October 9, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

October 7, 2025

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

October 6, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— 5 dead, 25 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-oct-3-to-6/

NBC5
— Trump to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Illinois
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-to-deploy-texas-national-guard-troops-to-chicago-pritzker-says/3833957/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Illinois Democratic lawmakers take on activist role amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote and protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/illinois-democratic-lawmakers-activist-role-immigration/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote and protect their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/05/congress-members-rally-south-shore-apartment-ice-raid

DAILY HERALD
— Scholarship brunch supports Latinx students at Elgin Community College. DD: Did you get any scholarships? My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251006/submitted-content/scholarship-brunch-supports-latinx-students-at-elgin-community-college/
— DD: As Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250708/business/prairie-food-co-op-countys-first-community-owned-grocer-opens-in-lombard/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago’s largest accounting firms buck a national trend as layoffs sweep the industry. DD: The accounting profession had no use for me when I became a licensed CPA in 1981 because I was too old, I was 32 years old, and because I was not a minority or a female. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I had worked for GAO since 1980. I had worked for IRS 1971-1980.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/data-center/chicagos-largest-accounting-firms-deloitte-pwc-ey-kpmg

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly blasts Trump.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey-trumps-immigration-policies-offer-pritzker-a-platform/article_1e7ce828-2525-4060-9dad-848b70efb1c4.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Voting is underway in California on new maps that could swing US House control, check Trump’s power. DD: How gerrymandered is your congressional district?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-voting-is-underway-in-california-on-new-maps-that-could-swing-us-house-control-check-trumps-power/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders use Bad Bunny to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Americans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-05/snl-roasts-trump-in-season-premiere-as-bad-bunny-addresses-super-bowl-criticism

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Republicans are criticizing Democrats’ opposition to the deployments. State Rep. John Cabello, who’s also a retired Rockford Police detective, said the governor is “more interested in protecting his personal political interests than protecting Illinois families.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/06/trump-orders-up-hundreds-of-troops-to-illinois-00594616

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-605/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— U of I scrutinized over perceived preference for international students
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_bba03ae6-e5c7-4e6b-82a5-44f2c63b89cc.html

WHEATON RECORD
— Campus Community Grapples With Charlie Kirk Assassination
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/10/05/campus-community-grapples-with-charlie-kirk-assassination/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago Police Ordered to ‘Stand Down’ as ICE Agent Surrounded – Legal Experts Warn of Criminal Liability
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/chicago-police-ordered-to-stand-down-as-ice-agent-surrounded-legal-experts-warn-of-criminal-liability.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Merit-based advancement is key to military excellence. DD: As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly dumped merit to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. It all culminated when I was 49 in 1997 when they forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my minority subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like I did.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/3836027/merit-based-advancement-key-military-excellence/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump to send 400 Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as anti-ICE protests continue to rage
https://nypost.com/2025/10/06/us-news/trump-sending-400-texas-national-guard-troops-to-illinois-as-anti-ice-protests-continue-to-rage-pritzker/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Legal Discrimination in the Aloha State Under Attack
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/legal-discrimination-in-the-aloha-state-under-attack/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Chicago a war zone over ICE raids, and Illinois’s governor doesn’t think there’s a problem
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/chicago_a_war_zone_over_ice_raids_and_illinois_s_governor_doesn_t_think_there_s_a_problem.html
— The Two-Tiered Justice Sham
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/the_two_tiered_justice_sham.html

BLAZE
— Woke CEOs mocked conservatives. Now the joke’s on them.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/woke-ceos-mocked-conservatives-now-the-jokes-on-them

BREITBART
— Hegseth Blasts Woke Diversity at Navy’s 250th Anniversary
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2025/10/05/pete-hegseth-blasts-woke-diversity-at-navys-250th-anniversary/

COLLEGE FIX
— National teachers’ union leftism draws federal scrutiny, calls to revisit charter
https://www.thecollegefix.com/national-teachers-union-leftism-draws-federal-scrutiny-calls-to-revisit-charter/

DAILY CALLER
— Chicago Police Told Not To Help Border Patrol Agents In Distress
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/05/chicago-police-told-not-to-help-border-patrol-agents-in-distress/

FOX NEWS
— Trump is protecting the American people from ‘terrorist states in our own hemisphere’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382079453112
— Trump ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Illinois, Oregon and other locations
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pritzker-says-trump-ordering-400-members-texas-national-guard-illinois-oregon-other-locations

HOMELAND SECURITY
— Discord, Extremism, and the Charlie Kirk Assassination: A Homeland Security Wake-Up Call
https://www.hstoday.us/perspective/perspective-discord-extremism-and-the-charlie-kirk-assassination-a-homeland-security-wake-up-call/

WESTERN JORNALISM
— Illegal Alien Who Served as School Superintendent Was Registered to Vote and Has Extensive Criminal Record
https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-alien-served-school-superintendent-registered-vote-extensive-criminal-record/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Pritzker says Trump officials ‘want to create the war zone.’ DD: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5539424-chicago-warzone-pritzker-trump/

CNN
— DD: ‘It’s frankly evil’: Casten rips Trump’s plan to lay off employees during shutdown.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/05/politics/video/layoffs-government-shutdown-trump-blame-democrats-sean-casten-intv-nrtf

AOL
— Georgia Steak ’n Shake Owner’s Charlie Kirk Billboard Sparks National Attention
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/georgia-steak-n-shake-owner-171030026.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.aol.com/news/concerns-grow-over-continued-restriction-004400211.html
https://www.aol.com/news/durbin-overwhelmed-pope-leo-support-180707754.html
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-targets-virginia-schools-over-132607509.html

REUTERS
— White House: Mass layoffs will start if shutdown talks ‘going nowhere’
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-layoffs-will-start-if-trump-sees-shutdown-talks-going-nowhere-2025-10-05/

ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appears-reveal-strike-alleged-cartel-drug-boat/story?id=126237676

NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders continue their government shutdown. Trump is starting to use it against them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14V_9ERBqm8

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/trump-caribbean-strikes-drugs-kindness.html
–DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/texas-lgbtq-schools.html
— Push for Military Coverage of IVF Faces Challenge in Congress. A proposal to expand the Defense Department’s health care plan to include in vitro fertilization is moving through Congress but could die behind closed doors, again. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used my and my wife’s giving up trying to have children without trying IVF against me big time.  They punished me in 1989 by throwing me off audits of IRS, by giving me a bad job assignment, by giving me unfair performance expectations, by giving me an unfair performance appraisal, and by ranking me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/military-ivf-congress.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push LGBTQ in schools. How successful have Democrat leaders been pushing LGBTQ in your school district?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/texas-lgbtq-schools.html
— White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes. The Trump administration forged ahead with plans to conduct mass layoffs, as the fiscal standoff appeared to intensify. DD: Because I was one of their very few if not only Republican employee and because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly punished me. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/us/politics/white-house-shutdown-punishment.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: I should write about those who I have done the most to help elect and to help reelect, but who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who blame me and who blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their problems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/05/national-guard-takeover-oregon-trump-immergut/

USA TODAY
— DD: From the beginning, Democrat and RINO leaders have done everything they could to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/10/04/trump-political-enemies-comey-indictment/86451565007/

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote resistance to Trump. What if Republican leaders had promoted resistance to Biden?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/trump-resistance-ice-noncooperation-21081574.php

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— False Charges of ‘Hate’ Encourage Violence. The ADL withdrew its smear of Charlie Kirk. The SPLC should follow its example. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied/argued/shouted that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC officer 2003-2007.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/false-charges-of-hate-encourage-violence-d5e07919
— Hegseth Focuses on Fitness. DD: When I was 18 years old in 1966, I was 1-A for the Vietnam War draft even though I could not run because I had a bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. My ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. What if I had tried to enlist?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-focuses-on-fitness-even-as-pentagon-goes-high-tech-723eadfb
— Federal-Worker Buyouts Are Kicking In, Darkening the U.S. Employment Picture. About 100,000 federal workers came off the payroll this week, adding strain to an already weakening labor market. DD: I became eligible for a $25,000 early retirement buyout when I was 45 years old in 1993 because of Gingrich GAO budget cuts. The $25,000 expired in 1994 and the early retirement expired in 1997. I would not be eligible for regular retirement until 2003. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/federal-worker-buyouts-are-kicking-in-darkening-the-u-s-employment-picture-4c3f044b

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

SPECTATOR WORLD
— The shocking state of the American left. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Democratic lawmakers and commentators found themselves in a quandary.
https://thespectator.com/topic/the-shocking-state-of-the-american-left/

DAILY MAIL
— Pritzker says Trump to deploy 400 National Guard troops from Texas to ‘invade’ liberal states
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15165203/Illinois-Governor-JB-Pritzker-Trump-National-Guard.html

TIMES OF INDIA
— How Trump’s 10-point memo directs US universities to ban race and sex in hiring and admissions
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/explained-how-trumps-10-point-memo-pushes-us-universities-to-take-race-and-sex-out-of-hiring-and-admissions/articleshow/124316871.cms

INDEPENDENT
— Trump looking to ban transgender people from having a gun and declaring them ‘mentally ill’
https://www.aol.com/trump-looking-ban-transgender-people-183556531.html

October 3, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— New barricades erected near Broadview ICE facility in effort to limit protesters from blocking street. Local and state authorities installed the barriers Thursday to allow room for protests but also keep the street clear. Demonstrators trying to block federal vehicles from entering and leaving the facility have been met with numerous rounds of rubber pellets and chemical agents that officials say endanger nearby residents and first responders.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/02/local-authorities-to-place-barricades-outside-broadview-ice-facility-to-protect-first-amendment-rights
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/02/cardinal-timothy-dolans-charlie-kirk-catholic-church-marc-morial
— DD: Democrats a) love it when DOJ prosecutes Republicans and b) hate it when DOJ prosecutes Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/02/trump-law-revenge-comey-adam-schiff-letitia-james-jacob-sullum

