May 30, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court for now
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-tariffs-reinstated-by-appeals-court-for-now/3756338/

FOX32
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1649490

WGN9
— Cannabis is bad for your heart
https://wgntv.com/news/trending/smoke-it-or-eat-it-cannabis-is-bad-for-your-heart-new-research-shows/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders promote assisted suicide
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/29/illinois-bill-would-allow-terminally-ill-adults-end-their-lives-medical-assistance

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,’ Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder as lawyers praise Trump choice.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/larry-hoover-trump-fbi-boss/
— Democrat leaders use Chinese students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/chinese-students-visa/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racist.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/30/traffic-stops-black-drivers-illinois-public-universities-campus-police-departments

DAILY HERALD
— ‘Huge opportunity’ or ‘stealing’ from suburbs? Senate debates funding plan to save transit
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250529/transportation/huge-opportunity-or-stealing-from-the-suburbs-senate-debates-funding-plan-to-save-transit/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/trump-move-chinese-visas-could-impact-chicago-universities

STATELINE
— Gun owners in Illinois face $10K fine if weapon is stolen and used in a crime. Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/gun-owners-in-illinois-face-10k-fine-if-weapon-is-stolen-and-used-in-a-crime/

DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/29/proposed-edible-tasting-room-for-dekalb-dispensary-gets-early-support/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-30/federal-workers-keep-americas-farms-healthy-what-now-under-trump

HOMEWOOD/FLOSSMOOR PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBT in Homewood/Flossmoor
https://patch.com/illinois/homewood-flossmoor/homewood-flossmoor-pride-fest-set-celebrate-diversity-inclusion

IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Chinese students over American students.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/uncertain-future-for-chinese-students-cause-concern-at-uiuc/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-523/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-315/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— The pension sweetener bill is yet another reminder that lawmakers don’t care about ordinary Illinoisans. Because State of Illinois employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Democrats politicians defend and promote them.  Because federal employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Republican politicians demonize, denigrate, and condemn them.
https://wirepoints.org/the-pension-sweetener-bill-is-yet-another-reminder-that-lawmakers-dont-care-about-ordinary-illinoisans-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
—  The sanctuary counties in Illinois that Trump just put on notice include DuPage County ( https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759 ). Is your county on the list? The following Illinois counties are on the list: Adams, Alexander; Bond, Boone, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cook, Crawford, Cumberland, DeKalb, Dewitt, Douglas, DuPage, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Franklin, Fulton, Gallatin, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jackson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lawrence, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Massac, McDonough, McLean, Mercer, Menard, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Perry, Piatt, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richland, Rock Island, Saint Clair, Saline, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Stephenson, Tazewell, Union, Vermilion, Wabash, Warren, Washington, Wayne, White, Whiteside County, Will, Williamson, Winnebago, and Woodford. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on Civil Service protections? Trump wants to cut them. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly stress that Trump is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while I 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, and 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. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Constructively, if not literally, Democrat and RINO leaders rank those who are under them. The more of the following that you are, the more points that they give you: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The more of the following that you do, the more points that they give you: glorify and praise them, pander to them, serve as one of their operatives or dupes, cover up their wrongdoing, and/or give them money. Of course, Democrat and RINO leaders give me no points. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Uber/Lyft and Real Estate Transfer Taxes Proposed to Bail Out CTA
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/uber-lyft-and-real-estate-transfer-taxes-proposed-to-bail-out-cta/
— Sosnowski Introduces Bill to Allow Switch of Casino Sites
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/sosnowski-introduces-bill/
— Four-Year Community College Degree Legislation Still Alive, But Severely Limited
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/four-year-community-college-degree-legislation-still-alive-but-severely-limited/
— Dems Advance Gun Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dems-advance-gun-bill/
— DeWitte Notes Dems’ Revision of Shift from RTA to NITA (Northern Illinois Transit Authority) Takes Power from Suburbs
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dewitte-notes-dems-revision-of-shift-from-rta-to-nita-northern-illinois-transit-authority-takes-power-from-suburbs/
— McLaughlin Bill for Privately-Financed Statue of Pope Leo IV on Capitol Grounds Stuck in Committee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/mclaughlin-bill-for-privately-financed-statue-of-pope-leo-iv-on-capitol-grounds-stuck-in-committee/
— Ness Goes after Trump
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ness-goes-after-trump/
— Senate Republicans on Electric Rates
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/senate-republicans-on-electric-rates/
— Ugasta’s Views on Democrats’ Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ugastas-views-on-democrats-budget/
— Johnsburg’s Kirk Donald Running for Re-Election as Vice Chairman of the McHenry County Republican Party
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/johnsburgs-kirk-donald-running-for-re-election-as-vice-chairman-of-the-mchenry-county-republican-party/
— Cook County Homeowners Beginning to Feel the Pain the Rest of Have All Along & How State Law Gives Cook County Homeowners Tax Breaks Not Seen in the Other 101 Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/cook-county-homeowners-beginning-to-feel-the-pain-the-rest-of-have-all-along-how-cook-county-homeowners-get-tax-breaks-not-seen-in-the-other-101-counties/
— For Those Interested in a Deep Dive into What DODE Did…
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/for-those-interested-in-a-deep-dive-into-what-dode-did/
— Casten Endorses Biss for Algonquin Township Congressman
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/casten-endorse-biss-for-algonquin-township-congressman/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Assisted Suicide Passes House, Moves to Senate
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/assisted-suicide-passes-house-moves-to-senate/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DHS releases name-and-shame sanctuary list with more than 600 states, cities, counties. DuPage County is in the list.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/29/dhs-releases-name-shame-sanctuary-list-600-states-cities-counties/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago’s government-by-racism is failing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3424244/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-race-comments/
— Trump administration orders ICE to more than triple number of daily arrests
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3425621/trump-ice-triple-arrests/

NEW YORK POST
— ICE shakes up agency with ‘leadership realignment’ in push for a ‘minimum’ of 3,000 migrant arrests per day
https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/us-news/ice-shakes-up-leadership-amid-push-for-3000-migrant-arrests-per-day/

AFPI
— Massive Scale of Chinese Illegal Immigration Threatens National Security
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/massive-scale-of-chinese-illegal-immigration-threatens-national-security

CENTER SQUARE
— ICE calling law enforcement in all counties to help with deportation efforts
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_efdabd74-5fba-4c22-a3ec-1f8fef4ef79d.html

COLLEGE FIX
— K-12 schools spent $19 million in federal tax dollars on ‘restorative justice,’ ‘equitable grading.’ What depressed your GPA? For me, it was my spending far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/k-12-schools-spent-19-million-in-federal-tax-dollars-on-restorative-justice-equitable-grading/

DAILY CALLER
— Washington’s Spending Party Continues As Elon Musk Bids Farewell To Swamp
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/washingtons-spending-party-elon-musk-bids-farewell-swamp/
— FBI Tells Employees No ‘Pride’ Activities On Company Time. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ever-increasingly required their employees to attend more DEI training and events. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Democrat Black subordinate who ran the office’s Black events.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/fbi-employees-no-pride-activites-company-time-june/

EPOCH TIMES
— State Department Says It Will Expand Scrutiny of All Chinese Visa Holders in US. The department has already paused new student visa interviews worldwide and is preparing to revoke visas for Chinese nationals currently in the United States.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/state-department-says-it-will-expand-scrutiny-of-all-chinese-visa-holders-in-us-5865198

FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor calls DOGE ‘an act of war,’ compares second Trump term to Third Reich. ‘You have a president that is cutting off medicine and food [and] working to erase culture,’ Brandon Johnson claimed
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-mayor-calls-doge-an-act-war-compares-second-trump-term-third-reich

NEWSMAX
— Harvard’s Standards Have Dropped. To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly dropped their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-harvard-dei/2025/05/29/id/1212899/

PJ MEDIA
— The Education Department and the Demise of Our Schooling
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/29/the-education-dept-intellectual-silliness-and-the-demise-of-our-schooling-n4940257

TOWNHALL
— Chaos Erupts Outside Immigration Court As Protesters Clash With Police
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/29/police-arrest-dozens-protesting-outside-immigration-court-in-manhattan-n2657815
— Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2025/05/30/democrats-and-their-dei-albatrosses-n2657857

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Karl Rove: Trump tariffs could cost GOP their majorities
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5325112-karl-rove-trump-tariffs-could-cost-gop-their-majorities/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-university-slave-photos-d9c01b7926bba2a686ff325617e93ce9

REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/universities-seek-lure-us-bound-students-amid-trump-crackdown-2025-05-30/

NEWSWEEK
— The Sanctuary Cities, Counties and States the Trump Admin Just Put on Notice. DuPage County is on the list.
https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759
— Levi’s ever-increasingly promotes more DEI and LGBTQ.
https://www.newsweek.com/levis-pride-collection-dei-programs-2078557

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/29/us/harvard-trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/chinese-students-rattled-by-trump-plan-to-aggressively-revoke-visas.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/trump-china-visas-tariffs.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/29/chinese-students-data-visa/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/29/harvard-international-students-hearing/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct. I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School district 200, and my precinct. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/05/29/pew-lgbtq-poll-transgender-acceptance-trump/6498f882-3c95-11f0-912d-d5f4792db3e4_story.html

USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and stress that he is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while I 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, and 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. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/28/trump-due-process-deportations/83824951007/
— Trump lashes out at judges on tariffs, blames Federalist Society for bad legal advice
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/29/donald-trump-federalist-society-judges-tariffs-attacks/83933632007/

TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Florida Attracts Wave Of Newcomers As California, New York, & Illinois See Resident Exodus. Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct.
https://www.tampafp.com/florida-attracts-wave-of-newcomers-as-california-new-york-illinois-see-resident-exodus/

FORBES
— If Trump’s Tariffs Raise Prices Or Are Perceived To, GOP Will Be Hurt In Midterms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdn-0d7mI-w

PBS
— Trump administration pressures ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ by publishing list of places ‘deliberately obstructing’ immigration enforcement
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-pressures-sanctuary-jurisdictions-by-publishing-list-of-places-deliberately-obstructing-immigration-enforcement

FED SMITH
— Important Changes to Proposed Benefits Cuts in House-Passed Spending Bill. Trump wants to cut Civil Service protections. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/28/important-changes-to-proposed-benefits-cuts-in-house-passed-spending-bill/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Election for At-Will Employment  The provision for new hires to elect at-will employment remains in the legislation as well. Newly hired federal employees could opt to become at-will employees in exchange for a lower contribution rate to FERS (the standard 4.4%). This would be an irrevocable decision per the language of the legislation as currently written. However, if employees were to choose to keep their Civil Service protections, they would pay an additional 5% contribution rate to FERS (9.4% total for most federal employees). Federal employees who opt to become at-will employees could face adverse actions, including removal, without notice or the right to appeal the action. Per the language of the bill as currently written, they “may be subject to an adverse action up to and including removal, without notice or right to appeal, by the head of the agency at which the individual is employed for good cause, bad cause, or no cause at all.”)

INSIDE HIGHTER ED
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/05/30/trump-targets-chinese-students-harsh-blow-higher

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by 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.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/black-and-empowered/202505/finding-compassion-in-the-darkness-of-racism-and-discrimination

AMAZON
— Proud to be Woke. My critics/opponents act like they are proud to be woke. That is, they discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.amazon.com/Politically-Well-Informed-Socialist-Proud/dp/B0BY2LFD7S

TIMES OF INDIA
— IIT has the highest percentage of international students. IIT admitted me in 1992. But it would have admitted an international student instead of me if it could have.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/which-us-university-has-the-highest-percentage-of-international-students-well-its-not-harvard/articleshow/121513373.cms

May 29, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Musk announces departure from Trump administration as 130-day role ends.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/elon-musk-is-leaving-trump-administration-criticizing-presidents-big-beautiful-bill/16580917/
— Chinese students anxious and angry after Rubio vows to revoke visas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chinese-students-call-measure-exclusion-act-rubio-vows-revoke-visas/16585161/

NBC5
— Musk says he’s leaving the Trump administration. Musk announced his decision one day after CBS released part of an interview in which he criticized the centerpiece of Trump’s legislative agenda.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/elon-musk-leaves-trump-administration/3755771/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that Republicans cause everyone’s problems.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-budget-battle-medicaid-cuts-05282025/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Kinzinger.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/kinzinger-talks-trump-and-his-own-future-in-chicago-speech/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZlq2NbAVbU

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Musk is leaving the Trump administration after criticizing president’s ‘big beautiful bill’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/elon-musk-leaving-trump-administration/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: CTA paid some employees to stay home and to not work. Constructively, since 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.85 million in today’s dollars to force me stay home and to not work.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/cta-paid-some-employees-to-stay-home-not-work-watchdog-says/
— Illinois lawmakers ban police from ticketing and fining students for minor infractions in school.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/illinois-school-police-bill/
— Rubio says the U.S. will begin revoking the visas of Chinese students
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/us-visa-interviews-foreign-students/?preview_id=22441198
— Paul Vallas: The real reason Chicago high schoolers are missing so much school — and what to do about it
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/opinion-chicago-high-school-students-absences/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that Republicans cause everyone’s problems.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/27/budget-reconciliation-bill-scapegoating-immigrants-jobs-working-class-america-trump-ben-jealous
— Workers bristle at Trump-backed Nippon-U.S. Steel deal — ‘It’s a bad move’  President Trump approved the Japanese company’s nearly $15 billion bid for the American steelmaker last week. I worked for Firestone 1970-1972. The Japanese company Bridgestone bought Firestone in 1988.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/work/2025/05/28/us-steel-nippon-deal-trump-workers-union
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote hatred against Musk.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/28/elon-musk-desantis-trump-doge-maga-wisconsin-supreme-court-political-kryptonite-x-s-e-cupp
— CTA has paid some workers not to work since the pandemic, costing taxpayers more than $1 million. Constructively, since 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.85 million in today’s dollars to force me stay home and to not work.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/28/cta-state-inspector-general-audit-workers-paid-not-to-work-covid-pandemic

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago taxpayers are footing the bill for legal patronage
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chicagos-legal-outsourcing-costs-taxpayers-millions-op-ed

RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion and LGBTQ.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-urges-american-medical-association-to-ensure-abortion-and-genderaffirming-care-providers-can-get-board-certified-without-risk-82879.cfm?

