAO says its recommendations have resulted in $725 billion in savings and revenue increases. It just came up with an updated list of proposals. It says that could save another hundred billion or more. Just one example – it’s been studying a space-based laser communication system that the Defense Department’s designing. GAO says it’s found a tweak to the program that could save hundreds of millions of dollars. The White House didn’t respond to NPR’s request for comment but has defended DOGE for finding waste, fraud and abuse. And the current head of the GAO recently said that DOGE lately has been engaging more with GAO about some of its recommendations. Still, David Walker says poor planning and inadequate coordination with Congress have hamstrung DOGE. WALKER: DOGE way overpromised on savings, originally promising 2 trillion. They now claim that they’ve saved about 170 billion. But in reality, I think the real savings is maybe one-tenth to one-fifth of what they claim because only Congress can cut spending. ARNOLD: Walker says, so far, DOGE has mostly been targeting programs that the Trump administration just doesn’t like and indiscriminately firing people. Linda Bilmes is a government efficiency expert at the Harvard Kennedy School. She says that DOGE could have learned a lot from GAO. LINDA BILMES: One of the real tragedies of the whole DOGE effort is that they just ignored this kind of expertise and they didn’t tap into the knowledge base of the people already working in government. ARNOLD: She says the chance to work alongside Elon Musk to help reform government lured in a lot of very talented young people. Some of them were students of hers at Harvard. BILMES: I know firsthand some of the individuals who work for Elon Musk, but they were not leveraged in terms of their own talents. They were put in charge of a website that they had no idea what it was and asked to fire people, and they really were put into positions in which they were entirely unsuited for. ARNOLD: Meanwhile, as far as DOGE trying to embed itself in GAO, there’s another thorny issue there. GAO currently has dozens of investigations underway into whether the Trump administration improperly froze funding that was already allocated by Congress. David Walker again. WALKER: There clearly is a conflict of interest there. DOGE shouldn’t be anywhere close to looking at what GAO’s doing in connection with those activities. ARNOLD: The current head of GAO recently told Congress that the Trump administration was not immediately responsive to its investigations.)
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Charting her course as a “Big Tent” Republican. Pamela “Denise” Long seeks 2026 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/charting-her-course-as-a-big-tent-republican-20196900
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A little-known candidate seeking the Republican nomination for Richard Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat says the GOP needs to adopt a “big tent” mentality that encourages bipartisan cooperation and prioritizes substantive solutions over partisan rhetoric. Pamela “Denise” Long, 52, a longtime contributor to Newsweek and Real Clear Politics, is leveraging her experience as a journalist, political analyst and adjunct professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to carve out a space in the crowded field to replace Durbin. Durbin, 80, a Springfield Democrat, is retiring from Congress after five terms in the Senate and seven in the House. Long says she built her experience by dissecting complex policy issues in a bipartisan manner, particularly those affecting Black voters, immigration, economic mobility and environmental protections. She has challenged both major parties to reconsider their outreach strategies. On her side, she’s ascribing to so-called Big Tent Republicanism, which says that certain conservative positions, such as abortion bans or transgender issues, while important to Republicans, push away moderates and liberals open to cooperation on issues that affect nearly every resident, such as property taxes, gerrymandering and budgeting. Long said she wants her candidacy to reflect a focus on those widespread national issues while offering bipartisan criticism and praise when it is called for. “For me, I champion President Donald Trump when he takes actions that align with the principles of conservatism and constitutionality,” she said. “When he deviates from that, as with (former President Joe) Biden and any other candidate, I call those things out. So, I’m not partisan in that way. My focus is on the best interest of the nation.” Long said one example bringing conservative and liberal issues together is her support for increasing environmental protection in the U.S., but implementing it in issues that bring attention to conservative interests. “Being able to take something like environmental policy and be able to apply it to these modern-day issues like immigration is one method to increase environmental protections without incurring too much animosity from any one side,” Long said. Long said she wants to see more investment in urban infrastructure that has been abandoned, rather than support Trump’s plans to allow development and commercial usage of federally protected lands, including national parks. “One thing which unnerves me is how much of our urban infrastructure has degraded and has just been left rotting in many cities, and I would like to see more development,” said Long. “Development of the dilapidated infrastructure that already exists rather than developing our national parks and green space, I think that could bring more jobs to urban residents.” As a Black woman, Long sees the persistent issues facing African American communities and agrees with the conservative sentiment against handouts or excessive support. But she argues that giving job opportunities, career advancements and a general ability to move out of poverty is a large part of that attitude as well. “I think it is important for Black Americans to hear that our federal government is looking for ways to pull them into the workforce,” said Long. “It’s not handholding as much as it is recruitment and making sure that folks realize that they’re pointing to avenues leading to jobs. We must look at recruitment, retention, development and promotion. At what point do we start thinking about the current and potential future state of our economy and what it’s going to look like? Do we somehow work to offer apprenticeships to students in middle school, shadowing perhaps in high school?” Long says her time as an occupational therapist has shifted her view of prisoners and felons to be viewed as people first, criminals second. She supports the idea of low-level and nonviolent criminals having the ability to either work off their crimes or build themselves up in prison to better support their rehabilitation outside of confinement. While she did clarify violent criminals and felons like murderers and rapists require more nuance based on the case, the goal is to produce a rehabilitated member of society. Helping former convicts get their lives together after their due punishment is the way to do that. “Sequestering a human being from society is a solid punishment by itself; you shouldn’t have to be faced with rape, beatings or dehumanizing treatment,” said Long. “You should be sequestered, rehabilitated, strengthened and developed so that you can be moved forward into society and hit the ground running to be productive. I also think that they should maintain their right to vote. They need to be engaged with the society that they’re going to be coming back into. People who are engaged with society and see a path forward and find a vision for themselves, sometimes for the first time, are less likely to offend.”)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-519/
— Evening roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-311/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Here come more pension sweeteners…(aka tax hikes) My critics/opponent have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension as being too generous. They are furious that I earned full-time CSRS credit while I worked only part-time for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. They are furious that I got CSRS credit for my more than a year of unused sick leave. In today’s dollars, my CSRS pension is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and less than what my salary was in 1972
https://wirepoints.org/video-here-come-more-pension-sweeteners-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What differentiated you from your coworkers? I took undergraduate business courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I took a graduate evening business course while I worked for the Democrats who ran Firestone Stores in 1971. I took graduate evening business courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1972-1976. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I took graduate evening accounting courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1976-1980 and GAO in 1980. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. I took graduate finance courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1992-1997. I earned a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997. None of my coworkers came close to doing what I did. Of course, my critics/opponents use what I did against me. They hint/imply/argue/shout that because I did the aforesaid and nevertheless my Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO superiors wasted my career, took many adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire in 1997, I must have been an extremely bad person. They ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact a) that I have always been a conservative Republican, b) that all my superiors were Democrats, c) that they never would have taken the adverse actions against me that they did if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, d) that I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and e) that I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation in 1988. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The ‘pro-Palestinian’ movement is pro-terrorist
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3419729/the-pro-palestine-movement-is-pro-terrorist/
NEW TORK POST
— Israeli Embassy terror bares the evil targeting Jews — and America
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/opinion/israeli-embassy-terror-bares-evil-aimed-at-jews-and-america/
— How left-wing Chicago social justice warrior Elias Rodriguez allegedly became homegrown anti-Israel terrorist
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/us-news/homegrown-terror-dc-jewish-museum-shooting-suspect-elias-rodriguezs-path-to-self-radicalization/
AMERICAN WIRE NEWS
— Reporter William J. Kelly asks Chicago mayor point blank, ‘Why are you a racist?’
https://americanwirenews.com/reporter-asks-chicago-mayor-point-blank-why-are-you-a-racist/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Reporter William J. Kelly asks Chicago mayor point blank, ‘Why are you a racist?’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/22/reporter-asks-chicago-mayor-point-blank-why-are-you-a-racist-1545534/
— Disney World suspends migrant workers following Supreme Court brief
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/22/disney-world-suspends-migrant-workers-following-supreme-court-brief-1545543/
BREITBART
— Lockheed ‘Doubles Down’ on Eviscerating DEI After Completing Review Complying with Trump Executive Order on Ending Controversial Practice
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/22/exclusive-lockheed-martin-drops-diversity-equity-inclusion-policies-comply-trump-executive-order/
DAILY WIRE
— Med School Caught Rejecting White And Asian Applicants With Better Scores Than Minorities It Accepts. Statistics show that little has changed at the medical school two years after affirmative action was overturned.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/med-school-caught-rejecting-white-and-asian-applicants-with-better-scores-than-minorities-it-accepts
EPOCH TIMES
— What’s in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’? The House passed the legislation in a 215–214 vote. It now heads to the Senate.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/whats-in-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-5861362
FEDERALIST
— Democrat-Run States Risk Billions To Push Race Discrimination In Schools. Democrat educators hint/imply/argue/shout
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/23/democrat-run-states-risk-billions-to-push-race-discrimination-in-schools/
— The Left Indulges Anti-White Racism In South Africa Because They Want The Same Thing Here
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/22/the-media-dismiss-anti-white-violence-in-south-africa-because-it-undermines-their-agenda/
NEWSMAX
— Alleged D.C. Shooter Leftist Activist, Biden Backer
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/shooter-terrorism-political/2025/05/22/id/1211966/
— Trump Spending Bill Would Hike Taxes on Elite Colleges. What do those who have degrees from elite colleges think of you? My critics/opponents who have degrees from elite colleges, their operatives, and their dupes look down on me if not despise me if not hate me. I should write about them and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me lately.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/trump-bill-taxes/2025/05/23/id/1212080/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/22/crime_rates_of_illegal_migrants_underreported_152825.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
TIME
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies.
https://time.com/7288251/alien-enemies-act-repealed/
CNN
— Which countries will join with China against America in WWIII?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/china/china-harvard-trump-students-ban-int-hk
— Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tariff if it doesn’t build iPhones in America
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/economy/trump-threatens-tariff-apple
ABC NEWS
— Judge says Trump has power to impose tariffs, but punts lawsuit to different court. The judge cites the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-trump-power-impose-tariffs-punts-lawsuit-court/story?id=122099656
NBC NEWS
— Trump’s image of dead ‘white farmers’ came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa. President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of the video to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as part of what he falsely presented as proof of mass killings of white South Africans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/africa/trump-image-dead-white-farmers-congo-not-south-africa-rcna208699
— MAGA world turns against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
https://www.aol.com/maga-world-turns-supreme-court-221051688.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/briefing/five-years-after-floyd.html
— Trump’s New Position on the War in Ukraine: Not My Problem. In a reversal, President Trump appears to have backed off joining a European push for new sanctions on Russia, seemingly eager to move on to doing business deals with it. Those who voted for Trump anticipated/expected that he would drive Russia out of Ukraine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/trump-ukraine-russia.html
— Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students. The move was a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the college to fall in line with President Trump’s demands. The following prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America: a) Democrat and RINO leaders and b) Democrat and RINO employers. Democrats want citizens of foreign countries because they want socialism if not communism. RINOs want citizens of foreign countries because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html
— Republicans Harness Tax Code to Punish Trump’s Political Nemeses. Immigrants and wealthy universities, as well as foreign companies, would see higher taxes under the House-passed bill. I paid less federal income tax 1972-1977 and my wife and I paid less federal income tax 1978-1980 and 1992-1997 because we deducted my job-related education expenses. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. I should write about that. Who do you know who deducted their job-related education expenses? I deducted graduate evening a) business courses while I worked for IRS 1972-1976, b) accounting courses while I worked for IRS 1977-1979 and for GAO in 1980, and c) finance courses while I worked for GAO 1992-1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/republicans-taxes-trump-opponents.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/opinion/ice-raids-nashville-immigrants.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-administration-fine-undocument-immigrants.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump welcomes Afrikaners but turns his back on all other refugees. President Trump’s embrace of far-right theories about South Africa led to the resettlement of some 50 White Afrikaners as refugees to the United States this month.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/23/trump-ramaphosa-afrikaners-refugees-south-africa/
— Administration bars Harvard from having foreign students, says thousands must transfer. The Trump administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/president-donald-trump/7fb883aa-3707-11f0-9c9e-0db2d748bea7_story.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat educators use DEI to crank out good little Democrats
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/trump-k-12-public-school-funding-dei-order/83458073007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Supreme Court Lets Trump Fire Agency Officials, but Moves to Protect Fed. Order suggests justices will soon eliminate congressional power to insulate agencies from the White House. In Diersen v. GAO, ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), the courts reaffirmed GAO’s power to waste the careers of and to get rid of its Republican employees, and especially those like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-lets-trump-fire-nlrb-and-merit-board-members-cc2dc09a
FORTUNE
The following prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America: a) Democrat and RINO leaders and b) Democrat and RINO employers. Democrats want citizens of foreign countries because they want socialism if not communism. RINOs want citizens of foreign countries because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/23/trump-ban-international-students-affect-us-companies/
FAST COMPANY
— Democrat leaders badmouth Tesla to badmouth Musk to badmouth Trump.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91338704/tesla-cybertruck-is-officially-a-flop
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/resident-scholar/2025/05/23/king-misrepresented-anti-dei-congressional-hearing
PROPUBLICA
— Foreign countries are illegally ever-increasing illegally sending their citizens illegally into America, that is, foreign countries are ever-increasingly invading America illegally.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courts
GUARDIAN
— Which countries will join with China against America in WWIII?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/may/23/harvard-university-international-students-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-us-politics-latest-news
Tag: certified
May 20, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DOJ investigating Chicago hiring practices amid backlash over Mayor Johnson’s viral comments. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-justice-opens-civil-rights-investigation-chicago-hiring-practices-letter-mayor-brandon-johnson/16472280/
— Ashli Babbitt’s family to receive $5M to settle lawsuit with Trump administration.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ashli-babbitts-family-receive-5-million-settlement-trump-admin-sources/16471666/
NBC5
— Former Chicago Public Schools students say they were groomed by teachers. A months-long investigation by NBC 5 Investigates has uncovered allegations of grooming and teacher misconduct dating back more than a decade at one Chicago public school.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/lessons-in-betrayal-former-chicago-public-schools-students-say-they-were-groomed-by-teachers/3749386/
— DOJ investigates Chicago’s hiring practices following comments by Mayor Johnson. Justice officials are investigating whether the city is violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/doj-investigates-chicagos-hiring-practices-following-comments-by-mayor-johnson/3749322/
— Trump allies shift from well-wishes to suggesting Biden hid his cancer diagnosis
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/donald-trump-allies-suggest-biden-hid-cancer-diagnosis/3749387/
CBS2
— Southwest Side Chicago alderman, state rep said city extended use of migrant shelter without notice
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-extended-use-migrant-shelter-notice/
— Trump questions why Biden’s cancer wasn’t caught earlier
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-questions-why-bidens-cancer-wasnt-caught-earlier/
— Justice Department opens discrimination investigation into Chicago city hiring practices.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/justice-department-discrimination-investigation-chicago-city-hiring-practices/
WGN9
— First Trump $1,000 ‘self-deport’ flight conducted by DHS.
