FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Texas House approves redrawn congressional maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections. Will this prompt Pritzker to redraw Illinois congressional maps so that absolutely no Republican candidates can win in Illinois? How badly has Pritzker gerrymandered your congressional district? I should write about Pritzker’s 3rd Congressional District that I live in. Pritzker is an expert at cracking and packing.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/texas-house-approves-redrawn-maps/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/08/20/cash-assistance-gender-domestic-violence-net-ameya-pawar-amanda-pyron
DAILY HERALD
— Marter slams mail-in voting as ‘a scam.’ Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250820/us-congress-politics/gop-house-hopeful-marter-slams-mail-in-voting-as-a-scam/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Judge tosses Trump-era challenge to Illinois E-Verify law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/illinois-wins-fight-over-trump-e-verify-challenge
ABC7
— Pritzker says he supports independently drawn legislative maps if done on national basis
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-says-he-supports-independently-drawn-legislative-maps-done-national-basis/17598750/
— Newly installed U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illinois encourages former federal prosecutors to apply. For course, after my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they never encouraged me to apply. For them, GAO exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicagos-legal-community-buzzing-us-attorney-northern-district-illinois-andrew-boutros-recruiting-mail/17600171/
NBC5
— New college program allows Illinois students to apply with only a GPA. One reason why UIC admitted me in 1966 was that my ACT score of 24.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/new-college-program-allows-illinois-students-to-apply-with-only-a-gpa/3812390/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/illinois-snap-education-program-end-amid-federal-funding-cuts-how-could-impact-local
— CTU President Rejects Pritzker’s Assertion No More Money to Be Found in Springfield for Schools. During the 1950s and 1960s, Crete-Monee School District 201-U did not spend anything to give my brother and I grade school educations because my parents sent us to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools in Crete and Park Forest. For me, 1953-1962, and for my brother, 1958-1968.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/ctu-president-rejects-pritzker-s-assertion-no-more-money-be-found-springfield-schools
SAUK VALLEY
— State Rep. Brad Fritts, R-Dixon, has withdrawn his Sauk Valley Chamber of Commerce membership after the organization published a DEI statement on its website and removed the word “God” from a prayer at a recent scholarship fundraiser that it hosted.
https://www.shawlocal.com/sauk-valley/2025/08/21/state-rep-nixes-sauk-valley-chamber-membership-over-prayer-wording-at-fundraiser-dei-statement-on-its-website/
HERALD NEWS
— Will County Board member accused of illegally accessing fellow board member’s emails
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/08/20/will-county-board-member-accused-of-illegally-accessing-fellow-board-members-emails/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders have their protesters heckle Vance, Hegseth at photo op to thank National Guard troops in DC.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/20/protesters-heckle-vance-hegseth-miller-as-they-get-photo-op-with-dc-national-guard/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Mail-in voting ban could affect 1/3 of voters in Tazewell County. Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/illinois-voting-machine-restrictions/
WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.wsiu.org/siu/2025-08-20/2025-hemp-cannabis-symposium-at-siu-to-focus-on-agronomy
ILLINOIS PUBLIC MEDIA
— Your food probably traveled a long way before reaching the grocery store.
https://will.illinois.edu/217today/episode/217-today-your-food-probably-traveled-a-long-way-before-reaching-the-grocery-store-heres-why
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject federal law
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/21/illinois-to-bondi-sanctuary-status-stands-firm-00517387
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-573/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-366/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHANGE ILLINOIS
— Long-time redistricting reform advocates raise concerns about the new “fair maps” ballot question.
https://www.changeil.org/2025/08/long-time-redistricting-reform-advocates-raise-concerns-about-the-new-fair-maps-ballot-question/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker defends mental health mandate, rejects parental consent plan. According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6fd339b5-6d3a-4ff1-9288-cffd18017e8b.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s right: America should end mail-in voting. It’s a stupid practice rife with fraud potential.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/trumps-right-america-end-mail-voting/
— Blue state tax hikes drive residents out. Democrats double down on taxing the wealthy while red states like Texas and Florida reap the rewards of migration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/blue-state-tax-hikes-drive-residents/
— Little of DOGE’s work likely to survive
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/little-doges-work-likely-survive/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump isn’t trying to ‘erase history’ at Smithsonian — he’s reversing a destructive woke takeover
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/opinion/trump-isnt-trying-to-erase-history-at-smithsonian-hes-reversing-a-destructive-woke-takeover/
BREITBART
— State Department employee fired after questioning talking points on Israel and Gaza. My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career, took many adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire early because I questioned their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/state-department-employee-fired-after-questioning-talking-points-on-israel-and-gaza/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Immigration Court No-Shows Increase as Backlog Falls and Asylum Denials Rise
https://cis.org/Arthur/Immigration-Court-NoShows-Increase-Backlog-Falls-and-Asylum-Denials-Rise
FOX NEWS
— It would be wonderful to get Chicago Democrats on board in the migrant crime crackdown
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377161503112
— Sanctuary cities defy Bondi’s deadline to cooperate
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-defy-bondis-deadline-cooperate-no-intention-changing
— ICE unveils plans for new detention facilities across the US
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377144130112
NRCC
— Illegals get handouts, cops get demonized, and Americans foot the bill
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/08/20/illegals-get-handouts-cops-get-demonized-and-americans-foot-the-bill-under-harder/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Accused of Betraying Citizens by Signing Bill to Give Illegals a Big Handout
https://www.westernjournal.com/illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-accused-betraying-citizens-signing-bill-give-illegals-big-handout/
— Target CEO Who Steered Struggling Retail Giant Into Wokeness to Step Down
https://www.westernjournal.com/target-ceo-steered-struggling-retail-giant-wokeness-step-company-lost-grip/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrats go ‘Trump Lite’ in latest plan to save democracy. Not in Illinois.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/politics/newsom-obama-trump-texas-california-redistricting-analysis
NBC NEWS
— Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/fort-bliss-japanese-americans-internment-camp-immigrant-detention-rcna226044
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis. The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/trump-transgender-children-care-subpoena.html
— He Tried to Endorse From the Pulpit. He Wound Up Without a Church. In 1961, if the pastor of the Missouri Synod Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete had taken a calling from a Wisconsin Synod church instead of splitting Trinity and switching it to the Wisconsin Synod, my entire post-1961 life would have been dramatically different. In 1961, to stay with the Missouri Synod, when I was in eight grade and my brother was in second grade, my parents transferred to Hope Lutheran Church in Park Forest and transferred my brother and I to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22trinity+lutheran+church%22+crete+1961+missouri+wisconsin+synod
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/church-endorsements-irs-kenosha.html
— Trump demanded on Wednesday that a Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook resign. My Democrat GAO superiors deliberately misled me to believe that they were going to let me work for GAO until I was eligible for regular retirement when I would be 55 in 2003. But in September of 1997, when I was 49 years old, they succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” that expired on September 30, 1997. I should write about that. Their forcing me to retire early has had a tremendous negative impact on me.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/20/us/trump-news
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise foreign students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/trump-visa-vetting-international-students.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-cartel-mexico-fentanyl.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly infiltrate, invade, infest, and conquer churches.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/irs-church-free-speech.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump says Smithsonian is too focused on slavery. Democrats fought the Civil War against Republicans to preserve slavery. Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrat leaders have tried to a) paint Democrats as having been the Union Army and b) to paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/08/20/trump-smithsonian-slavery-historians/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/18/she-spoke-up-for-trans-rights-at-8-now-her-family-is-leaving-texas/85454513007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/17/gay-marriage-supreme-court-lgbtq-rights/85666114007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote mail-in voting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/19/trump-mail-in-voting/85725029007/
COURIER & PRESS
— Vanderburgh GOP leaders install supporters ahead of crucial Saturday election. Anti-conservative RINOs succeeded in getting someone to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman in 2000, but not since then. I should write about anti-conservative RINOs. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/28/vanderburgh-gop-leaders-install-supporters-ahead-of-crucial-saturday-election/80497015007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Send Harvard’s Chinese Students Home. It makes no sense for the U.S. to be educating the scientific and leadership class of a future adversary.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/send-harvards-chinese-students-home-national-security-risk-research-2e43313d
— Surrogacy is typically the most expensive path to parenthood. My Democrat GAO superiors viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/surrogacy-cost-parenting-eb87c3b3
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Trump Administration Loses Bid to Block Illinois E-Verify Law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/trump-administration-loses-bid-to-block-illinois-e-verify-law
ACCOUNTING TODAY
— IRS flouted procedures when terminating employees. My Democrat GAO superiors did far more than just flout regulations when they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They flushed my Civil Service protections down their toilets. My critics/opponents stand with my Democrat GAO superiors. My critics/opponents are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-flouted-procedures-when-terminating-probationary-employees
FIVE THIRTY EIGHT
— Opposition Research Far too many who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and read my newsletters for opposition research. I should write about them. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-introduction-to-the-dark-arts-of-opposition-research/
PEW RESEARCH
— How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age. According to my liberal and moderate critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a conservative. According to my Democrat and RINO critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a Republican. They stress a) that none of my four college degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license are in journalism, b) that I have never been paid for what I have done as your GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, c) that I send my newsletters out free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth a) that my newsletters have included links to more than 520,000 articles since 2004, b) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) that much of what I did for GAO is very similar to what journalists do, d) that my professional certifications are in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and e) that I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I should write about the following who not only treat me like I am not a journalist, but who do everything that the can to stop me from sending out newsletters and to stop everyone from reading my newsletters: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. The aforesaid have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or d) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-americans-view-journalists-in-the-digital-age/
Tag: Committeeman
August 11, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump says he’s placing Washington police under federal control and activating the National Guard
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-is-promising-new-steps-tackle-homelessness-crime-washington-dc/17499673/
— Pritzker says President Trump ‘has no right’ to send National Guard to Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-pritzker-encourages-back-school-vaccinations-says-trump-is-violating-law-sending-national-guard-reduce-crime/17503840/
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-says-administration-looking-reclassifying-marijuana/17503437/
— Democrat elected officials gerrymander to elect Democrat candidates. Look at their Illinois 3rd Congressional District.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-illinois-vow-stay-special-session-ends-despite-st-charles-bomb-threat-greg-abbotts-arrests/17504587/
NBC5
— Trump vows to end ‘no cash bail,’ threatens crime crackdown in Chicago. “Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster,” Trump said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-vows-to-end-no-cash-bail-in-chicago-threatens-crime-crackdown/3807774/
— What is ‘no cash bail’? What to know as President Trump blasts the policy. The SAFE-T Act in Illinois banned cash bail in 2023.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/what-is-no-cash-bail-what-to-know-as-president-trump-blasts-the-policy/3807855/
— Pritzker responds after Trump calls him ‘incompetent,’ comments on his weight. “Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster,” Trump said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pritzker-responds-after-trump-calls-him-incompetent-comments-on-his-weight/3807905/
— Gerrymandering debate rages in Illinois as Texas lawmakers remain in state. The Texas legislature still has not convened to vote on the new maps, as Democrats remain out of state despite threats and criticisms
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/gerrymandering-debate-rages-in-illinois-as-texas-lawmakers-remain-in-state/3807960/
CBS2
— Trump says he’ll “end” no cash bail in Chicago while announcing National Guard deployment to D.C.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-no-cash-bail-chicago-national-guard-dc/
— Democrat candidates win because Democrat elected officials gerrymander.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/dick-durbin-texas-democrats-redistricting-fight/
FOX32
— Texas Democrats remain in Illinois amid redistricting fight
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1689395
— After Trump threatens Chicago with National Guard, Pritzker, Johnson push back
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1689390
WTTW
— Which Republicans Are Seeking Statewide Office in Illinois in 2026? So Far, Hardly Any.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/11/which-republicans-are-seeking-statewide-office-illinois-2026-so-far-hardly-any
— Federal Judge Allows Chicago to Join Lawsuit to Stop Trump from Yanking Funding Sanctuary Cities
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/11/federal-judge-allows-chicago-join-lawsuit-stop-trump-yanking-funding-sanctuary-cities
WGN RADIO
— Trump to send National Guard into Washington, said Chicago could follow
https://wgnradio.com/news/trump-to-send-national-guard-into-washington-said-chicago-could-follow/
— Why can’t the Trump Tower find tenants?
