Tag: DuPage

August 8, 2025

Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats pull out all the stops. Because Democrats cannot win without ever-increasing dependency on government and charity, Democrats pull out all the stops. Because Democrats cannot win without ever-increasing LGBTQ, Democrats pull out all the stops. Because Democrats cannot win without ever-increasing abortion, Democrats pull out all the stops. Because Democrats cannot win without ever-increasing mass/illegal immigration, Democrats pull out all the stops. Because Democrats cannot win without ever-increasing booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, Democrats pull out all the stops. Because Democrats cannot win without ever-increasing diminishment of Second Amendment rights, Democrats pull out all the stops. Because Democrats cannot win without ever-increasing race and gender based preference giving, Democrats pull out all the stops.

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump offers $50,000 bonuses to hire thousands for ICE push. $50,000 is a lot of money. When I was 22 years old in 1971, in today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $55,858/year. To get hired, I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn ICE, and therefore, they ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn ICE employees. My father never made more than $50k/year in today’s dollars.  He died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. He fought brittle type 1 diabetes from childhood. He was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never attended college because his doctors told him that the stress would kill him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/afternoon-briefing-trump-offers-50000-bonuses-to-hire-thousands-for-ice-push/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/angry-with-ice-protesters-disrupt-job-fair-at-congress-plaza-hotel/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: FBI agrees to help find Texas Democrats in Illinois, but Gov. JB Pritzker calls move ‘grandstanding.’ Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/fbi-to-help-find-texas-democrats-illinois/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Ramirez’s comments on her Guatemalan heritage draws backlash from conservatives, White House. In comments in Spanish at the second annual Panamerican Congress in Mexico City, Rameriz said, “ … I could say a few words in Spanish because I’m Guatemalan and proud of it — first, before American.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/08/06/delia-ramirez-congress-representative-america-guatemala-immigration
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that the Ku Klux Klan was Republican.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/08/07/ku-klux-klan-march-washington-dc-1925-centennial
— Democrat leaders shout at immigrants that Republicans cause all the problems that immigrants have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/07/trump-immigrants-dick-durbin-naturalization-ceremony-wrigely-field
— All Chicago police misconduct cases could be heard in secret if court sides with union. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized earlier, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, d) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/police-reform/2025/08/07/chicago-police-shooting-arbitration-misconduct-discipline-adam-toledo-cpd
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/08/08/cta-transgender-bus-driver-suicide-ava-hudson-blue-line
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/08/08/chicago-premier-aids-unit-illinois-masonic-hospital-trump-cripples-research

DAILY HERALD
— Rep. Amy Grant of Wheaton to step aside after current term
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250807/news/rep-amy-grant-of-wheaton-to-step-aside-after-current-term/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250807/news/underwood-ice-completely-unresponsive-after-enforcement-in-joliet/
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250807/transportation/krishnamoorthi-at-forefront-of-investigation-into-flock-license-plate-readers/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois NPR and PBS stations see donations surge after federal funding blow. My direct competitors are beyond furious that I have the time, money, experience, ability, and motivation needed to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out every morning free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. I should write about my direct competitors who have their operatives and their dupes do everything that they can a) to stop me from sending the newsletters out and b) to stop everyone from reading them.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marketing-media/npr-and-pbs-stations-illinois-see-donations-surge

ABC7
— Vance visits Indiana to talk about redrawing congressional maps as Trump’s redistricting fight grows
https://abc7chicago.com/post/vice-president-jd-vance-visits-indiana-talk-redrawing-congressional-maps-trumps-redistricting-fight-grows/17467234/
— Pfleger leads multi-faith protest outside Israeli Consulate of Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/rev-michael-pfleger-st-sabina-church-leads-multi-faith-chicago-protest-outside-israeli-consulate-loop/17466050/

CBS2
— Pritzker defends signing bill upping pension payouts for Chicago police, firefighters. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is dramatically less because my Democrat superiors wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-defends-bill-pension-payouts-chicago-police-firefighters/

FOX32
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1687623

WBEZ
— Reading GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters is the fastest, most comprehensive, and free way to stay informed about political and government news and commentary of interest to Illinois Republicans.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/07/01/news-headlines-giving-you-whiplash-tips-on-staying-informed-without-doomscrolling

SOUTHERN
— Trump orders new census excluding undocumented immigrants amid redistricting battles.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/07/trump-orders-new-census-excluding-undocumented-immigrants-amid-redistricting-battles/

WQAD
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/pritzkers-redistricting-comments-joke-colbert-spark-criticism/526-e313c739-c110-42d9-8ed8-f75ded9460cf

SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://southsideweekly.com/we-need-help-local-organizations-step-up-as-undocumented-immigrants-lose-state-health-coverage/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Bob Fioretti is running for Illinois attorney general on the Republican ticket. He’ll be featured next week at Republican Day at the state fair.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/08/power-plays-by-mike-quigley-brendan-reilly-00499437

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-564/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-357/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIZE
— Del Mar Inches Toward Governor Run, Dabrowski “Moving in a Good Direction”
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/delmar-inches-toward-governor-run

ILLINOIS REVIEW

— Kathy Salvi to Resign as State Party Chair — Proof IL GOP Isn’t Dying, It’s Dead. DIERSEN: Leading a political organization is a thankless job. I served as an officer of the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) 2003-2007 and as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. My critics/opponents ever-increasingly blamed ICRC and TAPROOT for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct suffered. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes not only end my aforesaid roles, they destroyed the aforesaid organizations. I should write about my critics/opponents. They demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being too conservative. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois. They have always been Democrat plants who have always done everything they could to destroy Republicans, and sooner or later, they will proudly proclaim that.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/sources-kathy-salvi-to-resign-as-state-party-chair-proof-il-gop-isnt-dying-its-dead.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Illinois Republican Party continues its spectacular freefall into irrelevance, struggling with internal divisions, dwindling support and an increasingly uncertain future. Now, multiple sources have confirmed to this publication that Illinois GOP Chairwoman Kathy Salvi – after just one year in the role – plans to step down this summer, following the State Fair. Salvi, who previously lost a congressional race in 2006 and a U.S. Senate bid in 2022, took over the embattled state party last July after then-chairman Don Tracy – known for his deep Democratic ties and opposition to Trump – resigned, citing the rise of a powerful grassroots movement in his resignation letter. Since taking over, the state party chairwoman has been largely ineffective, leading a GOP that remains dysfunctional and often undermines its own base by targeting conservative, Trump-supporting candidates with vicious mailers and negative ads during primary elections. In seven months, Salvi has overseen only one meeting of the state central committee, the GOP’s governing board. Top IL GOP donors have also chosen to sit out this upcoming primary election. Amid a vacuum of leadership, direction, infrastructure and fundraising capacity – major donors increasingly view Illinois Republican candidates as a risky – and ultimately unrewarding investment. Without the support of major donors, the Illinois GOP faces a daunting path forward. The party’s internal divisions and lack of clear leadership have eroded confidence among those who traditionally fuel campaigns, leaving Republicans severely outmatched in both resources and organization. In January, a retiring state senator endorsed Salvi’s son – a political unknown – to succeed him in the state legislature, sparking accusations of nepotism and favoritism. Sources confirmed to this publication that the state party chairwoman had been lobbying behind the scenes to secure the appointment for her son. The Salvi family has been involved in Illinois Republican politics for decades. Her husband, Al, an attorney, has run unsuccessfully for office three times – losing a congressional race in 1986, a U.S. Senate race in 1996, and a bid for Illinois Secretary of State in 1998. As the midterm elections draw near, Democrats are poised to maintain control of every statewide office and preserve their supermajority in the legislature. For Republicans, this election season underscores a hard truth: they’re not just losing elections – they’re losing structure. There’s no head coach, no assistant coaches – just a political free-for-all. Unless the state GOP unites behind the grassroots, rebuilds its infrastructure, and offers a compelling vision, it risks remaining sidelined in Illinois politics for decades. No names have emerged as Salvi’s successor – which comes as no surprise. Few want to take the helm of a struggling party lacking infrastructure, fundraising or a clear path forward.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— FBI will help find Texas Democrats in gerrymandering fight
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/7/fbi-help-find-texas-democrats-gerrymandering-fight/
— Trump turns tables on banks that cancel customers for political reasons
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/7/trump-turns-tables-banks-cancel-customers-political-reasons/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Chicago Is So Gerrymandered Its Main Airport Is Parking Backlogged Planes in Two Different Congressional Districts. Texas Democrats fled to the city in a private jet to oppose Republican gerrymandering.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/chicago-is-so-gerrymandered-its-main-airport-is-parking-backlogged-planes-in-two-different-congressional-districts/

NEW YORK POST
— Gerrymandering is driving US politics mad — Congress, step in. Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/07/opinion/gerrymandering-drives-us-politics-mad-congress-step-in/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump is right to call for a new census minus the illegals
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/trump_is_right_to_call_for_a_new_census_minus_the_illegals.html

BREITBART
— Consumers’ Research Calls for Investigation into DISH Network over Promotion of Woke Ideology
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/07/exclusive-consumers-research-calls-investigation-dish-network/

CENTER SQUARE
— While Democratic lawmakers from California to New York have threatened to redistrict in response to Texas’ redistricting efforts, state Rep. David Spiller, R-Jacksboro, says three states with Democratic majorities – California, New York and Illinois – already have unfair advantages.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-center-square-509740/4162642169932-texas-lawmaker-democratic-state-redistricting-efforts-created-unfair-advantages

COLLEGE FIX
— Because Democrats cannot win without the minority vote, Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Whites.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/whitelash-professors-say-white-students-get-angry-frustrated-by-anti-racist-education/
— Because Democrats cannot win without race and gender based preference giving, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-shuts-down-dei-office-cornell-renames-dei-office/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Orders ‘New And Highly Accurate’ Census Not Counting Illegal Migrants
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/07/trump-orders-illegals-out-of-census-count/

DAILY SIGNAL
— After Trump Order, Conservative Group Issues ‘Woke Alert’ for JPMorganChase. What does JPMorganChase think of you?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/07/exclusive-after-trump-order-conservative-group-issues-woke-alert-jpmorgan-chase/

DAILY WIRE
—  Join Now! $50k To Round Up Mexicans For ICE. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. He never made more than $50k/year in today’s dollars. He fought brittle type 1 diabetes from childhood. He was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never attended college because his doctors told him that the stress would kill him.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mks-ep-1788

FEDERALIST
— Illegal Aliens Rig The Census For Blue States, And Trump Is Right To Correct It
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/07/illegal-aliens-rig-the-census-for-blue-states-and-trump-is-right-to-correct-it/

FOX NEWS
— Mamdani takes aim at Trump saying his administration will be president’s ‘worst nightmare’  NYC socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani took shots at Trump and former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a Thursday press conference.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376660175112

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Trump Requiring Colleges to Prove Non-Race Based Admissions. “Greater transparency is essential to exposing unlawful practices and ultimately ridding society of shameful, dangerous racial hierarchies.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/trump-requiring-colleges-to-prove-non-race-based-admissions/

NEWSBUSTERS
— Legacy News Skips Proposed 2030 Census Not Counting Illegals
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/latino/jorge-bonilla/2025/08/08/omission-legacy-news-skips-proposed-2030-census-not-counting

REAL CLESR POLICY
— Because Democrats cannot win without race and gender based preference giving, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/08/07/why_dei_was_already_dying_1127461.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump ups aggressive redistricting war with call for new census
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5441978-trump-census-redistricting-war/

ABC NEWS
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gerrymandering-reshaped-political-map-red-blue-states/story?id=124383979
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/arnold-schwarzenegger-weighs-ramping-anti-gerrymandering-efforts/story?id=124444402
— FBI granted request to ‘locate’ fleeing Texas House Democrats, Sen. Cornyn says
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sen-cornyn-says-fbi-granted-141125108.html
— Texas Democrats plea for donations to extend their walkout and block Trump’s redistricting plan
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/texas-democrats-plea-donations-extend-walkout-block-trumps-124436171

NBC NEWS
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/gerrymandering-is-the-rot-at-the-core-of-politics-texas-democrat-says-244540485554
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/news/national-international/what-is-gerrymandering/6362388/

CBS NEWS
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-redistricting-plan-california-new-york-illinois-indiana/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Young adults are less likely to follow politics. If I had been involved in Republican politics a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966 would not have hired me, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 would not have hired me or promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 would not have hired me or promoted me in 1986.
https://apnews.com/article/voting-elections-economy-young-people-trump-politics-0cfb6066fad5798219f8a6fe6c25b694

NEWSWEEK
— Map Shows How Population Could Change in Each State Under New Census
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-how-population-could-change-each-state-under-new-census-2110255
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.newsweek.com/what-supreme-court-justices-said-about-gerrymandering-rucho-2109166

MSNBC
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weeknight/watch/-abuse-of-power-ny-gov-kathy-hochul-slams-gop-gerrymander-244553285651

MSN
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/is-gerrymandering-legal-texas-dispute-highlights-nation-s-long-history-of-it/ar-AA1JWjRg
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dems-gerrymandered-the-vote-beyond-recognition-stephen-miller/vi-AA1K3ePZ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/get-the-facts-redistricting-or-gerrymandering/ar-AA1K2Odw
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-is-gerrymandering-why-is-it-legal/ar-AA1JYjSI
— Because Democrats cannot win without race and gender based preference giving, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/trump-orders-colleges-to-release-data-proving-they-don-t-consider-race-in-admissions/ar-AA1K7HO0

REUTERS
— Because Democrats cannot win without race and gender based preference giving, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-signs-memo-requiring-universities-disclose-admissions-data-race-2025-08-07/

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Trump to Sign Order Requiring Universities Disclose Admissions Data on Race. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, universities have always bragged about the number of minorities and females that they admitted instead of Whites and males.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-08-07/trump-to-sign-order-requiring-universities-disclose-admissions-data-on-race

NEW YORK TIMES
— Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Full Military Takeover of Gaza
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-military-offensive.html
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/redistricting-states.html
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/opinion/happiness-community-wealth.html
— Trump Administration Begins to Strip Federal Workers of Union Protections. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized earlier, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, d) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/trump-federal-workers-unions.html
— Trump Escalates a Fight Over How to Measure Merit in American Education. President Trump’s most recent executive order wades into a debate over how elite colleges should weigh grades and test scores versus the obstacles students have overcome. What obstacles did you have to overcome? I was not viewed as being college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I washed dishes during my junior and senior years and the summer in between. 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-merit-affirmative-action-colleges.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/07/texas-gerrymandering-democrats-nuclear-cold-war/
— Trump orders colleges to prove they don’t consider race in admissions. Since the 1960s, everyone above me has been under ever-increasing pressure to give more preference to those who do not share my demographics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/08/07/trump-race-college-admissions-executive-order/4e8ca8a4-73ae-11f0-84e0-485bb531abeb_story.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-07/california-redistricting-texas-redrawn-congressional-districts-bad-news-republicans

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders claim to speak for Gen Z men.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/08/06/trump-jeffrey-epstein-gen-z-republican-voters/85513159007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/08/trump-publishes-sanctuary-immigration-jurisdiction-list/85543980007/
— More than half of U.S. workers recently surveyed say they feel some anxiety about taking all the paid time off they’re entitled to – and a third of them say they’re pressured not to use all of their PTO. About 9% of workers said their employers actively discourage them from taking all the time off they’re owed. My Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasing pressured me to not take the PTO that I earned.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/07/17/why-employees-wont-take-time-off-pto/85237125007/
— Black unemployment. From the beginning, ever-increasingly, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted a) that all the jobs I had were bad jobs and b) they all those jobs should have been given to Blacks.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/05/black-unemployment-up-slower-labor-market-economy/85467628007/

PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE
— Because Democrats cannot win without race and gender based preference giving, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/ceos-who-cut-dei-initiatives-miscalculated-market-impact/article_2755b8ee-d80f-4939-91d3-664c1fcbbaa9.html

UNION LEADER
— Because Democrats cannot win without race and gender based preference giving, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/teachers-union-advocacy-groups-sue-state-over-dei-ban/article_978cfc8c-2d40-4658-8aaf-043fbd069735.html

BOSTON GLOBE
— More White workers are suing over racial bias. To get more votes from minorities, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Whites.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/08/business/kate-merrill-wbz-white-workers/

SACREMENTO BEE
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article311608507.html

FRESNO BEE
— Because Democrats cannot win without race and gender based preference giving, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article311119480.html

DESERET NEWS
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2025/08/07/not-the-first-gerrymandering-battle/
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/08/07/utah-lawmakers-on-federal-gerrymandering-ban/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/who-going-to-win-the-gerrymander-wars/75556160-e007-43fb-b3cb-74e3ee02f986
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gerrymandering-deepens-the-political-divide-903e24b2
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-gerrymander-flub-state-maps-redistricting-36b0b08f

BLOOMBERG
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-07/california-dives-into-texas-gerrymandering-game
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-07/newsom-and-democrats-fight-gerrymandering-do-they-mean-it
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/new-hampshire-anti-dei-law-hit-with-constitutional-challenge

FORBES
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/08/07/texas-battle-triggers-national-gerrymandering-war-these-states-could-redistrict-next/

POLITICO
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/07/daniels-interview-00497577
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/07/republicans-are-full-steam-ahead-on-redistricting-and-not-just-in-texas-00496450

AXIOS
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/07/democrats-redistricting-new-york-california-trump

ATLANTIC
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/08/texas-districts-gerrymandering/683793/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Because Democrats cannot win without race and gender based preference giving, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/08/08/how-leaders-are-keeping-dei-work-alive-opinion
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2025/08/08/teaching-about-class-post-dei-era-opinion
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-universities-can-move-dei-backlash-breakthrough
https://www.highereddive.com/news/trump-orders-college-admissions-research-grants/757166/

HR  BREW
— Because Democrats cannot win without race and gender based preference giving, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025/08/07/new-doj-guidance-on-dei-includes-a-subtle-warning-on-employee-resource-groups

BROOKINGS
— Because Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering, Democrats will pull out all the stops.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-texas-gerrymandering-battle-could-impact-the-midterms/

BRENNAN CENTER
— To elect more Black and Hispanic candidates to Congress, Democrat leaders create Black Congressional Districts and Hispanic Congressional Districts. Their Illinois 3rd Congressional District is one of their Hispanic Congressional Districts.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/gerrymandering-explained

REMAX
— FOR SALE IN MY PRECINCT: 821 Plamondon Road in Wheaton – $949,900
https://ronlewis.remax.com/holp/listing/103/12426295

GUARDIAN
— By their forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, so far, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/07/air-force-transgender-retirement-military

August 7, 2025

For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Rhonda Belford: Democrats can’t fight for democracy in Texas while undermining it in Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/opinion-illinois-gerrymandering-texas-redistricting/
(FROM THE LETTER: Gov. JB Pritzker is once again talking about gerrymandering — just not in Illinois. This week, he welcomed Texas Democratic legislators to Oakwood, Illinois, to denounce Republican redistricting efforts in that state. But while Pritzker lectures red states about fairness, he continues to ignore the glaring problems in his own backyard. Don’t forget that in 2021, Pritzker signed one of the most blatantly and aggressively gerrymandered congressional maps in the country, drawn and passed by his own party. The map created districts with lines that make my grandchildren’s scribblings look like Pablo Picasso’s. It’s a stark contrast from when Pritzker was on the campaign trail. He promised to veto any map that was “in any way drafted or created by legislators, political party leaders and/or their staffs or allies.” Pritzker campaigned with a message of hope and fairness and moving past Democrats’ history of corruption. Then, at his first opportunity, Pritzker broke that promise without hesitation. “Fairness” wasn’t on Illinois Democrats’ minds. Now, as he positions himself to run for president, Pritzker is outraged. While standing on his giant soapbox and projecting his moral authority, he floated the idea of redrawing even more favorable maps in Illinois. That’s not democratic leadership; it’s partisan gamesmanship. That map gave Democrats a clear advantage in 14 of Illinois’ 17 congressional districts and earned an “F” for fairness from the nonpartisan Princeton Gerrymandering Project. The maps weren’t an accident. They deliberately cut out two Republican-leaning seats and helped lock in Democratic control. Let that sink in: The same man who signed, supported and pushed one of the worst partisan gerrymanders in the nation is now upset that other states are following his lead. Instead of looking in the mirror or pushing for national changes, Pritzker responds by threatening additional partisan moves that will continue to divide our state. Illinois families deserve better. They deserve fair representation, not districts drawn in backrooms to silence opposition and insulate power. When maps are rigged to favor one party, voters lose faith in our elections and our country’s founding principles. The truth is, with Democratic supermajorities in Springfield, there’s no one who can force Illinois Democrats to do the right thing and clean up partisan games — they need to do it themselves. If Pritzker truly wants to lead on voting rights and gerrymandering, he should start by honoring the promise he made to Illinois voters: to support an independent redistricting commission and end partisan gerrymandering in our state. The phrase “fix your own house before criticizing your neighbor” has never been more apt. And until Pritzker refuses to rein in Illinois’ partisan splintering map, his lectures about Texas ring hollow. Gerrymandering matters, and both Republicans and Democrats should do their part in making sure that there is a system that doesn’t play political games. But our country won’t learn how to draw better maps from the man who inked Illinois’ most gerrymandered script. Until then, his speeches about fairness will continue to ring hollow. You can’t fight for democracy in Texas while undermining it in Illinois. The phrase “fix your own house before criticizing your neighbor” has never been more apt. And until Pritzker refuses to rein in Illinois’ partisan splintering map, his lectures about Texas ring hollow. Gerrymandering matters, and both Republicans and Democrats should do their part in making sure that there is a system that doesn’t play political games. But our country won’t learn how to draw better maps from the man who inked Illinois’ most gerrymandered script. Before our governor lectures Texas on fairness, he should take a long, hard look at his own record — and start living up to the promises he made to the people of Illinois. Rhonda Belford is an Illinois Republican national committeewoman and president of the Republican County Chairmen’s Association of Illinois. She leads the 12th District State Central Committee.)
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/gov-jb-pritzker-colbert-texas-dems/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/immigrant-detention-indianapolis-speedway/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/latest-federal-sanctuary-list-chicago-illinois-cook-county/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump dismisses civil rights, fair housing cases in Chicago to focus on ‘real concerns’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/08/06/trump-general-iron-housing-environmental-racism
— Vance heading to Indiana, expected to push for redistricting ahead of midterms. The vice president will meet with Indiana Gov. Mike Braun to discuss redistricting the 1st and 7th congressional districts. The visit comes as Texas Democrats have taken refuge in the Chicago suburbs amid a similar effort in Texas.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/06/jd-vance-indiana-remap-bid-gov-mike-braun-meeting-midterms

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250807/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-too-much-to-ask-illinois-officials-please-keep-our-voter-data-private/

ABC7
— Trump announces Apple investing another $100 billion in US manufacturing
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-will-highlight-apples-plans-invest-100-billion-more-us-raising-total-600/17453133/
— Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/senator-dick-durbin-join-texas-democrats-illinois-halt-redistricting-effort/17449674/

NBC5
— Homeland Security removes age limits for ICE recruits to boost hiring for Trump deportations. Currently, ICE applicants must be 21 years old and no older than 37 or 40, depending on what position they are applying for. I have ever-increasingly fought age discrimination since I was 25 in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors used “up-or-out” to deem me too old to ever be promoted to GS-13. I finally made GS-13 when I was 38, but not until after I a) earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/homeland-security-age-limits-ice-recruits-deportations/3805515/?amp

FOX32
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1687252
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1686683

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/08/06/immigrants-deportations-shrinking-health-care-workforce

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— In Illinois, Democrat leaders have had their greatest success gerrymandering.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/06/gerrymandering-in-illinois-is-it-legal-stephen-colbert-pritzker-redistricting-district-map/85543930007/
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/07/pritzker-said-fleeing-texas-legislators-are-welcome-in-illinois/85551253007/

STATELINE
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/colbert-pritzker-redistricting-maps/

WGLT
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-08-06/gov-pritzker-says-illinois-could-retaliate-if-gop-redistricts-in-texas

WRIC
— Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/texas-democrats-who-fled-to-illinois-forced-to-evacuate-hotel-after-bomb-threat/

WAND TV
— Indiana plans to hold up to 1,000 illegal immigrants in ‘The Speedway Slammer’
https://www.wandtv.com/news/indiana-plans-to-hold-up-to-1-000-illegal-immigrants-in-the-speedway-slammer/article_54d196be-5f59-5636-be2a-ffb18926e5d8.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump’s immigration policies are having an impact in our workforce. With fewer illegals, wages will increase.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-06/trumps-immigration-policies-are-having-an-impact-in-our-workforce
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-05/the-politics-driving-the-push-for-gerrymandering
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-06/how-the-trump-administration-is-rolling-back-access-to-birth-control-in-the-u-s
— Trump calls for U.S. census to exclude for the first time people with no legal status
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-07/trump-calls-for-u-s-census-to-exclude-for-the-first-time-people-with-no-legal-status

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders prefer foreign students over American students.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-what-to-know-as-trumps-immigration-crackdown-strips-tuition-breaks-from-thousands-of-students/

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/city-council-set-to-approve-third-round-of-cannabis-grants-20546631

ILLINOIZE
— Rep. Amy Grant Won’t Seek Re-Election
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/sources-rep-amy-grant-wont
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Multiple sources say Rep. Amy Grant (R-Wheaton) one of the House GOP’s most perennially endangered incumbents won’t seek re-election in 2026. Grant did not return a phone call from The Illinoize, but we’re told she has informed many of her colleagues of her plans. She was elected in 2018 to the Wheaton-based district and has overcome hard charging Democrat challenges in the past three election cycles. After being vastly outspent in 2024, she won re-election by 292 votes. No word yet on who Republicans hope to see the seat. Democrats appear high on their candidate, Wheaton Village Trustee Erica Bray-Parker.)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-563/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-356/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
—  If Texas Republicans succeed, their map will still not be as lopsided as the current map in Illinois.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_ba674a0c-cb0e-4fde-a52e-f15de7657e6b.html
— Feds warn Illinois State University on race-based diversity.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_12efb416-dfa1-4ef0-9cc8-beffe414f4eb.html

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Voter Fraud Is Real — Just Ask This Convicted Democrat Operative
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/08/voter-fraud-is-real-just-ask-this-convicted-democrat-operative/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Opting Out of Controversial Public School Content
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/opting-out-of-controversial-public-school-content/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Over half of Illinoisans unhappy with Pritzker
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/over-half-of-illinoisans-unhappy-with-pritzker/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Texas Democrats Go Into Hiding at St. Charles Hotel Amid Arrest Threat From Gov. Abbott
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/texas-democrats-go-into-hiding-at-st-charles-hotel-amid-arrest-threat-from-gov-abbott.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— NYC opens first taxpayer-funded transgender homeless shelter in US: ‘Progressive political theater’
https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/us-news/nyc-opens-63m-taxpayer-funded-transgender-homeless-shelter/
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://nypost.com/video/gerrymander-much-democrats-red-hot-takes/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Ramirez desperately tries to undo her America second statement
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/06/congresswoman-desperately-tries-to-undo-her-america-second-statement-thats-not-what-you-said-1574114/
— Stanford student newspaper sues Trump because some of the writers fear deportation
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/06/stanford-student-newspaper-sues-trump-because-some-of-the-writers-fear-deportation-1574146/

BREITBART
— Abbott Files Lawsuit to Start Removal ‘Derelict Democrat Texas House Members’ Who Fled State to Block Redistricting Bill
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/08/06/abbott-files-lawsuit-to-start-removal-derelict-democrat-texas-house-members-who-fled-state-to-block-redistricting-bill/
— Dem TX State Rep. Jones Compares Congressional Redistricting to the Holocaust
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/05/dem-tx-state-rep-jones-compares-congressional-redistricting-to-the-holocaust/

DAILY CALLER
— Liberal Media Dutifully Ignoring Illinois’ Blatant Gerrymandering Hypocrisy
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/06/liberal-media-dutifully-ignoring-illinois-blatant-gerrymandering-hypocrisy/
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/06/texas-democrats-redistricting-gerrymandering-illinois-ron-hart/
— Noem announced in a Fox & Friends interview on Wednesday that ICE is ending its age cap for officer applications. I have ever-increasingly fought age discrimination since I was 25 years old in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors used “up-or-out” to deem me too old to ever be promoted to GS-13. I finally made GS-13 when I was 38, but not until after I a) earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/06/kristi-noem-announces-end-of-age-cap-for-ice-applications/

DAILY WIRE
— Mr. Hypocrisy: Pritzker Bashes Texas Maps, Forgets His Own Power Grabs In Illinois
https://www.dailywire.com/news/mr-hypocrisy-pritzker-bashes-texas-maps-forgets-his-own-power-grabs-in-illinois

FEDERALIST
— Dems Furious At Prospect Of Losing Their Monopoly On Gerrymandering
https://thefederalist.com/videos/purnell-dems-furious-at-prospect-of-losing-their-monopoly-on-gerrymandering/

FOX NEWS
— Pritzker defies FBI: ‘Unwelcome’ to pursue Texas Democratic lawmakers. Pritzker argues no federal law broken as Republicans seek arrests over Texas redistricting stalemate.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-governor-defies-fbi-unwelcome-pursue-texas-democratic-lawmakers
— Shouldn’t members of Congress love America first? Not if you’re a Democrat. Rep. Delia Ramirez didn’t just celebrate her Guatemalan roots. Before world leaders, she elevated the country that her parents fled above the nation she was elected to represent.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/06/democrats-delia-ramirez-guatemala-anti-america/85522222007/
— Trump DOJ to fight ‘race-based gerrymandering,’ Dhillon says amid Texas redistricting battle. Texas redistricting battle began with DOJ push to ensure state’s districts were in line with federal voting rights laws. Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District is race-based gerrymandering.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-trump-doj-fight-race-based-gerrymandering-dhillon-says-amid-texas-redistricting-battle
— Colbert confronts Pritzker with map showing Illinois gerrymandering. ‘It’s like a stinger on a scorpion,’ Colbert said of one Illinois district
https://www.foxnews.com/media/colbert-confronts-jb-pritzker-map-showing-illinois-gerrymandering
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376614530112
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/colbert-confronts-jb-pritzker-map-120007545.html
— Dems wanted to draw every Republican out of Maryland but now lambast Texas redistricting. The ‘Patapsco Pterodactyl’ formed as part of a Democratic push to oust Republicans through redistricting.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-wanted-draw-every-republican-out-maryland-now-lambast-texas-redistricting
— Dems gerrymandered the vote beyond recognition
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376637385112
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dems-gerrymandered-the-vote-beyond-recognition-stephen-miller/vi-AA1K3ePZ
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-labels-texas-redistricting-push-a-power-grab-undermines-our-democracy
— Trump administration arrests ‘worst of the worst’ criminal illegal immigrants in enforcement sweep. Five men with convictions for firearm possession, burglary, child indecency and drug distribution targeted.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-administration-arrests-worst-worst-criminal-illegal-immigrants-enforcement-sweep

