FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump says he’s placing Washington police under federal control and activating the National Guard
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-is-promising-new-steps-tackle-homelessness-crime-washington-dc/17499673/
— Pritzker says President Trump ‘has no right’ to send National Guard to Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-pritzker-encourages-back-school-vaccinations-says-trump-is-violating-law-sending-national-guard-reduce-crime/17503840/
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-says-administration-looking-reclassifying-marijuana/17503437/
— Democrat elected officials gerrymander to elect Democrat candidates. Look at their Illinois 3rd Congressional District.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-illinois-vow-stay-special-session-ends-despite-st-charles-bomb-threat-greg-abbotts-arrests/17504587/
NBC5
— Trump vows to end ‘no cash bail,’ threatens crime crackdown in Chicago. “Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster,” Trump said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-vows-to-end-no-cash-bail-in-chicago-threatens-crime-crackdown/3807774/
— What is ‘no cash bail’? What to know as President Trump blasts the policy. The SAFE-T Act in Illinois banned cash bail in 2023.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/what-is-no-cash-bail-what-to-know-as-president-trump-blasts-the-policy/3807855/
— Pritzker responds after Trump calls him ‘incompetent,’ comments on his weight. “Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster,” Trump said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pritzker-responds-after-trump-calls-him-incompetent-comments-on-his-weight/3807905/
— Gerrymandering debate rages in Illinois as Texas lawmakers remain in state. The Texas legislature still has not convened to vote on the new maps, as Democrats remain out of state despite threats and criticisms
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/gerrymandering-debate-rages-in-illinois-as-texas-lawmakers-remain-in-state/3807960/
CBS2
— Trump says he’ll “end” no cash bail in Chicago while announcing National Guard deployment to D.C.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-no-cash-bail-chicago-national-guard-dc/
— Democrat candidates win because Democrat elected officials gerrymander.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/dick-durbin-texas-democrats-redistricting-fight/
FOX32
— Texas Democrats remain in Illinois amid redistricting fight
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1689395
— After Trump threatens Chicago with National Guard, Pritzker, Johnson push back
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1689390
WTTW
— Which Republicans Are Seeking Statewide Office in Illinois in 2026? So Far, Hardly Any.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/11/which-republicans-are-seeking-statewide-office-illinois-2026-so-far-hardly-any
— Federal Judge Allows Chicago to Join Lawsuit to Stop Trump from Yanking Funding Sanctuary Cities
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/11/federal-judge-allows-chicago-join-lawsuit-stop-trump-yanking-funding-sanctuary-cities
WGN RADIO
— Trump to send National Guard into Washington, said Chicago could follow
https://wgnradio.com/news/trump-to-send-national-guard-into-washington-said-chicago-could-follow/
— Why can’t the Trump Tower find tenants?
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/block-club-chicagos-mack-liederman-why-cant-the-trump-tower-find-tenants/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump says he’s placing Washington police under federal control and deploying the National Guard
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/trump-homelessness-washington/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/trump-big-bill-mass-deportations-congress/
— Our politics focus on what to do ‘for’ voters. That threatens the economy.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/jim-nowlan-our-politics-focus-on-what-to-do-for-voters-that-threatens-the-economy/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders say Trump’s warning about replicating a DC police takeover in Chicago an empty and illegal threat
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/08/11/donald-trump-trump-federal-takeover-dc-police-national-guard-chicago-threat-jb-pritzker
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/08/11/snap-cuts-economy-trump-big-beautiful-bill-marc-morial
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders promote Democrat Wheaton City Council member Erica Bray-Parker to succeed retiring Republican Amy Grant for the 47th state House district seat.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250811/illinois-state-politics/wheaton-city-councilwoman-running-for-state-house-seat/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump calls Johnson, Pritzker ‘incompetent’ — and hints at Chicago police takeover
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-threatens-chicago-police-takeover-slams-johnson-pritzker
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/trump-decision-marijuana-classification-coming
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give Blacks more preference.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/trumps-actions-highlight-threats-black-communities-opinion
— For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Democrat leaders of federal agencies decry/despise/hate Republican-led budget cuts. First, they deal with those cuts by getting rid of any remaining Republican employees. Next, they get rid of their Democrat employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. And last, their Democrat employees who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/federal-downsizing-leaves-still-employed-workers-vulnerable
— Federal job cuts take a bite out of Chicago’s economy. According to my Democrat and RINO critics/opponents, federal jobs should be given to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I am none of the aforesaid. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. Because I refused to become a Democrat, they ever-increasingly did everything that they could to get rid of me. I would not have survived for almost 3 years as a postal employee if I had not taken job-related undergraduate business courses at UIC 1966-1968 and NIU in 1969. I would not have survived for almost 9 years as an IRS employee if I had not a) taken graduate evening business courses at Loyola 1972-1976 and accounting courses DePaul 1976-1980 and b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I would not have survived for almost 18 years as a GAO employee if I had not a earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) became a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earned a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/federal-jobs-cuts-ripple-through-chicago-region
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The federal government is the largest employer in the Chicago area, although at nearly 48,000 it’s a modest slice of a 5 million-strong area workforce. At the start of the year, the federal workforce nationwide was 3 million and 82,000 in Illinois. DOGE’s program is disproportionately stinging African American employees like Cherry. Of the federal workforce, 18.6% are Black, while Black people account for 13.7% of the U.S. population. And Black workers are an even bigger presence — 20% or more — at a number of departments including the Postal Service, Education Department, Department of Housing & Urban Development, Treasury Department and Department of Veterans Affairs — all of which have been hit with job cuts since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January. The federal government is a significant employer of women of color, with Black women, Latinas and Asian women all having a greater presence in the federal workforce compared to the private sector, the National Women’s Law Center reports. “Federal employment is one of the few job sectors where Black women have had meaningful access to upward mobility,” Juliana Stratton, lieutenant governor of Illinois, and Cherita Ellens, president and CEO of Women Employed, wrote recently in a Chicago Tribune commentary essay. With above-average pay and solid benefits, federal employment has provided a path to the middle class not just for Black workers but for women and other disadvantaged groups. The government’s commitment to equal opportunity dating to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has made public service an attractive sector for career advancement that may be less accessible in the private sector. The Trump administration’s purge of offices that promote equal opportunity and diversity and inclusion has particularly affected the employment of Black Americans. “The federal government has played a unique role in the labor history of Black Americans,” economic researcher Joseph Dean wrote in a February report by the Washington, D.C., nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “The decades-long progress made by Black federal employees is in serious danger of being upended in a fraction of time it took to build,” Dean wrote. “Federal employment opportunities provide substantial economic independence and stability for Black middle class Americans.”)
25 NEWS NOW
— Which Republicans are seeking statewide office in 2026? So far, hardly any. Politicians set to gather at State Fair this week, unofficially kicking off 2026 election season.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/11/which-republicans-are-seeking-statewide-office-2026-so-far-hardly-any/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Thus far, just two lesser-known Republicans have expressed interest in challenging Pritzker in 2026. A similar group of lesser-known candidates is considering a U.S. Senate run, but there has been no news about anyone running for comptroller, treasurer or secretary of state. . .In the Senate race, four Republicans have filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and are actively raising money. Former Illinois Republican Party Chair Don Tracy is reportedly considering running for either governor or Senate and is expected to make an announcement soon. Ted Dabrowski, the president of conservative research site Wirepoints, is also considering running for governor. . .Bob Fioretti, who has unsuccessfully run for several offices as a member of both parties, is reportedly circulating petitions to run for attorney general. But even as petition-gathering begins, no other candidates are publicly known to be interested in running for other statewide offices. Notable names, including U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood and former Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter have declined to run for governor or Senate.)
FOX ILLINOIS
— DC Democrats rally against Trump’s deployment of National Guard
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/dc-trump-announcement-national-guard-district-residents-rally-against-deployment-federal-contro-section-740-home-rule-act-photo-watch-video-protests-crime-teen-violence
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-11/factories-from-ge-to-kraft-heinz-lose-immigrant-workers-stressing-those-who-remain
KHQA
— State Senator Jil Tracy files suit against Texas lawmakers hiding out in Illinois
https://khqa.com/news/local/state-senator-republican-jil-tracy-files-suit-petition-calls-for-arrest-complaint-against-texas-lawmakers-democrats-hiding-out-in-illinois-texas-redistricting-map-gop-plan-rigged-scheme-conservative-majority-2026-midterm-elections
WJBL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.wjol.com/loan-applications-for-all-cannabis-social-equity-licensees-set-to-open-today-august-11th/
SIU
— Democrats use DEI to get of Republicans who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://news.siu.edu/2025/08/081125-siu-celebrates-diversity-inclusion-during-belonging-week-2025.php
CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicagoreader.com/performing-arts/rhinestone-digest/rhinestone-digest-august-2025-parody-and-legality/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Will Trump Tower’s Riverfront Retail Space Ever Get A Tenant?
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/11/will-trump-towers-riverfront-retail-space-ever-get-a-tenant/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-359/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump deploys National Guard to D.C., federal government to take over metro police department
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/trump-deploys-national-guard-dc-federal-government-take-metro-police/
— Teachers unions’ political obsession harms children. Racial quotas, forced grade inflation don’t constitute advocacy for educators.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/teachers-unions-political-obsession-harms-children/
— Arab money flooding American universities. Opaque foreign funding in our schools is a national security problem.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/arab-money-flooding-american-universities/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Major New York hotel-turned-shelter ends operations after city ends contract
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3496193/major-new-york-hotel-migrant-shelter-ends-city-contract-eric-adams/
NEW YORK POST
— Zohran Mamdani benefits from rent-stabilization, affirmative action programs meant for less-fortunate
https://nypost.com/2025/08/11/opinion/zohran-mamdani-benefits-from-rent-stabilization-affirmative-action-programs-meant-for-less-fortunate/
FEDERALIST
— Politico Hacks Insist Gerrymandering Is Different When Democrats Do It
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/11/politico-hacks-insist-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it/
FOX BUSINESS
— Trump calls to get rid of sanctuary cities as he declares ‘public safety emergency’ in Washington, DC
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6376798033112
FOX NEWS
— Illinois Democrats tell feds to stop trying to ‘usurp’ state authority over immigration. Rep Jesus Garcia and Sen Dick Durbin led the letter to DOJ and DHS.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-democrats-tell-feds-stop-trying-usurp-state-authority-over-immigration
NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
— Why is Cook County in Illinois doling out $2M to the Chicago Abortion Fund?
https://nrlc.org/nrlnewstoday/2025/08/why-is-cook-county-in-illinois-doling-out-2m-to-the-chicago-abortion-fund/
PJ MEDIA
— Trump Takes Over D.C. Police, Vows to Revolutionize ’Slums’
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/08/11/breaking-trump-takes-over-dc-police-vows-to-revolutionize-slums-n4942593
THOMAS MOORE SOCIETY
— Cook County Doles Out $2M Grant to Bankroll Abortion Fund. Meanwhile, the Land of Lincoln continues to target pregnancy help ministries.
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/news/cook-county-doles-out-2m-grant-to-bankroll-abortion-fund
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Map shows governor approval rating
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-governor-approval-rating-2111902
POLITICO
— Teamsters pour money into GOP, shifting away from Dems. After years of loyally backing Democrats, Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien is diversifying the union’s PAC to support Republicans, too.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/11/teamsters-donations-00502709
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FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/10/letters-081025/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Higher education pays off in Illinois. Without my 1970 bachelor’s degree in management from NIU, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 and IRS in 1971. Without my taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Without my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, GAO would not have hired me in 1980. Without my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986. Without my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 and my earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors would have succeeded in forcing me to retire sooner than they did.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/higher-education-economic-mobility/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/06/immigrants-deportations-shrinking-health-care-workforce
NORTHWEST HERALD
— Which McHenry County offices are up next year and who’s running for reelection? Nominating petitions are circulating for the March 2026 primary election.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/08/10/which-mchenry-county-offices-are-up-next-year-and-whos-running-for-reelection/
HERALD REVIEW
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://herald-review.com/opinion/columnists/article_975e3036-fc97-549f-9b12-62ece3f00ee8.html
WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-judicial-picks/507-c6195acd-84c9-4ff9-8d62-3482e2d0f813
EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-illinois-texas-politics/
OAK LAWN PATCH
— Robert Cruz: IL-GOP on life support. Can the il-GOP swing the pendulum and compete. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders must focus on defending and advancing the Republican Party platform.
