FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against ICE
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-agents-spotted-church-rogers-park-chicago-gov-pritzker-speaks-national-guard-ruling-broadview-protests-continue/17994356/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against ICE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/trump-immigration-blitz-chicago-wards/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/chicago-marathon-immigration-illinois-pilsen/
— Residents cope with food deserts in Harvey, Chicago Heights, Richton Park and Park Forest. DD: I washed dishes in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. I chipped slag and pumped gasoline in Chicago Heights in 1966. I delivered mail in Park Forest 1966-1969. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances in Chicago Heights 1970-1971. I pumped gasoline in Chicago Heights 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes in Harvey 1972-1973. My father worked in Chicago Heights 1941-1969. I was born in Chicago Heights in 1948.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/food-deserts-harvey-chicago-heights-richton-park/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against ICE. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly equate their runaway slaves with their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/10/13/chicago-fugitive-slave-act-ice-fuentes-immigration-claudia-fegan-linda-rae-murray
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/13/poll-chicagoans-national-guard-policing-deportation-campaign-norc-university-of-chicago
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Springfield now faces the $2B question: How much to invest in mass transit’s future. DD: I used mass transit in 1971 and then 1973-1997. A major reason why my wife and I bought a home in Wheaton in 1978 and had one built in Wheaton in 1984 was their being in walking distance of Wheaton train stations.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/springfield-weighs-2b-fix-chicago-transit-system
STATELINE
— ‘National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk’ is Tuesday, October 14, 2025
https://www.mystateline.com/news/national-day-of-remembrance-for-charlie-kirk-is-this-week-what-to-know/
WHEATON PATCH
— 12 Wheaton Students Named Semifinalists For National Merit Scholarships. DD: Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. In my defense, during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966, I spent far too many hours washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights instead of studying. Consequently, my ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/12-wheaton-students-named-semifinalists-for-national-merit-scholarships/ar-AA1NirxA
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Appeals Court rejects Trump administration bid to lift TRO in Illinois’
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6cec4a79-4cac-42fa-b104-2943ffcddc4b.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Kash Patel severs FBI’s ties with James Comey-backed Anti–Defamation League after group ripped Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA
https://www.aol.com/news/kash-patel-severs-fbi-ties-205327655.html
— Biden admin weaponized DOJ to target Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA to put movement ‘out of business’
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-claims-biden-admin-weaponized-104731208.html
BREITBART
— Truckers Gain Wages as ICE Detains Highway Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/12/truckers-gain-wages-as-ice-detains-highway-illegals/
— DHS Reveals New York City Gave Indian Illegal Alien ‘No Name Given’ Commercial Driver’s License
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/12/dhs-reveals-new-york-city-gave-illegal-alien-no-name-given-drivers-license/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Biden DOJ Sought Direction From Leftist Group That Put Turning Point USA on a ‘Hate Map’ Shortly Before Charlie Kirk’s Assassination. However Bad You Think Biden’s DOJ Was, New Documents Show It Was Even Worse
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/12/biden-doj-sought-direction-splc-leftist-group-that-put-turning-point-usa-hate-map-shortly-before-charlie-kirks-assassination/
FOX NEWS
— Students are more motivated than ever to continue Charlie Kirk’s mission. DD: Who is leading TPUSA in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382659911112
— Harvard charging $13K for DEI certificate on ‘bias’ and ‘privilege’ Classes include ‘Understanding Race and Racism’ and ‘Power and Privilege in Systems’ DD: According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/harvard-charging-13k-dei-training-bias-privilege
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/harvard-launches-13k-dei-certificate-on-bias-and-privilege-is-it-a-valuable-career-move-or-an-overpriced-ideological-course/articleshow/124508068.cms
— Pope Leo says family based on ‘union between a man and a woman,’ defends dignity of unborn
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-leo-says-family-based-union-between-man-woman-defends-dignity-unborn
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Demented Democrats
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/demented-democrats-week-at-legal-insurrection/
NEWSMAX
— Tuesday, October 14: National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/charlie-kirk-national-day/2025/10/12/id/1230016/
— Trump Moves to Purge ‘Woke’ Ideology From Colleges. DD: All my critics/opponents are woke. To be woke is to blame your problems on those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/donald-trump-college-dei/2025/10/12/id/1230043/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— ‘National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk’ is Tuesday, October 14, 2025
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5527054-national-day-of-remembrance-for-charlie-kirk-is-this-week-what-to-know/
YAHOO
— Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois for being overweight
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-national-guard-troops-replaced-153000480.html
AOL
— Harvard Quietly Ends ‘Minority Recruitment Program’ Amid Battle With Trump Admin. DD: UIC accepted me when I was 18 in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992 because they could not find a qualified minority, female, and/or veteran to accept.
https://www.aol.com/articles/harvard-quietly-ends-minority-recruitment-175414037.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame conservatives for all the problems that those who are the following have: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/business/economy/black-unemployment-federal-layoffs-diversity-initiatives.html
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Kirk-hating Kirk-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/27/us/politics/charlie-kirk-debate.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly prefer international students over American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/06/upshot/us-international-student-travel.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/09/world/americas/drug-trafficking-venezuela.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: More People Feel the Strain Of a Shutdown. DD: How dependent on federal spending are those in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/government-shutdown-effects.html
USA TODAY
— How To Choose The Right College Major. DD: My biggest career mistake was not majoring in accounting from the beginning. I erroneously believed that because I was not strong in math, I could never pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate evening accounting courses until I was 27 in 1976. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession viewed me as being much too old. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.usatoday.com/press-release/story/16252/how-to-choose-the-right-college-major-student-career-decision-guide/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Assessment first: Use personality tests, skills evaluations, and values assessments to understand natural strengths before picking a major. Research reality: Look beyond salary figures to examine job market trends, daily responsibilities, and long-term career satisfaction rates in chosen fields. Timing matters: The 15-25 age window offers optimal decision-making opportunities before life circumstances make career changes more difficult. Avoid pressure: Don’t let parental expectations, peer choices, or social media influence override personal interests and natural abilities. Get expert help: Professional career advice can provide structured guidance to help students make confident decisions within weeks rather than years of trial and error.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What Is the One Trait That Makes for a Great Manager? DD: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who arranged my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986.
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/manager-strengths-rellocating-talent-f0add2da
— Giving Career Advice to Kids Has Never Been Harder. DD: Were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/career-advice-children-ai-148983e5
— DD: I owned a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T 1994-2005. I owned a 1969 Dodge Charger SE 1968-1971. I have owned my 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max since 2012. I have owned my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus since March of this year.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/the-texan-who-scored-a-1968-cincinnati-bengals-themed-dodge-charger-d1753412
MUST READ ALASKA
— Anchorage Republican Women’s Club Gives $1,000 to Turning Point USA
https://mustreadalaska.com/anchorage-republican-womens-club-gives-1000-to-turning-point-usa-uaa/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Government Accountability Office Issues Scathing Report on Army Readiness
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/government-accountability-office-issues-scathing-report-on-army-readiness/ar-AA1O5tBT
POLITICO
— Inside Uthmeier’s path to a critical Trump endorsement in Florida. DD: Of the candidates on the Republican primary ballot in your county, which ones are seeking Trump’s endorsement?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/12/uthmeier-florida-trump-endorsement-00603089
— The impending retirement that could rock Capitol Hill. The director of the Government Accountability office will step down in a few short months, leaving a void atop the agency that has found the White House guilty of violating congressional spending law. DD: GAO is just a shell of what it once was. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/17/gao-trump-impoundment-spending-00569967
FROM OTHER SOURCES
GOOGLE AI
— Good old days. DD: When were your good old days? Mine included 1971-1981 when a) I bought new cars in 1971, 1973, and 1978, b) IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) I bought real estate in 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1978, c) I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) I got married in 1978, e) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, f) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, g) I passed the Certified Internal Auditing examination on my first attempt in 1981, and h) I became a licensed CPA in 1981. They include 1986-1988 when a) GAO assigned me to audits of IRS and b) promoted me in 1986.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22good+old+days%22
Tag: discrimination
October 12, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/gov-jb-pritzker-national-guard-trump-levers-of-power/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/silverio-villegas-children-foster-care-idaho/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/ice-fears-chicago-school-districts/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/opinion-donald-trump-national-guard-chicago-free-speech/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/editorial-april-perry-ice-national-guard-justice-department/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Oak Park.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/oak-park-gender-affirming-care-discussion/
— Lapel pins awarded to honor area Vietnam era veterans. DD: I should write about those who have used against me my avoiding the Vietnam War draft the most. I would focus on my Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans. They blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/vietnam-war-brad-schneider-pins/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Duckworth, Durbin demand feds not use Chicago Harbor Lock on river as backdrop for social media videos
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/duckworth-durbin-demand-feds-not-use-chicago-harbor-lock-on-river-as-backdrop-for-social-media-videos
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly coverup their poverty and their crime in Chicago.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251011/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-a-celebration-of-chicago-the-disparagement-in-our-national-politics-of-our-ci/
EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— DD: Fundraising success indicates electability
https://www.theintelligencer.com/opinion/article/money-shouldnt-decide-illinois-senate-race-21090956.php
MILWAUKEE COURIER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint Derek Chauvin as being a typical conservative White male Republican.
https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2025/10/11/remembering-george-floyd-we-are-the-stewards-of-his-story/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to ‘reclaim’ the explorer’s legacy
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-11/trump-issues-a-columbus-day-proclamation-to-reclaim-the-explorers-legacy
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Newsom approves agency to administer slavery reparations. DD: Affirmative Action is reparations. To get even more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders promise Blacks even more reparations.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/3846786/newsom-approves-agency-administer-slavery-reparations/
NEW YORK POST
— Cornell MBA council warns ‘non-marginalized’ students to avoid minority recruiting events. DD: All my critics/opponents attribute all my successes in my life to my benefitting from marginalization of minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/cornell-mba-council-warns-non-marginalized-students-to-avoid-minority-recruiting-events-report/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Renowned chef who catered for George W Bush deported, stuns Texas town. DD: I have always helped elect in general elections candidates who won Republican primary elections. Far too often, those candidates were the lesser of two evils.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/10/renowned-chef-who-catered-for-george-w-bush-deported-stuns-texas-town-1591643/
BREITBART
— Gavin Newsom Signs Bill to Build Reparations Bureaucracy. DD: Affirmative Action is reparations. To get even more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders promise Blacks even more reparations.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/11/gavin-newsom-signs-bill-to-build-reparations-bureaucracy/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— Michigan State University opens $38 million ‘sanctuary’ for ‘minorities’ DD: Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have attributed my successes in my life to my benefitting from oppression of minorities and females. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. All the many minorities and females who were promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/michigan-state-u-opens-38-million-sanctuary-for-minorities/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The MSU Multicultural Center (MCC), guided by a student-developed mission, aims to provide a supportive space for students from historically oppressed backgrounds to learn, grow, and access the resources necessary to succeed and graduate from a predominantly white institution,” the room reservation page for the center states.)
FOX NEWS
— Atlantic article likens Charlie Kirk to George Floyd, sparking online fury
https://www.aol.com/news/atlantic-article-likens-charlie-kirk-151941835.html
NEWSMAX
— Trump Admin’s Immigration Raids Blamed for Potential Food Supply Crisis. DD: What percent of food industry workers are illegals? What percent of food industry jobs are bad jobs?
https://www.newsmax.com/us/immigration-migrants-farm-workers/2025/10/11/id/1229953/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Gingrich on Trump’s shutdown layoffs: ‘He’s willing to take the heat’ DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5551386-trump-gingrich-federal-layoffs/
AOL
— NFL Removing ‘End Racism’ Message From End Zones. DD: Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have attributed my successes in my life to my benefitting from discrimination against minorities and against females. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. All the many minorities and females who were promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/nfl-removing-end-racism-message-120600237.html
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-life-and-style/gay-harlem-renaissance-exhibit-new-york-historical-rcna236671
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-roslindale-restaurant-pride-flag-ripped-down/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “We’re in a Worse Place Than We Were Under Nixon.” DD: My Democrat Post Office superiors, my Democrat Firestone Store boss, and my Democrat IRS superiors who were veterans hated Nixon. They blamed Nixon for America losing the Vietnam War. They took their hatred against Nixon out against me. My Democrat Post Office superiors denied my sick leave requests and forced me to resign. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I gave him my 2-week notice. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers and my education deductions and never promoted me beyond GS-12. They were furious that I was a Republican and that I avoided the Vietnam War draft.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/opinion/letitia-james-donald-trump-nixon.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders say “Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration.” DD: All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. The aforesaid was true for my Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/black-leaders-trump.html
— 1 in 5 millennials, Gen Zers gifted down payment for home from their parents. DD: Where did the down payment for your first home come from? For me, back in the good old days when I was 24 in 1972, it came from what I had earned and saved a) working for IRS for 15 months and b) working part-time for Firestone Stores for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that. The money I earned and saved during that time also enabled me a) to buy a new 1972 Corvette in October of 1971 and b) pay for tuition and books for graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/realestate/parents-money-down-payment-home-buying.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump escalates his use of federal power to target Democratic states. Democrats see a pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly, while Trump has declared his intent to hurt liberal areas and policies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/12/trump-blue-states-target-red-states/
— DD: What percent of food industry workers are illegals? What percent of food industry jobs are bad jobs?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/11/immigration-crackdown-food-prices/
— DD:: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/10/ice-immigrants-protest-signs-dc/
— Trump is in ‘excellent’ health, White House says, amid questions about second exam. Outside physicians asked why the president was making a return trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, six months after undergoing medical tests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/11/trump-physical-doctor/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/11/lgbtq-queer-youtubers-national-coming-out-day/86569357007/
MIAMI HERALD
— Vance Responds to Joy Reid Calling Him ‘Mediocre’ DD: My critics/opponents have always stressed 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 never got any scholarships, d) that GPAs at UIC, NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT were not that great, and d) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great.
https://www.newsbreak.com/miami-herald-1592483/4287110141419-vance-responds-to-joy-reid-calling-him-mediocre
WSBTV
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Atlanta
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/thousands-attend-atlanta-pride-festival-piedmont-park-this-weekend/PZEZBVOW7VDHRA4C52KCZSJERE/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— DD: What decisions did you make that were career limiting? I spent far too many hours washing dishes while I was in high school instead of studying. I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I spent far too many hours delivering mail while I was earning my bachelor’s degree instead of studying. I should have majored in accounting. I did not become a Democrat. I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-recover-after-mistake-bad-decision-at-work-2021-9
INC.