NATIONAL REVIEW
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/gerrymandering-meh/
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-gops-gerrymandering-battle-goes-national/

NEWSBUSTERS
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/08/06/colbert-lets-pritzker-dodge-question-illinois-gerrymandering
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/08/06/tapper-claims-gop-worst-offenders-when-it-comes

NEWSMAX
— ‘Speedway Slammer’ will get illegals out of here quickly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmAEdIzm2No

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Porter: We Welcome Texas Dems Bringing Attention to Absurd Illinois Gerrymandering
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/06/porter_we_welcome_texas_dems_bringing_attention_to_absurd_illinois_gerrymandering.html
—  Pritzker’s Presidential Ambitions Are Sinking Him at Home
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jb-pritzkers-presidential-ambitions-sinking-110541880.html

TOWNHALL
— Home Depot Hide-and-Seek
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/08/06/ice-raids-la-home-depot-foot-chases-ensue-n2661487

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Illinois Gov Admits State’s Congressional Map Looks Like It Was Drawn by a ‘Kindergarten Class’
https://www.westernjournal.com/illinois-gov-admits-states-congressional-map-looks-like-drawn-kindergarten-class/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— It’s Pritzker’s party: Hell yes, he’s messing with Texas, and he’s not sorry.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5437052-its-pritzkers-party-hell-yes-hes-messing-with-texas-and-hes-not-sorry/
— Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote hatred against Republicans
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5438788-texas-democrats-bomb-threat-illinois/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pritzker to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5438411-jb-pritzker-donald-trump-texas-redistricting-midterms/
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5436443-trump-abbott-gerrymandering-texas/
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5440204-pritzker-law-texas-democrats-arrest/

NBC NEWS
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/redistricting-important-3-charts-rcna223163

CBS NEWS
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/history-gerrymandering-us-politics/

CNN
— White House plans increase in federal law enforcement in DC over crime as Trump threatens to bring in National Guard
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/politics/national-guard-washington-dc-crime-trump

MSNBC
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weeknight/watch/-this-is-bigger-than-texas-tx-congressman-warns-of-nationwide-gerrymandering-threats-244488773529

MSN
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/jb-pritzker-refuses-to-rule-out-gerrymandering-in-illinois-because-gop-has-thrown-the-rule-book-out/ar-AA1K017U

NEWSWEEK
— Illinois Removes Nearly 700,000 People From Health Care Plan
https://www.newsweek.com/illinois-removes-nearly-700000-people-health-care-plan-2109093
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.newsweek.com/illinois-jb-pritzker-texas-democrats-fbi-trump-2109980

NEW YORK TIMES
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/redistricting-states.html
— Trump Announces Additional $100 Billion Apple Investment in U.S.  The White House said the pledge would bring more of the company’s supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/trump-apple-investment.html
— Columbia and Brown to Disclose Admissions and Race Data in Trump Deal. A widely overlooked part of a settlement with the two universities could profoundly alter how elite schools determine who gets accepted. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly crowed about their success in hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. That is, they ever-increasingly crowed about their success in not hiring, not retaining, and not promoting Republicans who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. By the time my GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, all of my Chicago office superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/nyregion/columbia-brown-admissions-trump.html
— My critics/opponents had parents who had lots of money. They bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. With the money that I earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air when was 16 in 1964. With the money that I earned delivering newspapers and washing dishes, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966. With the money that I earned cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, and delivering mail, I paid for my UIC and NIU college expenses and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967 and a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/upshot/trump-college-admissions-race-wealth.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape. Fort Bliss is preparing to detain at least 1,000 undocumented immigrants starting this month on the Mexican border.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/07/trump-fort-bliss-migrants-detention/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-08-06/essential-california-house-gerrymander-challenge

BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrats can’t gerrymander themselves out of their gerrymandering problem
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/opinion/gerrymandering-democrats-house-districts/

TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Homan Rips Ramirez For Declaring Allegiance To Guatemala
https://www.tampafp.com/border-czar-tom-homan-rips-illinois-rep-ramirez-for-declaring-allegiance-to-guatemala/

KANSAS CITY STAR
— New Plan to Eliminate DEI Influence at Naval Academy. In my defense, notwithstanding tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI pressure on my superiors in the federal government, a) I survived for almost 3 years working for the Democrats who ran the Post Office, b) I survived for almost 9 years working for the Democrats who ran IRS and even got promoted to GS-12 Step 5, currently $112,280/year, and c) I survived for almost 18 years working for the Democrats who ran GAO and even got promoted to GS-13 Step 10, currently $153,151/year.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-city-star-1592484/4160113274198-new-plan-to-eliminate-dei-influence-at-naval-academy

WCBM
— Ramirez Says She’s More Proud to Be Guatemalan Than American. I am 100% German American. Many, if not most, if not virtually all of my critics/opponents are anti-German American, if not German-American-haters. In my defense, I stress that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-f.
https://wcbm.com/national-headline/democrat-congresswoman-says-shes-more-proud-to-be-guatemalan-than-american/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Gerrymandering and Pritzker’s Inferno. Democrats’ hypocrisy is worthy of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gerrymandering-and-jb-pritzkers-inferno-5a12ade2
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gerrymandering-deepens-the-political-divide-903e24b2

BLOOMBERG
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-06/the-texas-gerrymandering-fight-could-ignite-a-national-fire?embedded-checkout=true

NPR
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493278/texas-redistricting-map-democrats-counter

FINDLAW
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/federal-courts/210649/

ATLANTIC
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/democrats-redistricting-republicans-gerrymandering-texas/683775/

NEW REPUBLIC
— I never did farm work. But I did do yard work, deliver newspapers, wash dishes, clean golf shoes, chip slag, pump gasoline, deliver mail, work on an automotive assembly line, sell tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pump more gasoline, collect delinquent federal taxes, and audit federal agencies. My critics/opponent ever-increasingly make it clear that they would never have stooped to take the jobs that I took. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198834/trump-undocumented-immigrants-naturally-made-work-farms

HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservative groups. I should write about the following who demonized, denigrated, and condemned the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois the most: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. The aforesaid succeeded in destroying ICRC in 2007 and TAPROOT in 2012.
https://www.aol.com/emil-bove-consulted-far-legal-191800961.html

ROLLING STONE
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/gerrymandering-texas-republicans-map-trump-explained-1235401621/

INC.
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/workplace-diversity-and-social-programs-thrive-by-going-undercover/91223812

MS. MAGAZINE
— To get more votes from minorities, females, younger people, poor people, LGBTQers, non-married people, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those who have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, illegals, etc., Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy Whites, males, older people, non-poor people, heterosexuals, married people, Protestants, German Americans, those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, citizens of America, etc.
https://msmagazine.com/2025/08/06/men-mental-health-crisis-boys-trump-vance-violent-suicide-drugs/

GUARDIAN
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/06/supreme-court-texas-redistricting-gerrymandering

August 6, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Words matter when you’re elected to represent America, Congresswoman Ramirez
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-words-matter-elected-represent-100000284.html
(FROM THE EDITORIAL When a member of Congress publicly declares allegiance to another country over the United States, it’s bound to raise eyebrows — and for good reason. That’s what happened when U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez, speaking at an event in Mexico City, said: “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.” Ramirez, whose district stretches from DuPage County to Chicago’s Northwest Side, has since attempted to clarify her intent, saying on X that “honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens my commitment to America.”)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/05/texas-california-trump/
— Dangerous car crashes are being perpetuated by cannabis.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/column-car-crash-weed-new-buffalo-michigan-washington/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Hamas.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/opinion-israel-gaza-palestinians-jewish-harm/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Gov. JB Pritzker riffs on his wealth and staying out of prison in Stephen Colbert appearance. Stephen Colbert told Pritzker he’d be the first Democratic governor in Illinois to finish two terms by next January, because “a lot of them end up in the hoosegow.” Pritzker said, “It’s extraordinary to stay out of prison.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/08/06/gov-jb-pritzker-stephen-colbert-late-show
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2025/07/28/chicago-queen-utica-drag-race-alum-project-runway-ethan-mundt

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250806/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-political-power-plays-as-texas-redistricting-farce-unfolds-in-the-suburbs-we/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1686131
— Trump threatens to take federal control of DC
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-threatens-federal-control-dc-edward-coristine-attacked
— Trump targets visa overstays with $15,000 bond policy. The buyer of my Iron Gate Motor Condo forced me to put $10,000 in escrow to give me up to 5 days to get my vehicles out after closing.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1686211
—  The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the Clintons for testimony regarding Epstein
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/comer-subpoenas-clintons-trumps-doj-house-oversights-epstein-probe

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/05/texas-democrats-continue-hold-out-illinois-amid-redistricting-fight-we-are-standing

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/08/05/rapid-response-team-helps-families-find-trans-health-care-in-illinois

WMBQ
— Republican eyes run for state’s top office. Ted Dabrowski is strongly considering a run for governor.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-eyes-run-for-state-s-top-office/vi-AA1JTio3

IPM NWSROOM
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/gov-pritzker-says-illinois-remap-is-possible-as-dnc-chair-vows-to-fight-texas-gop-efforts-tooth-and-nail/

AXIOS CHICAGO
— Pritzker says redistricting Illinois could happen if Texas continues push. How fast could Pritzker redistrict Illinois so that no Republican will ever be elected to Congress in Illinois ever again? Republican Trump got 44% of the vote in Illinois in 2024.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/08/05/texas-illinois-pritzker-redistricting-abbott-democrats-republicans-trump

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, who oversees the suburban areas where the Texans have been holing up, said he’s fielded calls nonstop from the public wanting to know why he hasn’t arrested the Texas visitors. “I tell them it’s because this is a civil case. They aren’t criminals,” Mendrick, a Republican running for governor of Illinois, told your Playbook host. “People hear the rhetoric and that’s when the calls come in.” We wonder if one of those calls came from the Illinois Freedom Caucus, which issued a statement Tuesday calling for Pritzker “to focus on Illinois instead of harboring Texas fugitives.” . . . With Richard Porter deciding not to run for U.S. Senate, watch for former GOP Chair Don Tracy to jump in. He’s also considered a run for governor. We’ll surely find out by next week when Republicans gather for the annual Republicans Day rally at the Fair on Aug. 14. Republican Ted Dabrowski continues to talk like a governor candidate.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-562/
— A Naperville woman has accused DuPage County GOP Chair Kevin Coyne of alleged bullying and sexual harassment
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/06/isabel%E2%80%99s-morning-briefing-562/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— DuPage County GOP chairman Kevin Coyne: ‘No state has done more to make a mockery of the map drawing process’ than Illinois
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/674224333-dupage-county-gop-chairman-no-state-has-done-more-to-make-a-mockery-of-the-map-drawing-process-than-illinois

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ramirez is my U.S. Representative because Illinois Democrat leaders gerrymandered a congressional district to elect her. Ramirez represents only those who share her demographics: anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, minority, female, younger, non-Methodist, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois hosting Texas Dems worried about gerrymandering? What hypocrisy.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-hosting-texas-dems-worried-about-gerrymandering-what-hypocrisy-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
— There simply aren’t enough new, good jobs in Illinois
https://wirepoints.org/there-simply-arent-enough-new-good-jobs-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Texas Republicans give Democrats until Friday to return to the Legislature or lose their seats
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/5/texas-republicans-give-democrats-three-days-return-legislature-lose/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Beto O’Rourke’s PAC Funded Texas Dems’ Private Jet to Illinois. O’Rourke, who has lost campaigns for governor, president, and Senate, helped finance a similar walkout in 2021.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/now-we-know-beto-orourkes-pac-funded-texas-dems-private-jet-to-illinois/

NEW YORK POST
— Key Trump national security roles left vacant due to Dem obstruction — leaving US vulnerable to threats
https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/us-news/key-trump-national-security-roles-left-vacant-due-to-dem-obstruction-leaving-us-vulnerable-to-threats/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Ramirez declares her loyalty to Guatemala first at a Mexican leftist gathering
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/rep_delia_ramirez_calls_herself_a_proud_guatemalan_first_at_mexican_leftist_gathering.html

BREITBART
— Dem TX Rep Says Illinois’ Gerrymandering Is Different Because It’s Legal
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/04/dem-tx-rep-illinois-gerrymandering-is-different-because-its-legal/
— Trump says “We Want to Take Care of Our American Workers.” But what about Americans who ever-increasingly fail/refuse to take bad jobs like I did? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, delivered mail, worked on an automotive assembly line, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumped more gasoline, collected delinquent federal taxes, and audited federal agencies. My critics/opponent ever-increasingly make it clear that they would never have stooped to take the jobs that I took. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/05/trump-olympics-eo-signing-dropoff-foreign-born-workers/
— Trump Deputies Declare Crackdown on Migrant Marriage Fraud
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/05/trump-deputies-declare-crackdown-on-migrant-marriage-fraud/

DAILY CALLER
— Anchor Baby Congresswoman Ramirez Admits To Treason
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/05/rooke-anchor-baby-congresswoman-treason-daca-dreamer-delia-ramirez-illegal-immigration-mexico-city-summit/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Noem Announces ‘Speedway Slammer’ Illegal-Alien Detention Center in Indiana
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/05/noem-announces-speedway-slammer-illegal-alien-detention-center-indiana/

FEDERALIST
— 41 Planned Parenthood Facilities And Counting Set To Close As Trump Defunds Abortion Giant
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/05/41-planned-parenthood-facilities-and-counting-set-to-close-as-trump-defunds-abortion-giant/

FOX NEWS
— Social media erupts after Ramirez makes ‘shocking’ comment about America during overseas trip. Ramirez defended her comment in a statement.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/social-media-erupts-after-house-dem-makes-shocking-comment-about-america-overseas-trip
— Ramirez doubles down amid firestorm of criticism over Guatemalan loyalty: ‘I am both Chapina and American’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-doubles-down-amid-firestorm-criticism-guatemalan-loyalty-both-chapina-american
https://www.aol.com/dem-doubles-down-amid-firestorm-101618605.html

LEGAL INSURRECTON
— Ramirez Doubles Down on ‘Proud Guatemalan Before I’m an American’ Comments. Ramirez also described America as a country out of the freaking 1500s, accusing it of prioritizing ‘imperialism, militarization, conquest, control, competition in its attempt at domination.’
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/house-democrat-doubles-down-on-proud-guatemalan-before-im-an-american-comments/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Ramirez says she is proudly Guatemalan
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/congresswoman-delia-ramirez-forfeited-her-guatemalan-ness/

NEWSMAX
— Ramirez Draws Ire Over Guatemala Pride Comment
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/delia-ramirez-guatemala-immigration/2025/08/05/id/1221309/

PJ MEDIA
— Canadian Wokies Can Choose Only Male or Female on U.S. Travel Cards
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/08/05/canadian-wokies-can-choose-only-male-or-female-to-enter-us-n4942426

POST MILLENNIAL
— Columbia, Brown universities to disclose affirmative action admissions data in Trump deal. Data will be broken down by “race, color, grade point average and performance on standardized tests.” All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://thepostmillennial.com/columbia-brown-universities-to-disclose-affirmative-action-admissions-data-in-trump-deal

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Ramirez Tries to Play Victim After Admitting Her First Allegiance Lies with a Foreign Country
https://www.westernjournal.com/democratic-rep-tries-play-victim-admitting-first-allegiance-lies-foreign-country/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEWSWEEK
— MAGA Calls for Ramirez To Be Deported Over Guatemala Comments
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-deport-democratic-representative-delia-ramirez-guatemala-2108921