https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/il-gop-life-support
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/11/texas-dems-preach-defiance-in-chicago-00502628
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who is your Republican Precinct Committeeman (PC)? Is he/she running again? I am running again to be the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 Republican PC in Wheaton. Google AI’s overview of the Republican Precinct Committeeman position is at: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22precinct+committeeman%22+republican I was appointed as an Assistant PC in 1999 and then as a PC in 1999 to fill a vacancy. I was elected PC in 2000 and reelected every 2 years since. I served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010 and I served on all the MTRO fundraising committees 2000-2010. But those who continue to dominate MTRO a) rudely terminated as me as MTRO webmaster in 2004 and 2010, b) rudely defeated me when I ran for the open MTRO Treasurer office in 2004, c) rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, d) rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and e) rudely ended my Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee membership in 2024. They have never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer. They continue to demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being too conservative. They ever-increasingly blame me, blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, blame my serving as the Milton Township campaign coordinator for Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial campaign in 2002, blame my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership 2003-2007, blame my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship 2005-2012, and blame my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2012 for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They especially blame me for Jim Ryan losing to Blagojevich in 2002. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/10/sordid-history-gerrymandering/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump’s Full-Court Press on Immigration
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-full-court-press-on-immigration/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump cracks down on covert affirmative action with admissions transparency order
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-cracks-down-on-covert-affirmative-action-with-admissions-transparency-order/
DAILY WIRE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-gov-says-his-states-gerrymandering-is-ok-because-democracy
FEDERALIST
— Is Equal Outcome the Same as Equal Opportunity. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/disparate-impact-is-equal-outcome-the-same-as-equal-opportunity
FOX NEWS
— Vance calls on Republicans to take ‘decisive action’ to counter Democratic gerrymandering. Vance says Democrats benefit from illegal immigration through skewed census counts and gerrymandered maps.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jd-vance-calls-republicans-take-decisive-action-counter-democratic-gerrymandering
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376777340112
— Trump DOJ to fight ‘race-based gerrymandering.’ Illinois 3rd Congressional District is race-based gerrymandering.
https://www.aol.com/watch-trump-doj-fight-race-210941546.html
PJ MEDIA
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/10/the-left-is-trying-to-have-it-both-ways-on-gerrymandering-n4942582
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
— Illinois family battles state’s race-based scholarship. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.
https://pacificlegal.org/illinois-family-battles-states-race-based-scholarship/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Reince Priebus: The House Is Already Completely Gerrymandered — There Are What, 10 Competitive Seats Out Of 435?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/reince_priebus_the_house_is_already_completely_gerrymandered_–_there_are_what_10_competitive_seats_out_of_435.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/eric_holder_gop_gerrymandering_is_a_threat_to_our_democracy_dems_must_gerrymander_to_save_our_democracy.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The damaging effects of shifting from equal opportunity to ‘equal outcomes.’ My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/529262-the-damaging-effects-of-shifting-from-equal-opportunity-to-equal-outcomes/
MSN
— Since the 1960s, ever-increasingly, all those above me have been under ever-increasing pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, they have been under ever-increasing pressure to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-many-women-on-the-board-fewer-companies-are-saying/ar-AA1JTlM7
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Attacked California’s Congressional Maps. Republicans Want to Save Them. The independent body that redraws the state’s political maps isn’t perfect, many Republicans say. But they prefer that to the gerrymander that Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to offset one proposed in Texas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/california-redistricting-independent-commission.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/supreme-court-voting-redistricting.html
— Minimum Wage in L.A. Could Rise to $30 an Hour. In today’s dollars, I started earning $32.84/hour when I was 23 years old in 1972. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I had worked for IRS for 15 months and for Firestone Stores for 7 months before that. I had completed 3 graduate evening business courses at Loyola.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/minimum-wage-olympics-losangeles.html
— Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos. Young adults without jobs that provide insurance find that their options are limited and expensive. The problem is about to get worse. The federal government paying 72% of my health insurance helped withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/health/young-adults-health-insurance-26.html
— FRONT PAGE: The more that fight Trump, the more that Democrat leaders promote you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/politics/mayor-bass-los-angeles-raids.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Cannabis Poisonings Are Rising, Mostly Among Kids. As products like weed gummies proliferate, more children and teens are suffering symptoms including seizures and life-threatening breathing problems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/health/cannabis-poisoning-children.html
— Unions Push Democrats to Win Back Members Who Went to Trump. My critics/opponents despise/hate unions. I was a union member for almost 12 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/politics/democrats-labor-unions-nevada.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-school-choice-elections/
NEW YORK SUN
— Vance Assails 2020 Census as Flawed, Demands Complete Do-Over as Redistricting War Rages. Argument over mid-decade redistricting takes a new turn as the vice president declares U.S. Census Bureau made ‘major statistical error’ in 2020.
https://www.nysun.com/article/vance-assails-2020-census-as-flawed-demands-complete-do-over-as-redistricting-war-rages
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-texas-reopens-the-gerrymander-wars/20F020D8-3963-4D25-9BAB-9B28FFB903B9
— Equity, Equality, Fairness and Good Sense. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/equity-equality-fairness-and-good-sense-11612903580
— Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Solve U.S. Chip-Making Dilemma. Because Chevrolet suspended Malibu production in 2021 because of chip shortage, I bought one off the showroom floor instead of ordering one.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trumps-tariffs-wont-solve-u-s-chip-making-dilemma-c5aec29b
— Make Cars Beautiful Again. Congress quietly axed the fuel-economy standards that help drive the ugliness.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/make-cars-beautiful-again-design-auto-requirements-policy-e08fcfac
— FRONT PAGE: More Job Hunters Seek Pricey Help To Land New Roles. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they made it impossible for me to get a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hunting-expenses-resume-linkedin-887b4bd2
FORBES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2krf_LvgI1o
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/edi-meritocracy-why-hard-understand
AXIOS
— Which federal workers could lose protections under Trump order. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. 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 who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/28/trump-executive-order-federal-workforce
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/out-of-control-republicans-are-viciously-attacking-a-congresswoman-with-calls-to-deport-her/ar-AA1KcZAb
DAILY KOS
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/10/2337315/-Americans-hate-gerrymandering-Texas-Republicans-don-t-care
BUSINESS STANDARD
— How quota system looks across the globe. Around the world, quota systems in government jobs are employed as a tool to enhance the representation of historically marginalized or underrepresented groups. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. 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 who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.tbsnews.net/analysis/how-does-quota-system-look-across-globe-894951
August 10, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Gerrymandering now truly is a dangerous threat to American democracy. The last few months have ramped up partisan warfare to levels that could cause lasting damage. Illinois 3rd Congressional District is a leading example. Democrats ever-increasingly a) get rid of Whites and b) gerrymander to create more minority-majority political jurisdictions.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/10/editorial-gerrymandering-democracy-threat-texas-republicans-california-democrats/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring warring factions into America. RINO leaders do nothing to counter that.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/09/armenians-azerbaijanis-us-brokered-peace-deal/
— To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn men and b) paint themselves as being protectors of women.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/10/opinion-jeffrey-epstein-sexual-assault-is-common/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ+, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more destruction of traditional marriage and family.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/10/lgbtq-groceryland-heartland-alliance-chicago/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker, on ‘Meet the Press,’ says he won’t rule out ’28 presidential run. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/08/10/gov-jb-pritzker-meet-the-press-2028-election
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/08/08/chicago-premier-aids-unit-illinois-masonic-hospital-trump-cripples-research
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrats ever-increasingly a) get rid of Whites and b) gerrymander to create more minority-majority political jurisdictions.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250810/news/home-depot-doesnt-have-a-deal-with-ice-agents/
ABC7
— My critics/opponents are Democrat Lite if not RINO if not anti-conservative if not anti-Republican.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jim-durkin-illinois-house-republican-resigning/12678017/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) get rid of Whites and b) gerrymander to create more minority-majority political jurisdictions.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-how-long-can-those-tall-texans-hang-out-in-illinois/article_3aa4dd54-6cef-4675-9f63-1f7afd9b2d9c.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump’s intellectual allies look to cement his nationalism influence. Trump’s enemies ever-increasingly paint themselves as being anti-American.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3493465/influence-nationalism-trump-intellectual-allies/
NEW YORK POST
— What does your bank think of those who spare your demographics?
https://nypost.com/2025/08/09/business/gasparino-inside-the-enormous-biden-effort-to-debank-trump-after-jan-6/
BLAZE
— Leftist violence surges — and media still blames the right
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/leftist-violence-surges-and-media-still-blames-the-right
BREITBART
— IRS Commissioner Billy Long Ousted After Clash Over Using Illegal Aliens’ Data. All data can and should be used to deport illegals.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/09/report-irs-commissioner-billy-long-ousted-after-clash-over-using-illegal-aliens-data/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Learning From America’s Immigrant Past. From what I see, ever-increasingly, those who come to America despise/hate Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. From what I see, they ever-increasingly want to turn America into their motherland.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/09/learning-from-americas-immigrant-past/
EPOCH TIMES
— The 16 Midterm Races That Could Determine Who Controls the Next Congress. Although candidate-filing deadlines in many states are months away, hundreds of House hopefuls have already launched 2026 campaigns.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/the-16-midterm-races-that-could-determine-who-controls-the-next-congress-5895775
FOX BUSINESS
— Pot pushers push Trump to push pot. To push pot is to destroy America. RINO leaders do nothing to counter that.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-considers-reclassifying-marijuana-less-dangerous-drug
FOX NEWS
— This is why Democrats ‘open our borders and obstruct deportation’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376749350112
— Mamdani preaches from pulpit of radical pastor pushing reparations, abolishing police
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mamdani-preaches-from-pulpit-of-radical-pastor-pushing-reparations-abolishing-police-brother-and-friend/ar-AA1JXatN
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— People in Higher Education Are Finding Secret Workarounds to Keep DEI Alive
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/people-in-higher-education-are-finding-secret-workarounds-to-keep-dei-alive/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Trump Is Showing Republicans What You Do With Power, Send The Democrats Into The Political Wilderness
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/09/ned_ryun_trump_is_showing_republicans_what_you_do_with_power_send_the_democrats_into_the_political_wilderness.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-blasts-texas-gov-greg-abbott-trump-gop-redist-rcna224081
CNN
— Running for Office Shouldn’t Require a Flak Jacket. If you run for an office, anticipate/expect that your opponent(s) will promote hatred against you. I should write about the hated that my opponent promoted against me when I ran for Milton Township Republican Organization Treasurer in 2004.
https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/smerconish-on-cnn/episodes/4471111a-2cca-11ef-88f0-cff1f28e446a
NEWSWEEK
— Trump’s Approval Rating Suddenly Slides With Conservatives. Who speaks for the conservatives in Illinois, your county, your township, and your municipality?
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-conservatives-poll-2109635
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. RINO leaders do nothing to counter that.
https://www.newsweek.com/man-applying-green-card-detained-ice-after-decades-us-2111317
MSN
— Ever since the 1960s, all those above me have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americans-perception-of-discrimination-against-black-people-dropped-in-last-four-years/ar-AA1JOObt
NEW YORK TIMES
— America’s enemies use cartels to destroy America. RINO leaders do nothing to counter that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/trumps-cartel-order-revives-bitter-memories-in-latin-america.html
— The Democrat Party exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/opinion/electric-vehicles-china-clean-energy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/opinion/stagflation-trump-economy.html
— Democrats leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. RINO leaders do nothing to counter that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/opinion/trans-health-care-detransitioning.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders deny that crime is out of control in DC.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/10/trump-crime-data-federal-takeover/
USA TODAY
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) get rid of Whites and b) gerrymander to create more minority-majority political jurisdictions.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/10/texas-redistricting-standoff-democrats-republicans-gerrymandering/85548057007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use IVF against Trump. My Democrat GAO superiors used IVF against me big time because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. I should write about that.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/09/trump-ivf-policy-costs-insurance-healthcare/85563626007/
— The Democrats who ran GAO during the 1990s used early retirement to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$195,200/year. I should write about that.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/08/air-force-remove-retirement-trans-military/85573587007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Texas Democrats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/09/texas-democrats-trump-redistricting-gerrymandering-exodus/85524601007/
ATLANTIC
— According to my critics/opponents, my successes in life were not because of meritocracy, but instead, because I benefited tremendously from discrimination against those who share their demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who are liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for less time than mine have.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/08/dylan-rothko-meritocracy/683792/
DAILY BEAST
— Pot pushers push Trump to push pot. To push pot is to destroy America. RINO leaders do nothing to counter that.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-considers-giving-big-gift-to-marijuana-enthusiasts/
INDEPENDENT
— Trump ‘open to’ Zelensky attending Alaska summit with Putin. My critics/opponents blame Trump for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-live-trump-putin-zelensky-alaska-talks-latest-news-b2804967.html
August 9, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander. Most gerrymandering is done to create more minority districts. Look at Illinois 3rd Congressional District.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/08/09/texas-democrats-illinois-rainbow-push-hq-redistricting
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/08/09/illinois-texas-trump-pritzker-gerrymandering-alden-loury
DAILY HERALD
— ‘What more could the governor do?’: Illinois lawmakers doubt state’s districts could be more gerrymandered
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250809/illinois-state-politics/what-more-could-the-governor-do-illinois-lawmakers-doubt-states-districts-could-be-more-gerryma/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Illinois is one of the most gerrymandered states in the country,” said Republican state Rep. Martin McLaughlin of Barrington Hills. “What more could the governor do?” . . . Senate Republican Leader John Curran of Downers Grove accused Pritzker of “meddling in other states’ redistricting issues for national press coverage.” “He should be working to increase voter choice here in Illinois by calling for fair maps like he pledged when running for office,” Curran said. . . Illinois’ current congressional map was drawn to give Democrats an edge in nearly all of the state’s 17 districts, even though roughly 41% of the state’s voters supported Trump in the 2020 election and 44% of voters did so in 2024. Likewise, Trump carried 88 of Illinois’ 102 counties in 2020 and again in 2024. The gerrymandering is particularly obvious in the West and Northwest suburbs, where some districts curl through a dozen or more communities in multiple counties like ribbons in the wind. Curran said it’d be “impossible” to gerrymander the map more than it already has been. “Gerrymandering weakens our democracy and removes choice from voters,” Curran said. “It should be ended throughout the country — starting here in Illinois.”)
