FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Man faces federal assault charge in attack against Rep. Ilhan Omar during town hall
https://abc7chicago.com/post/man-faces-federal-assault-charge-attack-rep-ilhan-omar-during-town-hall/18501894/
— DD: Democrat leaders use Springsteen to promote hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bruce-springsteen-sings-president-donald-trump-new-song-streets-minneapolis/18500061/
CBS2
— DD: Soon, under the Democrats, everyone in Chicago will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/new-snap-work-requirements-food-stamps-pantries-increased-demand/
WTTW
— Illinois Has Filed 51 Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration. Here’s Where They Stand. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Democrat federal judges to defend and advance the Democrat Party platform. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/01/29/illinois-has-filed-51-lawsuits-against-trump-administration-here-s-where-they-stand
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump’s border czar suggests a possible drawdown in Minnesota, but only after ‘cooperation’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/29/minnesota-immigration-crackdown-border-czar-tom-homan/
— DD: Democrat and RINO businesses want illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/29/minnesota-minnesota-chamber-of-commerce-alex-pretti-renee-good-business-leaders/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing use Pretti against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/01/29/alex-pretti-death-ice-agents-minneapolis-donald-trump-last-straws
— Gun rights groups not buying justification for Pretti’s killing. Gun rights groups, who often side with the Trump administration on most matters, are rebelling at the notion that carrying a firearm is threatening, illegal or an invitation to police violence.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/01/29/alex-pretti-minneapolis-gun-rights-groups-donald-trump-jacob-sullum
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/01/29/trumps-losses-doge-tarriffs-immigration-ice-minnesota-economy-s-e-cupp
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County Board urges Congress to investigate immigration enforcement efforts; withhold DHS funding. The county board voted 11-5 to add the resolution to its legislative agenda. All the “no” votes were cast by Republicans. The resolution approved Tuesday also urges an end to immigration enforcement activities without a judicial warrant. DD: To withhold DHS funding is to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260129/local-politics/dupage-county-board-urges-congress-to-investigate-immigration-enforcement-efforts-withhold-dhs-fund/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republicans who voted against the resolution said they could not support withholding funding from the Department of Homeland Security, noting that immigration is just one aspect of the department. “There are so many aspects of homeland security that protect U.S. citizens that I could never vote to deny funding to that department,” county board member Kari Galassi, a Hinsdale Republican, said. Republicans also said Democrats should ask congressmen to organize a local hearing regarding immigration enforcement efforts.)
— GOP office in Arlington Heights vandalized with swastikas and feces
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260129/news/profoundly-hurtful-gop-office-in-arlington-heights-vandalized-with-swastikas-and-feces/
— Edward Lapinski, a Republican candidate for state house, has been removed from his post as secretary of the Cook County GOP after reportedly expressing Holocaust-denying views in a text exchange with another party official. Cook County Republican Party Chair Aaron Del Mar announced the decision late Thursday, saying he has zero tolerance for the remarks attributed to Elk Grove Township Republican Committeeman Edward Lapinski.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260129/news/republican-leaders-condemn-suburban-gop-state-house-candidate-for-holocaust-views/
— Elgin’s Civilian Review Board has recommended that an Elgin police officer be fired for comments he made about immigration enforcement on social media. Officer Jason Lentz was placed on leave in October following comments he made on Facebook that suggested places where immigration agents could find undocumented immigrants, tagging the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the end of the post. His since-deleted profile picture was an “I stand with ICE” logo.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260129/news/elgin-police-officer-should-be-fired-over-social-media-comments-about-immigration-enforcement-panel/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/michael-reese-health-trust-opens-illinois-abortion-access-fund
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Sean Grayson sentenced to 20 years in fatal shooting of Sonya Massey
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/courts/2026/01/29/sean-grayson-sentenced-to-xx-years-in-fatal-sonya-massey-shooting/88281266007/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Group challenges Illinois’ restrictions on using ‘Democrat,’ ‘Republican’ in org names. The law requires nonprofits to get party’s permission to use names. DD: I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/group-challenges-illinois-restrictions-on-using-democrat-republican-in-org-names/
CHICAGO REPORTER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push minorities to be pot pushers. Pot is poison.
https://www.chicagoreporter.com/six-years-in-has-illinois-cannabis-equity-law-delivered/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/01/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-458/
— Lapinski removed from Cook County Republican Party executive office: ‘The Holocaust is an indisputable historical fact’
https://capitolfax.com/2026/01/29/lapinski-removed-from-cook-county-party-executive-office-the-holocaust-is-an-indisputable-historical-fact/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrats run Illinois. Do you stand with ICE? If you do, anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will soon get rid of you. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Lawmaker pushing bill to study insurance for gun owners
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1d07d293-4b27-42c8-bd9d-6a7578d6615c.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Surveillance, Resistance, and Lethal Force: Anatomy of the Pretti Shooting
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/surveillance-resistance-and-lethal-force-anatomy-of-the-pretti-shooting/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— New Poll Confirms Bailey’s Dominance as GOP Primary Continues to Consolidate
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/01/new-poll-confirms-baileys-dominance-as-gop-primary-continues-to-consolidate.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The folly of sanctuary cities
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/29/folly-sanctuary-cities/
— Scott Walker: Democrats fuel the flames of rage. In Minnesota, a needless reenactment of 2020.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/29/democrats-fuel-flames-rage/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— In 2020, it was vilify and defund the police. In 2026, it’s vilify and defund ICE
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4438583/democratic-party-2026-vilify-defund-ice/
— Ed Markey pushes Democratic leaders to advocate defunding ICE in government funding negotiations
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/4438634/ed-markey-pushes-democratic-leaders-advocate-defunding-ice-government-funding-negotiations/
— China is our enemy. It’s time we act like it.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4437139/china-is-our-enemy-time-we-act-like-it/
COLLEGE FIX
— Chicago schools refuse to hire Christian college student teachers despite lawsuit
https://www.thecollegefix.com/chicago-public-schools-still-isnt-letting-student-teachers-from-christian-college-in-lawyer/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Republicans Defect as Senate Funding Vote Fails, Making Shutdown Likely
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/29/breaking-republicans-defect-as-senate-funding-vote-fails-making-shutdown-likely/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Democrat Operatives Caution Party to Stay Focused on Trump DHS Overreach, Avoid ‘Defund-the-Police’ Repeat
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/dem-operatives-caution-party-to-stay-focused-on-trump-dhs-overreach-avoid-defund-the-police-repeat/
NEWSMAX
— Homan: Sanctuary States Are Sanctuaries for Criminals
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/border-czar-tom-homan-minneapolis/2026/01/29/id/1244032/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Homan says Trump wants to ‘fix’ Minnesota operations. DD: What does fix mean?
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5712489-donald-trump-tom-homan-minneapolis-immigration/
NBC NEWS
— Senators explore off-ramps to prevent a shutdown as Democrats lay out DHS reforms. Democrats are demanding major reforms after DHS agents killed a man in Minnesota and negotiating a path with the White House. Funding is scheduled to expire at the end of Friday. DD: To defund DHS is to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senators-seek-ways-prevent-government-shutdown-ice-dhs-reforms-rcna256357
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders say Republicans gave ICE a slush fund
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/politics/ice-funding-congress.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Illegals cost taxpayers $500 million last year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/28/national-guard-deployments-cost/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want de-escalation.
https://www.wsj.com/business/what-ceos-areand-are-notsaying-about-ice-and-minneapolis-8860151b
POLITICO
— Senators block funding package amid DHS standoff. Eight Republicans joined every Senate Democrat to block sweeping government funding legislation from advancing Thursday amid ongoing negotiations around a potential offramp to avert a lengthy shutdown of several agencies. DD: To defund DHS is to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/senators-block-funding-package-amid-dhs-standoff-00754927
PBS
— U.S. cardinal urges defunding of ICE. DD: To defund ICE is to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-cardinal-urges-defunding-of-ice-we-need-to-see-whats-happening-in-front-of-us
PEOPLE’S WORLD
— GOP targets Chicago Teachers Union, the most anti-Trump union in America
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/gop-targets-chicago-teachers-union-the-most-anti-trump-union-in-america/
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January 29, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago vigil attendees call to reform or abolish ICE after Alex Pretti killing, Pritzker speaks out
https://abc7chicago.com/post/minneapolis-shooting-illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-speaks-growing-calls-reform-abolish-ice-killing-alex-pretti/18495453/
— West Chicago teacher’s ‘Go ICE’ post on social media draws outrage from school community. DD: Have you been retaliated against? While I was a federal employee, I never posted anything on any social media. But I did become an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. In retaliation against me, a) they immediately threw me off audits of IRS and made it clear that they would never assign me to audits of IRS again, b) gave me a very bad job assignment, c) gave me very unfair performance expectations, d) gave me a very unfair performance appraisal, e) ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and then always in the bottom half after that, and f) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would have taken more/bigger adverse actions against me a) if my Congressman Henry Hyde had not come to my defense, b) if I had not become a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, a Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, a Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and a Forensic Accountant in 1997, and c) if I had not earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. GAO was not unionized. The only federal employees who get Civil Service protections are those who are Democrats and minority, female, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gary-elementary-school-teachers-go-ice-post-social-media-draws-outrage-west-chicago-district-33-community/18480407/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A West Chicago elementary school teacher was placed on administrative leave after a Facebook post supporting ICE circulated online. . .The statement continued, “Following a meeting with District administration today, the employee involved has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation and will not be permitted on any District property while on leave.”)
— Video shows vandals target Arlington Heights Republican office, Charlie Kirk’s image defaced
https://abc7chicago.com/post/video-shows-vandals-target-republicans-wheeling-township-office-arlington-heights-charlie-kirks-image-defaced/18493000/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— State Rep. Norine Hammond: Here’s what Democrats in the General Assembly can do to reduce ICE operations
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/29/opinion-illinois-trust-act-way-forward-ice-immigrants-sancturary-policies/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for Illinois problems.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/29/opinion-illinois-taxes-pension-education/
— Two Republican candidates aim to unseat Democratic Rep. Mary Gill
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/29/republican-candidates-primary-democratic-mary-gill/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Since June of last year, Democrat leaders keeping their illegals in Chicago cost taxpayers $21 million and $496 million nationwide.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/01/28/trump-deployment-national-guard-chicago-cost-taxpayers-21-million-congressional-report
— DD: Democrats leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/01/28/deportation-blitz-immigration-suburban-chicago-family-separation-school-help
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrats leaders ever-increasingly use Duckworth to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260128/nation-and-world-politics/duckworths-busy-day-sparring-with-jd-vance-proposing-1-5-billion-plan-to-fix-rail-bridges/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DD: Democrat and RINO refusal to send their illegals back home is costing taxpayers $93 million a month.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-national-guard-deployments-cost-93-million-month
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— DD: Democrats leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/immigration-was-a-republican-strength-now-some-fear-its-slipping-away-before-the-midterms/article_d38f5130-f411-5191-a01e-166cd191398b.html
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— DD: Democrats leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/republicans-fear-their-midterm-chances-are-21321027.php
STATELINE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use affordability to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/congressman-krishnamoorthi-visits-northern-illinois-food-bank-to-discuss-snap-changes/
WAND TV
— DD: Omar blames Trump for her troubled attacker.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/man-arrested-in-the-attack-on-ilhan-omar-has-a-criminal-history-and-made-pro/article_b61a4e21-a30e-5a95-8757-a37197a7da4f.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The man accused of squirting the substance on Omar has a criminal history and has made online posts supportive of the Republican president. Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, was convicted of felony auto theft in 1989, has been arrested multiple times for driving under the influence and has had numerous traffic citations, Minnesota court records show. There are also indications he has had significant financial problems, including two bankruptcy filings.)
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Good and Pretti to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-01-28/how-the-minneapolis-killings-look-from-trump-country
WILL
— Seeking GOP nomination, gubernatorial candidate Ted Dabrowski wants to reform Illinois, bring back ‘midwestern values’
https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/seeking-gop-nomination-gubernatorial-candidate-ted-dabrowski-aims-to-reform-illinois-bring-back-midwestern-values
WPR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Minnesota to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.wpr.org/news/hundreds-protest-milwaukee-shooting-federal-officers-minnesota-ice
WVIK
— Krishnamoorthi urges new federal tax credit for first-time homebuyers. DD: Back in the good old days, that is, back when I was 24 in 1972, I was able to buy a new townhome ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ ). The down payment came from the money I earned working for IRS for 15 months and for a Firestone Store part-time for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that. That money I earned also enabled me to buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971 and to pay for four graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972.
https://www.wvik.org/wvik-top-stories/2026-01-28/illinois-congressman-urges-new-federal-tax-credit-for-first-time-homebuyers
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The act would create a refundable tax credit up to $25,000 for these first-time homebuyers, delivered over the first five years of ownership for up to 10% of the purchase price of a home. The new law would: Provide assistance equal to 10 percent of the home’s purchase price up to $25,000. Target middle-class families, with the credit phased down based on local Area Median Income. Applies only to buyers purchasing a home as their primary residence, promoting long-term ownership. Offer additional support for first responders, K-12 teachers, and childcare workers, who may access the full $25,000 credit in the first year. Require the profession to be the buyer’s primary occupation at the time of purchase.)
CWB CHICAGO
— Couple drew Nazi symbols, defaced Charlie Kirk poster at Arlington Heights GOP office
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/01/couple-drew-nazi-symbols-defaced-charlie-kirk-poster-at-suburban-gop-office.html
DEMOCRATS FOR THE ILLINOIS HOUSE
— House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch Releases Statement Regarding Illinois Policy Institute’s Holocaust Denier Candidate. DD: Should political parties be given the power to stop candidates from running as members of their party? What criteria could/should be used?
https://demsforilhouse.com/2026/01/house-speaker-emanuel-chris-welch-releases-statement-regarding-illinois-policy-institutes-holocaust-denier-candidate/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— As concerns about immigration enforcement intensify after the deadly weekend shooting in Minneapolis, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says he plans to issue an executive order that would hold federal immigration agents criminally accountable for misconduct.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/01/29/johnson-on-running-chicago-under-trump-00754328
(FROM THE NEWSLETTER: HOUSE RACE OUTRAGE: Republican Ed Lapinski, a candidate for the Illinois House in the 56th District, is facing backlash over text messages in which he questioned the Holocaust by referring to “supposed gas chambers.” Blunt reproach: The Illinois Republican Party issued a sharp rebuke, saying it “unequivocally condemns Ed Lapinski’s offensive and unacceptable comments regarding the Holocaust. The ILGOP was not involved in his recruitment for House District 56. Holocaust deniers and those who trivialize its atrocities have no place in elected office,” according to a statement. Illinois Policy, a group that had included Lapinski in its bipartisan ballot access program, said it removed him after learning of the language used in the texts. What’s next: A person familiar with the situation said the GOP asked Lapinski to drop out. Playbook was unable to reach him for comment. How it came to light: The messages were flagged by Republican activist Julie Cho, who posted them on Facebook and urged Lapinski to withdraw. Cho did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Outrage from the top: Democratic Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch said the language “must disqualify anyone from holding office” outright, according to a statement. The 56th District seat is currently held by Democratic state Rep. Michelle Mussman, who has represented the Northwestern suburbs since 2011. History lesson: Back in 2018, a Holocaust denier tried to run for an Illinois congressional seat before he was rejected by GOP leaders.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/01/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-669/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Under Pritzker and under the rest of the Democrat elected officials in Illinois, anticipate/expect more and more and more of those who are the following will leave Illinois or become Democrats to avoid being destroyed by Democrats: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What turns Duckworth against you? My doing the following turns Duckworth against me. My helping Peter Roskam defeat her in 2006 and my helping Joe Walsh try to defeat her 2012, Larry Kaifesh in 2014, and Mark Kirk in 2016. My avoiding the Vietnam War draft. My fighting race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. My and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. The federal government paying a) 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums since I was 18 in 1966 and b) 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums since 1978 because I was a federal employee and because I have been a federal retiree since 1997. My having gotten federal jobs and promotions that therefore Democrats, minorities, females, younger people, veterans, disabled people, non-Protestants, and /or non-German Americans did not get. I should write about big adverse actions since 2006 a) that she has had her operatives and her dupes take against me and b) that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take against me to curry favor with her. I have been a DuPage County Milton Township Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999. She represented part of Milton Township 2013-2017. She has been my U.S. Senator since 2017. She knew that the Roskam campaign had set me up to be responsible if Roskam lost to her. She knew that I attended all her debates with Roskam. She knew that I was the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman and an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member in 2006. She had one of her thugs throw me out of her press conference with Michael J. fox in Wheaton in 2006. I was standing next to Roskam’s campaign manager when she phoned in to concede in 2006. She knew that I got an elephant to walk behind Roskam in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade in 2007. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Kat Gets More Free Publicity from the Chicago Tribune
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/29/kat-gets-more-free-publicity-from-the-chicago-tribune/
— Norge Ski Jump This Weekend
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/29/norge-ski-jump-this-weekend/
— Woman- and Minority-Owned Business Promotion Goes from One Woman to …
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/29/woman-and-minority-owned-business-promotion-goes-from-one-woman-to/
— Don Tracy Calls for Ending State Tax on Tips and Overtime
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/28/16350/
— Bailey Brags He Is On Top According to Internal Poll
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/28/bailey-brags-he-is-on-top-according-to-internal-poll/
— GOP Gubernatorial Finance Numbers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/28/gop-gubernatorial-finance-numbers/
— Democratic Party Congressman Brad Schneider Backs Out of McHenry County Invisible Event Because Opponent Morgan Coghill Signed Up to Attend
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/28/democratic-party-congressman-brad-schneider-backs-out-of-mchenry-county-invisible-event-because-opponent-morgan-coghill-signed-up-to-attend/
— Sosnowski Discussed Affordability
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/28/sosnowski-discussed-affordability/
— Senators Darby Hills & Craig Wilcox on Adoption/Foster Parenting Panel Scheduled for January 31st in Libertyville
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/28/adoption-foster-parenting-seminar-scheduled-for-january-31st-in-libertyville/
— White Babies Bad?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=16117&action=edit
— Illinois Predicted to Lose Two Congressional Seats after 2030 Census
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/27/illinois-predicted-to-lose-two-congressional-seats-after-2030-censue/
— Poll Shows Raja Still Leading in Race for Democratic Party U.S. Senate Nomination
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/27/poll-shows-raja-still-leading-in-race-for-democratic-party-u-s-senate-nomination/
— What Caused Steve Reick To Have No Fall Opponent
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/26/what-caused-steve-reick-to-have-no-fall-opponent/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Conservative Josh Higgins Files Lawsuit Alleging Illinois GOP Used Illegal Postage to Protect Norine Hammond
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/01/conservative-josh-higgins-files-lawsuit-alleging-illinois-gop-used-illegal-postage-to-protect-norine-hammond.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— White House working on ‘drawdown’ plan for ICE in Minnesota
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/29/white-house-working-drawdown-plan-ice-minnesota/
DAILY CALLER
— Rubio, Duckworth Get In Shouting Match During Heated Exchange
https://dailycaller.com/2026/01/28/marco-rubio-tammy-duckworth-shouting-match-senate-hearing/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Who’s Funding COPAL, a Group on the ‘Front Lines of Anti-ICE Operations’?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/28/whos-funding-copal-group-front-lines-anti-ice-operations/
— How Conservatives Are Winning the War on Transgenderism
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/28/how-conservatives-are-winning-the-war-on-transgenderism/amp/
FOX NEWS
— Rubio SPARS with Duckworth in HEATED confrontation
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6388444388112
— Spurning Trump means Mayor Jacob Frey owns Minneapolis mess
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-spurning-trump-means-mayor-jacob-frey-owns-minneapolis-mess.print
— Census Bureau announces ‘negative net-migration,’ as DHS cites 3 million illegal immigrants deported
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/census-bureau-announces-negative-net-migration-dhs-cites-3-million-illegal-immigrants-deported.print
— Video appears to show Alex Pretti spit at federal agents, violently damage SUV days before fatal CBP shooting
https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-appears-show-alex-pretti-spit-federal-agents-violently-damage-suv-days-before-fatal-cbp-shooting
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Durability of the Left’s Comforting Myths
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-durability-of-the-lefts-comforting-myths/
NEWSMAX
— GOP Cheers Musk’s Midterm Involvement
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/elon-musk-x-midterms/2026/01/28/id/1243974/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Signs Soft-on-Crime Bill Into Law
https://www.westernjournal.com/illinois-democrat-governor-signs-soft-crime-bill-law/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: Democrats leaders ever-increasingly use Duckworth to promote hatred against Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5711910-duckworth-responds-to-vance/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrat leaders threaten government shutdown if Republicans do not stop deporting their illegals.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-1-29-2026
REUTERS
— Trump touts ‘Trump accounts’ for babies as part of affordability pitch. DD: When you bought your first car, where did the money come from? I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air ( https://www.beverlyhillscarclub.com/1958-chevrolet-bel-air-c-16265.htm ) when I was 16 in 1964. The money came from what I had earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers 1962-1964. I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint ( https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf ) in 1966. The money came from what I had earned delivering newspapers and washing dishes for the minimum wage 1964-1966.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/bessent-says-500000-have-signed-up-trump-accounts-more-donations-coming-2026-01-28/
CBS NEWS & NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pretti to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/nurses-honor-alex-pretti-at-memorial-site/
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/alex-pretti-family-george-floyd-lawsuit-lawyers/
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minneapolis-va-hospital-alex-pretti-memorial/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minneapolis-transformed-federal-immigration-alex-pretti-renee-good-rcna256032
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Minnesota to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/28/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice-minnesota
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice-target-minnesota.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-shooting.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/politics/trump-ice-protests-omar-attack.html
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: — DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Omar to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/politics/ilhan-omar-trump-attack.html
WASHINGTON POST
— The left is badly misreading the politics of illegal immigration
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/29/illegal-immigration-minneapolis-ice-deportations-politics/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Minnesota and Springsteen to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/01/28/bruce-springsteen-streets-of-minneapolis-song-alex-pretti-renee-good/88400305007/
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/bruce-springsteen-releases-anti-ice-222201732.html
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/bruce-springsteen-ice-21320365.php
SCRIPPS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Minnesota to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/immigration/immigration-civil-rights-groups-call-for-no-school-no-work-no-shopping-friday
WEEK
— DD: Democrat leaders have no problem with their Democrat protesters bringing their loaded guns to their Democrat protests.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2026/01/28/trump-says-you-cant-have-guns-when-asked-about-alex-prettis-shooting-death/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at younger voters that Trump causes all their problems.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-young-voters-poll-bd5462f2
— FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Minnesota to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-and-his-team-have-a-well-worn-crisis-playbook-it-backfired-in-minnesota-c0849e4f
NPR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Minnesota and Springsteen to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/nx-s1-5691707/bruce-springsteen-minneapolis-protest-song-alex-pretti-renee-good
CATO
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote noncitizens.