https://wgntv.com/news/national/first-trump-1000-self-deport-flight-conducted-by-dhs/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/illinois-mulls-ending-a-health-program-for-some-immigrants-living-in-the-us-illegally/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/19/illinois-lawmakers-discuss-budget-priorities-legislative-deadline-looms
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/05/19/how-birthright-citizenship-ruling-could-affect-illinois
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/trump-venezuelans/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/chicagos-venezuelan-migrants-face-uncertainty-after-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protected-status/
— Cupich says Pope Leo XIV will champion the environment, immigrants. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/pope-leo-chicago-visit/
— Justice Department investigating Mayor Brandon Johnson for racially motivated hiring.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/justice-department-chicago-alleged-racially-motivated-hiring/
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/garrison-school-four-rivers-oversight/
— Chicago’s south and southwest suburbs see population declines — but there are bright spots in census estimates
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/south-suburbs-population-drop-census/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Those seeing decreases of at least 2% but below 3% included Bridgeview, Crestwood, Harvey, Matteson, Oak Forest, Olympia Fields, Palos Hills and Tinley Park. Suburbs having losses over the four years of at least 3% included Alsip, Blue Island, Calumet City, Chicago Heights, Country Club Hills, Dolton, Evergreen Park, Flossmoor, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Lansing, Markham, Midlothian, Oak Lawn, Park Forest and South Holland.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Justice Department launches probe into City Hall’s hiring practices, claims they’re solely race-based. The Trump administration on Monday opened a civil rights investigation into Chicago’s hiring practices one day after Mayor Brandon Johnson boasted about the record number of African-Americans he has hired for top city jobs.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/19/justice-department-probe-city-hall-hiring-practices-brandon-johnson-woodlawn
— Venezuelans in Illinois could be deported after Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protected status. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end the Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans, including in Illinois. — Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/19/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protections-from-some-venezuelans-deportations-could-follow
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting vice in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250519/news/new-pot-dispensary-tattoo-parlor-get-approval-from-elgin-city-council/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump officials launch hiring probe after Johnson touts number of Black advisers
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-doj-investigating-chicago-hiring-discrimination
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “social justice” a) to promote more hatred against Republicans and b) to get more votes from minorities and females.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/siue-east-st-louis-center-for-the-performing-arts-gives-social-justice-rhythm-and-motion-during-its-spring-dance-recital-82614.cfm
NPR ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-05-20/in-the-fight-for-youth-transgender-health-care-illinois-remains-at-the-forefront
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-19/trump-administration-cuts-school-mental-health-grants
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pritzker to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-says-every-state-faces-financial-challenges-under-trump-but-is-optimistic-illinois-will-have/article_1d68e4ce-9dcb-4e4c-ba07-e9f0c328b9aa.html
JOLIET PATCH
— 2024 Tesla Faces Seizure After Joliet Police Find Marijuana Inside: The EV belongs to Mokena residents Eddy Curry and Mitchell Rashada and is now the subject of a Will County civil forfeiture.
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/2024-tesla-faces-seizure-after-joliet-police-find-pot-forfeiture
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Trump attacks City Hall’s discrimination. It easier for Democrat employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. It is harder for Republican employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. Democrats want to work for Democrats. Republicans want to work for Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/20/trump-attacks-chicago-city-hall-diversity-00358327
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-516/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-308/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Higher and higher salaries means Chicagoans’ public pension problem gets bigger and bigger.
https://wirepoints.org/higher-and-higher-salaries-means-chicagoans-public-pension-problem-gets-bigger-and-bigger-wirepoints-on-full-measure-with-sharyl-attkisson/
— Why expand in Illinois when there’s little economic growth?
https://wirepoints.org/what-one-business-owner-said-to-me-why-expand-in-illinois-when-theres-little-economic-growth-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, Firestone Stores in 1970, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. After I graduated from NIU when I was 21 years old in 1970, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from Firestone Stores. But that job did not really require a college degree. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me in 1971 because I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. He would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. All during my entire life, employers that might have hired me were under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat leaders to hire Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1970 (management) bachelor’s degree, b) my 1976 (business), 1980 (accounting), and 1997 (finance) master’s degrees, c) my 1979 (accounting), 1981 (internal auditing), 1990 (fraud examination), 1994 (government financial management), 1996 (financial services auditing), and 1997 (forensic accounting) professional certifications, and d) my 1981 professional license (CPA). Because I complained about the aforesaid, a) my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969, b) my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and my education deductions in 1978 and never promoted me beyond GS-12, and c) my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and forced me to retire in 1997. My RINO critics/opponents have no problem with what my Democrat superiors did to me. Actually, they applaud it. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What makes candidates for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc. Since 1999, RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed a) the almost 18 years of experience that I gained working for GAO, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) the almost 9 years of experience that I gained working for IRS, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) my bachelor’s degree in management, d) my master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, e) my professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and f) my CPA license. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you avoid the Vietnam War draft? Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The bronze statue of Melania Trump in Slovenia has been chopped off at the feet and stolen. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What did your superiors require you to do? Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
JEFF BERKOWITZ
— Does the IL GOP have competitive US Senate & GOV candidates on deck for 2026? What makes a candidate for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc.
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/does-the-il-gop-have-competitive
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— What’s in the Homeschooling Regulation Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/whats-in-the-homeschooling-regulation-bill/
— Nunda Township Officials Sworn into Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/nunda-township-officials-sworn-into-office/
— Connie Cain Flips Parties, Running for Kane County Treasurer as Democrat after Being Fired by GOP Treasurer Chris Lauzen
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/connie-cain-flips-parties-running-for-kane-county-treasurer-as-democrat-after-being-fired-by-gop-treasurer-chris-lauzen/
— No New Face for Conservation District Board, John Henning Being Appointed to a Second Run
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/no-new-face-for-conservation-district-board-john-henning-being-appointed-to-a-second-run/
— Poor Loser Randy Funks Out for the Fifth Time
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/poor-loser-randy-funks-out-for-the-fifth-time/
— Possible Taxes You Might Want to Ask Your Local Democrat to Oppose
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/possible-taxes-you-might-want-to-ask-your-local-democrat-to-oppose/
— With Two Weeks Left in Legislation Session, Sosnowski Gives Take on the Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/with-two-weeks-left-in-legislation-session-sosnowski-gives-take-on-the-budget/
— Rest of Algonquin Township Officials Sworn In
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/rest-of-algonquin-township-officials-sworn-in/
— Another Mailing Asking Voters to Call Sue Ness about Cost of Pension Increases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/another-mailing-asking-voters-to-call-sue-ness-about-cost-of-pension-increases/
— Underwood Not Running for U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/underwood-not-running-for-u-s-senate/
— Is This the Year that Democrats Will Start Taxing Services?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/is-this-the-year-that-democrats-will-start-taxing-services/
— Huntley’s Move to Shut Down Trump Store on Route 47 Making Regional News
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/huntleys-move-to-shut-down-trump-store-on-route-47-making-regional-news/
— $500,000 Judgement for Sending Campaign Postcard Found False–“Reckless Regard of the Truth”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/500000-judgement-for-sending-campaign-postcard-found-false-reckless-regard-of-thetruth/
— A Stupidity of the Chicago School System I Missed
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/a-stupidity-of-the-chicago-school-system-i-missed/
— Homeland Security Calls Out “Fake News” in Press Releases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/homeland-security-calls-out-fake-news-in-press-releases/
— GOP Precinct Committeeperson & Candidate Training in Rockford May 31st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/gop-precinct-committeeperson-candidate-training-in-rockford-may-31st/
— Census Reports McHenry County Growth Tips, Plus Population Gains and Losses for All Municipalities
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/census-reports-local-growth-tips-population-gains-and-losses-for-all-mchenry-county-municipalities/
— Data Centers among Reasons Electricity Prices Going Up in June
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/data-centers-among-reasons-electricity-prices-going-up-in-june/
— Daniel Biss Raises Big Money in Day after Announcement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/daniel-biss-raises-big-money-in-day-after-announcement/
— Chicago Republican Infighting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/chicago-republican-infighting/
— DeWitte Points to Pritzker’s Budget Having Increased 40% Since He Took Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/dewitte-points-to-pritzkers-budget-having-increased-40-since-he-took-office/
— Handful of Local Officials Miss Deadline for Filing Income Disclosure Forms
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/handful-of-local-officials-miss-deadline-for-filing-income-disclosure-forms/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Washington awash with suspicion of a Biden cancer cover-up
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/washington-awash-suspicion-biden-cancer-cover/
— Trump hammers illegal immigrants with full weight of law, criminal prosecutions up 45-fold
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/trump-hammers-illegal-immigrants-full-weight-law-criminal/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Brandon Johnson touts diverse administration, says black people run Chicago because ‘we’re most generous’ Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3415666/brandon-johnson-diverse-administration-black-people-most-generous/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/brandon-johnson-touts-diverse-administration-says-black-people-run-chicago-because-we-re-most-generous/ar-AA1F4UqR
AMERICAN THINKER
— Will the Supreme Court Succumb to Democratic Party Pressure?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/will_the_supreme_court_succumb_to_democratic_party_pressure.html
— Trump throws back stink bombs at celebrities
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/trump_throws_back_stink_bombs_at_celebrities.html
— Biden was not a decent man, nor was he a public servant
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/joe_biden_was_not_a_decent_man_nor_was_he_a_public_servant.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/
— Flailing Schumer tries to blame DOGE for Mexican ship’s Brooklyn Bridge collision
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/flailing-schumer-tries-to-blame-doge-for-mexican-ships-brooklyn-bridge-collision-1544487/
BLAZE
— Schumer tries to blame Trump for lethal Mexican boat crash into Brooklyn Bridge — but DHS fires back
https://www.theblaze.com/news/schumer-trump-cuauhtemoc-lethal-crash
— ‘Self-deport’ flights begin as some illegal migrants take advantage of Trump’s tempting offer
https://www.theblaze.com/news/self-deport-flights-begin-as-some-illegal-migrants-take-advantage-of-trump-s-tempting-offer-report
BREITBART
— Department of Homeland Security Conducts First Self-Deportation Charter Flight of 64 Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/20/department-of-homeland-security-conducts-first-self-deportation-charter-flight-of-64-migrants/
— U.S. hits Indian travel agencies facilitating illegal migration with visa bans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/u-s-hits-indian-travel-agencies-facilitating-illegal-migration-with-visa-bans/
— Trump’s immigration crackdown targets Washington restaurants
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trumps-immigration-crackdown-targets-washington-restaurants/
— Trump administration agrees to pay nearly $5M to settle suit over Ashli Babbitt shooting in Capitol
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-administration-agrees-to-pay-nearly-5m-to-settle-suit-over-ashli-babbitt-shooting-in-capitol/
— Supreme Court allows Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status for Venezuelans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-revoke-temporary-protected-status-for-venezuelans/
DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Sudden Cancer Diagnosis Doesn’t Add Up, Doctors Say
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/joe-biden-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-doesnt-add-up-doctors-presidency/
— Trump Suggests Biden Diagnosis Could Be Part Of Bigger Conspiracy
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/donald-trump-joe-biden-cancer-diagnosis-conspiracy-cover-up/
— Cash Flowing Into Anti-ICE Group’s Coffers Came From Chinese Gov’t-Linked Sources
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/cpc-bankrolled-by-chinese-government-linked-sources/
DAILY SIGNAL
— There’s No Love Like the Democrats’ Love of Illegal Alien Criminals
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/theres-no-love-like-the-democrats-love-of-illegal-alien-criminals/
DAILY WIRE
— Biden Has Terminal Cancer. The Cover Up Was Way Worse Than We Thought.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1599-member-exclusive
EPOCH TIMES
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove Protected Status for Venezuelans
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-remove-protected-status-for-venezuelans-5859993
TOWNHALL
— Trump Admin’s ICE Operation Nets Over 400 Arrests and 500 Deportations, Targeting Criminal Immigrants
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/05/19/ice-arrests-422-undocumented-immigrants-deports-528-in-houston-operation-n2657306
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSNBC & NPR
— Democrat leaders want sellers to use Trump’s tariffs to raise their prices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnYR-zYpU0
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5387330/trump-tariffs-china-collect-manufacturing-revenue
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff. I should write about my RINO leaders who are White and/or male and who promote Affirmative Action and DEI. They a) want votes from minorities and/or from females and/or b) have children who are minority and/or female.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-afrikaners-trump-refugees-ramaphosa-c87264523d555a64c0588d8734bba83a
MSN
— My critics/opponents attribute their successes to meritocracy. They attribute my and everyone else’s successes to their benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/the-case-for-meritocracy/ar-AA1EeV7W
REUTERS
— US launches unit to target DEI policies at colleges with civil fraud probes
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-launches-unit-target-dei-policies-colleges-with-civil-fraud-probes-2025-05-20/
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-sides-venezuelan-man-seeking-return-us/story?id=121968260
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/most-venezuelans-not-at-immediate-risk-despite-tps-decision-immigration-attorney-says/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Melania Trump (the Statue) Vanishes in Slovenia. The bronze sculpture, erected near Ms. Trump’s hometown in eastern Slovenia, was chopped off at the feet and stolen, the police said. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/world/europe/slovenia-melania-trump-statue.html
— DOJ to use false claims act to pursue institutions over their discrimination efforts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/false-claims-act-dei-harvard.html
— The Miners Who Lost Their Jobs, but Not Their Faith in Trump’s Tariffs. With demand for steel down and a trade war underway, miners in the Iron Range of Minnesota are feeling the hit. But they hope better times are ahead. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be working for GAO. But I was collateral damage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/business/trump-tariffs-mining-steel.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Putin is stringing Trump along, and Trump doesn’t seem to realize it. As Putin stonewalls Trump’s ceasefire efforts, the U.S. president extends him patience and goodwill.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/19/putin-ukraine-ceasefire-trump/
BOSTON GLOBE
— Those who have demographics that vote for Republicans are more likely to enlist.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/20/opinion/military-recruiting-rebound-trump-biden/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders want the Pope to promote the anti-Catholic Democrat Party platform, that is, they want him to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/16/pope-leo-catholic-church-lgbtq-harrison-butker/83626547007/
— What should I do if my duties don’t match my job description? What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a) three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/05/13/job-duties-dont-match-description-hr/83410689007/
— Thousands of federal employees are on a roller coaster of being fired, rehired. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/federal-employees-fired-rehired-await-court-decision/83600693007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: These fired federal employees are considering running for public office. ‘It’s forced a choice’: Fired federal workers prepare to run for office. Democratic groups want to help. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/fired-federal-workers-run-politics-office/79329174007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip Biden Status From Venezuelan Migrants
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-migrant-legal-status-a2fc2f8d
— Will Anyone Take the Factory Jobs That Trump Wants to Bring Back to America? The president has pledged to bring more factory work back to U.S., but many manufacturing jobs are already going unfilled. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. Those jobs included two factory jobs: chipping slag and working on an automotive assembly line.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/will-anyone-take-the-factory-jobs-trump-wants-to-bring-back-to-america-f6cd377b
INC.
— Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/businesses-csr-corporate-social-responsibility-policies-trump/91190849
FAST COMPANY
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91310203/it-costs-nearly-300000-to-raise-a-child-in-2025
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
— Are/were you collateral damage? I have been collateral damage since 1964 because I have always been a Republican and virtually all those above me have been Democrats or RINOs.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0403/trump-tariffs-immigration-signal-doge
MEDICAL NEWS
— Study reveals high rates of cannabis use disorder in older US veterans. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250519/Study-reveals-high-rates-of-cannabis-use-disorder-in-older-US-veterans.aspx
EDUCATION WEEK
— Boys Are Struggling in School. What Can Be Done? It’s time to take a hard look at gender equity.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-boys-are-struggling-in-school-what-can-be-done/2025/05
POLITICO
— How Congress could crush Trump’s Qatari plane gift. Lawmakers are weighing everything from sticking amendments in defense legislation to holding up nominees as they try to stop the president from accepting the foreign-owned aircraft.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/19/trump-qatar-jet-gift-congress-block-00357593
AXIOS
— Swift, Beyoncé, Springsteen: Trump’s new political foes are pop stars
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/19/trump-celebrity-investigations-feud-taylor-swift-beyonce-bruce-springsteen
TIMES OF INDIA
— ‘Could he be more racist?’ Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson slammed for ‘only hiring black people’ comment in viral speech. My critics/opponents have always given preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always discriminated against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/could-he-be-more-racist-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-slammed-for-only-hiring-black-people-comment-in-viral-speech/articleshow/121265000.cms
May 19, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— 30-mile protest against President Trump policies links Aurora to Chicago. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/hands-chicagoland-rally-30-mile-protest-president-donald-trump-policies-links-aurora-chicago-ogden-avenue/16462021/
— Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-president-joe-biden-diagnosed-prostate-cancer-routine-exam-hospital-philadelphia/16461073/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hands Across Chicagoland event stretches from Aurora to Chicago to protest Trump administration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/hands-across-chicagoland-event-stretches-from-aurora-to-chicago-to-protest-trump-administration/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stuebner was one of over 18,000 gathered over a 30-mile stretch across DuPage and Cook counties from Aurora to Chicago on Sunday to protest Trump administration policies, per a news release from the Hands Across Chicagoland event organized by the Democratic Party of DuPage County, Indivisible Illinois, the Illinois Federation of Teachers and other political organizations across the Chicago area. The idea was to “form a human chain of solidarity against Trump’s illegal and authoritarian actions and the GOP’s failure to defend the Constitution,” per the release. Protestors signed up in advance based on their ZIP code, and lined the sidewalk along Ogden Avenue and 26th Street, from Aurora to the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago, on Sunday afternoon. The idea arose out of past protests organized by the DuPage Democratic party, according to the group’s chair Reid McCollum. In March, the group hosted a “Tesla Takedown DuPage” protest against Elon Musk’s efforts to slash and restructure the federal government and decided they wanted to stage a protest that stretched further. Sunday’s demonstration was spurred on by the Trump administration sending individuals — like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the United States — to detention centers, McCollum said. The protest’s goal is to reach a significant number of people passing by the protest so that the people of the U.S. won’t “just slide into authoritarianism without fighting back,” McCollum said. Amongst a few dozen protestors gathered in Lisle, several local officials offered their remarks. Standing in front of an inflatable chicken meant to be a caricature of President Trump, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Matteson, told The Beacon-News that these kinds of demonstrations show that people are “ready to resist” the Trump administration. She described concerns about Medicaid, SNAP and tariffs as some of the everyday issues that are affecting ordinary residents’ lives.
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. To come into a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/opinion-immigration-us-donald-trump-jb-pritzker/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/19/trump-maga-fake-news-right-wing-media-lies-fox-propaganda-democracy-andy-shaw
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Is Gov. JB Pritzker the wealthiest person in Illinois? Here’s the top 5.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/05/19/top-5-richest-people-in-illinois-according-to-forbes/83669860007/
SUBURBAN LIFE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/05/19/thousands-line-ogden-avenue-to-protest-trump-administration/
WIFR
— Democrat leaders want Walmart to charge more to punish Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/18/trumps-tariffs-may-mean-walmart-shoppers-pay-more-his-treasury-chief-acknowledges/
TRIBE
— What’s it like to raise teens in 2025? What did you do when you were a teen? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail.
https://thetriibe.com/2025/05/whats-it-like-to-raise-teens-in-2025/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump order targets barcodes on ballots. Democrats object.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-order-targets-barcodes-on-ballots-theyve-long-been-a-source-of-misinformation/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-515/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Open borders + sanctuary status + free benefits + Gov. Abbott = Chicago population growth
https://wirepoints.org/open-borders-sanctuary-status-free-benefits-gov-abbott-chicago-population-growth-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who has had since 2015, who is having, and who will have the biggest impact on you/? For me, because I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, it is Trump. Since 2015, I have ever-increasingly included links to articles that involve Trump in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. My critics/opponents despise/hate Trump, and according to them, my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters promote Trump. Since 2015, to punish me, my critics/opponents have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. My critics/opponents stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Release of an important IVF report is approaching. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always boasted that they discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Federal Dollars Going to Perv-Promoting Institutions of Baser Learning. On May 8, 2025, Northwestern University’s student newspaper the Daily Northwestern cheerily reported on Sex Week, a three-day event during which free sex toys were distributed at the student union, Norris University Center. Students lined up for the freebies which included “phallic-shaped, glitter-covered candles. … dildos and vibrators,” and “cute, little, squishy penis toys.”
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/15/federal-dollars-going-to-perv-promoting-institutions-of-baser-learning
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump unleashes on justices after Supreme Court blocks Tren de Aragua deportations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/18/trump-unleashes-justices-supreme-court-blocks-tren-de-aragua/
— Bruce Springsteen scorns blessings of being born in the U.S.A.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/16/bruce-springsteen-scorns-blessings-born-usa/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Owner of Trump-themed Huntley shop says local officials are targeting her business
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3411133/owner-trump-themed-shop-local-officials/
— There is only one reason Democrats want to make it easier for noncitizens to vote. They vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3413664/only-one-reason-democrats-want-easier-noncitizen-voting/
— Rubio says people should be ‘celebrating’ US welcoming South African immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3415297/rubio-says-people-should-be-celebrating-us-welcoming-south-african-immigrants/
NEW YORK POST
— The end is near for on-the-job reverse discrimination — another blow to DEI. My Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of their Republican subordinates like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/18/opinion/the-end-is-near-for-reverse-discrimination-a-blow-to-dei/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people. My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always boasted that they discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/
BREITBART
— Tim Walz Claims ICE Agents Are ‘Trump’s Modern Gestapo’ Chasing ‘Folks’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/18/tim-walz-claims-ice-agents-trumps-modern-gestapo-chasing-folks/
DAILY CALLER
— Hillary Clinton Appears To Have Learned Nothing From 2016 ‘Basket Of Deplorables’ Remark. I should write about past and present leaders of the following who have ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed/demonized/denigrated/condemned conservatives like me the most: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/18/hillary-clinton-appears-to-have-learned-nothing-from-2016-basket-of-deplorables-remark/
FEDERALIST
— The Ongoing Failure Of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/19/the-ongoing-failure-of-affirmative-action/
PJ MEDIA
— The Spirit Needed to Win Our Culture War
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/18/the-spirit-needed-to-win-our-culture-war-n4939922
— DEI Deathwatch Vol. XXI: Chicago Mayor Explains Black Hiring Preferences. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/05/18/dei-deathwatch-vol-xxi-chicago-mayor-explains-black-hiring-preferences-n4939927
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump warns America’s businesses: Eat my tariffs, or pay the price
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/business/trump-tariffs-price-consumers
AOL
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly call Trump and those who voted for him Nazis.
https://www.aol.com/tim-walz-suggests-ice-trump-025837320.html
— ‘My Coworkers Think I’m DOGE’—A Federal Worker Says, ‘I Receive Mean Looks And Conversations Are Straight-Up Dying When I Walk By’ What did your coworkers do to get pay increases and promotions? My Democrat coworkers in the federal government did everything that they could to help their Democrat superiors and supervisors get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.aol.com/coworkers-think-im-doge-federal-010031089.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump’s big bill advances in rare weekend vote, but conservatives demand more changes
https://apnews.com/article/republicans-tax-cuts-house-trump-johnson-border-f03b7e9cc3015ef9a0ece37b76bc5f66
NEWSWEEK
— Trump called for a “major investigation” into celebrities who aided Kamala Harris’s 2024 election campaign, including Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé, saying their appearances were potentially illegal contributions.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-investigation-beyonce-bruce-springsteen-performances-2073941
NBC NEWS
— Key House committee advances Trump agenda bill after appeasing conservatives
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/key-house-committee-advances-trump-agenda-bill-conservatives-rcna207555
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html
— Key House Panel Approves Trump’s Megabill After Conservatives Relent
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/18/us/trump-news-updates
— Inside the I.V.F. Deliberations at the White House as Key Report Nears. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never have had able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/ivf-policy-white-house.html
— Everyone Hates ‘Debanking’ But Is Unclear on What to Do. What do the leaders of your bank think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-debanking-crypto.html
— DOGE Seeks to Investigate GAO. GAO rejected the request, saying it reports to Congress and is exempt from oversight by Elon Musk’s budget-cutting group. The Democrat who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/doge-musk-gao-accountability-office.html
USA TODAY
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/23/what-is-a-rino-in-gop-politics/73817513007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/15/red-states-join-trump-dei-fight/83518866007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/
TAMPAS FREE PRESS
— Victor Davis Hanson Predicts Democratic Shift To Centrist In 2028
https://www.tampafp.com/victor-davis-hanson-predicts-democratic-shift-to-centrist-in-2028/
DESERET NEWS
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/05/18/jason-riley-affirmative-action-myth-dei/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-approval-rating-charts-eaf089db
REASON
— According to Democrat leaders a) only Whites discriminate and b) only Whites should pay for the sins of their forefathers.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/18/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees/
CHRISTIAN SICENCE MONITOR
— Belvidere aims for economic revival – but will Trump tariffs help?
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0519/trump-tariffs-midwest-manufacturers?icid=rss
RAW STORY
— Snubbed: Pope gives JD Vance just 17 seconds — but has long meetings with other leaders
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-pope-2672071466/
AUTOPIAN
— Direct competitors of the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the muscle car. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle car’s direct competitors?
https://www.theautopian.com/dodge-is-blaming-the-tariffs-for-killing-the-charger-daytona-r-t-a-car-seemingly-no-one-wanted-anyway/
SAVING ADVICE
— 7 Cars That Only The 1% Can Afford. The 5 vehicles that I have at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville are among the least expensive ones there: 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2021 Chevrolet Malibu Premier, 2019 Ford Escape Titanium, and 2005 Corvette.
https://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2025/05/15/10156332_7-cars-that-only-the-1-can-afford.html
May 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Medicaid to promote more hatred against Trump. How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/republicans-proposing-medicaid-cuts-part-president-donald-trump-spending-bill-leaving-americans-worried/16439037/
— DHS says it’s in beginning stages of ‘vetting process’ for immigrant reality TV show
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-homeland-security-says-beginning-stages-vetting-process-immigrant-reality-show-citizenship/16447461/
NBC5
— Joliet surpassed by fellow Chicago suburb as Illinois’ third-largest city. Naperville is now the state’s third-largest city, according to recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/joliet-surpassed-fellow-chicago-suburb-illinois-third-largest-city/3748213/
FOX32
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tells-walmart-eat-tariffs
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/south-africa-afrikaners-refugee-white/
— Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me a) to paint me as being stupid and b) to paint my parents as having been filthy rich. They stress that my ACT score was only 24, that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/federal-dei-crackdown-threatens-illinois-graduate-student-scholarship-program/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/16/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents
DAILY HERALD
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly paint the Pope as being a Democrat, that is, as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250517/news/pope-leo-xiv-not-registered-as-a-republican-in-illinois/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Candida Cain leaves GOP, announces run for Kane treasurer as a Democrat. Move could lead to potential 2026 contest against her former boss.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/18/candida-cain-leaves-gop-announces-run-for-kane-treasurer-as-a-democrat/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Candida “Connie” Cain on Saturday declared her intent to seek the Democratic nomination in the March 17, 2026 primary for Kane County Treasurer. A Certified Public Account from Gilberts, Cain had worked for current Treasurer Chris Lauzen as Director of Financial Operations from May 2023 until he fired her Nov. 22. In an email, Lauzen, a Republican elected as treasurer in 2022, did not state if he planned to seek a second term. If Lauzen goes for another term, and Cain wins the Democratic nomination, the contest would pit Cain against her former boss in the general election on Nov. 3, 2026. A former Republican, Cain said she has now transitioned to the Democratic Party.)