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/block-club-chicagos-mack-liederman-why-cant-the-trump-tower-find-tenants/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump says he’s placing Washington police under federal control and deploying the National Guard
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/trump-homelessness-washington/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/trump-big-bill-mass-deportations-congress/
— Our politics focus on what to do ‘for’ voters. That threatens the economy.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/jim-nowlan-our-politics-focus-on-what-to-do-for-voters-that-threatens-the-economy/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders say Trump’s warning about replicating a DC police takeover in Chicago an empty and illegal threat
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/08/11/donald-trump-trump-federal-takeover-dc-police-national-guard-chicago-threat-jb-pritzker
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/08/11/snap-cuts-economy-trump-big-beautiful-bill-marc-morial
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders promote Democrat Wheaton City Council member Erica Bray-Parker to succeed retiring Republican Amy Grant for the 47th state House district seat.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250811/illinois-state-politics/wheaton-city-councilwoman-running-for-state-house-seat/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump calls Johnson, Pritzker ‘incompetent’ — and hints at Chicago police takeover
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-threatens-chicago-police-takeover-slams-johnson-pritzker
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/trump-decision-marijuana-classification-coming
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give Blacks more preference.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/trumps-actions-highlight-threats-black-communities-opinion
— For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Democrat leaders of federal agencies decry/despise/hate Republican-led budget cuts. First, they deal with those cuts by getting rid of any remaining Republican employees. Next, they get rid of their Democrat employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. And last, their Democrat employees who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/federal-downsizing-leaves-still-employed-workers-vulnerable
— Federal job cuts take a bite out of Chicago’s economy. According to my Democrat and RINO critics/opponents, federal jobs should be given to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I am none of the aforesaid. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. Because I refused to become a Democrat, they ever-increasingly did everything that they could to get rid of me. I would not have survived for almost 3 years as a postal employee if I had not taken job-related undergraduate business courses at UIC 1966-1968 and NIU in 1969. I would not have survived for almost 9 years as an IRS employee if I had not a) taken graduate evening business courses at Loyola 1972-1976 and accounting courses DePaul 1976-1980 and b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I would not have survived for almost 18 years as a GAO employee if I had not a earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) became a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earned a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/federal-jobs-cuts-ripple-through-chicago-region
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The federal government is the largest employer in the Chicago area, although at nearly 48,000 it’s a modest slice of a 5 million-strong area workforce. At the start of the year, the federal workforce nationwide was 3 million and 82,000 in Illinois. DOGE’s program is disproportionately stinging African American employees like Cherry. Of the federal workforce, 18.6% are Black, while Black people account for 13.7% of the U.S. population. And Black workers are an even bigger presence — 20% or more — at a number of departments including the Postal Service, Education Department, Department of Housing & Urban Development, Treasury Department and Department of Veterans Affairs — all of which have been hit with job cuts since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January. The federal government is a significant employer of women of color, with Black women, Latinas and Asian women all having a greater presence in the federal workforce compared to the private sector, the National Women’s Law Center reports. “Federal employment is one of the few job sectors where Black women have had meaningful access to upward mobility,” Juliana Stratton, lieutenant governor of Illinois, and Cherita Ellens, president and CEO of Women Employed, wrote recently in a Chicago Tribune commentary essay. With above-average pay and solid benefits, federal employment has provided a path to the middle class not just for Black workers but for women and other disadvantaged groups. The government’s commitment to equal opportunity dating to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has made public service an attractive sector for career advancement that may be less accessible in the private sector. The Trump administration’s purge of offices that promote equal opportunity and diversity and inclusion has particularly affected the employment of Black Americans. “The federal government has played a unique role in the labor history of Black Americans,” economic researcher Joseph Dean wrote in a February report by the Washington, D.C., nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “The decades-long progress made by Black federal employees is in serious danger of being upended in a fraction of time it took to build,” Dean wrote. “Federal employment opportunities provide substantial economic independence and stability for Black middle class Americans.”)
25 NEWS NOW
— Which Republicans are seeking statewide office in 2026? So far, hardly any. Politicians set to gather at State Fair this week, unofficially kicking off 2026 election season.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/11/which-republicans-are-seeking-statewide-office-2026-so-far-hardly-any/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Thus far, just two lesser-known Republicans have expressed interest in challenging Pritzker in 2026. A similar group of lesser-known candidates is considering a U.S. Senate run, but there has been no news about anyone running for comptroller, treasurer or secretary of state. . .In the Senate race, four Republicans have filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and are actively raising money. Former Illinois Republican Party Chair Don Tracy is reportedly considering running for either governor or Senate and is expected to make an announcement soon. Ted Dabrowski, the president of conservative research site Wirepoints, is also considering running for governor. . .Bob Fioretti, who has unsuccessfully run for several offices as a member of both parties, is reportedly circulating petitions to run for attorney general. But even as petition-gathering begins, no other candidates are publicly known to be interested in running for other statewide offices. Notable names, including U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood and former Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter have declined to run for governor or Senate.)
FOX ILLINOIS
— DC Democrats rally against Trump’s deployment of National Guard
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/dc-trump-announcement-national-guard-district-residents-rally-against-deployment-federal-contro-section-740-home-rule-act-photo-watch-video-protests-crime-teen-violence
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-11/factories-from-ge-to-kraft-heinz-lose-immigrant-workers-stressing-those-who-remain
KHQA
— State Senator Jil Tracy files suit against Texas lawmakers hiding out in Illinois
https://khqa.com/news/local/state-senator-republican-jil-tracy-files-suit-petition-calls-for-arrest-complaint-against-texas-lawmakers-democrats-hiding-out-in-illinois-texas-redistricting-map-gop-plan-rigged-scheme-conservative-majority-2026-midterm-elections
WJBL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.wjol.com/loan-applications-for-all-cannabis-social-equity-licensees-set-to-open-today-august-11th/
SIU
— Democrats use DEI to get of Republicans who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://news.siu.edu/2025/08/081125-siu-celebrates-diversity-inclusion-during-belonging-week-2025.php
CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicagoreader.com/performing-arts/rhinestone-digest/rhinestone-digest-august-2025-parody-and-legality/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Will Trump Tower’s Riverfront Retail Space Ever Get A Tenant?
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/11/will-trump-towers-riverfront-retail-space-ever-get-a-tenant/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-359/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump deploys National Guard to D.C., federal government to take over metro police department
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/trump-deploys-national-guard-dc-federal-government-take-metro-police/
— Teachers unions’ political obsession harms children. Racial quotas, forced grade inflation don’t constitute advocacy for educators.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/teachers-unions-political-obsession-harms-children/
— Arab money flooding American universities. Opaque foreign funding in our schools is a national security problem.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/arab-money-flooding-american-universities/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Major New York hotel-turned-shelter ends operations after city ends contract
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3496193/major-new-york-hotel-migrant-shelter-ends-city-contract-eric-adams/
NEW YORK POST
— Zohran Mamdani benefits from rent-stabilization, affirmative action programs meant for less-fortunate
https://nypost.com/2025/08/11/opinion/zohran-mamdani-benefits-from-rent-stabilization-affirmative-action-programs-meant-for-less-fortunate/
FEDERALIST
— Politico Hacks Insist Gerrymandering Is Different When Democrats Do It
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/11/politico-hacks-insist-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it/
FOX BUSINESS
— Trump calls to get rid of sanctuary cities as he declares ‘public safety emergency’ in Washington, DC
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6376798033112
FOX NEWS
— Illinois Democrats tell feds to stop trying to ‘usurp’ state authority over immigration. Rep Jesus Garcia and Sen Dick Durbin led the letter to DOJ and DHS.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-democrats-tell-feds-stop-trying-usurp-state-authority-over-immigration
NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
— Why is Cook County in Illinois doling out $2M to the Chicago Abortion Fund?
https://nrlc.org/nrlnewstoday/2025/08/why-is-cook-county-in-illinois-doling-out-2m-to-the-chicago-abortion-fund/
PJ MEDIA
— Trump Takes Over D.C. Police, Vows to Revolutionize ’Slums’
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/08/11/breaking-trump-takes-over-dc-police-vows-to-revolutionize-slums-n4942593
THOMAS MOORE SOCIETY
— Cook County Doles Out $2M Grant to Bankroll Abortion Fund. Meanwhile, the Land of Lincoln continues to target pregnancy help ministries.
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/news/cook-county-doles-out-2m-grant-to-bankroll-abortion-fund
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Map shows governor approval rating
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-governor-approval-rating-2111902
POLITICO
— Teamsters pour money into GOP, shifting away from Dems. After years of loyally backing Democrats, Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien is diversifying the union’s PAC to support Republicans, too.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/11/teamsters-donations-00502709
August 11, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/10/letters-081025/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Higher education pays off in Illinois. Without my 1970 bachelor’s degree in management from NIU, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 and IRS in 1971. Without my taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Without my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, GAO would not have hired me in 1980. Without my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986. Without my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 and my earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors would have succeeded in forcing me to retire sooner than they did.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/higher-education-economic-mobility/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/06/immigrants-deportations-shrinking-health-care-workforce
NORTHWEST HERALD
— Which McHenry County offices are up next year and who’s running for reelection? Nominating petitions are circulating for the March 2026 primary election.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/08/10/which-mchenry-county-offices-are-up-next-year-and-whos-running-for-reelection/
HERALD REVIEW
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://herald-review.com/opinion/columnists/article_975e3036-fc97-549f-9b12-62ece3f00ee8.html
WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-judicial-picks/507-c6195acd-84c9-4ff9-8d62-3482e2d0f813
EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-illinois-texas-politics/
OAK LAWN PATCH
— Robert Cruz: IL-GOP on life support. Can the il-GOP swing the pendulum and compete. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders must focus on defending and advancing the Republican Party platform.
https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/il-gop-life-support
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/11/texas-dems-preach-defiance-in-chicago-00502628
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who is your Republican Precinct Committeeman (PC)? Is he/she running again? I am running again to be the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 Republican PC in Wheaton. Google AI’s overview of the Republican Precinct Committeeman position is at: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22precinct+committeeman%22+republican I was appointed as an Assistant PC in 1999 and then as a PC in 1999 to fill a vacancy. I was elected PC in 2000 and reelected every 2 years since. I served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010 and I served on all the MTRO fundraising committees 2000-2010. But those who continue to dominate MTRO a) rudely terminated as me as MTRO webmaster in 2004 and 2010, b) rudely defeated me when I ran for the open MTRO Treasurer office in 2004, c) rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, d) rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and e) rudely ended my Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee membership in 2024. They have never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer. They continue to demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being too conservative. They ever-increasingly blame me, blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, blame my serving as the Milton Township campaign coordinator for Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial campaign in 2002, blame my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership 2003-2007, blame my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship 2005-2012, and blame my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2012 for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They especially blame me for Jim Ryan losing to Blagojevich in 2002. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/10/sordid-history-gerrymandering/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump’s Full-Court Press on Immigration
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-full-court-press-on-immigration/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump cracks down on covert affirmative action with admissions transparency order
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-cracks-down-on-covert-affirmative-action-with-admissions-transparency-order/
DAILY WIRE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-gov-says-his-states-gerrymandering-is-ok-because-democracy
FEDERALIST
— Is Equal Outcome the Same as Equal Opportunity. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/disparate-impact-is-equal-outcome-the-same-as-equal-opportunity
FOX NEWS
— Vance calls on Republicans to take ‘decisive action’ to counter Democratic gerrymandering. Vance says Democrats benefit from illegal immigration through skewed census counts and gerrymandered maps.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jd-vance-calls-republicans-take-decisive-action-counter-democratic-gerrymandering
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376777340112
— Trump DOJ to fight ‘race-based gerrymandering.’ Illinois 3rd Congressional District is race-based gerrymandering.
https://www.aol.com/watch-trump-doj-fight-race-210941546.html
PJ MEDIA
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/10/the-left-is-trying-to-have-it-both-ways-on-gerrymandering-n4942582
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
— Illinois family battles state’s race-based scholarship. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.
https://pacificlegal.org/illinois-family-battles-states-race-based-scholarship/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Reince Priebus: The House Is Already Completely Gerrymandered — There Are What, 10 Competitive Seats Out Of 435?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/reince_priebus_the_house_is_already_completely_gerrymandered_–_there_are_what_10_competitive_seats_out_of_435.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/eric_holder_gop_gerrymandering_is_a_threat_to_our_democracy_dems_must_gerrymander_to_save_our_democracy.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The damaging effects of shifting from equal opportunity to ‘equal outcomes.’ My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/529262-the-damaging-effects-of-shifting-from-equal-opportunity-to-equal-outcomes/
MSN
— Since the 1960s, ever-increasingly, all those above me have been under ever-increasing pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, they have been under ever-increasing pressure to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-many-women-on-the-board-fewer-companies-are-saying/ar-AA1JTlM7
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Attacked California’s Congressional Maps. Republicans Want to Save Them. The independent body that redraws the state’s political maps isn’t perfect, many Republicans say. But they prefer that to the gerrymander that Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to offset one proposed in Texas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/california-redistricting-independent-commission.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/supreme-court-voting-redistricting.html
— Minimum Wage in L.A. Could Rise to $30 an Hour. In today’s dollars, I started earning $32.84/hour when I was 23 years old in 1972. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I had worked for IRS for 15 months and for Firestone Stores for 7 months before that. I had completed 3 graduate evening business courses at Loyola.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/minimum-wage-olympics-losangeles.html
— Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos. Young adults without jobs that provide insurance find that their options are limited and expensive. The problem is about to get worse. The federal government paying 72% of my health insurance helped withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/health/young-adults-health-insurance-26.html
— FRONT PAGE: The more that fight Trump, the more that Democrat leaders promote you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/politics/mayor-bass-los-angeles-raids.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Cannabis Poisonings Are Rising, Mostly Among Kids. As products like weed gummies proliferate, more children and teens are suffering symptoms including seizures and life-threatening breathing problems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/health/cannabis-poisoning-children.html
— Unions Push Democrats to Win Back Members Who Went to Trump. My critics/opponents despise/hate unions. I was a union member for almost 12 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/politics/democrats-labor-unions-nevada.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-school-choice-elections/
NEW YORK SUN
— Vance Assails 2020 Census as Flawed, Demands Complete Do-Over as Redistricting War Rages. Argument over mid-decade redistricting takes a new turn as the vice president declares U.S. Census Bureau made ‘major statistical error’ in 2020.