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-judge-rules-that-trump-administration-wrongly-ended-humanitarian-parole-for-hundreds-of-thousands/

WHEATON PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/kick-out-clowns-rally-protest-trump-warrenville

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Anti-Semitism in Chicago Is Part of a Broader Assault by the Left That Threatens Our Way of Life
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/anti-semitism-in-chicago-is-part-of-a-broader-assault-by-the-left-that-threatens-our-way-of-life

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-522/
— Afternoon briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-314/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois lawmakers want to kick taxpayers in the teeth with expensive pension sweetener bill
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-lawmakers-want-to-kick-taxpayers-in-the-teeth-with-expensive-pension-sweetener-bill-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What if Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI had never existed?  My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA, DEI, and up-or-out to waste my career and to get rid of me. If they had not had those tools, I would have made Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year, before I was 40 in 1988 notwithstanding a) my being a Republican, b) my not earning an MBA until I was 27, c) my not passing the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30, d) my not earning a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, e) my not passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32, and f) my not becoming a licensed CPA until I was 32. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like I had and/or b) were minority, female, and/or younger than me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly lower standards to hire Democrats and RINOs. That has ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my four job-related college degrees, b) my six job-related professional certifications, and c) my job-related professional license.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/no-degree-no-problem-chicago-expanding-access-to-work/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans’ ‘big beautiful bill’ would cement Trump’s executive orders in federal law.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/28/republicans-big-beautiful-bill-would-cement-trumps-executive-orders/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— PBS prefers Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans, 4-to-1
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3423671/pbs-prefers-democrats-anti-trump-republicans-media-bias/
— GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ to cut illegal immigrants off financially
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3422891/republican-big-beautiful-bill-multi-pronged-crack-down-immigration/
— The age of Chinese Communist Party collaborators is here
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3423318/cpac-budapest-hungary-china-age-of-chinese-communist-party-collaborators-here/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump aide Stephen Miller pushes ICE to ramp up immigration arrests to 3,000 per day
https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/trump-aid-stephen-miller-pushes-ice-to-arrest-3000-per-day-report/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses. Democrats are trapped by the toxic DEI ideology they created—too afraid to reform, too broken to survive without it. When will the following dump DEI: a) Illinois Republican Party (IRP), b) your Republican county party organization. and c) your Republican township party organization? RINO IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders have always used DEI to get rid of conservatives, that is, to get rid of Republicans. I should write about that.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/29/democrats-and-their-dei-albatrosses/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Lefty elites hate you, too
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/lefty_elites_hate_you_too.html

BREITBART
— ICE Agents Arrest 40 Illegal Aliens on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket — Including Gang Member, Sex Offender
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/28/ice-agents-arrest-40-illegals-on-marthas-vineyard-nantucket/
— Rosie O’Donnell Says Millions Will Starve, Die If Republicans Pass the Big Beautiful Bill
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/05/28/watch-rosie-odonnell-says-millions-will-starve-die-if-republicans-pass-the-big-beautiful-bill/

DAILY CALLER
— DC Airport Celebrates Pride Month Amid Series Of Plane Mishaps
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/28/pride-month-reagan-national-airport-planes-collisions-mishaps/
— The Alien Enemies Act Is Compassionate … But To American Citizens, Not Illegals
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/28/invoking-alien-enemies-act-compassion-american-citizens-deportation/

EPOCH TIMES
— US to Start Revoking Visas of Chinese Students. The visa revocations will include students with connections to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in critical fields, Rubio said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/us-will-start-revoking-visas-of-chinese-students-rubio-5864719

MRC TV
— Border Apprehensions Plummet 93% as Trump’s Hispanic Approval Jumps to 60%
https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/border-apprehensions-plummet-93-trumps-hispanic-approval-jumps-60

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Trump-Vance ticket is distancing the party from a core constituency — and no one seems to mind.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/07/so-long-social-conservatives/

NEWS BUSTERS
— Borderline Certifiable: NY Times Whines ‘Citizens May Feel’ Trump Cuts to Illegal Alien Aid. How dependent on illegals are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2025/05/28/borderline-certifiable-ny-times-whines-citizens-may-feel

NEWSMAX
— Stephen Miller, Noem Press ICE to Arrest 3K Per Day
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-illegals-arrests/2025/05/28/id/1212631/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— Trump administration has ramped up deportations but is still far below pace it wants. ICE deported more than 17,200 people last month, according to data obtained by NBC News, up more than 50% from February.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-ramped-deportations-still-far-wants-rcna209262

CNN
— Trump administration orders some US companies to halt sales to China
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/economy/trump-us-companies-china
— US court blocks Trump from imposing the bulk of his tariffs
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/business/us-court-blocks-trumps-tariffs

MSNBC
— As Musk exits with a whimper, Trump makes mockery of fighting government waste. GAO is supposed to fight government waste, but the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted me and my career big time. GAO audits IRS. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They also wasted what I had learned a) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance and b) passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn46Kl3-_sg

REUTERS
— US to end use of race, gender in highway, transit contracts
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-agrees-end-use-race-gender-highway-transit-contracts-2025-05-28/

NEW YORK TIMES
— A Disillusioned Musk, Distanced From Trump, Says He’s Exiting Washington. The billionaire has made clear he is frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the federal bureaucracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html
— U.S. Will ‘Aggressively’ Revoke Visas of Many Chinese Students. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the students who will have their visas canceled include people with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in “critical fields.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/china-student-visas-revoke.html
— Trump Administration Tells State Regulators It Won’t Back Some Discrimination Claims. The EEOC said it would stop paying state and local civil rights agencies for claims from transgender employees or those based on “disparate impact.” How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, to settle an EEOC complaint, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted. Because I had accepted that offer, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. I had to have a job.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/eeoc-funding-states.html
— Cuomo Proposes $20 Minimum Wage for New York City. When I started earning $19.37/hour in today’s dollars when I was 18 years old in 1966 working part-time for the Park Forest Post Office, my critics/opponents were furious. In my defense, I had passed the postal employment test, I had earned a high school diploma, I had passed a physical exam, I had passed a background investigation, I had passed a truck driving test, and I had a car that I could use to deliver mail from.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/nyregion/cuomo-minimum-wage-20-dollar.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration moves to upend $37B affirmative action program. The Transportation Department initiative, which serves an estimated 49,000 contractors, was a key lifeline for many minority and women owned businesses. To get more votes from minorities and women, Democrat leaders use government to give more preference to minorities and women.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/28/affirmative-action-dei-trump-contracting/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/28/davicito-song-ice-detained/

USA TODAY
— Should you tell your employer you’re looking for a new job? My Firestone Store boss would never have hired me when I was 21 years old in 1970. I was hired by Firestone’s district office and assigned to his store. He owned the building in Chicago Heights that the store was in. He forced me to pass a 2-week probationary period in the Firestone Store in Gary, Indiana. He disapproved of my being a draft avoider, Republican, college graduate, part-time MBA student at UIC, Protestant, German American, my ancestors having been in America since 1844, and I had been a Crete resident since 1948. He was a veteran and he blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. My on-the-job training included lots of pumping gasoline, mounting and balancing tires, changing oil and filters, changing batteries, and delivering major appliances. I made the best of it, but I did accept a job offer from Oldsmobile in early 1971. He immediately rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted that offer after he had directed me while the store was open to use a ladder, bucket, water, and SOS pads to clean the whitewalls on moldy tires that had been hanging on store’s showroom walls for many years.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/05/20/looking-for-new-job-telling-boss-tips/83677102007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: North Korea Infiltrates U.S. Remote Jobs—With the Help of Everyday Americans
https://www.wsj.com/business/north-korea-remote-jobs-e4daa727
— General Motors CEO Defends Trump Auto Tariffs. Mary Barra says tariffs can help even the playing field with foreign competitors.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/general-motors-ceo-defends-trump-auto-tariffs-d6f15ab9
— Democrat and RINO leaders want America to be more and more and more dependent on foreign countries for everything.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tariffs-may-cost-the-gop-in-2026-messaging-costs-reciprocity-72ca450c
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/mary-barra-gm-donald-trump-tariffs-automakers-ee644493
— Whistleblowers Can Stop Illegal DEI. The Justice Department expands its effort against discrimination by invoking the False Claims Act. As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I ever-increasingly blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whistleblowers-can-stop-illegal-dei-justice-department-effort-against-discrimination-expansion-cb83c927
— Harvard Revokes Tenure of Star Professor Accused of Research Misconduct. Francesca Gino, a business professor whose research focused on why people lie and cheat, co-authored papers that included manipulated data. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the real reason why my critics/opponents have taken so many big adverse actions against me was a) that I am extremely bad person, b) that my judgment is extremely bad, c) that my motives are extremely bad, and d) that I am really a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-tenure-revoked-francesca-gino-research-misconduct-2c17e3c7

BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/education-department-targets-pregnant-lgbtq-staff-protections

INC.
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/lgbtq-employees-feel-less-comfortable-in-the-workplace-according-to-a-survey/91194893

POST AND COURIER
— Trump and GOP leave conservatives stranded in wilderness. My Democrat critics/opponents demonize, denigrate, and condemn me as being a conservative. My RINO critics/opponents demonize, denigrate, and condemn me as being too conservative.
https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/commentary/trump-big-beautiful-spending-bill-conservatives/article_ab50c5f0-ab19-40ea-8fa3-9bbb166d20e0.html

NEWS ONE
— Multiple Colleges Cancel Affinity Graduations Amid Trump’s DEI Crackdown. As I graduated from NIU in 1970, Loyola in 1976, DePaul in 1980, and IIT in 1997, fewer and fewer and fewer of those who graduated with me were White males.
https://newsone.com/6189358/affinity-graduations-canceled-amid-trump-dei-crackdown/

POLITICO
— Research shows the massive hole Democrats are in. Voters see the party as being overly focused on diversity. Ever-increasingly, Democrats tell those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/22/democrats-2024-election-problem-focus-group-00195806

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/black-psychology-matters/202505/remembering-george-floyd-as-a-symbol-of-racial-injustice

YAHOO
— I should write about the bad press that car writers have given my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus. They write like they were given draft articles by the car’s direct competitors. I also own a 2013 Charger R/T Max. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T 1994-2005 and a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971.
https://autos.yahoo.com/supercars-burned-bright-fizzled-fast-130010976.html

May 28, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— To get more votes from minorities, females, and younger people, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at them that Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/opinion-chicago-brandon-johnson-diverse-hiring-trump-lawsuit/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders applaud Mayor Johnson for fanning the flames of his political war against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/05/27/mayor-brandon-johnson-war-of-words-donald-trump
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/27/budget-reconciliation-bill-scapegoating-immigrants-jobs-working-class-america-trump-ben-jealous

DAILY HERALD
— Congressional candidate says she’s hiring security because of comments, vandalism
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250527/us-congress-politics/congressional-candidate-says-shes-boosting-security-because-of-threat-vandalism/
— FRONT PAGE: DuPage County setting up land bank as part of affordable housing push. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my wife and got married in 1978 and bought a) 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton  ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 ) and b) two new cars. According to them, I was grossly overpaid, that is, I should not have been promoted in 1972, 1973, or 1974.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250527/news/dupage-county-setting-up-land-bank-as-part-of-affordable-housing-push/

ABC7
— Trump asks Supreme Court to make it easier to deport migrants to Sudan and other ‘third’ countries
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-asks-supreme-court-make-easier-deport-migrants-south-sudan-other-third-countries/16567561/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders use NPR to promote the Democrat Party platform
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/npr-sues-trump-over-executive-order-slashing-funding/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1648113
— Trump wants to cut all federal ties with Harvard
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1648176

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Fitch downgrades Chicago’s credit outlook to ‘negative’
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/fitch-gives-chicago-negative-credit-outlook
— As Trump targets foreign enrollment, IIT could be hardest hit. I took graduate evening courses and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. I did that because my Democrat GAO superiors had made it clear that they would never again assign me to audits of IRS again in 1989, because they had assigned me to audits of federal financial institution regulators since 1990, because I had not taken many courses in finance, and because my supervisor wanted/demanded that her subordinates have master’s degrees in finance.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/illinois-tech-has-high-percentage-international-students

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2025/05/27/5-years-after-george-floyds-murder-chicagoans-protest-amid-setbacks-in-racial-justice-and-police-reform

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use slavery to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.sj-r.com/things-to-do/events/?_evDiscoveryPath=/event/3069243-free-ish-juneteenth-and-the-long-legacy-of-1619-a-conversation-with-nikole-hannah-jones

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.nprillinois.org/health-harvest/2025-05-27/what-trumps-cuts-to-medicaid-will-mean-for-nursing-homes-long-term-care-facilities-in-illinois

CITIES 92.9
— Illinois legislators support #StopTheHate campaign to combat antisemitism. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote antisemitism.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/27/watch-illinois-legislators-support-stopthehate-campaign-to-combat-antisemitism/

CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— Democrat leaders want Pritzker to fight Trump even harder
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/talk-is-cheap-illinois-needs-gov-pritzker-to-act-to-protect-our-students-and-families/

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discourage assimilation. My ancestors were slow to assimilate. Because of that, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/05/27/illinois-bill-aims-to-expand-dual-language-programs/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-521/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-313/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— $800,000 to build a single “affordable” house is not affordable
https://wirepoints.org/800000-to-build-a-single-affordable-house-is-not-affordable-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Why Cook County’s property tax ‘relief fund’ is a hoax
https://wirepoints.org/why-cook-countys-property-tax-relief-fund-is-a-hoax-wirepoints-quickpoint/

CHICAGO PARENT
— DuPage County’s Best Faith-Based Schools Ranked for 2025. Each school offers a unique blend of academic excellence and religious values.
https://www.chicagoparent.com/education/private-schools/faith-based-schools-dupage-county/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have elected officials impacted your career? GAO works for Congress. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Tip O’Neill was the Speaker of the House 1980-1987 and then Jim Wright 1987-1989 and then Tom Foley 1989-1995 and then Newt Gingrich 1995-1997. Gingrich was the Speaker while my lawsuit was pending against GAO in in 1998 and 1999 and then Dennis Hastert 1999-2005. Johnson was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969 and then Nixon in 1969. Nixon was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1974 and then Ford 1974-1977 and then Carter 1977-1980. Carter was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 and 1981 and then Reagan 1981-1989 and then Bush 1989-1993 and then Clinton 1993-1997. Henry Hyde was my Congressman 1978-2007. Peter Fitzgerald was my U.S. Senator 1999-2005. I should write about how each of the aforesaid impacted my career. My Democrat superiors took their biggest adverse actions against me in 1968, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1989, and 1997-2005. I would focus on Hyde, Gingrich, Fitzgerald, and Hastert. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood on Qatari Jet Gift
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/lahood-on-qatari-jet-gift/
— Democrats to Demonstrate on June 8th in Woodstock
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/democrats-to-demonstrate-on-june-8th-in-woodstock/
— After Not-So-Good Memorial Day Weather, See What Celebrating Original Holiday Will Bring This Year
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/after-not-so-good-memorial-day-weather-see-what-celebrating-original-holiday-will-bring-this-year/
— Legislators Becoming Concerned about Data Center Electricity Use Pushing Up Residential Prices
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/legislators-becoming-concerned-about-data-center-electricity-use-pushing-up-residential-prices/
— Americans for Prosperity Continue Attempt to Influence Sue Ness to Vote against Tax Hikes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/americans-for-prosperity-continue-attempt-to-influence-sue-ness-to-vote-against-tax-hikes/
— Book by Local Author Worth Ordering on Memorial Day
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/book-by-local-author-worth-ordering-on-memorial-day/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Only 4 states tax services by default, but Illinois may join them
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/only-4-states-tax-services-by-default-but-illinois-may-join-them/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— 11 million? 20 million? 50 million? Estimates of the illegal immigrant population soar. How many illegals are in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Democrat and RINO leaders want them to stay there.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/27/11-million-20-million-50-million-estimates-illegal-immigrant/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The national reaction to George Floyd’s death was unnecessary and destructive.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3422838/national-reaction-george-floyd-death-police-racism/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin pauses all student visas, considers vetting new applicants’ social media. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But if they could have admitted foreign students instead of me, they would have.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/trump-admin-stops-all-new-student-visa-interviews/
— Melania Trump quashes conspiracy theory about Barron Trump and why the president is targeting Harvard
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/melania-trump-quashes-conspiracy-theory-about-barron-trump-and-why-the-president-is-targeting-harvard/
— The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will immediately end/reverse everything that Trump has done. Johnson was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969 and then Nixon in 1969. Nixon was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1974 and then Ford 1974-1977 and then Carter 1977-1980. Carter was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 and 1981 and then Reagan 1981-1989 and then Bush 1989-1993 and then Clinton 1993-1997.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/opinion/the-woke-left-will-never-recover-from-donald-trump/

AMERICAN THINKER
— NYT whines about low-information voters supporting Trump… but hides real information about the corruption of big government
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/nyt_whines_about_low_information_voters_supporting_trump_but_hides_real_information_about_the_corruption_of_big_government.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Proudly racist Chicago mayor wants to wish everyone a ‘Happy Africa Day’ for Memorial Day
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/27/proudly-racist-chicago-mayor-wants-to-wish-everyone-a-happy-africa-day-for-memorial-day-1546476/

BLAZE
— Brandon Johnson remains defiant against Trump after civil rights probe from DOJ
https://www.theblaze.com/news/brandon-johnson-remains-defiant-against-trump-after-civil-rights-probe-from-doj

BREITBART
— Anchor Babies Benefit Hugely from Taxpayer-Funded Welfare
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/27/ny-times-admits-anchor-babies-benefit-hugely-taxpayer-funded-welfare/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Illinois Wesleyan University promotes ‘Gender Diversity’ with ‘Rainbow Floor,’ ‘Universal Bathroom Map’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/illinois-wesleyan-university-promotes-gender-diversity-rainbow-floor-universal-bathroom-map-/27987

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Isn’t Turning A Blind Eye To States Who Dole Out Medicaid Benefits To Illegal Migrants
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/27/trump-administration-warns-states-about-crackdown-on-medicaid-spending-for-illegals/

FOX NEWS
— Chicago’s Mayor Johnson is so focused on race he can’t see the truth about humanity
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chicagos-mayor-johnson-so-focused-race-he-cant-see-truth-about-humanity

TOWNHALL
— NYT Twists Itself Into a Pretzel to Avoid Exposing How Illegals Get Access to Welfare Benefits
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/05/27/nyt-twists-itself-into-a-pretzel-to-avoid-exposing-how-illegals-get-access-to-welfare-benefits-n2657689

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump expands list of targets for his ire. Every time the Democrats who ran GAO assigned a new manager to run their Chicago office 1980-1997, they gave that manager a list of employees to get rid of. Of course, I was on all those lists along with the office’s employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I would not have survived until 1997 if I had not a) earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) became a licensed CPA in 1981, d) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earned a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5320937-donald-trump-ire-list-expansion/

CBS NEWS
— Musk says he’s “disappointed” by Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” and what it means for DOGE
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-disappointed-by-trump-big-beautiful-bill-doge/

CNN
— Musk says Trump’s agenda bill ‘undermines’ DOGE mission
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/politics/elon-musk-trump-spending-bill-doge

REUTERS
— Trump administration halts scheduling of new student visa appointments. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But if they could have admitted foreign students instead of me, they would have.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-scheduling-new-student-visa-appointments-2025-05-27/

MSN
— Could you pass the Army’s new physical fitness test?  I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. They blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. My critics/opponent could stress that I was able to stand and wash dishes.
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/health/other/could-you-pass-the-army-s-new-physical-fitness-test/ar-AA1FnjTh
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the first exercise, soldiers are required to deadlift the maximum weight possible three times, using a 60-pound hex bar and plates. Then, they must complete as many hand-release push-ups as possible in two minutes, completely lowering the body to the ground and extending the arms to the side before starting the next push-up. For the sprint-drag-carry exercise, they must perform 5 x 50-meter shuttles as quickly as possible with a 2 x 40-pound kettlebell and a 90-pound sled. Soldiers must then hold the plank position for as long as possible to assess muscular endurance, before finishing off with a two-mile run on a “generally flat outdoor course.”)

