FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Why Henry Hyde’s name should stay on the DuPage County courthouse. The GOP powerhouse stood for far more than his famous eponymous abortion amendment.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/editorial-henry-hyde-dupage-county-courthouse/
(FROM THE EDITORIAL: History often is complex and resistant to simple narratives. So are people. So it is a needlessly divisive mistake for DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy to push for her fellow board members to remove the name of the late Henry J. Hyde, longtime Republican congressman, from the county courthouse. The board is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the issue. Hyde represented DuPage, which until recent years was a Republican power center, in Washington for more than three decades, retiring in 2007. During that time, Hyde wasn’t some low-profile lifer in Congress. He was one of the House’s most prominent members, even when he was serving in the minority, which is to say most of his career there. Conroy’s rationale for removing Hyde’s name from the court building is that the staunchly anti-abortion politician was responsible for the Hyde Amendment, the provision in federal law that for decades barred spending federal taxpayer money on abortions with exceptions for rape, incest or endangerment to the life of the mother. “It’s strictly because of the Hyde Amendment, and it’s very difficult for so many women to walk into the courthouse and see (his name),” she told the Tribune. Abortion rights is an issue that only has grown more intense since Hyde died 10 months after his retirement. We understand the symbolic argument. But to strip his name from the building would be akin to removing Richard J. Daley’s name from the courthouse in the heart of the Loop over a single issue — say, the police beating of protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention on his orders, the culture of corruption that the Daley machine fostered or his brutal segregationist policies. Even many ardent Daley critics wouldn’t suggest doing so. Why is that? Because Daley is a singularly important figure in the history of Chicago and to rename the Daley Center or Daley Plaza would be to try to negate that history. Like Daley, Hyde was a complicated figure and far more than the name adorning a famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) piece of legislation. Memories are short, of course, but for most of his career Hyde was an intellectual heavyweight on the Republican side of the aisle. Agree or disagree, but when Hyde took the floor to speak, people listened. And for good reason. He was a thoughtful conservative. Consider this: Hyde stepped down in 1981 from the advisory board of the National Pro-Life Political Action Committee after Executive Director Peter Gemma Jr. identified incumbent lawmakers the group planned to work to defeat. Hyde objected to targeting officeholders over a single issue. Much the way the DuPage board is considering doing Tuesday. Would the Democratic majority on the DuPage board consider themselves in favor of reasonable gun regulation? If so, against the consensus of his party, Hyde in 1994 voted for President Bill Clinton’s ban on assault weapons, demonstrating that he could be persuaded to change his mind on a monumental issue of the day. Just three years earlier, he had voted against the same ban. Hyde reversed himself after reading detailed accounts of gun victims in Chicago, provided by Democratic Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois. “At the end of reading this list of bloody crimes, I had to conclude these guns have no purpose but to kill a lot of people very rapidly,” Hyde said. “It wasn’t like falling off a horse on the road to Damascus. But like many things complicated and emotional, you don’t dwell on them unless forced to.” Hyde’s change of heart induced Illinois Rep. Bob Michel, then GOP minority leader, and dozens more Republicans to vote for the ban. Such political courage is almost impossible to imagine on today’s Capitol Hill. Of course, four years later Hyde led Clinton’s impeachment proceedings on behalf of the House before the Senate, leading critics to disclose Hyde’s yearslong extramarital affair decades earlier and accusing him of hypocrisy. Hyde admitted to cheating on his wife but claimed Clinton’s alleged wrongdoing was about Clinton’s cover-up attempts rather than his actual affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The public didn’t buy it, and Hyde paid a reputational price in the process. All of this is to say that Henry Hyde was complicated. Just like most people. But what is indisputable is that he was one of the most important political figures to emerge from DuPage County. Ever. His name should stay on that courthouse.)
ABC7
— DuPage County Democrats push to rename courthouse over late Congressman’s abortion views
https://abc7chicago.com/post/local-democrats-push-rename-dupage-county-courthouse-late-congressman-henry-hydes-abortion-views/15890259/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “He had a lot of support, a lot of friends on the other side of the aisle. He strikes me as a kind of official that we should be looking to model ourselves after, not disrespect,” said DuPage County GOP Chair Kevin Coyne. While he was bipartisan on certain issues such as gun control and the Family and Medical Leave Act, Hyde was one of Congress’ biggest opponents of abortion. He authored the Hyde Amendment, which denied abortion access to poor women on Medicaid. . .The board will vote on the resolution to remove Hyde’s name on Tuesday. With a Democratic majority, Conroy says, the proposal will pass. “To cherry-pick this one issue and hold it against a man that was such a big part of our history, to me, is just wrong. It’s short sighted,” Coyne said. Coyne says the decision to remove Hyde’s name may ruin the bipartisanship Conroy says she has proudly created while serving as chair.)
— President Trump pardons ex-Illinois Gov. Blagojevich 5 years after commuting his sentence
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-expected-pardon-ex-illinois-gov-rod-blagojevich-5-years-commuting-sentence-reports/15889540/
FOX32
— ICE operations intensify across U.S. sanctuary cities
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1591008
DAILY HERALD
— Residents protest proposed cuts to Medicaid at DuPage County rally
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250210/news/residents-protest-proposed-cuts-to-medicaid-at-dupage-county-rally/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Blagojevich pardoned on corruption conviction by Trump
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-pardons-rod-blagojevich-corruption-conviction
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Del Mar teases run for ‘higher office,’ sparking 2026 Illinois governor speculation
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_69d594d6-e7c2-11ef-b535-b39343671dce.html
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois circuit judge finds FOID for firearms in home unconstitutional (COMMENT: I have had a FOID card since I was 20 years old in 1968.)
https://www.cities929.com/2025/02/10/illinois-circuit-judge-finds-foid-for-firearms-in-home-unconstitutional/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-246/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION
— FOID Card Found to be Unconstitutional Yet Again
https://isra.org/foid-card-found-to-be-unconstitutional-yet-again/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Migrants turning around and heading back home in ‘new trend’ under Trump border crackdown
https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/us-news/new-trend-of-migrants-turning-around-and-heading-back-toward-home-under-trump-border-crackdown/
DAILY SIGNAL
— ‘BETRAYAL’: Lawmaker Responds to FEMA Diverting $59M to House Illegal Aliens
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/10/fema-using-59-million-house-illegal-aliens-is-betrayal-highest-order-congressman-says/
DAILY WIRE
— Musk Says FEMA Spent $60M Housing Illegal Immigrants In ‘Luxury Hotels’ Last Week. The payments were suspended by acting FEMA Director Cameron Hamilton after Musk’s announcement.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/musks-says-fema-spent-60m-housing-illegal-immigrants-in-luxury-hotels-last-week
— 27% Of National Science Foundation Grants Went To DEI Projects, Study Finds. ‘Congress must end the politicization of NSF funding and restore integrity to scientific research,’ Sen. Ted Cruz says.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27-of-national-science-foundation-grants-went-to-dei-projects-study-finds
EPOCH TIMES
— Musk Says FEMA Spent $59 Million on Housing Illegal Immigrants in NYC Hotels. ‘This stops now,’ said acting FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton, announcing that all such payments from FEMA were suspended on Feb. 9.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/musk-says-fema-spent-59-million-on-housing-illegal-immigrants-in-nyc-hotels-5807322
FOX NEWS
— Trump expected to pardon former Illinois Gov Rod Blagojevich. Trump previously commuted Blagojevich’s sentence in 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-expected-pardon-former-illinois-gov-rod-blagojevich
MRC TV
— Illegal Alien Crossings Have Plummeted 90% Under Trump
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/border-agent-illegal-alien-crossings-have-plummeted-90-under-trump
TOWNHALL
— Trump Ramps Up Purge of ‘Woke’ Ideology in the Military
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/02/10/trump-liquidates-woke-board-of-visitors-for-military-branches-n2651967
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump says ‘too early’ to name Vance as successor
https://www.aol.com/trump-says-too-early-name-215711428.html
CNN
— Trump imposes 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/politics/tariffs-steel-aluminum-trump/index.html
CBS NEWS
— Increasing numbers of Democrats want their party to oppose Trump
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-want-party-oppose-trump-poll-analysis/
— Trump ousts director of Office of Government Ethics
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-office-of-government-ethics-director/
WEEK
— DeSantis signs agreement with ICE to have Florida state troopers detain illegal immigrants
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/02/10/desantis-signs-agreement-with-ice-have-florida-state-troopers-detain-illegal-immigrants/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DHS Seeks to Deputize IRS Officers to Help With Deportation Effort. Tax-collecting agency has thousands of special agents in its criminal-investigation division. (COMMENT: I worked for GAO on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,661/year, for 3 years.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-irs-officers-ice-deportations-ed87c4b5
AUTO GUIDE
— Why Is General Motors Getting Rid Of Key Corvette Personnel?
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/manufacturers/chevrolet/why-is-general-motors-getting-rid-of-key-corvette-personnel-44616109
Tag: Family
February 10, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Super Bowl halftime performer detained after unfurling Sudanese-Palestinian flag
https://abc7chicago.com/post/super-bowl-halftime-performer-detained-unfurling-sudanese-palestinian-flag/15888216/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-2/10/2025
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: Proposal would strip Henry Hyde’s name from courthouse
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/daywatch-proposal-would-strip-henry-hydes-name-from-courthouse/
— Landmarks: Potential church closure could put Park Forest history at risk (COMMENT: What are your connections with Park Forest? I delivered mail there 1966-1969. I attended 8th grade at Hope Lutheran Garde School there 1961-1962. I was confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran at Hope Lutheran Church there in 1962. My father delivered eggs there in the 1960s. I bought lots of items from stores in the Park Forest Plaza in the early 1970s.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/09/landmarks-park-forest-church-closure/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The collection was split between storage pods controlled by the library and the society, the museum and even Hope Lutheran Church, where Nicoll would have to “make an appointment to go to the attic to get newspaper articles people wanted.”)
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans. Who takes the lead in promoting hatred against Republicans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/opinion-holocaust-christian-nationalism-donald-trump/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: What percent or restaurant workers are illegals?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/chicago-restaurant-workers-prepare-as-ice-arrests-cast-fear-uncertainty-over-industry/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders promote Black History Month. My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and had always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/09/donald-trump-black-history-month-ronald-reagan
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrats are hell-bent on making Trump fail
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/09/donald-trump-elon-musk-government-gop-congress
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/05/trump-attacks-federal-workers-democracy-omar-noureldin-mikael-rojas-center-effective-government
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DuPage County board resolution would remove Henry Hyde’s name from courthouse
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250209/news/dupage-county-board-resolution-would-henry-hydes-name-from-courthouse/
(FROM THEW ARTICLE: A resolution before the DuPage County Board on Tuesday would remove the name of the late Congressman Henry J. Hyde from the county’s Wheaton courthouse and rescind previous approval for a monument there in his honor. The courthouse became the Henry J. Hyde Judicial Office Facility in 2010, three years after the Republican lawmaker from Wood Dale died at 83 years old. The new measure, if approved, would rename the building the DuPage County Judicial Office Facility. During an interview Sunday, County Board Chair Deb Conroy referenced the Hyde Amendment, legislation introduced by Hyde in 1976 that prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for abortions, with some exceptions. “While Henry Hyde was a very well respected Republican elected official, the Hyde Amendment is very offensive to women, particularly women in Illinois,” said Conroy, a Democrat from Elmhurst. “I think overwhelmingly women in Illinois believe that all women have the right to health care, regardless of their ability to have private insurance.” Conroy said she told a Daily Herald editorial board in 2022 that she would take this action if elected chair. “I consider myself a woman of my word,” she added. “I very much value my bipartisan board, and we work very well together, which is why I put it off for two years.” If the full board approved the resolution, the Hyde family would receive a plaque that would be removed from the building. James Zay, a Republican county board member from Carol Stream, called the effort to remove Hyde’s name “narrow-minded.” “Henry Hyde did so much for DuPage County,” said Zay, who supported the renaming in 2010. “He brought so much funding into DuPage County for stormwater, for roads.” While the conservative Hyde may be best known for the amendment that bears his name, as well as his leading role in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, Zay noted that he also supported gun control measures like the Brady bill and assault weapons ban. “You can’t rewrite history,” he added. “My question is, who is next? Is it going to be Linda Kurzawa’s name at the health department building? Or Jack Knuepfer? Or Pate Philip?”
But county board member Dawn DeSart, a Democrat from Aurora, said the proposed move reflects a shift away from partisanship. “The fair thing is to make the courthouse nonpartisan,” she said. The board is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the county board room at 421 N. County Farm Road in Wheaton.)
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— “Repair the damage:” Illinois ADCR Reparations Commission held public hearing at NU (COMMENT: How much damage would your critics/opponents say that your ancestors did? My critics/opponents stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s when slavery was legal in America and that none of them were soldiers in the Union Army. In their defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois, that all of them were Republicans, that they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did discriminate against anyone.)
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/02/09/campus/events-campus/repair-the-damage-illinois-adcr-reparations-commission-held-public-hearing-at-nu/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Fired by Trump, EEOC official fears what the anti-discrimination agency will become (COMMENT: How has EEOC impacted you? I became an IRS Revenue Officer when I was 22 years old in 1971 because my Firestone Store boss had rudely fired me. He did that because I had told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-09/fired-by-trump-eeoc-official-fears-what-the-anti-discrimination-agency-will-become
DEPAULIA
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly more illegal immigration.
https://depauliaonline.com/74854/ladepaulia/a-day-of-love-and-resistance-little-village-residents-protest-chicago-ice-raids/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— HENRY HYDE’S NAME: The DuPage County Board is considering a resolution at that would change the name of the Henry J. Hyde Judicial Office Facility to the Judicial Office Facility, stripping Hyde’s name from the title. Hyde is the late Illinois congressman and abortion-rights opponent who’s known for the Hyde Amendment, which bars the government from helping fund abortions. The reason: “While Congressman Hyde was a well respected Republican elected official, the Hyde Amendment is very offensive to women,” said Board Chair Deb Conway, who’s behind the resolution. “Women who cannot afford private insurance should not have less access to health care.” During her campaign for the board, Conway told the Daily Herald she would remove Hyde’s name from the court building. Conway is a Democrat who previously served in the Illinois House. Her resolution has drawn scrutiny from Jeanne Ives, a Republican who also served in the Illinois House. In her Breakthrough Ideas email, Ives called the resolution “mean-spirited,” noting it follows President Donald Trump’s executive order Enforcing the Hyde Amendment. ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/enforcing-the-hyde-amendment/ ) The DuPage County Republican Party posted a message on its Facebook page urging residents to tell board members to reject the measure.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/10/new-campaign-targets-extremism-00203340
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-453/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Underreported Trump order has sweeping implications for DEI at universities and other federal grant recipients
https://wirepoints.org/underreported-trump-order-has-sweeping-implications-for-dei-at-universities-and-other-federal-grant-recipients-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If/when Trump decides to turn Illinois red again, who will he have lead that effort? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats declared war against Republicans in 1861 to keep slavery. Republicans defeated Democrats in 1865. Today’s Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint today’s Democrats as having been Republicans during the Civil War and b) paint today’s Republicans as having been Democrats during the Civil War. Me, my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents, and all the rest of my ancestors were Republicans. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on buyouts and early retirement offers? In 1993, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of their employees who were Republican, older, White, male, non-veteran, GS-13, and had 25 years or more of federal service. I was “eligible,” that is, I was “targeted” because I was all of the aforesaid. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Their forcing me to retire wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for 18 years and for IRS for 9 years, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees (finance-1997, accounting-1980, and business-1976), c) six job-related professional certifications (forensic accounting-1997, financial services auditing-1996, government financial management-1994, fraud examination-1990, internal auditing-1981, and accounting-1979) and d) earning a job-related professional license (CPA-1981). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are you or someone who you know interested in buying our Iron Gate Motor Condo in Naperville for $600,000. The 2023 listing is at: https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/il/naperville/2112-ferry-rd-114/pid_53550715/ )? If so, please let me know. My wife and I are considering buying a more expensive unit in Iron Gate. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you sold your home on your own? I did. I sold 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton (https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-Wheaton-IL-60187/4436186_zpid/ ) for $104,000 in 1984. Zillow has an article on selling your home on your own at https://www.zillow.com/learn/costs-to-sell-a-house/ . – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Finally happening’: House Republicans rally behind Elon Musk’s efficiency rampage
https://www.washingtontimes.com/
— Trump ends the transgender lunacy
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/9/trump-ends-transgender-lunacy/
NEW YORK POST
— Elon Musk says FEMA sent $59M last week to luxury NYC hotels to house illegal migrants: ‘Violated the law’
https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/us-news/fema-sent-59m-last-week-to-luxury-nyc-hotels-to-house-illegal-migrants-elon-musk-says/
— Bernie Sanders unleashes blistering takedown of Dem party after Harris’ loss: ‘Abandoned working-class people’ (COMMENT: I was a member of the working class 1962-1997. I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents despise hate the working class. I should write about my critics/opponents whose parents had the most money.)
https://www.aol.com/news/bernie-sanders-unleashes-blistering-takedown-004448284.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— How Trump Is Uprooting Radical ’60s Foundations of Poisonous DEI and CRT Programs
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/09/how-trump-is-uprooting-radical-60s-foundations-poisonous-dei-crt-programs-civil-rights-movement/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Says He’ll Impose 25 Percent Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum on Monday
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-announces-he-will-impose-25-percent-tariffs-on-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-soon-5807010
FOX NEWS
— Homan delivers bold message to sanctuary cities ‘slowing down’ ICE, warns they’re ‘going to keep coming’ Homan doubled down on his pledge to eradicate Tren de Aragua gang members from the US.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/tom-homan-delivers-bold-message-sanctuary-cities-slowing-down-ice-warns-theyre-going-keep-coming
REAL CLEAR PPLITICS
— Democrat Madness Triggered by Sunlight of Common Sense
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/02/09/democrat_madness_triggered_by_sunlight_of_common_sense_640757.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— House Democrat: ‘I don’t contest’ DOGE will likely find ‘awful examples of wasteful spending’ (COMMENT: GAO fights government waste. But the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 used Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, and Republican-led budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. They wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5/12 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) earning a job-relate professional license (CPA), d) earning six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and e) earning three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance).)
https://www.aol.com/house-democrat-don-t-contest-191756661.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump administration orders consumer protection agency to stop work, closes building (COMMENT: My critics/opponents are overwhelmingly a) pro-business and b) anti-consumer.)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-consumer-protection-cease-1b93c60a773b6b5ee629e769ae6850e9
CNN
— Democrats plot strategy in shutdown fight against Trump: ‘Not a lot of good options’
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/09/politics/democrats-spending-trump/index.html
REUTERS
— Consumer protection agency neutralized by Trump’s new chief (COMMENT: Newt Gingrich did more than neutralize GAO in the 1990s, he constructively destroyed it.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-acting-cfpb-chief-halts-all-supervision-companies-2025-02-09/
CBS NEW YORK
— NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ memo on possible ICE raids prompts schools chancellor to reach out to immigrant families
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/ice-raids-new-york-city-public-schools-eric-adams/
ABC LOS ANGELES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://abc7.com/post/dozens-rally-downtown-la-protest-trumps-immigration-policies/15885588/
NBC DFW
— What is the Black national anthem and why is it sung before the Super Bowl? (COMMENT: What other groups in America want national anthems for their groups?)
https://www.nbcdfw.com/super-bowl/black-national-anthem-super-bowl-2/3765765/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Orders Treasury Secretary to Stop Minting Pennies (COMMENT: Between 1964 and 1966, I worked for 125 pennies per hour.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/trump-stop-minting-pennies.html
— What is Canada’s attitude toward America? How has Canada treated America?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/world/canada/us-canada-relations-trump-tariffs.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: For Stunned Federal Workers, Sleeplessness, Anger and Tears. One thing lost in the Trump administration’s war on the federal bureaucracy is the collective voice of the employees. But some have begun to speak out. (COMMENT: If I was still working for the federal government, my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/federal-workers-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— As the Trump upheaval continues, are there restraints that could slow him down? Questions remain on what constitutional or other checks can be put on the president and his wide-ranging actions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/09/trump-constitution-checks-balances/
— They trained on diversity under Trump. Now he’s punishing them for it. During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Education Department held diversity trainings. Many who participated were put on administrative leave under new rules. (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. The Democrats who run the federal government require their employees to take lots of DEI training. I should write about the DEI training I had to take.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/02/10/education-department-dei-devos/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Trump trashes equity and diversity as he issues proclamation honoring Black History Month (COMMENT: Democrat leaders promote Black History Month. My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and had always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/09/leonard-greene-trump-trashes-equity-and-diversity-as-he-issues-proclamation-honoring-black-history-month/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting New Yorkers to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/nyregion/nyc-trans-health-care-youth-protest.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— What country’s flag should protesters wave at immigration rallies? (OMMENT: Under Biden, America’s enemies were emboldened to invade, to infiltrate, to infest, and to conquer America. Americans elected Trump to stop that.)