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-investigations/2025/05/17/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents
LOOP NORTH NEWS
— Bally’s drops racial preferences for Chicago casino IPO. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they were always under tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians to give preference to their employees who were Democrat, and especially to those who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that. Further, since I have been involved in Republican politics since 1999, those above me have been under tremendous pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.loopnorth.com/news/casino0518.htm
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/article_48b5b309-272a-5089-a031-5ad51d5443d8.html
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/article_70550ee6-0906-5acd-9d87-56f31d030b0e.html
KWQC
— Battle over video gaming terminals in Illinois. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/05/17/battle-over-video-gaming-terminals-illinois/
WMBD
— LaHood reacts to Trump Administration announcements
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/17/lahood-reacts-to-trump-administration-announcements/
CITIES 92.9
— SEIU spends big on politics, little on members
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/17/report-seiu-spends-big-on-politics-little-on-members/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders use Walz to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-walz-calls-trump-a-tyrant-who-is-trampling-americans-rights-and-violating-the-rule-of-law/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries who have demographics that vote for Democrats to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally. Those who vote for Democrats are liberal, socialist, communist, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, want/need/demand massive government assistance, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, etc.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-asylum-seekers-still-arrive-at-the-us-border-but-what-will-happen-to-them/
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-clash-with-the-courts-raises-prospect-of-showdown-over-separation-of-powers/
NPR ILLINOIS
— The Democrats who run Congress run GAO. They do the bidding of Democrat leaders against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/how-doge-has-tried-to-embed-beyond-the-executive-branch
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to stop voter fraud.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-doj-focuses-in-on-voter-fraud-with-a-murky-assist-from-doge
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-attacks-on-dei-are-complicating-corporate-sponsorship-of-pride-events
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. I should write about the success that they have had in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-05-16/attorneys-general-ask-educators-for-courage-on-dei-policies
CWB CHICAGO
— DuPage judge refuses to detain man accused of robbing postal worker, trafficking checks stolen from the mail
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/05/judge-refuses-to-detain-man-accused-of-robbing-postal-worker-trafficking-checks-stolen-from-the-mail.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Fleeing persecution, South African arrivals scramble refugee politics. The next Democrat or RINO President will send them back.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3414599/fleeing-persecution-south-african-refugees-scramble-politics/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://freebeacon.com/culture/assessing-the-wreckage-of-affirmative-action/
AMERICAN THINKER
— 86 47 and what madness the U.S. is coming to
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/86_47_and_what_madness_the_u_s_is_coming_to.html
— Robert De Niro’s Trump obsession and Hollywood’s hypocrisy
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/robert_de_niro_s_trump_obsession_and_hollywood_s_hypocrisy.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Democrats push misleading ‘cuts to Medicaid’ narrative after enrolling 1.4 million illegals
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/dems-push-misleading-cuts-to-medicaid-narrative-after-enrolling-1-4-million-illegals-1544202/
— Trump blasts SCOTUS for blocking effort to deport illegal Venezuelan ‘gang members’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/trump-blasts-scotus-for-blocking-effort-to-deport-illegal-venezuelan-gang-members-1544193/
BREITBART
— Court allows Trump to stop collective bargaining for thousands of federal workers. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having been tremendously overpaid by the federal government. In today’s dollars, between 1966 and 1997, my federal pay increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151 /year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and d) I earned a job-related professional license. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on what they could done, but failed to do, to qualify themselves for better paying jobs.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/court-allows-trump-to-stop-collective-bargaining-for-thousands-of-federal-workers/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Columbia College Chicago says DEI values remain despite program rebranding
https://www.campusreform.org/article/columbia-college-chicago-says-dei-values-remain-despite-program-rebranding/27913
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Refusing Radical Demands Week in Education
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/refusing-radical-demands-week-in-education/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/05/18/assessing_the_wreckage_of_affirmative_action_646859.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct.
https://apnews.com/article/institute-museum-library-services-funding-cuts-trump-d3a236243b3a5c2b04e85d2004d1a946
MSN
–Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will foist the sins of your ancestors on you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-knew-the-pain-of-apartheid-how-dare-trump-embrace-afrikaners-as-refugees/ar-AA1EWbdx
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-judge-rules-it-s-ok-to-discriminate-against-lgbtq-people/ar-AA1EVI6U
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-funding-cuts-to-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-will-have-lethal-consequences/ar-AA1EI5C1
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate/expect that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI preference that American citizenship gives minorities and females over Whites and males.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-freaks-after-scotus-trashes-his-birthright-citizenship-arguments/ar-AA1EUxfs
— Those who promote muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/dodge-is-already-pulling-the-plug-on-its-cheapest-muscle-car/ar-AA1EW4Jt
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2025/05/17/dodge-charger-daytona-ev-canceled-slow-sales/83675336007/
https://www.motortrend.com/news/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-r-t-discontinued-ram-ev-delays
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/you-arent-buying-it-so-dodge-might-kill-the-electric-charger-daytona-r-t/
https://moparinsiders.com/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-scat-pack-brings-big-changes/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/denying-due-process-pritzker-sends-clear-message-in-blow-to-trump/ss-AA1EYa6X
MSNBC
— Episcopalians help Democrat leaders promote hatred against South African Whites.
https://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/watch/episcopal-church-refuses-trump-and-says-it-won-t-help-resettle-white-south-africans-239823942002
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zL9mESgmU
NEWSWEEK
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-latest-polls-2072624
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-democrats-trump-2028-president-2073019
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders are overjoyed that Pence criticizes Trump on tariffs and key foreign policy issues as he watches from afar.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/mike-pence-criticizes-trump-tariffs-key-foreign-policy-issues-watches-rcna206755
NEW YORK TIMES
— A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for U.S. Citizenship? D.H.S. Is Considering It. A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said the agency was happy to review “out-of-the-box pitches.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/homeland-security-immigration-reality-show.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/opinion/trump-politics-corruption.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-deportation-el-salvador/
— DOJ’s defense of GAO in Diersen v. GAO was politically motivated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/17/trump-justice-department-prosecutions/
— Democrat leaders use college newspapers to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/17/college-newspapers-trump-international-students/
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/17/walmart-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders say Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/18/trump-enforcement-halt-regulations-laws/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/18/usaid-withdrawal-africa-healthcare/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-05-17/bruce-springsteen-president-trump-manchester-concert
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote student loans. I never got any student loans. If I had, my GPA would have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes 1964-1966 and delivering mail 1966-1969. But that enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-17/student-loans-have-been-confusing-lately-heres-a-guide-to-know-where-you-stand
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/18/supreme-courts-decisions-trump-religion-transgender-care/83675865007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/trump-big-beautiful-bill-immigration-tax/83697340007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that the Pope despises/hates Trump
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/donald-trump-jd-vance-pope-leo-marco-rubio/83672296007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/
— Democrat leaders say that Vance is a brawler for Trump who avoids Harris and Pence mistakes and his assertive public profile sets him up for 2028 Republican support.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/vice-president-jd-vance-visibility-outspoken/83630581007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-attacks-walmart-for-tariff-related-price-increases-63ef9db8
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders say that major companies are anxiously awaiting to see whether or not they will be targeted by the federal government for a DEI investigation.
https://fortune.com/article/trump-dei-deadline-investigation-companies-federal-government/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-walmart-tariffs-trade-rising-prices-2025-5
NPR
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/18/1252312214/us-competitive-autocracy
BILLBOARD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-trump-unfit-president-stage-speech-1235974885/
PRESS READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sunday-world-8839/20250518/281711210554249
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/making-of-elon-musk-childhood-apartheid-south-africa
May 17, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WGN9
— Illinois Democrat leaders focus on turning Illinois farmers against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/farming-anxieties-rise-among-illinoisans-as-trade-war-affects-crop-exports/ar-AA1EVUzf
FOX32
— Democrat and RINO leaders got the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s Alien Enemies Act deportations. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/supreme-court-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump’s bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/supreme-court-rejects-trump-deportations/
— Democrat leaders say that the Republican tax bill is filled with illogicalities, craven giveaways
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/editorial-republicans-tax-bill-tips-salt-overtime/
— Under Trump, Republican leaders fight Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, they fight race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/trump-dei/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/16/tariffs-trump-maga-corruption-democracy-america-voters-mona-charen
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/05/16/chicago-catholics-pope-leo-xiv-marriage-lgbtq
— House speaker on Crespo ouster: ‘Can’t allow someone to go rogue’ “He’s free to speak his mind. He’s free to vote his conscience,” House Speaker Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch, said, but added that no one would be allowed to use their official leadership roles “to pursue an agenda that is antithetical to our shared goals” of passing a budget. Since I was 53 years old in 2001, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have rudely dumped me forever because I supported Pat O’Malley in the primary for governor instead of their candidate Jim Ryan. I ran O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. They continue to blame me not only for Ryan’s loss in the 2002 general election, but for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since then. I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/16/emanuel-chris-welch-fred-crespo-ouster-house-commitee-seperate-budget-rich-mller
DAILY HERALD
— GOP candidates for state offices will host discussion in St. Charles Saturday morning
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250516/illinois-state-politics/gop-candidates-for-state-offices-will-host-discussion-in-st-charles-saturday-morning/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250517/news/illinois-seeks-to-prevent-feds-from-tying-funding-for-states-to-immigration-enforcement/
WBEZ
— A quarter of Chicago high schoolers missed more than a month of school last year. When you were in grade school and high school, how many days did you miss? I missed extremely few.
https://www.wbez.org/
SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote protests against Trump
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/05/15/thousands-to-line-ogden-avenue-sunday-to-protest-trump-administration/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— AUGUST 16, 2012 FLASHBACK: GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters: A bunch of political info — daily
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2012/08/16/bernard-schoenburg-bunch-political-info/41733104007/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Republicans forge their tax bill in Trump’s image, with ‘MAGA accounts’ and more
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-republicans-forge-their-tax-bill-in-trumps-image-with-maga-accounts-and-more/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DOGE tried assigning a team to GAO. GAO refused. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They wasted my career and they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They rudely flushed down their toilet a) my three job-related master’s degrees (business-1976, accounting-1980, and finance-1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997), c) my job-related professional license (CPA-1981), and d) what I had learned about IRS by working for it 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). They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-16/doge-tried-assigning-a-team-to-the-government-accountability-office-it-refused
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5401008/doge-gao-congress
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its attempts to expand its reach beyond executive branch agencies, this time seeking to embed in an independent legislative watchdog that finds waste, fraud and abuse in the government. But the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a legislative branch entity that helps audit government spending and suggest ways to make it more efficient, rejected that request on Friday by noting that GAO is not subject to presidential executive orders. The request to GAO had cited President Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order creating DOGE, which, despite its name, is not a formal agency. DOGE’s request to GAO and its response was first reported by NOTUS. A spokesperson for GAO confirmed DOGE’s outreach, and reiterated that “as a legislative branch agency, GAO is not subject to Executive Orders and has therefore declined any requests to have a DOGE team assigned to GAO.” In an announcement to employees posted Friday afternoon, GAO leadership said they sent a letter to Acting Administrator of DOGE Amy Gleason and notified members of Congress, according to a copy of the notice shared with NPR by an employee not authorized to speak publicly. The GAO regularly releases reports that highlight ways to improve government efficiency, like a May 13 review of federal programs with fragmented, overlapping, or duplicative actions it says could save over $100 billion in spending. But there’s been little overlap between GAO’s work and DOGE’s actions so far. “DOGE’s attempted intrusion into an independent, nonpartisan legislative branch agency is a direct assault on our nation’s sacred separation of powers,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which oversees GAO, in a statement to NPR. “DOGE cannot and must not have any access to GAO. Oversight Democrats are monitoring this situation closely and stand behind GAO’s well-established status as a critical legislative branch agency.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about DOGE’s attempts to place a team at GAO. . .DOGE’s efforts to embed at GAO also heighten growing tensions between Congress and the executive branch. Last week, President Trump abruptly fired the Librarian of Congress, a year before the end of her term — raising concerns from members of Congress including Senate Majority leader John Thune. Meanwhile, the watchdog agency has dozens of investigations underway into whether the White House violated the law by freezing funding that had already been allocated by Congress. “ We have right now 39 different investigations underway,” Gene Dodaro, the current head of the GAO, told a Senate hearing on Apr. 29. “We’re trying to get the information from the agencies about what their legal position is for not expending the money,” Dodaro told lawmakers.)
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/community/springfield-pridefest-celebrates-15th-year-on-saturday/article_b8a69af1-3e9c-4178-ae65-55fc98fd9fe5.html
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Vacancy Tax On Landlords Could Help Fill City’s Affordable Housing Gap, UChicago Students Say. I was a reluctant landlord 1976-1984 because I could sell my University Park town home only if I sold it at a big loss.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/16/vacancy-tax-on-landlords-could-help-fill-citys-affordable-housing-gap-uchicago-students-say/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-307/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The state and the media refuse to ask the proper questions about Chinese companies in Illinois
https://wirepoints.org/the-state-and-the-media-refuses-to-ask-the-proper-questions-about-chinese-companies-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
JEFF BERKOWITZ
— IL GOP US Senate & GOV candidates can win in 2026
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/il-gop-us-senate-and-gov-candidates
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Illinois Freedom Caucus: “Cut the Waste & Bloat”
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/illinois-freedom-caucus-cut-the-waste-bloat-in-budget/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Kids and Marijuana – A Bad Combination
https://illinoisfamily.org/marijuana-2/kids-and-marijuana-a-bad-combination/
— Papal Warmup
https://illinoisfamily.org/faith/papal-warmup/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL prioritizes $3.2B for immigrants, leaves working families behind
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b7099305-d374-404e-8bfd-ee4bc3037919.html
— Illinois home to 15th largest share of roads in poor conditions across country. The smaller the vehicle that you drive, the more adversely that you are impacted by bad roads.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e4846ca4-5b89-4254-b9de-8a0437342e10.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Under Trump, Republican leaders fight Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, they fight race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Since I was 53 years old in 2001, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have rudely dumped me forever because I supported Pat O’Malley in the primary for governor instead of their candidate Jim Ryan. I ran O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. They continue to blame me not only for Ryan’s loss in the 2002 general election, but for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since then. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— DOGE has tried to assign a team to GAO. GAO refused. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They wasted my career and they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They rudely flushed down their toilet a) my three job-related master’s degrees (business-1976, accounting-1980, and finance-1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997), c) my job-related professional license (CPA-1981), and d) what I had learned about IRS by working for it 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). They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that minorities, females, younger people, and veterans should get reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. All my coworkers who were the aforesaid and who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors and supervisors who despised/hated me the most because I was a Republican and/or because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I would focus on my Democrat superiors who flushed down their toilets my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The White House has launched a Drudge Report lookalike website. I should write about the many GOPUSA ILLINOIS lookalike websites and newsletters that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes publish since 2005. Sooner or later, they all go dark. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— India’s Caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am low Caste. They have aways stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that my mother never attended high school, and d) that I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ernst & Young was one of the many CPA firms that had no interest in me because I was too old, that is, a) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, b) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, c) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, and d) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, I was not a minority, female, or veteran. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you attend you senior prom? I did not. I was not viewed as being college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I had spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I was viewed as being draft bait. I had been accepted by UIC, but UIC is not Ivy League. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Federal employees do not have to take a vow of poverty. But few federal employees make GS-13 ($117,807/year). Fewer make GS-14 ($139,211/year). Even fewer make GS-15 ($163,749/year). Extremely few make Senior Executive Service (SES) ($195,200/year). Becoming a federal employee severely limits your earning potential. Unless you are a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government waste your career and get rid of you if they do not promote you to GS-13 by age 25, GS-14 by age 30, GS-15 by age 35, and SES by age 40. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines. They especially use against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. In my defense, I did not earn a) my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) my professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45 , 47 and 48, and c) my professional license until I was 32. Further, I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Congresswoman leading reparations movement says wealthy Black Americans deserve payments, too. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/16/rep-summer-lee-leading-reparations-movement-says-wealthy-black/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Harvard slams ‘abusive and retaliatory’ DOJ investigation over race-based admissions. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if they could have found a qualified minority, female, younger person, and/or veteran, they would have admitted them instead of me.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3414475/harvard-slams-doj-investigation-race-based-admissions/