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Those who illegally bring children into America illegally should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-administration-asks-judge-to-end-policy-on-protections-for-immigrant-children-in-custody/article_7768a439-53c4-521e-be43-70ac6bcdfdd5.html
WAND TV
— IL Freedom Caucus members blame Pritzker, Biden for skyrocketing electric bills
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-freedom-caucus-members-blame-pritzker-biden-for-skyrocketing-electric-bills/article_e4faf09e-3abf-4bb5-b0c8-2960b0d49e9f.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Who are your enemies? They are those who have taken adverse actions against you. I should write about my enemies.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-08/justice-department-escalates-its-campaign-against-trumps-perceived-political-enemies
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Illinois newsrooms receive $4 million from state through tax credits. My direct competitors are beyond furious that I have the time, money, experience, ability, and motivation needed to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out every morning free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. I should write about my direct competitors who have their operatives and their dupes do everything that they can a) to stop me from sending the newsletters out and b) to stop everyone from reading them.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-newsrooms-receive-4-million-from-state/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Jil Tracy argues IL should honor TX warrants for absconding Dems
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_64210fc0-f2cb-4e62-a5c8-3916c15bf866.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The depraved success of Hamas propaganda
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3494721/depraved-success-hamas-propaganda/
— The census should ask about citizenship
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3494535/census-immigrants-citizenship-trump-house-apportionment-constitution/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Because Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot, it is fair to ask them if they use pot and if they say yes, how much, and if they say no, why not.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/09/us-news/trump-eyes-reclassifying-marijuana-as-less-dangerous-drug-report/
— Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America comrades push ‘abolition’ of traditional family
https://nypost.com/2025/08/09/us-news/dsa-leaders-tapping-into-mandanis-popularity-to-push-abolition-of-traditional-family/
— Why racial discrimination is so deeply institutionalized in US higher education
https://nypost.com/2025/08/09/opinion/why-racial-discrimination-is-so-deeply-institutionalized-in-us-higher-education/
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/personal-responsibility-not-victimhood-is-the-path-to-success/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Canada’s prime minister tells Canadians to get their news from state-controlled media. Of course, my critics/opponents do not anyone to read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/canada_s_prime_minister_tells_canadians_to_get_their_news_from_state_controlled_media.html
BREITBART
— Trump Quashes Joe Biden’s ‘Quiet Amnesty’ for Illegal Aliens as DHS Reopens Deportation Cases
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/09/trump-quashes-joe-bidens-quiet-amnesty-illegal-aliens-dhs-reopens-deportation-cases/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Yale grad credits success to conservative values. My parents and teachers promoted conservative values. That put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/yale-grad-credits-success-to-conservative-values/10953
DAILY WIRE
— ‘America Is Not A Short-Term Thing’: Lawmakers Urge Young Republicans Take Up The Fight. Over a thousand young conservatives gathered in Nashville for the largest National Young Republican Convention in decades. If I had been involved in Republican politics when I was young, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966 would not have hired me, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 would not have hired me, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/america-is-not-a-short-term-thing-lawmakers-urge-young-republicans-take-up-the-fight
FEDERALIST
— Blue-State Governors Harbor Texas Fugitives To Help Democrats Get Control Of Congress
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/blue-state-governors-harbor-texas-fugitives-to-help-democrats-get-control-of-congress/
FOX NEWS
— Illinois gov JB Pritzker lambasted for new ‘disastrous policy’ requiring mental health screenings for kids
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-lambasted-new-disastrous-policy-requiring-mental-health-screenings-kids
NEWSMAX
— DEI Under Another Name Is Not Reform
https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/choice-discrimination-harvard/2025/08/09/id/1221864/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— America’s white majority is aging out. Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4138228-americas-white-majority-is-aging-out/
ABC NEWS
— The easiest way to understand gerrymandering is through the lens of two basic techniques: cracking and packing. Cracking splits groups of disfavored voters among multiple districts. With their electoral strength divided, cracked groups struggle to elect their preferred candidates in any of the districts because they are too small a share of the electorate to be effective. Packing is the opposite of cracking. With packing, map drawers cram members of disfavored groups or parties into as few districts as possible. The packed groups are able to elect their preferred candidates by overwhelming margins, but their voting strength is weakened everywhere else. These techniques are not mutually exclusive — both may be deployed by map drawers to engineer a decided partisan advantage. Illinois 3rd Congressional District is an example Hispanic packing.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/closely-congressional-delegations-reflect-people-vote-124488387
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/militias-hate-groups-grow-response-minority-population-boom/story?id=16370136
CNN
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/23/politics/race-immigration-replacement-theory-demographics
https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/14/politics/kfile-steve-king-prediction
REUTERS
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-is-the-great-replacement-what-are-its-origins-2022-05-16/
NEW YORK TIMES
— To Tackle Poverty, We Need to Focus on Personal Responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/01/05/does-the-us-need-another-war-on-poverty/to-tackle-poverty-we-need-to-focus-on-personal-responsibility
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/opinion/letters/whites-replacement-theory.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/us/white-americans-minority-population.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/business/economy/trump-election-ethnic-diverse-whites.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/us/politics/capitol-riot-study.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/white-minority-population.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/world/asia/sri-lanka-populism-ethnic-tensions.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/22/nyregion/minorities-a-majority-in-new-york.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/16/white-americans-speak-against-great-replacement-theory/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/06/buffalo-shooting-replacement-theory-violence-whites-blacks-terrorism/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/census-minority-babies-are-now-majority-in-united-states/2012/05/16/gIQA1WY8UU_story.html
USA TODAY
— The key to success? Personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.today.com/parents/key-success-personal-responsibility-wbna6847246
— Trump accounts give newborns $1,000. It could transform generational wealth in US. I was born in 1948. Adjusted for inflation, $1,000 today was $70 in 1948.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/08/08/trump-accounts-kids-investment-economy/85547265007/
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— EPA terminates federal union contracts, effective immediately. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized earlier, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, d) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2025/08/epa-terminates-federal-union-contracts-effective-immediately/
WASHINGTONIAN
— One my greatest regrets in life is my counting on civil service protections. I ever-increasingly came to realize that the more of the following that federal employees are, the fewer civil service protections that they have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-union member, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/08/06/displaced-federal-employees-have-legal-options-heres-what-to-know/
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/white-supremacy-returned-mainstream-politics/
ATLANTIC
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/myth-majority-minority-america/619190/
PBS & NPR
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-is-great-replacement-theory-and-how-does-it-fuel-racist-violence
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099223012/how-the-replacement-theory-went-mainstream-on-the-political-right
OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY
— Two Americas, Redux. Are Red and Blue states even part of the same country anymore? Ever-increasingly, elected officials who represent me in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton are not Republican.
https://outsidethebeltway.com/two-americas-redux/
LAW 360
— 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, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/2374835
BROOKINGS
— The US will become ‘minority white’ in 2045, Census projects. Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects/
PEW RESEARCH
— Future immigration will change the face of America by 2065. Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/10/05/future-immigration-will-change-the-face-of-america-by-2065/
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2020/09/23/the-changing-racial-and-ethnic-composition-of-the-u-s-electorate/
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2012/05/17/explaining-why-minority-births-now-outnumber-white-births/
FOREIGN POLICY
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/22/us-white-majority-minority-nation-demographic-change/
GUARDIAN
— Gen Z will be last generation with white majority in US. Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/08/gen-z-americans-white-majority-study
August 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— ‘ICE Academy’ training materials for warrantless arrests challenged in Chicago court. I should write about the 6 months of training that IRS gave me in 1971 to be a GS-7 (currently $55,850/year) Revenue Officer. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=IRS+%22revenue+officer%22+training Democrats run IRS and Democrats run GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO In 1980 after working 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. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit IRS. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/immigration-customs-enforcements-ice-academy-training-materials-warrantless-arrests-challenged-chicago-court/17476470/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While in the Chicago area Friday, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem touted her department is in the midst of a hiring surge, with more than 80,000 applications received in the past week. To meet the demand, Noem said training at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Academy that once took up to a year to complete could be hastened to a matter of weeks, if the applicant has the relevant training and experience. The ABC7 I-Team had a rare look at some of the ICE Academy training materials for new agents that immigrant rights advocates say is concerning and their lawyers argue is illegal.)
— Trump offers $50M for Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro arrest. The Trump administration accused Maduro of being one of the world’s largest narco-traffickers.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-offers-50m-venezuela-president-nicols-maduro-arrest-accuses-being-worlds-largest-narco-traffickers/17474129/
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Because Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot, it is fair to ask them if they use pot and if they say yes, how much, and if they say no, why not.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/loan-applications-for-all-cannabis-social-equity-licensees-set-to-open-august-11th-85158.cfm
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who wants to be the next chairman of the Illinois Republican Party? Leading a political organization is a thankless job. I served as an officer of the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) 2003-2007 and as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. My critics/opponents ever-increasingly blamed ICRC and TAPROOT for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct suffered. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes not only end my aforesaid roles, they destroyed the aforesaid organizations. I should write about my critics/opponents. They demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being too conservative. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois. They have always been Democrat plants who have always done everything they could to destroy Republicans, and sooner or later, they will proudly proclaim that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASINGTON TIMES
— Trump hunts for colleges still using race in student selection. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But because of my bad demographics, I doubt that they would admit me today.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/8/trump-orders-colleges-prove-ended-race-based-admissions/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Indiana goes all-in to help ICE arrest, detain, and deport illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3495104/indiana-helps-ice-deport-illegal-immigrants-speedway-slammer/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Great Gerrymandering War Of 2025
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_great_gerrymandering_war_of_2025.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Adam Schiff says quiet part out loud about Dems needing illegals to win. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/08/adam-schiff-says-quiet-part-out-loud-about-dems-needing-illegals-to-win-1574766/
BREITBART
— Catholic Bishops Compare ICE Deportations to Nazis and Slave Catchers. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success invading, infiltrating, infesting, and conquering religion.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2025/08/08/catholic-bishops-compare-ice-deportations-to-nazis-and-slave-catchers/
— Andrew Cuomo Calls on Socialist Zohran Mamdani to ‘Move Out’ of His Rent Stabilized Apartment. The only rent that I have ever paid was while I was a student at NIU 1969-1970.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/08/andrew-cuomo-calls-on-socialist-zohran-mamdani-to-move-out-of-his-rent-stabilized-apartment/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump orders more oversight of federal grants after funds went to drag shows, DEI
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-orders-more-oversight-of-federal-grants-after-funds-went-to-drag-shows-dei/
CREATORS SYNDICATE
— There Are 50 Million Illegal Aliens in the USA. We Can and Must Deport Them All. Here Are the Top 10 Ways for President Trump To Make It Happen Efficiently and Quickly.