https://www.nysun.com/article/vance-assails-2020-census-as-flawed-demands-complete-do-over-as-redistricting-war-rages
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-texas-reopens-the-gerrymander-wars/20F020D8-3963-4D25-9BAB-9B28FFB903B9
— Equity, Equality, Fairness and Good Sense. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/equity-equality-fairness-and-good-sense-11612903580
— Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Solve U.S. Chip-Making Dilemma. Because Chevrolet suspended Malibu production in 2021 because of chip shortage, I bought one off the showroom floor instead of ordering one.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trumps-tariffs-wont-solve-u-s-chip-making-dilemma-c5aec29b
— Make Cars Beautiful Again. Congress quietly axed the fuel-economy standards that help drive the ugliness.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/make-cars-beautiful-again-design-auto-requirements-policy-e08fcfac
— FRONT PAGE: More Job Hunters Seek Pricey Help To Land New Roles. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they made it impossible for me to get a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hunting-expenses-resume-linkedin-887b4bd2
FORBES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2krf_LvgI1o
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/edi-meritocracy-why-hard-understand
AXIOS
— Which federal workers could lose protections under Trump order. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/28/trump-executive-order-federal-workforce
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/out-of-control-republicans-are-viciously-attacking-a-congresswoman-with-calls-to-deport-her/ar-AA1KcZAb
DAILY KOS
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/10/2337315/-Americans-hate-gerrymandering-Texas-Republicans-don-t-care
BUSINESS STANDARD
— How quota system looks across the globe. Around the world, quota systems in government jobs are employed as a tool to enhance the representation of historically marginalized or underrepresented groups. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.tbsnews.net/analysis/how-does-quota-system-look-across-globe-894951
August 4, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Texas Democrats plan on staying in Illinois for 2 weeks to halt redistricting
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-plan-staying-illinois-2-weeks-halt-redistricting-gov-greg-abbott-threatens-loss-seats/17426930/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: As political petition passing begins, Illinois Democrats have flood of candidates; Republicans have a trickle. Democrat and RINO leaders and their mainstream news media ever-increasingly treat the anti-conservative anti-Republican anti-Trump Pat Brady as being the spokesperson for the Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/petition-passing-starts-for-2026-election/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: So far, no major GOP candidates have emerged for U.S. Senate or most of the statewide offices. Democrats Gov. JB Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and Treasurer Mike Frerichs are all seeking reelection. DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick is the only announced candidate for governor of any political stature, and he reported July 1 having only $100,000 in cash on hand in his political fund to take on the billionaire Pritzker. Others are said to be weighing a bid, including former state GOP Chair Don Tracy, Palatine Township Highway Commissioner Aaron Del Mar and Ted Dabrowski, president of the conservative advocacy group Wirepoints. On Sunday, Richard Porter, an attorney and former Republican national committeeman from Illinois, used social media to announce he would not seek the GOP nomination for Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat. “After close consultations with my family and friends, I have decided not to pursue this opportunity,” Porter wrote in a Facebook post. “I intend to stay involved in the effort to turn around Illinois.” Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair on Aug. 14 may prove to be an important event for the party, depending upon whether potential candidates use the day to announce a decision to run.)
— Adding $11 billion to Chicago’s liabilities was a decision that lacked courage, Gov. Pritzker. Alas, the Governor just dug Chicago’s fiscal hole far deeper.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/editorial-jb-pritzker-police-fire-pensions-chicago/
— How postsecondary opportunities for students are changing for the better. My father often decried that he did not get promotions because he did not have a bachelor’s degree. That motivated me to earn not only a job-related bachelor’s degree, but three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/opinion-postsecondary-degree-programs-states/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Americans are losing faith in higher education. Nearly half of adults believe a college degree is less important to get a well-paying job than it was 20 years ago, and only a quarter believe a four-year degree is a very important part of getting a job that pays well. The question of value is front and center for policymakers across the country and in Washington.)
ILLINOIZE
— Top Republicans Critical of Illinois GOP Recruitment. According to reports, Richard Porter has decided to not run for U.S. Senate. My critics/opponents stress that the following have never recruited me to run for any office: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. According to the aforesaid, I am “too conservative.”
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/top-republicans-critical-gop-recruitment
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Republican Richard Porter has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Dick Durbin, according to his social media post to friends. “I intend to stay involved in the effort to turn around Illinois.” Here’s his post
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000198-7386-d0d9-a7be-f396cc9b0000
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago homicides lowest in decade, but so is arrest rate
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-homicides-lowest-in-decade-but-so-is-arrest-rate/
WIREPOINTS
— The whopping lie behind huge, new pension liability imposed by Springfield on Chicago
https://wirepoints.org/the-whopping-lie-behind-huge-new-pension-liability-imposed-by-springfield-on-chicago-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Legal group accuses Rutgers University of discrimination against white students in granting scholarships. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrating me, and condemned me for my not getting any scholarships, for my getting an ACT score of only 24, for my only just barely getting into the top 20% of my high school class, for my having to work my way through college, for my not getting a degree from an Ivy League university, etc.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/us-news/legal-group-accuses-rutgers-u-of-discrimination-against-white-students/
BREITBART
— Boston Democrats Opened Housing to Illegals Who Can’t Pay the Rent. Illegals illegally come to America illegally because Democrat and RINO leaders illegally invite them. Illegals come to America with nothing. That is, they come to America needing/wanting/demanding that America provide them with everything including housing, food, clothing, medical care, education, transportation, jobs, etc. Needless-to-say, Democrat and RINO leaders should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/03/boston-democrats-opened-housing-to-migrants-who-cant-pay-the-rent/
EPOCH TIMES
— Texas Democrats Leave the State to Prevent Redistricting Vote. The exodus could expose the Lone Star State lawmakers to fines, and other penalties—including the possibility of arrest.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-democrats-leave-the-state-to-prevent-redistricting-vote-5896083
NEWSMAX
— Texas Dems Arrive in Illinois to Block Trump’s Redistricting Maps
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/texas-democrats-leave-state-congressional-map-vote/2025/08/04/id/1221138/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Leftist Outrage Erupts At California Plan To Stop Paying Criminal Illegals’ Legal Bills
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/leftist-outrage-erupts-at-california-plan-to-stop-paying-criminal-illegals-legal-bills/ar-AA1JolYY
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump defends firing labor statistics chief. In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), the Democrats who ran GAO defended their wasting my career and forcing me to retire by hinting/implying/arguing/shouting that GAO treated me exactly like Congress wanted GAO to treat its employees like me who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran, that is, to waste their careers of and to get rid of them to make way for their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5434438-trump-defends-firing-labor-statistics-chief/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Many Democrats see their political party as being “weak” or “ineffective”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/they-roll-right-over-many-democrats-think-their-party-is-weak-ap-norc-poll-finds
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/nyregion/new-york-immigrant-arrests-trump.html
— White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge. My Democrat GAO superiors viciously used against me my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. They stressed that the cost was covered by my wife’s insurance. They ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact that our doctor advised against it because we both had fertility problems. According to my Democrat GAO superiors, if we had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and d) become a licensed CPA in 1981. All my Democrat GAO superiors had children and spouses who had little no income. They all strongly decried the time and money they had to spend to raise their children. They all hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if they had not had children, they would have professional certifications, master’s degrees, and a professional license like me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/03/trump-administration-ivf-care/
— Laura Loomer succeeds in getting Trump to dump Jen Easterly. I should write about my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors who succeeded in getting the Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO to dump me. They all stressed that I was conservative, Republican, draft-avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/west-point-easterly-trump-loomer.html
USA TODAY
— Democrats have devolved into a clown show. Democrats lose elections because they promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/04/trump-vance-republicans-democrats-harris-future/85462114007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under President Joe Biden, inflation hit a 40-year high, Russia invaded Ukraine, Hamas brutally attacked Israel and Iran built a robust nuclear program. Then Americans learned, while he was running for reelection, that Biden suffered from serious cognitive decline, raising questions about what the Democratic Party knew and when. Americans lost trust that Democrats were transparent and honest.)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/03/what-would-doj-epstein-files-contain/85306180007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/03/trump-epstein-scandal-vance-president/85481602007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ICE is recruiting agents with $50,000 signing bonuses. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/02/ice-recruiting-signing-bonus-incentives-immigration-officers/85478464007/
FLORIDA PATCH
— I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 years old in 1981. My critics/opponents have always viciously ignored, dismissed, and belittled that. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://patch.com/florida/lakeland/john-stossel-raises-important-topic-tortured-bureaucrats-impact-licensing
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Racial Gerrymanders in the Dock. The Supreme Court will hear what could be a voting rights landmark. Democrat leaders will forever shout that Blacks and Hispanics will forever need preference big time because Republicans will forever discriminate against them.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/racial-gerrymanders-in-the-dock-31f93146
— Four Ways to Prepare for When Your Adult Kids Need Financial Help. Many parents continue to support their children after they graduate from college. It helps to start planning for that, just in case.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/adult-children-financial-help-tips-54a7c601
— It’s a Tough Job Market for New College Grads. Is an Advanced Degree Worth It? The temptation for young adults is great, as they struggle to find jobs. The key is to do the numbers. When I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21 in 1970. Immediately going on to earn an MBA was not an option for me because I had to have a job to help support my mother and brother. I took the only job offer that I got, to be the Retail Sales Manager in the Chicago Heights Firestone Store. The job did not really require a college degree. I did not earn an MBA until I was 27 in 1976. By then, it was too late.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/advanced-degree-graduates-job-market-5450de28
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
— Qualifications When I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, I was qualified to transfer as a GS-13 Step 1, currently $117,807/year. But my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to transfer as a GS-9 Step 10, currently $88,809/year, a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars. They ignored/dismissed/belittled a) that GAO audits IRS, b) that I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which as a GS-12 Step 1-5, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. They would have transferred me as a GS-13 if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates viciously used against me my having to take a pay cut to transfer. I made GS-13 in 1986, but only after I had a) completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and c) became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4
GOOGLE AI
— Political recruitment If you had run for a government office or a political office, what would have stressed? I would have stressed a) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which as a GS-12 Step 1-5, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) that I earned an MBA from Loyola, a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and a master’s degree in finance from IIT, d) that I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, e) that I earned four more job-related professional certifications, and f) that I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=7bb187fa02092698&sxsrf=AE3TifMd3VPsMy2JnrWybKuN-BV9ORgeqQ:1754293415076&q=recruit+candidates+%22qualifications%22
July 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— 20 Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration on Monday for withholding more than $6 billion in federal funds for several education programs nationwide. Many low-income families will lose access to after-school programs if the money isn’t released soon. What did you do while you were in high school? During my freshman and sophomore years, I did yard work. During all 4 years, I delivered newspapers. During my junior and senior years, I washed dishes.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/boys-girls-club-programs-threatened-trump-grant-freeze-serve-thousands-families/17116784/
— Family raises questions about death of father found unresponsive at Naperville’s Centennial Beach. The family of 27-year-old Streamwood man Manuel Jose Rosales Yajure believes the lifeguards didn’t do enough.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/manuel-jose-rosales-yajure-identified-streamwood-man-died-found-centennial-beach-naperville-police-department/17117110/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW-mqsxAuUw
NBC5
— These Republicans could challenge Gov. JB Pritzker’s reelection bid. The first day petitions can be submitted for the March primary will arrive early next month.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/these-republicans-could-challenge-gov-jb-pritzkers-reelection-bid/3789070/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/video-republican-field-takes-shape-to-oppose-pritzker-reelection-bid/3789117/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: So far, DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick and businessman Joe Severino have announced they intend to run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, but they could be joined by several others, including Rep. Darin LaHood, who is weighing options between a bid for the governor’s mansion or the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Dick Durbin. His team told NBC Chicago Political Reporter Mary Ann Ahern that he is still weighing his options ahead of the Aug. 5 start of the petition season. Aaron Del Mar, former lieutenant governor candidate and the chairman of the Cook County Republican Party, is also weighing a potential run, and he says he sees a path forward for any candidate seeking to deny Pritzker a third term in office. “There is a strong donor base, but you just need to talk to them and convince them that this state is worth investing in,” he said. “There are some concerns about running against the richest elected official in the United States. Illinois is worth saving, and worth investing in, and somebody needs to put Illinois first, and our campaign will display that same motto in action.” Ted Dabrowski, president of the media outlet Wirepoints, which focuses on economic and government issues in Illinois, is also considering a run, reaching out to donors as part of that effort, according to Ahern’s reporting.)
— Who has the advantage in the race for Dick Durbin’s Senate seat? Three Democrats are vying for the seat, while the Republican primary remains largely up in the air. One could compare and contrast the Illinois Republican U.S. Senate 2004 primary ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois ) with the 2026 primary. All five announced candidates (John Cox, Chirinjeev Kathuria, Andrew McKenna, Jim Oberweis, and Jack Ryan) walked in Wheaton’s 2003 Independence Day parade and then attended a picnic in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. My critics/opponents were not only furious that Ryan won the primary instead of their candidate McKenna, they blamed me for McKenna’s defeat. I was not only the GOPUSA Illinois Editor, I was also an officer of the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. Neither organization endorsed McKenna. Ryan withdrew after he won the primary and then the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee replaced him with Alan Keyes who lost to Obama.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/who-has-the-advantage-in-the-race-for-dick-durbins-senate-seat/3789209/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On the other side of the aisle, several names have been floated on the Republican side to run for Durbin’s Senate seat. Insiders said Richard Porter is considering a bid. Porter’s largely been behind the scenes, working as a suburban attorney and former Republican national committeeman. He also worked for former President George W Bush’s administration as a domestic policy adviser to the president and counselor to former Vice President Dan Quayle. U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood is also eyeing the Senate race, but he would have to give up his congressional seat to do so. He has also been rumored to be eyeing a run for Illinois governor, but will make his decision in coming weeks. The last Illinois Republican to serve in the Senate was Mark Kirk. He lost re-election to Duckworth in 2016.)