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly prefer foreign employees over American employees.
https://www.inc.com/entrepreneurs-organization/why-your-workforce-strategy-must-go-global/91248906
U.S. CENSUS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that those who are the following have: minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/09/poverty-rates-for-blacks-and-hispanics-reached-historic-lows-in-2019.html
EQUITABLE GROWTH
— America’s job-quality crisis and how to revive workers’ pay, dignity, job advancement, and economic well-being. DD: According to my critics/opponents, a) all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and b) I was always grossly overpaid. In my defense, to qualify myself for better paying jobs, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree (management), b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), c) I earned six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and d) I earned a job-related professional license (CPA). Nevertheless, I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars. The fact that few qualified minorities and women wanted the federal jobs that I had proves that they were bad jobs. Qualified minorities and females could always get better jobs in the private sector.
https://equitablegrowth.org/americas-job-quality-crisis-and-how-to-revive-workers-pay-dignity-job-advancement-and-economic-well-being/
HUFFINGTON POST
— Don Lemon Flames Hegseth As ‘Not Qualified’ To Be Defense Secretary. DD: What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree (management) when I was 21. I earned three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance) when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting) when I was 30 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license (CPA) when I was 32. But by the time I earned the aforesaid, it was too late, I was views as being too old to have a successful career. That would not have been the case if I had been a minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.aol.com/articles/ex-cnn-host-flames-hegseth-214110998.html
October 10, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago federal judge temporarily blocks National Guard deployment in Illinois. Ruling in effect for 14 days.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/national-guard-chicago-area-thursday-federal-court-weigh-trumps-deployment-troops-protect-ice-officers-broadview/17970024/
NBC5
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/ruling-pausing-national-guard-deployment-draws-praise-from-illinois-officials/3836419/
WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/uic-students-protest-ice-detentions-after-viral-video-sparks-outrage/
FOX32
— Chicago immigration crackdown forces Argentina, Puerto Rico soccer match to relocate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em_nCqD86ZI
WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/09/planned-parenthood-illinois-ceo-future-reproductive-care-amid-federal-threats
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: What helped you avoid leftist indoctrination? My parents sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. My college majors were business, accounting, and finance.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/10/06/academic-neutrality-critical-thinking-texas-a-m-university-melissa-mccoul-akash-belsare
DAILY HERALD
— Scholarship brunch supports Latinx students at Elgin Community College. DD: My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me. They hint/imply/argue/shout that proves that I am stupid and/or that my parents were filthy rich.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251006/submitted-content/scholarship-brunch-supports-latinx-students-at-elgin-community-college/
WJBC
— Black Chicagoans Welcome ICE, National Guard Presence
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/10/09/report-black-chicagoans-welcome-ice-national-guard-presence/
CHALKBEAT
— DD: Democrat leaders do everything that they can to flood America with citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/10/09/chicago-mayor-has-not-appointed-noncitizen-advisory-board/
WHEATON PATCH
— DuPage Clerk Seeks Restraining Order; Says Over $230K Owed To Election Vendors. DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek is seeking a temporary restraining order for DuPage County to pay two election vendors.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/dupage-clerk-seeks-restraining-order-says-over-230k-owed-election-vendors
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-609/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you say to those who harm those who help them. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22harm+those+who+help+you%22 I should write about those who I have helped the most, but who then have harmed me the most. I would focus on Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000.
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Chicago anti-ICE chaos only proves why National Guard is needed, Windy City Dem says
https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/us-news/chicago-anti-ice-chaos-proves-national-guard-is-needed-alderman-raymond-lopez/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Left’s multicultural conquest
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/the_left_s_multicultural_conquest.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Black Chicagoans Welcome ICE and Military Protectors
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/09/black-chicagoans-welcome-ice-military-protectors/
BLAZE
— Turning Point USA to offer ‘All American Halftime Show’ alternative to NFL’s woke Super Bowl spectacle
https://www.theblaze.com/news/turning-point-usa-to-offer-all-american-halftime-show-as-alternative-to-nfls-deviant-super-bowl-spectacular
CAMPUS REFORM
— Harvard Sells DEI certificate for $14k
https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvard-sells-dei-certificate-14k/28748
COLLEGE FIX
— University of Minnesota hosts ‘Trans and Queer Strength group’ led by ‘certified queer personal trainer’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/uminn-hosts-trans-and-queer-strength-group-led-by-certified-queer-personal-trainer/
DAILY CALLER
— As Pritzker Tees Up Presidential Run, Time For A Look At His Real Record
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/07/opinion-as-pritzker-tees-up-presidential-run-time-for-a-look-at-his-real-record-diana-rickert/
DAILY WIRE
— Social Justice Warriors Shouldn’t Control West Point. The military’s biggest problem isn’t meeting diversity quotas; it’s restoring a warrior ethos to military culture.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-justice-warriors-shouldnt-control-west-point
FOX NEWS
— Trump could make non-essential federal workers permanently non-essential. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having been a grossly overpaid non-essential federal employee. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6381623165112
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Chicago Mayor Won’t Answer if He’d Want Illegal Alien Who’d Raped, Beaten His Wife Deported
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/chicago-mayor-wont-answer-if-hed-want-illegal-alien-whod-raped-beaten-his-wife-deported/
MERCURY
— Tolerance of violence in US cities is stoking insurrection
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-mercury-south-africa/20251009/281535117187362
NEWSMAX
— Black Chicagoans Welcome ICE, National Guard Presence
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chicago-ice-national-guard/2025/10/09/id/1229739/
— Democrats Should Support Americans, Not Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/sean-duffy-government-shutdown/2025/10/09/id/1229755/
REAL CLEAR POLICY
— Illegal Immigrants Access Public Health Benefits
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/10/09/of_course_illegal_immigrants_access_public_health_benefits_1139906.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday said he would fire air traffic controllers who are skipping work because of the government shutdown.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5547946-duffy-threatens-fire-air-traffic-controllers-skip-work-shutdown/amp/
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/newfest-new-york-lgbtq-film-festival-rcna236232
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Blue states ever-increasingly reject federal law.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/national-guard-governors.html
— DD: Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less protected that you are: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. That is because Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that those who are aforesaid discriminate against those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, non-American, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, poor, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/opinion/anthony-kennedy-supreme-court.html
— How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests and forced me to resign. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers, disallowed my education deductions, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and forced 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, or veteran.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/07/us/politics/trump-enemies-justice-department-investigations.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Urban Crime Spike Is Real. A national victimization survey confirms Trump’s claim that U.S. cities have grown more dangerous.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-urban-crime-spike-is-real-555b7410
— Democrats Keep Shoveling Money at ObamaCare. It wasn’t supposed to cost hundreds of billions of tax dollars a year to make healthcare ‘affordable.’
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-keep-shoveling-money-at-obamacare-936c25f2
— Federal Workers and Troops to Miss Paychecks Soon. Here’s What to Know. Government shutdown means employees won’t get paid until standoff is resolved.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/government-shutdown-federal-employee-military-pay-72a842d1?mod=Searchresults&pos=1&page=1
PBS
— DD: What do your critics/opponents attribute your successes to? Mine attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against minorities, females, younger people, veterans, LGBTQers, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been not been in America for a long time. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/pope-leo-condemns-economies-that-marginalize-the-poor-while-the-wealthy-live-in-a-bubble-of-luxury
October 7, 2025
WHITE HOUSE
— Chicago Mayor’s “ICE-Free Zones” Shield Violent Criminal Illegals, Abandon Citizens
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/chicago-mayors-ice-free-zones-shield-violent-criminal-illegals-abandon-citizens/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois National Guard to patrol Chicago area, as troops depart from Texas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-national-guard-patrol-chicago-area-troops-depart-texas-trump-threatens-use-insurrection-act/17956187/
— Tracking surge in immigration enforcement operations
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-federal-intervention-latest-president-trumps-immigration-enforcement-possible-national-guard-deployment-live-updates/17758521/
— Trump threatens use of Insurrection Act
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-pritzker-address-trumps-effort-deploy-national-guard-illinois-pentagon-authorizes-chicago-mission/17949147/
WGN9
— Federal troops headed to Illinois as lawsuit against Trump administration seeks to halt deployment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmZOxBw6k7g
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago gang member solicited murder of Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/chicago-gang-member-solicited-murder-bovino/
— ‘Our people hire our people’: Long before DOJ probe into Mayor Brandon Johnson, racial politics coursed through City Hall hiring. DD: 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.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/mayor-brandon-johnson-racial-politics-city-hall-hiring/
— Chicago can’t shrug off the unease random attacks create
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/editorial-chicago-random-attacks-women-mental-health/
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight assimilation. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Their slow assimilation held them back. All my grandparents spoke German. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/cps-hispanic-heritage-month/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. I never became a Democrat even though I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees. Democrat efforts to make me a Democrat were frustrated my majoring in management, business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251007/syndicated-columnists/trumps-latest-invitation-to-universities/
— DD: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251006/news/cold-comfort-new-cooler-freezer-help-palatine-food-pantry-fight-food-insecurity/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Illinois diversity commission’s budget ballooning but results lag. DD: Democrats and RINOs use diversity to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_05a70ee4-5c31-4ac2-a881-96f4f779be65.html
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— 27 Police Officers Among Those Injured By Tear Gas During Weekend Protest, Chicago’s Top Cop Says. Police Supt. Larry Snelling also disputed the claim pushed by federal officials that Chicago police ignored calls for help during a chaotic scene Saturday afternoon in Brighton Park.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/06/27-police-officers-among-those-injured-by-tear-gas-during-weekend-protest-chicagos-top-cop-says/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-606/
— Selected press releases. DD: It would be great if Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois would include diersen@aol.com on their press release lists and their press advisory lists.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/07/selected-press-releases-live-updates-308/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Ugaste Previews Fall Veto Session
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/07/ugaste-previews-fall-veto-session/
— Press Release about Chicago ICE Arrests
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/press-release-about-chicago-ice-arrests/
— Can One Believe One’s Lying Eyes, Officers under Attack? Did or Didn’t Chicago Police Refuse to Assist Ice
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/can-one-believe-ones-lying-eyes/
— Fox River Grove Planning To Cut Electric Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/fox-river-grove-planning-to-cut-electric-tax/
— Homeland Security Claims Pritzker Is Lying
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/homeland-security-claims-pritzker-is-lying/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illinois Democrats escalate confrontation with Trump’s ICE sweeps, National Guard deployments
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/6/illinois-sues-stop-trump-sending-national-guard/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Campuses Brace for Pro-Hamas Protests on Anniversary of Oct. 7
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/campuses-brace-for-pro-hamas-protests
AMAC
— Rotten Core of Public Education on Full Display With Illegal Alien Superintendent
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/rotten-core-of-public-education-on-full-display-with-illegal-alien-superintendent/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘Woke’ Pope digs at Trump in call for open borders: ‘New missionary age.’ DD: Mass/illegal immigration will destroy America.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/06/woke-pope-digs-at-trump-in-call-for-open-borders-new-missionary-age-1590407/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pope Leo XIV did not mention President Trump by name, but it was clear to many who heard his address to Catholics on Sunday that he was taking a shot at U.S. immigration policies. Conservative Catholics, hopeful that the new pope, who was elected in May, would not be as far-left as his predecessor, the late Pope Francis, were sorely disappointed as Sunday’s Mass in St. Peter’s Square took on political overtones. Days after criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration policies, Leo urged the thousands gathered for the service – and Catholics around the globe – to open their “arms and hearts” to migrants, not distinguishing between legal and illegal immigration. The first pope to have been born in the United States, Leo said migrants must not be treated with “the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination.” He urged Catholics to “open our arms and hearts to them, welcoming them as brothers and sisters, and being for them a presence of consolation and hope.” “On Sunday, the pope said the global Church was experiencing ‘a new missionary age’ in which it was tasked with offering ‘hospitality and welcome, compassion and solidarity’ to migrants fleeing violence or searching for a safe place to live,” Reuters reported. “In the communities of ancient Christian tradition, such as those of the West, the presence of many brothers and sisters from the world’s South should be welcomed as an opportunity, through an exchange that renews the face of the Church,” he said, speaking from a prepared text. The Pope’s official account on X has also made his thoughts quite clear on the issue. Last week, the Pope appeared to take a jab at Trump when speaking with reporters. “Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life,” Leo said. “I would reject that there is inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the United States under this administration,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back. “There was, however, significant, inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the previous administration as they were being trafficked and raped and beaten, in many cases killed over our United States southern border.” The Pope’s latest swipe against US immigration policy earned heated criticism on social media.
