July 26, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/united-states-department-justice-lawsuit-illinois-cook-county-chicago-sanctuary-city-policies-dismissed-judge/17295816/

CBS2
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-illinois-sanctuary-laws/

WTTW
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/25/federal-judge-upholds-chicago-cook-county-and-illinois-protections-undocumented

WTTW & RIVER BENDER
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emmett Till to promote more hatred against Illinois Republicans
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/25/local-leaders-commemorate-emmett-till-s-birthday-preservation-church-building-where
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/on-emmett-tills-84th-birthday-duckworth-honors-till-family-legacy-at-historic-bronzeville-church-84693.cfm

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/25/federal-judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-challenging-illinois-chicago-sanctuary-policies/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. Illegals take bad jobs. Employers want cheap labor. All my employers would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take bad jobs because their parents had lots of money. Because my parents lacked money, I had to take bad jobs. I did yard work for 2 summers. I delivered newspapers for 4 years. I washed dishes for 18 months. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline during 1 summer. I delivered mail for almost 3 years. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money. They look down on people like me if not despise people like me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/25/trump-immigration-chicago-factories/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Chicago communities recovering from string of hateful defacements. Democrats run Chicago communities.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/26/chicago-communities-recovering-from-string-of-hateful-defacements/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more homelessness. The Democrat Party platform promotes LGBTQ. That destroys traditional marriage and family. That promotes homelessness.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/07/26/trump-order-targets-homelessness-visibility-not-solutions-advocates-say

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Bigger SALT deduction will benefit Illinois taxpayers. A bigger SALT deduction would have helped my wife and I in the past, but not now.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/bigger-salt-deduction-will-benefit-illinois-taxpayers

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/republicans-and-independents-have-warmed-on-the-20785712.php
— Illinois Democrats comply only with those laws that benefit them personally
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/why-do-maga-faithful-support-trump-if-his-big-20783955.php

FORD COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Petition circulation to begin Aug. 5 for March 2026 election
https://www.fordcountychronicle.com/articles/featured/petition-circulation-to-begin-aug-5-for-march-2026-election/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/25/aclu-city-using-lawsuits-to-fight-back-against-trumps-immigration-crackdown/

CWB CHICAGO
— Hyde Park targeted in growing string of anti-Semitic vandalism incidents. Democrats run Hyde Park.
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/07/hyde-park-targeted-in-growing-string-of-anti-semitic-vandalism-incidents-cpd-says.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-353/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To get more votes from those who are liberal, minority, female, younger, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. How successful have Democrat leaders been doing the aforesaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— U.S. Rep. Mary Miller targets China as security threat to U.S. real estate, schools, farmland
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_2f5f4f53-7321-434d-9d6e-01d9a42a52d6.html
— Illinois lawmakers among highest paid in country, double national average. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. My GAO salary was $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. In my defense, a) I had a earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I had earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I had earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b15cec65-48ca-4af5-926d-38fc43224451.html

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Should Christians Send Their Children to Public School? My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track a) to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) to earn six professional certifications, and c) to earn a professional license.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3hJFTSja0

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Why Are Dead People Still on Illinois Voter Rolls?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/07/why-are-dead-people-still-on-illinois-voter-rolls-2025/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— No. 2 no more: Illinois property taxes rank highest in U.S.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/no-2-no-more-illinois-property-taxes-rank-highest-in-u-s/
— Chicago pension sweetener would add $11.1 billion in liabilities. My critics/opponents who are not getting a pension and/or are not in line to get a pension oppose pensions and oppose those like me who get one. In my defense, I paid 7% of my federal salary into the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) for almost 30 years. In today’s dollars, my CSRS pension is only 44% of what my salary was when I was 49 years old and less than what my salary was when I was 23 years old.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-pension-sweetener-would-add-11-1-billion-in-liabilities/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/25/trump-loses-lawsuit-challenging-illinois-sanctuary-law/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3483050/judge-throws-out-trump-administration-lawsuit-sanctuary-city-chicago/

NEW YORK POST
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/trump-administrations-lawsuit-over-chicagos-sanctuary-city-policies-tossed-by-federal-judge/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Washington Post abandons last shred of self-awareness and publishes a how-to list about becoming a journalist. Rampell clearly isn’t living in reality. Here are a few tips on what it actually takes to be a columnist at the Washington Post. The mainstream news media exists to elect Democrats. According to my critics/opponents, you are not a journalist unless you promote the Democrat Party platform. Therefore, according to them, I am not a journalist.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/wapo_abandons_last_shred_of_self_awareness_and_publishes_a_how_to_list_about_becoming_a_journalist.html

BLAZE
— Trump administration says Obama’s ‘Dreamers’ have no legal status, can be arrested and deported
https://www.theblaze.com/news/daca-dhs-deport-arrest-statement

BREITBART
— Trump Lands in Britain and Immediately Torches Europe For Killing Itself With Immigration
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/07/26/trump-lands-immediately-torches-europe-for-suicide-by-open-borders/
— Tesla shares end week in decline amid third straight quarterly loss. Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punish Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/tesla-shares-end-week-in-decline-amid-third-straight-quarterly-loss/
— My critics/opponents do everything that they can to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Failing that, they do everything that they can to stop everyone from reading my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Failing that, they threaten to have their operatives and their dupes take even more and even bigger adverse actions against me. Last year, they had their operatives and their dupes end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they had their operatives and their dupes end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/25/fcc-commissioner-gomez-trump-engaged-in-campaign-of-censorship-and-control-of-media/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Returns Education Grants It Accused Of Funding Illegal Immigrants
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/25/trump-admin-returns-grants-meant-for-funding-migrant-education/
— Wheaton Alumni Threaten To Pull Support After College Caves To Anti-Trump Protesters
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wheaton-alumni-threaten-to-pull-support-after-college-caves-to-anti-trump-protesters/ar-AA1zeEMD

DAILY SIGNAL
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans who are conservative, white, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/25/ayanna-pressley-proposes-codifying-dei-federal-government/

FOX NEWS
— Trump admin offers $608M for states to build migrant camps modeled after ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’  Five states are reportedly already in talks with DHS about replicating Florida’s eight-day construction model, according to Noem.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-offers-608m-states-build-migrant-camps-modeled-after-alligator-alcatraz
— DOJ, FBI used the ‘same tools’ to destroy Trump as a ‘citizen, candidate and president. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376151110112
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-needs-stopped-before-he-seizes-news-outlets-sells-them-cronies-fired-abc-journalist-says
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans who are conservative, white, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/civil-rights-organization-declares-state-national-emergency-citing-attacks-dei

LEGAL INSURREXTION
— DEI Training Creates a Hostile Work Environment. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ever-increasingly used DEI training to ever-increasingly make their work environment more and more and more hostile for their employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write about that.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/equal-protection-project-amicus-brief-dei-training-can-constitute-hostile-work-environment/

PJ MEDIA
— Crisis at Media Matters As It Cuts Staff and Struggles to Pay Legal Bills
https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2025/07/25/reports-of-the-death-of-media-matters-have-not-been-greatly-exaggerated-n4942101

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5421494-trump-sanctuary-laws-illinois/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket. Will Democrats change the name of their party to the “Epstein Party?”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5419834-james-carville-donald-trump-maga-base-epstein-files/
— Trump places officials on leave. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors did far more than place me on leave, they forced me to retire. By doing that, they forced the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to pay me to not come to work.  So far, the CSRS has paid me $1.8 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5421304-noaa-officials-trump-sharpiegate/

MSNBC
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket. Will Democrats change the name of their party to the “Epstein Party?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L17z2M_UOg
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/trump-s-approval-rating-hits-second-term-low-at-37-gallup-poll-243856453670

ABC NEWS
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-chicago-sanctuary-laws-124086411

NBC NEWS
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/federal-judge-dismisses-trump-administrations-lawsuit-chicago-sanctuar-rcna221197

CBS NEWS
— About 3,870 NASA employees have applied to depart the agency over two rounds through the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program. My Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors always and increasingly wanted me to depart because I failed/refused to become a Democrat, because I was not a minority, female, or veteran, and because I increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. They ever-increasingly did everything that they could to get rid of me. My Democrat Post Office superiors denied my sick leave requests and forced me to resign. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers and education deductions and never promoted me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-workforce-employees-leave-agency/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Illinois Democrat leaders have had great success gerrymandering Illinois
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/politics/texas-democrats-redistricting.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/25/judge-dismisses-doj-illinois-chicago-immigration-lawsuit/
— 11 tips for becoming a journalist. The mainstream news media exists to elect Democrats. According to my critics/opponents, you are not a journalist unless you promote the Democrat Party platform. Therefore, according to them, I am not a journalist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/23/column-writing-tips-media-rampell/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Hamas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/25/gaza-hunger-trump-hamas-ceasefire/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America. They see those babies as being future Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/07/25/immigration-birthright-citizenship-trump/bde2551e-6995-11f0-ac4f-195fdb8ee9a8_story.html
— Trump’s pick to protect federal workers shares a disdain for them. My critics/opponents despise/hate past, present, and future federal employees and federal retirees. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-pick-to-protect-federal-workers-shares-a-disdain-for-them/ar-AA1JcoKM
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more mass/illegal immigration.  Mass/illegal immigration will destroy Catholicism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/26/pope-leo-migrants-refugees/

USA TODAY
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/25/judge-dismisses-doj-sanctuary-lawsuit-against-illinois-chicago/85381781007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— This Trump Poll Reveals a Number That Should ‘Scare’ Democrats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTVMsfWO0uY
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/judge-dismisses-doj-lawsuit-over-chicagos-sanctuary-protections-for-immigrants-09142b09

BLOOMBERG LAW
— My employers always paid their similarly qualified employees more who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran than their similarly qualified employees who were Republican, White, male, older,  and/or non-veteran.  My employers used Affirmative Action and DEI to justify that.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/employers-balance-state-pay-equity-laws-with-trump-anti-dei-push

CANNABIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.cannabissciencetech.com/view/building-knowledge-and-community-engagement-inside-the-university-of-illinois-groundbreaking-cannabis-research-program

COEUR D’ALENE PRESS
— Don’t let party elitists cross you off. I should write about past and present Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders who destroy Republican Precinct Committeemen like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://cdapress.com/news/2025/jun/26/my-turn-dont-let-party-elitists-cross-you-off/

TIME
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) make it clear that they are anti-American and b) side with foreign countries.
https://www.aol.com/rosie-odonnell-responds-trump-threatens-142512243.html

July 24, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more LGBTQ, that is, it ever-increasingly destroys traditional marriage and family, that is, it ever-increasingly promotes homelessness.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/23/mayor-brandon-johnson-announces-40-million-to-upgrade-chicagos-homeless-shelters/
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting birthright citizenship. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/23/trump-end-birthright-citizenship/
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/23/epstein-grand-jury-records/
— Stunning rise in antisemitism in Chicago. Democrats run Chicago.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/24/opinion-antisemitism-hate-crime-report-chicago-brandon-johnson/

DAILY HERALD
— Ex-Cook deputy running for DuPage sheriff
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250723/news/ex-cook-deputy-running-for-dupage-sheriff/
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250723/syndicated-columnists/empire-falls-trump-revs-up-the-reign-of-terror-and-its-working/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago dead last among major U.S. metros on building new homes. Under the Democrats, Chicago’s future is bleaker and bleaker, and bleaker.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/chicago-last-among-major-us-metros-new-home-construction
— NASCAR wants to revive the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/sports/nascar-wants-racing-back-joliets-chicagoland-speedway

ABC7
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting birthright citizenship. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-updates-appeals-court-finds-presidents-effort-end-birthright-citizenship-unconstitutional-upholds-block/17265355/
— DuPage County Fair opens Thursday in Wheaton
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dupage-county-fair-opens-thursday-wheaton/17271594/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting birthright citizenship. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/appeals-court-finds-trump-effort-end-birthright-citizenship-unconstitutional/3796644/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting birthright citizenship. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-birthright-citizenship-ruling

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more LGBTQ and b) blame Republicans for problems that LGBTQers have.
https://www.wbez.org/theater-stages/2025/07/22/billie-jean-king-play-chicago-shakespeare-theater-tennis

JOURNAL AND COURIER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/alert-most-us-adults-still-support-legal-20783858.php

WJBC
— N.Y. Gave $600M to Groups Opposing Trump Immigration Plans
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/07/22/n-y-gave-600m-to-groups-opposing-trump-immigration-plans/

WREX
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more LGBTQ and b) blame Republicans for problems that LGBTQers have.
https://www.wrex.com/news/illinois-lawmakers-on-impact-of-988-suicide-hotline-cuts-on-lgbtq-services/article_aa1185fa-d520-44b4-8524-a0d18b6577d2.html

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Federal housing credit expansion could increase affordable rental units in Illinois. What helped you avoid having to pay rent? For me, it was my earning a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, earning an MBA when I was 27, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32. That enabled me to buy a new town home when I was 24, buy condos when I was 25 and 27, get married and buy a home when I was 29, and have a home built when I was 35.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/federal-housing-credit-expansion-could-increase-affordable-rental-units-in-illinois-report/

CHICAGO READER
— Cook County state’s attorney stops maintaining lists of discredited cops. Democrats run the federal government. Republicans are always on their lists of discredited employees. Far too many RINOs run Republican organizations in Illinois. Conservatives are always on their lists of discredited members.

https://chicagoreader.com/news/reader-investigative-reports/brady-list-eileen-oneill-burke-cook-county/

POLITICO ILLINOIS & SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders gerrymander.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/24/pritzkers-gerrymander-jab-draws-fire-00473441
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2025/07/24/pritzker-calls-texas-gops-remap-effort-cheating/85350587007/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-558/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-351/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— More Liberal Demonstrations Planned Saturday in Crystal Lake and McHenry
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/24/more-liberal-demonstrations-planned-saturday-in-crystal-lake-and-mchenry/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Illinois Democrats’ Power and Cash Leave Republicans Struggling to Compete in 2026
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/07/illinois-democrats-power-and-cash-leave-republicans-struggling-to-compete-in-2026.html