https://www.creators.com/read/wayne-allyn-root/08/25/there-are-50-million-illegal-aliens-in-the-usa-we-can-and-must-deport-them-all-here-are-the-top-10-ways-for-president-trump-to-make-it-happen-efficiently-and-quickly
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Moves To Keep Leftists From Pilfering Tax Dollars For Radical Agendas
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/08/trump-move-liberals-left-pilfering-tax-dollars-radical-agendas/
DAILY SIGNAL
— DEI Will Implode. Here’s Why. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used DEI the most to destroy me. I would focus on a) my Democrat superiors in the federal government and b) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party; Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois; Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers; conservative leaders; and religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/08/how-trump-broke-the-dei-machine/
— The DEI Scam is Falling Apart, and Trump Broke It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lh2dQrU1kA
FEDERALIST
— Education Dept. Demands Receipts From Universities That Do Affirmative Action Under The Table. Democrats and RINOs have always crowed about their giving preference to those who are Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/education-dept-demands-receipts-from-universities-that-do-affirmative-action-under-the-table/
— Trump Order Targets Self-Appointed ‘Experts’ Funneling Tax Dollars To Leftist Pet Projects
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/trump-order-targets-self-appointed-experts-funneling-tax-dollars-to-leftist-pet-projects/
ICE
— ICE Houston arrests more than 350 gang members in past 6 months who illegally entered US over 1,400 times, been convicted of nearly 1,700 criminal offenses. Among those arrested were convicted murderers, child predators, thieves, and arsonists and an alien who illegally entered the US 40 times.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-houston-arrests-more-350-gang-members-past-6-months-who-illegally-entered-us-over
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— To promote wokeness is to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/can-wokeness-be-defeated/amp/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Gerrymandering Wars Have Begun. Threats have been exchanged, and now we wait until someone pulls the trigger.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/08/begun-the-gerrymandering-wars-have/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot. The more pot that you use, the less that you accomplish in life. If I had used pot, I would not have been able a) to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) to earn six professional certifications, or c) to earn a professional license. If I had used pot, a) the Post Office would not have hired me in 1966, b) Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970, c) IRS would not have hired me in 1971 or promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, and d) GAO would not have hired me in 1980 or promoted me in 1986. If I had used pot, would not have been able to get married in 1978.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/trump-marijuana-reclassify-dea
NEWSWEEK
— Redistricting Wars: Map Shows How Many Seats Could Change Before Midterms
https://www.newsweek.com/redistricting-map-midterm-election-2026-gerrymandering-republicans-democrats-states-2110170
MSN
— ‘Worrying time for Irish in US’ as Trump makes good on illegals promise
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/worrying-time-for-irish-in-us-as-trump-makes-good-on-illegals-promise/ar-AA1Jq43p
MSNBC
— Why the Air Force is denying early retirement for longtime transgender service members. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/air-force-denying-early-retirement-longtime-transgender-service-member-rcna223839
NBC NEWS
— Air Force revokes approved retirement for trans service members. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/air-force-revokes-approved-retirement-trans-service-members-complete-u-rcna223876
NEW YORK TIMES
— Air Force Denies Early Retirement for Transgender Men and Women. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/politics/air-force-transgender-service-members-early-retirement.html
— More Turmoil at I.R.S. as Trump Ends Chief’s Short Tenure. Democrats run IRS. While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980, they were ever-increasingly angry against Nixon and Ford. They took their ever-increasing anger against Nixon and Ford out against me, one of their very few Republican employees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/politics/trump-billy-long-irs-commissioner.html
— Mexico ever-increasingly makes it clear that it is anti-American. Will Mexico side with America’s enemies in WWIII?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/world/americas/mexico-trump-military-cartels.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration weighs military actions against drug cartels
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/08/trump-mexico-pentagon-drug-cartels/
NEW YORK SUN
— Trump’s New Census Could Spell Trouble for Democrats, Like Ocasio-Cortez and Jeffries, in Districts With Many Non-Citizens. The number of blue state members of Congress is swelled by the constitutional requirement that the decennial census include an ‘actual enumeration’ of the population. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army. During their First Civil War, Democrats failed to get foreign countries to join them. But Democrats are succeeding during their Second Civil War.
https://www.nysun.com/article/trumps-new-census-could-spell-trouble-for-democrats-like-ocasio-cortez-and-jeffries-in-districts-with-many-non-citizens
— Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collapses Under Weight of Its Own Paradoxes, Even Before President Trump’s Order Banning It. Half of all Americans no longer approve of racial and gender preferences. My critics/opponents have always promoted race and gender based preference giving. I should write about my critics/opponents and the reasons why they promote race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.nysun.com/article/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-collapses-under-weight-of-its-own-paradoxes-even-before-president-trumps-order-banning-it
USA TODAY
— From Bibles to prayer groups: What Trump’s new religion memo for federal workers means. The memo provides guidance on religious expression for federal workers. Backers say it mirrors Clinton-era policies. But to others, the overtly Christian language raises First Amendment concerns. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, virtually none of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Protestant and none that knew of were Missouri Synod Lutheran like me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/07/trump-religion-federal-employees/85516547007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Is Right on ‘Debanking’ Regulators have abused their power to cut off political opponents. What does your bank think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-debanking-executive-order-bank-examiners-biden-obama-operation-choke-point-8396e49d
— How the West Was Really Won. If I had ever ran for a government office, my opponent would have used against me that all my ancestors immigrated from what is now German during the 1840s and 1850s, that on my father’s side they homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete township, and that on my mother’s side, they sharecropped 180-acre farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-undiscovered-country-review-into-the-west-13866720
— Trump Takes a Destructive Turn Against India. He has a point about New Delhi’s relationship with Russia, but 50% tariffs are a counterproductive policy. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-takes-a-destructive-turn-against-india-tariffs-d77a2a79
— Living in Zohran Mamdani’s America. How did socialism rise from the dead, and what can freedom-loving Americans do about it? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. According to Democrat leaders, you cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance, and especially if you are a minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or if your ancestors have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/living-in-zohran-mamdanis-america-44ea8b90
— Gerrymandering Is Deepening America’s Political Divide. Less than 20% of Americans live in a state where the minority party has a meaningful voice in governance. In Illinois, ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the less voice that you have in governance: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly I have no voice in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton Warrenville School District 200.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/us-gerrymandering-political-divide-a2a83a28
ATLANTIC
— Democrats cannot win without massive gerrymandering.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/lawlessness-fbi-against-texas-democrats/683804/
BRITANNICA
— American Civil War – Emancipation, Slavery, Union. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army. During their First Civil War, Democrats failed to get foreign countries to join them. But Democrats are succeeding during their Second Civil War.
https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War/The-Emancipation-Proclamation
GOOGLE AI
— Peers play a significant role in an individual’s life, influencing success, happiness, and overall well-being. I should write about the impact that my childhood peers had on me. I would focus on my childhood friends and classmates. Further, because one could argue that the most relevant criteria to use to measure one’s success in life is the success of one’s peers, I would focus on the successes that my childhood peers have had.
https://www.google.com/search?q=peers+success+life
— Living on one paycheck. Since I got married when I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have always been furious that my wife and I have always lived on just one of our paychecks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who are not married, b) whose spouse has little or no income, and/or c) who decry the tremendous amount of time and money needed to raise children. Initially, my wife and I lived on just one of our paychecks because we intended to have children. But because we gave up trying to have children because of our fertility problems, we then lived on just one of our paychecks to save more for our retirement.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22living+on+one+paycheck%22
August 7, 2025
For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Rhonda Belford: Democrats can’t fight for democracy in Texas while undermining it in Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/opinion-illinois-gerrymandering-texas-redistricting/
(FROM THE LETTER: Gov. JB Pritzker is once again talking about gerrymandering — just not in Illinois. This week, he welcomed Texas Democratic legislators to Oakwood, Illinois, to denounce Republican redistricting efforts in that state. But while Pritzker lectures red states about fairness, he continues to ignore the glaring problems in his own backyard. Don’t forget that in 2021, Pritzker signed one of the most blatantly and aggressively gerrymandered congressional maps in the country, drawn and passed by his own party. The map created districts with lines that make my grandchildren’s scribblings look like Pablo Picasso’s. It’s a stark contrast from when Pritzker was on the campaign trail. He promised to veto any map that was “in any way drafted or created by legislators, political party leaders and/or their staffs or allies.” Pritzker campaigned with a message of hope and fairness and moving past Democrats’ history of corruption. Then, at his first opportunity, Pritzker broke that promise without hesitation. “Fairness” wasn’t on Illinois Democrats’ minds. Now, as he positions himself to run for president, Pritzker is outraged. While standing on his giant soapbox and projecting his moral authority, he floated the idea of redrawing even more favorable maps in Illinois. That’s not democratic leadership; it’s partisan gamesmanship. That map gave Democrats a clear advantage in 14 of Illinois’ 17 congressional districts and earned an “F” for fairness from the nonpartisan Princeton Gerrymandering Project. The maps weren’t an accident. They deliberately cut out two Republican-leaning seats and helped lock in Democratic control. Let that sink in: The same man who signed, supported and pushed one of the worst partisan gerrymanders in the nation is now upset that other states are following his lead. Instead of looking in the mirror or pushing for national changes, Pritzker responds by threatening additional partisan moves that will continue to divide our state. Illinois families deserve better. They deserve fair representation, not districts drawn in backrooms to silence opposition and insulate power. When maps are rigged to favor one party, voters lose faith in our elections and our country’s founding principles. The truth is, with Democratic supermajorities in Springfield, there’s no one who can force Illinois Democrats to do the right thing and clean up partisan games — they need to do it themselves. If Pritzker truly wants to lead on voting rights and gerrymandering, he should start by honoring the promise he made to Illinois voters: to support an independent redistricting commission and end partisan gerrymandering in our state. The phrase “fix your own house before criticizing your neighbor” has never been more apt. And until Pritzker refuses to rein in Illinois’ partisan splintering map, his lectures about Texas ring hollow. Gerrymandering matters, and both Republicans and Democrats should do their part in making sure that there is a system that doesn’t play political games. But our country won’t learn how to draw better maps from the man who inked Illinois’ most gerrymandered script. Until then, his speeches about fairness will continue to ring hollow. You can’t fight for democracy in Texas while undermining it in Illinois. The phrase “fix your own house before criticizing your neighbor” has never been more apt. And until Pritzker refuses to rein in Illinois’ partisan splintering map, his lectures about Texas ring hollow. Gerrymandering matters, and both Republicans and Democrats should do their part in making sure that there is a system that doesn’t play political games. But our country won’t learn how to draw better maps from the man who inked Illinois’ most gerrymandered script. Before our governor lectures Texas on fairness, he should take a long, hard look at his own record — and start living up to the promises he made to the people of Illinois. Rhonda Belford is an Illinois Republican national committeewoman and president of the Republican County Chairmen’s Association of Illinois. She leads the 12th District State Central Committee.)