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2025-02-10/what-countrys-flag-should-protesters-wave-at-immigration-rallies
— The Democrat Party is ever-increasingly anti-Israel
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-10/antisemitism-executive-order-donald-trump
BALTIMORE SUN
— Federal workers, Maryland leaders plan Capitol Hill rally to protest Trump’s efforts to slash workforce (COMMENT: When Gingrich slashed GAO’s workforce during the 1990s, virtually no one protested.)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/02/10/federal-workers-elected-officials-plan-capitol-hill-rally-to-protest-trumps-efforts-to-slash-workforce/
USA TODAY
— How advocates are stepping up for Black History month as federal agencies scale back (COMMENT: Democrat leaders promote Black History Month. My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and had always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/09/black-history-month-celebration-federal-pushback/78210271007/
— Despite tariff disputes, Mexico, Canada have been key to US auto industry for decades (COMMENT: I have ordered a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T which will be built in Canada.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/02/04/canada-mexico-car-manufacturing-tariffs/78209847007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Minority Voters Who Love Trump’s Dismantling of DEI. The president has found support from nonwhite voters who feel the nation has become too woke.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-voters-nonwhite-dei-951008e7
— Why Trump Is Right About Birthright Citizenship. Tourists and illegal aliens aren’t subject to the ‘full and complete jurisdiction’ of the United States.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-trump-is-right-about-birthright-citizenship-14th-amendment-citizenship-clause-f63df08a
— Democrat and RINO employers falsely argue that “DEI Didn’t Change the Workforce All That Much.” When I started working for the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were White, male, and/or older. By the time that my Democrat GAO superiors forced me into early retirement in 1997, virtually all of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were minority, female, and/or younger.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/dei-impact-us-company-workforce-charts-2e6a6bb7
FORBES
— Trump’s Approval Rating At 53% In New Poll—But Americans Are Less Sure About Elon Musk
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/02/09/trumps-approval-rating-at-53-in-new-poll-but-americans-are-less-sure-about-elon-musk/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/02/09/everything-to-know-about-trumps-mass-deportation-plans-dhs-head-noem-suggest-non-violent-immigrants-could-be-sent-to-guantanamo/
KWQC
— Concerns about federal employee buyout program (COMMENT: What is your position on buyouts and early retirement offers? In 1993, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of their employees who were Republican, older, White, male, non-veteran, GS-13, and had 25 years or more of federal service. I was “eligible,” that is, I was “targeted” because I was all of the aforesaid. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Their forcing me to retire wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for 18 years and for IRS for 9 years, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees (finance-1997, accounting-1980, and business-1976), c) six job-related professional certifications (forensic accounting-1997, financial services auditing-1996, government financial management-1994, fraud examination-1990, internal auditing-1981, and accounting-1979) and d) earning a job-related professional license (CPA-1981).)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHFuie2wgH8
WASHINGTON STAND
— Americans Rush to Enlist in Trump’s Military Recruitment Boom
https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/americans-rush-to-enlist-in-trumps-military-recruitment-boom-
POLITICO
— White South Africans reject idea they need to flee country for US (COMMENT: In America, to get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) give Blacks more preference and b) discriminate more against Whites.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/09/white-south-africans-us-00203271
NATION
— The Democrat Party is ever-increasingly anti-Israel
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/uchicago-palestine-protests-free-speech-trump/
FED SMITH
— Evaluating Employee Performance and HR Merit System: First Step in the Trump Changes. Previous efforts to improve performance of the federal merit system have not lasted. The Trump administration is more aggressive. Unions may face a backlash from some. (COMMENT: Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government use the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/02/07/evaluating-employee-performance-and-hr-merit-system-first-step-in-the-trump-changes/
ENTERTAINMENT
— Taylor Swift booed at Super Bowl 2025
https://ew.com/taylor-swift-booed-super-bowl-2025-8788703
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Those who hate America use Affirmative Action and DEI to destroy America.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-attack-on-military-diversity-is-doomed-to-fail.html
GUARDIAN
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/feb/10/how-trump-made-diversity-a-dirty-word-podcast
— Democrats declared war against Republicans in 1861 to keep slavery. Republicans defeated Democrats in 1865. Today’s Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint today’s Democrats as having been Republicans during the Civil War and b) paint today’s Republicans as having been Democrats during the Civil War. Me, my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents, and all the rest of my ancestors were Republicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/we-are-witnessing-the-rise-of-a-new-republican-southern-strategy
February 8, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Aurora mayoral candidates share their views on city issues at forum (COMMENT: What are the issues in your township, municipality, and school district?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/aurora-mayoral-candidates-share-their-views-on-city-issues-at-forum/
— Donald Trump orders freeze of aid to South Africa citing country’s land expropriation law
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/07/trump-freeze-aid-south-africa/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/community-leaders-speak-out-under-little-village-arch-hundreds-rally-for-day-of-love-and-resistance/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/nonprofit-warns-of-vigilantism-against-migrants-after-skokie-family-receives-deportation-threats/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/02/07/trump-immigration-executive-order-refugees-resettlement-united-nations-stop-work-order
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/07/illinois-jb-pritzker-revenue-squeeze-trump-congressional-gop-cut-medicaid-expansion-rich-miller
DAILY HEARLD
— Democrats far outspent GOP rivals in suburban U.S. House races — none more than Raja Krishnamoorthi (COMMENT: What discourages you from giving money to Republican candidates? For me, it includes my having less money. In today’s dollars, my federal pension a) is only 44% of what my GAO salary was in 1997 and b) less than what my IRS salary was in 1972. Further, my Social Security is dramatically less because I get a federal pension. Further, far too many unsuccessful Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did much to help elect blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250208/us-congress-politics/democrats-far-outspent-gop-rivals-in-suburban-u-s-house-races-none-more-than-raja-krishnamoorthi/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican candidates in northeast Illinois struggle to compete financially with their rivals across the aisle. Of the eight Republican congressional candidates who ran in the suburbs last year, the 10th District’s Jim Carris of Lake Forest spent the most — nearly $681,000. The campaign spending totals for four others — Rice in the 8th District plus James Marter in the 14th, Jerry Evans in the 11th and Niki Conforti in the 6th — were lower in the six-figure range. Ramirez’s GOP challenger in the 3rd District, John Booras, spent less than $40,000 on his campaign; the 9th District’s Seth Cohen spent less than $8,000 on his race. Postelection and year-end reports weren’t available for 5th District GOP candidate Tommy Hanson.)
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250208/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-in-defense-of-dei-the-phrase-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-may-sound-unga/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250207/nation-and-world-politics/latino-evangelical-churches-gear-up-to-face-possible-immigration-enforcement-in-churches/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois revs up more EV incentives amid uncertain fate of federal rebates
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-revs-more-ev-incentives-amid-federal-uncertainties
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more gambling.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/illinois-generates-17-billion-casino-tax-revenue
ABC7
— Trump announces plans to gut the Kennedy Center board, appoint himself chairman
https://abc7chicago.com/post/kennedy-center-president-donald-trump-says-hes-firing-board-trustees-members-naming-himself-chairman/15882171/
— Trump official’s directive tying transportation grants to birth rates could hinder blue states
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-birth-rates-state-donald-trump-transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-circulates-memo-tying-grants-marriage/15881663/
— Chicago Auto Show 2025: Doors open for Day 1 at McCormick Place
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-auto-show-2025-doors-open-saturday-morning-mccormick-place/15881013/
WGN TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/little-village-protest-trump-deportations/
— Illinois faces funding cut-off for electric vehicle charging stations; Pritzker vows to fight back
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/illinois-ev-funding-cuts/
FOX32
— Time magazine cover puts Elon Musk behind Trump’s desk
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/time-magazine-elon-musk-trump-desk
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/06/illinois-farm-workers-consumers-alert-amid-mass-deportation-threats
WBEZ
— Lurie Children’s Hospital pauses gender care surgeries for those younger than 19. The move comes after President Donald Trump’s executive order that said the federal government would not support these procedures.
https://www.wbez.org/2025/02/07/lurie-childrens-hospital-pauses-gender-care-surgeries-for-those-younger-than-19
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-policies-on-gender-affirming-care-and-passports-for-transgender-people-challenged-in-court/article_a7b7c426-ae4e-58d7-934b-d7c89861987a.html
SOUTHERN
— Here are all the agencies that Elon Musk and DOGE have been trying to dismantle so far
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/08/here-are-all-the-agencies-that-elon-musk-and-doge-have-been-trying-to-dismantle-so-far/
EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/donald-trump-protest-edwardsville-il-20154122.php
WIFR
— Democrat leaders get high school students to promote more illegal immigration
https://www.wifr.com/gallery/2025/02/08/jefferson-high-schoolers-protest-trumps-immigration-policies/
EFFINGHAM RADIO
— IL House Leader McCombie Demands Transparency And Accountability On Immigration
https://www.effinghamradio.com/2025/02/08/il-house-leader-mccombie-demands-transparency-and-accountability-on-immigration/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-245/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders will use their mainstream news media a) to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, b) to demonize, denigrate, and condemn the Republican Party platform, c) to elect Democrat candidates, and d) to defeat Republican candidates. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Crystal Laker Trevor Keegan in Super Bowl
mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/crystal-laker-trevor-keegan-in-super-bowl/
— Blago Being Talked about as Trump Pick for Ambassador to Serbia
https://wwwhttps://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/blago-being-talked-about-as-trump-pick-for-ambassador-to-serbia/
— Lakemoor Refuses Comment on $40 Million Illegal Search and Seizure Hemp Suit
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/lakemoor-refuses-comment-on-40-million-illegal-search-and-seizure-hemp-suit/
— Pritzker Flips on No New Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/pritzker-flips-on-no-new-taxes/
— Tariffs and How Value Added Taxes Are “Backdoor Tariffs”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/tariffs-and-how-value-added-taxes-are-backdoor-tariffs/
— Correcting County Administrator Pete Austin’s Salary Information — Seeking 5.3% Raise
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/correcting-county-administrator-pete-austins-salary-information/
— Major “Sin” Tax Brings in $1.5 Billion
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/major-sin-tax-brings-in-1-5-billion/
— Schakowsky on Trump’s Early Days as President
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/schakowsky-on-trumps-early-days-as-president/
— Pritzker Purports to Re-Name Lake Michigan “Lake Illinois”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/pritzker-purports-to-re-name-lake-michigan-lake-illinois/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump says DOGE will look into more federal agencies (COMMENTL Will DOGE look into GAO?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/7/trump-says-doge-look-federal-agencies/
— Alaska lawmakers officially oppose Trump’s push to change Denali to Mount McKinley
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/8/alaska-lawmakers-officially-oppose-trump-push-chan/
— Russia is using Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to create a migration crisis. The axis of evil is sending masses of illegal immigrants to flood the southwest border.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/6/russia-using-cuba-nicaragua-venezuela-create-migra/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump ordered Secret Service to provide ‘every bit of information’ on would-be assassins
https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/us-news/trump-ordered-secret-service-to-provide-every-bit-of-information-on-would-be-assassins/
BAPTIST NEWS
— Remember that time Wheaton College congratulated Russell Vought?
https://baptistnews.com/article/remember-that-time-wheaton-college-congratulated-russell-vought/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Want to know how controversial it was for Russell Vought to be confirmed by the Senate as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget? Just ask Wheaton College, where Vought earned a bachelor’s degree. On Friday, Feb. 7, the Christian college posted a note on its Facebook page with Vought’s photo saying, “Wheaton College congratulates and prays for 1998 graduate Russell Vought regarding his senatorial confirmation to serve as the White House Director of the Office of Management and Budget!” Then the alumni base of the Illinois school began to vent their disdain for Vought and their disbelief that their alma mater would highlight someone responsible for creating Project 2025 and saying he wants to make federal employees so miserable they all quit — among other things. By Saturday morning, the post was removed from Facebook.)
DAILY WIRE
— Wheaton College Caves to Woke Mob, Apologizes For Congratulating Alum In Trump Admin. Wheaton College posted, and then retracted, a message congratulating Russ Vought on his confirmation to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/christian-college-caves-to-woke-mob-apologizes-for-congratulating-alum-in-trump-admin
FOX NEWS
— Hegseth to look into ‘what went wrong’ in Afghanistan and pledges accountability, slams diversity motto. ‘We will find strength in unity,’ not diversity, Hegseth says.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hegseth-look-what-went-wrong-afghanistan-pledges-accountability-slams-diversity-motto
— Teachers express fears as Trump strips federal funding for schools teaching CRT. ‘Every teacher I’ve talked to is completely freaked out by it,’ one retired teacher told The Boston Globe.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/teachers-express-fears-trump-strips-federal-funding-schools-teaching-crt
NEWSMAX
— Time for Homan to Decisively Act on Defiant Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/homan-cbs-ice/2025/02/08/id/1198327/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-rights-lawsuits-challenge-trump-policies/
WASHINGTON POST
— Attacks on Catholics, Lutherans suggest new Trump approach on religion. Allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, and questioning their efforts to help migrants.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/08/catholic-lutheran-vance-flynn-musk-trump/
— Trump says some white South Africans are oppressed, could be resettled in the US. They say no thanks. Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority have responded to a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, but no thanks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/08/trump-south-africa-afrikaners/ac037124-e633-11ef-ab83-bb30e4340014_story.html
REASON
— America’s enemies want mass immigration.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/02/08/trumps-cruel-assault-on-legal-immigration/
February 3, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago businesses to close for ‘Day Without Immigrants’ protest: ‘Show how strong we are’ (COMMENT: To promote their illegals, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly lump illegal immigrants in with legal immigrants. Republicans oppose illegal immigration, but promote legal immigration.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/day-immigrants-protest-chicago-business-owners-close-shops-monday-social-media-campaign-calls-shopping-strike/15858588/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Durbin
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/us-sen-dick-durbins-latest-role-leading-democrats-on-judging-president-trumps-top-nominees/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn school choice.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/opinion-school-choice-drains-public-resources-illinios/
— Do Chicago voters know there are 1,900 places to buy hemp and get high?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/editorial-hemp-brandon-johnson-regulation/
— Heading into budget season, Gov. JB Pritzker faces major challenge to show ‘Illinois can govern itself’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/heading-into-budget-season-gov-jb-pritzker-faces-major-challenge-to-show-illinois-can-govern-itself/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The Chicago Auto Show is back Saturday
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250202/transportation/start-your-engines-jeep-is-back-and-hybrids-are-hot-at-the-chicago-auto-show/
JOURNAL COURIER
— Hysterical rhetoric on Trump’s funding pause obscures historically important issue
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/hysterical-rhetoric-obscures-important-issue-20096012.php
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrats promote more illegal immigration in Elgin
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-02-02/hundreds-gather-in-elgin-to-rally-against-mass-deportations
NPR ILLINOIS
— How safe is your weed? Patchy regulations may leave contaminants in the weed supply.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-03/how-safe-is-your-weed-patchy-regulations-may-leave-contaminants-in-the-weed-supply
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— State Rep. David Friess, R-Red Bud, responds to Kinzinger’s criticism of reimbursing military members dismissed over COVID vaccine refusal (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors dismissed me when I was 49 years old in 1997 because in 1988 I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. Because of that, I should get reimbursed. I suggest $2.4 million, that is $4.2 million in backpay in today’s dollars minus the $1.8 million in pension payments that I have received in today’s dollars.)
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/lawmaker-responds-to-kinzinger-s-criticism-of-reimbursing-military-members-dismissed-over-covid-vaccine-refusal/article_3bd2ba94-dfea-11ef-a28e-d3e4e54c1fc9.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Friess, a veteran, agrees that servicemen should be reinstated and questioned the necessity of healthy servicemen needing to get the COVID vaccine. . .Friess confirmed service members do have to make sure that their shots are up to date before they deploy. . .Friess said there might be some resentment from military members who were forced to get the COVID vaccine. “What are the other military members going to say? How are they going to feel about it? And, and I think it’s going to be mixed. I think you’re going to have some people say, ‘yeah, [this was the] way to go,’ and people that might be resentful,” said Friess. Friess pointed out that during government shutdowns, non-essential federal employees go home and that they don’t get paid during the shutdown, but always receive back pay. “Now they don’t get paid during that government shutdown, but they always get back pay. They get compensated because it’s no fault of their own. So, is that [giving them back pay] right? Probably not. There’s a bright line on this,” said Friess. About 8,000 troops were booted from the military for refusing COVID-19 vaccinations. The order, signed by Trump, paves the way for them to be reinstated in the military with back pay.)
