April 30, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump targets sanctuary cities like Chicago with new orders
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/04/29/trump-executive-orders-sanctuary-cities-law-enforcement
— Andrew Boutros is the new U.S. Attorney. My critics/opponents have always stressed that the U.S. Attorney who represented GAO in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he sided with Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he sided with race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/29/andrew-boutros-us-attorney-chicago-trump
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that Jews have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/04/29/antisemitism-dei-university-jewish-robert-crimo-iii-neil-steinberg-kristi-noem-purse-littering
— Native American mascots should be phased out of K-12 schools in Illinois. What about the Crete-Monee Warriors?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/04/30/native-americans-mascots-logo-illinois-elementary-high-schools-sports-matthew-beaudet

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson sues Trump over cuts to federal workforce. Democrat leaders defend Democrat federal employees. Republican leaders do not defend Republican federal employees. I should write about that. I would use myself as an example.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/mayor-brandon-johnson-lawsuit-trump-federal-worker-firings/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLDF WITH PICTURE: Andrew Boutros is the new U.S. Attorney. My critics/opponents have always stressed that the U.S. Attorney who represented GAO in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he sided with Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he sided with race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/chicagos-new-u-s-attorney-balances-offices-tradition-with-new-directives/
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/feds-probe-chicago-public-schools-over-alleged-racial-discrimination-in-black-student-success-plan/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s spending cuts against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/head-start-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-efforts-to-dismantle-early-childhood-development-program/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/30/column-donald-trump-100-days-approval-rating-washington/
— Where did the money come from to pay for your bachelor’s degree? Mine came from what I earned doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, and working on an automotive assembly line. That enabled me graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. But that was the good old days when tuition was much lower.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/30/college-loans-frerichs-debt/

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving the economy down to punish Trump and to punish those who voted for him.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250430/economy/u-s-economy-shrinks-0-3-in-first-quarter-as-trump-trade-wars-disrupt-business/

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-news-today-chicago-il-involved-100-lawsuits-filed-administration-1st-days/16280838/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-immigration-news-ice-detains-lyons-illinois-father-abel-orozco-wife-battles-breast-cancer-family-says/16280691/
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-education-investigating-chicago-public-schools-black-students-success-plan-defending-complaint/16281583/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-economy-news-donald-trump-tariffs-hurting-small-businesses-black-owned-chicago/16281385/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-news-today-how-presidents-tariffs-1st-100-days-could-contribute-ongoing-price-increases-housing-groceries/16280607/

NBC5
— Trump aide: Pritzker’s call for protests could be seen as ‘inciting violence’
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-aide-pritzkers-call-for-protests-could-be-seen-as-inciting-violence/3733550/
— Chicago joins suit against Trump administration over firing of federal employees. Democrat leaders defend Democrat federal employees. Republican leaders do not defend Republican federal employees. I should write about that. I would use myself as an example.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/chicago-joins-suit-against-trump-administration-over-firing-of-federal-employees/3733402/

FOX32
— Chicago sues Trump admin over cuts to federal workforce. My critics/opponents have always stressed that the U.S. Attorney who represented GAO in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he sided with Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he sided with race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1632939

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/29/chicago-may-day-rally-planned-trump-ramps-attacks-immigrants-sanctuary-cities

WBEZ
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/29/trump-education-department-cps-investigation-black-student-success-plan

NPR ILLINOIS
— Who has targeted you? I should write about those who have targeted me. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-29/trump-has-used-government-powers-to-target-more-than-100-perceived-enemies
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-29/100-days-into-office-views-about-trumps-job-performance-are-on-the-decline

NORTHERN STAR
— NIU’s removal of DEI language is a strategic shield against federal retaliation. NIU accepted me when I was 20 years old in1969. But because of my terrible demographics, NIU would not accept me today if I was 20 years old today.
https://northernstar.info/125858/opinion/editorial-nius-removal-of-dei-language-is-a-strategic-shield-against-federal-retaliation/

CAPITOL NEW ILLINOIS
— After-school programs continue push for state aid. What did you do while you were in grade school and high school?  I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. That enabled me to buy a 1958 Chevy Bel Air in 1964 and a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/after-school-programs-continue-push-for-state-aid/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-502/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Democrat Judges Spit on Rule of Law
https://johnkassnews.com/democrat-judges-spit-on-rule-of-law/

WIREPOINTS
— We’re talking 18,000 kids unable to read or do math, with a hard future, just in these 80 zero-schools alone
https://wirepoints.org/were-talking-18000-kids-unable-to-read-or-do-math-with-a-hard-future-just-in-these-80-zero-schools-alone-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— West Coast gas prices for Rust Belt Illinoisans.
https://wirepoints.org/west-coast-gas-prices-for-rust-belt-illinoisans-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How has Affirmative Action and DEI been used against you? All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. I should write about my coworkers who were promoted over me. I would focus on those who were virtually all of the aforesaid, if not all of the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘We’ve just gotten started:’ Trump takes Michigan victory lap at 100-day mark
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/29/trump-takes-michigan-victory-lap-100-day-mark/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Don’t fall for the DEI sleight of hand
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3395570/dei-critical-social-justice-civil-rights-act/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— The process due illegals is deportation
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/29/victor-joecks-the-process-due-illegals-is-deportation-1539719/

BREITBART
— Venezuela Prepares Marxist May Day Rallies Demanding Release of U.S.-Deported Tren de Aragua Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/04/29/venezuela-prepares-marxist-may-day-rallies-demanding-release-of-u-s-deported-tren-de-aragua-illegals/

DAILY WIRE
— Here’s How Trump Crippled Radical Gender Ideology In His First 100 Days
https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-everything-trump-did-on-gender-ideology-in-his-first-100-days
— ‘Just Getting Started’: Trump Vows More Action In ‘100 Days Of Greatness’ Rally
https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-getting-started-trump-vows-more-action-in-100-days-of-greatness-rally

FOX NEWS
— Democrats are no longer defined by principles, but by hatred of Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372091573112

NEW AMERICAN
— ICE in First 100 Days: Almost 70K Illegals Arrested, Nearly 66K Removed; 75 Percent Dangerous Criminals
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/ice-in-first-100-days-almost-70k-illegals-arrested-nearly-66k-removed-75-percent-dangerous-criminals/

NEWSMAX
— Education Dept. Investigating Chicago Public Schools. Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/education-chicago-schools/2025/04/29/id/1208846/
— Postal Service Assisting With Deportations
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/usps-inspection-service-deportations/2025/04/29/id/1208879/
— ICE: 66,463 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Trump’s First 100 Days
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-criminal-aliens-arrests/2025/04/29/id/1208808/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5273836-trump-second-term-abortion-access/
— UPS to cut 20K jobs amid Trump tariff uncertainty
https://thehill.com/business/5273014-ups-job-cuts-donald-trump-tariff-agenda/

ABC NEWS
— Federal cuts gut food banks as they face record demand. How dependent on food banks are those in the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/federal-cuts-gut-food-banks-face-record-demand/story?id=121234012

CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-trump-democrats/index.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Saigon fell 50 years ago. Back then, I was a 26-year-old IRS employee. Virtually all of my superiors and supervisors were Democrat veterans. They blamed non-veteran Republicans for the fall of Saigon. I was one of an extremely few non-veteran Republicans in the office. My Democrat IRS superiors and supervisors who were veterans held my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me big time. They had disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. They had made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://apnews.com/article/saigon-vietnam-war-americans-50-years-f6b8b5823b99038fcdb87bdbcd4c0125

REUTERS
— Trump touts economy at Michigan 100-day rally
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-touts-100-day-achievements-michigan-amid-concerns-about-economy-2025-04-29/

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbSMcIDwdmg
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump. What Republican leaders had sued Biden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npUCmpAFEKs

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down and his disapproval rating up.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Housing on Federal Lands Aims to Ease Affordability Crisis. During the 1960s and 1970s, Democrat leaders spent many millions of dollars making housing in University Park affordable. My critics/opponents have always been furious that I took advantage of that and bought a new town home in University Park when I was 24 years old in 1972. According to them, Blacks should have bought the town home that I did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/housing-federal-land-trump.html
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-chicago-schools-black-students.html
— GAO Reveals Dozens of Inquiries Into Trump’s Withholding of Funds. Democrats run GAO. When I was 31 years old in 1980, I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-funds-gao.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: According to those who have taken many big adverse actions against Trump, Trump is driven by vengeance.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/04/30/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf
— Democrat leaders to ever-increasingly capitalize on Trump federal spending cuts. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://politicalwire.com/2025/04/28/democrats-to-capitalize-as-gop-outlines-spending-cuts/

WASHINGTON POST
— USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/29/usps-immigration-trump-deportations/
— Hegseth ‘proudly’ terminates Women, Peace, and Security program supported by Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/29/hegseth-wps-rubio-noem/
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/dei-companies-sec-filings/

USA TODAY
— Donald Trump signs two new executive orders on immigration enforcement
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2025/04/29/trump-signs-new-executive-orders-aiming-at-sanctuary-cities/83339906007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Canada against America.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/30/canada-election-liberals-win-trump-referendum/83329799007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/28/trump-anti-trans-lgbtq-executive-orders/83248377007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/04/30/trump-shut-down-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-kids/83334766007/
— Already more than 1,000 workers down, EPA tries to convince others to depart. EPA will try again in another round of offers to convince its employees to take deferred resignations or early retirements. My Democrat GAO superiors ever-increasingly use Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of GAO employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write about that.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/28/epa-staff-cuts-voluntary-retirement-resignation/83329753007/

KWQC
— Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/04/30/duckworth-trump-making-americans-weaker-sicker-less-secure/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Pence: What the 47th President Can Learn From the 45th. Time-honored conservative principles guided the first Trump administration. America needs them now.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-the-47th-president-can-learn-from-the-45th-trump-second-term-policy-ea1bf83e
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-hemorrhages-support-100-days-in-policy-second-term-presidency-014d6dd3
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/amazon-tariff-prices-karoline-leavitt-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-d085537c

BLOOMBERG
— Trump’s New Orders Targeting Sanctuary Cities
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-04-29/trump-s-new-orders-targeting-sanctuary-cities-police-reform-citylab-daily

NEW REPUBLIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193040/trans-federal-employee-discrimination-trump

HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-immigration-enforcement-100-days-due-process_n_6810f2bae4b0241e22ed2cae

CONVERSATION
— All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. I should write about my coworkers who were promoted over me. I would focus on those who were virtually all of the aforesaid, if not all of the aforesaid.
https://theconversation.com/trump-says-diversity-initiatives-undermine-merit-decades-of-research-show-this-is-flawed-255100

GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White Afrikaners.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/30/a-godsend-the-white-afrikaners-lining-up-to-accept-trumps-offer-of-asylum

April 29, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump marks his first 100 days in office with a rally in Michigan
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-ease-auto-tariffs-faced-us-automakers/16277133/
— Trump pushes back against economic anxieties in ABC interview
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-abc-interview-president-pushes-back-economic-anxieties-says-china-will-eat-tariffs/16279517/
— Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
https://abc7chicago.com/post/wisconsin-supreme-court-suspends-hannah-dugan-judge-arrested-accused-helping-eduardo-flores-ruiz-evade-ice/16280292/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use wokeness/wokeism to get rid of Republicans. Further, those who are anti-conservative, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time use wokeness/wokeism to get rid of those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time.
https://abc7.com/post/trump-100-days-america-faces-woke-divide-president-donald-says-history/16276880/
— Federal workers on DOGE impact during Trump’s first 100 days: ‘We want to come back to work’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-100-days-look-elon-musks-doge-plan-cut-down-government-waste-lay-off-federal-workers/16278493/
— Montgomery Trump loyalists believe tariffs will improve economy, support mass government layoffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/voters-red-montgomery-illinois-express-support-donald-trump-tariffs-government-cuts-dept-veterans-affairs-more/16280034/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago joins lawsuit to block Trump’s dismantling of federal bureaucracy. The lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of exceeding presidential authority and violating the constitutional separation of powers that gives Congress control of the federal purse strings.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/04/29/chicago-lawsuit-trump-musk-downsize-federal-bureaucracy

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration joins lawsuit against Trump to block federal worker firings
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/mayor-brandon-johnson-lawsuit-trump-federal-worker-firings/
— Trump cuts federal programs that promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, programs that promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, that is, he cuts programs that discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/hegseth-ending-woke-program/

WGN RADIO
— John Kass: Sounds like Pritzker is ready for a donnybrook
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-sounds-like-jb-pritzker-is-ready-for-a-donnybrook/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Johnson joins lawsuit seeking to prevent Trump’s federal government overhaul
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-mayor-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-government-cuts

CHALK BEAT
— Trump administration launches investigation into Chicago Public Schools’ Black Student Success Plan. Were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother attended high school. nevertheless, I got an ACT score of 24, graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class, and got accepted by UIC.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/29/trump-administration-investigates-cps-black-student-success-plan/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-295/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS GOP
— 100 Days of WINS
https://illinois.gop/newsroom/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois appellate court justice James Knecht says the arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan was “reminiscent of King George, Hitler and Mussolini.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_aa9631af-36a1-417b-abba-623d07b32a51.html
https://www.ktbs.com/news/national/illinois-judge-slams-arrest-of-wisconsin-judge-as-reminiscent-of-hitler/article_9cbd0816-9042-52d5-b83e-7ff3bdc66b4e.html
https://www.aol.com/news/illinois-judge-slams-arrest-wisconsin-193700543.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— House Republicans propose fees for electric, hybrid cars
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/29/house-republicans-propose-fees-electric-hybrid-cars/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pritzker: The angriest Democrat in the room
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3395273/angriest-democrat-jb-pritzker-in-the-room/