— Democrats put aside previous misgivings to hit Trump over Jeffrey Epstein files
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/democrats-trump-administration-jeffrey-epstein-files/3788972/
— Democrat leaders promote Rosie O’Donnell
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/video-rosie-odonnell-reacts-donald-trump-threat-potentially-revoke-citizenship/3789125/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/14/chicago-officials-call-identification-requirements-ice-agents-we-are-asking
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— State Farm defends hefty 27.2% hike in Illinois homeowners insurance rates
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/state-farm-defends-illinois-homeowners-rate-increase/
— Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich should have reformed GAO instead of gutting it. If he had reformed GAO, I might still be working for GAO. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/trump-lay-off-education-employees/
— A city where every teen can find work — that should be the goal. I took the following jobs when I was a teen, but how many teens would take those jobs today? I did yard work. I delivered newspapers. I wash dishes. I cleaning golf shoes. I chipping slag. I pumping gasoline. I delivering mail. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/chicago-teen-summer-jobs/
— Wheaton 7-bedroom mansion with Tudor facade and 7 gables: $2M
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/wheaton-seven-gables-home/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This 1897 Wheaton property built by architect Jarvis Hunt is called the House of Seven Gables and was commissioned as a wedding gift by Chicago steel magnate Jay Morse. Later known as the Loretto Convent, the mansion has a Tudor facade, hand-carved woodwork and seven distinctive gables. In 2017, the entire 10,000-square-foot, 730-ton structure was relocated 500 feet and placed on a new foundation. The house now has modern infrastructure, all-new mechanicals, including zoned central heating and air conditioning, and public utilities. In the Loretto subdivision, the home has seven bedrooms, six full bathrooms, one half-bath and a newly built, attached three-car garage. There is also an unfinished lower level with 10-foot ceilings.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker orders state agencies to assess potential effects of more Trump tariffs. Officials told to figure out which industries are most vulnerable to trade disruptions.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/07/14/trump-tariffs-jb-pritzker-illinois-executive-order
DAILY HERALD
— Citing safety risks for election officials, McHenry County clerk seeking 35% pay hike
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250713/local-politics/citing-safety-risks-for-election-officials-mchenry-county-clerk-seeking-35-pay-hike/
— State Department firings say much about administration’s ‘reforms.’ If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. The Democrats who ran GAO used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s Republican employees like me.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250715/syndicated-columnists/state-department-firings-say-much-about-administrations-reforms/
— Why the races to succeed Krishnamoorthi, Schakowsky in Congress are packed
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250715/local-politics/why-the-races-to-succeed-krishnamoorthi-schakowsky-in-congress-are-packed/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for problems that disabled people have.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/chicago-disability-inclusion-accessibility
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/cook-county-forest-preserves-prioritize-accessible-amenities-opinion
— Pritzker signs executive order to analyze tariff impact on Illinois
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-orders-agencies-analyze-tariff-impact-illinois
WGN RADIO
— Is MAGA bigger than Trump?
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-is-maga-bigger-than-trump/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/06/26/jb-pritzker-governor-of-illinois-running-for-third-term-state-visits-tour-june-26-2025-stops/84367606007/
SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/07/14/good-trouble-lives-on-protests-in-northern-illinois-locations-times-what-you-need-to-know/
RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth Advances IVF Coverage for Military Families. If I ran for an office, my opponents would have Duckworth stress that I avoided the Vietnam War draft and that my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-secures-several-key-priorities-in-committeepassed-ndaa-to-expand-ivf-coverage-strengthen-oversight-of-domestic-military-deployments-boost-84307.cfm
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Pritzker signs executive order responding to impact of tariffs on Illinois
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/07/14/pritzker-signs-executive-order-responding-to-impact-of-tariffs-on-illinois/85199351007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees. The Democrats who ran GAO used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of more than 3,000 GAO employees including me, but they spread it out. Virtually all those who they got rid of were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.news-gazette.com/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-lay-off-nearly-1-400-education-department-employees/article_41642fbf-3c9e-5b23-b0a7-4e125be1d826.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Republicans renew a bid to remove noncitizens from the census tally. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-07-15/republicans-renew-a-bid-to-remove-noncitizens-from-the-census-tally-behind-voting-maps
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-551/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-344/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Ibendahl: Time to Think about Getting Involved in Politics Diersen: If you might be interested in becoming a Republican Precinct Committeeman in DuPage County, and especially in Milton Township and Wheaton, please contact me. I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Wheaton since 1999.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/15/time-to-think-about-getting-involved-in-politics/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— DOJ urges federal agencies to operate ‘exclusively in English’ as much as possible. To be eligible to vote in America, you must be an American citizen. To become a naturalized American citizen, you must be proficient in English.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/14/doj-urges-federal-agencies-operate-exclusively-english-much-possible/
— Biden autopen scandal ignites firestorm over cover-up of president’s mental fitness
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/14/biden-aide-signed-autopen-pardons-thousands/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— IL construction workers highest paid in U.S. as new home building lags. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, the federal government paid me $19.37/hour when I was 18, $55,850/year when I was 22, $68,315/year when I was 23, $82,655/year when I was 24, $99,069/year when I was 25, $112,280/year when I was 29, $117,807/year when I was 38, and $153.151/year when I was 49. In my defense, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3470573/illinois-construction-workers-highest-paid-new-home-building-lags/
AMAC
— Trump Cracks Down on Colleges Giving Tuition Breaks to Illegal Aliens
https://amac.us/newsline/society/trump-cracks-down-on-colleges-giving-tuition-breaks-to-illegal-aliens/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Facts to ponder while most of the media peddles Democrat talking points
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/facts_to_ponder_while_most_of_the_media_pedals_democrat_talking_points_to_destroy_trump_and_republicans_and_to_elect_democrats.html
— Is it wrong to arrest ‘non-criminal’ illegals? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, no one is illegal.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/is_it_wrong_to_arrest_non_criminal_illegals.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— MSNBC talking head says illegals could have ‘lawful’ right to use violence against ICE
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/07/14/msnbc-talking-head-says-illegals-could-have-lawful-right-to-use-violence-against-ice-1567671/
BLAZE
— Sanctuary cities fail — but Karen Bass keeps pushing the lie
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/sanctuary-cities-fail-but-karen-bass-keeps-pushing-the-lie
BREITBART
— Omar Fateh: Rep. Boebert Opposing Free College for Illegal Aliens Is ‘White Supremacy’ — So Is Policing
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/14/omar-fateh-boebert-opposing-free-college-illegals-white-supremacy/
DAILY CALLER
— Detained Weed Farm Illegals Dems Rushed To Defend Actually Have Heinous Rap Sheets
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/14/detained-california-weed-farm-illegals-heinous-rap-sheets-democrats/
— Lefty Groups Biden Showered In Taxpayer Cash Coaching Illegals To Evade ICE
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/14/lefty-groups-biden-taxpayer-cash-coaching-illegals-ice/
DAILY WIRE
— Nearly 400 Illegals Arrested In Raid On California Pot Farm. Federal agents also “rescued at least 14 migrant children from what looks like exploitation, forced child labor, and potentially human trafficking…”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-400-illegals-arrested-in-raid-on-california-pot-farm-dhs-says
— Plane Hijacker, Child Predators, Murderers: ICE Nabs More Than 1,300 Illegals In Houston. Those arrested include a child sex predator who has been removed from the United States four different times.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/plane-hijacker-child-predators-murderers-ice-nabs-more-than-1300-illegals-in-houston
HOT AIR
— Left Wing Failures Breed More Violence Before MidTerms
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/07/13/left-wing-failures-breed-more-violence-before-midterms-n3804749
MRC TV
— CNN Falsely Claims Illegals in Alligator Alcatraz Have ‘No Criminal Charges’
https://mrctv.org/videos/cnn-falsely-claims-illegals-alligator-alcatraz-have-no-criminal-charges
NEWSMAX
— Most Back Trump on Immigration
https://www.newsmax.com/us/poll-trump-immigration/2025/07/14/id/1218725/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Trump’s team launches group to unseat GOP Rep. Thomas Massie. Have you been unseated? My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes unseat me as a) a member of the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, d) an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer in 2007, e) a GAO employee in 1997, and f) a postal employee in 1969. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.aol.com/trumps-team-launches-group-unseat-235301803.html
NEWSWEEK
— Los Angeles To Give Cash Assistance To Immigrants Impacted By Trump Raids
https://www.newsweek.com/los-angeles-cash-assistance-immigation-ice-raids-2098642
— Democrat leaders promote protests against Trump on July 17
https://www.newsweek.com/map-list-cities-anti-trump-protests-july-17-2096597
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/health/south-africa-aids-hiv-trump-funding-cuts.html?searchResultPosition=1
WASHINGTON POST
— Supreme Court allows deep layoffs at Education Department. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich should have reformed GAO instead of gutting it. If he had reformed GAO, I might still be working for GAO. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/14/supreme-court-education-department-/
— Trump wants to dismantle the Education Department. What would that mean? Instead of reforming GAO, Gingrich gutted GAO. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/15/education-department-dismantled-trump-explained/
USA TODAY
— Reasons why you’re not getting promoted. Democrats run the federal government. My Democrat superiors delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13 not only because I refused to become a Democrat, but because I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/30/5-mistakes-preventing-promotion/84376177007/
— Should I take a buyout. My Democrat GAO superiors always wanted to get rid of me and my coworkers who shared my demographics. In 1993, when I was 45 years old, they “offered” those like me who had 25 or more years of federal service a $25,000 buyout if we retired early. They succeeded in forcing me to retire 4 years later just before their “offer” expired. I would not have been eligible for regular retirement for another 6 years. Beyond the tremendous negative financial impact of being forced to retire early, it gives your critics/opponents something very big to use against you. They will hint/imply/argue/shout that the real reason why you were forced to retire early is that you are a bad person. Further, the more qualifications that you have, the more that they will hint/imply/argue/shout that the real reason why you were forced to retire early is that you are a bad person. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/28/jobs-buyout-layoffs-recession-economy-tips/84383588007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: You’ve been offered a buyout. Your employer wants to pay you to quit. It’s a big chunk of change. Should you accept? Companies offer buyouts to thin the ranks, spending money in the short term to save money in the long run. Employers often leverage buyouts to avoid layoffs. And that thought, alone, should give you pause. The Trump administration offered buyouts to the entire federal workforce this year, aiming to reduce it by as much as 10%. Roughly 75,000 workers accepted.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Now Trump Says Forget Jeffrey Epstein. He urges MAGA to give up a conspiracy tale that he and his allies promoted.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/now-trump-says-forget-jeffrey-epstein-9ca7d378
— Is Your Salary Too High for Today’s Job Market? My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, the federal government paid me $19.37/hour when I was 18, $55,850/year when I was 22, $68,315/year when I was 23, $82,655/year when I was 24, $99,069/year when I was 25, $112,280/year when I was 29, $117,807/year when I was 38, and $153.151/year when I was 49. In my defense, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/is-your-salary-too-high-for-todays-job-market/84ae9a22-052e-43de-98ff-e859592134f8
— Democrat and RINO leaders illegally ever-increasingly illegally encourage citizens of foreign countries to bring their children illegally into America illegally and to illegally keep them in America illegally.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-immigration-reform-gallup-polling-border-ice-deportations-c69218cf
— Family Reunions Become Harder to Keep. My family reunions were big during the 1950s and early 1960s on my father’s side in Crete and on my mother’s side in Grant Park.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/what-it-takes-to-keep-those-family-reunions-picnics-and-funfetti-cupcakes-going-f083fb7f
WASHINGTON MONTHLY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/14/america-is-now-a-police-state/
NEWSBREAK
— Trump Store in Huntley Illinois Closes After Eviction Battle
https://www.newsbreak.com/century-homes-america-322339187/4107185611986-trump-store-in-huntley-illinois-closes-after-eviction-battle
NATION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint Democrats as having been the Union Army in the Civil War and b) paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-confederacy-slavery-racism/
TAMMY DUCKWORTH
— Duckworth is a Democrat minority female veteran U.S. Senator. She demands answers regarding State Department layoffs. GAO works for Congress. If Duckworth had been a U.S. Senator during the 1980s and 1990s, would she have demanded answers regarding Gingrich’s gutting of GAO? My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s Republican employees like me who were not minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-booker-sfrc-colleagues-demand-answers-regarding-state-department-layoffs
FED SMITH
— What the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Means for Federal Employees. Federal employees dodged a bullet on proposed benefits cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill, but there are other important tax changes to be aware of.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/07/10/what-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-means-for-federal-employees/
July 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump suggests taking over New York City and Washington DC
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-suggests-taking-new-york-city-washington/17022336/
— Supreme Court clears the way for Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce
https://abc7chicago.com/post/supreme-court-clears-trumps-plans-downsize-federal-workforce/17022051/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-officials-blast-medicaid-snap-cuts-in-trump-led-megabill/3785101/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/what-trumps-tax-law-could-mean-youngest-americans/3785278/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/student-loan-cancellation-program-trump-retribution-tool/3784547/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/video-illinois-democrats-express-concerns-about-cuts-to-snap-benefits/3785248/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1670996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoFEXTwAjZ0
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/08/july-8-2025-full-show
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/08/brandon-johnson-condemns-cuts-imposed-trump-s-tax-spending-bill-unholy
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH THREE PHOTOS: Special prosecutor appointed to investigate DuPage clerk’s bidding practices
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250708/news/special-prosecutor-appointed-to-investigate-dupage-clerks-bidding-practices/
— Supreme Court clears the way for Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250708/nation-and-world-politics/supreme-court-clears-the-way-for-trumps-plans-to-downsize-the-federal-workforce/
— Large teen gathering at Glen Ellyn pool leads to misdemeanor arrest
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250708/news/large-teen-gathering-at-glen-ellyn-pool-leads-to-misdemeanor-arrest/
SOUTHERN
— Trump suggests taking over New York City and Washington DC
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/08/trump-suggests-taking-over-new-york-city-and-washington/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— How dependent on federal spending is your hospital?