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/03/trumps-trans-military-ban-sparks-alarm-00202050
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-448/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIRE POINTS
— No matter what Pritzker or the Tribune says, Illinois’ NAEP education results are abysmal
https://wirepoints.org/no-matter-what-pritzker-or-the-tribune-says-illinois-naep-education-results-are-abysmal-wirepoints/
— Trump is showing he cares more about safe streets in Illinois than Gov. Pritzker does
https://wirepoints.org/trumps-showing-he-cares-more-about-safe-streets-in-illinois-than-gov-pritzker-does-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
MCHENRY CUNTY BLOG
— Legislators at County Board Meeting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/02/legislators-at-county-board-meeting/
— Does DEI -> National Idiocy?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/02/does-dei-national-idiocy/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What are the main things that distinguish you from your critics/opponents? Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents had parents who had way more money than my parents had. They did not have to work their way through college like I had to. Their parents bought them cars and paid for their college expenses. Further, they benefitted from Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI or want to benefit from AA and DEI. Further, they look down on if not despise if not hate Protestants, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors. I should write about my critics/opponents and the pretexts they used to take big adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If Trump had been elected earlier, how would that have impacted your career? Democrats run the federal government. Democrats hate Trump. Because of my demographics, if Trump had been elected before 1980, the Democrats who ran GAO back then would not have hired me in 1980, and if they had, they would not have promoted me in 1986 and they would have forced me to retire much sooner. If Trump had been elected before 1971, the Democrats who ran IRS back then would not have hired me in 1971, and if they had, they would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1975. If Trump had been elected before 1966, the Democrats who ran the Post Office back then would not have hired me in 1966, and if they had, they would have forced me to resign much sooner. However, if Trump had been elected before 1971, EEOC would not have forced Oldsmobile to stop hiring Whites and Oldsmobile would not have withdrawn the job offer that I had accepted. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Consolidation of Marengo FPD, Rescue District, and Union Fire Protection District Being Given Serious Consideration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/03/consolidation-of-marengo-fpd-rescue-district-and-union-fire-protection-district-being-given-serious-consideration/
— McHenry County College Awarded $118,788 for Mental Health Support
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/03/mchenry-county-college-awarded-118788-for-mental-health-support/
— Consolidation of Marengo FPD, Rescue District, and Union Fire Protection District Being Given Serious Consideration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/03/consolidation-of-marengo-fpd-rescue-district-and-union-fire-protection-district-being-given-serious-consideration/
— Woodstock Willie Makes Front Page of Chicago Tribune, TV, Even Pittsburgh Paper
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/03/woodstock-willie-makes-front-page-of-chicago-tribune/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Crying and coping: Left struggles with Trump’s aggressiveness
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/crying-coping-left-struggles-donald-trump-aggressi/
NEW YORK POST
— Thousands protest against Trump’s immigration crackdown, blocking traffic on Los Angeles freeway (COMMENT: Los Angeles today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/us-news/protesters-against-trumps-immigration-crackdown-block-los-angeles-freeway/
— The left’s lies just keep growing — even as each of them gets debunked
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/opinion/the-lefts-lies-keep-just-growing-even-as-each-of-them-gets-debunked/
AMERICAN REATNESS
— Ten Problems with DEI That Frighten the Public. DEI policies are facing scrutiny amid recent disasters, raising concerns about their impact on competence, meritocracy, and public safety.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/03/the-problems-with-dei-that-frighten-the-public/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The first issue is whether hiring, retention, and promotion in the airline industry or the military is not fully meritocratic. That is, were personnel hired on the basis of their exhibited superior education, practical experience, and superb scores on relevant examinations in matters relating to air travel? Or were they instead passed over because of their race, gender, or sexual orientation? Was the shortage of controllers a direct result not of an unqualified pool of applicants but rather because of racial restrictions place upon it to reduce its size? Second, were the promoters of DEI confident that they could argue that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” were as important criteria for the operation of a complex aircraft system as the past traditional criteria that had qualified air traffic controllers, pilots, and administrators? Not only did DEI considerations often supersede past traditional meritocratic requirements for employment, but DEI champions had also argued that “diversity” was either as important to, or more important than, traditional hiring and retention evaluations. The answers to these first two questions make it incumbent to ask further whether DEI played a role in the Washington, D.C., crash, similar to how it may have in the Los Angeles wildfires. It is not racist, sexist, or homophobic to ask such legitimate questions, especially because advocates themselves so often give more attention and emphasis to their race, gender, and sexual orientation than their assumed impressive expertise, proven experience, and superior education. In other words, had one’s race, sex, or orientation been incidental to employment rather than essential, such questions from the public might never have arisen. Finally, what are the problems with DEI that have not just lost its support but put fear into the public that, like the Russian commissar system of old, it has the potential to undermine the very sinews of a sophisticated, complex society? . .In sum, because of these inconsistencies, Donald Trump may well be able to end DEI with a wave of an executive order—simply because its foundations were always built of sand and thus any bold push would knock over the entire shaky edifice.)
BACON’S REBELLION
— Four Anti-School Choice Myths Exploded (COMMENT: Since 1953 when my parents sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete, my critics/opponents have used that against me. They have outrageously/disgustingly/falsely used that to hint/imply/argue/shout that my parents could do that because they were filthy rich. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and during the 1950s, it was less. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.)
https://www.baconsrebellion.com/four-anti-school-choice-myths-explored-exploded/
BREITBART
— Lady Gaga Preaches Politics at Grammys: ‘Trans People Are Not Invisible’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/02/02/lady-gaga-at-grammys-trans-people-are-not-invisible-queer-community-deserves-to-be-lifted-up/
— Wall St. Journal Scoffs as ‘Dumb’ Trump Uses Tariffs to Reduce American Drug-Deaths
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/02/wall-st-journal-sneers-at-trump-using-tariffs-to-reduce-opioid-deaths/
COLLEGE FIX
— Florida State University to remove general education designation from hundreds of CRT-infused courses (COMMENT: Back in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1990s, I took many courses to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees. But because virtually all of those courses were in business, accounting, and finance, few pushed the Democrat Party platform.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/florida-state-u-to-remove-general-education-designation-from-hundreds-of-crt-infused-courses/
EPOCH TIMES
— Panama Says It Will Not Renew ‘Belt and Road’ Agreement With China After Rubio Visit
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/panama-says-it-will-not-renew-belt-and-road-agreement-with-china-5803181
FEDERALIST
— 5 Shocking Reasons Trump Should Exit The U.N. Now
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/03/5-shocking-reasons-trump-should-exit-the-u-n-now/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— H-1B Visas: Cheap Foreign Labor Versus the American Worker (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://www.fairus.org/issue/h-1b-visas-cheap-foreign-labor-versus-american-worker
FOX NEWS
— Trump order restricting sex-change procedures for minors in line with ‘do no harm,’ doctor says. ‘This fight only ends when children are no longer being abused on our soil. Ever,’ detransitioner Chloe Cole said.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-order-restricting-sex-change-procedures-minors-line-do-no-harm-doctor-says
— Trump defends tariffs, accuses Canada of being ‘very abusive of the United States’: Trump authorized his tariffs against China, Canada and Mexico on Saturday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-defends-tariffs-accuses-canada-being-very-abusive-united-states-video
— Musk rips ‘fraudulent’ Treasury handouts as reports mount DOGE has access to federal payment system
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/musk-rips-fraudulent-treasury-payments-reports-mount-doge-has-access-federal-payment-system
TUBERVILLE
— Tuberville moves to prioritize American workers over ‘cheap’ foreign labor (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/tuberville-moves-to-prioritize-american-workers-over-cheap-foreign-labor-combat-job-outsourcing/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Constitution’s “equal protection” guarantee a) to give more preference to Democrats and b) to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-conservatives-reignite-battle-race-constitution-rcna189842
CNN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.wfft.com/news/national/this-family-of-ten-trekked-from-venezuela-in-hopes-of-asylum-in-america-now-they/article_36b1c546-9826-52b8-8c62-a9bf81b1eb3d.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— American dream out of reach (COMMENT: I was able to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. and real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35. But I doubt that I would be able to do that today at those ages.)
https://www.gjsentinel.com/with-home-prices-and-mortgage-rates-high-many-families-find-the-american-dream-out-of/article_6bc4119e-f033-51a4-aedb-66006acfee6d.html
MSN
— Secret Service Faces Lawsuit Over DEI Standards
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/secret-service-faces-lawsuit-over-dei-standards/ss-AA1rAqbc?ocid=st2
NEW YORK TIMES
— Many Americans Say the Democratic Party Does Not Share Their Priorities. A poll from The New York Times and Ipsos found that Americans believe abortion, L.G.B.T.Q. issues and climate change concern Democrats more than the cost of living.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/democrats-ipsos-poll-abortion-lgbt.html
— To achieve Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI quotas, goals, and targets, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly lower standards big time. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans. That rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, and/or younger. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/trump-diversity-racism.html
— NASA Astronaut Recruitment Faces Trump’s Moves Against D.E.I. The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump administration. (COMMENT: To promote diversity is to discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male. older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/science/nasa-astronauts-dei-trump.html
— The more of the following that you are, the faster that Democrat leaders get rid of you: conservative, Republican, American, White, male. older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid, I would not have survived for almost 9 years working for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980 if I had not a) earned an MBA in 1976, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and c) almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting. Because I am all of the aforesaid, I would not have survived for almost 18 years working for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 if I had not a) earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981, c) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and d) earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/opinion/transgender-military-ban-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use religious leaders to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2025/02/02/bishop-budde-national-cathedral-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more illegal immigration and LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/03/trump-immigrant-children-transgender/
USA TODAY
— Transgender care on kids is dangerous. Trump was right to block it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/03/trump-bans-funding-gender-surgery-transitioning-kids/78051941007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democratic States Are Wards of Washington. There’s a reason for the panic over the Trump White House’s temporary federal spending pause. (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats take money away from Republicans and give it to Democrats.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democratic-states-are-wards-of-washington-federal-spending-dollars-states-cities-92ace121
— Democrats Have a New Leader Ken Martin, but Haven’t Come to Grips With Failure. Cracks emerge as party confronts deep unpopularity; ‘we utilize identity to break ourselves apart.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/democrats-have-a-new-leader-but-havent-come-to-grips-with-failure-ee77234c
— Rich Countries Are Becoming Addicted to Cheap Labor (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/business-immigrant-low-skilled-labor-addiction-bf009a83
FORTUNE
— Tesla Accused of Using Cheap Foreign Labor in Silicon Valley (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://fortune.com/2016/05/16/tesla-cheap-labor/
FORBES
— Why Job Benefits Are Disappearing From 2025 Hiring Posts (COMMENT: The federal government does not reimburse its employees’ tuition expenses for job-related graduate courses except for small token amounts in some cases. My Democrat IRS superiors used that to outrageously/disgustingly/falsely hint/imply/argue/shout that the graduate business and accounting courses that I deducted a) did not relate to my job duties, b) did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) were taken my me to get a job in the private sector, and d) qualified me for a new trade or business. They outrageously/disgustingly/falsely did that knowing full-well that their employee manual encouraged me to take those courses and ignoring my position descriptions and graduate school applications.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cynthiapong/2025/01/19/why-job-benefits-are-disappearing-from-2025-hiring-posts/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: By proactively detailing what makes a role worthwhile—whether that’s flexible scheduling, mental health support, or tuition reimbursement—employers can still differentiate themselves without overwhelming applicants with a laundry list of minor perks.)
— How many marginalized groups are you a member of? My critics/opponents stress that I am not a member of any marginalized group. I am not liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, or citizen of a foreign country. According to my critics/opponents, because I am not a member of any marginalized group, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/genacox/2025/02/02/4-ways-respect-powers-thriving-teams-leadership-and-business-success/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2025/02/02/tired-of-performative-allyship-10-phrases-inclusive-leaders-use/
BLOOMBERG
— Cheap Foreign Labor Soars in Canada as Young Workers Are Left Jobless (COMMENT: Canada today, America tomorrow. If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-12/cheap-foreign-labor-soars-in-canada-as-young-workers-are-left-jobless
— Canada Must End Reliance on Cheap Foreign Labor, Minister Says (COMMENT: Canada today, America tomorrow. If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-06/canada-must-end-reliance-on-cheap-foreign-labor-minister-says
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2024/08/06/canada-moves-to-shrink-low-wage-foreign-worker-program-after-explosive-growth/
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Trump’s Deportation Plans Get Boost From Actions in Red States (COMMENT: Trump’s deportation plans are obstructed in blue states.)
https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/trumps-deportation-plans-get-boost-from-actions-in-red-states
WIRED
— The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover. Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure. (COMMENT: Just kidding, but will Musk ask for my advice on anything? GAO fights fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government. I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I have three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. Further, I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, tasked by executive order with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.” The engineers all hold nebulous job titles within DOGE, and at least one appears to be working as a volunteer.)
SCHOLARSHIPS
— Did you get scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that to hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I am academically deficient and b) that my parents were filthy rich. In my defense, I worked my way through college and then earned three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarships/scholarships-by-type/full-tuition-scholarships
NATIONAL POST
— Fines issued for abusing Canada’s temporary foreign worker program rise 36% (COMMENT: Canada today, America tomorrow. If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/fines-issued-for-abusing-canadas-temporary-foreign-worker-program-rise-36
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Trump to again freeze federal hiring. The new president will allow some exceptions, but says the freeze is necessary to root out “useless and overpaid” activists from federal rolls. (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats that ran GAO 1980-1997, the agency was almost always under Republican-caused hiring and promotion freezes. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely for that. Who does Trump want the next Comptroller General to be, that is, who does Trump want the next head of GAO to be?)
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/trump-again-freeze-federal-hiring/402335/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Government Accountability Office raised concerns about the impact of Trump’s and previous hiring freezes, saying they were not effective and exacerbate existing workforce problems. Such freezes, GAO said, cause agencies to hire contractors and temporary staff. “If you want to reduce the workforce, you have to reduce the functions they’re doing,” GAO chief Gene Dodaro told Congress in 2017. “And you have to be able to realign the workforce.” GAO also found that agencies with exceptions, such as the Veterans Affairs Department that allowed the hiring of doctors and nurses to continue, still experienced fallout as they suffered from a lack of support staff. When Trump ended the freeze, he tasked agencies to create plans to reshape themselves. Few of those plans were ever brought into effect as they ran headlong into congressional resistance. White House officials later refuted that the overall plans were intended to reduce federal workforce personnel. Some federal agencies have already implemented hiring restrictions due to budget caps and the short-term funding mechanism under which they are currently operating.)
TIMES
— US social mobility is overhyped (COMMENT: I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license even though a) neither of my parents attended college, b) my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) my mother never attended high school, d) my ACT score was only 24, e) I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of high school class, and f) I had to work my way through college.)
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/brutal-truth-us-social-mobility-is-overhyped-xg3dqvg7k
January 31, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Federal appeals court strikes down ban on handgun sales to teens. The repealed regulation keeping teens from buying guns originated in 1968.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gun-laws-fifth-circuit-court-appeals-rules-allow-18-year-olds-buy-handguns-strikes-down-landmark-control-regulation/15850192/
WGN9
— Irish immigrant living in Illinois faces growing fear amid nationwide federal immigration raids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqDYUMHF-os
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Conflict between Donald Trump and Illinois will test state’s rights vs. federalism
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/31/column-donald-trump-illinois-conflict-states-rights-greising/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Wanted: A team to return the bloom to Pullman’s historic Hotel Florence. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources wants a group to put the hotel back in business. “It’s about safeguarding a cornerstone of American history,” the head of the Historic Pullman Foundation said. (COMMENT: When I was a 24-year-old IRS Revenue Officer, IRS sent me to that hotel to collect delinquent taxes from one of its residents.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/01/31/wanted-a-team-to-return-the-bloom-to-pullmans-historic-hotel-florence
DAILY HERALD
— Illinois GOP lawsuit over House map the latest salvo in long-running battle against gerrymandering
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250131/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-the-fight-continues-illinois-gop-lawsuit-over-house-map-the-latest-salvo-in-l/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD EDITORIAL WITH BIG PICTURE: Under the Democrats, soon, if not already, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare. What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, and school district are receiving welfare?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250130/nation-and-world-politics/losing-this-funding-will-cause-deaths-suburban-officials-blast-trumps-federal-funding-freeze/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Here are the 50 highest-priced home sales of 2024
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/chicago-areas-50-highest-priced-home-sales-2024
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Illinois House Republicans can only fight with each other
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-illinois-house-republicans-can-only-fight-with-each-other/article_3fb3cb1e-de62-11ef-a7d6-7b45faecc0c2.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: They represent a family of sorts, but not a happy one. The ongoing feud among Illinois House Republicans in Springfield is of no real consequence, but it is entertaining to watch. It doesn’t matter because legislative Republicans are a superminority who have virtually nothing to say about policy in Democrat-dominated Illinois. That’s why the battle is akin to fighting over who gets to re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. Nonetheless, it does reveal the depth of the problem Republicans face as they try to restore their party to the status of a credible challenger to ruling Democrats. It’s bad enough for the GOP that Illinois has evolved — for a variety of reasons — into a solidly Democratic state. It’s even worse that Democrats have so thoroughly gerrymandered state House and Senate districts that it is virtually impossible for Republicans to compete. Throw the infra-party feuding into the mess, and success looks well-nigh impossible. The fight features traditional conservative Republicans against the handful of uber-conservatives in the Freedom Caucus. The uber-conservatives distinguish themselves by boldly flying their political colors, then going down in flames on Election Day. Credit them for having principles, but losing is not an effective strategy. They seem to have no concept of the art of compromise, building winning coalitions or even getting along with those who don’t share their views. They want it all their way, all the time, no matter that they don’t have the votes. House Republican Leader Tony McCombie, apparently tired of trying to appease them, recently drew the Freedom Caucus’ ire by diminishing five members’ committee assignments and eliminating “access to their communications staffers.” “This decision is not only a blatant attack on conservatives, but a complete affront to the hundreds of thousands of residents we represent,” the caucus members said. Capitol Fax’s Rich Miller reports that “McCombie reached out to state Rep. Chris Miller after the inauguration to try to mend fences,” but the effort was an abject failure. Hence, McCombie’s retaliation that further enraged the perpetually enraged. “During a recent exchange, the minority leader declared her unwillingness to accommodate or collaborate with this influential conservative wing and has even refused to give the Illinois Freedom Caucus a voice in the decision-making process,” the group said in a statement. McCombie’s retaliation may strike some as excessive. But politics can be — and often is — a contact sport. So the fight continues, not that it matters much.)
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— How strongly does your school district promote illegal immigration?