— GOP should be codifying Trump’s executive orders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3413695/gop-not-dems-should-codify-trump-executive-orders-lauren-boebert/
NEW YORK POST
— Supreme Court again blocks quick deportations under Alien Enemies Act in new blow to Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/supreme-court-again-blocks-quick-deportations-under-alien-enemies-act-in-new-blow-to-trump/
— Trump’s ‘knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution’ is tackling long-festering ills no one else would
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/opinion/trump-is-taking-on-long-festering-ills-no-one-else-would-via-his-knock-down-drag-out-counterrevolution/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘U.S. owes us a debt’: Dems demand trillions in reparations ‘NOW’ Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/16/u-s-owes-us-a-debt-dems-demand-trillions-in-reparations-now-1543940/
BREITBART
— Trump Slams SCOTUS for Ruling on Alien Enemies Act: ‘This Decision Will Let More Criminals Pour’ In
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/16/ttrump-slams-scotus-for-ruling-on-alien-enemies-act-this-decision-will-let-more-criminals-pour-in/
DAILY CALLER
— IRS Quietly Puts On New Face, Ousts Anti-Trump Spokeswoman With Drunk Driving Record. I should write about my Democrat IRS superiors and supervisors who despised/hated me the most because I was a Republican and/or because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I would focus on those who a) disallowed my travel vouchers, b) disallowed my education deductions, and c) stopped me from being promoted to GS-13. I would focus on those who flushed down their toilets my earning master’s degrees in business and accounting and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/16/exclusive-irs-ousts-anti-trump-spokeswoman-arrest-record/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Bashes Supreme Court Following Order Further Blocking Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Illegal Gang Members
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/16/trump-bashes-supreme-court-following-order-further-blocking-use-of-alien-enemies-act-to-deport-illegal-gang-members/
FOX NEWS
— Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to deport Venezuelan migrants under Alien Enemies Act. Conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the court’s decision.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-blocks-trump-effort-deport-venezuelan-migrants-under-alien-enemies-act
— Trump says Comey knew ‘assassination’ meaning behind deleted social media post. President Trump claims deleted Instagram post was deliberate call for assassination as Justice Department investigates.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-says-comey-knew-assassination-meaning-behind-deleted-social-media-post
— Trump admin wants 20K National Guard troops to help with mass deportation effort
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/trump-admin-wants-20k-national-guard-troops-to-help-with-mass-deportation-effort/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— House Democrat Launching Resolution for U.S. to Spend ‘Trillions’ on Reparations. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/house-democrat-launching-resolution-for-u-s-to-spend-trillions-on-reparations/
MRC TV
— Trump Signs EO Redirecting Funds Used to Help Illegals to Build a National Center for Homeless Vets
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/nick-kangadis/trump-signs-eo-redirecting-funds-used-help-illegals-build-national-center
NEWSMAX
— Academia’s ‘Mafia’ Cares Little for American Dream, Students
https://www.newsmax.com/parthachakraborty/columbia-sinwar-stem/2025/05/16/id/1211267/
PJ MEDIA
— Most U.S. Voters Want Deportations to Continue
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/16/poll-most-us-voters-want-deportations-to-continue-n4939865
POST MILLENNIAL
— Dem lawmakers demand TRILLIONS in reparations for black Americans. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-lawmakers-demand-trillions-in-reparations-for-black-americans
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5302561-trump-administration-diversity-equity-inclusion/
— White House launches Drudge Report lookalike site. I should write about the many GOPUSA ILLINOIS lookalike websites that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes publish since 2005. Sooner or later, they all go dark.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5277015-white-house-drudge-report-dupe-site/
ABC NEWS
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-weigh-blocks-trumps-order-end-birthright/story?id=121710507
NBC NEWS
— Conservatives block Trump’s big tax breaks bill in a stunning setback. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, named with a nod to Trump, is teetering at a critical moment.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/conservatives-block-trumps-big-tax-breaks-and-spending-cuts-bill-in-a-stunning-setback/3747778/
ASSOCIATED PRESS & NEWS NATION NOW
— Police investigate disappearance of Melania Trump’s statue in her native Slovenia
https://apnews.com/article/melania-trump-statue-slovenia-9440b43a0a6771256522290fb219efce
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/melania-trump-statue-slovenia-stolen/
CNN
— India’s Caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am low Caste. They have aways stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that my mother never attended high school, and d) that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.news8000.com/news/national-world/india-s-caste-system-is-controversial-and-discriminatory-so-why-is-it-being-included-in/article_87c15db9-3951-5039-a397-265ef3c3efde.html
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/takeaways-from-the-supreme-court-arguments-on-birthright-citizenship-and-nationwide-injunctions/ar-AA1ER4zr
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-workers-eeoc-trump-texas-lgbtq-harassment-ab89a52aca37c3b0319ed665852d6252
MSN
— American Pope promises to have an ‘active social media presence’ after using his old account to criticize Trump. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy not only Trump, but to destroy all those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/american-pope-promises-to-have-an-an-active-social-media-presence-after-using-his-old-account-to-criticize-trump/ar-AA1EIpLH
MSNBC & PRETORIA NEWS & NATION
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, a) only Whites discriminate and b) only Whites should pay for the sins of their forefathers.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-afrikaners-apartheid-refugees-genocide-rcna206660
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/pretoria-news/20250516/281672555844566
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/white-south-african-refugees-trump/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. They ever-increasingly do everything that they can to drive his approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Republicans Push to End Immigrant Benefits in Democratic States. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/immigrant-trump-states-california.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/nyregion/nyc-migrants-legal-help-ending.html
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010163960/can-trump-really-end-birthright-citizenship.html
— How many able-bodied people are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/opinion/medicaid-work-requirements-pointless.html
WASHINGTON POST & MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-deportation-el-salvador/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/supreme-court-trump-venezuelan-migrants-gang/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/trump-immigration-asylum-lawsuit-courts/46e1364c-320e-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d6-LRpPzwA
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump bashes Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift on Truth Social
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/16/trump-bruce-springsteen-taylor-swift/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/trans-organizers-describe-prides-importance-under-trump/2025/05/16/85974861-97af-46c7-a279-e585e43a2fec_video.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Pope Took a Vow of Poverty. He May Still Need to File U.S. Taxes. The first American pontiff has special circumstances but may want to file a return even if he doesn’t owe anything. Federal employees do not have to take a vow of poverty. But few federal employees make GS-13 ($117,807/year). Fewer make GS-14 ($139,211/year). Even fewer make GS-15 ($163,749/year). Extremely few make Senior Executive Service (SES) ($195,200/year). Becoming a federal employee severely limits your earning potential. Unless you are a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government waste your career and get rid of you if they do not promote you to GS-13 by age 25, GS-14 by age 30, GS-15 by age 35, and SES by age 40. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines. They especially use against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. In my defense, I did not earn a) my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) my professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45 , 47 and 48, and c) my professional license until I was 32. Further, I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/pope-leo-xiv-us-taxes-f7f1de28
— It Was a Mistake to Skip My Senior Prom. Did you attend you senior prom? I did not. I was not viewed as being college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I had spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I was viewed as being draft bait. I had been accepted by UIC, but UIC is not Ivy League.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/never-be-too-cool-for-your-own-life-why-it-was-a-mistake-to-skip-my-senior-prom-c7900da0
— Americans Are Redefining Old Age. Are you old? I am 76. If you are old, what are you doing with your life? I spend 10+ hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/americans-in-their-80s-and-90s-are-redefining-old-age-5f8ae8a6?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
BLOOMBERG
— Chicago Taps Ernst & Young to Close $1 Billion Gap as Trump Threatens Funds. Ernst & Young was one of the many CPA firms that had no interest in me because I was too old, that is, a) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, b) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, c) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, and d) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, I was not a minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/chicago-taps-ey-to-close-1-billion-gap-as-trump-threatens-funds
FAST COMPANY
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91335032/trump-attacks-digital-equity-act-rural-internet
POLITICO
— Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit, citing rising debt. What percent of Moody’s employees despise/hate Trump?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/moodys-downgrade-us-debt-00355217
ATLANTIC & NPR
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/supreme-court-national-injunctions/682824/
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5399779/supreme-court-justices-seem-divided-in-birthright-citizenship-arguments
PEW RESEARCH
— Among Republicans, conservatives are less likely to trust information from national news media. The mainstream news media exists to elect and to reelect Democrats.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/05/08/republicans-have-become-more-likely-since-2024-to-trust-information-from-news-outlets-social-media/
May 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— IRS criminal investigators in Chicago being ‘deputized’ as immigration enforcers under Trump administration plan. I worked for GAO for 3 years on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) while I was a GS-13 Step 1-3, currently $117,807-$125,661/year. I worked with CID employees for 5 1/.2 years while I was an IRS Revenue Officer at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/irs-criminal-investigators-in-chicago-being-deputized-as-immigration-enforcers-under-trump-administration-plan/
— Trump marvels at wealth of his Arab hosts while he eyes White House and Air Force One upgrades
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/trump-arab-hosts-air-force-one-upgrades/
— Redirect migrant funds to empower Chicago’s youths. What did you do get accepted by a college? I a) took college preparatory courses, b) earned an ACT score of 24, and c) graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/opinion-chicago-teen-takeovers-migrant-funds/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Have you been on a do not hire list? When I was 49 years old in 1997, constructively, if not literally, my Democrat GAO superiors put me on everyone’s do not hire list when they forced me to retire. Previously, they had a) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and d) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/14/lincoln-park-high-school-administrators-removed-chicago-public-schools-do-not-hire-list
DAILY HERALD
— ‘The claims against me are unfounded’: Huntley Trump store’s eviction trial delayed
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250514/local-politics/the-claims-against-me-are-unfounded-huntley-trump-stores-eviction-trial-delayed/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/medicaid-illinois-danger-several-fronts
RIVERSIDE BROOKFIELD LANDMARK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their May 18 protest against Trump
https://www.rblandmark.com/2025/05/13/protest-anti-trump-human-chain-brookfield/
WAND TV
— Gun rights activists take to Springfield as state Democrats look to pass multiple gun laws
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/gun-rights-activists-take-to-springfield-as-state-democrats-look-to-pass-multiple-gun-laws/article_e8a4c3cd-f397-4e49-9209-29e68b38c1ca.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-senate-committee-approves-bill-ensuring-medication-abortion-access-amid-uncertainty-with-trumps-fda/article_f126e72a-d598-44c2-b49b-01a58b3272c1.html
WCIA
— Retirement Wave Hits CPA Industry. Why did the CPA industry have no use for me? I was too old. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. If I had majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, my entire life would have been different.
https://www.wcia.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/812689749/as-retirement-wave-hits-cpa-industry-prohorizons-guides-firm-owners-through-smooth-transitions/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-funds-from-migrants-sent-back-home-help-fuel-some-towns-economies-a-gop-plan-targets-that/
— How Project 2025 has guided the Trump administration
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-13/how-project-2025-has-guided-the-trump-administration
SOUTH SIDE PATCH
— 11 Students Sickened, Taken To Hospital After Eating Marijuana Edibles At South Side Chicago School. The students got sick just after 2 p.m. at Fort Dearborn Elementary School, at 9025 S. Throop St. in the Brainerd neighborhood. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://patch.com/illinois/southside/11-students-sickened-taken-hospital-after-eating-marijuana-edibles-south-side
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-513/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-305/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats Drag America Into the Mouth of Their Madness
https://johnkassnews.com/a-civilization-that-descends-into-madness/
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— IL Freedom Caucus Statement on IGOLD rally in Springfield
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/il-freedom-caucus-statement-on-igold-rally-in-springfield/
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois politicians killed school choice. Now the federal government could deliver it anyway.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-politicians-killed-school-choice-now-the-federal-government-could-deliver-it-anyway-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write about the ever-increasing success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters, that is, the ever-increasing success that Democrat leaders and their mainstream news media are having promoting more and more and more hatred against Trump. I should write about their ever-increasing success in promoting more and more and more hatred against those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters paint you? They paint me as being blindly loyal to Trump a) because Trump and I share so many demographics and b) because of what I do as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor. But they are wrong. I have never been blindly loyal to any politician and I never will. I am loyal to conservative principles and to the Republican Party platform. My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What percent of the students are female in the college(s) that you graduates from? Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, the future is bleaker for males, and especially for males who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Notwithstanding the fact that I am all of the aforesaid, I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But that was many years ago. All those who were promoted over me were Democrats a) who were female, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When you were in college, what did you major in? I should have majored in accounting. If I had majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, my entire life would have been different. I did not start taking graduate accounting course until I was 27. Because of that, the CPA industry had no use for me. I was too old. Further, I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have ever considered taking a pay cut? To force 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 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that much of what I had done for IRS for almost 9 years was very similar to what I would do for GAO, b) that GAO audits IRS, 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. I earned that degree in 1980. The aforesaid helped me pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, GAO would have offered me a $5,527/year (5%) pay increase to $117,807/year (GS-13) in today’s dollars to transfer. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Buffett is stepping down at age 94. How has age discrimination impacted you? When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to ever be promoted to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. I ultimately got promoted to GS-13, but not until I was 38 and I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO when I was 31, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, and e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— South African president calls refugees ‘cowards’ after arrival in US
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3410821/south-african-president-afrikaner-refugees-us-cowards/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Presently, many Afrikaner activists and observers believe the group is being purposefully subjected to violence from the black majority, with the government being complicit. Attacks against white Afrikaner farmers are a highly controversial matter. The government doesn’t keep statistics regarding the number of white farmers killed, but news of particularly brutal attacks has enraged many Afrikaners. These attacks are often accompanied by extensive torture, rape, and mutilation. The South African government has emphatically denied any bias against Afrikaners and has maintained that white farmers are victims of a larger crime wave. However, the White House has been unambiguous in its assessment of the situation. “Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white,” Trump said Monday. “But whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa, and the newspaper and the television media don’t even talk about it.” “I don’t care about their race, their color, their height, their weight — I don’t care about anything,” Trump continued. “I just know that what’s happening is terrible.” Trump also punished South Africa on a diplomatic level. He withheld the U.S. government’s participation in the G20 summit scheduled to be held in South Africa later this year. South African Ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool was declared a persona non grata and ordered to leave the country by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called him a “race-baiting politician who hates America and hates [Trump].”)