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/07/09/cuts-to-medicaid-could-lead-to-9-illinois-hospitals-closing/84497471007/
SUBURBAN LIFE
— Disruption at Sunset Pool in Glen Ellyn may lead to reevaluation of training, safety policies
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/07/08/disruption-at-sunset-pool-in-glen-ellyn-may-lead-to-reevaluation-of-training-policies/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-07-08/what-health-care-cuts-in-trumps-budget-law-will-mean-for-americans
https://www.nprillinois.org/government-politics/2025-07-09/federal-food-assistance-changes-threaten-benefits-for-thousands-of-illinoisans
PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-07-09/immigration/il-school-districts-serving-immigrants-work-to-stay-low-key/a97580-1
GLEN ELLYN PATCH
— ‘We Share Your Frustration:’ Park District Reacts To Teen Takeover In Glen Ellyn. The Glen Ellyn Park District shared a statement after an incident in which hundreds of teens stormed Sunset Pool. How prepared is your park district for Democrat teen takeovers?
https://patch.com/illinois/glenellyn/we-share-your-frustration-park-district-reacts-teen-takeover-glen-ellyn
CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— To boost their popularity, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/august-2025/can-tangling-with-trump-boost-the-mayors-popularity/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/08/360000-illinois-residents-to-lose-food-assistance-due-to-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-pritzker-says/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Richard Porter eyeing Durbin’s seat
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/09/richard-porter-eyeing-durbins-seat-00443440
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Richard Porter, a battle-hardened Republican Party loyalist, is considering a bid for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, who’s retiring. Porter sees an opening for himself and the Illinois Republican Party by blending establishment savvy with MAGA fealty. His background: Porter, 65, is a seasoned attorney from Chicago’s northern suburbs and a former Republican National Committeeman who has worn many hats over the years. He was a senior domestic policy adviser to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dan Quayle. More recently he’s been an unofficial adviser within the Illinois Republican Party. Porter’s resume screams old guard, but he now sings support for President Donald Trump and his policies — a pivot from the early years of Trump’s first administration. Walking a tightrope: “I represent the old and new party,” Porter told your Playbook host, adding he’s still in the “testing the waters phase” of running for Senate. It’s a narrow but not impossible lane, he says. With Durbin out and three prominent Democrats already elbowing one another in a looming primary brawl, Porter sees a crack in the Democratic firewall that has defined Illinois politics for so many years. “This is an open seat,” Porter said. “Democrats will have to compete in a primary so there’s a good chance for division coming out of that.” Porter expects economic renewal under Trump, and he brushed aside Democrats’ concerns that hundreds of thousands of people will lose health care under Trump’s just-signed megabill. “If you look at actual provisions, they aren’t unreasonable — there are work requirements,” Porter said. “Real world impact will be minimal.” Perhaps. But … that won’t stop Democrats from branding it as catastrophic to voters. Porter is confident that any “unintended bad consequence” from the budget reconciliation bill can be corrected before the 2026 midterms. Porter’s view: “There’s a risk if Democrats cry wolf, wolf, wolf for 12 months and there’s no wolf.” He’s also been poring over 2024 election results and sees Trump’s showing in Illinois as a positive sign that Republicans could find success in 2026 in the state where Democrats control all the statewide seats. Add a possible chaotic Democratic primary and a volatile national climate, and anything is possible. The challenge for any statewide Republican candidate, Porter says, is getting old guard and new right Republicans to march in lock step. The other challenge is getting the state’s most prominent Republican donor — businessman Richard Uihlein — on your side. SIDE NOTE: Porter would face a primary. Air Force veteran John Goodman, political commentator Pamela Denise Long and businessman Douglas Bennett and others have filed as Republican candidates, too.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-547/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-340/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Republicans decry Democrats’ ‘fear mongering’ over ‘big bill.’ Chicago mayor: ‘Big bill’ is ‘unholy.’
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_da1443d2-78b9-4190-9bc6-0143cc62de04.html
— Trump slams wind, solar; Pritzker predicts ‘big bill’ increases energy costs
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_56934533-ae58-4264-ae5b-1aa496c600d0.html
WIREPOINTS
— More dependency on Medicaid is not the answer. The answer is a booming economy where people can pay their own way.
https://wirepoints.org/more-dependency-on-medicaid-is-not-the-answer-the-answer-is-a-booming-economy-where-people-can-pay-their-own-way-wirepoints-on-wttws-chicago-tonight/
— Pritzker is Johnson is Mamdani
https://wirepoints.org/j-b-pritzker-is-brandon-johnson-is-zoran-mamdani-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that no one can survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive Democrat-provided government assistance. It is called socialism, if not communism. I had Republican teachers in grade school and in high school. Because of that, my not getting scholarships or student loans did not stop me from getting a college degree. I worked my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How have federal spending cuts impacted you? My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich-led budget cuts to waste my career and to get rid of me. They used those cuts a) 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, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would not have done the aforesaid if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on bad jobs? From what I see, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, Americans ever-increasingly fail/refuse to take bad jobs. I took bad jobs. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped more gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents paint themselves as being? My Republican critics/opponents ever-increasingly paint themselves as being moderates, centrists, RINOs, anti-conservatives, anti-Republicans, if not Democrat plants. I should write my Republican critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— ‘They threw Christine into the water;’ Chicago ‘flash mob’ takes over Glen Ellyn’s Sunset Pool, assaults manager. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, Glen Ellyn today, your municipality tomorrow.
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/673828974-they-threw-christine-into-the-waterl-chicago-flash-mob-takes-over-glen-ellyn-s-sunset-pool-assaults-manager
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A “flash mob” of some 200 Chicago residents swarmed Glen Ellyn’s Sunset village pool on Saturday afternoon, forcing their way past the entrance and assaulting the pool manager. A video posted on Instagram shows a crowd pushing manager Christine Giunta-Mayer into the lap pool, which had been surrounded by the mob. Sources tell DuPage Policy Journal that the mob arrived around 4:30 p.m. Glen Ellyn Police arrived soon after and closed the pool. A Sat. afternoon Facebook post by Patrick Sandusky reported the pool as “now closed.” “The Sunset Pool has been overwhelmed by out of town kids,” he wrote. “Fireworks fired into pool. It’s a tik tok meet up / take over according to police I just spoke to.” “Kids pushed (past) the gates. Lot of drinking and weed in the parking lot. 100s and 100s of kids. No joke. Pushed manager into the pool,” Sandusky wrote. The Sunset Pool’s non-resident admission rate is $15 for individuals 18-59. On Sunday, Sunset Pool visitors were required to have a physical pool pass issued by the park district, sources tell DuPage Policy Journal. Weed, Miller Lite, and “on the rocks cosmos” Glen Ellyn teens present described a chaotic scene. The flash mob brought in coolers with alcohol and speakers to play music. “They were drinking and smoking weed and swearing a lot,” a Glen Ellyn teen present at the pool at the time told DuPage Policy Journal. “Someone threw a lit cigar into the pool.” “I saw Miller Lite bottles and girls drinking on-the-rocks cosmos,” the teen said. “They were taking people’s stuff and moving it from their pool chairs.” The flash mob was originally planned for Naperville. “We bringing (sic) 31st Beach to the burbs” read a Facebook advertisement promoting the event, scheduled for Naperville’s Centennial Beach, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. “31st Beach” is a reference to 31st Street Beach on Chicago’s South Side. Giunta-Mayer is also head coach of the Glenbard West Hilltoppers Boys’ Volleyball team.)
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Mayor Johnson: Chicago ‘Police Dept. Will Not Ever Cooperate with ICE’
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/07/mayor-johnson-chicago-police-dept-will-not-ever-cooperate-with-ice.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump says he’s ‘testing’ the idea of a federal takeover of D.C.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/8/trump-says-hes-testing-idea-federal-takeover-dc/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Brandon Johnson promises Chicago police ‘will not ever cooperate with ICE’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3465665/brandon-johnson-ice-promises-chicago-police-will-not-ever-cooperate/
— US veterans stand by Afghans in immigration court
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/3465521/us-veterans-stand-by-afghan-refugees-immigration-court/
NEW YORK POST
— Chicago mayor vows city police ‘will not ever cooperate with ICE’
https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/us-news/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-vows-city-wont-cooperate-with-trump-ice/
— Mamdani’s college application debacle is just one more example of privileged kids acting oppressed
https://nypost.com/2025/07/08/us-news/zohran-mamdani-is-just-another-privileged-progressive-hypocrite/
WASHINGTON POST
— To study in the U.S. under Trump, international students scrub their accounts. What percent want to be in America for the wrong reasons?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/09/international-students-visas-trump-social-media-online-vetting/
BREITBART
— Newsom Claims Illegal Migrants Needed for Rebuilding
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/08/gavin-newsom-attacks-ric-grenell-for-audacity-to-criticize-fire-recovery-claims-illegal-migrants-needed-for-rebuilding/
DAILY CALLER
— ‘Would Crater In Minutes’: Sean Spicer Warns Amnesty ‘Would Destroy MAGA’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/08/sean-spicer-warns-amnesty-would-destroy-maga/
— Boston Mayor Opens City Hall Doors To Chinese Communist Party Members
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/09/exclusive-michelle-wu-boston-city-hall-ccp/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Supreme Court Allows Trump’s ‘Transformation of the Federal Bureaucracy’ to Proceed
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/08/breaking-supreme-court-allows-trumps-transformation-of-the-federal-bureaucracy-to-proceed/
EPOCH TIMES
— Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Federal Layoffs
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-clears-way-for-federal-layoffs-5883594
FEDERALIST
— Trump Promises ‘No Amnesty’ For Illegal Alien Agricultural Workers
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/08/trump-promises-no-amnesty-for-illegal-alien-agricultural-workers/
FOX NEWS
— Race-obsessed leadership in Chicago is destroying children’s futures
https://www.aol.com/race-obsessed-leadership-americas-third-140031620.html
— Trump praises Florida after county approves renaming roadway after him: ‘Wonderful honor.’ Will Democrat leaders rename the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway, that is, I-88 in DuPage County?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-praises-florida-county-approves-renaming-roadway-after-him-wonderful-honor
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-praises-florida-county-approves-051813581.html
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Continue Large-Scale Federal Layoffs
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-continue-large-scale-federal-layoffs/
NEWSMAX
— Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump’s Plans to Downsize Federal Workforce
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/supreme-court-trump-mass-firings/2025/07/08/id/1218061/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/07/08/trump_were_going_to_give_the_farmers_the_people_they_need_but_were_not_talking_amnesty.html
TOWNHALL
— Homan Offers Blistering Warning to Muslim Socialist NYC Mayoral Candidate: ‘Get Out of the Way’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/07/07/tom-homan-offers-blistering-warning-to-muslim-socialist-nyc-mayoral-candidate-n2660003
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with plans to downsize the federal workforce
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-7-8-2025
UPI
— Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with federal job cuts
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/07/08/Supreme-Court-federal-job-cuts/8801752013130/
REUTERS
— Supreme Court clears way for Trump to pursue mass federal layoffs
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-supreme-court-lifts-order-that-blocked-trumps-mass-federal-layoffs-2025-07-08/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Firings at Federal Agencies
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/supreme-court-federal-workers-layoffs.html
— Trump Got the Green Light to Fire Federal Workers. Now, They Wait. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich-led budget cuts to waste my career and to get rid of me. They used those cuts a) 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, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would not have done the aforesaid if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/trump-federal-workers-firings.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Supreme Court allows Trump to launch mass layoff and restructuring plans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/08/supreme-court-trump-mass-layoffs-federal-workers/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Supreme Court Says the President Can Fire People. If you read the filings in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), you will conclude that the courts ruled that employees can be fired for opposing Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, for opposing race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/supreme-court-trump-v-afge-executive-order-layoffs-ketanji-brown-jackson-bda51ed8
REASON
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://reason.com/2025/07/08/trump-reiterates-his-promise-to-protect-farm-and-hospitality-workers-from-pretty-vicious-deportation/
FED SMITH
— Supreme Court Greenlights Trump Administration’s Federal Workforce Cuts
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/07/08/supreme-court-greenlights-trump-administrations-federal-workforce-cuts/
FED SCOOP
— Supreme Court allows federal workforce reductions to move forward
https://fedscoop.com/supreme-court-allows-federal-workforce-reductions-proceed/
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Federal workforce likely to shrink further under extended hiring freeze
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2025/07/federal-workforce-likely-to-shrink-further-under-extended-hiring-freeze/
July 1, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Anti-Trumpers ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against his Big Bill.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/polls-show-americans-largely-oppose-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/16892044/
NBC5
— To what extend does your hospital depend on Medicaid?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/medicaid-cuts-could-devastate-hospitals-throughout-illinois-officials-warn/3779676/
WGN9
— New laws aim to make higher education easier for Illinois students. Without benefit of these laws, I nevertheless was able to get UIC to accept me in 1966. I took college preparatory courses at Crete-Monee High School. I got an ACT score of 24. I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. Further, with my parents providing me with room and board during my first 3 years, I was able to pay for my college expenses by working for the Park Forest Post Office part-time during the school years and full-time during the summers.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/new-laws-aim-to-make-higher-education-easier-for-illinois-students/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/01/opinion-chicago-protecting-reproductive-health/
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250701/letters-to-the-editor/children-seeking-asylum-trapped-in-legal-limbo/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s spending cuts.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-states-brace-for-impact-as-trumps-big-bill-nears-completion-in-congress/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-bush-obama-and-a-tearful-bono-fault-trumps-gutting-of-usaid-on-agencys-last-day/
WQAD
— Pritzker ever-increasingly does everything that he can to a) attract voters to Illinois who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) drive out of Illinois voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans. Demographics that vote for Democrats include liberal, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, want/need/demand massive government assistance, boozers, gamblers, stoners, prostitutes, criminals, and citizens of foreign countries. Demographics that vote for Republicans include conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, non-poor, etc.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/politics/illinois-politics/pritzker-presidential-run-rumors-future-third-term-reelection-campaign/526-380c0b14-b392-4e55-9f24-f29db6705baa
— Local lawmakers call US Army secretary’s visit to the Rock Island Arsenal a success. A merger proposed by the U.S. Department of Defense could cut up to 400 jobs from the base. During the first 6 months of 1989, I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO in Rock Island on an audit of the Department of Defense 1990 ammunition budget request. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/assets/150/148194.pdf My Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to this audit to throw me off audits of IRS and to punish me for becoming an active member in a class action lawsuit in September of 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/us-army-secretary-rock-island-arsenal-potential-merger-job-cuts/526-fda097bf-7b24-467c-857d-d92bf1c3df60
LEGAL NEWSLINE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/il-law-threatening-employers-who-use-e-verify-doesn-t-break-fed-law/article_cef1e75d-c680-4ed7-9e14-aba9358132b3.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Pritzker announces Christian Mitchell as LG pick
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/01/pritzker-announces-christian-mitchell-as-lg-pick/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-543/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CONTTRARIAN
— Jim Crow Strikes Again in Chicago
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/jim-crow-strikes-again-chicago
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL taxpayers begin funding record-high budget with tax hikes July 1
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d59871a8-4829-457a-a6af-22507151d1b9.html
— Chicago officials blame Trump for rising expenditures as city budget talks begin. To what extent are the following dependent on federal deficit spending: America, Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, your precinct, and you?