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/education/article299459059.html
SOUTHERN
— According to Democrat leaders, the promotion of DEI at FAA and the resultant abandonment of meritocracy at FAA did not cause the crash.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/01/30/trumps-missing-the-point-on-dei-and-meritocracy-experts-say/
WSPY
— Bungled Oswego Republican Caucus Upheld
https://www.wspynews.com/news/local/bungled-oswego-republican-caucus-upheld/article_97880d7c-dfda-11ef-80e2-a7f59fd509a0.html
25 NEWS NOW
— Democrat leaders promote DEI, that is, they promote more discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/01/30/central-illinois-lawmakers-leaders-react-president-trumps-rollback-dei-initiatives/
WSIL TV
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/consumer/trump-is-attacking-dei-big-businesses-believe-it-s-valuable/article_c82f0f3c-97d6-5cce-8179-6a4998b807f7.html
WPSD
— Democrats push pot in Carbondale
https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/carbondale-city-council-votes-to-allow-recreational-marijuana-sales/article_f70d7f0e-ea38-11e9-8084-1b8d33c2464b.html
HOMEWOOD-FLOSSMOOR CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders promote DEI, that is, they promote more discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.hfchronicle.com/2025/01/30/park-district-wins-champions-of-change-award-for-diversity-inclusion-efforts/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pritzker: Trump ‘unfit to lead’ in a crisis (COMMENT: Pritzker ever-increasingly leads Illinois into disaster by his ever-increasing promotion the Democrat Party platform, that is, by his ever-increasing promotion of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, further diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/01/31/pritzker-trump-unfit-to-lead-in-a-crisis-00201740
(FROM THE NEWSLETTER: GAME OF THRONES: State Sen. Dan McConchie’s exit from the Illinois General Assembly has kicked off a fierce political battle to take his place, with concerns about nepotism and party unity. The application process starts today, and interviews will be conducted next week behind closed doors. The vote will be public. The process: The five Republican district committee members who will select the next 26th District senator each have a “weighted” vote based on the number of ballots cast in their county during the last election. The 26th includes a large part of Lake County and some smaller areas of Cook, McHenry and Kane counties. That means Keith Brin, the Lake County Republican chair, has more than 55 percent of the vote, so he’ll make the call on the next senator.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/31/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-447/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Lawsuit filed by Mark Glennon against City of Chicago, Mayor Johnson and Bally’s alleges blatant discrimination
https://wirepoints.org/lawsuit-filed-by-mark-glennon-against-city-of-chicago-mayor-johnson-and-ballys-alleges-blatant-discrimination-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. I was qualified for the GAO job because I had a) worked for IRS for almost 9 years, b) almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, c) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and d) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I was qualified for the IRS job because I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I was qualified for the Post Office job because I had passed the postal employment examination and earned a diploma from Crete-Monee High School in 1966. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years (GAO-18, IRS-9, and Post Office-3), they ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees. They ever-increasingly lowered requirements so that they could hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. Because I am Republican, White, male, and older, that ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, and/or younger. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do you deal with those who promote envy against you? Democrats promote envy against Republicans. My Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted envy against me big time. They stressed my having relative good health, my avoiding the Vietnam War draft, my buying new cars and collector cars, my earning a bachelor’s degree, my going on vacations, my buying real estate, my earning three master’s degrees, my getting married, my earning six professional certifications, my earning a professional license, my etc. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates painted themselves as being financially distressed. The blamed their financial problems on their military service, on their spouse’s limitations, on their child raising responsibilities, on etc. They blamed their problems on discrimination against those who shared their demographics: liberal/moderate, Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or having ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. In my defense, I stressed that I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— House Conservatives Being Deprived on Services/Perks Other Republican Representatives Receive (COMMENT: I should write about the most anti-conservative, that is, the most anti-Republican leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization since 2000.)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/30/house-conservatives-being-deprived-on-services-perks-other-republican-representatives-receive/
— If You Want to Run a Write-In Campaign, Today Is the Deadline to File That Intention with the County Clerk, OPEN SEATS LISTED
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/30/if-you-want-to-run-a-write-in-campaign-today-is-the-deadline-to-file-that-intention-with-the-county-clerk/
— Rockford Register-Star Brain Freeze
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/30/rockford-register-star-brain-freeze/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Deadliest aviation accident since 2001 grips Washington as Trump blames Democrats, DEI for disaster
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/30/deadliest-aviation-accident-since-2001-grips-washi/
— Top FBI officials terminated or forced to quit
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/31/top-fbi-officials-terminated-forced-quit/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s jaw-dropping response about his ‘job’ says everything (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with illegals against Republicans. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/01/30/unbelievable-chicago-mayors-jaw-dropping-response-about-his-job-says-everything-1519692/
BREITBART
— Half of Labor Force for Rebuilding L.A. Could be Deported by Trump
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/31/steve-soboroff-half-of-labor-force-for-rebuilding-l-a-could-be-deported-by-trump/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Will Others in Government Follow Trump’s Decisive Lead on Illegal Immigration?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/31/will-others-government-follow-trumps-lead-illegal-immigration/
DAILY WIRE
— Donald Trump Emphasizes Need For ‘Fast Confirmations’ In Wake Of Tragic Plane Crash. ‘The Democrats are doing everything they can to delay them. They’ve taken too long.’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/donald-trump-emphasizes-need-for-fast-confirmations-in-wake-of-tragic-plane-crash
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Gives Update on Potomac Plane–Helicopter Crash: 5 Takeaways. The president touched on a range of issues, including the FAA, DEI, and flight safety.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-gives-update-on-potomac-plane-helicopter-crash-5-takeaways-5801571
FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor lambasts Trump, claims US being run like ‘had the Confederacy won’ Brandon Johnson continued to take digs at President Donald Trump and his administration for how it is handling illegal immigration.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-mayor-lambasts-trump-claims-us-being-run-like-confederacy-won
INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— ‘Bowing To Wokeness Since 2010’: Fmr Air Traffic Controller Says Short Staffing Is ‘Attributable To Obama Admin’
https://ijr.com/bowing-to-wokeness-since-2010-fmr-air-traffic-controller-says-short-staffing-is-attributable-to-obama-admin/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Anti-Israel Campus Protesters Demand Special Privileges Then Play Victim
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/01/anti-israel-campus-protesters-demand-special-privileges-then-play-victim/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— If You Subvert The Will Of A President, Then You’re Playing With Legal Fire
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/31/charlie_kirk_if_you_subvert_the_will_of_a_president_then_youre_playing_with_legal_fire.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years (GAO-18, IRS-9, and Post Office-3), they ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees. They ever-increasingly lowered requirements so that they could hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. Because I am Republican, White, male, and older, that ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, and/or younger. I should write about that.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-is-dei-practice-trump-is-trying-dismantle-2025-01-30/
ROLL CALL
— Trump turns briefing on DCA disaster into attack on DEI, Democrats
https://rollcall.com/2025/01/30/trump-democrats-dei-plane-crash/
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-trump-s-crony-meritocracy-could-shatter-us-civil-service/ar-AA1xWg9R
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.newsweek.com/meritocracy-rights-smokescreen-white-mediocracy-opinion-opinion-2023777
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who demographics that vote for Democrats. Demographics that vote for Republicans include conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Demographics that vote for Democrats include liberal, minority, female, younger, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/opinion/trump-migration-world.html
— U.S. Says Sheriff Could Face Prosecution for Releasing Immigrant
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/nyregion/ny-sheriff-ithaca-immigration.html
— Trump Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/politics/trump-plane-crash-dei-faa-diversity.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Day before D.C. plane crash, another jet had to abort first landing at Reagan National (COMMENT: While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, I often flew to/from D.C. for job meetings, training, etc.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/30/dc-plane-crash-updates-helicopter-potomac-reagan-airport/
— Trump blames diversity program for fatal air collision. The president told the nation that his predecessors, Democrats and diversity were to blame for the collision involving an Army helicopter and American Airlines passenger jet near Reagan National Airport.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/30/trump-dei-plane-crash/
USA TODAY
— ‘Politics over professionalism’: Federal employees’ union sues Trump over executive order
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/29/trump-lawsuit-federal-worker-protections/78026800007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Federal Workers Ponder an Existential Question: Do I Pack Up and Quit? Two million employees are trying to make sense of a Trump administration plan offering eight months’ pay to staffers who resign. (COMMENT: One of my biggest decisions that I made in my life was to succumb to my Democrat GAO superiors’ threats and take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, it was a big mistake. I should write about that. Retiring early has cut and will forever cut my Civil Service Retirement System pension tremendously. Further, if I had stayed until I was eligible for regular retirement in 2003, I would not have become a) a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999, b) the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, c) the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2000, or d) an Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) officer in 2003. The aforesaid led to my becoming a) a candidate for MTRO Treasurer in 2004, b) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 20005. and c) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2005. Since 2000, MTRO, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, ICRC, and TAPROOT leaders have blamed me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/federal-workers-ponder-an-existential-question-do-i-pack-up-and-quit-a215691d
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders promote DEI, that is, they promote more discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/31/dei-blame-donald-trumps-latest-accusation-weaponized-dei-faa-american-airlines-flight/
BLOOMBERG
— To promote DEI is to dump meritocracy.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-31/trump-wants-meritocracy-without-dei-here-s-how
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— Envy at Work (COMMENT: Democrats promote envy against Republicans. My Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted envy against me big time. They stressed my having relative good health, my avoiding the Vietnam War draft, my buying new cars and collector cars, my earning a bachelor’s degree, my going on vacations, my buying real estate, my earning three master’s degrees, my getting married, my earning six professional certifications, my earning a professional license, my etc. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates painted themselves as being financially distressed. The blamed their financial problems on their military service, on their spouse’s limitations, on their child raising responsibilities, on etc. They blamed their problems on discrimination against those who shared their demographics: liberal/moderate, Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or having ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. In my defense, I stressed that I had to work my way through college.)
https://hbr.org/2010/04/envy-at-work
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years (GAO-18, IRS-9, and Post Office-3), they ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees. They ever-increasingly lowered requirements so that they could hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. Because I am Republican, White, male, and older, that ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, and/or younger. I should write about that.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-dei-witch-hunt-reaches-new-low-after-plane-crash.html
NPR
— Trump wants to cut the federal workforce. Who they are and what that means
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5280417/federal-workers-workforce-facts-cuts
AUTO EVOLUTION
— 5 of the Most Famous Classic Dodge Chargers Ever Featured in Movies and TV Shows (COMMENT: I have ordered a 2025 Charger Daytona R/T EV. I have owned my 2013 Charger R/T Max since 2012. I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T 1994-2005.)
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/5-of-the-most-famous-classic-dodge-chargers-ever-featured-in-movies-and-tv-shows-246329.html
TORQUE NEWS
— Dodge is Looking for Influencers to Boost Brand and New 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona EV. Content creators who love fast and powerful cars would get special access to Dodge events and vehicles. (COMMENT: I have ordered a 2025 Charger Daytona R/T EV. I have owned my 2013 Charger R/T Max since 2012. I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T 1994-2005.)
https://www.torquenews.com/3768/dodge-looking-influencers-boost-brand-and-new-2025-dodge-charger-daytona-ev
GOOGLE AI
— A “big event” that you “look forward to” (COMMENT: What big events do you look forward to? Mine include taking delivery of the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T that I have ordered. It will help me take my mind off politics and government.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22big+event%22+%22look+forward+to%22+future
January 30, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump says he’s ordering Guantanamo Bay to be prepared to host up to 30,000 migrants (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-says-hes-ordering-guantanamo-bay-prepared-host-30000-migrants/15847080/
— Venezuelan migrant arrested in weekend ICE raid now back in custody after judge ordered release (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/edward-martinez-cermeno-venezuelan-migrant-swept-chicago-area-ice-raids-back-custody-judge-orders-release/15847525/
CBS2
— Solidarity volunteers patrol Chicago neighborhoods, responding to tips of possible ICE raids (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/immigrant-solidarity-dupage-volunteers-chicago-neighborhoods-ice-raids/
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson addresses calls to testify in Washington about sanctuary city policies (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-calls-testify-sanctuary-city-policies/
FOX32
— Meta agrees to pay Trump $25M over suspension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogqPrNdKFg4
WGN9
— Illinois elected leaders combat fear through education as ICE raids put immigrant communities on edge (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/illinois-elected-leaders-combat-fear-through-education-as-ice-raids-put-immigrant-communities-on-edge/
WTTW
— Trump Directs Guantanamo Bay to Be Prepared to Host Up to 30,000 Migrants (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/29/trump-directs-guantanamo-bay-be-prepared-host-30000-migrants
— Companies That Participated in the Slave Trade Could Face New Rules in Illinois Under Proposal (COMMENT: Companies today, individuals tomorrow.)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/29/companies-participated-slave-trade-could-face-new-rules-illinois-under-proposal
WBBM
— Pritzker yet to decide on run for third term
https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/gov-jb-pritzker-yet-to-decide-on-run-for-third-term
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Indiana House speaker: Yes, we’re serious about welcoming Illinois counties to Indiana (COMMENT: I lived in Will County’s Crete Township 1948-1976. Crete Township borders Indiana.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/30/opinion-illinois-counties-secession-indiana/
— If you’re arrested by ICE in Illinois, what happens next? Legal experts explain the process. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/ice-immigration-trump-deportation-know-your-rights/
— Cicero’s residents are particularly vulnerable under Donald Trump’s agenda (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/30/opinion-cicero-immigrants-donald-trump-deportations/
— I am angered by President Donald Trump’s focus on deportations (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/30/letters-013025/
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/30/opinion-donald-trump-ending-diversity-equal-opportunity/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/30/why-him-undocumented-father-gets-swept-up-turned-over-to-ice-during-operation-targeting-someone-else/
— Offering buyouts to federal workers is fine. (COMMENT: I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years. I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate federal employees and retirees the most.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/30/editorial-trump-federal-workers-buyouts/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Thornton Township board ‘deeply disturbed’ over brawl during meeting attended by Tiffany Henyard. Board supervisor Tiffany Henyard and activist Jedidiah Brown traded barbs Wednesday, a day after Brown’s comments about the embattled Henyard — who is also the mayor of Dolton — sparked a melee.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/suburban-chicago/2025/01/29/brawl-thornton-township-tiffany-henyard-suburban-chicago
— Trump’s buyout offer to federal workers is about more than just downsizing government. Go back to 2020, when Trump signed Schedule F, an executive order to reclassify career civil servants and make them easier to fire and then replace with political loyalists. Buyouts are a back-door way of doing the same in 2025.
(COMMENT: I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years. I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate federal employees and retirees the most.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/01/29/president-trump-buyout-offer-federal-workers-schedule-f-civil-service
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that minorities and females will forever need big time preference to succeed.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/01/29/anti-dei-trump-white-advantage-black-athletes-sports-super-bowl-hurts-mahomes-marc-morial
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: As ICE knocks on doors in the suburbs, immigrant groups push solidarity (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250129/nation-and-world-politics/as-ice-knocks-on-doors-in-the-suburbs-immigrant-groups-push-solidarity/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump’s moves to curb abortion spending spell trouble for Illinois (COMMENT: Democrat leaders eve-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/trump-abortion-funding-moves-spell-trouble-illinois
JOURNAL & TOPICS
— Del Mar Resigns As State GOP Co-Chair Effectively Immediately. ‘Illinois Republican Party Has Long Stood For Transparency, Character, And Integrity — Values I Believe Are Being Compromised’ (COMMENT: What specific wrongdoing does Del Mar allege and what is Salvi’s specific response?)
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/del-mar-resigns-as-state-gop-co-chair-effectively-immediately/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In a letter to Illinois Republican Chairwoman Kathy Salvi, Aaron Del Mar of Palatine announced his resignation, effective immediately, as co-chair of the Illinois Republican Party. “I cannot and will not be complicit in the current course of action within the party,” Del Mar’s letter sent today (Wednesday) said. “The Illinois Republican Party has long stood for transparency, character, and integrity — values I believe are being compromised. I refuse to remain silent as these principles are undermined.” The Journal & Topics was unable to immediately reach Del Mar Wednesday to clarify what those issues were. In early December, Del Mar announced his intention to resign from his role as state party co-chair. At the time, he told the Journal he planned to explore a run for a statewide office and would step down as state party co-chair in January or February. Salvi, at the time, sent a letter to other state party officials saying, “I have asked him (Del Mar) to continue serving as co-chair until a successor is named and the transition is finalized. He has graciously agreed. I am deeply grateful for Aaron’s dedicated service to the party and look forward to working alongside him as we continue our efforts to Make Illinois Red Again.” Del Mar in his letter Wednesday said: “I can no longer, in good conscience, remain in this role while awaiting a successor and facilitating a transition. To be clear I will remain in my duly elected role as state central committeeman, (of the) 5th Congressional District.” Del Mar is also the Palatine Township Republican committeeman and is running for reelection as Palatine Township highway commissioner in the April 1 election.)
— Maine Township Republicans Celebrate Trump (COMMENT: How strongly do the following promote Trump: the leaders of a) the Illinois Republican Party, b) your Republican county party organization, and c) your Republican township/ward party organization?)
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/maine-township-republicans-celebrate-trump/
— Concerned With ICE Enforcement, Schools, County, Glenview Police Detail Contingencies (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/concerned-with-ice-enforcement-schools-county-glenview-police-detail-contingencies/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Musk makes joke about Gov. Pritzker’s weight on social media, Pritzker fires back
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/01/30/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-elon-musk-exchange-barbs-on-social-media/78028136007/
STATELINE
— Race and place can contribute to shorter lives, research suggests. The findings come as the Trump administration attacks equity programs. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having tremendous unfair advantages in life because of my demographics: White, Crete resident 1948-1972, Wheaton resident since 1978, born in 1948, male, federal employee for almost 30 years, married since 1978, childless, non-veteran, Protestant, 100% German American, my ancestors have been in America since 1844, etc. According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics. I should write about that.)
https://stateline.org/2025/01/30/race-and-place-can-contribute-to-shorter-lives-research-suggests/
SOUTHERN
— How the Trump administration is working to ‘combat’ DEI in the private sector (COMMENT: EEOC promoted DEI big time in 1971 when it forced Oldsmobile to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. In 1971, when I was 22 years old, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me because I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. I had taken and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/01/29/how-the-trump-administration-is-working-to-combat-dei-in-the-private-sector/
WAND TV
— Illinois Senate committee approves bill keeping veteran tiny homes affordable (COMMENT: How strongly is your residence prepared to charge electric vehicles? Electric vehicles are expensive. The 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T that I have ordered is way more expensive because it is electric.)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/illinois-senate-committee-approves-bill-keeping-veteran-tiny-homes-affordable/article_93deff22-de91-11ef-8882-0376a042831f.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Sen. Sally Turner (R-Lincoln) has reintroduced a bill to allow tiny homes to be exempt from a 2023 state law requiring all homes to be built with electric vehicle charging capacity.)
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5271578/immigrant-couple-in-chicago-plans-for-potential-deportation-scenarios
— Trump signs an order restricting gender-affirming care for minors (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-29/trump-signs-an-order-restricting-gender-affirming-care-for-minors
— Illinois is offering another round of EV rebates (COMMENT: With my purchase of a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV, I will apply for this rebate. But I am not counting on getting it.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-01-29/illinois-is-offering-another-round-of-ev-rebates
DURBIN
— Durbin, Schakowsky Introduce Mentoring To Succeed Act (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my IRS mentor promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. In my defense, I was taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola at that time. None of my IRS coworkers had taken job-related graduate courses. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my GAO mentor promoted me in 1986. In my defense, I had a) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. None of my GAO coworkers had done anything close to that. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors got rid of my IRS and GAO mentors. Further, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats 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 and/or were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.)
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-schakowsky-introduce-mentoring-to-succeed-act
— According to Democrat leaders, to succeed in America, the more of the following that you are, the more that Republicans discriminate against you, and the more government assistance that you need: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or if your ancestors have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-if-your-goal-is-to-make-america-great-again-why-would-you-start-by-cutting-basic-services-for-families
AURORA PATCH
— Richard Irvin Won’t Attend Voters Forum, Criticizes Event’s Format. The Aurora mayor wrote a letter to “clear up the misguided chatter regarding my absence from the League of Women Voters (LWV) forum.”
https://patch.com/illinois/aurora/richard-irvin-wont-attend-voters-forum-criticizes-events-format
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-446/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-238/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
— PRESS RELKEASE: New Year, Same Old Failures And Corruption From IL Dems It may be a new year, but it’s the same old failures and corruption from Illinois Democrats. Between the Democrats’ lies and a new leftist official being caught red-handed in corruption schemes seemingly every week, the Illinois Democrat Party is in shambles. Take a look at some of the worst failures that have plagued Illinois Democrats to start the year: Corruption between Chicago Public Schools and Chicago’s Teachers Union: Rafael Yáñez, a Chicago Public Schools board member appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, was found conspiring with the vice president of the Chicago’s Teachers Union regarding contract negotiations during a private meeting. The interaction highlights the suspiciously close relationship between CTU and CPS. More corruption was exposed when Johnson faced ethics concerns regarding his dual role at CPS and CTU. The situation outlines unholy alliances in Chicago’s education system under Democrat rule. Brandon Johnson hiding Chicago’s sanctuary city status: As President Trump follows through with his vow to deport dangerous illegal immigrants, Brandon Johnson, the worst mayor in America, refuses to say if he will testify before Congress about Chicago’s sanctuary city policies that hinder law enforcement and protect illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, Johnson has reaffirmed Chicago’s stance as a sanctuary city, a policy that has allowed around 50,000 illegal immigrants into the city. Given his past record, Chicagoans shouldn’t expect Johnson to step up to the plate and own his responsibilities anytime soon. Officials LIE about ICE deportations to ignite fear: Chicago Public Schools officials and Democrat politicians flat-out lied about ICE agents visiting Hamline Elementary to ignite fear and chaos in Chicago. President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan criticized Illinois Governor JB Pritzker for spreading fear instead of verifying the facts and demanded he apologize to ICE. No apologies yet. Bottom Line: President Trump has been in office for 11 days getting results while Illinois Democrats focus on infighting and continuing Chicago’s culture of corruption.