NEWSWEEK
— College Graduates Are Feeling Pessimistic About the Job Market. What frustrated your job search? In 1970, potential employers viewed me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got and it was for a job that did not really require a college degree.
https://www.newsweek.com/2025/05/16/jobs-class-2025-college-graduates-2067359.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/immigrants-federal-aid-us-citizens.html

USA TODAY
— Generation Z gives up on the America dream. What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? 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.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/05/27/gen-z-economy-student-loan-debt-online-shopping/83632729007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— King Charles Defends Canada’s Sovereignty From Trump. Rare parliamentary address capped king of Canada’s first visit as monarch.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/king-charles-canada-sovereignty-trump-ccd4a4bf
— My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinate were furious when my wife and got married in 1978 and bought a) 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton  ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 ) and b) two new cars. According to them, I was grossly overpaid, that is, I should not have been promoted in 1972, 1973, or 1974.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/first-time-home-buyers-downsize-amid-tight-supply-high-interest-rates-2b89511b?mod=Searchresults_pos8&page=1
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/starter-homes-smaller-rising-costs-2cc918e6

CHALKBEAT NEW YORK
— Hundreds of NYC students walk out of class for ‘anti-Trump, nonpartisan’ protest
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/05/27/high-school-students-protest-trump-higher-education-immigration/

TRUTHOUT
— Chemical Plants Near Black Neighborhoods Pollute While Hiring Few Black Workers. “People don’t have the jobs here, but people do have cancer.” My father worked in a nasty chemical plant in the Black northeast side of Chicago Heights for 29 years until he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969.
https://truthout.org/articles/chemical-plants-near-black-neighborhoods-pollute-while-hiring-few-black-workers/

ACCOUNTING TODAY
— Illinois passes licensure changes bill. Who do you know who is a licensed CPA? I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 years old in 1981. Very few CPAs become licensed CPAs. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious because my becoming a licensed CPA frustrated their efforts to get rid of me. None of them were licensed CPAs and most were not CPAs. They were also furious that I had also passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination that year and I had earned a master’s degree in accounting the year before.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/illinois-passes-cpa-licensure-changes-bill

GOOGLE AI
— The 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T likely attracts buyers who are enthusiasts with a passion for performance and a desire for a practical, family-friendly vehicle. Dodge’s buyers tend to be younger and represent a diverse range of demographics, including Asian, African American, and Latino customers.  I just bought a new red 2025 Charger Daytona R/T. But I am not young or a minority. I have owned a red 2013 Charger R/T Max since 2012. I owned a blue 1968 Charger R/T show car 1994-2005. I owned a blue 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%222025+dodge+charger+daytona+r%2Ft%22+buyers+demographics

TOP ELECTRIC SUV
— We check out the Dodge Charger Daytona R/T before its discontinuation. I just bought a new red 2025 Charger Daytona R/T. How should I react to its discontinuance?
https://topelectricsuv.com/news/dodge/dodge-charger-daytona-rt/

May 27, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— FBI reopens investigations into cocaine at White House, leaked Dobbs opinion.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/fbi-reopens-investigation-cocaine-white-house-leaked-dobbs-opinion/16555524/

NBC5
— Cuban exiles were shielded from deportation. Now Trump is cracking down.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/cuban-exiles-were-shielded-from-deportation-now-trump-is-cracking-down/3754038/
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS10122HIBg

WTTW
— Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Senior Leadership Team Nearly 50% Black, More Than Half Female.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/27/mayor-brandon-johnson-s-senior-leadership-team-nearly-50-black-more-half-female-analysis
— Can Chicago-Born Pope Leo Remain a U.S. Citizen Now That He’s a Foreign Head of State?
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/25/can-chicago-born-pope-leo-remain-us-citizen-now-he-s-foreign-head-state

WGN RADIO
— Chicago’s own Gary Sinise: Serving military families of the fallen, first responders, veterans, and The Memorial Day concert.
https://wgnradio.com/dave-plier/chicagos-own-gary-sinise-serving-military-families-of-the-fallen-first-responders-veterans-and-the-memorial-day-concert/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— With the Chinese outpacing our tech advances, has our ‘Sputnik moment’ come and gone?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/opinion-us-china-students-education-sputnik/
— Illinois Teacher of the Year from Indian Prairie District 204 has hosted dozens of discussions across the state on belonging. Sadly, if not tragically, the more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the less that you feel like you belong in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. Far too many leaders of the aforesaid organizations reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform. I support all the planks.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/illinois-teacher-of-the-year-from-indian-prairie-district-204-has-hosted-dozens-of-discussions-across-the-state-on-belonging/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/24/what-trumps-cuts-to-medicaid-will-mean-for-nursing-homes-long-term-care-facilities-in-illinois
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/25/northwestern-uic-medical-researchers-diabetes-hiv-trump-funding-budget-cuts

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250526/news/cuts-to-school-mental-health-grants-could-trickle-down-to-local-districts/

WIFR
— Major General John Borling: A Memorial Day Tribute “We Are Americans.” In 2004, Borling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Borling ) was a candidate in the Republican Primary for the United States Senate.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/26/memorial-day-tribute-we-are-americans/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Homeless vets in LA hope that Trump order will create housing for them.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-26/homeless-vets-in-la-hope-that-trump-order-will-create-housing-for-them

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote mote illegal immigration.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-bill-could-allow-immigrants-to-become-driving-instructors/article_0fbe828b-ff74-4e28-9660-d922ed7fffcd.html

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-05-26/where-the-racial-justice-movement-stands-5-years-after-george-floyds-murder

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/26/chicagoans-mark-5-years-since-george-floyds-murder-with-protest-the-work-here-is-far-from-done/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-520/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— What’s behind Chicago’s welcome, but belated, drop in crime
https://wirepoints.org/whats-behind-chicagos-welcome-but-belated-drop-in-crime-wirepoints/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Oberweis’ New Owners Expanding in Congressional District in Which Jim Oberweis Is Running for Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/oberweis-new-owners-expanding-in-congressional-district-in-which-jim-oberweis-is-running-for-congress/
— Tribune Reporter Misinformed about Motive for Consolidating RTA Governing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/tribune-reporter-misinformed-about-motive-for-consolidating-rta-governing/
— Too Cold for the Beach?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/too-cold-for-the-beach/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Legislative Update for the Last Week of May 2025
https://illinoisfamily.org/politics/legislative-update-for-the-last-week-of-may-2025/
— Assisted Suicide Bill Pops Up In Last Week of Session
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/shell-games-with-assisted-suicide-bill/

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Pritzker Calls for “Summer of Love” 2.0?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/pritzker-calls-for-summer-of-love-2-0/
— Illinois School District Defies Title IX… Again
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/illinois-school-district-defies-title-ix-again/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s Department of Education right to combat racial discrimination. Ending DEI policies a legal imperative.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/trumps-department-education-right-combat-racial-discrimination/
— Justice Department says it’s ‘absurd’ and ‘wrong’ to suggest U.S. marshals won’t protect judges.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/justice-department-says-absurd-wrong-suggest-us-marshals-wont-protect/
— Charlie Kirk dismisses SPLC as ‘laughingstock’ for listing Turning Point on ‘hate map.’ My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that  Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were hate groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/charlie-kirk-dismisses-splc-laughingstock-listing-turning-point-hate/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump can’t be bought
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3421969/trump-cant-be-bought-big-tech-finding-out-hard-way/

NEW YORK POST
— US military’s greatest challenge is here at home: How to solve the recruitment crisis.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/opinion/the-us-militarys-biggest-challenge-is-right-here-at-home/
— Pentagon’s new anti-woke ad: ‘No more gender confusion’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/us-news/pentagon-rolls-out-epic-new-ad-touting-end-of-wokeness-under-trump-hegseth-no-more-gender-confusion/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hjyt9QRA20
— ‘Forest Gump’ star Gary Sinise open to Hollywood comeback under ‘right circumstances’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/entertainment/gary-sinise-open-to-hollywood-comeback-under-right-circumstances/

DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Education Secretary Pushed Men Into Women’s Sports.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/26/bidens-education-secretary-who-pushed-men-into-womens-sports-announces-new-gig/
— Trump Announces What He Might Do With $3 Billion He Threatens To Take Away ‘From A Very Antisemitic’ Harvard.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/26/trump-announces-3-billion-threatens-antisemitic-harvard-dei-trade-school/

FOX NEWS
— Trump fires off Memorial Day message targeting ‘SCUM’ who sought to ‘DESTROY’ the US. The president asserts the nation ‘WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN!’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-fires-off-memorial-day-message-targeting-scum-who-sought-destroy-us

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Federal workers grapple with canceled health insurance, bungled benefits after Trump’s layoff chaos
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/politics/federal-workers-benefits-health-insurance

CBS NEWS
— Trump says he’s considering rerouting $3 billion in Harvard grants to U.S. trade schools. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my job-related degrees from NIU (1970), Loyola (1976), DePaul (1980), and IIT (1997) are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government who treated not only my degrees as being worthless, but also my job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997) and my professional license (1981). I would focus on my critics/opponents who have degrees from Ivy League universities.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-harvard-trade-schools-3-billion-grant-money/
— At DNC, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth calls Trump “draft-dodging coward.”  I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. The blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/at-dnc-sen-tammy-duckworth-uses-her-personal-history-to-call-out-donald-trump/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Electric Vehicles Died a Century Ago. Could That Happen Again? Republicans do not target EVs. Republicans target incentives for EVs. I am a Republican. I just bought a EV. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/business/electric-vehicles-history.html
— Republicans do not target EVs. Republicans target incentives for EVs. I am a Republican. I just bought a EV. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/electric-vehicles-house-tax-bill.html
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html
— As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests. The president and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/republican-crackdown-on-aid-to-immigrants-would-hit-us-citizens.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/05/26/hes-throwing-global-pride-trumps-backyard-whos-with-him/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will forever get votes from those who are the following by using government to give them more preference: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger people, LGBTQers, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, those who lack education and/or job skills, those who have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/democrats-language-elite-politically-correct/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/veterans-affairs-cuts-morale-layoffs/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/senate-reconciliation-big-bill/

USA TODAY
— Work till you drop? Here’s why America’s average retirement age keeps rising.  If you are a wage earner in America like I was 1964-1997, and if you are Republican, White, male, or non-veteran, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and that your job will be given to one of your younger coworkers or subordinates who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/22/retirement-age-rising-social-security-medicare/83767525007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing people born in America with people born in foreign countries. Democrat leaders want that because people born in foreign countries vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want that because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.wsj.com/business/california-population-growth-immigration-h-1b-visa-4b526478
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make America more dependent on foreign countries. Most, if virtually all foreign countries despise/hate America.
https://www.wsj.com/business/buy-made-in-america-challenges-e53efd43
— The New Retirement Age in Denmark Is 70. The Danes set an example for timorous American politicians who refuse to reform unaffordable entitlements. If you are a wage earner in America like I was 1964-1997, and if you are Republican, White, male, or non-veteran, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and that your job will be given to one of your younger coworkers or subordinates who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-new-retirement-age-in-denmark-is-70-574b5259

BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/trump-s-research-funding-cuts-create-job-drought-for-scientists

FAST COMPANY
— GM wants to be all-electric by 2035. Why did it lobby to kill California’s EV rule?  GM celebrated the Senate’s vote to block California’s EV mandate—which was also supposed to go fully into effect by 2035.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91339643/gm-wants-to-be-all-electric-by-2035-why-did-it-lobby-to-kill-californias-ev-rule

NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5398042/trump-cuts-could-harm-after-school-programs
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/1253189688/what-trumps-cuts-to-intelligence-could-mean-for-national-security

POLITICO
— GOP declares war on GAO. Republicans are undermining the Government Accountability Office, the century-old agency that roots out waste, fraud and abuse. Who do you know who works for GAO or has worked for GAO? I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/gop-declares-war-on-gao-00369762
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The independent Government Accountability Office has served Congress as the nation’s chief investigator of wrongdoing at federal agencies for more than a century. Now it’s under assault. The typically uncontroversial, under-the-radar agency is fighting to retain power against attempts by Republicans in the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill to undercut its legal conclusions and independence — an onslaught that has been fast and furious. . .Vought also claimed that GAO had played “a partisan role” in the “impeachment hoax” of Donald Trump’s first presidency, referencing the House’s vote in 2019 to remove the president ahead of GAO’s conclusion that the administration violated the same “impoundment” law by withholding aid to Ukraine. Sen. Mike Lee piled on a day later. “GAO has lost credibility as an independent body,” the Utah Republican wrote on social media, reacting to Vought’s criticism. Taken together, these events show the extent to which Republicans are increasingly willing to denigrate an agency that has frequently validated their policies and positions, while sometimes delivering findings conservatives don’t like. And this political posture could upend the relationship members of both parties have had with GAO for decades. . .And while GAO is a legislative branch agency, Trump has the ability to dismiss its leader, akin to his firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. GAO spokesperson Jasmine Berry Franklin said in a statement that agency officials “stand behind the quality of our work.” The watchdog’s mission is to deliver “non-partisan, fact-based information to Congress, to help it carry out its constitutional legislative, appropriations, and oversight functions and protect the power of the purse,” she continued. “Our legal decisions do not take a position on the policy goals of a program, they only examine the procedural issues and compliance with the law.” At a recent congressional hearing, Dodaro also stressed that GAO doesn’t want to be in the partisan crosshairs, has no interest in having political sway and is committed to its mandate to respond to requests from lawmakers with the facts. “We’re just responding to help Congress,” Dodaro said. “We’re not trying to influence things one way or the other. We’re nonpartisan. We’re asked a question; we give an answer. It doesn’t matter who it is.”)

PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/catholic-relief-services-faces-uncertain-future-after-trump-cuts-aid-funding

TIME
— How Grads Can Futureproof Themselves As Career Ladders Weaken. Timing is everything. My not majoring in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970 was a very big career mistake. I erroneously though that I could not pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, or veteran.
https://time.com/charter/7286901/how-grads-can-futureproof-themselves-as-career-ladders-weaken/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With the “bottom rung of the career ladder breaking,” according to Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn, new graduates and other workers early in their careers face less certain paths for getting professional toeholds and experience that can serve them over their lifetimes. That also ups the stakes for managers and mentors to help young workers identify and cultivate the skills that will best serve them.)

