October 9, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Chicago gang member charged with soliciting murder of Border Patrol commander
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/alleged-chicago-gang-member-charged-with-soliciting-murder-of-border-patrol-commander/3835142/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Village Mayor Gary Grasso learned law enforcement was in the area looking for someone — and he happened to witness the arrest. “I was very glad to see my government taking care of the people in Burr Ridge and keeping us safe, which is our number one job as an elected official,” Grasso said. “And when people put bounties on immigration officials or ATF officials, I mean, those people should be put in jail, and we should be cooperating with the people doing their job to put them in jail. And it’s a shame that people don’t recognize that these dedicated law enforcement people are doing their job, and now there’s bounties on them.”)

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— US Supreme Court hears arguments in GOP Illinois congressman’s mail-in ballots suit
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/supreme-court-arguments-illinois-congressman-mail-in-ballots-suit/
— U. of C. assistant professor Eman Abdelhadi faces felony charges following arrest at Broadview ICE facility
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/university-chicago-professor-arrest-broadview-ice-chicago-police-trump/

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Mainstream newspapers ever-increasingly exist a) to promote Pritzker and the Democrat Party platform and to elect and reelect Democrat candidates and b) to destroy Trump and the Republican Party platform and to defeat Republican candidates. For opposition research, I pay lots for money for full website access and doorstep delivery of the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, New York Times (7 days a week) , Wall Street Journal (6 days a week), USA Today (5 days a week), Naperville Sun (3 days a week), and Crain’s Chicago Business (1 day a week).
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251009/columns/the-meat-of-newspaper-week-is-in-what-happens-every-day/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DD: Democrat leaders reveal details of DuPage No Kings protests. October 18 rallies will take place at several locations.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/10/02/organizers-reveal-details-of-dupage-no-kings-protests/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Protests are planned for nine intersections on Roosevelt Road in Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, Lombard and Villa Park. Additionally, a rally is scheduled in La Grange from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on La Grange Road between Cossitt and Goodman avenues. In Elmhurst, protestors plan to gather from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. but the location is undisclosed. In Bartlett, a rally is set for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. near the Veterans Memorial at the southwest corner of Stearns and Bartlett roads. The protests are meant to show support for traditional democratic values, including fair elections, due process for all, economic equality and free speech, according to an Indivisible DuPage news release. “These values have faced ongoing challenges by the current Republican administration. Our protests are particularly meaningful at this time given the increased federal presence in Chicago and ICE raids currently taking place in the suburbs,” according to the release. Indivisible DuPage is planning the day of protests locally, along with organizations including the Glen Ellyn branch of the League of Women Voters, the College of DuPage Faculty Association and Indivisible Illinois. More than 2,000 No Kings 2.0 events are registered around the country by local pro-democracy groups, an increase from the first No Kings Day events. Other protests planned for the region include Joliet, Aurora, Bolingbrook, Geneva and Elgin.)

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— DD: Democrat leaders condemn Trump’s call to jail Gov. Pritzker, Mayor Johnson
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-lawmakers-condemn-trumps-call-to-jail-gov-pritzker-mayor-johnson

WAND TV
— Illinois teens drinking nearly twice the national average
https://www.wandtv.com/news/study-illinois-teens-drinking-nearly-twice-the-national-average/article_8ecc4fc1-0cf0-40cf-819a-2aba661b7cee.html

BURR RIDGE PATCH
— Grasso’s Name In Hinsdale D86 Legal Bills
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/burr-ridge-politicians-name-in-hinsdale-d86-legal-bills/ar-AA1JJ1Kb

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-608/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

TED DABROWSKI
— Pritzker’s reckless attack on federal law enforcement must end
https://mailchi.mp/tedforillinois/reckless-attack-314?e=c4ad197eda

ILINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— The Big Lie: Pritzker’s Reckless Rhetoric
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/10/the-big-lie-pritzkers-reckless-rhetoric/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Texas authorities arrest 8 more ‘fake doctors’ in illegal abortion clinic investigation
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/8/texas-authorities-arrest-8-fake-doctors-illegal-abortion-clinic/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Shutdown: Voters say Democrats did it for illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3842338/government-shutdown-poll-democrats-illegal-immigrant-healthcare/

NEW YORK POST
— The Dems are letting Antifa take over their cities — Trump is right to send federal troops to maintain order
https://nypost.com/2025/10/08/opinion/the-dems-are-letting-antifa-take-over-their-cities-trump-is-right-to-send-federal-troops-to-maintain-order/

AMAC
— Media Smears Stay-At-Home Moms as Nazis
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/media-smears-stay-at-home-moms-as-nazis/
— Historic Trump Success on Border Continues as Illegal Crossings Reach 55-Year Low
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/breaking-historic-trump-success-on-border-continues-as-illegal-crossings-reach-55-year-low/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegal aliens: Unsafe at any speed
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/illegal_aliens_unsafe_at_any_speed.html

BREITBART
— Supreme Court Could Kill Voting Rights Act’s Affirmative-Action Gerrymandering, Give GOP 19 More Seats
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/08/redistricting-could-yield-19-more-gop-house-seats-potential-supreme-court-victory/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Louisiana has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration over allowing abortion pills to be mailed into the state from other states.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/louisiana-sues-trumps-fda-over-abortion-pill-mailing-rules.html

DAILY CALLER
— Co-Founder Of Degenerate Forum Reddit Admits It Wouldn’t Exist Without Illegal Immigration
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/08/alexis-ohanian-reddit-immigration-enforcement-censorship-donald-trump-serena-williams-comments/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Meet the ‘Worst of the Worst’ Criminals Arrested by ICE Agents Working for Free
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/08/exclusive-unpaid-ice-agents-continue-to-arrest-pedophiles-smugglers-thieves-as-shutdown-drags-on/

FOX NEWS
— Senate Democrats defy White House warnings, again block GOP bid to reopen government. Schumer says pressure on Republicans will force negotiations.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-democrats-defy-white-house-warnings-again-block-gop-bid-reopen-government
— Abbott slams Pritzker for opposing National Guard deployment
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382389613112
— Texas arrests 8 in widening probe of midwife accused of illegal abortions
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-arrests-8-widening-probe-midwife-accused-illegal-abortions

NEW AMERICAN
— Corrupt Woke Science Being Peddled in Government Schools
https://thenewamerican.com/video/newman/corrupt-woke-science-being-peddled-in-government-schools/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Chicago Mayor Refuses to Answer If He Would Deport an Illegal Who Beat, Raped His Own Wife – Cracks Joke Instead
https://www.westernjournal.com/video-chicago-mayor-refuses-answer-deport-illegal-beat-raped-wife-cracks-joke-instead/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Reporter William Kelly teed up Johnson’s humiliating self-own by recounting a crime that occurred last month, in which an illegal alien from Nicaragua grabbed a woman on the street, bashed her head in, and raped her. “If that had been your wife, Stacie, would you want ICE to deport … that illegal alien? Yes or no?” Kelly asked. Instead of responding, Johnson made a snarky jab, claiming Kelly’s YouTube views had dropped recently. Kelly quipped that his social-media views were much higher than the mayor’s. The reporter then asked Johnson to answer his question. “Answer the question as a man — not as a mayor — but as a man,” Kelly reiterated. “Would you want ICE to deport that rapist?” Once again, Johnson refused to respond. “No? Okay, that’s the answer,” Kelly said. Kelly also ripped Johnson for his frivolous race-baiting, saying the minorities he has spoken to are furious that their mayor prioritizes foreign invaders over Chicago residents. “The real Chicagoans that I talk to, that I communicate with — mostly black and brown, actually — tell me that you don’t seem to know the difference between illegal aliens and real Chicago citizens,” Kelly told Johnson. “They feel that you are siding with the illegal aliens over them in their communities.” As a reminder, Johnson has repeatedly claimed Trump’s move to deploy the National Guard to eradicate crime in Chicago is racist. This flippant invocation of the overused “Race Card” is ironic, since Johnson is under federal investigation for admitting he usually hires black people because they’re the “most generous race” on Earth. As is usually the case when it comes to Democrats, every accusation is a confession. So when left-wing foghorns such as Brandon Johnson call someone “racist,” they’re merely projecting their own racism onto their opponents in order to silence them. Reporter William Kelly is correct: Johnson and his Democratic comrades constantly prioritize the welfare of third-world foreign invaders over the safety of law-abiding, taxpaying American citizens. This toxic, unpatriotic trend must be stopped before this nation devolves into a third-world dumping ground for unvetted armies of illegal aliens who show open contempt for the United States.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Texas National Guard troops now protecting federal property in Chicago area
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-troops-illinois-memphis-chicago-bbb5801b127897639ab5ae5b8c9ff766

NBC NEWS
— The policy divide between blue and red states keeps widening. Americans are facing increasingly different realities on issues ranging from vaccines to abortion to guns, based on what part of the country they live in. DD: Ever-increasingly, if you raise your children in a blue state, anticipate/expect that their Democrat teachers will make them anti-parent, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-heterosexual people, anti-married people, anti-traditional marriage and family,  anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, boozers. gamblers, stoners, and even worse things.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/policy-divide-blue-red-states-keeps-widening-rcna230162

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: What has helped you pay for your health insurance premiums? For me, it has been my taking federal jobs 1966-1969 and 1971-1997 that my peers ether a) failed/refused to qualify themselves for or b) simply refused to take. The federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums because I am a retired federal employee. I qualified myself for my Post Office job in 1966 by taking and passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job in 1971 by taking and passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a job-related bachelor’s degree. I qualified myself for my GAO in 1980 job by earning a job-related master’s degree and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010441604/the-gops-cynical-ridiculous-shutdown-attack.html
— Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration. Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 and replaced me with my Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/black-leaders-trump.html
— Trump Seizes On Shutdown to Punish Political Foes. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors seized on Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of GAO employees like me who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who were in America for a long time. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/us/politics/trump-shutdown-punish-foes.html
— DD: Constructively, Blue States have declared a Second Civil War against Red states. Illegals are soldiers in the Blue State Army.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/national-guard-governors.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Texas National Guard troops are active in Chicago area. Around 200 Texas National Guard soldiers and 300 soldiers from the Illinois National Guard will protect ICE agents and federal property.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/09/trump-national-guard-chicago-texas-troops/
— Trump builds case for deploying National Guard to Chicago, Portland. The president said he would pursue designating antifa a “foreign terrorist organization” and called for Democratic officials in Chicago to be jailed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/08/trump-chicago-jail-johnson-pritzker/

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How much success have Democrat leaders had making everyone sexually active LGBTQers in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/10/08/supreme-court-gay-conversion-therapy-trans-rights/86549177007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— High-on-pot drivers are contributing to more highway accident deaths. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/marijuana-car-crash-deaths-study-wright-state-university-0f762ca1
— Pence: Make HHS and FDA Pro-Life Again. Approval of generic mifepristone is why I warned against RFK Jr.’s appointment.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/make-hhs-and-fda-pro-life-again-ff9e1b21
— Quitters. DD: I should write about the many big adverse actions that my superiors took to get me to quit. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-10-08-2025/card/americans-used-to-be-quitters-k2CcwiFyVg41tbFmTAgq
— DD: As Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote the Democrat Party platform, American students ever-increasingly fall further behind.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/nobel-prizes-science-american-immigrants-trump-administration-960b18e3

BUSINESS WIRE
— DD: Why did you get hired instead of others? I qualified myself for my Post Office job in 1966 by taking and passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job in 1971 by taking and passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a job-related bachelor’s degree. I qualified myself for my GAO in 1980 job by earning a job-related master’s degree and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250429970865/en/New-Research-Finds-the-Most-Likable-Candidate-Gets-the-JobEven-If-Theyre-Not-the-Most-Qualified

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— DD: Because Republicans do better when hiring, retention, and promotion decisions are merit based, Democrats oppose merit based hiring, retention, and promotion decisions. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/05/opm-merit-hiring-plan-includes-bipartisan-reforms-politicized-new-test/405687/

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Government Shutdown: 49% Say Democrats Did It for Illegal Aliens
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/government_shutdown_49_say_democrats_did_it_for_illegal_aliens

ACLU
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push women into combat
https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/pete-hegseth-wants-women-out-of-the-military-and-hes-not-hiding-it

NEW WAYS MINISTRY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newwaysministry.org/2025/10/09/pope-francis-lgbtq-welcome-is-needed-now-more-than-ever/

October 7, 2025

WHITE HOUSE
— Chicago Mayor’s “ICE-Free Zones” Shield Violent Criminal Illegals, Abandon Citizens
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/chicago-mayors-ice-free-zones-shield-violent-criminal-illegals-abandon-citizens/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Illinois National Guard to patrol Chicago area, as troops depart from Texas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-national-guard-patrol-chicago-area-troops-depart-texas-trump-threatens-use-insurrection-act/17956187/
— Tracking surge in immigration enforcement operations
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-federal-intervention-latest-president-trumps-immigration-enforcement-possible-national-guard-deployment-live-updates/17758521/
— Trump threatens use of Insurrection Act
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-pritzker-address-trumps-effort-deploy-national-guard-illinois-pentagon-authorizes-chicago-mission/17949147/

WGN9
— Federal troops headed to Illinois as lawsuit against Trump administration seeks to halt deployment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmZOxBw6k7g

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago gang member solicited murder of Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/chicago-gang-member-solicited-murder-bovino/
— ‘Our people hire our people’: Long before DOJ probe into Mayor Brandon Johnson, racial politics coursed through City Hall hiring. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/mayor-brandon-johnson-racial-politics-city-hall-hiring/
— Chicago can’t shrug off the unease random attacks create
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/editorial-chicago-random-attacks-women-mental-health/
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight assimilation. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Their slow assimilation held them back. All my grandparents spoke German. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/cps-hispanic-heritage-month/

DAILY HERALD
— DD: For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. I never became a Democrat even though I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees. Democrat efforts to make me a Democrat were frustrated my majoring in management, business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251007/syndicated-columnists/trumps-latest-invitation-to-universities/
— DD: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251006/news/cold-comfort-new-cooler-freezer-help-palatine-food-pantry-fight-food-insecurity/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Illinois diversity commission’s budget ballooning but results lag. DD: Democrats and RINOs use diversity to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_05a70ee4-5c31-4ac2-a881-96f4f779be65.html