WIREPOINTS
— Broken Chicago public safety pension math: Just $6 B in assets for $68 B in payouts
https://wirepoints.org/broken-chicago-public-safety-pension-math-just-6-b-in-assets-for-68-b-in-payouts-wirepoints/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Have public schools declared war on parental authority?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/23/parents-wage-war-schools-secret-gender-policies-lets-pray-win/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ‘Temporary’ in name only: How TPS allows foreigners to stay in the US for years
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3477164/temporary-in-name-only-tps-program-allows-foreigners-stay-in-us-years/
— The White House is losing GOP support for the nomination of Paul Ingrassia to a key watchdog post, with at least one Senate Republican vowing to oppose him due to his sympathy for Jan. 6 Capitol rioters.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3480427/paul-ingrassia-special-counsel-shaky-ground-jan-6-comments/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin sent 6,000 ICE detainers to NYC — and nearly all of them have been ignored
https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-news/trump-admin-sent-6000-ice-detainers-to-nyc-nearly-all-of-them-have-been-ignored/
— Appeals court blocks Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship, upholding lower court order. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-news/appeals-court-blocks-trumps-effort-to-end-birthright-citizenship-upholding-lower-court-order/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Illegals are needed for redistricting purposes
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/07/23/house-dem-says-quiet-part-out-loud-illegals-are-needed-for-redistricting-purposes-1570167/

BLAZE
— 5 things Trump must do to fulfill his mass deportation mandate
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/5-things-trump-must-do-to-fulfill-his-mass-deportation-mandate

BREITBART
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/bondi-facing-democratic-calls-to-testify-following-report-she-told-trump-she-was-in-epstein-files/
— World’s top court paves way for climate reparations
https://www.breitbart.com/news/icj-begins-handing-down-watershed-climate-opinion/
https://www.breitbart.com/news/the-uns-highest-court-will-decide-wednesday-on-the-climate-obligations-of-countries/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Probes Universities Suspected Of Handing Scholarships To Illegals. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me for my not getting any scholarships.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/23/trump-admin-investigating-univerities-giving-illegals-scholarships/
— Appeals Court Upholds Block On Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order. Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/23/appeals-court-upholds-block-donald-trump-birthright-citizenship-order/

DAILY SIGNAL
— NY Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Stop Rewarding Children of ‘Lawbreakers’ With US Citizenship
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/23/exclusive-congresswoman-introduces-bill-stop-rewarding-children-lawbreakers-us-citizenship/

FOX NEWS
— Federal appeals court rules against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling made by a district court in Seattle that described Trump’s executive order as ‘unconstitutional.’  Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-appeals-court-rules-against-trumps-birthright-citizenship-executive-order

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Dept. Education Investigates Discrimination Against American-Born Students After Equal Protection Project Complaints. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But they would have admitted foreign-born students instead of me if they could have.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/dept-education-investigates-discrimination-against-american-born-students-after-equal-protection-project-complaints/

NEWSMAX
— 77 Percent Oppose Amnesty; 56 Percent: Deport Every Illegal
https://www.newsmax.com/us/mclaughlin-poll-amnesty-illegals/2025/07/23/id/1219741/

PJ MEDIA
— Colleges in Red States Rebrand DEI and Hide Illegals from ICE
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/23/collegerebrand-dei-and-hide-illegals-from-trump-n4942021

TOWNHALL
— You Won’t Believe This Pro-Abortion Legislation Championed by Democrats
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/07/23/you-wont-believe-this-pro-abortion-legislation-championed-by-democrats-n2660843

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Unfathomable Failure of Biden’s $7.5 Billion EV Charger Plan Revealed in GAO Report
https://www.westernjournal.com/unfathomable-failure-bidens-7-5-billion-ev-charger-plan-revealed-government-accountability-office-report/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/politics/trumps-epstein-nightmare-worsens-amid-new-revelations-and-a-gop-revolt
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/politics/house-republicans-epstein-trump

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Supreme Court allows Trump to remove 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The U.S. Appellate Court for the 7th Circuit allowed my Democrat GAO superiors to remove its Republican employees, including me. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-consumer-product-safety-f0ed5ff2409287440f5067d64031429d

MSNBC
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7V5cbBQFI

MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more LGBTQ and b) blame Republicans for problems that LGBTQers have.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-holds-the-line-after-cuts-to-988-suicide-prevention-services-for-lgbtq-youth/ar-AA1JaqGw
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/advocates-call-for-increased-specialized-training-as-988-optional-lgbtq-line-ends/ar-AA1IXXNW

REUTERS
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-was-told-he-is-epstein-files-wall-street-journal-reports-2025-07-23/

NEWSWEEK
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-update-polls-g
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.newsweek.com/video-jeffrey-epstein-talking-about-donald-trump-resurfaces-2103285

ABC NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-told-bondi-appeared-multiple-times-epstein-files/story?id=124014441

NBC NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-tightens-grip-jeffrey-epstein-messaging-rcna220615
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/wsj-trump-was-told-he-s-named-in-epstein-files-243736645677

CBS NEWS
— Anticipate/expect that pregnant citizens of foreign countries will ever-increasingly come to America to give birth. Citizens of America who are minority and/or female get tremendous preference.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-unconstitutional-appeals-court/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/epstein-democrats-republicans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/trump-epstein-files-named.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/epstein-trump-republicans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/trump-epstein-distraction-timeline.html
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/trump-transgender-healthcare-california-hospitals.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Supreme Court allows Trump to remove consumer product safety regulators. The U.S. Appellate Court for the 7th Circuit allowed my Democrat GAO superiors to remove its Republican employees, including me. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/23/supreme-court-consumer-product-safety-regulators-trump/
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/23/trump-doj-epstein-files-political-fallout/
— Trump’s pick to protect federal workers shares a disdain for them. Paul Ingrassia’s nomination to head the Office of Special Counsel is at risk because of his history of scorched-earth rhetoric and extremist associations. I should write about my critics/opponents who distain/despise/hate federal employees and federal retires the most. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/24/special-counsel-trump-paul-ingrassia/

WOAI
— Dems Said Illegals Never Received Medicaid, Now Screaming Over Losing It. What percent of the illegals in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are Medicaid?
https://woai.iheart.com/content/2025-07-22-dems-said-illegals-never-received-medicaid-now-screaming-over-losing-it/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038
— Trump to Tour Federal Reserve, Ramping Up Pressure Campaign on Powell. In rare visit, president will stop by central bank, which is undergoing an extensive $2.5 billion renovation he has criticized. In 1990, my critics/opponents were furious when I got a preferred office in the new 200 West Adams building in the Loop.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/trump-to-tour-federal-reserve-ramping-up-pressure-campaign-on-powell-58df9734
— One Way to Predict Early Career Success. A complex project at a new job can play a pivotal role in how soon you are promoted. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, and coworkers were beyond furious when I got a high-profile developmental assignment when I was 25 years old in 1973. According to them, the assignment should have been given to one of my Democrat coworkers who was minority, female, and/or veteran.  My taking graduate evening business courses helped me get the assignment. They were even more furious went I got promoted to GS-12 , currently $99,069/year, because of my performance on the assignment. To punish me, they a) disallowed my travel vouchers and education deductions, b) never promoted me to GS-13, and c) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. To punish the manager who had gotten me the assignment and who had promoted me, they forced him to transfer to Texas.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/promotion-new-jobs-secret-18655fa1
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punish Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/tesla-earnings-q2-tsla-stock-f94405d3

GOOGLE AI
— Age discrimination and reverse discrimination in the accounting profession. I did not start taking graduate evening accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30.  I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Because of that, even though I had almost 9 years’ experience working for IRS and more than a year working for GAO when I was 32, the CPA profession, including IRS and GAO,  considered me to be far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority or a female.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22late+start%22+career

HAMILTON SPECTATOR
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, when Whites and men do better than minorities and females, it is because Whites and men discriminate against minorities and females. Of course, that encourages minorities and females to despise/hate Whites and males. Since the 1960s, those above me have given tremendous preference to minorities and to females.
https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/pursuing-meritocracy-could-lead-to-a-very-dark-place/article_2678a575-cf97-5396-927e-f8bbc3f385b2.html

July 23, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protest-calls-cook-county-illinois-shut-down-broadview-ice-facility-alleging-inhumane-conditions/17250357/
— Secret Service one of few federal agencies currently hiring; Chicago field office talks recruitment. One of my best friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/secret-service-few-federal-agencies-hiring-look-changes-president-donald-trump-assassination-attempt/17251198/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/gov-pritzker-discusses-trump-administration-immigration-policies/3795459/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1678881

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Ever-increasingly, everyone in health care in America is more and more and more of the following: citizens for foreign countries, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/23/federal-student-loans-limits-medical-students/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: To advance those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace objective criteria with subjective criteria.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/district-204-piloting-weighted-grading/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/07/22/a-family-came-to-chicago-seeking-asylum-he-was-deported-now-she-wants-to-leave
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/chicago-immigration-resource-guide

SHAW LOCAL
— Feds weigh in on lawsuit challenging how Illinois maintains voter registration rolls. Suit alleges Illinois fails to properly maintain registration lists.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/07/23/feds-weigh-in-on-lawsuit-challenging-how-illinois-maintains-voter-registration-rolls/

JOURNAL COURIER
— Democrat leaders use NPR to destroy Republicans.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/npr-illinois-weighs-future-amid-federal-funding-20775396.php

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting hatred against Trump. I should write the following who have done the most to promote hatred against me: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders, e) religious leaders, f) those who I have sued and their attorneys, and g) my Democrat superiors in the federal government.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-favorability-has-fallen-among-aapi-adults-since-last-year-aapi-data-ap-norc-poll-finds/

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/07/22/illinois-head-start-providers-confused-after-trump-administration-guidance/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/23/epsteins-shadow-reaches-illinois-00469094

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-557/
—  Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-350/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Gov.-run grocery stores are a political arrogance that robs taxpayers
https://wirepoints.org/gov-run-grocery-stores-are-a-political-arrogance-that-robs-taxpayers-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— A wake-up call for NYC from the Windy City
https://wirepoints.org/a-wake-up-call-for-nyc-from-the-windy-city-wirepoints-on-the-chicago-way-with-john-kass/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you are White and/or male, the less education and/or less money that your parents have and/or had, the more that Affirmative Action and DEI harm you. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA. All my potential employers and all my employers were always under tremendous pressure to hire, to retain, and to promote young minorities and young females. Virtually my coworkers who they promoted over me were minorities and/or females who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump slashes 25% of IRS workforce with buyouts, firings of nearly 26,000 agency staff
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/22/trump-slashed-25-irs-workforce/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Fake deportation stories replace fake hate crimes for Democrats
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3478664/fake-deportation-stories-ice-raids-replace-fake-hate-crimes-for-democrats/

NEW YORK POST
— GOP Sen. Jim Banks introduces bill banning wokeness, ‘divisive narratives’ at Smithsonian museums: ‘Stop letting activists rewrite our past’
https://nypost.com/2025/07/22/us-news/new-bill-would-ban-wokeness-at-smithsonian-museums/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Polls, Propaganda, and the Truth About Trump’s Deportation Agenda
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/polls_propaganda_and_the_truth_about_trump_s_deportation_agenda.html

BLAZE
— 5 things Trump must do to fulfill his mass deportation mandate
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/5-things-trump-must-do-to-fulfill-his-mass-deportation-mandate

BREITBART
— Americans Firmly Oppose Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, Back Trump’s Deportation Agenda
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/22/exclusive-poll-americans-firmly-oppose-amnesty-for-illegals-back-deportations/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Here’s How Much Taxpayer Cash the Groups Now Suing Trump Received Under Biden
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/22/ngos-suing-block-trump-reforms-received-1-7b-taxpayer-cash-under-biden/
— Lawsuit Over California School’s Race-Based Scholarships Could Deal Massive Blow to DEI. From what I see, virtually all those who get scholarships are minority and/or female.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/22/lawsuit-over-california-schools-race-based-scholarships-could-deal-massive-blow-dei/

DAILY WIRE
— Soros-Tied Groups Back Republican Bill To Give Amnesty To Millions Of Illegal Aliens. Groups with ties to the Democrat billionaire are cheering on Rep. Salazar’s legislation as they bash the Trump admin’s policies.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-tied-groups-back-republican-bill-to-give-amnesty-to-millions-of-illegal-aliens

FEDERALIST
— The Federal Government Must Prosecute Activists Who Harbor Illegal Immigrants In Cities Like L.A.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/22/the-federal-government-must-prosecute-activists-who-harbor-illegal-immigrants-in-cities-like-l-a/

FOX NEWS
— Trump’s immigration enforcement push results in skyrocketing arrests of criminal illegal aliens
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trumps-immigration-enforcement-push-results-skyrocketing-arrests-criminal-illegal-aliens
— Red state universities admit to rebranding DEI efforts to skirt Trump orders
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375988851112

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— ‘Who Will Pick Our Cotton?’: Cory Booker Slammed for Video Promising to Protect Illegal Aliens
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/who-will-pick-our-cotton-cory-booker-slammed-for-video-promising-to-protect-illegal-aliens/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Hunter Biden Lashes Out at Democratic Party Elite for Turning on His Father
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hunter-biden-lashes-out-at-democratic-party-elite-for-turning-on-his-father/

NEW AMERICAN
— Illegals Staging “Kidnapping,” Deportation Hoaxes to Get Sympathy, Money
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/illegals-staging-kidnapping-deportation-hoaxes-to-get-sympathy-money/

NEWSMAX
— Flag Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-nps-history/2025/07/22/id/1219683/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Such content includes signs about how climate change contributes to rising sea levels at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina, exhibits on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, and language on the imprisonment of Native Americans at Castillo de San Marcos National Monument in St. Augustine, Florida.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HIIL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5414628-democrats-hardball-epstein-files/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5414632-trump-epstein-controversy/

CNN
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that markets are booming under Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/investing/us-stock-market
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/trump-epstein-maxwell-justice-department-analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_8p7ffNRDA
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-latest-bid-to-end-epstein-storm-weaponizing-the-federal-government/ar-AA1J6IAd

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-epstein-files-conspiracy-controversy-defense-arguments-maga-rcna220009

NBC NEWS
— What percent become citizens of America for bad reasons?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/calls-strip-zohran-mamdanis-citizenship-trump-denaturalization-power-rcna216653