CNN
— Trump reignites threat to take over DC
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/politics/trump-federal-take-over-dc-doge-coristine-assault
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. They had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024 and b) end my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. They have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I should write about them.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/politics/video/laura-loomer-hunt-for-disloyalty-trump-vrtc

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump threatens federal takeover of DC
https://apnews.com/article/washington-dc-crime-assault-doge-05aaaeb09d106ca1af673b46e89d60e1
— Trump: FBI ‘may have to’ help bring Texas Democrats back to the state
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx_Bfsvs_Zg

REUTERS
— Trump suggests Vance is his likely heir apparent in 2028
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-suggests-vance-is-his-likely-heir-apparent-2028-2025-08-06/
— Trump urges Texas Republicans to redraw map for partisan gain. Democratic governors threaten retaliation in other states. Mid-decade redistricting could shift power balance in Congress.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-led-texas-redistricting-gambit-ignites-national-arms-race-control-congress-2025-08-05/
— White House to target banks as Trump claims discrimination
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-target-banks-trump-claims-discrimination-2025-08-05/

MSN
— Democrat leaders side with Ramirez against America
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/who-is-delia-ramirez-illinois-democrat-congresswoman-who-said-she-is-a-guatemalan-before-an-american/ar-AA1JUoe6
— Trump Gets Sharp Response After Saying He’ll Let Deported Farm Workers Back Into US, ‘They’re Very Very Special People.” I never did farm work. But I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, delivered mail, worked on an automotive assembly line, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumped more gasoline, collected delinquent federal taxes, and audited federal agencies.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-gets-sharp-response-after-saying-hell-let-deported-farm-workers-back-into-us-theyre-very-very-special-people/ar-AA1JXxih?ocid=TobArticle

MSNBC
— Reporter explains: How the WH press corps has changed in Trump 2.0. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used Jeff Gannon  (SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon ) against me the most.
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/reporter-explains-how-the-wh-press-corps-has-changed-in-trump-2-0-244401733992

AOL
— All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/trump-dismantling-eeoc-civil-rights-224211238.html

NBC NEWS
— Trump threatens federal control of D.C.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-threatens-federal-control-dc-attack-doge-staffer-coristine-rcna223293

CBS NEWS
— Trump floats federal takeover of D.C.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-doge-staffer-edward-coristine-injured-in-attempted-carjacking-trump-federal-takeover-of-d-c/

WASHINGTON POST
— Abbott sues to remove Democratic leader amid election map fight. Abbott filed his lawsuit as other top Republicans raised the prospect of intensifying law enforcement actions against Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/texas-democrats-redistricting-maps-abbott-trump/
— Trump says Republicans are ‘entitled’ to 5 more seats in Texas redistricting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/trump-presidency-news/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students over American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/06/international-students-visas-trump-uk-dubai/95f94f06-727a-11f0-84e0-485bb531abeb_story.html
— Trump threatens federal takeover of Washington D.C. Musk also says D.C. should be taken over.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/05/trump-doge-worker-washington-dc-crime/

USA TODAY
— Trump says FBI ‘may have to’ force Democratic lawmakers back to Texas
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/05/donald-trump-fbi-texas-democratic-lawmakers-arrest-redistricting/85531774007/
— Democrats have devolved into a clown show. No wonder polls show voters prefer GOP.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/04/trump-vance-republicans-democrats-harris-future/85462114007/
— MAGA’s next leader? Trump says Vance is ‘most likely’ to lead in 2028
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/05/donald-trump-jd-vance-2028-presidential-election-maga/85533490007/
— Trump says 2028 Olympic athletes will be tested to prevent transgender competitors
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/05/donald-trump-2028-olympics-los-angeles-transgender-testing/85531661007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/05/texas-gop-trump-pritzker-redistricting-cheating-democracy/85523447007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Democratic Protectorate of Illinois. Few do partisan gerrymanders better than Springfield liberals.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/illinois-democrats-gerrymandering-texas-lawmakers-j-b-pritzker-9720b2be?mod=opinion_lead_pos3
— Pritzker on Possible Illinois Remap: ‘Everything Is On the Table’  Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.wsj.com/video/gov-pritzker-on-possible-illinois-remap-everything-is-on-the-table/40EE39FA-CD6A-465E-87DA-5FE881E42316
— Kill Jews, Get Your Own State. A Hamas leader says new global recognition for Palestinian statehood is a reward for the Oct. 7 massacre.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ghazi-hamad-hamas-palestinian-state-israel-2290c711
— Racial Gerrymanders in the Dock. The Supreme Court will hear what could be a voting rights landmark.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/racial-gerrymanders-in-the-dock-31f93146

FORBES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ocgpu2b1xQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSCTzZy_HoM

BUSINESS INSIDER
— China’s ‘social credit’ system ranks citizens and punishes them with throttled internet speeds and flight bans if the Communist Party deems them untrustworthy. According to my critics/opponents, I am untrustworthy. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4

NEW REPUBLIC
— Democrat leaders side with Ramirez against America
https://newrepublic.com/post/198824/dhs-attacks-democratic-lawmaker-delia-ramirez-spanish

AXIOS
—  Democrat leaders say that the debate over who can farm America’s land has been historically linked to racism, xenophobia and, oftentimes, exploitation of farmers of color. I was the dishwasher for the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. I was the only White male who washed dishes for the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights. My critics/opponents have always used that against me big time. They hint/imply/argue/shout that my dishwashing proves that I am an unmitigated loser and/or that I took a job that should have been given to Black women.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/trump-farmland-workers-racial-stereotypes

August 5, 2025 Evening Edition

According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.” Can/will Pritzker further gerrymander Illinois so that no congressional district in Illinois is Republican?

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket. Can/will Pritzker further gerrymander Illinois so that no congressional districts in Illinois are Republican?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/05/democrats-vow-whatever-it-takes-redistricting-battle/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker says Illinois remap is possible as DNC chair vows to fight Texas GOP efforts ‘tooth and nail.’  Democrats in New York, California and Illinois are threatening to redraw their own maps in retaliation to Republican redistricting efforts in Texas.  Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket. Can/will Pritzker further gerrymander Illinois so that no congressional district in Illinois is Republican?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/08/05/jb-pritzker-illinois-remap-texas-democrats-greg-abbott
— Chicago Abortion Fund to receive $2 million grant from Cook County. The grant aims to lower barriers to abortion access and provide wraparound services like childcare, transportation and lodging.  Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/abortion/2025/08/05/chicago-abortion-fund-to-receive-2-million-grant-from-cook-county
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/04/chicago-immigration-judges-fired-trump-white-house-dick-durbin

DAILY HERALD
— Pritzker says redistricting in Illinois a possibility if Texas goes ahead with remap. Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket. Can/will Pritzker further gerrymander Illinois so that no congressional districts in Illinois are Republican?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250805/news/pritzker-says-mid-term-redistricting-in-illinois-a-possibility-if-texas-goes-ahead-with-remap/

ABC7
— Pritzker, DNC chair praise Texas Dems in Illinois as Gov. Abbott calls for their arrest. Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-remain-illinois-halt-gop-redistricting-governor-greg-abbott-orders-arrest/17438511/

NBC5
— According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/what-is-gerrymandering-what-do-illinois-congressional-districts-look-like-what-to-know/3804655/
— Texas redistricting fight leads some to question Illinois’ maps. As Illinois Democrats support Texas lawmakers leaving the state, some Republicans are questioning the Land of Lincoln’s maps. Charlie Wojciechowski explains why.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/video-texas-redistricting-fight-leads-some-to-question-illinois-maps/3805146/

CBS2
— Attorney General Kwame Raoul warns Texas politicians that police can’t just come to Illinois to arrest Democrats. Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/kwame-raoul-warns-texas-democrats-illinois-arrest/

WGN9
— According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.”
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/are-illinois-democrats-guilty-of-hypocrisy-in-texas-map-battle/

WGN RADIO
— DuPage County to open new crisis center for mental health and substance use care
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/dupage-county-to-open-new-crisis-center-for-mental-health-and-substance-use-care/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Pritzker calls Trump a ‘cheater’ as he rallies with Texas Democrats. Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/08/05/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-rallies-with-texas-democrats-in-chicago/85523370007/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— The VA wants to end coverage of abortion for US military veterans
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-trump-administration-wants-to-end-abortion-coverage-through-veterans-affairs/

ILLINOIS PATCH
—  The Department of Justice has named Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois among a list of sanctuary jurisdictions that have “policies, laws, or regulations that impede enforcement of federal immigration laws.”
https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/il-named-sanctuary-jurisduction-doj

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-355/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CHICAGO CONTRAIRIAN
— Johnson Doubles Down on Chicago’s Financial Death Spiral
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/johnson-chicago-financial-death-spiral

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Squad’ member Rep. Delia Ramirez puts America second at gathering in Mexico City. Illinois native’s GOP colleague calls for her deportation.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/5/squad-member-rep-delia-ramirez-puts-america-second-leftist-gathering/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Rep. Delia Ramirez took the stage at a leftist conference in Mexico City over the weekend and declared that she was more proud of her Guatemalan heritage than her American citizenship. The Illinois Democrat, who attended the Panamerican Congress with fellow members of the House’s left-wing “Squad,” told the crowd in Spanish that she was “a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.” In the U.S., her remarks were met with questions about her allegiance to the voters who elected her and calls for her to be deported. “These Democrats’ comments are despicable and underscore their commitment to putting Americans last,” White House spokesperson Liz Huston said in a statement. “In stark contrast, President Trump is working tirelessly to secure peace deals, deport illegal alien criminals and advance America’s interests at home and abroad.” Ms. Ramirez has seldom been in the political spotlight. She has described herself as the “daughter of working-class Guatemalan immigrants.” She also has boasted that she is the only lawmaker in Congress “in a mixed-status family.” Her husband, Boris, is a Dreamer, or someone brought to the U.S. illegally as a child. Other House Democrats attending the Panamerican Congress, a gathering of leftist politicians from throughout the Americas, included Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Jesus G. Garcia of Illinois. The Panamerican Congress concluded with pronouncements condemning the U.S. persecution of migrants and Israel’s aggression in the Gaza Strip. Ms. Ramirez’s speech garnered the most attention in the U.S. Rep. Andrew Ogles, Tennessee Republican, wrote in a post on X: “Denaturalize, deport, and kick her off the Homeland Committee. We know where her allegiances lie.” Rep. Claudia Tenney, New York Republican, said it’s “embarrassing” that the Democratic Party “no longer even pretends to put America first.” Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative Turning Point USA, said, “Any person who values any other country over America does not belong in Congress. Period.” Ms. Ramirez doubled down on her Mexico City speech with a post Monday on social media. “Honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens my commitment to America. That is the truth I carry with me always. And it is a truth that many Americans carry with them,” she said. “Anyone who denies our claims on this country simply because we dare to honor our diverse heritage and immigrant roots only exposes how fragile and small-minded their own idea of America really is.” She called the attacks on her “a weak attempt to silence my dissent and invalidate my patriotic criticism of the nativist, white supremacist, authoritarians in government.” “It is the definition of hypocrisy that members of Congress — who betray their oath each day they enable Trump — are attacking me for celebrating my Guatemalan-American roots,” Ms. Ramirez said. The Department of Homeland Security responded to Ms. Ramirez with a quote from former President Theodore Roosevelt: “There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. … Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.” Other Squad members have experienced travails similar to Ms. Ramirez’s. Ms. Omar, an immigrant from Somalia, was criticized last year after she said that, according to one translation, she was serving in Congress to “protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system.” She later said the widely shared translation was wrong and she was actually saying she was advocating for the U.S. to take a particular position in a dispute between Somalia and Ethiopia. Democrats are showing increasing hostility to Mr. Trump and, by extension, the government he controls, particularly concerning immigration. In New Jersey, Rep. LaMonica McIver faces federal charges after a clash with Homeland Security Department agents at a migrant detention facility. The Democrat was captured on video throwing elbows at officers amid a scuffle over whether a local mayor should be allowed access to the detention center. In Mexico City, Ms. Ramirez and her Democratic colleagues were attending the second annual Panamerican Congress. The event is billed as a gathering of delegates from countries “across the hemisphere with an ambitious agenda that ranges from equality to prosperity, solidarity to sovereignty.” Event attendees criticized U.S. immigration policy under Mr. Trump. Gerardo Fernandez Norona, president of the Mexican Senate, talked about the “persecution of migrants in the United States.” He called it “unjust, infamous and incorrect persecution where just for being a migrant, and just for your skin color or nationality, you are persecuted.”)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The Justice Department has published a list of cities, counties, and states that identify as “sanctuary” zones or places where law enforcement will not turn over illegal immigrants to federal immigration authorities.  Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago are included.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3491161/justice-department-sanctuary-cities-states-list-eradicate/

NEW YORK POST
— Democrats howling at Texas redistrict push should take a look in the mirror. Let’s take a tour of the 13th congressional district in Illinois.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/opinion/dems-furious-at-texas-redistricting-need-to-look-in-the-mirror/

FEDERALIST
— UNACCEPTABLE: Homeland Security Committee Member Delia Ramírez Says She’s Loyal To A Different Homeland
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/05/homeland-security-committee-member-says-shes-loyal-to-a-different-homeland/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The founders knew our republic could not survive if its people — let alone leaders — were filled with foreign attachments. Forty-two years ago, a pregnant Guatemalan woman illegally crossed the Rio Grande River and gave birth to a baby who now has “birthright” citizenship. Today, that child sits in Congress — proudly declaring her allegiance to the country her mother left behind. This is the predictable result of a broken immigration system — one that has allowed the mass importation of both legal and illegal aliens regardless of their capacity or willingness to assimilate into the country. “I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American,” Illinois Democrat Rep. Delia Ramírez said in Spanish during the opening remarks of the second annual Panamerican Congress in Mexico City. Notably, she sits on the House Homeland Security Committee — a committee dedicated to protecting the homeland.)