https://www.cato.org/blog/noncitizens-stole-30-fewer-welfare-benefits-citizens-2013-2024
ACLU
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want stoners to have guns.
https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/can-it-be-a-felony-to-possess-a-gun-if-you-smoke-weed
PEW RESEARCH
— Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls. DD: www.gopillinois.com has never been paywalled, and it never will be. Further, GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters have always been free and with no advertising or donation requests, and they always will be. I am independent. All the time and money needed for the newsletters and the website comes from my Civil Service Retirement System pension, my Social Security, and my retirement savings. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. No one calls my tunes.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/24/few-americans-pay-for-news-when-they-encounter-paywalls/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
AFP
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Good and Pretti to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlmRGFM68z8
GUARDIAN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Liam Ramos to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jan/28/ilhan-omar-attack-trump-minneapolis-ecuador-embassy-rubio-venezuela-machado-iran-iraq-latest-news-updates
AL JAZEERA
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Minnesota to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/28/ice-ilhan-omar-and-somalis-unpacking-trumps-obsession-with-minnesota
January 28, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago nurses join labor, faith leaders in vigil for Alex Pretti, killed by Border Patrol in MN. DD: I was a federal employee union member for almost 12 years.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/alex-pretti-minneapolis-minnesota-shooting-chicago-nurses-join-labor-faith-leaders-prayer-vigil-jesse-brown-va-hospital/18488293/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The vigil brought together health care workers at the Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Chicago alongside many others who may have never met Pretti but who, through their work, see themselves in him.)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Anti-transgender Democrats sue Illinois over law requiring political party approval for nonprofit names
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/27/illinois-political-party-names-lawsuit/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pretti to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/28/letters-012826-alex-pretti/
— Alex Pretti’s killing highlights the complex intersection of our 1st and 2nd Amendment rights
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/28/opinion-alex-pretti-border-patrol-ice-concealed-carry-second-amendment-free-assembly/
— DD: Democrats promote race-based voting. According to Democrats, you are a racist if you do not vote for Democrat candidates who are minority.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/28/column-chicago-danny-davis-jason-freidman-congress-primary-black-politics-washington/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: West Chicago teacher put on leave over pro-ICE comment. DD: Democrats run Illinois. The Democrat Party platform promotes illegal immigration. The Republican Party platform promotes compliance with America’s immigration laws. The more that you do to promote compliance with America’s immigration laws, the more that Democrats do to get rid of you.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260127/news/west-chicago-teacher-put-on-leave-over-pro-ice-comment/
— After Minneapolis shootings, GOP governor candidates talk about police, protester divide
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260127/illinois-state-politics/after-minneapolis-shootings-gop-governor-candidates-talk-about-police-protester-divide/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Illinois’ Democratic US Senate primary heats up over ICE
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/2026/01/28/illinois-democratic-us-senate-primary-heats-up-over-ice/88382530007/
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— Wisconsin gun owners slam Trump, Noem over comments on Pretti’s shooting
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2026/01/28/gun-owners-slam-trump-officials-over-saying-alex-prettwho-say-someone-cannot-come-to-a-protest-armed/88382762007/
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Good and Pretti against Trump.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/trump-administration-s-trust-and-credibility-21317178.php
WAND TV
— Trump wants ‘honest’ investigation into ‘very sad’ killing of Minneapolis protester. President Donald Trump says a “big investigation” is underway into the killing of protester and ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis. DD: Soon, if not already, Democrat and RINO leaders will resume flooding America with their illegals.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/the-latest-federal-judge-orders-ice-chief-to-court-to-explain-why-detainees-are-denied/article_58a0377a-3b23-5f39-8def-1cfbd7ccef9c.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Judge finds Virginia Democrats’ redistricting resolution illegal; new Maryland map advances
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-judge-finds-virginia-democrats-redistricting-resolution-illegal/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-01-28/trump-tried-to-turn-attention-back-to-the-economy-in-iowa-did-it-work
WGLT
— DD: Democrat leaders report on their success in promoting hatred against Trump. How much success have Democrat leaders had promoting hatred against Trump in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I will get a measure of that in my precinct when I hand-deliver sample ballots and campaign literature to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or one Not Affiliated registered voter.
https://www.wglt.org/2026-01-27/conservative-minnesota-pastor-on-how-he-went-from-trump-supporter-to-member-of-the-resistance
BURR RIDGE PATCH
— Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso To Battle Ex-Hinsdale D86 Law Firm. He has been hired to defend the district against its former attorney’s lawsuit.
https://patch.com/illinois/burrridge/burr-ridge-mayor-battle-ex-hinsdale-d86-law-firm
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Jesse Jackson Jr. testing voters
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/01/28/jesse-jackson-jr-testing-voters-00751677
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/01/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-668/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Illinois GOP Accused of Illegal Postage Scheme to Protect Norine Hammond From Conservative Challenger
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/01/illinois-gop-accused-of-illegal-postage-scheme-to-protect-norine-hammond-from-conservative-challenger.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats request money while consoling after Minneapolis deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/4435956/democrats-raising-money-off-minneapolis-deaths-alex-pretti-renee-good/
NEW YORK POST
— Alex Pretti was ‘known’ to feds, and had rib broken in anti-ICE protest a week before he was killed by Border Patrol
https://nypost.com/2026/01/27/us-news/alex-pretti-known-to-feds-had-rib-broken-in-anti-ice-protest-a-week-before-he-was-killed-by-border-patrol/
— Minnesota cop union boss slams local officials for blocking cooperation with ICE: ‘There would have been no loss of life’
https://nypost.com/2026/01/28/us-news/police-union-head-slams-minn-as-gov-walz-agrees-to-have-top-cop-work-with-border-czar/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— The Trump Administration’s NEH Agenda. Having failed to dismantle the endowment, the administration is now seeing whether it can be used to promote its own ideological projects.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-trump-administrations-neh-agenda/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Look to Virginia to see what the Democrats could win in 2028. Virginia defines trends in American politics, and it would behoove Republicans to consider this a warning.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/look_to_virginia_to_see_what_the_democrats_could_win_in_2028.html
— Europe Cannot And Never Will Be Able To Compete With The United States. For decades, Europe has pursued economic, social, and environmental policies that have degraded its material and human capacity, possibly beyond recovery.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/01/europe_cannot_and_never_will_be_able_to_compete_with_the_united_states.html
— Britain and the Crisis of National Identity. Britain is committing suicide before the eyes of the world—the nation that once produced the culture and institutions to support a worldwide empire.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/01/britain_and_the_crisis_of_national_identity.html
BLAZE
— More than 100 outraged Democrat West Chicago community members denounce elementary school teacher over 2-word post about ICE. DD: Democrats run Illinois. The Democrat Party platform promotes illegal immigration. The Republican Party platform promotes compliance with America’s immigration laws. The more that you do to promote compliance with America’s immigration laws, the more that Democrats do to get rid of you.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/two-word-ice-post-teacher
BREITBART
— Minnesota Jails Refuse to Hand Over Hundreds of Illegal Aliens to ICE Agents Every Year. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with their foreign criminals over Americans.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/01/27/fact-check-minnesota-jails-refuse-to-hand-over-hundreds-of-illegal-aliens-to-ice-agents-every-year/
CAL COAST NEWS
— With open borders, there can be no welfare
https://calcoastnews.com/2026/01/with-open-borders-there-can-be-no-welfare/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: History has demonstrated that many countries have had problems with immigration. I am briefly describing one example. In about 376 Common Era, when The Roman Empire was divided into the Western and Eastern Empires, Goths (Germans) were trying to cross the river on the northern border of the Roman Empire. Huns were chasing and slaughtering the Goths. They wanted Roman protection. Valens, the Roman Emperor, didn’t want to let the Goths in, but he finally made a bargain with the leader of the Goths. The deal was in return for admission into the empire, the Goths would provide soldiers for the Roman army, which was fighting a war in the East of the Empire. The Romans would provide welfare to the Goths. After about 40 years, the Goths wanted to keep their own culture and stopped providing soldiers. The Romans cut off welfare. The Visigoths, one the Goth tribes, sacked Rome in 410 Common Era. This act effectively destroyed the Western Roman Empire. Quoting Milton Friedman in 1776: “A country can have open borders with no welfare. A country can have closed borders with welfare. If a country has open borders and welfare the country will disappear.” This history is a good lesson for our time. I got this information from “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” written by Edward Gibbon in 1776.)
CENTER SQUARE
— K-12 schools, higher ed institutions prevail in diversity litigation. DD: To send your child to a public school is to make your child a good little Democrat.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/virginia/article_efd1d11f-a036-43aa-b299-d7a4498b8565.html
COLLEGE FIX
— Law school rejects petition to remove ICE from career fair, employers withdraw. DD: How much success have Democrat leaders had promoting hatred against Trump in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I will get a measure of that in my precinct when I hand-deliver sample ballots and campaign literature to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or one Not Affiliated registered voter.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/law-school-rejects-petition-to-remove-ice-as-employers-withdraw-from-career-fair/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Student petition signed by 1,200 calls ICE ‘fascist organization’ George Washington University Law School refused to disinvite U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from its career fair Friday after over 1,200 students and organizations signed a petition to have the federal agency removed. The petition called on GW Law and the Georgetown University Law Center to remove ICE and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from “all current components and future renditions” of the law schools’ joint event. “ICE is a fascist organization, tasked with carrying out ethnic cleansing, family separation, and extreme brutality and violence,” the petition states. It also states that “The government created ICE only 23 years ago to violently remove people from the United States, violating the human rights of immigrant communities and obfuscating the fact that the United States is a country stolen from Indigenous communities and built by enslaving Black people.” The students added that “Working for DHS or ICE is antithetical to what it means to be a lawyer serving the public interest.” Further, they stated that other law schools, such as New York University and American University’s Washington College of Law, have blocked “recruitment efforts” by DHS and ICE. “We remain adamant that regardless of immigration status, ICE’s actions grossly violate human rights, and we stand with immigrant communities everywhere in the fight against state violence,” the petition states. Dean Dayna Matthew met with the students who spearheaded the petition to discuss their concerns, and later sent an email stating the GW Law administrators decided not to rescind ICE’s invitation, The GW Hatchet reported. The dean cited free expression and university policy. The university is “committed to principles that protect all students’ right to ideological expression,” she stated. Matthew added that recruitment programs must remain open to all employers, even if some view their actions as objectionable. “In my view, providing PSRP access to an employer does not signal endorsement or support of that employer’s work or values,” Matthew stated. “My decision does support and endorse GW Law students’ right to express opposition to an employer consistent with the university’s freedom of expression policy,” she stated. After administrators declined to remove ICE, at least 20 employers pulled out of the career fair. However, the petition did have some impact. ICE’s Office of the Principal Legal Advisor withdrew from the event while the agency’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center remained involved. Still, students were disappointed. “To bring an organization whose sole mission is to divide people, make people feel unwelcome, remove people from spaces and create a sense of unsafety and unrest into that space — a space that so many people in this community have worked so hard to curate — was very insulting to the people who have tried to make this such a welcoming place,” said student Anapaula Pérez-Gaitan, who is the program manager at the school’s public interest center. Last week, ICE withdrew from participating in an Arizona State University Law School event following a student-led petition, The College Fix reported. ICE had planned to host a table at the Government and Public Interest Table Talks event until 650 people signed a petition to protest the federal law enforcement agency’s participation.)
CREATORS SYNDICATE
— Trump Can Use Federal Authority in Minneapolis as Eisenhower Once Did in Little Rock
https://www.creators.com/read/star-parker/01/26/trump-can-use-federal-authority-in-minneapolis-as-eisenhower-once-did-in-little-rock
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Says He Wants to De-escalate in Minnesota. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino was replaced by White House border czar Tom Homan this week to lead the ongoing illegal immigration enforcement. DD: Soon, if not already, Democrat and RINO leaders will resume flooding America with their illegals.
Zuckerberg’s Meta blocks info on ICE agents: Instagram, Facebook, Threads censor links as backlash grows
FOX NEWS
— You can never have law and order in sanctuary cities
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6388412186112
— Trump laments shooting deaths of Good and Pretti, insists Minnesota personnel shuffle is not a ‘pullback’ President calls Renee Good and Alex Pretti killings ‘terrible,’ vows to ‘de-escalate’ operations in Minnesota. DD: Soon, if not already, Democrat and RINO leaders will resume flooding America with their illegals.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-laments-shooting-deaths-good-pretti-insists-minnesota-personnel-shuffle-not-pullback
— Trump’s anti-DEI wins are temporary as colleges ‘wait out’ admin
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ivy-league-watchdog-warns-trumps-anti-dei-wins-temporary-colleges-wait-him-out.print
JONATHAN TURLEY
— “Go ICE”: West Chicago Teacher Put on Leave for Two Words Posted on Facebook.
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/01/27/go-ice-chicago-area-teacher-put-on-leave-for-two-words-posted-on-facebook/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Higher Ed DEI is in “hunker-down mode… trying to wait out the Trump administration”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/01/higher-ed-dei-is-in-hunker-down-mode-trying-to-wait-out-the-trump-administration/
SALEM NEWS
— Leftists Don’t Care About The Crimes Illegals Commit
https://salemnewschannel.com/watch/leftists-dont-care-about-the-crimes-illegals-commit-697963412b5a24ee6ac90c2c
REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— DD: As long as Democrats run education in America, they will use education to crank out good little Democrats. My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.realcleareducation.com/2026/01/28/race-conscious_admissions_may_not_be_totally_dead_1161361.html
TOWNHALL
— Philly’s Woke Prosecutor Says He Will ‘Hunt Down’ ICE Agents Like ‘Nazis’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/01/27/phillys-woke-prosecutor-says-he-will-hunt-down-ice-agents-like-nazis-n2670190
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump says he didn’t hear officials call Alex Pretti ‘a domestic terrorist’
https://thehill.com/homenews/5709270-trump-comments-pretti-shooting/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Republicans Shift Tone After Killings, Criticizing Trump’s Immigration Push. With the president signaling a pivot in his crackdown, G.O.P. lawmakers have felt freer to express concern. But it’s not clear what they are willing to do about it. DD: Soon, if not already, Democrat and RINO leaders will resume flooding America with their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/republicans-shift-tone-immigration.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Denmark against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/world/europe/mette-frederiksen-greenland-us-ally.html
— FRONT PAGE DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote illegal immigration and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/minnesota-politics-immigration-trump.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: According to Democrat and RINO leaders, everything that Republicans say or do is “far right.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/white-supremacy-trump-administration-social-media.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders encourage their protesters to carry loaded guns to their protests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/27/gun-rights-alex-pretti-nra-minneapolis/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders encourage their protesters to carry loaded guns to their protests.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/27/pretti-shooting-trump-clash-of-first-second-amendments/88375843007/
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/01/26/ice-detained-us-citizens-minnesota-arrests/88304880007/
CBS NEWS
— Former law enforcement trainer sees “unanswered questions” in Alex Pretti’s shooting. DD: Soon, if not already, Democrat and RINO leaders will resume flooding America with their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-pretti-shooting-unanswered-questions/
NEWSWEEK
— A teacher from a West Chicago elementary school has been put on administrative leave over a social media post in support of ICE. DD: Democrats run Illinois. The Democrat Party platform promotes illegal immigration. The Republican Party platform promotes compliance with America’s immigration laws. The more that you do to promote compliance with America’s immigration laws, the more that Democrats do to get rid of you.
https://www.newsweek.com/teacher-under-investigation-put-on-leave-for-pro-ice-post-11426402
— Donald Trump Signals Minnesota Climbdown: ‘We’re Going To De-escalate’ DD: Soon, if not already, Democrat and RINO leaders will resume flooding America with their illegals.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-signals-minnesota-climbdown-de-escalate-alex-pretti-11428294
https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-policing-loses-humanity-opinion-11419577
REUTERS
— Northwestern law school defeats lawsuit alleging anti-white faculty hiring. DD: UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1980, Roosevelt in 1980, and IIT in 1992, but I doubt they would admit today because under the Democrats, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination has gotten much worse.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/northwestern-law-school-defeats-lawsuit-alleging-anti-white-faculty-hiring-2026-01-22/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Northwestern University’s law school has persuaded a federal judge in Chicago to reject claims by a conservative group that the school discriminates against white men in faculty hiring. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Wednesday agreed to dismiss the lawsuit brought by a nonprofit organization called Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP). The group is represented by prominent conservative attorney Jonathan Mitchell and by America First Legal, which was co-founded by Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller. FASORP first sued the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in July 2024, alleging it refused to consider hiring white male faculty candidates with “stellar credentials” while hiring other “mediocre” candidates from diverse racial and gender backgrounds. Ellis did not explain her reasons for dismissing the case. Northwestern had argued that FASORP did not have grounds to sue because the members it says were passed over for faculty jobs lacked the necessary credentials and had not actually applied. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of three unnamed FASORP members who alleged they are ready and willing to apply for faculty posts at Northwestern’s law school but cannot compete because they are white men. The suit also accused Northwestern’s flagship law review of discriminating against white men in the selection of articles that appear in its pages. FASORP in court papers called hiring at American universities a “cesspool of corruption and lawlessness” that flouts anti-discrimination law in favor of women and minorities. The decision is the latest in a series of court setbacks for conservative legal groups targeting law schools, including unsuccessful discrimination cases against the Harvard Law Review in 2018 and the NYU Law Review in 2023.
FASORP also sued the Michigan Law Review for discrimination in June but voluntarily dismissed the case in October. Mitchell did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday, nor did a Northwestern spokesperson.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP AND FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrats and RINOs want Trump to stop deporting their illegals. Trump got elected to deport their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/fallout-from-minnesota-citizen-watchdog-claims-of-ice-retaliation-98ed9cf9
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-can-quit-while-hes-ahead-on-immigration-6ceb14ca
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/u-s-immigration-population-census-bureau-46dfac4a
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-regression-to-the-mean-011c8056
BLOOMBERG
— The New Rules of Finding a Job in 2026. DD: My peers failed/refused to take jobs like the ones I took. I did yard work in Crete 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers in Crete 1962-1966. I washed dishes in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes in Flossmoor and chipped slag in Chicago Heights in 1966. I pumped gasoline in Chicago Heights 1966, 1971, and 1972. I delivered mail in Park Forest 1966-1969. I worked on an automobile assembly line in Belvidere in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances Chicago Heights in 1971 and 1972. I collected delinquent taxes for IRS in Harvey, Joliet, and Chicago 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies for GAO in Chicago 1980-1997.
https://www.bloomberg.com/explainers/how-to-get-a-job-ai-tips-us-labor-market
KFVS
— Largest federal employee union calls for Kristi Noem’s firing after Alex Pretti’s death. DD: I was a federal employee union member for almost 12 years.
https://www.kfvs12.com/2026/01/28/largest-federal-employee-union-calls-kristi-noems-firing-after-alex-prettis-death/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A federal employee union is calling for an independent investigation and for the resignation of prominent government leaders after a deadly shooting of a nurse in Minneapolis involving Border Patrol. Everett Kelley, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said that following the killing of a fellow member, ICU nurse Alex Pretti, the group is calling for accountability.)