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Republicans seek to undermine GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able a) to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) to delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) to keep me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Because I was one of GAO’s few remaining Republican employees, my Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich GAO budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/politics/trump-spending-government-accountability-office.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/migration-deportation-sudan-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/arts/television/late-night-trump-epstein.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration pauses student loan forgiveness. I did not get a student loan. If you also did not get a student loan, what if you had gotten one? If I had gotten a student loan, I would have gotten better paying jobs because my GPA would have been higher. I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying. Nevertheless, a) I graduated debt-free from NIU when I was 21 years old in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE and b) I earned enough money to buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, pay for graduate evening business courses 1972-1976, buy a new town home University Park in 1972, buy condos in downtown Chicago in 1974 and 1976, pay for graduate evening accounting courses 1976-1980, get married and buy a home in Wheaton with my wife in 1978, etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/22/trump-administration-student-loan-forgiveness-pause-ibr-plan/

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/23/where-are-the-docs-trump-attempts-to-wriggle-out-of-epstein-disclosures/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/07/21/trump-epstein-files-release-maga/85248117007/

BLOOMBERG
— If you are White and/or male, the less education and/or less money that your parents have and/or had, the more that Affirmative Action and DEI harm you. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA. All my potential employers and all my employers were always under tremendous pressure to hire, to retain, and to promote young minorities and young females. Virtually my coworkers who they promoted over me were minorities and/or females who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-23/andreessen-is-wrong-about-dei-and-the-working-class

NEW REPUBLIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://newrepublic.com/article/198247/trump-epstein-fiasco-ron-wyden

POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/23/house-democrats-jeffrey-epstein-trump-politics-00469042
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/22/democrats-epstein-attack-plans-00468534
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/22/trump-epstein-urges-doj-obama-00467514
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/22/congress/house-gop-huddles-on-epstein-drama-00466738

PBS
— Hunter Biden lashes out at George Clooney, other Democratic ‘elites,’ over Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/hunter-biden-lashes-out-at-george-clooney-other-democratic-elites-over-joe-bidens-2024-campaign

NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5476530/president-trump-deflects-questions-about-epstein-probe-with-accusations-about-obama

WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/23/atug-j23.html

July 22, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Hunter Biden blames dad’s disastrous Trump debate on sleeping pills.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/hunter-biden-blames-ambien-for-president-bidens-terrible-trump-debate/3794408/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1678025

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/ice-arrests-increase-across-chicago-under-trump-many-with-no-convictions-data-shows/
— Democrat leaders promote video gambling. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/gambling-machines-chicago-bars-airports-aldermen/
— Banishing a reporter: Trump escalates battle with Wall Street Journal over Epstein story. I should write about those who have banished me and why.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/trump-wall-street-journal-epstein/
— Democrat leaders use vandalism against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/little-village-buildings-swastikas-vandalism/
— Democrats complain about Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/rep-brad-schneider-town-hall/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/opinion-hiv-campaign-chicago-cook-county/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump on manufacturing jobs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/22/opinion-us-manufacturing-economy-tariffs/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/07/21/illinois-lawsuit-trump-administration-undocumented-immigrants-public-benefits
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/07/22/a-family-came-to-chicago-seeking-asylum-he-was-deported-now-she-wants-to-leave

DAILY HERALD
— Homeland Security takes Bolingbrook man into ICE custody after he appears in Kane County court on DUI
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250721/news/homeland-security-takes-bolingbrook-man-into-ice-custody-after-he-appears-in-kane-county-court-on-du/

RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/gov-pritzker-joins-governors-to-take-collective-action-84506.cfm

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-07-22/rockford-immigrant-families-anxious-about-increased-immigration-raids

WCIA
— Republican legislators call on IL governor to participate in federal school choice program.  My parents had less money because they paid to send me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. Because of that, I had to work my way through college.
https://www.wcia.com/news/capitol-news/republican-legislators-call-on-il-governor-to-participate-in-federal-school-choice-program/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Teen gangs feud in the west side of Chicago.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/18/this-austin-space-fighting-gun-violence-has-been-designated-chicagos-first-safe-zone/

PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing make children sexually active LGBTQers.
https://phimc.org/initiatives/alliance-home/youth-organizing-and-leadership/action-camp/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, more dependency on government and charity, more LGBTQ, more abortion, more mass/illegal immigration, more booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, more diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and more 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/2025/07/22/pritzker-on-dems-weve-lost-our-way-00466724

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-556/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-349/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— The toxic combination of Illinois’ sanctuary status and the SAFE-T Act
https://wirepoints.org/the-toxic-combination-of-illinois-sanctuary-status-and-the-safe-t-act-wirepoints-quickpoint/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hegseth held the military rank of Major in the U.S. Army National Guard. IRS promoted me to GS-12 when I was 25. The military equivalent is Captain. GAO promoted me to GS-13 when I was 38. The military equivalent is Major. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. When I was 25, I had worked for IRS for 3 years and I had completed 10 graduate evening business courses. When I was 38, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years and for GAO for almost 7 years. I had passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I had earned an MBA and a master’s degree in accounting. I had become a licensed CPA. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I never would have made GS-12 let alone GS-13. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Hunter Biden rages against Trump deportations in bizarre YouTube interview: ‘How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? Who do you think washes your dishes?’ While I never was a maid, I was a dishwasher for 18 months, yard worker for 6 months, newspaper deliverer for 48 months, golf shoe cleaner for a month, slag chipper for 3 months, gasoline pumper for 23 months, and mailman for 34 months. The aforesaid totals 133 months or 11 years.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/21/us-news/hunter-biden-rages-against-trump-deportations-in-bizarre-youtube-interview-its-a-f-ing-crime-what-theyre-doing/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Will Trump Grant Amnesty? My Republican critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/will-trump-grant-amnesty/

BREITBART
— Hunter Biden Rejects American Citizens, Praises Illegal Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-rejects-citizens-praises-illegal-migrants/
— GOP Establishment Still Has Amnesty Fetish. My Republican critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/21/rep-maria-salazar-gives-away-the-game-gop-establishment-still-has-amnesty-fetish/
— Suit Over In-State Tuition for Illegals Is Just ‘Blue State Retaliation’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/21/ellison-suit-over-in-state-tuition-for-illegals-is-just-blue-state-retaliation/
— Trump’s ‘CBP Home App’ Gets Tens of Thousands of Illegals to Self-Deport
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/21/trumps-cbp-home-app-gets-tens-of-thousands-illegals-to-self-deport/
— Harvard heads to court in $2.6B lawsuit against Trump administration
https://www.breitbart.com/news/the-latest-harvard-heads-to-court-in-2-6b-lawsuit-against-trump-administration/
— The Fed Is Like Universal Basic Income for Academic Economists
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/07/21/bessent-the-fed-is-like-universal-basic-income-for-academic-economists/
— More Than 20 Democrat AGs Seek to Reopen Federal Welfare, Aid for Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/07/21/20-democrat-ags-seek-reopen-federal-welfare-aid-illegal-aliens/
— Hunter Biden Says to Those Upset About Illegal Immigration: ‘Who Do You Think Washes Your Dishes?’ I was a dishwasher for 18 months, yard worker for 6 months, newspaper deliverer for 48 months, golf shoe cleaner for a month, slag chipper for 3 months, gasoline pumper for 23 months, and mailman for 34 months. The aforesaid totals 133 months or 11 years.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-says-fck-you-to-those-upset-about-illegal-immigration-who-do-you-think-washes-your-dishes/
— Stephen Colbert Was Propped Up by $160 Million in Left-Wing Affirmative Action
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/07/21/nolte-stephen-colbert-was-propped-up-by-160-million-left-wing-affirmative-action/

CHRISTIAN POST
— DHS blames Dems, media for fueling 830% increase in assaults on ICE agents. A major reason why people do not want to work for IRS is that so much hatred is promoted against IRS employees. I was an IRS employee for almost 9 years.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/dhs-blames-media-dems-for-830-rise-in-assaults-on-ice-agents.html

COLLEGE FIX
— UChicago Medicine ends ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors after Trump order
https://www.thecollegefix.com/uchicago-medicine-ends-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-after-trump-order/
— Universities rejected applicant pools with too many white scholars. I passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination (FSEE) when I was 21 years old in 1970. The Democrats who run the federal government killed the FSEE because too few Blacks and Hispanics passed it.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/universities-rejected-applicant-pools-with-too-many-white-scholars-records-reveal/

DAILY CALLER
— Hunter Biden Says He Would Invade Sovereign Nation To Bring Illegals Back To US. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-invade-sovereign-nation-illegals-us/
— Taxpayer-Funded Group Teaches Marxist, ‘Queer’ Resistance At Anti-Trump Summer Camp
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/21/taxpayer-funded-nonprofit-marxist-queer-resistance-anti-trump-summer-camp/
— Trump Forces Employers To Stop Turning Blind Eye To Illegal Workers
https://www.aol.com/trump-forces-employers-stop-turning-204808389.html

DAILY WIRE
— Tens Of Thousands Of Illegal Aliens Self-Deport Through CBP Home App
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tens-of-thousands-of-illegal-aliens-self-deport-through-cbp-home-app-report

FEDERALIST
— Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/21/pentagon-replaces-naval-academy-leader-who-oversaw-racist-affirmative-action-policies/

FOX NEWS
— White House flips script on Hunter Biden’s profanity-laced rant against Trump’s immigration policies. White House spokesperson references Biden’s pardon and calls out ‘Biden Crime Family’ after profanity-laced interview.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-flips-script-hunter-bidens-profanity-laced-rant-trumps-immigration-policies

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Buttigieg Handed Out $80 Billion on DEI Grants. “He was definitely pushing an agenda.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/report-buttigieg-handed-out-80-billion-on-dei-grants/

LEGAL NEWSLINE
— IL law targets E-Verify, undermines federal law. To fight E-Verify is to fight federal immigration law.
https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/il-law-targets-e-verify-undermines-federal-law-doj-says/article_60f5fbbb-6dbc-478f-98cd-99b38dc96fcb.html

MRC TV
— Hunter Biden went off on a profane rant against Americans who support enforcement of U.S. immigration law, in which he characterized illegal aliens as cooks, maids and dish washers. While I never was a cook or a maid, I was a dishwasher for 18 months, yard worker for 6 months, newspaper deliverer for 48 months, golf shoe cleaner for a month, slag chipper for 3 months, gasoline pumper for 23 months, and mailman for 34 months. The aforesaid totals 133 months or 11 years.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/hunter-biden-upset-about-illegal-immigration-fk-you

NEWS BUSTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that LGBTQers have. How successful have Democrat leaders been pushing LGBTQ on everyone in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/lucas-escala/2025/07/22/msnbcs-weekend-panel-throws-tantrum-over-lgbtq-hotline-abandonment

NEWSMAX
— Rubio: Deport Permanent Residents for Haitian Gang Aid
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/haiti-gangs/2025/07/21/id/1219506/
— Noem, Homan Take NYC Officials to Task After Officer Shot by Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/NYC-immigration-kristi-noem/2025/07/21/id/1219531/
— Lawsuit Challenges Restrictions on Head Start for Kids in the US Illegally. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/illegals-immigration/2025/07/21/id/1219500/

PJ MEDIA
— There Are Some Fights Trump Should Stay Out Of
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/21/there-are-some-fights-trump-should-stay-out-of-n4941966

STARS AND STRIPES
— Army secretary fires 4-star general for meddling in promotion process. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government designed and implemented their promotion processes to promote Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-12-10/army-general-fired-16126446.html

TOWNHALL
— Minneapolis Dems Dump Incumbent Mayor for Socialist Who Vowed to Fight Trump
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/07/21/socialist-mayoral-candidate-for-minneapolis-wins-democratic-endorsement-over-incumbent-n2660687

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Hate-fille Trump-hating Trump-haters want everyone to focus on Epstein.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-steer-conversation-away-jeffrey-epstein/story?id=123927092

CBS NEWS
— Family in Colorado seeking asylum fearful of Venezuelan gangs, says crime is getting worse around their apartment.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/family-colorado-fearful-venezuelan-gangs-crime-apartments-asylum-denver/
— Democrat leaders had no problem with raging inflation when Biden was President.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-disapprove-of-how-trump-is-handling-inflation-poll-finds/
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/video/trumps-approval-rating-slides-after-6-months-in-office-cbs-news-poll-shows/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump administration releases records on FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-7-21-2025
— Banishing a reporter: Trump escalates battle with Wall Street Journal over Epstein story.  I should write about those who have banished me and why.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-epstein-wall-street-journal-b006f3ef25e6b4ab910cc3b41c865227

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-deports-grandfather-green-card-luis-leon-2101628
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry their illegals leaving America.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/economic-warning-as-more-than-half-million-people-could-leave-us-this-year/ar-AA1IQ9ON

NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/trump-news-media.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/trump-illegal-immigration-raids-arkansas.html
— Democrats exist to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opinion/are-the-democrats-dead-or-alive.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Wall Street Journal banned from Trump’s Scotland trip over Epstein story. I should write about those who have banned me and why.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/22/white-house-wall-street-journal-trump-epstein/
— Hate-fille Trump-hating Trump-haters want Republicans to focus on Epstein.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/21/trump-epstein-distractions/
— Trump intervenes to boost Hegseth aide who left military for politics. A waiver granted by the president allows Ricky Buria, a top adviser to the defense secretary, to bypass federal law and depart the Marine Corps at a rank he held only briefly. Hegseth held the military rank of Major in the U.S. Army National Guard. IRS promoted me to GS-12 when I was 25. The military equivalent is Captain. GAO promoted me to GS-13 when I was 38. The military equivalent is Major. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. When I was 25, I had worked for IRS for 3 years and I had completed 10 graduate evening business courses. When I was 38, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years and for GAO for almost 7 years. I had passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I had earned an MBA and a master’s degree in accounting. I had become a licensed CPA.  My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I never would have made GS-12 let alone GS-13. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/21/hegseth-ricky-buria-waiver/

BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrat and RINO leaders want Republican leaders to fight Trump. But wait, the voters elected Trump.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-gop-rolling-over-for-trump/

USA TODAY
— Trump is racking up GOP wins no one else could. What do Never Trumpers say now?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/21/trump-pbs-education-department-abortion-republican-presidents/85269657007/
— Democrat leaders decry flood of ICE agents coming to cities run by Democrats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/21/white-house-democrat-cities-flood-ice-agents/85308354007/
— Hunter Biden blames dad’s disastrous Trump debate on sleeping pills.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-joe-biden-trump-debate-ambien/85315170007/
– Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/19/trump-immigration-medicaid-cuts-economy-failure/85259690007/