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— 27 Police Officers Among Those Injured By Tear Gas During Weekend Protest, Chicago’s Top Cop Says. Police Supt. Larry Snelling also disputed the claim pushed by federal officials that Chicago police ignored calls for help during a chaotic scene Saturday afternoon in Brighton Park.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/06/27-police-officers-among-those-injured-by-tear-gas-during-weekend-protest-chicagos-top-cop-says/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-606/
— Selected press releases. DD: It would be great if Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois would include diersen@aol.com on their press release lists and their press advisory lists.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/07/selected-press-releases-live-updates-308/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Ugaste Previews Fall Veto Session
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/07/ugaste-previews-fall-veto-session/
— Press Release about Chicago ICE Arrests
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/press-release-about-chicago-ice-arrests/
— Can One Believe One’s Lying Eyes,  Officers under Attack? Did or Didn’t Chicago Police Refuse to Assist Ice
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/can-one-believe-ones-lying-eyes/
— Fox River Grove Planning To Cut Electric Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/fox-river-grove-planning-to-cut-electric-tax/
— Homeland Security Claims Pritzker Is Lying
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/homeland-security-claims-pritzker-is-lying/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illinois Democrats escalate confrontation with Trump’s ICE sweeps, National Guard deployments
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/6/illinois-sues-stop-trump-sending-national-guard/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Campuses Brace for Pro-Hamas Protests on Anniversary of Oct. 7
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/campuses-brace-for-pro-hamas-protests

AMAC
— Rotten Core of Public Education on Full Display With Illegal Alien Superintendent
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/rotten-core-of-public-education-on-full-display-with-illegal-alien-superintendent/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘Woke’ Pope digs at Trump in call for open borders: ‘New missionary age.’ DD: Mass/illegal immigration will destroy America.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/06/woke-pope-digs-at-trump-in-call-for-open-borders-new-missionary-age-1590407/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pope Leo XIV did not mention President Trump by name, but it was clear to many who heard his address to Catholics on Sunday that he was taking a shot at U.S. immigration policies. Conservative Catholics, hopeful that the new pope, who was elected in May, would not be as far-left as his predecessor, the late Pope Francis, were sorely disappointed as Sunday’s Mass in St. Peter’s Square took on political overtones. Days after criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration policies, Leo urged the thousands gathered for the service – and Catholics around the globe – to open their “arms and hearts” to migrants, not distinguishing between legal and illegal immigration. The first pope to have been born in the United States, Leo said migrants must not be treated with “the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination.” He urged Catholics to “open our arms and hearts to them, welcoming them as brothers and sisters, and being for them a presence of consolation and hope.” “On Sunday, the pope said the global Church was experiencing ‘a new missionary age’ in which it was tasked with offering ‘hospitality and welcome, compassion and solidarity’ to migrants fleeing violence or searching for a safe place to live,” Reuters reported. “In the communities of ancient Christian tradition, such as those of the West, the presence of many brothers and sisters from the world’s South should be welcomed as an opportunity, through an exchange that renews the face of the Church,” he said, speaking from a prepared text. The Pope’s official account on X has also made his thoughts quite clear on the issue. Last week, the Pope appeared to take a jab at Trump when speaking with reporters. “Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life,” Leo said. “I would reject that there is inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the United States under this administration,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back. “There was, however, significant, inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the previous administration as they were being trafficked and raped and beaten, in many cases killed over our United States southern border.” The Pope’s latest swipe against US immigration policy earned heated criticism on social media.

BREITBART
— Abbott Defies Pritzker, Greenlights Trump’s Texas National Guard Deployment to Sanctuary States
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/06/abbott-defies-pritzker-greenlights-trumps-texas-national-guard-deployment-to-sanctuary-states/
— White House Highlights ‘Predators’ Taken Off Chicago Streets Thanks to ICE
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/06/white-house-highlights-predators-taken-off-chicago-streets-thanks-ice/amp/

CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— California law allowing anonymous abortion pill prescriptions endangers women
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266975/california-law-allowing-anonymous-abortion-pill-prescriptions-endangers-women-experts-say

COLLEGE FIX
— Colorado State U. renamed DEI programs to give ‘illusion’ of compliance
https://www.thecollegefix.com/colorado-state-u-renamed-dei-programs-to-give-illusion-of-compliance-complaint/
— Trump admin ends taxpayer-funded education scholarships, loans for illegal immigrants
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-admin-ends-taxpayer-funded-education-scholarships-loans-for-illegal-immigrants/

DAILY CALLER
— America’s Defense Giants Are Fueling Wokeness – And Undermining Our Military Readiness
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/07/opinion-americas-defense-giants-are-fueling-wokeness-and-undermining-our-military-readiness-dustin-devito/

FOX NEWS
— Chicago’s ‘ICE-free zones’ endanger operations, embolden protesters. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring ICE from using city parking lots and garages for operations.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-agent-says-chicagos-ice-free-zones-endanger-operations-embolden-protesters
— DHS chief slams ‘violent anarchists,’ pledges full support for federal agents
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/first-fox-dhs-chief-slams-violent-anarchists-pledges-full-support-federal-agents.amp
— Pope Leo says family based on ‘union between a man and a woman,’ defends dignity of unborn.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-leo-says-family-based-union-between-man-woman-defends-dignity-unborn

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Colleges Boost Illegal Immigrant Students
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/ny-post-op-ed-colleges-boost-illegal-immigrant-students/

NEW AMERICAN
— Border Patrol Agents Attacked in Chicago; City Declares Rebellion Against Feds to Protect Illegals
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/border-patrol-agents-attacked-in-chicago-city-declares-rebellion-against-feds-to-protect-illegals/

NEWSMAX
— White House Slams Chicago Mayor for Creating ‘ICE-Free Zones’
https://www.newsmax.com/amp/newsfront/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-jb-pritzker/2025/10/06/id/1229235/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Porter: Pritzker’s Gambit
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/06/pritzkers_gambit_153370.html

REAL CLEAR POLICY
— Democrats Want Medicaid for Illegals. Pretend They Don’t
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/10/06/dems_want_medicaid_for_illegals_pretend_they_dont_1139150.html

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Livid: Says Trump Ordered National Guard to Illinois Amid Anti-ICE Violence, Likens Troops to Invaders
https://www.westernjournal.com/pritzker-livid-says-trump-ordered-national-guard-to-illinois-amid-anti-ice-violence-likens-troops-to-invaders/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

REUTERS
— Illinois sues to stop National Guard deployment as Trump escalates clash with states
https://www.reuters.com/world/illinois-sues-block-trump-deploying-national-guard-troops-chicago-2025-10-06/

MSN
— 3 Best First Jobs To Get Promoted Fast. DD: My critics/opponents have always been furious that IRS promoted me when I was 23, 24, and 25.  During that time, my salary increased from $55,850/year to $99,069/year in today’s dollars. My taking job-related graduate evening courses at Loyola during that time helped me get promoted. Extremely few of my coworkers took IRS-encouraged job-related graduate evening courses like I did. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my taking those courses gave me an unfair advantage. They stressed that I could afford those courses because I avoided the Vietnam War draft and because did not have a wife or children to support. In my defense, I helped support my mother and brother when I was 21, 22, and 23 and I worked part-time for the Chicago Heights Firestone store while I was 22, 23, and 24.
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/money/personalfinance/3-best-first-jobs-to-get-promoted-fast/ar-AA1zabGZ

NEW YORK TIMES
— National Guard Troops Are Set to Arrive in Illinois. The mobilization includes some 200 Guard troops from Texas. President Trump said he would consider invoking emergency powers to “get around” legal obstacles.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/07/us/trump-national-guard-illinois-texas
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010441484/dei-helps-everyone-white-men-included.html
— DD: I had part-time jobs while I was in high school and college during the school years and full-time during the summers. That enabled me to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, and 20, pay for my college expenses, and graduate debt-free from NIU when I was 21 in 1970 and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. But my GPA suffered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/opinion/jobs-teenagers.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/us/politics/stonewall-national-museum-trump-funding-cuts.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump presses sanctuary cities to work with ICE, but few are budging. Cities like Boston, Chicago and Portland are facing the threat of lawsuits and federal troop takeovers. But leaders in most “sanctuary cities” are not compromising on their promise to protect (their illegals).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/10/07/trump-portland-chicago-sanctuary-lawsuits-immigrants/

USA TODAY
— DD: Americans ever-increasingly refuse to take bad food industry jobs. What should be done? I washed dishes for the minimum wage 1964-1966. I was the only White male who washed dishes for the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/10/02/us-immigration-border-policy-farm/86168928007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Trump Rules for Radical Schools
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-compact-higher-education-universities-7579714b
— America’s Debt to Israel. The Jewish state has taken on many U.S. enemies since Oct. 7, 2023, even as the left turned against it.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/americas-debt-to-israel-65d09527
— Discrimination Persists at the Coast Guard. It bases eligibility for scholarships on the racial demographics of applicants’ schools.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/discrimination-persists-at-the-coast-guard-efbf4414
— DD: I should write a book about a) my critics/opponents who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican and b) the many big anti-religious, anti-conservative, and anti-Republican things that they have done.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/how-to-spot-when-youre-a-hypocrite-e2c3ecfc

BLOOMBERG
— DD: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Ever-increasingly, they do everything that they can to destroy Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-18/trump-puts-more-federal-civil-servants-under-president-s-control

POLITICO
— Newsom, Pritzker threaten to pull out of National Governors Association over Trump’s troop deployments
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/newsom-pritzker-threaten-to-pull-out-of-national-governors-association-over-trumps-troop-deployments-00595741

ATLANTIC
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. They get rid of their employees who do not give tremendous preference their employees who are minority and/or female, that is, they get rid of their employees who do not discriminate against their employees who are White and/or male.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/employee-firing-first-amendment/681702/

AXIOS
— Which federal workers could lose protections under Trump order. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. If you are a federal employee, the more of the following that you are, the fewer protections that you have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The Democrats who run the federal government get rid of federal employees who are the aforesaid because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/28/trump-executive-order-federal-workforce

October 5, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— We strongly support this bipartisan plan to fix Illinois’ broken state elections
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/05/fair-maps-gerrymandering-bill-daley-ray-lahood-constitutional-amendment/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. Under Biden, Democrat leaders had tremendous success bringing in their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/05/in-chicago-immigrants-who-thought-they-were-following-the-legal-path-are-also-facing-deportation-under-trump-crackdown/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/heidi-stevens-immigration-crackdown/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hundreds gather in the Loop to mark two years of the Israel-Hamas war
https://chicago.suntimes.com/war-in-gaza/2025/10/04/gaza-protest-downtown-chicago

CHAMPIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump-caused fiscal chaos a chance for Illinois to reform itself
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/ralph-martire-trump-caused-fiscal-chaos-a-chance-for-illinois-to-reform-itself/article_3fc1b443-6e4c-4af4-af70-52f34607a324.html

WCIA
— Reparations committee hosts public hearing event in Urbana. DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you have benefitted from slavery, and therefore, the more that you should pay reparations, that is, the more that you should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant. German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. In my defense, while all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://www.wcia.com/news/champaign-county/reparations-committee-hosts-public-hearing-event-in-urbana/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— All my critics/opponents are disciples of Saul Alinsky. I should write about them. I would focus on those who are/were a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What were your plans to earn a college degree? Because my parents lacked money, my plan to earn a college degree while I was a freshman and sophomore in high school was to enlist and to get one with the GI Bill. But when I started my junior year, I decided to earn a bachelor’s degree at UIC while living with my parents in Crete. I took a job washing dishes in Chicago Heights to earn money to buy a new car to commute in. I took college preparatory courses. I got an ACT score of 24. I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. UIC accepted me. I got a job working for the Park Forest Post Office. I took courses at UIC 1966-1968. I transferred to NIU in 1969. I graduated debt-free from NIU owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1970. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What was/is your career development plan? Mine included a) taking college preparatory courses in high school, b) getting the best grades and ACT score that I could, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree and job-related master’s degrees, d) earning job-related professional certifications, and e) earning a job-related professional license. My career was harmed a) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, b) because I did not take and pass the CPA examination until I was 30, c) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, d) because I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, e) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32, f) because I did not earn additional professional certifications until I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and g) because I did not earn a master’s degree in finance until I was 48. I did not accomplish the aforesaid sooner because I took only one graduate evening course at a time earning the aforesaid master’s degrees. I took only one course at a time because that was what I could afford and I wanted my Firestone Stores, IRS, and GAO jobs to be my main focus.  I completed 16 graduate business courses at Loyola 1972-1976, 12 graduate accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1980, and 14 graduate finance courses at IIT 1992-1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Minorities vote for Democrats. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace Whites with minorities. My Democrat employers would have hired and promoted minorities instead of me if they could have. The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO hired me because they could not find a qualified minority who would take the job. IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 instead of minorities because of my performance appraisals and because I was taking graduate evening business courses while none of my minority coworkers were doing that. GAO promoted me in 1986 instead of a minority because of my performance appraisals and because I had earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981 while none of my minority coworkers had done that. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and replaced me with a minority. He had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like I did. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— New York City Democrats think cracking down on public sex is homophobic
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/3836690/new-york-city-cruising-crackdown-not-homophobic/
–DD:  Democrats and RINOs fight assimilation. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Their slow assimilation held them back. All my grandparents spoke German. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watch/2363897/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Commercial Drivers Licenses in sanctuary states
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/cdl_sanctuary_states.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Portland’s ‘highly questionable’ police actions draws DOJ scrutiny: ‘Whims of criminals and woke cops’ DD: Portland today, your municipality tomorrow. How much progress have Democrats had destroying your municipality?
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/04/portlands-highly-questionable-police-actions-draws-doj-scrutiny-whims-of-criminals-and-woke-cops-1590118/

BREITBART
— Democrats are not fighting for the American people. DD: Ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders fight for citizens of foreign countries. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Citizens of foreign countries are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/04/exclusive-sen-markwayne-mullin-democrats-arent-fighting-for-the-american-people/amp/
— Hegseth fires Navy chief of staff
https://www.breitbart.com/news/hegseth-fires-navy-chief-of-staff/

COLLEGE FIX
— 32 scholarships at Florida State University discriminate on race, gender. DD: My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarship. They hint/imply/argue/shout that my not getting any scholarships proves a) that I am stupid and b) that my parents were filthy rich.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/complaint-alleges-32-scholarships-at-florida-state-u-discriminate-on-race-gender/