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Pro-immigrant activists demand court shut down Trump immigration raids in Chicago (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/669328987-pro-immigrant-activists-demand-court-shut-down-trump-immigration-raids-in-chicago
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Patch Reports ICE Activity in Crystal Lake
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/29/patch-reports-ice-activity-in-crystal-lake/
— All McHenry County Democratic Party Congressional Delegation Members Vote in Favor of Violent Illegals
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/29/all-mchenry-county-democratic-party-congressional-delegation-members-vote-in-favor-of-violent-illegals/
— DeWitte Seeks Chicago Slot Machines to Finance the Regional Transportation Authority
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/29/dewitte-seeks-chicago-slot-machines-to-finance-the-regional-transportation-authority/
— We’re Number 3 in Unemployment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/29/were-number-3-in-unemployment/
— Meet Candidates for Algonquin Township GOP Primary
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/29/meet-candidates-for-algonquin-township-gop-primary/
— Cary Grade School Letter Announces “Safe Zone”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/cary-grade-school-letter-announces-safe-zone/
WIREPOINTS
— Nation’s Report Card results are in: Illinoisans spend billions more on education, yet 2024 reading results are still below 2019 levels
https://wirepoints.org/nations-report-card-results-are-in-illinoisans-spend-billions-more-on-education-yet-2024-reading-results-are-still-below-2019-levels-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Promotions are extremely important. What promotions have you gotten? IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and GAO promoted me in 1986. In each of those cases, according to my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates, instead of me, a Democrat minority, female, and/or veteran should have gotten those promotions. I should write about each of the aforesaid promotions. I would show that in each case, I was better qualified in terms of work experience, education, professional certifications, and/or professional license than my Democrat coworkers who were not promoted. I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981. Further, I would show that all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats 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 and/or were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— White House rescinds federal funding freeze
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/29/white-house-rescinds-federal-funding-freeze/
— Trump’s orders take aim at critical race theory and antisemitism on college campuses
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/29/donald-trump-orders-take-aim-critical-race-theory-/
— For the first time in office, Trump doesn’t face the threat of impeachment
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/29/first-time-office-donald-trump-doesn-face-threat-i/
— Hegseth creates new Pentagon task force to ban race, sex from promotion criteria. New defense chief moves quickly to target woke policies in military. (COMMENT: Promotions are extremely important. What promotions have you gotten? IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and GAO promoted me in 1986. In each of those cases, according to my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates, instead of me, a Democrat minority, female, and/or veteran should have gotten those promotions. I should write about each of the aforesaid promotions. I would show that in each case, I was better qualified in terms of work experience, education, professional certifications, and/or professional license than my Democrat coworkers who were not promoted. I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981. Further, I would show that all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats 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 and/or were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/29/pete-hegseth-creates-new-pentagon-task-force-ban-r/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Hegseth says Gitmo will be a way station, not the final destination for ‘criminal illegal aliens’ deported from the U.S.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3305294/hegseth-gitmo-criminal-illegal-aliens-deported-from-u-s/
— The View says Karoline Leavitt got her job because of ‘wokeness’ and being ‘a 10’ (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my IRS mentor promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. In my defense, I was taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola at that time. None of my IRS coworkers had taken job-related graduate courses. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my GAO mentor promoted me in 1986. In my defense, I had a) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. None of my GAO coworkers had done anything close to that. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors got rid of my IRS and GAO mentors. Further, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats 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 and/or were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3305014/the-view-karoline-leavitt-job-wokeness-being-a-10/
NEW YORK POST
— DOJ sent top official to Chicago to investigate possible sanctuary city interference with ICE raids (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/29/us-news/doj-sent-top-official-to-chicago-to-investigate-sanctuary-city-interference-with-ice-raids/
— Dems scream ‘racism,’ but NYC minorities cheer Trump’s ICE raids (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/29/opinion/dems-scream-racism-but-nyc-minorities-are-cheering-trumps-ice-raids/
— Trump orders defunding of K-12 schools that promote ‘radical’ gender and race ‘indoctrination’
https://nypost.com/2025/01/29/us-news/trump-orders-defunding-of-k-12-schools-that-promote-radical-gender-and-race-indoctrination/
AMERICAN GRATNESS
— Trump Signs Executive Order Instructing DHS and Defense Dept. to Prepare Gitmo For High-Priority Criminal Illegals (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/29/trump-signs-executive-order-instructing-dhs-and-defense-dept-to-prepare-gitmo-for-high-priority-criminal-illegals/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Conservative Publishing is Making a Comeback
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/01/conservative_publishing_is_making_a_comeback.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— James Carville unloads on Biden for listening to ‘idiot left’ and not sending illegals back ‘pronto’ (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/01/29/james-carville-unloads-on-biden-for-listening-to-idiot-left-and-not-sending-illegals-back-pronto-1519373/
— Trump says he’ll send 30K ‘criminal illegal aliens’ to Gitmo, Hegseth explains on Fox
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/01/30/trump-says-hell-send-30k-criminal-illegal-aliens-to-gitmo-hegseth-explains-on-fox-1519559/
BREITBART
— Border Apprehensions Plummet as Trump Effect Sets In (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/29/border-apprehensions-plummet-as-trump-effect-sets-in/
— Voters Trust Donald Trump More than News Media
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/29/nolte-exclusive-poll-voters-trust-donald-trump-more-than-news-media/
— Trump to Open Guantanamo Bay Camp for 30,000 Migrants (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/01/29/trump-to-open-guantanamo-bay-camp-for-30000-migrants/
— Judges Are the Reason Illegals Accused of Violent Felonies Are Released
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/01/29/dem-rep-ivey-judges-are-the-reason-illegals-accused-of-violent-felonies-are-released/
CENTER SQUARE
— Republicans introduce bills to increase penalties for illegal border crosser crime (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_fcf45d70-de43-11ef-8bad-0ba6d9415992.html
DAILY CALLER
— Whoopi Goldberg Lectures Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt On How ‘Wokeness’ Got Her A Job (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my IRS mentor promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. In my defense, I was taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola at that time. None of my IRS coworkers had taken job-related graduate courses. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my GAO mentor promoted me in 1986. In my defense, I had a) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. None of my GAO coworkers had done anything close to that. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors got rid of my IRS and GAO mentors. Further, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats 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 and/or were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/29/the-view-whoopi-goldberg-karoline-leavitt-wokeness/
(FROM WIKIPEDIA: Leavitt previously served as the national press secretary for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. She was an assistant press secretary and presidential writer during the first Donald Trump administration as well as a spokesperson for MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump Super PAC. In 2022, she ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in New Hampshire’s 1st district, winning the Republican nomination before losing in the general election to Democratic incumbent Chris Pappas. Karoline Claire Leavitt was born in Atkinson, New Hampshire, where she was raised in the Catholic faith. Her family owned an ice cream shop and a used truck dealership in Plaistow, New Hampshire. She attended Central Catholic High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She then attended Saint Anselm College on a scholarship for NCAA Division II college softball. Leavitt was outspoken on campus about her support for the Trump administration. Her op-eds in the school newspaper include a defense of Trump’s travel ban and a critique of the news media. She founded the school’s first broadcasting club. While in college, Leavitt worked at Hearst Television WMUR-TV. She graduated in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in communications and political science. During her education at Saint Anselm College, Leavitt interned at Fox News. The summer before her senior year of college, she interned in the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence. She returned briefly after her 2019 graduation, before joining the White House Press Office as an assistant press secretary under Kayleigh McEnany. Following the conclusion of the first Trump administration, she was hired as the communications director for Republican U.S. representative Elise Stefanik from New York.)
DAILY SIGNAL
— Rand Paul Has Choice Words About Bureaucrats Who Refuse a Lawful Trump Order (COMMENT: All those who my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors assigned me to supervise who were Democrat and minority, female, and/or veteran were problematic one way or the other. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors always ordered me to give them preference big time and I always did that. But that was not good enough for them.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/29/fired-cause-rand-paul-has-choice-words-about-bureaucrats-who-refuse-lawful-trump-order/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Signs Order Defunding Schools Teaching Gender Ideology, CRT The ideologies are banned in the curriculum and teacher training.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-order-defunding-schools-teaching-gender-ideology-crt
— Pentagon Guts DEI Programs From U.S. Military. Eliminating DEI was one of Secretary Hegseth’s top priorities.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-guts-dei-programs-from-u-s-military
FEDERALIST
— Polls Show Majorities Of Americans Support Trump’s Mass Deportations
https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/30/polls-show-majorities-of-americans-support-trumps-mass-deportations/
FOX NEWS
— Waukegan’s police department vows to block law enforcement from coordinating with ICE (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-citys-police-department-vows-block-law-enforcement-from-coordinating-ice
— Trump DoD creates task force to abolish DEI offices that ‘promote systemic racism’ (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-dod-creates-task-force-abolish-dei-offices-promote-systemic-racism
— Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard involved in board meeting brawl between boyfriend, activist. Chicago-area ‘super mayor’ jumps into Thornton Township board meeting fist fight.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dolton-mayor-tiffany-henyard-involved-board-meeting-brawl-between-boyfriend-activist
— Trump moves to prepare Guantanamo Bay for 30,000 ‘criminal illegal aliens’ Trump says, ‘It’s a tough place to get out of’ (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-moves-prepare-guantanamo-bay-30000-criminal-illegal-aliens
— Trump signs executive orders stripping federal funding from schools that teach CRT, supporting school choice. The EOs mandate ‘ending radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling,’ ‘expanding educational freedom and opportunity for families’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-signs-executive-orders-stripping-federal-funding-from-schools-teach-crt-supporting-school-choice
JONATHAN TURLEY
— Universities Announce Plans to Defy Federal Immigration Enforcement
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/01/30/universities-announce-plans-to-defy-federal-immigration-enforcement/
PJ MEDIA
— This Is War, After All: Trump Prepares to Send 30,000 Criminal Illegals to Gitmo (COMMENT: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/01/29/this-is-war-after-all-trump-prepares-to-send-30000-criminal-illegals-to-gitmo-n4936493#google_vigne
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— VP Vance: It Should Shock The Conscience Of The American People That We Did Nothing About Violent Illegals Until Trump
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/29/vp_vance_it_should_shock_the_conscience_of_the_american_people_that_we_did_nothing_about_violent_illegals_until_trump.html
— Whoopi Goldberg to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: “Without Wokeness, You Might Not Have That Job”; We Fought So You Could Stand At That Podium (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my IRS mentor promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. In my defense, I was taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola at that time. None of my IRS coworkers had taken job-related graduate courses. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my GAO mentor promoted me in 1986. In my defense, I had a) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. None of my GAO coworkers had done anything close to that. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors got rid of my IRS and GAO mentors. Further, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats 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 and/or were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/29/whoopi_goldberg_to_leavitt_without_wokeness_you_might_not_have_that_job_we_fought_so_you_could_stand_at_that_podium.html
TOWNHALL
— If Illegal Aliens Are Deported, No One Will Be Able to Pick Blueberries (COMMENT: I doubt that illegals will stoop to take the bad jobs that I took.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/01/30/cnn-guest-if-illegal-aliens-are-deported-no-one-will-be-able-to-pick-blueberries-n2651375
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump says U.S. will send “worst criminal illegal aliens” to Guantanamo Bay (COMMENT: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-guantanamo-bay-for-criminal-migrants/
— Trump takes aim at critical race theory in schools, protests on college campuses in new executive order
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-orders-critical-race-theory-college-protests/
— Abortion opponents praise RFK Jr., after he vows to follow Trump
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-opponents-praise-rfk-jr-trump/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Says U.S. Will Hold Migrants at Guantánamo. The president suggested 30,000 migrants could be housed on the base. It is unclear how the plan will take shape. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/politics/trump-migrants-guantanamo.html
— What to Know About Trump’s Plan to Slash the Federal Work Force. The Office of Personnel Management sought to entice civilian federal employees to resign, as President Trump seeks to reshape the U.S. government. Here are details of the plan. (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/politics/trump-federal-workers-buyout.html
— Does Trump’s Cabinet Look Like a Meritocracy to You? (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, I owe none of my successes in life to meritocracy. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitted from discrimination against those who share their demographics: Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/opinion/trump-dei-hegseth.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Migrants were detained at Guantánamo Bay before Trump’s order. Here’s what to know. Human rights groups have accused U.S. authorities of using Guantánamo Bay for decades to detain migrants fleeing Haiti, Cuba and other Caribbean nations. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly analogize illegals to fugitive slaves.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/30/guantanamo-bay-migrants-history-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/01/29/trump-trans-executive-orders-fear-confusion/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG GRAPHIC: Post-pandemic nose-dive: Why student test scores are raising alarms among parents and teachers
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/01/30/why-low-student-test-scores-covid-pandemic/78019436007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/01/30/why-low-student-test-scores-covid-pandemic/78019436007/
— Trump says he’ll divert funds from schools teaching ‘discriminatory equity ideology’ (COMMENT: According to Democrat leaders, those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, that is, minorities and females, should do as well as or better on tests than those who have demographics that vote for Republicans, that is, Whites and males. For all the many tests that I took and passed 1966-1997 earning a bachelor’s degree (management), three master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting) and a professional license (CPA), far fewer who took and passed those tests were minority or female than were White or male. According to Democrat leaders, that is because Republicans discriminate against Democrats.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/01/29/trump-order-funds-schools-critical-race-theory/77778609007/
DES MOINES REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing paint Jesus as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2025/01/30/woke-bishop-mariann-budde-donald-trump/77999348007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/trump-mexico-border-enforcement-squeeze-ab067108
— Trump Administration Orders Agencies to Find More DEI Workers to Ax. Government offices have cut dozens of positions and canceled millions of dollars in contracts. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-orders-agencies-to-find-more-dei-workers-to-ax-7b627c36
FORBES
— Empty Suit Syndrome: Why It Is Wise To Challenge Vertical Career Growth (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my IRS mentor promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. In my defense, I was taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola at that time. None of my IRS coworkers had taken job-related graduate courses. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my GAO mentor promoted me in 1986. In my defense, I had a) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. None of my GAO coworkers had done anything close to that. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors got rid of my IRS and GAO mentors. Further, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats 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 and/or were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.)
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbescoachescouncil/2021/09/22/empty-suit-syndrome-why-it-is-wise-to-challenge-vertical-career-growth/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Instead of “time and experience” as the marker of whether they should be promoted or hold senior roles in companies, they leaned into impact and results. The message to employers was, “If we don’t promote, we don’t retain. If we don’t accept the rationale, we aren’t creating a culture for growth.” This also led to built-in pressure for not only millennials but Gen Z that if you are not moving up at a clipped paced and being promoted every year or two, you are not managing your career success effectively.)
PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-options-remain-for-immigrants-seeking-entry-into-the-u-s-as-policies-rapidly-change
GAO
— 2024 Tax Filing: IRS Improved Live Service and Began to Modernize Some Operations, but Timeliness Issues Persist (COMMENT: I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. 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. The following wasted my knowledge of IRS: a) my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors and b) my U.S. Senators, my U.S. Representatives, and their staffs.)
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-107375
ACCOUNTING TODAY
— CPA Success Index: Ranking the top collegiate accounting programs (COMMENT: I owe my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979 mainly to a) my taking the Becker CPA Review, b) my completing graduate accounting courses at DePaul starting in 1976, and c) my working for IRS starting in 1971.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/cpa-success-index-ranks-top-collegiate-accounting-programs
CPA JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders call the 150-accounting hour requirement to take the CPA examination a “barrier” for minorities. I only just barely met that requirement when I took and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. I owe my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt mainly to a) my taking the Becker CPA Review, b) my completing graduate accounting courses at DePaul starting in 1976, and c) my working for IRS starting in 1971.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/01/24/nasba-and-the-aicpa-propose-an-alternative-path-to-cpa/
GOOGLE
— Promoted too fast (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my IRS mentor promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. In my defense, I was taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola at that time. None of my IRS coworkers had taken job-related graduate courses. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my GAO mentor promoted me in 1986. In my defense, I had a) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. None of my GAO coworkers had done anything close to that. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors got rid of my IRS and GAO mentors. Further, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats 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 and/or were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22promoted+too+fast
(FROM THE POSTING: Your team members might feel resentment if they feel you are being unfairly promoted over them.)
January 29, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Naperville, DuPage officials and organizations explain policies, preparation for heightened federal immigration enforcement (COMMENT: Pritzker and the Immigrant Solidarity DuPage organization put tremendous pressure on law enforcement in DuPage County to not enforce America’s immigration laws. How will law enforcement in DuPage County respond?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/naperville-dupage-immigration-ice-enforcement/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with citizens of foreign countries who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
— Removing medical debt from credit reports opens door to economic opportunity: ‘It gives me hope’ The change is expected to boost millions of people’s credit scores and helping them qualify for home mortgages. It’s unclear whether President Donald Trump will reverse the federal rule announced Jan. 7 by the Biden administration. (COMMENT: Since became a federal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance. Since I got married in 1978, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of our health insurance.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/01/28/medical-debt-credit-reports-home-mortages-housing-opportunity
— GOP plan to cut Medicaid expansion could cost coverage for 900K Illinoisans, Dems say
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/29/gop-plan-medicaid-expansion-donald-trump
ABC7
— Here’s how a freeze on federal grants and loans could impact Chicago and Illinois. Gov. JB Pritzker says the Medicaid system was down on Tuesday in Illinois and other states across the country. (COMMENT: To what extent are those in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct dependent on a) federal aid, b) state aid, c) township aid, d) municipal aid, and e) school district aid?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/is-trump-freezing-federal-aid-how-funding-freeze-grants-loans-could-impact-chicago-illinois-programs/15844666/
— Video shows Tiffany Henyard involved in brawl at Thornton Township meeting. Weeks-long government shutdown ends with services set to resume Wednesday.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tiffany-henyard-news-video-shows-involved-brawl-meeting-services-resume-wednesday/15845872/
— ICE arrestee from local weekend raid ordered released by federal judge
https://abc7chicago.com/post/edward-martinez-cermeno-venezuelan-migrant-swept-ice-raids-chicago-area-ordered-released-federal-judge/15844932/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-1/29/2025
— Elgin family says undocumented man who had not committed any crimes taken into custody. ICE arrests another man nearby after smashing car window, wife says.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/elgin-il-news-today-family-says-undocumented-man-had-not-committed-any-crimes-taken-custody-ice-arrests-another/15844736/
CBS2
— More than 100 arrested in Chicago area as targeted immigration enforcement efforts continue
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/mayor-brandon-johnson-congress-sanctuary-city-policies-immigration/
— Chicago area nonprofits in dismay over Trump administration’s federal funding freeze
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-area-nonprofits-trump-federal-funding-freeze/
FOX32
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson defends city’s sanctuary status amid ICE raids
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-defends-sanctuary-status-ice-raids
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success a) in glorifying and praising illegals and b) in demonizing, denigrating, and condemning those who want America’s immigration laws to be enforced.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/immigration-raids-fear-chicago/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois regains Medicaid access after federal funding freeze confusion
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/illinois-regains-medicaid-access-after-funding-freeze-confusion
— Restaurants ready themselves for ICE (COMMENT: What percent of dishwashers are illegals? I was a dishwasher 1964-1966. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, one of them would have gotten the job that I got.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-daily-gist/restaurants-ready-themselves-ice
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— ‘More questions than answers.’ White House memo sends Springfield agencies scrambling
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/courts/2025/01/29/white-house-memo-sends-springfield-agencies-scrambling/78001348007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump-endorsed candidates win primary races to replace Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz. (COMMENT: Which Republican candidates on the April 1, 2025 ballot in your precinct are seeking Trump’s endorsement? Short of that, which ones support Trump?)
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/randy-fine-conservative-desantis-critic-wins-republican-primary-to-replace-mike-waltz-in-us-house/article_f5ceb1c2-d5e5-5bdc-bd96-42a68379a138.html
25 NEWS NOW
— Illinois GOP lawmakers introduce bill tightening immigration laws (COMMENT: What has your Republican state senator and representative done in support of this bill?)
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/01/28/illinois-gop-lawmakers-introduce-bill-tightening-immigration-laws/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois Senate Republicans introduced a bill Tuesday requiring police to work with ICE agents to deport illegal immigrants convicted of felonies. Republican Sen. Neil Anderson of Andalusia criticized Gov. JB Pritzker for supporting policies like the Illinois Trust Act. This act limits how police can collaborate with ICE on immigration enforcement. “Under the law, Pritzker continues to defend, Illinois law enforcement agencies who prohibit from helping federal immigration officials. Law enforcement officers are effectively blocked from doing their job when it comes to removing violent undocumented criminals from our streets,” said Anderson. Other Republican senators, such as Terri Bryant (R-Murphysboro), and Andrew Chesney (R-Freeport), seek to repeal the Illinois Trust Act. However, Illinois’ legislative branch has an overwhelming Democratic majority, so the future of this Republican-led bill is uncertain.)