KBOI
— Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes Up 58% in Chicago. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring antisemites into Chicago.
https://www.kboi.com/2025/07/21/anti-jewish-hate-crimes-up-5837-in-chicago/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Here’s What a Late-Career Layoff Looks Like in America, in 5 Charts. Many take longer to find new jobs, while others retire earlier than planned.  Being forced to retire early is extremely damaging. I should write about that.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/heres-what-a-late-career-layoff-looks-like-in-america-in-5-charts-63f5c809
— 18,000 Jobs Out the Drive-Thru Window. California’s $20 minimum wage at fast-food chains has hit employment. I earned the minimum wage for 18 months washing dishes during my junior and senior years in high school 1964-1966. Adjusted for inflation, I earned $12.36/hour. If I had earned $20/hour in today’s dollars, I would not have had to work as many hours and/or I would have bought a new loaded 1966 Pontiac GAO instead of a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, a poor man’s GTO.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/california-minimum-wage-18000-jobs-fast-food-restaurants-70610af4?mod=opinion_lead_pos2

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— Taxpayer-Funded Group Teaches Marxist, ‘Queer’ Resistance At Anti-Trump Summer Camp
https://ijr.com/taxpayer-funded-group-teaches-marxist-queer-resistance-at-anti-trump-summer-camp/

NEW YORKER
— What percent of foreign students focus on destroying Israel?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/a-federal-trial-reveals-the-sprawling-plan-behind-trumps-attacks-on-pro-palestinian-students

ATLANTIC
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.aol.com/trump-campaign-crush-media-194800857.html

SPORTS BETTING
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more gambling.
https://www.legalsportsbetting.com/news/illinois-becomes-3rd-state-to-hit-50-billion-in-sports-bets-07-16-2025/

July 20, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/19/immigrant-medicaid-access/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/19/trump-wall-street-journal-epstein-lawsuit/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, sooner or later, we will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/in-the-wake-of-snap-cuts-feeding-hungry-illinoisans-falls-more-than-ever-on-food-pantries/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders eve-increasingly use Pope Leo to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/lgbtq-inclusion-chicago-catholics/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Vandals target immigration organizations in Little Village
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/07/19/vandals-target-immigration-organizations-in-little-village

DAILY HERALD
— Republican state Sen. Don DeWitte of St. Charles will not seek reelection to the 33rd District seat in 2026.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250719/news/state-sen-dewitte-wont-seek-reelection/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Companies warn Illinois will be ‘toxic tort’ capital if bill is signed, but lawyers call it ‘fundamental fairness’ All my critics/opponents side with all the defendants in all the lawsuits I filed. I should write about that.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250719/illinois-state-politics/companies-warn-illinois-will-be-toxic-tort-capital-if-bill-is-signed-but-lawyers-call-it-fundame/
— Economic mobility top priority of Krishnamoorthi’s Senate campaign. Sadly, my father, my grandfather, and my great grandfather are examples of downward mobility. In 1902, my great grandfather had 1285 Main Street built in Crete (4,030 sq. ft. https://www.redfin.com/IL/Crete/1285-Main-St-60417/home/23199035 ). In 1926, my grandfather had 1286 Wood Street built in Crete (1793 sq. ft. https://www.redfin.com/IL/Crete/1286-Wood-St-60417/home/23199039 ). My father never had a home built. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250719/news/economic-mobility-top-priority-of-krishnamoorthis-senate-campaign/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250718/news/rep-underwood-demands-answers-over-reckless-ice-activity-in-joliet/

NBC5
— Several Chicago suburbs ranked among safest places to live in the US. Naperville is ranked 19th.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/several-chicago-suburbs-ranked-among-safest-places-to-live-in-the-us/3793464/

FOX32
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1677376
— Democrat leaders decry EPA employees losing jobs because of Republican budget cuts. Virtually no one decried 3,000+ GAO employees losing their jobs because of Republican budget cuts 1980-1997 while I worked for the agency.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/epa-research-development-office-layoffs-scientists-fired

SOUTHERN
— MAGA supporters rally around Trump following WSJ article. According to my critics/opponents, I am a MAGA supporter. But I am a conservative. I am a platform Republican. Many MAGA supporters would disagree that I am a MAGA supporter.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/19/we-are-so-back-maga-supporters-rally-around-trump-following-wsj-article/

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— I did not even try to get a student loan. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I washed dishes during my junior and senior years and the summer in between. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. But because I worked my way through college, I was able to buy a new townhome in University Park when I was 24 in 1972.
https://chicagocrusader.com/unsettling-accounts-illinois-confronting-growing-student-loan/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With $49,000 in student loan debt, Josue Villalpando figured becoming a homeowner was a long way off. “The thought of purchasing a home was definitely floating around, however I never actually looked into it knowing that I had such a big burden with my student loans,” he said. A recent graduate of the University of Illinois Chicago, Villalpando, 29, took out private loans to pay for college. Unlike federal student loans, private loans typically have higher interest rates and fewer forgiveness programs, making them harder for borrowers to pay off. Then, his fiancé came across the SmartBuy program – an initiative set up by the state to help incentivize residents to purchase a home while paying off their student loan debt, one of the leading factors delaying homeownership among young adults. SmartBuy pays up to $40,000 in student loans and contributes up to $5,000 towards a down payment or closing costs at the time of purchase.)

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Wise Up New York: Don’t Be a Chumbolone Town Like Chicago
https://johnkassnews.com/wise-up-chicago-dont-be-a-chumbolone/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who do Democrat plants ( https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Democrat+plant%22 ) work against the hardest? The more planks in the Republican Party platform that Republicans promote, the harder that Democrat plants work against those Republicans. They work extremely hard against me because I promote all the planks in the Republican Party platform, and especially its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about those Democrat plants who have worked the hardest against me since 2000. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024 and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you say to Democrat plant candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who fail/refuse to promote planks in the Republican Party platform? They most commonly fail/refuse to promote the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Because I promote those planks, Democrat plants work against me. I should write about Democrat plants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Do you fill a void? I do. With my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, I fill a tremendous Republican communication void in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. Far too many Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders fail/refuse to defend/promote the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. I defend/promote those planks. – Dave Diersen
http://wwwigopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Biden DOJ sought ‘federal hook’ to treat protesting parents as ‘domestic terrorists.’ For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. Because of that, my great great grandfather, my great grandfather, my grandfather, and my father all were Republicans who sent all their children to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3476377/biden-doj-protesting-parents-as-domestic-terrorists/
— Conservative legal gains against LGBT agenda spur pride activism.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/3475547/conservative-legal-gains-against-lgbt-agenda-spur-pride-activism/
— Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward over ‘Trump tapes’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3476531/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-against-journalist-bob-woodward/

BREITBART
— Biden AG and White House Conspired to Chill Local Parents’ School Board Protests
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2025/07/19/documents-biden-ag-white-house-conspired-chill-local-parents-school-board-protests/

DAILY CALLER
— Huckabee Reportedly Threatens Israel Over Treatment Of Christians
https://www.aol.com/huckabee-reportedly-penned-letter-lambasting-162816314.html

FOX NEWS
— Trump is the one world leader trying to pull the West away from the abyss
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375861200112
— ICE arrests illegal immigrant accused of decapitating Illinois woman after judge set him free. ICE agents tracked down and arrested Mexican national after Illinois court released him despite gruesome crime accusations.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-arrests-illegal-immigrant-accused-decapitating-illinois-woman-after-judge-set-him-free

PJ MEDIA
— Woke Educators Protect Illegals Instead of Improving Curricula for Americans. If my teachers had promoted wokeism instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic, I would not have been able to get an ACT score of 24 or graduate in the upper 20% of my class.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/19/woke-educators-protect-illegals-instead-of-improving-curricula-for-americans-n4941899

POST MILLENNIAL
— 150,000 criminal illegal immigrants arrested so far during Trump’s second term
https://thepostmillennial.com/150000-criminal-illegal-immigrants-arrested-so-far-during-trumps-second-term-wh

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— She left her federal job because of Trump. Now she’s running for office to fight his policies. Needless-to-say, the many adverse actions that my Democrat supervisors in the federal government took against me because I fought their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination motivates me to defend and advance the Republican Party platform.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/politics/democrats-federal-employees-midterms
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/politics/epstein-trump-ties-analysis

REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more government spending to protect everyone from Republicans.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-funding-cut-stalls-water-projects-increasing-risks-millions-2025-07-19/

UPI
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/07/19/lgbtq-suicide-lifeline-service/3471752970492/

MSN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/donald-told-me-trump-s-biographer-spills-new-details-on-deeper-epstein-relationship/ar-AA1IUIjh
— Top Trump Official Says Americans on Medicaid Should Replace Deported Farm Workers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/top-trump-official-says-americans-on-medicaid-should-replace-deported-farm-workers/ar-AA1IczWA

ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/makeup-artist-us-deportees-el-salvador-venezuela-congressman-123884627
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-calls-epstein-files-released-troublemakers/story?id=123890604

CBS NEWS
— I oppose illegal immigration. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got. If not that, my wages would have been lower. My critics/opponents cannot say that. Their parents had lots of money.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-immigration-crackdown-labor-shortages-california-construction-industry-builder-says/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter/

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Inspectors General Are Worried Doing Job Could Get Them Fired.  I often worked with Inspector General employees while I worked for GAO for almost 18 years and while I served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter for 13 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/inspectors-general-trump.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the Trump Administration, Watchdogs Are Watching Their Backs. The president has fired or demoted over 20 inspectors general since he took office. Employees say they are demoralized and reluctant to pursue investigations that could prompt political blowback.)
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/inside-trump-epstein-friendship.html (FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/timeline-trump-epstein.html
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/17/us/trump-news-updates
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/16/us/trump-news
— The more planks in the Republican Party platform that my Democrat plant critics/opponents reject, the harder that they work against me. 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. I should write about my Democrat plant critics/opponents who have worked the hardest against me since 2000. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024 and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/us/politics/trump-gop-platform-convention.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/america-safety-net.html
— Democrat leaders use public media to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/opinion/pbs-npr-cuts-funding.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/immigrants-ice-deportation.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/politics/immigration-senior-caregivers.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/20/trump-epstein-economy-immigration-approval/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/18/trump-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-murdoch-epstein/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/20/trump-epstein-files-political-fallout-risks/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-07-20/trump-jeffrey-epstein-sex-power-government-conspiracy

USA TODAY
— Democrat plants promote division within the Republican Party. They stress that Trump rejects some conservative principles. But Democrat plants promote those principles.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-iran-republican-party-conservatives/84538150007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/20/trump-epstein-files-evidence-election/85275266007/

BABYLON BEE
— Newsom Founds Underground Railroad To Help Mexican Kids Travel To Work The Marijuana Farms. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint their illegals as being runaway slaves.
https://babylonbee.com/news/newsom-founds-underground-railroad-to-help-mexican-kids-travel-to-work-the-marijuana-farms

LA PROGESSIVE & CHATTANOUGA TIMES FREE PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting hatred against Republicans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/exclusionism
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/jul/19/opinion-the-rights-war-against-the-truth-of-our/

PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/transgender-military-members-fight-to-continue-serving-despite-trumps-ban
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-is-publicly-known-about-trumps-yearslong-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein

NPR
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/19/nx-s1-5473430/trump-calls-release-jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-testimony

POLITICO
— Republicans’ food aid cuts will hit grocers in many towns that backed Trump. According to my critics/opponents, because I have always voted for Republican candidates, Democrats and RINOs have every right to screw me.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/19/trump-snap-food-cuts-rural-grocers-megabill-00463048

TRUTHOUT
— Trump Administration Will Shut Down 7 Major HUD Discrimination Cases. My critics/opponents have always used my buying a new townhome in University Park in 1972 against me. They a) stress that University Park was created by HUD and b) hint/imply/argue/shout that because I bought, a minority and/or female could not.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-will-shut-down-7-major-housing-discrimination-cases/

LIBERTY NATION
— DEI Goes Incognito in Academia
https://www.libertynation.com/dei-goes-incognito-in-academia/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— The Importance of Early Career Planning. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school friend had not invited me to take the postal employment examination with him earlier that year. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. If I had been active in Republican politics when I was young, the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2025/07/14/importance-early-career-planning-opinion

GOOGLE AI & PEW RESEARCH
— The influence of parents on children’s political party affiliation & Most U.S. parents pass along their religion and politics to their children. For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. Because of that, my great great grandfather, my great grandfather, my grandfather, and my father all were Republicans who sent all their children to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete.
https://www.google.com/search?q=parents+children+political+party
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/10/most-us-parents-pass-along-their-religion-and-politics-to-their-children/

July 19, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/university-chicago-medicine-is-latest-hospital-pausing-gender-affirming-care-child-patients-trump-admin-threats/17187950/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-immigration-news-ice-arrests-courts-chicago-nationwide-labeled-unlawful-new-lawsuit-trump-administration/17186490/
— Did you benefit from after school and summer programs? I did not. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I wash dishes 1964-1966. I cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline in 1966. I delivering mail 1966-1969. I had to work my way through college.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-administrations-department-education-will-release-frozen-grants-supporting-summer-school-programs/17183858/
— Alleged squatters move next-door to IL state rep. in Chicago: ‘Going to be calling the governor.’  Lawmakers argue governor should immediately sign ‘squatter bill’ passed by state legislature.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/alleged-squatters-move-door-illinois-state-rep-marcus-evans-avalon-park-chicago-going-calling-governor/17186665/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with the Fed against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/18/trumps-attacks-powell-threaten-feds-independence/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Community colleges are a bridge for students still seeking a path. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy league universities are worthless.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/next-voices/2025/07/18/chicago-city-college-community-college-education-lashaunta-moore-next-voices
— New sales tax revenue will help mass transit, but there’s still a long way to go. My critics/opponents look down on if not despise/hate mass transit users. I used mass transit big time in 1971 and then 1973-1997.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/18/illinois-sales-tax-revenue-rta-mass-transit-rich-miller
— Democrat leaders never blamed Biden for inflation, but they sure blame Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/07/18/supermarket-super-pain-trump-campaign-food-prices-inflation-tariffs

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250718/nation-and-world-politics/most-us-adults-think-the-gop-tax-bill-will-help-the-wealthy-and-harm-the-poor-ap-norc-poll-finds/

WGN RADIO
— Should Chicago allow video gambling throughout the city? I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton. Subsequently, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-should-chicago-allow-video-gambling-throughout-the-city/#/questions

WBEZ
— College still pays off, but wage gaps persist in Illinois. Even with the same college degree, students from low-income families earn less than those from middle or upper-income families. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/07/18/college-still-pays-off-but-wage-gaps-persist-in-illinois-study-finds

MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— World Population Review’s 2025 rankings for the “Most Hated States” lists Illinois No. 1.  Yikes.  World Population Review reports Illinois is one of the fastest-shrinking states in the U.S. in terms of population, and has experienced a 0.54 percent (more than half a percent) decrease in population in recent years. And it gets worse. Roughly 25 percent of Illinoisans say their state is the worst in the nation. This negativity could be partially attributed to animosity between politically liberal Chicago and the heavily conservative rural portions that make up the rest of the state. The “Most Hated” rankings were determined by compiling three indicators: The percentage of each state’s own residents who believe their state is the worst. The number of other states that hate each state the most. Each state’s population decline, the logic being that population decline reflects the flow of residents moving to another state.
https://muddyrivernews.com/opinion/daily-dirt-illinois-no-1-among-most-hated-states/20250719053500/

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAY
— Education still pays, but barriers to upward mobility persist in Illinois. How much money did your parents have? My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. I had to work my way through college. My GPA suffered because of that.
https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article310956495.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It found that educational attainment is still a strong predicter of a person’s future earnings as an adult. So too is the industry that a person chooses for a career. Other factors can also influence a person’s ability to complete a higher education degree, including their race, ethnicity and gender. Class-based barriers The study also found that a person’s own economic background – whether they grew up rich or poor – also strongly influences their future earnings. Students who grew up in higher-income households tended to earn more than those who grew up in lower-income families, in part because students from higher-income families were more likely to complete a college degree than lower-income students. But perhaps most surprisingly, the study found that even among those who earn similar degrees and go to work in similar industries, a student’s own economic background influenced their future earnings. That is, students from lower-income families tend to earn less than those from wealthier families, even after they went on to earn similar credentials. Further, the study found, among students from lower-income families, Black and Latino students and women tended to earn less than their white and male counterparts.)