BREITBART
— Trump’s Labor Department to Revoke Federal Funds from States Giving Unemployment Benefits to Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/28/trumps-labor-department-to-revoke-federal-funds-states-giving-unemployment-benefits-illegals/
— Venezuela Prepares Marxist May Day Rallies Demanding Release of U.S.-Deported Tren de Aragua Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/04/29/venezuela-prepares-marxist-may-day-rallies-demanding-release-of-u-s-deported-tren-de-aragua-illegals/

CAMPUS REFORM
— UW-Madison lecture to explore how ‘White Innocence’ leads to death of black infants.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/uw-madison-lecture-explore-white-innocence-leads-death-black-infants/27887

DAILY SIGNAL
— Pritzker Calls for ‘Disruption’ to ‘Punish’ Republicans. Hate-filled Democrat and RINO Trump-hating leaders have their operatives and their dupes punish Republicans. They have had their operatives and dupes take many adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/29/jb-pritzker-calls-disruption-punish-republicans/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Delivers 100th Day Achievement Speech in Michigan
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/live-6pm-april-29-trump-delivers-100th-day-achievement-speech-in-michigan-5848903
— White House Responds to Mexican President After She Calls US Ads ‘Discriminatory’
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/white-house-responds-to-mexican-president-after-she-calls-us-ads-discriminatory-5846987

NEWSMAX
— 66,463 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Trump’s First 100 Days
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-criminal-aliens-arrests/2025/04/29/id/1208808/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
–The Democrat Party is the party of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. It is the party of hatred against conservatives, Republicans, Americans, Whites, males, older people, married people, non-poor people, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5272478-jb-pritzker-democratic-party-agenda/

NEW YORK TIMES
— White House Attacks Amazon Over Idea of Showing Tariffs’ Cost
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-amazon-tariffs-prices.html

April 29, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5 & CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker. To promote Pritzker is to promote more hatred against Trump and against those who share his demographics. Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-facing-questions-about-a-possible-presidential-run/3732576/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY2Mccqf-r4

WGN9
— Is a summer of street takeovers ahead for Chicago?
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/is-a-summer-of-street-takeovers-ahead-for-chicago/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats are doubling down on vulgar language.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/democrats-fbomb-politics-swearing/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Tesla, that is, against Musk, that is, against Trump. If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/28/northbrook-protesters-demand-constitutional-rights-prevention-of-fascism/
— FRONT PAGE: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/column-donald-trump-100-days-depetris/
— Political uniformity is bad for democracy — and for Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/28/politics-dnc-republicans-hogg-democrats/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/04/29/donald-trump-first-100-days-presidency-chicago-illinois-impact
— Top White House aide says Pritzker’s call for mass protests ‘could be construed as inciting violence’  President Donald Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller cited assassination attempts and criticized the destruction of property as a protest tactic, saying it “sits directly adjacent to attacks on humans.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/28/white-house-chief-of-staff-says-pritzkers-call-for-mass-protests-could-be-construed-as-inciting-violence
— The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/support-cst?tpcc=FY25-WPFD-Email-PrintSub-

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250428/nation-and-world/white-house-focuses-on-border-crackdown-as-it-marks-100-days-for-trumps-second-term/

EVANSTON NOW
— Local rabbis, Jewish NU profs push back on Trump. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://evanstonnow.com/local-rabbis-jewish-nu-profs-push-back-on-trump/

PBS CHICAGO
— Democrat Leaders Say that Trump is Politicizing the Fight Against Antisemitism. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.pbs.org/video/some-say-trump-administration-is-politicizing-the-fight-against-antisemitism-sycucy/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government spending. To what extent are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on government spending?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-28/what-happens-when-the-federal-government-stops-funding-university-research

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Tuition, fees rising at Illinois universities. Back in the good old days, I was able to work my way through college and graduate from NIU debt-free in 1970 and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/tuition-fees-rising-at-illinois-universities-as-state-funding-lags-inflation-pace/

ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— 2025 Award Recipients  I should write about my critics/opponents who have ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the 4-part CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 in 1979 and my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981. I would focus on those who stressed that they and others got better scores on the parts than I did.
https://www.icpas.org/about-us/icpas-awards/2025-award-recipients

CWB CHICAGO
— Adults arrested during downtown ‘teen trend’ failed to appear in court
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/04/adults-arrested-during-downtown-teen-trend-failed-to-appear-in-court-alderman-says.html

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/27/hamburger-marys-the-iconic-drag-diner-reopening-in-edgewater/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders eve-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/29/stephen-miller-attacks-jb-pritzker-over-new-hampshire-speech-00314775

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-501/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL GOP chair calls to investigate Pritzker for criminal incitement
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a217f5d6-f72f-4220-b11d-9529962fd347.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS

— The mainstream news media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him. – Dave Diersen

http://www.gopillinois.com

— The more demographics that you share with a candidate, the more likely that you will vote for that candidate. How many demographics do you share with Trump? Anticipate/expect that the more that you do, the more success that Pritzker will have making those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct hate you. Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write about the success that Pritzker has had in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the more steps that you should take to protect yourself from hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters. – Dave Diersen

http://www.gopillinois.com


ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Top Illinois pensioners invest $1, get $25 back in retirement benefits. If my Democrat GAO superiors had not forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and I was still working for GAO at the same salary, in today’s dollars, I would have paid $296,612 into the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) instead of getting $1,847,580 from the CSRS.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/top-illinois-pensioners-invest-1-get-25-back-in-retirement-benefits/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump requires truck drivers to speak English with new executive order
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/28/donald-trump-requires-truck-drivers-speak-english-new-executive-order/

NEW YORK POST
— Pritzker doubles down on calls for people to ‘mobilize’ against Trump: ‘Five-alarm fire’
https://nypost.com/2025/04/29/us-news/jb-pritzker-doubles-down-on-calls-for-people-to-mobilize-against-trump-five-alarm-fire/
— Despite faux fanfare and outrage, DOGE hasn’t even scratched the federal budget monster
https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/opinion/despite-faux-fanfare-and-outrage-doge-hasnt-even-scratched-the-federal-budget-monster/
— Trump is restoring merit — by slaying rules that enforce reverse discrimination. My critics/opponents promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-restores-merit-by-slaying-reverse-discrimination/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— The process due illegals is deportation
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/29/victor-joecks-the-process-due-illegals-is-deportation-1539719/

BREITBART
— Pritzker: Trump Has ‘Taken Us Off the Rails,’ He ‘Lied to the American People’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/28/pritzker-trump-has-taken-us-off-the-rails-he-lied-to-the-american-people/

FEDERALIST
— The First 100 Days: Trump Restores The Southern Border
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/29/the-first-100-days-trump-restores-the-southern-border/

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down. What is your approval rating? The more that you promote the Republican Party platform, that is, the more that you promote conservative principles, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders drive your approval rating down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-first-100-days-approval-rating-double-digits-below-biden-obama-poll/ar-AA1DIL8q%3Focid%3Dhpmsn

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use wokeness and wokeism to destroy Republicans
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-war-woke-sides-issue-dividing-country/story?id=121125797

CNN
— Democrat and RINO leaders succeed in getting Canada to elect a hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/americas/canada-election-results-carney-poilievre-intl-hnk/index.html

MSNBC
— ‘The reckoning is here’: Pritzker calls out ‘do-nothing Democrats’ Do nothing? What about the Democrats in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct who voted for Democrats in the April 1, 2025 election?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/reckoning-gov-pritzker-calls-nothing-004805453.html

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Best Cars for Recent Graduates in 2025. Did your parents have enough money to buy you cars? My parents did not. Because of that, a) I did yard work 1962-1964 and bought a 1958 Chevy Bel Air in 1964, b) I washed dishes 1964-1966 and bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint (a poor man’s GTO) in 1966, c) I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail 1966-1967, and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, d) I delivered mail in 1968 and bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, e) I deliver mail, worked on an automotive assembly line, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances, and collected federal taxes 1970-1971 and bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971. My father died suddenly in 1969.
https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/best-new-cars-for-recent-college-grads

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use children of illegals to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/us-citizen-children-deported.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/harvard-dei-law-review.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURES: Trump White House Reshapes Media Coverage. I should write about those who have used Jeff Gannon against me the most. SEE: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-blogger-controversy/ and https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/washington/web-site-owner-says-he-knew-of-reporters-2-identities.html
https://nytimes.pressreader.com/the-new-york-times
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, if not already, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) getting welfare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/food-banks-trump-cuts-aid.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly focus on making Blacks hate Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/28/trump-black-diversity-dei/

NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST
— Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-antisemitism-jews-israel.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/28/antisemitism-scapegoat-jews/times.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-antisemitism-jews-israel.html

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The mainstream new media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all those who voted for him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/29/trump-eggs-prices-immigration-canada-congress-budget-spain-blackout-beyonce-eagles/83339166007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination and more hatred against conservatives, Republicans, Americans, Whites, males, older people, married people, non-poor people, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/04/28/pope-francis-joe-biden-mercy/83316390007/

DESERT NEWS
— Republicans unveil plan to charge asylum application fees for first time in history. The more money that citizens of foreign countries have, the higher asylum application fees they should pay.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/04/28/republicans-unveil-immigration-plans/

TRI STATE PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.tspr.org/2025-04-28/the-trump-administration-continues-to-crack-down-on-illegal-immigration

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Those who benefit the most from cheap foreign labor and from lax foreign regulations fight Trump’s tariffs the most.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-100-days-second-term-tariffs-economy-china-ukraine-6abc2198
— MAGA Loyalists Are Gaining a Foothold in D.C. Lobbying. According to hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters, I am a Trump loyalist. But Trump loyalists vehemently disagree.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-maga-lobbyists-upending-washington-with-mcdonalds-and-bear-hunting-a37e3d06
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-sign-order-requiring-nationwide-list-of-sanctuary-cities-and-states-dbcc5ada

24/7 WALL STREET
— New York May Close Tesla Dealerships. If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://247wallst.com/politics/2025/04/28/new-york-may-close-tesla-dealerships/

FORTUNE
— New York lawmakers are moving to shut down Elon Musk’s Tesla sales across the EV-friendly state.  If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://fortune.com/2025/04/28/elon-musk-tesla-sales-new-york-state-government/

FORBES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the more steps that you should take to protect yourself from hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IFU7lvLmM

FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91324404/how-trump-has-gutted-dei-in-his-first-100-days

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
—  The ups and downs of electric vehicles over more than a century. What are the demographics of those who my EVs? What are the demographics of those who buy 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EVs? I just bought one.
https://autos.yahoo.com/quiet-quirky-ups-downs-electric-110000070.html

AUTO GUIDE
— Dodge Charger Daytona EV Could Get Better Batteries in 2026. Nevertheless, my 6,000-pound 2025 Dodge Charger R/T Plus does the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH. Level 1 charging is fast enough for me. But because Dodge gave me a free $600 Level II charger, I had it installed along with a 220V 50 Amp outlet in my Iron Gate Car Condo for $1,125.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/manufacturers/dodge/dodge-charger-daytona-ev-could-get-better-batteries-soon-44619442
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stellantis and Factorial Energy have validated a semi-solid-state battery with 375 Wh/kg energy density, offering faster charging and improved cold-weather performance, with real-world testing set to begin in Dodge Charger Daytona EVs in 2026. Weight savings could be substantial, with up to 2,000 pounds cut from total vehicle mass, improving EV efficiency, performance, and reducing manufacturing costs. Production challenges remain, with high costs and manufacturing difficulties still to overcome before the technology can be widely adopted.)
— Should We Worry About The Ford Mustang’s Future? I bought a new 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium in 2023.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/manufacturers/ford/should-we-worry-about-the-ford-mustang-s-future-44619454
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Gasoline-powered Ford Mustang sales fell 31.6% in Q1 2025, while the electric Mustang Mach-E outsold the traditional coupe for the first time. High prices, economic pressures, and a colder-than-average winter contributed to the Mustang’s declining demand. Overall Ford brand sales slipped 1.2%, highlighting growing consumer interest in EVs as traditional models like the Explorer and Expedition also saw sales declines.)