FOX NEWS
— Bondi DOJ names and shames 35 sanctuary jurisdictions that ‘put American citizens at risk.’  Attorney General Pam Bondi warns of possible legal action against jurisdictions with uncooperative immigration policies. Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago are included.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bondi-doj-names-shames-35-sanctuary-cities-put-american-citizens-risk

NEWSMAX
— DOJ Releases List of Sanctuary Jurisdictions. Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago are included.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/doj-sanctuary-cities-illegal-migrants/2025/08/05/id/1221332/
— Illegals in Sanctuary Cities are ‘Ticking Time Bombs’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/john-torres-ice-migrants/2025/08/05/id/1221316/
— Trump Vows to Work With US Farmers on Migrant Labor
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-migrants-farm-labor/2025/08/05/id/1221333/

TOWNHALL
— Democrat Congresswoman Says She’s More Proud to Be Guatemalan Than American
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/08/05/delia-ramirez-n2661419

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-bondi-russia-texas-gerrymander-tariffs-immigration-live-updates-rcna222681
— DNC chair says Texas redistricting will be fought with ‘every option on the table.’ Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/texas-democrats-in-illinois-and-party-leaders-rebuke-redistricting-244382277885

WASHINGTON POST
— According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/trump-presidency-news/

NEW YORK SUN
— JP Morgan Once Told Donald Trump He Has 20 Days To Get Out. The president is going to prevent this kind of debanking with an executive order that will punish firms that discriminate against conservatives — or any other groups.
https://www.nysun.com/article/jp-morgan-once-told-donald-trump-he-has-20-days-to-get-out

WGME
— According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.”
https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/illinois-and-texas-democrats-unite-in-chicago-to-oppose-texas-redistricting-plan-republican-party-governor-greg-abbott-trump-administration

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/pritzkers-illinois-temporary-home-to-texas-democrats-is-gerrymandering-hot-spot-1c00cbd0
— Justice Department Slashes List of Sanctuary Jurisdictions to Target. The Trump administration removed a much longer list months ago after some local officials said it contained errors.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/justice-department-slashes-list-of-sanctuary-jurisdictions-to-target-03881cb1
— White House Preps Order to Punish Banks That Discriminate Against Conservatives
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/white-house-preps-order-to-punish-banks-that-discriminate-against-conservatives-8af18854
— Trump’s Firing of BLS Chief Prompts Democrats to Propose Bill Protecting Stats-Agency Heads. It would have been great if Republicans had protected Republican federal employees like me.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/democratic-congressmen-to-propose-bill-to-protect-stats-agency-chiefs-51915619

GUARDIAN
— Trump says Republicans are ‘entitled’ to five more congressional seats in Texas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/texas-republicans-redistricting-maps-trump

GOOGLE AI
— Muscle car definition. A muscle car is generally defined as a high-performance, American-made, two-door coupe or convertible, typically with a powerful V8 engine, designed for straight-line speed and acceleration. They are known for their bold, aggressive styling.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22muscle+car%22+definition

August 5, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/texas-redistrict-democrats-fight-back/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, eventually everyone will be on SNAP.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/knowles-food-insecurity-increasing/
— DNA project hopes to reunite African Americans in Illinois with ancestral relatives in Africa. Will this lead to identifying those who were directly responsible for slavery?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/dna-project-black-americans-africa/
— As last baby boomers reach retirement, they tackle a quest for fulfillment. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Since then, putting together and sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters has increasingly been my focus. Politics is nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes a) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, b) end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, c) end my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster in 2010 and 2004, and d) end my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership in 2007.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/05/retirement-bike-riding-baby-boomers/
— John Curran: Illinois Democrats’ delivery tax is a short-term cash grab paid by those who can least afford it
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/05/opinion-illinois-delivery-tax-general-assembly-cta/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/illinois-queer-farmers-lgbtq/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-quorum-illinois-redistrict-map

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— In downtown Chicago’s condo market, the hits keep coming. In 1978, when I got married, I sold my one bedroom Outer Drive East condo that I had owned for 2 years for a $10,000 gain and bought a new 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale and a 1978 Chevrolet Chevette.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/downtown-chicago-condos-reflect-markets-price-decline-woes

ABC7
— Texas Democrats remain in Illinois as Gov. Abbott orders their arrest
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-remain-illinois-halt-gop-redistricting-governor-greg-abbott-orders-arrest/17438511/
— State Department may require visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000 to enter the US
https://abc7chicago.com/post/state-department-may-require-visa-applicants-post-bond-15000-enter-us/17433002/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU43-62wCRk
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-immigration-court-judges-terminated-donald-trump-administration-works-cut-down-massive-case-backlog/17434235/

NBC5
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-officials-face-pushback-over-texas-gerrymandering-criticisms/3804336/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders, that is, the mainstream news media, ever-increasingly treat Pat Brady as being the spokesperson for the Illinois Republican Party.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-gerrymandering-texas-redistricting-battle/
— Chicago designated ‘EV Ready.’ What does it mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K9-wnnDmjw

WTTW
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/04/texas-governor-threatens-remove-democrats-who-left-illinois-other-states-over-trump

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/pritzker-texas-democrats-redistricting-20801137.php

SHAW LOCAL
— Girls flag football surges in Illinois as hundreds more take the field in year two. More than 200 high schools expected to have teams this fall. My parents had absolutely no interest in football, and neither do I. Does that explain my lack of aggressiveness?
https://www.shawlocal.com/friday-night-drive/2025/08/05/girls-flag-football-surges-in-illinois-as-hundreds-more-take-the-field-in-year-two/

ELMHURST PATCH
— Confusion Over Addison Township Group’s Status
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/confusion-over-addison-township-groups-status

COD COURIER
— Campus Voices Weigh In on Siddiqi’s Plans for College of DuPage
https://codcourier.org/campus-voices-weigh-in-on-siddiqis-plans-for-college-of-dupage/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: She stressed the importance of taking a stand on the college’s long-held values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). “Last year, when there was pressure to remove DEI language and committees, COD and its Board of Trustees refused to bow to those demands,” Purcell said. “Our values have been here for decades, and it’s critical that the new administration uphold them to protect the college’s reputation.”)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-561/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— BS from Pritzker on Mid-Decade Reapportionment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/05/bs-from-pritzker-on-mid-decade-reapportionment/

WIREPOINTS
— What happened to private sector job growth, Gov. Pritzker?
https://wirepoints.org/what-happened-to-private-sector-job-growth-gov-pritzker-wirepoints/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Darin LaHood appears to pass on Illinois Senate run in blow to state GOP hopes
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3490826/darin-lahood-pass-illinois-senate-run-state-gop/
— Abbott says blue-state gerrymandering ‘distorted’ US politics after Democrats flee Texas. How badly have Illinois Democrat leaders gerrymandered the political jurisdictions where you live? I should write about how Democrat and RINO leaders gerrymandered my precinct in 2015.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3490941/greg-abbott-blue-state-gerrymandering-democrats-flee-texas/

BREITBART
— Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump from Quickly Deporting Biden’s Parole Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/04/biden-appointed-judge-blocks-trump-from-quickly-deporting-bidens-parole-migrants/

CENTER SQUARE
— DOJ scraps decree used by Democrats to keep Republicans out of the federal workforce
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1de8bdce-8e86-4d1e-8297-bb3849644d07.html

COLLEGE FIX
— Federal appeals court upholds Arkansas ban on Critical Race Theory in the classroom. To teach CRT is promote more hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/federal-appeals-court-upholds-arkansas-ban-on-critical-race-theory-in-the-classroom/

DAILY CALLER
— Pulling Kids Out Of DEI Lessons Just Got Easier. To teach DEI is promote more hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/04/exclusive-pulling-kids-out-of-dei-lessons-just-got-easier/

FOX NEWS
— Democrats are protesting what they have been doing forever. Fox News host Sean Hannity calls out Democrats’ ‘big, meaningless political stunt’ in protesting gerrymandering on ‘Hannity.’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376556781112

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Flight of the Legislators
https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/the-flight-of-the-legislators/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Democratic Texas Rep. Harold V. Dutton Jr. speaks alongside other Texas democrats during a press conference at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall in Warrenville, Ill., August 4, 2025.)

NEWSMAX
— Pritzker Vows to Protect Texas Dems From Arrest
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/jb-pritzker-protect-texas-democrats/2025/08/04/id/1221258/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Economists sound alarm over Trump firing. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, the following did not come to my defense: a) the Association of Government Accountants; I had served on the Executive Committee of its Chicago Chapter for 13 years and b) the Illinois CPA Society; I had served on its membership committee for 8 years.
https://thehill.com/business/5435904-economists-sound-alarm-over-trump-firing/

NBC NEWS
— White House searches for a new BLS chief with ‘credibility’ and ‘experience.’ All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-search-new-bls-chief-credibility-experience-rcna222910
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/swing-district-republicans-object-texas-redistricting-plan-democrats-t-rcna222972

CBS NEWS
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrat-who-fled-texas-over-redistricting-says-were-willing-to-face-whatever-consequences/

CNN
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/gerrymandering-supreme-court-texas
— Are/were you “little-known.” According to my critics/opponents, I have always been “little-known” notwithstanding my having been the subject of a 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/documents/  That article made me very well-known to the Democrats who ran IRS and GAO. They used everything in that article against me that they could. They used the article mainly to paint me as being a grossly overpaid draft avoider. That helped them force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/bls-commissioner-trump-firing-decision

REUTERS
— Tesla’s brand loyalty collapsed after Musk backed Trump
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-brand-loyalty-collapsed-after-musk-backed-trump-data-shows-2025-08-04/

MSN
— Top Trump Official Says Americans on Medicaid Should Replace Deported Farm Workers. I was never a farm worker, but I did do yard work, deliver newspapers, wash dishes, clean golf shoes, chip slag, pump gasoline, and deliver mail.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/top-trump-official-says-americans-on-medicaid-should-replace-deported-farm-workers/ar-AA1IczMz

CNBC
— President Donald Trump said Tuesday that JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, the two largest U.S. banks, previously rejected him as a customer, reviving claims that conservative clients were being unfairly denied accounts.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/trump-jpmorgan-chase-bank-of-america-rejected-bank-customer.html

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-victim-pam-bondi-2108809

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/hochul-new-york-texas-redistricting.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/texas-redistricting.html
— Democrat leaders side with Erika McEntarfer against Trump. Republican leaders did not side with me against the Democrats who ran GAO.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-bls-firing-economic-reports.html
— Are Democrat leaders moving their eggs from their Epstein basket to their McEntarfer basket?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/opinion/columnists/friedman-trump-labor-firing.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Inside Texas Democrats’ plan to seek refuge with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. The potential 2028 presidential candidate has quietly talked with Lone Star State lawmakers for weeks, as he and other ambitious governors seek to ways to join their fight.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/illinois-pritzker-texas-democrats-redistricting/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders flood Republican town halls with booing Democrats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/04/mike-flood-donald-trump-town-hall-nebraska/85518190007/
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/04/texas-redistricting-map-congress-trump-takeaways/85508969007/
— Trump praises Sydney Sweeney ad, but does he know American Eagle is super WOKE?  Sydney Sweeney may be a registered Republican, but I have discovered that American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. is – and it pains me to write this – incredibly, unconscionably woke.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/05/trump-sydney-sweeney-tweet-american-eagle-ad/85512067007/
— Because GAO audits IRS, my having worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, should have been enough for GAO to offer me a transfer at GS-13, currently $117,807/year in 1980. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, GAO offered me a transfer only at GS-9 Step 10 Level, currently $88,808/year, a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars  To add insult to injury, GAO ignored/dismissed/belittled that most of what I did for IRS was similar to what I would do for GAO, that I had earned an MBA in 1976, that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/07/29/apply-for-job-experience-but-no-degree/85362393007/

WBUR
— According to Democrat leaders, it is not possible to rig jobs numbers. My Democrat superiors in the federal government falsely argued that they did not rigg their employment decisions against me. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have a) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors would not have a) never promoted me beyond GS-12 and disallowed my education deductions in 1978 and my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors would not have a) forced me to resign in 1969 and b) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/08/04/bureau-of-labor-statistics

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/texas-gerrymandering-house-seats-democrats-republicans-congress-f1514f89

BLOOMBERG
— American Eagle Jumps Most Since 2000 After Trump Praises Sydney Sweeney Ad
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-04/american-eagle-gains-meme-status-with-biggest-jump-since-2000?embedded-checkout=true

POLITICO
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/california-fires-back-at-texas-redistricting-00493314

PBS
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/is-political-gerrymandering-illegal-6-things-to-know-as-texas-dispute-carries-on
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly deny that Trump was elected.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-trying-to-insulate-himself-from-the-will-of-the-public-texas-democrat-says
— My Democrat GAO superiors wasting my career, taking many big adverse actions against me, and forcing me to retire sent a very strong message to those who have the following demographics to not apply to work for GAO: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/firing-of-labor-statistics-head-undermines-trust-in-key-data-ex-trump-official-warns
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/tamara-keith-and-jasmine-wright-on-trumps-bls-firing-and-trust-in-institutions

PEOPLE
— Trump Pits ‘Woke’ Taylor Swift Against Sydney Sweeney
https://people.com/trump-pits-taylor-swift-against-sydney-sweeney-11784508

August 4, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Gov. Abbott orders arrests of Texas Democrats who fled to Illinois to halt GOP redistricting plan
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-plan-staying-illinois-2-weeks-halt-redistricting-gov-greg-abbott-threatens-loss-seats/17426930/

NBC5
— Illinois officials face pushback over Texas gerrymandering criticisms. Critics say Illinois’ maps are just as gerrymandered as Texas’ would be under a proposed law that has sparked controversy.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-officials-face-pushback-over-texas-gerrymandering-criticisms/3804336/
— Rep. Darin LaHood won’t run for Illinois governor, he says. LaHood also revealed he would not run for U.S. Senate.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/rep-darin-lahood-wont-run-for-illinois-governor-he-says/3804440/
— Redistricting clash escalates in Texas after Democrats scatter
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-trade-tariff-texas-redistricting-august-04-2025-live-updates/3804074/

CBS2
— Pritzker says redrawing Illinois district map “on the table” in response to Texas redistricting push
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pritzker-illinois-district-map-texas-democrats/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Tesla awards CEO Musk millions of shares valued at about $29 billion
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/tesla-elon-musk-share/
— Democrats prevent Texas House from moving forward with Trump-backed congressional map
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/texas-house-congressional-map/
— Why dozens of Democrats left Texas and how Republicans want to punish them
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/democrats-texas-republicans/
— Texas Democrats who fled to Chicago to deny GOP’s congressional redistricting effort speak out
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/watch-live-texas-democrats/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Public Schools needs $1.6 billion more from the state to provide an adequate education
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/08/04/chicago-public-schools-budget-deficit
— Pritzker’s signature on police pension bill adds pressure for state bailout and city property tax hike. The bill will cost the city $60 million more in 2027, and by 2055, city pension payments will be $750 million higher than they are now. It adds one more big pressure point onto Mayor Brandon Johnson, who already has said he won’t raise property taxes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/08/04/jb-pritzker-police-pension-bill-brandon-johnson-pressure-chicago-budget-state-bailout

DAILY HERALD
— Former GOP official Porter won’t run for Durbin’s Senate seat
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250804/us-congress-politics/gop-official-porter-wont-run-for-durbins-senate-seat/
— ‘We will hide them at our own legal peril’: DuPage Democratic leader pledges to protect Texan lawmakers
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250804/nation-and-world-politics/we-will-hide-them-at-our-own-legal-peril-dupage-democratic-leader-pledges-to-protect-texan-lawmak/
— Geneva woman Jessica Breugelmans running for Republican nomination for state Senate
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250804/news/geneva-woman-running-for-republican-nomination-for-state-senate/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push Blacks to be pot pushers.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/how-black-owned-label-can-help-grow-cannabis-brands-oped

WAND TV
— New DPS policies target students and visitors smelling of marijuana, other ‘distracting’ odors
https://www.wandtv.com/news/education/new-dps-policies-target-students-and-visitors-smelling-of-marijuana-other-distracting-odors/article_3450f262-c6fa-41ce-963a-452589331826.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Ahead of the new school year, Decatur Public Schools updated its district policies to emphasize banning marijuana and other “offensive” odors in its facilities.  A DPS flyer said that students who come to school smelling like marijuana or other “distracting” odors will be instructed to call home for a change of clothes, or be picked up to change. Visitors who smell of marijuana or other “distracting” odors will be asked to leave the premises.  The district justified the changes by saying that marijuana has an odor that causes/triggers allergic reactions, affecting indoor air quality and putting others at risk of getting sick. The district added that marijuana potentially has cancer-causing chemicals that put students, staff and others at risk. That policy went into effect July 1.  According to the DPS 61 student code of conduct and parent handbook, those who use marijuana for medical purposes must provide a medical card upon request.)