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/03/opinion-ice-officer-escalation-protests-chicago/

DAILY HERALD
— District 300 school board member removed as president but avoids censure for Charlie Kirk post. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251002/news/district-300-school-board-member-removed-as-president-but-avoids-censure-for-charlie-kirk-post/
— Trump administration approval of new abortion drug infuriates the right
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251002/nation-and-world-politics/trump-administration-approval-of-new-abortion-drug-infuriates-the-right/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DD: Democrat leaders organize “No Kings” protests in DuPage County October 18
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/10/02/organizers-reveal-details-of-dupage-no-kings-protests/
— Woodridge cancels Hispanic Heritage event after some vendors withdraw
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/10/02/woodridge-cancels-hispanic-heritage-event/

EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— Seven questions with U.S. Senate candidate Don Tracy
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/seven-questions-senate-candidate-don-tracy-21078169.php

BELLEVILE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Local U.S. attorney deals with furloughs, questions about partisan messaging
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article312357794.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders always want to give more preference to international students over American students.
https://www.nprillinois.org/education-desk/2025-10-02/new-student-visa-rule-blasted-by-illinois-attorney-general-raoul

CHICAGO READER
— Five anti-ICE protesters face federal charges
https://chicagoreader.com/news/make-it-make-sense/ice-protest-seminary-bookstore-planetarium-union/

ILLINOIS PATCH
— The Best School Districts In Chicago-Metro Area
https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/these-are-best-school-districts-chicago-metro-area-new-ranking-says

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-395/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How do you view federal employees? While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee. My critics/opponents in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, and Illinois Center Right Coalition have always ignored, dismissed, belittled, and/or badmouthed what I did 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 and for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do you view federal employees and federal retirees? According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me and my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is much too generous. 1997, my GAO salary was $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My critics/opponents stress that while my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, I have gotten a $66,780/year in today’s dollars CSRS pension since then, that is, I have suffered only an $86,371/year (56%) loss of income in today’s dollars since then, that is, I have suffered only a $2.4 million loss in income since 1997. In my defense, in 1997, I had three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six-job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— From what I see, under the Democrats in Illinois and under the RINOs in Illinois, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is in Illinois: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. Back in the good old days, even though I am all of the aforesaid, I was able earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, and earn a professional license. I was able to get and keep jobs that enabled me a) to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, and 29, b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) get married when I was 29, d) etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Catalina Lauf Wheatley Files for Congress in Bryon Donalds’ District
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/02/catalina-lauf-wheatley-files-for-congress-in-bryon-donalds-district/
— Sosnowski on Illinois Sanctuary State Policies
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/02/sosnowski-on-illinois-sanctuary-state-policies/
— State Offers Electric Vehicle Subsidy as Federal Program Ends
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/state-offers-electric-vehicle-subsidy-as-federal-program-ends/
— Keicher Files 14-Foot Bill to Protect Law Enforcement and Those Targeting Them (and Inspired Demonstrators)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/keicher-files-14-foot-bill-to-protect-law-enforcement-and-those-targeting-them/
— Dabrowski Says Pritzker Should Prioritize Literacy Over Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/dabrowski-says-pritzker-should-prioritize-literacy-over-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-efforts/
— State Reps. Jeff Keicher and Joe Sosnowski Holding Thursday Huntley Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/state-reps-jeff-keicher-and-joe-sosnowski-holding-wednesday-huntley-fundraiser/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— How the DOJ went after Trump’s allies. Jack Smith targeted Republican movers and shakers. DD: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who arranged my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/2/doj-went-trumps-allies/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
—  Huckabee rebuts rumors that Charlie Kirk had turned anti-Israel
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watch/2363138/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Democrats Lament Lost Wages for Federal Workers as Their Paychecks Roll In
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/democrats-lament-lost-wages-for-federal

NEW YORK POST
— ICE Arrests Over 900 Illegal Migrants During Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGkibz6Isk
— Trump sharpens ax on government shutdown day two — with ‘thousands’ of federal firings planned
https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/us-news/trump-sharpens-ax-on-government-shutdown-day-two-with-thousands-of-federal-firings-planned/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Coffee shop attacked for honoring Charlie Kirk now sees huge sales surge, ‘flooded with righteous people’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/02/coffee-shop-attacked-for-honoring-charlie-kirk-now-sees-huge-sales-surge-flooded-with-righteous-people-1589689/
— University response to students ‘thanking’ Charlie Kirk’s killer ‘very telling’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/02/university-response-to-students-thanking-charlie-kirks-killer-very-telling-1589614/

BREITBART
— Rep. Mary Miller on Chicago Crime: Democrats ‘Don’t Care About the People They Represent’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/02/exclusive-rep-mary-miller-on-chicago-crime-democrats-dont-care-about-the-people-they-represent/amp/
— Trump Pressures Elite Universities to Accept More Americans over Foreigners
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/02/trump-pressures-elite-universities-to-accept-more-americans-over-foreigners-dei/

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Hegseth’s Historic Speech, And Why Many Generals Probably Hated It. DD: My critics/opponents who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America as long as mine have been promote race and gender based preference giving, that is, they reject meritocracy, but outrageously, they attribute their personal successes to meritocracy.
https://conservativehq.com/post/pete-hegseths-historic-speech-and-why-many-generals-probably-hated-it
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Meritocracy is the foundational element of being the best at anything and everything. So, why would any General or Admiral be opposed to or criticize the restoration of meritocracy in our military, and the accompanying dismantling of the social engineering and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies that have plagued our military and crippled its effectiveness for over two decades? Simple – because, after eight years of Obama and four years of Biden, many in the audience got where they are either directly through DEI policies or indirectly by being DEI cheerleaders, even as they knew deep in their hearts such policies were wrong and detrimental to the combat effectiveness of the formations they lead.)

DAILY CALLER
— Black Podcaster Explains How DEI Programs Harm Minorities. DD: All the minorities and all the females who Democrats and RINOs advanced over me a) were younger than me, b) had less experience than I had, c) had less education than I had, d) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or e) had no professional license like the one I have.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/02/black-podcaster-explains-how-dei-programs-harm-minorities/

DAILY SIGNAL
— ICE to Patrol Super Bowl in Response to NFL’s Pick for Halftime Show
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/02/ice-patrol-super-bowl-response-nfls-pick-halftime-show/

DAILY WIRE
— Illegal Aliens Ram Cars Into ICE Agents In Two Separate Attacks. The two attacks occurred in the Chicago area.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-illegal-aliens-ram-cars-into-ice-agents-in-two-separate-attacks-dhs-says

FOX NEWS
— Dems rage over feds targeting migrant gang members
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380755685112
— Putin responds to American conservative’s murder: ‘A disgusting atrocity’
https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-leader-responds-american-conservatives-murder-a-disgusting-atrocity
— Trump sees ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to cut government during shutdown. Trump to meet with OMB Director Russell Vought to identify which agencies are ‘political scam’ for potential cuts. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for a DOGE.
While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, they ever-increasingly use Gingrich’s cutting GAO’s budgets to get rid of not only its few remaining Republican employees, but its employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sees-unprecedented-opportunity-cut-government-during-shutdown

HOMELAND SECURITY
— Two Vehicles Used as Weapons Against ICE Officers in Operation Midway Blitz in Separate Incidents
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/02/two-vehicles-used-weapons-against-ice-officers-operation-midway-blitz-separate

NEWS BUSTERS
— NY Times Sides with Anti-Kirk Ghouls Against Libs of TikTok ‘Smear Campaigns’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/10/02/ny-times-sides-anti-kirk-ghouls-against-libs-tiktok-smear-campaigns

NEWSMAX
— 2 ‘Criminally Deranged’ Illegals Ram ICE Officers With Cars in Chicago
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/dhs-illegal-immigrants-ice/2025/10/03/id/1228874/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Johnson, Pritzker and Chicago’s Rules for Radicals. DD: My critics/opponents are disciples of Saul Alinsky.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/10/02/johnson_pritzker_and_chicagos_rules_for_radicals_654450.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Patel terminates FBI’s relationship with ADL amid fallout from Kirk shooting
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5535569-kash-patel-fbi-adl/amp/

MSNBC
— We are ‘angry at being treated as political pawns’: Furloughed USDA worker. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlC-wsVkKMg

MSN
— The 50 colleges with the biggest surge in applicants over the past 5 years. DD: UIC accepted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if minorities and/or females had applied, they would been accepted instead of me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/the-50-colleges-with-the-biggest-surge-in-applicants-over-the-past-5-years/ss-AA1NJKNG

CNBC
— Musk is telling his followers to cancel Netflix subscriptions
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/elon-musk-calls-for-canceling-netflix-whats-happening.html
— What the government shutdown means for federal workers—hundreds of thousands are required to keep working without pay. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/what-the-government-shutdown-means-for-federal-workers.html

NBC NEWS
— Federal workers share shutdown anxieties
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-workers-share-shutdown-anxieties-young-trump-supporters-expres-rcna235348

NBC BOSTON
— Financial resources for furloughed federal employees. If you are a furloughed federal employee worried about paying your bills, there are some options out there to help. DD: According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me and my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is much too generous. 1997, my GAO salary was $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My critics/opponents stress that while my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, I have gotten a $66,780/year in today’s dollars CSRS pension since then, that is, I have suffered only an $86,371/year (56%) loss of income in today’s dollars since then, that is, I have suffered only a $2.4 million loss in income since 1997. In my defense, in 1997, I had three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six-job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA).
https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/consumer/financial-resources-furloughed-federal-employees/3819639/

NEW YORK TIMES
— How the Shutdown Is Affecting Federal Services and Workers. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/30/us/politics/government-shutdown-furloughs.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Departments also designated some employees, such as federal law enforcement officers, active-duty troops and air traffic controllers, as “essential.” Many will work without pay while the shutdown persists. . .Activities that will cease. . .Non-essential research and data collection.