HUFFINGTON POST
— Pritzker Calls For ‘Mass Protests,’ Says Democrats’ Strategy Is ‘Stale’  “These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” the Illinois Democrat said in a fiery speech.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jb-pritzker-mass-protests_n_681002d4e4b0c99c9f2412c1

NEW REPUBLIC
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194527/trump-war-higher-education-isnt-just-crushing-dissent

MEDIA MATTERS
— Pritzker “all but threatened half the country with violence”
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/hannity-illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-all-threatened-half-country-violence

ROLLING STONE
— Trump Shrinks, But Can’t Shake Isaac Hayes Copyright Lawsuit. A judge trimmed some claims but says the allegation Trump “personally selected” the song “Hold On, I’m Coming” for campaign rallies can proceed. Should I write about those “Republican” candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who do not want me to promote them? They paint themselves as being moderate, centrist, RINO, Democrat Lite, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, if not Democrat plant. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/donald-trump-isaac-hayes-copyright-infrintement-lawsuit-1235327134/

JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
— Pritzker accuses Trump of ‘disparaging the very foundation of Judaism’  Pritzker, Illinois’ Jewish governor, also called for mass protest in his address, prompting backlash. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.jta.org/2025/04/28/united-states/j-b-pritzker-accuses-trump-of-disparaging-the-very-foundation-of-judaism

TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Over 550 rabbis, cantors sign letter accusing Trump of ‘abusing’ antisemitism issue. American clergy, mostly from non-Orthodox movements, say US administration exploiting real threat ‘to divide Americans, undermine democracy, and harm other vulnerable communities. Virtually all my superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrats. I should write about their success in getting my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-550-rabbis-cantors-sign-letter-accusing-trump-of-abusing-antisemitism-issue/amp/

GB NEWS
— Musk blamed for poor Tesla sales as activists launch boycott over right-wing ties – ‘No product can fix this’  If/when Democrat leaders tell you to sell your Tesla, will you do it?
https://www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars/elon-musk-poor-tesla-sales-boycott

BUSINESS RECORDER
— Government subsidies and tax credits are crucial for a big push in EV adoption. What are the demographics of those who my EVs? What are the demographics of those who buy 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EVs? I just bought one.
https://www.brecorder.com/news/40359786/2nd-ev-conference-brings-together-industry-leaders-policymakers-financiers-others

April 28, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-approval-rating-100-days-is-lowest-any-president-past-80-years-abc-newswashington-postipsos-poll-shows/16260005/

ABC7 & NBC5 & FOX32 & WGN RADIO & CHICAGO TRIBUNE & NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST & NBC NEWS & CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker. Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump and the Democrat Party platform, that is, dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, and the rest of the Democrat Party platform. Under Pritzker, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. Under Pritzker, poverty and crime will ever-increasingly increase.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-potential-2028-democratic-presidential-candidate-headlines-new-hampshire-fundraiser/16262580/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/jb-pritzker-headlines-major-democratic-fundraiser-amid-presidential-race-talk/3731560/
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pritzker-2028-new-hampshire-fundraiser
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/ap-jb-pritzker-a-potential-2028-democratic-presidential-candidate-headlines-new-hampshire-fundraiser/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/pritzker-potential-presidential-candidate/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/politics/jb-pritzker-2028-new-hampshire-trump-democrats.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/pritzker-democratic-party-new-hampshire/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/jb-pritzker-implores-democrats-fight-trump-new-hampshire-rcna203229
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-speaks-new-hampshire/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/musk-washington-popularity-fallen/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/28/chicago-head-start-donald-trump-budget-cuts-impact-childcare-preschool-brighton-park
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/04/28/lgbtq-chicagoans-art-project-intergenerational

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat and RINO leaders decry that Trump inauguration got millions from Illinois residents and companies
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250427/nation-and-world-politics/trump-inauguration-got-millions-from-illinois-residents-and-companies-reports-shows/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Donors using Chicago-area addresses included Chicago Cubs co-owner and former Republican National Committee finance chair Todd Ricketts of Wilmette; former Illinois Republican National Committee representative Richard W. Porter of Northfield; and Lake Forest resident Laura Seidensticker, according to a report filed April 20 with the Federal Election Commission. Additionally, Huizenga Capital Management chair Heidi Huizenga used the company’s Oak Brook address for her donation despite living in Florida. Chicago-area companies that contributed to the Jan. 20 inauguration included Lake County’s Abbott Laboratories, McDonald’s Corp. of Chicago and Motorola Solutions, also of Chicago.)
— Illinois lawmakers stop in Buffalo Grove to protest federal funding cuts
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250427/news/illinois-lawmakers-stop-in-buffalo-grove-to-protest-federal-funding-cuts/

WGN9
— More than 100 immigrants detained at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado
https://wgntv.com/news/more-than-100-immigrants-detained-at-an-illegal-after-hours-nightclub-in-colorado/

WGN RADIO
— Rep. Cabello wants to create an Illinois Department of Government Efficiency. If you would apply for that department, what would you stress? I would stress a) that 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, b) that 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, c) that I became a licensed CPA, d) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, e) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, f) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, and g) that I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/rep-cabello-wants-to-create-an-illinois-department-of-government-efficiency/

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Veterans rally in McHenry against ‘goal’ to cut tens of thousands of VA jobs. Rally draws political speakers like contender for Congress Kat Abughazaleh.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/04/27/veterans-rally-in-mchenry-against-goal-to-cut-tens-of-thousands-of-va-jobs/

SOUTHWEST REGIONAL PUBLISHING
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://southwestregionalpublishing.com/2025/04/27/anti-immigrant-protesters-rally-near-chicago-holiday-inn/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump says Columbus Day will now just be Columbus Day
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-says-columbus-day-will-now-just-be-columbus-day/article_8c28c376-7418-5a47-a00a-4d5c14a7ac0b.html

KSDK
— Communities rally to defend Native American mascots in Illinois bill dispute. What about the Crete-Monee Warriors?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni9GIsmyGqo

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— A kick-off campaign for a ballot measure targeting sanctuary status has been moved to a new location after owners of 115 Bourbon Street, where the event was originally to be held, were subject to threats, according to Terry Newsome, a MAGA Republican and Jan. 6 protester who’s helping organize the Wednesday event with the Save Illinois Coalition. The kick-off is now at Belvedere Banquets in Elk Grove Village instead. . .More than a hundred Jewish members of Northwestern University’s faculty and staff are pushing back against claims that there is “widespread antisemitic harassment” at the school.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/28/duckworth-endorses-stratton-for-durbin-seat-illinois-00312142

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-500/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— 2024 data: Not a single child tested proficient in math in 80 Illinois schools. For reading, it was 24 schools.
https://wirepoints.org/2024-education-fail-not-a-single-child-tested-proficient-in-math-in-80-illinois-schools-for-reading-its-24-schools-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you would apply to work for Cabello’s Illinois Department of Government Efficiency and/or Musk’s DOGE, what would you stress? I would stress a) that 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, b) that 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, c) that I became a licensed CPA, d) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, e) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, f) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, and g) that I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What if anti-conservative leaders had not had their operatives and their dupes destroy TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC)? Under my chairmanship, TAPROOT would still be holding monthly breakfast meetings, an August picnic, and a December Christmas party. Speakers at those events would still be advocating conservative principles. They would still be advocating the Republican Party platform including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about those anti-conservative leaders who had their operatives and their dupes destroy TAPROOT and ICRC. I would focus on those who reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you fight against that your critics/opponents fight for. I fight against race and gender based preference giving. My critics/opponents fight for race and gender based preference giving. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females. But neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. Further, virtually all federal employees are Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they gave tremendous preference to their Democrat employees who were minority and/or female. All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats and many if not most of them were minority and/or female. They all had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Duckworth calls Trump a “draft-dodging coward.” Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me. My Democrat Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO superiors always stressed to my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I did not enlist and that I got student draft deferments 1966-1970 while I attended UIC and NIU and that I got a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They have always stressed that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars in 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1978, etc., b) buy real estate in 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1978, c) earn a bachelor’s degree in 1970 and master’s degrees in 1976 and 1980, d) pass the CPA examination in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981, e) become a licensed CPA in 1981, or f) get married in 1978. My Democrat superiors got my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were veterans to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— DOGE IL – $237 Million to Racial, Ethnic and Religious NGOs in FY 25 IL Budget
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/04/26/doge-il-237-million-to-racial-ethnic-and-religious-ngos-in-fy-25-il-budget
— DOGE IL – Illinois Fails to Prosecute Government Employees Despite Investigations Showing Malfeasance
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/04/26/doge-il-illinois-fails-to-prosecute-government-employees-despite-investigations-showing-malfeasance
— SCOTUS Hears Case on LGBTQ Books Forced on Little Ones
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/04/24/scotus-hears-case-on-lgbtq-books-forced-on-little-ones

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— House budget proposes $46.5 billion for border wall
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/27/house-budget-proposes-465-billion-border-wall/
— Democrats’ weird fixation on sex is making our children sick. Mental, physical and moral contagions all have a cause.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/27/democrats-weird-fixation-sex-making-children-sick/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— A baby bonus won’t solve our fertility crisis, marriage will
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3391451/baby-bonus-wont-solve-fertility-crisis-marriage-will/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump’s $5K push present won’t bring more babies — we have better ways to reverse sinking birth rates. According to my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc. My Democrat  IRS and GAO superiors all had children and/or spouses who had and little or no income. They all decried how time-consuming and expensive raising their children was.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/27/opinion/trumps-5k-bonus-wont-bring-more-babies-heres-what-will/
— How Democrats wage war on the ‘rule of law’ — and weaponize it against Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/04/27/opinion/how-the-democrats-are-waging-war-against-the-rule-of-law/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Forget Trump’s blue suit. What about those so-called ‘transgender’ mourners at the Pope’s funeral?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/forget_trump_s_blue_suit_what_about_those_so_called_transgender_mourners_at_the_pope_s_funeral.html
— The illegal alien raid in Colorado reveals a cancer in our military.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/the_illegal_alien_raid_in_colorado_reveals_a_cancer_in_our_military.html

BREITBART
— White House Releases Video Encouraging Illegal Aliens to Self Deport: ‘Take Me Home’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/26/white-house-releases-video-encouraging-illegal-aliens-to-self-deport-take-me-home/
— Police Bust Illegal Accused of Swiping DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Purse
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/04/27/report-police-bust-illegal-accused-of-swiping-dhs-secretary-kristi-noems-purse/

DAILY WIRE
— Democrat leaders want a future in which those who have demographics that vote for Democrats run everything. Those demographics are: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-says-dems-lack-vision-for-the-future

FEDERALIST
— Rate Of Serious Or Life-Threatening Complications After Abortion Pill Is 22 Times Higher Than FDA Claims
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/28/study-rate-of-serious-or-life-threatening-complications-after-abortion-pill-is-22-times-higher-than-fda-claims/

FOX NEWS
— Homan sends fiery message to judges seeking to obstruct Trump’s immigration agenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etgb6Iy6Otg

JUST THE NEWS
— Federal workers are waging a resistance against Trump agenda.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/federal-workers-paid-taxpayers-openly-defying-trump-agenda-will-voters

PJ MEDIA
— Democrats’ Latest Immigration Propaganda Stunt Just Blew Up in Their Faces
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/27/democrats-latest-immigration-propaganda-stunt-just-blew-up-in-their-faces-n4939284
— This is What Happens When Law Enforcement Works Together on Illegal Immigration
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/04/27/this-is-what-happens-when-law-enforcement-works-together-on-illegal-immigration-n4939276

TOWNHALL
— Why Are the Democrats So Desperate?
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2025/04/28/why-are-the-democrats-so-desperate-n2656167

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more hated against Trump and against those who voted for Trump. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting that hatred in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-republicans-in-the-toughest-swing-districts-become-hard-to-find-for-people-angry-about-trump/

MSN
— How successful have hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters been promoting more hatred against Trump? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-first-100-days-approval-rating-double-digits-below-biden-obama-poll/ar-AA1DIL8q
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/he-s-totally-blown-it-trump-warned-his-polling-numbers-are-about-to-get-much-worse/ar-AA1DHQjh

NBC NEWS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly glorify and praise Harvard.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-university-showdown-trump-administration-rcna202468

CBS NEWS
— Man arrested for stealing Kristi Noem’s bag was in America illegally
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/krist-noem-bag-stolen-arrest/
— Democrat leaders want refugees because refugees vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want refugees because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/douglas-brinkley-gerald-ford-and-americas-moral-obligation-to-refugees/
— NOVEMBER 24, 2024 FLASHBACK: Musk’s DOGE is hiring. Here’s the kind of person he’s looking for. If I had applied, I would have stressed a) that 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, b) that 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, c) that I became a licensed CPA, d) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, e) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, f) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, and g) that I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-trump-doge-government-job-how-to-apply/
— Duckworth calls Trump a “draft-dodging coward.” Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me. My Democrat Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO superiors always stressed to my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I did not enlist and that I got student draft deferments 1966-1970 while I attended UIC and NIU and that I got a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. My Democrat superiors got my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were veterans to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/at-dnc-sen-tammy-duckworth-uses-her-personal-history-to-call-out-donald-trump/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing fight “made in America.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-car-industry-tariffs.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump to Sign Order Requiring Nationwide List of Sanctuary Cities and States. Action comes after legal setbacks in president’s bid to target Democratic jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with immigration enforcement.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-sign-order-requiring-nationwide-list-of-sanctuary-cities-and-states-dbcc5ada
— Obscure Element Has the EV Industry in a Panic. The rare-earth mineral dysprosium, used for magnets in electric-vehicle motors, is among exports China slowed in response to Trump’s trade war.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/dyspro-what-why-an-obscure-element-has-the-ev-industry-in-a-panic-70623bf4
— Trump Tightens Control of Federal Workforce as Musk Pulls Back From DOGE. The administration’s HR wing is approving new federal positions and firings, judging employees on their ‘faithful administration’ of the president’s policies. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly got rid of their employees like me who opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tightens-control-of-federal-workforce-as-musk-pulls-back-from-doge-bd025673

April 27, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Trump’s third-term talk freezes the potential 2028 Republican field
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-third-term-2028-republican-field/3731227/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz
— A couple who bought their first home in 2023 on the Northwest Side and soon discovered a “putrid” odor is suing the seller, their inspector and their real estate agent after finding voluminous amounts of cat feces and urine in an unfinished attic.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/25/homebuyers-nightmare-grandview-capital-living-space-attic-hoarder-cat-poop-pee

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/trump-first-100-days/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting “faith leaders” to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/opinion-federal-government-assault-protests/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders say “Trump voters reflect on controversial first 100 days of second term.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/trump-first-100-days/
— FRONT PAGE: With US Sen. Dick Durbin retiring, Illinois’ tradition of upstate-downstate senators is in peril
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/with-us-sen-dick-durbin-retiring-illinois-tradition-of-upstate-downstate-senators-is-in-peril/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/opinion-america-return-statue-of-liberty-immigration/

DAILY HERALD
— Another risk facing public transit: As hearing showed, lawmakers need to deal with public safety as much as with financial security. I used public transportation in 1971 and 1973-1997. In 1971 and 1973-1980 while I worked for IRS in the Loop and 1980-1997 while I worked for GAO in the Loop.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250426/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-another-risk-facing-public-transit-as-hearing-showed-lawmakers-need-to-deal/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois sues to block Trump from freezing school funding over DEI. Democrat teachers use DEI to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-sues-block-trump-school-fund-freeze-over-dei

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— While Durbin runs out his term, others run for his job
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-while-durbin-runs-out-his-term-others-run-for-his-job/article_44e7ba73-6841-47f3-a4f5-2398c2ee6b72.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Even a member of the moribund Illinois Republican Party — Peoria U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood — indicated interest. From the outside looking in, a GOP candidate would appear to be the political equivalent of a kamikaze pilot in this reflexively Democratic state. Perhaps that’s why another Republican, former state Rep. Tom Demmer, issued a statement that parodied candidates’ expressions of interest. “Following today’s announcement from Sen. Durbin, I’m preparing to have conversations to consider the potential formation of a tentative exploratory committee to look in to the possibility of floating my candidacy. I hope to have potential decisions narrowed down sometime within the next 12-24 months. Get ready to stay tuned,” Demmer tweeted.)