https://www.aol.com/news/chicago-officials-blame-trump-rising-155300255.html
WIREPOINTS
— Durbin throws Illinois students under the bus, including kids from his own East St. Louis
https://wirepoints.org/sen-durbin-throws-illinois-students-under-the-bus-including-kids-from-his-own-east-st-louis-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write a book about Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on Republican participation in those parades. I would focus on those who are working the hardest to diminish/end Republican participation in this year’s Wheaton and Glen Ellyn parades. They argue that the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) cannot afford the $1,500+ cost of entry fees and candy for the parades. In 2007, I succeeded in raising $2,000 on short notice so that an elephant could walk behind U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam in Wheaton’s 2007 parade. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/ I served as the Republican fundraiser for the Wheaton Independence Day parades 2005-2021. In my book, I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end what I did. I have urged MTRO to encourage Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congressional District 3, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois senate, Illinois house, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, etc. to participate in this year’s Wheaton and Glen Ellyn parades. Please join me in urging MTRO to maximize its participation in those parades. Please join me in urging Republican candidates to participate in those parades. I certainly hope that LaHood walks in both parades. His father walked in Wheaton’s 2005 parade. I spoke with him before the parade kicked off. Bob Dole walked in Wheaton’s 1996 parade, Jim Ryan in its 2002 parade, and Obama and his wife in its 2004 parade. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. If I had smoked pot, I would not have been able to a) get hired in 1964, 1966, 1970, 1971, and 1980, b) earn a bachelor’s degree in 1970 and master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) earn more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, e) earn a professional license in 1981, f) buy new cars in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1978, etc., g) buy real estate in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, and 1984, f) get married in 1978, g) etc.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/30/us-news/mike-tyson-urges-trump-to-deliver-on-cannabis-reform/
— Trump threatens to unleash DOGE on Musk to save money tied to his numerous gov’t subsidies: ‘Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history.’ My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue shout that I have no standing to criticize the federal government a) because the federal government employed me for almost 30 years, b) because I get a $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension, and c) because the federal government continues to pay 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance. In my defense, the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Further, I would not have become a postal employee in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to join him in taking the postal employment test and I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if I had not taken and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 as a backup if I could not get a job in the private sector and if Oldsmobile had not withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My efforts to get a good job in the private sector were frustrated by being viewed as being draft bait. Potential employers did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/01/us-news/trump-threatens-to-unleash-doge-on-elon-musk-to-save-money-tied-to-his-numerous-govt-subsidies/
BREITBART
— Gallup Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Democrat Pride in America. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/30/gallup-poll-shows-sharp-decline-american-pride-democrats/
— Senate Rejects Big, Beautiful Bill Measure to Remove Illegal Aliens from Medicaid. Getting free Medicaid is one of the biggest reasons why citizens of foreign countries a) come to America illegally and/or b) stay in America illegally.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/30/senate-rejects-big-beautiful-bill-measure-to-remove-illegal-aliens-from-medicaid/
DAILY CALLER
— Democrats Created A Monster That’s Rapidly Destroying Their Party. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/30/zohran-mamdani-upper-middle-class-college-kids-new-york-city-socialism/
— Shockingly Small Portion Of Democrats Are Proud To Be American. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/30/shockingly-small-portion-democrats-proud-american-poll/
DAILY WIRE
— Panicking Dems Turn To Familiar Sounding Playbook. Project 2029 aims to create a list of policies for the next Democrat presidential nominee.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/panicking-dems-turn-to-familiar-sounding-playbook
— Why It Might Be Impossible For Illegals To Escape Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-will-be-nearly-impossible-for-illegal-aliens-to-escape-alligator-alcatraz
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Kari MacRae as fired over some anti-CRT social media “memes” she posted before she was even hired. I was fired, that is, I was forced to retire, because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/supreme-court-refuses-to-take-school-teacher-free-speech-case-justice-thomas-files-statement-agreeing-with-epps-amicus-brief/amp/
MINDING THE CAMPUS
— Woke Orthodoxy Creeps In Through the Backdoor—These Laws Change the Locks
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/06/30/woke-orthodoxy-creeps-in-through-the-backdoor-these-laws-change-the-locks/
NATIONAL REVIEW & MANHATTEN INSTITUTE
— Watering Down the SAT Weakens Meritocracy. As Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly lower standards to advance their young minorities and to advance their young females, my having done the following ever-increasingly means more: a) my getting an ACT score of 24, b) my graduating in the upper 20% of my high school class, c) my earning a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, d) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, e) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, f) my becoming a licensed CPA, and g) my earning four more professional certifications.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/watering-down-the-sat-weakens-meritocracy/
https://manhattan.institute/article/watering-down-the-sat-weakens-meritocracy
NEWS BUSTERS
— New York Times Touts ‘Defiance and Joy’ of Gay Pride Parade vs. Trump ‘Anti-Diversity Fervor.’ Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/06/30/new-york-times-touts-defiance-and-joy-gay-pride-parade-vs-trump-anti
REAL CLEAR POLICY
— Trump Poised to Try to Remove Noncitizens from Census. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/06/30/trump_poised_to_try_to_remove_noncitizens_from_census_1119880.html
TOWNHALL
— Stop Bailing Out the Big Woke States
https://townhall.com/columnists/terrypaulson/2025/07/01/stop-bailing-out-the-big-woke-states-n2659717
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump will visit a remote immigration detention site in the Florida Everglades
https://apnews.com/article/trump-everglades-immigrant-detention-facility-visit-5dc5568ec15534947c29c9149b773d1d
CNN
— Democrat and RINOs say that Trump’s visit to a migrant camp called ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will stir dark echoes
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/politics/alligator-alcatraz-trump-florida
YAHOO
— Democrat pride in America is declining. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/americans-pride-country-declining-gallup-210041107.html
MSN
— Democrat pride in America hits historic low, new poll finds just days before July 4 holiday. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/pride-in-america-hits-historic-low-new-poll-finds-just-days-before-july-4-holiday/ar-AA1HImw7
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/should-illegal-migrants-get-legal-status-views-shifted-in-past-year-poll-finds/ar-AA1HyBGz?ocid=a2hs%252Ca2hs
NEWSMAX
— Gen Z Drives Sharp Decline in American Pride. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-drives-decline-american-pride-poll-2092705
CBS NEWS
— Hundreds of National Guard forces deployed to L.A. by Trump could be sent to wildfire duty
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/some-national-guard-trump-los-angeles-wildfire-duty/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Musk Promises a New Political Party if Republicans Pass Trump’s Policy Bill
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-bill-republicans.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-class-action-lawsuits.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/opinion/pornography-restrictions-free-speech-obscenity.html
WASHINGTON POST
— In 24-hour span, two in GOP who split with Trump say they won’t seek reelection. The decisions by Rep. Don Bacon and Sen. Thom Tillis illustrate how dissenting voices have little room in the GOP and complicate the party’s path to holding its majorities in the midterms. My critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party are ever-increasingly furious a) that I continue to run for Republican Precinct Committeeman and b) that I continue to send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/30/bacon-tillis-trump-republicans-retire/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-30/california-republicans-tell-trump-ice-raids-should-focus-on-criminals-not-ordinary-workers
USA TODAY
— Trump’s tariffs have businesses moving production to US soil. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights because his employers moved to Mexico.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/29/businesses-reshore-production-trumps-tariffs/84284982007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/30/trump-dei-rollback-slowdown/84421308007/
— My critics/opponents have always stressed that I did not get any internships. In my defense, I had to work my way through college. I could and I did work full-time for the Park Forest Post Office during the summers of 1967, 1968, and 1969. In today’s dollars, my salary was $19.37/hour in 1967, $20.02/hour in 1968, and $20.67/hour in 1969.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/06/24/students-engaged-benefit-internships-hr/84321756007/
NILEPOST NEWS
— Trump Says Musk Would Go Broke Without U.S. Subsidies. My critic/opponents stress that I get a Civil Service Retirement System pension and that my wife and I get a 72% federal health insurance subsidy. In my defense, I had to work my way through college. Further, I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years to get the aforesaid. I should write my critics/opponents. Their parents had lots of money. They bought them cars. They paid for their college expenses. They got them good jobs.