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— MSNBC declares South African asylum seekers are ‘descendants of white supremacists.’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/14/msnbc-declares-south-african-asylum-seekers-are-descendants-of-white-supremacists-1543501/
CENTER SQUARE
— Antisemitism watchdog calls for IRS probe of nonprofit supporting anti-Israel protests
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_9925f97b-0456-480b-8256-17ecd9b3d93e.html
COLLEGE FIX
— Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1 as graduation speakers. For Democrats, the purpose of education is to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/democrats-outnumber-republicans-5-to-1-as-graduation-speakers/
DAILY SIGNAL
— White House Praises House Panel for Booting Illegals Off Medicaid
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/14/white-house-praises-house-panel-for-booting-illegals-off-medicaid/
— Democrats Defend Medicaid Coverage for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/14/white-house-praises-house-panel-for-booting-illegals-off-medicaid
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Strikes $244 Billion in Deals With Qatar, Including ‘Historic’ Boeing Jet Sale. Qatar Airways signed a $96 billion agreement to acquire up to 210 American-made 787 Dreamliner and 777X aircraft from Boeing.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/qatar-airways-signs-agreement-to-buy-160-boeing-planes-5857662
FEDERALIST
— Here Are 16 Of The Most Egregious Injunctions Barring The Trump Administration From Doing Its Job
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/14/here-are-16-of-the-most-egregious-injunctions-barring-the-trump-administration-from-doing-its-job/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Arizona State to Focus on ‘Gender Equity’ for Women Even Though Campus is 70% Female. What percent of the students are female in the college(s) that you graduates from? Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, the future is bleaker for males, and especially for males who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Notwithstanding the fact that I am all of the aforesaid, I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But that was many years ago. All those who were promoted over me were Democrats a) who were female, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who 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://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/arizona-state-to-focus-on-gender-equity-for-women-even-though-campus-is-70-female/amp/
NEWSMAX
— Alien Enemies Act Will Keep US Safe
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/pam-bondi-immigration-habeus-corpus/2025/05/14/id/1210991/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting sellers to use Trump’s tariffs to raise prices.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/business/walmart-prices-tariffs
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/trump-law-firms-attacks.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders use a “pregnant Cuban emigre” to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/14/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-immigration-trump/aa603c82-3078-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/14/pope-leo-lgbtq-catholics/
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/13/trump-lies-china-tariffs-qatar-jet/83583303007/
DESERET NEWS
— Utah Democrats hope for revival as Gov. JB Pritzker scheduled to speak at convention. New poll finds only 35% of Democrats are optimistic about future of party.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/05/14/utah-democrats-debate-how-to-respond-to-donald-trump/
SC TIMES
— Trump’s U.S. Attorney pick for Minnesota has never been a prosecutor. To force 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 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that much of what I had done for IRS for almost 9 years was very similar to what I would do for GAO, b) that GAO audits IRS, 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. I earned that degree in 1980. The aforesaid helped me pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, GAO would have offered me a $5,527/year (5%) pay increase to $117,807/year in today’s dollars to transfer.
https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2025/05/15/trump-nominates-daniel-rosen-as-minnesotas-next-u-s-attorney/83604701007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE. Buffett is stepping down at age 94. How has age discrimination impacted you? When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to ever be promoted to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. I ultimately got promoted to GS-13, but not until I was 38 and I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO when I was 31, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, and e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.wsj.com/business/warren-buffett-reveals-he-stepped-down-after-finally-feeling-his-age-b060251f
— FRONT PAGE: Women Are Drinking More—and Doctors Are Worried
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/women-alcohol-use-health-risks-86999148
— Democrats Are Stuck in the Soup. The party is both too old and too extreme. It needs to look to history for a way out.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-are-stuck-in-the-soup-c6cad7b2
— Welcome to the Post-Progressive Political Era. For decades, the right lost almost every battle in the culture. But now the left has clearly gone too far.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/welcome-to-the-post-progressive-political-era-history-culture-4ad308c1
— Career Advice for 2025 Graduates. Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/career-advice-for-2025-graduates-c79b5126
— I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them jobs.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/529-plans-college-savings-alternatives-tips-958b2556
— My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-market-overpaid-salary-9eeabbaa
BANKRATE
— What to do if you are dropped from your home insurance
https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/homeowners-insurance/dropped-from-home-insurance/
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE
— Our Mission: To protect consumers by providing assistance and information, by efficiently regulating the insurance industry’s market behavior and financial solvency, and by fostering a competitive insurance marketplace.
https://idoi.illinois.gov/
ILLINOIS FAIR PLAN
— About Us: The Illinois FAIR Plan Association provides basic and affordable property insurance to applicants in the state of Illinois who are unable to purchase coverage through the standard insurance market for reasons beyond their control. The Illinois FAIR Plan is considered to be one of the top FAIR Plans in the country based the products and services it offers, its excellent working relationship with the Department of Insurance, and the support it has received from the Industry including their effective participation on the Governing Committee. Who We Are: The Illinois FAIR Plan Association is a not-for-profit property insurance association supported by nearly 500 Illinois insurance companies.
https://www.illinoisfairplan.com/about.html
May 12, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump admin poised to accept luxury jet as gift for Trump from Qatar
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-administration-poised-accept-boeing-747-8-jumbo-jet-gift-new-air-force-qatar-royal-family-sources/16382889/
WTTW
— Pope Leo XIV Indicates He Will Closely Follow Francis
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/10/pope-leo-xiv-indicates-he-will-closely-follow-francis-says-ai-represents-major-challenge
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— First group of 49 white South Africans leaves for the US after Donald Trump offered them refugee status
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/white-south-africans-trump-refugee-status/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/editorial-china-tariffs-trump-consul-general/
— Qatar says no final decision made on gifting Donald Trump a jet to use as Air Force One
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/qatar-says-no-final-decision-made-on-gifting-trump-a-jet-to-use-as-air-force-one/
— Who will fill Dick Durbin’s US Senate seat in Illinois? Here are the candidates. Will LaHood walk in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade this year? His father was considering running for governor when he walked in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade in 2005. I spoke with him before that parade kicked off.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/dick-durbin-senate-seat-illinois-candidates/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Darin LaHood, U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, 16th. While the eventual Democratic nominee is expected to have the advantage in a state where party members have held all statewide elected offices since 2019, Republican U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood of Peoria has acknowledged he is considering a Senate bid. LaHood, the son of former longtime GOP congressman and Obama transportation secretary Ray LaHood, had nearly $5.9 million in his federal campaign fund as of April 1. One of only three House Republicans in Illinois’ 17-member congressional delegation, LaHood has served since 2015 in Congress and has been a strong supporter of Trump.)
— Illinois grows more soybeans than any other state. What happened to the Republican support? During the 1950s and early 1960s, I spent lots of time at my grandparents’ farm along the Indiana border in Grant Park. They grew lots of soybeans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/editorial-soybeans-illinois-lab-funding-gop-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/09/east-aurora-newcomer-center/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against everyone who voted for Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/11/united-states-donald-trump-robert-francis-prevost-pope-leo
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Lawmakers have just days to save Metra, Pace and CTA from massive cuts. How important is/was Metra to you? A big reason why my wife and I bought a home in Wheaton in 1978 and had one built in Wheaton in 1984 was that they were in walking distance from Metra. We both worked in the Loop.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250511/transportation/are-we-going-over-the-cliff-lawmakers-have-just-days-to-save-metra-pace-and-cta-from-massive-cuts/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pope’s old Dolton house tells a familiar south suburban story. I lived in 1286 Wood street in Crete 1954-1972. I should write about that home. My grandparents had it built in 1926. My parents inherited it from them. My brother and I inherited it from our parents. I inherited it when my brother died. It had been regularly maintained and upgraded, but not after my father died suddenly in 1969. SEE: https://www.estately.com/listings/info/1286-wood-street-crete-il-60417
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/popes-childhood-home-tells-south-suburban-story
— Small businesses need Congress to make Trump tax cuts permanent
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/small-biz-needs-trump-tax-cuts-be-permanent-opinion
— What happens when employers have to pay a higher minimum wage. Did you work for the minimum wage? I did part-time while I was a junior and senior in high school and the summer in between 1964-1966. With the money that I earned and saved, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint (a poor man’s GAO) in May of 1966. It was red, black interior, 3-speed Hurst on the floor, and 3.55 rear end. I used it to get to/from a) jobs during the summer of 1966, b) classes at UIC 1966-1967, and c) my Park Forest Post Office job 1966-1967. I sold it and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in December of 1967. SEE: https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/higher-minimum-wage-workers-employers
— Pritzker’s EV vision faces speed bumps as key projects falter
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/editorial/ev-plans-stall-stellantis-lion-electric-pull-back-editorial
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Part of the fabric of the Midwest: Central Illinois county fairs kick off in late May. What is the status of your county’s fair?
https://www.sj-r.com/story/entertainment/2025/05/12/county-fair-season-in-illinois-starts-in-late-may-what-to-know/83133115007/
JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Overwhelmingly, nonprofits exist to promote the Democrat Party platform
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-and-regional/article_e08a4c8b-adf6-5c76-878a-3bec6e50793f.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-late-abortions-are-rare-the-us-just-lost-a-clinic-that-offered-the-procedure-for-over-50-years/
NPR ILLINOIS & WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-05-11/what-trumps-cuts-to-federal-climate-research-could-mean-for-illinois
https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2025-05-11/what-trumps-cuts-to-federal-climate-research-could-mean-for-illinois
WQRF
— UAW: Stellantis has scrapped plans for battery plant, parts hub in Belvidere
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/uaw-stellantis-has-scrapped-plans-for-battery-plant-parts-hub-in-belvidere/ar-AA1EyTYf
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-510/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Why do people get involved in Republican politics? For far too many, it is to get the Republican Party to strike the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in its platform. I promote the aforesaid planks. I should write about those Republican candidates, elected officials, party leaders, activists, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, etc. in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois a) who reject one or more of the aforesaid planks and b) who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. I would focus on those who reject the equal opportunity plank. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who wants you to pay more taxes? My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes. According to them, I can and should pay more taxes a) because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) because I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, and c) because my wife and I gave up trying to have children. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were wealthy and who bought them cars, paid for their colleges expenses, got them jobs, etc. I would focus on those who benefitted the most from Affirmative Action and/or DEI, that is, who benefitted the most from race and/or gender based preference giving. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To get more votes from minorities and from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give minorities and women more preference. All the minorities and women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) were Democrats, b) had less work experience than I had, c) had less education than I had, d) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or e) had no professional license like the one I had. All were younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How did Nixon impact you? Nixon was president while I worked for the Democrats a) who ran the Post Office in 1969 and b) who ran IRS 1971-1974. They despised/hated Nixon. They blamed Nixon, and therefore Republicans, for America losing the Vietnam War. They punished me, a draft avoider, to punish Nixon. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave request and forced me to resign in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, they disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and they made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They did the aforesaid even though a) I earned an MBA in 1976, b) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and c) I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If your critics/opponents were asked what limited your career, what would they say? Mine would stress a) that my ACT score was only 24, b) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, c) that while I have four college degrees, my GPAs were not that great, none of the colleges are Ivy League, and I did not earn my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, d) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, I did not do that until I was 30 and 32 and my scores were not that great, e) that while I became a licensed CPA, it was not until I was 32, and f) that while I earned four more professional certifications, it was not until I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. My critics/opponents ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact a) that my superiors were always under tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians to give preference to their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, b) that I avoided the Vietnam War draft, c) that I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and d) that I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation when I was 40. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What lists are/were you on? Mine include a) Vietnam War draft avoiders, b) federal employees who never made GS-14, c) employees who complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination, d) lawsuit filers, and e) employees who were forced to retire early. What do you think of people who are/were on the aforesaid lists? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and even worse things. Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, want the Pope to promote the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ever-increasingly, to be a Democrat is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
–138 registered Republican voters in my precinct (38% of its 361 registered Republican voters) who voted in the April 1, 2025 election. In a precinct letter that I am considering sending, I would a) thank them for voting, b) recap the April 1, 2025 election results, c) list the offices on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in our precinct, and d) stress my efforts to encourage the Milton Township Republican Organization to promote Wheaton’s and Glen Ellyn’s July 4, 2026 Independence Day parades and to encourage Republican participation in those parades. I hope that Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Illinois statewide, Illinois senate and house, DuPage countywide, and DuPage County District 4 will all have entries. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Purple Prose from Enemies of Chicago Children: the CTU
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/08/purple-prose-from-enemies-of-chicago-children-the-ctu
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans seek distance from Trump’s willingness to hike taxes on wealthiest Americans. Who wants you to pay more taxes? My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes. According to them, I can and should pay more taxes a) because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) because I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, and c) because my wife and I gave up trying to have children. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were wealthy and who bought them cars, paid for their colleges expenses, got them jobs, etc. I would focus on those who benefitted the most from Affirmative Action and/or DEI, that is, who benefitted the most from race and/or gender based preference giving.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/11/republicans-seek-distance-trumps-willingness-hike-taxes-wealthiest/
— Democrats can’t seem to give up the transgender madness
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/11/democrats-cant-seem-give-transgender-madness/
— Biden administration gave protected status to Afghans despite terrorism flags. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem moves to end Temporary Protected Status
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/12/joe-bidens-dhs-gave-protected-status-afghans-despite-terrorism-flags/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Donald Trump, Pope Leo XIV and Mercy. MAGA and Catholicism aren’t at odds—mercy has borders, and a new American pope offers hope for unity between faithful patriots and the Church they call home.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/12/donald-trump-pope-leo-xiv-and-mercy/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Will Trump Suspend Habeas Corpus for Illegals?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/will_trump_suspend_habeas_corpus_for_illegals.html
— What Do Democrats Do Next?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/what_do_democrats_do_next.html
BLAZE
— Who can lead the Democrats out of the wilderness? Ever-increasingly, to be a Democrat is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/who-can-lead-the-democrats-out-of-the-wilderness
FOX NEWS
— The ‘corrupt media enterprise’ is bitter about losing to Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372683766112
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— The Democrat mainstream news media not only had no problem with Biden’s Executive Orders, it promoted them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/legal-experts-habeas-corpus-stephen-miller-rcna206130
CNN
— Trump is visiting three of the world’s richest nations. Here’s what’s on their wish lists. What is on your enemies’ wish lists? My enemies want the Republican Party to strike its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents and the planks they want stricken. I would focus on my critics/opponents who want the equal opportunity plank stricken.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/11/middleeast/trump-visit-gulf-arab-states-saudi-uae-qatar-intl
REUTERS
— Trump plans to accept luxury 747 from Qatar to use as Air Force One
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/trump-set-accept-luxury-747-qatar-use-air-force-one-abc-news-says-2025-05-11/
NEWSWEEK
— Trump Will Get To Keep Qatar Jet Even After He Leaves Office
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-qatar-plane-air-force-one-2070761
— Trump Responds to Qatar Plane Backlash: ‘World Class Losers’
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-responds-qatar-plane-backlash-2070758
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-family-generations-trump-memorial-651841d216202f1a8fa25476dab799fc
NEW YORK TIMES
— In Illinois Senate Race, Old Grudges and a Test of Pritzker’s Power. Few policy differences have emerged among the Democrats vying to replace the retiring Senator Richard J. Durbin, while Gov. JB Pritzker’s influence looms large.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/illinois-senate-race-durbin-pritzker.html
— Trump Is Said to Be Getting Qatari 747 for Air Force One, and Post-Presidency Travel
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/11/us/trump-news
— Google ever-increasingly steers everyone a) to websites that promote liberal leaders, that is, Democrat leaders, and the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote conservative leaders, that is, Republican leaders, and the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/technology/google-chrome-monopoly-remedies.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Qatar’s gift to Trump reveals a loophole big enough to fly a jumbo jet through. A $400 million present shows how presidential libraries remain a blind spot in U.S. corruption law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/11/qatar-jumbo-jet-gift-loophole/
USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/12/supreme-court-trump-transgender-military-ban/83499410007/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasing use the Pope to get rid of those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/10/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq-issues-advocates-hopeful/83413859007/
PALM BEACH POST
— Pope Leo XIV and Trump graduated from colleges less than 20 miles away from each other. Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from America, graduated from Villanova University, mere miles from the Wharton School of Business, Trump’s alma mater.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2025/05/12/pope-leo-chicago-trump-graduate-villanova-theological-union/83573642007/
DES MOINES REGISTER
— To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give women more preference. All the women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) were Democrats, b) had less work experience than I had, c) had less education than I had, d) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or e) had no professional license like the one I had. All were minority, younger than me, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time..