DAILY SIGNAL
— How Trump Exposed the UN’s Hidden Agenda
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/01/silenced-at-the-un-trump-faced-broken-escalator-teleprompter-outage-and-more/

DAILY WIRE
— Woke Movie promotes VIOLENCE against ICE. DD: To promote wokeness is to promote hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-reviews-one-battle-after-another

FOX NEWS
— Democrats want $200B in taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382050322112
— California using back door to get federal funds for illegal immigrant healthcare
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-using-backdoor-get-federal-funds-illegal-immigrant-health-care-gop-says-dems-say-nonsense
— ICE arrest of Des Moines superintendent exposes fake degrees, drug convictions
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/school-chief-suspect-ice-arrest-des-moines-superintendent-exposes-fake-degrees-drug-convictions
— Portland’s dystopia delusion coming to a city near all of us. Residents in denial about how awful their once-great city has become. DD: Portland today, your municipality tomorrow. How much progress have Democrats had destroying your municipality?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-portlands-dystopia-delusion-coming-city-near-all-us

FOX NEWS RADIO
— Hegseth’s War On Military ‘Wokeness’ DD: To promote wokeness is to promote hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://radio.foxnews.com/2025/10/04/extra-sec-hegseths-war-on-military-wokeness/

HOT AIR
— Chicago’s Rules for Radicals Spread Out Across America. DD: All my critics/opponents are disciples of Saul Alinsky. I should write about them. I would focus on those who are/were a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/10/04/chicagos-rules-for-radicals-spread-out-across-america-n3807444

NEWSMAX
— Federal Judge to Decide on Alleged ICE Violations in Chicago
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chicago-ice-dhs/2025/10/04/id/1229040/

PJ MEDIA
— Critical Thinking Has Been Hijacked: How the Left Quietly Rewired the Way We Teach Reason. DD: For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2025/10/04/critical-thinking-has-been-hijacked-how-the-left-quietly-rewired-the-way-we-teach-reason-n4944479

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Journalists Are Furious Over the New Anti-Woke Pick to Lead CBS News
https://www.westernjournal.com/8-journalists-furious-new-anti-woke-pick-lead-cbs-news/
— Fireworks Erupt After City Councilwoman Is Confronted for Mocking Charlie Kirk’s Murder
https://www.westernjournal.com/fireworks-erupt-city-councilwoman-confronted-mocking-charlie-kirks-murder/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want the military to focus on hiring, retaining, and promoting young minorities and females.
https://www.kget.com/news/politics/ap-the-us-military-has-long-been-an-engine-of-social-change-hegseths-approach-runs-counter-to-that/amp/

ABC NEWS
— Supreme Court to consider overturning Hawaii law regulating where guns can be carried
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/supreme-court-overturning-strict-hawaii-law-regulating-people-126180985

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: To promote Bad Bunny is to promote hatred against ICE
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/opinion/bad-bunny-super-bowl-democrats.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/us/politics/stonewall-national-museum-trump-funding-cuts.html
— What Charlie Kirk Could Mean for the Future of Marriage and Family. Erika Kirk said her husband aspired to “revive the American family.” Conservative activists wonder if Charlie Kirk’s legacy will lend new urgency to White House policy discussions. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders destroy traditional marriage and family. I owe my successes in life to my parents’ traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/charlie-kirk-erika-family-marriage-children.html
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/opinion/pete-hegseth-speech-dei.html
— This Program Rescued Army Recruiting. DD: Because my parents lacked money, my plan to earn a college degree while I was a freshman and sophomore in high school was to enlist and to get one with the GI Bill. But when I started my junior year, I decided to earn a bachelor’s degree at UIC while living with my parents in Crete. I took a job washing dishes in Chicago Heights to earn money to buy a new car to commute in. I took college preparatory courses. I got an ACT score of 24. I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. UIC accepted me. I got a job working for the Park Forest Post Office. I took courses at UIC 1966-1968. I transferred to NIU in 1969. I graduated debt-free from NIU owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1970.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/us/politics/army-recruiting-trump.html

USA TODAY
— Conservatives furious as FDA approves new generic abortion pill. DD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/conservatives-furious-as-fda-approves-new-generic-abortion-pill/ar-AA1NLfnv

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Did Pot Make the Dallas ICE Shooter Psychotic?  Joshua Jahn was far from alone in using marijuana heavily before committing serious acts of violence. DD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/did-pot-make-the-dallas-ice-shooter-psychotic-1022e627
— Trump Authorizes Sending National Guard to Illinois
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-authorizes-sending-national-guard-to-illinois-fb9f06e4

FORBES
— How To Create A Career Development Plan. DD: What was/is your career development plan? Mine included a) taking college preparatory courses in high school, b) getting the best grades and ACT score that I could, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree and job-related master’s degrees, d) earning job-related professional certifications, and e) earning a job-related professional license. My career was harmed a) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, b) because I did not take and pass the CPA examination until I was 30, c) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, d) because I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, e) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32, f) because I did not earn additional professional certifications until I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and g) because I did not earn a master’s degree in finance until I was 48. I did not accomplish the aforesaid sooner because I took only one graduate evening course at a time earning the aforesaid master’s degrees. I took only one course at a time because that was what I could afford and I wanted my Firestone Stores, IRS, and GAO jobs to be my main focus.  I completed 16 graduate business courses at Loyola 1972-1976, 12 graduate accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1980, and 14 graduate finance courses at IIT 1992-1997.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/career-development-plan/

BULWARK
— Can a Repentant, Regretful Republican Thrive as a Dem? Geoff Duncan isn’t just running for governor of Georgia as a Democrat. He’s testing how wide the party’s ‘big tent’ can stretch. DD: Sooner or later, all my “Republican” critics/opponents will become Democrats.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/can-a-repentant-regretful-republican-thrive-as-a-democrat-geoff-duncan-georgia

REASON
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly prefer hiring citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America. All my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/04/lawsuit-challenges-trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee/

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/better-and-happier/202509/lead-inclusively-by-harnessing-the-power-of-joy/amp

FOREIGN SOURCES

DAILY POST
— DD: Minorities vote for Democrats. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace Whites with minorities. My Democrat employers would have hired and promoted minorities instead of me if they could have. The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO hired me because they could not find a qualified minority who would take the job. IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 instead of minorities because of my performance appraisals and because I was taking graduate evening business courses while none of my minority coworkers were doing that. GAO promoted me in 1986 instead of a minority because of my performance appraisals and because I had earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981 while none of my minority coworkers had done that. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and replaced me with a minority. He had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like I did.
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-post-newcastle/20251005/282501484821549

October 1, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-protest-broadview-illinois-leaders-address-situation-surrounding-facility/17909029/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abc7.com/post/pope-leo-xiv-intervenes-us-abortion-debate-chicago-cardinal-blase-cupich-giving-award-illinois-senator-dick-durbin/17916373/

NBC5
— Portion of major street in downtown Chicago shut down by anti-ICE protest. Several groups including the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA) and Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression took part in an “emergency protest.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/anti-ice-protesters-shut-down-portion-of-wacker-drive-in-downtown-chicago/3831786/

CBS2
— Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as “training grounds”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-25th-amendment-military-training-grounds/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Government shutdown begins as nation faces new period of uncertainty
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/government-shutdown-begins-as-nation-faces-new-period-of-uncertainty/
— Democrat leaders have “Hundreds gather to protest ICE, federal push to deploy military to Illinois.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/immigration-national-guard-downtown-protest-trump-pritzker/
— DD: FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/broadview-mayor-rips-feds-protests/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/president-donald-trump-pete-hegseth-military-training/
— Jewel-Osco agrees to pay $1.9 million to resolve EEOC disability investigation. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because my Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted that offer and because I was helping support my mother and brother, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/jewel-osco-eeoc/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker calls for 25th Amendment after Trump ‘training grounds’ remark
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-urges-25th-amendment-after-trump-chicago-remarks

SHAW LOCAL
— Duckworth slams Hegseth’s ‘highest male standard’ policy for military as ‘deeply degrading’  Marine veteran and state Rep. Kifowit joins in denouncing statements. DD: To hire, retain, and promote more Democrat minorities and females, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/09/30/duckworth-slams-hegseths-highest-male-standard-policy-for-military-as-deeply-degrading/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: To defeat Republican candidates, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly drive the American economy down.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-us-consumer-confidence-declines-again-as-americans-fret-over-prices-job-market/amp/
— To promote wokeness/wokeism is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-how-woke-went-from-an-expression-in-black-culture-to-a-conservative-criticism/
— Civil rights agency drops a key tool used to investigate workplace discrimination.  DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-civil-rights-agency-drops-a-key-tool-used-to-investigate-workplace-discrimination/

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ILLINOIS
— Candidate Forums. DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would be hosting candidate forums. If I was still an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer, I would be urging the organization to host candidate forums.
https://www.lwvil.org/candidateforum

CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/trump-threatens-war-chicago-response/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— US Senate race: Republican Don Tracy held a kickoff fundraiser for his Senate campaign at Saputo’s in Springfield on Tuesday. We hear about 70 “friends, supporters and family” of Tracy’s attended, including state Sen. Jil Tracy, state Reps. Michael Coffey and Brandun Schweizer, Sangamon County Board Chair Andy Van Meter, Sangamon County Republican Chair Dianne Barghouti-Hardwick and businessman Kevin Crumly, who hosted the event.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
— GOP pushback: House Republican Leader Tony McCombie criticized Pritzker for rejecting the increased enforcement. “The governor can’t claim that he wants to work with law enforcement to remove criminals while at the same time promoting policies that make our communities less safe,” she said in a video. And Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison called recent comments by Pritzker and Johnson “divisive, inflammatory and reckless.” The Illinois Republican Party, meanwhile, is selling merchandise pegged off the immigration enforcement raids. One hat reads: “Chicago ICE Word To Your Mother.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-602/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Chicago’s Rules for Radicals Spread Out Across America. DD: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are disciples of Saul Alinsky.
https://johnkassnews.com/chicago-rules-for-radicals/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— As time goes on, it is ever-increasingly clear that my critics/opponents who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote, most commonly its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. The more of the aforesaid planks that they reject, the more and bigger adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and dupes take against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Trump calls Pritzker ‘loser’ as governor prepares for troop deployment lawsuit
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a4ce97d7-b5aa-4fe1-92f5-de151c1cdfe5.html
— Illinois student struggles continue as enrollments decline. DD: My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree, b) three master’s degrees, c) six professional certifications, and d) a professional license.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_24f0c23a-5e34-405a-8fa1-52ac3bee5e0f.html

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Educators Are Teaching Your Kids to Revere Cop Killers
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-educators-teaching-your-kids-cop-killers

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ‘Word to Your Mother’: Illinois GOP’s Bizarre New Apparel Rollout
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/word-to-your-mother-illinois-gops-bizarre-new-apparel-rollout.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal layoffs strain D.C. region as Trump administration threatens more cuts
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/federal-layoffs-strain-dc-region-trump-administration-threatens-cuts/
— The U.S. Postal Service policy banning people from bringing firearms into post offices violates the Constitution, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/post-office-gun-ban-unconstitutional-judge-rules/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— UPenn Provost Resigns After Boosting Social Media Post Likening Charlie Kirk to ‘Hitler Youth’  Mann, who will remain a professor at the Ivy League university, has courted controversy with a series of public outbursts in recent months.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/upenn-provost-resigns-after-boosting-social-media-post-likening-charlie-kirk-to-hitler-youth/
— AI Dubs Charlie Kirk’s Killer ‘Right-Wing.’ My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being right-wing.
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/ai-dubs-charlie-kirks-killer-right

AMERICAN THINKER
— Situational Outrage: How Democrats Normalize Political Violence
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/situational_outrage_how_democrats_normalize_political_violence.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Pritzker likens Trump to Putin, claims he has dementia, demands 25th Amendment be invoked
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/01/pritzker-likens-trump-to-putin-claims-he-has-dementia-demands-25th-amendment-be-invoked-1589272/

BLAZE
— Musk cancels Netflix subscription over Charlie Kirk mockery and transgender indoctrination
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trans-netflix-elon-musk-kirk

BREITBART
— Musk Leads Mass Netflix Membership Cancellations After Company’s Children’s Cartoon Creator Smears Charlie Kirk as a ‘Nazi’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/30/elon-musk-leads-mass-netflix-membership-cancellations-after-companys-childrens-cartoon-creator-smears-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi/
— Creator of Netflix Trans Children’s Cartoon ‘Dead End Paranormal Park’ Under Fire for Smearing Charlie Kirk as a ‘Nazi’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/30/creator-of-netflix-trans-childrens-cartoon-dead-end-paranormal-park-under-fire-for-smearing-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi/
— Hegseth Rebukes DEI, Fat Troops: ‘We Are Done with That Sh*t’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/30/pete-hegseth-rebukes-dei-fat-troops-we-are-done-with-that-sht/
— Maxine Waters on Healthcare for Illegals: ‘Healthcare for Everybody’ DD: Knowing that the federal government would pay 72% of my and my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums for life if I could survive until retirement helped me endure my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/30/maxine-waters-on-healthcare-for-illegals-healthcare-for-everybody/
— Chicago Mayor Johnson: President Trump ‘Is an Unstable Human Being’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/09/30/chicago-mayor-johnson-president-trump-is-an-unstable-human-being/

CAMPUS REFORM
— UNC professor linked to group responsible for posters celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination
https://www.campusreform.org/article/unc-professor-linked-group-responsible-posters-celebrating-charlie-kirks-assassination/28703
— Iowa State fires employee who said Charlie Kirk is ‘rotting in hell’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/iowa-state-fires-employee-said-charlie-kirk-rotting-hell/28700

CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— Durbin declines Chicago Archdiocese award after global backlash over pro-abortion views
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266875/dick-durbin-declines-chicago-archdiocese-award-after-global-backlash-over-pro-abortion-views
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/pope-leo-xiv-comments-on-cupichs-plan-to-bestow-award-on-illinois-senator

DAILY CALLER
— Charlie Kirk’s ‘Protege’ Brilyn Hollyhand Doesn’t Cut It
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/30/brilyn-hollyhand-charlie-kirk-campus-tours-new-york-post/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Democrats Take Heat Over Health Care for Illegal Aliens
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/30/democrats-take-heat-over-healthcare-for-illegal-aliens/