https://nilepost.co.ug/news/268933/trump-says-elon-musk-would-go-broke-without-u-s-subsidies
JD SUPRA
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/e-verify-trends-evolving-employer-3947188/
AXIOS
— Musk blasts Trump’s bill and calls for new political party
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/musk-trump-big-beautiful-bill-new-political-party
FINANCIAL TIMES
— Trump suggests US government review subsidies to Elon Musk’s companies
https://www.ft.com/content/2591f830-d707-499e-a1ae-36eaf6ebc6ca
INDEPENDENT
— Democrat Pride in America is declining. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/america-pride-decline-gallup-poll-b2779980.html
— Trump threatened tough punishment for employers who hired migrant workers. So far only a handful have faced the wrath. All my employers would have hired illegals if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that. Their parents had lots of money, bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, got them good jobs, etc.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/trump-threatened-tough-punishment-for-employers-who-hired-migrant-workers-so-far-only-a-handful-have-faced-the-wrath/ar-AA1HInFV
SKY NEWS
— Democrats ‘brainwashed’ into hating US through critical race theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-VlJxkdU0k
June 29, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/29/pride-month-protest-history-chicago/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting faith leaders to promote the anti-religious Democrat Party platform.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/29/opinion-immigration-raids-donald-trump-civil-rights/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/28/jb-pritzker-president-trump-thick-references-rich-miller-re-election-address
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/06/28/berwyn-pride-walk-celebrates-neighborhood-diversity
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/equity/dei-will-remain-relevant-demographics-change-opinion
ABC7
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-ruling-whats-14th-amendment-guarantee-scotus-limits-nationwide-injunctions/16865677/
NBC5
— Elon Musk rips into ‘utterly insane’ Trump-backed megabill. Musk’s earlier comments led to the deterioration of his relationship with the president.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/elon-musk-rips-into-utterly-insane-trump-backed-megabill/3778480/
— GE Appliances moves washing machine production from China to Kentucky with $490 million investment. What percent of what you own was made in China or other foreign countries?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/ge-appliances-washing-machine-production-china-kentucky/3778408/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-pride-parade-2025-route-map-time/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/justice-journey-bus-tour-launches-from-chicago-defend-immigrant-rights
SATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/stop-billionaire-bus-tour-illinois/
QUAD CITY TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://qctimes.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_2ffc57ee-6dc4-50bc-8218-31ddcf0b8e12.html
SOUTHERN
— Republicans aim to tie Democrats to Zohran Mamdani after primary upset
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/28/republicans-aim-to-tie-democrats-to-zohran-mamdani-after-primary-upset/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/28/252223/
WJBC
— Trump Admin Streamlines Process to Fine Illegal Aliens
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/06/28/trump-admin-streamlines-process-to-fine-illegal-aliens/
FOX59
— New law sets up commission to review Indiana-Illinois boundary
https://fox59.com/indiana-news/new-law-sets-up-commission-to-review-indiana-illinois-boundary/
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick announced his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in February. Mendrick told The Center Square that Pritzker’s policies have gone too far.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/gop-challenger-speaks-as-il-governor-maintains-focus-on-washington/article_b98eec7d-144a-4fd7-ba0d-e6219053d7fa.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrat Anguish Will Only Get Worse
https://johnkassnews.com/democrat-anguish-will-only-get-worse/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. That is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time with those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write about the success that Democrat leaders have had doing that in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you have to work your way through college? I did. That harmed my GPA. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my having to work my way through college against me the most. They 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, and d) that no Ivy League University would have accepted me. I would focus on my critics/opponents whose parents had lots of money, who bought them cars, who paid for their college expenses, and who got them jobs. Instead of studying, I worked far too many hours a) washing dishes during my junior and senior years in high school and b) delivering mail while to took classes at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU in 1969. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I ever-increasingly complained about their use of Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, the veterans preference, and budget cuts to get rid of their Republican employees. When I was 40 years old in 1988, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed the aforesaid. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have used the aforesaid against me the most. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— There are very few Black CPAs. To keep my Black CPA subordinate from leaving GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave him my job and my preferred corner office when I was 49 years old in 1997. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He was not a licensed CPA like I was. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Vallas: Illinois returning to soft bigotry of low expectations. Illinois students are not learning, but instead of boosting the quality of education state leaders are trying to lower standards so scores don’t look as bad. Blame it on the Chicago Teachers Union and other teachers unions pushing for less accountability.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-illinois-returning-to-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illegal immigrants have no right to choose which country they are deported to. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally, is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3452694/illegal-immigrant-deportation-no-right-choose-country/
NEW YORK POST
— Why it’s time to make America think again — as international students outperform Americans. Do parents of foreign students do more to help their children succeed?
https://nypost.com/2025/06/28/opinion/why-its-time-to-make-america-think-again/
— JD Vance has blistering response for Catholic bishops who criticized ICE raids in churches: ‘Worried about their bottom line’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jd-vance-has-blistering-response-for-catholic-bishops-who-criticized-ice-raids-in-churches-worried-about-their-bottom-line/ar-AA1xTyl5
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— 160 Dems oppose House bill to deport illegal aliens convicted of DUI
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/28/160-dems-oppose-house-bill-to-deport-illegal-aliens-convicted-of-dui-1554846/
COLLEGE FIX
— New ‘Queer Studies’ certificate at Illinois State University aims to ‘reconfigure’ social norms. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/new-queer-studies-certificate-at-illinois-state-u-aims-to-reconfigure-social-norms/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago braces for deadly July 4 weekend.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-braces-deadly-july-4-weekend-fox-news-analyst-takes-action-brothers-unsolved-murder
— Trump threatens to support a primary challenger against GOP senator. In 2000, my critics/opponents succeeded in getting a registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman, but not since.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-threatens-support-primary-challenger-against-gop-senator-opposing-big-beautiful-bill
— Group launches tip line for DOD employees to report DEI, ‘woke’ overreach. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I ever-increasingly complained about their use of Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, the veterans preference, and budget cuts to get rid of their Republican employees. When I was 40 years old in 1988, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed the aforesaid. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have used the aforesaid against me the most. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-group-launches-tip-line-115153511.html
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— The LA Riots and the Left’s Treason. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, Democrats will riot in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/the-la-riots-and-the-lefts-treason/amp/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— DHS and DOJ Team Up, Make Overhaul That Illegal Aliens Will Absolutely Hate. If there were as many citizens of foreign countries in America when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs and college admissions that I got. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college. Their parents bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them jobs.
https://www.westernjournal.com/dhs-doj-team-make-overhaul-illegal-aliens-will-absolutely-hate/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— National Association Of Black Accountants Convention Struggled With Sponsors Amid DEI Pushback. There are very few Black CPAs. To keep my Black CPA subordinate from leaving GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave him my job and my preferred corner office when I was 49 years old in 1997. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He was not a licensed CPA like I was.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/national-association-of-black-accountants-convention-struggled-with-sponsors-amid-dei-pushback/ar-AA1Hqyf4
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/trump-cuts-lgbtq-funding.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/nyc-pride-parade-march.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/gay-lesbian-trans-rights.html
— What Every Buyer Should Know About Home Inspections. A thorough home inspection can be the difference between a great deal and a terrible one. Here are the questions any home buyer should ask. Do not buy real estate unless the seller agrees to pay for any needed heating and cooling equipment repairs for at least a year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/realestate/home-inspection-guide.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/opinion/los-angeles-protests-raids-ice.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/trump-iran-protests-mamdani.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/06/29/iran-immigration-arrests-us-trump-deportations/f3a7c9c0-549d-11f0-baaa-ba1025f321a8_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/26/baby-boom-aging-population-immigration/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2025/05/05/francis-conclave-cardinals-catholic-demographics-global/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/29/lgbtq-pride-nyc-san-francisco-parade-protest/a8807b36-549d-11f0-baaa-ba1025f321a8_story.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-14/immigration-demographic-change-california-asian-latino
LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly unite Hispanics and Asians against Republicans
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/06/28/an-attack-on-us-asian-american-leaders-condemn-ice-raids-and-urge-solidarity-with-latinos/
USA TODAY
–Ever-increasingly, antisemites demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://www.aol.com/protests-erupt-calling-trump-u-194721923.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/28/iran-nuke-airstrikes-trump-obliterate/84389392007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/27/undocumented-immigrants-massive-fines-trump-rule/84390565007/
SAN FRENCISCO CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ and illegal immigration.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/drag-performer-detained-ice-20399122.php
BALTIMORE SUN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that manufacturing jobs are bad jobs that Americans refuse to take.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/06/28/how-demographics-major-spending-cuts-threaten-trumps-hope-of-manufacturing-revival/
FORBES
— DeSantis Unveils New Higher Ed Accrediting Agency As Alternative To ‘Woke Accreditation Cartels’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxfRXtXsG_o
BUSINESS STANDARD
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America.
https://www.tbsnews.net/world/immigrants-scramble-clarity-after-us-supreme-court-birthright-ruling-1176016
NPR
— America is Changing Lanes on EVs. Outstandingly, Illinois approved my application for a $4,000 rebate for my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona Plus EV.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/29/1254999546/america-is-changing-lanes-on-evs
GOOGLE AI
— Working Your Way Through College. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my having to work my way through college against me the most. They stress a) that my ACT score was only 24, b) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class, c) that I got no scholarships, and d) that no Ivy League University would have accepted me. I would focus on my critics/opponents whose parents had lots of money, who bought them cars, who paid for their college expenses, and who got them jobs.
https://www.google.com/search?q=working+your+way+through+college
BEST COLLEGES
— Changing Demographics Will Impact Higher Education for Years. Under the Democrats, a) fewer and fewer and fewer young people who have demographics that vote for Republicans will seek college degrees and b) more and more and more young people who have demographics that vote for Democrats will seek college degrees. Under the Democrats, more and more and more college students will be liberal/moderate, minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/changing-demographics-will-impact-higher-education-for-years/
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://stateline.org/2024/09/27/changing-demographics-and-the-political-calculus-of-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-in-swing-states/
PEW RESEARCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/03/the-changing-face-of-congress-in-7-charts/
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/the-changing-demographic-composition-of-voters-and-party-coalitions/
PSY POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.psypost.org/white-americans-do-not-feel-threatened-by-demographic-change-new-study-finds/
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-release/new-research-reveals-changing-demographics-foreign-born-voters-and-younger-voters-swing-2/
MCKINSEY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/dependency-and-depopulation-confronting-the-consequences-of-a-new-demographic-reality
TELEGRAPH
— Liberal leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for conservatives with those who have demographics that vote for liberals.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/15/demographics-politics-transformation-stats/
INDEPENDENT
— Trump Tower is throwing a Pride month party for LGBTQ+ Republicans despite White House dodging events
https://www.aol.com/trump-tower-throwing-pride-month-014441655.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/pride-funding-trump-dei-sponsorship-b2779029.html
HR MAGAZINE
— Changing demographics will shape work/life integration. As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, fewer and fewer and fewer of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates shared my demographics, that is, fewer and fewer and fewer of them were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been America for a long time. Similarly, since I have served as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, fewer and fewer and fewer of those involved in Republican politics around me share my demographics.
https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/comment/changing-demographics-will-shape-worklife-integration/
SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE
— Ever-increasingly, unions promote socialism and the rest of the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.socialistalternative.org/2025/06/28/union-members-against-ice-meeting/
June 24, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/chicago-protest-israel-iran-war/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/us-iran-israel-nuclear-sites-strike/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/ctu-president-rebukes-president-trump/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/24/opinion-northwestern-university-michael-schill/
— Rahm versus JB in a presidential primary? Bring it on. Big reasons to not support candidates in primary elections include that if the candidates that you support lose primary elections and/or if the candidates who win primary elections lose general elections, far too often, the losing candidates and the following will blame you for their loses: their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers. I should write about the aforesaid. I would cite Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/24/rahm-emanuel-jb-pritzker-presidential/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— My critics/opponents are ever-increasingly furious that I have the time, money, experience, ability, and motivation to put together and to send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. They ever-increasingly a) discourage me from sending out the newsletters and b) discourage everyone from reading them. 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.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/support-cst?tpcc=FY25-FYE-Email-PrintSub-
NBC5
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-iran-israel-nato-june-23-2025-live-updates/3773825/
FOX32
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/supreme-court-trump-deportations-third-countries
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1663366
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljYUYQMEH_o
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/06/23/advocates-say-really-vulnerable-lives-stake-trump-administration-moves-shutter-lgbtq
WGLT
— McLean County Democrats fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-06-23/rally-crowd-opposes-federal-immigration-crackdown-after-ice-arrest-at-mclean-county-courthouse
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump and his political operation target their first GOP incumbent: Kentucky’s Thomas Massie. My critics/opponents succeeded in getting a Republican voter in my precinct to run against me for Precinct Committeeman in 2000. But they have failed to do that since then. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who I have done the most to help elect and to reelect.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-and-his-political-operation-target-their-first-gop-incumbent-kentuckys-thomas-massie/
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TV
— DuPage Republicans looking to increase vote-by-mail participation
https://www.nctv17.org/news/dupage-republicans-looking-to-increase-vote-by-mail-participation/
WHEATON PATCH
— $1 Million In Grants Awarded By DuPage Foundation Includes New Seed Grants
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/1-million-grants-awarded-dupage-foundation-includes-new-seed-grants
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/1-million-in-grants-awarded-by-dupage-foundation-includes-new-seed-grants/ar-AA1HgH3A
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-538/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DOUG IBENDAHL
— The Illinois GOP’s last chance to head-off its next embarrassing election disaster
https://dougelstonibendahl.substack.com/p/the-illinois-gops-last-chance-to
JEFF BERKOWITZ
— Pritzker to announce his Gov re-election bid this Thursday. Can Wirepoints’ Pres Ted Dabrowski be far behind in his bid to beat the Pres wannabe in IL’s Gov race on Nov 3, 2026?