STARVED ROCK MEDIA
— Pritzker has been contacted by the U.S. Department of Labor to remind him that unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in the country illegally. The letter was sent to all 50 governors in the U.S. Citing the executive order “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders,” the letter said it is critical that officials ensure American taxpayer dollars do not go toward encouraging or rewarding illegal immigration to the United States.
https://www.starvedrock.media/news/state/illinois-quick-hits-no-unemployment-for-illegals-pritzker-endorses-stratton/article_84e9e2c0-16d6-5234-86e3-3f5f483e12c1.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders claim to speak for Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-only-about-half-of-republicans-say-trump-has-focused-on-the-right-priorities-ap-norc-poll-finds/
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/entertainment-news/ap-white-house-journalists-use-annual-press-dinner-to-celebrate-first-amendment/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight school choice. If my parents had not sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest to stay with the Missouri Synod 1961-1962, I would not have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my Crete-Monee High School class in 1966, or get accepted by UIC in 1966.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-republican-led-states-keep-adding-school-voucher-programs-even-as-critics-worry-about-cost/

WAND TV
— To promote diversity is to promote discrimination.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trumps-attack-on-diversity-takes-center-stage-as-boston-remembers-1965-freedom-rally-led-by/article_c4c9b9b9-b545-5004-af74-4f305858cb06.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts. According to my critics/opponents, a) the Post Office should hired a Black instead of me in 1966, b) IRS should have hired a Black instead of me in 1971 and promoted Blacks instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and c) GAO should have hired a Black instead of me in 1980 and promoted a Black instead of me in 1986. My critics/opponents are overjoyed that my Democrat superiors took so many adverse actions against me and especially my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire in 1997 and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-27/federal-work-shaped-a-black-middle-class-now-its-destabilized-by-trumps-job-cuts

AXIOS CHICAGO
— According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/25/chicago-college-student-debt-trump-save-money

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Pritzker, Durbin’s “Surprise” and the Musical Chairs of Illinois
https://johnkassnews.com/pritzker-durbins-surprise-and-the-musical-chairs-of-illinois/

JOHN BIVER
— Illinois Republicans and Conservatives are Failing in Every Direction. (COMMENT: I should write about Democrat and RINO success in destroying the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois.)
https://johnbiver.com/illinois-republicans-and-conservatives-are-failing-in-every-direction/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees was illegal because it was not performance-based. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of me. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors. They used that subjectivity a) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to give me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals, d) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) to force me to retiree when I was 49 years old in 1997. The following frustrated their painting me as being a poor performer: a) my earning an MBA in 1976, b) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, f) my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) my earning a master’s degree in finance in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Spectacle of arresting Wisconsin judge is important: A message has to be sent. My Democrat superiors used me to send strong messages. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How have your critic/opponents used you to send messages? Leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) rudely terminated my membership on the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. Republican leaders of Wheaton rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. Leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015. Republican leaders rudely ended my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012 and my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007. They almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter in 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have your critics/opponent taken adverse actions against you, and if so, why? My critics/opponents have taken many big adverse actions against me a) because they destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money, b) because they are Democrats or RINOs, and/or c) because I have sued them. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopilinois.com
— What have your critics/opponents used against you the most? My critics/opponents have used against me the most a) my fighting Democrat promotion of 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, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, b) my having been a federal employee for almost 30 years and especially my having been an IRS employee for almost 9 years and my having been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, c) my demographics and especially my being a draft avoider, Protestant, and German American, and/or d) my having sued them. But of course, my critics/opponents use pretexts. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on equal outcome? My critics/opponents promote equal outcome, that is, according to them, no matter what your demographics are, you should be as successful at what you do as those who do not share your demographics, and if you don’t, it is because of discrimination. According to my critics/opponents, if minorities and/or females are less successful doing something than Whites and/or men are, it is because Whites and/or men discriminated against them. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. Few of those who took those examinations were minorities and/or women. Even fewer passwd the examinations on their first attempt. According to my critics/opponents, I passed the examinations because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against women. But in my defense, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21, my mother never attended high school, and I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What should you tell your children about up-or-out? If your children are White and/or male, you should tell them that Democrats and RINOs will use up-or-out to get rid of them if they are not making at least $100,000 by age 25, $200,000/year by age 30, $300,000 by age 35, $400,000 by age 40, etc.  Because of that, unless your children become Democrats, they should do everything that they can to get good grades, to get the best ACT/SAT score that they can, to get accepted by the best college that they can, and to pick the right major. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors used up-or-out to get rid of me. The Democrats who run the federal government use up-or-out to get rid of their employees who are not Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran and who they do not promote to GS-13 ($117,807) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of me because I am not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran and because I did not make GS-12 ($99,069) until I was 25 and I did not make GS-13 until I was 38. They did that notwithstanding my earning an MBA in business when I was 27, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, my earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32, my earning four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and my earning a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents, low-level federal jobs should be Black jobs. According to my critics/opponents, a) the Post Office should hired a Black instead of me in 1966 when I was 18, b) IRS should have hired a Black instead of me in 1971 and promoted Blacks instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and c) GAO should have hired a Black instead of me in 1980 and promoted a Black instead of me in 1986. My critics/opponents are overjoyed that my Democrat superiors took so many adverse actions against me and especially that my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— What’s at stake for Illinois colleges with DEI policies. To promote DEI is to promote discrimination.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3392534/whats-at-stake-for-illinois-colleges-with-dei-policies-under-discussion/
— Democrats need to come to grips with 2030 census reality. Illegals should be counted separately and they should not count for allocation of congressional seats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3391436/democrats-face-2030-census-reality/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Congress Must Repair Biden’s Destructive Immigration Policies
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/27/congress-must-repair-bidens-destructive-immigration-policies/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Woke Ideology Requires Antisemitism
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/woke_ideology_requires_antisemitism.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Spectacle of arresting Wisconsin judge is important: A message has to be sent. My Democrat superiors used me to send strong messages. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/26/scott-jennings-says-spectacle-of-arresting-wi-judge-important-a-message-has-to-be-sent-1539253/

BREITBART
— Rod Blagojevich on Running for Senate as MAGA Republican: ‘Never Say Never’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/04/26/exclusive-rod-blagojevich-on-running-for-senate-as-maga-republican-never-say-never/
— Blagojevich: Democrats Are ‘Going to Run Far to the Left’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/04/26/exclusive-rod-blagojevich-democrats-are-going-to-run-far-to-the-left/

DAILY CALLER
— Federal, state and local law enforcement carried out Operation Tidal Wave in Florida, arresting nearly 800 illegal immigrants during the four-day operation.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/26/dhs-spox-touts-major-success-in-florida-after-nabbing-nearly-800-illegals-in-4-days/

DAILY WIRE
— Trump Labor Dept Threatens States Giving Unemployment Benefits To Illegals. “Unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in our country illegally.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-labor-dept-threatens-states-giving-unemployment-benefits-to-illegals

FOX NEWS
— Trump Reverses Biden’s Student-Loan Forgiveness. The Education Department wants its money back. Did you get a student loan? I did not. If I had gotten a student loan, my GPA would have been higher. To earn money for tuition and books, instead of studying, I a) washed dishes 1964-1966, b) delivered mail 1966-1969, c) sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, d) collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and e) audited federal agencies in 1980 and 1992-1997.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371977493112

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lowest-100-day-approval-rating-80-years/story?id=121165473

CBS NEWS
— Kennedy Center cancels week of events celebrating LGBTQ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbtq-rights-dc-kennedy-center-cancels-week-of-events/

AOL
— Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees was illegal because it was not performance-based. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of me. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors. They used that subjectivity a) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to give me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals, d) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) to force me to retiree when I was 49 years old in 1997. The following frustrated their painting me as being a poor performer: a) my earning an MBA in 1976, b) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, f) my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) my earning a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://www.aol.com/trumps-mass-firings-federal-probationary-194951617.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump to promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/marin-tesla-owners-musk.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/trump-crypto-musk-spacex.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/100-days-trump-world.html
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/business/media/white-house-correspondents-dinner.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Mexico
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/mexico-united-states-migration.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-american-values.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-poll-approval-rating-100-days/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-polls-policies/
— Trump’s team isn’t dissuaded by the challenges of their first 100 days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-presidency-100-days/
— Democrats seize on a new issue to use against the GOP: Social Security
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/social-security-cuts-democrats-trump-republicans/

POLITICO
— Democrat and RINO leaders disapprove of Trump’s immigration policies.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/26/trump-immigration-polling-100-days-00311687

NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/05/a-hundred-days-of-ineptitude

April 26, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— A Milwaukee County circuit judge was arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-fbi-allegedly-helping-undocumented-immigrant-evade-arrest/16247147/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-988-hotline-suicide-prevention-service-lgbtq-youth-would-eliminated-leaked-budget-proposal/16248201/

NBC5
— Who is Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge arrested by the FBI?  The FBI took Dugan into custody Friday on the courthouse grounds — the same building federal immigration agents entered last week in search of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/who-is-hannah-dugan-milwaukee-judge-arrested-by-the-fbi/3730907/

WTTW
— Stratton Secures Pritzker’s Backing in Senate Bid, Positions Herself as ‘Fighter’ of Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/25/stratton-secures-pritzker-s-backing-senate-bid-positions-herself-fighter-trump
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/24/federal-judge-blocks-trump-yanking-funding-16-sanctuary-cities-counties-ruling-could

WBEZ
— ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around U.S.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/04/25/ice-international-students-legal-status-visa-reversal

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Milwaukee judge arrested in deportation case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arresta-a-jueza-de-milwaukee-acusada-de-ayudar-a-un-hombre-a-evadir-a-autoridades-migratorias/
— Who is Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/who-is-milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan/
— Kennedy Center’s events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration canceled. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/kennedy-centers-lgbtq-celebration-canceled/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their international students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/illinois-academics-relieved-after-trump-administration-restores-legal-status-of-some-international-students/
— Cutting candy from SNAP won’t fix the bigger problem of growing dependency. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/snap-sugar-soda-benefits-ban-health/
— Judge blocks Trump administration from nixing collective bargaining for most federal employees. According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are grossly overpaid, that is, GAO, IRS, and the Post Office grossly overpaid me. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/judge-blocks-trump-administration-federal-employees/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/26/trump-trade-war-illinois-soybean-farmers/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want more success in getting Blacks hate Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/25/anti-donald-trump-protests-black-participation
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/04/16/americans-victimhood-doge-cuts-joker-batman-elon-musk-trump-dannagal-young-kevin-arceneaux
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/25/trump-administration-motherhood-marriage-sexual-assault-sexist-ivf-baby-bonus-adultry-mona-charen
— State treasurer offers no-cosigner loans to Illinois students trying to pay for college. The Funding U Illinois No-Cosigner Loan program is open to Illinois residents attending public or private colleges and universities. The fixed annual percentage rate ranges from 7.99% to 9.49%, and the program won’t take a student’s credit score into account. If I had not had to work my way through college, my GPA word have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/25/education-no-cosigner-loans-college-money
— Casino crime logs show thefts, fights, patrons passing counterfeit bills
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/25/casino-crime-illinois-chicago-ballys-rivers-harrahs-gambling

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of helping a man evade immigration agents and is arrested
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250425/crime/fbi-arrests-wisconsin-judge-on-charges-of-obstructing-immigrant-arrest/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Car condo project pitched for Lake Zurich would include clubhouse, luxury car dealership. I should write about Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville and its unit owners. I have attended many events there since its opening. I bought a small unit there in 2020. I sold it and bought a bigger unit in 2023. I sold it and bought a bigger unit this year. If you are interested in muscle cars, especially Corvettes, Chargers, Mustangs, and Thunderbirds, please let me know.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250425/business/car-condo-project-pitched-for-lake-zurich-would-include-clubhouse-luxury-car-dealership/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The developer of the Sanctuary of Lake Zurich residential community wants to build a different kind of condo project in town. Luxury still would be the watchword but these units would be used to store classic and rare cars, some worth millions of dollars. And there is a ready market, says Romeo Kapudija. “It’s shocking to me how many rare cars are out there and how much they’re valued at but this is a very popular business model right now and type of development and they’re selling out across the country,” he explained to the Lake Zurich village board this week during a courtesy review of Luxe Corsa Car Condominiums. . .Kapudija said the market is hot for these types of developments, referencing Iron Gate in Naperville and another planned in Barrington as examples of their popularity. Iron Gate Motor Condos was among the first in Illinois to offer space exclusively for classic, collector or exotic vehicles. Ground was broken on 50 acres near Interstate 88 and Route 59 in 2014. “Proof of concept didn’t exist when I started,” said commercial builder, car enthusiast and founder Tom Burgess. “I had to go out of state and bring in people who could explain it” to city officials. Popularity fueled expansion to include 40,000 square feet of auto-related retail. “It turned into more than just the condos,” he said. “There’s a huge car community in Chicagoland. It’s deep and broad. It’s amazing.”)