DAILY WIRE
— Hillary Clinton Rips White Christian Men, Sparks Outrage Weeks After Charlie Kirk Assassination. DD: To vote for Democrats is to promote more hatred against those who are White, Christian, and/or male.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-rips-white-christian-men-sparks-outrage-weeks-after-charlie-kirk-assassination

FOX NEWS
— TPUSA chapter support soars after Charlie Kirk assassination. DD: Who is leading the TPUSA effort in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380350416112
— DNC chair calls for DC, Puerto Rico statehood, filibuster elimination, says Trump admin a ‘fascist regime’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dnc-chair-calls-dc-puerto-rico-statehood-filibuster-elimination-says-trump-admin-fascist-regime
— Rogan calls out self-described ‘progressives’ who celebrated the ‘public execution’ of Charlie Kirk. Rogan in disbelief at seeing ‘normal people,’ including housewives and bank workers, cheer activist’s death.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rogan-calls-out-self-described-progressives-who-celebrated-public-execution-charlie-kirk
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380443240112

NATIONAL REVIEW
— George Washington U Students Believe Charlie Kirk Got What He Deserved
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/george-washington-u-students-believe-charlie-kirk-got-what-he-deserved/

PJ MEDIA
— The ‘Disparate Impact’ Flim-Flam Is Ending. DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/09/30/the-disparate-impact-flim-flam-is-ending-n4944299

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF WAR
— Hegseth Says Promotions, Retention to be Based on Meritocracy. DD: To hire, retain, and promote more Democrat minorities and females, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4318944/hegseth-says-promotions-retention-to-be-based-on-meritocracy-not-quotas/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— ‘Get your cell phones out’: Pritzker urges public to post footage of federal agents. DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly protects his illegals.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5528466-jb-pritzker-chicago-illinois-federal-law-enforcement/

ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pope-intervenes-us-abortion-debate-raising-means-pro-126108885

CBS NEWS
— DD: The hate-filled Trump-hating Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tammy-duckworth-accuses-trump-playbook-authoritarianism-military-address/

NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S. Begins Shutdown That Could Lead to Mass Layoffs and Service Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/30/us/trump-government-shutdown-hegseth
— DD: The Voice of America has existed to promote Democrats and the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/voa-voice-of-america-layoffs.html

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/30/ice-chaos-broadview-illinois-wants-them-out/86409208007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Rise of ‘Accidental Landlords’ Is Bad News for Investors Who Bet Big on Rentals. DD: I was a landlord 1976-1984 because I decided to rent out my University Park town home rather than sell it at a loss.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/homeowners-rental-market-landlords-c2f6604f
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/polls/israel-gaza-war-us-poll.html
— FRONT PAGE: DD: The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down,
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/polls/trump-approval-poll.html

POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/30/congress/pope-leo-dick-durbin-00589172
— DD: Democrat Chicago leader hatred against Trump has only grown since March 11, 2016 when they forced Trump to cancel a rally at UIC.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-cancels-chicago-rally-protests-220660

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

DAILY MAIL
— FBI probes ‘militant Armed Queers’ group for ties to Charlie Kirk suspect… as evidence of its FOREIGN funding grows and deleted posts are revealed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15130313/FBI-Charlie-Kirk-Armed-Queers-foreign-funding.html

INDEPENDENT
— Teen hailed as Charlie Kirk ‘protégé’ is ripped by MAGA crowd after private jet video: ‘Country club’ conservative. Brilyn Hollyhand, who calls himself ‘The Internet’s Youngest Voice of Reason’ online, was ripped into by online users and even fellow right-wing influencers associated with Turning Point USA.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/brilyn-hollyhand-maga-charlie-kirk-private-jet-b2836655.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ilhan Omar because she says that Charlie Kirk’s record of ‘bigotry, hatred and white supremacy’ means there is no legacy to honor.
https://www.aol.com/articles/charlie-kirk-record-bigotry-hatred-101819797.html

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
— Musk Cancels Netflix Over ‘Pro-Transgender Kids Show’
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-joins-netflix-boycott-mass-cancellations-grow-heres-kids-show-comments-that-1745951

September 29, 2025 Evening Edition

Attacking federal facilities is an act of war. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— DHS requests military deployment to Illinois to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and facilities.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-today-illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-speak-monday-border-patrol-federal-agents-detain-people-downtown/17902579/
— 4 protesters charged after clash at Broadview ICE facility
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-today-protesters-expected-return-broadview-facility-weekend-clashes/17902425/
— YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit
https://abc7chicago.com/post/youtube-pay-245-million-settle-president-donald-trump-lawsuit/17906003/

NBC5
— DHS requests 100 military personnel be sent to Illinois for ICE protection.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dhs-requests-100-military-personnel-be-sent-to-illinois-for-ice-protection-pritzker-says-ice-pritzker-trump/3831059/

CBS2
— Trump administration seeking to deploy 100 troops to protect ICE in Illinois
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/gov-pritzker-address-deployment-federal-agents-chicago/

WTTW
— Trump administration intends to deploy 100 “military troops” to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/29/broadview-police-investigating-report-ice-agent-firing-chemical-munition-reporter-least

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Feds seeking to deploy military to Illinois to protect ICE agents
YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle Pres. Trump lawsuit
— Five people facing federal charges stemming from Broadview immigration protests
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/four-charged-broadview-immigration-protests/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump administration asks for 100 ‘military troops’ to deploy in Illinois to protect ICE.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/29/pritzker-dhs-will-deploy-100-military-troops-to-illinois-citing-need-to-protect-ice-officers
— Judge detains man caught with gun outside ICE facility: ‘Who brings a loaded firearm to an ICE protest?’
The feds have used the arrest of Ray Collins and Jocelyne Robledo to argue that ICE agents have been endangered by the ongoing protests.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/29/feds-charge-four-following-ice-protests-in-broadview-including-2-carrying-guns-with-lawful-permits

DAILY HERALD
— Democrats announce plan to fill state House 42 vacancy
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250929/local-politics/democrats-announce-plan-to-fill-state-house-42-vacancy/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DHS aims to deploy 100 military troops to guard ICE operations here.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-says-dhs-requested-troops-deployed-illinois
— Medicaid cuts will deepen a growing strain on ERs treating gunshots. DD: The Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more poverty and more crime.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/medicaid-cuts-deepen-strain-ers-treating-gunshots-study

WBBM
— GOP gubernatorial candidate Ted Dabrowski criticizes Pritzker while backing federal operations in Chicago
https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/dabrowski-criticizes-pritzker-while-backing-feds-in-chicago
https://www.audacy.com/wxrt/news/local/dabrowski-criticizes-pritzker-while-backing-feds-in-chicago
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican gubernatorial candidate Ted Dabrowski is voicing support for federal immigration enforcement in Chicago, while taking aim at Governor JB Pritzker’s handling of the issue. At a press conference in DuPage County, where he also picked up endorsements from former DuPage County Auditor Bob Grogan, former state Rep. Jeanne Ives, and former state Rep. Tom Morrison, Dabrowski was asked about armed federal agents patrolling downtown as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Midway Blitz.” Dabrowski said he believes state leaders should work with federal authorities instead of opposing them. “I really wish the governor would cooperate with the federal authorities so that we don’t have to have federal authorities running around chasing people,” Dabrowski said. “By not cooperating with the federal authorities, we’re creating more of a mess.” He also accused Pritzker of inflaming tensions around the federal presence. “I think the governor’s words have been fomenting violence and fomenting these agitators to get even more fired up. I wish Governor Pritz would come out and say, stop, we do not want violence. We will not attack our federal authorities. They’re doing their work,” Dabrowski said. The Wilmette Republican tied his criticism to his campaign pledge to repeal Illinois’ sanctuary state law, arguing the state should prioritize residents over what he called “billions of welcoming dollars” for new arrivals. Dabrowski, president of the conservative policy group Wirepoints, entered the 2026 GOP primary earlier this month as the early fundraising leader. He faces a likely challenge from former state Sen. Darren Bailey, the GOP’s 2022 nominee, along with DuPage County Sheriff Jim Mendrick and Lake Forest resident Joe Severino.)

WBEZ
— Trump administration asks for 100 ‘military troops’ to deploy in Illinois to protect ICE
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/29/gov-pritzker-dhs-100-national-guard-troops-illinois-ice-agents

RIVER BENDER
— DD: Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, everything that Trump does in harmful.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/southern-illinois-democratic-county-chairs-association-convene-to-address-harmful-impacts-of-trump-administration-on-rural-communities-86682.cfm

CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://chicagocrusader.com/a-requiem-for-free-speech/

CITIES 92.9
— Former state lawmakers endorse, donors support GOP candidate Dabrowski
https://www.cities929.com/2025/09/29/watch-former-state-lawmakers-endorse-donors-support-gop-candidate-dabrowski/

WSPY
— Hundreds remember Charlie Kirk at Yorkville memorial
https://www.wspynews.com/news/local/hundreds-remember-charlie-kirk-at-yorkville-memorial/article_1f8c2509-ae55-4046-8e81-eec4671ecaca.html

WAND TV
— Pritzker says that the Trump administration is arresting people ‘simply for the way they look’
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-furious-trump-administration-is-arresting-people-simply-for-the-way-they-look/article_a0ac44f4-b679-4fad-8ddb-bfa4248161fd.html
— YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle lawsuit over Trump’s account suspension after Jan. 6 attack. Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over his 2021 account suspension following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/googles-youtube-to-pay-24-5-million-to-settle-2021-lawsuit-by-donald-trump-over/article_5fa75a98-ac54-5b95-ac53-12c76b035254.html

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Homeland Security Wants 100 Troops To Help Protect ICE Agents In Illinois.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/29/feds-want-to-send-in-troops-to-protect-ice-agents-in-illinois-pritzker-says/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-392/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/29/what-the-state-ag-could-do-about-recalcitrant-sheriffs-if-he-was-so-inclined/
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/29/ice-coverage-roundup/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-600/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

TED DABROWSKI
— Business donor base supporting Dabrowski campaign
https://mailchi.mp/tedforillinois/tedannouncement-293?e=8d00c38215

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Former state lawmakers endorse, donors support GOP candidate Dabrowski. DD: Even though I did not get a media advisory, I attended this event.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b482fae5-201c-45e1-8c50-5908933dce3c.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While Gov. J.B. Pritzker remains unchallenged in the 2026 Democratic Party primary, Republican candidates for governor are lining up support. Former state Reps. Jeanne Ives, R-Wheaton, and Tom Morrison, R-Palatine, announced their endorsements of former Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski on Monday. Ives supported former state Sen. Darren Bailey, R-Xenia, in 2022 but said there is a better option in 2026. “No one knows the issues better than Ted, and subsequently, nobody is better positioned to attract independent suburban voters on the merits of who can do better for Illinois families,” Ives said. Morrison said Dabrowski is the candidate who can win. “For the past 15 years I’ve known Ted, and whether I was in office or out, I’ve been so grateful for his insights and understanding and how to get Illinois on the new and better path that we’re capable of and that we deserve if we get the right leadership,” Morrison said. Ives, Morrison and former DuPage County Auditor Bob Grogan endorsed Dabrowski at a press conference in Wheaton. Dabrowski also announced several six-figure donors to his campaign. Uline CEO Richard Uihlein and Madison Dearborn co-founder James Perry donated $250,000 each to Ted for Illinois. Investor Noel Moore gave $125,000 and five others gave $100,000 each. The Republican nominee will likely face a significant financial disadvantage against incumbent Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Ives said she believes Dabrowski can win his first attempt at public office, even though Pritzker is a billionaire with the political infrastructure and backing of the Democratic Party of Illinois, which was built by former Illinois House Speaker and DPI Chairman Michael Madigan. “Madigan’s headed to prison. We know it’s a David vs. Goliath fight, but we’re already meeting with people around the state that have had it with Governor Pritzker,” Ives said, pointing out that “David won!” In 2018, Ives challenged incumbent Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner in the Republican primary and lost. Bailey launched his second gubernatorial run last week after falling to Pritzker in the 2022 general election. Concerned Parents of Illinois founder Kristina McCloy said she is supporting Bailey and his running mate, Cook County Republican chairman Aaron Del Mar. “If you are tired of watching Illinois sink under radical ideologies and leadership, then this is your team. Darren Bailey and Aaron Del Mar are the fighters that Illinois family needs,” McCloy said. DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick and Lake Forest businessman Joe Severino are also seeking the GOP nomination. Mendrick is endorsed by sheriffs in Iroquois, Jefferson and Macon counties as well as by Carol Stream Mayor Frank Saverino. Mendrick’s running mate is U.S. Army veteran Robert Renteria.)