WASHINGTON POST
— The shutdown is only proving Trump’s point. The president argues that the federal bureaucracy is useless. Shutdowns tend to reinforce that view.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/03/government-shutdown-trump-democrats-politics/

USA TODAY
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise them.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/01/looming-layoffs-federal-workers/86456233007/

MIAMI HERALD
— House members have voted to table a censure resolution against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over her comments following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.newsbreak.com/miami-herald-1592483/4270538385687-four-gop-lawmakers-join-democrats-in-214-213-vote

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOIP OF FOLD: Trump Threatens Far-Reaching Cuts at Federal Agencies. President to meet with budget chief to discuss cuts, says shutdown gave him an ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to slash government’s size.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-to-meet-with-budget-chief-to-discuss-cuts-to-agencies-0ac5a7cb

BARRON’S
— Shutdown Layoffs Could Hit ‘Thousands’ of Federal Workers
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/government-shutdown-news-100325/card/shutdown-layoffs-could-hit-thousands-of-federal-workers-white-house-says-ojM7zWAyKDRvrzSJF8fZ

FORBES
— Netflix Stock Drops Again—Now Down 2.4% Since Musk’s Call For Cancellations
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/10/02/netflix-stock-drops-again-now-down-24-since-musks-call-for-cancellations/

LAW 360
— Illinois Panel Backs Whistleblower’s $3.5M Retaliation Verdict. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I ever-increasingly blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/discrimination/articles/2395319/ill-panel-backs-whistleblower-s-3-5m-retaliation-verdict-

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

GUARDIAN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with drug cartels.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/02/trump-administration-caribbean-drug-cartels

October 1, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

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

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

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

September 30, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump directs generals to defend US from ‘war from within.’ DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-directs-generals-defend-us-war/17912017/
— Hegseth rails against ‘woke,’ lays out standards in speech to top generals, admirals
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-know-pentagons-mystery-meeting-top-ranking-generals/17909098/
— Federal agents surround South Shore apartment building as DHS requests military deployment
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/
— Food Security for Life initiative seeks to end hunger among City Colleges students. DD: My parents provided me with room and board in their Crete home while I took classes at UIC 1966-1968.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-pritzker-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-celebrate-launch-food-security-life-initiative-city-colleges/17911862/

WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/30/it-all-has-stop-broadview-officials-call-ice-end-use-chemical-munitions-rubber-bullets

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/editorial-donald-trump-military-speech-enemy-within-chicago/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/editorial-ice-downtown-immigration-agents-weekend/
— Pritzker likens Trump to Putin for suggesting military use Chicago, other ‘dangerous cities’ as training grounds. DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/president-donald-trump-pete-hegseth-military-training/
— President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declare an end to ‘politically correct’ leadership in the US military
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/trump-hegseth-us-military/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/09/30/donald-trump-pete-hegseth-chicago-military-training-ground-national-guard-operation-midway-blitz
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2025/09/29/broadview-businesses-ice-immigration-protest-suburbs
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/30/south-shore-immigration-operation-border-patrol-fbi
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/09/29/youth-survey-better-chicago-immigration-mental-health-absenteeism-safe-spaces-beth-swanson
— DD: My critics/opponents blacklist those a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents who are still have lots of clout and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. Most commonly, they reject the equal opportunity plank in the Republican Party platform. They want more and more and more preference for those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, citizens of foreign countries, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/09/30/colbert-kimmel-martin-luther-king-jr-1960s-blacklist-era-ben-jealous

DAILY HERALD
— DD: What percent of generals are anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250930/nation-and-world/trump-tells-a-roomful-of-silent-generals-to-join-a-war-from-within/
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250929/nation-and-world-politics/pritzker-calls-federal-deployment-an-attack-on-the-constitution/
— A student ‘womb service’ works covertly to deliver contraception at DePaul. DD: Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly destroying religion.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250930/education/a-student-womb-service-works-covertly-to-deliver-contraception-at-depaul/

WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/29/standing-up-to-ice-in-suburban-chicago-the-peoples-patrol-puts-its-faith-in-resistance

WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/rep-krishnamoorthi-ice-is-acting-with-impunity-right-now/

STATELINE
—  Pritzker’s actions heighten tensions with Chicago law enforcement
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-gop-claims-pritzkers-actions-heighten-tensions-with-chicago-law-enforcement/

GALESBURG REGISTER MAIL
— Illinois reparations hearing set for Oct. 4 in Urbana. DD: Anticipate/expect that the more of the following that you are, the more reparations that Illinois Democrats will make you pay: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.galesburg.com/story/news/local/2025/09/30/illinois-reparations-hearing-set-for-oct-4-in-urbana/86421993007/

OAK PARK
— Welcome to Woke Park, neighbor!
https://www.oakpark.com/2025/09/30/welcome-to-woke-park-neighbor/

X RADIO
— Bailey Says Pritzker “Complete Incompetence, Refusal to Protect Communities” is Why Troops Being Sent to Protect ICE Agents
https://www.thexradio.com/news/local-news/19569-bailey-says-pritzker-complete-incompetence/

WSPY
— During visit to Yorkville, Bailey and Del Mar talk taxes, power shifts as they begin campaign for governor’s race
https://www.wspynews.com/news/local/during-visit-to-yorkville-bailey-and-del-mar-talk-taxes-power-shifts-as-they-begin/article_3b4143b6-bce9-46a8-8131-5db50b80bd5b.html

CITIES 92.9
— Illinois students struggle with academic proficiency. DD: For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/09/30/watch-illinois-student-struggles-continue-as-enrollments-decline/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump floats using Chicago, other Democrat-led cities as military training ground, troops coming ‘very soon’
https://www.nprillinois.org/chicago-il/2025-09-30/trump-floats-using-chicago-other-democrat-led-cities-as-military-training-ground-troops-coming-very-soon

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-393/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

AM 870 THE ANSWER
— Illegal Des Moines Superintendent Proves ‘Replacement Theory’
https://am870theanswer.com/columnists/charlie-kirk/video/68dc1a08b389e81a75fe3087

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Dabrowski’s Campaign Bankrolled by Democrat Donors Tied to Johnson and Pritzker Allies
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/dabrowskis-campaign-bankrolled-by-democrat-donors-tied-to-johnson-and-pritzker-allies.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump, Hegseth present troops with new marching orders: Shape up
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/pete-hegseth-slams-fat-generals-admirals-racial-quotas-announces-new/
— Feds to probe Des Moines schools on diversity hiring in wake of illegal immigrant schools chief
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/feds-probe-des-moines-schools-diversity-hiring-wake-illegal-immigrant/
— Judge calls for public to ‘stand up’ to Trump, compares ICE to KKK
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/judge-calls-public-stand-trump-compares-ice-kkk/
— Trump says he’ll lay off ‘a lot’ of federal workers in a government shutdown. DD: In 1966, I was one of the last Republicans who the Democrats who ran the Post Office hired. In 1971, I was one of the last Republicans who the Democrats who ran IRS hired.  In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who the Democrats who ran GAO hired.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/trump-says-hell-lay-lot-federal-workers-government-shuts/
— How the U.S. military went woke: DEI offices, women in combat and drag shows.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/us-military-went-woke/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Portland has refused to enforce the law for five years
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3831005/portland-refused-enforce-law-five-years/

NEW YORK POST
— Hegseth demands troops meet ‘male-level’ physical standards, rails against ‘fat troops’ in military
https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/us-news/pete-hegseth-demands-troops-meet-male-level-physical-standards-rails-against-woke-garbage-and-fat-troops-in-military/

BREITBART
— Trump Vows to ‘Straighten Out’ Dangerous Sanctuary Cities ‘One by One’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/09/30/trump-vows-to-straighten-out-dangerous-sanctuary-cities-one-by-one/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Trump warns Mamdani: No federal funds for a ‘communist’ mayor |
https://www.christianpost.com/news/trump-warns-mamdani-no-federal-funds-for-a-communist-mayor.html

EPOCH TIMES
— Bondi Directs FBI, DEA, Other DOJ Agencies to Guard ICE Facilities. The attorney general also announced the formation of a task force to protect ICE agents.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/bondi-directs-fbi-dea-other-doj-agencies-to-guard-ice-facilities-5922385

FOX NEWS
— Hegseth tells troops to resign if they oppose his plan to scrap ‘woke’ policies and restore warrior ethos. War secretary announced new personnel standards during Quantico speech.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hegseth-tells-troops-resign-oppose-his-plan-scrap-woke-policies-restore-warrior-ethos?lid=q6jfds3fnzv5

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Hyde Amendment Turns 49
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-hyde-amendment-turns-49/

NEWSMAX
— Pritzker Asks Illinois Residents to Post Photos of ICE Agents
https://www.newsmax.com/us/jb-pritzker-chicago-ice/2025/09/30/id/1228420/

September 30, 2025

TED DABROWSKI
— VIDEO: Former Elected IL Legislators Endorsed Ted For Illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g-dmZJpial

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I have been the Illinois reporter for GOPUSA since 2000. What do you say to my Republican critics/opponents who ever-increasingly do not want me a) to know about their events, b) to promote their events, c) to attend their events, d) to speak with anyone at their events, e) to ask questions of the speakers at their events, or f) to report on their events? Ever-increasingly they have their operatives and their dupes try to stop me from speaking with anyone at their events. Ever-increasingly, they blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all of their problems, for all of my problems, for all of your problems, and for all of everyone’s problems. According to them, I paint Republican candidates as being more conservative than they want to be painted and that causes them to lose elections. Should I start writing about my Republican critics/opponents and their operatives and their dupes? I would focus on those who have succeed in a) stopping me from attending their events and b) throwing me out of their events. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do your Republican critics/opponents do? Mine have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my Republican critics/opponents who are still in the mix and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. Most commonly, they reject the equal opportunity plank in the Republican Party platform. They want more and more and more preference for those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, citizens of foreign countries, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Your attitude toward Charlie Kirk shows your attitude toward conservatives. If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would host an event honoring Kirk and I would invite all those who knew Kirk to speak at that event. If I was still an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer, I would urge that organization to host a similar event. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Assata Shakur, the Chicago Teachers Union’s depressing idea of a role model
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/assata-shakur-ctu-chicago-teachers-union-rhetoric/