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISDTER
— Illinois will soon become America’s lawsuit capital—unless Gov. Pritzker acts. I should write about all the lawsuits that I filed. My critics/opponents side with the defendants in all those lawsuits.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/07/19/pritzker-can-prevent-illinois-from-becoming-americas-lawsuit-capital-opinion/85249565007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Senate Bill 328, if signed into law, will expose companies operating here to a tidal wave of out-of-state lawsuits that have nothing to do with Illinois, brought by people who don’t live in our state for incidents that didn’t happen here. It’s called litigation tourism, and Illinois will become its poster child if Governor JB Pritzker doesn’t veto SB 328.)

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders side with Bob Woodward against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trumps-lawsuit-against-bob-woodward-dismissed/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-348/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Lots of Illinois Tax Money Going to Non-Government Organizations through Legislative Pork
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/18/lots-of-illinois-tax-money-going-to-non-government-organizations-through-legislative-pork/

WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker Presides Over an Illinois Pension Mess
https://wirepoints.org/dabrowski-bacharach-op-ed-jb-pritzker-presides-over-an-illinois-pension-mess-wall-street-journal/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— GAO falsely claims to be nonpartisan. The House Republican Appropriators Committee recently tried to slash GAO’s funding nearly in half. Because I was one of GAO’s few remaining Republican employees, my Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich GAO funding cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. What if Speaker Johnson reformed GAO and offered me $50,000 to rejoin the agency? I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The U.S. Comptroller General ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptroller_General_of_the_United_States ) runs GAO. Who does Trump want the next U.S. Comptroller General to be? If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.  – Dave Diersen
http//www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Mamdani and Sanders demonstrate far-left hypocrisy
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/18/editorial-mamdani-sanders-demonstrate-far-left-hypocrisy/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin offering former ICE agents up to $50K in bonuses to rejoin agency. What if Speaker Johnson reformed GAO and offered me $50,000 to rejoin the agency?
https://nypost.com/2025/07/18/us-news/trump-admin-offering-former-ice-agents-up-to-50k-in-bonuses-to-rejoin-agency/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Former State Department Bureaucrats Show Why Trump Fired Them. My critics/opponents side with my Democrat GAO superiors against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination the most.
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/former-state-department-bureaucrats
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Proving the point: Nearly a half dozen disgruntled former bureaucrats gathered before a crowd (if you can call it that) outside Foggy Bottom on Friday. They attempted to rally support for themselves and other “recently fired State Department employees.” They failed. Organizer Michael Duffin, who was fired from State despite holding three graduate degrees, promoted the rally by asking for former U.S. ambassadors and other “senior officials” to attend and speak. Apparently nobody was interested—a Free Beacon reporter was one of the only people in attendance. Speakers instead included Steven Ramsey, a former USAID contractor and Fulbright alumnus who read a version of the Nazi-era “First They Came” poem that he “adapted for the context we’re in right now.” “First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out because I was not an immigrant,” he said after noting that the original poem came “from 1930s Germany.” Several individuals eventually applauded. Duffin did not read a poem, but he did post a screenshot of his farewell email to colleagues in the buildup to the rally. It too made a Nazi comparison: “In the musical ‘Sound of Music,’ the Von Trapp family escaped the Nazis while performing ‘So long, farewell,'” wrote Duffin. “As the curtain descends on my State Department career I feel like it’s strangely appropriate to share with you some lyrics to that song.” Bravo.)

AMAC
— POLL: What is the PRIMARY method you use to receive news about current events and issues? Based on how they treat me, far too many read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for opposition research against me.
https://amac.us/poll/primary-method-news/

BLAZE
— The GOP establishment lost to Trump — now it’s rebranding as ‘neo-MAGA’
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-gop-establishment-lost-to-trump-now-it-s-rebranding-as-neo-maga

BREITBART
— Military Bases in Indiana, New Jersey Will Be Converted to Migrant Holding Centers
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/07/18/military-bases-in-indiana-new-jersey-will-be-converted-to-migrant-holding-centers/

CAMPUS REFORM
— University of Oklahoma boasts ‘safe place’ for illegal alien students. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992, but they would have admitted illegals instead of me if they could have.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/university-of-oklahoma-boasts-safe-place-for-illegal-alien-students-/28254

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— America First, or ‘Refugees’ First?  The ‘Tent’ movement doesn’t seem to be in line with Trump policies.
https://cis.org/Rush/America-First-or-Refugees-First

DAILY CALLER
— Blue City Sheriffs Scoff At DOJ Request For Information On Illegals
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/18/california-sheriffs-scoff-at-doj-request/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Will Fight Back Against the Big Bank Woke Agenda. What does your bank think of you?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/18/the-days-of-big-banks-targeting-conservatives-are-over-trump-is-restoring-sanity-to-the-finance-industry/

FOX BUSINESS
— Trump has the authority to abolish wokeness from government policy
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6375806546112

FOX NEWS
— The surprising ways illegals evaded border security, until now
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375805980112
— Zohran Mamdani is the face of the new Democratic Party, RNC chairman says
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375792242112
— Trump is ‘very serious’ about prosecuting individuals assaulting ICE agents
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375781578112
— Biden team coordinated on school memo calling parents ‘domestic terrorists.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-doj-white-house-coordinated-controversial-school-boards-memo-documents-reveal

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Venezuelans Deported by Trump to El Salvador Are Traded for Americans Held Hostage by the Maduro Regime
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/venezuelans-deported-by-trump-to-el-salvador-are-traded-for-americans-held-hostage-by-the-maduro-regime/

REAL CLEAR MARKETS
— The $100,000 Retiree Club Is Growing Way Too Fast In Illinois. My Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is $66,780/year. My critics/opponents have always decried my CSRS pension. In my defense, while I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, I paid 7% of my salary into the CSRS. During that time, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2025/07/17/the_100000_retiree_club_is_growing_way_too_fast_in_illinois_1122603.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Now, there are nearly 32,000 in the $100k club. An extra 20,000 government retirees making that much is a sign Illinois’ public pension systems are out of control. Plus, there are many more state retirees getting close to that benchmark: the state’s 239,384 pensioners now average $93,558.)

TOWNHALL
— Noem Slams Leftist Media for Coddling Criminal Illegals with Sob Stories
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/07/18/kristi-noem-forces-fake-news-outlets-to-look-at-the-criminal-illegals-they-are-peddling-sob-stories-for-n2660607

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ROLL CALL
— Bill backed by House Republican Appropriators Committee would slash funding for GAO nearly in half. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://rollcall.com/2025/07/10/appropriators-advance-legislative-branch-bill-without-gao-cuts/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The smallest of the 12 spending bills, the legislative branch bill is also typically the least controversial. But the House’s proposed cuts to GAO funding have put it in the spotlight, drawing the condemnation of Democrats and outside groups, who characterized the move as a political attack after the watchdog found on at least two occasions that the Trump White House illegally barred the release of appropriated funds. More than 100 House Democrats this week joined a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson and Appropriations Chair Tom Cole, R-Okla., arguing the funding reduction to the independent watchdog would “significantly weaken its ability to deliver future savings throughout the government.” Also this week, dozens of outside groups signed on to two separate letters similarly calling for the restoration of funds. “No federal agency is perfect, but the GAO’s more than 100-year history is a success story overall, with an average return on investment of $123 for every $1 expended,” said one letter, led by the R Street Institute and signed by about a dozen other center-right groups. “As Congress’s fiscal watchdog, the GAO has identified hundreds of billions of dollars in savings along with opportunities to reduce duplication and mismanagement.” The Library of Congress, which was targeted by the White House in May when President Donald Trump fired its director Carla Hayden and Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, also would avoid a deep cut. Perlmutter filed a lawsuit challenging her firing, which is ongoing, and Democrats have floated changing the process by which directors of legislative branch agencies, like the Library of Congress, Government Publishing Office and the GAO, are appointed. Murray briefly spoke about her draft amendment regarding the positions, but it was not put to a vote. She said she wanted to continue to discuss the issue with Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine. “Right now, the appointing process for the heads of these agencies involves the executive branch. That does not make a lot of sense, no matter who the president is. And I do believe it’s time to modernize this process and make sure that agency heads are appointed by the legislative branch,” Murray said.)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders shout that the GOP tax bill will help the wealthy and harm the poor.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/most-u-s-adults-think-the-gop-tax-bill-will-help-the-wealthy-and-harm-the-poor-ap-norc-poll-finds
— Billy Long will be sworn in as IRS commissioner, taking over an agency he once sought to close. I 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. I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,661/year.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/07/18/billy-long-irs-commissioner/amp/

CBS NEWS
— Trump files $10 billion lawsuit over Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Epstein report
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter/
— Bondi tours Alcatraz as part of Trump’s plan to reopen former prison
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/pam-bondi-alcatraz-prison-san-francisco-bay-penitentiary-trump-plans/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders covered up Biden’s health problems, but trumpet Trump’s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/trump-chronic-venous-insufficiency.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Justice Dept. asks for names, records of noncitizens in California jails
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/18/justice-department-immigration-california-inmates-noncitizens-list/

POLITICO
— The GOP vs. the GAO. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2025/05/27/the-gop-vs-the-gao-00369890
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republicans are declaring war against the Government Accountability Office. GOP lawmakers and White House officials are ramping up public criticism of the nonpartisan watchdog arm of Congress as it complicates President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government and grab power from the legislative branch. GAO investigates bad behavior at federal agencies and issues recommendations for how they can improve. A flurry of conflicts, including a run-in with DOGE, are inflaming tensions as GAO chief Gene Dodaro makes the rounds on Capitol Hill to defend the agency. Trump doesn’t have the power to remove Dodaro, as he did former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, but he could make Dodaro’s tenure at the office unpleasant by calling on Republicans to impeach or remove him through a joint resolution. At stake, as Jennifer Scholtes, Jordain Carney and Katherine Tully-McManus report this morning, is GAO’s independence — which some Republicans are openly attacking. “GAO has lost credibility as an independent body,” Sen. Mike Lee wrote on X last week. Lee’s criticism got at the heart of the right’s current frustration with GAO. The Utah Republican was responding to an earlier X post from OMB Director Russ Vought, who blasted the agency for finding the Trump administration broke the law by withholding funds approved by Congress. It was one of at least 39 GAO inquiries into whether the White House has flouted the 51-year-old Impoundment Control Act, which prevents presidents from circumventing lawmakers’ “power of the purse.” The impoundment questions aren’t the end of it. GAO rejected an attempt by Elon Musk’s DOGE to land a team at the agency, arguing GAO wasn’t subject to DOGE or executive orders. And GAO faced tensions with Senate Republicans in recent weeks after the agency advised that they couldn’t use the Congressional Review Act to fast-track the termination of a California emissions standard. They decided to anyway. GAO is standing its ground. At a recent hearing, Dodaro stressed the agency’s desire to stay out of political crosshairs. “We’re just responding to help Congress,” Dodaro said. “We’re not trying to influence things one way or the other. We’re nonpartisan. We’re asked a question; we give an answer. It doesn’t matter who it is.”)
— GAO is targeted by House Republicans in new spending bill. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
The Legislative Branch appropriations subcommittee aims to cut Congress’ own budget by $51 million.
(FROM THE ARTICLE: House Republicans are aiming to slash funding for the nonpartisan watchdog for waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government by nearly half in the next fiscal year, according to spending bill text released Sunday night. The House Appropriations subcommittee funding Congress and its support agencies, led by chairman David Valadao (R-Calif.), is set to mark up their fiscal 2026 measure Monday evening, with the full committee set to act Thursday. The Legislative Branch bill would provide $6.7 billion — $51 million below the current funding level, which was set in fiscal 2024. Per tradition, the House bill does not touch any Senate funding. “Chairman Valadao’s bill puts the American people first — in strengthening the institutions that represent them, protecting effective governance, and safeguarding taxpayer dollars,” said House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) in a statement. The deepest cuts in the bill are to the Government Accountability Office, an arm of Congress that would see a $396.5 million reduction from current levels to $415.4 million. GAO has served as the nation’s chief investigator of wrongdoing at federal agencies for more than a century, but has been fighting for months as Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration have attempted to undercut its legal conclusions and independence. Now, they are attempting to shrink the agency into submission as it pursues nearly 40 investigations into whether the White House is illegally withholding, or “impounding,” money Congress had previously approved. Also tucked into the bill is a major policy change that would eliminate the GAO’s ability to bring civil action against the executive branch over impoundments of funds. “GAO’s work makes it possible for the legislative branch to hold government accountable,” said Daniel Schuman, executive director of the American Governance Institute. “Congress needs independent expert advice, which is exactly what GAO provides.”)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/23/congress/gao-targeted-house-republicans-00417754