BREITBART
— Abbott Defies Pritzker, Greenlights Trump’s Texas National Guard Deployment to Sanctuary States
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/06/abbott-defies-pritzker-greenlights-trumps-texas-national-guard-deployment-to-sanctuary-states/
— White House Highlights ‘Predators’ Taken Off Chicago Streets Thanks to ICE
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/06/white-house-highlights-predators-taken-off-chicago-streets-thanks-ice/amp/
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— California law allowing anonymous abortion pill prescriptions endangers women
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266975/california-law-allowing-anonymous-abortion-pill-prescriptions-endangers-women-experts-say
COLLEGE FIX
— Colorado State U. renamed DEI programs to give ‘illusion’ of compliance
https://www.thecollegefix.com/colorado-state-u-renamed-dei-programs-to-give-illusion-of-compliance-complaint/
— Trump admin ends taxpayer-funded education scholarships, loans for illegal immigrants
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-admin-ends-taxpayer-funded-education-scholarships-loans-for-illegal-immigrants/
DAILY CALLER
— America’s Defense Giants Are Fueling Wokeness – And Undermining Our Military Readiness
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/07/opinion-americas-defense-giants-are-fueling-wokeness-and-undermining-our-military-readiness-dustin-devito/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago’s ‘ICE-free zones’ endanger operations, embolden protesters. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring ICE from using city parking lots and garages for operations.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-agent-says-chicagos-ice-free-zones-endanger-operations-embolden-protesters
— DHS chief slams ‘violent anarchists,’ pledges full support for federal agents
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/first-fox-dhs-chief-slams-violent-anarchists-pledges-full-support-federal-agents.amp
— Pope Leo says family based on ‘union between a man and a woman,’ defends dignity of unborn.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-leo-says-family-based-union-between-man-woman-defends-dignity-unborn
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Colleges Boost Illegal Immigrant Students
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/ny-post-op-ed-colleges-boost-illegal-immigrant-students/
NEW AMERICAN
— Border Patrol Agents Attacked in Chicago; City Declares Rebellion Against Feds to Protect Illegals
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/border-patrol-agents-attacked-in-chicago-city-declares-rebellion-against-feds-to-protect-illegals/
NEWSMAX
— White House Slams Chicago Mayor for Creating ‘ICE-Free Zones’
https://www.newsmax.com/amp/newsfront/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-jb-pritzker/2025/10/06/id/1229235/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Porter: Pritzker’s Gambit
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/06/pritzkers_gambit_153370.html
REAL CLEAR POLICY
— Democrats Want Medicaid for Illegals. Pretend They Don’t
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/10/06/dems_want_medicaid_for_illegals_pretend_they_dont_1139150.html
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Livid: Says Trump Ordered National Guard to Illinois Amid Anti-ICE Violence, Likens Troops to Invaders
https://www.westernjournal.com/pritzker-livid-says-trump-ordered-national-guard-to-illinois-amid-anti-ice-violence-likens-troops-to-invaders/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Illinois sues to stop National Guard deployment as Trump escalates clash with states
https://www.reuters.com/world/illinois-sues-block-trump-deploying-national-guard-troops-chicago-2025-10-06/
MSN
— 3 Best First Jobs To Get Promoted Fast. DD: My critics/opponents have always been furious that IRS promoted me when I was 23, 24, and 25. During that time, my salary increased from $55,850/year to $99,069/year in today’s dollars. My taking job-related graduate evening courses at Loyola during that time helped me get promoted. Extremely few of my coworkers took IRS-encouraged job-related graduate evening courses like I did. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my taking those courses gave me an unfair advantage. They stressed that I could afford those courses because I avoided the Vietnam War draft and because did not have a wife or children to support. In my defense, I helped support my mother and brother when I was 21, 22, and 23 and I worked part-time for the Chicago Heights Firestone store while I was 22, 23, and 24.
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/money/personalfinance/3-best-first-jobs-to-get-promoted-fast/ar-AA1zabGZ
NEW YORK TIMES
— National Guard Troops Are Set to Arrive in Illinois. The mobilization includes some 200 Guard troops from Texas. President Trump said he would consider invoking emergency powers to “get around” legal obstacles.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/07/us/trump-national-guard-illinois-texas
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010441484/dei-helps-everyone-white-men-included.html
— DD: I had part-time jobs while I was in high school and college during the school years and full-time during the summers. That enabled me to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, and 20, pay for my college expenses, and graduate debt-free from NIU when I was 21 in 1970 and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. But my GPA suffered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/opinion/jobs-teenagers.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/us/politics/stonewall-national-museum-trump-funding-cuts.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump presses sanctuary cities to work with ICE, but few are budging. Cities like Boston, Chicago and Portland are facing the threat of lawsuits and federal troop takeovers. But leaders in most “sanctuary cities” are not compromising on their promise to protect (their illegals).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/10/07/trump-portland-chicago-sanctuary-lawsuits-immigrants/
USA TODAY
— DD: Americans ever-increasingly refuse to take bad food industry jobs. What should be done? I washed dishes for the minimum wage 1964-1966. I was the only White male who washed dishes for the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/10/02/us-immigration-border-policy-farm/86168928007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Trump Rules for Radical Schools
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-compact-higher-education-universities-7579714b
— America’s Debt to Israel. The Jewish state has taken on many U.S. enemies since Oct. 7, 2023, even as the left turned against it.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/americas-debt-to-israel-65d09527
— Discrimination Persists at the Coast Guard. It bases eligibility for scholarships on the racial demographics of applicants’ schools.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/discrimination-persists-at-the-coast-guard-efbf4414
— DD: I should write a book about a) my critics/opponents who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican and b) the many big anti-religious, anti-conservative, and anti-Republican things that they have done.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/how-to-spot-when-youre-a-hypocrite-e2c3ecfc
BLOOMBERG
— DD: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Ever-increasingly, they do everything that they can to destroy Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-18/trump-puts-more-federal-civil-servants-under-president-s-control
POLITICO
— Newsom, Pritzker threaten to pull out of National Governors Association over Trump’s troop deployments
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/newsom-pritzker-threaten-to-pull-out-of-national-governors-association-over-trumps-troop-deployments-00595741
ATLANTIC
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. They get rid of their employees who do not give tremendous preference their employees who are minority and/or female, that is, they get rid of their employees who do not discriminate against their employees who are White and/or male.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/employee-firing-first-amendment/681702/
AXIOS
— Which federal workers could lose protections under Trump order. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. If you are a federal employee, the more of the following that you are, the fewer protections that you have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The Democrats who run the federal government get rid of federal employees who are the aforesaid because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/28/trump-executive-order-federal-workforce
October 6, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— 5 dead, 25 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-oct-3-to-6/
NBC5
— Trump to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Illinois
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-to-deploy-texas-national-guard-troops-to-chicago-pritzker-says/3833957/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Illinois Democratic lawmakers take on activist role amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote and protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/illinois-democratic-lawmakers-activist-role-immigration/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote and protect their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/05/congress-members-rally-south-shore-apartment-ice-raid
DAILY HERALD
— Scholarship brunch supports Latinx students at Elgin Community College. DD: Did you get any scholarships? My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251006/submitted-content/scholarship-brunch-supports-latinx-students-at-elgin-community-college/
— DD: As Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250708/business/prairie-food-co-op-countys-first-community-owned-grocer-opens-in-lombard/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago’s largest accounting firms buck a national trend as layoffs sweep the industry. DD: The accounting profession had no use for me when I became a licensed CPA in 1981 because I was too old, I was 32 years old, and because I was not a minority or a female. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I had worked for GAO since 1980. I had worked for IRS 1971-1980.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/data-center/chicagos-largest-accounting-firms-deloitte-pwc-ey-kpmg
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly blasts Trump.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey-trumps-immigration-policies-offer-pritzker-a-platform/article_1e7ce828-2525-4060-9dad-848b70efb1c4.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Voting is underway in California on new maps that could swing US House control, check Trump’s power. DD: How gerrymandered is your congressional district?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-voting-is-underway-in-california-on-new-maps-that-could-swing-us-house-control-check-trumps-power/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders use Bad Bunny to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Americans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-05/snl-roasts-trump-in-season-premiere-as-bad-bunny-addresses-super-bowl-criticism
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Republicans are criticizing Democrats’ opposition to the deployments. State Rep. John Cabello, who’s also a retired Rockford Police detective, said the governor is “more interested in protecting his personal political interests than protecting Illinois families.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/06/trump-orders-up-hundreds-of-troops-to-illinois-00594616
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-605/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— U of I scrutinized over perceived preference for international students
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_bba03ae6-e5c7-4e6b-82a5-44f2c63b89cc.html
WHEATON RECORD
— Campus Community Grapples With Charlie Kirk Assassination
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/10/05/campus-community-grapples-with-charlie-kirk-assassination/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago Police Ordered to ‘Stand Down’ as ICE Agent Surrounded – Legal Experts Warn of Criminal Liability
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/chicago-police-ordered-to-stand-down-as-ice-agent-surrounded-legal-experts-warn-of-criminal-liability.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Merit-based advancement is key to military excellence. DD: As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly dumped merit to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. It all culminated when I was 49 in 1997 when they forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my minority subordinate. 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 had no professional license like I did.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/3836027/merit-based-advancement-key-military-excellence/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump to send 400 Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as anti-ICE protests continue to rage
https://nypost.com/2025/10/06/us-news/trump-sending-400-texas-national-guard-troops-to-illinois-as-anti-ice-protests-continue-to-rage-pritzker/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Legal Discrimination in the Aloha State Under Attack
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/legal-discrimination-in-the-aloha-state-under-attack/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Chicago a war zone over ICE raids, and Illinois’s governor doesn’t think there’s a problem
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/chicago_a_war_zone_over_ice_raids_and_illinois_s_governor_doesn_t_think_there_s_a_problem.html
— The Two-Tiered Justice Sham
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/the_two_tiered_justice_sham.html
BLAZE
— Woke CEOs mocked conservatives. Now the joke’s on them.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/woke-ceos-mocked-conservatives-now-the-jokes-on-them
BREITBART
— Hegseth Blasts Woke Diversity at Navy’s 250th Anniversary
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2025/10/05/pete-hegseth-blasts-woke-diversity-at-navys-250th-anniversary/
COLLEGE FIX
— National teachers’ union leftism draws federal scrutiny, calls to revisit charter
https://www.thecollegefix.com/national-teachers-union-leftism-draws-federal-scrutiny-calls-to-revisit-charter/
DAILY CALLER
— Chicago Police Told Not To Help Border Patrol Agents In Distress
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/05/chicago-police-told-not-to-help-border-patrol-agents-in-distress/
FOX NEWS
— Trump is protecting the American people from ‘terrorist states in our own hemisphere’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382079453112
— Trump ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Illinois, Oregon and other locations
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pritzker-says-trump-ordering-400-members-texas-national-guard-illinois-oregon-other-locations
HOMELAND SECURITY
— Discord, Extremism, and the Charlie Kirk Assassination: A Homeland Security Wake-Up Call
https://www.hstoday.us/perspective/perspective-discord-extremism-and-the-charlie-kirk-assassination-a-homeland-security-wake-up-call/
WESTERN JORNALISM
— Illegal Alien Who Served as School Superintendent Was Registered to Vote and Has Extensive Criminal Record
https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-alien-served-school-superintendent-registered-vote-extensive-criminal-record/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Pritzker says Trump officials ‘want to create the war zone.’ DD: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5539424-chicago-warzone-pritzker-trump/
CNN
— DD: ‘It’s frankly evil’: Casten rips Trump’s plan to lay off employees during shutdown.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/05/politics/video/layoffs-government-shutdown-trump-blame-democrats-sean-casten-intv-nrtf
AOL
— Georgia Steak ’n Shake Owner’s Charlie Kirk Billboard Sparks National Attention
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/georgia-steak-n-shake-owner-171030026.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.aol.com/news/concerns-grow-over-continued-restriction-004400211.html
https://www.aol.com/news/durbin-overwhelmed-pope-leo-support-180707754.html
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-targets-virginia-schools-over-132607509.html
REUTERS
— White House: Mass layoffs will start if shutdown talks ‘going nowhere’
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-layoffs-will-start-if-trump-sees-shutdown-talks-going-nowhere-2025-10-05/
ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appears-reveal-strike-alleged-cartel-drug-boat/story?id=126237676
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders continue their government shutdown. Trump is starting to use it against them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14V_9ERBqm8
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/trump-caribbean-strikes-drugs-kindness.html
–DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/texas-lgbtq-schools.html
— Push for Military Coverage of IVF Faces Challenge in Congress. A proposal to expand the Defense Department’s health care plan to include in vitro fertilization is moving through Congress but could die behind closed doors, again. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used my and my wife’s giving up trying to have children without trying IVF against me big time. They punished me in 1989 by throwing me off audits of IRS, by giving me a bad job assignment, by giving me unfair performance expectations, by giving me an unfair performance appraisal, and by ranking me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/military-ivf-congress.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push LGBTQ in schools. How successful have Democrat leaders been pushing LGBTQ in your school district?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/texas-lgbtq-schools.html
— White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes. The Trump administration forged ahead with plans to conduct mass layoffs, as the fiscal standoff appeared to intensify. DD: Because I was one of their very few if not only Republican employee and because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly punished me. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/us/politics/white-house-shutdown-punishment.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: I should write about those who I have done the most to help elect and to help reelect, but who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who blame me and who blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their problems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/05/national-guard-takeover-oregon-trump-immergut/
USA TODAY
— DD: From the beginning, Democrat and RINO leaders have done everything they could to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/10/04/trump-political-enemies-comey-indictment/86451565007/
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote resistance to Trump. What if Republican leaders had promoted resistance to Biden?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/trump-resistance-ice-noncooperation-21081574.php
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— False Charges of ‘Hate’ Encourage Violence. The ADL withdrew its smear of Charlie Kirk. The SPLC should follow its example. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied/argued/shouted that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC officer 2003-2007.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/false-charges-of-hate-encourage-violence-d5e07919
— Hegseth Focuses on Fitness. DD: When I was 18 years old in 1966, I was 1-A for the Vietnam War draft even though I could not run because I had a bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. My ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. What if I had tried to enlist?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-focuses-on-fitness-even-as-pentagon-goes-high-tech-723eadfb
— Federal-Worker Buyouts Are Kicking In, Darkening the U.S. Employment Picture. About 100,000 federal workers came off the payroll this week, adding strain to an already weakening labor market. DD: I became eligible for a $25,000 early retirement buyout when I was 45 years old in 1993 because of Gingrich GAO budget cuts. The $25,000 expired in 1994 and the early retirement expired in 1997. I would not be eligible for regular retirement until 2003. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/federal-worker-buyouts-are-kicking-in-darkening-the-u-s-employment-picture-4c3f044b
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
SPECTATOR WORLD
— The shocking state of the American left. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Democratic lawmakers and commentators found themselves in a quandary.