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-08-04/professors-calling-for-northwestern-leaders-to-stand-up-to-the-trump-administration-first-listen

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-354/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Top Illinois GOP Donors Sit Out Upcoming Primary
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/sources-top-illinois-gop-donors-sit-out-upcoming-primary.html

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Gov. Pritzker to Fight Gerrymandering with… More Gerrymandering?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/08/gov-pritzker-to-fight-gerrymandering-with-more-gerrymandering/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Firing the government’s statically incompetent statisticians. Isn’t it about time? Of course, my Democrat superiors in the federal government hinted/implied/argued that they wasted my career, took adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire because I was incompetent. It is called pretext. But they were frustrated a) by my earning a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) by my passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, c) by my earning four more job-related professional certifications, and d) by my earning a job-related professional license.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/4/firing-governments-statically-incompetent-statisticians/
— Not sorry for immigration enforcement. Without borders, we have no country.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/4/sorry-sorry-immigration-enforcement/

TOWNHALL
— Texas House Approves Arrest Warrants for Democrats Who Fled to Illinois to Block Redistricting Vote
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/08/04/texas-house-approves-arrest-warrants-for-democrats-who-fled-to-illinois-to-block-redistricting-vote-n2661402

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Pritzker says Texas Democrats who fled state will be protected amid arrest threats
https://thehill.com/homenews/5434627-redistricting-battle-texas-illinois/
— Redistricting fights explode across US
https://thehill.com/newsletters/evening-report/5435411-texas-redistricting-political-war/

CBS NEWS
— State Department may require some travelers to post $15,000 bond for business or tourism visas
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-department-visa-bond-pilot-program/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Will Slow, but May Not Stop, the Rise of Electric Vehicles
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-electric-vehicles.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump moves to bar nearly all abortions at Veterans Affairs hospitals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/04/veterans-va-abortion-trump/
— Democrats are becoming a) more liberal, b) bigger advocates of mass/illegal immigration, and c)  less proud to be American.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/04/democratic-party-change-under-trump-polls/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats are ever-increasingly becoming more anti-car, anti-American nameplate car, and anti-American nameplate muscle car.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/americas-love-affair-with-the-car-has-soured-over-money-4b73670f
— China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/china-western-defense-industry-critical-minerals-3971ec51

BUSINESS INSIDER
— What does our choice of vehicle reveal about our political preferences?
https://www.businessinsider.com/car-models-owned-by-republicans-democrats-american-politics-jeep-2024-10

CAR BUZZ
— 10 Muscle Cars That Prove America Does It Best. Cars I used to own include a 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS, 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint (a poor man’s GTO), 1968 Oldsmobile 442, 1968 Dodge Charger R/T, and 1969 Dodge Charger SE. Cars I currently own include a 1972 and 2005 Chevrolet Corvette, 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX, 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, and 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus. Please let me know if you share my interest in any of the aforesaid cars.
https://carbuzz.com/10-muscle-cars-showing-america-does-it-best/

GOOGLE AI
— Republican politicians and car choices
https://www.google.com/search?q=Republican+politicians+and+car+choices

August 4, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Texas Democrats plan on staying in Illinois for 2 weeks to halt redistricting
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-plan-staying-illinois-2-weeks-halt-redistricting-gov-greg-abbott-threatens-loss-seats/17426930/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: As political petition passing begins, Illinois Democrats have flood of candidates; Republicans have a trickle. Democrat and RINO leaders and their mainstream news media ever-increasingly treat the anti-conservative anti-Republican anti-Trump Pat Brady as being the spokesperson for the Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/petition-passing-starts-for-2026-election/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: So far, no major GOP candidates have emerged for U.S. Senate or most of the statewide offices. Democrats Gov. JB Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and Treasurer Mike Frerichs are all seeking reelection. DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick is the only announced candidate for governor of any political stature, and he reported July 1 having only $100,000 in cash on hand in his political fund to take on the billionaire Pritzker. Others are said to be weighing a bid, including former state GOP Chair Don Tracy, Palatine Township Highway Commissioner Aaron Del Mar and Ted Dabrowski, president of the conservative advocacy group Wirepoints. On Sunday, Richard Porter, an attorney and former Republican national committeeman from Illinois, used social media to announce he would not seek the GOP nomination for Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat. “After close consultations with my family and friends, I have decided not to pursue this opportunity,” Porter wrote in a Facebook post. “I intend to stay involved in the effort to turn around Illinois.” Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair on Aug. 14 may prove to be an important event for the party, depending upon whether potential candidates use the day to announce a decision to run.)
— Adding $11 billion to Chicago’s liabilities was a decision that lacked courage, Gov. Pritzker. Alas, the Governor just dug Chicago’s fiscal hole far deeper.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/editorial-jb-pritzker-police-fire-pensions-chicago/
— How postsecondary opportunities for students are changing for the better. My father often decried that he did not get promotions because he did not have a bachelor’s degree. That motivated me to earn not only a job-related bachelor’s degree, but three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/opinion-postsecondary-degree-programs-states/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Americans are losing faith in higher education. Nearly half of adults believe a college degree is less important to get a well-paying job than it was 20 years ago, and only a quarter believe a four-year degree is a very important part of getting a job that pays well. The question of value is front and center for policymakers across the country and in Washington.)

ILLINOIZE
— Top Republicans Critical of Illinois GOP Recruitment. According to reports, Richard Porter has decided to not run for U.S. Senate. My critics/opponents stress that the following have never recruited me to run for any office: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. According to the aforesaid, I am “too conservative.”
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/top-republicans-critical-gop-recruitment

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Republican Richard Porter has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Dick Durbin, according to his social media post to friends. “I intend to stay involved in the effort to turn around Illinois.” Here’s his post
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000198-7386-d0d9-a7be-f396cc9b0000

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago homicides lowest in decade, but so is arrest rate
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-homicides-lowest-in-decade-but-so-is-arrest-rate/

WIREPOINTS
— The whopping lie behind huge, new pension liability imposed by Springfield on Chicago
https://wirepoints.org/the-whopping-lie-behind-huge-new-pension-liability-imposed-by-springfield-on-chicago-wirepoints/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Legal group accuses Rutgers University of discrimination against white students in granting scholarships. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrating me, and condemned me for my not getting any scholarships, for my getting an ACT score of only 24, for my only just barely getting into the top 20% of my high school class, for my having to work my way through college, for my not getting a degree from an Ivy League university, etc.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/us-news/legal-group-accuses-rutgers-u-of-discrimination-against-white-students/

BREITBART
— Boston Democrats Opened Housing to Illegals Who Can’t Pay the Rent. Illegals illegally come to America illegally because Democrat and RINO leaders illegally invite them. Illegals come to America with nothing. That is, they come to America needing/wanting/demanding that America provide them with everything including housing, food, clothing, medical care, education, transportation, jobs, etc. Needless-to-say, Democrat and RINO leaders should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/03/boston-democrats-opened-housing-to-migrants-who-cant-pay-the-rent/

EPOCH TIMES
— Texas Democrats Leave the State to Prevent Redistricting Vote. The exodus could expose the Lone Star State lawmakers to fines, and other penalties—including the possibility of arrest.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-democrats-leave-the-state-to-prevent-redistricting-vote-5896083

NEWSMAX
— Texas Dems Arrive in Illinois to Block Trump’s Redistricting Maps
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/texas-democrats-leave-state-congressional-map-vote/2025/08/04/id/1221138/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Leftist Outrage Erupts At California Plan To Stop Paying Criminal Illegals’ Legal Bills
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/leftist-outrage-erupts-at-california-plan-to-stop-paying-criminal-illegals-legal-bills/ar-AA1JolYY

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump defends firing labor statistics chief. In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), the Democrats who ran GAO defended their wasting my career and forcing me to retire by hinting/implying/arguing/shouting that GAO treated me exactly like Congress wanted GAO to treat its employees like me who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran, that is, to waste their careers of and to get rid of them to make way for their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5434438-trump-defends-firing-labor-statistics-chief/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Many Democrats see their political party as being “weak” or “ineffective”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/they-roll-right-over-many-democrats-think-their-party-is-weak-ap-norc-poll-finds

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/nyregion/new-york-immigrant-arrests-trump.html
— White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge. My Democrat GAO superiors viciously used against me my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. They stressed that the cost was covered by my wife’s insurance. They ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact that our doctor advised against it because we both had fertility problems. According to my Democrat GAO superiors, if we had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and d) become a licensed CPA in 1981. All my Democrat GAO superiors had children and spouses who had little no income. They all strongly decried the time and money they had to spend to raise their children. They all hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if they had not had children, they would have professional certifications, master’s degrees, and a professional license like me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/03/trump-administration-ivf-care/
— Laura Loomer succeeds in getting Trump to dump Jen Easterly. I should write about my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors who succeeded in getting the Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO to dump me. They all stressed that I was conservative, Republican, draft-avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/west-point-easterly-trump-loomer.html

USA TODAY
— Democrats have devolved into a clown show. Democrats lose elections because they promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/04/trump-vance-republicans-democrats-harris-future/85462114007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under President Joe Biden, inflation hit a 40-year high, Russia invaded Ukraine, Hamas brutally attacked Israel and Iran built a robust nuclear program. Then Americans learned, while he was running for reelection, that Biden suffered from serious cognitive decline, raising questions about what the Democratic Party knew and when. Americans lost trust that Democrats were transparent and honest.)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/03/what-would-doj-epstein-files-contain/85306180007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/03/trump-epstein-scandal-vance-president/85481602007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ICE is recruiting agents with $50,000 signing bonuses. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/02/ice-recruiting-signing-bonus-incentives-immigration-officers/85478464007/

FLORIDA PATCH
— I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 years old in 1981. My critics/opponents have always viciously ignored, dismissed, and belittled that. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://patch.com/florida/lakeland/john-stossel-raises-important-topic-tortured-bureaucrats-impact-licensing

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Racial Gerrymanders in the Dock. The Supreme Court will hear what could be a voting rights landmark. Democrat leaders will forever shout that Blacks and Hispanics will forever need preference big time because Republicans will forever discriminate against them.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/racial-gerrymanders-in-the-dock-31f93146
— Four Ways to Prepare for When Your Adult Kids Need Financial Help. Many parents continue to support their children after they graduate from college. It helps to start planning for that, just in case.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/adult-children-financial-help-tips-54a7c601
— It’s a Tough Job Market for New College Grads. Is an Advanced Degree Worth It?  The temptation for young adults is great, as they struggle to find jobs. The key is to do the numbers. When I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management when I  was 21 in 1970. Immediately going on to earn an MBA was not an option for me because I had to have a job to help support my mother and brother. I took the only job offer that I got, to be the Retail Sales Manager in the Chicago Heights Firestone Store. The job did not really require a college degree. I did not earn an MBA until I was 27 in 1976. By then, it was too late.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/advanced-degree-graduates-job-market-5450de28

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
— Qualifications  When I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, I was qualified to transfer as a GS-13 Step 1, currently $117,807/year. But my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to transfer as a GS-9 Step 10, currently $88,809/year, a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars. They ignored/dismissed/belittled a) that GAO audits IRS, b) that I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which as a GS-12 Step 1-5, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. They would have transferred me as a GS-13 if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates viciously used against me my having to take a pay cut to transfer. I made GS-13 in 1986, but only after I had a) completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and c) became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4

GOOGLE AI
— Political recruitment  If you had run for a government office or a political office, what would have stressed? I would have stressed a) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which as a GS-12 Step 1-5, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) that I earned an MBA from Loyola, a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and a master’s degree in finance from IIT, d) that I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, e) that I earned four more job-related professional certifications, and f) that I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=7bb187fa02092698&sxsrf=AE3TifMd3VPsMy2JnrWybKuN-BV9ORgeqQ:1754293415076&q=recruit+candidates+%22qualifications%22

August 3, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/dehumanizing-inside-the-broadview-ice-facility-where-immigrants-sleep-on-cold-concrete/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/30/charles-selle-deportations/
— Indiana Gov. Braun greenlights state police, agencies to cooperate with ICE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/indiana-gov-braun-greenlights-state-police-agencies-to-cooperate-with-ice/
— Former Kane County Coroner Rob Russell announces bid for sheriff
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/24/former-coroner-rob-russell-joining-sheriff-race/
— The mainstream news media exists to get rid of Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/column-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-maga-support-page/
— State control of Chicago Public Schools grows likelier as budget crisis intensifies
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-state-control-chicago-public-100000308.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Anticipate/expect that your critics/opponents will use the jobs that you get against you.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/08/01/job-hunting-tips-teenagers

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTUTE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/news/a-chilling-effect-on-justice-ice-argues-courthouse-immigration-arrests-make-sense-but-local-oppo/
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-karma-and-epa-policy-local-weather-conditions-add-worrisome-irony-to-proposed/

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Hundreds of motorcycles ride to raise fentanyl awareness Saturday in Kane and DuPage counties. Grieving families, elected officials and law enforcement agencies unite to spread awareness.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/08/03/hundreds-of-motorcycles-ride-to-raise-fentanyl-awareness-saturday-in-kane-and-dupage-counties/

STARVED ROCK MEDIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.starvedrock.media/wlpo/protests-against-trump-still-strong-in-ottawa/article_e63a907e-deec-4b98-b796-5ce1b50e7ed2.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-appeals-court-keeps-order-blocking-trump-administration-from-indiscriminate-immigration-sweeps/

WJBC
— Illegals Reduce US Workers’ Wages. When I was young, if there had been as many illegals as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, but if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/08/01/homan-to-newsmax-illegals-reduce-us-workers-wages/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders oppose work requirements for Medicaid.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-02/how-the-new-work-requirements-for-medicaid-could-impact-some-states
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-02/from-the-clinics-to-the-capitol-links-anti-abortion-movement-to-far-right-extremism

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Milton Township Under Criminal Investigations
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2025/08/milton-township-under-criminal-investigations/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTOM EXAMINER
— End the ‘mission creep’ of Temporary Protected Status. To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat and RINO leaders give them protected status: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non- German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, have less money than others, citizens of foreign countries, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3488896/trump-afghanistan-temporary-protected-status/

NEW YORK POST
— Texas Roadhouse hit with civil rights complaint alleging DEI discrimination in hiring practices. All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they bragged about the preference that gave to their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/business/texas-roadhouse-hit-with-discrimination-civil-rights-complaint-for-dei-hiring-practices/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Texas Roadhouse wrote that it is committed to “attracting, retaining, engaging, recognizing, and developing a workforce that mirrors the diversity of our guests” and provided a chart breaking down the percentages of their employees and managers who were either women or people of color in its 2024 10-K annual report. . .According to the Texas Roadhouse 2024 sustainability report, the company takes DEI factors such as gender and race into consideration when determining nominees to its Board of Directors.)

DAILY CALLER
— Senate Confirms Trump’s Pick for U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, Brian Burch, who resides in Chicago
https://www.aol.com/senate-confirms-trump-vatican-pick-214131318.html
— Universities Use Social Credit To Bypass Affirmative Action Ban. What social credits do you get? I get no social credits because I promote personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, enforcement of immigration laws, discouragement of vices, Second Amendment rights, and equal opportunity. That is, I get no social credits because I oppose the promotion of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, more gun controls, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/02/opinion-universities-use-social-credit-to-bypass-affirmative-action-ban-casey-ryan/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As the situation appears, Dialogue portfolios are nothing more than a system modeled after the Chinese Communist Party’s Social Credit System that essentially blacklists Chinese citizens from society if they hold the wrong opinions. Under China’s system, citizens can gain a bad social credit score by daily activities deemed negative by the government. This can include posting opinions on social media or making too many frivolous purchases. A negative social credit score can lead to bans from traveling, throttled internet speeds, or rejections from universities – which sounds eerily similar to the intent of Dialogue portfolios. The last thing college applicants in America need is a dystopian measure to filter out perceived wrongthink. The Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action for universities was to help ensure everyone has an equal opportunity. These “Dialogues” appear to be a purity test that is even worse than affirmative action. While affirmative action is awful, at least there was a chance for universities to admit students of differing viewpoints. Dialogue portfolios give universities the explicit power to reject students solely because of the opinions they hold.)