FED MANAGER
— OPM Rolls Out Guidance for “Rule of Many”- Promising More Flexible and Competitive Federal Hiring. DD: Democrats run the federal government. The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, and/or veteran who would take the job. If you get hired, but are not any of the aforesaid, the federal government will waste your career and get rid of you. Because I failed/refused to become a Democrat, my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors took many big adverse actions against me and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.fedmanager.com/news/opm-rolls-out-guidance-for-rule-of-many-promising-more-flexible-and-competitive-federal-hiring
NARFE
— NARFE mourns the tragic death of Alex Pretti, a federal employee who served as an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital. Federal employees like Pretti retain their constitutional rights as private citizens to observe and protest their government when off duty, within the confines of the law. At the same time, all federal employees — including Border Patrol agents and other federal law enforcement personnel — are required to act within the law and the U.S. Constitution in the performance of their official duties. NARFE calls for an independent and unbiased investigation into the circumstances of Pretti’s death to ensure that constitutional rights are upheld and that federal employees remain accountable to the oath of office they take. DD: I was a federal employee union member for almost 12 years.
https://narfe.informz.net/informzdataservice/onlineversion/ind/bWFpbGluZ2luc3RhbmNlaWQ9MzUzNzY4MCZzdWJzY3JpYmVyaWQ9NTI4MzExMjM1
COMMON DREAMS
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/are-we-already-in-a-civil-war
PBS
— Minnesota confrontations mirror simulation of how civil war begins. DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/minnesota-confrontations-mirror-simulation-of-how-civil-war-begins-law-professor-says
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— DD: What percent of those who come to America do so to get the tremendous benefits and preferences that Democrat and RINO leaders give them?
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/keeping_illegals_from_getting_benefits_important_voters_believe
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVE
— Spain To Legalize More Than Half a Million Immigrants. DD: Of course, the next Democrat or RINO president will give citizenship, that is, official voting rights, to all illegals.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/spain-to-legalize-more-than-half-a-million-immigrants/
TIMES OF INDIA
— Zuckerberg’s Meta blocks info on ICE agents: Instagram, Facebook, Threads censor links as backlash grows.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/zuckerbergs-meta-blocks-info-on-ice-agents-instagram-facebook-threads-censor-links-as-backlash-grows-over-alex-pretti-killing/articleshow/127691118.cms
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— Pritzker: Noem, you will be fired next; Pritzker reacts to Greg Bovino’s removal a as Border Patrol commander-at-large. DD: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/kristi-noem-you-will-be-fired-next-il-gov-reacts-to-greg-bovino-s-removal-as-border-patrol-commander-at-large/ar-AA1V2Wh8
HALIFAX EXAMINER
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/is-the-u-s-on-a-slow-march-to-civil-war/
January 27, 2026 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCS
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Soon, under Illinois Democrats, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025/10/29/where-to-find-chicago-area-food-pantries-if-snap-goes-away
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders do everything that they can a) to flood America with their illegals and b) to fight their deportation.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260127/nation-and-world/trumps-immigration-crackdown-led-to-drop-in-us-growth-rate-last-year-as-population-hit-342-million/
RIVERSIDE BROOKFIELD LANDMARK
— Former Riverside police chief Tom Weitzel honored by conservative advocacy group A wake Illinois. Village officials stress that Weitzel does not speak for them.
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/government/2026/01/27/trump-immigration-approval-drops-following-minnesota-ice-shootings-illinois-ratings/88380039007/
STATELINE
— Immigration drops shift population, political power to Texas and Florida. Southern states saw largest gains, while California saw the steepest drop.
https://stateline.org/2026/01/27/immigration-drops-shift-population-political-power-to-texas-and-florida/
CITIES 92.9
— More Illinois Catholic schools close; candidates call for change
https://www.cities929.com/2026/01/27/more-illinois-catholic-schools-close-candidates-call-for-change/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/01/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-456/
— Heidner questions Trump 2024 Illinois election results, insinuates undocumented voters put Harris over the top
https://capitolfax.com/2026/01/27/heidner-questions-trump-2024-illinois-election-results-insinuates-undocumented-voters-put-harris-over-the-top/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Transgender-skeptical liberals fight Illinois law blocking ‘Democrat’ in group name
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/27/transgender-skeptical-liberals-fight-illinois-law-blocking-democrat/
— End the American Bar Association’s grip on law schools, It’s no neutral referee.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/27/end-american-bar-associations-grip-law-schools/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump flexes clout against Indiana foes as affordability and deportation headwinds grow
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4436051/trump-flexes-clout-against-indiana-foes-as-affordability-and-deportation-headwinds-grow/
NEW YORK POST
— Pritzker says US under Trump is worse than COVID-19 pandemic — where people died ‘in droves’
https://nypost.com/2026/01/27/us-news/jb-pritzker-says-us-under-trump-is-worse-than-covid-19-pandemic-where-people-died-in-droves/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— How the Pro-Family Movement is Failing in America. The pro-family establishment’s half-measures on the LGBT agenda only accelerate cultural decline, while real reform demands total resistance and no compromise in schools.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/01/27/how-the-pro-family-movement-is-failing-in-america/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Who needs to carry all that ammunition?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/who_needs_to_carry_all_that_ammunition.html
— Did anyone realize the significance of the gun Alex Pretti was carrying?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/did_anyone_realize_the_significance_of_the_gun_alex_pretti_was_carrying.html
— Running Saul Alinsky’s playbook in Minneapolis. Those enforcing the law are blamed, those breaking it are excused, and the public is told that the only way to stop the disorder is to surrender authority. DD: My critics/opponents are disciples of Saul Alinsky.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/running_saul_alinsky_s_playbook_in_minneapolis.html
— Minnesota Shows Why the Left Will Win America’s 2026 Civil War. The saddest thing about this is that the Republicans will work with the left to ensure their victory.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/01/minnesota_shows_why_the_left_will_win_america_s_2026_civil_war.html
BLAZE
— Alex Pretti broke a rib in a previous altercation with feds a week before he died
https://www.theblaze.com/news/alex-pretti-broke-ribs-previous
BREITBART
— Anti-Trump Democrats Seek Office in States That Backed Trump
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/01/26/anti-trump-democrats-seek-office-states-backed-trump/amp/
DAILY WIRE
— Teachers Unions Shut Down Minnesota Schools For Activism. Minnesota’s education system Is producing activists, not students.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/teachers-unions-shut-down-minnesota-schools-for-activism
FEDERALIST
— Trump Is Letting Tim Walz Beat Him In Minneapolis
https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/27/trump-is-letting-tim-walz-beat-him-in-minneapolis/
— Tim Walz Cannot Be Trusted To ‘Cooperate’ On Immigration Enforcement
https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/27/tim-walz-cannot-be-trusted-to-cooperate-on-immigration-enforcement/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago teacher placed on leave after Facebook post supporting ICE sparks outrage from activists. The school district confirmed that the teacher was placed on leave on Monday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-teacher-placed-on-leave-after-facebook-post-supporting-ice-sparks-outrage-from-activists
— Canada is a small power biting the hand that protects it. How unfortunate for our friends up north to be led by a banker who thinks he can reorder the world.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/morning-glory-canada-small-power-biting-hand-protects
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Dozens of Rioters Arrested Outside Minnesota Hotel Where ICE Agents Supposedly Stay
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/01/dozens-of-rioters-arrested-outside-minnesota-hotel-where-ice-agents-supposedly-stay/
MEGYN KELLY
— Megyn Slams the Outrageous Actions of Leftists Trying to Disrupt Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota
https://www.megynkelly.com/2026/01/26/megyn-kelly-slams-reaction-to-alex-pretti-shooting-in-minnesota/
PJ MEDIA
— Alex Pretti Committed Previous Felony on Officers Before Deadly Attack
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/01/27/alex-pretti-committed-previous-assault-on-officers-before-deadly-attack-n4948803
TOWNHALL
— What Happened in Minneapolis Is Part of the Left’s Plan
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/01/27/what-happened-in-minneapolis-is-part-of-the-lefts-plan-n2670115
— The Trans Trend May Be Dying. But the Fallout Is Just Beginning.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/01/27/the-coming-trans-fall-out-n2670149
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— ICE agent charged with misdemeanor after altercation with activist in Illinois
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5709241-ice-officer-altercation-activist/
CNBC
— Musk’s $1 trillion pay package renews focus on soaring CEO compensation. DD: Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have ever-increasingly demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having been grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, my Post Office, IRS, and GAO salary increased from $19.57/hour to $154,682/year in 1997. In my defense, during that time, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/24/musks-1-trillion-pay-package-renews-focus-on-rising-ceo-compensation.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders do everything that they can a) to flood America with their illegals and b) to fight their deportation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/minnesota-politics-immigration-trump.html
WSLS
— Yale to waive all costs for new undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000
https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2026/01/27/yale-to-waive-all-costs-for-new-undergraduates-from-families-earning-less-than-100000/
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Ahead of filing season, IRS scraps customer service metric it’s used for 20 years. DD: In 1974, when I was a newly promoted 25-year-old GS-11 (currently $83,482/year) IRS Revenue Officer, I was responsible for IRS answering all the calls that came into IRS’s new Centiphone automated answering system in downtown Chicago. I supervised the operation’s entire staff which included a rotating staff of about 90 IRS Revenue Agent trainees. Because of my job performance, the IRS manager who had given me that developmental opportunity and who had promoted me in 1972 and 1973 promoted me to GS-12 (currently $100,059/year) in 1974.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2026/01/ahead-of-filing-season-irs-scraps-customer-service-metric-its-used-for-20-years/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The IRS and the Treasury Department did not respond to requests for comment. Bisignano told the Washington Post that the new metrics will track the agency’s average speed to answer incoming calls, call abandonment rates and the amount of time taxpayers spend on the line with the agency. He told the Post that the agency’s old phone metrics didn’t help the IRS with its mission of solving taxpayers’ problems — and that the agency is investing in technology to better service its customers. “We’re constantly investing in technology. We constantly must reap the rewards of it,” Bisignano told the Post. The IRS is specifically sunsetting its Customer Service Representative Level of Service metric. The agency has used this metric for more than 20 years. But the National Taxpayer Advocate, an independent watchdog within the IRS, told Congress last year that this metric is “misleading” and “does not accurately reflect the experience of most taxpayers who call” the agency. National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins wrote in last year’s mid-year report to Congress that this Level of Service (LOS) metric only reflects calls coming into IRS accounts management phone lines, which make up only about 25% of the agency’s total call volume. Using the LOS metric, the IRS achieved an 88% level of phone service in fiscal 2024. But IRS employees actually answered less than a third of calls received during the 2024 filing season — both in terms of total calls, and calls to accounts management phone lines. The agency calculates its LOS metric by taking the percentage of phone calls answered by IRS employees and dividing it by the number of calls routed to IRS staff. The IRS relies on this metric, as well as historical data on call volumes, to set targets for how many calls it has the capacity to answer, and to set hiring and training goals in preparation for each tax filing season.)
December 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Housing Authority subject of HUD audit citing immigration and criminal activity. The CHA is one of a handful of housing authorities across the country being audited.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/12/15/chicago-housing-authority-hud-oig-audit-immigration-criminal-activity
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/12/15/meet-the-chicago-teens-raising-money-to-help-classmates-with-parents-in-immigration-detention
— UChicago, Northwestern students receive prestigious Marshall scholarship. DD: My critics/opponents have always used my having to work my way through college against me. They have always stressed that I would not have had to do that if I had gotten scholarships. They have always stressed that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/12/11/uchicago-northwestern-students-receive-prestigious-marshall-scholarship
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/the-chicago-immigrant-orchestra-is-defiant-in-the-wake-of-recent-raids/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: CPS lunchroom workers near six months without a contract: ‘No one sees us.’ DD: Which of your jobs put you out of sight? I washed dishes in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights while I was a junior and senior at Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966. I worked 28 hours a week during the school years and 40 hours a week during the summer of 1965. All during that time, I worked alone for 20 hours every week. My next job was working alone cleaning golf shores at the Flossmoor County Club. But I soon had to resign because my allergies were killing me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/cps-lunchroom-workers-contract-negotiations/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that under socialism, everyone gets free housing, free food, free clothing, free medical care, free childcare, free transportation, free education, free everything. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that under socialism, you do not have to work unless you want to. More and more and more in America are falling for that.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251214/news/medical-care-is-a-human-right-st-charles-clinics-meet-the-needs-of-kane-countys-uninsured/
FOX32
— Two-thirds of Americans say government should ensure health care for all. DD: Big step toward socialism, communism, and dictatorship. America-haters ever-increasing destroy personal responsibility and blame capitalism for all problems.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/two-thirds-americans-believe-government-should-ensure-health-care-all-poll
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Legal marijuana? Critics asking people to re-think the issue. DD: Pot is poison. I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-legal-marijuana-critics-asking-people-to-re-think-the-issue/article_91c740f6-21e3-4738-9b42-7484b749cd3a.html
— Illinois’ abortion policy places Carbondale in a hot spot
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey-illinois-abortion-policy-places-carbondale-in-a-hot-spot/article_8c21faab-ea8c-4bf2-bc3f-2c4a16805a03.html
WAND TV
— As gerrymandering battles sweep country, supporters say partisan dominance is ‘fair.’ DD: According to Democrat leaders, political jurisdictions should be gerrymandered to favor voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Demographics that vote for Democrats include minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/as-gerrymandering-battles-sweep-country-supporters-say-partisan-dominance-is-fair/article_f074880c-f23d-5dfb-8060-2a2b6c7f381c.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— For Americans, the love for chain restaurants runs deep. DD: I became a McDonald’s fan when one of my relatives became financially successful selling eggs to McDonalds starting in 1960s.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-15/for-americans-the-love-for-chain-restaurants-runs-deep
WHEATON RECORD
— A Conversation on Trump Administration’s Handling of Immigration
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/12/14/a-conversation-on-trump-administrations-handling-of-immigration/
— McManis-Evans Women’s Floor Becoming a Male Dorm. DD: Wheaton College being conservative was a reason why my wife and I bought a home in Wheaton in 1978 and had one built in Wheaton in 1984.
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/12/14/mcmanis-evans-womens-floor-becoming-a-male-dorm/
— Three Illinois Christian Institutions Announced Closures in Recent Years
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/12/14/three-illinois-christian-institutions-announced-closures-in-recent-years/
— New Class Coming this Spring: “The Bible, Slavery and Liberation”
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/12/14/new-class-coming-this-spring-the-bible-slavery-and-liberation/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Presumptuous Pritzker Signs Away the Lives of More Illinoisans
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/12/11/presumptuous-pritzker-signs-away-the-lives-of-more-illinoisans
— American “Educators” and Somali-alia
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/12/10/american-educators-and-somali-alia
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Newly-Elected Democratic Party Dundee Township Supervisor Shefali Shah Acts As If She Is All-Powerful. DD: I should write about the many big adverse actions that past and present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have taken against me.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/14/newly-elected-democratic-party-dundee-township-supervisor-shefali-shah-acts-as-if-she-is-all-powerful/
— Illinois Review Takes Down Darby Hills for Taking a Walk on Illegal Alien Vote
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/14/illinois-review-takes-down-darby-hills-for-taking-a-walk-on-illegal-alien-vote/
— Charlie Brown Christmas Available Free Saturday & Sunday on Apple+
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/14/charlie-brown-christmas-available-free-saturday-sunday-on-apple/
— Blackface in Easton, Maryland
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/14/blackface-in-easton-maryland/
— Illinois Ranks High on Lawsuit Abuse. DD: All my critics/opponents side with the defendants in the lawsuits that I have filed. I should write about those lawsuits, the defendants, their lawyers, and the big adverse actions that they have taken against me.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/13/14853/
— U.S. Treasury Secretary Calls Out Illinois for Refusing to Stop Taxing Tips
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/12/u-s-treasury-secretary-calls-out-illinois-for-refusing-to-stop-taxing-tips/
— Bailey Attacks Pritzker on Refusing to Stop Taxing Tips in Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/12/bailey-attacks-pritzker-on-refusing-to-stop-taxing-tips-in-illinois/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illegal immigration embraced by progressive evangelicals pushes America toward cultural suicide. Recycled ’70s Marxism isn’t real Christianity. DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/14/illegal-immigration-embraced-progressive-evangelicals-pushes-america/
NEW YORK POST
— The woke have seized control of NYC’s ‘affordable housing’
https://nypost.com/2025/12/14/opinion/the-woke-have-seized-control-of-nycs-affordable-housing/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Is the Indiana Redistricting Debacle the Future of MAGA?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-the-indiana-redistricting-debacle-the-future-of-maga/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Wisconsin Supreme Court takes on the Supremacy Clause. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly reject federal law. That is what the Confederates did.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/the_wisconsin_supreme_court_takes_on_the_supremacy_clause.html
CHRISTIAN POST
— Why the woke right is winning Gen Z: A look inside the machine
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/why-the-woke-right-is-winning-gen-z-a-look-inside-the-machine.html
COLLEGE FIX
— White professor still fighting in court, alleging ‘racially hostile’ environment at Penn State. DEI trainings gave ‘signals to white and Asian employees that they are not going to be treated equally.’ DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, I worked in an ever-increasingly hostile environment. Gingrich ever-increasingly cut the agency’s budget. My Democrat GAO superiors ever-increasingly used those cuts to waste the careers of and to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. That all culminated in their forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in September of 1997.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/white-professor-still-fighting-in-court-alleging-racially-hostile-environment-at-penn-state/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Would ICE Have Deported Jesus at Christmas? AWAY WITH THE MANGER: How the Left Tries to Weaponize Christmas Against Trump. DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/14/would-ice-have-deported-jesus-christmas/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This year, Catholics in Massachusetts are protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies by swapping “Away in a Manger” for “Away With the Manger.” This marks yet another instance of Trump opponents weaponizing the Christmas story to demonize immigration enforcement by claiming Jesus was a refugee and suggesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement would have arrested and deported the Christ child in the manger. The Catholic priest at St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, set up a classic nativity scene with shepherds, sheep, wise men, and … a sign reading “ICE was here” in the place where Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus would normally be. While the Catholic leadership opposed this “divisive political messaging,” the Rev. Stephen Josoma blamed the Trump administration for any division. Meanwhile, Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois, put baby Jesus in zip ties and an emergency blanket, and placed gas masks on the faces of Mary and Joseph. The church said this symbolizes the conditions of ICE detention facilities and the use of tear gas on “peaceful protesters, journalists, and community members advocating for immigration reform.” “The Holy Family were refugees,” the church posted on Facebook. “By witnessing this familiar story through the reality faced by migrants today, we hope to restore its radical edge, and to ask what it means to celebrate the birth of a refugee child while turning away those who follow in that child’s footsteps.” Was Jesus a Refugee? These strained analogies rest on a kernel of truth. According to Matthew 2:13-23, an angel appeared to Joseph, warning him to flee to Egypt because King Herod the Great aimed to kill Jesus. Herod ordered the slaughter of male children in Bethlehem, but Jesus survived in Egypt. God sent another angel to Joseph later, advising him to return to Israel because “those who sought the child’s life are dead.” Jesus arguably fit the definition of a refugee: someone forced to leave his or her country to escape war or persecution. However, anyone seeking to tie Jesus’ sojourn in Egypt to the plight of refugees or illegal aliens in America today will at once encounter a plethora of problems. Herod, the king who sought to kill Jesus, owed his position to the Roman Senate. Jesus fled Roman-ruled Judea to reside in Roman-ruled Egypt, and then returned to Roman-ruled Judea. Politically, Jesus’ flight to Egypt resembles a conservative family fleeing New York for Florida, or a liberal family moving from Texas to Illinois, more than it does a Somali refugee seeking asylum in the U.S. Jesus did not immigrate to Egypt and did not seek to become a citizen there. Furthermore, the Roman Empire at the time did not grant most of the population the right to vote, and it did not award government benefits to Jewish refugees in Egypt. Modern Western democratic welfare states need to regulate immigration more heavily than ancient empires did, partly because immigrants and refugees often claim benefits from the public purse, and these aliens may also seek to influence politics by voting or other means. Merely shouting, “Jesus was a refugee!” does nothing to address the serious concerns that illegal immigration poses. Caring for ‘The Least of These’ Christians should, of course, heed the Matthew 25 parable in which Jesus says God will reward us for helping “the least of these.” We should care for the sick, feed the hungry, and clothe the naked, to the best of our ability. These commands to love our neighbor do not extend to using the force of the state to redistribute funds, however. Jesus calls on us to love our neighbors, not to bully our neighbors into forking over cash so the government can then serve other neighbors. That parable urges us to see Jesus in the least fortunate, and Christians are right to provide aid to those who are struggling. That doesn’t mean, however, that we must sacrifice national sovereignty or oppose the enforcement of immigration law. In our globalized world, Christians can and should help those in other countries before they seek to enter the U.S., and it would be grotesque for Christians to prioritize aid for those who violated the law to come to America over legal immigrants or the poor people who are still struggling in their own countries. Contrary to the suggestion of the Evanston church, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were not political activists. Yes, Jesus came to usher in a new kingdom—but when the Jews sought to make him a king, he refused. Jesus did not set himself up as a political leader. Rather, he and his followers urged Jews and Christians to pay their taxes and to submit to the ruling authorities, knowing that the spiritual freedom of the gospel matters far more than any political cause. Jesus knew of political movements against Roman oppression, and he did not endorse them. Jesus’ decision not to lead a political rebellion against Rome likely contributed to the Jewish leaders’ scheme to have him executed. None of this is to say that Christians cannot support political causes, but it does mean that Mary and Joseph likely would not have joined the agitators who seek to block ICE from enforcing immigration law. Perhaps more importantly, ICE would not have removed Jesus from the manger—any more than it would remove conservative New Yorkers from Florida or liberal Texans from Illinois. Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, not an excuse to demonize law enforcement. It’s high time for St. Susanna Parish to put the Christ child back in the center of the nativity scene where he belongs.)