https://thespectator.com/topic/the-shocking-state-of-the-american-left/
DAILY MAIL
— Pritzker says Trump to deploy 400 National Guard troops from Texas to ‘invade’ liberal states
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15165203/Illinois-Governor-JB-Pritzker-Trump-National-Guard.html
TIMES OF INDIA
— How Trump’s 10-point memo directs US universities to ban race and sex in hiring and admissions
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/explained-how-trumps-10-point-memo-pushes-us-universities-to-take-race-and-sex-out-of-hiring-and-admissions/articleshow/124316871.cms
INDEPENDENT
— Trump looking to ban transgender people from having a gun and declaring them ‘mentally ill’
https://www.aol.com/trump-looking-ban-transgender-people-183556531.html
October 3, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— New barricades erected near Broadview ICE facility in effort to limit protesters from blocking street. Local and state authorities installed the barriers Thursday to allow room for protests but also keep the street clear. Demonstrators trying to block federal vehicles from entering and leaving the facility have been met with numerous rounds of rubber pellets and chemical agents that officials say endanger nearby residents and first responders.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/02/local-authorities-to-place-barricades-outside-broadview-ice-facility-to-protect-first-amendment-rights
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/02/cardinal-timothy-dolans-charlie-kirk-catholic-church-marc-morial
— DD: Democrats a) love it when DOJ prosecutes Republicans and b) hate it when DOJ prosecutes Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/02/trump-law-revenge-comey-adam-schiff-letitia-james-jacob-sullum
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/03/opinion-ice-officer-escalation-protests-chicago/
DAILY HERALD
— District 300 school board member removed as president but avoids censure for Charlie Kirk post. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251002/news/district-300-school-board-member-removed-as-president-but-avoids-censure-for-charlie-kirk-post/
— Trump administration approval of new abortion drug infuriates the right
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251002/nation-and-world-politics/trump-administration-approval-of-new-abortion-drug-infuriates-the-right/
SUBURBAN LIFE
— DD: Democrat leaders organize “No Kings” protests in DuPage County October 18
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/10/02/organizers-reveal-details-of-dupage-no-kings-protests/
— Woodridge cancels Hispanic Heritage event after some vendors withdraw
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/10/02/woodridge-cancels-hispanic-heritage-event/
EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— Seven questions with U.S. Senate candidate Don Tracy
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/seven-questions-senate-candidate-don-tracy-21078169.php
BELLEVILE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Local U.S. attorney deals with furloughs, questions about partisan messaging
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article312357794.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders always want to give more preference to international students over American students.
https://www.nprillinois.org/education-desk/2025-10-02/new-student-visa-rule-blasted-by-illinois-attorney-general-raoul
CHICAGO READER
— Five anti-ICE protesters face federal charges
https://chicagoreader.com/news/make-it-make-sense/ice-protest-seminary-bookstore-planetarium-union/
ILLINOIS PATCH
— The Best School Districts In Chicago-Metro Area
https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/these-are-best-school-districts-chicago-metro-area-new-ranking-says
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-395/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How do you view federal employees? While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee. My critics/opponents in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, and Illinois Center Right Coalition have always ignored, dismissed, belittled, and/or badmouthed what I did 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 and for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do you view federal employees and federal retirees? According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me and my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is much too generous. 1997, my GAO salary was $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My critics/opponents stress that while my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, I have gotten a $66,780/year in today’s dollars CSRS pension since then, that is, I have suffered only an $86,371/year (56%) loss of income in today’s dollars since then, that is, I have suffered only a $2.4 million loss in income since 1997. In my defense, in 1997, I had three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six-job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— From what I see, under the Democrats in Illinois and under the RINOs in Illinois, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is in Illinois: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. Back in the good old days, even though I am all of the aforesaid, I was able earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, and earn a professional license. I was able to get and keep jobs that enabled me a) to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, and 29, b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) get married when I was 29, d) etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Catalina Lauf Wheatley Files for Congress in Bryon Donalds’ District
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/02/catalina-lauf-wheatley-files-for-congress-in-bryon-donalds-district/
— Sosnowski on Illinois Sanctuary State Policies
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/02/sosnowski-on-illinois-sanctuary-state-policies/
— State Offers Electric Vehicle Subsidy as Federal Program Ends
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/state-offers-electric-vehicle-subsidy-as-federal-program-ends/
— Keicher Files 14-Foot Bill to Protect Law Enforcement and Those Targeting Them (and Inspired Demonstrators)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/keicher-files-14-foot-bill-to-protect-law-enforcement-and-those-targeting-them/
— Dabrowski Says Pritzker Should Prioritize Literacy Over Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/dabrowski-says-pritzker-should-prioritize-literacy-over-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-efforts/
— State Reps. Jeff Keicher and Joe Sosnowski Holding Thursday Huntley Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/state-reps-jeff-keicher-and-joe-sosnowski-holding-wednesday-huntley-fundraiser/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— How the DOJ went after Trump’s allies. Jack Smith targeted Republican movers and shakers. DD: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who arranged my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/2/doj-went-trumps-allies/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Huckabee rebuts rumors that Charlie Kirk had turned anti-Israel
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watch/2363138/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Democrats Lament Lost Wages for Federal Workers as Their Paychecks Roll In
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/democrats-lament-lost-wages-for-federal
NEW YORK POST
— ICE Arrests Over 900 Illegal Migrants During Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGkibz6Isk
— Trump sharpens ax on government shutdown day two — with ‘thousands’ of federal firings planned
https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/us-news/trump-sharpens-ax-on-government-shutdown-day-two-with-thousands-of-federal-firings-planned/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Coffee shop attacked for honoring Charlie Kirk now sees huge sales surge, ‘flooded with righteous people’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/02/coffee-shop-attacked-for-honoring-charlie-kirk-now-sees-huge-sales-surge-flooded-with-righteous-people-1589689/
— University response to students ‘thanking’ Charlie Kirk’s killer ‘very telling’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/02/university-response-to-students-thanking-charlie-kirks-killer-very-telling-1589614/
BREITBART
— Rep. Mary Miller on Chicago Crime: Democrats ‘Don’t Care About the People They Represent’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/02/exclusive-rep-mary-miller-on-chicago-crime-democrats-dont-care-about-the-people-they-represent/amp/
— Trump Pressures Elite Universities to Accept More Americans over Foreigners
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/02/trump-pressures-elite-universities-to-accept-more-americans-over-foreigners-dei/
CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Hegseth’s Historic Speech, And Why Many Generals Probably Hated It. DD: My critics/opponents who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America as long as mine have been promote race and gender based preference giving, that is, they reject meritocracy, but outrageously, they attribute their personal successes to meritocracy.
https://conservativehq.com/post/pete-hegseths-historic-speech-and-why-many-generals-probably-hated-it
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Meritocracy is the foundational element of being the best at anything and everything. So, why would any General or Admiral be opposed to or criticize the restoration of meritocracy in our military, and the accompanying dismantling of the social engineering and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies that have plagued our military and crippled its effectiveness for over two decades? Simple – because, after eight years of Obama and four years of Biden, many in the audience got where they are either directly through DEI policies or indirectly by being DEI cheerleaders, even as they knew deep in their hearts such policies were wrong and detrimental to the combat effectiveness of the formations they lead.)
DAILY CALLER
— Black Podcaster Explains How DEI Programs Harm Minorities. DD: All the minorities and all the females who Democrats and RINOs advanced over me a) were younger than me, b) had less experience than I had, c) had less education than I had, d) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or e) had no professional license like the one I have.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/02/black-podcaster-explains-how-dei-programs-harm-minorities/
DAILY SIGNAL
— ICE to Patrol Super Bowl in Response to NFL’s Pick for Halftime Show
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/02/ice-patrol-super-bowl-response-nfls-pick-halftime-show/
DAILY WIRE
— Illegal Aliens Ram Cars Into ICE Agents In Two Separate Attacks. The two attacks occurred in the Chicago area.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-illegal-aliens-ram-cars-into-ice-agents-in-two-separate-attacks-dhs-says
FOX NEWS
— Dems rage over feds targeting migrant gang members
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380755685112
— Putin responds to American conservative’s murder: ‘A disgusting atrocity’
https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-leader-responds-american-conservatives-murder-a-disgusting-atrocity
— Trump sees ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to cut government during shutdown. Trump to meet with OMB Director Russell Vought to identify which agencies are ‘political scam’ for potential cuts. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for a DOGE.
While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, they ever-increasingly use Gingrich’s cutting GAO’s budgets to get rid of not only its few remaining Republican employees, but its employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sees-unprecedented-opportunity-cut-government-during-shutdown
HOMELAND SECURITY
— Two Vehicles Used as Weapons Against ICE Officers in Operation Midway Blitz in Separate Incidents
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/02/two-vehicles-used-weapons-against-ice-officers-operation-midway-blitz-separate
NEWS BUSTERS
— NY Times Sides with Anti-Kirk Ghouls Against Libs of TikTok ‘Smear Campaigns’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/10/02/ny-times-sides-anti-kirk-ghouls-against-libs-tiktok-smear-campaigns
NEWSMAX
— 2 ‘Criminally Deranged’ Illegals Ram ICE Officers With Cars in Chicago
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/dhs-illegal-immigrants-ice/2025/10/03/id/1228874/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Johnson, Pritzker and Chicago’s Rules for Radicals. DD: My critics/opponents are disciples of Saul Alinsky.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/10/02/johnson_pritzker_and_chicagos_rules_for_radicals_654450.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Patel terminates FBI’s relationship with ADL amid fallout from Kirk shooting
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5535569-kash-patel-fbi-adl/amp/
MSNBC
— We are ‘angry at being treated as political pawns’: Furloughed USDA worker. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlC-wsVkKMg
MSN
— The 50 colleges with the biggest surge in applicants over the past 5 years. DD: UIC accepted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if minorities and/or females had applied, they would been accepted instead of me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/the-50-colleges-with-the-biggest-surge-in-applicants-over-the-past-5-years/ss-AA1NJKNG
CNBC
— Musk is telling his followers to cancel Netflix subscriptions
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/elon-musk-calls-for-canceling-netflix-whats-happening.html
— What the government shutdown means for federal workers—hundreds of thousands are required to keep working without pay. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/what-the-government-shutdown-means-for-federal-workers.html
NBC NEWS
— Federal workers share shutdown anxieties
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-workers-share-shutdown-anxieties-young-trump-supporters-expres-rcna235348
NBC BOSTON
— Financial resources for furloughed federal employees. If you are a furloughed federal employee worried about paying your bills, there are some options out there to help. DD: According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me and my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is much too generous. 1997, my GAO salary was $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My critics/opponents stress that while my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, I have gotten a $66,780/year in today’s dollars CSRS pension since then, that is, I have suffered only an $86,371/year (56%) loss of income in today’s dollars since then, that is, I have suffered only a $2.4 million loss in income since 1997. In my defense, in 1997, I had three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six-job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA).
https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/consumer/financial-resources-furloughed-federal-employees/3819639/
NEW YORK TIMES
— How the Shutdown Is Affecting Federal Services and Workers. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/30/us/politics/government-shutdown-furloughs.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Departments also designated some employees, such as federal law enforcement officers, active-duty troops and air traffic controllers, as “essential.” Many will work without pay while the shutdown persists. . .Activities that will cease. . .Non-essential research and data collection.