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2025/05/11/pete-hegseth-wps-woke-divisive-military-safety-leadership/83502722007/
TENNESSEE OUTLOOK
— What lists are/were you on? Mine include a) Vietnam War draft avoiders, b) federal employees who never made GS-14, c) employees who complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination, d) lawsuit filers, and e) employees who were forced to retire early. What do you think of people who are/were on the aforesaid lists?
https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/12/trumps-massive-deportation-database-puts-students-at-risk-advocates-warn/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The GAO Tries to Save a Bad Biden Rule. It bows to Democrats and ignores its own clear precedent. GAO is run by Democrats. When I was 31 years old in 1980, I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. They did everything that they could to waste my career and to get rid of me. They forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-gao-tries-to-save-a-bad-biden-rule-california-emissions-regulations-waivers-2b0434ca
WALLET HUB
— Best & Worst Places to Start a Career. The more of the following that you are, the more that Illinois is the worse state to start a career in: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-cities-to-start-a-career/3626
CEO TODAY
— Qatar’s $400M Jet Gift to Trump Sparks Outrage: Is This the New Air Force One? Reports suggest that Qatar may be gifting former U.S. President Donald Trump a $400 million luxury jet—raising serious questions about ethics, influence, and international diplomacy. As both critics and allies react with suspicion, the gesture could mark a new chapter in the blurred lines between politics, power, and foreign interests.
https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2025/05/qatars-400m-jet-gift-to-trump-sparks-outrage-is-this-the-new-air-force-one/
NPR
— Trump is looking to use the IRS for his own political ends. Nixon tried it, too. Nixon was president while I worked for the Democrats a) who ran the Post Office in 1969 and b) who ran IRS 1971-1974. They despised/hated Nixon. They blamed Nixon for America’s losing the Vietnam War. They punished me, a draft avoider, to punish Nixon. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave request and forced me to resign in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, they disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and they made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They did the aforesaid even though a) I earned an MBA in 1976, b) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and c) I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980.
https://www.kosu.org/politics/2025-05-12/trump-is-looking-to-use-the-irs-for-his-own-political-ends-nixon-tried-it-too
ATLANTIC
— Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and even worse things. Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, want the Pope to promote the aforesaid.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/anti-christian-bias-task-force/682755/
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.epi.org/blog/trump-attacks-on-temporary-immigration-protections-like-tps-hurt-the-economy-and-strip-millions-of-their-workplace-rights/
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Gold walls, opulent furnishings: All about $400m ‘flying palace’ from Qatar
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-trump-qatari-jet-gold-walls-opulent-furnishings-all-about-400m-flying-palace-from-qatar-which-trump-will-use-as-air-force-one/articleshow/121103068.cms
GUARDIAN
— US presidential gifts and the rules governing them. Reports that Donald Trump’s administration is planning to accept a jet valued at $400m from Qatar have raised ethical questions over gifts from foreign leaders. I should write about the gifts that my critics/opponents have given their operatives and their dupes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/us-presidential-foreign-gifts-laws-rules-ntwnfb
SABC NEWS
— 50 white South Africans relocated to the US as refugees. They should be advised that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85I6rwxIzoc
May 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Facts to know about Chicago native, newly elected Pope Leo XIV
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/facts-to-know-about-chicago-native-newly-elected-pope-leo-xiv/3741733/
WGN9
— Prevost’s boyhood neighbors predicted he would become Pope
https://wgntv.com/news/robert-prevost-neighbors-predict-pope-leo-xiv/
WTTW
— Democrat and RINO leaders forever promote George Ryan.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/08/former-death-row-inmates-complicated-legacy-late-illinois-gov-george-ryan
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders promote Pope Leo XIV criticism of Trump and Vance
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/pope-leo-social-media-criticisms/
— Welcome, Pope Leo XIV, Chicago’s Holy Father
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/pope-leo-chicago-vatican-francis/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— The rush in Illinois to become a U.S. citizen amid immigration crackdown. As the Trump administration begins “social media vetting for anti-Americanism” among immigrants and other efforts, growing numbers are choosing to become citizens.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/09/the-rush-in-illinois-to-become-a-u-s-citizen-amid-immigration-crackdown
— Who will the Democrats nominate for U.S. President in 2028? All the current contenders are anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/07/democrats-2028-president-elections-trump-biden-mistakes-harris-candidates-pritzker-s-e-cupp
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Pope Leo XIV is a Democrat. To be a Democrat is to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-whats-in-a-name-pope-leo-xivs-choice-signals-a-commitment-to-social-justice/
NPR ILLINOIS
— First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S. They should fear that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back. Needless-to-say, they should avoid Illinois.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5391815/first-afrikaners-granted-refugee-status-due-to-arrive-in-u-s
25 NEWS NOW
— Senate bill to allow death penalty for illegal immigrants who kill Americans
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/05/08/senate-bill-allow-death-penalty-illegal-immigrants-who-kill-americans/
WINDY CITY TIMES
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://windycitytimes.com/2025/05/06/chicago-teachers-union-codifies-lgbtq-protections-in-new-contract/
CAPITOL FREE BEACON
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-509/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— GOP senators slam the latest push for higher taxes by Illinois Democrats
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_cbe4c9d3-c86d-4d6f-8371-c2ea0bfc0b4b.html
— Lion Electric bankruptcy raises concerns over state’s EV incentives
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_309a4583-df72-4cfe-80fb-db65d07d774c.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Pope Leo XIV was selected because he hates Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponent credit meritocracy for their successes, but discredit meritocracy for everyone else’s successes. Democrat and RINO leaders, that is, liberal and moderate leaders, have always used “disparate impact” to get rid of Republicans, that is, to get rid of conservatives. Conservatives do better on tests than liberals and moderates. My critics/opponents continue to be furious that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt in 1981. They stress others who passed the examinations on their first attempt and got better scores than I did. Extremely few of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal promoted over me took the CPA examination, let alone passed it, let alone passed it on their first attempt. None passed the CIA examination. I should write about my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me. They all were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) who had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. According to my critics/opponents, I passed the aforesaid examinations because the tests favored those who share my White male demographics. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother attended high school. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a Democrat. The RINOs who ran the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) in 2000 let me publish the organization’s first website and serve as its webmaster. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a RINO. They rudely fired me as MTRO webmaster in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— George Ryan, 1934-2025. What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-obituary/3405131/george-ryan-life-obit-illinois-death-penalty/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— University of Chicago Stats Professor Cancels Midterm, Pushes Students To Join Anti-Trump Protest Instead. ‘Marching against this dangerous authoritarian administration is of utmost importance!’ Yali Amit says.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/university-of-chicago-stats-professor-cancels-midterm-pushes-students-to-join-anti-trump-protest-instead/
NEW YORK POST
— Pope Leo XIV was an active Republican primary voter and voted in 2024 presidential election
https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/pope-leo-xiv-was-an-active-republican-primary-voter-and-voted-in-2024-presidential-election/
— Pope Leo XIV in his own words: The pontiff on abortion, climate change, homosexuality, and capital punishment
https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/pope-leo-xiv-in-his-own-words-the-pontiff-on-abortion-climate-change-homosexuality-and-capital-punishment/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Makes Judge Jeanine Interim US Attorney For DC
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/trump-makes-judge-jeanine-interim-us-attorney-for-dc/
EPOCH TIMES
— What to Know About Robert Francis Prevost: The First American Pope. The Augustinian from Chicago has spent much of his time in Latin America.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/what-to-know-about-robert-francis-prevost-the-first-american-pope-5854705
FEDERALIST
— Read The New Pope’s Far-Left Takes On Immigration, Climate, Covid, And Race Relations
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/08/read-the-new-popes-far-left-takes-on-immigration-climate-covid-and-race-relations/
— There’s No ‘Sanctuary’ For Family Of Chicago Woman Killed By Illegal Alien
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/09/theres-no-sanctuary-for-family-of-woman-allegedly-killed-by-illegal-alien/
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/06/try-telling-this-dad-whose-daughter-was-killed-by-an-illegal-that-open-borders-are-compassionate/
FREE PRESS
— How Can You Be a Cop in a City (Chicago) That Hates You?
https://www.thefp.com/p/chicago-police-suicides
NEW AMERICAN
— New Pope’s X Feed Reveals Far-left Sympathies, but Traditional Catholics Still Hope for the Best
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/new-popes-x-feed-reveals-far-left-sympathies-but-traditional-catholics-still-hope-for-the-best/
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Pope Leo XIV Previously Criticized Trump’s Deportation Policies
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/pope-leo-xiv-previously-criticized-trumps-deportation-policies-while-damning-allegations-of-abuse-resurface/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Newly-Elected American Pope Has Taken Multiple Shots at the Trump Administration in Recent Months
https://www.westernjournal.com/newly-elected-american-pope-taken-multiple-shots-trump-administration-recent-months/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Pope Leo XIV voted in 2024 U.S. general election — here’s which primaries he’s voted in
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-robert-prevost-voting-records-republican-democratic-primaries/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Chicago-born pope — formerly Cardinal Robert F. Prevost — is registered to vote in the Chicago suburb of New Lenox, Ill., and has a mixed voting history of participating in primaries for both parties, according to voting records shared with CBS News and data from the Illinois State Board of Elections. There is no party registration in Illinois, but to vote in a primary you have to choose a party’s ballot to vote on. Prevost has voted in more Republican primaries than Democratic, and the last primary election he voted in was the 2016 Republican presidential primary. . .He voted in the Republican primaries in 2012, 2014 & 2016, including the presidential primaries in 2012 and 2016. L2 Data records show he last voted in a Democratic primary in 2010. He had also voted in the party’s presidential primary in 2008. He has voted in at least nine general elections, including in five presidential election cycles: 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2024. There’s no record of him voting in the 2016 or 2020 general election. Records show he also voted in a “consolidated general election” in April 2001, when local Illinois offices were on the ballot.)
— Here’s what Pope Leo XIV has posted about politics — and the Trump administration — on social media
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-xiv-social-media-account-trump-vance-criticism/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a
MSN
— Pope Leo XIV’s attacks on ‘homosexual lifestyle’ spark fears in Catholic LGBTQ+ community
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pope-leo-xiv-s-attacks-on-homosexual-lifestyle-spark-fears-in-catholic-lgbtq-community/ar-AA1Eqh25
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Catholic Chicagoans Celebrate as Native Son Pope Leo XIV Becomes First American Pope. Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision was announced that a native son, Cardinal Robert Prevost, had been elected pope.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-05-08/catholic-chicagoans-celebrate-as-native-son-pope-leo-xiv-becomes-first-american-pope
NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST & NEWSWEEK & CNN & REUTERS & MSN & POLITICO & DAILY BEAST & PEOPLE & ADVOCATE & MEDIA MATTERS & RAW STORY & UNHERD & IRISH STAR & REASON & DAILY VOICE & NEW REPUBLIC & POLITICO
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will do everything that they can to paint Pope Leo XIV as being a Democrat, that is, as being anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq-gay.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/pope-leo-xiv-robert-francis-prevost.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-views-political-robert-prevost/
https://www.newsweek.com/what-pope-leo-said-lgbtq-issues-2069889
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-leo-sparks-maga-criticism-2069864
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/politics/video/biden-pope-leo-xiv-election-reaction-bash-vrtc
https://www.reuters.com/world/before-becoming-pontiff-pope-leo-levied-criticism-trump-vance-2025-05-08/
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/new-pope-robert-prevost-s-voting-history-as-his-stance-on-abortion-and-party-registration-revealed/ar-AA1EqsIj
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/trump-welcomes-new-american-born-pope-and-says-he-can-t-wait-to-meet-him-despite-leo-xiv-once-blasting-vance/ar-AA1Eq5aK
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maga-goes-into-meltdown-branding-pope-leo-xiv-woke-marxist-and-never-trump-er/ar-AA1Er6jj
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/marxist-pope-maga-rages-against-new-pope-for-being-critical-of-trump-s-policies/ar-AA1Eqgqv
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/leo-american-pope-worldview-00337247
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-popes-voting-record-reveals-real-thoughts-on-trump-analyst/
https://people.com/where-does-pope-leo-xiv-stand-lgbtq-issues-what-we-know-11731335
https://www.advocate.com/voices/vatican-message-trump-opinion
https://www.mediamatters.org/jack-posobiec/jack-posobiec-criticizes-pope-leo-xiv-promoting-anti-trump-and-anti-bukele-articles-0
https://www.rawstory.com/jack-posobiec-pope-leo/
https://unherd.com/newsroom/pope-leo-xiv-heralds-a-renewal-of-catholic-social-justice/
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/irish-catholics-respond-first-american-35196239
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/presidential-elections-pope-leo-voted-35196053
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-and-immigration/
https://dailyvoice.com/virginia/arlington/robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv-blasted-trump-on-x/
https://newrepublic.com/post/195017/new-pope-robert-prevost-lgbtq-immigration
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/pope-leo-tweets-social-media-00337322
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/leo-american-pope-worldview-00337247
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/health/migrants-health-care-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Leo XIV’s New Lenox brother recalls feeling of ‘disbelief’ over his sibling becoming pope
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/05/09/pope-leo-xiv-brother-john-prevost/0772f2be-2c93-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/07/pride-flag-ban-utah-idaho/83493956007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight to keep their control of their colleges
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/08/trump-research-funding-cuts-china/83417543007/
NEW YORK TIMES & BLOOMBERG LAW & ECONOMIST
— My critics/opponent credit meritocracy for their successes, but discredit meritocracy for everyone else’s successes. Democrat and RINO leaders, that is, liberal and moderate leaders, have always used “disparate impact” to get rid of Republicans, that is, to get rid of conservatives. Conservatives do better on tests than liberals and moderates. My critics/opponents continue to be furious that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt in 1981. They stress others who passed the examinations on their first attempt and got better scores than I did. Extremely few of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal promoted over me took the CPA examination, let alone passed it, let alone passed it on their first attempt. None passed the CIA examination. I should write about my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me. They all were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) who had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. According to my critics/opponents, I passed the aforesaid examinations because the tests favored those who share my White male demographics. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother attended high school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-civil-rights.html
https://news.bgov.com/litigation/doj-ends-longstanding-disparate-impact-suit-over-nyc-fire-hiring
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/05/08/trump-knocks-down-a-controversial-pillar-of-civil-rights-law
STATE JOURNAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.state-journal.com/opinion/guest-columnist-the-new-barbarians-at-the-gates/article_9382434e-bd53-40da-a0a1-e11d989f392f.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What Does Your Car Model Say About You? My critics/opponents despise/hate cars, and especially American nameplate cars, and even more especially American nameplate muscle cars.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-does-your-car-model-say-about-you-55f7faa1
FORTUNE
— Pension fund has voted to block new investments in Tesla: ‘Musk has destroyed the brand’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/pension-fund-tesla-lehigh-elon-musk/
FAST COMPANY
— You can buy the new pope’s childhood Dolton home for $199,000. Robert Prevost’s former house is about to become a landmark.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91326862/you-can-buy-the-new-popes-childhood-home-for-199000
BUSINESS INSIDER
— The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a Democrat. The RINOs who ran the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) in 2000 let me publish the organization’s first website and serve as its webmaster. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a RINO. They rudely fired me as MTRO webmaster in 2004.