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/gov-jb-pritzker-colbert-texas-dems/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/immigrant-detention-indianapolis-speedway/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/latest-federal-sanctuary-list-chicago-illinois-cook-county/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump dismisses civil rights, fair housing cases in Chicago to focus on ‘real concerns’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/08/06/trump-general-iron-housing-environmental-racism
— Vance heading to Indiana, expected to push for redistricting ahead of midterms. The vice president will meet with Indiana Gov. Mike Braun to discuss redistricting the 1st and 7th congressional districts. The visit comes as Texas Democrats have taken refuge in the Chicago suburbs amid a similar effort in Texas.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/06/jd-vance-indiana-remap-bid-gov-mike-braun-meeting-midterms
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250807/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-too-much-to-ask-illinois-officials-please-keep-our-voter-data-private/
ABC7
— Trump announces Apple investing another $100 billion in US manufacturing
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-will-highlight-apples-plans-invest-100-billion-more-us-raising-total-600/17453133/
— Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/senator-dick-durbin-join-texas-democrats-illinois-halt-redistricting-effort/17449674/
NBC5
— Homeland Security removes age limits for ICE recruits to boost hiring for Trump deportations. Currently, ICE applicants must be 21 years old and no older than 37 or 40, depending on what position they are applying for. I have ever-increasingly fought age discrimination since I was 25 in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors used “up-or-out” to deem me too old to ever be promoted to GS-13. I finally made GS-13 when I was 38, but not until after I a) earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/homeland-security-age-limits-ice-recruits-deportations/3805515/?amp
FOX32
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1687252
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1686683
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/08/06/immigrants-deportations-shrinking-health-care-workforce
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— In Illinois, Democrat leaders have had their greatest success gerrymandering.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/06/gerrymandering-in-illinois-is-it-legal-stephen-colbert-pritzker-redistricting-district-map/85543930007/
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/07/pritzker-said-fleeing-texas-legislators-are-welcome-in-illinois/85551253007/
STATELINE
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/colbert-pritzker-redistricting-maps/
WGLT
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-08-06/gov-pritzker-says-illinois-could-retaliate-if-gop-redistricts-in-texas
WRIC
— Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/texas-democrats-who-fled-to-illinois-forced-to-evacuate-hotel-after-bomb-threat/
WAND TV
— Indiana plans to hold up to 1,000 illegal immigrants in ‘The Speedway Slammer’
https://www.wandtv.com/news/indiana-plans-to-hold-up-to-1-000-illegal-immigrants-in-the-speedway-slammer/article_54d196be-5f59-5636-be2a-ffb18926e5d8.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump’s immigration policies are having an impact in our workforce. With fewer illegals, wages will increase.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-06/trumps-immigration-policies-are-having-an-impact-in-our-workforce
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-05/the-politics-driving-the-push-for-gerrymandering
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-06/how-the-trump-administration-is-rolling-back-access-to-birth-control-in-the-u-s
— Trump calls for U.S. census to exclude for the first time people with no legal status
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-07/trump-calls-for-u-s-census-to-exclude-for-the-first-time-people-with-no-legal-status
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders prefer foreign students over American students.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-what-to-know-as-trumps-immigration-crackdown-strips-tuition-breaks-from-thousands-of-students/
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/city-council-set-to-approve-third-round-of-cannabis-grants-20546631
ILLINOIZE
— Rep. Amy Grant Won’t Seek Re-Election
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/sources-rep-amy-grant-wont
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Multiple sources say Rep. Amy Grant (R-Wheaton) one of the House GOP’s most perennially endangered incumbents won’t seek re-election in 2026. Grant did not return a phone call from The Illinoize, but we’re told she has informed many of her colleagues of her plans. She was elected in 2018 to the Wheaton-based district and has overcome hard charging Democrat challenges in the past three election cycles. After being vastly outspent in 2024, she won re-election by 292 votes. No word yet on who Republicans hope to see the seat. Democrats appear high on their candidate, Wheaton Village Trustee Erica Bray-Parker.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-563/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-356/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— If Texas Republicans succeed, their map will still not be as lopsided as the current map in Illinois.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_ba674a0c-cb0e-4fde-a52e-f15de7657e6b.html
— Feds warn Illinois State University on race-based diversity.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_12efb416-dfa1-4ef0-9cc8-beffe414f4eb.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Voter Fraud Is Real — Just Ask This Convicted Democrat Operative
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/08/voter-fraud-is-real-just-ask-this-convicted-democrat-operative/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Opting Out of Controversial Public School Content
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/opting-out-of-controversial-public-school-content/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Over half of Illinoisans unhappy with Pritzker
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/over-half-of-illinoisans-unhappy-with-pritzker/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Texas Democrats Go Into Hiding at St. Charles Hotel Amid Arrest Threat From Gov. Abbott
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/texas-democrats-go-into-hiding-at-st-charles-hotel-amid-arrest-threat-from-gov-abbott.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— NYC opens first taxpayer-funded transgender homeless shelter in US: ‘Progressive political theater’
https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/us-news/nyc-opens-63m-taxpayer-funded-transgender-homeless-shelter/
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://nypost.com/video/gerrymander-much-democrats-red-hot-takes/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Ramirez desperately tries to undo her America second statement
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/06/congresswoman-desperately-tries-to-undo-her-america-second-statement-thats-not-what-you-said-1574114/
— Stanford student newspaper sues Trump because some of the writers fear deportation
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/06/stanford-student-newspaper-sues-trump-because-some-of-the-writers-fear-deportation-1574146/
BREITBART
— Abbott Files Lawsuit to Start Removal ‘Derelict Democrat Texas House Members’ Who Fled State to Block Redistricting Bill
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/08/06/abbott-files-lawsuit-to-start-removal-derelict-democrat-texas-house-members-who-fled-state-to-block-redistricting-bill/
— Dem TX State Rep. Jones Compares Congressional Redistricting to the Holocaust
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/05/dem-tx-state-rep-jones-compares-congressional-redistricting-to-the-holocaust/
DAILY CALLER
— Liberal Media Dutifully Ignoring Illinois’ Blatant Gerrymandering Hypocrisy
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/06/liberal-media-dutifully-ignoring-illinois-blatant-gerrymandering-hypocrisy/
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/06/texas-democrats-redistricting-gerrymandering-illinois-ron-hart/
— Noem announced in a Fox & Friends interview on Wednesday that ICE is ending its age cap for officer applications. I have ever-increasingly fought age discrimination since I was 25 years old in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors used “up-or-out” to deem me too old to ever be promoted to GS-13. I finally made GS-13 when I was 38, but not until after I a) earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/06/kristi-noem-announces-end-of-age-cap-for-ice-applications/
DAILY WIRE
— Mr. Hypocrisy: Pritzker Bashes Texas Maps, Forgets His Own Power Grabs In Illinois
https://www.dailywire.com/news/mr-hypocrisy-pritzker-bashes-texas-maps-forgets-his-own-power-grabs-in-illinois
FEDERALIST
— Dems Furious At Prospect Of Losing Their Monopoly On Gerrymandering
https://thefederalist.com/videos/purnell-dems-furious-at-prospect-of-losing-their-monopoly-on-gerrymandering/
FOX NEWS
— Pritzker defies FBI: ‘Unwelcome’ to pursue Texas Democratic lawmakers. Pritzker argues no federal law broken as Republicans seek arrests over Texas redistricting stalemate.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-governor-defies-fbi-unwelcome-pursue-texas-democratic-lawmakers
— Shouldn’t members of Congress love America first? Not if you’re a Democrat. Rep. Delia Ramirez didn’t just celebrate her Guatemalan roots. Before world leaders, she elevated the country that her parents fled above the nation she was elected to represent.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/06/democrats-delia-ramirez-guatemala-anti-america/85522222007/
— Trump DOJ to fight ‘race-based gerrymandering,’ Dhillon says amid Texas redistricting battle. Texas redistricting battle began with DOJ push to ensure state’s districts were in line with federal voting rights laws. Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District is race-based gerrymandering.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-trump-doj-fight-race-based-gerrymandering-dhillon-says-amid-texas-redistricting-battle
— Colbert confronts Pritzker with map showing Illinois gerrymandering. ‘It’s like a stinger on a scorpion,’ Colbert said of one Illinois district
https://www.foxnews.com/media/colbert-confronts-jb-pritzker-map-showing-illinois-gerrymandering
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376614530112
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/colbert-confronts-jb-pritzker-map-120007545.html
— Dems wanted to draw every Republican out of Maryland but now lambast Texas redistricting. The ‘Patapsco Pterodactyl’ formed as part of a Democratic push to oust Republicans through redistricting.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-wanted-draw-every-republican-out-maryland-now-lambast-texas-redistricting
— Dems gerrymandered the vote beyond recognition
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376637385112
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dems-gerrymandered-the-vote-beyond-recognition-stephen-miller/vi-AA1K3ePZ
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-labels-texas-redistricting-push-a-power-grab-undermines-our-democracy
— Trump administration arrests ‘worst of the worst’ criminal illegal immigrants in enforcement sweep. Five men with convictions for firearm possession, burglary, child indecency and drug distribution targeted.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-administration-arrests-worst-worst-criminal-illegal-immigrants-enforcement-sweep
NATIONAL REVIEW
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/gerrymandering-meh/
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-gops-gerrymandering-battle-goes-national/
NEWSBUSTERS
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/08/06/colbert-lets-pritzker-dodge-question-illinois-gerrymandering
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/08/06/tapper-claims-gop-worst-offenders-when-it-comes
NEWSMAX
— ‘Speedway Slammer’ will get illegals out of here quickly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmAEdIzm2No
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Porter: We Welcome Texas Dems Bringing Attention to Absurd Illinois Gerrymandering
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/06/porter_we_welcome_texas_dems_bringing_attention_to_absurd_illinois_gerrymandering.html
— Pritzker’s Presidential Ambitions Are Sinking Him at Home
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jb-pritzkers-presidential-ambitions-sinking-110541880.html
TOWNHALL
— Home Depot Hide-and-Seek
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/08/06/ice-raids-la-home-depot-foot-chases-ensue-n2661487
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Illinois Gov Admits State’s Congressional Map Looks Like It Was Drawn by a ‘Kindergarten Class’
https://www.westernjournal.com/illinois-gov-admits-states-congressional-map-looks-like-drawn-kindergarten-class/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— It’s Pritzker’s party: Hell yes, he’s messing with Texas, and he’s not sorry.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5437052-its-pritzkers-party-hell-yes-hes-messing-with-texas-and-hes-not-sorry/
— Democrat leaders use reports of a bomb threat to promote hatred against Republicans
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5438788-texas-democrats-bomb-threat-illinois/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pritzker to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5438411-jb-pritzker-donald-trump-texas-redistricting-midterms/
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5436443-trump-abbott-gerrymandering-texas/
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5440204-pritzker-law-texas-democrats-arrest/
NBC NEWS
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/redistricting-important-3-charts-rcna223163
CBS NEWS
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/history-gerrymandering-us-politics/
CNN
— White House plans increase in federal law enforcement in DC over crime as Trump threatens to bring in National Guard
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/politics/national-guard-washington-dc-crime-trump
MSNBC
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weeknight/watch/-this-is-bigger-than-texas-tx-congressman-warns-of-nationwide-gerrymandering-threats-244488773529
MSN
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/jb-pritzker-refuses-to-rule-out-gerrymandering-in-illinois-because-gop-has-thrown-the-rule-book-out/ar-AA1K017U
NEWSWEEK
— Illinois Removes Nearly 700,000 People From Health Care Plan
https://www.newsweek.com/illinois-removes-nearly-700000-people-health-care-plan-2109093
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.newsweek.com/illinois-jb-pritzker-texas-democrats-fbi-trump-2109980
NEW YORK TIMES
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/redistricting-states.html
— Trump Announces Additional $100 Billion Apple Investment in U.S. The White House said the pledge would bring more of the company’s supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/trump-apple-investment.html
— Columbia and Brown to Disclose Admissions and Race Data in Trump Deal. A widely overlooked part of a settlement with the two universities could profoundly alter how elite schools determine who gets accepted. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly crowed about their success in hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. That is, they ever-increasingly crowed about their success in not hiring, not retaining, and not promoting Republicans who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. By the time my GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, all of my Chicago office superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/nyregion/columbia-brown-admissions-trump.html
— My critics/opponents had parents who had lots of money. They bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. With the money that I earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air when was 16 in 1964. With the money that I earned delivering newspapers and washing dishes, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966. With the money that I earned cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, and delivering mail, I paid for my UIC and NIU college expenses and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967 and a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/upshot/trump-college-admissions-race-wealth.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape. Fort Bliss is preparing to detain at least 1,000 undocumented immigrants starting this month on the Mexican border.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/07/trump-fort-bliss-migrants-detention/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-08-06/essential-california-house-gerrymander-challenge
BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrats can’t gerrymander themselves out of their gerrymandering problem
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/opinion/gerrymandering-democrats-house-districts/
TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Homan Rips Ramirez For Declaring Allegiance To Guatemala
https://www.tampafp.com/border-czar-tom-homan-rips-illinois-rep-ramirez-for-declaring-allegiance-to-guatemala/
KANSAS CITY STAR
— New Plan to Eliminate DEI Influence at Naval Academy. In my defense, notwithstanding tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI pressure on my superiors in the federal government, a) I survived for almost 3 years working for the Democrats who ran the Post Office, b) I survived for almost 9 years working for the Democrats who ran IRS and even got promoted to GS-12 Step 5, currently $112,280/year, and c) I survived for almost 18 years working for the Democrats who ran GAO and even got promoted to GS-13 Step 10, currently $153,151/year.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-city-star-1592484/4160113274198-new-plan-to-eliminate-dei-influence-at-naval-academy
WCBM
— Ramirez Says She’s More Proud to Be Guatemalan Than American. I am 100% German American. Many, if not most, if not virtually all of my critics/opponents are anti-German American, if not German-American-haters. In my defense, I stress that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-f.
https://wcbm.com/national-headline/democrat-congresswoman-says-shes-more-proud-to-be-guatemalan-than-american/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Gerrymandering and Pritzker’s Inferno. Democrats’ hypocrisy is worthy of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gerrymandering-and-jb-pritzkers-inferno-5a12ade2
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gerrymandering-deepens-the-political-divide-903e24b2
BLOOMBERG
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-06/the-texas-gerrymandering-fight-could-ignite-a-national-fire?embedded-checkout=true
NPR
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493278/texas-redistricting-map-democrats-counter
FINDLAW
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/federal-courts/210649/
ATLANTIC
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/democrats-redistricting-republicans-gerrymandering-texas/683775/
NEW REPUBLIC
— I never did farm work. But I did do yard work, deliver newspapers, wash dishes, clean golf shoes, chip slag, pump gasoline, deliver mail, work on an automotive assembly line, sell tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pump more gasoline, collect delinquent federal taxes, and audit federal agencies. My critics/opponent ever-increasingly make it clear that they would never have stooped to take the jobs that I took. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198834/trump-undocumented-immigrants-naturally-made-work-farms
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservative groups. I should write about the following who demonized, denigrated, and condemned the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois the most: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. The aforesaid succeeded in destroying ICRC in 2007 and TAPROOT in 2012.
https://www.aol.com/emil-bove-consulted-far-legal-191800961.html
ROLLING STONE
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/gerrymandering-texas-republicans-map-trump-explained-1235401621/
INC.