JOURNAL COURIER
— Illinois law prohibits sheriffs from assisting ICE with immigration enforcement. Some wish they could.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/illinois-sheriffs-ice-trust-act-21073538.php

STATE LINE
— Don Tracy aims for balance in Illinois politics with open Senate seat
https://www.mystateline.com/news/don-tracy-aims-for-balance-in-illinois-politics-with-open-senate-seat-run/amp/

WTVO
— Don Tracy, Republican, rallies support for Illinois Senate seat in Loves Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPabJGPmj14

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Seizing on the moment: GOP gubernatorial contender Darren Bailey poked at Pritzker. “It is a shame that the federal government has to send the military into Chicago just to protect ICE officers. This is what failed leadership looks like,” he said in a statement.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/09/30/pritzker-slams-plan-to-deploy-the-guard-00586114

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Mayor Johnson’s 6% Approval Shows: Race-Baiting Can’t Cover up Epic Public Safety Failure
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/mayor-johnsons-6-approval-shows-race-baiting-cant-cover-up-epic-public-safety-failure.html
— The United Nations Betrays Its Mission, Again
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/opinion-the-united-nations-betrays-its-mission-again.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Team of prominent defense lawyers steps in to defend accused Kirk assassin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/29/team-prominent-defense-lawyers-steps-defend-accused-kirk-assassin/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Inside the Biden Administration’s Censorship of Everyday Americans
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/inside-the-biden-administrations

NEW YORK POST
— Charlie Kirk wrote of his ‘deep love’ for Israel in letter to Netanyahu about how to counter rising opposition to the Jewish state in the US
https://nypost.com/2025/09/29/us-news/charlie-kirk-wrote-of-his-deep-love-for-israel-in-letter-to-netanyahu-about-how-to-counter-rising-opposition-to-the-jewish-state-in-the-us/

AMERICAN THINKER
— I do not trust Charlie Kirk’s ‘replacement’ Brilyn Hollyhand and neither should you
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/i_do_not_trust_charlie_kirk_s_replacement_and_neither_should_you.html

BLAZE
— Thousands wear ‘FREEDOM’ shirt in memory of Charlie Kirk at Oregon-Penn State game
https://www.theblaze.com/news/kirk-shirt-oregon-penn-game

DAILY WIRE
— Federal Retirement Dollars Used To Push Leftist Politics
https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-retirement-dollars-used-to-push-leftist-politics-watchdog-warns

FEDERALIST
— Democrats’ Relentless Demonizing Paves Way For The Next Political Assassination
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/30/democrats-relentless-demonizing-paves-way-for-the-next-political-assassination/

FOX NEWS
— Pritzker says ICE ‘harassing people for not being white.’  Democratic governor criticizes Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics in Chicago.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jb-pritzker-says-ice-harassing-people-not-being-white
— Leftist lawmakers prioritize ‘hatred’ of Trump over public safety
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380327595112
— Dems care about shielding illegals and catering to criminals
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380324485112

NEWS BUSTERS
— New York Times Weeps on Front Page Over Ghouls Fired for Disgusting Kirk Posts
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/09/29/new-york-times-weeps-front-page-over-ghouls-fired-disgusting-kirk

NEWSMAX
— Dems Want Shutdown, Free Care for Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rick-scott-democrats-government/2025/09/29/id/1228363/
— Charlie Kirk’s Assassination and the Shadowy Rise of ‘Trantifa’
https://www.newsmax.com/platinum/charlie-kirk-assassination-trantifa/2025/09/29/id/1228267/

USA HERALD
— Charlie Kirk’s Estate and Questions Over Turning Point Wealth and Life Insurance Payouts
https://usaherald.com/charlie-kirks-estate-raises-questions-over-turning-point-wealth-and-life-insurance-payouts/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5522184-trump-regime-threat-to-freedom/amp/

CNN
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that “In aftermath of Kirk’s assassination, Republicans seek to galvanize support from young conservatives.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/politics/republican-candidates-charlie-kirk-death

NBC NEWS
— Pritzker calls armed immigration officers in Chicago an ‘attack on Americans’ DD: Attacking federal facilities is an act of war. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pritzker-blasts-trump-immigration-chicago-enforcement-rcna234501

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/charlie-kirk-free-speech.html
— Get Ready for Higher Health Insurance Premiums Next Year. DD: Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that because I was a federal employee, the federal government pays 72% of my health care premiums. Since I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have been even more furious that because I was a federal employee, the federal government pays 72% of my wife’s health care premiums.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/your-money/health-insurance-premiums-increase.html
— DD: Google ever-increasingly steers everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites the promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/google-judge-mehta-remedy-monopoly.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: The Democrat Party is ever-increasingly more anti-Christian
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/29/charlie-kirk-christianity-conservatives-trump/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE: DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly call Trump a dictator.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/28/trump-makes-immigrants-nervous-authoritarian-dictator/86064657007/
— ICE wants National Guard troops in Chicago amid ‘riots’ and arrests. DD: Attacking federal facilities is an act of war. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/29/ice-national-guard-chicago-riots/86429274007/
— What working parents really need – and how the workplace can deliver. DD: All of my Democrat superiors in the federal government were working parents. They all decried the tremendous amount of time and money needed to raise children. They all hinted/implied/argued/shouted that they were underpaid and that if I had children, I would never would have been able a) to earn three job-related master’s degrees, b) earn six job-related professional certifications, c) earn a job-related professional license, c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, and 35, d) buy new cars when I was 23, 25, and 29, and e) buy collectors cars when I was 40 and 45.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/09/25/what-working-parents-really-need/86248270007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/09/04/raising-kids-cost-parents/85958383007/
— Parents face support issues. Helping adult children comes at huge cost. DD: My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother had never attended high school and had never worked outside of the home. I helped support her and my brother 1970-1972.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/09/26/stop-supporting-adult-children/86222216007/

ATLANTIC
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/maga-cancel-culture-revenge-tactics/684296/

BUZZFEED
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/victoriavouloumanos/people-losing-jobs-posting-anti-charlie-kirk-content

SALON
— DD: Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly closer to officially declaring their Second Civil War against Republicans.
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/30/chicago-prepares-to-resist-federal-intimidation/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
— At the ADL, liberalism has trumped loyalty. Today, Jewish safety depends on strength. Jewish survival depends on sovereignty. And Jewish dignity depends on the refusal to be defined by others. The reborn State of Israel is the embodiment of that principle. Charlie Kirk knew that. The ADL does not.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/415617

ECONOMIC TIMES
— ADL labels Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA an extremist hate group, triggering backlash from Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk. DD: I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012 and as an Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) officer 2003-2007. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that TAPROOT and ICRC were extremist hate groups.  They had their operatives and their dupes destroy TAPROOT in 2012 and ICRC in 2007.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/adl-labels-charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa-an-extremist-hate-group-triggering-backlash-from-donald-trump-jr-and-elon-musk/amp_articleshow/124226221.cms

September 29, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CAPITOL FAX
— MEDIA ADVISORY: Former State Reps Ives and Morrison, and Former DuPage County Auditor Bob Grogan to Endorse Dabrowski for Governor. DD: I did not receive this media advisory. I learned of it from Capitol Fax this morning.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/29/selected-press-releases-live-updates-302/
(FROM THE MEDIA ADVISORY: Wilmette, IL – Former State Representative Jeanne Ives will endorse Ted Dabrowski for Governor at her office in Wheaton. Ives, who endorsed Darren Bailey in 2022, will detail her work with Dabrowski for the last 13 years and why she trusts Ted to lead Illinois. Joining Ives in endorsing Dabrowski will be former State Representative Tom Morrison. Both Ives and Morrison, who served together in the Illinois House of Representatives, worked to bring about commonsense fiscal policy to Illinois. In that work, Dabrowski provided important research on pensions, property taxes and education. Bob Grogan, former DuPage County Auditor, will join Ives and Morrison in endorsing Dabrowski. Grogan was a statewide Republican candidate for treasurer and currently provides expertise to local governments on financial controls and audits. WHO: Jeanne Ives, Tom Morrison, Bob Grogan, and Ted Dabrowski  WHAT: Press Conference: Key Endorsements of Ted Dabrowski for Governor  WHERE: Breakthrough Ideas, 703 Warrenville Rd., Wheaton, IL 60189  Streamed live on Facebook.com/TedForIllinois/
WHEN: Monday, September 29, 2025  11:00 AM (CT)

ABC7
— 4 dead, 12 hurt in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-sept-26-to-29/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTIRE: DD: Anticipate/expect that anti-conservatives will ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Kirk.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/charlie-kirk-teachers-social-media/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat and RINO colleges and employers prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/new-h-1b-visa-fee-could-upend-foreign-worker-program-for-local-businesses-universities/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly unite women and minorities against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/column-immigration-reform-escobar-salazar-statesmanship-shaw/
— The CTA has become a rolling symbol of abdication. Riders don’t feel safe.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/opinion-chicago-crime-cta-federal-intervention/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/09/29/youth-survey-better-chicago-immigration-mental-health-absenteeism-safe-spaces-beth-swanson
— DD: Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/09/29/hope-chicago-college-scholarships-2-600-cps-graduates-four-high-schools-one-more-class-chicago-public-schools

DAILY HERALD
— Faith & Blue comes to Montgomery church Oct. 3
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250929/submitted-content/faith-blue-comes-to-montgomery-church-oct-3/

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Peaceful response to Charlie Kirk’s murder a stark contrast
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/09/28/letter-peaceful-response-to-charlie-kirks-murder-a-stark-contrast/
(FROM THE LETTER: Charlie was a frequent visitor to McHenry County. Many locals, including myself, were honored to have met and spoken with him. McHenry County’s own Gary Rabine is said to have been instrumental in helping him launch Turning Point USA.)