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINSS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-win-block-trump-funding-freeze

SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/25/nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-disapprove-of-trump-tariffs-with-inflation-a-broad-concern-poll/

STATELINE
— Pritzker criticizes arrest of Wisconsin judge for aiding migrant sought by ICE
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-gov-pritzker-criticizes-arrest-of-wisconsin-judge-for-aiding-migrant-sought-by-ice/

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-25/rep-underwood-says-call-republicans-with-concerns-about-cuts-during-dekalb-town-hall

CITIES 92.9
— IL U.S. Rep. LaHood reacts to protesters’ Medicaid concerns
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/25/il-u-s-rep-lahood-reacts-to-protesters-medicaid-concerns/

FOX ILLINOIS
— USDA tells states to boost SNAP verification so illegal immigrants don’t get benefits. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/usda-tells-states-to-boost-snap-verification-so-illegal-immigrants-dont-get-benefits-department-of-agriculture-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-food-stamps-taxpayer-benefits-immigration

WAND TV
— Judge blocks Trump administration from nixing collective bargaining for most federal employees. According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are grossly overpaid, that is, GAO, IRS, and the Post Office grossly overpaid me. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-nixing-collective-bargaining-for-most-federal-employees/article_2a462dc8-36e1-5881-aeae-e66095a3053c.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/tariffs-could-devastate-illinois-economy/article_8c48d537-572e-4890-87eb-c115234d14da.html

WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their international students.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2025/04/23/niu-rally-defends-international-students-after-trump-administration-revokes-visas/

WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-25/congressman-raises-concerns-about-tariff-chaos-and-uncertainty-during-stop-at-farm-south-of-bloomington

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-how-the-publics-shift-on-immigration-paved-the-way-for-trumps-crackdown/
— As IRS Collections Rise, Clear Start Tax Urges Taxpayers to Take Advantage of the Fresh Start Initiative. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used that against me the most. In my defense, I would not have become an IRS employee a) if Oldsmobile had not offered me a job in 1971, b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me because I accepted that offer, c) if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn its job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint, and d) if I didn’t have to have a job.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1017175/as-irs-collections-rise-clear-start-tax-urges-taxpayers-to-take-advantage-of-the-fresh-start-initiative/
(COMMENT: With IRS Enforcement Increasing in 2025, Clear Start Tax Reminds Americans They Still Have Time to Resolve Back Taxes Through Relief Programs. As the IRS steps up its collection efforts in 2024, more Americans are receiving notices, facing wage garnishments, or dealing with tax liens. In response, Clear Start Tax is urging taxpayers with unresolved IRS debt to act quickly and explore relief options under the IRS Fresh Start Initiative, a program designed to help individuals and businesses resolve back taxes affordably. The IRS recently announced renewed funding and a more aggressive stance on collections, which means taxpayers who have ignored or delayed addressing their debt could face heavier enforcement actions in the months ahead. The Urgency of Exploring Debt Resolution Programs  As IRS collection efforts intensify, it’s critical for taxpayers with unresolved debt to act before enforcement escalates. The IRS Fresh Start Initiative offers structured programs designed to ease that burden, including Offer in Compromise, Installment Agreements, and Currently Not Collectible (CNC) status. These options can reduce penalties, halt wage garnishments or levies, and in many cases, allow taxpayers to resolve their debt for significantly less than the full amount owed.)

WEST CHICAGO
— Call for Community Organization to Coordinate the 2025 West Chicago Mexican Independence Day Festival
https://westchicago.org/news/call-for-community-organization-to-coordinate-the-2025-west-chicago-mexican-independence-day-festival/

CHALKBEAT
— Chicago Public Schools floats hundreds of layoffs as one option to close $529 million budget gap
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/25/cps-faces-529-million-budget-deficit/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-293/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pritzker Wants Puppet to Replace Durbin in U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/pritizker-wants-puppet-to-replace-durbin-in-u-s-senate/
— Democratic Party State Senator Gets Hung Jury in Bribery Trial
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/democratic-party-state-senator-gets-hung-jury-in-bribery-trial/
— Defenders Push for RTA Tax Hike
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/defenders-push-for-rta-tax-hike/
— County Board Member Terri Greeno Rebuts County Board Member John Collins’ Rebuttal of Tim Beck’s Take on Now “We Resist” Picketing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/24/county-board-member-terri-greeno-rebuts-county-board-member-john-collins-rebuttal-of-tim-becks-take-on-now-we-resist-picketing/
— Compensation for Home Value Loss Due to Tax Sales Being Litigated against Illinois Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/24/compensation-for-home-value-loss-due-to-tax-sales-being-litigated-against-illinois-counties/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago Teachers Union pushes kids to miss school for political rally, protest McDonald’s. According to Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-pushes-kids-to-miss-school-for-political-rally-protest-mcdonalds/
— Vallas: Pritzker, Johnson keep playing Trump card
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-pritzker-johnson-keep-playing-trump-card/
— Parents beware: Chicago Teachers Union contract is anti-student
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/parents-beware-chicago-teachers-union-contract-is-anti-student/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Hegseth tells military leaders at Pentagon to review their equal opportunity programs. Democrat leaders reject equal opportunity a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/25/pete-hegseth-tells-military-leaders-pentagon-review-equal-opportunity/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mexico instructs broadcasters to ban Kristi Noem’s ad on illegal immigration. Constructively, Mexico has declared war on America.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3391499/mexico-instructs-broadcasters-ban-kristi-noem-ad-illegal-immigration/

NEW YORK POST
— School district won’t allow child to graduate over LGBTQ health class. How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://nypost.com/2025/04/25/us-news/school-district-wont-allow-child-to-graduate-over-lgbtq-health-class/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— President Trump just delivered a knockout blow for meritocracy. Democrat leaders reject meritocracy a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/25/president-trump-just-delivered-a-knockout-blow-for-meritocracy-1538925/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Donald Trump signed a groundbreaking executive order Thursday eliminating the use of disparate impact theory by the feds. The order “restores the true promise of the Civil Rights Movement—a system that does not differentiate between Americans based on race and where success is determined by individual merit, free from discriminatory practices that prioritize group outcomes over personal achievement.” Disparate impact theory says that any disparity must be the result of discrimination, bigotry, and racism of some kind or another. So for example, if more white people than non-white people pass a firefighter’s exam, then it must be because of racism. Or if more non-white people than white people are pulled over for speeding, that too must be the result of racism and bigotry.)
— New York Times’ fake news headline slammed for fueling media’s information war
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/25/new-york-times-fake-news-headline-slammed-for-fueling-medias-information-war-1538939/

DAILY SIGNAL
— USDA Makes It Tougher for Illegals to Get Food Stamps.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/25/usda-makes-it-tougher-for-illegals-to-get-food-stamps/

DAILY WIRE
— Red States Consider Bills To Push Illegals To Self-Deport. Experts say that mandatory E-Verify policies are one of the most effective ways to prompt illegal alien self-deportations. Democrat and RINO employers vehemently oppose E-Verify. All my employers would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-states-consider-bills-to-push-illegals-to-self-deport

FEDERALIST
— The Nonprofit Hijacking America’s 250th Birthday Celebration Is The 1619 Project On Steroids.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/25/the-nonprofit-hijacking-americas-250th-birthday-celebration-is-the-1619-project-on-steroids/
— Three Rogue Judges Block Trump Admin Efforts To Eradicate Discriminatory DEI From Schools
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/25/three-rogue-judges-block-trump-admin-efforts-to-eradicate-discriminatory-dei-from-schools/

FOX BUSINESS
— Lara Trump: We have to cut out this woke ideology from schools
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6371944312112

LIFE NEWS
— More Illinois Women Face Medical Emergencies After Botched Abortions
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/04/25/more-illinois-women-face-medical-emergencies-after-botched-abortions/

MRC TV
— Dems Demand ‘Due Process’ for Illegal Aliens, But Obama Deported 83% Without a Judge
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/dems-demand-due-process-illegals-obama-deported-83-without-judge

ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Trump Dismantles Desperate Impact
https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/president-trump-dismantles-desperate-impact/

REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— Illinois Lawmakers Push Teachers Unions’ Agenda
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/04/23/illinois_lawmakers_push_teachers_unions_agenda_1105991.html

TOWNHALL
— Democrat Chicago Mayor Uses Trump Tariffs As Opportunity to Raise Taxes
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/25/chicago-mayor-uses-trump-tariffs-as-opportunity-to-raise-taxes-n2656098
— Trump Admin Demands Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants Exploiting Food Stamp System
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/25/trump-administration-demands-crackdown-on-illegal-immigrants-at-grocery-stores-n2656115
— ‘Disparate-Impact Liability Is Dead’ Thanks to New Executive Order
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/04/25/disparate-impact-liability-executive-order-n2656073

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5268303-court-ruling-trump-anti-dei-mcmahon-harvard/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been anti-Trump, that is, as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pope-francis-funeral-vatican-rome-italy-9895e156b90aea1dde7f7ea19bf7b3e1

MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-civil-rights-act-walk-back-pete-hegseth-rcna202857

MSN
— Democrat leaders reject meritocracy a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-meritocracy-lie-is-coming-for-the-civil-rights-act/ar-AA1DDcOg

REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/04/25/in-first-100-days-trump-tells-migrants-leave-the-united-states-2/

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-poll-approval.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-approval-rating.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/us-citizen-deported.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-ukraine.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-migrants-due-process.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/upshot/trump-poll-numbers.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-100-days-approval.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-blackpilled.html
— According to Democrat leaders, the Pope rejected countries, governments, borders, and the rule of law, that is, the Pope was a liberal Democrat who promoted illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/26/thousands-attend-pope-francis-funeral-ceremony-helped-reimagine/

WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/26/trump-independents-second-term-soured/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/26/trump-economy-tariffs-federal-reserve-wall-street/
— Canada as hypothetical 51st state would be a ‘nightmare’ for Trump. Not that Canadians want to join the country anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/26/trump-canada-51st-state-politics/

USA TODAY
— Musk risked Tesla’s health to help our country. We should thank him, not hate him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/25/tesla-earnings-musk-doge-trump/83230018007/

WJBF
— RINO Removal Project Launches Nationwide Effort to Promote Voter Engagement and GOP Candidate Accountability. All my critics/opponents a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform and b) get rid of Republicans like me who support the planks that they reject, that is, they are RINOs.
https://www.wjbf.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/806006349/rino-removal-project-launches-nationwide-effort-to-promote-voter-engagement-and-gop-candidate-accountability/

WHBL
— According to Democrat leaders, the Pope rejected countries, governments, borders, and the rule of law, that is, the Pope was a liberal Democrat who promoted illegal immigration.
https://whbl.com/2025/04/25/how-pope-francis-touched-a-migrants-heart-saying-were-all-the-same-people/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in driving the stock market down to punish Trump and to punish those who voted for him.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economic-sentiment-spending-23d95f36
— Many Big Law Firms Shun Conservative Clients. They denounce Trump for targeting causes he opposes, but they’re guilty of the same thing.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/many-big-law-firms-shun-conservative-clients-politics-attorneys-6bf4db08
— Democrat leaders want the next Pope to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://www.wsj.com/world/the-high-stakes-in-choosing-the-next-pope-1a3d5bc0

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Probationary employees face stricter review process under new executive order. If my Democrat GAO superiors could have used probationary procedures to get rid of me, they would have. My doing the following after I transferred from IRS to GAO in early 1980 frustrated their efforts to get rid of me. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/probationary-employees-face-stricter-review-process-under-new-executive-order/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Probationary employees will now have an additional hurdle to clear before they can solidify their federal employment, according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed Thursday evening. Trump’s new order calls for the creation of “Civil Service Rule XI,” which will require agencies to review and actively sign off on probationary workers’ continued employment before they can be moved out of a probationary period. Federal employees are put into probationary periods when they first enter the civil service, or when they begin a new position, for example after getting a promotion. Once a probationary period ends — usually after one or two years of federal service — employees will automatically transition out of probationary status. “Instead of these employees becoming tenured civil servants by default, Rule XI requires agencies to affirmatively certify that finalizing their appointment after their probationary or trial period concludes advances the public interest,” the White House wrote Thursday in a fact sheet detailing the intentions of the executive order. Under current federal regulations, agencies can only remove probationary employees for issues with performance or conduct. Those rules around probationary periods spurred litigation involving the recent mass terminations of tens of thousands of probationary employees. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked an order for the Trump administration to reinstate the probationary employees. Trump’s new executive order, however, adds a new reason that probationary employees can be removed from their jobs. Under the new “Civil Service Rule XI,” agencies can also determine whether a probationary employee should remain in their job based on agency needs and the interest of the public. “It alters the reason for letting a probationer go to include the generic needs and interests of the agency, as opposed to the individual’s performance or conduct,” Debra D’Agostino, an attorney and partner at Federal Practice Group, said in an interview. “It adds this generic reason where the agency can decide that it’s not in the needs or interest of the agency to keep this person.” “Usually, if someone’s not going to satisfy their probation, it’s going to be because of performance or conduct,” Kevin Owen, a partner at Gilbert Employment Law, added. “If the administration is going to start interjecting some sort of ideological component, we’re going to start again sliding into some level of a spoils system here.”)