DAILY WIRE
— For The First Time In 40 Years, The Federal Government Can Judge Applicants By Merit. The move opens the door to an elite federal workforce — and a major victory for President Donald Trump. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the postal job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU. I qualified myself for the GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA from Loyola, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/for-the-first-time-in-40-years-the-federal-government-can-judge-applicants-by-merit
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A decades-old court order that blocked the federal government from using tests to measure job applicants’ skills was terminated by a D.C. judge on Friday, setting the stage for an overhaul of the federal workforce that could be one of President Donald Trump’s most lasting achievements. In 1981, Angel Luevano sued the federal government over the Professional and Administrative Career Examination, a test that helped identify the best and brightest out of the tens of thousands who apply for government jobs each year. Luevano argued that the test kept too many blacks and Hispanics out of government, and, in the waning days of President Jimmy Carter’s administration, OPM agreed to pause the test for five years. Forty-four years later, the “Luevano Consent Decree” was somehow still intact. In January, the Trump administration filed a brief challenging the agreement — a feat which required reopening a decades-closed court case in which the original judge had died. The administration argued that it was doubtful the decree was ever appropriate, and that, with Supreme Court case law outlawing affirmative action, it was certainly not now. Angel Luevano is still alive, and agreed to terminate the consent decree, court papers show. Luevano was represented by lawyers from Hispanic and black civil rights groups, two of whom did not return a request for comment. For almost half a century, the federal government has operated like a college that didn’t look at SAT scores when admitting students. Rescinding the Luevano Consent Decree could take the government from safety-school status to Ivy League. “We’re making civil service great again,” Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told The Daily Wire Friday. The move opens the door to technocratic hiring assessments that allow the government to hire applicants who objectively demonstrate the most aptitude. Kupor told The Daily Wire in an interview that the move means Americans may start getting better service at government agencies, with government being more helpful and responsive. “The lasting opportunity here is: can we change the culture of the workforce in the federal government? Can we make it a high-performance culture? That will definitely be the president’s legacy, if we can make that successful,” he said. After the demise of the Professional and Administrative Career Examination and similar tests, the government began relying on “self-assessments” to sift through job applicants, as it was the only measure that saw a sufficient number of minorities enter government. Applicants simply declared how good they were at a task, with no attempt to verify it or compare them to other applicants. That led to a hiring process that rewarded boasting and fabrications as much as merit. Kupor said the de facto prohibition on government checking people’s competency before hiring them — at which point they become difficult to remove — had become particularly crippling in the modern age, with people using artificial intelligence or simply copy-and-paste to take a job advertisement’s requirements and send an application asserting that they had all those skills. The inability to use objective measures to sort the most qualified applicants from a large pool — as virtually all other large employers do — has profoundly impacted the caliber of government employees. The Luevano Consent Decree was perhaps one of the largest applications ever of the philosophy known as “disparate impact,” which holds that anything that produces racially unbalanced outcomes must inherently be racist. But the fallout went beyond just minorities, leaving little way to differentiate a brilliant white job applicant from an incompetent white applicant. OPM General Counsel Andrew Kloster told The Daily Wire in an interview that the government did not make any concessions to reach the agreement. “It was a very easy process,” he said. “They just flat out agreed. It would not have happened without the original named plaintiff agreeing to it and the judge agreeing to accept it.” “This is really kind of an understanding that disparate impact as a way to measure things is not the law of the land anymore. You have to actually show real discrimination. The explicit argument was that the objective tests themselves were racially biased, and obviously that’s bogus.” It is yet to be decided whether OPM will institute a general aptitude test across agencies. But many specific job categories are likely to have their own tests. If the government is hiring, say, computer programmers, it won’t simply ask them how good they are at a programming language. Instead, it will administer a coding test to rank applicants on a uniform scale. The hiring process used by government agencies for decades resulted in hiring that was, at best, random, and at worst, allowed the sort of cronyism and favoritism that the consent decree was supposed to avoid, Kupor said. “We’re going to be able to attract really, really good people, because they’re going to be fairly tested for their merit,” he said. “It also really does eliminate a lot of potential for a bias in the hiring process if you actually use objective standards.” “This is a win for fairness, as well as a win for getting American people the ability to get people with the appropriate skills into the right jobs.”)

FOX NEWS
— DOJ cracking down on noncitizen voters
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376491200112

PJ MEDIA
— Democrat and RINO leaders want Trump to grant amnesty, that is, Democrat and RINO leaders want Trump to destroy the Republican Party. Those who come to America illegally and/or stay in America illegally will always vote for Democrats.
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/08/02/now-that-trump-has-really-truly-secured-our-borders-is-it-time-for-a-gop-pivot-on-immigration-n4942338

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Statisticians blast Trump over BLS firing: ‘Dangerous precedent.’  My Democrat superiors in the federal government followed a strong anti-Republican precedent when they wasted my career and forced me to retire. My RINO superiors in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois followed a strong anti-conservative precedent when they wasted me and got rid of me.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5433583-trump-bls-firing-precedent-controversy/

NEWSWEEK
— Pope Francis Critic Brian Burch Confirmed as Vatican Ambassador
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-critic-brian-burch-confirmed-vatican-ambassador-2108079

MSN
— The most competitive college in your state. In Illinois, it is the University of Chicago. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/the-most-competitive-college-in-your-state-according-to-data-and-see-the-rest-of-the-hardest-schools-to-get-into/ss-AA1JAp3M#image=14
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois: University of Chicago  #7 hardest college to get into nationwide, Acceptance rate: 7%, Net price: $36,584, SAT range: 1500-1570.  The University of Chicago boasts a low student-to-teacher ratio—5:1—as well as an affiliation with 97 Nobel laureates, 34 MacArthur “genius grant” fellows, and 23 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Saul Bellow and Thornton Wilder, who won on three occasions. The school is proud of its nationally recognized medical and law programs.)
— Trump administration rescinds Jimmy Carter‑era DEI mandates for federal hiring. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the postal job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU. I qualified myself for the GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA from Loyola, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-admintration-rescinds-jimmy-carter-era-dei-mandates-for-federal-hiring/ar-AA1JKxut

NBC NEWS
— Chicago Democrats issue warnings about their mayor amid Zohran Mamdani’s rise
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chicago-democrats-issue-warnings-mayor-090042907.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion/ice-immigration-protest-resistance.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opinion/epstein-trump-polls.html

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/02/supporters-decry-ice-arrests-south-korean-student-peruvian-asylum-seeker-court-hearings/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly badmouth the American Flag.
https://www.aol.com/trump-installs-massive-flag-poles-135836687.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.aol.com/americans-views-immigration-massive-positive-190958366.html

WTOP
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly disparage Republicans.
https://wtop.com/national/2025/08/ohio-city-whose-haitian-migrants-were-disparaged-by-trump-braces-to-defend-them-against-deportation/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at young men that Trump causes all their problems.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-asked-young-men-who-voted-for-trump-to-grade-him-here-s-what-they-said/ar-AA1JG2Kl

INDEPENDENT
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Trump causes all their problems.
https://www.aol.com/more-70-black-voters-disapprove-205101322.html

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-rage-against-the-regime-protests-over-300-us-cities-hosting-anti-trump-demonstrations-today-on-jd-vances-birthday-50501-group-full-list/articleshow/123060369.cms

INDIA HERALD
— Can an Indian Citizen Have More Than One Caste Certificate in case of Inter-Caste Marriage? What Caste were you born into? I was born into a low Caste because neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school. My critic/opponents have always used the aforesaid against me. My critics/opponents have parents who have lots of money.
https://www.indiaherald.com/Breaking/Read/994838885/Can-an-Indian-Citizen-Have-More-Than-One-Caste-Certificate-in-case-of-InterCaste-Marriage

TIMES OF INDIA & MSN
— Google stops funding of 214 groups, over 50 of them related to diversity and equity. I should write about how Google has treated me and my www.gopillinois.com website.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-stops-funding-of-214-groups-over-50-of-them-related-to-diversity-and-equity-report/articleshow/123073327.cms
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/google-quietly-removes-dozens-of-dei-focused-groups-from-funding-list-amid-policy-shift/ar-AA1JLWsO

GOOGLE AI
— Too conservative, Republican  According to my critics/opponents, I have always been to conservative, that is, I promote too many planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22too+conservative%22+republican

August 1, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

WGN9
— Chicago’s budget deficit threatened by pension bill that awaits Pritzker’s signature. My GAO superior who focused on getting rid of me was so furious that I got almost 3 years of full-time Civil Service Retirement System credit while I worked only part-time for the Post Office 1966-1969 that he got Congress to change the law so that now only prorated credit is given.
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/chicagos-budget-deficit-threatened-by-pension-bill-that-awaits-pritzkers-signature/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The bill would boost pension benefits for officers and firefighters hired after 2010 by increasing the cap on pensionable salary and the annual cost-of-living adjustment for pensioners.)

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/01/illinois-joins-lawsuit-challenging-trump-administration-s-efforts-restrict-gender
— Duckworth, Durbin Urge Trump Administration to Reinstate EPA Workers Who Signed ‘Declaration of Dissent.’  I did far more than sign a letter of dissent. When I was 40 years old in 1988, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. GAO audits IRS. They had unofficially thrown me off audits of IRS before I was 40 in 1988 because I had complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. They had kept me off audits of IRS 1980-1985. They had forced the GAO manager to retire in 1987 who had hired me in 1980 and who had finally been able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986. They had delayed my promotions, had never promoted me beyond GS-13, and had forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Democrats run GAO and IRS. They do not want Republicans to audit IRS.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/01/duckworth-durbin-urge-trump-administration-reinstate-epa-workers-who-signed-declaration

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/01/mayors-office-completes-internal-review-of-chicago-police-response-to-june-immigration-raid
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/08/01/illinois-sues-the-trump-administration-to-protect-access-to-gender-affirming-care

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ICE says it has made tentative job offers to more than 1,000 as hiring ramps up. Just kidding, but will Speaker Johnson force GAO to rehire me with backpay. Many of my Democrat GAO superiors who forced me to retire have now retired themselves. My backpay would be $2.4 million ($4.3 salary minus $1.9 Civil Service Retirement System pension.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/ice-hiring-tentative-job-offers/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Many of these offers were to ICE officers who retired under President Biden because they were frustrated that they were not allowed to do their jobs,” she said. “Now under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is excited to get back to work to remove rapists, murderers, gang members and pedophiles from our communities.”)
— Casten shouted down at town hall in La Grange, pro-Palestinian protesters removed
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/u-s-rep-sean-casten-pro-palestinian-protesters/
— Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report. I should write about the following who have done the most to remove me as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 because my newsletters have reported Republican defeats: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. It is called shooting the messenger who brings the bad news.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/trump-removes-jobs-data/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/judge-pauses-fast-track-deportations/
— Lake County Sheriff Martinez starts to repay county for $157,785 of overpayment of benefits. According to my critics/opponents, my federal salary 1966-1969 and 1971-1997, my $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension in today’s dollars since 1997, and my and my wife’s 72% federal healthcare insurance subsidy is much too high. In my defense, I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/lake-co-sheriff-martinez-starts-to-repay-county-for-overpayment-of-benefits/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: All of the extra pay that Martinez received was from the collective bargaining agreement that covers the sheriff’s police officers. The State Board of Accounts contended under state code that Martinez is an officeholder who is not entitled to benefits for police officers negotiated under the collective bargaining agreement.

DAILY HERALD
— Duckworth ever-increasingly makes it clear that she is anti-those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250801/illinois-state-politics/diversity-in-crash-test-dummies-can-save-womens-lives-duckworth-gop-senators-say/

WGN RADIO
— College Visits: What to ask to get the whole picture. In 1966, UIC was the only college that I considered attending. I could afford UIC because my parents could and did provide me with room and board while I attended UIC 1966-1968 and the summers of 1967 and 1968 in between. In 1969, NIU was the only college that I considered transferring to because my parents could and did provide me with room and board weekends during my first semester there and the summer of 1969. I worked part-time for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969.
https://wgnradio.com/jobs/career-vision/college-visits-what-to-ask-to-get-the-whole-picture/

WBEZ
— Chicago teens on the job this summer. What summer jobs did you have? I did yard work during the summers of 1962 and 1963. I delivered newspapers during the summers of 1962-1966. I washed dishes during the summer of 1965. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline during the summer of 1966. I delivered mail during the summers of 1967-1969. My critics/opponents never had to take such jobs because their parents had lots of money, bought them cars, and paid for their college expenses.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/08/01/teenagers-summer-jobs-lifeguard-chuck-e-cheese-international-museum-surgical-science

FOX NEWS
— Hamas should be blamed for the starvation in Gaza
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/hamas-should-blamed-starvation-gaza-says-deputy-state-dept-spokesperson-tommy-pigott-middle-east-special-envoy-steve-witkoff-mike-huckabee

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Plaintiff optimistic, DOJ interested in case against Illinois elections board
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_748c769f-a4b8-463a-b8a1-873b7c66c20a.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A legal case is moving forward against the Illinois State Board of Elections over allegations that the state failed to maintain voter registration lists. Former state Rep. Jeanne Ives, R-Wheaton, said the National Voter Registration Act requires the state to perform list maintenance and remove ineligible voters. U.S. District Court Judge Sara L. Ellis dismissed two plaintiffs from the case last week, but Ives’ group, Breakthrough Ideas, was not dismissed and retains standing as a plaintiff along with Illinois Family Action. The groups filed suit with Judicial Watch attorneys in March of 2024. Ives said it’s obvious that voter lists are not well-maintained in Illinois. “This creates extra costs people should not have to incur and it wastes time as well, not to mention it invites fraud when you do not have cleaned-up voter lists,” Ives told The Center Square. Ives said the dead have voted in Illinois. “I’ve pointed out a couple of dead people that I know casted votes, and there was no adequate explanation for why that occurred. Because they were not cleaned off the voter roll, it invited fraud one way or another. In the state of Illinois, this becomes even more problematic when you have permanent vote by mail,” Ives explained. “So you will have ballots being sent to people that are possibly moved or dead, which makes list maintenance even more important in the state of Illinois.” Ives said 23 Illinois counties with a combined registration list of 980,089 voters reported removing only 100 registrations over a two-year period. “That is an absurdly small number. There is no possible way those counties were conducting a general program that makes an effort to clean up the voter rolls, because only a hundred people died in 23 counties? Nobody believes that, so we know that they’re not doing what they should do,” Ives said. On July 8, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a 15-page statement of interest in the case. “When Illinois voters cast their ballots, they should be confident that their vote is given its due weight, undiluted by ineligible voters,” the statement began. “It is critical to remove ineligible voters from the registration rolls so that elections are conducted fairly, accurately, and without fraud,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in a press release regarding the statement of interest. “Under the NVRA, states have the responsibility to conduct a robust program of list maintenance. The Department of Justice will vigorously enforce those requirements to ensure compliance.” Ives said the case could have ramifications across the country. She said it is possible that the DOJ will file its own lawsuit. As for what’s next, Ives said parties were waiting for a written ruling and it’s possible there could be a hearing later this month. Ives said she suspects there could be a settlement in the case.)
— Youth mental health screenings may have long-term impact, IL legislator warns. Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_61d88fa0-db2a-49ed-8f3a-1ec239a0a422.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois economy declines 2.2% in early 2025, one of biggest drops in U.S.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-economy-declines-2-2-in-early-2025-one-of-biggest-drops-in-u-s/
— Illinois government pension crisis worst in U.S.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/report-shows-illinois-government-pension-crisis-worst-in-u-s/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— ICE is deporting people at record pace: Nearly 1,300 per day
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/1/ice-deporting-people-record-pace-nearly-1300-per-day/
— Democrats’ civility goes out the window so progressives can pretend to be tough
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/1/editorial-democrats-civility-goes-window-progressives-pretend-tough/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats want to unmask the ICE agents they are putting in danger
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3488819/democrats-ice-agents-masks/