25 NEWS NOW
— DD: Pritzker and Duckworth ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/09/29/pritzker-duckworth-denounce-feds-show-force-chicago-area-mass-deportation/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Michigan police ID shooter who killed 4, wounded 8 after opening fire at Mormon church
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/28/multiple-victims-shot-mormon-church-michigan-shooter-police-say/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Cop Killer Assata Shakur Eulogized
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/cop-killer-assata-shakur-eulogized

NEW YORK POST
— Charlie Kirk’s murder unmasks the myth of the dangerous evangelical. Leftists have ominously warned for a decade one group of people represent a unique threat to the American experiment: conservative evangelicals.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/28/opinion/charlie-kirks-murder-unmasks-the-myth-of-the-dangerous-evangelical/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Federal troops arrive in downtown Chicago as racist mayor rages
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/29/federal-troops-arrive-in-downtown-chicago-as-racist-mayor-rages-1588607/

BREITBART
— In Comments on Buttigieg, Kamala Reveals Contempt for America
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/28/pollak-in-comments-on-buttigieg-kamala-reveals-contempt-for-america/amp/

FOX NEWS
— DHS releases images of firearms taken from Chicago anti-ICE protesters. Federal authorities investigate apparent explosive device found near detention facility.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dhs-releases-images-firearms-taken-from-chicago-anti-ice-protesters
— NY Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones calls public mourning for Charlie Kirk ‘unsettling.’  The 1619 Project author accused some Democrats and centrists of honoring Kirk’s ‘extremist’ views. DD: My critics/opponents have always painted me as being an extremist.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ny-times-nikole-hannah-jones-calls-public-mourning-charlie-kirk-unsettling
— What will be Tyler Robinson’s defense strategy? Experts weigh in on accused Charlie Kirk assassin. Tyler Robinson’s new lawyer must navigate mountain of evidence and potential death penalty charges.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/what-will-be-tyler-robinsons-defense-strategy-experts-weigh-accused-charlie-kirk-assassin

ICE
— Working for ICE  DD: Would ICE want to hire me? SEE: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/833846200  I worked for GAO as an Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I became a Certified Public Accountant, Internal Auditor, Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant. I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.ice.gov/careers

TOWNHALL
— DEI-Run University of Arizona Acting Like the Mob Toward Professor Who Objected to Discrimination DD: I objected to political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government. I have always objected to race and gender based preference giving.
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2025/09/29/dei-run-university-of-arizona-acting-like-the-mob-towards-professor-who-objected-to-the-discrimination-n2664099
— Are the Rulers of Dearborn ‘American’?
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2025/09/29/are-the-rulers-of-dearborn-american-n2664092
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A video of an Islamic march featuring thousands of black and hijab-clad Muslims chanting “Allah” and a bunch of gibberish through the streets of Dearborn, Michigan that looks like it could have been filmed in any random Middle Eastern Muslim country went viral and drew outrage on X last week. The account that posted it included a call for Tom Homan’s ICE to deal with the problem by going in and deporting illegals. It’s a justifiable sentiment, but good luck with that. Shockingly, almost 60,000 of the approximately 105,000 residents of Dearborn are of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry. Almost all of those are Arab American Muslims. The problem for the poster, and for anyone else who thinks deporting illegals is the solution to what ails us, is that almost all of them are lawful citizens of the United States, a product of Arab immigration that began almost 100 ago and intensified by waves of refugee resettlements from decades of Middle Eastern conflicts caused in no small part, ironically, by American intervention overseas. Given the numbers, it should be no surprise to find the city run by Muslims. As conservative commentator Matt Walsh pointed out in another viral post: “The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan is Abdullah Hammoud. The guy running against him in the mayoral race is Nagi Almudhegi. The mayor’s chief of staff is Zaineb A. Hussein. The police chief is Issa Shahin. He oversees the commander of the patrol division, Madou Bazzi. The public health director is Ali Abazeed. Don’t forget city council members Kamal Alsawafy and Mustapha Hammoud.” If you are one of the tens of thousands of non-Muslim residents left in the city, you will still be greeted at 6 am in the morning and four other times throughout the day by the Muslim call to prayer broadcast on loudspeaker. For now at least you can complain, like this lady did, but the Muslim-run city council will tell you to pound sand. If you don’t like that a street was renamed after a Hezbollah terrorist, you will not only be told to pound sand, you will be called an Islamaphobe and told you aren’t welcome in the city you grew up in. Yes, technically the rulers of Dearborn are ‘American.’ They and most of their co-religionist voters have the citizenship and naturalization papers saying so, and thus are just as much a citizen of this country as you or me. But is this what the founders envisioned for the country they birthed through blood almost 250 years ago? If Thomas Jefferson could have looked into the future and seen Arabic flags and Islamic chants and hijab-clad women marching through an American street, would he have set things up differently? Trying to normalize a situation ordinary people rightly are disgusted by, ‘Republican’ pollster Frank Luntz embarrassingly quoted part of a letter penned by George Washington as proof that the founders wanted Muslims to, according to Luntz, “find welcome in America.” “If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe,” Washington wrote. “They may be Mohammedans, Jews, or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.” Luntz’s contention was easily ripped to shreds by anyone who bothered to post the entire letter, which was simply correspondence from Washington to a friend in Baltimore asking him to facilitate the purchase of some skilled labor that was purportedly on a ship headed there. Indeed, the idea that our founders – the ones who in 1790 when immigration policy was first discussed limited naturalization to only “free white persons” of “good moral character” who had lived in America for at least two years – would applaud the streets of Dearborn being overrun with chanting Muslims carrying Arabic flags is laughable on its face. On the contrary, if the dead could move they would be turning over in their graves. Still, the founders did recognize the need for immigration, and since 1790 there has been plenty of it. Interestingly, the massive waves from Europe that happened in the 1840s and the 1880s-1920s were opposed by nativists who argued that the Irish, the Germans, the Poles, and the Italians were going to ruin the country. In hindsight, it wasn’t really much of a concern though, because those people had enough in common with the original Anglo-Saxon stock to completely assimilate in a generation or two at most, which is exactly what happened. (We fought against Germany in two world wars, but have you heard anyone complain about ‘those damned Germans’ lately?) Leftists like to cite opposition to these European waves as evidence that conservatives are stupid to oppose the current non-white immigration from Third World hellholes we’re experiencing today, but, as Dearborn has proven, it’s apples and oranges. Extrapolate that over the next few decades at the immigration rate Democrats would have us endure and you’ll get hundreds if not thousands of places just like Dearborn, Michigan or Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Somalis have their own country within a country. The Great Replacement Theory isn’t just a theory, it’s a fact. Leftists hate white people and want them to become a minority in every place they are currently a majority. You may think race doesn’t or shouldn’t matter at all, but they certainly think it does. Now, I’m not in any way arguing for a white nationalist state or the removal or persecution of legal minorities. America should always include minority populations who assimilate, love this country, and want to contribute to its success. However, there is something to be said for an immigration policy, one similar to the one that helped America prosper right up to 1965, that keeps whites from becoming a minority in the country their ancestors founded. An immigration and naturalization policy that allowed Dearborn, Michigan to become what it is now is inherently flawed and should be scrapped and reworked from the ground up. The future of Western Civilization, the vehicle that gave the world most of the progress, freedom, and standard of living it enjoys today, absolutely depends on it.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5523866-affirmative-action-supreme-court-ruling/

YAHOO
— Trump Signs Directive Targeting Domestic Terrorism After Charlie Kirk Assassination
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-signs-directive-targeting-domestic-210041353.html
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use “right-wing” and “conservative” as pejoratives.
https://www.aol.com/news/charlie-kirk-wing-activist-just-204245372.html
— Thinking about college? DD: My father often decried his not having a college degree. When I was 15 years old in 1964, even though I was not viewed as being college material, I set my sights on earning a bachelor’s degree in business from UIC. I took a job washing dishes in Chicago Heights and saved all the money that I could to buy a new car to commute to/from my parents’ home in Crete and classes at UIC. I took college preparatory courses at Crete-Monee High School, got an ACT score of 24, and graduated in the upper 20% of my class. UIC accepted me in 1966. I worked part-time during the school years and full-time during the summers for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. I transferred to NIU in 1969 and graduated debt-free from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in business and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1970.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/thinking-college-heres-attend-upcoming-084020683.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— At Least 4 Dead in Attack on Michigan Church. The police said they believed the attacker opened fire on the congregation and intentionally set fire to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building near Flint. The shooter died after exchanging fire with police officers, officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/28/us/grand-blanc-shooting-church-michigan
— Greene, Straying From Trump, Reflects an Emerging MAGA Split. The right-wing Republican congresswoman from Georgia has grown disillusioned with her own party and with President Trump, and increasingly willing to say so. DD: Democrats and RINOs use “right-wing” and “conservative” as pejoratives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-maga-split.html
— DD: Anticipate/expect that anti-conservatives will ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Kirk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/charlie-kirk-free-speech.html
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/business/india-h1b-visa-trump.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: With Scant Information, Federal Workers Brace for Possible Shutdown. After a tumultuous year of staffing cuts, government employees now face the prospect of going without pay — or facing even more layoffs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/us/politics/federal-government-shutdown-trump.html
— What Was Lost: Former Federal Workers on the Cost of the Cuts. In interviews, two dozen former federal workers from across the country shared what they left behind and what they face next. DD:  When my Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they flushed down their toilets a) my almost 18 years of experience working for GAO, b) my almost 9 years of experience working for IRS, c) what I learned earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, d) what I leaned becoming a certified public accountant, internal auditor, fraud examiner, government financial manager, financial services auditor, and forensic account, and e) becoming a licensed CPA.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/27/us/federal-workers-trump-layoffs.html