WASHINGTON POST
— The shutdown is only proving Trump’s point. The president argues that the federal bureaucracy is useless. Shutdowns tend to reinforce that view.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/03/government-shutdown-trump-democrats-politics/
USA TODAY
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise them.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/01/looming-layoffs-federal-workers/86456233007/
MIAMI HERALD
— House members have voted to table a censure resolution against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over her comments following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.newsbreak.com/miami-herald-1592483/4270538385687-four-gop-lawmakers-join-democrats-in-214-213-vote
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOIP OF FOLD: Trump Threatens Far-Reaching Cuts at Federal Agencies. President to meet with budget chief to discuss cuts, says shutdown gave him an ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to slash government’s size.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-to-meet-with-budget-chief-to-discuss-cuts-to-agencies-0ac5a7cb
BARRON’S
— Shutdown Layoffs Could Hit ‘Thousands’ of Federal Workers
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/government-shutdown-news-100325/card/shutdown-layoffs-could-hit-thousands-of-federal-workers-white-house-says-ojM7zWAyKDRvrzSJF8fZ
FORBES
— Netflix Stock Drops Again—Now Down 2.4% Since Musk’s Call For Cancellations
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/10/02/netflix-stock-drops-again-now-down-24-since-musks-call-for-cancellations/
LAW 360
— Illinois Panel Backs Whistleblower’s $3.5M Retaliation Verdict. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I ever-increasingly blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/discrimination/articles/2395319/ill-panel-backs-whistleblower-s-3-5m-retaliation-verdict-
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with drug cartels.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/02/trump-administration-caribbean-drug-cartels
October 1, 2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— Democrats Shut Down Government Over Free Healthcare for Illegals
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/fact-democrats-shut-down-government-over-free-healthcare-for-illegals/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders blame Republican leaders for the shutdown.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-tourists-feeling-effects-federal-government-shutdown-pullman-national-monument-museum-parks/17919548/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/government-websites-displaying-messages-blaming-democrats-shutdown/17918723/
— Democrat leaders decry that “4 detained by federal agents at Bronzeville shelter, 37 arrested at South Shore apartment building.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-immigration-enforcement-4-custody-federal-agents-raid-shelter-bronzeville-dhs-officials-say/17919772/
NBC5
— On day one of shutdown, White House says layoffs are ‘imminent.’ The shutdown began at 12:01 a.m. after the Senate failed to pass two partisan government.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-government-shutdown-gaza-israel-hamas-october-01-2025-live-updates/3831967/
— DD: How soon will Democrat leaders officially declare their Second Civil War against Republicans? Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/when-chicago-becomes-melting-pot-for-us-soldiers-and-federal-agents-what-can-go-wrong/3831735/
CBS2
— DD: Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Hegseth. Of course, Duckworth hates me because I fight race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/duckworth-slams-hegseths-stance-on-women-serving-in-the-military/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders decry that “ICE detains 4 people outside Chicago homeless shelter.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/bronzeville-feds-shelter-arrests
WGN9
— Anti-Semitic graffiti found in Hyde Park
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/chicago-hyde-park-antisemitic-graffiti-investigation/
WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/30/it-all-has-stop-broadview-officials-call-ice-end-use-chemical-munitions-rubber-bullets
— Pritzker Expects Trump to ‘Keep the Militarization Going’ Despite Government Shutdown
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/01/pritzker-expects-trump-keep-militarization-going-despite-government-shutdown
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders say “What a federal government shutdown means for Illinois.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/what-a-federal-government-shutdown-means-for-illinois/
— Race for Kane County treasurer in 2026 election begins to take shape
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/candidates-enter-kane-county-treasurer-race/
— Democrat leaders decry that “Bondi and Hegseth rally federal agents and troops in Memphis as part of crime task force.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/federal-agents-troops-memphis/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/sudden-unexpected-infant-death-babies/
— The wild case of Ian Roberts, Des Moines school superintendent, illustrates how employers ignore immigration law. DD: If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/ian-roberts-des-moines-iowa-superintendent-immigration/
— Dogs belong outside, not under my feet at a restaurant.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/column-chicago-dogs-allowed-restaurants-washington/
— DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wanted my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to see the many big adverse actions that they took against me. My RINO superiors in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization want all Republicans to see the many big adverse actions that they take against me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/column-donald-trump-fealty-retribution-chapman/
— DD: For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/opinion-us-history-civics-education-democracy/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders blame Republican leaders for the shutdown.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251001/nation-and-world-politics/many-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-shutdown-will-impact-local-workers-airports-and-services-stakeho/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders say “ICE’s Broadview facility has become a de facto detention center, minus the rules and oversight.”
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/01/broadview-immigration-processing-center-detention-ice-dhs
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Durbin declines lifetime achievement award from Chicago archdiocese amid controversy
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/10/01/dick-durbin-has-turned-down-an-award-from-the-chicago-archdiocese/86450730007/
STATELINE
— Illinois lawmakers clash on healthcare for undocumented immigrants amid shutdown
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-lawmakers-clash-on-healthcare-for-undocumented-immigrants-amid-shutdown/
— Pritzker claims Trump has dementia. DD: According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you are mentally ill.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/pritzker-claims-trump-has-dementia/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats want to prioritize illegal immigrants over Americans, Vance says of shutdown
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/democrats-want-to-prioritize-illegal-immigrants-over-americans-vance-says-of-shutdown-white-house-government-spending-funding-bill-health-care-insurance-premiums-illegal-immigration-immigrants-president-donald-trump-chuck-schumer
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Illinois House Republicans: “let ICE do its job”
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/illinois-house-republicans-let-ice-do-its-job/article_28adfd6c-e77b-479a-a040-7efbaf0758c6.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: NPR Illinois functions as an arm of the Democrat Party
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-09-30/trump-administration-uses-taxpayer-dollars-to-blame-democrats-for-government-shutdown
— Stratton aims to bring Pritzker administration policies to national stage. DD: Pritzker promotes more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-10-01/stratton-aims-to-bring-pritzker-administration-policies-to-national-stage
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their homeless and their illegals.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/01/bronzeville-homeless-shelter-residents-traumatized-after-feds-chase-arrest-4-people/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-394/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— GOP rep, Dem alderman: Sanctuary policies drove immigration enforcement surge
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f42a2385-2944-4050-9fe3-674ea17964fc.html
— Pritzker blames Trump for partial government shutdown
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_10b94358-a840-4c45-a699-b7600d107563.html
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Democrats Force Shutdown Over Health Care for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/democrats-force-shutdown-over-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The Schumer shutdown. A Democrat-caused debacle through and through.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/1/schumer-shutdown/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ICE and Border Patrol arrest 800 illegal immigrants during Chicago blitz
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3832627/ice-chicago-border-patrol-arrest-800-illegal-immigrants-during-blitz/
— A Republican state lawmaker and a Democratic Chicago alderman agree that sanctuary policies are the reason federal agencies have ramped up their presence in Illinois.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3833451/gop-rep-democrat-alderman-sanctuary-policy-drove-immigration-surge/
NEW YORK POST
— Senate Dems block bid to end government shutdown as agencies set to lay off 750K employees daily
https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/senate-dems-block-fresh-bid-to-end-government-shutdown-as-agencies-set-to-lay-off-750k-employees-daily/
— Mamdani’s perverse need to destroy the Jewish state is driving his campaign
https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/opinion/mamdanis-perverse-need-to-destroy-the-jewish-state-is-driving-his-campaign/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrats believe constitutional rights protect illegal aliens but not American citizens
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/democrats_apparently_believe_constitutional_rights_protect_illegal_aliens_but_not_american_citizens.html
BREITBART
— Vance Debunks Left’s Lies on Govt. Shutdown in Response to Breitbart’s Matt Boyle at WH Press Briefing.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/01/jd-vance-debunks-lefts-lies-on-govt-shutdown-in-response-to-breitbarts-matt-boyle-at-wh-press-briefing/
— Illegal Migrants Were Issued 18-Wheeler Licenses in NY, IL, CA with ‘No Name Given’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/01/officials-illegal-migrants-were-issued-18-wheeler-licenses-ny-il-ca-no-name-given/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Purdue ends $34.9 million DEI-linked program after federal funding canceled. DD: I did not earn master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48. I did not earn professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 46, and 48. I did not earn a professional license until I was 32. If f could have benefitted from Affirmative Action and DEI, I would have earned the aforesaid much sooner.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/purdue-ends-349-million-dei-linked-program-federal-funding-canceled/28710
EPOCH TIMES
— Impact of Government Shutdown on Social Security: What to Know
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/impact-of-government-shutdown-on-social-security-what-to-know-5922966
FEDERALIST
— Dems Choose To Shut Down Govt. Rather Than Restrict Free Health Care For Illegals
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/01/dems-choose-to-shut-down-govt-rather-than-restrict-free-health-care-for-illegals/
PJ MEDIA
— Yes, Democrats Shut Down the Government to Give Illegals Free Healthcare
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/10/01/yes-democrats-shut-down-government-to-give-illegals-free-healthcare-n4944329
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more abortion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-dick-durbin-says-overwhelmed-pope-leo-defended-abortion-related-cr-rcna234990
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-misleads-claim-democrats-shut-give-health-care-illegal-immigrants-rcna234905
REUTERS
— White House freezes funds for Democratic states in shutdown slap
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-begins-shut-down-most-operations-after-congress-fails-advance-2025-10-01/
NEWSWEEK
— ICE Agents Rappel From Black Hawk Helicopters Into Chicago for Major Raid
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-rappel-black-hawk-helicopters-chicago-10809228
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter onto the rooftops of Chicago residential buildings, launching a sweeping immigration enforcement operation targeting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members, according to NewsNation. The operation, led by ICE with support from the FBI and U.S. Border Patrol, was designed to apprehend high-priority targets connected to the Venezuelan crime syndicate that U.S. authorities have accused of trafficking, violence, and other cross-border crimes. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January designating Mexican drug cartels and other Latin American criminal groups like the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as terrorist organizations. His administration is ramping up immigration enforcement operations in Chicago after he threatened to deploy the National Guard to quell crime in the city. Nearly 300 federal agents and officers descended upon a five-story apartment complex in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, where U.S. Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino has claimed members of Tren de Aragua have been operating, according to NewsNation. The outlet reported that roughly 30 undocumented immigrants were taken into custody, several of them suspected of gang affiliation. Bovino told NewsNation that the operation proceeded “very smoothly” after federal officers and agents spent several days training for the targeted enforcement effort. Bovino, who is overseeing the ongoing operation in Chicago, added that residents of the South Side should expect an increased federal presence in the area.)
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in protecting their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sanctuary-cities-crackdown-results/
— DD: Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Hegseth. Of course, Duckworth hates me because I fight race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tammy-duckworth-pete-hegseth-women-in-military-fitness/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Drones, Helicopters, Hundreds of Arrests: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown in Chicago So Far.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/us/trump-chicago-immigration-national-guard.html
WALL STREET JKOURNAL
— DD: If you took out a student loan, your GPA should have been higher, and therefore, you should have gotten a better paying job. Because I worked my way through college, my GPA was lower. One year out, in today’s dollars, my salary was only $55,850/year, two years out, it was $68,315/year, three years out, it was $82,655/year, and four years out, it was $99.069/year.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/student-loan-debt-gen-x-619cffda
SPLC
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/hate-crimes-awareness-month-kicks-off/
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/october-is-hate-crimes-awareness-month/
October 1, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-protest-broadview-illinois-leaders-address-situation-surrounding-facility/17909029/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abc7.com/post/pope-leo-xiv-intervenes-us-abortion-debate-chicago-cardinal-blase-cupich-giving-award-illinois-senator-dick-durbin/17916373/
NBC5
— Portion of major street in downtown Chicago shut down by anti-ICE protest. Several groups including the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA) and Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression took part in an “emergency protest.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/anti-ice-protesters-shut-down-portion-of-wacker-drive-in-downtown-chicago/3831786/
CBS2
— Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as “training grounds”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-25th-amendment-military-training-grounds/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Government shutdown begins as nation faces new period of uncertainty
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/government-shutdown-begins-as-nation-faces-new-period-of-uncertainty/
— Democrat leaders have “Hundreds gather to protest ICE, federal push to deploy military to Illinois.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/immigration-national-guard-downtown-protest-trump-pritzker/
— DD: FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/broadview-mayor-rips-feds-protests/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/president-donald-trump-pete-hegseth-military-training/
— Jewel-Osco agrees to pay $1.9 million to resolve EEOC disability investigation. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because my Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted that offer and because I was helping support my mother and brother, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/jewel-osco-eeoc/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker calls for 25th Amendment after Trump ‘training grounds’ remark
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-urges-25th-amendment-after-trump-chicago-remarks
SHAW LOCAL
— Duckworth slams Hegseth’s ‘highest male standard’ policy for military as ‘deeply degrading’ Marine veteran and state Rep. Kifowit joins in denouncing statements. DD: To hire, retain, and promote more Democrat minorities and females, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/09/30/duckworth-slams-hegseths-highest-male-standard-policy-for-military-as-deeply-degrading/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: To defeat Republican candidates, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly drive the American economy down.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-us-consumer-confidence-declines-again-as-americans-fret-over-prices-job-market/amp/
— To promote wokeness/wokeism is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-how-woke-went-from-an-expression-in-black-culture-to-a-conservative-criticism/
— Civil rights agency drops a key tool used to investigate workplace discrimination. DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-civil-rights-agency-drops-a-key-tool-used-to-investigate-workplace-discrimination/
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ILLINOIS
— Candidate Forums. DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would be hosting candidate forums. If I was still an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer, I would be urging the organization to host candidate forums.