DC MEDIA GROUP
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject meritocracy a) because they want votes from minorities and from females and b) because with meritocracy, Whites males do better. Overwhelmingly, those who passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on their first attempt like did were White males.
https://dcmediagroup.us/2025/05/26/the-myth-of-meritocracy-diversity-will-never-die/

ECONOMIC TIMES
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I should write about my critics/opponents who are major Republican donors. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trumps-campaign-received-scores-of-donations-from-problematic-donors/articleshow/121429265.cms

JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
— Mass Deportations Would Deliver a Catastrophic Blow to the U.S. Economy. Should America start offering citizens of foreign countries “bad job” employment permits? Fewer and fewer and fewer citizens of American will take bad jobs like I did. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I got those bad jobs because my employers could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take them. Again, should America start offering citizens of foreign countries “bad job” employment permits?
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2024/12/mass-deportations-would-deliver-a-catastrophic-blow-to-the-u-s-economy

KYIV POST
— Ukraine blasts Trump for avoiding the Vietnam War draft. I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. The blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53398

NTD
— What did you do to avoid financial stress? My father frequently decried his not having a college degree. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. To qualify myself for better paying jobs, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45 47, and 48, and c) I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.ntd.com/5-ways-couples-can-curb-financial-stress_1067416.html

AUTO BLOG
— Tesla’s Odometer Lawsuit Could Be EV Industry’s Dieselgate Moment. A class-action suit claims Tesla rigs odometers with software to void warranties early—costing drivers thousands. Could this be Silicon Valley’s Dieselgate?
https://www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-odometer-warranty-lawsuit

May 26, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7 & NBC & CBS2 & FOX32 & CHICAGO TRIBUNE & CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/george-floyd-day-action-protest-federal-plaza-downtown-chicago-commemorates-5-years-police-brutality-murder/16545551/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-area-organizations-host-rally-5-years-after-george-floyds-murder/3753730/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/group-protests-chicago-anniversary-murder-george-floyd/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS_pXlHG-VE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mT28bXhpvw
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1647262
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/chicago-protest-george-floyd-anniversary/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05/25/5-years-after-george-floyds-murder-chicagoans-protest-trumps-rollback-on-police-reforms

ABC7
— At least 18 shot, 2 fatally, in Memorial Day weekend violence
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-shootings-weekend-18-shot-2-fatally-memorial-day-gun-violence-city-police-department-says/16543468/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— According to Democrat leaders, only Whites can be racist.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/south-africa-trump-ramaphosa/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Few suburban Congressional candidates met financial disclosure deadline. Federal salaries are public record. My critics/opponents have always viciously demonized, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary increased from $117,807/year in 1986 to $153,151/year in 1997. In my defense, I earned a) job-related professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting), b) job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (finance), 1980 (accounting), 1976 (business), and 1970 (management), and c) a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA).
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250525/us-congress-politics/few-suburban-congressional-candidates-met-financial-disclosure-deadline/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Only three of the more than two dozen candidates for congressional seats serving the North, West or Northwest suburbs turned in federal financial disclosure reports by a May 15 deadline, a Daily Herald analysis revealed. One, 9th District Democratic hopeful and internet personality Kat Abughazaleh, is a political newcomer whose campaign has received national media attention. The other two — Republicans Niki Conforti of the 6th District and Jim Marter of the 14th — are campaign veterans who lost previous bids for federal office. Designed to reveal potential conflicts of interest, the disclosure reports detail information about the source, type and amount of a candidate’s income, personal investments, spousal income, gifts, contracts and more. They’re published online at disclosures-clerk.house.gov. . .A Glen Ellyn resident, Conforti is making her third run at the 6th District seat held by Democrat Sean Casten of Downers Grove since 2019. Last November, Casten beat Conforti by 8 percentage points; she placed third in the 2022 GOP primary. Conforti spent less than $151,000 on her 2024 campaign, a sum dwarfed by the roughly $2.4 million Casten spent. The Conforti campaign ended the first quarter of this year with less than $9,800 in the bank. Casten ended the quarter with more than $947,000 saved. Conforti reported income this year and last from consulting and from an unidentified employer. She didn’t respond to emails asking for more information about that job. She listed bank, credit union and retirement accounts among her assets, and reported a partnership in a Palos Park limited liability company called Existential Matrix. . .An Oswego resident whose four-year term on his local library board ends this week, Marter will make his sixth bid for federal office in 2026. Democratic incumbent Lauren Underwood of Naperville, who’s represented the 14th District since 2019 and is running again, beat Marter by 10 percentage points in November. Marter spent $322,950 on his 2024 congressional campaign, a fraction of the nearly $3.9 million Team Underwood spent. His campaign ended the first quarter with about $5,500 saved, while Underwood ended the quarter with $1.1 million banked. According to his report, Marter’s primary source of income is a global information technology company called Tenthpin Management Consultants. He previously had been a software consultant. Marter reported bank and retirement accounts, life insurance policies and a coin collection among his assets.)

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/05/25/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-fight-against-donald-trump

DEKALB DAILY JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in DeKalb.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/25/edible-tastings-anyone-dekalb-dispensary-proposes-new-in-house-cannabis-experience/

DEPAULIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://depauliaonline.com/77499/news/how-a-trade-war-could-impact-illinois-farmers/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Glenbard South H.S. Senior Wears Keffiyeh to Accept Diploma–Administrators Do Nothing
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/23/glenbard-south-h-s-senior-wears-keffiyeh-to-accept-diploma-administrators-do-nothing
— Illinois’ Most Despicable Lawmaker Kelly Cassidy Hits New Low
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/21/illinois-most-despicable-lawmaker-kelly-cassidy-hits-new-low

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Reick Punches Holes in School Mental Health Screening Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/22/reick-punches-holes-in-school-mental-health-screening-bill/
— Keicher Continues Criticism of Tax Increment Districts
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/23/keicher-continues-criticism-of-tax-increment-districts/
— Keicher-Initiated Idea to End Discrimination against Seniors Concerning Drivers License Tests Passes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/23/keicher-initiated-idea-to-end-discrimination-against-seniors-concerning-drivers-license-tests-passes/
— No Warning from Health Department about Unsanitary Conditions at Applebee’s
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/no-warning-from-health-department-about-unsanitary-condictions-at-applebees/
— Legislature Attacks Human Trafficking
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/legislature-attacks-human-trafficking/
— Defenders Urge Tax Hike to Bail Out RTA Again
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/defenders-urge-tax-hike-to-bail-out-rta-again/
— Congressional Republicans Pass Gas Tax Replacement Fee for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/25/congressional-republicans-pass-gas-tax-replacement-fee-for-electric-and-hybrid-vehicles/
Illinois Has the Mostest Local Governments
— https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/25/illinois-has-the-mostest-local-governments/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump agenda bill’s proposed increase to debt ceiling draws pushback from fiscal hawk in Senate
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/25/rand-paul-kentucky-republican-threatens-oppose-big-beautiful-bill/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— US spent over $6 billion on military recruitment in past three years. Did you try to enlist.? I did not. If I had, would I have been accepted? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green colorblindness. Nevertheless, I was 1-A for the draft. What if I had appealed?. My critics/opponents have always used against me my being 1-A and my avoiding the draft with student draft deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3421763/united-states-spent-over-6-billion-military-recruit-three-years/
(FROM A RELATED ARTICLE: There are five exercises in the test: Three-repetition maximum deadlifts, hand-release push-ups with arm extensions, a sprint-drag-carry exercise, holding the plank position, and finally, a two-mile run.)

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, to keep their jobs and to get promoted, my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who shared my demographics, that is, were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time said there was no political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, veterans preference, religious discrimination, or national origin discrimination. I should write about the aforesaid who helped my Democrat superiors waste my career and get rid of me the most.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/24/insider-case-closed-john-bolton-tells-cnn-theres-no-white-genocide-in-south-africa-1546034/

DAILY CALLER
— Illegal Migrants Can Now Book Their Own Deportation Flights. What percent illegally return to America illegally?
https://www.aol.com/illegal-migrants-now-book-own-150052440.html

EPOCH TIMES
— Beyond Lt. Dan: Gary Sinise Reflects on Grief, Gratitude, and a Life Devoted to Honoring America’s Heroes
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/beyond-lt-dan-gary-sinise-reflects-on-grief-gratitude-and-a-life-devoted-to-honoring-americas-heroes-5862874

TOWNHALL
— This Is Why the Southern Poverty Law Center Claims Turning Point USA Is an ‘Extremist’ Group. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were extremist groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and I was the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/25/this-is-why-the-southern-poverty-law-center-claims-turning-point-usa-is-an-extremist-group-n2657616
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The SPLC put out an article on Thursday, labeling TPUSA as an “anti-government extremist group” for its supposed promotion of white nationalist conspiracy theories, hawkish immigration stance, and Christian nationalism — which has become one of the left’s favorite buzzwords over recent years. Of course, when the organization uses the term “extremist,” they really mean, “anyone who isn’t a progressive.”)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Foreign students at Harvard taking US spots. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with foreign students. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966, but they would have admitted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5318381-trump-targets-harvard-over-foreign-students/

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with foreign students. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966, but they would have admitted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-defends-move-to-block-international-students-from-attending-harvard/

NEWSWEEK
— Anticipate/expect that Trump will get more and more and more support from young voters who are White and/or male. Democrat leaders give tremendous preference to young voters who are minority and/or female, that is, they discriminate against young voters who are White and/or male.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-ratings-young-americans-2075210

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Pope Leo XIV declares ‘I am Roman!’ as he completes formalities to become bishop of Rome. What if you had never left your hometown? I left my hometown of Crete for University Park when I was 24 years old in 1972. I left University Park for Chicago in 1976. I left Chicago for Wheaton when I got married in 1978. The Democrats and RINO who run Wheaton have never accepted me. They continue to treat me as my being a newcomer. They stress that I never attended any schools or churches in Wheaton, that I never sent any children to Wheaton schools, etc. I am too conservative for them, that is, I am too Republican for them. I should write about the biggest adverse actions that they have taken against me. I would focus on those who despise/hate my demographics the most.
https://apnews.com/article/rome-pope-bishop-ceremony-basilicas-ae01507115934e82a15e5f6758d08637
—  Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://coloradosun.com/2025/05/21/immigration-schools-colorado-trump-administration/

CNN
— Trump wants a ‘baby boom,’ but an ultra-conservative agenda may hurt IVF access. I should write what my Democrat GAO superiors did to punish me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. According to them, if my wife and I had children, a) I would not have been able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, become a licensed CPA in 1981, etc. and b) my wife would not have been able to keep her good job and earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. All my GAO superiors had children and spouses who had little or no income. They always decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/25/us/ivf-access-babies-trump-administration

MSN
— Could you pass the Army’s new physical fitness test? Did you try to enlist.? I did not. If I had, would I have been accepted? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green colorblindness. Nevertheless, I was 1-A for the draft. What if I had appealed?. My critics/opponents have always used against me my being 1-A and my avoiding the draft with student draft deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/could-you-pass-the-army-s-new-physical-fitness-test/ar-AA1FncMS
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There are five exercises in the test: Three-repetition maximum deadlifts, hand-release push-ups with arm extensions, a sprint-drag-carry exercise, holding the plank position, and finally, a two-mile run.)
— Trump Criticizes Biden`s DEI Policies in West Point Commencement Speech. Democrat and RINO leaders used DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/watch-trump-criticises-biden-s-dei-policies-in-west-point-commencement-speech/vi-AA1FqAbm

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders continue to use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-race-civil-right-white-men.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-race-civil-right-white-men.html
— We look at “triple-trending counties,” where either the Republicans or the Democrats gained vote share in all of the last three presidential elections. I should write about why Democrat candidates are getting more votes in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. I should write about past and present DuPage County Republican Central Committee and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders who blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for that. Previously, they blamed what I did as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010179976/the-counties-where-trump-made-gains.html
— What have you done that has put you in crosshairs? While I was young, I avoided the draft. While I was a federal employee, I refused to become a Democrat, I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. Since I became Wheaton resident in 1978, I successfully fought the installation of a traffic signal at Harrison and President, I filled lawsuits against Wheaton, its powerful developer, Milton Township, and DuPage County, and I successfully led efforts to stop video gambling and the sale of pot. Since I have been a Milton Township Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, I have sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000, I led Pat O’Malley’s 2002 Republican gubernatorial campaign in Milton Township, I served as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, and I served as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/nyregion/lamonica-mciver-newark-assault-charges.html
— Trump seeks extensive data on international students in pressure campaign to control Harvard. What about getting data on federal employees? 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. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/may/25/trump-seeks-extensive-student-data-in-pressure-cam/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/police-killings-george-floyd.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-republicans.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Senators eye more budget bill cuts despite House speaker’s plea for few changes. The biggest hurdle in the Senate for Trump’s tax and immigration bill could come — like it did in the House — from deficit hawks who demand more cuts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/25/senate-tax-bill-spending-cuts/

USA TODAY
— Because Democrats run the federal government, to get promoted in the federal government, you have to promote the Democrat Party platform, and especially its Affirmative Action and DEI planks, that is, you have to promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. That stopped IRS from promoting be beyond GS-12 and stopped GAO from promoting me beyond GS-13. I never would have made GS-13 if I had not earned an MBA, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, earned a master’s degree in accounting, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, and became a licensed CPA.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/05/24/dei-medical-schools-wont-be-graded/83815603007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump and against the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-lawsuits-fight-d5f8ec8a

ECON LIB
— My critics/opponents who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, a) say they owe all their successes in life to meritocracy and b) blame all their failures in life on those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critic/opponents who continue to blame me and my GOIPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their failures in life.
https://www.econlib.org/the-ethics-of-inequality/

ADVOCATE
— Democrat leaders evert-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/kennedy-center-drag-season

AXIOS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting sellers to raise their prices. For 2 weeks while I was an IRS Revenue Officer trainee in 1971, Nixon had me and my classmates make phone calls to fight inflation.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/25/trump-tariffs-brands-increase-prices

GOOGLE AI
— The decline of American muscle cars was a multi-faceted process, primarily driven by government regulations and economic factors in the 1970s. My critics/opponents despise/hate cars, and especially American nameplate cars, and especially American nameplate muscle cars. I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, a new 1972 Chevy Corvette in 1971, a 1962 Chevy Impala SS show car in 1989, a new 1990 Ford Thunderbird LX in 1989, a new 1993 Thunderbird in 1992, a 1968 Charger R/T show car in 1994, a new 1996 Thunderbird LX in 1995, a new 2005 Corvette in 2005, a new 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max in 2012, a new 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium in 2023, and a new 2025 Charger Daytona R/T Plus this year. I continue to own the 1972 Corvette, 1996 Thunderbird, 2013 Charger, 2023 Mustang, and 2025 Charger. If you share my interest in any of the aforesaid American nameplate muscle cars, please let me know.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22american+nameplate+muscle+cars”

May 25, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump addresses West Point graduates following DEI crackdown at military academies. The school removed diversity related curriculum after Trump order.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-west-point-graduation-2025-president-address-us-military-academy-grads-following-dei-crackdown/16529248/
— 14 suspects wanted in beating, robbery of couple on CTA Red Line downtown.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-14-suspects-wanted-beating-robbery-couple-cta-red-line-train-downtown-printers-row-police-say/16525737/
— Israeli Embassy staffers’ alleged killer railed against Gaza war online, protested at Emanuel’s home.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/elias-rodriguez-washington-dc-shooting-suspect-posted-gaza-war-online-protested-chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuels-home/16532127/
— IL lawmakers push for additional security funds for cultural, religious orgs after DC shooting.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-lawmakers-push-additional-security-funds-cultural-religious-organizations-couple-shot-washington-dc/16524210/
— Chicago Black pastors gather in solidarity with Mayor Brandon Johnson amid DOJ hiring investigation. Gathering appeared to be attempt to help shore up mayor’s political base, but it could be a risky strategy. Chicago Black pastors could stress that Chicago Republican leaders did not come to my defense when my Chicago Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with my Black subordinate. Chicago Black pasters could use that to argue that both Democrats and Republicans want Blacks to get more preference over non-Blacks.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-black-pastors-gather-solidarity-mayor-brandon-johnson-amid-department-justice-hiring-investigation/16523946/

NBC5
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/what-historic-medicaid-snap-cuts-in-house-republican-bill-would-mean-for-coverage/3752913/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/house-republican-tax-bill-skipped-aca-credits-marketplace-health-insurance-will-get-pricier-without-them/3752867/
— House Republican tax bill favors the rich — how much they stand to gain, and why.  How rich are you? My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid, and therefore rich. They stress that in today’s dollars, I earned a) $19.37/hour in when I was 16, b) $55,850/year when I was 22, c) $68,315/year when I was 23, d) $82,655/year when I was 24, e) $99,069/year when I was 25, f) $112,280/year when was 31, g) $117,807/year when I was 38, and h) $153,151/year when I was 49. In today’s dollars, since I was 49 in 1997, my Civil Service Retirement System pension has been $66,780/year. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) a Job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/house-republican-tax-bill-favors-the-rich-how-much-they-stand-to-gain-and-why/3752573/

CBS2
— Trump threatens to hit Apple with 25% tariff on iPhones made outside U.S.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-apple-25-tariff-iphones/

FOX32
— Jewish leaders criticize Chicago mayor over handling of antisemitism. I should write about how my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors had my many Jewish superiors and supervisors take big adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American,  a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/jewish-leaders-criticize-chicago-mayor-handling-antisemitism

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ‘Our people hire our people’: Long before DOJ probe into Mayor Brandon Johnson, racial politics coursed through City Hall hiring. Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, in Illinois, and especially in Democrat-run counties and cities, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/mayor-brandon-johnson-racial-politics-city-hall-hiring/
— Trump’s speech to West Point graduates mixes praise, politics and grievances.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/24/trumps-speech-west-point-graduates/
— New Aurora Mayor John Laesch chooses his leadership team at City Hall. Have leaders chosen you?  My critics/opponents stress that even though I have been a) a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, b) an Illinois Republican Party State Convention delegate since 2000, c) served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010, d) a member of many MTRO Oktoberfest fundraising committees, e) a member of the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee 2003-2007, f) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, and g) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2020, MTRO leaders a) never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer and b) rudely ended my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/24/new-aurora-mayor-john-laesch-chooses-his-leadership-team-at-city-hall/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/24/what-trumps-cuts-to-medicaid-will-mean-for-nursing-homes-long-term-care-facilities-in-illinois
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/23/medicaid-affordable-care-act-health-insurance-nutrition-programs-snap-congress-rich-miller
— Chicago Public Schools lays off hundreds of tutors before CPS school year ends. My mother never attended high school. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/23/chicago-public-schools-lays-off-hundreds-of-tutors

DAILY HERALD
— Trump hails West Point cadets for their accomplishments and takes credit for US military might.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250524/nation-and-world/trump-hails-west-point-cadets-for-their-accomplishments-and-takes-credit-for-us-military-might/

WBEZ
—  How dependent on government spending is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?  He who pays the piper calls the tunes.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/05/25/northwestern-uic-medical-researchers-diabetes-hiv-trump-funding-budget-cuts
https://www.wrex.com/news/illinois-news/state-budget-talks-enter-final-week-amid-fears-of-congressional-cuts/article_a753258a-5fc1-41d9-92c6-b73b0f1ff93b.html

WAND TV
— House passes IL plan allowing first time weapon offenders to apply for FOID cards while participating in diversion programs. I have had a FOID card since I was 20 in 1968.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/house-passes-il-plan-allowing-first-time-weapon-offenders-to-apply-for-foid-cards-while/article_4deb582a-ea35-4f9f-bae5-29f569279a93.html

CWB CHICAGO
— Wilding alert: 14 suspects sought in violent robbery, battery aboard CTA train in downtown Chicago. Chicago today, your municipality tomorrow.
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/05/14-suspects-sought-in-violent-robbery-battery-aboard-cta-train-in-downtown-chicago.html

WHEATON PATCH
— Memorial Day Parade To Honor Fallen Service Members In Wheaton Monday May 26. Please join me in watching the parade. The parade route includes the eastern border of my precinct – Warrenville Road between Roosevelt Road and the Wheaton Cemetery.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/memorial-day-parade-honor-fallen-service-members-wheaton
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Memorial Day is Monday, May 26. Wheaton will honor fallen service members with a Memorial Day Parade that is set to begin at Memorial Park at 10 a.m. Members of the Wheaton Police and Fire Departments will lead the parade. From Memorial Park, the parade will make its way west on Union before heading south on West Street. The parade will end at Wheaton Cemetery, where a ceremony will take place.)
Scheduled for 11 a.m., the Memorial Day Ceremony will be conducted by American Legion Post 76.