WSIL TV
— Florida lawmakers pass sweeping immigration bill to help enforce America’s immigration laws. What bills have your Republican state senator and representative introduced to help enforce America’s immigration laws?
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/florida-lawmakers-pass-sweeping-immigration-bill-to-help-with-trump-crackdown/article_ec01021d-1ff6-5e9f-b49a-82fcd80fc0fa.html
FOX ILLINOIS
— Violent ‘illegal aliens’ among 3,500 migrants arrested since Trump took office
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/several-illegal-aliens-accused-of-violent-crimes-in-us-arrested-since-trump-took-office-immigration-migration-migrants-politics-white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-crimes-criminals-murder-death-rape-sexual-assault
— New Illinois legislation hopes to provide African American reparations (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect ever-increasing pressure from Democrats on those who are the following to disclose their ties to slavery: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois, they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and they never did discriminate against anyone.)
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/new-illinois-legislation-hopes-to-provide-african-american-reparations
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump fires EEOC and labor board officials, setting up legal fight (COMMENT: How has EEOC impacted you? I became an IRS Revenue Officer when I was 22 years old in 1971 because my Firestone Store boss had rudely fired me. He did that because I had told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-28/trump-fires-eeoc-and-labor-board-officials-setting-up-legal-fight
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-445/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— There’s a reason the press isn’t reporting on the types of migrants ICE is arresting
https://wirepoints.org/theres-a-reason-the-press-isnt-reporting-on-the-types-of-migrants-ice-is-arresting-theyre-violent-criminals-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
JOHN KASS
— Protecting Illegal Migrants Against America: Pritzker the Fool and His Brother Brandon
https://johnkassnews.com/pritzker-the-fool-and-his-brother-brandon/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— My critics/opponents despise/hate those who do not promote electric vehicles (EV). How are they responding to my ordering an EV, a 2025 Dodge Daytona R/T? Will they stress that it is not an economy car, but instead, a performance car? My critics/opponents despise/hate cars and especially American-nameplate performance cars. How are they responding to the fact that Dodge is not an American-owned company and that the car I ordered will be built in Canada? I have owned American-nameplate performance cars since 1966. I have owned my 1972 Corvette since 1971. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— GOP State Sen. McConchie Resigns, Pushes for IL GOP Chair Kathy Salvi’s Son to Replace Him, Sparking Nepotism Concerns
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/01/gop-state-sen-mcconchie-resigns-pushes-for-il-gop-chair-kathy-salvis-son-to-replace-him-sparking-nepotism-concerns.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pentagon chief Hegseth yanks Gen. Milley’s security detail and clearance. Orders IG inspection into Milley’s actions to see if he should be demoted or not.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/29/pentagon-chief-pete-hegseth-revokes-gen-mark-mille/
— Trump’s spending pause? Biden did it first
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/28/donald-trump-spending-pause-joe-biden-first/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump is following through with unprecedented and swift action to begin his presidency – which has reset the national mood (COMMENT: How has the mood changed in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I will get a measure of that when I hand-deliver campaign literature and a copy of the sample ballot in my precinct.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/28/opinion/trump-is-following-through-with-unprecedented-and-swift-action-to-begin-his-presidency-which-has-reset-the-national-mood/
DAILY CALL:ER
— Trump To Defund Schools That Teach Critical Race Theory, Radical Gender Ideology (COMMENT: How strongly do Democrats teach Critical Race Theory and Radical Gender Ideology in your school district?)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/29/donald-trump-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-1776-commission/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Admin Offers Buyouts to Nearly All Federal Employees. Federal employees are being offered buyouts through a new ‘deferred resignation’ initiative, allowing them to resign while receiving pay until September. (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-admin-offers-buyouts-to-nearly-all-federal-employees-5800390
FEDERALIST
— Teachers Unions Conspire To Evade Trump’s Border Solutions With ‘ICE-Free Safe Zones’
https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/29/teachers-unions-conspire-to-evade-trumps-border-solutions-with-ice-free-safe-zones/
FOX NEWS
— Liberal officials are siding with illegals (COMMENT: My critics/opponents side with illegals. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzlzM5Cgsj4
— President Trump promised mass deportations. Here’s how it will help Americans. Americans will ‘welcome the relief’ mass deportation will bring.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/president-trump-promised-mass-deportations-heres-how-help-americans
— Trump administration touts 969 illegal immigrant arrests in one day: ‘HERE ARE SOME OF THE WORST’ Trump made getting tough on illegal immigration a pillar of his presidential campaign.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-administration-touts-969-illegal-immigrant-arrests-one-day-here-some-worst
NEWSMAX
— Trump Doing Americans’ Bidding on Illegals, Not Media’s (COMMENT: My critics/opponents side with illegals. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alina-habba-donald-trump-immigration/2025/01/28/id/1196915/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Bombshell Affirmative Action EO Advances Trump’s Colorblind Agenda
https://www.westernjournal.com/bombshell-affirmative-action-eo-advances-trumps-colorblind-agenda/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— White House offers 2 million federal employees financial incentives to quit
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-offers-incentives-federal-employees-resign-warns-downsizing-2025-01-28/
MSN
— Streets empty in Chicago over Trump’s immigration crackdown
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/streets-empty-in-chicago-over-trump-s-immigration-crackdown/ar-AA1y290f
— ‘He’ll stiff you’: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) warns federal workers Trump’s ‘buyout’ offer is bogus
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/he-ll-stiff-you-senator-warns-federal-workers-trump-s-buyout-offer-is-bogus/ar-AA1y22Wj
— VIDEO: 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona PRODUCTION LINE (COMMENT: This Dodge production line is much different from the one that I worked on Belvidere in 1970. At that time, I owned a 1969 Charger SE. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T collector car 1994-2005. I have owned my 2013 Charger R/T since 2012. I have ordered a 2025 Charger Daytona R/T.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/2025-dodge-charger-daytona-production-line/vi-AA1xFSyE
(FROM THE ARTICLE: All-new Dodge Charger production stages at Stellantis Windsor Assembly Plant in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.)
— The Purge Continues: Donald Trump Axes DOJ Officials Involved in His Prosecution (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors purged me when I was 49 years old in 1997 because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/the-purge-continues-donald-trump-axes-doj-officials-involved-in-his-prosecution/ss-AA1y1ir3
NEW YORK TIMES
— Pentagon Removes General Milley’s Security Detail and Revokes His Clearance. The Pentagon has asked its inspector general to review the record and behavior of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who stood up to President Trump in his first term.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/trump-pentagon-milley-security.html
— Trump Freezes Trillions. Chaos Ensues
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/podcasts/the-daily/trump-freeze-chaos-grants-loans.html
WASHINGTON POST
— White House incentivizes federal workers to resign. The email sent to the federal workforce is the most sweeping effort yet by the new Trump administration to shrink the ranks of government employees.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/28/trump-emails-workforce/
— What federal workers should know about Trump administration’s ‘deferred resignation’ offer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/28/federal-worker-offer-resign-explained-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/01/29/transgender-care-trump-executive-order-youth/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/28/transgender-rights-at-risk-trump-executive-order/77977951007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump and a Bequest From the ‘Meritocracy’ A scholarship student in the ’50s leaves his school $50 million. (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, I owe none of my successes in life to meritocracy. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitted from discrimination against those who share their demographics: Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-and-a-bequest-from-the-meritocracy-john-mitchell-education-scholarship-62716896
— America’s enemies promote birthright citizenship
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-attack-on-birthright-citizenship-constitution-14th-amendment-court-precedent-f88b4b53
FORTUNE
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/29/companies-like-costco-and-apple-are-defending-their-dei-programs-despite-nationwide-pushback-these-are-the-companies-standing-by-their-policies/
BLOOMBERG
— Trump Buyouts, Spending Freezes Wreak Havoc Across Government
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-29/trump-buyouts-spending-freezes-wreak-havoc-across-government?embedded-checkout=true
BARRON’S
— Trump Crackdown Spurs Migrants To Seek Refuge In Mexico (COMMENT: Mexico ever-increasingly serves as a staging ground for foreign countries.)
https://www.barrons.com/news/trump-crackdown-spurs-migrants-to-seek-refuge-in-mexico-8e4fa822
BUSINESS INSIDER
— EY report doubles down on diversity initiatives as DEI comes under scrutiny in Trump’s first weeks in power (COMMENT: The accounting profession had no interest in me because a) I did not take and pass the CPA examination until I was 30, b) I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, and c) I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become a licensed CPA until I was 32. The accounting profession had no interest in me because I could help it meet its Affirmative Action quotas, goals, and targets because I was a White male.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-report-how-to-implement-dei-initiatives-donald-trump-2025-1
CAPITOL HILL NEWS
— Trump Suggests Using IRS Agents For Border Security Amid Immigration Crackdown (COMMENT: During the last 6 months of 1971, I was an IRS Revenue Officer in training. My IRS superiors took me and my classmates off that training for 2 weeks and had us make phone calls to help enforce Nixon’s price and wage controls.)
https://capitalhillnews.com/trump-suggests-using-irs-agents-for-border-security-amid-immigration-crackdown/
NEW REPUBLIC
— Trump’s Buyout Offer for Federal Workers Is Already Backfiring
https://newrepublic.com/post/190844/trump-buyout-offer-federal-workers-backfiring
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Trump administration offers most feds ‘deferred resignation’ if they agree to quit by next week. Employees who choose to resign from their roles have to let OPM know of their decision by Feb. 6, according to an email sent to the federal workforce Tuesday.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/01/trump-administration-offers-most-feds-deferred-resignation-if-they-quit-by-next-week/
POLITICO
— Speaker Mike Johnson said on Tuesday that he “fully” supports President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze federal grants and loans, adding it is well within his executive authority.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/28/congress/johnson-fully-supports-trumps-aid-freeze-00201104
PBS
— Trump signs order to end federal support for gender transitions for people under 19
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-signs-order-to-end-federal-support-for-gender-transitions-for-people-under-19
— Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with nearly 8 months’ pay (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-offers-all-federal-workers-a-buyout-with-7-months-pay
CATO
— Remembering Nixon’s Wage and Price Controls (COMMENT: During the last 6 months of 1971, I was an IRS Revenue Officer in training. My IRS superiors took me and my classmates off that training for 2 weeks and had us make phone calls to help enforce Nixon’s price and wage controls.)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/remembering-nixons-wage-price-controls
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Richard Nixon showed us just how dangerous unchecked executive power can be to the free-enterprise system. On Aug. 15, 1971, in a nationally televised address, Nixon announced, “I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States.” After a 90-day freeze, increases would have to be approved by a “Pay Board” and a “Price Commission,” with an eye toward eventually lifting controls — conveniently, after the 1972 election.)
AXIOS
— Trump’s death by a thousand cuts to federal workforce (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. If I was still a federal employee, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/29/trump-federal-workforce-overhaul-buyouts-fork-in-road
— Trump offering buyouts to all federal workers
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/trump-federal-workers-quit-severance
— All undocumented immigrants are criminals
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/trump-immigrants-criminals-white-house-briefing
TELEGRAPH
— Civil servants plot to sabotage Trump’s working from home ban
https://www.yahoo.com/news/civil-servants-plot-sabotage-trump-220000307.html
DAILY MAIL
— Trump to offer two million federal workers buyouts in accelerated government purge
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14335075/trump-government-purge-offer-buyouts-federal-workers.html
January 28, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Mayor reaffirms Chicago’s welcoming city status amid ICE raids; at least 100 arrested in area. Unclear if mayor will go to Washington to testify next month.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-immigration-raids-today-arrests-continue-mayor-brandon-johnson-called-testify-sanctuary-city-policy/15843173/
— Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-grants-loan-disbursement-paused-white-house/15843367/
— Firings, freezes and layoffs: A list of Trump’s moves against federal employees and programs (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Since the 1960s, they have ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-federal-funding-actions-list-summary-trumps-moves-employees-programs/15844281/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Diversity, equity and inclusion On his second day back at the White House, Trump moved to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. That move followed an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a dismantling of the federal government’s diversity and inclusion programs that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners, programs Trump has called “discrimination.” That action revokes an order issued by President Lyndon Johnson, and curtails DEI programs by federal contractors and grant recipients. It’s using one of the key tools utilized by the Biden administration to promote DEI programs across the private sector – pushing their use by federal contractors – to now eradicate them. While many changes may take months or even years to implement, prominent companies from Walmart to Facebook have already scaled back or ended some of their diversity practices in response to Trump’s election and conservative-backed lawsuits against them. By Friday, federal agencies are expected to develop a plan to execute a “reduction-in-force action” against federal DEI workers in their employ as of Election Day.)
— Trump signs executive order aimed at curtailing gender transitions for everyone under 19 (COMMENT: How much success have Democrats had promoting LGBTQ in your school district?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-signs-executive-order-aimed-curtailing-gender-transitions-everyone-19/15844501/
— IL House lawmakers file almost 1,800 new bills only 2 weeks into legislative session (COMMENT: What bills have your Republican lawmakers filed to defend and advance the Republican Party platform?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/il-house-lawmakers-file-almost-1800-new-bills-2-weeks-legislative-session-including-single-use-plastic-foodware-ban/15844418/
NBC5
— Pritzker calls Trump funding freeze ‘illegal’ after judge blocks order. Pritzker addressed media on Tuesday afternoon amid continuing fallout over the freeze order.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/pritzker-blasts-trump-funding-freeze-medicaid-other-programs/3658478/
— Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., on Tuesday defended the impacts of the White House’s federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving free lunch. (COMMENT: During my freshman and sophomore years in high school, I did yard work. During my freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years in high school, I delivered newspapers. During my junior and senior years, I washed dishes. At the start of my junior year in 1964, I bought a 1958 Chevy Bel Air with the money that I had earned. At the end of my senior year, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint with the money that I had earned that I used it to commute to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete. Because I worked so many hours instead of studying, I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class and my ACT score was only 24. Because of heavy traffic on the Dan Ryan, commuting was difficult.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/republican-congressman-children-free-school-lunches-mcdonalds/3658368/
CBS2
— Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul calls Trump’s federal funding freeze unconstitutional
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-president-trump-freeze-federal-funding/
— Democratic states plan to sue over Trump’s federal grant funding freeze
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-funding-freeze-lawsuit-democratic-attorneys-general/
— Medicaid, Head Start, health centers say they’re locked out of federal funding website (COMMENT: To what extent are those in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct dependent on a) federal aid, b) state aid, c) township aid, d) municipal aid, and e) school district aid?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/medicaid-head-start-health-centers-trump-funding-freeze/
WGN9
— President Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown continues
https://wgntv.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/president-trumps-sweeping-immigration-crackdown-continues/
FOX32
— Illinois GOP bill would require law enforcement to coordinate with ICE
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-ice-cooperation-trust-act
— Elgin man arrested by ICE, family says
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1584187
WBEZ
— Immigration arrests have quieted Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods. In East Chicago, a neighborhood that is about 80% Mexican, the typically bustling commercial corridor was eerily still on Monday.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/28/immigration-arrests-have-quieted-chicagos-latino-neighborhoods
— Health care providers in Illinois could lose millions in funding under Trump order. Some providers say an order freezing federal financial help could mean cuts in services within days or months. A judge temporarily blocked the order.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/01/28/health-care-providers-in-illinois-could-lose-millions-in-funding-under-trump-order
— Johnson, other ‘sanctuary’ mayors called to testify on ‘obstructionist policies,’ but he’s not sure he’ll show up. On Tuesday, Johnson referred the question to his Corporation Counsel Mary Richardson-Lowry, who said the “invitation” from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is “under legal review.” Johnson and the mayors of Boston, Denver and New York also were asked to hand over all documents related to their cities’ sanctuary status.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/28/mayor-brandon-johnson-house-oversight-committee-sanctuary-city-immigration-deportation
— Chicago’s immigration sweeps have restaurant and food industry employers feeling anxious. Chicago-based American Business Immigration Coalition warns of major economic consequences of mass deportations. (COMMENT: I washed dishes for the minimum wage in Chicago Heights during my junior and senior years in high school and the summer in between. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, one of them would have gotten that job. That job enabled me to earn and save enough money to buy a new car before I graduated, a car that I used to commute to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete.)
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/28/chicago-immigration-sweeps-restaurant-food-industry-employers-feeling-anxious
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— President Trump’s federal funding freeze hits Medicaid in Illinois, slated to disrupt vast array of programs. The temporary federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB Pritzker’s office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in Illinois in 2023, including low-income adults, children, pregnant women and people with disabilities.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/28/illinois-medicaid-federal-funding-freeze-trump-administration
— Mayor Brandon Johnson reaffirms Chicago’s welcoming city status amid ICE raids. CPD says more than 100 have been detained from Chicago area.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-immigration-raids-today-arrests-continue-mayor-brandon-johnson-called-testify-sanctuary-city-policy/15843173/
— Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months’ pay in effort to shrink size of government
Federal employees who don’t want to return to the office can apply for a buyout. Those workers who accept the buyout will need to resign by Feb. 6 and would receive severance paid through Sept. 30. (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/washington/2025/01/28/trump-offers-all-federal-workers-a-buyout-with-7-months-pay-in-effort-to-shrink-size-of-government
— Dr. Phil had no business taking part in ICE immigration raids in Chicago, Durbin says. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Tuesday slammed the decision to grant TV host Dr. Phil McGraw, a psychologist, access to the raids Sunday in Chicago, which McGraw streamed on his channel.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/washington/2025/01/28/durbin-senate-floor-comments-chicago-immigration-raids-ice-dr-phil-mcgraw-homeland-security
— Trump’s moves on electric vehicles will hurt industry and our climate. President Donald Trump’s executive orders target the electric vehicle industry, while Europe and China forge ahead. (COMMENT: Will Democrats say that I am helping the electric vehicle industry and climate with my buying an electric 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T?)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/01/28/evs-electric-vehicles-donald-trump-environment-editorial
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump administration’s surprise federal funding freeze hits Medicaid while raising havoc and sowing confusion across Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/mayor-brandon-johnson-trump-federal-funds-cut/
— Illinois unable to access Medicaid systems hours before President Trump’s freeze on grants was supposed to take effect
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/mayor-brandon-johnson-trump-federal-funds-cut/
— Democrat leaders crow about their manipulation/domination of religious leaders.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/evanston-church-offers-sanctuary-to-immigrants/
— Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months’ pay in effort to shrink size of government (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/trump-federal-workers-buyout/
— CNN’s Jim Acosta, an irritant to Trump, says he’s quitting rather than take a late-night time slot (COMMENT: In 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer.” They hinted that they might let me work another 6 years when I would be eligible for regular retirement if I happily agreed to be downgraded and transferred to a different audit group. I had been assigned to their group that audited federal financial regulators since 1990. I had become a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. I had earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/cnns-jim-acosta-quits/
— If you’re arrested by ICE in Illinois, what happens next? Legal experts explain the process
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/ice-immigration-trump-deportation-know-your-rights/
— Illinois GOP sues over Democratic legislative remap, calling it ‘not just a little corrupt’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/gop-remap-lawsuit/
DAILY HERALD
— Confusion reigns after feds pull plug on aid; Illinois sues and Pritzker blasts White House
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250128/nation-and-world-politics/illinois-joins-5-other-states-seeking-to-block-trump-pulling-plug-on-federal-aid/
— West Chicago mayor candidate wants lottery to determine ballot placement
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250127/local-politics/west-chicago-mayor-candidate-wants-lottery-to-determine-ballot-placement/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump’s federal spending freeze has local recipients reeling
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/uchicago-pauses-research-spending-after-trump-funding-freeze
— Before federal funding freeze, Illinois reports issues accessing Medicaid
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/after-trump-funding-freeze-illinois-reports-issues-accessing-medicaid
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois lawmakers file bill to repeal ‘Trust Act,’ require police to work with ICE
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/01/28/illinois-lawmakers-want-law-enforcement-to-work-with-ice/78000550007/
WSIL TV
— More frequent use of marijuana damages the brain’s working memory, which could lead to issues with safety, communications and work success. (COMMENT: I have never used marijuana and I never will. That helped me a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) earn master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 46, and 48, and d) earn a professional license when I was 32.)