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ask “Will Charlie Kirk’s assassination fuel a conservative wave?” and say “Watch this election. This year’s Virginia governor’s race will test whether outrage over Charlie Kirk’s death will galvanize Gen-Z conservatives to vote.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/27/charlie-kirk-virginia-election-gop-youth/86351269007/

DISPATCH
— Men, Give Colleges a Chance. DD: My father often decried his not having a college degree. When I was 15 years old in 1964, even though I was not viewed as being college material, I set my sights on earning a bachelor’s degree in business from UIC. I took a job washing dishes in Chicago Heights and saved all the money that I could to buy a new car to commute to/from my parents’ home in Crete and classes at UIC. I took college preparatory courses at Crete-Monee High School, got an ACT score of 24, and graduated in the upper 20% of my class. UIC accepted me in 1966. I worked part-time during the school years and full-time during the summers for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. I transferred to NIU in 1969 and graduated debt-free from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in business and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1970.
https://thedispatch.com/article/men-give-colleges-a-chance/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Right. Republicans target a foolish professor in a South Dakota case. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government targeted me for my opposition to their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (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 Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/charlie-kirk-free-speech-and-the-right-2b60b73c
— The Justice Department sues over a program that attempts to recruit ‘teachers of color.’ DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/grow-your-own-means-discriminate-by-race-f7f4bb3b

MONDAQ
— Despite Laws Intended To Prevent It, Age Discrimination Abounds In 2025. Despite the establishment of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) in 1967, today, almost three-quarters (74 percent) of older Americans think their age could be a barrier to getting a job. DD: Democrats and RINOs use age discrimination to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/employee-rights-labour-relations/1683766/despite-laws-intended-to-prevent-it-age-discrimination-abounds-in-2025

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters ever-increasing promote more hatred against Kirk because he promoted equal opportunity, that is, because he opposed race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2025/09/29/kirk-hero-civil-discourse-or-fount-division
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/09/29/defense-distasteful-faculty-speech-opinion
— Democrats leaders use minority and female college affinity programs to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/race-ethnicity/2025/09/29/students-alumni-rally-keep-cut-affinity-programs-alive

NEW YORKER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to infiltrate, infest, conquer, and destroy religion. How successful have Democrat leaders been in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-politics-of-faith-after-charlie-kirk

DAILY KOS
— DD: Virtually all government employees are Democrats or RINOs. In 1966, I was one of the last Republicans who the Post Office hired. In 1971, I was one of the last Republicans who IRS hired. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/28/2345622/-Republican-push-for-tips-on-Charlie-Kirk-posts-drives-firings-of-public-workers

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

DAILY MAIL
— Oklahoma to establish Turning Point USA chapter at every school in the state in wake of Charlie Kirk shooting. DD: Who is leading the effort to establish a Turning Point USA chapter in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15143383/Oklahoma-Turning-Point-USA-Charlie-Kirk.html

SKY NEWS
— Charlie Kirk’s movement is growing in the wake of his assassination – as is the chasm in US politics
https://news.sky.com/story/charlie-kirks-movement-is-growing-in-the-wake-of-his-assassination-as-is-the-chasm-in-us-politics-13438530

WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE
— Socialists say that “ICE agents brutalize protesters, retaliate against Broadview, Illinois.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/29/ctoc-s29.html

September 28, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS2
— Democrat leaders decry that “Pepper bullets, tear gas deployed during protest outside Broadview immigration facility.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/broadview-ice-protests-saturday/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/28/ice-arrests-chicago-enforcement-operation-midway-blitz-mental-health-immigrants
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/28/ice-arrests-chicago-immigration-mental-health-venezuela-anxieties

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leader ever-increasingly get faith leaders to promote more hatred against ICE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/ice-immigration-chicago-broadview-faith-leaders/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/letters-092825-ice-operations-immigration/
— DD: Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/opinion-jewish-high-holy-days-christian-nationalism/
— DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/opinion-affirmative-action-dei-admissions-colorblind/
— With mostly powerless voters, Illinois democracy hangs by an elongated thread. Gerrymandering is pernicious. Fair maps are essential.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/editorial-gerrymandering-fair-maps-elections-illinois-democracy/

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn ICE and b) glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250927/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-feds-must-be-transparent-about-ice-operations-in-chicago-suburbs/

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Intense and intentional training is helping Democratic women gain state lawmaking seats
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/politics/article/intense-and-intentional-training-is-helping-21071484.php

KENDALL COUNTY NOW
— Charlie Kirk memorial in Yorkville
https://www.shawlocal.com/kendall-county-now/2025/09/27/a-revival-born-charlie-kirk-memorial-in-yorkville-darren-bailey-campaigns-for-governor/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With antisniper security on rooftops in downtown Yorkville for the Sept. 27 Charlie Kirk memorial, one speaker remarked it’s sad this is the current state of American political discourse. Organized by Kendall Action, a conservative fundraising PAC, the event was part sermon, “a revival born in Charlie Kirk’s name,” part rally, with Darren Bailey campaigning as a Republican candidate for governor. A unifying message shared by the crowd was that the Sept. 10 killing of Kirk by a sniper’s bullet took something personal away from each of them, something that touches their faith. “When we exchange ideas as a society, we win,” State Rep. Jed Davis, R-Newark, said to the crowd. “When you start to silence that opportunity, that God-given right the founders of this nation wrote into the Constitution, that we have the right to free speech, the right to have free and open dialogue, when that is silenced, the people lose.” Kicking off his election tour, Bailey, a former Republican state senator, called Kirk’s killing a tragic loss of “a great American treasure.” He brought up Abraham Lincoln’s prescient warning. “He warned that if we as America falter and lose our freedom, it won’t happen from outside our borders, but it will happen from within,” Bailey said during the rally. “We’ve got a governor who’s using all of this as rhetoric against us to make life more unsafe for us.” In an interview, Bailey was asked what can be done to tone down political violence. “We need to focus on the people that we’re electing, because we have to bring unity to this nation,” Bailey said. “We look for a stronger and different candidate to take that position, a leader who’s bold and courageous and desires unity instead of division.”)

QUAD CITIES ONLINE
— A look inside Quad-Cities voting precincts and how both sides of the river become more red
https://qconline.com/news/local/government-politics/collection_a5ee88db-8430-58d0-b4e1-74ce6e025243.html

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— White House names nearly 30 elected officials as alleged ICE agitators. DD: Pritzker is 3rd on the list, Ramirez is 7th.
https://newschannel20.com/news/nation-world/unhinged-crusade-white-house-releases-list-of-nearly-30-alleged-ice-agitators-president-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-walz-newsom-pritzker-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-dallas-texas-shooting
— Illinois SmartBuy program helps 533 new homeowners erase $16 million in student loans. DD: If I had gotten a student loan, my GPA would have been much higher and I would have gotten much better paying jobs. I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-smartbuy-program-helps-533-new-homeowners-erase-16-million-in-student-loans


LOCAL 12
— DuPage County GOP Chairman Kevin Coyne slammed after criticizing political stunt at punk festival
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/riot-fest-gwar-dupage-county-gop-chairman-kevin-coyne-slammed-as-dork-a-loser-after-criticizing-political-stunt-at-punk-festival-doge-cincinnati-department-government-efficiency-parody-account-controversy-absurdist-spectacle-art-music-american-culture
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A GOP chairman was slammed as a “dork *** loser” after he criticized a gruesome political stunt that occurred at “Riot Fest” in Chicago. DuPage County, Illinois GOP Chairman Kevin Coyne went viral on Monday after criticizing a gruesome political stunt at “Riot Fest” in a now-deleted post to X. Riot Fest ’25 occurred on September 19 through September 21 at Douglass Park in the City of Chicago. According to The New York Post, during a performance by GWAR, a metal band that was first formed back in 1984, band members performed a mock beheading of Elon Musk, as well as a mock killing of President Donald J. Trump. While the band is known for its grotesque stunts, several social media users voiced criticism due to the political environment in the United States following the assassination of conversative activist Charlie Kirk. “That’s not edgy, it’s grotesque and reckless and normalizes violence against a real person. This is not okay. Riot Fest and GWAR crossed a major line,” a social media user wrote, per The Post. Screenshots of the now-deleted post appear to show that Coyne, who was in attendance at Riot Fest, wrote the following in reaction to GWAR’s stunt: “Riot Fest, it’s always so …. Interesting. Could’ve done without all the politics from the stage but it was fun nonetheless. Apparently we can’t even go to concerts now without the political divide being tossed in our faces. We’ll still go back but it was obnoxious.” The screenshot appears to show that Coyne’s post was seen more than 2.5 million times before being deleted. The message is followed by an @ to an apparent parody Riot Fest account, which boasts more than 95,000 followers. The Riot Fest parody account responded to Coyne’s criticism, writing the following, according to a screenshot: “Shut the (expletive) up you dork (expletive) loser. Seriously some of the softest dumbest people on the internet.” After being accused of “normalizing violence,” a GWAR representative issued the following statement to the publication: “Normalizing violence? Humans don’t need GWAR for that. There is nothing normal about the Looney Toon violence acted out on a GWAR stage. GWAR is absurdist spectacle. GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous.” The Anonymous X account also chimed in on the discussion, writing the following: ““(Expletive) Elon Musk. Call the manager you (expletive) loser. It’s like you never heard of GWAR before you (expletive) p–y,” Riot Fest is a three-day festival that was first held in 2005, and is one of the largest independently-owned music festivals in the United States.)