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Confused, Starving Reporters Now Desperate for Food After Killing American Journalism. Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://johnkassnews.com/confused-starving-reporters-desperate-for-food-after-killing-and-devouring-journalism/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Republican leaders should reform federal agencies rather than gut them. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat politicians force them to push the Democrat Party platform, that is, to push dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. About 1/3 of Americans are Republicans and about 1/3 are Democrats. The federal workforce should look like America. I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966, hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. In the U.S. Congress, committee membership is determined by a combination of factors, including party affiliation. Federal agencies should be like congressional committees. For example, about 1/3 of their employees at each grade level should be Republicans and about 1/3 should be Democrats. Further, all hiring, retention, and promotion decisions should be based on merit, that is, AA and DEI should be abolished. If that had been the case when I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, I might still be a GAO employee. GAO would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year.  I earned a) job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32. None of my GAO coworkers came close to doing that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on preference giving? Chicago Black pastors could stress that Chicago Republican leaders did not come to my defense when my Chicago Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with my Black subordinate. Chicago Black pasters could use that to argue that both Democrats and Republicans want Blacks to get more preference over non-Blacks. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How rich are you? My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid, and therefore rich. They stress that in today’s dollars, I earned a) $19.37/hour in when I was 16, b) $55,850/year when I was 22, c) $68,315/year when I was 23, d) $82,655/year when I was 24, e) $99,069/year when I was 25, f) $112,280/year when was 31, g) $117,807/year when I was 38, and h) $153,151/year when I was 49. In today’s dollars, since I was 49 in 1997, my Civil Service Retirement System pension has been $66,780/year. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) a job-related professional license when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What have Democrat leaders done to you? I should write about how my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors had my many Jewish superiors and supervisors take big adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have leaders chosen you?  My critics/opponents stress that even though I have been a) a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, b) an Illinois Republican Party State Convention delegate since 2000, c) served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010, d) a member of many MTRO Oktoberfest fundraising committees, e) a member of the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee 2003-2007, f) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, and g) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2020, MTRO leaders a) never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer and b) rudely ended my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Illinois Democrat leaders stress Pritzker’s great success in promoting more of the following in Illinois: a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) 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. Illinois Democrat leaders stress that Illinois RINO leaders not only have no problem with the aforesaid, they applaud the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are/were you an American worker, that is, are/were you an American wage earner? I was 1964-1997. My critics/opponents were never wage earners and/or they despise/hate wage earners. The especially despise/hate unions and union members. They stress that I was a union member 1966-1969 and 1971-1980. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had not been a union member, my salary would never have increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars during that time. They ignore/dismiss/belittle that during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and two job-related master’s degrees and b) I earned a job-related professional certification. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To get more votes from those who are minority, female, younger, etc., Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) shout at those who are minority, female, younger, etc. that Republicans cause all the problems that those who are minority, female, younger. etc. have and b) give those who are minority, female, younger, etc. more preference over those who are Republican. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Southern Poverty Law Center has put Turning Point USA on its list of hate groups. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were hate groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and I was the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on a) EVs and those who own them and b) American nameplate muscle cars? I should write about the many critical/nasty articles that have been published about the new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV that I just bought. The articles ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact that it does the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH. I have owned my 2013 Charger R/T Max since 2012. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T show car 1994-2005. I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Was your career wasted? I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years 1980-1997. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich has always been extremely critical of GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting GAO, I might still be working for GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. Instead of forcing me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, GAO should have promoted me to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. GAO should have immediately and always assigned me to audits of IRS. If GAO had done that, I would have soon been promoted to GS-14, currently $139,211/year, GS-15, currently $163,749/year, and Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year. I earned master’s degrees in business in 1976, accounting in 1980, and finance in 1997. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. But the Democrats who ran GAO wasted all that. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years 1986-1988. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. Democrat leaders do not want Republicans to audit IRS. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me that they did. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Pritzker preps for presidential run carrying weight of Illinois failures. Illinois Democrat leaders stress Pritzker’s great success in promoting more of the following in Illinois: a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) 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. Illinois Democrat leaders stress that Illinois RINO leaders not only have no problem with the aforesaid, they applaud the aforesaid.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pritzker-preps-for-presidential-run-carrying-weight-of-illinois-failures/
— Illinois’ opaque budget process drives mismanagement, harms taxpayers.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-opaque-budget-process-drives-mismanagement-harms-taxpayers/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump tells West Point cadets he’s returning military to core function: ‘annihilate’ America’s foes. Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly side with America’s foes not only against Trump, but against America.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/24/trump-tells-west-point-cadets-hes-returning-military-core-function/
— Antisemitism may well be the downfall of America. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring into America more antisemites and Jew-haters.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/23/antisemitism-may-well-downfall-america/
— Make America safe for Jews again
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/24/editorial-make-america-safe-jews/

NEW YORK POST
— Pritzker is acting presidential — too bad his state is in such shambles
https://nypost.com/2025/05/25/opinion/jb-pritzker-is-acting-presidential-to-bad-his-state-is-in-shambles/
— Hey, Bruce: The Democrats long ago abandoned the American workers of your lyrics — like roadkill. Are/were you an American worker, that is, are/were you an American wage earner? I was 1964-1997. My critics/opponents were never wage earners and/or they despise/hate wage earners. The especially despise/hate unions and union members. They stress that I was a union member 1966-1969 and 1971-1980. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had not been a union member, my salary would never have increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars during that time. They ignore/dismiss/belittle that during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and two job-related master’s degrees and b) I earned a job-related professional certification.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/opinion/spare-us-your-tds-bruce-springsteen-stick-to-the-hits/
— Republicans aren’t coming CLOSE to cutting Medicaid as much as America actually needs
https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/opinion/republicans-arent-coming-close-to-cutting-medicaid-as-much-as-america-actually-needs/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— How America Went Crazy on Race. A new book traces the genealogy of extremist racial ideas that have gone mainstream. To get more votes from those who are minority, female, younger, etc., Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) shout at those who are minority, female, younger, etc. that Republicans cause all the problems that those who are minority, female, younger. etc. have and b) give those who are minority, female, younger, etc. more preference over those who are Republican. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-america-went-crazy-on-race/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/25/crime-rates-of-illegal-migrants-underreported/

AMERICAN WIRE
— ‘Racist’ Chicago mayor changes subject to ‘monster Trump’ in response to DOJ probe.
https://americanwirenews.com/racist-chicago-mayor-changes-subject-to-monster-trump-in-response-to-doj-probe/

BREITBART
— Trump Delivers West Point Commencement Speech: You ‘Have the Bravest Hearts and Noblest Souls’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/24/donald-trump-delivers-west-point-commencement-speech-you-have-bravest-hearts-noblest-souls/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Southern Illinois University accused of offering unlawful race-based scholarships in federal complaint
https://www.campusreform.org/article/southern-illinois-university-accused-offering-unlawful-race-based-scholarships-federal-complaint/27929

DAILY SIGNAL
— Southern Poverty Law Center Puts Largest Conservative Grassroots Youth Group (Turning Point USA) on ‘Hate Map’ With Klan Chapters. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were hate groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and I was the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/24/southern-poverty-law-center-puts-largest-conservative-grassroots-youth-group-hate-map-klan-chapters/

NATIOINAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER
— How Soros Created & Underwrote the Illegal Immigration Crisis.
https://nlpc.org/government-integrity-project/how-soros-created-underwrote-the-illegal-immigration-crisis/

PJ MEDIA
— Will Sanctuary Cities Survive the Coming Political Reckoning?
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/24/will-sanctuary-cities-survive-the-coming-political-reckoning-n4940124

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly increase government spending. How dependent on government spending is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?  He who pays the piper calls the tunes.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-research-funding-cuts-brain-drain-f1ac9fe5c8a90f5d5ec9b2726475e10e

MSN
— Biden was a ‘figurehead’ controlled by unelected bureaucrats. Democrat and RINO leaders got Biden elected by falsely painting him as being a centrist, a moderate.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/joe-biden-was-a-figurehead-controlled-by-unelected-bureaucrats/ar-AA1FfYuH

NEW YORK TIMES
— How Electric Vehicles are Targeted by the Republican Policy Bill. The measure, passed by the House, would roll back incentives for people to buy electric vehicles and for automakers to make them in the U.S.  I should write about the many critical/nasty articles that have been published about the new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV that I just bought.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/electric-vehicles-house-tax-bill.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Springsteen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/opinion/bruce-springsteen-trump-conflict.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-republicans.html

WASHINGTON POST
— America’s enemies want America to be dependent on America’s enemies. Hate-filled Trump-hating Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/25/siemens-medical-devices-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders will forever use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/24/george-floyd-murder-dei-police-reform/
— The U.S. has more than 1 million foreign students. Here’s who they are. International students are at the center of Trump’s latest escalation against Harvard University. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But if they could have admitted foreign students instead of me, they would have.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/25/international-students-harvard-trump/

NEW YOR DAILY NEWS
— Did you pay less federal income tax because you itemized? I did starting in 1972 and my wife and I did starting in 1978. But SALT ended that. My critics/opponents have always been furious that I deducted my graduate evening a) business and accounting course 1972-1980 and b) finance courses 1992-1997.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/25/big-not-beautiful-house-budget-bill-is-a-mess-that-must-be-amended/

USA TODAY
— Schools that promote Affirmative Action and DEI are in Trump’s crosshairs, that is, schools that promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination are in Trump’s crosshairs.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/trump-k-12-public-school-funding-dei-order/83458073007/
— Car shaming is real: What to do if someone criticizes your gas-powered vehicle. I should write about the many critical/nasty articles that have been published about the new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV that I just bought.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/2025/05/23/gas-electric-rentals-summer-road-trips/83774805007/
— The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will again import as many millions of illegals as they can.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/republican-senators-trump-border-wall/83823629007/
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/24/george-floyd-murder-five-year-anniversary-memorials/83621486007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Judges Weigh Taking Control of Their Own Security Amid Threats. U.S. marshals, sworn to protect federal judges, ultimately answer to President Trump, who has ramped up criticism of the judiciary. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years 1980-1997. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich has always been extremely critical of GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting GAO, I might still be working for GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. Instead of forcing me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, GAO should have promoted me to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. GAO should have immediately and always assigned me to audits of IRS. If GAO had done that, I would have soon been promoted to GS-14, currently $139,211/year, GS-15, currently $163,749/year, and Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year. I earned master’s degrees in business in 1976, accounting in 1980, and finance in 1997. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. But the Democrats who ran GAO wasted all that. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years 1986-1988. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. Democrat leaders do not want Republicans to audit IRS. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me that they did.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-judges-security-marshals-6e080ac6

May 21, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Huntley Trump store owner claims fines from village, eviction notice are ‘political’  Village says store owner cannot keep items in right-of-way.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-truth-store-owner-claims-fines-village-huntley-illinois-eviction-notice-are-political-im-gonna-fight/16486152/
— Chicago mayor Johnson says Trump administration reflects ‘country club’ in response to DOJ investigation of Chicago’s hiring practices. How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trumps-administration-reflects-country-club-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-says-response-doj-investigation/16482731/
— Multiple citations issued, 2 arrested in large Naperville teen gatherings. Naperville today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/naperville-illinois-news-multiple-citations-issued-2-arrested-downtown-another-teen-takeover-police-say/16483549/
— Chicago committee approves controversial ‘snap curfew’ ordinance; full city council to vote Wednesday. Chicago today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-teen-takeovers-youth-leaders-join-mayor-brandon-johnson-discuss-summer-safety-intitiatives-including-snap-curfuews/16483642/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad including price increases.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/national-restaurant-association-show-2025-chicago-restaurants-feeling-impact-struggling-us-economy/16486189/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/venezuela-deportation-news-roughly-50k-arrived-chicago-last-2-years-limbo-trump-tps-ruling/16486487/
— Dolton plans to take ownership of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home through eminent domain
https://wirepoints.org/dolton-plans-to-take-ownership-of-pope-leo-xivs-childhood-home-through-eminent-domain-abc7-chicago/

NBC5
— Defiant Chicago mayor calls for investigation into Trump administration hiring.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/defiant-chicago-mayor-calls-for-investigation-into-trump-administration-hiring/3750328/
— Trump fails to convince ‘SALT Caucus’ to back tax bill. Before SALT, my wife and I paid less federal income tax by itemizing, both of us staring in 1978 and I starting in 1972. My critics/opponents were always furious about that. I deducted my graduate business and accounting course expenses 1972-1980 and my graduate finance course expenses 1992-1997.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-fails-to-convince-salt-caucus-to-back-tax-bill/3749988/
— Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan. The group of LGBTQ activist climbers said the flag, which is 55 feet by 35 feet, is the largest ever displayed on the face of the world-famous rock climbing destination. By way of contrast, I displayed a 18X12-foot American flag in my previous two Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville. But because my new condo there does not have high or wide enough wall space, I cannot do that there.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/yosemite-climbers-transgender-pride-flag-el-capitan/3750359/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/venezuelans-chicago-temporary-protected-status-deportation-supreme-court/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use alleged hate crimes to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/woman-brutally-attacked-carpentersville-because-lesbian/
— Naperville School District 203 board meeting packed after trans student wins at junior high track meet. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/naperville-school-district-203-board-meeting-trans-student-junior-high-track-meet/

FOX32
— Naperville ‘teen takeover’: Police respond to large gatherings, issue citations and arrest two. Naperville today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/naperville-teen-takeover-police-respond-large-gatherings-issue-citations-arrest-two

WTTW
— DOJ Announces Probe of Mayor Johnson After He Lauds Record of Hiring Black Chicagoans in Senior Positions. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors were very proud of their success in forcing me to retire and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/19/feds-announce-probe-mayor-johnson-after-he-lauds-record-hiring-black-chicagoans-senior
— Mayor Brandon Johnson: ‘We’re Not Going to Be Intimidated’ By DOJ Hiring Probe
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/20/mayor-brandon-johnson-we-re-not-going-be-intimidated-justice-department-hiring-probe

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Naperville councilman McBroom, DuPage GOP, Awake Illinois battle District 203 over transgender female athletes. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/naperville-school-district-203-transgender-sports/
— Victims’ group alleges that Pope Leo XIV failed to ‘properly investigate’ child sexual abuse in Chicago.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/pope-leo-priest-sex-abuse/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/illinois-americorps-cuts/
— The more crime in a zip code, the more insurance claims.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/opinion-illinois-car-insurance-credit-score-alexi-giannoulias/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote pro-Palestinian activists
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/05/trump-pro-palestinian-activists-jailing-deporting-immigrants-chinese-asian-american-rick-baldoz