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/workplace-diversity-and-social-programs-thrive-by-going-undercover/91223812
MS. MAGAZINE
— To get more votes from minorities, females, younger people, poor people, LGBTQers, non-married people, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those who have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, illegals, etc., Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy Whites, males, older people, non-poor people, heterosexuals, married people, Protestants, German Americans, those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, citizens of America, etc.
https://msmagazine.com/2025/08/06/men-mental-health-crisis-boys-trump-vance-violent-suicide-drugs/
GUARDIAN
— For Democrat leaders, gerrymandering is a key to their success.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/06/supreme-court-texas-redistricting-gerrymandering
August 6, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Words matter when you’re elected to represent America, Congresswoman Ramirez
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-words-matter-elected-represent-100000284.html
(FROM THE EDITORIAL When a member of Congress publicly declares allegiance to another country over the United States, it’s bound to raise eyebrows — and for good reason. That’s what happened when U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez, speaking at an event in Mexico City, said: “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.” Ramirez, whose district stretches from DuPage County to Chicago’s Northwest Side, has since attempted to clarify her intent, saying on X that “honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens my commitment to America.”)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/05/texas-california-trump/
— Dangerous car crashes are being perpetuated by cannabis.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/column-car-crash-weed-new-buffalo-michigan-washington/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Hamas.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/06/opinion-israel-gaza-palestinians-jewish-harm/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Gov. JB Pritzker riffs on his wealth and staying out of prison in Stephen Colbert appearance. Stephen Colbert told Pritzker he’d be the first Democratic governor in Illinois to finish two terms by next January, because “a lot of them end up in the hoosegow.” Pritzker said, “It’s extraordinary to stay out of prison.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/08/06/gov-jb-pritzker-stephen-colbert-late-show
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2025/07/28/chicago-queen-utica-drag-race-alum-project-runway-ethan-mundt
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250806/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-political-power-plays-as-texas-redistricting-farce-unfolds-in-the-suburbs-we/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1686131
— Trump threatens to take federal control of DC
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-threatens-federal-control-dc-edward-coristine-attacked
— Trump targets visa overstays with $15,000 bond policy. The buyer of my Iron Gate Motor Condo forced me to put $10,000 in escrow to give me up to 5 days to get my vehicles out after closing.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1686211
— The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the Clintons for testimony regarding Epstein
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/comer-subpoenas-clintons-trumps-doj-house-oversights-epstein-probe
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/05/texas-democrats-continue-hold-out-illinois-amid-redistricting-fight-we-are-standing
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/08/05/rapid-response-team-helps-families-find-trans-health-care-in-illinois
WMBQ
— Republican eyes run for state’s top office. Ted Dabrowski is strongly considering a run for governor.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-eyes-run-for-state-s-top-office/vi-AA1JTio3
IPM NWSROOM
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/gov-pritzker-says-illinois-remap-is-possible-as-dnc-chair-vows-to-fight-texas-gop-efforts-tooth-and-nail/
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Pritzker says redistricting Illinois could happen if Texas continues push. How fast could Pritzker redistrict Illinois so that no Republican will ever be elected to Congress in Illinois ever again? Republican Trump got 44% of the vote in Illinois in 2024.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/08/05/texas-illinois-pritzker-redistricting-abbott-democrats-republicans-trump
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, who oversees the suburban areas where the Texans have been holing up, said he’s fielded calls nonstop from the public wanting to know why he hasn’t arrested the Texas visitors. “I tell them it’s because this is a civil case. They aren’t criminals,” Mendrick, a Republican running for governor of Illinois, told your Playbook host. “People hear the rhetoric and that’s when the calls come in.” We wonder if one of those calls came from the Illinois Freedom Caucus, which issued a statement Tuesday calling for Pritzker “to focus on Illinois instead of harboring Texas fugitives.” . . . With Richard Porter deciding not to run for U.S. Senate, watch for former GOP Chair Don Tracy to jump in. He’s also considered a run for governor. We’ll surely find out by next week when Republicans gather for the annual Republicans Day rally at the Fair on Aug. 14. Republican Ted Dabrowski continues to talk like a governor candidate.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-562/
— A Naperville woman has accused DuPage County GOP Chair Kevin Coyne of alleged bullying and sexual harassment
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/06/isabel%E2%80%99s-morning-briefing-562/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— DuPage County GOP chairman Kevin Coyne: ‘No state has done more to make a mockery of the map drawing process’ than Illinois
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/674224333-dupage-county-gop-chairman-no-state-has-done-more-to-make-a-mockery-of-the-map-drawing-process-than-illinois
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ramirez is my U.S. Representative because Illinois Democrat leaders gerrymandered a congressional district to elect her. Ramirez represents only those who share her demographics: anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, minority, female, younger, non-Methodist, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois hosting Texas Dems worried about gerrymandering? What hypocrisy.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-hosting-texas-dems-worried-about-gerrymandering-what-hypocrisy-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
— There simply aren’t enough new, good jobs in Illinois
https://wirepoints.org/there-simply-arent-enough-new-good-jobs-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Texas Republicans give Democrats until Friday to return to the Legislature or lose their seats
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/5/texas-republicans-give-democrats-three-days-return-legislature-lose/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Beto O’Rourke’s PAC Funded Texas Dems’ Private Jet to Illinois. O’Rourke, who has lost campaigns for governor, president, and Senate, helped finance a similar walkout in 2021.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/now-we-know-beto-orourkes-pac-funded-texas-dems-private-jet-to-illinois/
NEW YORK POST
— Key Trump national security roles left vacant due to Dem obstruction — leaving US vulnerable to threats
https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/us-news/key-trump-national-security-roles-left-vacant-due-to-dem-obstruction-leaving-us-vulnerable-to-threats/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Ramirez declares her loyalty to Guatemala first at a Mexican leftist gathering
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/rep_delia_ramirez_calls_herself_a_proud_guatemalan_first_at_mexican_leftist_gathering.html
BREITBART
— Dem TX Rep Says Illinois’ Gerrymandering Is Different Because It’s Legal
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/04/dem-tx-rep-illinois-gerrymandering-is-different-because-its-legal/
— Trump says “We Want to Take Care of Our American Workers.” But what about Americans who ever-increasingly fail/refuse to take bad jobs like I did? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, delivered mail, worked on an automotive assembly line, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumped more gasoline, collected delinquent federal taxes, and audited federal agencies. My critics/opponent ever-increasingly make it clear that they would never have stooped to take the jobs that I took. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/05/trump-olympics-eo-signing-dropoff-foreign-born-workers/
— Trump Deputies Declare Crackdown on Migrant Marriage Fraud
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/05/trump-deputies-declare-crackdown-on-migrant-marriage-fraud/
DAILY CALLER
— Anchor Baby Congresswoman Ramirez Admits To Treason
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/05/rooke-anchor-baby-congresswoman-treason-daca-dreamer-delia-ramirez-illegal-immigration-mexico-city-summit/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Noem Announces ‘Speedway Slammer’ Illegal-Alien Detention Center in Indiana
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/05/noem-announces-speedway-slammer-illegal-alien-detention-center-indiana/
FEDERALIST
— 41 Planned Parenthood Facilities And Counting Set To Close As Trump Defunds Abortion Giant
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/05/41-planned-parenthood-facilities-and-counting-set-to-close-as-trump-defunds-abortion-giant/
FOX NEWS
— Social media erupts after Ramirez makes ‘shocking’ comment about America during overseas trip. Ramirez defended her comment in a statement.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/social-media-erupts-after-house-dem-makes-shocking-comment-about-america-overseas-trip
— Ramirez doubles down amid firestorm of criticism over Guatemalan loyalty: ‘I am both Chapina and American’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-doubles-down-amid-firestorm-criticism-guatemalan-loyalty-both-chapina-american
https://www.aol.com/dem-doubles-down-amid-firestorm-101618605.html
LEGAL INSURRECTON
— Ramirez Doubles Down on ‘Proud Guatemalan Before I’m an American’ Comments. Ramirez also described America as a country out of the freaking 1500s, accusing it of prioritizing ‘imperialism, militarization, conquest, control, competition in its attempt at domination.’
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/house-democrat-doubles-down-on-proud-guatemalan-before-im-an-american-comments/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Ramirez says she is proudly Guatemalan
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/congresswoman-delia-ramirez-forfeited-her-guatemalan-ness/
NEWSMAX
— Ramirez Draws Ire Over Guatemala Pride Comment
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/delia-ramirez-guatemala-immigration/2025/08/05/id/1221309/
PJ MEDIA
— Canadian Wokies Can Choose Only Male or Female on U.S. Travel Cards
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/08/05/canadian-wokies-can-choose-only-male-or-female-to-enter-us-n4942426
POST MILLENNIAL
— Columbia, Brown universities to disclose affirmative action admissions data in Trump deal. Data will be broken down by “race, color, grade point average and performance on standardized tests.” 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, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://thepostmillennial.com/columbia-brown-universities-to-disclose-affirmative-action-admissions-data-in-trump-deal
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Ramirez Tries to Play Victim After Admitting Her First Allegiance Lies with a Foreign Country
https://www.westernjournal.com/democratic-rep-tries-play-victim-admitting-first-allegiance-lies-foreign-country/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— MAGA Calls for Ramirez To Be Deported Over Guatemala Comments
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-deport-democratic-representative-delia-ramirez-guatemala-2108921
CNN
— Trump reignites threat to take over DC
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/politics/trump-federal-take-over-dc-doge-coristine-assault
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. They had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024 and b) end my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. They have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I should write about them.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/politics/video/laura-loomer-hunt-for-disloyalty-trump-vrtc
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump threatens federal takeover of DC
https://apnews.com/article/washington-dc-crime-assault-doge-05aaaeb09d106ca1af673b46e89d60e1
— Trump: FBI ‘may have to’ help bring Texas Democrats back to the state
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx_Bfsvs_Zg
REUTERS
— Trump suggests Vance is his likely heir apparent in 2028
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-suggests-vance-is-his-likely-heir-apparent-2028-2025-08-06/
— Trump urges Texas Republicans to redraw map for partisan gain. Democratic governors threaten retaliation in other states. Mid-decade redistricting could shift power balance in Congress.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-led-texas-redistricting-gambit-ignites-national-arms-race-control-congress-2025-08-05/
— White House to target banks as Trump claims discrimination
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-target-banks-trump-claims-discrimination-2025-08-05/
MSN
— Democrat leaders side with Ramirez against America
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/who-is-delia-ramirez-illinois-democrat-congresswoman-who-said-she-is-a-guatemalan-before-an-american/ar-AA1JUoe6
— Trump Gets Sharp Response After Saying He’ll Let Deported Farm Workers Back Into US, ‘They’re Very Very Special People.” I never did farm work. But I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, delivered mail, worked on an automotive assembly line, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumped more gasoline, collected delinquent federal taxes, and audited federal agencies.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-gets-sharp-response-after-saying-hell-let-deported-farm-workers-back-into-us-theyre-very-very-special-people/ar-AA1JXxih?ocid=TobArticle
MSNBC
— Reporter explains: How the WH press corps has changed in Trump 2.0. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used Jeff Gannon (SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon ) against me the most.
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/reporter-explains-how-the-wh-press-corps-has-changed-in-trump-2-0-244401733992
AOL
— 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, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/trump-dismantling-eeoc-civil-rights-224211238.html
NBC NEWS
— Trump threatens federal control of D.C.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-threatens-federal-control-dc-attack-doge-staffer-coristine-rcna223293
CBS NEWS
— Trump floats federal takeover of D.C.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-doge-staffer-edward-coristine-injured-in-attempted-carjacking-trump-federal-takeover-of-d-c/
WASHINGTON POST
— Abbott sues to remove Democratic leader amid election map fight. Abbott filed his lawsuit as other top Republicans raised the prospect of intensifying law enforcement actions against Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/texas-democrats-redistricting-maps-abbott-trump/
— Trump says Republicans are ‘entitled’ to 5 more seats in Texas redistricting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/trump-presidency-news/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students over American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/06/international-students-visas-trump-uk-dubai/95f94f06-727a-11f0-84e0-485bb531abeb_story.html
— Trump threatens federal takeover of Washington D.C. Musk also says D.C. should be taken over.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/05/trump-doge-worker-washington-dc-crime/
USA TODAY
— Trump says FBI ‘may have to’ force Democratic lawmakers back to Texas
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/05/donald-trump-fbi-texas-democratic-lawmakers-arrest-redistricting/85531774007/
— Democrats have devolved into a clown show. No wonder polls show voters prefer GOP.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/04/trump-vance-republicans-democrats-harris-future/85462114007/
— MAGA’s next leader? Trump says Vance is ‘most likely’ to lead in 2028
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/05/donald-trump-jd-vance-2028-presidential-election-maga/85533490007/
— Trump says 2028 Olympic athletes will be tested to prevent transgender competitors
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/05/donald-trump-2028-olympics-los-angeles-transgender-testing/85531661007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/05/texas-gop-trump-pritzker-redistricting-cheating-democracy/85523447007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Democratic Protectorate of Illinois. Few do partisan gerrymanders better than Springfield liberals.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/illinois-democrats-gerrymandering-texas-lawmakers-j-b-pritzker-9720b2be?mod=opinion_lead_pos3
— Pritzker on Possible Illinois Remap: ‘Everything Is On the Table’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.wsj.com/video/gov-pritzker-on-possible-illinois-remap-everything-is-on-the-table/40EE39FA-CD6A-465E-87DA-5FE881E42316
— Kill Jews, Get Your Own State. A Hamas leader says new global recognition for Palestinian statehood is a reward for the Oct. 7 massacre.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ghazi-hamad-hamas-palestinian-state-israel-2290c711
— Racial Gerrymanders in the Dock. The Supreme Court will hear what could be a voting rights landmark.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/racial-gerrymanders-in-the-dock-31f93146
FORBES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ocgpu2b1xQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSCTzZy_HoM
BUSINESS INSIDER
— China’s ‘social credit’ system ranks citizens and punishes them with throttled internet speeds and flight bans if the Communist Party deems them untrustworthy. According to my critics/opponents, I am untrustworthy. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4
NEW REPUBLIC
— Democrat leaders side with Ramirez against America
https://newrepublic.com/post/198824/dhs-attacks-democratic-lawmaker-delia-ramirez-spanish
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders say that the debate over who can farm America’s land has been historically linked to racism, xenophobia and, oftentimes, exploitation of farmers of color. I was the dishwasher for the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. I was the only White male who washed dishes for the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights. My critics/opponents have always used that against me big time. They hint/imply/argue/shout that my dishwashing proves that I am an unmitigated loser and/or that I took a job that should have been given to Black women.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/trump-farmland-workers-racial-stereotypes
August 5, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/texas-redistrict-democrats-fight-back/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, eventually everyone will be on SNAP.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/knowles-food-insecurity-increasing/
— DNA project hopes to reunite African Americans in Illinois with ancestral relatives in Africa. Will this lead to identifying those who were directly responsible for slavery?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/dna-project-black-americans-africa/
— As last baby boomers reach retirement, they tackle a quest for fulfillment. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Since then, putting together and sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters has increasingly been my focus. Politics is nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes a) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, b) end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, c) end my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster in 2010 and 2004, and d) end my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership in 2007.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/05/retirement-bike-riding-baby-boomers/
— John Curran: Illinois Democrats’ delivery tax is a short-term cash grab paid by those who can least afford it
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/05/opinion-illinois-delivery-tax-general-assembly-cta/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/illinois-queer-farmers-lgbtq/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-quorum-illinois-redistrict-map
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— In downtown Chicago’s condo market, the hits keep coming. In 1978, when I got married, I sold my one bedroom Outer Drive East condo that I had owned for 2 years for a $10,000 gain and bought a new 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale and a 1978 Chevrolet Chevette.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/downtown-chicago-condos-reflect-markets-price-decline-woes
ABC7
— Texas Democrats remain in Illinois as Gov. Abbott orders their arrest
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-remain-illinois-halt-gop-redistricting-governor-greg-abbott-orders-arrest/17438511/
— State Department may require visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000 to enter the US
https://abc7chicago.com/post/state-department-may-require-visa-applicants-post-bond-15000-enter-us/17433002/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU43-62wCRk
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-immigration-court-judges-terminated-donald-trump-administration-works-cut-down-massive-case-backlog/17434235/
NBC5
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-officials-face-pushback-over-texas-gerrymandering-criticisms/3804336/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders, that is, the mainstream news media, ever-increasingly treat Pat Brady as being the spokesperson for the Illinois Republican Party.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-gerrymandering-texas-redistricting-battle/
— Chicago designated ‘EV Ready.’ What does it mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K9-wnnDmjw
WTTW
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/04/texas-governor-threatens-remove-democrats-who-left-illinois-other-states-over-trump
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/pritzker-texas-democrats-redistricting-20801137.php
SHAW LOCAL
— Girls flag football surges in Illinois as hundreds more take the field in year two. More than 200 high schools expected to have teams this fall. My parents had absolutely no interest in football, and neither do I. Does that explain my lack of aggressiveness?