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— GOP Holds Wide Lead Over Democrats on Immigration.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/gop_holds_wide_lead_over_democrats_on_immigration

INSIDE PHILANTHROPY
— Class Matters Most: So Why Do Foundations Focus More on Race? What class were you born into? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/class-matters-most-so-why-do-foundations-focus-more-on-race

April 25, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker to endorse Stratton for US Senate
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/gov-pritzker-endorsing-juliana-stratton-for-senate/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/sanctuary-city-federal-funding/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/24/cps-moves-ahead-with-a-black-student-success-plan-despite-trump-administration-threats
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/24/robert-crimo-iii-highland-park-murders-sentencing-trump-administration

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-win-block-trump-funding-freeze
— American Bar Association cuts 300 jobs after Justice Department pulls grant funding
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/aba-cuts-300-jobs-after-trump-doj-officials-pull-grants
— Illinois among states suing Trump over tariffs, trade policy
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-sues-trump-over-tariffs-trade-policy

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-elected-officials-concerned-fbi-joint-terrorism-task-forces-agents-reassigned-immigration-enforcement/16242916/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1630772
— Those who benefit from cheap foreign labor and from lax foreign regulations oppose tariffs. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights when his employers moved to Mexico to exploit cheap labor and lax regulations there.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/americans-talk-trump-tariffs-poll

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “research” to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/24/university-research-limbo-trump-administration-pauses-federal-grants
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/24/federal-judge-blocks-trump-yanking-funding-16-sanctuary-cities-counties-ruling-could

WBEZ
— Trump administration is pressuring Illinois universities to end a diversity fellowship. To promote diversity is to promote discrimination.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/24/the-trump-administration-is-pressuring-illinois-universities-to-end-a-diversity-fellowship
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/24/cps-moves-ahead-with-a-black-student-success-plan-despite-trump-administration-threats

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/04/25/trump-is-throwing-the-american-people-ukraine-to-the-wolves-opinion/83225051007/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Those who benefit from cheap foreign labor and from lax foreign regulations oppose tariffs. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights when his employers moved to Mexico to exploit cheap labor and lax regulations there.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/government-politics/article_d55dd88c-feeb-49ae-8b8d-069ea3c6ae5d.html

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/alert-judge-temporarily-halts-white-house-s-20292518.php

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Largest federal employee union, a leading Trump opponent, to lay off more than half of staff. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized when I worked for it, I might still be a GAO. employee.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-largest-federal-employee-union-a-leading-trump-opponent-to-lay-off-more-than-half-of-staff/

ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO
— JANUARY 12, 2005 FLASHBACK: Ray LaHood Mulling a Run for Illinois Governor. I remember speaking with Ray LaHood before he walked in Wheaton’s 2005 Independence Day parade.
https://www.stlpr.org/other/2005-01-12/ray-lahood-mulling-a-run-for-illinois-governor.
— AUGUST 18, 2005 FLASHBACK: LaHood won’t run for IL Governor. I remember speaking with Ray LaHood before he walked in Wheaton’s 2005 Independence Day parade.
https://www.stlpr.org/other/2005-08-18/lahood-wont-run-for-il-governor

NPR ILLINOIS
— According to my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-25/they-say-they-want-americans-to-have-more-babies-whats-beneath-the-surface

CITIES 92.9
— Del Mar: Pritzker plays ‘national politics’ with El Salvador while neglecting Illinois
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/24/del-mar-pritzker-plays-national-politics-with-el-salvador-while-neglecting-illinois/

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote race based preference giving.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/25/cps-school-board-forms-black-student-committee/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— The folks who run President Donald Trump’s @RapidResponse47 handle on X posted: “Why won’t @GovPritzker take action to protect his constituents from the dangerous illegal immigrants he’s harboring in his sanctuary cities?”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/25/pritzker-to-endorse-stratton-for-senate-00309290

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-499/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-292/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Controversy growing over rule to allow transgender athletes play girls’ sports
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6fa5d122-b40c-4626-a79b-b5aa8d872c37.html

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois isn’t building homes. Housing stock is up less than 1% vs. 2020, nation’s 2nd-worst performance.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-isnt-building-homes-housing-stock-is-up-less-than-1-vs-2020-nations-2nd-worst-performance-wirepoints/
— Durbin leaving provides a chance, however small, to change Illinois’ direction. LaHood being elected on November 3, 2026 would be a big positive change in direction.
https://wirepoints.org/nothing-changes-with-senator-durbin-leaving-illinois-is-still-headed-in-the-wrong-direction-wirepoints-on-with-mike-ferguson-of-newstalkstl/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WHITE HOUSE
— STRENGTHENING PROBATIONARY PERIODS IN THE FEDERAL SERVICE  I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. Because my Democrat GAO superiors soon concluded that I would never become a Democrat, they tried to use probationary procedures to get rid of me. But I had already served my probationary period while I had worked for IRS. They tried to get rid of me because I was a Republican even though I had earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-probationary-periods-in-the-federal-service/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: GAO has documented, however, that agencies have not been using probationary and trial periods as effectively as they could to remove appointees whose continued employment is not in the public interest. As a result of this failure to remove poor performers, agencies have often retained and given tenure to underperforming employees who should have been screened out during their probationary period.)

NEW YORK POST
— Trump-appointed judge orders return of second alleged gang banger deported to El Salvador
https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/us-news/trump-appointed-judge-orders-return-of-second-alleged-gang-banger-deported-to-el-salvador/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump Issues Order Eliminating Use of Disparate-Impact Liability. The order follows a ban on government affirmative action. How have Democrats used disparate-impact against you? According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and females do. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and females, my Democrat and GAO superiors used disparate-impact to stop requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. To hire and promote Democrats who were Black, Hispanic, and female, they also stopped requiring other qualifications. That rendered worthless my earning an MBA in business when I was 27, my earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32, my earning four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and my earning a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. I should write about the aforesaid. It is called race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-issues-order-eliminating-use-of-disparate-impact-liability/

AMERICAN THINKER
— From ‘Trump is Hitler’ to dark woke?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/from_trump_is_hitler_to_dark_woke.html

CENTER SQUARE
— Immigration policies have improved under Trump
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_c9a77dd3-f55d-4de4-adba-018ea5ddbb9f.html
— Federal regulations cost average American household $16,000 a year
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_2a8ff3aa-9722-4e06-be23-19ccb0582258.html

FEDERALIST
— Trump Admin Targets University Accreditors For Their DEI Activism
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/24/trump-admin-targets-university-accreditors-for-their-dei-activism/

FOX NEWS
— Trump continues fight to take on elite universities. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-elite universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from IIT (finance-1997), DePaul (accounting-1980), Loyola (business-1976), and NIU (management-1970) are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents who have degrees from elite universities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfu6z-mgNw
— Christian family says school district won’t allow daughter to graduate over mandatory LGBTQ health class. How successful have Democrat leaders been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/christian-family-says-school-refusing-allow-daughter-graduate-over-mandatory-lgbtq-health-class

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Newcomers to White House Press Corps Shake Up the Status Quo. “Many of the news organizations that are represented in this room have marched in lock step on false narratives.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/newcomers-to-white-house-press-corps-shake-up-the-status-quo/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Brandon Johnson Becomes Increasingly Creative in Assigning Blame
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brandon-johnson-becomes-increasingly-creative-in-assigning-blame/

POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump signs executive order to eliminate disparate impact in education and restore meritocracy
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-signs-executive-order-to-restore-the-true-promise-of-the-civil-rights-movement

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Being Tough on Crime Works: New Report Confirms Trump’s Blistering Impact on the Law
https://www.westernjournal.com/tough-crime-works-new-report-confirms-trumps-blistering-impact-law/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5265622-judge-finds-trumps-sanctuary-cities-order-likely-unconstitutional/

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in turning Canadians against Americans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/canadians-put-trumps-bluster-border-arrests-are-booking-far-fewer-us-v-rcna202943

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/lgbtq-suicide-prevention-hotline-trump-budget-proposal-leak/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pope-francis-funeral-catholics-relationship-a34cb1f8a6ceb147e2e112cb4e02e32c

MSN
— Durbin steps down: Could Illinois Republicans finally flip the seat?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dick-durbin-steps-down-could-illinois-republicans-finally-flip-the-seat/ar-AA1DuaAT

MSNBC
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-facing-impotence-as-courts-hand-him-loss-after-loss-court-of-public-opinion-no-less-harsh-238316101946
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3HJnD7vUrY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMV48-Qoe2k

NEWSWEEK
— Ever-increasingly, if you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat leaders call you a Nazi.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-is-pink-triangle-trump-truthing-nazi-era-symbol-sparks-lgbtq-anger/ar-AA1APiaW

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-24/us-judge-orders-return-of-second-migrant-deported-to-el-salvador

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in schools.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/trump-public-school-funds-dei.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/24/trump-order-blocked-voting-citizenship/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/24/judge-rules-second-deportation-case/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/25/pope-francis-trump-relationship-funeral/

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/25/polling-poorly-trumps-immigration-abuses-tanking-popular-approval/

USA TODAY
— Musk risked Tesla’s health to help our country. We should thank him, not hate him. Elon Musk, at great personal and professional cost, has devoted his time to finding ways to cut through the bureaucracy and downsize government where it makes sense.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/25/tesla-earnings-musk-doge-trump/83230018007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders use the Civil Rights Act to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/24/trump-order-civil-rights-protections-at-risk/83249915007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/24/trump-approval-rating-dei-target-costco/83242688007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/21/trump-abrego-garcia-ms13-knuckle-tattoos-supreme-court/83188108007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/trump-contractors-ice-detentions-deportations/83250623007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Harvard Is an Islamist Outpost. For decades it nurtured resentful leftists, and antisemitism united them in a common cause.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/harvard-is-an-islamist-outpost-fringe-leftist-views-eventually-united-by-antisemitism-42759e15
— Three Times Trump Softened His Stance in the Wake of Market Turmoil. Those who make lots of money exploiting cheap foreign labor and lax regulations in foreign countries oppose tariffs. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights when his employers moved to Mexico to exploit cheap labor and lax regulations there.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-tariffs-stock-market-trade-war-04-25-2025/card/video-three-times-trump-softened-his-stance-in-the-wake-of-market-turmoil-vxnxxZ7dLMI3feeaVwop

EL PASO TIMES
— Sooner or later, all the countries of the world will officially declare war on America. All the countries of the world want a piece of the America cake, if not the whole cake.
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2025/04/25/mexico-senate-votes-to-bar-foreign-propaganda-after-dhs-ad-campaign-trump/83212989007/

WBUR
— Sooner or later, everyone outside of America will claim refugee status in America.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/04/24/afghan-refugees-promises-broken-under-trump-immigrations-plans
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DYiX-TG9UmtI

FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://fortune.com/article/trump-plan-proof-of-citizenship-vote-shot-down-judge/

PBS
— Democrat teachers use DEI to make their students good little Democrats, that is, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-married people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-blocks-trump-push-to-cut-public-school-funding-over-diversity-programs

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/due_process_for_illegal_immigrants_61_of_democrats_say_yes

April 24, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois and 11 other states sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/lawsuit-tariff-policy/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Rep. Darin LaHood considering GOP primary bid for Sen. Dick Durbin’s seat. LaHood is considering and is open to a primary run for the U.S. Senate seat, according to a source with direct knowledge of the congressman’s thinking. The congressman has about $5.8 million cash on hand to help a potential bid.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/23/darin-lahood-gop-primary-bid-consideration-senate-dick-durbin
— Stellantis still on track to reopen Belvidere plant, as automakers adjust for tariffs. The company said it still plans to reopen the plant near Rockford in 2027, which is expected to employ 1,500 union workers.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/04/24/stellantis-track-reopen-belvidere-plant-uaw-automakers-adjust-tariffs
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Tinson said the Windsor assembly plant in Ontario, Canada, is resuming operations this week on two shifts. “As a result, more than half of the employees from Sterling Stamping, Indiana Transmission, Kokomo Transmission and Kokomo Casting who were put on temporary layoff when production was paused the week of April 7 also will return to work to support the Windsor operations,” she said.)

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-executive-orders-april-23-2025-live-updates/3728421/

CBS2
— Pritzker weighs possible boycott of El Salvador over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/governoer-jb-pritzker-el-salvador-possible-boycott-kilmar-abrego-garcia/

NPR ILLINOIS
— President Trump on Wednesday signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools. One of the actions takes aim at college and university accreditors, organizations the White House says have “abused their authority by imposing discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-based standards.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-23/trump-signs-executive-actions-on-education-including-efforts-to-rein-in-dei

WGLT
— Under the Democrats, soon, everyone in America will be om Medicaid.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-23/mclean-county-health-providers-worry-about-medicaid-cuts

ILLINOIS TIMES
— What percent of farming is dependent on federal spending?
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/a-loss-for-illinois-farmers-and-food-banks-20073034

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-498/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Political Earthquake Rocks Illinois as Dick Durbin Announces Retirement, Triggering a Scramble to Replace No. 2 Democrat in U.S. Senate
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/04/political-earthquake-rocks-illinois-as-dick-durbin-announces-retirement-triggering-a-scramble-to-replace-no-2-democrat-in-u-s-senate.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have Democrats used disparate impact against you? According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and females do. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and females, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. To hire and promote Democrats who were Black, Hispanic, and female, they also stopped requiring other qualifications. That rendered worthless my earning an MBA in business when I was 27, my earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32, my earning four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and my earning a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. I should write about the aforesaid. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Why do fewer Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females take the CPA examination than Republican White males? Why do fewer Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females pass the examination on their first attempt than Republican White males? According to Democrats, it is because Republicans discriminate against Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and females. That is why Democrats make Republican White males pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents a) attribute their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents promote a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Social media reacts to Dick Durbin’s ‘long overdue’ retirement
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3389144/dick-durbin-retirement-reaction-social-media/

NEW YORK POST
— Deported alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving convicted smuggler’s car during Tennessee traffic stop
https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/us-news/deported-alleged-ms-13-gangbanger-kilmar-abrego-garcia-was-driving-convicted-smugglers-car-during-tennessee-traffic-stop/
— Paramount, CBS settle discrimination lawsuit over DEI policies punishing straight white males
https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/media/paramount-cbs-settle-discrimination-lawsuit-over-dei-policies-punishing-straight-white-males/