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Naperville parents voice objections after transgender student competes in track meet. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250520/other-sports/naperville-parents-voice-objections-after-transgender-student-competes-in-track-meet/
— Chicago suburbs listed among 250 elite towns by U.S. News & World Report. He who sets the criteria determines the outcome.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250520/news/by-the-numbers-chicago-suburbs-listed-among-250-elite-towns-by-u-s-news-world-report/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Dolton plans to take Pope Leo’s childhood home through eminent domain.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/dolton-plans-take-popes-old-home-through-eminent-domain
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote federal spending and b) fight federal spending cuts.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/durbin-duckworth-question-cuts-illinois-hospitals
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/brandon-johnson-slams-lack-diversity-trump-cabinet

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote federal spending and b) fight federal spending cuts.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-senior-advocacy-groups-department-on-aging-urge-congress-to-fully-fund-older-americans-act/article_cb14c002-c7d8-41bd-b93c-011225a7ff2a.html

WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.wsiu.org/2025-05-21/how-two-women-owned-businesses-are-navigating-trumps-tariffs

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Wheaton Memorial Day Parade:10 a.m. Monday, May 26. Hosted by American Legion Post 76, the parade steps off at Hale and Union streets, proceeds west on Union to West Street, then south on West to Wheaton Cemetery, 1209 S. Warrenville Road.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/2025/05/20/where-to-find-memorial-day-ceremonies-and-parades-in-dupage-county/

DES PLAINES PATCH
— Over 25,000 diverse individuals attended the Skokie Cultural Festival. To be diverse you must be liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Because I am none of the aforesaid, Democrat and RINO leaders get rid of me. Diverse Democrats and diverse RINOs get rid of non-diverse Republicans.
https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/over-25-000-diverse-individuals-attended-skokie-cultural-festival

JUST THE NEWS
— Illinois GOP Rep. Mary Miller says SALT deduction is a ‘handout’ to rich donors. SALT is a tax break that allows taxpayers to deduct part or all of what they paid in state and local taxes from their federal tax return. Before SALT, my wife and I paid less federal income tax by itemizing, both of us staring in 1978 and I starting in 1972. My critics/opponents were always furious about that. I deducted my graduate business and accounting course expenses 1972-1980 and my graduate finance course expenses 1992-1997.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/illinois-gop-rep-mary-miller-says-salt-deduction-handout-rich-donors

CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/statement-doj-investigation/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-517/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-309/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois education officials look to hide their failures by lowering reading, math standards. Just say no.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-education-officials-look-to-hide-their-failures-by-lowering-reading-math-standards-just-say-no-wirepoints/
— Lawmakers’ latest attempt to boost public pension benefits.
https://wirepoints.org/today-join-wirepoints-afp-and-ipi-for-a-virtual-roundtable-all-about-lawmakers-latest-attempt-to-boost-public-pension-benefits/
— Is Mayor Johnson really saying such things aloud?
https://wirepoints.org/is-mayor-johnson-really-saying-such-things-aloud-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Bill Proposes $10,000 for Student Teachers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/bill-proposes-10000-for-student-teachers/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Lawmakers investigate federal spending on gambling, adult entertainment and more
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_7fa3a6bf-e87f-4854-8f73-edba9f9e910c.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To be diverse you must be liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Because I am none of the aforesaid, Democrat and RINO leaders get rid of me. Diverse Democrats and diverse RINOs get rid of non-diverse Republicans. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference that they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When were you under the radar? I was under the radar at IRS until I was 25 years old in 1973 and my IRS manager gave me a big high-profile developmental assignment and promoted me to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) because of my performance on it. Because of the aforesaid, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of him and a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976, c) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, c) ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and e) ever-increasingly made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. According to them, that development assignment should have been given to a Democrat who was a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I got the assignment because of my job performance and because I was taking graduate evening business courses. The aforesaid and Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me drew attention to the fact that I was conservative, Republican, a Vietnam War draft avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, and I had been a Crete resident 1948-1972. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
—  What were your superiors proud of? When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors were very proud of their success in forcing me to retire and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Musk, the Republican Party’s biggest donor, says he will cut political spending. I should write about a) the biggest donors to the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party since 2000 and b) what they think of me. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Too much local government makes Illinois inefficient, raises property taxes
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/too-much-local-government-makes-illinois-inefficient-raises-property-taxes/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Resentment of ICE, backlash against its agents and mission rise alongside Democrats’ condemnations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/20/attacks-ice-rise-alongside-democrats-anti-ice-comments/
— Colleges dump ‘segregated’ graduations after Trump DEI ban
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/20/colleges-dump-segregated-graduations-trump-dei-ban/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Top IRS division appears packed with anti-Trump officials
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3417397/trump-irs-democrat-officials-bias/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley Tells College Grads: ‘Freedom of Speech is Under Attack’ By Trump Administration. Pelley’s speech came just before CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon announced her resignation amid clashes between the network and parent company Paramount. Democrat leaders run the mainstream news media in America. The mainstream news media in America is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://freebeacon.com/media/60-minutes-scott-pelley-tells-college-grads-freedom-of-speech-is-under-attack-by-trump-administration/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Race Fatigue in the United States. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote minorities, females, and younger people because they vote for Democrats and b) get rid of Whites, males, and older people because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/race_fatigue_in_the_united_states.html
— Putin’s cold and dark soul
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/putin_s_cold_and_dark_soul.html
— Trump’s ‘big’ and ‘beautiful’ tax bill retains hundreds of billions (maybe trillions?) in ‘Green New Deal’ spending
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/trump_s_big_and_beautiful_tax_bill_retains_hundreds_of_billions_maybe_trillions_in_green_new_deal_spending.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump’s historic first $1,000 self-deportation flight takes off. Here’s how it’s going …
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/20/trumps-historic-first-1000-self-deportation-flight-takes-off-heres-how-its-going-1544944/

BREITBART
— 1.4 Million Illegals Ordered Deported but ‘Roaming Free’ in U.S. Due to Lack of Detention Space
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/20/expert-witness-tells-congress-1-4-million-illegals-ordered-deported-but-roaming-free-in-u-s-due-to-lack-of-detention-space/
— Spike Lee Slams Trump at Cannes Film Festival
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/05/20/spike-lee-slams-trump-at-cannes-film-festival/

DAILY CALLER
— GOP Pushes Tax To Pay For Trump Agenda And Depress Illegal Immigration In One Fell Swoop
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/gop-tax-pay-for-trump-agenda-disincentivize-illegal-immigration/
— The Biden Cover Up Is Worse Than You Can Possibly Imagine
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/joe-biden-cancer-diagnosis-rebelcast-media-cover-up/

FOX NEWS
— Naperville board meeting erupts over transgender athlete policy: ‘Clear divide on this issue’  Awake Illinois founder Shannon Adcock joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss the debate over transgender athletes in girls’ sports after female track runners were defeated by a biological male.  Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373126420112

NEWSMAX
— DOJ Investigating Chicago Mayor Over Black Hires. How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference that they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chicago-justice-department-brandon-johnson/2025/05/20/id/1211653/

PJ MEDIA
— DHS Slams Walz’s ‘Gestapo’ Comments, Highlights Criminals Arrested
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/20/dhs-slams-walzs-gestapo-comments-details-criminals-arrested-n4939960

REAL CLEAR DEFENSE
— Buh-Bye West Point
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/05/20/buh-bye_west_point_1111220.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEWSWEEK
— Walmart Responds To Trump’s Order To ‘Eat The Tariffs’
https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-responds-donald-trump-eat-tariffs-trade-policy-2075063
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.newsweek.com/talk-suspending-habeas-corpus-hand-grenade-americas-heart-opinion-2074845

REUTERS
— Musk, the Republican Party’s biggest donor, says he will cut political spending. I should write about a) the biggest donors to the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party since 2000 and b) what they think of me. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me lately.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/elon-musk-says-he-is-still-committed-being-tesla-ceo-5-years-time-2025-05-20/

CNN
— Trump’s IRS layoffs could lead to billions in lost revenue as agency sheds auditors
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/irs-staffing-cuts-revenue-loss-trump-dg

MSN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/u-s-hits-brakes-on-trade-war-with-china/ar-AA1F9pdS

CBS NEWS
— Biden’s last prostate cancer blood test was in 2014, spokesperson says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-prostate-cancer-blood-test-2014/

NEW YORK TIMES
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, only non-Whites can be refugees.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000010169282/inside-trumps-exception-for-white-south-african-refugees.html
— Trump-Supporting Christians Accusing Jews of Antisemitism. Jews in America are overwhelmingly liberal. Jews in Israel are overwhelmingly conservative. Liberals get rid of conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/antisemitism-israel-palestine-esther.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/nyregion/nyc-pride-sponsors-trump-tariffs.html
— Democrat leaders encourage Democrats to move into Elmhurst.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/realestate/elmhurst-illinois-real-estate-guide.html
— Democrat Leaders Say How Trump Has Targeted New Groups for Deportation
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/21/us/trump-immigration-policy.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump drafts America’s business titans to burnish his image at home and abroad
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/21/trump-apple-walmart-tariffs-ceos-middle-east/2b609ad6-35f9-11f0-9c9e-0db2d748bea7_story.html

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/20/transgender-pride-flag-yosemite-el-capitan-lgbtq/83750904007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Joe Biden Had Unrivaled Medical Care. How Did His Cancer Go Undetected? Other presidents, including Donald Trump, have undergone and released their prostate screening results.
https://www.wsj.com/health/joe-biden-had-unrivaled-medical-care-how-did-his-cancer-go-undetected-93d735d4

FORTUNE
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/20/scrapping-dei-without-benefits-morally-unjust-bankrupt/

BLOOMBERG
— When were you under the radar? I was under the radar at IRS until I was 25 years old in 1973 and my IRS manager gave me a big high-profile developmental assignment and promoted me to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) because of my performance on it. Because of the aforesaid, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of him and a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976, c) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, c) ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and e) ever-increasingly made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. According to them, that development assignment should have been given to a Democrat who was a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I got the assignment because of my job performance and because I was taking graduate evening business courses. The aforesaid and Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me drew attention to the fact that I was conservative, Republican, a Vietnam War draft avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, and I had been a Crete resident 1948-1972. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/5-affordable-under-the-radar-vacations-to-take-this-summer

ATLANTIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/third-country-deportations/682857/

HR BREW
— Democrat and RINO employers will forever use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025/05/20/why-dei-is-not-disappearing-any-time-soon-for-hr

PEW RESEARCH
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy Republicans who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/05/20/how-much-discrimination-do-americans-say-groups-face-in-the-u-s/

GOOGLE AI
— The Illinois Republican Primary in 2026 will be held on March 17th, 2026. This primary will determine the Republican candidates who will appear on the ballot for the November 3rd, 2026 General Election. Here’s what you need to know:
https://www.google.com/search?q=republican+primary+illinois+2026
(FROM THE POSTING: Governor: Some potential or declared Republican candidates include James Mendrick, Joseph Severino, Aaron Del Mar, Richard Porter, Jeanne Ives, and Blaine Wilhour. Attorney General: The Republican primary for Attorney General in 202(2) saw Thomas DeVore win with 44.2% of the vote, followed by Steve Kim and David Shestokas. Secretary of State: Dan Brady won the Republican primary for Secretary of State with 76.4% of the vote, defeating John Milhiser.)

GOOGLE AI
— DuPage Countywide Republican Primary 2026
https://www.google.com/search?q=republican+primary+dupage+%222026%22+%22countywide%22+offices
(FROM THE POSTING: DuPage Countywide Offices: Generally, DuPage Countywide offices that would be on the ballot include: County Board Chairman, County Clerk, Sheriff, Treasurer.  Republican Candidates (as of May 21, 2025): It’s still early in the election cycle, and a complete list of Republican candidates for DuPage County offices in 2026 is not yet available. However, there is news about the Sheriff’s race: Sheriff James Mendrick has announced he will not be seeking re-election as DuPage County Sheriff. He is instead running for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois. Mendrick has endorsed Undersheriff Eddie Moore as his successor for DuPage County Sheriff.)

WIKIPEDIA
— Illinois U.S. Senate election 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_elections#Illinois
(FROM THE POSTING: Among Republicans, former police officer John Goodman has announced his candidacy. Potential Republican candidates include Congressman Darin LaHood and state Representative Tom Demmer.)
— 2026 Illinois gubernatorial election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Illinois_gubernatorial_election#Candidates
(FROM THE POSTING: Republican Primary Candidates: Declared: James Mendrick, DuPage County Sheriff (2018–present), Running mate: Robert Renteria, author and businessman; Phil Perez, member of the Posen Park District Commission; Joseph Severino, capital management professional and nominee for Illinois’s 10th congressional district in 2022. Publicly expressed interest: Aaron Del Mar, Palatine Township Highway Commissioner, chair of the Cook County Republican Party, and candidate for lieutenant governor in 2022; Richard Porter, former member of the Republican National Committee and the Illinois State Police Merit Board. Potential: Jeanne Ives, former state representative, candidate for governor in 2018, and nominee for Illinois’s 6th congressional district in 2020; Blaine Wilhour, state representative.)

May 20, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— DOJ investigating Chicago hiring practices amid backlash over Mayor Johnson’s viral comments. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-justice-opens-civil-rights-investigation-chicago-hiring-practices-letter-mayor-brandon-johnson/16472280/
— Ashli Babbitt’s family to receive $5M to settle lawsuit with Trump administration.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ashli-babbitts-family-receive-5-million-settlement-trump-admin-sources/16471666/

NBC5
— Former Chicago Public Schools students say they were groomed by teachers. A months-long investigation by NBC 5 Investigates has uncovered allegations of grooming and teacher misconduct dating back more than a decade at one Chicago public school.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/lessons-in-betrayal-former-chicago-public-schools-students-say-they-were-groomed-by-teachers/3749386/
— DOJ investigates Chicago’s hiring practices following comments by Mayor Johnson. Justice officials are investigating whether the city is violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/doj-investigates-chicagos-hiring-practices-following-comments-by-mayor-johnson/3749322/
— Trump allies shift from well-wishes to suggesting Biden hid his cancer diagnosis
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/donald-trump-allies-suggest-biden-hid-cancer-diagnosis/3749387/

CBS2
— Southwest Side Chicago alderman, state rep said city extended use of migrant shelter without notice
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-extended-use-migrant-shelter-notice/
— Trump questions why Biden’s cancer wasn’t caught earlier
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-questions-why-bidens-cancer-wasnt-caught-earlier/
— Justice Department opens discrimination investigation into Chicago city hiring practices.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/justice-department-discrimination-investigation-chicago-city-hiring-practices/

WGN9
— First Trump $1,000 ‘self-deport’ flight conducted by DHS.
https://wgntv.com/news/national/first-trump-1000-self-deport-flight-conducted-by-dhs/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/illinois-mulls-ending-a-health-program-for-some-immigrants-living-in-the-us-illegally/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/19/illinois-lawmakers-discuss-budget-priorities-legislative-deadline-looms

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/05/19/how-birthright-citizenship-ruling-could-affect-illinois

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/trump-venezuelans/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/chicagos-venezuelan-migrants-face-uncertainty-after-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protected-status/
— Cupich says Pope Leo XIV will champion the environment, immigrants. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/pope-leo-chicago-visit/
— Justice Department investigating Mayor Brandon Johnson for racially motivated hiring.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/justice-department-chicago-alleged-racially-motivated-hiring/
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/garrison-school-four-rivers-oversight/
— Chicago’s south and southwest suburbs see population declines — but there are bright spots in census estimates
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/south-suburbs-population-drop-census/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Those seeing decreases of at least 2% but below 3% included Bridgeview, Crestwood, Harvey, Matteson, Oak Forest, Olympia Fields, Palos Hills and Tinley Park. Suburbs having losses over the four years of at least 3% included Alsip, Blue Island, Calumet City, Chicago Heights, Country Club Hills, Dolton, Evergreen Park, Flossmoor, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Lansing, Markham, Midlothian, Oak Lawn, Park Forest and South Holland.)