POSITIVELY NAPERVILLE
— Public Safety Open House welcomed hundreds of families
https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2025/09/27/another-public-safety-open-house-welcomed-hundreds-of-families/153504

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Deep State Littlefinger James Comey With No Place to Hide
https://johnkassnews.com/deep-state-littlefinger-james-comey-has-no-place-to-hide/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Comments on Bailey Gubernatorial Campaign Rollout
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/27/comments-on-bailey-gubernatorial-campaign-rollout/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Protesters removed by police after disrupting Charlie Kirk prayer rally in Wheaton. DD: When will the Daily Herald report on this event?
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/675484139-protesters-removed-by-police-after-disrupting-charlie-kirk-prayer-rally-in-wheaton
https://x.com/DuPageCountyGOP/status/1972019256188641431
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Police removed a small group of protesters Sunday night who disrupted a prayer rally in Wheaton honoring the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The event drew about 1,500 attendees and was organized by local church leaders and Decision Point USA. The prayer rally took place under the French Market Pavilion in downtown Wheaton. Organizers said the event was held to pray for revival in the city, schools, churches, and the nation. “In this moment of grief and urgency, we believe God is our only hope,” a flyer from Decision Point USA said. “Together, we will lift our voices and ask Him to raise up courageous leaders, heal our land and pour out His Spirit on the next generation.” The meeting was organized by leaders from four churches in the Wheaton area who said they believe this time is an opportunity for community revival. The rally, structured around Christian worship and calls for unity, was briefly disrupted when several protesters, some masked and carrying signs, began shouting during a moment of prayer. “Bruha started by the few but noisy and disrespectful protestors during the prayer at the Wheaton Charlie Kirk Memorial tonight,” user Babette Holder said in a Facebook post. Wheaton police responded and escorted the protesters from the area. The rally continued as planned, ending with hymns “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” and “In Christ Alone.” Photos from the event showed protesters holding signs with messages such as “Honoring Charlie Kirk = Honoring Racism, Bigotry, Misogyny” and “I do not support what happened to Charlie but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie.” One protester wore a shirt with “Palestine” printed on it, while another’s shirt displayed a profanity directed at President Donald Trump and his supporters. . .According to reports, the protesters were allegedly affiliated with Mutual Aid Dawning (MAD), a Glen Ellyn-based group formed during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Chicago. Those protests involved widespread property damage and arrests. MAD’s website describes the group as “intergenerational, largely non-religious and queer with sexualities and genders across the spectrum.” The group identifies with anti-capitalist and anti-colonial ideologies. The website includes political education materials referencing historical figures, including Mao Zedong. Critics have noted Mao’s legacy includes responsibility for millions of deaths and ongoing repression in China. MAD describes the suburban communities where it organizes as “highly resourced yet highly unengaged,” and states its goal is to challenge perceived complicity in systems of oppression. Though the protesters were few in number, their presence drew concern among attendees and organizers, who said the disruption highlighted a broader cultural and political divide. Breakthrough Ideas, an organization led by former state representative Jeanne Ives, responded to the event by calling for “more speech, not less,” and said Kirk’s vision based on constitutional and biblical principles must be defended publicly. “They’re hoping (Kirk’s) murder isn’t a real Turning Point in America,” the group said in a newsletter. “They hope people don’t start to evaluate the culture and realize that the Left has been feeding children, young adults, and even boomers progressive nonsense that debases society and breaks the social and constitutional contract that citizens in a free society should have with each other.”)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— GOP lawmaker calls for investigation after son’s high school celebrates ‘Bisexual Plus Awareness Week.’ DD: How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/us-news/iowa-rep-ashley-hinson-calls-for-department-of-education-to-investigate-iowa-high-school-after-it-celebrates-bisexual-plus-awareness-week/
— DD: Democrats and RINOs oppose meritocracy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/companies-hiring-less-diverse-executives-amid-anti-dei-pushback/ar-AA1x4QNl

AMERICAN THINKER
— Kirk’s assassin’s gun doesn’t have a serial number.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/kirk_s_assassin_s_gun_doesn_t_have_a_serial_number_oh_no.html

BREITBART
— Taxpayers Could End Up Footing the Bill for Obama Presidential Library
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/27/report-taxpayers-could-end-up-footing-bill-obama-presidential-library/amp/
— Leftist Chicago Teachers Union Honors Cop Killer Assata Shakur
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/09/27/leftist-chicago-teachers-union-honors-convicted-cop-killer-assata-shakur-as-revolutionary-fighter/amp/

CHRISTIAN POST
— The NAACP promotes racial lies and propaganda
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/the-naacp-promotes-racial-lies-and-propaganda-as-usual.html

FOX NEWS
— Utah receiving $1M in taxpayer dollars to ensure alleged Kirk assassin has qualified defense team
https://www.aol.com/news/utah-receiving-1m-taxpayer-dollars-011311177.html
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380203997112

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

REUTERS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ice-tactics-inflame-tensions-new-york-chicago-other-cities-2025-09-26/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrats decry Trump indicting Comey. While my Democrat IRS superiors never indicted me, they a) disallowed my travel vouchers when I was 25 years old in 1974 and b) disallowed my education deductions when I was 29 years old in 1978. The aforesaid adverse actions were not only career limiting, they were career ending. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. They took the aforesaid adverse actions against me because I had complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-comey-justice-department-james-schiff-309c573c2d9d16839afabb3af56ef2f8

NBC NEWS
— Trump orders troop deployments to protect ICE facilities
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/trump-orders-troop-deployments-to-protect-ice-facilities-248517701618

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters use their assignation of Kirk to promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/charlie-kirk-republican-reaction.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/charlie-kirk-democrats-religion.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/magazine/charlie-kirk-rhetoric.html
— DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/comey-indictment-justice-department.html
— DD: According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my 1970 NIU degree is worthless, my 1976 Loyola degree is worthless, my 1980 DePaul degree is worthless, and my 1997 IIT degree is worthless.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/opinion/college-admissions-seniors-stats.html
— Why Obamacare Bills May Double Next Year. Extensive subsidies that reduce premium costs for millions are set to expire, unless Congress extends them. DD: Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that because I was a federal employee, the federal government has paid 72% of my health care premiums. Since I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have been even more furious that because I was a federal employee, the federal government has paid 72% of my wife’s health care premiums.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/health/obamacare-cost-aca-health-insurance.html

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrats and RINOs support/promote Kirk critics.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/27/teachers-fired-charlie-kirk-lawsuits/86343546007/

PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE
— Young Republican voters in Pittsburgh area ‘galvanized’ after Charlie Kirk’s death
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-local/2025/09/28/charlie-kirk-college-students-gop-republican/stories/202509280079

NPR
— DD: The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you promote, the more that Democrats and RINOs call you an extremist.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/27/nx-s1-5553395/whats-changed-about-reporting-on-extremism-in-america

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters use their assignation of Kirk to promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/william-f-buckley-charlie-kirk-and-the-free-speech-right.html

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

SKY NEWS
— Charlie Kirk’s movement is growing in the wake of his assassination – as is the chasm in US politics
https://news.sky.com/story/charlie-kirks-movement-is-growing-in-the-wake-of-his-assassination-as-is-the-chasm-in-us-politics-13438530

OTHER SOURCES

MONEY TALKS NEWS
— 3 Ways Forced Retirement Makes Life Worse. Those pushed into retirement prematurely find the transition considerably more difficult.
https://www.moneytalksnews.com/slideshows/3-ways-forced-retirement-makes-life-worse/

LEE ERNST
— FOR SALE AT IRON GATE MOTOR CONDOS: 2244 Ferry Road # J103, Naperville – $650,000
https://leeernst.exprealty.com/holp/listing/103/12467615

September 27, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— ICE tells Broadview officials agents will launch enforcement throughout suburb
https://abc7chicago.com/post/broadview-ice-protest-chicago-immigration-operation-midway-blitz-expected-standoff-between-agents-demonstrators/17892592/
— Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold restrictions he wants to impose on birthright citizenship
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-birthright-citizenship-news-president-asks-supreme-court-justices-uphold-restrictions-he-wants-impose/17893001/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders expect their Protesters to return to Broadview immigration facility
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/broadview-ice-protests-saturday/
— Street vendors in Chicago face growing anxiety after ICE arrests
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/street-vendors-in-chicago-face-growing-anxiety-after-ice-arrests/

FOX32
— ICE to launch ‘enforcement action’ in Broadview amid outcry over feds’ response to protests
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/broadview-ice-enforcement-saturday.amp

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders condemn ICE presence in Broadview
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/27/broadview-village-leaders-condemn-ice-presence-in-suburb-and-threats-of-greater-enforcement-actions/
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Blacks to hate Republicans. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many Democrat Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to hate me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/27/chicago-national-guard-threat-black-community/
— Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold restrictions he wants to impose on birthright citizenship
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/27/trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-order/
— Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, dies at 95
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/26/sara-jane-moore-obit/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ICE ‘launching enforcement action’ after Broadview mayor urges agents to end ‘siege’ on protesters, village officials say. Village officials said Saturday that federal agents warned the Broadview Police Department there would be “a sh– show” in Broadview in response to Mayor Katrina Thompson’s comments that ICE is “making war on my community.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/27/ice-broadview-action-mayor-katrina-thompson-immigration
— Democrat leaders charge ICE with making unlawful arrests during Operation Midway Blitz
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/27/ice-made-unlawful-arrests-during-operation-midway-blitz-new-court-filing-alleges
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/09/27/trump-immigration-ice-lgbtq-racism-news-chicago-natalie-moore

DAILY HERALD
— Democratic Party isolation is getting worse
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250927/syndicated-columnists/democratic-party-isolation-is-getting-worse/