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/jb-pritzker-to-announce-his-gov-re
WIREPOINTS
— What New York City’s near-bankruptcy can teach Chicagoans
https://wirepoints.org/what-nycs-near-bankruptcy-can-teach-chicagoans-attend-drop-dead-city-documentary-screening-on-july-1/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— The Significance of Trump’s Actions in Iran
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/06/opinion-the-significance-of-trumps-actions-in-iran.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump expresses frustration toward Iran and Israel following post-ceasefire attacks
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/24/donald-trump-expresses-frustration-toward-iran-israel-following-post/
BREITBART
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/06/23/glaude-trumps-deportations-part-of-the-great-replacement-theory/
— Anti-Israel Activist Mahmoud Khalil Leads ‘Free Palestine!’ Chant in NYC After Release from ICE Custody. What percent of those who come to America do so to promote their motherland, their religion, their race, their gender, their sexual orientation, their etc.? What percent come to America to destroy America?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/23/watch-anti-israel-activist-mahmoud-khalil-leads-free-palestine-chant-in-nyc-after-release-from-ice-custody/
— Democrats Rely on Paid Activists to Create Fear About Rural Hospitals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/23/democrats-rely-on-radical-groups-paid-activists-to-create-fear-about-rural-hospitals/amp/
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/06/23/exclusive-rnc-chair-michael-whatley-on-u-s-strikes-on-iran-nuclear-sites-democrats-engaging-in-theater-trump-a-man-of-his-word-once-again/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/23/poll-majority-say-democrats-should-take-wait-and-see-attitude-toward-trumps-actions/
DAILY CALLER
— Democrats Who Backed Obama’s Unilateral Bombings Now Have Problem With Trump’s Iran Strike
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/23/nancy-pelosi-ed-markey-democrats-donald-trump-iran-strikes-barack-obama/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— DHS Awards Second Border Wall Contract to Restart Construction in Arizona. The next Democrat or RINO President will again flood America with their illegals.
https://www.fairus.org/news/executive/27-mile-border-wall-contract-restart-construction-tuscon-arizona
NEW AMERICAN
— Biden Released Almost 1,300 Iranians Into U.S.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/homan-biden-released-almost-1300-iranians-into-u-s-trump-lets-bomb-iran/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Black Lives Matter Organization Spends Juneteenth Demanding White People ‘Pay Reparations.’ Democrat and RINO leaders want Republicans who are the following to pay reparations: conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-lives-matter-organization-spends-juneteenth-demanding-white-people-pay-reparations/ar-AA1H7Caa
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump rebukes Israel and Iran hours after ceasefire
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-conflict-us-trump-06-24-25-intl-hnk
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/analysis-trump-iran-strikes-middle-east-ceasefire
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-trump-ceasefire-attacks-continue-f1e60190722cc3410b69f21717872ffa
REUTERS
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/big-questions-loom-over-trumps-announcement-israel-iran-ceasefire-deal-2025-06-24/
MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDyat4dOUvc
MSN
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasing destroy Republicans, and especially Republicans who share Trump’s demographics. Republicans should ever-increasingly prepare for that. To help keep my Post Office job, I took business courses at UIC and NIU. To help keep my IRS job, a) I took business courses at Loyola and earned an MBA, b) I took accounting courses at DePaul, and c) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. To help keep my GAO job, a) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, b) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, c) I became a licensed CPA, d) I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, and e) I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/rock-singer-ripped-after-banning-trump-fans-from-his-shows-your-band-is-doomed-now/ar-AA1GWpps
AOL
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-says-farmers-being-hurt-194412793.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Israel and Iran Agree to Cease-Fire Announced By Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/world/ceasefire-iran-israel-trump
— Democrat and RINO leaders say that Trump got the fight that he wanted in LA and ask if It turned out the way he expected.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/magazine/trump-los-angeles-immigration.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/style/trump-lgbtq-gay-maga.html
— Trump Lashes Out at Israel and Iran as Fragile Truce Is Tested
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/world/ceasefire-iran-israel-trump
USA TODAY
— Those who have demographics that vote for Democrats ever-increasing blame their problems on those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/24/liberal-conservative-mental-health-gap/84285127007/
DAILY ORANGE
— To get more votes from minorities, females, and younger people, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Whites, men, and older people.
https://dailyorange.com/2025/06/opinion-u-s-interference-is-white-supremacy-disguised-as-favors/
WOAI
— Democrats Hope To Turn Every Illegal Trump Doesn’t Deport Into A Voter
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2025-06-20-democrats-hope-to-turn-every-illegal-trump-doesnt-deport-into-a-voter/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: $30 Minimum Wage Has L.A. Hotel Owners in Revolt. In today’s dollars my IRS salary was $26.85/hour in 1971. To get that job, I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination earned a bachelor’s degree in manage from NIU in 1970. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $32.84/hour in 1972. By then, I had completed three graduate evening business courses at Loyola.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/los-angeles-hotel-minimum-wage-a1fa6871
— FRONT PAGE: A New Meatpacking Plant’s Novel Pitch to Attract American Workers. To promote more mass/illegal immigration, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at Americans that with more foreigners in America, Americans should no longer have to take bad jobs. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take.
https://www.wsj.com/business/meatpacking-american-workers-immigration-d6bdd47a
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing students who are White and/or male with students who are minority and/or female.
https://www.epi.org/blog/public-colleges-are-more-diverse-than-ever-but-anti-dei-policies-threaten-that-progress/
HARVARD CRIMSON
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give foreign students more preference over American students.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/24/preliminary-injunction-trump-proclamation/
DAILY BEAST
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-announces-complete-and-total-israel-iran-ceasefire/
HIFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.aol.com/trumps-total-disregard-juneteenth-underscores-213906390.html
MINDING THE CAMPUS
— To get more votes from minorities, females, and younger people, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Whites, men, and older people.
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/06/23/all-men-are-created-equal-but-they-are-not-equal-in-any-other-way/
PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.pbs.org/video/trump-administration-to-shut-down-suicide-helpline-for-lgbtq-youth-fdgj0h/
SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA
— Democrats ‘furious’ Donald Trump took out Iran’s nuclear capabilities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVAltNoOvA
June 12, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protests-thursday-more-anti-ice-demonstrations-expected-immigration-advocates-say-saturday-no-kings-day/16730892/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-news-governos-testify-washington-dc-front-house-oversight-committee-sanctuary-law/16730373/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/protesters-demand-removal-of-ice-from-illinois-in-chicago-march/3767050/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/jb-pritzker-dares-tom-homan-arrest-trump-immigration/3766708/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/protests-planned-in-chicago-several-suburbs-as-part-of-nationwide-demonstrations/3767006/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-testifies-congress-illinois-sanctuary-laws-immigration/
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch-pritzker-says-he-wants-violent-undocumented-criminals-out-of-state-insists-on-following-law/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-protest-today-ice-tactical-units-stand-down/
FOX32
— LaHood blasts Pritzker over migrant crime in Illinois, says sanctuary policies are ‘government malpractice’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1657239
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1657272
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/immigrant-groups-raise-alarm-ice-chicago
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pritzker-testifies-live-congress-sanctuary-law
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1657028
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1657259
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1657285
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h-hY4XZBFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPKZ_rC_4n8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBmiaeJf_Gg
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/more-ice-protests-expected-thursday-in-chicago/
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/pritzker-house-committee-hearing-testimony-sanctuary-immigration/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://news.wttw.com/2025/06/12/gov-jb-pritzker-defends-protections-undocumented-immigrants-congress-urges-gop-fix
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/06/12/jb-pritzker-house-oversight-committee-testimony-trust-act-sanctuary-state-donald-trump
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://wgnradio.com/news/pritzker-defends-illinois-sanctuary-laws-blasts-trump-administration-abuses-of-power/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/12/chicago-protest-trump-ice-immigration-arrests/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/12/pritzker-house-hearing-immigration/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/12/afternoon-briefing-pritzker-at-house-hearing-slams-trumps-national-guard-moves-in-la/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/12/protests-chicago-los-angeles-immigration/
— Democrat leaders use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/12/naperville-juneteenth-rotary-white-diversity/
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/12/a-flash-of-national-politics-appears-during-lake-county-board-meeting-members-debate-dei/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/live/2025/06/12/protests-chicago-police-trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/06/12/jb-pritzker-house-oversight-committee-testimony-trust-act-sanctuary-state-donald-trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/12/donald-trump-250th-anniversary-parade-washington-no-kings-day-protests
— U.S. House narrowly approves President Trump’s request to cut public media funding. The proposal was approved by a 214-212 vote, only after Speaker Mike Johnson wrangled more Republican support. All three Republican members of Illinois’ congressional delegation voted to support the package.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/06/12/congress-vote-today-npr-pbs-funding
— Chicago Tribune offering newsroom buyouts. The Democrats who ran GAO on the 1990s used Gingrich budget cuts and buyouts and early outs to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. On October 1, 1993, when I was 45 years old and had 25 years of federal service, to get rid of me, they “offered” me a $25,000 buyout and early retirement. But I survived another 4 years. The following helped me survive: a) I became a Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, b) I became a Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, c) I became a Forensic Accountant in 1997, and d) I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2025/06/12/chicago-tribune-newsroom-buyouts
— Trump’s low tolerance for dissent. My Democrat superiors in the federal government did not tolerate my opposition to their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/12/donald-trump-threats-immigration-protests-gavin-newsom-israel-univserities-elon-musk-jacob-sullum
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250612/nation-and-world-politics/protests-over-immigration-raids-continue-across-the-us-with-more-planned/
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250612/illinois-state-politics/gov-pritzker-testifies-to-congress-on-immigration-policy/
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250612/nation-and-world/gov-abbott-deploys-over-5000-texas-national-guard-troops-ahead-of-planned-no-kings-protests-2/
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250612/nation-and-world-politics/trump-white-house-opens-door-to-historic-military-deployment-on-u-s-soil/
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250612/nation-and-world-politics/trump-administrations-use-of-troops-to-help-with-immigration-raids-faces-test-in-court/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-defends-illinois-sanctuary-law-congress-hearing
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/12/illinois-gov-pritzker-takes-aim-at-trump-administration-immigration-policies/84165058007/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/12/immigrant-rights-groups-say-ice-officers-ambush-noncitizens-in-courthouse-arrests-ask-judge-to-intervene/
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in the military.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-warren-democrats-lead-push-to-reverse-trump-and-hegseths-ban-on-transgender-servicemembers-83385.cfm?
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.mystateline.com/news/pritzker-defends-illinois-sanctuary-laws-blasts-trump-administration-abuses-of-power/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump signs measure to overturn California’s EV mandate
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-signs-measure-to-overturn-californias-ev-mandate/amp/
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wandtv.com/community/no-kings-rallies-planned-for-saturday-across-central-illinois/article_be8587ff-6563-4311-ae9b-e115d451bcb4.html
WCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wcia.com/illinois-capitol-news/pritzker-defends-illinois-immigration-laws-to-congressional-committee/
WJBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/06/12/pritzker-defends-illinois-immigration-laws-in-theatrical-congressional-hearing/
WGLT
— Democrat leaders continue to use Tulsa to promote hatred against Republicans
https://www.wglt.org/2025-06-12/tulsa-has-a-reparations-plan-104-years-after-race-massacre
WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/politics/illinois-politics/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-testimony-us-congress-thursday-sanctuary-state-policies/526-75551b7a-78fa-484d-b58e-4928cde0a199
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/pritzker-to-tell-congress-both-parties-are-to-blame-for-broken-immigration-system/
CAPITOL FAX
— ILGOP fundraises off Pritzker hearing quote
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/12/ilgop-fundraises-off-pritzker-hearing-quote/
— DuPage Republicans will launch pilot program to address vote by mail reluctance
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/12/dupage-republicans-will-launch-pilot-program-to-address-vote-by-mail-reluctance/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-325/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
— Pritzker Lies Through His Teeth, Defends Support of Illegals
https://illinois.gop/2025/06/
MILTON TOWNSHIP REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION
— Members of the MTRO had a great night tonight at the DuPage GOP summer kickoff fundraiser! Our very own Chuck Smith was honored with Committeeman of the year from Milton, for the hard work he and his wife put forth every election cycle.
https://www.facebook.com/MiltonRepublicans
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker says he’s willing to be arrested defending sanctuary policies
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7887ad18-6127-4c3c-821b-bc158abc94a4.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Treasonous laws’: GOP blasts sanctuary-state governors, votes to overturn D.C. law
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/12/treasonous-laws-gop-blasts-sanctuary-state-governors-votes-overturn/
— Left wing staging nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests to counter Trump’s military parade
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/12/left-wing-staging-nationwide-no-kings-protests-counter-trumps/
— Enforcing immigration law is not cruel or inhumane. Unchecked immigration fuels suffering on both sides of the border.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/12/enforcing-immigration-law-cruel-inhumane/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— House passes bill to end DC sanctuary city status and force immigration compliance
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3440094/house-passes-dc-federal-immigration-sanctuary-city-bill/
NEW YORK POST
— Pritzker hammered over resurfaced tweet urging public to use ‘other gender’s bathroom today’ in protest of Trump order
https://nypost.com/2025/06/12/us-news/illinois-gov-pritzker-hammered-over-resurfaced-tweet-urging-public-to-use-other-genders-bathroom-today-in-protest-of-trump-order/
— Democrats Newsom and Bass have destroyed America’s Golden State
https://nypost.com/2025/06/12/opinion/democrats-newsom-and-bass-have-destroyed-americas-golden-state/
FOX NEWS
— DOJ sues New York for sanctuary policy ‘undermining immigration enforcement’ AG Pam Bondi says ‘lawless sanctuary policies are driving the chaos we’re seeing in California right now’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-sues-new-york-sanctuary-policy-undermining-immigration-enforcement
NEWSMAX
— Puzzling That Dems Go All Out for Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/greg-steube-democrats-sanctuary-states/2025/06/12/id/1214707/
TOWNHALL
— Walz Refuses to Apologize After Calling ICE Agents ‘Donald Trump’s Modern-Day Gestapo’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/abigail-johnson/2025/06/12/waltz-facing-backlash-after-calling-ice-agents-gestapo-n2658690
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/la-protests-ice-raids-trump-06-12-25
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump
https://abcnews.go.com/US/immigrant-rights-groups-ice-officers-ambush-noncitizens-courthouse/story?id=122770040
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protests-immigration-raids-spread-across-us-a-look-at-many-sporadic-violence/
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-spar-democratic-governors-tense-immigration-hearing-rcna212324
WASHINGTON POST
— House votes to nullify D.C.’s ‘sanctuary city’ law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/12/dc-sanctuary-city-law-house-repeal/
SCRIPPS NEWS
— Majority of Senate Republicans tell Scripps News they will not attend Saturday’s military parade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7BVczeE_Gw
NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5431540/denounced-by-gop-lawmakers-blue-state-governors-defend-immigration-policies