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Justice Department launches probe into City Hall’s hiring practices, claims they’re solely race-based. The Trump administration on Monday opened a civil rights investigation into Chicago’s hiring practices one day after Mayor Brandon Johnson boasted about the record number of African-Americans he has hired for top city jobs.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/19/justice-department-probe-city-hall-hiring-practices-brandon-johnson-woodlawn
— Venezuelans in Illinois could be deported after Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protected status. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end the Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans, including in Illinois. — Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/19/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protections-from-some-venezuelans-deportations-could-follow

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting vice in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250519/news/new-pot-dispensary-tattoo-parlor-get-approval-from-elgin-city-council/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump officials launch hiring probe after Johnson touts number of Black advisers
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-doj-investigating-chicago-hiring-discrimination

RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “social justice” a) to promote more hatred against Republicans and b) to get more votes from minorities and females.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/siue-east-st-louis-center-for-the-performing-arts-gives-social-justice-rhythm-and-motion-during-its-spring-dance-recital-82614.cfm

NPR ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-05-20/in-the-fight-for-youth-transgender-health-care-illinois-remains-at-the-forefront
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-19/trump-administration-cuts-school-mental-health-grants

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pritzker to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-says-every-state-faces-financial-challenges-under-trump-but-is-optimistic-illinois-will-have/article_1d68e4ce-9dcb-4e4c-ba07-e9f0c328b9aa.html

JOLIET PATCH
— 2024 Tesla Faces Seizure After Joliet Police Find Marijuana Inside: The EV belongs to Mokena residents Eddy Curry and Mitchell Rashada and is now the subject of a Will County civil forfeiture.
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/2024-tesla-faces-seizure-after-joliet-police-find-pot-forfeiture

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Trump attacks City Hall’s discrimination. It easier for Democrat employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. It is harder for Republican employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. Democrats want to work for Democrats. Republicans want to work for Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/20/trump-attacks-chicago-city-hall-diversity-00358327

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-516/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-308/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Higher and higher salaries means Chicagoans’ public pension problem gets bigger and bigger.
https://wirepoints.org/higher-and-higher-salaries-means-chicagoans-public-pension-problem-gets-bigger-and-bigger-wirepoints-on-full-measure-with-sharyl-attkisson/
— Why expand in Illinois when there’s little economic growth?
https://wirepoints.org/what-one-business-owner-said-to-me-why-expand-in-illinois-when-theres-little-economic-growth-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, Firestone Stores in 1970, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. After I graduated from NIU when I was 21 years old in 1970, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from Firestone Stores. But that job did not really require a college degree. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me in 1971 because I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. He would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. All during my entire life, employers that might have hired me were under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat leaders to hire Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1970 (management) bachelor’s degree, b) my 1976 (business), 1980 (accounting), and 1997 (finance) master’s degrees, c) my 1979 (accounting), 1981 (internal auditing), 1990 (fraud examination), 1994 (government financial management), 1996 (financial services auditing), and 1997 (forensic accounting) professional certifications, and d) my 1981 professional license (CPA). Because I complained about the aforesaid, a) my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969, b) my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and my education deductions in 1978 and never promoted me beyond GS-12, and c) my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and forced me to retire in 1997. My RINO critics/opponents have no problem with what my Democrat superiors did to me. Actually, they applaud it. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What makes candidates for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc. Since 1999, RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed a) the almost 18 years of experience that I gained working for GAO, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) the almost 9 years of experience that I gained working for IRS, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) my bachelor’s degree in management, d) my master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, e) my professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and f) my CPA license. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you avoid the Vietnam War draft? Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The bronze statue of Melania Trump in Slovenia has been chopped off at the feet and stolen. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What did your superiors require you to do? Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

JEFF BERKOWITZ
— Does the IL GOP have competitive US Senate & GOV candidates on deck for 2026?  What makes a candidate for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc.
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/does-the-il-gop-have-competitive

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— What’s in the Homeschooling Regulation Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/whats-in-the-homeschooling-regulation-bill/
— Nunda Township Officials Sworn into Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/nunda-township-officials-sworn-into-office/
— Connie Cain Flips Parties, Running for Kane County Treasurer as Democrat after Being Fired by GOP Treasurer Chris Lauzen
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/connie-cain-flips-parties-running-for-kane-county-treasurer-as-democrat-after-being-fired-by-gop-treasurer-chris-lauzen/
— No New Face for Conservation District Board, John Henning Being Appointed to a Second Run
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/no-new-face-for-conservation-district-board-john-henning-being-appointed-to-a-second-run/
— Poor Loser Randy Funks Out for the Fifth Time
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/poor-loser-randy-funks-out-for-the-fifth-time/
— Possible Taxes You Might Want to Ask Your Local Democrat to Oppose
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/possible-taxes-you-might-want-to-ask-your-local-democrat-to-oppose/
— With Two Weeks Left in Legislation Session, Sosnowski Gives Take on the Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/with-two-weeks-left-in-legislation-session-sosnowski-gives-take-on-the-budget/
— Rest of Algonquin Township Officials Sworn In
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/rest-of-algonquin-township-officials-sworn-in/
— Another Mailing Asking Voters to Call Sue Ness about Cost of Pension Increases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/another-mailing-asking-voters-to-call-sue-ness-about-cost-of-pension-increases/
— Underwood Not Running for U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/underwood-not-running-for-u-s-senate/
— Is This the Year that Democrats Will Start Taxing Services?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/is-this-the-year-that-democrats-will-start-taxing-services/
— Huntley’s Move to Shut Down Trump Store on Route 47 Making Regional News
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/huntleys-move-to-shut-down-trump-store-on-route-47-making-regional-news/
— $500,000 Judgement for Sending Campaign Postcard Found False–“Reckless Regard of the Truth”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/500000-judgement-for-sending-campaign-postcard-found-false-reckless-regard-of-thetruth/
— A Stupidity of the Chicago School System I Missed
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/a-stupidity-of-the-chicago-school-system-i-missed/
— Homeland Security Calls Out “Fake News” in Press Releases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/homeland-security-calls-out-fake-news-in-press-releases/
— GOP Precinct Committeeperson & Candidate Training in Rockford May 31st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/gop-precinct-committeeperson-candidate-training-in-rockford-may-31st/
— Census Reports McHenry County Growth Tips, Plus Population Gains and Losses for All Municipalities
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/census-reports-local-growth-tips-population-gains-and-losses-for-all-mchenry-county-municipalities/
— Data Centers among Reasons Electricity Prices Going Up in June
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/data-centers-among-reasons-electricity-prices-going-up-in-june/
— Daniel Biss Raises Big Money in Day after Announcement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/daniel-biss-raises-big-money-in-day-after-announcement/
— Chicago Republican Infighting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/chicago-republican-infighting/
— DeWitte Points to Pritzker’s Budget Having Increased 40% Since He Took Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/dewitte-points-to-pritzkers-budget-having-increased-40-since-he-took-office/
— Handful of Local Officials Miss Deadline for Filing Income Disclosure Forms
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/handful-of-local-officials-miss-deadline-for-filing-income-disclosure-forms/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Washington awash with suspicion of a Biden cancer cover-up
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/washington-awash-suspicion-biden-cancer-cover/
— Trump hammers illegal immigrants with full weight of law, criminal prosecutions up 45-fold
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/trump-hammers-illegal-immigrants-full-weight-law-criminal/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Brandon Johnson touts diverse administration, says black people run Chicago because ‘we’re most generous’  Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3415666/brandon-johnson-diverse-administration-black-people-most-generous/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/brandon-johnson-touts-diverse-administration-says-black-people-run-chicago-because-we-re-most-generous/ar-AA1F4UqR

AMERICAN THINKER
— Will the Supreme Court Succumb to Democratic Party Pressure?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/will_the_supreme_court_succumb_to_democratic_party_pressure.html
— Trump throws back stink bombs at celebrities
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/trump_throws_back_stink_bombs_at_celebrities.html
— Biden was not a decent man, nor was he a public servant
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/joe_biden_was_not_a_decent_man_nor_was_he_a_public_servant.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/
— Flailing Schumer tries to blame DOGE for Mexican ship’s Brooklyn Bridge collision
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/flailing-schumer-tries-to-blame-doge-for-mexican-ships-brooklyn-bridge-collision-1544487/

BLAZE
— Schumer tries to blame Trump for lethal Mexican boat crash into Brooklyn Bridge — but DHS fires back
https://www.theblaze.com/news/schumer-trump-cuauhtemoc-lethal-crash
— ‘Self-deport’ flights begin as some illegal migrants take advantage of Trump’s tempting offer
https://www.theblaze.com/news/self-deport-flights-begin-as-some-illegal-migrants-take-advantage-of-trump-s-tempting-offer-report

BREITBART
— Department of Homeland Security Conducts First Self-Deportation Charter Flight of 64 Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/20/department-of-homeland-security-conducts-first-self-deportation-charter-flight-of-64-migrants/
— U.S. hits Indian travel agencies facilitating illegal migration with visa bans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/u-s-hits-indian-travel-agencies-facilitating-illegal-migration-with-visa-bans/
— Trump’s immigration crackdown targets Washington restaurants
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trumps-immigration-crackdown-targets-washington-restaurants/
— Trump administration agrees to pay nearly $5M to settle suit over Ashli Babbitt shooting in Capitol
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-administration-agrees-to-pay-nearly-5m-to-settle-suit-over-ashli-babbitt-shooting-in-capitol/
— Supreme Court allows Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status for Venezuelans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-revoke-temporary-protected-status-for-venezuelans/

DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Sudden Cancer Diagnosis Doesn’t Add Up, Doctors Say
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/joe-biden-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-doesnt-add-up-doctors-presidency/
— Trump Suggests Biden Diagnosis Could Be Part Of Bigger Conspiracy
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/donald-trump-joe-biden-cancer-diagnosis-conspiracy-cover-up/
— Cash Flowing Into Anti-ICE Group’s Coffers Came From Chinese Gov’t-Linked Sources
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/cpc-bankrolled-by-chinese-government-linked-sources/

DAILY SIGNAL
— There’s No Love Like the Democrats’ Love of Illegal Alien Criminals
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/theres-no-love-like-the-democrats-love-of-illegal-alien-criminals/

DAILY WIRE
— Biden Has Terminal Cancer. The Cover Up Was Way Worse Than We Thought.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1599-member-exclusive

EPOCH TIMES
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove Protected Status for Venezuelans
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-remove-protected-status-for-venezuelans-5859993

TOWNHALL
— Trump Admin’s ICE Operation Nets Over 400 Arrests and 500 Deportations, Targeting Criminal Immigrants
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/05/19/ice-arrests-422-undocumented-immigrants-deports-528-in-houston-operation-n2657306

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSNBC & NPR
— Democrat leaders want sellers to use Trump’s tariffs to raise their prices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnYR-zYpU0
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5387330/trump-tariffs-china-collect-manufacturing-revenue

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff. I should write about my RINO leaders who are White and/or male and who promote Affirmative Action and DEI. They a) want votes from minorities and/or from females and/or b) have children who are minority and/or female.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-afrikaners-trump-refugees-ramaphosa-c87264523d555a64c0588d8734bba83a

MSN
— My critics/opponents attribute their successes to meritocracy. They attribute my and everyone else’s successes to their benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/the-case-for-meritocracy/ar-AA1EeV7W

REUTERS
— US launches unit to target DEI policies at colleges with civil fraud probes
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-launches-unit-target-dei-policies-colleges-with-civil-fraud-probes-2025-05-20/

ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-sides-venezuelan-man-seeking-return-us/story?id=121968260

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/most-venezuelans-not-at-immediate-risk-despite-tps-decision-immigration-attorney-says/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Melania Trump (the Statue) Vanishes in Slovenia. The bronze sculpture, erected near Ms. Trump’s hometown in eastern Slovenia, was chopped off at the feet and stolen, the police said. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/world/europe/slovenia-melania-trump-statue.html
— DOJ to use false claims act to pursue institutions over their discrimination efforts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/false-claims-act-dei-harvard.html
— The Miners Who Lost Their Jobs, but Not Their Faith in Trump’s Tariffs. With demand for steel down and a trade war underway, miners in the Iron Range of Minnesota are feeling the hit. But they hope better times are ahead. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be working for GAO.  But I was collateral damage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/business/trump-tariffs-mining-steel.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Putin is stringing Trump along, and Trump doesn’t seem to realize it. As Putin stonewalls Trump’s ceasefire efforts, the U.S. president extends him patience and goodwill.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/19/putin-ukraine-ceasefire-trump/

BOSTON GLOBE
— Those who have demographics that vote for Republicans are more likely to enlist.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/20/opinion/military-recruiting-rebound-trump-biden/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders want the Pope to promote the anti-Catholic Democrat Party platform, that is, they want him to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/16/pope-leo-catholic-church-lgbtq-harrison-butker/83626547007/
— What should I do if my duties don’t match my job description? What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a) three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/05/13/job-duties-dont-match-description-hr/83410689007/
— Thousands of federal employees are on a roller coaster of being fired, rehired. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/federal-employees-fired-rehired-await-court-decision/83600693007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: These fired federal employees are considering running for public office. ‘It’s forced a choice’: Fired federal workers prepare to run for office. Democratic groups want to help. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/fired-federal-workers-run-politics-office/79329174007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip Biden Status From Venezuelan Migrants
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-migrant-legal-status-a2fc2f8d
— Will Anyone Take the Factory Jobs That Trump Wants to Bring Back to America? The president has pledged to bring more factory work back to U.S., but many manufacturing jobs are already going unfilled. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. Those jobs included two factory jobs: chipping slag and working on an automotive assembly line.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/will-anyone-take-the-factory-jobs-trump-wants-to-bring-back-to-america-f6cd377b

INC.
— Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/businesses-csr-corporate-social-responsibility-policies-trump/91190849

FAST COMPANY
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91310203/it-costs-nearly-300000-to-raise-a-child-in-2025

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
— Are/were you collateral damage?  I have been collateral damage since 1964 because I have always been a Republican and virtually all those above me have been Democrats or RINOs.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0403/trump-tariffs-immigration-signal-doge

MEDICAL NEWS
— Study reveals high rates of cannabis use disorder in older US veterans. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250519/Study-reveals-high-rates-of-cannabis-use-disorder-in-older-US-veterans.aspx

EDUCATION WEEK
— Boys Are Struggling in School. What Can Be Done? It’s time to take a hard look at gender equity.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-boys-are-struggling-in-school-what-can-be-done/2025/05

POLITICO
— How Congress could crush Trump’s Qatari plane gift. Lawmakers are weighing everything from sticking amendments in defense legislation to holding up nominees as they try to stop the president from accepting the foreign-owned aircraft.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/19/trump-qatar-jet-gift-congress-block-00357593

AXIOS
— Swift, Beyoncé, Springsteen: Trump’s new political foes are pop stars
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/19/trump-celebrity-investigations-feud-taylor-swift-beyonce-bruce-springsteen

TIMES OF INDIA
— ‘Could he be more racist?’ Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson slammed for ‘only hiring black people’ comment in viral speech. My critics/opponents have always given preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always discriminated against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/could-he-be-more-racist-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-slammed-for-only-hiring-black-people-comment-in-viral-speech/articleshow/121265000.cms

May 19, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— 30-mile protest against President Trump policies links Aurora to Chicago. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/hands-chicagoland-rally-30-mile-protest-president-donald-trump-policies-links-aurora-chicago-ogden-avenue/16462021/
— Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-president-joe-biden-diagnosed-prostate-cancer-routine-exam-hospital-philadelphia/16461073/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hands Across Chicagoland event stretches from Aurora to Chicago to protest Trump administration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/hands-across-chicagoland-event-stretches-from-aurora-to-chicago-to-protest-trump-administration/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stuebner was one of over 18,000 gathered over a 30-mile stretch across DuPage and Cook counties from Aurora to Chicago on Sunday to protest Trump administration policies, per a news release from the Hands Across Chicagoland event organized by the Democratic Party of DuPage County, Indivisible Illinois, the Illinois Federation of Teachers and other political organizations across the Chicago area. The idea was to “form a human chain of solidarity against Trump’s illegal and authoritarian actions and the GOP’s failure to defend the Constitution,” per the release. Protestors signed up in advance based on their ZIP code, and lined the sidewalk along Ogden Avenue and 26th Street, from Aurora to the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago, on Sunday afternoon. The idea arose out of past protests organized by the DuPage Democratic party, according to the group’s chair Reid McCollum. In March, the group hosted a “Tesla Takedown DuPage” protest against Elon Musk’s efforts to slash and restructure the federal government and decided they wanted to stage a protest that stretched further. Sunday’s demonstration was spurred on by the Trump administration sending individuals — like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the United States — to detention centers, McCollum said. The protest’s goal is to reach a significant number of people passing by the protest so that the people of the U.S. won’t “just slide into authoritarianism without fighting back,” McCollum said. Amongst a few dozen protestors gathered in Lisle, several local officials offered their remarks. Standing in front of an inflatable chicken meant to be a caricature of President Trump, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Matteson, told The Beacon-News that these kinds of demonstrations show that people are “ready to resist” the Trump administration. She described concerns about Medicaid, SNAP and tariffs as some of the everyday issues that are affecting ordinary residents’ lives.
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. To come into a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/opinion-immigration-us-donald-trump-jb-pritzker/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/19/trump-maga-fake-news-right-wing-media-lies-fox-propaganda-democracy-andy-shaw