SOUTHERN
— Democrat and RINO employers prefer foreign employees over American employees.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/09/27/trumps-h1-b-changes-raise-concerns-about-us-tech-economys-future-ability-to-recruit-specialty-talent/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump takes birthright citizenship case back to Supreme Court
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/27/trump-takes-birthright-citizenship-case-back-justices/
— Trump rages about claim that FBI undercover agents were in Jan. 6 crowd. “It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/27/trump-rages-claim-fbi-agitators-insurrectionists-jan-6-crowd/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— What do women gain by hating men? I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many Democrat female superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to hate me.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3827007/future-is-female-feminism-texas-women-only-commune/
— You either believe in free speech, or you don’t. My critics/opponents oppose/reject free speech. They destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents who are still in the mix, who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me, and the planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject and why. Equal opportunity is the plank that they most commonly reject. They want more and more and more preference for those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, citizens of foreign countries, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3826256/believe-in-free-speech-fcc-jimmy-kimmel/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump rages at bombshell report alleging FBI had 274 plainclothes agents in crowd during Capitol riot
https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/us-news/trump-rages-at-bombshell-report-alleging-fbi-had-274-plainclothes-agents-in-crowd-during-capitol-riot/
— Kamala Harris believes she’s still a leader in the Democratic Party — but even longtime backers are ready to move on.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/us-news/kamala-harris-believe-shes-still-a-leader-in-the-democratic-party-report/
— Charlie Kirk honored by Steak ‘n Shake after viral tribute
https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/business/charlie-kirk-honored-by-steak-n-shake-after-viral-tribute/
— Anti-ICE protesters led by paid activists march across NYC in latest push against immigration enforcement
https://nypost.com/2025/09/27/us-news/brooklyn-anti-ice-protest-draws-200/
— Comey indictment is the beginning of holding corrupt officials accountable
https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/opinion/comey-indictment-is-the-beginning-of-holding-corrupt-officials-accountable/

BREITBART
— Wikipedia Editors Propose Deleting Page on Charlie Kirk Memorial Service, Add Nazi Comparisons
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/09/27/wikipedia-editors-propose-deleting-page-on-charlie-kirk-memorial-service-add-nazi-comparisons/
— Why Gavin Newsom Continues Incendiary Rhetoric After Charlie Kirk Assassination
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/27/pollak-why-gavin-newsom-continues-incendiary-rhetoric-after-charlie-kirk-assassination/

COLLEGE FIX
— The most shocking faculty reactions to Charlie Kirk’s assassination
https://www.thecollegefix.com/the-most-shocking-faculty-reactions-to-charlie-kirks-assassination/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Marco Rubio tells visa holders praising Charlie Kirk’s murder: ‘You’re not welcome in this country’
https://www.christianpost.com/news/marco-rubio-says-us-will-deport-visa-holders-praising-charlie-kirk-murder.html

DAILY SIGNAL
— Hillary Clinton Suggests Conservative Christian White Men Are ‘Doing Such Damage’ to America
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/27/hillary-clinton-suggests-conservative-christian-white-men-doing-such-damage-america/

FEDERATION FOR AMEREICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Armed Leftists Attack ICE Facility Near Chicago
https://rairfoundation.com/armed-leftists-attack-ice-facility-near-chicago-shoot/
— What DNC Chair Ken Martin Didn’t Say about the Dallas Attack is More Significant than What He Did Say
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/09/27/dnc-chair-ken-martin-comments-dallas-ice-attack

FOX NEWS
— Chicago Teachers Union honors Black militant convicted cop-killer after death in Cuba, drawing backlash. Assata Shakur was convicted of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a 1973 shootout.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-teachers-union-honors-black-militant-convicted-cop-killer-after-death-cuba-drawing-backlash.amp
— ‘Political awakening’ of young voters is benefitting conservatives post-Kirk assassination
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380198038112
— College students outraged by ‘fascist’ posters after Kirk’s murder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtDYDuwnjDU

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Birthright Citizenship Faces Extinction, Trump Asks SCOTUS to Uphold Undoing 125 Year Exception for Illegals.
https://www.westernjournal.com/birthright-citizenship-faces-extinction-trump-asks-scotus-uphold-undoing-125-year-exception-illegals/
— We Now Know Why That Charlie Kirk Tribute Never Aired: Death Threats from the Leftists Who Murdered Him
https://www.westernjournal.com/now-know-charlie-kirk-tribute-never-aired-death-threats-leftists-murdered/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

POLITICO
— The impending retirement that could rock Capitol Hill. The director of the Government Accountability office will step down in a few short months, leaving a void atop the agency that has found the White House guilty of violating congressional spending law. DIERSEN: GAO falsely claims to be nonpartisan. The Democrats who run GAO hate Republicans. Anyone who reads the filings in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) would see that. Because I am a Republican, the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 used the subjectivity in their job assignment and performance appraisal systems, up-or-out, Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, and Gingrich budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They rudely flushed down their toilets what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years before that, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), c) earning six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and d) becoming a licensed CPA.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/17/gao-trump-impoundment-spending-00569967
(FROM THE ARTICLE: More than three dozen lawmakers are already planning to leave Congress next year. But there’s another impending legislative branch retirement that could have major implications in Washington. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, who heads the Government Accountability Office, hits the end of his 15-year term in late December and will be forced to vacate the post that occupies an increasingly crucial — and politically charged — oversight role. The comptroller general is uniquely empowered to call out the president for breaking the law by withholding federal cash, and Dodaro has done so repeatedly over the past eight months — putting himself at the center of a largely partisan fight over President Donald Trump’s funding moves that has exacerbated tensions between the White House and Capitol Hill. Now Trump gets to nominate Dodaro’s replacement, and key lawmakers are only just starting to take stock of a paradox: A president who continually tests the bounds of Congress’ spending powers gets to pick the legislative branch’s chief watchdog. “It sets up a very bad situation,” Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii, the next Senate Democratic whip and a senior appropriator, said in an interview. “Among the things to be alarmed about, this is a new one.” The stakes are high: Whoever ends up running GAO once Dodaro’s term ends will be able to bolster, or undermine, Congress’ defenses against Trump in the separation-of-powers battle the president is stoking by terminating, freezing and reallocating hundreds of billions of dollars Congress previously approved. “When one party controls the Senate, the House and the White House, there’s a tendency to rally around the president and to do what the president wants,” said David Walker, Dodaro’s predecessor and the only living former GAO director. “But somebody’s got to be able to be the independent referee, and to try to do what they think is in the interest of the institution, the Congress and the country. And that’s what the comptroller general is.” All of this is taking place as Trump administration officials and some congressional Republicans have been trying to downsize and discredit the watchdog. That has included publicly questioning the GAO’s authority and accusing the agency of siding with Democrats in its multiple determinations that the White House unlawfully flouted Congress’ “power of the purse.” White House budget director Russ Vought said this month that GAO is “a quasi-legislative independent entity … something that shouldn’t exist. There have been other slights, too. In the Senate, the GAO told Republicans they could not skirt the filibuster in voting to override California’s pollution standards; Republicans did so anyway. In the House, GOP lawmakers endorsed cutting the agency’s roughly $800 million budget in half for the upcoming fiscal year. And Elon Musk, prior to leaving the Trump administration, attempted to send in a Department of Government Efficiency team to assess the GAO for mass staff reductions. Meanwhile, the legislative branch writ large has become more broadly vulnerable to the White House’s whims, seen most starkly in Trump’s abrupt firing of the librarian of Congress and the registrar of copyrights. It’s not yet clear what the Dodaro succession plan will look like; a White House spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. A 10-member panel of lawmakers is supposed to recommend at least three replacement candidates for Trump to consider. By law, that group is composed of the top leaders in each chamber, the chairs and ranking members of the key House and Senate oversight committees and the Senate president pro tempore. However, most congressional leaders have yet to start hunting for qualified contenders, and furthermore seem largely unaware they have any role to play in filling the slot. “I don’t even know the process,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in a brief interview. “It’s been a while. This hasn’t happened on my watch.” Two of the would-be commission members had kind words for Dodaro, including Sen. Rand Paul, chair of the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee. “I’ve always appreciated him, and I think he’s a straight shooter,” the Kentucky Republican said in an interview. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the panel’s ranking member, said he “would want somebody like Gene, who has been a really solid member.” On the House side, Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said in an interview he’s looking for the next GAO director to be “an aggressive person that looks for waste, fraud and abuse.” Comer added, “We want someone that communicates regularly with Congress, so we can kind of have an idea of what they’re doing.” But Trump could instead ask Republican senators to confirm a new watchdog of his own choosing — or forgo making a nomination altogether. It would leave a leadership vacuum at the top of the agency that not only monitors whether Congress’ spending directives are followed but is also empowered to examine the effectiveness of federal agencies on behalf of lawmakers. Further raising the stakes in confirming a new director, lawsuits are pending around the country challenging Trump’s withholding of congressionally approved funding, and a federal appeals court ruled this summer that only the GAO director can sue the administration for violating the decades-old impoundment law — not the groups that were set to receive the funding. Dodaro has so far chosen not to sue the Trump administration for withholding funding. But when he steps down, he’ll be able to pick an acting GAO director who also would have the power to file a lawsuit if they so choose. Still, said Molly Reynolds, head of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, “if you get a comptroller general in place who is Trump-friendly, that is going to foreclose that option” of GAO suing the administration. An acting director also wouldn’t be “in a position to make major transformational changes,” warned Walker, the former GAO director. When Walker resigned in 2008, he appointed Dodaro acting director, a title that stuck for more than two years because Congress and the president weren’t quick to work through the nomination process. Before that, it also took two years to formally install Walker in the post in 1998. Walker is now urging congressional leaders to recommend candidates who are willing to challenge executive branch officials regardless of who is president, as he did during his own tenure. A political independent who “leans Republican” and was confirmed by a GOP-led Senate, Walker sued the Republican vice president, Dick Cheney, for failure to provide GAO access to records. He is also agitating for lawmakers to quickly start the search for potential replacements: “There’s no reason that they shouldn’t be planning now so that they can end up trying to make a timely decision.”)