https://www.shawlocal.com/friday-night-drive/2025/08/05/girls-flag-football-surges-in-illinois-as-hundreds-more-take-the-field-in-year-two/
ELMHURST PATCH
— Confusion Over Addison Township Group’s Status
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/confusion-over-addison-township-groups-status
COD COURIER
— Campus Voices Weigh In on Siddiqi’s Plans for College of DuPage
https://codcourier.org/campus-voices-weigh-in-on-siddiqis-plans-for-college-of-dupage/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: She stressed the importance of taking a stand on the college’s long-held values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). “Last year, when there was pressure to remove DEI language and committees, COD and its Board of Trustees refused to bow to those demands,” Purcell said. “Our values have been here for decades, and it’s critical that the new administration uphold them to protect the college’s reputation.”)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-561/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— BS from Pritzker on Mid-Decade Reapportionment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/05/bs-from-pritzker-on-mid-decade-reapportionment/
WIREPOINTS
— What happened to private sector job growth, Gov. Pritzker?
https://wirepoints.org/what-happened-to-private-sector-job-growth-gov-pritzker-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Darin LaHood appears to pass on Illinois Senate run in blow to state GOP hopes
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3490826/darin-lahood-pass-illinois-senate-run-state-gop/
— Abbott says blue-state gerrymandering ‘distorted’ US politics after Democrats flee Texas. How badly have Illinois Democrat leaders gerrymandered the political jurisdictions where you live? I should write about how Democrat and RINO leaders gerrymandered my precinct in 2015.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3490941/greg-abbott-blue-state-gerrymandering-democrats-flee-texas/
BREITBART
— Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump from Quickly Deporting Biden’s Parole Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/04/biden-appointed-judge-blocks-trump-from-quickly-deporting-bidens-parole-migrants/
CENTER SQUARE
— DOJ scraps decree used by Democrats to keep Republicans out of the federal workforce
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1de8bdce-8e86-4d1e-8297-bb3849644d07.html
COLLEGE FIX
— Federal appeals court upholds Arkansas ban on Critical Race Theory in the classroom. To teach CRT is promote more hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/federal-appeals-court-upholds-arkansas-ban-on-critical-race-theory-in-the-classroom/
DAILY CALLER
— Pulling Kids Out Of DEI Lessons Just Got Easier. To teach DEI is promote more hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/04/exclusive-pulling-kids-out-of-dei-lessons-just-got-easier/
FOX NEWS
— Democrats are protesting what they have been doing forever. Fox News host Sean Hannity calls out Democrats’ ‘big, meaningless political stunt’ in protesting gerrymandering on ‘Hannity.’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376556781112
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Flight of the Legislators
https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/the-flight-of-the-legislators/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Democratic Texas Rep. Harold V. Dutton Jr. speaks alongside other Texas democrats during a press conference at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall in Warrenville, Ill., August 4, 2025.)
NEWSMAX
— Pritzker Vows to Protect Texas Dems From Arrest
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/jb-pritzker-protect-texas-democrats/2025/08/04/id/1221258/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Economists sound alarm over Trump firing. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, the following did not come to my defense: a) the Association of Government Accountants; I had served on the Executive Committee of its Chicago Chapter for 13 years and b) the Illinois CPA Society; I had served on its membership committee for 8 years.
https://thehill.com/business/5435904-economists-sound-alarm-over-trump-firing/
NBC NEWS
— White House searches for a new BLS chief with ‘credibility’ and ‘experience.’ 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, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-search-new-bls-chief-credibility-experience-rcna222910
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/swing-district-republicans-object-texas-redistricting-plan-democrats-t-rcna222972
CBS NEWS
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrat-who-fled-texas-over-redistricting-says-were-willing-to-face-whatever-consequences/
CNN
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/gerrymandering-supreme-court-texas
— Are/were you “little-known.” According to my critics/opponents, I have always been “little-known” notwithstanding my having been the subject of a 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/documents/ That article made me very well-known to the Democrats who ran IRS and GAO. They used everything in that article against me that they could. They used the article mainly to paint me as being a grossly overpaid draft avoider. That helped them force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/bls-commissioner-trump-firing-decision
REUTERS
— Tesla’s brand loyalty collapsed after Musk backed Trump
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-brand-loyalty-collapsed-after-musk-backed-trump-data-shows-2025-08-04/
MSN
— Top Trump Official Says Americans on Medicaid Should Replace Deported Farm Workers. I was never a farm worker, but I did do yard work, deliver newspapers, wash dishes, clean golf shoes, chip slag, pump gasoline, and deliver mail.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/top-trump-official-says-americans-on-medicaid-should-replace-deported-farm-workers/ar-AA1IczMz
CNBC
— President Donald Trump said Tuesday that JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, the two largest U.S. banks, previously rejected him as a customer, reviving claims that conservative clients were being unfairly denied accounts.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/trump-jpmorgan-chase-bank-of-america-rejected-bank-customer.html
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-victim-pam-bondi-2108809
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/hochul-new-york-texas-redistricting.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/texas-redistricting.html
— Democrat leaders side with Erika McEntarfer against Trump. Republican leaders did not side with me against the Democrats who ran GAO.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-bls-firing-economic-reports.html
— Are Democrat leaders moving their eggs from their Epstein basket to their McEntarfer basket?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/opinion/columnists/friedman-trump-labor-firing.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Inside Texas Democrats’ plan to seek refuge with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. The potential 2028 presidential candidate has quietly talked with Lone Star State lawmakers for weeks, as he and other ambitious governors seek to ways to join their fight.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/illinois-pritzker-texas-democrats-redistricting/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders flood Republican town halls with booing Democrats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/04/mike-flood-donald-trump-town-hall-nebraska/85518190007/
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/04/texas-redistricting-map-congress-trump-takeaways/85508969007/
— Trump praises Sydney Sweeney ad, but does he know American Eagle is super WOKE? Sydney Sweeney may be a registered Republican, but I have discovered that American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. is – and it pains me to write this – incredibly, unconscionably woke.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/05/trump-sydney-sweeney-tweet-american-eagle-ad/85512067007/
— Because GAO audits IRS, my having worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, should have been enough for GAO to offer me a transfer at GS-13, currently $117,807/year in 1980. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, GAO offered me a transfer only at GS-9 Step 10 Level, currently $88,808/year, a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars To add insult to injury, GAO ignored/dismissed/belittled that most of what I did for IRS was similar to what I would do for GAO, that I had earned an MBA in 1976, that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/07/29/apply-for-job-experience-but-no-degree/85362393007/
WBUR
— According to Democrat leaders, it is not possible to rig jobs numbers. My Democrat superiors in the federal government falsely argued that they did not rigg their employment decisions against me. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have a) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors would not have a) never promoted me beyond GS-12 and disallowed my education deductions in 1978 and my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors would not have a) forced me to resign in 1969 and b) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/08/04/bureau-of-labor-statistics
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/texas-gerrymandering-house-seats-democrats-republicans-congress-f1514f89
BLOOMBERG
— American Eagle Jumps Most Since 2000 After Trump Praises Sydney Sweeney Ad
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-04/american-eagle-gains-meme-status-with-biggest-jump-since-2000?embedded-checkout=true
POLITICO
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/california-fires-back-at-texas-redistricting-00493314
PBS
— Democrat gerrymandering in Illinois is a leading example of gerrymandering.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/is-political-gerrymandering-illegal-6-things-to-know-as-texas-dispute-carries-on
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly deny that Trump was elected.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-trying-to-insulate-himself-from-the-will-of-the-public-texas-democrat-says
— My Democrat GAO superiors wasting my career, taking many big adverse actions against me, and forcing me to retire sent a very strong message to those who have the following demographics to not apply to work for GAO: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/firing-of-labor-statistics-head-undermines-trust-in-key-data-ex-trump-official-warns
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/tamara-keith-and-jasmine-wright-on-trumps-bls-firing-and-trust-in-institutions
PEOPLE
— Trump Pits ‘Woke’ Taylor Swift Against Sydney Sweeney
https://people.com/trump-pits-taylor-swift-against-sydney-sweeney-11784508
August 4, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Texas Democrats plan on staying in Illinois for 2 weeks to halt redistricting
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-plan-staying-illinois-2-weeks-halt-redistricting-gov-greg-abbott-threatens-loss-seats/17426930/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: As political petition passing begins, Illinois Democrats have flood of candidates; Republicans have a trickle. Democrat and RINO leaders and their mainstream news media ever-increasingly treat the anti-conservative anti-Republican anti-Trump Pat Brady as being the spokesperson for the Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/petition-passing-starts-for-2026-election/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: So far, no major GOP candidates have emerged for U.S. Senate or most of the statewide offices. Democrats Gov. JB Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and Treasurer Mike Frerichs are all seeking reelection. DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick is the only announced candidate for governor of any political stature, and he reported July 1 having only $100,000 in cash on hand in his political fund to take on the billionaire Pritzker. Others are said to be weighing a bid, including former state GOP Chair Don Tracy, Palatine Township Highway Commissioner Aaron Del Mar and Ted Dabrowski, president of the conservative advocacy group Wirepoints. On Sunday, Richard Porter, an attorney and former Republican national committeeman from Illinois, used social media to announce he would not seek the GOP nomination for Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat. “After close consultations with my family and friends, I have decided not to pursue this opportunity,” Porter wrote in a Facebook post. “I intend to stay involved in the effort to turn around Illinois.” Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair on Aug. 14 may prove to be an important event for the party, depending upon whether potential candidates use the day to announce a decision to run.)
— Adding $11 billion to Chicago’s liabilities was a decision that lacked courage, Gov. Pritzker. Alas, the Governor just dug Chicago’s fiscal hole far deeper.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/editorial-jb-pritzker-police-fire-pensions-chicago/
— How postsecondary opportunities for students are changing for the better. My father often decried that he did not get promotions because he did not have a bachelor’s degree. That motivated me to earn not only a job-related bachelor’s degree, but three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/opinion-postsecondary-degree-programs-states/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Americans are losing faith in higher education. Nearly half of adults believe a college degree is less important to get a well-paying job than it was 20 years ago, and only a quarter believe a four-year degree is a very important part of getting a job that pays well. The question of value is front and center for policymakers across the country and in Washington.)