MCHENRY CPOUNTY BLOG
— Uihlein and Other Large Donors Backing Ted Dabrowski for Governor over Darin Bailey
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/29/uihlein-and-other-large-donors-backing-ted-dabrowski-for-governor-over-darin-bailey/
— McHenry County Board Member Carl Kamienski Absolutely Against Reinstating the Ten Million in Real Estate Taxes Eliminated by Shifting Mental Health Financing to Sales Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/29/mchenry-county-board-member-carl-kamienski-absolutely-against-reinstating-the-ten-million-in-real-estate-taxes-eliminated-by-shifting-mental-health-financing-to-sales-tax/
— One-Word Descriptions of Illinois and Other States
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/28/one-word-descriptions-of-illinois-and-other-states/
— Honoring Charlie Kirk in Fox River Grove
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/28/honoring-charlie-kirk-in-fox-river-grove/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— My critics/opponents ever-increasingly do not want me to promote their events, to attend their events, and to report on their events. Ever-increasingly they have their operatives and their dupes try to stop me from speaking with anyone at their events. Ever-increasingly, my critics/opponents blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all of their problems, for all of my problems, for all of your problems, and for all of everyone’s problems. Should I start writing about my critics/opponents and their operatives and their dupes? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— DD: Illinois Review blasts Proft, Ives, Dabrowski, Bailey, and Keyes
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/uihleins-250k-bet-on-dabrowski-follows-costly-losses-that-ushered-in-pritzker-era.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHJINGTON TIMES
— NYC Mayor Adams’ exit from race puts sharper focus on Democrats’ Mamdani conundrum
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/29/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-exit-race-puts-sharper-focus-democrats-mamdani/

AMERICAN NEWS WIRE
— Federal troops arrive in downtown Chicago as racist mayor rages
https://americanwirenews.com/federal-troops-arrive-in-downtown-chicago-as-racist-mayor-rages/

BREITBART
— Border Patrol Flexes with Show of Force in Chicago, Facing Protests & Democrat Rhetoric Fomenting Violence Against ICE
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/09/29/border-patrol-flexes-with-show-of-force-in-chicago-facing-protests-democrat-rhetoric-fomenting-violence-against-ice/amp/
— ICE Names 30 Politicians on ‘Unhinged Crusade’ to Protect Illegal Aliens, Including Govs Walz, Pritzker, Newsom
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/09/29/ice-names-30-politicians-on-unhinged-crusade-to-protect-illegal-aliens-including-govs-walz-pritzker-newsom/
— Trump’s Administration Invests $625 Million in U.S. Coal Industry
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/29/president-trumps-administration-invests-625-million-in-critical-u-s-coal-industry/amp/

FOX NEWS
— Rep. Omar said Charlie Kirk’ has no legacy to honor, accuses him of spouting White supremacy
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380309752112
— Zohran Mamdani commits to more than $100M for immigrant legal defense services
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380258017112
— Chicago anti-ICE agitator faces federal charges after threatening to ‘kill’ agent. Paul Ivery allegedly participated in protests outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Ill., over the weekend.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-anti-ice-agitator-faces-federal-charges-after-threatening-kill-agent

NEWSMAX
— Dem Sens Blast Hegseth Over ‘Risky’ Meet With Top Brass
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pete-hegseth-tammy-duckworth-maziehirono/2025/09/29/id/1228349/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/miami-suburbs-once-vibrant-housing-scene-is-hit-by-exodus-of-migrants-0a2064bf

POLITICO
— Pritzker blasts plan for National Guard deployment to Chicago. Illinois officials condemn “militarized force” as unconstitutional and politically motivated.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/29/jackbooted-thugs-pritzker-blasts-plan-for-national-guard-deployment-00585709

DAILY KOS
— DD: The hate-filled Trump-hating Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/29/2346096/-JB-Pritzker-isn-t-mincing-words-on-Trump-s-Chicago-invasion

September 26, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Smoke, pepper bullets deployed on protesters in clashes outside Broadview ICE facility
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-operation-midway-blitz-protest-expected-broadview-facility-friday-sw-side-tamale-vendor-held/17885390/

CBS2
— Fundraiser held for tamale vendor Laura Murillo detained by ICE in Back of the Yards
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/fundraiser-tamale-vendor-laura-murillo-ice-chicago/

WGN9
— Protestors clash with agents outside Broadview ICE processing facility amid ongoing demonstrations
https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/protestors-clash-with-agents-outside-broadview-ice-processing-facility-amid-ongoing-demonstrations/

WTTW
— Trump’s Transportation Department Pulls Trail and Bike Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/26/trump-s-transportation-department-pulls-trail-and-bike-grants-deemed-hostile-cars

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Feds fire baton rounds, more tear gas at ICE protesters in Broadview
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/26/ice-baton-rounds-tear-gas-chicago/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Broadview mayor says ICE is ‘making war on my community’ after latest protest at immigration facility. Federal officers again fired rubber pellets and chemical irritants into a crowd of protesters gathered Friday outside the fenced-off compound.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/26/protest-heats-up-again-outside-broadview-ice-facililty
— Illinois Dems press Chicago ICE director for Broadview facility oversight, details on deportation operations. Members of the Illinois delegation were scheduled to meet with an ICE Chicago field office director on Friday but were told the meeting had to be rescheduled to a later date.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/26/illinois-dems-press-chicago-ice-director-for-broadview-oversight-details-on-chicago-deportation-operations
— City Council leader wants to raise maximum age for starting police officer to 55. Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th) argued there are plenty of jobs, particularly in policing, that could be performed by rookies in their 50s. Police and fire union leaders branded the proposal “crazy.” My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, that is, so far, they have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from working.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/09/26/chicago-police-maximum-age-entry-level-officer-proposal-gilbert-villegas
— Bid to atone for slavery’s sins ignites racially charged City Council clash. A resolution offering an apology to Black Chicagoans for the scourge of slavery passes overwhelmingly but sparks outrage when four Council members vote against the symbolic move.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/09/26/chicago-trump-slavery-apology-alderpeople-lamont-robinson-nick-sposato-city-council
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Four alderpersons voted against a resolution offering Black Chicagoans an apology for America’s enslavement of their ancestors, producing a racially charged clash within the City Council and a final roll call that one supporter called “appalling.” Alds. Raymond Lopez (15th), Nick Sposato (38th), Anthony Napolitano (41st) and James Gardiner (45th) sparked outrage from some of their colleagues for refusing to endorse the resolution, which ultimately passed. The measure sponsored by Ald. Lamont Robinson (4th) issued a formal apology from the City Council “to the Black citizens of Chicago for the historical injustices of slavery, segregation, systemic racism, and the policies that have perpetuated racial inequality.” It overwhelmingly passed 43-4 but not without fireworks at a marathon City Council meeting Thursday. “Shame on you!,” Robinson shouted after Lopez, Sposato, and Napolitano announced they would vote against the resolution. “You have to be able to share with your constituents, your Black constituents — in all damn 50 wards — why you would say no to this resolution. Shame on you!” Robinson said. While the City Council is no stranger to racially charged debates on how to address the city’s long, continued history of segregation and inequity, the “no” votes against the symbolic resolution came as a shock to some of the Council’s most level-headed members. “I was hoping this would be a unanimous one — of all the things we can unanimously support,” said Ald. Maria Hadden (49th), who is Black. “This is a surprising, shocking, appalling piece.” The debate played out against a national backdrop of the Trump administration’s crusade against diversity goals in government and businesses and its efforts to sanitize how Americans look back on the evils of slavery. This month, President Donald Trump ordered the National Park Service to remove from a Georgia historic site an iconic 1863 photograph titled “The Scourged Back” of a formerly enslaved man bearing the scars of past whippings on his back. Gardiner, a Northwest Side alderperson, didn’t explain his no vote. In a brief comment, Napolitano said he voted no because there has been “just as much harm done” to this city “over the last couple of years” as in the past. Sposato, a supporter of Trump, said he would not take responsibility for sins of the past. “There’s a lot of blame to go around, but certainly not the city of Chicago, certainly not my family,” Sposato said. “I apologize to absolutely nobody. I want my name off there. I do not want to be associated with this.” Lopez, a Southwest Side alderperson, said he wouldn’t endorse the resolution because Chicago’s “own economy was not slave driven.” Lopez noted that the city became a haven for freed men and women escaping southern slavery. Half a million people came to Chicago as part of the Great Migration. Lopez said the City Council should focus instead on how to correct current-day injustices “as opposed to constantly looking backwards.” “If we want to talk about the injustices to the Black community, I want to talk about where we have failed. We don’t have to look that far back,” Lopez said. Hadden acknowledged Lopez’s point that the city “didn’t directly deal in enslaved people,” but she rebutted that “the money that built this city and controlled the power did.” She further argued that Lopez and Sposato’s arguments against the resolution were “emblematic of some of the worst behavior that we’re seeing coming out of DC.” “Those who would accuse us of going backwards by recognizing fact and truth, I challenge that sentiment. We’re not the ones going backwards,” Hadden said. “Recognition and apology is part of repair… which are necessary to moving forward.” The resolution notes that slavery thrived in the Midwest after French explorers introduced it to the region in the mid-1700s. Even after Illinois was deemed a “free” state in 1818, state laws in place through the Civil War “subjected free Black residents to oppressive restrictions, including the denial of voting rights.” It goes on to state that following slavery’s abolition in 1865, Black Chicagoans continued to face racial discrimination through redlining, segregation, housing discrimination and other systemic inequities “which persist today.” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson last year issued a formal apology from the city as a whole to Black Chicagoans through an executive order when he created a task force to study possible economic reparations for Black residents. Evanston, the city’s neighbor to the north, approved the country’s first reparations program for Black residents years ago.)

DAILY HERALD
— ‘It’s a black hole’: Broadview ICE facility sparks complaints of inhumane conditions
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250926/nation-and-world/broadview-ice-facility-sparks-complaints-of-inhumane-conditions/
— As Illinois congressional delegation seeks answers, ICE cancels meeting
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250926/news/as-illinois-congressional-delegation-seeks-answers-ice-cancels-meeting/
— Bailey jumps into the governor’s race for a second time with Palatine’s Del Mar
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250925/illinois-state-politics/bailey-jumps-into-the-governors-race-for-a-second-time-with-palatines-del-mar/

WGLT
— During B-N stop, conservative governor candidate Ted Dabrowski vows to fight for economic change in Illinois
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-09-26/during-b-n-stop-conservative-governor-candidate-ted-dabrowski-vows-to-fight-for-economic-change-in-illinois

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-391/
— Wirepoints’ deficit spending continued as assets were further depleted ahead of staff exodus
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/26/wirepoints-deficit-spending-continued-as-assets-were-further-depleted-ahead-of-staff-exodus/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— How Erika Kirk is transforming America after husband Charlie’s assassination
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/26/erika-kirk-transforming-america-husband-charlies-assassination/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— House Republicans move to end mail delivery of abortion pill
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3825635/house-republican-bill-end-mail-delivery-abortion-pill-mifepristone/
— After Dallas ICE shooting Democrats want to ban all guns
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3826529/dallas-ice-shooting-democrats-gun-control-hunting-rifles/
— The married-with-children party vs. the single-and-childless party
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3820260/married-with-children-vs-single-and-childless/

BREITBART
— Illinois: Rioters Chant ‘Kill ICE! Shoot ICE!’ at Migrant Detention Center
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/26/sanctuary-state-illinois-rioters-chant-kill-ice-shoot-ice-outside-detention-center-holding-criminal-illegal-aliens/amp/

DAILY SIGNAL
— ICE Continues Arrests of ‘Criminal Illegal Aliens’ Following Dallas Shooting
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/26/exclusive-ice-continues-arrests-criminal-illegal-aliens-following-dallas-shooting/

FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— ICE is Increasingly Taking the “Sanctuary” out of Sanctuary Jurisdictions
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/09/26/ice-increasingly-taking-sanctuary-out-sanctuary-jurisdictions

FOX NEWS
— Chicago anti-ICE protesters block vehicles, get hit with tear gas and pepper balls
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-anti-ice-protesters-block-vehicles-get-hit-tear-gas-pepper-balls
— Protestors face off with Illinois ICE agents
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380155512112
— Protest turns violent outside Illinois ICE facility
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380153714112

NEW AMERICAN
— The 1619 Project: Mostly Marxist Myth
https://thenewamerican.com/opinion/book-reviews/the-1619-project-mostly-marxist-myth/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Supreme Court lets Trump withhold $4 billion in foreign aid approved by Congress
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-foreign-aid-funding/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hegseth to Push ‘Warrior Ethos’ in Meeting of Top Generals
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-to-push-warrior-ethos-in-meeting-of-top-generals-9cfd7fb4?mod=djemwhatsnews
— Trump Pledges That Others Will Be Indicted After Comey
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-doj-indictments-fbi-james-comey-49910fd3

NEW YORK SUN
— Judge To Hear Arguments in Lawsuit Over ‘Racist Reparations’ Program in Evanston
https://www.nysun.com/article/judge-to-hear-arguments-in-lawsuit-over-racist-reparations-program-in-evanston-illinois

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Masked protesters clash with ICE, attack vehicles at Broadview facility in Illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DNIRE0ndzvm8

September 25, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Darren Bailey announces second run for Illinois governor
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/darren-bailey-announces-second-run-for-illinois-governor/3829430/

CBS2
— Tamale vendor arrested by ICE on Southwest Side of Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tamale-vendor-arrested-ice-agents-back-of-the-yards/

FOX32
— Man arrested for spray-painting anti-Trump, anti-Israel graffiti on Carol Stream police station, businesses
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/man-arrested-spray-painting-anti-trump-anti-israel-graffiti-carol-stream-police-station-businesses

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Republican Darren Bailey launches second bid for governor with strategy to connect better with Chicago voters
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/darren-bailey-launches-second-bid-for-governor/
— People giving up pets for financial reasons need help, DuPage officials say
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/dupage-pets-financial-animals-legislation-money-afford/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois braces for more patients as Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses abortions over Medicaid cuts
https://chicago.suntimes.com/abortion/2025/09/25/planned-parenthood-wisconsin-abortion-pause-illinois-patients
— Border Patrol spotted with guns on Chicago River in Trump’s latest deportation push
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/25/border-patrol-chicago-river-immigration-enforcement-greg-bovino-deportation

DAILY HERALD
— Carol Stream man faces hate crime charges after painting profane graffiti on police station
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250925/news/carol-stream-man-faces-hate-crime-charges-after-painting-profane-graffiti-on-police-station/
— Man who opened fire on ICE facility hoped attack would give agents ‘real terror,’ FBI says
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250925/crime/man-who-opened-fire-on-ice-facility-hoped-attack-would-give-agents-real-terror-fbi-says/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Abortion burden shifts to Illinois as Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses services
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/wisconsin-abortion-pause-prompts-illinois-prepare-influx

WBEZ
— Trump administration pulls millions in funding from Chicago Public Schools
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/09/25/trump-administration-pulls-millions-in-funding-from-chicago-public-schools
— Illinois braces for more patients as Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses abortions over Medicaid cuts
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/09/25/planned-parenthood-wisconsin-abortion-pause-illinois-patients

SOUTHERN
— Trump, Vance direct blame at Democrats for Dallas ICE shooting
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/09/25/trump-vance-direct-blame-at-democrats-for-dallas-ice-shooting/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Republicans Darren Bailey, Aaron Del Mar in Bloomington
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_145f0114-ba1e-49c6-96eb-7f75a35ce98a.html
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/video_5a555312-6ef7-521f-8334-b200ee2c65dd.html

WAND TV
— Darren Bailey announces second run for Illinois governor in 2026
https://www.wandtv.com/news/darren-bailey-announces-second-run-for-illinois-governor-in-2026/article_c8be4305-de7b-4f15-9093-4c52e0706a53.html