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Is Gov. JB Pritzker the wealthiest person in Illinois? Here’s the top 5.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/05/19/top-5-richest-people-in-illinois-according-to-forbes/83669860007/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/05/19/thousands-line-ogden-avenue-to-protest-trump-administration/

WIFR
— Democrat leaders want Walmart to charge more to punish Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/18/trumps-tariffs-may-mean-walmart-shoppers-pay-more-his-treasury-chief-acknowledges/

TRIBE
— What’s it like to raise teens in 2025? What did you do when you were a teen? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail.
https://thetriibe.com/2025/05/whats-it-like-to-raise-teens-in-2025/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump order targets barcodes on ballots. Democrats object.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-order-targets-barcodes-on-ballots-theyve-long-been-a-source-of-misinformation/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-515/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Open borders + sanctuary status + free benefits + Gov. Abbott = Chicago population growth
https://wirepoints.org/open-borders-sanctuary-status-free-benefits-gov-abbott-chicago-population-growth-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who has had since 2015, who is having, and who will have the biggest impact on you/? For me, because I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, it is Trump. Since 2015, I have ever-increasingly included links to articles that involve Trump in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. My critics/opponents despise/hate Trump, and according to them, my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters promote Trump. Since 2015, to punish me, my critics/opponents have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. My critics/opponents stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Release of an important IVF report is approaching. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always boasted that they discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Federal Dollars Going to Perv-Promoting Institutions of Baser Learning. On May 8, 2025, Northwestern University’s student newspaper the Daily Northwestern cheerily reported on Sex Week, a three-day event during which free sex toys were distributed at the student union, Norris University Center. Students lined up for the freebies which included “phallic-shaped, glitter-covered candles. … dildos and vibrators,” and “cute, little, squishy penis toys.”
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/15/federal-dollars-going-to-perv-promoting-institutions-of-baser-learning

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump unleashes on justices after Supreme Court blocks Tren de Aragua deportations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/18/trump-unleashes-justices-supreme-court-blocks-tren-de-aragua/
— Bruce Springsteen scorns blessings of being born in the U.S.A.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/16/bruce-springsteen-scorns-blessings-born-usa/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Owner of Trump-themed Huntley shop says local officials are targeting her business
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3411133/owner-trump-themed-shop-local-officials/
— There is only one reason Democrats want to make it easier for noncitizens to vote. They vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3413664/only-one-reason-democrats-want-easier-noncitizen-voting/
— Rubio says people should be ‘celebrating’ US welcoming South African immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3415297/rubio-says-people-should-be-celebrating-us-welcoming-south-african-immigrants/

NEW YORK POST
— The end is near for on-the-job reverse discrimination — another blow to DEI. My Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of their Republican subordinates like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/18/opinion/the-end-is-near-for-reverse-discrimination-a-blow-to-dei/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people. My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always boasted that they discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/

BREITBART
— Tim Walz Claims ICE Agents Are ‘Trump’s Modern Gestapo’ Chasing ‘Folks’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/18/tim-walz-claims-ice-agents-trumps-modern-gestapo-chasing-folks/

DAILY CALLER
— Hillary Clinton Appears To Have Learned Nothing From 2016 ‘Basket Of Deplorables’ Remark. I should write about past and present leaders of the following who have ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed/demonized/denigrated/condemned conservatives like me the most: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/18/hillary-clinton-appears-to-have-learned-nothing-from-2016-basket-of-deplorables-remark/

FEDERALIST
— The Ongoing Failure Of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/19/the-ongoing-failure-of-affirmative-action/

PJ MEDIA
— The Spirit Needed to Win Our Culture War
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/18/the-spirit-needed-to-win-our-culture-war-n4939922
— DEI Deathwatch Vol. XXI: Chicago Mayor Explains Black Hiring Preferences. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/05/18/dei-deathwatch-vol-xxi-chicago-mayor-explains-black-hiring-preferences-n4939927

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Trump warns America’s businesses: Eat my tariffs, or pay the price
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/business/trump-tariffs-price-consumers

AOL
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly call Trump and those who voted for him Nazis.
https://www.aol.com/tim-walz-suggests-ice-trump-025837320.html
— ‘My Coworkers Think I’m DOGE’—A Federal Worker Says, ‘I Receive Mean Looks And Conversations Are Straight-Up Dying When I Walk By’ What did your coworkers do to get pay increases and promotions? My Democrat coworkers in the federal government did everything that they could to help their Democrat superiors and supervisors get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.aol.com/coworkers-think-im-doge-federal-010031089.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump’s big bill advances in rare weekend vote, but conservatives demand more changes
https://apnews.com/article/republicans-tax-cuts-house-trump-johnson-border-f03b7e9cc3015ef9a0ece37b76bc5f66

NEWSWEEK
— Trump called for a “major investigation” into celebrities who aided Kamala Harris’s 2024 election campaign, including Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé, saying their appearances were potentially illegal contributions.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-investigation-beyonce-bruce-springsteen-performances-2073941

NBC NEWS
— Key House committee advances Trump agenda bill after appeasing conservatives
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/key-house-committee-advances-trump-agenda-bill-conservatives-rcna207555

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html
— Key House Panel Approves Trump’s Megabill After Conservatives Relent
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/18/us/trump-news-updates
— Inside the I.V.F. Deliberations at the White House as Key Report Nears. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never have had able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/ivf-policy-white-house.html
— Everyone Hates ‘Debanking’ But Is Unclear on What to Do. What do the leaders of your bank think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-debanking-crypto.html
— DOGE Seeks to Investigate GAO. GAO rejected the request, saying it reports to Congress and is exempt from oversight by Elon Musk’s budget-cutting group. The Democrat who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/doge-musk-gao-accountability-office.html

USA TODAY
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/23/what-is-a-rino-in-gop-politics/73817513007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/15/red-states-join-trump-dei-fight/83518866007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/

TAMPAS FREE PRESS
— Victor Davis Hanson Predicts Democratic Shift To Centrist In 2028
https://www.tampafp.com/victor-davis-hanson-predicts-democratic-shift-to-centrist-in-2028/

DESERET NEWS
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/05/18/jason-riley-affirmative-action-myth-dei/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-approval-rating-charts-eaf089db

REASON
— According to Democrat leaders a) only Whites discriminate and b) only Whites should pay for the sins of their forefathers.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/18/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees/

CHRISTIAN SICENCE MONITOR
— Belvidere aims for economic revival – but will Trump tariffs help?
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0519/trump-tariffs-midwest-manufacturers?icid=rss

RAW STORY
— Snubbed: Pope gives JD Vance just 17 seconds — but has long meetings with other leaders
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-pope-2672071466/

AUTOPIAN
— Direct competitors of the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the muscle car. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle car’s direct competitors?
https://www.theautopian.com/dodge-is-blaming-the-tariffs-for-killing-the-charger-daytona-r-t-a-car-seemingly-no-one-wanted-anyway/

SAVING ADVICE
— 7 Cars That Only The 1% Can Afford. The 5 vehicles that I have at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville are among the least expensive ones there: 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2021 Chevrolet Malibu Premier, 2019 Ford Escape Titanium, and 2005 Corvette.
https://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2025/05/15/10156332_7-cars-that-only-the-1-can-afford.html

May 18, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Medicaid to promote more hatred against Trump. How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/republicans-proposing-medicaid-cuts-part-president-donald-trump-spending-bill-leaving-americans-worried/16439037/
— DHS says it’s in beginning stages of ‘vetting process’ for immigrant reality TV show
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-homeland-security-says-beginning-stages-vetting-process-immigrant-reality-show-citizenship/16447461/

NBC5
— Joliet surpassed by fellow Chicago suburb as Illinois’ third-largest city. Naperville is now the state’s third-largest city, according to recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/joliet-surpassed-fellow-chicago-suburb-illinois-third-largest-city/3748213/

FOX32
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tells-walmart-eat-tariffs

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/south-africa-afrikaners-refugee-white/
— Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me a) to paint me as being stupid and b) to paint my parents as having been filthy rich. They stress that my ACT score was only 24, that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/federal-dei-crackdown-threatens-illinois-graduate-student-scholarship-program/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/16/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents

DAILY HERALD
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly paint the Pope as being a Democrat, that is, as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250517/news/pope-leo-xiv-not-registered-as-a-republican-in-illinois/

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Candida Cain leaves GOP, announces run for Kane treasurer as a Democrat. Move could lead to potential 2026 contest against her former boss.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/18/candida-cain-leaves-gop-announces-run-for-kane-treasurer-as-a-democrat/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Candida “Connie” Cain on Saturday declared her intent to seek the Democratic nomination in the March 17, 2026 primary for Kane County Treasurer. A Certified Public Account from Gilberts, Cain had worked for current Treasurer Chris Lauzen as Director of Financial Operations from May 2023 until he fired her Nov. 22. In an email, Lauzen, a Republican elected as treasurer in 2022, did not state if he planned to seek a second term. If Lauzen goes for another term, and Cain wins the Democratic nomination, the contest would pit Cain against her former boss in the general election on Nov. 3, 2026. A former Republican, Cain said she has now transitioned to the Democratic Party.)

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-investigations/2025/05/17/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents

LOOP NORTH NEWS
— Bally’s drops racial preferences for Chicago casino IPO. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they were always under tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians to give preference to their employees who were Democrat, and especially to those who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that. Further, since I have been involved in Republican politics since 1999, those above me have been under tremendous pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.loopnorth.com/news/casino0518.htm

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/article_48b5b309-272a-5089-a031-5ad51d5443d8.html
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/article_70550ee6-0906-5acd-9d87-56f31d030b0e.html

KWQC
— Battle over video gaming terminals in Illinois. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/05/17/battle-over-video-gaming-terminals-illinois/

WMBD
— LaHood reacts to Trump Administration announcements
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/17/lahood-reacts-to-trump-administration-announcements/

CITIES 92.9
— SEIU spends big on politics, little on members
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/17/report-seiu-spends-big-on-politics-little-on-members/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders use Walz to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-walz-calls-trump-a-tyrant-who-is-trampling-americans-rights-and-violating-the-rule-of-law/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries who have demographics that vote for Democrats to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally. Those who vote for Democrats are liberal, socialist, communist, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, want/need/demand massive government assistance, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, etc.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-asylum-seekers-still-arrive-at-the-us-border-but-what-will-happen-to-them/
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-clash-with-the-courts-raises-prospect-of-showdown-over-separation-of-powers/

NPR ILLINOIS
— The Democrats who run Congress run GAO. They do the bidding of Democrat leaders against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/how-doge-has-tried-to-embed-beyond-the-executive-branch
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to stop voter fraud.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-doj-focuses-in-on-voter-fraud-with-a-murky-assist-from-doge
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-attacks-on-dei-are-complicating-corporate-sponsorship-of-pride-events

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. I should write about the success that they have had in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-05-16/attorneys-general-ask-educators-for-courage-on-dei-policies

CWB CHICAGO
— DuPage judge refuses to detain man accused of robbing postal worker, trafficking checks stolen from the mail
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/05/judge-refuses-to-detain-man-accused-of-robbing-postal-worker-trafficking-checks-stolen-from-the-mail.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Fleeing persecution, South African arrivals scramble refugee politics. The next Democrat or RINO President will send them back.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3414599/fleeing-persecution-south-african-refugees-scramble-politics/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://freebeacon.com/culture/assessing-the-wreckage-of-affirmative-action/

AMERICAN THINKER
— 86 47 and what madness the U.S. is coming to
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/86_47_and_what_madness_the_u_s_is_coming_to.html
— Robert De Niro’s Trump obsession and Hollywood’s hypocrisy
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/robert_de_niro_s_trump_obsession_and_hollywood_s_hypocrisy.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Democrats push misleading ‘cuts to Medicaid’ narrative after enrolling 1.4 million illegals
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/dems-push-misleading-cuts-to-medicaid-narrative-after-enrolling-1-4-million-illegals-1544202/
— Trump blasts SCOTUS for blocking effort to deport illegal Venezuelan ‘gang members’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/trump-blasts-scotus-for-blocking-effort-to-deport-illegal-venezuelan-gang-members-1544193/

BREITBART
— Court allows Trump to stop collective bargaining for thousands of federal workers. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having been tremendously overpaid by the federal government. In today’s dollars, between 1966 and 1997, my federal pay increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151 /year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and d) I earned a job-related professional license. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on what they could done, but failed to do, to qualify themselves for better paying jobs.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/court-allows-trump-to-stop-collective-bargaining-for-thousands-of-federal-workers/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Columbia College Chicago says DEI values remain despite program rebranding
https://www.campusreform.org/article/columbia-college-chicago-says-dei-values-remain-despite-program-rebranding/27913

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Refusing Radical Demands Week in Education
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/refusing-radical-demands-week-in-education/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/05/18/assessing_the_wreckage_of_affirmative_action_646859.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct.
https://apnews.com/article/institute-museum-library-services-funding-cuts-trump-d3a236243b3a5c2b04e85d2004d1a946

MSN
–Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will foist the sins of your ancestors on you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-knew-the-pain-of-apartheid-how-dare-trump-embrace-afrikaners-as-refugees/ar-AA1EWbdx
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-judge-rules-it-s-ok-to-discriminate-against-lgbtq-people/ar-AA1EVI6U
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-funding-cuts-to-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-will-have-lethal-consequences/ar-AA1EI5C1
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate/expect that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI preference that American citizenship gives minorities and females over Whites and males.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-freaks-after-scotus-trashes-his-birthright-citizenship-arguments/ar-AA1EUxfs
— Those who promote muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/dodge-is-already-pulling-the-plug-on-its-cheapest-muscle-car/ar-AA1EW4Jt
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2025/05/17/dodge-charger-daytona-ev-canceled-slow-sales/83675336007/
https://www.motortrend.com/news/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-r-t-discontinued-ram-ev-delays
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/you-arent-buying-it-so-dodge-might-kill-the-electric-charger-daytona-r-t/
https://moparinsiders.com/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-scat-pack-brings-big-changes/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/denying-due-process-pritzker-sends-clear-message-in-blow-to-trump/ss-AA1EYa6X

MSNBC
— Episcopalians help Democrat leaders promote hatred against South African Whites.
https://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/watch/episcopal-church-refuses-trump-and-says-it-won-t-help-resettle-white-south-africans-239823942002
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zL9mESgmU

NEWSWEEK
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-latest-polls-2072624
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-democrats-trump-2028-president-2073019

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders are overjoyed that Pence criticizes Trump on tariffs and key foreign policy issues as he watches from afar.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/mike-pence-criticizes-trump-tariffs-key-foreign-policy-issues-watches-rcna206755

NEW YORK TIMES
— A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for U.S. Citizenship? D.H.S. Is Considering It. A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said the agency was happy to review “out-of-the-box pitches.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/homeland-security-immigration-reality-show.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/opinion/trump-politics-corruption.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-deportation-el-salvador/
— DOJ’s defense of GAO in Diersen v. GAO was politically motivated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/17/trump-justice-department-prosecutions/
— Democrat leaders use college newspapers to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/17/college-newspapers-trump-international-students/
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/17/walmart-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders say Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/18/trump-enforcement-halt-regulations-laws/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/18/usaid-withdrawal-africa-healthcare/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-05-17/bruce-springsteen-president-trump-manchester-concert
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote student loans. I never got any student loans. If I had, my GPA would have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes 1964-1966 and delivering mail 1966-1969.  But that enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-17/student-loans-have-been-confusing-lately-heres-a-guide-to-know-where-you-stand

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/18/supreme-courts-decisions-trump-religion-transgender-care/83675865007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/trump-big-beautiful-bill-immigration-tax/83697340007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that the Pope despises/hates Trump
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/donald-trump-jd-vance-pope-leo-marco-rubio/83672296007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/
— Democrat leaders say that Vance is a brawler for Trump who avoids Harris and Pence mistakes and his assertive public profile sets him up for 2028 Republican support.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/vice-president-jd-vance-visibility-outspoken/83630581007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-attacks-walmart-for-tariff-related-price-increases-63ef9db8

FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders say that major companies are anxiously awaiting to see whether or not they will be targeted by the federal government for a DEI investigation.
https://fortune.com/article/trump-dei-deadline-investigation-companies-federal-government/

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-walmart-tariffs-trade-rising-prices-2025-5

NPR
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/18/1252312214/us-competitive-autocracy

BILLBOARD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-trump-unfit-president-stage-speech-1235974885/

PRESS READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sunday-world-8839/20250518/281711210554249
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/making-of-elon-musk-childhood-apartheid-south-africa