EPOCH TIMES
— 1 in 4 Unemployed Americans Has a Degree—The Future of White-Collar Jobs. DD: I have been unemployed since I was 49 in 1997 despite my having a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. Why is that? It is because my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and because of the many additional adverse actions that they took against me before that because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and because I became an active member of a class action lawsuit that charged them with the aforesaid when I was 40 in 1988.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/1-in-4-unemployed-americans-has-a-degree-the-future-of-white-collar-jobs-5950378
— Want a Job? Ditch the Degree and Pick Up a Trade. The future belongs to trades and hands-on skills. DD: Doctors discouraged my father from seeking a college degree because he had brittle type 1 diabetes. According to them, the stress would kill him. So he got an office job. He often decried his not having a degree. He was often passed over for promotions. He blamed his not having a degree for that, but his health problems were also a big factor. That led me to earn four degrees. A bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 in 1970. An MBA from Loyola when I was 27. A master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31. And a master’s degree in finance from IIT when I was 48. That also led me to pass the CPA examination on first attempt when I was 30. To pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32. To become a licensed CPA when I was 32. And to earn four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/want-a-job-ditch-the-degree-and-pick-up-a-trade-5939262
FOX NEWS
— Illegal immigrant truck driver accused in fatal Washington crash released on $100,000 bond
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrant-truck-driver-accused-fatal-washington-crash-released-100000-bond.print
JONATHAN TURLEY
— “Hatemongers, Homophobes, Fascists, Racists, Flag-Waving Proud Racists”: Fired Radio Host Has Meltdown Over Cubs Infielder Matt Shaw Going to Kirk Funeral. DD: People’s reactions to Kirk’s assassination say a lot about them.
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/12/14/hatemongers-homophobes-fascists-racists-flag-waving-proud-racists-fired-radio-host-has-meltdown-over-cubs-infielder-matt-shaw-going-to-kirk-funeral/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Opposing the Hypocrisy of Woke Establishments
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/opposing-the-hypocrisy-of-woke-establishments/amp/
NEWSMAX
— Party Label Drives Voters More Than Policy. DD: Democrats run the news media, education, and just about everything else in America. Democrats exist to advance the liberal/socialist Democrat Party platform and to get rid of Republicans once and for all. To vote for Democrats is to get rid of Republicans once and for all starting with Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The more of the aforesaid that Republicans are, the more that they should focus on their personal defense.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/politico-poll-party/2025/12/14/id/1238288/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Illegal immigrant trucker charged in Washington fatal crash was released into US under Biden—then freed again despite ICE detainer
https://thepostmillennial.com/illegal-immigrant-trucker-charged-in-washington-fatal-crash-was-released-into-us-under-biden-then-freed-again-despite-ice-detainer
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— The Immigration and Deportation Conundrums
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/15/the_immigration_and_deportation_conundrums_153629.amp.html
TOWNHALL
— The Weekend’s Gun Tragedies Show Why You Must Buy (Even More) Guns. DD: As Democrats gain more power, they will try to confiscate firearms and ammunition from Republicans.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/12/15/the-weekends-gun-tragedies-show-why-you-must-buy-even-more-guns-n2667868
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Without affirmative action, some colleges focus on economics. DD: Because Black and Hispanic parents have lower incomes than White parents, colleges use income as a proxy for race.
https://yorknewstimes.com/news/nation-world/education/article_5c7a93e6-cfb9-50be-a071-a40bdb92d096.html
— DD: The New York Times exists to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/trump-dei-funding-deaf-blind.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Do Democrats need their own billionaire? Pritzker is betting on it. The Illinois governor has tapped his wealth to climb the political ladder, moving toward a White House run while presenting himself as a champion for everyday people. DD: Does Pritzker champion for you? If so, you must be liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/15/billionaires-pritzker-democrats-president-trump/
— DD: Because federal courts ruled that my Democrat GAO superiors had the power to force me to retire, that is, that they had the power to fire me, Trump has the power to fire any federal employee he wants to.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/14/supreme-court-ftc-trump-firing/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Higher cost, worse coverage: Affordable Care Act enrollees say expiring subsidies will hit them hard. DD: Are/were your healthcare insurance premiums subsidized? Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married when I was 29 and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-12-14/higher-cost-worse-coverage-affordable-care-act-enrollees-say-expiring-subsidies-will-hit-them-hard
ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION
— Worried about paying for college? There are affordable options. DD: My critics/opponents have always used my having to work my way through college against me. They have always stressed that I would not have had to do that if I had gotten scholarships. They have always stressed that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class.
https://www.ajc.com/education/2025/12/worried-about-paying-for-college-there-are-affordable-options/
USA TODAY
— Looking for a big raise or promotion in 2026? Don’t get your hopes up. DD: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents were ever-increasingly furious a) that the Post Office hired me in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980, b) that IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) that GAO promoted me in 1986, d) that I got COLAs, e) that I got step increases, f) that 72% of my and wife’s healthcare insurance premiums were subsidized, g) that I got lots of sick leave and vacation time, h) etc. According to my critics/opponents, all of the aforesaid should have been given to Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/12/10/raise-promotion-chances-2026/87676414007/
— Why retirees could face a financial shock from Social Security in 2026. Many retirees are struggling with their finances, and things could get worse next year if they aren’t prepared for this reality about Social Security.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/retirement/2025/12/10/financial-shock-social-security-2026/87683527007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Disparate-Impact Theory Is Unconstitutional. It purports to combat discrimination but in practice ends up encouraging it. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders use disparate impact to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, when those who are the aforesaid succeed, it is because they benefit from discrimination against those who are not aforesaid. According to my critics/opponents, because I am all of the aforesaid, a) I owe all of my successes in life to my benefitted from discrimination against those who are not the aforesaid and b) I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/disparate-impact-theory-is-unconstitutional-2664133d
— FRONT PAGE: The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate. Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them. DD: With birthright citizenship, the future of America is ever-increasingly bleak. Ever-increasingly, citizens of foreign countries that despise/hate America and despise/hate Americans are taking over America.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/chinese-billionaires-surrogacy-pregnancy-7fdfc0c3
— Does MAHA Stand for ‘Make America High Again’? Reclassifying marijuana flies in the face of Trump and RFK Jr.’s professed concern about health. DD: Pot is poison. I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/does-maha-stand-for-make-america-high-again-ff356532
— Say Goodbye to the Billable Hour. DD: While I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, I had to account for each and every hour that I worked. I had to fill out forms each and every day with the number of hours that spent working on “job codes” and then submit those forms every 2 weeks.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-goodbye-to-billable-hours-cba198fe
FORBES
— The CPA Shortage. DD: My passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was a 30-year-old IRS employee in 1979 was one of my greatest successes. But my Democrat IRS superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled it. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. My passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was a 32-year-old GAO employee in 1981 was one of my greatest successes. But my Democrat GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled it. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesfinancecouncil/2025/05/12/disruption-in-accounting-the-cpa-shortage-meets-the-rise-of-ai/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The CPA pipeline has been weakening for years. Fewer accounting majors are sitting for the CPA exam, and the industry is seeing a mass exodus of Baby Boomers without enough young professionals to replace them. According to estimates from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, around 75% of all licensed CPAs reached retirement age by 2019.
PUNCHBOWL NEWS
— Indiana flop muddies Dem redistricting push. DD: I anticipate/expect that Pritzker could say/has said that he has the power to redistrict so that no Republican will ever be elected in Illinois.
https://punchbowl.news/article/campaigns/redistricting-dems/
PROVIDER MAGAZINE
— How to Keep Up with the Jones. DD: Did your parents have trouble keeping up with the Jones? Mine sure did. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969. My mother, who never attended high school, never worked outside of the home until after he died because of her limited earning potential. I had to work my way through college. I remember in 1958 when our neighbor to the north owned a top of the line 1958 Oldsmobile, our neighbor to the south owned a top of the line 1957 Pontiac, and we owned a bottom of the line 1951 Plymouth.
https://www.providermagazine.com/Articles/Pages/How-to-Keep-Up-with-the-Jones-to-Attract-Residents-.aspx
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. Only those federal employees who are the following have Civil Service protections: Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/11/final-schedule-f-regulations-describe-civil-service-protections-unconstitutional-overcorrections/409616/
CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTIONS
— The ‘Do My Own Research’ Voter Has a New Research Assistant. DD: If I did not spend so much time putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out, I would do opposition research. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://campaignsandelections.com/voices/the-do-my-own-research-voter-has-a-new-research-assistant/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I spent years moderating focus groups, and I lost count of how many voters proudly said they “did their own research.” What that really meant was typing a candidate’s name into Google, glancing at ten blue links and, more often than not, closing the browser without clicking a thing. Now, voters searching for a candidate or issue are often getting a single neatly packaged answer assembled by artificial intelligence from whatever sources it finds most credible and clearly written. And if it answers their question, their “research” is done. That’s great if your campaign is one of those sources. If not, it’s a problem.)
November 28, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— What to know about so-called downtown Chicago ‘teen takeovers.’ DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover public areas in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/11/28/what-to-know-about-so-called-downtown-chicago-teen-takeovers
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/11/27/community-members-find-comfort-with-chosen-family-at-center-on-halsteds-thanksgiving-meal
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Under the Democrats, soon, everyone will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/27/daywatch-families-on-snap-celebrate-thanksgiving-amid-uncertainty/
— Trump criticizes program that brought Afghan refugees to US
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/27/trump-criticizes-program-afghan-refugees-taliban/
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County passes new budget with $18 million for ‘Sustainability Initiative.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251127/news/dupage-county-passes-new-budget-with-18-million-for-sustainability-initiative/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: DuPage County will begin its new fiscal year with a balanced spending plan that includes funding to address food insecurity and housing affordability while supporting mental health initiatives and community services.)
RIVER BENDER
— Federal judge expands access to bond hearings for detained immigrants nationwide. DD: I wanted a jury trial in Diersen v. GAO, but Democrat and RINO judges and justices denied that, that is, they denied me my 7th Amendment rights. I sued GAO in 1998. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf GAO never succeeded in getting the courts to dismiss my lawsuit. But GAO did succeed in getting the courts to grant GAO summary judgment, that is, GAO succeeded in getting the courts to deny me my 7th Amendment rights. GAO hinted/implied/argued/shouted that no jury would ever rule in my favor. I have very bad jury appeal. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844. How bad is your jury appeal?
https://www.riverbender.com/topnews/details.cfm?id=499063
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrats and RINOs glorify and praise anyone and everyone who wants to come to America.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-11-28/trump-vows-to-permanently-pause-migration-from-poor-nations-in-social-media-screed
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-11-28/the-dot-says-it-wants-to-make-trucking-safer-but-some-see-an-immigration-raid
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago tenant groups call for eviction moratorium amid ICE raids. DD: Are/were you a landlord? I was a landlord 1976-1984 because I could not sell my University Park townhome unless I took a big loss.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_90331baf-5a99-4ff5-819d-2d9e3059c854.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Federal aid feeds over 1M Illinois families this Thanksgiving. DD: Under the Democrats, soon, everyone will be a) having out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/federal-aid-feeds-over-1m-illinois-families-this-thanksgiving/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Thankful that Democrats aren’t in charge
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/27/thankful-democrats-arent-charge/
— More incumbent House Democrats hit with primary challenges from younger socialist candidates
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/27/incumbent-house-democrats-hit-primary-challenges-younger-socialist/
— Court upholds $1 million fine for Trump’s ‘frivolous’ Hillary Clinton lawsuit. DD: I sued GAO in 1998. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf GAO never succeeded in getting the court to dismiss my lawsuit. But GAO did succeed in getting the court to grant GAO summary judgment, that is, GAO succeeded in getting the court to deny me my 7th Amendment right to a jury trial. GAO hinted/implied/argued/shouted that no jury would ever rule in my favor. I have very bad jury appeal. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS0vkuHaPKU
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Homeland Security Thanksgiving video offers ‘No second helpings for illegal aliens’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3901253/homeland-security-video-no-second-helpings-illegal-aliens/
NEW YORK POST
— Lefty politicians for months have loudly condemned the deployment of National Guard troops in crime-ridden Democrat-run cities as “authoritarian” and an “invasion” leading up to Wednesday’s heinous ambush attack that left two guardsmen fighting for their lives.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/26/us-news/dc-national-guard-shooting-follows-months-of-democrats-stoking-fear-about-an-invasion/
— Mamdani’s radical-rich transition team bodes ill for public safety. DD: Under the Democrats, crime will ever-increasingly increase. What are you doing to protect your personal safety?
https://nypost.com/2025/11/27/opinion/zohran-mamdanis-radical-rich-transition-team-bodes-ill-for-public-safety/
— Mamdani says Trump is still a ‘fascist, despot’
https://www.aol.com/articles/zohran-mamdani-says-trump-still-150105762.html
— DC National Guard shooting follows months of Democrats’ stoking fear about military ‘invasion’
https://nypost.com/2025/11/26/us-news/dc-national-guard-shooting-follows-months-of-democrats-stoking-fear-about-an-invasion/
— Pam Bondi rips ‘progressive left idiots’ for fueling hatred towards National Guard
https://nypost.com/2025/11/27/us-news/pam-bondi-rips-progressive-left-idiots-for-fueling-hatred-towards-national-guard/
— Biden’s messy Operation Allies Welcome program failed to monitor Afghans entering US, damning report found
https://nypost.com/2025/11/27/us-news/bidens-operation-allies-welcome-program-failed-to-monitor-afghans-entering-us-report/
— GOP lawmakers long warned of security risks of Biden-era Afghan resettlement program used by alleged National Guard shooter
https://nypost.com/2025/11/26/us-news/gop-lawmakers-long-warned-of-security-risks-of-biden-era-afghan-resettlement-program-used-by-alleged-national-guard-shooter/
— Let’s give thanks — for not living under socialism
https://nypost.com/2025/11/27/opinion/lets-give-thanks-for-not-living-under-socialism/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The highway’s hidden hazards
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/the_highway_s_hidden_hazards.html
BREITBART
— ICE Continues to Arrest Violent Illegal Migrants in Chicago
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/11/27/ice-continues-to-arrest-violent-illegal-migrants-in-chicago/amp/
— There’s no reason to let unvetted people from hotbeds of terrorism into America unless you want a terror attack, right? There’s no reason to fight tooth and nail against deportations unless you want undesirables in the country, right? There’s no reason to relentlessly smear National Guardsmen trying to keep the peace as Nazis who will shoot civilians and follow illegal orders unless you want them murdered, right?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/27/nolte-on-this-thanksgiving-democrats-are-grateful-two-national-guardsmen-got-shot-by-an-afghan-refugee/amp/
CAMPUS REFORM
— New rankings score colleges on merit, academic rigor, free speech. DD: My getting four college degrees did not turn me into a Democrat. I majored in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/new-rankings-score-colleges-merit-academic-rigor-free-speech/28937
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— U.S. lawmakers introduce bill to protect medical residents from coercive abortion training
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/268109/prince-albert-ii-of-monaco-blocks-legalization-of-abortion-citing-catholic-identity
DAILY CALLER
— Legacy Media Goes From Ignoring To Endorsing Illegal Immigrant Crime.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/27/migrant-criminal-illegal-nascimento-blair-orville-etoria-romeo-perez-bravo-dan-kluver/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Chicago Train Burning Shows How Too Much Leniency to the Guilty Is Cruelty to the Innocent
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/26/chicago-train-burning-shows-how-too-much-leniency-guilty-cruelty-innocent/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Admin Invites Illegal Immigrants To Use the CBP Home app to Head Home For The Holidays By Self-Deporting.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-invites-illegal-immigrants-to-get-home-for-the-holidays-by-self-deporting
— Thanksgiving Under Siege: Choose Gratitude Over Woke Outrage. Thanksgiving is about more than a history lesson—it’s about what makes America … well, America.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/thanksgiving-under-siege-choose-gratitude-over-woke-outrage
FOX NEWS
— National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom dead after DC shooting: ‘Highly respected.’ The second wounded service member, Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still ‘fighting for his life.’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/national-guard-member-sarah-beckstrom-dead-after-dc-shooting-highly-respected
— Former agent says Afghan evacuee vetting was a ‘free-for-all.’ Ex-FBI special agent explains Afghan vetting failures in wake of National Guard ambush: ‘Ticking time bomb.’ Tens of thousands of Afghans were evacuated to the U.S. in the wake of the withdrawal and subsequent Taliban takeover of the country.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ex-fbi-special-agent-explains-afghan-vetting-failues-wake-national-guard-ambush-ticking-time-bomb
— Cook County in Illinois establishes permanent guaranteed income program
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cook-county-illinois-establishes-permanent-guaranteed-income-program
NEWSMAX
— Asylum System Exploited by Fraud
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/todd-lyons-asylum-somalia/2025/11/27/id/1236307/
OPM
— Annual headcount plans. DD: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They gave headcount plans, that is, they gave hit lists, to the managers they sent to run GAO’s Chicago office. Of course, I was on all those lists. The more of the following that employees were, the higher that they were on those lists: Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. I never would have survived until 1997 if I had not a) earned three job-related master’s degrees, b) earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.opm.gov/news/secrets-of-opm/everyone-has-a-plan-until-you-step-into-the-ring/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For most of this year, the government has been operating under a series of hiring initiatives. Most notably, the president set a target of four reductions for every one new hire into government. We exceeded this goal – the government hired roughly 68,000 people this year, while approximately 317,000 employees left the government. . .First, we want to make sure the government has the right talent focused on the key priorities of the administration and that we are eliminating wasteful taxpayer expenses in areas that are inefficient, no longer required, or in direct contradiction of administration priorities. Simply put, we want agencies to focus their headcount resources on the most critical objectives that deliver maximum value to the taxpayer.)