WMIX
— Darren Bailey Announces Campaign for Governor of Illinois: Putting Families First, Ending Pritzker’s Failure
https://www.wmix94.com/2025/09/25/darren-bailey-announces-campaign-for-governor-of-illinois-putting-families-first-ending-pritzkers-failure/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-390/
(FROM THE REPORT: DuPage County Forest Preserve Commissioner Tina Tyson-Dunne is running for Rep. Terra Costa Howard’s House seat…We told you this morning DuPage County Board member Lynn LaPlante has thrown her hat in the ring for the 42nd House District. Glen Ellyn Trustee Sonia Bhagwakar has also applied for the replacement appointment and is prepared to run for the seat.)
— Bailey launches 2026 campaign for governor. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders call you an extremist. Democrat and RINO leaders have lots in common.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/25/bailey-launches-2026-campaign-for-governor-dpi-labels-him-%e2%80%98extreme-maga-republican%e2%80%99/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Residents hold tribute to Charlie Kirk after Downers Grove council declines formal moment of silence
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/675505309-residents-hold-tribute-to-charlie-kirk-after-downers-grove-council-declines-formal-moment-of-silence

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— County Board Budget Meeting Leading Toward Recapturing Tax Levy Supposedly Given Up with Shift of Mental Health Board Financing from Real Estate Tax to Sales Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/25/county-board-budget-meeting-leading-toward-recapturing-tax-levy-supposedly-given-up-with-shift-of-mental-health-board-financing-from-real-estate-tax-to-sales-tax/
— Don’t Show Up for Five Criminal Court Dates, “No Problem,” Says Illinois Supreme Court
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/25/dont-show-up-for-five-criminal-court-dates-no-problem-says-illinois-supreme-court/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Inside the Pentagon’s crackdown on journalists; experts say restrictions likely face court defeat
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/25/inside-pentagons-crackdown-journalists-experts-say-restrictions/
— RFK Jr. tells governors he’s reviewing abortion pill’s safety
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/25/robert-f-kennedy-jr-tells-governors-hes-reviewing-abortion-pills/
— Radicals in Washington are trying to revoke the new employment requirements for able-bodied, working-age adults. They seem to want more Americans to be dependent on the government.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/25/democrats-infantilize-able-bodied-adults-taxpayers-expense/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Christian nationalism, Charlie Kirk, and the useful idiots of left-wing hate
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3824059/christian-nationalism-charlie-kirk-and-the-useful-idiots-of-left-wing-hate/

NEW YORK POST
— Anti-ICE shooter Joshua Jahn used Nazi battle rifle in deadly Dallas attack
https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/us-news/anti-ice-shooter-joshua-jahn-used-nazi-battle-rifle-in-attack-experts/
— Former FBI Director James Comey indicted on charges of lying to Congress, obstruction of justice
https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/us-news/former-fbi-director-james-comey-indicted-on-charges-of-lying-to-congress/
— How the teachers union uses pet politicians to smear charter schools
https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/opinion/how-teachers-union-uses-pet-politicians-to-smear-charter-schools/

BREITBART
— Border Patrol Swarms Chicago Home Depot in Dawn Immigration Raid Under Operation Midway Blitz
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/09/25/exclusive-border-patrol-swarms-chicago-home-depot-in-dawn-immigration-raid-under-operation-midway-blitz/amp/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Chicago Public Schools Offer ‘Family Planning,’ Condoms, Abortion Information to Students
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/25/chicago-public-schools-offer-family-planning-condoms-abortion-information-to-students/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Joy Reid bashes Vance, says Yale accepted him due to affirmative action. UIC accepted me in 1966 because my ACT score was 24 and I graduated in the upper 20% of my class.
https://thehill.com/video/joy-reid-bashes-jd-vance-says-yale-accepted-him-due-to-affirmative-action-rising/11108997/
— Trump officials urge nations to join effort to restrict asylum system
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-trump-officials-urge-nations-to-join-global-effort-to-restrict-the-asylum-system/

WASHINGTON POST
— White House begins plan for mass firings if there’s a government shutdown. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of GAO’s employees like me who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$195,200/year and were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I was all of the aforesaid plus they had only promoted me to GS-13 even though I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years, I had thee job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), I had six job-related professional certifications (accounting, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and I had a job-related professional license (CPA).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/25/government-shutdown-omb-firings-trump/

FROM OTHER SOURCES

KIPLINGER
— If you are working for a Democrat or RINO employer, the more of the following that you are, the more likely that you will be forced you to retire early: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/retirement-planning/what-to-do-if-you-are-forced-into-early-retirement

JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTANCY
— There are few Black CPAs. GAO employs very few Black CPAs. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and replaced me with my Black CPA subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He was not a licensed CPA like I was. Of course, my critics/opponents have no problem with that.
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/topics/career-management/black-cpa-centennial/

September 25, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in turning Black pastors against Kirk because he opposed race based preference giving.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/black-pastors-charlie-kirk-martyr-racism-political-violence/3828896/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Broadview ICE facility becomes backdrop for candidates to signal immigration stance and raise campaign funds. According to Google AI: ” In a 2004 political advertisement, former Illinois politician and dairy company owner Jim Oberweis flew over Soldier Field in a helicopter to illustrate his position on immigration. During his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign, Oberweis claimed that 10,000 undocumented immigrants entered the country daily—enough to fill Soldier Field weekly.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/25/broadview-ice-political-candidates/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois, 20 other states win suit on disaster relief funding held up by Trump over ‘sanctuary’ laws
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/24/illinois-wins-suit-on-disaster-relief-funding-held-by-dhs-over-sanctuary-laws

DAILY HERALD
— When is the Daily Herald going to report on the September 21 Kirk event in Wheaton?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250924/submitted-content/wheaton-church-to-host-pet-blessing-oct-5/
— The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrat candidates and b) to defeat Republican candidates.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250925/columns/a-link-between-trust-skepticism-that-can-combat-fake-news-2/

WGLT
— Trump announces hike to visa category used by Indians — and chaos ensues
https://www.wglt.org/2025-09-24/trump-announces-hike-to-visa-category-used-by-indians-and-chaos-ensues

FOX ST. LOUIS
— Illinois Republicans admit impeachment effort of Pritzker likely to go nowhere. I filed Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) in 1998 knowing full-well that the courts were anti-Republican. I filed the lawsuit to get my evidence into the court record. Anyone who reads my filings in the lawsuit will conclude that I should have won.
https://fox2now.com/news/illinois/illinois-republicans-admit-impeachment-effort-of-pritzker-likely-to-go-nowhere/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1077474/congress-trying-to-limit-marijuana-rescheduling-but-dea-can-still-act-now/

CHALK BEAT
— Chicago Public Schools loses millions in magnet school money amid dispute over diversity efforts with Trump administration
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/09/24/cps-loses-magnet-school-money-over-dispute-with-trump-administration-over-dei-initiatives/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for everything that is bad including bad weather
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/09/25/mayor-counters-trumps-climate-denial-00579939

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-598/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MARK GLENNON
— Will Pritzker Again Spend Millions to Get His Easiest-to-Beat Republican, Darren Bailey, Nominated?
https://markglennon.substack.com/p/will-pritzker-again-spend-millions

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Dems Plan Anti-Bailey Demonstration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/24/dems-plan-anti-bailey-demonstration/
— Looking at the Kane County Treasurer’s Race
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/25/looking-at-the-kane-county-treasurers-race/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Gov. Glenn Youngkin donating $100,000 to Turning Point to start chapters in Virginia. Who is leading the effort to start Turning Point chapters in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPhzJmmA6M4
— Vance blames Left for Dallas ICE shooting and tells inciters to ‘go straight to hell’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3821981/jd-vance-blames-left-ice-shooting-dallas/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— The United States Has Spent $110 Billion on AIDS Prevention. Less Than Half of the Money Went to Medical Supplies and Health Workers.
https://freebeacon.com/america/the-united-states-has-spent-110-billion-on-aids-prevention-less-than-half-of-the-money-went-to-medical-supplies-and-health-workers-a-state-department-audit-found/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump blames ‘Radical Left Democrats’ rhetoric for Dallas ICE shooting: ‘This is despicable’
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/us-news/trump-blames-radical-left-democrats-rhetoric-for-dallas-ice-shooting/
— Charlie Kirk shooter’s trans lover was gifted straight A student — before a family argument upended his life
https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/us-news/alleged-charlie-kirk-shooter-tyler-robinsons-trans-lover-lance-twiggs-was-gifted-straight-a-student/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Anti-ICE protester murders two illegal aliens in Dallas
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/anti_ice_protester_murders_two_illegal_aliens_in_dallas.html

BREITBART
— 8 Times Democrats Demonized ICE Agents for Enforcing Federal Immigration Law
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/24/8-times-democrats-demonized-ice-agents-for-enforcing-federal-immigration-law/
— The assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk hasn’t slowed his conservative youth movement — rather, it has energized it.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/right-wing-us-movement-continues-campus-tour-without-founder-kirk/
— Turning Point USA on the Cusp of ‘Having a TPUSA or Club America Chapter in Every HS and College Campus in America.’  Who is leading the effort to start Turning Point chapters in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/24/andrew-kolvet-turning-point-usa-on-the-cusp-of-having-a-tpusa-or-club-america-chapter-in-every-hs-and-college-campus-in-america/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote illegal drugs
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/09/24/hillary-clinton-trump-bombing-alleged-drug-boats-could-end-up-in-international-court-of-justice/
— Americans Greatly Distrust Democrats’ Mass Migration Agenda. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Immigrants are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/24/reuters-poll-americans-greatly-distrust-democrats-mass-migration-agenda/

COLLEGE FIX
— Conservative ‘Fearless Debate’ group removed from Tennessee HBCU amid student uproar
https://www.thecollegefix.com/conservative-fearless-debate-group-removed-from-tennessee-hbcu-amid-student-uproar/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Signs of a ‘Total Systems Collapse’ Are Everywhere—Are You Paying Attention?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nljL65VEXnc

FEDERALIST
— We Can’t Let Leftist Freaks Hijack History To Smear Charlie Kirk
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/24/we-cant-let-leftist-freaks-hijack-history-to-smear-charlie-kirk/
— Club Flyer Cheering Kirk’s Murder Found At Georgetown University
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/24/report-club-flyer-celebrating-charlie-kirks-assassination-found-at-georgetown-university-campus/
— The Left Accuses The Right Of Hate To Avoid Debate And Silence Opposition
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/24/the-left-accuses-the-right-of-hate-to-avoid-debate-and-silence-opposition/

FOX BUSINESS
— Oklahoma planning to put TPUSA chapters in every high school. Who is leading the effort to start Turning Point chapters in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfDrhlcToCQ

FOX NEWS
— Cubs’ Matt Shaw has epic game after Mets announcers criticize him for attending Charlie Kirk memorial. Shaw was 3-for-4 with a home run.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/cubs-matt-shaw-has-epic-game-after-mets-announcers-criticize-him-attending-charlie-kirk-memorial
— Joy Reid says Vance got into Yale as ‘Appalachian White’ diversity pick
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jd-vance-mocks-joy-reid-meme-after-former-msnbc-hosts-affirmative-action-attack
— Oklahoma state superintendent pledges a Turning Point USA chapter for every high school. Who is leading the effort to start Turning Point chapters in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/oklahoma-state-superintendent-pledges-turning-point-usa-chapter-every-high-school
— Pastors across US report rise in church attendance after Charlie Kirk’s death
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380085966112

PJ MEDIA
— War Department Axes Woke Feminist Military Committee
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/09/24/war-dept-axes-woke-military-committee-on-women-n4944067

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Oklahoma Department of Education Announces Partnership with Turning Point USA. Who is leading the effort to start Turning Point chapters in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.westernjournal.com/oklahoma-department-education-announces-partnership-turning-point-usa/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Texas A&M controversy puts state at the center of fight over LGBTQ teachings
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5519865-texas-am-lgbtq-teaching-trump-abbott/

ABC NEWS
— For a generation of Black conservatives, Charlie Kirk built more than politics — he built community
https://abcnews.go.com/US/generation-black-conservatives-charlie-kirk-built-politics-built/story?id=125765387

NEWSWEEK
— London Mayor Calls Donald Trump Racist
https://www.newsweek.com/sadiq-khan-donald-trump-racist-10481147
— Kimmel Unleashes on Trump After Trump Decries Kimmel’s Return
https://www.newsweek.com/jimmy-kimmel-unleashes-on-donald-trump-after-president-decries-his-return-10692048

NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrat candidates and b) to defeat Republican candidates.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/technology/brendan-carr-fcc-kimmel.html

USA TODAY
— My critics/opponents oppose/reject free speech. They destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents who are still in the mix, who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me, and the planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject and why. Equal opportunity is the plank that they most commonly reject. They want more and more and more preference for those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, citizens of foreign countries, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/09/24/free-speech-republican-democrats-cancel-culture/86253202007/

DETROIT NEWS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in turning Black pastors against Kirk because he opposed race based preference giving.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/22/black-christians-confront-charlie-kirks-religious-legacy/86292660007/

TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Charlie Kirk Explains Why War On Masculinity Drives Men Out Of Society
https://www.aol.com/news/charlie-kirk-explains-why-war-014910991.html

NEWS NATION
— Turning Point USA resumes Charlie Kirk’s college campus tour. Who is leading the effort to start Turning Point chapters in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/turning-point-usa-resumes-charlie-kirks-college-campus-tour/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Is Gen Z Unemployable?  Hiring managers prize achievement, learning and work. Today’s youth value pleasure and individuality.  What did you do to qualify yourself 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.  I did the aforesaid even though my ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. One could argue that because I did the aforesaid, anyone could do the aforesaid. But according to my critics/opponents, I did the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities, females, younger people, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-gen-z-unemployable-288d2ec9?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Wall Street Is Poaching Bankers in a Red-Hot Job Market. Wall Street had no interest in me when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 even though I had a) worked on audits of federal financial industry regulators for the previous 8 years at the GS-13 Step 4-10 Levels, currently $108,978-$153,151/year, b) earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT that year, c) became a Certified Forensic Accountant that year and a Certified Financial Services Auditor a year before, a Certified Government Financial Manager 3 years before, and a Certified Fraud Examiner 7 years before, c) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt 16 years before and the CPA examination on my first attempt 18 years before, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting 17 years before, e) earned an MBA 21 years before, and f) worked on audits of IRS for 3 years and worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. Wall Street would have offered me a job in 1997 if I had been a citizen of a foreign country, Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/banking-jobs-morgan-stanley-citigroup-2487fb23