NEW YORK POST
— How can socialist Zohran Mamdani revel in his family’s colonial privilege?
https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/opinion/how-can-socialist-zohran-mamdani-revel-in-his-familys-colonial-privilege/

FEDERALIST
— Immigration Crackdown Protects Americans From Murderers And Rapists Biden Released Into The Streets
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/01/immigration-crackdown-protects-americans-from-murderers-and-rapists-biden-released-into-the-streets/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

KVOR
— Illegals Reduce US Workers’ Wages
https://www.kvor.com/2025/08/01/homan-to-newsmax-illegals-reduce-us-workers-wages/

REASON
— The IRS Is Now 25 Percent Smaller (and, Hopefully, Less Dangerous)  I should write about those who have used against me the most my having been an IRS employee for almost 9 years 1971-1980.
https://www.aol.com/news/irs-now-25-percent-smaller-110004637.html

July 31, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Johnson offers multiple ideas to scare businesses out of Chicago
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-mayor-johnson-offers-multiple-100000664.html
— Former Northwestern University staffer sues alleging he was fired for protesting cuts to LGBTQ resources. My Democrat GAO superiors fired me, that is, they forced me to retire, because I protested their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/30/northwestern-university-employee-sues-lgbtq-cuts/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid. Knowing that if I could survive until I retired, the federal government would pay 72% of my and my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums for life helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to get rid of me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/30/medicaid-trump-2/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout a minorities and at females that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and females have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/31/opinion-donald-trump-black-women-jobs-at-risk/

CHICAGO SUN_TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/29/maga-trump-epstein-kash-patel-bondi-mona-charen

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat leaders want them to pay lower insurance premiums: liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250730/insurance/giannoulias-launches-campaign-to-ensure-fairness-in-auto-insurance-rates/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Johnson imposes hiring curbs on city departments to cut spending. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, the agency was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes because of Gingrich budget cuts. GAO is just a shell of what it once was.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/brandon-johnson-imposes-hiring-curbs-city-hall

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Hamas.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-groups-call-elected-officials-send-more-aid-gaza-end-hunger-crisis-israeli-strikes-continue/17367629

CBS2
— Congressman Darin LaHood on how Trump’s big, beautiful bill will affect Illinoisans. The Illinois representative talks about Medicaid, SNAP, and touches on the petition to release the Epstein files.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/congressman-darin-lahood-on-how-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-will-affect-illinoisans/

WGN9
— Trump, in another break from the norm, interviews 4-star general candidates. While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, ever-increasingly, to get promoted, you had to promote Affirmative Action and DEI.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/ap-politics/ap-trump-meets-with-candidates-for-four-star-general-in-break-with-tradition-white-house-acknowledges/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for all the problems that Blacks have.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/30/national-urban-league-ceo-declaring-state-emergency-over-trump-administration/

WGN RADIO
— Ray LaHood: Illinois legislative map is ‘an embarrassment’
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/ray-lahood-illinois-legislative-map-is-an-embarrassment/
— The mainstream news media did not blame Biden for inflation, but now, the mainstream news media blames Trump for inflation.
https://wgnradio.com/news/how-trumps-tariffs-could-affect-your-grocery-bill/amp/

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Kane County Auditor Penny Wegman announces bid for treasurer. Incumbent GOP Treasurer Lauzen hasn’t said if he’ll run again.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/07/31/kane-county-auditor-penny-wegman-announces-bid-for-treasurer/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Kane County Auditor Penny Wegman on Wednesday officially announced her candidacy for county treasurer. Wegman, a Democrat, was elected to her second term as auditor last year. She will seek her party’s nomination in the March 17 primary election. If she wins the primary, she will be on the Nov. 5, 2026 general election ballot. In a news release Wednesday, Wegman pledged “to bring her proven record of fiscal responsibility, transparency and innovation to the treasurer’s office.” “As your county auditor, I’ve worked every day to make government more transparent, efficient, and accountable to taxpayers,” Wegman stated in the release. “Now, I’m ready to bring that same commitment to the treasurer’s office – to continue protecting taxpayer dollars and strengthening public trust in our financial institutions.” The current treasurer is Chris Lauzen, a Republican and former state senator and former county board chairman. He has not announced whether he would seek another term. Since taking office as auditor, Wegman said she led on several key initiatives that improved the county’s financial operations and public accountability. These include: Increasing transparency through a more accessible, online county checkbook, giving taxpayers real-time insight into county spending; Creating a successful internship program, providing hands-on government experience to local students and cultivating the next generation of public servants; Identifying and helping close policy gaps, collaborating with the county board to strengthen financial procedures and internal controls; Increasing county revenue by competitively bidding the purchase card vendor, securing better returns for Kane County taxpayers. “These are not just ideas – they are results, ” Wegman said in the release. “As treasurer, I will carry forward this momentum to modernize operations, safeguard county funds, and ensure Kane County residents get the transparency and service they deserve,” Wegman stated in the release. With her background in auditing, financial oversight and public service, Wegman stated in the release that she is “uniquely prepared to transition seamlessly into the treasurer’s role and immediately build upon the office’s core responsibilities: receiving, investing, and safeguarding the county’s funds.” Last year, Wegman received the Innovator Award from the International Association of Government Officials at its annual conference in New Orleans. The award was in recognition of Wegman’s work with the county’s procurement card program, which are known as p-cards and are county credit cards issued to department heads. Her campaign for treasurer will formally launch with a fundraiser on Aug. 28, at The Office, 201 E Main St., St. Charles. The public is invited to attend and learn more about Wegman’s vision for the treasurer’s office. In May, Candida “Connie” Cain announced she left the Kane County GOP to run for treasurer as a Democrat.)

COURIER & PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.courierpress.com/story/opinion/2025/07/31/opinion-shabazz-abortion-restrictions-have-led-to-more-access/85422719007/

NPR ILLINOIS
— The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-07-30/trump-wants-to-make-it-easier-to-institutionalize-some-homeless-people-how-will-that-play-out-in-la

CITIES 92.9
— To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat leaders want them to pay lower insurance premiums: liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/07/30/illinois-secretary-of-state-pushes-to-restrict-auto-premium-calculations/

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/ohio-city-whose-haitian-migrants-were-disparaged-by-trump-braces-to-defend-them-against-deportation/article_5e9c485c-d55f-5bc2-8aa4-eb936ef9864c.html

WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/families-first-rally-in-rockford-calls-for-support-for-working-families/ar-AA1Jmn4e

MEDILL REPORTS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and on charity.
https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/listen-rooted-in-community-evanston-grows-works-toward-food-justice/

HOODLINE ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://hoodline.com/2025/07/illinois-commission-on-equity-and-inclusion-to-promote-diversity-at-2025-state-fair-in-springfield/

IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make children sexually active LGBTQers.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/chicago-hospitals-are-scaling-back-trans-care-for-youth-a-rapid-response-team-is-stepping-in/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Growth killer: Chicago’s potential corporate head tax.
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-corporate-head-tax-growth-killer-wirepoints/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— With sanctuary lawsuit dismissed, Illinois Democrats vow to resist ICE. Anticipate/expect that Illinois Democrats will ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_8ef66d3c-2623-48b6-9390-e0a99d483d3c.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Trump’s economy is already proving the doomsayers completely wrong
https://nypost.com/2025/07/30/opinion/trumps-economy-is-already-proving-the-doomsayers-completely-wrong/

AMERICAN THINKER
— The Perils of Linguistic Debasement
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/the_perils_of_linguistic_debasement.html

BREITBART
— U.S. Economy Rockets up to Three Percent Growth in Second Quarter Under Trump
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/30/u-s-economy-rockets-up-to-three-percent-growth-in-second-quarter-under-trump/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Trump administration has terminated over 4,000 grants. To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give them more government grants: liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/trump-administration-terminated-4000-grants-report/28363

DAILY CALLER
— Latinos Living Along Southern Border Rave Over Trump’s Crackdown
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/30/border-latinos-happy-with-donald-trump/
— Trump’s Education Dept Ends Free Tuition For Illegals. Where did the money come from to pay for your bachelor’s degree? For me, the money came from what I earned doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, and working on an automotive assembly line.
https://www.aol.com/exclusive-trump-education-dept-ends-123926748.html

DAILY WIRE
— Trump Crushes Woke Colleges, Ignites Meritocracy’s Epic Comeback. Campus antisemitism and university DEI programs took a gut punch from our president, and the transgender nonsense is in retreat. If Trump had been elected sooner, my Democrat superiors in the federal government would not have been able to waste my career, take adverse actions against me, and force me to retire when I was 49 years old. If Trump had been elected earlier, I might still be a General Motors employee because Oldsmobile would not have withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted because EEOC had forced it to stop hiring Whites to settle a complaint.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-crushes-woke-colleges-ignites-meritocracys-epic-comeback

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Five Universities Under Investigation for Excluding U.S.-Born Citizens from Certain Scholarships. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me for my not getting any scholarships. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.fairus.org/news/executive/universities-investigated-excluding-us-born-citizens-scholarships

FOX NEWS
— Trump rips ‘luxury hotels’ for migrants while American citizens are ‘living from hand to mouth.’  President says homeless veterans ‘can’t get a room’ while migrants stay in expensive accommodations.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-rips-luxury-hotels-migrants-american-citizens-living-hand-mouth

NUMBERS USA
— 70% say Biden deliberately opened the border. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/70-say-biden-deliberately-opened-the-border/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/30/politics/video/maga-media-reverses-course-epstein-files-osullivan-ebof-digvid
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use wokeness/wokeism to destroy Republicans.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/30/politics/dei-anti-woke-trump-administration-analysis

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— All the Democrats and all the RINOs above me have always promoted wokeness/wokeism, that is, they have always discriminated against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-fires-senior-navy-female-officer-at-nato-she-appeared-on-a-woke-list/ar-AA1Cu548

MSN
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/project-2025-creators-target-university-over-lgbtq-inclusive-course-materials/ar-AA1Jx6Mw
— ‘Worrying time for Irish in US’ as Trump makes good on illegals promise
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/worrying-time-for-irish-in-us-as-trump-makes-good-on-illegals-promise/ar-AA1JpLKn

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IikY_83QZ38

ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-comments-epstein-raise-new-questions-fell/story?id=124211483

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/democrats-trump-epstein-files.html
— Trump Administration Authorizes Deployment of National Guard at ICE Facilities
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/trump-national-guard-ice.html
— Trump Threatens Canada for Backing Palestinian State
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/trump-canada-trade-palestine.html
— Judge Bars Trump From Punishing Two Law Professors for International Criminal Court Work. The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO allowed my Democrat GAO superiors to force me to retire because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/trump-icc-lawyers.html
— Illinois Democrats lead the nation in gerrymandering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/texas-republican-redistricting.html

KNEWZ
— What ICE agents earn and what their benefits look like. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn ICE.
https://knewz.com/ice-agents-earn-their-benefits/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump and Dimon Are Talking Again After Yearslong Rift. What does Dimon and his JPMorgan Chase think of you?
https://www.wsj.com/finance/jpmorgan-chase-jamie-dimon-trump-visits-01a36928

GOVENMENT EXECUTIVE
— APRIL 27, 2007 FLASHBACK: GAO settles pay dispute with 12 of 308 (Band II) senior analysts. Counsel finds data and calculations used to conduct the employees’ performance evaluations were flawed. My Democrat GAO superiors used their flawed performance evaluations to a) delay my promotions, b) never promote me beyond GS-13 (Band II), c) keep me off audits of IRS, d) always rank in bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2007/04/gao-settles-pay-dispute-with-12-of-308-senior-analysts/24307/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Government Accountability Office has reached settlements with 12 of 308 employees denied pay increases last year. The 12 employees were offered promotions, back pay and associated benefits as if they had been promoted as of Jan. 8, 2006, several sources confirmed Thursday. The case goes back to June 2005, when GAO issued a plan for splitting one of its pay bands — Band II — into Band IIA and Band IIB. Employees placed in Band IIA were not granted pay increases, while employees placed in Band IIB got raises. Employees were required to earn a “meets expectations” on their performance appraisal to be eligible for Band IIB placement. GAO issued its final placement decisions in December 2005, and gave employees with Band IIA placement 30 days to appeal to the agency’s Office of Opportunities and Inclusiveness or its Personnel Appeals Board, one source said. “Each one of the 12 marched over to the appeals board as an act of personal courage and chose to run the risk of retaliation,” the source said. Several sources said there was little or no justification for the employees’ placement in the lower pay band. The appeals board’s general counsel, which represented the 12 employees, found that the data and calculations used to conduct the employees’ performance evaluations were unreliable and included significant flaws and inconsistencies. Several GAO employees and other sources, who spoke under condition of anonymity, questioned why the watchdog agency – which has insisted the pay determinations were justified – decided to settle with the 12 employees. The 12 employees are prohibited to speak to anyone about the details of the settlement unless asked as part of a congressional inquiry, one source said, adding that Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., has already asked the employees about the settlements.)

NPR
— How firing hundreds of employees this year has transformed the Justice Department. I should write about how GAO has become more and more and more partisan since 1980. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/1256429518/how-firing-hundreds-of-employees-this-year-has-transformed-the-justice-departmen

POLITICO
— Trump drove firing of a FDA official. I should write about the following who drove the adverse actions that have been taken against me: past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders, e) religious leaders, and f) those who I have sued and their attorneys.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/30/white-house-drove-prasad-firing-despite-rfk-jr-makary-concerns-00485972
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2025/trump-social-media-epstein-tracker/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Justice Department Declares DEI Unlawful. Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2025/07/30/doj-declares-slew-dei-practices-unlawful-memo

AXIOS
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that their illegal traffic through the Darién Gap has fallen to near zero.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/migrant-traffic-darien-gap-panama-trump
— To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give them more government grants: liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/trumps-doj-dei-inclusion-rules-grant-programs

GOOGLE AI
— Danny Davis and GAO. I am sure that Davis approved of, if not orchestrated, if not demanded that GAO force me to retire and replace me with my Black CPA subordinate when I was 49 years old in 1997. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He was not a licensed CPA like I was.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Danny+Davis%
(FROIM THE ARTICLE: He has a history of working with the GAO, particularly on issues related to federal workforce management and oversight. . .One specific area of interest for Davis and the GAO has been the federal workforce, including pay systems and diversity within senior executive ranks. Specific Examples: A 2003 GAO report was developed at his request to explore safeguards for Congress to consider related to pay. In 2008, there were discussions about a measure he planned to introduce to grant retroactive pay to certain GAO employees. He has also been involved in addressing pay disputes within the GAO.)