TURNING POINT USA
— New Report Ranks Universities by Commitment to Free Speech, Meritocracy. DD: My getting four college degrees did not turn me into a Democrat. I majored in business, accounting, and finance.
https://tpusa.com/live/new-report-ranks-universities-by-commitment-to-free-speech-meritocracy/
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
— Project Firewall partnership leads to enhanced federal enforcement against discriminatory hiring practices. DD: To qualify myself for better paying jobs, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But nevertheless, all my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20251124
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Liberal Women Role Play as Illegals, Teach Volunteers How to Impede ICE
https://www.westernjournal.com/liberal-women-role-play-illegals-teach-volunteers-impede-ice/
— National Guard Shooter Shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ During DC Attack.
https://www.westernjournal.com/report-national-guard-shooter-shouted-allahu-akbar-dc-attack/
— Medical School Rebrands DEI Department to Circumvent Trump Administration, Continuing Troubling Trend in Academia
https://www.westernjournal.com/medical-school-rebrands-dei-department-circumvent-trump-administration-continuing-troubling-trend-academia/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump orders green cards from Somalia, other countries of “concern” be reexamined
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/trump-orders-green-cards-somalia-countries-concern-reexamined/
AOL
— Charlie Kirk Didn’t Seem Concerned For Safety Before Fatal Shooting. DD: Under the Democrats, crime will ever-increasingly increase. What are you doing to protect your personal safety?
https://www.aol.com/articles/charlie-kirk-didnt-seem-concerned-080027549.html
NEWSWEEK
— Full List of Lawmakers Who Voted To Increase Visas for Afghan Nationals
https://www.newsweek.com/afghan-nationals-us-national-guard-shooting-11119679
— Trump Admin Sends Striking Thanksgiving Message to ‘Illegal Aliens’
https://www.newsweek.com/dhs-thanksgiving-video-illegal-aliens-immigrants-message-11122455
— Trump Admin Changes Housing Rules for Immigrants
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-changes-housing-rules-for-immigrants-11119836
MSN
— News from outside disappears in North Korea. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who have worked the hardest since 2000 to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. 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 most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/news-from-outside-disappears-in-north-korea/ar-AA1R50NS
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea. Her radio audience could go to jail if caught listening. Lee’s Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio station has tried for two decades to give real-time news to North Korea’s 26 million people. But Lee says she now feels a sense of crisis about her work as big government-funded broadcasters in the United States and South Korea have fallen silent this year because of major funding cuts and policy changes. “Our frustrations with the U.S. and South Korean governments are growing over their suspensions of radio broadcasts,” said Lee, a defector who heads the small, nongovernmental FNK radio station. “We’re afraid that they’ve abandoned North Korean residents.” Major channels broadcasting into North Korea fall silent. In North Korea, all radio and TV sets are fixed to state-run channels. But defectors have testified that they modified their radios or used smuggled ones to covertly tune in to foreign broadcasts at night for news their government didn’t want them to hear. That includes outside perspectives of the North’s ruling Kim dynasty, more affluent and freer Western lifestyles, and success stories about defectors.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S. Reviews Biden Asylum Cases After Shooting. A Homeland Security Department spokeswoman accused the previous administration of failing to vet asylum applicants “on a massive scale.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/politics/biden-asylum-cases-shooting.html
— DD: Democrat leaders side with America-hating Afghans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/politics/afghans-immigrants-fearful-guard-shooting.html
— DD: Democrats and RINOs glorify and praise anyone and everyone who wants to come to America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/politics/trump-national-guard-shooting.html
USA TODAY
— John Fogerty ‘troubled’ by President Trump’s use of ‘Fortunate Son,’ issues cease and desist. DD: Since 1966, my critics/opponents have used against me big time my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. I was classified 1-A for the draft in 1966, but I got student draft deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. But I was not a fortunate son. I had to work my way through college. To have money for college and for cars I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I did not appeal my 1-A draft classification, but what if I had done that? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had red/green color blindness.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/10/16/john-fogerty-troubled-president-trump-fortunate-son/3686095001/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Fogerty went on to explain that “Fortunate Son” is ironically an anti-war-movement anthem that criticizes privileged people who used their money and status to defer from the Vietnam War draft. The song has been treated as a patriotic working-class anthem, but listen past its star-spangled opening lines — “Some folks are born made to wave the flag/Ooh, they’re red, white and blue” — for Fogerty’s anti-establishment storytelling about how the poor were sent to fight and die in Vietnam while the wealthy were spared.)
— DD: Not all Americans agree on free speech. My critics/opponents certainly do not. According to my Democrat superiors in the federal government, I was not free to speak out against their patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. According to RINO leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, I am not free to speak out against Democrat promotion of dependency on government, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, illegal drugs, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/11/25/free-speech-first-amendment-fire-poll/87397191007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Disobeying Military Orders Is Full of Risk. The military code strongly favors obedience. Orders are presumed to be lawful. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980 and GAO 1980-1997, I never disobeyed their orders to give preference to my subordinates who were Democrat, minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran. I gave them lots of preference. But that was not good enough for my Democrat superiors. Because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, they ever-increasingly wasted my career, ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me, and ultimately forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/disobeying-military-orders-is-full-of-risk-c6167724?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
FORBES
— What We Know About Rahmanullah Lakanwal: D.C. Shooting Suspect
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/11/27/dc-shooting-suspect-was-granted-asylum-in-april-what-we-know/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Gen Z money problems. DD: What were able to accomplish by the time you 28? I earned a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and an MBA when I was 27. I bought a car when I was 16 and new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, and 25. I bought real estate when I was 24, 25, and 27. I was able to do the aforesaid because I took bad jobs that my peers would not stoop to take. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1971-1972. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes starting in 1971. But according to my critics/opponents, I was only able to accomplish the aforesaid starting when I was 18 in 1966 because I avoided the Vietnam War draft.
https://www.businessinsider.com/dave-ramsey-millennials-gen-z-debt-personal-finance-money-wealth-2025-4
TIME
— DD: My critics/opponents who have had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and paise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. They reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform. Most commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of clout and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://time.com/7337211/trump-new-term-for-loyal-republicans-gop-maga-divisions/
PENN LIVE
— Trump’s cabinet of clones: When loyalty replaces competence. DD: My critic/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and paise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. They reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform. Most commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of clout and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2025/11/trumps-cabinet-of-clones-when-loyalty-replaces-competence-pennlive-letters.html
PBS
— Conservatives move to red states and liberals move to blue as the country grows more polarized. DD: As more and more and more Democrats infiltrate, invade, infest, conquer, and destroy DuPage County, more and more and more Republicans leave DuPage County.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/conservatives-move-to-red-states-and-liberals-move-to-blue-as-the-country-grows-more-polarized
NPR
— Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own. DD: As more and more and more Democrats infiltrate, invade, infest, conquer, and destroy DuPage County, more and more and more Republicans leave DuPage County.
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/18/1081295373/the-big-sort-americans-move-to-areas-political-alignment
HUFFINGTON POST
— Federal Workers Ask Judge To Block Trump’s ‘Loyalty’ Question On Job Applications. DD: My critic/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and paise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. They reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform. Most commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of clout and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.aol.com/articles/federal-workers-ask-judge-block-215616534.html
SIRM
— EEOC Issues Technical Assistance on Protecting US Workers. DD: How bad are your demographics? My demographics are very bad. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844.
https://www.shrm.org/advocacy/eeoc-issues-technical-assistance-on-protecting-us-workers
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a technical assistance document titled “Discrimination Against American Workers Is Against the Law.” Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is unlawful to discriminate against people based on race, color, sex, national origin, or religion — collectively known as protected characteristics. This is part of the EEOC’s continued focus on bias against U.S. workers. On Feb. 19, Andrea Lucas, then-acting chair of the EEOC, stated, “The EEOC is putting employers and other covered entities on notice: if you are part of the pipeline contributing to our immigration crisis or abusing our legal immigration system via illegal preferences against American workers, you must stop.” The EEOC’s new technical assistance highlights that anti-American national origin discrimination is prohibited under Title VII. The document outlines that employment policies, programs, or practices may be unlawful if motivated, in whole or in part, by people’s national origin, even that of U.S. citizens. Examples include discriminatory job advertisements that favor certain visa holders; unequal treatment in hiring, firing, promotions, or assignments; and workplace harassment that creates a hostile or abusive environment. For HR professionals, this technical assistance document reinforces the agency’s focus on enforcing national origin discrimination under Title VII, even though the underlying law has not changed. Employers should review policies and practices that may previously have gone unnoticed. The EEOC’s updated materials provide an opportunity for HR professionals to revisit policies, training, and communications to mitigate compliance risk.)
AFGE
— AFGE Secures Historic 218 Signatures via Bipartisan House Coalition to Force Vote Protecting Federal Workers’ Union Rights. DD: My critics/opponents are anti-union. They are furious that while I was a union member 1966-1980, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars. But during that time, I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU. I earned an MBA from Loyola. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://www.afge.org/article/afge-secures-historic-218-signatures-via-bipartisan-house-coalition-to-force-vote-protecting-federal-workers-union-rights/
GALLUP
— Personal Safety Fears at Three-Decade High in U.S. DD: Under the Democrats, crime will ever-increasingly increase. What are you doing to protect your personal safety?
https://news.gallup.com/poll/544415/personal-safety-fears-three-decade-high.aspx
PEW RESEARCH
— Facebook Top Source for Political News. DD: My critics/opponents ever-increasingly promote Facebook. They ever-increasingly discourage everyone from reading my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2015/06/01/facebook-top-source-for-political-news-among-millennials/
FROM FOREIGN SOURSES
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Nikki Haley’s son Nalin distances himself from Indian roots, says ‘makes no sense to have foreign workers…’ DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/new-updates/nikki-haleys-son-nalin-distances-himself-from-indian-roots-says-makes-no-sense-to-have-foreign-workers-/amp_articleshow/125627367.cms
TIMES OF INDIA
— H-1B row: What is Project Firewall? Initiative warns companies to hire Americans first or face penalties. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO In 1980 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/h-1b-row-what-is-project-firewall-initiative-warns-companies-to-hire-americans-first-or-face-penalties-for-favouring-foreigners/articleshow/125618445.cms
— Mamdani set to become New York mayor: What are his educational qualifications? DD: My critics/opponents ignore/dismiss/belittle my earning three master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a professional license (CPA). They actually use the aforesaid against me by stressing that I never made more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars and that I was forced to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/zohran-mamdani-set-to-become-new-york-mayor-what-are-his-educational-qualifications/articleshow/125108856.cms
OTHER SOURCES
INVESTOPEDIA
— Best Financial Certifications for Career Growth and ROI. DD: I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS when I was 30 in 1979. I became licensed CPA while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO when I was 32 in 1981. They ignored/dismissed/belittled the aforesaid because I am a Republican, White, male, older, and non-veteran, that is, because I am not a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. Further, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party ignored/dismissed/belittled the aforesaid because I am conservative, White, male, older, and non-veteran, that is, because I am not a RINO, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/1012/financial-certifications-with-the-best-roi.aspx
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Certifications like CPA and CFA require rigorous exams and experience, but can lead to career advancement. . .Mastering the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) License. Though technically not a certification, the certified public accountant (CPA) license is a powerful differentiator in tax preparation, business planning, and financial analysis. A CPA can represent clients before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), typically a privilege reserved for attorneys or enrolled agents. Additionally, certified public accountants often pursue significant operational roles in companies. These roles may be the chief financial officer (CFO) or the chief operating officer (COO). Finally, CPAs are well-versed in the double-entry system of accounting, making them highly proficient in financial statement analysis.)
November 10, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump administration asks SCOTUS to affirm lawfulness of National Guard deployment to Illinois
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-admin-asks-supreme-court-affirm-lawfulness-national-guard-deployment-illinois-says-ice-agents-cant-do-work-alone/18140240/
— Supreme Court will decide whether states can count late-arriving mail ballots, a Trump target
https://abc7.com/post/supreme-court-will-decide-states-can-count-late-arriving-mail-ballots-trump-target/18137746/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for flight cancellations.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-flights-canceled-today-more-600-ohare-midway-airports-amid-snow-government-shutdown/18139725/
NBC5
— DD: What do you say to those who want Bailey to withdraw?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/darren-bailey-staying-in-governors-race-after-tragic-helicopter-crash/3849817/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/on-anniversary-of-kristallnacht-holocaust-survivor-says-she-sees-similarities-to-today/3849892/
— While Trump threatens controllers, U.S. flight cancellations will drag on even after shutdown ends. Some air traffic controllers, unpaid for nearly a month, have stopped showing up, which may cause delays even after the shutdown ends. DD: Air traffic controllers are essential federal employees. I was a demonized, denigrated, and condemned nonessential federal employee.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-us-flight-cancellations-after-shutdown-ends/3849746/
CBS2
— Undocumented Mexican immigrant in custody for firing shots at Border Patrol in Little Village
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/arrest-shots-fired-border-patrol-chicago-little-village-dhs/
WGN9
— DD: What do you say to those who want Bailey to withdraw?
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/darren-bailey-to-remain-in-race-for-illinois-governor/
— DD: All the many women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/why-wont-most-working-women-see-equal-pay-before-they-retire/
FOX32
— DD: What do you say to those who want Bailey to withdraw?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/bailey-stays-in-il-gov-race
WTTW
— While Trump Threatens Controllers, US Flight Cancellations Will Drag on Even After Shutdown Ends. DD: Air traffic controllers are essential federal employees. I was a demonized, denigrated, and condemned nonessential federal employee.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/10/while-trump-threatens-controllers-us-flight-cancellations-will-drag-even-after-shutdown
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump administration appeals injunction restricting use of force in Operation Midway Blitz
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/trump-administration-appeals-injunction-restricting-use-of-force-in-operation-midway-blitz/
— Little Village double fatal shooting by jewelry store follows Saturday morning of clashes with immigration agents
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/little-village-double-murder-by-jewelry-store-follows-saturday-morning-of-clashes-with-immigration-agents/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago rapper Adamn Killa tells cops to ‘arrest me, daddy.’ Getting arrested won’t stop him. Adam Kelly, who goes by the stage name Adamn Killa, was handcuffed and briefly held in a squad car after interrupting a traffic stop for one of his social media videos. After he was released, he went right back to making more videos.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/11/10/chicago-rapper-adamn-killa-tells-cops-to-arrest-me-daddy-getting-arrested-wont-stop-him
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/11/10/deportation-immigration-mexico-indiana-parents-fathers-ice-vanessa-lopez
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump tells Supreme Court he followed law in calling Guard to Chicago. DD: In Diersen v. GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors told the court that they followed law when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 and when they previously a) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and d) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-says-guard-deployment-chicago-was-lawful
RIVER BENDER
— DD: Duckworth defends federal employees. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. If I was still a federal employee, she certainly would not defend me. She would replace me a Democrat who was minority, female, younger, disabled, and/or veteran. Air traffic controllers are essential federal employees. I was a demonized, denigrated, and condemned nonessential federal employee.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-reacts-to-trump-threatening-hardworking-air-traffic-controllers–encouraging-them-to-quit—88088.cfm?
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-reacts-to-trump-threatening-hardworking-air-traffic-controllers-and-encouraging-them-to-quit
— Duckworth Calls For Probe Of Fed Officer’s Use Of Force In Chicago. DD: I enforced federal tax laws for IRS as a Revenue Officer 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. If Duckworth had been a U.S. Senator back then, would she have called for a probe of what I did? To satisfy federal tax debt, I filed federal tax liens. I issued levies to seize assets, including funds in bank accounts, wages, and accounts receivable. I seized and sold business and personal property including real estate and vehicles. She would have objected to enforcement actions that I took against Democrats who were minority, female, younger, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-calls-for-probe-of-fed-agents-use-of-force-in-chicago-88075.cfm?
STATELINE
— Ogle County Republicans vote to donate $1.5K to local food pantries
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/ogle-county-republicans-vote-to-donate-1-5k-to-local-food-pantries/
CITIES 92.9
— IL comptroller candidates focus on transparency, timely reporting
https://www.cities929.com/2025/11/10/il-comptroller-candidates-focus-on-transparency-timely-reporting/
NORTHERN STAR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly force everyone to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://northernstar.info/129978/opinion/opinion-not-all-left-people-are-good-and-not-all-right-are-bad/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/11/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-421/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Illinois State Sen. Terri Bryant, who serves as Assistant Republican Leader in the Illinois Senate, is facing mounting criticism after publicly calling her own constituents “idiots” on Facebook.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/11/state-sen-terri-bryant-calls-voters-idiots-on-facebook-as-gop-leader-earns-100k-as-part-time-legislator.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court won’t consider challenge to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/10/supreme-court-wont-consider-challenge-overturn-sex-marriage-ruling/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democratic socialists quietly capture city councils across America
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3880175/democratic-socialists-capture-city-councils-across-usa/
— Venezuela in Manhattan? Mamdani’s vision will be a nightmare
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3879657/mamdanis-venezuala-new-york-city-vision-nightmare/
NEW YORK POST
— Mamdani’s win isn’t just New York’s loss — it’s a wake-up call for America
https://nypost.com/2025/11/10/opinion/zohran-mamdanis-win-isnt-just-new-yorks-loss-its-a-wake-up-call-for-america/
BLAZE
— The scariest thing about Zohran Mamdani isn’t his socialism
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/rufo-lomez/the-scariest-thing-about-zohran-mamdani-isnt-his-socialism
— Border Patrol agents dodge bullets and bricks from leftist rioters
https://www.theblaze.com/news/border-patrol-agents-dodge-bullets-and-bricks-from-leftist-rioters-in-sanctuary-city-dhs
BREITBART
— Actress Ellen Barkin Can’t See Any Difference Between ICE and Nazis. DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrats will ever-increasingly call Republicans Nazis, and especially Republicans who share Trump’s demographics. Trump is conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/11/10/nolte-ellen-barkin-cant-see-any-difference-between-ice-and-nazis/amp/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Mamdani’s Far-Left Playbook Will Be Replicated Across the Country
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/10/mamdanis-far-left-playbook-will-replicated-across-country/
— Trump Pardons Dozens of MAGA Allies Accused of Attempting to Overturn 2020 Election
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/10/trump-pardons-dozens-of-maga-allies-accused-of-attempting-to-overturn-2020-election/
DAILY WIRE
— ‘Beyond The Pale’: JB Pritzker Could Soon Make Illinois A Hub For ‘Suicide Tourism’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/beyond-the-pale-jb-pritzker-could-soon-make-illinois-a-hub-for-suicide-tourism
FEDERALIST
— Mamdani’s Vast Support Among The College-Educated Tells Us All We Need to Know About Higher Ed
https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/10/mamdanis-vast-support-among-the-college-educated-tells-us-all-we-need-to-know-about-higher-ed/
NEWSMAX
— Socialists’ Anti-Israel ‘Demands’ to Mamdani
https://www.newsmax.com/us/memo-democratic-socialists-mamdani/2025/11/10/id/1233929/
— Michele Bachmann Resigns From Heritage Foundation
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/heritage-foundation-michele-bachman-kevin-roberts/2025/11/09/id/1233836/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— In Evanston, whistles and watchful eyes are holding ICE accountable. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5595387-evanston-handbook-immigration-response/
CBS NEWS
— Johnson urges House members to return “right now” as air delays threaten potential shutdown vote
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-air-delays-cancellations-house-vote-mike-johnson/
NEWSWEEK
— DD: What have Democrat leaders used to fight deportation of their illegals in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.newsweek.com/girl-scouts-food-drive-ice-agents-chicago-illinois-11020583
YAHOO
— Trump is bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/article/trump-is-bringing-back-the-presidential-fitness-test-we-challenged-a-33-year-old-to-pass-it-130021569.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: New York Times reporter Reid J. Epstein writes that “Age is the issue that Democrats can’t shut down” and that “As eight Democratic-aligned senators with an average age of about 70 voted with Republicans to end the 40-day government shutdown without the health care concessions Democrats had demanded, the party again convulsed with two questions that have long racked its members: How old is too old and how vigorously should they fight Republicans? DD: I am 77 years old. The Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have long considered me to be too old. In my defense, I stress that my age has not stopped me from putting together and sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.
https://www.nytimes.com/
CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS
— DD: What are the demographics of those selling and buying New York real estate?