https://www.lwvil.org/candidateforum
CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/trump-threatens-war-chicago-response/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— US Senate race: Republican Don Tracy held a kickoff fundraiser for his Senate campaign at Saputo’s in Springfield on Tuesday. We hear about 70 “friends, supporters and family” of Tracy’s attended, including state Sen. Jil Tracy, state Reps. Michael Coffey and Brandun Schweizer, Sangamon County Board Chair Andy Van Meter, Sangamon County Republican Chair Dianne Barghouti-Hardwick and businessman Kevin Crumly, who hosted the event.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
— GOP pushback: House Republican Leader Tony McCombie criticized Pritzker for rejecting the increased enforcement. “The governor can’t claim that he wants to work with law enforcement to remove criminals while at the same time promoting policies that make our communities less safe,” she said in a video. And Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison called recent comments by Pritzker and Johnson “divisive, inflammatory and reckless.” The Illinois Republican Party, meanwhile, is selling merchandise pegged off the immigration enforcement raids. One hat reads: “Chicago ICE Word To Your Mother.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-602/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Chicago’s Rules for Radicals Spread Out Across America. DD: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are disciples of Saul Alinsky.
https://johnkassnews.com/chicago-rules-for-radicals/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— As time goes on, it is ever-increasingly clear that my critics/opponents who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote, most commonly its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. The more of the aforesaid planks that they reject, the more and bigger adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and dupes take against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Trump calls Pritzker ‘loser’ as governor prepares for troop deployment lawsuit
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a4ce97d7-b5aa-4fe1-92f5-de151c1cdfe5.html
— Illinois student struggles continue as enrollments decline. DD: My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree, b) three master’s degrees, c) six professional certifications, and d) a professional license.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_24f0c23a-5e34-405a-8fa1-52ac3bee5e0f.html
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Educators Are Teaching Your Kids to Revere Cop Killers
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-educators-teaching-your-kids-cop-killers
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ‘Word to Your Mother’: Illinois GOP’s Bizarre New Apparel Rollout
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/word-to-your-mother-illinois-gops-bizarre-new-apparel-rollout.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal layoffs strain D.C. region as Trump administration threatens more cuts
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/federal-layoffs-strain-dc-region-trump-administration-threatens-cuts/
— The U.S. Postal Service policy banning people from bringing firearms into post offices violates the Constitution, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/post-office-gun-ban-unconstitutional-judge-rules/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— UPenn Provost Resigns After Boosting Social Media Post Likening Charlie Kirk to ‘Hitler Youth’ Mann, who will remain a professor at the Ivy League university, has courted controversy with a series of public outbursts in recent months.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/upenn-provost-resigns-after-boosting-social-media-post-likening-charlie-kirk-to-hitler-youth/
— AI Dubs Charlie Kirk’s Killer ‘Right-Wing.’ My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being right-wing.
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/ai-dubs-charlie-kirks-killer-right
AMERICAN THINKER
— Situational Outrage: How Democrats Normalize Political Violence
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/situational_outrage_how_democrats_normalize_political_violence.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Pritzker likens Trump to Putin, claims he has dementia, demands 25th Amendment be invoked
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/01/pritzker-likens-trump-to-putin-claims-he-has-dementia-demands-25th-amendment-be-invoked-1589272/
BLAZE
— Musk cancels Netflix subscription over Charlie Kirk mockery and transgender indoctrination
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trans-netflix-elon-musk-kirk
BREITBART
— Musk Leads Mass Netflix Membership Cancellations After Company’s Children’s Cartoon Creator Smears Charlie Kirk as a ‘Nazi’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/30/elon-musk-leads-mass-netflix-membership-cancellations-after-companys-childrens-cartoon-creator-smears-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi/
— Creator of Netflix Trans Children’s Cartoon ‘Dead End Paranormal Park’ Under Fire for Smearing Charlie Kirk as a ‘Nazi’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/30/creator-of-netflix-trans-childrens-cartoon-dead-end-paranormal-park-under-fire-for-smearing-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi/
— Hegseth Rebukes DEI, Fat Troops: ‘We Are Done with That Sh*t’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/30/pete-hegseth-rebukes-dei-fat-troops-we-are-done-with-that-sht/
— Maxine Waters on Healthcare for Illegals: ‘Healthcare for Everybody’ DD: Knowing that the federal government would pay 72% of my and my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums for life if I could survive until retirement helped me endure my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/30/maxine-waters-on-healthcare-for-illegals-healthcare-for-everybody/
— Chicago Mayor Johnson: President Trump ‘Is an Unstable Human Being’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/09/30/chicago-mayor-johnson-president-trump-is-an-unstable-human-being/
CAMPUS REFORM
— UNC professor linked to group responsible for posters celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination
https://www.campusreform.org/article/unc-professor-linked-group-responsible-posters-celebrating-charlie-kirks-assassination/28703
— Iowa State fires employee who said Charlie Kirk is ‘rotting in hell’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/iowa-state-fires-employee-said-charlie-kirk-rotting-hell/28700
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— Durbin declines Chicago Archdiocese award after global backlash over pro-abortion views
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266875/dick-durbin-declines-chicago-archdiocese-award-after-global-backlash-over-pro-abortion-views
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/pope-leo-xiv-comments-on-cupichs-plan-to-bestow-award-on-illinois-senator
DAILY CALLER
— Charlie Kirk’s ‘Protege’ Brilyn Hollyhand Doesn’t Cut It
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/30/brilyn-hollyhand-charlie-kirk-campus-tours-new-york-post/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Democrats Take Heat Over Health Care for Illegal Aliens
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/30/democrats-take-heat-over-healthcare-for-illegal-aliens/
DAILY WIRE
— Hillary Clinton Rips White Christian Men, Sparks Outrage Weeks After Charlie Kirk Assassination. DD: To vote for Democrats is to promote more hatred against those who are White, Christian, and/or male.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-rips-white-christian-men-sparks-outrage-weeks-after-charlie-kirk-assassination
FOX NEWS
— TPUSA chapter support soars after Charlie Kirk assassination. DD: Who is leading the TPUSA effort in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380350416112
— DNC chair calls for DC, Puerto Rico statehood, filibuster elimination, says Trump admin a ‘fascist regime’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dnc-chair-calls-dc-puerto-rico-statehood-filibuster-elimination-says-trump-admin-fascist-regime
— Rogan calls out self-described ‘progressives’ who celebrated the ‘public execution’ of Charlie Kirk. Rogan in disbelief at seeing ‘normal people,’ including housewives and bank workers, cheer activist’s death.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rogan-calls-out-self-described-progressives-who-celebrated-public-execution-charlie-kirk
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380443240112
NATIONAL REVIEW
— George Washington U Students Believe Charlie Kirk Got What He Deserved
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/george-washington-u-students-believe-charlie-kirk-got-what-he-deserved/
PJ MEDIA
— The ‘Disparate Impact’ Flim-Flam Is Ending. DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/09/30/the-disparate-impact-flim-flam-is-ending-n4944299
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF WAR
— Hegseth Says Promotions, Retention to be Based on Meritocracy. DD: To hire, retain, and promote more Democrat minorities and females, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4318944/hegseth-says-promotions-retention-to-be-based-on-meritocracy-not-quotas/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— ‘Get your cell phones out’: Pritzker urges public to post footage of federal agents. DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly protects his illegals.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5528466-jb-pritzker-chicago-illinois-federal-law-enforcement/
ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pope-intervenes-us-abortion-debate-raising-means-pro-126108885
CBS NEWS
— DD: The hate-filled Trump-hating Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tammy-duckworth-accuses-trump-playbook-authoritarianism-military-address/
NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S. Begins Shutdown That Could Lead to Mass Layoffs and Service Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/30/us/trump-government-shutdown-hegseth
— DD: The Voice of America has existed to promote Democrats and the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/voa-voice-of-america-layoffs.html
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/30/ice-chaos-broadview-illinois-wants-them-out/86409208007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Rise of ‘Accidental Landlords’ Is Bad News for Investors Who Bet Big on Rentals. DD: I was a landlord 1976-1984 because I decided to rent out my University Park town home rather than sell it at a loss.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/homeowners-rental-market-landlords-c2f6604f
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/polls/israel-gaza-war-us-poll.html
— FRONT PAGE: DD: The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down,
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/polls/trump-approval-poll.html
POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/30/congress/pope-leo-dick-durbin-00589172
— DD: Democrat Chicago leader hatred against Trump has only grown since March 11, 2016 when they forced Trump to cancel a rally at UIC.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-cancels-chicago-rally-protests-220660
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY MAIL
— FBI probes ‘militant Armed Queers’ group for ties to Charlie Kirk suspect… as evidence of its FOREIGN funding grows and deleted posts are revealed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15130313/FBI-Charlie-Kirk-Armed-Queers-foreign-funding.html
INDEPENDENT
— Teen hailed as Charlie Kirk ‘protégé’ is ripped by MAGA crowd after private jet video: ‘Country club’ conservative. Brilyn Hollyhand, who calls himself ‘The Internet’s Youngest Voice of Reason’ online, was ripped into by online users and even fellow right-wing influencers associated with Turning Point USA.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/brilyn-hollyhand-maga-charlie-kirk-private-jet-b2836655.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ilhan Omar because she says that Charlie Kirk’s record of ‘bigotry, hatred and white supremacy’ means there is no legacy to honor.
https://www.aol.com/articles/charlie-kirk-record-bigotry-hatred-101819797.html
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
— Musk Cancels Netflix Over ‘Pro-Transgender Kids Show’
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-joins-netflix-boycott-mass-cancellations-grow-heres-kids-show-comments-that-1745951
September 29, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CAPITOL FAX
— MEDIA ADVISORY: Former State Reps Ives and Morrison, and Former DuPage County Auditor Bob Grogan to Endorse Dabrowski for Governor. DD: I did not receive this media advisory. I learned of it from Capitol Fax this morning.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/29/selected-press-releases-live-updates-302/
(FROM THE MEDIA ADVISORY: Wilmette, IL – Former State Representative Jeanne Ives will endorse Ted Dabrowski for Governor at her office in Wheaton. Ives, who endorsed Darren Bailey in 2022, will detail her work with Dabrowski for the last 13 years and why she trusts Ted to lead Illinois. Joining Ives in endorsing Dabrowski will be former State Representative Tom Morrison. Both Ives and Morrison, who served together in the Illinois House of Representatives, worked to bring about commonsense fiscal policy to Illinois. In that work, Dabrowski provided important research on pensions, property taxes and education. Bob Grogan, former DuPage County Auditor, will join Ives and Morrison in endorsing Dabrowski. Grogan was a statewide Republican candidate for treasurer and currently provides expertise to local governments on financial controls and audits. WHO: Jeanne Ives, Tom Morrison, Bob Grogan, and Ted Dabrowski WHAT: Press Conference: Key Endorsements of Ted Dabrowski for Governor WHERE: Breakthrough Ideas, 703 Warrenville Rd., Wheaton, IL 60189 Streamed live on Facebook.com/TedForIllinois/
WHEN: Monday, September 29, 2025 11:00 AM (CT)
ABC7
— 4 dead, 12 hurt in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-sept-26-to-29/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTIRE: DD: Anticipate/expect that anti-conservatives will ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Kirk.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/charlie-kirk-teachers-social-media/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat and RINO colleges and employers prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/new-h-1b-visa-fee-could-upend-foreign-worker-program-for-local-businesses-universities/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly unite women and minorities against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/column-immigration-reform-escobar-salazar-statesmanship-shaw/
— The CTA has become a rolling symbol of abdication. Riders don’t feel safe.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/opinion-chicago-crime-cta-federal-intervention/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/09/29/youth-survey-better-chicago-immigration-mental-health-absenteeism-safe-spaces-beth-swanson
— DD: Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/09/29/hope-chicago-college-scholarships-2-600-cps-graduates-four-high-schools-one-more-class-chicago-public-schools
DAILY HERALD
— Faith & Blue comes to Montgomery church Oct. 3
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250929/submitted-content/faith-blue-comes-to-montgomery-church-oct-3/
NORTHWEST HERALD
— Peaceful response to Charlie Kirk’s murder a stark contrast
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/09/28/letter-peaceful-response-to-charlie-kirks-murder-a-stark-contrast/
(FROM THE LETTER: Charlie was a frequent visitor to McHenry County. Many locals, including myself, were honored to have met and spoken with him. McHenry County’s own Gary Rabine is said to have been instrumental in helping him launch Turning Point USA.)