BARRON’S
— The assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk hasn’t slowed his conservative youth movement — rather, it has energized it.
https://www.barrons.com/news/right-wing-us-movement-continues-campus-tour-without-founder-kirk-4651d006

VOX
— Is wealth inequality leading to a class war? In the past four decades, the gap between rich and poor has grown significantly. It’s a dangerous trend. What did you do to qualify yourself 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.  I did the aforesaid even though my ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. One could argue that because I did the aforesaid, anyone could do the aforesaid. But according to my critics/opponents, I did the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities, females, younger people, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.vox.com/explain-it-to-me/403126/wealth-inequality-class-warfare-billionaires

BLACK WALL STREET TIMES
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in turning Black students against Kirk because he opposed race based preference giving.
https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/09/24/charlie-kirk-supporters-target-hbcu-promptly-removed-from-campus/

ATLANTIC
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/09/oklahoma-public-education-ryan-walters-teachers/684342/

MS. MAGAZINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly equate illegals with Black slaves
https://msmagazine.com/2025/07/16/ice-raids-california-black-people-women-activists-politics-trump-white-supremacy/

September 23, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Fencing put up outside Broadview ICE facility after protests
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-operation-midway-blitz-fencing-put-outside-broadview-facility-protests/17870950/
— Missing NY girl found in Blue Island with men in country illegally
https://abc7chicago.com/post/missing-rochester-new-york-girl-found-blue-island-illinois-men-country-illegally-us-marshals-say/17871734/
— Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters promote Kimmel
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jimmy-kimmel-returns-late-night-glen-powell-ethan-hawke-peyton-manning-appear-guests/17872219/
— Five takeaways from President Trump’s UN speech
https://abc7chicago.com/post/takeaways-president-trumps-united-nations-speech-tuesday/17871642/

CBS2
— Fence goes up outside ICE facility in Broadview. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/fence-goes-up-outside-ice-facility-in-broadview-illinois/
— White House threatens to withhold funding to CPS over Black Student Success plan, transgender student guidelines. To get more votes from Blacks and from LGBTQers, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give them more preference.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/white-house-threatens-withhold-funding-cps/

WGN9
— Pritzker issued an executive order Tuesday directing state agencies to identify up to 4% of general fund appropriations next year and limit hiring and non-essential spending. Pritzker blames President Trump’s “reckless economic policies” for the move.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/pritzker-issues-executive-order-directing-agencies-to-save-more-in-2026-over-trump-policies/amp/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago Cubs’ Matt Shaw explains decision to attend Charlie Kirk memorial: ‘That was really important to my faith.’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/chicago-cubs-matt-shaw-charlie-kirk-decision/
— Trump in speech to UN says world body ‘not even coming close to living up’ to its potential
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/trump-un-speech/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson twice undercuts Chicago’s fight against crime
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-mayor-brandon-johnson-twice-100000454.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Cubs’ Matt Shaw says leaving team to attend Charlie Kirk’s memorial was ‘what was meant to be.’  “My connection with Charlie was through our [Christian] faith,” Shaw said Tuesday before a series opener against the Mets at Wrigley Field, “and that’s something that drives me every day.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs/2025/09/23/cubs-matt-shaw-charlie-kirk-memorial-leaving-team-meant-to-be
— Pointing finger at Trump’s ‘disastrous policies,’ Pritzker directs state agencies to find 4% in budget cuts. Gov. JB Pritzker says cuts are needed because of the impact to the state of the president’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which includes tax breaks for billionaires, cuts to food assistance and anticipated reductions in federal Medicaid funding.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/09/23/jb-pritzker-state-budget-cuts-donald-trump-big-beautiful-bill

DAILY HERALD
— State lawmaker Terra Costa Howard to become DuPage County judge
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250923/news/state-lawmaker-howard-to-become-dupage-county-judge/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: State Rep. Terra Costa Howard is giving up her seat in the state House to become a DuPage County Circuit Court judge. The Illinois Supreme Court announced Tuesday it is appointing Howard as resident circuit judge, effective Oct. 17. Her term will end Dec. 7, 2026. She fills a vacancy left by the retirement of Judge Paul Fullerton. Howard, a Glen Ellyn Democrat, has served as a state representative since 2019, first for the 48th District and then the 42nd District. A spokesman confirmed Costa Howard is resigning, but said a date has not been set. Costa Howard has had a solo law practice since 2003. Before that, she worked in the DuPage County public defender’s office and as a staff attorney for the DuPage court. “From my first days of working in the Chief Judge’s office and the DuPage County Public Defender’s office, to my current role as State Representative, I have worked to serve the people of DuPage County,” Costa Howard said in a news release from the Illinois Supreme Court. “I believe that every step of my career has led me toward this new challenge, and I look forward to the prospect of bringing my experience — in law and in life — to the bench.” The state constitution prohibits . judges from holding elected office.)
— Schaumburg Township GOP to host candidates for statewide offices at Saturday event. If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would be continuing to host candidate forums. I served as TAPROOT’s chairman 2005-2012. TAPROOT held breakfast meetings the third Saturday of every month except August when it held a picnic and December when it held a Christmas party. I invited all the speakers for all of its 78 events 2005-2012. I should list all those who spoke at TAPROOT events 2005-2012. Almost all of them were Republican candidates, elected officials, and/or party leaders. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes destroy TAPROOT in 2012.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250923/news/schaumburg-township-gop-to-host-candidates-for-statewide-offices-at-saturday-event/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250923/news/we-will-take-care-of-people-conroys-county-budget-plan-responds-to-threatened-federal-cuts/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Paprocki calls out Chicago archdiocese for giving Sen. Durbin lifetime achievement award
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/09/23/sen-dick-durbin-is-getting-an-award-from-the-chicago-archdiocese/86295224007/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Employers want citizens of foreign countries because employers want cheap labor
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/more-americans-think-companies-benefit-from-legal-immigration-a-new-ap-norc-poll-finds/article_e2328dc1-54ee-5e0e-9d56-d54c5c2e78fb.html

MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— Thomas DeVore gets law license suspended
https://muddyrivernews.com/politics/devore-gets-law-license-suspended/20250922210335/

OAK PARK
— Marijuana and traffic. Oak Park today, your municipality tomorrow.
https://www.oakpark.com/2025/09/23/marijuana-and-traffic/
(FROM THE LETTER: Oak Park residents are facing growing public safety concerns, and the situation seems to be worsening. At the intersection of Taylor and Adams, few vehicles comes to a full stop at crosswalks — just one example of how traffic laws are being routinely ignored. This puts pedestrians at serious risk, and it’s not an isolated issue. Another concern is the frequent smell of marijuana on Oak Park streets, especially from passing vehicles. While recreational cannabis is legal in Illinois, the pervasive odor — often near schools, parks, and residential areas — has become a public nuisance and, at times, a health issue. Yet Democratic leadership has shown little interest in addressing the unintended consequences of legalization. Compounding these problems is the rise in uninsured motorists. A friend of mine was recently rear-ended by an uninsured driver whose car smelled strongly of marijuana. Beyond the financial burden, the incident highlighted the danger of impaired, unaccountable drivers. The Illinois Supreme Court’s 2024 People v. Redmond decision, which ruled that the smell of cannabis alone does not justify legal action, has made it even harder for law enforcement to respond effectively.)

WLDS
— Former GOP Attorney General candidate Thomas DeVore has law license suspended by IL Supreme Court
https://wlds.com/former-gop-attorney-general-candidate-has-law-license-suspended-by-il-supreme-court/

DURBIN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-leads-illinois-democrats-in-demanding-an-end-to-dangerous-and-reckless-immigration-operations

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-388/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Law License of Former Republican Attorney General Candidate Thomas DeVore Suspended for Sixty Days for Having Sexual Relationship with Client
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/23/law-license-of-former-republican-attorney-general-candidate-suspended-for-sixty-days-for-having-sexual-relationship-with-client/
— Cook County Jail Holding Illegal Accused of Murder, ICE Seeks Custody
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/23/cook-county-jail-holding-illegal-accused-of-murder-ice-seeks-custody/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois House Minority Leader Tony McCombie, R-Savanna says Pritzker budget cut EO a ploy for IL tax increases
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f604509a-94fe-49a9-8a4d-f88ce2ceae99.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “How about, let’s not spend $2.3 billion on health care for illegal immigrants,” McCombie told The Center Square. “That’s not even touching what we spend on the increase of costs in our schools or for housing or other wraparound programs that they are qualifying for.” McCombie said Pritzker blaming Trump and not Democratic policies impacting the economy is a smokescreen for more tax increases. “Whether it’s for transit, whether it’s for more pork projects and or, God forbid, the failing energy policies that continue to plague Illinois,” McCombie said.)

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Milton Township Operates “Nonprofit” With Public Funds, Self-Declares It A Private Entity Not Subject To FOIA
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2025/09/milton-township-operates-nonprofit-with-public-funds-self-declares-it-a-private-entity-not-subject-to-foia/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Antifa: Ideology or Organization?
https://illinoisfamily.org/islam-sharia/antifa-ideology-or-organization/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois’ Congressional Democrats reject gerrymandering – for wrong reasons. Illinois Democrats rejected a mid-cycle redistricting plan cooked up by U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries to maximize Democratic partisan advantage in the state’s congressional district map. The reason? They don’t want to endanger their safe seats.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-congressional-democrats-reject-gerrymandering-for-wrong-reasons/
— Chicago budget rises over 2X faster than other big cities
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-budget-rises-over-2x-faster-than-other-big-cities/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump blasts U.N. at General Assembly speech, accuses it of not helping to stop wars
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/23/donald-trump-blasts-un-general-assembly-speech-accuses-helping-stop/
— More college kids are embracing political violence
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/23/happy-voice-silenced-college-kids-embracing-political-violence/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— There is no First Amendment right to obstruct law enforcement
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3818416/no-first-amendment-right-obstruct-law-enforcement/
— Trump’s silent surrender on China
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3820531/trump-trade-deal-china-tiktok-student-visas/
— Kamala Harris continues her dangerous, deceitful, and inflammatory rhetoric
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/3819658/kamala-harris-continues-her-dangerous-deceitful-and-inflammatory-rhetoric/
— Hegseth terminates Pentagon committee that advances ‘divisive feminist agenda’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3820520/pete-hegseth-terminates-pentagon-committee-divisive-feminist-agenda/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump warns Europe ‘being devastated by energy and immigration’ in UN speech
https://nypost.com/2025/09/23/us-news/trump-warns-europe-being-devastated-by-energy-and-immigration-in-un-speech/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— The battle in Broadview: How Democratic leaders are causing chaos, not ICE agents
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/23/the-battle-in-broadview-how-democratic-leaders-are-causing-chaos-not-ice-agents-1587188/
— Man of the people! Obamas vacationed on Steven Spielberg’s $250M superyacht off Italian coast
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/23/man-of-the-people-obamas-vacationed-on-steven-spielbergs-250m-superyacht-off-italian-coast-1587331/

BREITBART
— Close to 1.6 Million Illegal Aliens Already Left the Country on Their Own
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/09/23/homan-close-to-1-6-illegal-aliens-already-left-the-country-on-their-own/

CATHOLIC VOTE
— Illinois Right to Life to protest Cardinal Cupich’s decision to award pro-abortion senator
https://catholicvote.org/illinois-right-to-life-to-protest-cardinal-cupichs-decision-to-award-pro-abortion-senator/

COLLEGE FIX
— Professors bash Florida college’s plans for Charlie Kirk statue
https://www.thecollegefix.com/odious-white-supremacy-professors-bash-florida-colleges-plans-for-charlie-kirk-statue/

LIFE NEWS
— Cardinal Cupich is Wrong, Catholics Shouldn’t Honor Radical Abortion Activists
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/09/23/cardinal-cupich-is-wrong-catholics-shouldnt-honor-radical-abortion-activists/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Major Broadcasting Groups Refuse to Air Jimmy Kimmel After ABC Lifts Suspension
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/major-broadcasting-groups-refuse-to-air-jimmy-kimmel-after-abc-lifts-suspension/

NEWSMAX
— Nearly 2 Million Illegals Out of US Under Trump
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/tom-homan-donald-trump-immigration/2025/09/23/id/1227476/
— Trump to UN: ‘Your Countries Are Going to Hell’
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/un-illegals-migration/2025/09/23/id/1227528/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Hegseth axes decades-old advisory committee on women in the military
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5518114-pete-hegseth-advisory-committee-women-military/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5517888-pritzker-says-no-federal-troops/

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders decry that “Charlie Kirk left young followers all over Trump’s government. A generation of young conservatives idolized Kirk. Many have since aged into Washington jobs.” I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to take the postal employment examination with him. 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://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/09/23/charlie-kirk-fans-working-in-trump-government/

NATIONAL DESK
— Dr. Ben Carson criticizes media influence during Charlie Kirk memorial service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsaS4nr3w9M

September 23, 2025

Democrats, RINOs, and other anti-conservatives boycott Kirk events.