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/luxury-residential-sales-streak-continues-after-zohran-mamdani-win
FAST COMPANY
— DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government focused on making their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-German American, and/or who had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time hate their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, German American, and/or who had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91438475/did-women-ruin-the-workplace-maybe-for-the-boys-club
JD SUPRA
— Immediate and Drastic Changes in the DOT’s DBE Program: No More Race- and Sex-Based Presumptions
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/immediate-and-drastic-changes-in-the-6468578/
PEOPLE’S WORLD
— How Harlem Communists paved the way for Mamdani
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/how-harlem-communists-paved-the-way-for-mamdani/
November 8, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Group of 14 ‘suburban moms’ arrested during protest outside Broadview ICE facility. A caravan of about 20 cars drove by the Broadview ICE facility to protest immigration enforcement.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-news-sheriffs-deputies-remove-group-suburban-moms-broadview-protest-today-immigration-enforcement/18126098/
— Chicago business, civic and faith leaders join together to call for end to immigration raids
https://abc7chicago.com/post/united-chicago-group-business-civic-faith-leaders-join-together-call-end-immigration-raids-downtown-event/18126988/
— Supreme Court considers Kim Davis petition to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
https://abc7chicago.com/post/supreme-court-considers-kim-davis-petition-overturn-same-sex-marriage-ruling/18125319/
— Man arrested by federal immigration agents outside DuPage County Courthouse, video shows
https://abc7chicago.com/post/man-arrested-federal-immigration-agents-outside-dupage-county-courthouse-wheaton-video-shows/18128233/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu8T0jDkqrg
NBC5
— When a federal judge in Chicago reinforced her restrictions on the use of force by federal immigration agents, she essentially accused Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino of lying. But can Bovino and other agents be held personally accountable for their actions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlxsJKIcpjA
CBS2
— 15 protesters arrested outside Broadview ICE facility
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/14-protesters-arrested-broadview-ice-facility/
WGN9
— ICE agents’ warrantless arrest sparks due process concerns in Wheaton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsoKjS2Eu1A
FOX32
— Chicago mayor testifies before U.N. on Trump immigration raids, SNAP cuts
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-mayor-un-trump-immigration-snap
WTTW
— No Fare Hikes or Service Cuts Coming for Chicago Transit Agencies, RTA Chair Dillard Says
https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/06/no-fare-hikes-or-service-cuts-coming-chicago-transit-agencies-rta-chair-says
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— 14 women arrested during protest at ICE processing center in Broadview; clergy again denied access to detainees
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/protest-arrests-ice-processing-center-broadview/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/lincoln-square-family-ice-chappell-elementary-school/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals, their illegals, and their antisemites.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/opinion-chicago-immigrats-paperwork-antisemitism/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Indian IDOT employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was ‘aware’ of NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani. Pritzker is speaking out about the incident, which happened Friday morning, calling it another example of President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “continuing to question U.S. citizens apparently based on the color of their skin.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/07/indian-idot-employee-stopped-by-ice-agents-questioned-if-he-was-aware-of-nyc-mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani
JOURNAL COURIER
— Morgan County Republicans hosting candidates. DD: If I was still the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, the organization would still be hosting Republican candidates. While I was the chairman of TAPROOT 2005-2012, I invited speakers for 78 of its events during that time. I should list all those who spoke at those events. My critics/opponents have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned those who spoke at those events.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/morgan-county-republicans-hosting-meet-greet-21145425.php
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump promotes EEOC head. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because my Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted that offer and because I needed a job because I was helping support my mother and brother, I accepted a job offer from IRS. I had wanted a career in the automotive industry.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/donald-trump-promotes-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-head-chair-andrea-lucas-civil-rights
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Trump said at the start of his second term that “dangerous,” “demeaning” and “immoral” hiring preferences based on race and sex – “DEI” policies – were violating civil rights laws. The policies also undermined “national unity” and the traditional values of “hard work, excellence, and individual achievement,” according to the president.)
WCIA
— Getting a snapshot of people receiving SNAP benefits in Illinois. It starts with the income level. The USDA said as of 2022, three-fourths of people with SNAP are at or below the poverty line in the state. An average person gets around $190 a month — and the average household gets $356. A 2019 breakdown of USDA numbers shows 37% of people getting SNAP assistance are white, 26% African American, 16% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% Native American and 16% unknown.
https://www.wcia.com/news/illinois-news/getting-a-snapshot-of-people-receiving-snap-benefits-in-illinois/amp/
NAPERVILLE PATCH
— Naperville Man Received Package With ‘Enough Fentanyl To Kill Entire Cities:’ Police say they intercepted a parcel with 1,000 fentanyl tablets en route to Ahmad Dinah, 30, of the 1100 block of Iroquois Avenue.
https://patch.com/illinois/naperville/naperville-man-received-package-enough-fentanyl-kill-entire-cities-berlin
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/11/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-420/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
OPEN THE BOOKS
— Radical Groups Tied to Mamdani Associates Pulled in Millions of Taxpayer Dollars
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/radical-groups-tied-to-mamdani-associates
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How will Mamdani’s election impact your county, township, municipality, school district, precinct, and neighborhood? Anticipate/expect that there will be more dependency on government and charity, that is, more welfare and more socialism. More LGBTQ, that is, more destruction of traditional marriage and family. More abortion, that is, more disrespect for human life. More mass/illegal immigration, especially from India. More booze, gambling, and pot, that is, more vice. More diminishment of Second Amendment rights. More 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. More replacement, that is, more replacement of those in America who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time with those who are liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
— What did your coworkers do to advance? To advance, my Democrat coworkers in the federal government did not do what I did, that is, they did not earn job-related college degrees, professional certifications, or a professional license. Instead, they pandered to their Democrat superiors. They helped their Democrat superiors get rid of their Republican subordinates who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write about my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government. I would focus on my Democrat superiors who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Who Are the Democratic Socialists?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/11/who-are-the-democratic-socialists/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Police Under Attack
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/police-under-attack/
— The Theology of Islam
https://illinoisfamily.org/islam-sharia/session-2-the-theology-of-islam/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Justice Jackson gives Trump short-term win on food stamp payments during shutdown
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/7/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-gives-trump-short-term-win-food-stamp/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mamdani — the mayor against America
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/magazine-letter-from-the-editor/3878048/zohran-mamdani-mayor-against-america/
— Border Patrol chief in Chicago admits to lying as judge restricts agency’s use of force
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3879891/border-patrol-chief-chicago-admits-lying-judge-restrict-use-of-force/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Mr. Bovino and the Department of Homeland Security claimed that he had been hit by a rock on the head before throwing the tear gas, but video evidence disproves this,” Ellis said in court. “And he ultimately admitted he was not hit until after he threw the tear gas.”)
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Leftism Unleashed? Obama Tells Democrats ‘Not To Impose Litmus Tests’ for Candidates After Mamdani’s Win. The New York City socialist is ‘part of a vision for the future,’ former president says. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/leftism-unleashed-obama-tells-democrats-not-to-impose-litmus-tests-for-candidates-after-mamdanis-win/
NEW YORK POST
— Eric Adams agreed to ‘fully cooperate’ with Mamdani’s transition team
https://nypost.com/2025/11/07/us-news/eric-adams-agreed-to-fully-cooperate-with-zohran-mamdanis-transition-team/
— Mamdani schmoozes with NY Dem leaders who’ll be key to passing his socialist ‘tax the rich’ plans. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/07/us-news/zohran-mamdani-schmoozes-with-ny-dem-leaders-wholl-be-key-to-passing-his-socialist-tax-the-rich-plans/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Why is Support for Socialism Growing? DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/why_is_support_for_socialism_growing.html
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
— Charlie Kirk: A Faithful Life and a Hopeful Legacy
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/articles/charlie-kirk-a-faithful-life-and-a-hopeful-legacy
— Remembering Billy Graham’s Lasting Impact on His 107th Birthday
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/articles/remembering-billy-graham-s-lasting-impact-on-his-107th-birthday
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Billy was born on Nov. 7, 1918 to two dairy farmers residing near Charlotte, North Carolina. When he was 15, Billy accepted Christ as his Savior after he attended a series of revival meetings led by traveling evangelist Mordecai Fowler Ham. After high school, he attended Florida Bible Institute and later Wheaton College. During his time at Wheaton, he met Ruth McCue Bell, whom he married in 1943. Billy spent two years as a traveling preacher for the Christian outreach organization Youth for Christ. In 1947, he began holding his own Crusades, beginning with Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1949, he preached in a Los Angeles Crusade that stretched for eight weeks, sparking nationwide attention. Some 350,000 people attended that event. In 1950, he founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), in Minneapolis, Minnesota. That year, the first Hour of Decision radio program aired, and the next year, the Hour of Decision television broadcast began airing. In 1960, BGEA published the first issue of Decision magazine—a publication envisioned by Billy as a beacon for both lay people and Christian leaders. Throughout his life, he preached in more than 185 countries and territories, which included nearly 215 million people. Between 1947 and 2005 more than 3.2 million people responded to the Gospel invitation at his Crusades, according to official Crusade statistics. He also stood as a pastoral figure to many U.S. presidents and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal with Ruth.)
BLAZE
— The kids aren’t all right — they’re being seduced by socialism. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-kids-arent-all-right-theyre-being-seduced-by-socialism
BREITBART
— ‘Don’t Let Yourself Be Intimidated’ by Local Socialist Victory. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/11/07/javier-milei-comforts-post-mamdani-america-dont-let-yourself-be-intimidated-by-local-socialist-victory/amp/
— DHS Fires Back After Democrats Accuse ICE of Lying in Viral Arrest Video: ‘Smears Fuel Violence Against Agents’
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/11/07/dhs-fires-back-after-democrats-accuse-ice-of-lying-in-viral-arrest-video-smears-fuel-violence-against-agents/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— More college students favor socialism than capitalism. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/more-college-students-favor-socialism-than-capitalism-new-poll-finds/
DAILY CALLER
— Obama Suggests Democrats Should Roll Out Red Carpet For Socialists If They Want To Win. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/07/obama-suggests-democrats-should-roll-out-red-carpet-for-socialists-if-they-want-to-win/
FOX BUSINESS
— Will the Mamdani moment pressure New York lawmakers to embrace socialism? DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6384815391112
FOX NEWS
— Their plan was a flood of illegal immigration. Our answer is an immigration moratorium
https://www.aol.com/news/plan-flood-illegal-immigration-answer-100008309.html
NEW AMERICAN
— Illegal Alien Elected Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/illegal-alien-elected-mayor-of-st-paul-minnesota/
NEWSMAX
— George Santos: Leaving NYC After Mamdani Victory
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/george-santos-new-york-city-zohran-mamdani/2025/11/07/id/1233657/
— Dems would rather endanger children than send back illegals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qksxFGk3LuE
TOWNHALL
— Mamdani’s Win Began in America’s Classrooms
https://townhall.com/columnists/gregory-lyakhov/2025/11/07/zohran-mamdanis-win-began-in-americas-classrooms-n2666107
— The Evil Unleashed in 2008: From Obama, to Biden, to Harris, to Mamdani
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2025/11/08/the-evil-unleashed-in-2008-from-obama-to-biden-to-harris-to-mamdani-n2666141
WESTERN JOURNAL
— After Mamdani Victory, DeSantis Makes NYPD Officers an Offer They Can’t Refuse. “The $5k recruitment bonus we give to new officers will be utilized by a number of these NYPD officers,” DeSantis wrote.
https://www.westernjournal.com/mamdani-victory-desantis-makes-nypd-officers-offer-cant-refuse/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Axelrod calls ADL’s response to Mamdani’s election ‘shockingly gratuitous’
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5595198-axelrod-criticizes-adl-response/
CNN
— Mamdani’s speechwriter says his victory speech was meant to sound defiant
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/politics/video/zohran-mamdanis-speechwritersays-victory-speech-was-meant-to-sound-defiant
— Democrats are more enthusiastic about the midterms as Trump’s approval hits a second-term low. DD: To defeat Republican candidates, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly unite those who are liberal, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time AGAINST those who are conservative, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/politics/cnn-poll-democrats-trump-midterms
MSN
— NYC Wealth Exodus Accelerates After Mamdani’s Socialist Victory. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/nyc-wealth-exodus-accelerates-after-mamdani-s-socialist-victory/ar-AA1Q2xAf?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds
— NYC’s new socialist mayor-elect Mamdani visits mosque during trip to Puerto Rico. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other/nyc-s-new-socialist-mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani-visits-mosque-during-trip-to-puerto-rico/ar-AA1Q1LYb?cvid=690ef2f83b014138be1bc4bca946319f
YAHOO
— NO EVIDENCE Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Plans To Convert Trump Tower In New York City Into Homeless Shelter
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-no-evidence-mayor-071341168.html
ABC NEWS
— Immigrants with health conditions may be denied visas under new Trump administration guidance
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/immigrants-health-conditions-denied-visas-new-trump-administration/story?id=127294699
CBS NEWS
— Over 250,000 Venezuelans in U.S., including thousands in South Florida, to lose Temporary Protected Status
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/venezuelans-south-florida-lose-temporary-protected-status-tps-2025/
— Mamdani serves meals at Islamic center in Puerto Rico
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/zohran-mamdani-serves-meals-at-islamic-center-in-puerto-rico/
NBC NEW YORK
— Mayor-elect Mamdani in Puerto Rico for Somos Conference
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/on-air/as-seen-on/mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani-in-puerto-rico-for-somos-conference-2/6415922/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH NINE PHOTOS: Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation. DD: I worked for GAO in its Chicago office for almost 18 years. Every time the Democrats in DC who ran the agency assigned a new office manager, they gave that manager a list of employees to purge. Of course, I was on all those lists. The more of the following that employees were, the higher that they were on those lists: Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I never would have survived for almost 18 years if I had not a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32, f) earned four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and g) earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading when I was 48.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/hegseth-firing-military-leaders.html
— Supreme Court Temporarily Allows Trump to Curtail Food Stamp Funding
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/trump-news-shutdown
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Fuentes against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/nick-fuentes-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Chicago mayor implores U.N. body to investigate ‘abusive’ immigration campaign. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson accused the Trump administration of violating the “dignity of all Chicagoans” with violent raids and arbitrary detentions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/07/chicago-mayor-immigration-ice-trump-united-nations/
— Progressives warn Democrats against alienating the left and blast Schumer’s Senate leadership. Democrats are riding high after Election Day wins and some are capitalizing on the victory of New York City Mayor-Elect Mamdani.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/07/democrats-progressives-election/5d68a164-bc30-11f0-b389-38cf5ff33d6f_story.html
— Is this really the future of the Democratic Party? Will Mamdani lead the way?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/07/dick-cheney-redistricting-lurie-mamdani/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— An Emboldened Mamdani Sheds Conciliatory Tone
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-wins-interview.html
— What Mamdani’s election really says about voters. DD: From what I see, those who voted for Mamdani are anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-capitalism, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, and/or anti-those who have more money than they have.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/07/what-mamdanis-election-really-says-about-voters/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders promote Mamdani’s wife
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2025/11/07/who-is-rama-duwaji/87155009007/
LAS VEWGAS REVIEW JOURNAL
— Greedy capitalists lead Americans to support socialism. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/letters/letter-greedy-capitalists-lead-americans-to-support-socialism-3534747/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Campus DEI Persists, Even in Texas. ‘Health equity’ remains one of the foundational curricular pillars of UT Austin’s medical school.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/campus-dei-persists-even-in-texas-12748f45?mod=opinion_lead_pos8
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Why young people may turn on capitalism is circulating after Zohran Mamdani’s win. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-email-socialism-zohran-mamdani-student-debt-housing-2025-11
KELLEY & DRYE
— DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI to make their workplaces more hostile to their employees who were Republican, conservative, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about that.
https://www.kelleydrye.com/viewpoints/blogs/labor-days/can-dei-training-create-a-hostile-environment
NPR
— ADL explains its Mamdani Monitor initiative: ‘Never had a candidate like this before’
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5599931/anti-defamation-league-mamdani-monitor-jonathan-greenblatt
REASON
— Mamdani’s Win Suggests a Socialist Future for Democrats and a Rocky One for American Politics. Many in the rising generation are embracing collectivist ideas. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://reason.com/2025/11/07/mamdanis-win-suggests-a-socialist-future-for-democrats-and-a-rocky-one-for-american-politics/
AXIOS
— College students prefer socialism to capitalism. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/01/socialism-capitalism-college-voters
MONTHLY REVIEW
— The World Wants to Advance to Socialism. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-world-wants-to-advance-to-socialism/
FREE PRESS
— Capitalism Isn’t Working for Young People. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.thefp.com/p/peter-thiel-capitalism-isnt-working-for-young-people
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
CBC
— What Mamdani’s win means to this Gen Z New Yorker
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6971324
SPECTATOR
— New York is not the city that Mamdani pretends it is
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/new-york-is-not-the-city-that-mamdani-pretends-it-is/
DISPATCH
— Do Americans Love Socialism? Or Do They Just Hate the Status Quo? DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://thedispatch.com/article/socialism-mamdani-capitalism/
HINDU
— In Israel, Mamdani’s win in New York stirs alarm over shifting U.S. attitudes
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/in-israel-zohran-mamdanis-win-in-new-york-stirs-alarm-over-shifting-us-attitudes/article70255616.ece
— Socialism gaining global appeal. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/socialism-gaining-global-appeal-imperialism-losing-grip-cpim-leader/article70253352.ece/amp/
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— Mamdani At Mosque In Puerto Rico After NYC Mayor Election Win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oveHda1wr34
— Why Indian-origin Zohran Mamdani’s big New York win has led to a ‘chill’ in Israel
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/after-indian-origin-zohran-mamdani-wins-big-in-us-a-chill-in-israel-heres-why-101762586119086.html
INDIA TODAY
— Indian-Origin Mayor’s Historic NYC Win; Zoran Mamdani Clashes With Donald Trump
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/indian-origin-mayors-historic-nyc-win-zoran-mamdani-clashes-with-donald-trump-ytvd-2815717-2025-11-08
TIMES OF INDIA
— Mamdani and the end of American innocence
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/burnt-coffee/zohran-mamdani-and-the-end-of-american-innocence/
— Big Apple has fallen far from its capitalist tree – to a socialist
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/big-apple-has-fallen-far-from-its-capitalist-tree-to-a-socialist/articleshow/125112537.cms
— Google, Microsoft and Facebook parent company Meta have halted their annual diversity reports
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-microsoft-and-meta-have-stopped-this-10-year-old-employee-related-practice/articleshow/125183066.cms
INDIAN EXPRESS
— If Mamdani’s win marks a political shift, wife Rama Duwaji’s fashion marks a cultural one, By choosing a laser-etched tatreez top by a Palestinian designer, the First Lady of New York City turned fashion into a statement of identity, resistance, and solidarity
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/rama-duwaji-zohran-mamdani-tatreez-palestinian-new-york-10353252/
— Mamdani begins NYC mayoral journey with South Asian feast, digs into ‘chili chicken with tingmo bread, aloo dum’ and chai. The freshly elected NYC mayor also shared a plate of momos with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over lunch at Nepalese restaurant Jackson Heights in Queens.
https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/food-wine/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-tingmo-bread-chili-chicken-aloo-dum-10351616/
— Mamdani wasn’t gracious to his opponents. But the city of ambition has an overlord who understands it. “New York, New York” is no longer the unofficial anthem of the city. At the end of his victory speech, Mamdani walked off the stage with a Bollywood hit song, ‘Dhoom Machale’ playing in the background. It translates to “have a blast.”