25 NEWS NOW
— DD: Pritzker and Duckworth ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/09/29/pritzker-duckworth-denounce-feds-show-force-chicago-area-mass-deportation/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Michigan police ID shooter who killed 4, wounded 8 after opening fire at Mormon church
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/28/multiple-victims-shot-mormon-church-michigan-shooter-police-say/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Cop Killer Assata Shakur Eulogized
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/cop-killer-assata-shakur-eulogized
NEW YORK POST
— Charlie Kirk’s murder unmasks the myth of the dangerous evangelical. Leftists have ominously warned for a decade one group of people represent a unique threat to the American experiment: conservative evangelicals.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/28/opinion/charlie-kirks-murder-unmasks-the-myth-of-the-dangerous-evangelical/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Federal troops arrive in downtown Chicago as racist mayor rages
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/29/federal-troops-arrive-in-downtown-chicago-as-racist-mayor-rages-1588607/
BREITBART
— In Comments on Buttigieg, Kamala Reveals Contempt for America
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/28/pollak-in-comments-on-buttigieg-kamala-reveals-contempt-for-america/amp/
FOX NEWS
— DHS releases images of firearms taken from Chicago anti-ICE protesters. Federal authorities investigate apparent explosive device found near detention facility.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dhs-releases-images-firearms-taken-from-chicago-anti-ice-protesters
— NY Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones calls public mourning for Charlie Kirk ‘unsettling.’ The 1619 Project author accused some Democrats and centrists of honoring Kirk’s ‘extremist’ views. DD: My critics/opponents have always painted me as being an extremist.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ny-times-nikole-hannah-jones-calls-public-mourning-charlie-kirk-unsettling
— What will be Tyler Robinson’s defense strategy? Experts weigh in on accused Charlie Kirk assassin. Tyler Robinson’s new lawyer must navigate mountain of evidence and potential death penalty charges.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/what-will-be-tyler-robinsons-defense-strategy-experts-weigh-accused-charlie-kirk-assassin
ICE
— Working for ICE DD: Would ICE want to hire me? SEE: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/833846200 I worked for GAO as an Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I became a Certified Public Accountant, Internal Auditor, Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant. I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.ice.gov/careers
TOWNHALL
— DEI-Run University of Arizona Acting Like the Mob Toward Professor Who Objected to Discrimination DD: I objected to political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government. I have always objected to race and gender based preference giving.
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2025/09/29/dei-run-university-of-arizona-acting-like-the-mob-towards-professor-who-objected-to-the-discrimination-n2664099
— Are the Rulers of Dearborn ‘American’?
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2025/09/29/are-the-rulers-of-dearborn-american-n2664092
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A video of an Islamic march featuring thousands of black and hijab-clad Muslims chanting “Allah” and a bunch of gibberish through the streets of Dearborn, Michigan that looks like it could have been filmed in any random Middle Eastern Muslim country went viral and drew outrage on X last week. The account that posted it included a call for Tom Homan’s ICE to deal with the problem by going in and deporting illegals. It’s a justifiable sentiment, but good luck with that. Shockingly, almost 60,000 of the approximately 105,000 residents of Dearborn are of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry. Almost all of those are Arab American Muslims. The problem for the poster, and for anyone else who thinks deporting illegals is the solution to what ails us, is that almost all of them are lawful citizens of the United States, a product of Arab immigration that began almost 100 ago and intensified by waves of refugee resettlements from decades of Middle Eastern conflicts caused in no small part, ironically, by American intervention overseas. Given the numbers, it should be no surprise to find the city run by Muslims. As conservative commentator Matt Walsh pointed out in another viral post: “The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan is Abdullah Hammoud. The guy running against him in the mayoral race is Nagi Almudhegi. The mayor’s chief of staff is Zaineb A. Hussein. The police chief is Issa Shahin. He oversees the commander of the patrol division, Madou Bazzi. The public health director is Ali Abazeed. Don’t forget city council members Kamal Alsawafy and Mustapha Hammoud.” If you are one of the tens of thousands of non-Muslim residents left in the city, you will still be greeted at 6 am in the morning and four other times throughout the day by the Muslim call to prayer broadcast on loudspeaker. For now at least you can complain, like this lady did, but the Muslim-run city council will tell you to pound sand. If you don’t like that a street was renamed after a Hezbollah terrorist, you will not only be told to pound sand, you will be called an Islamaphobe and told you aren’t welcome in the city you grew up in. Yes, technically the rulers of Dearborn are ‘American.’ They and most of their co-religionist voters have the citizenship and naturalization papers saying so, and thus are just as much a citizen of this country as you or me. But is this what the founders envisioned for the country they birthed through blood almost 250 years ago? If Thomas Jefferson could have looked into the future and seen Arabic flags and Islamic chants and hijab-clad women marching through an American street, would he have set things up differently? Trying to normalize a situation ordinary people rightly are disgusted by, ‘Republican’ pollster Frank Luntz embarrassingly quoted part of a letter penned by George Washington as proof that the founders wanted Muslims to, according to Luntz, “find welcome in America.” “If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe,” Washington wrote. “They may be Mohammedans, Jews, or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.” Luntz’s contention was easily ripped to shreds by anyone who bothered to post the entire letter, which was simply correspondence from Washington to a friend in Baltimore asking him to facilitate the purchase of some skilled labor that was purportedly on a ship headed there. Indeed, the idea that our founders – the ones who in 1790 when immigration policy was first discussed limited naturalization to only “free white persons” of “good moral character” who had lived in America for at least two years – would applaud the streets of Dearborn being overrun with chanting Muslims carrying Arabic flags is laughable on its face. On the contrary, if the dead could move they would be turning over in their graves. Still, the founders did recognize the need for immigration, and since 1790 there has been plenty of it. Interestingly, the massive waves from Europe that happened in the 1840s and the 1880s-1920s were opposed by nativists who argued that the Irish, the Germans, the Poles, and the Italians were going to ruin the country. In hindsight, it wasn’t really much of a concern though, because those people had enough in common with the original Anglo-Saxon stock to completely assimilate in a generation or two at most, which is exactly what happened. (We fought against Germany in two world wars, but have you heard anyone complain about ‘those damned Germans’ lately?) Leftists like to cite opposition to these European waves as evidence that conservatives are stupid to oppose the current non-white immigration from Third World hellholes we’re experiencing today, but, as Dearborn has proven, it’s apples and oranges. Extrapolate that over the next few decades at the immigration rate Democrats would have us endure and you’ll get hundreds if not thousands of places just like Dearborn, Michigan or Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Somalis have their own country within a country. The Great Replacement Theory isn’t just a theory, it’s a fact. Leftists hate white people and want them to become a minority in every place they are currently a majority. You may think race doesn’t or shouldn’t matter at all, but they certainly think it does. Now, I’m not in any way arguing for a white nationalist state or the removal or persecution of legal minorities. America should always include minority populations who assimilate, love this country, and want to contribute to its success. However, there is something to be said for an immigration policy, one similar to the one that helped America prosper right up to 1965, that keeps whites from becoming a minority in the country their ancestors founded. An immigration and naturalization policy that allowed Dearborn, Michigan to become what it is now is inherently flawed and should be scrapped and reworked from the ground up. The future of Western Civilization, the vehicle that gave the world most of the progress, freedom, and standard of living it enjoys today, absolutely depends on it.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5523866-affirmative-action-supreme-court-ruling/
YAHOO
— Trump Signs Directive Targeting Domestic Terrorism After Charlie Kirk Assassination
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-signs-directive-targeting-domestic-210041353.html
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use “right-wing” and “conservative” as pejoratives.
https://www.aol.com/news/charlie-kirk-wing-activist-just-204245372.html
— Thinking about college? DD: My father often decried his not having a college degree. When I was 15 years old in 1964, even though I was not viewed as being college material, I set my sights on earning a bachelor’s degree in business from UIC. I took a job washing dishes in Chicago Heights and saved all the money that I could to buy a new car to commute to/from my parents’ home in Crete and classes at UIC. I took college preparatory courses at Crete-Monee High School, got an ACT score of 24, and graduated in the upper 20% of my class. UIC accepted me in 1966. I worked part-time during the school years and full-time during the summers for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. I transferred to NIU in 1969 and graduated debt-free from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in business and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1970.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/thinking-college-heres-attend-upcoming-084020683.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— At Least 4 Dead in Attack on Michigan Church. The police said they believed the attacker opened fire on the congregation and intentionally set fire to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building near Flint. The shooter died after exchanging fire with police officers, officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/28/us/grand-blanc-shooting-church-michigan
— Greene, Straying From Trump, Reflects an Emerging MAGA Split. The right-wing Republican congresswoman from Georgia has grown disillusioned with her own party and with President Trump, and increasingly willing to say so. DD: Democrats and RINOs use “right-wing” and “conservative” as pejoratives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-maga-split.html
— DD: Anticipate/expect that anti-conservatives will ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Kirk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/charlie-kirk-free-speech.html
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/business/india-h1b-visa-trump.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: With Scant Information, Federal Workers Brace for Possible Shutdown. After a tumultuous year of staffing cuts, government employees now face the prospect of going without pay — or facing even more layoffs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/us/politics/federal-government-shutdown-trump.html
— What Was Lost: Former Federal Workers on the Cost of the Cuts. In interviews, two dozen former federal workers from across the country shared what they left behind and what they face next. DD: When my Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they flushed down their toilets a) my almost 18 years of experience working for GAO, b) my almost 9 years of experience working for IRS, c) what I learned earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, d) what I leaned becoming a certified public accountant, internal auditor, fraud examiner, government financial manager, financial services auditor, and forensic account, and e) becoming a licensed CPA.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/27/us/federal-workers-trump-layoffs.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ask “Will Charlie Kirk’s assassination fuel a conservative wave?” and say “Watch this election. This year’s Virginia governor’s race will test whether outrage over Charlie Kirk’s death will galvanize Gen-Z conservatives to vote.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/27/charlie-kirk-virginia-election-gop-youth/86351269007/
DISPATCH
— Men, Give Colleges a Chance. DD: My father often decried his not having a college degree. When I was 15 years old in 1964, even though I was not viewed as being college material, I set my sights on earning a bachelor’s degree in business from UIC. I took a job washing dishes in Chicago Heights and saved all the money that I could to buy a new car to commute to/from my parents’ home in Crete and classes at UIC. I took college preparatory courses at Crete-Monee High School, got an ACT score of 24, and graduated in the upper 20% of my class. UIC accepted me in 1966. I worked part-time during the school years and full-time during the summers for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. I transferred to NIU in 1969 and graduated debt-free from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in business and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1970.
https://thedispatch.com/article/men-give-colleges-a-chance/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Right. Republicans target a foolish professor in a South Dakota case. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government targeted me for my opposition to their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/charlie-kirk-free-speech-and-the-right-2b60b73c
— The Justice Department sues over a program that attempts to recruit ‘teachers of color.’ DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/grow-your-own-means-discriminate-by-race-f7f4bb3b
MONDAQ
— Despite Laws Intended To Prevent It, Age Discrimination Abounds In 2025. Despite the establishment of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) in 1967, today, almost three-quarters (74 percent) of older Americans think their age could be a barrier to getting a job. DD: Democrats and RINOs use age discrimination to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/employee-rights-labour-relations/1683766/despite-laws-intended-to-prevent-it-age-discrimination-abounds-in-2025
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters ever-increasing promote more hatred against Kirk because he promoted equal opportunity, that is, because he opposed race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2025/09/29/kirk-hero-civil-discourse-or-fount-division
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/09/29/defense-distasteful-faculty-speech-opinion
— Democrats leaders use minority and female college affinity programs to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/race-ethnicity/2025/09/29/students-alumni-rally-keep-cut-affinity-programs-alive
NEW YORKER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to infiltrate, infest, conquer, and destroy religion. How successful have Democrat leaders been in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-politics-of-faith-after-charlie-kirk
DAILY KOS
— DD: Virtually all government employees are Democrats or RINOs. In 1966, I was one of the last Republicans who the Post Office hired. In 1971, I was one of the last Republicans who IRS hired. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/28/2345622/-Republican-push-for-tips-on-Charlie-Kirk-posts-drives-firings-of-public-workers
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY MAIL
— Oklahoma to establish Turning Point USA chapter at every school in the state in wake of Charlie Kirk shooting. DD: Who is leading the effort to establish a Turning Point USA chapter in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15143383/Oklahoma-Turning-Point-USA-Charlie-Kirk.html
SKY NEWS
— Charlie Kirk’s movement is growing in the wake of his assassination – as is the chasm in US politics
https://news.sky.com/story/charlie-kirks-movement-is-growing-in-the-wake-of-his-assassination-as-is-the-chasm-in-us-politics-13438530
WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE
— Socialists say that “ICE agents brutalize protesters, retaliate against Broadview, Illinois.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/29/ctoc-s29.html
September 28, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS2
— Democrat leaders decry that “Pepper bullets, tear gas deployed during protest outside Broadview immigration facility.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/broadview-ice-protests-saturday/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/28/ice-arrests-chicago-enforcement-operation-midway-blitz-mental-health-immigrants
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/28/ice-arrests-chicago-immigration-mental-health-venezuela-anxieties
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leader ever-increasingly get faith leaders to promote more hatred against ICE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/ice-immigration-chicago-broadview-faith-leaders/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/letters-092825-ice-operations-immigration/
— DD: Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/opinion-jewish-high-holy-days-christian-nationalism/
— DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/opinion-affirmative-action-dei-admissions-colorblind/
— With mostly powerless voters, Illinois democracy hangs by an elongated thread. Gerrymandering is pernicious. Fair maps are essential.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/editorial-gerrymandering-fair-maps-elections-illinois-democracy/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn ICE and b) glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250927/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-feds-must-be-transparent-about-ice-operations-in-chicago-suburbs/
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Intense and intentional training is helping Democratic women gain state lawmaking seats
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/politics/article/intense-and-intentional-training-is-helping-21071484.php
KENDALL COUNTY NOW
— Charlie Kirk memorial in Yorkville
https://www.shawlocal.com/kendall-county-now/2025/09/27/a-revival-born-charlie-kirk-memorial-in-yorkville-darren-bailey-campaigns-for-governor/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With antisniper security on rooftops in downtown Yorkville for the Sept. 27 Charlie Kirk memorial, one speaker remarked it’s sad this is the current state of American political discourse. Organized by Kendall Action, a conservative fundraising PAC, the event was part sermon, “a revival born in Charlie Kirk’s name,” part rally, with Darren Bailey campaigning as a Republican candidate for governor. A unifying message shared by the crowd was that the Sept. 10 killing of Kirk by a sniper’s bullet took something personal away from each of them, something that touches their faith. “When we exchange ideas as a society, we win,” State Rep. Jed Davis, R-Newark, said to the crowd. “When you start to silence that opportunity, that God-given right the founders of this nation wrote into the Constitution, that we have the right to free speech, the right to have free and open dialogue, when that is silenced, the people lose.” Kicking off his election tour, Bailey, a former Republican state senator, called Kirk’s killing a tragic loss of “a great American treasure.” He brought up Abraham Lincoln’s prescient warning. “He warned that if we as America falter and lose our freedom, it won’t happen from outside our borders, but it will happen from within,” Bailey said during the rally. “We’ve got a governor who’s using all of this as rhetoric against us to make life more unsafe for us.” In an interview, Bailey was asked what can be done to tone down political violence. “We need to focus on the people that we’re electing, because we have to bring unity to this nation,” Bailey said. “We look for a stronger and different candidate to take that position, a leader who’s bold and courageous and desires unity instead of division.”)