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/more-frequent-marijuana-use-may-damage-an-important-memory-skill/article_d87a02d9-db7c-5ef4-af93-a9fe4151f824.html
DUPAGE COUNTY ELECTION DIVISION
— Unofficial Candidate Listings
https://cms5.revize.com/revize/dupage/Election/Documents/Candidate%20Information/Candidate%20Listings/2025CE/2025CE-0%20Full%20Candidate%20List.pdf
CAPITOL FAX
— Pritzker directs state agencies to report potential impacts of federal funding cuts
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/28/pritzker-directs-state-agencies-to-report-potential-impacts-of-federal-funding-cuts/
— Trump administration starts at least a partial walk-back after furor – Judge pauses – State has access to Medicaid portal – Pritzker: ‘What Donald Trump tried to do in the last 24 hours is illegal’ – Medicaid shutdown ‘not an accident’ – Federal agencies ordered not to speak with states – AG lawsuit posted
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/28/trump-administration-starts-at-least-a-partial-walk-back-after-furor/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-237/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
— America First Means No More Open Borders and Dangerous Criminals
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
(PRESS RELEASE: ICE Raids targeting criminals and gang members have arrived in Chicago. While many Democrats across the country have embraced and even supported President Trump’s targeting of criminal illegal migrants, JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson continue to grandstand side by side prioritizing protecting criminals over the safety of Illinois families. Here’s some of the people that they are protecting: Nine Tren de Aragua terrorists; Seven sexual predators who committed crimes against children; and Two murderers. Tom Homan said it himself – “everybody we arrested in Chicago yesterday was a significant public safety threat.” “The Trump Administration is making our communities safe again and placing the lives and wellbeing of Americans first. I am a proud supporter of the new Administration’s efforts to step up and take the action that Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson are too cowardly to take themselves,” said Illinois Republican Party Chair Kathy Salvi. “This is a nation of laws, laws that Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson are fine ignoring for the sake of their own radical agenda. President Trump is doing exactly what the American people elected him to do, and we stand ready to assist him in his efforts to secure our border and keep our streets safe.”)
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— McConchie Recommends Joe Salvi as Replacement in State Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/mcconchie-recommends-joe-salvi-as-replacement-in-state-senate/
— McLaughlin Seeks to Succeed McConchie in Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/mclaughlin-seeks-to-succeed-mcconchie-as-in-senate/
— More Bias in Illegal Alien Removal Reporting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/more-bias-in-illegal-alien-removal-reporting/
— Chicago Papers Emphasize Human Interest Angles of Illegal Alien Removals
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/chicago-papers-emphasize-human-interest-angles-of-illegal-alien-removals/
— Rep. Sosnowski Takes on Pritzker about Illegal Alien Deportation
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/rep-sosnowski-takes-on-pritzker-about-illegal-alien-deportation/
— Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Holding Fundraiser Wednesday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/algonquin-township-road-commissioner-holding-fundraiser-wednesday/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 7 steps to improve Illinois’ social mobility rating
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/press-releases/7-steps-to-improve-illinois-social-mobility-rating/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Promote and encourage the “success sequence.” Research has shown progressing from getting an education, finding full-time work, getting married and then having children is a proven path to improve social mobility and strengthen families. American adults who follow this model have a poverty rate of only 2%, and about 75% joined the middle class.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BLAZE
— Trump to freeze federal funds as admin weeds out ‘wokeness’ in budget
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-to-freeze-federal-funds-as-admin-weeds-out-wokeness-in-budget
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump provokes firestorm with federal freeze
https://thehill.com/newsletters/evening-report/5111767-trump-federal-freeze-johnson-miami-leavitt-peters-medicaid/
CNN
— Trump administration denies it is pausing all federal grants after sweeping memo to government agencies
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/white-house-pauses-federal-grants-loan-disbursement/index.html
NBC NEWS
— Trump’s funding freeze creates widespread confusion. A White House memo set off a flurry of panic across nonprofit groups, who said they were unable to access federal government systems used to withdraw funds.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-federal-funding-freeze-widespread-confusion-rcna189581
CBS NEWS
— Trump administration offering buyouts to government workers unwilling to return to office (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-offering-buyouts-to-government-workers-unwilling-to-return-to-office/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Spending Freeze Sows Confusion and Fear
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/28/us/trump-news-executive-orders
PBS
— Trump orders temporary funding freeze that could affect trillions of dollars
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-orders-temporary-funding-freeze-that-could-affect-trillions-of-dollars
January 24, 2025 Evening Edition
POST MILLENNIAL
— Pete Hegseth CONFIRMED by Senate as defense secretary. Vice President JD Vance was called up to cast the tie-breaking vote.
https://thepostmillennial.com/pete-hegseth-confirmed-senate
TOWNHALL
— Pete Hegseth Confirmed as Secretary of Defense
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/01/24/hegseth-confirmed-n2650817
WHITE HOUSE
— ENFORCING THE HYDE AMENDMENT
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/enforcing-the-hyde-amendment/
— I hereby revoke the Presidential Memorandum of January 28, 2021 . . . and reinstate the Presidential Memorandum of January 23, 2017 . . . (The Mexico City Policy). I direct the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to the extent allowable by law, to implement a plan to extend the requirements of the reinstated Memorandum to global health assistance furnished by all departments or agencies. I further direct the Secretary of State to take all necessary actions, to the extent permitted by law, to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund organizations or programs that support or participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memorandum-for-the-secretary-of-state-the-secretary-of-defense-the-secretary-of-health-and-human-services-the-administrator-of-the-united-states-for-international-development/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Evanston investigating photo of firefighters wearing Trump masks at work (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors were furious that I attended a Bob Dole rally in Wheaton in 1996.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-city-evanston-investigating-photo-202200410.html
— A reported sighting of immigration agents attempting to enter an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side on Friday was actually U.S. Secret Service agents investigating a threat.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/24/immigration-enforcement-hamline-elementary/
— Illinois State Senator Terri Bryant (R-Murphysboro) asks prison workers to contact her about undocumented immigrants: ‘I won’t rat you out’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/24/state-senator-asks-prison-workers-to-contact-her-about-undocumented-immigrants-i-wont-rat-you-out/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Homeless tent camp on track to be removed from Gompers Park on Northwest Side. Ald. Samantha Nugent says the city promised to begin a process next month to help move unhoused people from the park into shelters. (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect homeless tent camps in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/01/24/chicago-homeless-tent-camp-removed-gompers-park-northwest-side-samantha-nugent-brandon-johnson
ABC7
— Target is ending its diversity goals as a strong DEI opponent occupies the White House
https://abc7chicago.com/post/target-is-ending-diversity-goals-strong-dei-opponent-occupies-white-house/15834406/
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mass-deportations-school-attendance-declines-parts-illinois-amid-fears-trump-immigration-raids-gov-pritzker-speaks/15834048/
— US Secret Service approached South Side school, not ICE agents. Chicago Public Schools officials initially claimed they denied ICE entry to Hamline Elementary Friday morning.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-immigration-customs-enforcement-agents-denied-entry-hamline-elementary-school-back-yards-cps-officials/15833738/
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mass-deportations-school-attendance-declines-parts-illinois-amid-fears-trump-immigration-raids-gov-pritzker-speaks/15834048/
— Illinois authorities divided on TRUST Act forbidding federal immigration enforcement collaboration
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trust-act-controversy-illinois-authorities-divided-law-forbidding-collaboration-federal-immigration-enforcement-raids/15834612/
— Trump vows to fight for abortion restrictions in March for Life remarks
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/donald-trump-2nd-term-live-updates-more-executive-action-planned-amid-day-1-fallout/15820865/
— Trump says military planes will deport migrants every day
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-border-czar-tells-abc-military-planes-will-deport-migrants-every-day/15834350/
NBC5
— CPS says ICE agents ‘showed up’ at Chicago school, Secret Service says it was them. A spokesperson for ICE, however, said “this was not an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement encounter,” however.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ice-agents-showed-up-at-chicago-school-amid-heightened-concerns-of-raids/3655459/
— Target announces major company changes following Trump’s diversity orders. Target, which operates nearly 2,000 stores nationwide, explained it already had planned to end the racial program this year.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/target-announces-major-company-changes-following-trumps-diversity-orders/3655681/
— Judge finds Dolton mayor in ‘indirect criminal contempt’ in liquor license case
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/judge-finds-dolton-mayor-in-indirect-criminal-contempt-in-liquor-license-case/3655764/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/voters-unhappy-both-parties/3646584/
CBS2
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-public-schools-martinez-cupich-immigration-raid-worries/
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use poor people to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/northern-illinois-food-bank-immigration-policy-concerns/
— Chicago Democrats reject Trump’s election and the rule of law.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-mayor-johnson-immigration-rights-announcement/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump and Vance join March for Life anti-abortion activists in celebrating the movement’s gains. President Donald Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, are celebrating gains in the anti-abortion movement with activists in the annual March for Life/
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-and-vance-join-march-for-life-anti-abortion-activists-in-celebrating-the-movements-gains/article_c22d1d39-93fc-54d5-827b-67e023017820.html
SOUTHERN
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://thesouthern.com/news/illinois-schools-prepare-for-immigration-enforcement-state-board-issues-guidance-after-trump-rescinds-biden-era/article_47c02031-d3c1-5998-a107-91095f03946d.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Federal agencies begin removing DEI guidance from websites in Trump crackdown
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-federal-agencies-begin-removing-dei-guidance-from-websites-in-trump-crackdown/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Local governments across U.S. signal they won’t aid Trump migrant crackdown (COMMENT: To what extent do those who run your county, township, municipality, and school district reject Trump’s election, that is, to what extent do they reject the rule of law?)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-24/local-governments-across-u-s-signal-they-wont-aid-trump-migrant-crackdown
— U.S. puts virtually all foreign aid on 90-day hold
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-24/u-s-puts-virtually-all-foreign-aid-on-90-day-hold-issues-stop-work-order
WREX
— Federal agencies told to move to eliminate DEI offices and positions within 60 days (COMMENT: What if Trump had been elected earlier, much earlier? In Diersen v. GAO, to justify its forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, GAO argued that it was just following orders. GAO used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of its Republican employees, and especially those who were conservative, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. I was all of the aforesaid.)
https://www.wrex.com/news/politics/federal-agencies-told-to-move-to-eliminate-dei-offices-and-positions-within-60-days/article_1c625fdb-9e6e-58db-9fd1-a3c70ed32bc2.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-235/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What if Trump had been elected earlier, much earlier? In Diersen v. GAO, to justify its forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, GAO argued that it was just following orders. GAO used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of its Republican employees, and especially those who were conservative, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. I was all of the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump is finally firing people (COMMENT: If was still working for the Democrats who run GAO, they would kill me figuratively if not literally.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/24/trump-finally-firing-people/
— Repealing the climate hoax
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/24/editorial-repealing-climate-hoax/
NEW YORK POST
— Mexico refuses to accept US deportation flight as Trump’s immigration overhaul gets into full swing
https://nypost.com/2025/01/24/us-news/mexico-refuses-to-accept-us-deportation-flight-as-trumps-immigration-overhaul-gets-into-full-swing/
— Trump’s Education Department sacks ‘book ban coordinator,’ tosses complaints over removal of ‘sexually explicit’ material
https://nypost.com/2025/01/24/us-news/trumps-education-department-eliminates-book-ban-coordinator/
CENTER FOR FAMILY & HUMAN RIGHTS
— Trump Eradicates Gender Ideology on Week One
https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/trump-eradicates-gender-ideology-on-week-one/
DAILY CALLER
— Illegal Aliens ‘Endanger Our Own People’: Democratic Alderman Raymond Lopez of Chicago Lays Into Governor Pritzker Seeking To Block ICE Raids
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/24/chicago-dem-pritzker-trump-block-ice-raids/
GINGRICH
— President Trump Acts Decisively on Illegal Immigration (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be working for GAO.)
https://gingrich360.com/2025/01/24/president-trump-acts-decisively-on-illegal-immigration/
TOWNHALL
— Senate Republican Announces Bill to Finish Building Donald Trump’s Border Wall
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/01/24/house-republican-to-reintroduce-bill-to-finish-building-trumps-wall-n2651080
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Interior Department says Gulf of Mexico now renamed to Gulf of America, Denali to Mount McKinley
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/interior-department-gulf-of-mexico-america/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use students and religious people to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/ice-activity-new-york-new-jersey-schools-places-of-worship/
REUTERS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/some-migrants-turn-pricey-smugglers-or-riskier-routes-after-trump-clampdown-2025-01-24/
NEWSWEEK
— Chicago Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for Trump.
https://www.newsweek.com/chicago-immigrants-fearing-trump-ice-deportation-raids-stay-home-2019296
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-24/some-migrants-turn-to-pricey-smugglers-or-riskier-routes-after-trump-clampdown
NEW YORK TIMES
— At Trump Luncheon, Billionaires Cozy Up to Policymakers
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000009942342/at-trump-luncheon-billionaires-cozy-up-to-policymakers.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/24/immigration-mexico-trump/eab0c612-da10-11ef-85a9-331436ec61e9_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/24/immigration-raids-deportations-trump-ice/
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/24/trump-dei-rollback-inequality/
USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republican and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/01/24/health-wildfire-los-angeles-madison-keys-trump-dei/77922903007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A ‘Pay Penalty’ Is Keeping Men Out of Classrooms. Male teachers can help struggling boys, but few men choose to go into teaching.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/education-low-pay-male-teachers-8c3bfa30
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The typical college-educated man made $95,000 in 2023, compared with $65,000 for male teachers—a $30,000 pay gap, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of census data stored at the University of Minnesota. The comparable gap for women was $12,000.)
FORTUNE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/24/migrants-us-asylum-appointments-canceled-trump-crossing-border/
BARRON’S
— America’s enemies ever-increasingly send their citizens to America illegally.
https://www.barrons.com/news/asylum-access-universally-recognised-right-un-says-after-trump-halts-arrivals-9c5a8983
INC.
— Since the 1960s, Democrats have ever-increasingly used their anti-discrimination laws to discriminate against Republicans who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/trump-federal-contracting-order-reverses-60-years-of-anti-discrimination-progress/91130572
AARP
— 10 Sneaky Retirement Expenses You May Not See Coming (COMMENT: The list includes: Health care/wellness, Home maintenance and modifications, Home and car insurance, Utilities, Taxes, and Staying connected. In today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is a) only 44% of what my salary was when I was 49 in 1997 and b) less than what my salary was when I was 23 in 1972.)
https://www.aarp.org/money/budgeting-saving/info-2023/most-common-underestimated-expenses.html
NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— What’s Next for OFCCP? Agency Issues First Statement After President Trump’s Revocation of EO 11246
https://natlawreview.com/article/whats-next-ofccp-agency-issues-first-statement-after-president-trumps-revocation-eo
AMERICAN LAWYER
— The Justice Department rescinded job offers to dozens of law school students who were set to join the agency this year, while attorneys already in the government are worried about the risk of losing their jobs. (COMMENT: When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile rescinded a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. That had a tremendous impact on the rest of my life.)
https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2025/01/24/government-attorneys-face-reassignment-rescinded-job-offers-in-first-days-of-trump-administration/
LAW 360
— Convenience store chain Circle K requires store managers to make trips to other locations to pick up out-of-stock items but doesn’t reimburse them for the costs associated with this travel. (COMMENT: Prior to Diersen v. IRS ( SEE: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11 ) IRS used a purposely vague definition of “commuting area” to reward and to punish its employees.)
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2288288/circle-k-fails-to-pay-for-travel-costs-manager-says
RASMUSSON REPORTS
— 45% View China as Enemy of U.S.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/45_view_china_as_enemy_of_u_s
January 24, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: A federal judge temporarily blocks President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs promote birthright citizenship, that is, they promote illegal immigration.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/trump-birthright-citizenship-2/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson rejects Trump’s election and the rule of law.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/23/mayor-brandon-johnson-fight-trump-immigrant-threats/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE IN THE NAPERVILLE SUN: Say No To Coal consortium packs Naperville council meeting to fight electric contract extension (COMMENT: If not coal, what exactly do Democrats want to be used to power their electric vehicles?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/naperville-council-coal-electricity-consortium/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE IN THE NAPERVILLE SUN: Democrats ever-increasingly promote ranked choice
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/23/ranked-choice-voting-could-boost-election-fairness-supporters-say-but-faces-steep-uphill-climb-in-cook-county/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/24/letters-012425-mariann-edgar-budde-donald-trump/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/24/column-donald-trump-foreign-policy-tariffs-tiktok-shackelford/
— ‘Troubled’ Housing Authority of Cook County spent more than $60,000 at Six Flags
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/24/cook-county-housing-authority-six-flags/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/24/opinion-illinois-abortion-rights-donald-trump/
— Vintage Chicago Tribune: The mass deportation of Mexicans in 1954 (COMMENT: If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/23/vintage-chicago-tribune-the-mass-deportation-of-mexicans-in-1954/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Questions loom as Trump’s sweeping DEI cuts hit federal agencies in Chicago. Among the remaining questions were how the EPA’s environmental justice programs, which bring federal resources to areas heavier hit by pollution, would be impacted by the order. Federal employees on those programs were ordered to stop work Wednesday. (COMMENT: Under the Democrats, using Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans was the top priority for all federal employees.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/23/donald-trump-dei-cuts-federal-agencies-chicago
— Illinois, other states win temporary block of Trump order ending birthright citizenship. (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs promote birthright citizenship, that is, they promote illegal immigration.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/23/federal-judge-temporary-block-president-trump-executive-order-birthright-citizenship
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrats and RINOs promote birthright citizenship, that is, they promote illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/01/23/birthright-citizenship-president-donald-trump-constitution-mexico-asia
— Chicago Democrats reject Trump’s election and the rule of law.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/23/mayor-brandon-johnson-trump-threats-local-leaders-sanctuary-cities
— The hatred that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote against Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote them.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/01/24/donald-trump-christian-right-franklin-graham-idolatry-mona-charen
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/01/24/trump-wants-to-convince-you-immigrants-dont-belong-here-hes-wrong
DAILY HERALD
— Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) issues guidance to schools on Trump immigration actions (COMMENT: The ISBE rejects Trump’s election and the rule of law.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250123/news/state-education-board-issues-guidance-to-schools-on-trump-immigration-actions/
— My Democrat superiors in the federal government gave preference big time to their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, that is, they discriminated big time again their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250123/nation-and-world-politics/trump-revoked-an-antidiscrimination-hiring-rule-heres-what-it-means/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker, Johnson, Emanuel blast Trump on DEI, immigration orders (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject Trump’s election and reject the rule of law.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-johnson-emanuel-blast-trump-dei-immigration
ABC7
— Trump signs new executive orders
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/donald-trump-2nd-term-live-updates-more-executive-action-planned-amid-day-1-fallout/15820865/
— DHS allows US Marshals, DEA and ATF to carry out immigration enforcement
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dhs-allows-us-marshals-dea-atf-carry-immigration-enforcement/15829594/
— Chicago Democrats reject Trump’s election and the rule of law.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-deportations-mayor-brandon-johnson-launches-know-rights-campaign-cta-amid-fears-trump-immigration-raids/15830469/
NBC5
— Trump birthright citizenship order dealt setback on busy day for administration (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs promote birthright citizenship, that is, they promote illegal immigration.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-birthright-citizenship-order-jfk-assassination-busy-day/3655023/
— Democrats reject Trump’s election and the rule of law.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-area-school-districts-prepare-for-possible-immigration-enforcement-actions/3654727/
NBC5
— Immigrants in Chicago’s Chinatown on alert over Trump deportation plans (COMMENT: What percent of those in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district are in America illegally?)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/immigrants-in-chicagos-chinatown-on-alert-over-trump-deportation-plans/3654847/
— Tiffany Henyard lawsuit over Thornton Township candidacy rejected by judge. Henyard will still run for reelection as mayor of Dolton later this year.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/tiffany-henyard-lawsuit-dismissed-thornton-township/3655009/
CBS2
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote birthright citizenship (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders promote birthright citizenship, that is, they promote illegal immigration.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/over-2-dozen-states-including-illinois-filing-lawsuits-over-trumps-birthright-order/
— Democrats reject Trump’s election and the rule of law.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/church-chicago-pilsen-immigration-crackdown-fears/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/city-of-chicago-to-conduct-annual-count-of-everyone-experiencing-homelessness/
— Tiffany Henyard will stay off ballot for Thornton Township, Illinois supervisor, judge rules
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tiffany-henyard-off-ballot-thornton-township-illinois/
FOX32
— Trump doubles down on immigration action – what that means for Illinois (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs reject Trump’s election and the rule of law.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1581527
— Republicans praise executive order on birthright citizenship
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1581735
— Fox News reporter rides along during ICE bust under Trump. ICE has made hundreds of arrests across the country, including in Illinois.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1582047
WTTW
— Pritzker rejects Trump’s election and the rule of law
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/23/pritzker-vows-protect-illinois-residents-despite-threat-prosecution-defying-trump
— Chicago Democrats reject Trump’s election and the rule of law
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/23/deputy-mayor-pledges-protect-chicago-s-undocumented-immigrant-communities
WGN RADIO
— Officers outraged by President Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons
https://wgnradio.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/officers-outraged-by-president-trumps-jan-6-pardons/amp/
WBEZ
— Democrats reject Trump’s election and the rule of law.