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/zohran-mamdani-wasnt-gracious-to-his-opponents-but-the-city-of-ambition-has-an-overlord-who-understands-it-10352390/
FORWARD
— From Texas to Tel Aviv, invitations go out to Jews fleeing ‘Mamdani’s New York’ In Maryland, a new Jewish federation moved up its launch to capitalize on a threatened — but hardly guaranteed — exodus.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/782122/from-texas-to-tel-aviv-invitations-go-out-to-jews-fleeing-mamdanis-new-york/
EXPRESS CONNECTION
— Mamdani has appointed former US Federal Trade Commission Chairperson Lina Maliha Khan, a renowned Pakistani-American legal scholar, to co-chair his transition team.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2576456/mamdani-picks-pak-american-to-co-lead-transition-team
DAILY STAR
— What socialist Mamdani’s victory means at the heart of capitalism. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/views/news/what-socialist-mamdanis-victory-means-the-heart-capitalism-4027906
BLACK STAR NEWS
— A Socialist Win In NYC: How, Why, & What It Means. DD: Socialism discourages and destroys personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://blackstarnews.com/a-socialist-win-in-nyc-how-why-what-it-means/
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Harris, Sunak or Mamdani could spoil the ‘West’ by recreating it with ‘Indian characteristics’
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-editorial/harris-sunak-or-mamdani-could-spoil-the-west-by-recreating-it-with-indian-characteristics/articleshow/125167259.cms?from=mdr
ECONOMIST
— Mamdani lost in parts of NYC that look most like America. Our analysis shows why his victory is no model for Democrats elsewhere.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/11/07/zohran-mamdani-lost-in-parts-of-nyc-that-look-most-like-america
TELEGRAPH
— Mamdani has started a war the Democrats cannot win. Both radicals and ‘moderates’ now have empirical evidence to prove their approach wins elections. The party is fatally divided.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/11/07/zohran-mamdani-democrats-war-cannot-win/
JNS
— Mamdani’s triumph is likely to embolden leftists in the West. For European observers, in particular, the success of the Red-Green alliance in the New York City mayoral race should be a wake-up call.
https://www.jns.org/mamdanis-triumph-is-likely-to-embolden-leftists-in-the-west/
October 31, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois lawmakers pass public transit funding bill to address RTA budget gap. DD: I saved lots of money by using public transit. I used public transit in 1971 and then 1973-1997. I spent lots of time reading newspapers, and between 1973 and 1981 and between 1992 and 1997, doing homework. I took graduate evening business courses at Loyola 1973-1976, graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1980, Becker CPA Review courses 1978-1979, an undergraduate internal auditing course at Roosevelt in 1980, a graduate internal auditing course at Roosevelt in 1981, and graduate evening finance courses at IIT 1992-1997. I worked in the Loop in 1971 and then 1973-1997. I can remember when there was public transit (buses) between Crete and Chicago Heights during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-house-passes-public-transit-funding-bill-address-rta-budget-gap/18094306/
NBC5
— Illinois to offer $50 million in loans to unpaid federal workers during shutdown. The loans will be available through local banks, the treasurer’s office said. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. Federal workers have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-to-offer-50-million-in-loans-to-unpaid-federal-workers-during-shutdown/3845801/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois lawmakers pass bill to tackle constitutional violations in immigration raids, ban courthouse arrests
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/30/illinois-lawmakers-push-to-tackle-constitutional-violations-in-immigration-raids-ban-courthouse-arrests/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Amid increased public calls for Illinois elected officials to more strongly push back against the Trump administration’s sometimes-violent crackdown on immigrants in the Chicago region, the Illinois General Assembly early Friday passed a bill to formally ban federal agents from arresting people near courthouses and allowing lawsuits if individuals’ rights have been violated in civil immigration arrests. The legislation came in response to what one of the bill’s sponsors, Democratic state Sen. Celina Villanueva of Chicago, described as “the reality of the pain and the cruelty and the inhumanity that’s being inflicted on my community, on my district, on the communities in this state — that are also American — for the simple fact of looking the way that I do.” “I’m going to fight back,” she said on the Senate floor late Thursday, shortly before the bill passed 40-18. The Illinois House passed the legislation 75-32 a little more than an hour later. While supporters applauded the bill’s passage, even its key sponsor, Senate President Don Harmon, called it “imperfect.” But he said Democratic lawmakers in Springfield felt the need to act, as state and local officials have often felt hamstrung in countering the federal government’s often-aggressive tactics. “I’m prepared for this law to be challenged, but I think we still have an obligation to try to do something,” Harmon, of Oak Park, told a committee hearing in Springfield Thursday. “There is no need for the same people who are charged with protecting our constitutional rights to violate our constitutional rights in the process.” Under the bill, individuals could sue officers for knowingly violating the state or U.S. Constitution during civil immigration enforcement. The bill would also codify a 1,000-foot “safe zone” around courthouses, free from civil arrests, in an attempt to limit potential disruptions to court activities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol activities in Chicago and the surrounding areas have come under increased scrutiny and criticism. In what the federal government has described as an initiative to deport the “worst of the worst” individuals who lack legal status, agents have repeatedly detained people first and sought information about them later, without immediate regard for citizenship or legal status. The bill came together in collaboration with House lawmakers, the state attorney general’s office and the governor’s office, Harmon said on the Senate floor. While the governor and lawmakers have used their bully pulpits to push back, and some legislators have at times taken an activist role themselves in opposition to the federal actions, the statehouse has little formal role in immigration policy. In a sign of lawmakers’ frustration with the federal agents’ tactics, damages under the lawsuit provision could go up due to various factors. They include whether the defendant wore a mask; used crowd control equipment like tear gas; failed to identify themselves as a law enforcement officer; used a vehicle without an Illinois license plate; or failed to turn on a necessary body camera — all behaviors advocates and Democratic lawmakers have accused immigration agents of since the start of “Operation Midway Blitz” under the administration of President Donald Trump. It doesn’t impede ICE from “doing its job lawfully,” Harmon told his colleagues on the Senate floor. But in the floor debate Thursday, Senate GOP Leader John Curran of Downers Grove called those aggravating factors for damages a form of overreach. “You are … teeing this up for the Supreme Court to set this aside. You’re actually making it easy on them,” Curran said. Violators who arrest individuals improperly at or near a courthouse would face civil damages for false imprisonment and $10,000 in statutory damages, according to the bill. A judge can also issue an order preventing arrest under the provision, according to the bill. “When witnesses or parties don’t come to court, it doesn’t just affect them. It affects all of us,” Villanueva said. A judge can also issue an order preventing arrests under the provision, according to the bill. In addition to the provisions on courts and private actions, the bill also asks hospitals, day care centers and higher education institutions to put policies on the books about how they would respond to the presence of federal immigration agents, following incidents of ICE activity at or near some of those locations across the Chicago area. It would also largely prohibit hospitals, day care centers and higher education institutions from disclosing the immigration status of patients, clients and students. Hospitals would be fined $500 per day for noncompliance if they fail to meet the deadlines for developing their policies during the first quarter of next year. The higher education provisions on immigration status could be enforced through private lawsuits. And violations of the day care policy requirement would result in a licensing violation, according to the bill. Democratic state Sen. Omar Aquino, of Chicago, 2nd District, sponsored the day care provisions after his child’s day care center went into lockdown because of nearby immigration enforcement activity, he said. “Our kids were fine, but families were in fear because they didn’t know what to do,” Aquino said. “Here in the state, we must do something to make sure that no family feels that way. The package put forward this week doesn’t include a ban on masks for federal officers, as California enacted, or any expansions of Illinois’ existing law that generally bans local law enforcement from cooperating on civil immigration actions. At a subject matter hearing on the legislation Thursday, representatives from local law enforcement pushed back on parts of the legislation, including the private right of action for constitutional violations, over concerns that local officers could get swept up. “There’s going to be frivolous litigation that will be filed against state and local law enforcement officers,” even if it’s eventually thrown out, said Jim Kaitschuk, executive director of the Illinois Sheriffs’ Association. Pritzker, for his part, on Thursday in his ceremonial Springfield office, called on top federal immigration officials, including Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, to pause their activities for the Halloween weekend. “Mr. Bovino, your operation has sown fear and division and chaos among law-abiding residents in our communities,” Pritzker said. “No child in America should have to go trick-or-treating in fear that they might be confronted with armed federal agents and have to inhale tear gas.” At a news conference in Gary, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem dismissed Pritzker’s call for the Halloween pause. “The fact that Gov. Pritzker is asking for that is shameful and I think unfortunate that he doesn’t recognize how important the work is that we do to make sure we’re bringing criminals to justice and getting them off our streets — especially when we’re going to send all of our kiddos out on the streets and going to events and enjoying the holiday season. We want to make sure that they’re safe,” she said.)
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use children to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/halloween-chicago-immigration-snap-benefits/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/halloween-trick-or-treat-bovino-ellis-chicago-immigration/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put more people on SNAP.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/30/snap-benefits-illinois-food-pantries/
— Residents could see 76% increase for ACA plans. DD: The federal government paying 72% of my health care insurance premiums since 1966 and paying 72% of my wife’s health care insurance premiums since 1978 helped me endure my Democrat superiors wasting my career, their taking many big adverse actions against me, and their forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/27/illinois-affordable-care-act-plans/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE IN NAPERVILLE SUN: NCTV17 seeks additional $200,000 in funding from Naperville to cover dropping revenue. DD: As costs ever-increasingly increase to put together and to send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, I ever-increasingly use take more from my Civil Service Retirement System pension, Social Security, and RMD to pay for it.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/30/nctv17-funding-naperville-revenue-cable/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: IDs are mismatched, illegible — or still missing three weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers. In dozens of photographs at four locations, Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists documented federal officers failing to wear the “visible identification” needed to hold individuals accountable during the ongoing immigration “blitz.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/31/ice-border-patrol-operation-midway-blitz-ids-gregory-bovino-immigration-enforcement-chicago-arrests-detention
— Trump taps big City Hall contractors for ICE operation Brandon Johnson opposes. “We do have to take this seriously and make sure that we are not collaborating by hiring or benefiting companies that are acting against us,” said 33rd Ward Ald. Rossana Rodriguez.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/10/30/ice-border-patrol-contract-weapons-noem-homan-president-donald-trump-brandon-johnson-chicago
— DD: Democrats, RINOs, and Libertarians want stoners to have guns.
https://www.oaoa.com/opinion/sullum-trump-an-avowed-second-amendment-champion-defends-a-gun-ban-with-no-historical-justification/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Transit bailout passes overnight in Springfield
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/transit-compromise-bill-being-debated-springfield
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— You can be paid to live in these two central Illinois counties
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/paid-live-two-central-illinois-090325056.html
HERALD REVIEW
— Illinois school report card continues to show wide achievement gaps. DD: According to Democrats and to RINOs, if those who are the following achieve less, it is because Republicans discriminate against them: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://herald-review.com/news/state-regional/education/article_751a111f-79fa-5e39-91ed-376e4d589331.html
NORTH SHORE RECORD
— ICE activity confirmed in Wilmette. Number of arrests remains unclear
https://www.therecordnorthshore.org/2025/10/29/ice-activity-confirmed-in-wilmette-number-of-arrests-remains-unclear/
97.7
— 41% of Fatal Crash Drivers Across the Country Tested Positive for THC. DD: Pot is poison.
https://977wmoi.com/2025/10/study-finds-41-of-fatal-crash-drivers-across-the-country-tested-positive-for-thc/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Pritzker warns immigration crackdown becoming ‘wider and more intense’
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/pritzker-warns-immigration-crackdown-becoming-wider-and-more-intense/
— Lawmakers approve $1.5B transit funding package without statewide tax increases. Funding for downstate transit agencies decreases from previous plan.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/lawmakers-approve-1-5b-transit-funding-package-without-statewide-tax-increases/
CHICAGO READER
— Chicago keeps controversial police promotion list secret. DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less likely that you will be hired, retained, or promoted: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://chicagoreader.com/news/reader-investigative-reports/cpd-merit-promotion-police/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect ever-increasing dependency on food pantries.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/food-pantries-brace-for-huge-increase-in-need-as-feds-cut-off-snap-funding/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois lawmakers early this morning approved sweeping legislation designed to curb federal immigration enforcement within the state — a move that follows Gov. JB Pritzker’s warnings about an increasingly aggressive federal campaign targeting Chicago-area communities. The 12:40 a.m. vote capped a busy last day of the General Assembly session in which lawmakers also passed bills to expand clean-energy projects and lower costs for consumers, and fund public transit systems across the Chicago region — “The transformation bill,” as state Rep. Kam Buckner called it. That vote came just before the House wrapped at 2:35 a.m. The Senate wrapped up even later. About the immigration enforcement bill: It designates “safe zones” around schools, hospitals and courthouses, and allows Illinois residents to sue immigration agents who violate their constitutional rights, including for false imprisonment or unlawful detention. “This bill is a statement on behalf of the legislature to say that what ICE is doing is unacceptable,” said Democratic Sen. Celina Villanueva, one of the bill’s sponsors. Senate President Don Harmon delivered an emotional speech before the final vote. “I am distraught and frightened,” he said. “I never thought I’d live in a world where masked federal employees, brandishing military-style weapons, would jump out of unmarked vans to kidnap and disappear people — U.S. citizens. And today, those people are targeting residents who look like Senator (Omar) Aquino, Senator (Celina) Villanueva, Senator (Karina) Villa, Senator (Cristina) Castro, Senator Javier Cervantes and Senator (Graciela) Guzman.” The bill allows for punitive damages against immigration agents who conceal their identities, fail to wear body cameras, or use unmarked or out-of-state vehicles. It also bans civil immigration arrests inside courthouses or within 1,000 feet of them and requires schools, hospitals and child-care facilities to adopt protocols for responding to enforcement actions. Harmon expects the bill to face challenges. “That doesn’t mean it’s not the right thing to do,” he told lawmakers. And House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch likened the legislation’s importance to the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. “History will judge our actions in this moment, just as it did our predecessors,” he said. Republicans fiercely opposed the measure, calling it unconstitutional and dangerous. The bill “goes too far,” argued state Rep. Patrick Windhorst, echoing state Sen. Andrew Chesney, who said it would “tie the hands” of law enforcement. And state Rep. John Cabello, another Republican, said the measure sends a message to police officers that “you could be next,” referring to the provision allowing lawsuits against federal agents.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/31/lawmakers-pass-transit-energy-ice-bills-00631231
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/31/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-623/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Reick Criticizes Pension Increase Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/30/reick-criticizes-pension-increase-bill/
— UPDATE: How the Crystal Lake Park District Intends to Spend the Four Cent Tax Rate the Legislature Did Not Put Under the Property Tax Cap
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/30/how-the-crystal-lake-park-district-intends-to-spend-the-four-cent-tax-rate-the-legislature-did-not-put-under-the-property-tax-cap/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— House GOP Leader Tony McCombie Blocks Public Comments on Facebook – Critics Call It Authoritarian Censorship
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/house-gop-leader-tony-mccombie-blocks-public-comments-on-facebook-critics-call-it-authoritarian-censorship.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DOJ investigating allegations Black Lives Matter defrauded donors
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3870220/doj-investigation-black-lives-matter-fraud-donors/
NEW YORK POST
— DOJ investigating possible fraud within Black Lives Matter movement
https://nypost.com/2025/10/30/us-news/doj-investigating-possible-fraud-within-black-lives-matter-movement/
— Noem warns trucks are becoming ‘weapons’ as Newsom, sanctuary states license illegal immigrants
https://nypost.com/2025/10/30/us-news/noem-warns-trucks-are-becoming-weapons-as-newsom-sanctuary-states-license-illegal-immigrants/
BREITBART
— Democrats Holding the Neediest Americans Hostage with Gov’t Shutdown
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/30/hawley-democrats-holding-the-neediest-americans-hostage-with-govt-shutdown/
— Mamdani: We Need Less Cooperation with Feds on Immigration So NYPD Can Focus More on Crime
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/30/mamdani-we-need-less-cooperation-with-feds-on-immigration-so-nypd-can-focus-more-on-crime/amp/
— Armed Salvadoran Illegal Alien Arrested in Texas Home Depot Parking Lot
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/10/30/watch-armed-salvadoran-illegal-alien-arrested-in-texas-home-depot-parking-lot/amp/
— 7,200 Truck Drivers Taken Off U.S. Highways After Failing English Test. DD: While I worked for the Post Office in Park Forest 1966-1969, I often drove a truck to pick up mail and to deliver mail.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/30/feds-more-than-7200-truck-drivers-removed-from-u-s-highways-after-failing-english-test/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— DeSantis tells Florida universities to hire Americans first. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/desantis-tells-florida-universities-to-hire-americans-first/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Pritzker Warns Kids About ICE on Halloween
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63TejpnSkG4
— — DD: Democrats create a culture of dependency
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/30/schumer-shutdown-presents-opportunity-snap-americas-spirit-charity/
FEDERALIST
— Report Tracks $200 Million Spent On Illegal Immigrant Health Care. DD: Reasons to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally include Democrats and RINOs giving you free housing, free food, free clothing, free health care, free transportation, free education, and free everything.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/30/exclusive-new-report-tracks-200-million-spent-on-illegal-immigrant-health-care/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Chicago Mayor Dodges Question by Quibbling Over Term “Illegal Alien”
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/10/30/chicago-mayor-dodges-question-over-term-illegal-alien
FOX NEWS
— Democrats create a culture of dependency
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6384314800112
— Florida Republican vows to block welfare benefits for noncitizens: ‘If you want free stuff, go home.’ ‘Not one penny,’ Fine wrote. DD: Soon, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-republican-vows-block-welfare-benefits-noncitizens-if-you-want-free-stuff-go-home
— Staff at top university reveal scheme to continue DEI under ‘changed’ names. DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less likely that you will be hired, retained, or promoted: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-staff-at-top-university-reveal-scheme-to-continue-dei-under-changed-names-doin-the-same-work.amp
ICE
— ICE arrests 223 illegal aliens along northwest Indiana highways
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-223-illegal-aliens-along-northwest-indiana-highways
NEWS BUSTERS
— Democrats’ Support of Illegal Aliens Also Caused the Previous Shutdown
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/10/30/democrats-support-illegal-aliens-also-caused-previous
NEWSMAX
— Kristi Noem: Illegals can’t speak English, read road signs. DD: All this harkens back to George Ryan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkuMBxr0uw
POST MILLENNIAL
— Illegal immigrant MS-13 suspect gets stuck on business sign during failed rooftop escape in Houston. ICE identified the man as 29-year-old Marlon Odir Gomez Hernandez, an illegal immigrant who had previously been arrested in El Salvador for aggravated extortion alongside six other suspected MS-13 members.
https://thepostmillennial.com/illegal-immigrant-ms-13-suspect-gets-stuck-on-business-sign-during-failed-rooftop-escape-in-houston
TOWNHALL
— Let Illegal Immigrants Trick-or-Treat Pritzker Tells Feds
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/10/30/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-asks-for-halloween-immigration-truce-n2665706
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Noem: ICE will be out in ‘full force’ on Halloween in Chicago
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5581764-kristi-noem-chicago-immigration-enforcement-halloween/
NEWSWEEK
— SNAP Update: 1.7M People to Be Banned From Benefits Under GOP Proposal. DD: Soon, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.newsweek.com/snap-update-1-7m-people-to-be-banned-from-benefits-under-gop-proposal-10964509
NEW YORK TIMES
— Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country. DD: The federal government paying 72% of my health care insurance premiums since 1966 and paying 72% of my wife’s health care insurance premiums since 1978 helped me endure my Democrat superiors wasting my career, their taking many big adverse actions against me, and their forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/30/upshot/obamacare-subsidies-new-prices.html
WASHINGTON POST
— In Trump’s GOP, the once-mighty tea party is hard to find. Since the movement upended politics 15 years ago, Republicans have moved in a sharply different direction under MAGA — with many tea party veterans along for the ride.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/31/tea-party-trump-maga-republicans/
USA TODAY
— Alzheimer’s doesn’t change just one person. DD: My aunt had Alzheimer’s. I had full health and financial power of attorney for her from 2009 until her death in 2022. That consumed lots of my time and attention during that period. SEE: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/eunice-diersen-obituary?id=52792433
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/10/30/dementia-alzheimers-caregiver-help-support/83878926007/
SACRAMENTO BEE
— As shutdown stretches on, Congress’ efforts to pay federal employees stall. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. Federal workers have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article312713846.html
DETROIT NEWS
— DD: Democrats create a culture of dependency
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/kaitlyn-buss/2025/10/30/buss-are-americans-sick-of-government-dependency/86966217007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Economics of Culture. People from cultures that emphasize productive habits tend to advance. The reverse is also true. DD: My parents and grade school teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My parents and grade school teachers were German American Missouri Synod Lutherans.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-culture-29c337f2
BLOOMBERG
— EEOC Lawyer Tells Companies How to Refresh Affirmative Action Plans for Trump Era. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because my Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted that offer and because I needed a job because I was helping support my mother and brother, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-30/trump-eeoc-lawyer-suggests-employers-refresh-affirmative-action-plans?embedded-checkout=true
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Uncertainty over back pay, RIFs deepening apprehension for federal employees under shutdown. DD: In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans that GAO hired. Virtually all GAO employees have always been Democrats. As I worked them 1980-1997, they got ever-increasingly depressed and angry because of Gingrich’s ever-increasing budget cuts. They ever-increasingly took their anger against Gingrich out on me. It all culminated with their forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/uncertainty-over-back-pay-rifs-deepening-apprehension-for-federal-employees-under-shutdown/
NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— New DHS Rule to End the Automatic Work Permit Extension. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://natlawreview.com/article/new-dhs-rule-end-automatic-work-permit-extension?amp
YOU GOV
— Americans’ rankings of 30 occupations. DD: What jobs have you had? I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1971-1972. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. According to my critics/opponents, I was grossly overpaid for those jobs and my pension and retirement benefits are much too generous.
https://today.yougov.com/economy/articles/45927-americans-rank-30-occupations-pay-happiness-impact
WIRED
— Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown. The US government shutdown 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. Federal workers have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous.