QUAD CITIES ONLINE
— A look inside Quad-Cities voting precincts and how both sides of the river become more red
https://qconline.com/news/local/government-politics/collection_a5ee88db-8430-58d0-b4e1-74ce6e025243.html
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— White House names nearly 30 elected officials as alleged ICE agitators. DD: Pritzker is 3rd on the list, Ramirez is 7th.
https://newschannel20.com/news/nation-world/unhinged-crusade-white-house-releases-list-of-nearly-30-alleged-ice-agitators-president-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-walz-newsom-pritzker-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-dallas-texas-shooting
— Illinois SmartBuy program helps 533 new homeowners erase $16 million in student loans. DD: If I had gotten a student loan, my GPA would have been much higher and I would have gotten much better paying jobs. I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-smartbuy-program-helps-533-new-homeowners-erase-16-million-in-student-loans
LOCAL 12
— DuPage County GOP Chairman Kevin Coyne slammed after criticizing political stunt at punk festival
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/riot-fest-gwar-dupage-county-gop-chairman-kevin-coyne-slammed-as-dork-a-loser-after-criticizing-political-stunt-at-punk-festival-doge-cincinnati-department-government-efficiency-parody-account-controversy-absurdist-spectacle-art-music-american-culture
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A GOP chairman was slammed as a “dork *** loser” after he criticized a gruesome political stunt that occurred at “Riot Fest” in Chicago. DuPage County, Illinois GOP Chairman Kevin Coyne went viral on Monday after criticizing a gruesome political stunt at “Riot Fest” in a now-deleted post to X. Riot Fest ’25 occurred on September 19 through September 21 at Douglass Park in the City of Chicago. According to The New York Post, during a performance by GWAR, a metal band that was first formed back in 1984, band members performed a mock beheading of Elon Musk, as well as a mock killing of President Donald J. Trump. While the band is known for its grotesque stunts, several social media users voiced criticism due to the political environment in the United States following the assassination of conversative activist Charlie Kirk. “That’s not edgy, it’s grotesque and reckless and normalizes violence against a real person. This is not okay. Riot Fest and GWAR crossed a major line,” a social media user wrote, per The Post. Screenshots of the now-deleted post appear to show that Coyne, who was in attendance at Riot Fest, wrote the following in reaction to GWAR’s stunt: “Riot Fest, it’s always so …. Interesting. Could’ve done without all the politics from the stage but it was fun nonetheless. Apparently we can’t even go to concerts now without the political divide being tossed in our faces. We’ll still go back but it was obnoxious.” The screenshot appears to show that Coyne’s post was seen more than 2.5 million times before being deleted. The message is followed by an @ to an apparent parody Riot Fest account, which boasts more than 95,000 followers. The Riot Fest parody account responded to Coyne’s criticism, writing the following, according to a screenshot: “Shut the (expletive) up you dork (expletive) loser. Seriously some of the softest dumbest people on the internet.” After being accused of “normalizing violence,” a GWAR representative issued the following statement to the publication: “Normalizing violence? Humans don’t need GWAR for that. There is nothing normal about the Looney Toon violence acted out on a GWAR stage. GWAR is absurdist spectacle. GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous.” The Anonymous X account also chimed in on the discussion, writing the following: ““(Expletive) Elon Musk. Call the manager you (expletive) loser. It’s like you never heard of GWAR before you (expletive) p–y,” Riot Fest is a three-day festival that was first held in 2005, and is one of the largest independently-owned music festivals in the United States.)
POSITIVELY NAPERVILLE
— Public Safety Open House welcomed hundreds of families
https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2025/09/27/another-public-safety-open-house-welcomed-hundreds-of-families/153504
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Deep State Littlefinger James Comey With No Place to Hide
https://johnkassnews.com/deep-state-littlefinger-james-comey-has-no-place-to-hide/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Comments on Bailey Gubernatorial Campaign Rollout
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/27/comments-on-bailey-gubernatorial-campaign-rollout/
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Protesters removed by police after disrupting Charlie Kirk prayer rally in Wheaton. DD: When will the Daily Herald report on this event?
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/675484139-protesters-removed-by-police-after-disrupting-charlie-kirk-prayer-rally-in-wheaton
https://x.com/DuPageCountyGOP/status/1972019256188641431
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Police removed a small group of protesters Sunday night who disrupted a prayer rally in Wheaton honoring the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The event drew about 1,500 attendees and was organized by local church leaders and Decision Point USA. The prayer rally took place under the French Market Pavilion in downtown Wheaton. Organizers said the event was held to pray for revival in the city, schools, churches, and the nation. “In this moment of grief and urgency, we believe God is our only hope,” a flyer from Decision Point USA said. “Together, we will lift our voices and ask Him to raise up courageous leaders, heal our land and pour out His Spirit on the next generation.” The meeting was organized by leaders from four churches in the Wheaton area who said they believe this time is an opportunity for community revival. The rally, structured around Christian worship and calls for unity, was briefly disrupted when several protesters, some masked and carrying signs, began shouting during a moment of prayer. “Bruha started by the few but noisy and disrespectful protestors during the prayer at the Wheaton Charlie Kirk Memorial tonight,” user Babette Holder said in a Facebook post. Wheaton police responded and escorted the protesters from the area. The rally continued as planned, ending with hymns “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” and “In Christ Alone.” Photos from the event showed protesters holding signs with messages such as “Honoring Charlie Kirk = Honoring Racism, Bigotry, Misogyny” and “I do not support what happened to Charlie but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie.” One protester wore a shirt with “Palestine” printed on it, while another’s shirt displayed a profanity directed at President Donald Trump and his supporters. . .According to reports, the protesters were allegedly affiliated with Mutual Aid Dawning (MAD), a Glen Ellyn-based group formed during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Chicago. Those protests involved widespread property damage and arrests. MAD’s website describes the group as “intergenerational, largely non-religious and queer with sexualities and genders across the spectrum.” The group identifies with anti-capitalist and anti-colonial ideologies. The website includes political education materials referencing historical figures, including Mao Zedong. Critics have noted Mao’s legacy includes responsibility for millions of deaths and ongoing repression in China. MAD describes the suburban communities where it organizes as “highly resourced yet highly unengaged,” and states its goal is to challenge perceived complicity in systems of oppression. Though the protesters were few in number, their presence drew concern among attendees and organizers, who said the disruption highlighted a broader cultural and political divide. Breakthrough Ideas, an organization led by former state representative Jeanne Ives, responded to the event by calling for “more speech, not less,” and said Kirk’s vision based on constitutional and biblical principles must be defended publicly. “They’re hoping (Kirk’s) murder isn’t a real Turning Point in America,” the group said in a newsletter. “They hope people don’t start to evaluate the culture and realize that the Left has been feeding children, young adults, and even boomers progressive nonsense that debases society and breaks the social and constitutional contract that citizens in a free society should have with each other.”)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— GOP lawmaker calls for investigation after son’s high school celebrates ‘Bisexual Plus Awareness Week.’ DD: How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/us-news/iowa-rep-ashley-hinson-calls-for-department-of-education-to-investigate-iowa-high-school-after-it-celebrates-bisexual-plus-awareness-week/
— DD: Democrats and RINOs oppose meritocracy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/companies-hiring-less-diverse-executives-amid-anti-dei-pushback/ar-AA1x4QNl
AMERICAN THINKER
— Kirk’s assassin’s gun doesn’t have a serial number.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/kirk_s_assassin_s_gun_doesn_t_have_a_serial_number_oh_no.html
BREITBART
— Taxpayers Could End Up Footing the Bill for Obama Presidential Library
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/27/report-taxpayers-could-end-up-footing-bill-obama-presidential-library/amp/
— Leftist Chicago Teachers Union Honors Cop Killer Assata Shakur
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/09/27/leftist-chicago-teachers-union-honors-convicted-cop-killer-assata-shakur-as-revolutionary-fighter/amp/
CHRISTIAN POST
— The NAACP promotes racial lies and propaganda
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/the-naacp-promotes-racial-lies-and-propaganda-as-usual.html
FOX NEWS
— Utah receiving $1M in taxpayer dollars to ensure alleged Kirk assassin has qualified defense team
https://www.aol.com/news/utah-receiving-1m-taxpayer-dollars-011311177.html
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380203997112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ice-tactics-inflame-tensions-new-york-chicago-other-cities-2025-09-26/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrats decry Trump indicting Comey. While my Democrat IRS superiors never indicted me, they a) disallowed my travel vouchers when I was 25 years old in 1974 and b) disallowed my education deductions when I was 29 years old in 1978. The aforesaid adverse actions were not only career limiting, they were career ending. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. They took the aforesaid adverse actions against me because I had complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-comey-justice-department-james-schiff-309c573c2d9d16839afabb3af56ef2f8
NBC NEWS
— Trump orders troop deployments to protect ICE facilities
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/trump-orders-troop-deployments-to-protect-ice-facilities-248517701618
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters use their assignation of Kirk to promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/charlie-kirk-republican-reaction.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/charlie-kirk-democrats-religion.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/magazine/charlie-kirk-rhetoric.html
— DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/comey-indictment-justice-department.html
— DD: According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my 1970 NIU degree is worthless, my 1976 Loyola degree is worthless, my 1980 DePaul degree is worthless, and my 1997 IIT degree is worthless.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/opinion/college-admissions-seniors-stats.html
— Why Obamacare Bills May Double Next Year. Extensive subsidies that reduce premium costs for millions are set to expire, unless Congress extends them. DD: Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that because I was a federal employee, the federal government has paid 72% of my health care premiums. Since I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have been even more furious that because I was a federal employee, the federal government has paid 72% of my wife’s health care premiums.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/health/obamacare-cost-aca-health-insurance.html
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrats and RINOs support/promote Kirk critics.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/27/teachers-fired-charlie-kirk-lawsuits/86343546007/
PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE
— Young Republican voters in Pittsburgh area ‘galvanized’ after Charlie Kirk’s death
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-local/2025/09/28/charlie-kirk-college-students-gop-republican/stories/202509280079
NPR
— DD: The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you promote, the more that Democrats and RINOs call you an extremist.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/27/nx-s1-5553395/whats-changed-about-reporting-on-extremism-in-america
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters use their assignation of Kirk to promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/william-f-buckley-charlie-kirk-and-the-free-speech-right.html
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
SKY NEWS
— Charlie Kirk’s movement is growing in the wake of his assassination – as is the chasm in US politics
https://news.sky.com/story/charlie-kirks-movement-is-growing-in-the-wake-of-his-assassination-as-is-the-chasm-in-us-politics-13438530
OTHER SOURCES
MONEY TALKS NEWS
— 3 Ways Forced Retirement Makes Life Worse. Those pushed into retirement prematurely find the transition considerably more difficult.
https://www.moneytalksnews.com/slideshows/3-ways-forced-retirement-makes-life-worse/
LEE ERNST
— FOR SALE AT IRON GATE MOTOR CONDOS: 2244 Ferry Road # J103, Naperville – $650,000
https://leeernst.exprealty.com/holp/listing/103/12467615