https://www.wbez.org/city-hall/2025/01/23/mayor-brandon-johnson-is-not-intimidated-after-trump-threatens-to-investigate-local-leaders-in-sanctuary-cities
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/24/research-contradicts-public-safety-rationale-for-trumps-crackdown-on-immigrants-and-sanctuary-cities
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/women-minority-entrepreneurs-proved-they-can-compete-opinion
RIVER BENDER
— The Illinois African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission Hosts Public Hearing in Evanston (COMMENT: Soon, if not already, Illinois Democrats will force everyone in Illinois to disclose their ties to enslavement or the transatlantic slave trade. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s from what is now Germany. In their defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois. On my mother’s side, they sharecropped and then bought and operated a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses just north of downtown Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store.)
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/the-illinois-african-descentcitizens-reparations-commission-hosts-public-hearing-in-evanston—79060.cfm?
FOX ILLINOIS
— NASA closing DEI offices, admits they ‘resulted in shameful discrimination’ (COMMENT: To give preference to members of one group is to discriminate against members of another group.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/nasa-closing-dei-offices-admits-they-resulted-in-shameful-discrimination-diversity-equity-inclusion-donald-j-trump-white-house-administration-woke-washington-politics
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote birthright citizenship (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders promote birthright citizenship, that is, they promote illegal immigration.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-23/trump-wants-to-end-birthright-citizenship-thats-easier-said-than-done
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— President Trump focuses on illegal immigration
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/washington/washington-dc/president-trump-focuses-on-illegal-immigration/
— Democrats and RINOs will not stop using DEI to get rid of Republicans; they will go under the table and off the books.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-order-ending-federal-dei-programs-leaves-agencies-and-stakeholders-on-uncertain-ground/
FOX ILLINOIS
— legalizing recreational marijuana is making roads more dangerous
https://foxillinois.com/news/spotlight-on-america/is-legalizing-recreational-marijuana-making-roads-more-dangerous-impairment-law-enforcement-crashes-injury
WGLT
— Trump taps conservative media critic L. Brent Bozell III to lead global news agency
https://www.wglt.org/2025-01-23/trump-taps-conservative-media-critic-to-lead-global-news-agency
WSIL TV
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/trumps-orders-to-end-dei-programs-reflect-his-push-for-a-profound-cultural-shift/article_7c56a985-c50e-58d2-b49c-1a95313bccd7.html
— My Democrat superiors in the federal government gave preference big time to their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, that is, they discriminated big time again their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/consumer/trump-rescinds-measure-used-to-fight-workplace-discrimination-for-60-years/article_d16bc534-290b-5bf4-be0f-18ac50807105.html
POLSKIE RADIO
— Polish community in Chicago concerned over Trump’s deportation plans
https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7789/Artykul/3474833,polish-community-in-chicago-concerned-over-trump%E2%80%99s-deportation-plans
EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Evanston firefighters wear Trump masks at work
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/01/22/evanston-firefighters-wear-trump-masks-at-work/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-442/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-234/
— Illinois-related Trump news coverage roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/23/illinois-related-trump-news-coverage-roundup/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Trump Kills Obama Democrat’s Nakedly Racist DEI
https://johnkassnews.com/trump-mercifully-kills-obamas-democrat-racist-dei/
WIREPOINTS
— Open borders and sanctuaries are driving Illinois’ migrant chaos, not Trump’s deportations
https://wirepoints.org/open-borders-and-sanctuaries-are-driving-illinois-migrant-chaos-not-trumps-deportations-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Democrat Party’s strategies to stay in power include flooding America with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, that is, citizens of foreign countries who are minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, and/or non-German American, that is, those who want/need/demand massive government assistance because they lack education and/or job skills and/or because they have health and/or other problems. The Democrat Party’s strategies to stay in power also include promoting dependency on government and charity, destruction of traditional marriage and family (LGBTQ), abortion, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, reparations, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Hate-filled Trump-hating RINOs have no problem with the aforesaid. The Democrat Party’s strategies are killing America. That is why Trump got reelected. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I have always followed the rule of law. While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS and GAO, Democrat Affirmative Action and DEI laws required me to give preference big time to my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger than me, disabled, and/or veteran. Virtually all my subordinates were problematic one way or the other. But I nevertheless gave them big time preference. But that was not enough for my Democrat superiors. They wanted to get rid of me so that they could give my job to one of my subordinates. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in doing that when I was 49 years old in 1997. They succeeded in forcing me to retire. They gave my Democrat Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. Previously, to get rid of me, they had always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, They had kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They had delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They had forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. They had ignored/dismissed/belittled a) my earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, b) my earning professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and c) my becoming a licensed CPA. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How has race and gender based preference giving impacted you? My Democrat superiors in the federal government gave preference big time to their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, that is, they discriminated big time again their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What tests have you taken and passed? If my critics/opponents had their way, for all the many tests that I took and passed, equal percentages of Whites and minorities and equal percentages of males and females would have taken and passed those tests. But that was not the case. Far fewer minorities than Whites and far fewer females than males took and passed the tests that I did. I took and passed all the tests necessary to earn a) master’s degrees in business (1976), accounting (1980), and finance (1997) and b) professional certifications in accounting (1979) and internal auditing (1981). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Soon, if not already, Illinois Democrats will force everyone in Illinois to disclose their ties to enslavement or the transatlantic slave trade. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s from what is now Germany. In their defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois. On my mother’s side, they sharecropped and then bought and operated a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses just north of downtown Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you or anyone you know driven or rode in a 2024 or 2025 Dodge Charger? If so, please ask them to contact me. Monday, I ordered a red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T with Plus Group package, Sun & Sound package, and full glass roof. SEE: https://www.dodge.com/charger.html I own a red 2013 Charger R/T Max. I previously owned a blue 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971 and a blue 1968 Charger R/T 1994-2005. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Hegseth narrowly clears Senate test vote, poised for final confirmation on Friday
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/23/pete-hegseth-narrowly-clears-senate-test-vote-pois/
— Lisa Murkowski is first Republican to announce opposition to Hegseth ahead of key vote
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/23/lisa-murkowski-first-republican-announce-oppositio/
— Federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs promote birthright citizenship, that is, they promote illegal immigration.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/23/federal-judge-blocks-trump-birthright-citizenship-/
— Texas asks to be reimbursed for $11 billion spent defending border
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/23/texas-asks-reimbursed-11-billion-spent-defending-b/
— Marriage decline spells societal disaster (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly discourage traditional marriage and family.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/23/better-worse-marriage-decline-spells-societal-disa/
— March for Life: Defending the weakest and most vulnerable
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/23/march-life-defending-weakest-vulnerable/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump isn’t just shutting down diversity, equity, and inclusion offices across the federal government — he’s directing employees to turn in colleagues who may be practicing DEI under the radar.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3299011/trump-hardball-tactics-root-out-dei-federal-government/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— CNN Lays Off Over 200 Employees Days Into Trump’s Second Term
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/cnn-lays-off-over-200-employees-days-into-trumps-second-term/
NEW YORK POST
— NY has 670K residents who are illegal migrants — including 42,300 undocumented restaurant workers (COMMENT: While I was a junior and senior in high school in the 1960s, I washed dishes. Previously, I did yard work and delivered newspapers. Subsequently, I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/23/us-news/ny-has-670k-residents-who-are-illegal-migrants-including-42300-undocumented-restaurant-workers/
— Trump can fix biased, bloated bureaucracy — by abolishing the civil service (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government gave preference big time to their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, that is, they discriminated big time again their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/23/opinion/fix-biased-bloated-bureaucracy-abolish-the-civil-service/
— Trump shakes up globalists at Davos summit — instilling fear and relief while showing Sleepy Joe’s no longer at the wheel
https://nypost.com/2025/01/23/business/trump-shakes-up-globalists-at-davos-summit-instilling-fear-and-relief-while-showing-sleepy-joes-no-longer-at-the-wheel/
— Revoking 1965 Executive Order 11246: This is President Trump’s boldest move so far — even Reagan chickened out on it (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government used that order a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/23/opinion/president-trumps-boldest-move-so-far-even-reagan-chickened-out-on-it-repealing-affirmative-action/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Mexico Scrambles to Build Tents to Handle Mass Deportations From US
https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/24/morning-greatness-mexico-scrambles-to-build-tents-to-handle-mass-deportations-from-us/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ACLU sues to prevent illegals from being deported
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/01/23/right-on-cue-aclu-sues-to-prevent-illegals-from-being-deported-1517992/
— The usual RINO suspects set to oppose Hegseth after NBC News slime job (COMMENT: RINOs are closer to Democrats than to Republicans.)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/01/23/the-usual-rino-suspects-set-to-oppose-hegseth-after-nbc-news-slime-job-report-1517998/
BREITBART
— Under Trump, ICE Arrests 460 Illegal Immigrants Accused of Violent Crimes in 33 Hours
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/23/report-under-trump-ice-arrests-460-illegal-immigrants-accused-of-violent-crimes-in-33-hours/
— ICE Rounds Up Gang Members, Child Predators, Suspected Terrorist as Deportation Operation Begins
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/01/23/ice-rounds-gang-members-child-predators-suspected-terrorist/
— Trump Deputies Seek 40,000 Beds for Migrant Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/01/23/trump-deputies-seek-40000-beds-for-migrant-deportations/
— Illegal Aliens Worried as Trump-Era ICE Raids Loom
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/23/illegal-aliens-worried-as-trump-era-ice-raids-loom/
CENTER SQUARE
— Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $116 billion annually. Californians, Texans, Floridians pay the most.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_77e6b26a-d9be-11ef-a20b-ef008926f5c0.html
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump appoints affirmative action critic to chair civil rights commission
https://www.thecollegefix.com/ending-illegal-discrimination-trump-order-may-lead-to-more-dei-cuts-in-higher-ed/
DAILY CALLER
— GOP Rep Unveils Resolution Condemning Left-Wing Bishop’s ‘Distorted Message’ During National Prayer Service
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/23/exclusive-rep-josh-brecheen-resolution-condemning-mariann-budde/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Pardons 23 Pro-Life Activists Ahead of March for Life. The protesters were convicted for blocking the entrances of abortion clinics. (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-pardons-23-pro-life-activists-ahead-of-march-for-life-5797925
HOT AIR
— Violent Illegal Gang Member: “Biden Forever.” Thanks Obama “For Everything He Did For Me”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/01/23/violent-illegal-gang-member-biden-forever-thanks-obama-for-everything-he-did-for-me-n3799099
MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
— Texas Nurse Threatens ICE, Tells Others How To Smuggle Illegals Into Their Hospitals
https://mrctv.org/blog/justine-brooke-murray/texas-nurse-threatens-ice-tells-others-how-smuggle-illegals-their
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Trump’s Magnificent Blow Against DEI (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always used DEI against me.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/01/trumps-magnificent-blow-against-dei/
NEWSMAX
— California Braces for Trump’s Illegal Immigration Crackdown
https://www.newsmax.com/us/california-illegal-immigrants-resources/2025/01/23/id/1196290/
PJ MEDIA
— Here Are Some of the Monsters Arrested by ICE Since Trump’s Inauguration
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/23/here-are-some-of-the-monsters-arrested-by-ice-since-trumps-inauguration-n4936275
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— There Has Been A Massive Shift On Immigration, The Majority Of Americans Believe Illegals Should Be Deported
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/23/cnns_enten_there_has_been_a_massive_shift_on_immigration_the_majority_of_americans_believe_illegals_should_be_deported.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— How much success have the Democrat teachers in your school district had turning their students into good little Democrats?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technology/teaching-or-indoctrination-us-classrooms-mirror-nationwide-divide-on-race-and-history/ar-AA1xFfQh
ABC NEW YORK
— ICE agents arrest over 500 migrants in sanctuary cities, including NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZeHXDcBeQ
NBC NEWS
— Trump issues more immigration orders on third day in office, while enforcement details remain unclear
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/trump-immigration-orders-third-day-enforcement-details-rcna188827
— Democrats and RINOs reject Trump’s election and the rule of law.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faith-leaders-teachers-preparing-attack-trump-allows-immigration-arres-rcna188753
CBS NEWS
— Trump officials closing immigration offices Biden set up in Latin America
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-officials-closing-immigration-offices-biden-set-up-latin-america/
— Pete Hegseth told Sen. Elizabeth Warren he paid $50,000 to woman who accused him of sexual assault
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-hegseth-paid-50000-to-woman-who-accused-him-of-sexual-assault/
— Hundreds of “illegal immigrant criminals” arrested, hundreds more flown out of U.S. by military
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hundreds-illegal-immigrant-criminals-arrested-more-flown-from-us-military-white-house-says/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Officials Move to Quickly Expel Migrants Biden Allowed In Temporarily. A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to target programs that let in more than a million people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/politics/trump-immigrants-deportation.html
— For Some Democrats, Talk of ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Has Grown Quieter. Many leaders say their policies to limit local cooperation with federal immigration officials stand. But signs of division have emerged.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/for-some-democrats-talk-of-sanctuary-cities-has-grown-quieter.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/politics/sarah-mcbride-transgender-trump-congress.html
— FRONT PAGE: The Struggle To Make Tests A.I. Can’t Ace (COMMENT: If I could do it over again, my undergraduate degree would have been in accounting. By the time I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32, the accounting profession viewed me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/technology/ai-test-humanitys-last-exam.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/01/23/schools-immigrant-families-trump-ice-raids/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/22/trump-immigration-ice-raids-school/866be050-d886-11ef-85a9-331436ec61e9_story.html
— How Trump’s executive orders could affect federal workers. President Donald Trump has issued orders that send federal workers back to the office, terminate DEI positions and more. Here’s what we know so far. (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government used Affirmative Action and DEI to give preference big time to their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, that is, they discriminated big time again their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/22/federal-workers-trump-orders-dei-return-office/
LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
— Mainstream media can’t cope with growing Black support for Trump
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/01/23/larry-elder-mainstream-media-cant-cope-with-growing-black-support-of-trump/
USA TODAY
— Acting VA secretary warns against disguising DEI programs targeted for termination
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/22/veterans-affairs-dei-trump/77888886007/
— Trump’s anti-DEI orders worry some federal workers
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/23/trump-dei-civil-rights/77879746007/
KSDK
— Democrats and RINOs will not stop using DEI to get rid of Republicans; they will go under the table and off the books.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/verify/donald-trump/federal-employees-report-possible-dei-jobs-trump-administration-fact-check/536-1ce97641-d9de-4c65-a8fa-bb3493fa3ac0
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Two Republican Senators Oppose Hegseth for Defense Secretary
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/pete-hegseth-confirmation-vote-goes-down-to-the-wire-e91fd01f
FORTUNE
— Democrats and RINOs will not stop using DEI to get rid of Republicans; they will go under the table and off the books.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/23/dei-donald-trump-executive-order-presidential-action-what-it-means-for-businesses/
FORBES
— Change Your College Planning For The $1.1 Trillion Skills Gap (COMMENT: My undergraduate major should have been accounting. By the time I took graduate accounting courses, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, earned a master’s degree in accounting, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, and became a licensed CPA, I was 32 years old. The accounting profession had no use for me because I was too old and because I had bad demographics.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivalegatt/2025/01/23/change-your-college-planning-for-the-11-trillion-skills-gap/
FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION
— Equality of Opportunity, Not Outcome, Is What Made America Great (COMMENT: If my critics/opponents had their way, for all the many tests that I took and passed, equal percentages of Whites and minorities and equal percentages of males and females would have taken and passed those tests. But that was not the case. Far fewer minorities than Whites and far fewer females than males took and passed the tests that I did. I took and passed all the tests necessary to earn a) master’s degrees in business (1976), accounting (1980), and finance (1997) and b) professional certifications in accounting (1979) and internal auditing (1981).)
https://fee.org/articles/equality-of-opportunity-not-outcome-is-what-made-america-awesome/
NATIONAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN REPARATIONS COMMISSION
— Illinois Introduces Landmark Slavery Disclosure & Redress Bill, Press Conference Set for January 28 (COMMENT: Soon, if not already, Illinois Democrats will force everyone in Illinois to disclose their ties to enslavement or the transatlantic slave trade. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s from what is now Germany. In their defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois. On my mother’s side, they sharecropped and then bought and operated a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses just north of downtown Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store.)
https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-news/landmark-slavery-disclosure-and-redress-act-introduced-in-illinois/
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— If you oppose giving preference to Blacks, Democrats and RINOs call you a racist.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-war-on-dei-opens-the-door-to-jim-crows-return.html
WASHINGTON MONTHLY
— Hate filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against the 77 million who voted for Trump. How many voted for Trump in your precinct? 373 did in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton. What should I do to protect them from hate filled Trump-hating Trump-haters?
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/24/trumps-executive-orders-making-america-hate-again/
ADVOCATE
— Chicago Chick-fil-A will share a building with Black and trans-led LGBTQ+ group
https://www.advocate.com/news/chicago-chick-fil-a-lgbtq-group
NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
— Hundreds of migrants arrested, flown out of US as part of Trump’s deportation operation
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2025/Jan/24/hundreds-of-migrants-arrested-flown-out-of-us-as-part-of-trumps-deportation-operation
— Congressional resolution introduced for constitutional amendment to allow third term for US president
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2025/Jan/24/congressional-resolution-introduced-for-constitutional-amendment-to-allow-third-term-for-us-president
DAILY MAIL
— Outrage as ABC7 Chicago broadcasts report telling illegal migrants how to avoid ICE capture
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14317469/abc-chicago-illegal-migrants-ice-capture.html