BLAZE
— Mass deportations are critical to America’s future
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/mass-deportations-are-critical-to-americas-future

BREITBART
— Harvard Fights to Continue Racial Discrimination
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/04/23/schweizer-harvard-fights-to-continue-racial-discrimination/

CENTER SQUARE
— Many colleges, universities ignore Trump’s warning to ditch DEI or lose funding
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_265c6fe2-0385-40c6-a98f-2dd83ac09f47.html

DAILY CALLER
— El Salvador Has Become Democrats’ New ‘Epstein Island’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/23/greg-gutfeld-democrats-el-salvador-visit-kilmar-abrego-garcia/

DAILY WIRE
— Trump’s Nationalism Signals a Return to Strength
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/interview-r-r-reno

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Considering Auto Tariff Exemptions. What about Dodge Chargers? I just bought a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/trump-considering-auto-tariff-exemptions-white-house-confirms-5846599

FOX NEWS
— Chicago residents blast a possible Pritzker presidential run: ‘No chance to win.’  Chicago residents didn’t hold back when asked what a Pritzker presidency might mean for the country.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-residents-blast-possible-pritzker-presidential-run-no-chance-win
— Pritzker moves to boycott El Salvador for aiding Trump over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention. Pritzker said the move was in response to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-moves-boycott-el-salvador-aiding-trump-over-kilmar-abrego-garcias-detention
— Trump praises Elon Musk as ‘patriot, a brilliant guy, and a friend of mine’ amid DOGE exit. Trump praised Elon Musk during an Oval Office exchange Wednesday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-praises-elon-musk-patriot-brilliant-guy-friend-mine-amid-doge-exit

NATIONAL REVIEW
— President Trump Signs Three Really Good Executive Orders on Civil Rights. The first targets the “disparate impact” approach to civil-rights enforcement. According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and women. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and women, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/president-trump-signs-three-really-good-executive-orders-on-civil-rights/

TOWNALL
— Trump Signs Multiple Executive Orders on Education, Including Against Accreditors Using DEI
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2025/04/23/new-trump-executive-order-goes-after-dei-used-by-higher-education-accreditors-n2656007

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Pritzker orders Illinois to boycott El Salvador over Abrego Garcia’s detention
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5264139-pritzker-orders-illinois-to-boycott-el-salvador-over-abrego-garcias-detention/

CNN
— Russia launches deadly strikes on Ukraine’s capital as Trump accuses Zelensky of harming peace talks
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/europe/russia-strikes-kyiv-trump-zelensky-crimea-intl-hnk/index.html

MSN
— Trump says “”We don’t really want Canada to make cars for us, to put it bluntly. We want to make our own cars.” What is Trump’s position on my buying a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus that was made in Canada?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trump-now-says-he-doesn-t-want-canadian-cars-how-his-anti-canada-rhetoric-is-boosting-mark-carney-s-chances-ahead-of-the-vote/ar-AA1DvJPU
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Trump said on Wednesday he doesn’t want Canadian cars and claimed Canada would “cease to exist” without the United States — remarks that extend his sharp criticism of the country just days before Canadians head to the polls on Monday. “We don’t really want Canada to make cars for us, to put it bluntly. We want to make our own cars,” Trump said. Trump also suggested that he might increase import taxes on cars from Canada. “So when I put tariffs on Canada, they’re paying 25%, but that could go up in terms of cars. When we put tariffs on, all we’re doing is we’re saying, ‘We don’t want your cars, in all due respect.”)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-pope-francis-history-of-criticizing-trump-and-embracing-lgbtq-rights-rankled-conservative-catholics/ar-AA1DiUr6

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/podcasts/the-daily/trump-venezuela-gang-members-deportations.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/nyregion/deportation-trump-jamaica.html
— Inside a Union’s Fight Against Trump’s Federal Job Cuts. Leaders of the union representing government workers say their battle is galvanizing but also alarming. “It’s insulting to say,” one said, “that we are lazy.” I worked for GAO 1980-1997. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized, it would not have been able to take the adverse actions against me that it did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/business/economy/government-union-trump-musk.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/opinion/us-china-asia-tariffs.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote a) same sex marriage and b) interracial marriage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/same-sex-marriage.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump orders changes to civil rights rules. According to Democrats, a test is discriminatory if Whites and men do better on it than Blacks, Hispanics, and women. Because Whites and men do better on the CPA examination than Blacks, Hispanics, and women, my Democrat and GAO superiors stopped requiring passing the CPA examination to get hired and promoted. That rendered worthless my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/23/trump-executive-orders-education-accreditation/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The new order Trump signed Wednesday instructs the attorney general to “repeal or amend” Title VI regulations that include disparate impact liability.)

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/04/23/trump-approval-poll-economy-100-days/83217866007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been a liberal Democrat.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/04/22/pope-francis-world-affairs-impact-influence/83191480007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Elite Universities in Trump’s Crosshairs Are Drumming Up Cash. Princeton, Harvard and Brown are among the schools issuing debt. They are counting on the next U.S. President to be a Democrat or a RINO.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-college-universities-cash-federal-funding-fa001311
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-trade-war-04-24-25/card/china-says-no-talks-ongoing-with-trump-administration-yXdly6y82T1iyWKYug3F
— Will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters succeed in driving Tesla out of business to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish those who voted for Trump?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-has-a-deep-hole-to-pull-out-of-15815d7e
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whos-afraid-of-renaud-camus-home-office-united-kingdom-free-speech-immigration-aacafc8a
— The Class of 2025 Tries to Crack a Chilly Job Market for College Grads. What frustrated your job search? For me, it included potential employers viewing me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Further, my GPA was not that great because I had spent far too many hours delivering mail for the Park Forest Post Office instead of studying.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/the-class-of-2025-tries-to-crack-a-chilly-job-market-for-college-grads-0589c4af

ATLANTIC
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Trump to destroy those who voted for Trump to destroy America.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/tesla-earnings-elon-musk-doge/682551/

April 23,2025 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— RESTORING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND MERITOCRACY
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— US Sen. Dick Durbin says he won’t run for sixth term. I remember, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, distributing campaign literature and getting sign locations in my precinct for Durbin’s Republican opponents Curran in 2020, Oberweis in 2014, Sauerberg in 2008, and Durkin in 2002. Further, I remember, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, doing that for Duckworth’s opponent Salvi in 2022, for Kirk in 2016 and 2010, and Keyes in 2004. Because they all were statewide races, my critics/opponents had a harder time blaming me and blaming my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for Republican defeats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/us-sen-dick-durbin-says-he-wont-run-for-sixth-term/
— Democrat leaders say that orders to leave the country — some for US citizen — sow confusion among immigrants
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/orders-to-leave-the-country-some-for-us-citizen-sow-confusion-among-immigrants/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Senate race to replace Durbin boasts ‘at least a dozen’ serious contenders
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/23/dick-durbin-senate-reelection-decision-krishnamoorthi-underwood-stratton

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Durbin’s retirement sets off a stampede — and a massive generational shift in Illinois politics
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dick-durbin-retirement-sets-race-open-seats-illinois
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The GOP appears less poised to field a competitive Senate candidate in what is now a heavily Democratic state, but there has been some discussion about Richard Porter, an attorney who serves as the state’s Republican national committeeman. Also being touted by some Republicans is Rep. Ray LaHood, who represents Peoria and other downstate areas.)
— Durbin makes it official: He won’t seek re-election
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dick-durbin-will-not-seek-re-election-senate

ABC7
— Illinois among 12 states suing Trump administration to stop tariff policy
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-among-12-states-suing-president-donald-trumps-administration-stop-tariff-policy/16232793/
— Trump administration looking at $5K ‘baby bonus’ to incentivize public to have more children
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-looking-baby-bonus-incentivize-public-have-more-children/16231863/

FOX32
— Trump says he’ll reduce tariffs against China ‘substantially’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1629873

WTTW
— Long-Stalled Push for Reparations in Chicago Moving Forward
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/23/slow-moving-push-reparations-chicago-moving-forward-johnson-says

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/04/23/illinois-families-brace-for-possible-medicaid-cuts/82673254007/

STATELINE & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-deportation-el-salvador/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-administration-is-still-resisting-the-judges-orders-in-abrego-garcia-deportation-case/

CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— The 10 Pols Who Could Replace Dick Durbin
https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/february-2024/the-10-pols-who-could-replace-dick-durbin/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: When U.S. senator Peter Fitzgerald announced his retirement in 2004, 16 candidates ran to succeed him. “Don’t you think it would be cool to be a senator?” one remarked. (Barack Obama, a state senator at the time, won — you might have heard of him.) . . . 5. Darin LaHood
The GOP will run a candidate, too, and LaHood is likely to be it. The last two times an Illinois Republican won a Senate race were 1998 and 2010 — nonpresidential years when a Democrat was in the White House, which seems to indicate that a Joe Biden reelection would help LaHood. (The Democrats also ran weak candidates those years.) Of the three Illinois Republicans in Congress, LaHood, elected to the House in 2015, is the most moderate. He’s from Peoria, which is Middle America personified. “He’s a guy who is politically disciplined and has not alienated the base,” says a conservative activist. “He can appeal to independents, too. He’s not a crazy MAGA.” Democrats would attack LaHood on abortion (he opposes) and voting with Trump on issues such as repealing Obamacare. He needs “to keep the race on economics and the lack of federal leadership, particularly with the border crisis,” the activist says.)

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/arts-culture/trump-immigration-actions-are-only-latest-in-white-supremacy-tradition-20072014

PRITIZKER
— Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred.
https://gov.illinois.gov/news/press-release.31180.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Question of the day: If LaHood does run for US Senate, what do you believe are his chances in both the primary and the general?
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/question-of-the-day-3727/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-291/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CHICAGOLAND JOURNAL
— Aaron Del Mar Returns as Cook County GOP Chairman After Overwhelming Vote
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/aaron-del-mar-returns-as-cook-county-gop-chairman-after-overwhelming-vote/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood Campaign Says Durbin Retirement “Long Overdue”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/lahood-campaign-says-durbin-retirement-long-overdue/
— Durbin Retiring, Second Tier Dems Ready for Fight
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/durbin-retiring-second-tier-dems-ready-for-fight/
— Second Old Illinois Member of Congress–Jan Schakowsky–Says Bye-Bye, People Lining Up
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/second-old-illinois-member-of-congress-jan-schakowsky-says-bye-bye/
— Month after Characterizing Trump to Nazis Pritzker Calls for End to Hate Crimes, Reports Big Hike Since Biden Took Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/month-after-characterizing-trump-to-nazis-pritzker-calls-for-end-hate-crimes-big-hike-since-biden-took-office/
— Passenger Pot Citation in Cary after Car Stopped for Missing Headlight, Bill To End Smell Test Passes Illinois Senate (with Roll Call)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/passenger-pot-citation-in-cary/
— McHenry Awarded $771,000 to Revitalize Riverside Drive, Woodstock Gets $1 Million for Opera House Block
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/mchenry-awarded-771000-to-revitalize-riverside-drive-woodstock-gets-1-million-for-opera-house-block/
— State Claims 6 to 1 Benefit from Subsidizing Filming
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/state-claims-6-to-1-benefit-from-subsidizing-filming/
— Randi Freese Reports McHenry County Share of Most Recent Opioid Settlement Unknown at This Point
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/randi-freese-reports-mchenry-county-share-of-most-recent-opioid-settlement-unknown-at-this-point/
— Illinois Pot Taxes Drive Pot Shop Growth in SW Michigan
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/illinois-pot-taxes-drive-growth-in-sw-michigan/
— Trump-Endorsed Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Bryon Donalds Speaking to State GOP Fundraiser Friday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/trump-endorsed-florida-gubernatorial-candidate-bryon-donalds-speaking-to-state-gop-fundraiser-friday/
— Details on Walgreen’s Whistleblower Opioid Settlement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/details-on-walgrens-whistleblower-opioid-settlement/
— Congressional Dems Vote to Keep Taxing Tips
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/congressional-dems-vote-to-keep-taxing-tips/
— Court Shuts Down Rockford Abortion Clinic
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/court-shuts-down-rockford-abortion-clinic/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— An abortion clinic operating in a residential neighborhood in Illinois lost its legal fight with neighbors after a state court reversed the facility’s zoning approval.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/23/neighbors-win-court-battle-home-based-abortion-clinic/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Britain bans French philosopher who conceptualized the ‘great replacement’ theory, from entering country
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/britain_bans_french_philosopher_who_conceptualized_the_great_replacement_theory_from_entering_country.html

BREITBART
— Americans Overwhelmingly Side with Trump on Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/23/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-side-with-trump-on-deportations/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Durbin Announces Retirement, Leaving a Power Vacuum
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/23/prospect-durbins-retirement-shakes-up-illinois-democrats/

FOX NEWS
— If we can’t deport illegals, here’s how we can make it impossible to stay
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-we-cant-deport-illegals-heres-how-we-can-make-impossible-stay

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Durbin retirement tees up competitive Senate primary in Illinois
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5263818-dick-durbin-retirement-senate/

NEWSWEEK
— Who Might Run for Dick Durbin’s Soon-to-Be Vacant Senate Seat?
https://www.newsweek.com/dick-durbin-retirement-potential-candidates-illinois-senate-2063156
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On the Republican side, Representative Darin LaHood also told NOTUS he would not “close the door” on a Senate run. “I’ve had a lot of people encourage me to think about doing it,” he told the publication.)