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hate-filled Kirk-hating Kirk-haters decry Chicago Cubs’ Matt Shaw missing a game to attend Charlie Kirk memorial in Arizona
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/chicago-cubs-matt-shaw-charlie-kirk/
— Trump’s DOJ argues against gun ban signed by Pritzker after Highland Park shooting. I argued pro se before the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange in 1996. SEE: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/110/481/526770/  In a completely different world, Bush’s DOJ would have argued for me instead of for GAO in Diersen v. GAO  SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/president-donald-trumps-doj-argues-against-gun-ban-signed-by-gov-jb-pritzker-after-highland-park-shooting/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Trump’s Department of Justice weighed in Monday against the ban on high-powered firearms that Illinois and Pritzker passed after the Highland Park Fourth of July mass shooting in 2022 but found itself on the defensive as an appellate court justice grilled an assistant attorney general about whether “facts matter” as she tried to justify the administration’s position. In arguing before the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, said the nation has a “strong interest” in ensuring that the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms is “not relegated to a second-class right” and criticized claims from state officials that certain guns covered by the ban are suited more for military operations than routine self-defense. But Judge Frank Easterbrook interrupted Dhillon early during the five minutes the court allowed her to speak even though the federal government is not a party to the case. Easterbrook noted the legal challenge from state officials resulted from a ruling by a district court in southern Illinois that determined the ban was unconstitutional, while a court in northern Illinois previously ruled a similar ban was legally sound. “Suppose the (southern Illinois) district court had found every contested issue of fact in favor of the state. Would that affect your review of the statute’s constitutionality?” asked Easterbrook, who was appointed to the bench in the 1980s by Republican President Ronald Reagan.)
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Illinois superintendent salaries often don’t reflect the district’s size, wealth or student performance. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors paid more than me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/illinois-superintendent-salaries/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/database-2024-illinois-school-district-superintendent-salaries/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/tribune-photographer-describes-compelling-image-from-ice-broadview-protests/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump’s civil rights boss challenged by appeals court weighing Illinois assault weapons ban. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, took the unusual step of traveling to Chicago to briefly participate in arguments Monday before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/09/22/donald-trumps-assault-weapons-ban-civil-rights-chief-justice-department-appeals-court-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/09/23/supreme-courts-race-college-admission-immigration-enforcement-marc-morial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/09/22/ice-officer-injuries-nothing-major-deadly-franklin-park-shooting-mexican-immigrant-chicago-video
— Antioch school staffer fired, other area education workers face backlash over post on Charlie Kirk’s murder. Antioch’s Grass Lake School District fired a staff member for posting that she had “absolutely no empathy” for Kirk. Community members and conservative groups are rallying to demand the same for educators across the region.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/09/22/public-school-employee-fired-charlie-kirk-social-media-posts

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Kane County Board member David Young clarifies comments about LGBTQ+ people and shootings
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/09/22/kane-county-board-member-clarifies-comments-about-lgbtq-people-and-shootings/

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/why-are-there-so-many-protests-the-us-public-is-21060830.php

KSDK
— Missouri PAC offers $1,000 to start Turning Point USA chapters after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Are there active Turning Point USA chapters in all the all colleges and all the high schools in your county and township? What are the leaders of your Republican county and township organizations doing about that?
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/politics/missouri-pac-offers-1000-to-start-turning-point-usa-clubs-after-charlie-kirks-assassination/63-fbf26815-4925-4a17-bdcd-c7f693a3e36b

NPR ILLINOIS
— Unease grows at Trump’s DOJ as Trump’s threats get even more blunt.  In a completely different world, Bush’s DOJ would have argued for me instead of for GAO in Diersen v. GAO  SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-09-22/unease-grows-at-the-justice-department-as-trumps-threats-get-even-more-blunt

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/22/broadview-ice-protesters-now-plan-to-rally-daily-with-goal-of-shutting-down-facility/

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Chris Lauzen Announces Re-Election Campaign for Kane County Treasurer
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/23/chris-lauzen-running-for-re-election-as-kane-county-treasurer/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois spending swells 43% under Pritzker
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d5bc09e2-ab3d-48c6-9f7d-3ef6ce6bc0f0.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Far too many become political activists to promote their own personal interests. Far too many become leaders in Republican organizations to kill planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject. It all comes out in the wash. As time goes on, it is more and more and more obvious which planks in the Republican Party platform that my critics/opponents who led/lead the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) reject. Most commonly, they reject the 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. As time goes on, because I promote the aforesaid planks, it becomes more and more and more obvious that my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes a) remove me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) end my MTRO webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, and h) defeat my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004. My critics/opponents destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents who are still in the mix, who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me, and the planks that they reject and why. Equal opportunity is the plank that they most commonly reject. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Intelligence chiefs warn of Chinese threats in space; modernization pace alarming. Beijing advancements a hot topic at Air, Space & Cyber conference. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/22/intelligence-chiefs-highlight-china-threat-space/
— Lawmakers want to label Russia a terrorist state over the mass kidnappings of Ukrainian children. Advocates accuse Moscow of ‘crime against humanity.’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/22/lawmakers-want-label-russia-terrorist-state-mass-kidnappings/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— TPUSA uses Charlie Kirk memorial to register voters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDR7Lgx6g1o

NEW YORK POST
— Charlie Kirk is our first pro-trans assassination victim — here’s why he won’t be the last
https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/opinion/charlie-kirk-wont-be-our-last-victim-of-pro-trans-assassination/
— Charlie Kirk memorial drew at least 20 million cable TV and online viewers
https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/media/charlie-kirk-memorial-was-watched-by-at-least-20-million-people/
— Meet Brilyn Hollyhand: Teen conservative hailed as Charlie Kirk’s protege promises to be ‘bolder’ as he tours campuses. If I had been active in Republican politics, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966 would not have hired me, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 would not have hired me, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/us-news/meet-brilyn-hollyhand-the-teen-conservative-hailed-as-charlie-kirks-protege/

BLAZE
— How corporate America helped fuel the hate that killed Charlie Kirk
https://www.theblaze.com/align/how-corporate-america-helped-fuel-the-hate-that-killed-charlie-kirk

CAMPUS REFORM
— Turning Point reporter Cam Higby harassed by trans activist over Kirk assassination debate
https://www.campusreform.org/article/turning-point-reporter-cam-higby-harassed-trans-activist-kirk-assassination-debate/28658

CENTER SQUARE
— ICE puts California, Illinois, New York on notice for refusing to cooperate
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_d2e320eb-cc86-4783-81d0-eadbcd9bdc5f.html

DAILY CALLER
— Left-Wing Violence Is Only Getting Worse Since Charlie Kirk’s Killing
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/22/left-wing-violence-charlie-kirk-killing-palestine-jimmy-kimmel/

FOX NEWS
— Turning Point USA draws 2,000 at first tour event since Kirk’s assassination. Michael Knowles hosts Turning Point USA event at University of Minnesota following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/turning-point-usa-draws-2000-first-tour-event-since-kirks-assassination
— Over 277,000 people attended Charlie Kirk’s memorial. Democrats, RINOs, and other anti-conservatives boycott Kirk events.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379962576112
— Trump officials slam Pritzker for ignoring chaotic anti-ICE ‘rioters’ disrupting operation. ‘These rioters in Illinois are fighting to keep rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals loose on Illinois streets,’ said a DHS spokesperson.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-officials-slam-blue-state-governor-ignoring-chaotic-anti-ice-rioters-disrupting-operation
— Erika Kirk is ‘living proof’ that Charlie Kirk chose very well in his life
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379966293112
— Voters explain why they left the Democratic Party after Kirk assassination
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379960806112
— While Americans mourned Charlie Kirk, CNN chose hate
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379959619112
— My critics/opponents destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379958309112
— Charlie Kirk brought everyone together, even President Trump and Elon Musk
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379952383112
— Charlie Kirk changed the debate forever
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379950176112
— Mourners reflect on Charlie Kirk’s legacy: ‘He went into the literal lion’s den on a regular basis’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/mourners-reflect-charlie-kirks-legacy-he-went-literal-lions-den-regular-basis

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— The responses to Charlie Kirk’s murder were sadly predictable and anemic. Democrats, RINOs, and other anti-conservatives boycott Kirk events.
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/responses-charlie-kirks-murder-were-sadly-predictable-and-anemic

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Charlie Kirk’s murder could become another Fort Sumter. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly recruit those who are the following to be soldiers in their army: liberals, moderates, citizens of foreign countries, minorities, females, younger people, those who have less money than others, LGBTQers, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time. If/when Democrats start shooting Republicans, Democrats are going to lose. Republicans own a tremendous amount of firearms and ammunition.
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5514449-kirk-murder-political-war/

MSN
— What Charlie Kirk leaves behind: 12 million dollars and a vast media empire
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/what-charlie-kirk-leaves-behind-12-million-dollars-and-a-vast-media-empire/ss-AA1N7e7V?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Anticipate/expect that the Democrat mainstream news media and Democrat educators will ever-increasingly use the Kirk assassination to destroy Kirk and to destroy conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/us/firing-educators-kirk-free-speech.html?searchResultPosition=1
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/charlie-kirk-shooting-news-coverage.html
— The NYT exists to promote more hatred not only against Trump but against Christians and especially Protestants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/opinion/charlie-kirk-memorial-christianity.html
— Hate-filled conservative/Republican hating conservative/Republican haters decry “Kirk’s Spiritual Journey That Fused Christianity and Politics.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/us/charlie-kirk-christian-faith-politics.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Charlie Kirk was 18 in the summer of 2012 when he walked into a Starbucks in the suburbs of Chicago and plopped his backpack on the floor. He had recently graduated from high school and was sorting out his future after being rejected from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He had come to meet a local Illinois group, Patriots United, focused on issues like lower taxes and choice in school education during the Tea Party era. Maida Korte, 71, a leader of the group, recalled that the conversation turned to their shared foundational Christian values, as it often did with him. “He never thought of it as, ‘I’m going to go into the spiritual arena and talk about political things,’” she said. “He was, ‘I want to talk about spiritual things, and in order to do that, I have to enter the political arena.’”)
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/opinion/democrats-immigration-trump.html
— FRONT PAGE: Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws. My critics/opponents have always used against me my buying a new town home in University Park when I was 24 in 1972. They have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the town home I bought was earmarked for Blacks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/realestate/trump-fair-housing-laws.html
— The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they rendered worthless a) my three job-related master’s degrees, b) my six job-related professional certifications, and c) my professional license.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/long-term-unemployment-college-grads.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Kirk’s memorial was an emblem of the Trump era — and a sign of what’s ahead. The event showed how the line that used to separate religion and politics may no longer exist, particularly on the right. I should write about my critics/opponents who are anti-Protestant if not Protestant-haters. I would focus on those who hate Missouri Synod Lutherans (MSL). My parents had me baptized as a MSL in 1948, raised me as a MSL, and had me confirmed as a MSL in 1962. All my ancestors were MSLs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/22/kirk-trump-politics-divide-memorial/
— Washington DC is a young city, where much of the work of running the federal government is done by recent college graduates scarcely old enough to rent a car. And this city’s young conservatives, Gen Zers who can hardly remember a Republican Party before President Donald Trump, came of age with Charlie Kirk. In the aftermath of the conservative star’s death at 31, they’re preparing themselves to fight Kirk’s battles for years to come. One could compare and contrast today’s Washington DC with Chicago.  Chicago has always been run by Republican-haters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/09/23/charlie-kirk-fans-working-in-trump-government/
— Democrat leaders do everything that they can to make Black Christians hate Kirk.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/22/charlie-kirk-black-christians/

USA TODAY
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly use Kirk’s assassination to get rid of conservatives once and for all.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/09/21/charlie-kirk-jimmy-kimmel-free-speech-first-amendment/86240872007/
— Performance Improvement Plans. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise all their problematic employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/09/15/pip-meaning-signs/86116815007/

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point tour rolls on with UC Berkeley stop after assassination. Needless-to-say, security costs for all future Kirk events will be much higher.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/turning-point-usa-charlie-kirk-uc-berkeley-21062190.php

MIAMI NEW TIMES
— Black People Are Taught to Hate White People
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/broward-teacher-black-people-are-taught-to-hate-white-people-40490418/

NEWSBREAK
— The Evangelical Christian faith on display at Kirk’s memorial shaped his politics. My critics/opponents are extremely divisive, They negatively stress to Evangelicals that I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.
https://www.newsbreak.com/weku-1588671/4248460177008-the-evangelical-christian-faith-on-display-at-kirk-s-memorial-shaped-his-politics

DAILY NEWS ONLINE
— Free speech is expensive; Charlie Kirk paid with his life. My fighting political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination has cost me millions of dollars.
https://www.thedailynewsonline.com/opinion/point-free-speech-is-expensive-charlie-kirk-paid-with-his-life/article_648e14dd-7df6-41b6-95e7-d821ecc6218c.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Kind Word for Kirk Is Too Much for AOC. Nearly 100 Democrats balk at a resolution in his honor. Classy.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-kind-word-for-kirk-is-too-much-for-aoc-6ffc8ef8
— How to Check What Your Teen Boy Is Doing Online. The killing of Charlie Kirk is a stark reminder that the kids aren’t alright, and young men in particular need our attention.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/boys-social-isolation-warning-signs-6233628b?mod=Searchresults&pos=1&page=1

FORTUNE
— Charlie Kirk’s memorial was one of the most heavily fortified events of its kind. The more that you do to defend and advance conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders will do to destroy you. I defend and advance conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform. I should write about those Democrat and RINO leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who have done the most to destroy me since 2000.
https://fortune.com/2025/09/23/charlie-kirk-memorial-trump-super-bowl-security-sear-bulletproof-glass-2025-fireworks/
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/trump-s-plan-to-charge-100-000-for-new-h-1b-visas-is-met-with-dismay-by-ceos-who-want-the-world-s-top-talent/ar-AA1N3eAi

BLACK PRESS USA
— Most of the Congressional Black Caucus Votes Against Honoring Charlie Kirk
https://blackpressusa.com/most-of-the-congressional-black-caucus-votes-against-honoring-charlie-kirk/

MOTHER JONES
— Democrat leaders hate America and hate Christians.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/charlie-kirks-memorial-was-christian-nationalisms-biggest-moment/

LGBTQ NATION
— LGBTQers ever-increasingly make it clear that they hate America and that they hate Christians.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/charlie-kirks-memorial-proves-the-gop-is-all-in-on-christian-nationalism/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

DAILY MAIL
— BBC’s North America editor sparks fury after calling Charlie Kirk ‘far-right’ during funeral coverage. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you promote, the more that Democrats and RINOs call you “far right.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15123119/BBCs-North-America-editor-sparks-fury-calling-Charlie-Kirk-far-right-funeral-coverage.html

HERALD & JANACICA GLEANER & STANDARD
— Hate-filled White-hating White-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.theherald.co.za/opinion/2025-09-23-death-of-white-supremacist-charlie-kirk-does-not-call-for-celebration-nor-mourning/
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20250923/michael-abrahams-charlie-kirk-life-devoid-empathy
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/amp/opinion/article/2001530104/kirk-was-against-minorities-but-he-didnt-have-to-die

FROM OTHER SOURCES

HAMILTON COLLECTION
— I was there for the Apollo rollout Saturday, September 20
https://www.facebook.com/TheHamiltonCollection