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-left-republican-party-register-democrat-2016-10
DAILY MAIL
— How a humble Chicago schoolboy Robert Prevost with a veteran father rose to become America’s first Pope
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14693031/robert-prevost-american-pope-leo-childhood-beginnings.html
INDEPENDENT
— According to Democrat leaders, Pope Leo XIV is anti-Trump.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-xiv-new-robert-prevost-conclave-vatican-live-updates-b2747726.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maga-woke-american-pope-leo-xiv-b2747600.html
GUARDIAN
— Unearthed comments from new pope alarm LGBTQ+ Catholics. Previous negative remarks by Pope Leo XIV about ‘homosexual lifestyle’ at odds with papacy of Pope Francis.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq
May 6, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/trump-restrict-abortion-medication/
— Trump has threatened a 100% tariff on movies made outside the US.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/trump-tariffs-foreign-made-films/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joins 19 counterparts in trying to stop Trump election order. A Trump administration executive order issued in March demands states not count mail-in ballots received after Election Day and requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. The attorneys general argue that the power to regulate elections rests with Congress, the states.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2025/05/05/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-opposes-trump-election-order
— Illinois, other states sue Trump administration for blocking wind energy development. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump because of his spending cuts. To what extent are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? To what extent are you, your neighbors, your friends, and your relatives dependent on federal spending?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/05/05/illinois-states-wind-energy-sue-trump-administration-executive-order
DAILY HERALD
— The mainstream news media is an arm of the Democrat Party. It glorified and praised Biden’s executive orders as much as it demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump’s executive orders.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250506/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-imbalance-of-power-policy-is-worthy-of-debate-and-subject-to-change-but-we-c/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Tariff impact on Chicago companies: $1B and counting
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/tariff-impact-chicago-companies-1-billion-and-counting
ABC7
— Pritzker wooing Canadian tourists to visit Illinois. Under Pritzker, Illinois is ever-increasingly more unfriendly to those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/governor-jb-pritzker-wooing-canadian-tourists-visit-illinois/16338163/
NBC5
— Trump’s Hollywood tariffs announcement is met with confusion and fear. Democrats control entertainment in America.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-hollywood-tariffs-confusion-fear/3738587/
— Why 21 empty school buildings are costing Chicagoans millions
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/nbc-5-investigates-why-21-empty-school-buildings-are-costing-chicagoans-millions/3738226/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlKnlXoMRys
STATELINE
— GOP lawmakers seek to ban Pride flags, stirring tensions with liberal cities. Bills in more than a dozen states would prohibit the flags at city halls, schools and state buildings.
https://stateline.org/2025/05/05/gop-lawmakers-seek-to-ban-pride-flags-stirring-tensions-with-liberal-cities/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-05/democrat-led-states-sue-trump-administration-over-dei
WIFR
— The more demographics that people have that vote for Republicans, the more that Pritzker discourages them a) from coming to Illinois and b) from staying in Illinois.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/05/illinois-tourism-officials-say-industry-is-trending-down-this-year/
WQAD
— State program helping Illinois students save thousands on grad school. Age discrimination is real, and especially for those who are White, male, and/or non-veteran. It is called up-or-out. I did not earn an MBA until I was 27. By then, it was too late. Why didn’t I earn an MBA sooner? My father died suddenly when I was a senior at NIU in 1969. My mother had never worked outside of the home. My brother was having troubles. I applied for a financial hardship draft deferment to help support them. I needed a job. Potential employers saw me as being draft bait. I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was a job that did not really require a college degree. I started taking graduate evening business courses, but only one at a time. Because of that, I did not earn an MBA from Loyola until I was 27. By then, it was too late. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul until I was 31. By then, again, it was too late. It took me 4 years because again, I took only one graduate evening accounting course at a time. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, again, it was too late. I did not earn a master’s degree in finance from IIT until I was 48. By then, again, it was too late. It took me 5 years because again, I took only one graduate evening finance course at a time. Why did I take only one graduate evening course at a time? Because that was all that I could afford in terms of time, attention, and money. Age discrimination is real, and especially for those who are White, male, and/or non-veteran. It is called up-or-out. I should write about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zimLqEXF_XE
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-506/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois is an island on both gas taxes and school choice
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-is-an-island-on-both-gas-taxes-and-school-choice-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Illinois’ Great Exodus
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-great-exodus
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ‘Homeschool Act’ is about limiting school choice
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/homeschool-act-is-about-limiting-school-choice/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMAC
— Trump “Skinny Budget” Boosts Border Security, Armed Forces
https://amac.us/newsline/economy/trump-skinny-budget-boosts-border-security-armed-forces/
BREITBART
— Trump’s DOJ Pressuring Sanctuary Cities and States to Stop Blocking Immigration Enforcement
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/05/trumps-doj-appears-to-launch-anti-sanctuary-city-campaign/
— Trump on Self-Deportations: ‘Maybe Someday, with Little Work, They Can Come Back In
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/05/trump-on-self-deportations-maybe-someday-with-little-work-they-can-come-back-in/
— Trump Promises Illegals ‘Beautiful Flight’ Out of U.S. If They Self-Deport
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/05/trump-promises-illegals-beautiful-flight-out-u-s-if-they-self-deport/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Harvard rebrands DEI office as Office of Community and Campus Life
https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvard-rebrands-dei-office-office-community-campus-life/27898
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Makes Move To Super-Charge Deportations Using Local Cops. The agreements could prove to be a valuable force multiplier for the DHS, potentially enabling the agency to boost deportation numbers.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-trump-dhs-partners-with-100s-of-police-departments-to-supercharge-deportation-campaign
MRC TV
— ‘12 Reasons Why NPR And PBS Deserved To Be Defunded’
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/12-reasons-why-npr-and-pbs-deserved-be-defunded
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCITED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-hud-fair-housing-trump-lgbtq-turner-915634741f56f3d5ea265e316cd396bb
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for inflation and for everything else that is bad. What do your critics/opponents blame you for? My critics/opponents blame me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://apnews.com/article/cost-coalition-group-bipartisan-trump-harris-inflation-e9c8b000ff751458d49b3089672cb570
— Child care in the Capitol: As more women run for office, some are bringing their kids
https://www.shorelinemedia.net/ludington_daily_news/videos/child-care-in-the-capitol-as-more-women-run-for-office-some-are-bringing-their/video_d45f0797-5a3a-5920-8e21-34133f3759a6.html
MSNBC
— Massive ‘No Kings’ protest expected to rain on Donald Trump’s (military) parade. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Obama and against Biden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vwhKYDuOsw
MSN
— Pence criticizes Trump’s tariffs, stance on Russia in CNN interview
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-criticizes-trump-s-tariffs-stance-on-russia-in-cnn-interview/ar-AA1Eey0m
— “Americans are going to see consequences”: Pence breaks with Trump on tariffs, deportations
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/americans-are-going-to-see-consequences-pence-breaks-with-trump-on-tariffs-deportations/ar-AA1EdGea
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump because of his spending cuts. To what extent are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? To what extent are you, your neighbors, your friends, and your relatives dependent on federal spending?
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/us/unions-cities-nonprofits-sue-to-block-trump-workforce-cuts/ar-AA1DQyVF
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Battles Academia, but Especially the Ivy League. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless..
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/politics/trump-ivy-league.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in making foreign countries hate America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/business/tariffs-europe-boycott-american-goods.html?searchResultPosition=1
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/world/canada/global-elections-trump.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/05/05/connie-britton-the-motherhood-single-moms-hallmark/83324634007/
— Seriously delinquent student loan borrowers hit record high and climbing
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/05/05/delinquent-student-loans-credit-scores-collections-resume/83412433007/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Jockeying for a new pope already has started. Democrat leaders want a Pope who will promote the anti-Catholic Democrat Party platform.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/02/cardinals-jockey-for-pope-before-conclave/83355920007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Trump Administration Threatens Schools With Student-Loan Restrictions. Nearly 10 million borrowers could soon be in default, and the Education Department wants to hold schools responsible.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-administration-threatens-schools-with-student-loan-restrictions-864f244f
FED SMITH
— Total Federal Compensation 5% Higher Than Private Sector at All Education Levels But Lags at Higher Levels. Federal employees with a professional degree or doctorate earned 24 percent less, on average, than their private-sector counterparts. To demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as having been grossly overpaid, my critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled that I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2024/04/29/cbo-report-total-federal-employee-compensation-higher-than-private-sector/
https://www.fedsmith.com/2022/10/28/average-federal-employee-salaries-with-benefits/
THE NATION
— The Case for Meritocracy. How have your critics/opponents used meritocracy against you? My critics/opponents stress a) that my ACT score was only 24, b) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, c) that I got no scholarships, d) that it took me 4 years to earn an MBA and my GPA was not that great, e) that while I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, my scores on its four parts were not that great, f) that it took me 4 years to earn a master’s degree in accounting and my GPA was not that great, g) that while I became a licensed CPA, it was not until I was 32, h) that it took me 5 years to earn a master’s degree in finance and my GPA was not that great, i) that none of degrees were from Ivy League universities, j) that notwithstanding my degrees, certifications, and license, my superiors in the federal government took many big adverse actions against me, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, and k) my superiors in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, etc. took many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.nation.com.pk/06-May-2025/the-case-for-meritocracy
May 5, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump rules out another presidential run, floats Rubio and Vance as potential successors
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-third-term-president-rules-another-presidential-run-floats-rubio-vance-potential-successors/16329961/
— New DePaul policy would require those wearing face coverings to remove them upon request
https://abc7chicago.com/post/depaul-university-policy-would-require-wearing-masks-face-coverings-remove-request-jewish-student-attack/16331702/
CBS2
— Cinco de Mayo Parade is canceled, but there are other celebrations and deals in Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/cinco-de-mayo-parade-little-village-canceled/
FOX32
— 16-year-old becomes youngest to receive Ph.D. in the US. I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, and a master’s degree in finance until I was 48. By then, it was too late. I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30 and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. By then, it was too late. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, it was too late. I did not earn additional job-related professional certifications until I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. By then, it was too late.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/16-year-old-becomes-youngest-receive-ph-d-us-university-claims
WBEZ
— Trump Administration takes renewed aim at Illinois, other sanctuary states and cities
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/05/05/trump-administration-takes-renewed-aim-at-illinois-other-sanctuary-states-and-cities
WGN RADIO
— Should immigrants who self-deport be paid $1000? Any money paid to illegals to deport should come from those who invited them.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-should-immigrants-who-self-deport-be-paid-1000/#/questions
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump administration says it will pay immigrants in the United States illegally $1,000 to go home. Any money paid to illegals to deport should come from those who invited them.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/trump-immigrants-pay-home/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Deportation fears mute Cinco de Mayo in Little Village: ‘It’s so sad and a little scary’ Little Village, which markets itself as the “Mexican Capital of the Midwest” was to have held its annual Cinco de Mayo parade Monday, but it was canceled over fears of deportations.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/05/cinco-de-mayo-little-village-chicago-immigration-deportation
DAILY EGYPTIAN
— Conservative watchdog group recruits SIU students to investigate ‘liberal bias’ on campus
https://dailyegyptian.com/121370/news/conservative-watchdog-group-recruits-siu-students-to-investigate-liberal-bias-on-campus/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Cinco de Mayo parades canceled in some cities amid fears of immigration crackdown
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/cinco-de-mayo-parades-canceled-in-some-cities-amid-fears-of-immigration-crackdown/
KSDK
— Water in over 20 Illinois communities is contaminated, state EPA warns
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/illinois-water-contamination-pfas-forever-chemicals-epa-metro-east/63-7056b8a1-33b1-43fc-a2cb-1a7e64b20fa7
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-298/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Conservative U.S. Catholics hope next pope won’t echo Francis
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/5/conservative-us-catholics-hope-next-pope-wont-echo-francis-observers/
— Trump has booted 11,000 IRS employees so far, and counting. If I was still working for the Democrats who run IRS, they would have killed me by now figuratively, if not literally.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/5/donald-trump-booted-11000-irs-employees-far-counting/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Assimilation isn’t a dirty word
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3399769/legal-immigration-assimilation-not-a-dirty-word/
— America has more foreign residents than ever
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3399780/america-foreign-born-residents-immigrant-population/
NEW YORK POST
— Migrant Tren de Aragua punks brawl with NYPD cops in wild Times Square melee
https://nypost.com/2025/05/05/us-news/migrant-tren-de-aragua-punks-brawl-with-nypd-cops-in-wild-times-square-melee/
BREITBART
— Trump Administration to Pay for Migrant Flights of Illegals Who Self-Deport. Any money paid to illegals to deport should come from those who invited them.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/05/trump-administration-to-pay-for-migrant-flights-of-illegals-who-self-deport/
CENTER SQUARE
— Republicans mull federal cuts to FBI, IRS, abortion services and more
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_544fb228-cde5-4b8e-a4b9-3bcfc25a343c.html
FOX NEWS
— The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into an Illinois school district based on a teacher’s allegations of racial segregation practices. The complaint, filed by the Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) on behalf of teacher Dr. Stacy Deemar, alleges Evanston-Skokie School District 65 is acting in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by using “privilege walks” and other racial practices at school. “The policies and practices to which the District allegedly subjects students and teachers shocks the conscience. Amid a dismal academic achievement record, the District appears to focus on unlawfully segregating students by race, instructing students to step forward and others to step back on the basis of race, and associating ‘Whiteness’ with the devil. If true, how is this conceivable in America today?” Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in a press release on May 1 by the Trump Education Department.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-administration-investigates-school-district-near-chicago-amid-reports-antiracist-training
NEWSMAX
— Rwanda Talking With US to Take Deported Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/rwanda-trump-administration-deportations/2025/05/05/id/1209643/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Cinco De Mayo Celebrations Canceled Across America: “People Are Very Scared,” “Thinking About Going Back To Mexico”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/05/cnn_cinco_de_mayo_celebrations_canceled_over_fear_of_deportation.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Rwanda in Early Talks With U.S. to Take Expelled Migrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/world/africa/rwanda-trump-deportees.html
WEVV
— Marijuana is extremely dangerous to the fetus in the womb
https://www.wevv.com/news/health/forget-common-folklore-about-the-safety-of-weed-marijuana-harms-babies-research-shows/article_79c5e7de-625f-5a22-9086-ee3f0c67f86f.html