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-workers-barely-making-it-through-government-shutdown/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
INDEPENDENT
— Laura Ingraham tells laid-off federal employees to get ‘real jobs.’ Fox News dismissed federal employees’ concerns about being fired, saying they need to find ‘real jobs’ in ‘the real world.’ DD: In my defense, if my high school friend had not asked me to take the postal employment test with him, I would not have become a postal employee in 1966. In my defense, if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint, I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971. In my defense, if my Democrat IRS superiors had not made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13, I would not have become a GAO employee in 1980. Once you become a federal employee, it is almost impossible to get a job outside of the federal government. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. Federal employees have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/laura-ingraham-federal-employees-doge-b2704308.html
October 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE OF DABROWSKI: Republican race for Illinois governor already spiraling downward over questionable campaign tactics. DD: The Chicago Tribune ever-increasingly does everything that it can a) to determine which candidates win Republican primaries in Illinois and b) to defeat those candidates in general elections.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/illinois-gop-governor-race-infighting/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republican-race-illinois-governor-already-024200832.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The devolution of Illinois’ Republican Party continued Tuesday as a candidate for governor refused to denounce two political operatives tied to a right-wing fake newspaper website that published a story containing an internet link detailing salacious allegations against a rival, while a new candidate emerged with a controversial background as a gambling mogul. At a brief news conference, GOP governor candidate Ted Dabrowski refused to discuss the public disclosure of a years-old draft harassment complaint involving rival Darren Bailey and his 2022 campaign. The allegations, stemming from Bailey’s failed 2022 bid for governor, were never formally filed in court and have not been verified, but were linked to a politically motivated news article shared online. Dabrowski, former president of the conservative research and advocacy group Wirepoints, also would not answer questions about Jeanne Ives and right-wing radio talk show host Dan Proft, both of whom supported Bailey in 2022 but are now backing Dabrowski. Ives is an acolyte of Proft, and Proft has been a business partner of Brian Timpone, who oversees one of many so-called “pink-slime” publications — fake newspapers used as a political tool — that included a link to the unverified claims. Ives, who has lost previous bids for governor and Congress, also posted the article with the link on her Facebook page. “Ordinary Illinoisans, Chicagoans, Illinoisans, don’t care about political infighting between campaigns. And I’m not going to get into that,” Dabrowski said during the news conference, which lasted less than 10 minutes. The GOP race for governor in the March 17 primary and the right to take on billionaire second-term Democrat JB Pritzker began spiraling late last week when a Timpone-run publication posted the link to a 37-page confidential draft lawsuit within an online article about a political action committee called the Save Illinois PAC. That PAC, which spent over $39,500 to help launch Bailey’s second bid for the Republican nomination for governor, is run by Brett Corrigan, a former political worker for Bailey who made the allegations during Bailey’s first run for governor in 2022, when he was 17 years old. The Tribune is not detailing the allegations contained in the draft lawsuit because it was never filed in court and not verified, and the legal dispute apparently ended in a closed-door resolution between Corrigan and Bailey. The Chicago Tribune first reported on the dispute between Corrigan and the Bailey campaign days before the November 2022 general election. At the time of the 2022 campaign, Proft was supportive of Bailey and used his People Who Play By The Rules PAC to back the Republican former state lawmaker from downstate. Proft, of Naples, Florida, also has been the conduit of tens of millions of dollars in contributions to Illinois candidates from conservative megadonor Richard Uihlein of Lake Forest, who founded the Uline office supply distribution firm. Uihlein, in 2022, overwhelmingly funded the People Who Play By The Rules PAC, but this year has given $250,000 to Dabrowski’s campaign. In 2022, Proft sought to inject himself into the potential litigation between Corrigan and Bailey. By law, the PAC was not supposed to coordinate its spending activities with Bailey’s campaign but text messages show efforts by Proft to try to intercede in the legal matter, raising questions over whether Proft was closer to the campaign than previously acknowledged. After Corrigan retained Orland Park attorney Scott Kaspar to pursue a proposed confidential settlement agreement, Proft weighed in, apparently in an effort to quash the filing of a possible lawsuit that could become public ahead of the 2022 general election. Pritzker ended up defeating Bailey by about 13 percentage points. The Democratic Party of Illinois filed a complaint with the Illinois State Board of Elections the day after the Tribune story was published, alleging Proft and Bailey’s campaign illegally coordinated their efforts to oppose Pritzker’s reelection bid. But the board rejected the complaint last year, in part, because Illinois law does not specifically define what activities constitute “coordination” that would render the actions of an independent expenditure PAC and the candidate it supports illegal. “While Darren Bailey and (his lieutenant governor running mate) Aaron Del Mar are focused on defeating Democrats and fixing Illinois, it’s unfortunate that Jeanne Ives is once again reprising her role as the Democrats’ favorite ‘Republican,’” Bailey campaign spokesman Jose Durbin said in a statement. “Jeanne Ives is a sore loser who’s been bitter ever since she couldn’t even beat (former one-term GOP Gov.) Bruce Rauner in a Republican primary. She’s made a career out of attacking fellow conservatives instead of fighting Democrats. At this point, she’s nothing more than a political grifter looking for attention.” Besides sharing the faux-news article and link on her Facebook page, Ives also commented on it by writing, “The Bailey Clown Show and Grift.” Appearing at Dabrowski’s news conference Tuesday, she denied being the source of the draft complaint. “I have no idea who leaked it. Zero idea,” Ives said. “I was concerned about the ‘Save Illinois PAC.’ They raise monies for reasons that they never told the donors at all. And then they gave $40,000 to the Bailey campaign. I mean, that was the bigger concern for me.” Despite hosting a Bailey kickoff event earlier this year in Oak Brook, Corrigan has now left Bailey’s 2026 campaign, signing up as chair for a new contender, Rick Heidner of Barrington Hills, a real estate developer and founder of Gold Rush Gaming. Heidner filed campaign finance paperwork Tuesday to run for the GOP governor nomination with Homer Glen Mayor Christina Neitzke-Troike as his running mate. He also disclosed that he had seeded his campaign with $1 million. In October 2019, a Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that for nearly two decades, Heidner owned numerous commercial properties via shell companies in several states with Rocco Suspenzi, the longtime chairman and part owner of Parkway Bank and Trust in Harwood Heights. In 2003, the Illinois Gaming Board and the FBI exposed Suspenzi and son Jeffrey for concealing their own ownership stake, as well as that of a reputed mob figure, in the infamous Emerald casino project. Suspenzi and his son invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in 2005 when the Gaming Board sought to question them about their role in concealing the ownership stakes of reputed Outfit-linked investors Vito Salamone and Nick Boscarino. At the same time, Heidner had a similar real estate partnership with convicted bookmaker Dominic Buttitta. Together, they owned a building in Elgin that was leased to a bar licensed for video gambling that used Heidner’s Gold Rush machines. In 2012, Buttitta pleaded guilty to federal charges of running an illegal sportsbook from the South Elgin strip club he controlled. The revelations led in part to Pritzker’s decision to cancel the sale of the former Tinley Park Mental Health Center property, which Heidner had sought to purchase for a horse racing and casino facility. In April 2021, Heidner and state gaming regulators reached a settlement after the state withdrew allegations that he had offered an illegal $5 million inducement to purchase a rival video gambling chain. Heidner has been a frequent political donor, in February giving $25,000 to the conservative Republican group McHenry GOPAC and in 2022 he gave $25,000 to Richard Irvin, the former mayor of Aurora, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor that year. But Heidner has also contributed to Democratic candidates, including $25,000 to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and $5,000 to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in 2023, as well as $5,000 to Don Harmon, now the president of the Illinois Senate, in 2017. Corrigan confirmed that he’s supporting Heidner, stating that he and Heidner have been good friends for a long time. But Corrigan said he still considers Bailey a friend, though there are people who could take their previous falling out “to make a mess of politics.” “It seems like Republicans attack each other harder than the opposition does,” Corrigan said. Kaspar echoed that sentiment, saying the infighting is “a sad testament of the state of the Illinois Republican Party.” “It’s a very fractured party,” said Kaspar, the general counsel for the Illinois Review, a conservative website that published an article about the draft complaint saga this week.)
— DD: Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/20/column-selle-column-lake-county-no-kings/
— DD: Democrat leaders want to suppress why Katie Abraham was killed.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/opinion-katie-abraham-operation-midway-blitz/
(DHS: DHS is launching Operation Midway Blitz in honor of Katie Abraham who was killed in Illinois by a criminal illegal alien who should have never been in our country. This operation will target the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in Chicago.)
— City of Harvey declares itself effectively bankrupt. Look for more Cook County municipalities to do the same. DD: Under the Democrats, every city will be like Harvey.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/22/editorial-harvey-insolvency-property-taxes-pensions/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/22/letters-102225-immigrants/
— Naperville D203 board member Kelley Black censured again for ‘unprofessional’ actions. DD: In 2006, my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes do everything that they could to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They failed. I should write about my critics/opponents from back then who continue to do everything that they can to destroy me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/black-kelley-censured-again-naperville-d203/
DAILY HERALD
— Democratic incumbents dominating fundraising in suburban congressional races. DD: To discredit me, my critics/opponents stress that no one gives me money to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and to send them out. In my defense, I have never asked for money for that and I never will. I value my independence. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. Further, I have enough money, time, experience, ability, and motivation to put the newsletters together and to send them out. I have more time because my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship and end my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251021/article/democratic-incumbents-dominating-fundraising-in-suburban-congressional-races/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In Illinois’ 3rd District, which encompasses parts of suburban Cook and DuPage counties and some Chicago neighborhoods, Democratic U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez of Chicago is the only one of four candidates who filed a quarterly financial report by the deadline. Ramirez’s campaign has raised $990,874 this election cycle and spent $408,995, the latest records show. It started the quarter with $976,477 and finished September with about $1 million in the bank. Also running are Democrat Kip Knutson and Republican Angel Oakley, both of Wheaton, and Republican Spomenka Vajic of Chicago.)
— DD: My Democrat and RINO superiors in government and in politics have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me. Should name my Democrat and RINO superiors and write about the big adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251022/syndicated-columnists/trumps-political-enemies-list-and-vindictive-prosecutions/
ABC7
— A U.S. congressional candidate and current state representative said Customs and Border Patrol agents surrounded and harassed him in his vehicle Tuesday on Chicago’s Northwest Side. State Rep. Hoan Huynh, a Democrat from Chicago who is running to represent the 9th District, was in his vehicle about 11:30 a.m. near Montrose and Kimball avenues in Albany Park, a news release from his campaign said.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-rep-hoan-huynh-says-customs-border-patrol-agent-pulled-gun-montrose-kimball-albany-park-chicago/18053996/
SOUTHERN
— Illinois video gambling mogul Rick Heidner to seek GOP gubernatorial nomination. Heidner owns the third-largest video gaming terminal operator in Illinois. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/22/letters-102225-immigrants/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/politics/champaign-county-board-weighs-supporting-proposed-reparations-commission/article_a0525375-0814-423c-872a-8a6a9b52cd8c.html
INDIANAPOLIS STAR
— Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson debated attendees on a variety of hot-button issues for hours at a sold-out Turning Point USA event at Indiana University on Oct. 21.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tucker-carlson-spars-audience-trump-025129767.html
ILLINOIS STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
— Celebrate Pro Bono Across Illinois. DD: What percent of pro bono is done to defend and advance the Democrat Party platform?
https://www.isba.org/barnews/2025/10/spotlightonprobonocelebrateprobonoacrossillinoison
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Illinois video gambling mogul to seek GOP gubernatorial nomination. Rick Heidner owns the third-largest video gaming terminal operator in Illinois. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-video-gambling-mogul-to-seek-gop-gubernatorial-nomination/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois families struggle while Pritzker wins in Las Vegas. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f93f4ac2-0917-44d6-9ad4-9d910f1d07e5.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— County Board Proposes 13% Tax Levy Increase
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/21/county-board-proposes-13-tax-levy-increase/
— Dems Threaten to Eliminate Darin LaHood’s District Through New Gerrymandering
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/21/dems-threaten-to-eliminate-darin-lahoods-district-through-new-gerrymandering/
— DeWitte Summarizes Pritzker Budget Shortfall
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/21/dewitte-summarizes-pritzker-budget-shortfall/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Johnson’s “Protecting Chicago” budget proposes nearly $500M in tax hikes
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/johnsons-protecting-chicago-budget-proposes-nearly-500m-in-tax-hikes/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ICE to Pursue Federal Charges After Bolingbrook Police Fail to Arrest Attackers—Officials Now Under Investigation for Stand-Down Order
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/ice-to-pursue-federal-charges-after-bolingbrook-police-fail-to-arrest-attackers-officials-now-under-investigation-for-stand-down-order.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DHS blames left-wing rhetoric after illegal immigrant rams ICE officer with car
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3858667/dhs-left-wing-rhetoric-illegal-immigrant-rams-ice-officer-with-car/
NEW YORK POST
— How Donald Trump can show his support for immigrants who do it right. DD: What about offering more work permits for citizens of foreign countries who will take bad jobs that citizens of America ever-increasingly refuse to take? But wait, citizens of foreign countries can get bad jobs in their motherlands. How many citizens of foreign countries would take the bad jobs that I took? I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1971-1972. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. According to my critics/opponents, a) all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never have stooped to take and b) I was grossly overpaid for those jobs and my pension and retirement benefits are much too generous.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/opinion/trump-show-your-support-for-legal-immigrants-at-citizenship-ceremonies/
BLAZE
— Thousands of illegal aliens found on Texas voter rolls
https://www.theblaze.com/news/thousands-texas-illegal-aliens-vote
BREITBART
— ICE Nabs Illegal Alien Cabbies, Rideshare Drivers at O’Hare Airport
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/21/ice-nabs-illegal-migrant-cabbies-rideshare-drivers-at-ohare-airport/amp/
— ‘No Kings’ Rallies Pressure Moderate Democrats to Prolong Government Shutdown
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/10/21/nolte-no-kings-rallies-pressure-moderate-democrats-to-prolong-government-shutdown/amp/
— ICE Arrests 100 Illegal Aliens in Idaho at Horse Race Event
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/21/ice-arrests-100-illegal-aliens-idaho-horse-race/
CENTER SQUARE
— Majority of Americans do not support National Guard to deter crime. But half of voters support deploying the National Guard to their city or state.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_9742fb2f-c11d-40cd-87a0-c66807b12eed.amp.html
CHRISTIAN POST
— Woke isn’t dead, dying, hospitalized or even hiding
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/woke-public-schools-are-brainwashing-your-kids.html
FOX NEWS
— US Marshal, illegal alien shot in Los Angeles immigration operation. Federal agents opened fire after suspect allegedly rammed vehicles in escape attempt, both hospitalized.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-marshal-illegal-alien-shot-los-angeles-immigration-operation
— Schools simply rebrand DEI
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/undercover-video-reveals-red-state-university-employee-suggesting-dei-simply-being-rebranded.amp
NEWSMAX
— 40 Percent Back Deporting Illegals With No Criminal Record. DD: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is criminal. Everyone has always known that Biden’s parole programs were always illegal.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/yougov-poll-immigrants-ice/2025/10/21/id/1231331/
PJ MEDIA
— Texas Let HOW MANY Illegals Register to Vote?
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/10/21/texas-let-how-many-illegals-register-to-vote-n4945085
POST MILLENNIAL
— ICE arrests 51 criminal illegal immigrants in Portland amid ongoing Antifa-linked protests. The operation targeted illegal migrants with extensive criminal histories, such as sexual assault, child abuse, domestic violence, drug trafficking, and manslaughter.
https://thepostmillennial.com/ice-arrests-51-criminal-illegal-immigrants-in-portland-amid-antifa-linked-protests
TOWNHALL
— Democrats have sworn up and down for years that we didn’t need legislation like the SAVE Act to clean up our voter rolls. “It’s already against the law for illegal immigrants to vote,” they argued. They also insisted illegal immigrants weren’t voting in elections. But that thing that never happens happened again.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/10/21/texas-illegals-on-voter-rolls-n2665270
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) withdraws after offensive text messages revealed. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat superiors in the federal government took many prohibited personnel actions against me. OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472/year pay cut to transfer from IRS. OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education expenses, and disallowed my travel vouchers. OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign and disallowed my sick leave requests.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-21/trump-pick-to-lead-watchdog-agency-withdraws-after-offensive-text-messages-revealed
(OSC: The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency. OSC’s statutory authority comes from four federal laws: the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment & Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). OSC’s primary mission is to safeguard the merit system by protecting federal employees and applicants from prohibited personnel practices (PPPs), especially reprisal for whistleblowing. For a description of the 14 PPPs, click here. OSC also operates as a secure channel for federal employees to blow the whistle by disclosing wrongdoing. Federal law establishes a unique process for disclosures made to OSC, intended to protect the confidentiality of the whistleblower and ensure that the alleged wrongdoing is investigated and, where necessary, corrected. For a description of the six types of covered wrongdoing, click here. In addition, OSC enforces the Hatch Act, which puts certain restrictions on partisan political activity by government employees (learn more). It also protects the civilian employment and reemployment rights of military service members under USERRA (learn more).)
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/opinion/trump-degredation-maga.html
USA TODAY
— What car does Mark Zuckerberg drive every day? One of the richest people on Earth drives an American luxury car instead of a foreign supercar. DD: The American nameplate muscle cars at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville are ever-increasingly being replaced by expensive foreign supercars. But my unit there has a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona Plus, a 2013 Dodge Charger R/t Max, and a 2005 Corvette.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/cars/news/2025/10/17/mark-zuckerberg-drive-drive-car/85270401007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: What would you drive if you had millions of dollars in the bank? Last summer, Forbes published a list of the richest people in every state. Unsurprisingly, Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder of Facebook and CEO of Meta Platforms, is listed as the richest person in California as of July 2025. Zuckerberg’s current net worth is over $242 billion dollars according to Forbes, making him the third-richest person on the planet at time of publication. So, what does a multibillionaire drive? Furthermore, is it a vehicle average Americans can afford? Mark Zuckerberg daily drives a Cadillac CT5 V-Blackwing, according to an article by automotive publication AutoEvolution.)
MIAMI HERALD
— Cubans with criminal records in the U.S. are being quietly deported to Mexico
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312432237.html
HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA
— Houston residents, officials push back against rainbow crosswalk removal. DD: How soon, if not already, will Democrat and RINO leaders paint rainbow crosswalks in your county, township, municipality, school district, precinct, and neighborhood?
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/lgbtq/2025/10/21/533919/rainbow-crosswalk-houston-chalk-art-protest-heights-montrose-lgbtq/
KABC
— 40% Back Deporting Illegals With No Criminal Record. DD: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is criminal. Everyone has always known that Biden’s parole programs were always illegal.
https://www.kabc.com/2025/10/21/yougov-poll-40-back-deporting-illegals-with-no-criminal-record/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Mamdani Mayoralty Threatens New York’s Jews. DD: Virtually all of my Democrat GS-14 GAO Chicago office superiors were antisemites. They were furious when GAO promoted a Democrat Jewish woman instead of them to GS-15, currently $163,749-$195,200/year, to lead the office’s group that would to audit federal financial industry regulators in 1990. They wanted her to fail. Virtually none of my GS-13 coworkers volunteered to work for her. The GS-14s were furious that I volunteered to work for her. I volunteered to work for her because they would not assign me to the group that would audit IRS and auditing federal financial industry regulators was my best alternative. But beyond that, I was impressed by the fact that she had earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and she had passed the CPA examination on her first attempt. The GS-14s were intimidated by that; but I was not. While the GS-14s did everything that they could to make her fail, I did everything that I could to help her succeed. But nevertheless, in when I was 49 years old in September of 1997, she took the lead in forcing me to retire.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-mamdani-mayoralty-threatens-new-yorks-jews-cbee614d
— DD: RINOs promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-kings-was-peacefuland-even-patriotic-59d9f2be
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— DD: Needless-to-say, if you are Republican, you should limit your job searches to Republican-run employers. If Democrat employers do hire you, they will waste your career and get rid of you if you do not become a Democrat.
https://hbr.org/2016/07/almost-all-managers-have-at-least-one-career-limiting-habit
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always bragged about their success in hiring, retaining, and promoting young minorities and young females, that is, their success in getting rid of older Whites and older males.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-age/2025/10/22/fewer-colleges-publicized-racial-demographic-data-year
NEWS ONE
— The Trump Admin’s Focus On Fertility Is All About Social Control. The Trump administration has passed policies this year that represent a concerning trend toward pronatalism. Making IVF more affordable alone isn’t an issue. People should be able to have families on their own terms and of their own design. But it’s yet another false crisis created by the administration to justify its racist, anti-immigration, white nationalist agenda. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF against me big time. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors and what they did to punish me. Of course, Duckworth would approve of what they did to punish me.
https://newsone.com/6551199/trump-admin-focus-fertility-about-social-control/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY MAIL
— Woke teens erupt after conservative students at Portland’s most diverse school sets up Charlie Kirk club. DD: Who leads the opposition to Turning Point USA clubs in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15212745/Teenagers-Turning-Point-USA-Portland-protest.html