ED SOURCE
— Trump wants to cut college access programs for low-income students. What was your college access program? Mine was taking college preparatory courses in high school, getting the best ACT score that I could, graduating in the upper 20% of my class, and working enough part-time hours during the school years and full-time during the summers to pay for my college expenses and to buy new cars to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and jobs and classes at UIC and NIU.
https://edsource.org/2025/trio-program-funding-threats-california/736767

July 18, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: Trump administration hands over Medicaid data to ICE. What percent of illegals are on Medicaid?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/afternoon-briefing-trump-administration-hands-over-medicaid-data-to-ice/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/chicago-set-as-flagship-city-for-good-trouble-protests-planned-across-the-country-thursday-against-trump/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/cicero-resident-stopped-unmarked-agents/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/18/chicago-history-july-18/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/18/opinion-immigrant-rights-chicago-poll/
— Democracy thrives on competition. Run for office. The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINOs leaders discourage you from running: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/18/opinion-elections-candidates-democracy-illinois-gop/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/live/chicago-good-trouble-protest-john-lewis-trump
— City Council members pushing to legalize video gambling — at Chicago airports or even citywide. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton. Subsequently, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/07/17/city-council-legalize-video-gambling-chicago-airports-citywide
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/17/jeffrey-epstein-list-maga-pam-bondi-s-e-cupp

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250717/news/good-trouble-lives-on-rally-draws-hundreds-in-elgin/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Argonne and Fermi may dodge DOGE budget cuts. GAO’s Chicago office was not able to dodge Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely for that. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Previously, they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. The forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/technology/argonne-fermilab-may-avoid-budget-cuts-energy-chief-says

ABC7
— Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE. What percent of illegals are on Medicaid?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-gain-access-medicaid-recipients-personal-data-agreement-department-homeland-security-trump-admin/17165162/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPYWw45Zxzo

NBC5
— WSJ says Trump sent Epstein a ‘bawdy’ 50th birthday letter. Trump to sue.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-sent-jeffrey-epstein-bawdy-50th-birthday-letter-wsj/3792338/
— Democrat leaders have always used PBS and NPR to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pbs-npr-fundings-cuts-now-head-to-trumps-desk-how-will-public-radio-tv-in-illinois-be-impacted/3792533/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/lgbtq-crisis-support-hotline-shutdown/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-good-trouble-protests-trump-rally
— What kind of “help” do you need/want/demand from the federal government? The biggest “help” that I needed, but that I did not get, was protection against political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/americans-trump-policies-helped-them-poll
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/lgbtq-youth-support-option-ends-on-national-crisis-line-after-trump-administration-cuts

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/17/illinois-will-continue-providing-lgbtq-youth-support-988-suicide-prevention-hotline-amid
— Number of Unhoused Chicagoans Dropped 60% But Remains at All-Time High. The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/17/number-unhoused-chicagoans-dropped-60-remains-all-time-high-survey-found

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders use public media to promote more hated against Republicans
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/07/17/the-rundown-illinois-public-media-stations-brace-for-cuts
https://www.wbez.org/nation-world/2025/07/17/public-media-senate-cuts-npr-pbs

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER & MORRIS HERALD NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.sj-r.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2025/07/17/good-trouble-lives-on-rally-at-the-illinois-capitol-see-photos/85266878007/
https://www.shawlocal.com/morris-herald-news/2025/07/17/people-gather-in-morris-to-make-good-trouble-by-protesting-trump-administration-policies/

SOUTHERN
— Musk floods X with posts attacking Trump over Epstein
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/17/its-a-cover-up-musk-floods-x-with-posts-attacking-trump-over-epstein/

STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-maintains-lgbtq-youth-support-on-988-hotline-amid-federal-cuts/

WMBD
— Number of Illinois jobs reach record high in June. What percent of the jobs in Illinois are bad jobs, that is, what percent are the jobs that my critics/opponents would never stoop to take?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/number-illinois-jobs-reach-record-212616651.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-347/


FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES


WASHINGTON TIMES
— Zohran Mamdani blowing away the competition in Democrats’ free-for-all. How many Democrats in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct would vote for Mamdani?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/17/zohran-mamdani-blowing-away-competition-democrats-free/
— Trump orders release of grand jury transcripts from Epstein case
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/17/trump-orders-release-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts/
— Trump says salacious Epstein letter attributed to him is ‘fake,’ and plans lawsuit against WSJ
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/17/trump-epstein-letter-wall-street-journal-attributed-fake-plans/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump creates new classification of non-career federal government worker. My Democrat superiors in the federal government put advancing the Democrat Party platform above all else, that is, they put wasting the careers of and getting rid of their Republican employees above all else. They certainly wasted my career and got rid of me. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3475158/trump-new-classification-non-career-federal-government-worker/
— The true cost of today’s ‘free’ public education
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3469115/the-true-cost-of-todays-free-public-education/

NEW YORK POST
— Bondi, Burgum tour Alcatraz as Trump wants to ‘renovate and reopen’ notorious island prison
https://nypost.com/2025/07/17/us-news/bondi-and-burgum-tour-alcatraz-as-trump-seeks-to-renovate-and-reopen-notorious-island-prison/

BREITBART
— Chicago Medical Center ‘Pauses’ Transgender Treatment for Minors After Trump’s Executive Order
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2025/07/17/chicago-medical-center-pauses-transgender-treatment-for-minors-after-trumps-executive-order/
— Trump’s Deputies Use Medicaid Data to Help ICE Find Migrants. How many illegals are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/07/17/trumps-deputies-use-medicaid-data-to-help-ice-find-migrants/

DAILY CALLER
— Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee is introducing a bill Thursday to codify President Donald Trump’s executive order to restore equal opportunity and meritocracy in the workplace. Lee’s Restoring Equal Opportunity Act seeks to remove “disparate impact” on minorities in civil rights law, putting equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome. According to my critics/opponents, when those who have demographics that vote for Republicans do better than those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, it because Republicans discriminate against Democrats. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/17/mike-lee-disparate-impact-workplace-trump-executive-order/
— Liberal Groups Aim To Make Immigration Courts Safe Haven For Illegals
https://ijr.com/liberal-groups-aim-to-make-immigration-courts-safe-haven-for-illegals/

DAILY WIRE
— Republicans Just Launched An Open Revolt Against Trump’s Deportation Operation. Yes, we have multiple prominent Republicans declaring that illegal aliens are not, in fact, criminals.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-just-launched-an-open-revolt-against-trumps-deportation-operation
— Annoying Libs Just Don’t Learn: The Biggest Ways Dems Have Fallen Right Back Into Wokeness. Liberals are doubling down on all of the things that sent them to the woodshed on November 5, 2024.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/annoying-libs-just-dont-learn-the-biggest-ways-dems-have-fallen-right-back-into-wokeness

WESTERN JOURNAL
— White House Lining Up Replacement for RINO Senator Who Keeps Opposing Trump Bills. I should write about leaders of the following who have done the most to defeat conservative candidates, that is, who have done the most to defeat Republican candidates: Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization.
https://www.westernjournal.com/white-house-lining-replacement-rino-senator-keeps-opposing-trump-bills/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— House passes Trump’s $9 billion DOGE cuts package. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need do DOGE.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/house-trump-doge-cuts-bill
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/video/988-lgbtq-youth-crisis-lifeline-vrtc

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump fires Maurene Comey. My Democrat GAO superiors fired me, that is, they forced me to retire. I should write about that.
https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-fear-is-the-tool-of-a-tyrant-fired-federal-prosecutor-maurene-comey-tells-colleagues/

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/immigrant-father-us-30-years-challenging-warrantless-ice-arrests-rcna219277
— Congress to hand Trump billions to recruit more ICE agents
https://www.aol.com/congress-set-hand-trump-billions-211624975.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Congress Agrees to Claw Back Foreign Aid and Public Broadcast Funds
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/senate-vote-trump-bill-pbs-npr-foreign-aid.html
— How diverse is your precinct? My DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton is extremely diverse in terms of household income, housing values, and household net worth.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/25/nyregion/nyc-mayor-election-results-map-mamdani-cuomo.html
— Not that I could have gotten a student loan, but my working my way through college instead of getting a student loan enabled me to a) graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE, b) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, c) pay for graduate business and accounting courses 1972-1980, d) buy a new town home University Park in 1972, d) buy a studio condo in downtown Chicago in 1974, e) buy a one bedroom condo in downtown Chicago in 1976, f) get married in 1978, f) buy a home in Wheaton with my wife in 1978, g) etc.
https://www.nytiges.com/2025/07/15/your-money/student-loans/student-loan-repayment-plans.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/17/good-trouble-protests-john-lewis-trump/
— Trump tells Justice to seek release of Epstein grand jury testimony. White House tries to calm political furor over the Epstein case as Trump threatens to sue Wall Street Journal over new allegation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-epstein-grand-jury-testimony/
— White House defends handling of Epstein files, chides press for coverage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-presidency-news/
— White House shares diagnosis in rare acknowledgment of Trump’s age. Trump has chronic venous insufficiency, White House physician says, a diagnosis common in people over 70. How old are you? I am 76. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my age against me the most.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/17/trump-health-chronic-venous-insufficiency/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/18/antisemitism-task-force-dei-universities-trump/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— WSJ says Trump sent lewd birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein; president vows to sue
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-17/trump-denies-sending-epstein-lewd-message-drawing
— ICE is gaining access to trove of Medicaid records. How many illegals are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-17/ice-getting-access-to-medicaid-records-sparks-new-fears-across-california

BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/metro/black-america-in-state-of-emergency-report-says/

USA TODAY
— PBS, NPR push liberal propaganda. Trump is right to cut their funding.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/18/trump-npr-pbs-defunded-budget-cuts/85255733007/
— Trump is right to shrink our government. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need do DOGE.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/17/trump-federal-government-layoffs-state-department-education/85245671007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2025/07/17/good-trouble-protests-july-17-trump-live/85207089007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/16/trump-no-bond-policy-immigration-detainees-ice/85207175007/

SLATE
— College Isn’t for Everyone. Let’s Stop Pretending It Is. When you were in high school, were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. Nevertheless, I took college preparatory courses. I got an ACT score of 24. I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. I got accepted by UIC. My father often decried his not having a college degree.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/03/college-isnt-for-everyone-lets-stop-pretending-it-is.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. Thumps says it is fake.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796
— Of the 50 elements deemed critical to the American economy and national security by the U.S. Geological Survey, the United States is 100% dependent on foreign suppliers for 12 of them and is more than 50% reliant on non-domestic sources for another 29. Democrat and RINO leaders have no problem with that.
https://deloitte.wsj.com/sustainable-business/how-the-united-states-can-enhance-critical-minerals-supply-7dc347e8
— Congress Approves Trump’s Plan Clawing Back Foreign Aid, Public Media Funding. House follows Senate in passing measure rescinding $9 billion of federal spending.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senate-passes-bill-to-cancel-funds-for-foreign-aid-public-media-20ddf921
— The Economics of DIY. I have always done more DIY than my peers.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-diy-and-opportunity-cost-for-americans-f6fbf17d

MOTLEY FOOL
— Laid off in your 60s? Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you should anticipate/expect that you will be gotten rid of: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/07/13/laid-off-60s-social-security-unemployment/84746588007/

DUCKWORTH
— Did your father earn enough money so that your mother could stay home and raise you? Because my father did, my critics/opponents have always used that to paint me as being filthy rich. But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. Because of that, I had to work my way through college. What was your mother’s earning potential? My mother’s earning potential was very limited because she never attended high school.
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-durbin-help-reintroduce-bill-to-help-families-get-the-affordable-child-care-they-need


July 16, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Trump lashes out at Republicans over Jeffrey Epstein file demands
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-lashes-out-at-republicans-over-jeffrey-epstein-file-demands/3790673/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— A second chance for school choice in Illinois. My patents had far less money because they paid to send me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. Ironically, the public grade school was across the street from our home. My father almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/16/school-choice-illinois-pritzker-ecca/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump budget cuts
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/07/16/china-illinois-soybean-production-research-trumps-usaid-cuts-dick-durbin


SOUTHERN
— Churches, now allowed to endorse candidates, could transform campaign finances. The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/16/churches-now-allowed-to-endorse-candidates-could-transform-campaign-finances/

RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth Stresses Urgent Need to Modernize Our Air Traffic Control Systems. I worked for GAO on an audit of FAA Air Traffic Control Systems in the early 1980s.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-stresses-urgent-need-to-modernize-our-air-traffic-control-systems-at-summit-84378.cfm?