CNN
— Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in Senate, announces he won’t seek reelection.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/politics/dick-durbin-senate-retirement

CBS NEWS
— Trump signs executive order to influence college accreditation process
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-signs-executive-order-to-eliminate-woke-ideology-in-college-accreditation-process/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Durbin, No. 2 Senate Democrat, to Retire After 44 Years in Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/dick-durbin-retires-senate.html
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-approval-rating.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in manipulating/dominating young people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/23/trump-presidency-news/

POLITICO
— Durbin was first elected to the Senate in 1996, succeeding Democratic Sen. Paul Simon. In the primary that year, Durbin defeated Pat Quinn, who would later become governor of Illinois. In the general election that year, Durbin defeated Al Salvi, the husband of Kathy Salvi, who now chairs the Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/dick-durbin-retiring-from-senate-illinois-00305833

WIKIPEDIA
— 2026 United States Senate election in Illinois
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois
(FROM THE POSTING: Republican primary: Declared: John Goodman, former police officer ( https://goodmanforillinois.com/meet-john/ ). Publicly expressed interest: Darin LaHood, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 16th congressional district (2015–present)  Potential: Jim Durkin, former minority leader of the Illinois House of Representatives (2013–2023) from the 82nd district (2006–2023) and 44th district (1995–2003), Mary Miller, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 15th congressional district (2021–present). Declined: Mike Bost, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 12th congressional district (2015–present))

April 23, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Some 5 million Americans with defaulted student loan payments will have their loans sent for collections on May 5. Where did the money come from to pay for your undergraduate degree? Mine came from my washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, and working on an automotive assemble line. The aforesaid enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charge SE. But my GPA suffered.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/default-student-loans-debt-collection-trump-administration-announces-end-period-leniency-began-during-covid-pandemic/16217800/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-student-visas-revoked-illinois-indiana-college-students-celebrate-order-donald-trump-admin-reinstate/16225550/

FOX32
— ‘It’s unsafe’: Chicagoans sound off about migrant crowds outside Home Depot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzhpIMM2iy0

WTTW
–Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/22/pritzker-balances-messaging-some-dems-encourage-party-avoid-lgbtq-issues
— Ever-increasingly, leaders of universities in Illinois reject Trump’s election.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/22/illinois-university-leaders-join-condemnation-trump-administration-s-unprecedented

WLS AM
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wlsam.com/2025/04/22/gorka-to-newsmax-due-process-push-for-illegals-strange/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois GOP has to do better than the likes of Thomas DeVore, lockdown critic
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/devore-misconduct-attorney-general-gop/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson will head to Springfield again, to demand Chicago ‘receives its just due’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/mayor-brandon-johnson-springfield-chicago-just-due/
— Several police departments disperse large crowd of juveniles from Sky Zone in Orland Park
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/police-disperse-juveniles-sky-zone-orland-park/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/opinion-illinois-immigration-crackdown-protect-communities/
— Pritzker calls it ‘ironic’ that inaugural committee accepted donation from Chinese firm Trump has criticized.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/gov-jb-pritzker-calls-it-ironic-that-inaugural-committee-accepted-donation-from-chinese-firm-trump-has-criticized/
— What did you do for Earth Day? I spent about an hour pulling out blown-in plastic trash from the wetlands west of my Iron Gate Motor Condo in Naperville.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/orland-grasslands-earth-day/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Gotion, a Republican target, gave big to Trump inaugural
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/gotion-target-trump-gave-1-million-inauguration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly attack Musk to attack Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-treasurer-co-signs-letter-tesla-board

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, everyone in America will be on Medicaid.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/04/23/illinois-families-brace-for-possible-medicaid-cuts/82673254007/

SOUTHERN
— How marginalized are you? Who marginalizes you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that Republicans marginalize you: Democrat, RINO, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizen of a foreign country, have less money than others, have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozer, gambler, stoner, prostitute, etc.
https://thesouthern.com/life-entertainment/faith/siu-s-father-brown-pope-francis-legacy-is-advocating-for-the-marginalized-forgotten/article_139e56eb-5ede-52eb-a9ee-448ac0f406c4.html

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat universities will ever-increasingly oppose Trump.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/23/opinion/harvard-is-resisting-the-trump-administrations-invasive-demands-nu-should-follow-suit/

JOURNAL GAZETTE
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columnists/judgment-day-drawing-nigh/article_ba1d63e7-b9fd-4210-a47b-0577c76944c8.html

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicagodefender.com/illinois-legislative-black-caucus-condemns-trumps-attack-on-dei-pledges-to-defend-racial-equity-in-the-workplace/

WJBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/04/22/his-dad-would-be-ashamed-of-him-large-rally-in-uptown-normal-to-protest-rep-lahood/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote AOC.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-23/the-next-aoc-young-democrats-are-aiming-to-topple-incumbents-inside-their-own-party

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-22/nationwide-anti-trump-protests-arrive-in-small-town-northern-illinois

WAND TV
— Public education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/education/multiple-university-presidents-in-illinois-sign-letter-criticizing-federal-government-overreach/article_4762b0ab-a8a7-4a5b-bcee-f54282cb9674.html

WIFR
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/04/23/illinois-voting-advocates-worry-bill-requiring-citizenship-proof-vote/

WVIK
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote globalism, that is, they ever-increasingly promote cheap foreign labor and making America more and more and more dependent on foreign countries, that is, they ever-increasingly promote the destruction of America.
https://www.wvik.org/2025-04-22/the-global-economy-will-be-hit-hard-by-trumps-tariffs-imf-warns

25 NEWS NOW
— Trump administration mulls $5,000 baby bonus to boost population
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/22/trump-administration-mulls-5000-baby-bonus-boost-population-report-says/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s policies.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/23/trump-policies-dominate-peoria-town-hall-with-rep-sorensen/

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/pritzker-balances-messaging-as-some-dems-encourage-party-to-avoid-lgbtq-issues-20068650

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/22/chicagos-venezuelan-community-in-limbo-amid-trumps-push-to-end-deportation-protections/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-497/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-290/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Escaping Illinois Doesn’t Mean You’ve Escaped Pritzker
https://johnkassnews.com/escaping-illinois-doesnt-mean-youve-escaped-pritzker/

WIREPOINTS
— It’s hard to tell when Illinois will ‘break,’ but eventually Illinoisans will connect the dots and demand change.
https://wirepoints.org/its-hard-to-tell-when-illinois-will-break-but-eventually-illinoisans-will-connect-the-dots-and-demand-change-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Illinois metro areas have the nation’s 1st-, 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-highest property taxes. People leave because they simply can’t pay that anymore.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-metro-areas-have-the-nations-1st-2nd-3rd-and-4th-highest-property-taxes-people-leave-because-they-simply-cant-pay-that-anymore-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slo/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Liberals and moderates use DEI to get rid of conservatives. White-haters use DEI to get rid of Whites. Male-haters use DEI to get rid of males. Older people-haters use DEI to get rid of older people. Protestant–haters use DEI to get rid of Protestants. German American-haters use DEI to get rid of German Americans. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman?  If you are, anticipate/expect ever-increasing hatred against you from those who voted for Harris. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats run the federal government. According to them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and 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. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you consider majoring in accounting? Did you consider a career in accounting? The accounting profession and IRS and GAO had no interest in me a) because I was not a minority or a female, b) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, c) because I did not major in accounting until I was 27, d) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, e) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, f) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination until I was 32, and g) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, while I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great. Further, the experience that I gained working for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years (the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year) and for GAO for almost 18 years (the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year) was not viewed favorably. Further, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and took adverse actions against me. Further, GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and took adverse actions against me including always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and forcing me to retire when I was 49. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How strongly are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punishing Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish Republicans to punish Americans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— The left’s hatred of Trump boils over: Death threats spread to just about anyone working for him. Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman?  If you are, anticipate/expect ever-increasing hatred against you from those who voted for Harris. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/22/lefts-hatred-trump-boils-death-threats-spread-anyone-working/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump slams SCOTUS for ridiculous idea of giving trials to all illegals. Democrat and RINO judges and justices deny Republicans their 7th Amendment right to trials. I should write about that.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/22/trump-slams-scotus-for-ridiculous-idea-of-giving-trials-to-all-illegals-1538008/

BLAZE
— Trump lashes out at Supreme Court for blocking deportations
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-lashes-out-at-supreme-court-for-blocking-deportations

DAILY SIGNAL
— GOP Lawmakers Showcase How Trump ‘Restored Law and Order’ to US Borders
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/22/exclusive-gop-lawmakers-showcase-how-trump-restored-law-and-order-to-us-borders/

EPOCH TIMES
— Tesla’s First-Quarter Profits Tumble 71 Percent. Will Democrat leaders succeed in driving Tesla out of business, and if so, how soon?  How will that impact the EV industry? How will that impact America?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/teslas-1st-first-quarter-profits-tumble-71-percent-5845648

FOX NEWS
— Gore compares Trump admin to Hitler’s Third Reich. Trump faced similar comparisons from political rivals during 2024 presidential campaign.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/al-gore-compares-trump-admin-hitlers-third-reich

PJ MEDIA
— SCOTUS Sides With Illegal Aliens Again
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/04/22/breaking-scotus-again-sides-with-illegal-aliens-n4939139

REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— Trump’s Migrant Hunt Digs Into the IRS and Social Security
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/04/23/trumps_migrant_hunt_digs_into_the_irs_and_social_security_1105145.html

TOWNHALL
— Young Conservatives Rise Against Wokeness. Liberals and moderates use wokeness to get rid of conservatives.
https://townhall.com/podcasts/townhallreview/2025/04/23/the-pendulum-swings:-young-conservatives-rise-against-wokeness–%7C-charlie-kirk-with-megyn-kelly

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Gore compares Trump administration to Nazis
https://thehill.com/homenews/5260405-gore-compares-trump-third-reich/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Harvard.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/harvard-takes-lead-in-fight-against-trumps-higher-ed-agenda/amp/

NBC NEWS
— Gore likens the Trump administration’s ‘attacks on liberty’ to Nazi Germany
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/al-gore-likens-trump-administrations-attacks-liberty-nazi-germany-rcna202357
— Gore compares Trump administration’s actions to Nazi Germany’s attacks on the truth
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/gore-compares-trump-administration-s-actions-to-nazi-germany-s-attacks-on-truth-238082629661

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html
— How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had to have a job, I then accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/eeoc-trump-dei-law-firms.html
— To Escape the Grind, Young People Turn to ‘Mini-Retirements.’ Some young people are spending their savings on an extended break earlier in their careers rather than waiting until retirement. I did not take any days off at all while I worked for Firestone Stores August 1970-December 1972 and for IRS June 1971-June 1973.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/young-people-work-mini-retirement.html

USA TODAY
— New York Times compares Trump to Hitler. Media allows an ugly double standard. It’s extremely insulting to the 77 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump for The New York Times to publish an opinion piece that compares the president to Adolf Hitler.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/23/larry-david-essay-hitler-trump/83209680007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/22/musk-tesla-first-quarter-earnings/83217370007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about the success that they had importing their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/23/trump-afghanistan-refugee-resettlement-immigration/83126557007/

LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER
— Kentucky among the ‘most federally dependent states.’ How will Trump cuts affect it? How dependent on federal spending are the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article302508724.html

WOAI
— Return to Sender: More Illegals Self-Deporting
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2025-04-22-return-to-sender-more-illegals-self-deporting/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Tesla Profit Sinks, Hurt by Backlash Over Elon Musk’s Political Role. CEO says he will spend significantly less time on DOGE starting in May; electric-vehicle maker’s net income falls 71%. How strongly are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punishing Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish Republicans to punish Americans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-tsla-q1-earnings-report-2025-f7120a39
— How America Lost Manufacturing. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights because his employers moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and less regulation.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-america-lost-manufacturing-reporter-1980s-watched-us-industries-fail-to-adapt-926753f0?mod=opinion_lead_pos5

FORBES
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D-IL) ever-increasingly promotes more class warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dk2pmRluDiuQ

HUFFINGTON POST
— Gore Likens Trump Admin To Nazi Germany: ‘Trying To Create Their Own Version Of Reality’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/al-gore-donald-trump-administration-nazi-germany_n_68078b17e4b00edf27f4ce86

GOVERNING
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Liberals and moderates use DEI to get rid of conservatives. White-haters use DEI to get rid of Whites. Male-haters use DEI to get rid of males. Older people-haters use DEI to get rid of older people. Protestant–haters use DEI to get rid of Protestants. German American-haters use DEI to get rid of German Americans.
https://www.governing.com/policy/the-conservative-case-for-dei

ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— The Rise and Retreat of DEI. The accounting profession and IRS and GAO had no interest in me a) because I was not a minority or a female, b) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, c) because I did not major in accounting until I was 27, d) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, e) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, f) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination until I was 32, and g) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, while I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great. Further, the experience that I gained working for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years (the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year) and for GAO for almost 18 years (the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year) was not viewed favorably. Further, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and took adverse actions against me. Further, GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and took adverse actions against me including always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and forcing me to retire when I was 49.
https://www.icpas.org/information/copy-desk/insight/article/spring-2025/the-rise-and-retreat-of-dei-navigating-the-uncertain-future-of-workplace-culture

NARFE
— Democrats run the federal government. According to them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.narfe.org/blog/2025/04/22/opm-proposed-rule-aims-to-remove-competitive-service-protections-for-50000-feds/

TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Liberal and moderate Jews ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservative Jews.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-100-chicago-area-rabbis-cantors-condemn-trumps-crackdown-on-campus-antisemitism/

INDEPENDENT
— Musk to ‘significantly’ step back from DOGE role after Tesla profits plunge
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-doge-tariffs-china-stocks-live-updates-b2737788.html
— Gore compares Trump team to Nazi Germany saying they are ‘trying to create their own preferred version of reality’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/al-gore-trump-nazi-germany-b2737278.html

GURADIAN
— Gore draws parallels between Trump and early Nazi Germany
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/apr/22/al-gore-trump-early-nazi-germany