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/arts-culture/teaching-antiracism-is-a-practice-of-freedom-20449933

RUSS STEWART
— TRUMP’S SUCCESS INFURTIATES DEMOCRATS, LEFTISTS WITH TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME
http://www.russstewart.com/russ-analysis.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-346/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— School choice is one of those 80/20 issues Illinois leaders are out-of-step on. My patents had far less money because they sent me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. Ironically, the public grade school was across the street from our home. My father almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://wirepoints.org/school-choice-is-one-of-those-80-20-issues-illinois-leaders-are-out-of-step-on-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats repeat their despicable history of encouraging defiance of federal laws
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/16/democrats-repeat-despicable-history-encouraging-defiance-federal-laws/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Effort to end freebies for illegal immigrants gets a big thumbs up
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3473245/effort-to-end-freebies-for-illegal-immigrants-gets-a-big-thumbs-up/
— Secret Service compliant with nearly half of congressional reform requests. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3470826/secret-service-reforms-congressional-requests-butler-anniversary/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3471194/women-dont-need-men-to-have-children-birth-rate-marriage/

NEW YORK POST
— New GAO Butler shooting report exposes the Secret Service’s shocking culture of incompetence. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, who had less education than I had, who 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, and/or younger.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/opinion/butler-shooting-details-expose-the-secret-services-shocking-culture-of-incompetence/

BREITBART
— Trump Cuts Biden’s Parole Scheme by 100%
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/16/trump-cuts-bidens-parole-scheme-by-100-percent-as-zero-migrants-freed-into-us-last-month/
— Trump: ‘Jeffrey Epstein Hoax’ Is Left’s Latest Media Scam to Distract from My Success
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/16/trump-jeffrey-epstein-hoax-is-lefts-latest-media-scam-to-distract-from-my-success/
— General Motors Announces Plan to Expand Production of Gas-Powered Vehicles
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/15/general-motors-announces-plan-to-expand-production-of-gas-powered-vehicles-in-michigan/
— Promises Made, Promises Kept: Egg Prices Fell 19.8% in June, Down 61% Since February
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/16/promises-made-promises-kept-egg-prices-fell-19-8-in-june-down-61-since-february/

DAILY CALLER
— Here’s All The Nauseatingly Sexual Books The Left Wants Military Kids Reading
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/16/books-banned-dod-schools-sexual-topics-leftist-platitudes-military-kids/

FOX NEWS
— Trump’s controversial plan to fire federal workers finds favor with Supreme Court. Trump’s executive order for federal workforce reduction advances as Supreme Court permits mass layoffs at Education Department despite legal challenges.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-controversial-plan-fire-federal-workers-finds-favor-supreme-court

TOWNHALL
— Bills Introduced Requiring Sanctuary Cities to Repay Feds for Sending in Troops
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeremyfrankel/2025/07/16/bills-introduced-requiring-sanctuary-cities-to-repay-feds-for-sending-in-troops-n2660470

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Trump calls Epstein controversy a “Hoax” and “bulls***,” denouncing “weaklings” in GOP
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-jeffrey-epstein-hoax-republicans/

WASHINGTON POST
— The White House’s plan to downsize the federal government, in charts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/white-house-budget-federal-government/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Some Republicans Push to Protect Unauthorized Immigrants. Lawmakers say agricultural industry will be devastated if workers are deported. My critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got. My critics/opponents cannot say that because their parents had lots of money.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/immigration-law-agriculture-deportations-6d090129

FORBES
— Returning To A Past Where Only The Privileged Are Protected. According to my critics/opponents, I have always been privileged. But I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNSE83dgpcI

WTOP
— Montgomery Co. steps up to help laid-off federal workers.  No help was given to GAO employees like me who lost their jobs because of Gingrich budget cuts.
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2025/07/montgomery-county-steps-up-to-help-laid-off-federal-workers/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In response, the county council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a bill that will give displaced federal workers preferential treatment for county job openings. Only qualified veterans and people with disabilities will receive higher priority.)

PENN STATE
— Internships open up a multitude of options for hard-working student. I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. They stress a) that I did not get any scholarships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and d) that I did not get any internships. In my defense, I stress that instead of studying, I worked far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail.
https://www.psu.edu/news/bellisario-college-communications/story/internships-open-multitude-options-hard-working-student

SI LIVE
— These 19 companies will help pay for your college degree. I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. They stress a) that I did not get any scholarships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and d) that I did not get any internships. In my defense, I stress that instead of studying, I worked far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail.
https://www.silive.com/business/2025/07/these-19-companies-will-help-pay-for-your-college-degree-report-says.html

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— State Dept layoffs necessary for ‘higher quality’ workforce, deputy secretary tells lawmakers. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was a Democrat who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had one professional certification while I had six, and d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/07/state-dept-layoffs-necessary-for-higher-quality-workforce-deputy-secretary-tells-lawmakers/

ECONOMIST
— Having rich parents trumps hard work. Because my parents had enough money to send me to Missouri Lutheran Synod grade schools, my critics/opponents have always demonized them and me as being filthy rich. But my father never made more than $50,000 a year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2025/05/01/why-having-rich-parents-may-trump-hard-work

CONVERSATION
— Why it’s important to get a good job. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I got were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://theconversation.com/why-its-important-young-unemployed-australians-get-a-good-job-instead-of-just-any-job-260817

July 15, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— 20 Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration on Monday for withholding more than $6 billion in federal funds for several education programs nationwide. Many low-income families will lose access to after-school programs if the money isn’t released soon. What did you do while you were in high school? During my freshman and sophomore years, I did yard work. During all 4 years, I delivered newspapers. During my junior and senior years, I washed dishes.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/boys-girls-club-programs-threatened-trump-grant-freeze-serve-thousands-families/17116784/
— Family raises questions about death of father found unresponsive at Naperville’s Centennial Beach. The family of 27-year-old Streamwood man Manuel Jose Rosales Yajure believes the lifeguards didn’t do enough.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/manuel-jose-rosales-yajure-identified-streamwood-man-died-found-centennial-beach-naperville-police-department/17117110/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW-mqsxAuUw

NBC5
— These Republicans could challenge Gov. JB Pritzker’s reelection bid. The first day petitions can be submitted for the March primary will arrive early next month.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/these-republicans-could-challenge-gov-jb-pritzkers-reelection-bid/3789070/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/video-republican-field-takes-shape-to-oppose-pritzker-reelection-bid/3789117/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: So far, DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick and businessman Joe Severino have announced they intend to run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, but they could be joined by several others, including Rep. Darin LaHood, who is weighing options between a bid for the governor’s mansion or the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Dick Durbin. His team told NBC Chicago Political Reporter Mary Ann Ahern that he is still weighing his options ahead of the Aug. 5 start of the petition season. Aaron Del Mar, former lieutenant governor candidate and the chairman of the Cook County Republican Party, is also weighing a potential run, and he says he sees a path forward for any candidate seeking to deny Pritzker a third term in office. “There is a strong donor base, but you just need to talk to them and convince them that this state is worth investing in,” he said. “There are some concerns about running against the richest elected official in the United States. Illinois is worth saving, and worth investing in, and somebody needs to put Illinois first, and our campaign will display that same motto in action.” Ted Dabrowski, president of the media outlet Wirepoints, which focuses on economic and government issues in Illinois, is also considering a run, reaching out to donors as part of that effort, according to Ahern’s reporting.)
— Who has the advantage in the race for Dick Durbin’s Senate seat?  Three Democrats are vying for the seat, while the Republican primary remains largely up in the air. One could compare and contrast the Illinois Republican U.S. Senate 2004 primary ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois ) with the 2026 primary. All five announced candidates  (John Cox, Chirinjeev Kathuria, Andrew McKenna, Jim Oberweis, and  Jack Ryan) walked in Wheaton’s 2003 Independence Day parade and then attended a picnic in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. My critics/opponents were not only furious that Ryan won the primary instead of their candidate McKenna, they blamed me for McKenna’s defeat. I was not only the GOPUSA Illinois Editor, I was also an officer of the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. Neither organization endorsed McKenna. Ryan withdrew after he won the primary and then the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee replaced him with Alan Keyes who lost to Obama.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/who-has-the-advantage-in-the-race-for-dick-durbins-senate-seat/3789209/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On the other side of the aisle, several names have been floated on the Republican side to run for Durbin’s Senate seat. Insiders said Richard Porter is considering a bid. Porter’s largely been behind the scenes, working as a suburban attorney and former Republican national committeeman. He also worked for former President George W Bush’s administration as a domestic policy adviser to the president and counselor to former Vice President Dan Quayle. U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood is also eyeing the Senate race, but he would have to give up his congressional seat to do so. He has also been rumored to be eyeing a run for Illinois governor, but will make his decision in coming weeks. The last Illinois Republican to serve in the Senate was Mark Kirk. He lost re-election to Duckworth in 2016.)
— Democrats put aside previous misgivings to hit Trump over Jeffrey Epstein files
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/democrats-trump-administration-jeffrey-epstein-files/3788972/
— Democrat leaders promote Rosie O’Donnell
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/video-rosie-odonnell-reacts-donald-trump-threat-potentially-revoke-citizenship/3789125/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/14/chicago-officials-call-identification-requirements-ice-agents-we-are-asking

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— State Farm defends hefty 27.2% hike in Illinois homeowners insurance rates
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/state-farm-defends-illinois-homeowners-rate-increase/
— Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich should have reformed GAO instead of gutting it. If he had reformed GAO, I might still be working for GAO. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/trump-lay-off-education-employees/
— A city where every teen can find work — that should be the goal. I took the following jobs when I was a teen, but how many teens would take those jobs today? I did yard work. I delivered newspapers. I wash dishes. I cleaning golf shoes. I chipping slag. I pumping gasoline. I delivering mail. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/chicago-teen-summer-jobs/
— Wheaton 7-bedroom mansion with Tudor facade and 7 gables: $2M
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/15/wheaton-seven-gables-home/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This 1897 Wheaton property built by architect Jarvis Hunt is called the House of Seven Gables and was commissioned as a wedding gift by Chicago steel magnate Jay Morse. Later known as the Loretto Convent, the mansion has a Tudor facade, hand-carved woodwork and seven distinctive gables. In 2017, the entire 10,000-square-foot, 730-ton structure was relocated 500 feet and placed on a new foundation. The house now has modern infrastructure, all-new mechanicals, including zoned central heating and air conditioning, and public utilities. In the Loretto subdivision, the home has seven bedrooms, six full bathrooms, one half-bath and a newly built, attached three-car garage. There is also an unfinished lower level with 10-foot ceilings.)

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker orders state agencies to assess potential effects of more Trump tariffs. Officials told to figure out which industries are most vulnerable to trade disruptions.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/07/14/trump-tariffs-jb-pritzker-illinois-executive-order

DAILY HERALD
— Citing safety risks for election officials, McHenry County clerk seeking 35% pay hike
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250713/local-politics/citing-safety-risks-for-election-officials-mchenry-county-clerk-seeking-35-pay-hike/
— State Department firings say much about administration’s ‘reforms.’ If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. The Democrats who ran GAO used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s Republican employees like me.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250715/syndicated-columnists/state-department-firings-say-much-about-administrations-reforms/
— Why the races to succeed Krishnamoorthi, Schakowsky in Congress are packed
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250715/local-politics/why-the-races-to-succeed-krishnamoorthi-schakowsky-in-congress-are-packed/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for problems that disabled people have.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/chicago-disability-inclusion-accessibility
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/cook-county-forest-preserves-prioritize-accessible-amenities-opinion
— Pritzker signs executive order to analyze tariff impact on Illinois
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-orders-agencies-analyze-tariff-impact-illinois

WGN RADIO
— Is MAGA bigger than Trump?
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-is-maga-bigger-than-trump/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/06/26/jb-pritzker-governor-of-illinois-running-for-third-term-state-visits-tour-june-26-2025-stops/84367606007/

SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/07/14/good-trouble-lives-on-protests-in-northern-illinois-locations-times-what-you-need-to-know/

RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth Advances IVF Coverage for Military Families. If I ran for an office, my opponents would have Duckworth stress that I avoided the Vietnam War draft and that my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-secures-several-key-priorities-in-committeepassed-ndaa-to-expand-ivf-coverage-strengthen-oversight-of-domestic-military-deployments-boost-84307.cfm

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Pritzker signs executive order responding to impact of tariffs on Illinois
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/07/14/pritzker-signs-executive-order-responding-to-impact-of-tariffs-on-illinois/85199351007/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees. The Democrats who ran GAO used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of more than 3,000 GAO employees including me, but they spread it out. Virtually all those who they got rid of were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.news-gazette.com/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-lay-off-nearly-1-400-education-department-employees/article_41642fbf-3c9e-5b23-b0a7-4e125be1d826.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Republicans renew a bid to remove noncitizens from the census tally. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-07-15/republicans-renew-a-bid-to-remove-noncitizens-from-the-census-tally-behind-voting-maps

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-551/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-344/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Ibendahl: Time to Think about Getting Involved in Politics  Diersen: If you might be interested in becoming a Republican Precinct Committeeman in DuPage County, and especially in Milton Township and Wheaton, please contact me. I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Wheaton since 1999.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/15/time-to-think-about-getting-involved-in-politics/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DOJ urges federal agencies to operate ‘exclusively in English’ as much as possible. To be eligible to vote in America, you must be an American citizen. To become a naturalized American citizen, you must be proficient in English.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/14/doj-urges-federal-agencies-operate-exclusively-english-much-possible/
— Biden autopen scandal ignites firestorm over cover-up of president’s mental fitness
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/14/biden-aide-signed-autopen-pardons-thousands/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— IL construction workers highest paid in U.S. as new home building lags. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, the federal government paid me $19.37/hour when I was 18, $55,850/year when I was 22, $68,315/year when I was 23, $82,655/year when I was 24, $99,069/year when I was 25, $112,280/year when I was 29, $117,807/year when I was 38, and $153.151/year when I was 49. In my defense, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3470573/illinois-construction-workers-highest-paid-new-home-building-lags/

AMAC
— Trump Cracks Down on Colleges Giving Tuition Breaks to Illegal Aliens
https://amac.us/newsline/society/trump-cracks-down-on-colleges-giving-tuition-breaks-to-illegal-aliens/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Facts to ponder while most of the media peddles Democrat talking points
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/facts_to_ponder_while_most_of_the_media_pedals_democrat_talking_points_to_destroy_trump_and_republicans_and_to_elect_democrats.html
— Is it wrong to arrest ‘non-criminal’ illegals? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, no one is illegal.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/is_it_wrong_to_arrest_non_criminal_illegals.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— MSNBC talking head says illegals could have ‘lawful’ right to use violence against ICE
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/07/14/msnbc-talking-head-says-illegals-could-have-lawful-right-to-use-violence-against-ice-1567671/

BLAZE
— Sanctuary cities fail — but Karen Bass keeps pushing the lie
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/sanctuary-cities-fail-but-karen-bass-keeps-pushing-the-lie

BREITBART
— Omar Fateh: Rep. Boebert Opposing Free College for Illegal Aliens Is ‘White Supremacy’ — So Is Policing
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/14/omar-fateh-boebert-opposing-free-college-illegals-white-supremacy/

DAILY CALLER
— Detained Weed Farm Illegals Dems Rushed To Defend Actually Have Heinous Rap Sheets
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/14/detained-california-weed-farm-illegals-heinous-rap-sheets-democrats/
— Lefty Groups Biden Showered In Taxpayer Cash Coaching Illegals To Evade ICE
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/14/lefty-groups-biden-taxpayer-cash-coaching-illegals-ice/

DAILY WIRE
— Nearly 400 Illegals Arrested In Raid On California Pot Farm. Federal agents also “rescued at least 14 migrant children from what looks like exploitation, forced child labor, and potentially human trafficking…”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-400-illegals-arrested-in-raid-on-california-pot-farm-dhs-says
— Plane Hijacker, Child Predators, Murderers: ICE Nabs More Than 1,300 Illegals In Houston. Those arrested include a child sex predator who has been removed from the United States four different times.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/plane-hijacker-child-predators-murderers-ice-nabs-more-than-1300-illegals-in-houston

HOT AIR
— Left Wing Failures Breed More Violence Before MidTerms
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/07/13/left-wing-failures-breed-more-violence-before-midterms-n3804749

MRC TV
— CNN Falsely Claims Illegals in Alligator Alcatraz Have ‘No Criminal Charges’
https://mrctv.org/videos/cnn-falsely-claims-illegals-alligator-alcatraz-have-no-criminal-charges

NEWSMAX
— Most Back Trump on Immigration
https://www.newsmax.com/us/poll-trump-immigration/2025/07/14/id/1218725/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— Trump’s team launches group to unseat GOP Rep. Thomas Massie. Have you been unseated? My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes unseat me as a) a member of the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, d) an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer in 2007, e) a GAO employee in 1997, and f) a postal employee in 1969. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.aol.com/trumps-team-launches-group-unseat-235301803.html

NEWSWEEK
— Los Angeles To Give Cash Assistance To Immigrants Impacted By Trump Raids
https://www.newsweek.com/los-angeles-cash-assistance-immigation-ice-raids-2098642
— Democrat leaders promote protests against Trump on July 17
https://www.newsweek.com/map-list-cities-anti-trump-protests-july-17-2096597

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/health/south-africa-aids-hiv-trump-funding-cuts.html?searchResultPosition=1

WASHINGTON POST
— Supreme Court allows deep layoffs at Education Department. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich should have reformed GAO instead of gutting it. If he had reformed GAO, I might still be working for GAO. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) keep me off audits of IRS except for 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/14/supreme-court-education-department-/
— Trump wants to dismantle the Education Department. What would that mean? Instead of reforming GAO, Gingrich gutted GAO. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/15/education-department-dismantled-trump-explained/

USA TODAY
— Reasons why you’re not getting promoted. Democrats run the federal government. My Democrat superiors delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13 not only because I refused to become a Democrat, but because I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/30/5-mistakes-preventing-promotion/84376177007/
— Should I take a buyout. My Democrat GAO superiors always wanted to get rid of me and my coworkers who shared my demographics. In 1993, when I was 45 years old, they “offered” those like me who had 25 or more years of federal service a $25,000 buyout if we retired early. They succeeded in forcing me to retire 4 years later just before their “offer” expired. I would not have been eligible for regular retirement for another 6 years. Beyond the tremendous negative financial impact of being forced to retire early, it gives your critics/opponents something very big to use against you. They will hint/imply/argue/shout that the real reason why you were forced to retire early is that you are a bad person. Further, the more qualifications that you have, the more that they will hint/imply/argue/shout that the real reason why you were forced to retire early is that you are a bad person. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/28/jobs-buyout-layoffs-recession-economy-tips/84383588007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: You’ve been offered a buyout. Your employer wants to pay you to quit. It’s a big chunk of change. Should you accept? Companies offer buyouts to thin the ranks, spending money in the short term to save money in the long run. Employers often leverage buyouts to avoid layoffs. And that thought, alone, should give you pause. The Trump administration offered buyouts to the entire federal workforce this year, aiming to reduce it by as much as 10%. Roughly 75,000 workers accepted.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Now Trump Says Forget Jeffrey Epstein. He urges MAGA to give up a conspiracy tale that he and his allies promoted.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/now-trump-says-forget-jeffrey-epstein-9ca7d378
— Is Your Salary Too High for Today’s Job Market? My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, the federal government paid me $19.37/hour when I was 18, $55,850/year when I was 22, $68,315/year when I was 23, $82,655/year when I was 24, $99,069/year when I was 25, $112,280/year when I was 29, $117,807/year when I was 38, and $153.151/year when I was 49. In my defense, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/is-your-salary-too-high-for-todays-job-market/84ae9a22-052e-43de-98ff-e859592134f8
— Democrat and RINO leaders illegally ever-increasingly illegally encourage citizens of foreign countries to bring their children illegally into America illegally and to illegally keep them in America illegally.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-immigration-reform-gallup-polling-border-ice-deportations-c69218cf
— Family Reunions Become Harder to Keep. My family reunions were big during the 1950s and early 1960s on my father’s side in Crete and on my mother’s side in Grant Park.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/what-it-takes-to-keep-those-family-reunions-picnics-and-funfetti-cupcakes-going-f083fb7f

WASHINGTON MONTHLY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/14/america-is-now-a-police-state/

NEWSBREAK
— Trump Store in Huntley Illinois Closes After Eviction Battle
https://www.newsbreak.com/century-homes-america-322339187/4107185611986-trump-store-in-huntley-illinois-closes-after-eviction-battle

NATION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint Democrats as having been the Union Army in the Civil War and b) paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-confederacy-slavery-racism/

TAMMY DUCKWORTH
— Duckworth is a Democrat minority female veteran U.S. Senator. She demands answers regarding State Department layoffs. GAO works for Congress. If Duckworth had been a U.S. Senator during the 1980s and 1990s, would she have demanded answers regarding Gingrich’s gutting of GAO? My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s Republican employees like me who were not minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-booker-sfrc-colleagues-demand-answers-regarding-state-department-layoffs

FED SMITH
— What the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Means for Federal Employees. Federal employees dodged a bullet on proposed benefits cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill, but there are other important tax changes to be aware of.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/07/10/what-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-means-for-federal-employees/

July 14, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 21 shot, 3 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-6-shot-1-fatally-gun-violence-city-police-say/17086053/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/record-festival-turnout-after-federal-agents-are-spotted-in-chicago/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/chicago-ice-lawsuit/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois Democrat leaders blame Trump for vaccine-preventable-illnesses
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/07/14/illinois-official-calls-out-trump-administration-for-dangerous-misinformation/84540517007/
— Democrat leaders decry Trump’s firing the Librarian of Congress. No one decried my Democrat GAO superiors firing me, that is, forcing me to retire in 1997. No one decried my Democrat Post Office superiors firing me in 1969, that is, forcing me to resign. Of course, my critics/opponents stress that. GAO works for Congress. They especially stress that neither Hyde, Fitzgerald, Hastert, nor Bush decried my GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old. Constructively, since 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.86 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/07/14/former-librarian-of-congress-joins-mellon-foundation/84693514007/

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— How dependent on Medicaid funding are the nursing homes in your area? To avoid having to go on Medicaid, my outstanding aunt, who never attended college, worked as a key-punch operator, lived frugally, and saved more than $600,000 for her retirement.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/state/2025/07/14/study-579-us-nursing-homes-at-risk-of-closing-over-medicaid-cuts/84538477007/

QUAD CITY TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://qctimes.com/article_e3741520-d1a7-433d-81a6-36bca8cc0036.html

WHEATON PATCH
— What did you focus on when you were young? I focused on earning job-related college degrees, job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license to qualify myself for better paying jobs.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/calendar/event/20250715/cf201694-f4b4-4237-bdb3-c8e122796c4b/dupagepads-young-professionals-council-kick-off

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Republicans lining up against Pritzker
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/14/republicans-lining-up-against-pritzker-00450761
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A few Republicans are looking to get in the ring. Ted Dabrowski and Aaron Del Mar are testing the waters, speaking with GOP insiders and potential donors about mounting campaigns. They would face DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, who’s already jumped in, and Joseph Severino who’s posted in social media that he’s running, too. Darren Bailey, who challenged Pritzker in 2024, hasn’t made any decisions yet about 2026. Jeanne Ives, who ran in 2018, says she’s not running. And though state Rep. Dan Ugaste and Posen Park District Supervisor Phil Perez toyed with the idea, neither will run for governor in 2026. Mendrick, a law-and-order candidate, has raised just $127,000 since he announced in February, according to filings with the state. Dabrowski and Del Mar, who are better known around the state for their work in policy and politics, would likely have an easier time raising funds. Del Mar is recognized in party circles across the state as he’s a former co-chair of the Illinois GOP and current Cook County Republican chair who ran as lieutenant governor alongside Gary Rabine in 2022. Dabrowski is president of Wirepoints Corp., the conservative-leaning media company. While he lacks campaign experience, he’s a former banking executive and policy wonk whose fiscal message could resonate at a time of economic uncertainty. Severino has made two unsuccessful bids for Congress, first as a Republican and then as an Independent. Along with the money challenge, messaging will be an issue for GOP candidates as Pritzker and his Democratic Party will blame Republicans and President Donald Trump for the megabill that’s giving tax breaks to the wealthy and cutting Medicaid and food assistance programs. . .Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders held a fundraiser in Barrington the other day at the home of Rick and Alisa Heidner. Among the attendees were Illinois Congressman Darin LaHood, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, state Sen. Andrew Chesney, political strategist Brett Corrigan, businessman and 2022 GOP gubernatorial candidate Gary Rabine, possible 2026 gubernatorial candidate Aaron Del Mar, Illinois National Republican Committee member Dean White, former Chicago GOP Chair Eloise Gerson and McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio.)

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Troubling Case of Jeffrey Epstein
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/the-troubling-case-of-jeffrey-epstein/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— State Farm faces backlash over $523 million insurance rate hike in Illinois
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3469774/state-farm-faces-backlash-over-insurance-rate-hike-in-illinois/

NEW YORK POST
— NY scraps race-based STEM program after Asians claim discrimination
https://nypost.com/2025/07/14/us-news/ny-scraps-race-based-stem-program-after-asians-claim-discrimination/

AMRICAN THINKER
— Pot farm raided for illegals has a big history of violating labor law, donating to Democrats
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/pot_farm_raided_for_illegals_has_a_big_history_of_violating_labor_law_donating_to_democrats.html

FOX BUSINESS
— Trump says Powell should resign immediately from Federal Reserve leadership position over economic missteps. My Democrat superiors in the federal government wanted me to resign because I refused to become a Democrat. Because I refused to become a Democrat, they ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me. My RINO leaders in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party want me to become a RINO. Because I refuse to become a RINO, they ever-increasingly take more and bigger adverse actions against me.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-says-powell-should-resign-immediately-from-federal-reserve-leadership-position-over-economic-missteps

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— What websites serve those who share your demographics?
https://www.aol.com/websites-serving-harvard-undergrad-women-134724551.html

YAHOO
— To promote Affirmative Action and DEI is to promote discrimination
https://www.aol.com/finance/more-200-p-500-companies-143039217.html

CBS NEWS
— Scathing report on Trump assassination attempt released.  One of my best friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/scathing-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-released-trump-says-hes-satisfied-with-it/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding the University of Illinois with foreign students. UIC accepted me when I was 17, NIU when I was 20, Loyola when I was 23, DePaul when I was 27, and IIT when I was 43. But they all would have accepted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/dining/chinese-food-urbana-champaign-student-visa.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opinion/medicaid-pregnancy-danger.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/democrats-transgender-rights.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Senate report details failures ahead of Trump assassination attempt. One of my best friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/13/trump-assassination-attempt-senate-investigation/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/13/homan-border-czar-ice-raid-death-california/85081107007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight bringing manufacturing jobs back to America
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/29/tariffs-boost-us-manufacturing-revival/84284972007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Cleared to Lay Off Workers, Some Federal Agencies Find Many Already Left. Thousands of workers in government jobs have taken buyouts or retired early. Many say morale is low. Ever-increasingly, after I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 year old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors made I ever-increasingly clear that they wanted to get rid of me because I refused to become a Democrat. Nevertheless, to thwart their ever-increasing efforts to get rid of me, a) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) I became a licensed CPA in 1981, d) I earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. However, that was not enough. They succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/federal-layoff-plans-buyout-offers-9d115dcd
— The Federal Government Is Retreating From Student Lending. Did you get a student loan? I did not even try. Did you get any scholarships? I did not even apply. I was not viewed as being college material. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother had never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes. My critics/opponents have always stressed the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/trump-student-loans-tax-spending-bill-9dfc96eb

MOTLEY FOOL
— The 4 Banks That Rule Illinois
https://www.aol.com/news/2013-10-11-the-4-banks-that-rule-illinois.html

AUTOGUIDE
— The 10 Most Iconic American Cars. I am big on American cars. I own a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV, 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 and 1972 Corvette, and 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX. I used to own a 1958 and 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air, 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS, 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, 1968 Oldsmobile 442, 1968 Charger R/T, 1969 Charger SE, 1990 Thunderbird LX, 1994 Thunderbird, and 2016 Mustang.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/top-10/s-fourth-of-july-the-10-most-iconic-american-cars-44622346
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. Ford Mustang . . . 2. Chevrolet Corvette . . . 4. Dodge Charger . . . 5. Chevrolet Bel Air. . . 8. Pontiac GTO)

WNEM
— Tough questions to ask your boss. My Democrat superiors in the federal government made it clear that to keep your job, you not only had to be a Democrat, you had to a) defend and advance the Democrat Party platform, most importantly, its race and gender based preference giving plank and b) help them get rid of their Republican employees. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I am amazed that I survived for almost 3 years at the Post Office, for almost 9 years at IRS, and for almost 18 years at GAO. I would not have survived if I had not earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.wnem.com/2025/07/11/ask-advance-tough-questions-ask-your-boss/

TIMES OF INDIA
— Amid US federal pressure, Harvard replaces DEI offices with ‘community and culture’
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/amid-us-federal-pressure-harvard-replaces-dei-offices-with-community-and-culture/articleshow/122418960.cms
— To promote Affirmative Action and DEI is to oppose meritocracy
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/harvard-quietly-dismantles-student-diversity-offices-without-notice-is-this-the-end-of-inclusion-on-campus/ar-AA1Il8kv

WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE
— How much money did your parents have? My critics/opponents have always painted my parents, and therefore me, as having been filthy rich a) because my father made enough money that my mother could stay home and raise me and my brother and b) because they sent me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools K-8. But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/13/lomy-j13.html

INDEPENDENT
— Voters label Democrats ‘out of touch’ and ‘weak’ in latest troubling poll ahead of 2026 midterms
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/voters-label-democrats-out-of-touch-and-weak-in-latest-troubling-poll-ahead-of-2026-midterms/ar-AA1IrkEa