ILLINOIZE
— Top Republicans Critical of Illinois GOP Recruitment. According to reports, Richard Porter has decided to not run for U.S. Senate. My critics/opponents stress that the following have never recruited me to run for any office: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. According to the aforesaid, I am “too conservative.”
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/top-republicans-critical-gop-recruitment
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Republican Richard Porter has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Dick Durbin, according to his social media post to friends. “I intend to stay involved in the effort to turn around Illinois.” Here’s his post
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000198-7386-d0d9-a7be-f396cc9b0000
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago homicides lowest in decade, but so is arrest rate
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-homicides-lowest-in-decade-but-so-is-arrest-rate/
WIREPOINTS
— The whopping lie behind huge, new pension liability imposed by Springfield on Chicago
https://wirepoints.org/the-whopping-lie-behind-huge-new-pension-liability-imposed-by-springfield-on-chicago-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Legal group accuses Rutgers University of discrimination against white students in granting scholarships. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrating me, and condemned me for my not getting any scholarships, for my getting an ACT score of only 24, for my only just barely getting into the top 20% of my high school class, for my having to work my way through college, for my not getting a degree from an Ivy League university, etc.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/us-news/legal-group-accuses-rutgers-u-of-discrimination-against-white-students/
BREITBART
— Boston Democrats Opened Housing to Illegals Who Can’t Pay the Rent. Illegals illegally come to America illegally because Democrat and RINO leaders illegally invite them. Illegals come to America with nothing. That is, they come to America needing/wanting/demanding that America provide them with everything including housing, food, clothing, medical care, education, transportation, jobs, etc. Needless-to-say, Democrat and RINO leaders should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/03/boston-democrats-opened-housing-to-migrants-who-cant-pay-the-rent/
EPOCH TIMES
— Texas Democrats Leave the State to Prevent Redistricting Vote. The exodus could expose the Lone Star State lawmakers to fines, and other penalties—including the possibility of arrest.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-democrats-leave-the-state-to-prevent-redistricting-vote-5896083
NEWSMAX
— Texas Dems Arrive in Illinois to Block Trump’s Redistricting Maps
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/texas-democrats-leave-state-congressional-map-vote/2025/08/04/id/1221138/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Leftist Outrage Erupts At California Plan To Stop Paying Criminal Illegals’ Legal Bills
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/leftist-outrage-erupts-at-california-plan-to-stop-paying-criminal-illegals-legal-bills/ar-AA1JolYY
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump defends firing labor statistics chief. In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), the Democrats who ran GAO defended their wasting my career and forcing me to retire by hinting/implying/arguing/shouting that GAO treated me exactly like Congress wanted GAO to treat its employees like me who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran, that is, to waste their careers of and to get rid of them to make way for their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5434438-trump-defends-firing-labor-statistics-chief/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Many Democrats see their political party as being “weak” or “ineffective”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/they-roll-right-over-many-democrats-think-their-party-is-weak-ap-norc-poll-finds
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/nyregion/new-york-immigrant-arrests-trump.html
— White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge. My Democrat GAO superiors viciously used against me my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. They stressed that the cost was covered by my wife’s insurance. They ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact that our doctor advised against it because we both had fertility problems. According to my Democrat GAO superiors, if we had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and d) become a licensed CPA in 1981. All my Democrat GAO superiors had children and spouses who had little no income. They all strongly decried the time and money they had to spend to raise their children. They all hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if they had not had children, they would have professional certifications, master’s degrees, and a professional license like me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/03/trump-administration-ivf-care/
— Laura Loomer succeeds in getting Trump to dump Jen Easterly. I should write about my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors who succeeded in getting the Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO to dump me. They all stressed that I was conservative, Republican, draft-avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/west-point-easterly-trump-loomer.html
USA TODAY
— Democrats have devolved into a clown show. Democrats lose elections because they promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/04/trump-vance-republicans-democrats-harris-future/85462114007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under President Joe Biden, inflation hit a 40-year high, Russia invaded Ukraine, Hamas brutally attacked Israel and Iran built a robust nuclear program. Then Americans learned, while he was running for reelection, that Biden suffered from serious cognitive decline, raising questions about what the Democratic Party knew and when. Americans lost trust that Democrats were transparent and honest.)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/03/what-would-doj-epstein-files-contain/85306180007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/03/trump-epstein-scandal-vance-president/85481602007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ICE is recruiting agents with $50,000 signing bonuses. 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.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/02/ice-recruiting-signing-bonus-incentives-immigration-officers/85478464007/
FLORIDA PATCH
— I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 years old in 1981. My critics/opponents have always viciously ignored, dismissed, and belittled that. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://patch.com/florida/lakeland/john-stossel-raises-important-topic-tortured-bureaucrats-impact-licensing
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Racial Gerrymanders in the Dock. The Supreme Court will hear what could be a voting rights landmark. Democrat leaders will forever shout that Blacks and Hispanics will forever need preference big time because Republicans will forever discriminate against them.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/racial-gerrymanders-in-the-dock-31f93146
— Four Ways to Prepare for When Your Adult Kids Need Financial Help. Many parents continue to support their children after they graduate from college. It helps to start planning for that, just in case.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/adult-children-financial-help-tips-54a7c601
— It’s a Tough Job Market for New College Grads. Is an Advanced Degree Worth It? The temptation for young adults is great, as they struggle to find jobs. The key is to do the numbers. When I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21 in 1970. Immediately going on to earn an MBA was not an option for me because I had to have a job to help support my mother and brother. I took the only job offer that I got, to be the Retail Sales Manager in the Chicago Heights Firestone Store. The job did not really require a college degree. I did not earn an MBA until I was 27 in 1976. By then, it was too late.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/advanced-degree-graduates-job-market-5450de28
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
— Qualifications When I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, I was qualified to transfer as a GS-13 Step 1, currently $117,807/year. But my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to transfer as a GS-9 Step 10, currently $88,809/year, a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars. They ignored/dismissed/belittled a) that GAO audits IRS, b) that I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which as a GS-12 Step 1-5, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. They would have transferred me as a GS-13 if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates viciously used against me my having to take a pay cut to transfer. I made GS-13 in 1986, but only after I had a) completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and c) became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4
GOOGLE AI
— Political recruitment If you had run for a government office or a political office, what would have stressed? I would have stressed a) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which as a GS-12 Step 1-5, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) that I earned an MBA from Loyola, a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and a master’s degree in finance from IIT, d) that I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, e) that I earned four more job-related professional certifications, and f) that I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=7bb187fa02092698&sxsrf=AE3TifMd3VPsMy2JnrWybKuN-BV9ORgeqQ:1754293415076&q=recruit+candidates+%22qualifications%22
August 3, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/dehumanizing-inside-the-broadview-ice-facility-where-immigrants-sleep-on-cold-concrete/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/30/charles-selle-deportations/
— Indiana Gov. Braun greenlights state police, agencies to cooperate with ICE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/indiana-gov-braun-greenlights-state-police-agencies-to-cooperate-with-ice/
— Former Kane County Coroner Rob Russell announces bid for sheriff
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/24/former-coroner-rob-russell-joining-sheriff-race/
— The mainstream news media exists to get rid of Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/column-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-maga-support-page/
— State control of Chicago Public Schools grows likelier as budget crisis intensifies
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-state-control-chicago-public-100000308.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Anticipate/expect that your critics/opponents will use the jobs that you get against you.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/08/01/job-hunting-tips-teenagers
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTUTE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/news/a-chilling-effect-on-justice-ice-argues-courthouse-immigration-arrests-make-sense-but-local-oppo/
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-karma-and-epa-policy-local-weather-conditions-add-worrisome-irony-to-proposed/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Hundreds of motorcycles ride to raise fentanyl awareness Saturday in Kane and DuPage counties. Grieving families, elected officials and law enforcement agencies unite to spread awareness.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/08/03/hundreds-of-motorcycles-ride-to-raise-fentanyl-awareness-saturday-in-kane-and-dupage-counties/
STARVED ROCK MEDIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.starvedrock.media/wlpo/protests-against-trump-still-strong-in-ottawa/article_e63a907e-deec-4b98-b796-5ce1b50e7ed2.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-appeals-court-keeps-order-blocking-trump-administration-from-indiscriminate-immigration-sweeps/
WJBC
— Illegals Reduce US Workers’ Wages. When I was young, if there had been as many illegals as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, but if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/08/01/homan-to-newsmax-illegals-reduce-us-workers-wages/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders oppose work requirements for Medicaid.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-02/how-the-new-work-requirements-for-medicaid-could-impact-some-states
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-02/from-the-clinics-to-the-capitol-links-anti-abortion-movement-to-far-right-extremism
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Milton Township Under Criminal Investigations
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2025/08/milton-township-under-criminal-investigations/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTOM EXAMINER
— End the ‘mission creep’ of Temporary Protected Status. To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat and RINO leaders give them protected status: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non- German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, have less money than others, citizens of foreign countries, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3488896/trump-afghanistan-temporary-protected-status/
NEW YORK POST
— Texas Roadhouse hit with civil rights complaint alleging DEI discrimination in hiring practices. All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they bragged about the preference that gave to their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/business/texas-roadhouse-hit-with-discrimination-civil-rights-complaint-for-dei-hiring-practices/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Texas Roadhouse wrote that it is committed to “attracting, retaining, engaging, recognizing, and developing a workforce that mirrors the diversity of our guests” and provided a chart breaking down the percentages of their employees and managers who were either women or people of color in its 2024 10-K annual report. . .According to the Texas Roadhouse 2024 sustainability report, the company takes DEI factors such as gender and race into consideration when determining nominees to its Board of Directors.)
DAILY CALLER
— Senate Confirms Trump’s Pick for U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, Brian Burch, who resides in Chicago
https://www.aol.com/senate-confirms-trump-vatican-pick-214131318.html
— Universities Use Social Credit To Bypass Affirmative Action Ban. What social credits do you get? I get no social credits because I promote personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, enforcement of immigration laws, discouragement of vices, Second Amendment rights, and equal opportunity. That is, I get no social credits because I oppose the promotion of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, more gun controls, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/02/opinion-universities-use-social-credit-to-bypass-affirmative-action-ban-casey-ryan/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As the situation appears, Dialogue portfolios are nothing more than a system modeled after the Chinese Communist Party’s Social Credit System that essentially blacklists Chinese citizens from society if they hold the wrong opinions. Under China’s system, citizens can gain a bad social credit score by daily activities deemed negative by the government. This can include posting opinions on social media or making too many frivolous purchases. A negative social credit score can lead to bans from traveling, throttled internet speeds, or rejections from universities – which sounds eerily similar to the intent of Dialogue portfolios. The last thing college applicants in America need is a dystopian measure to filter out perceived wrongthink. The Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action for universities was to help ensure everyone has an equal opportunity. These “Dialogues” appear to be a purity test that is even worse than affirmative action. While affirmative action is awful, at least there was a chance for universities to admit students of differing viewpoints. Dialogue portfolios give universities the explicit power to reject students solely because of the opinions they hold.)
DAILY WIRE
— For The First Time In 40 Years, The Federal Government Can Judge Applicants By Merit. The move opens the door to an elite federal workforce — and a major victory for President Donald Trump. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. 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. I qualified myself for the postal job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU. I qualified myself for the GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA from Loyola, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/for-the-first-time-in-40-years-the-federal-government-can-judge-applicants-by-merit
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A decades-old court order that blocked the federal government from using tests to measure job applicants’ skills was terminated by a D.C. judge on Friday, setting the stage for an overhaul of the federal workforce that could be one of President Donald Trump’s most lasting achievements. In 1981, Angel Luevano sued the federal government over the Professional and Administrative Career Examination, a test that helped identify the best and brightest out of the tens of thousands who apply for government jobs each year. Luevano argued that the test kept too many blacks and Hispanics out of government, and, in the waning days of President Jimmy Carter’s administration, OPM agreed to pause the test for five years. Forty-four years later, the “Luevano Consent Decree” was somehow still intact. In January, the Trump administration filed a brief challenging the agreement — a feat which required reopening a decades-closed court case in which the original judge had died. The administration argued that it was doubtful the decree was ever appropriate, and that, with Supreme Court case law outlawing affirmative action, it was certainly not now. Angel Luevano is still alive, and agreed to terminate the consent decree, court papers show. Luevano was represented by lawyers from Hispanic and black civil rights groups, two of whom did not return a request for comment. For almost half a century, the federal government has operated like a college that didn’t look at SAT scores when admitting students. Rescinding the Luevano Consent Decree could take the government from safety-school status to Ivy League. “We’re making civil service great again,” Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told The Daily Wire Friday. The move opens the door to technocratic hiring assessments that allow the government to hire applicants who objectively demonstrate the most aptitude. Kupor told The Daily Wire in an interview that the move means Americans may start getting better service at government agencies, with government being more helpful and responsive. “The lasting opportunity here is: can we change the culture of the workforce in the federal government? Can we make it a high-performance culture? That will definitely be the president’s legacy, if we can make that successful,” he said. After the demise of the Professional and Administrative Career Examination and similar tests, the government began relying on “self-assessments” to sift through job applicants, as it was the only measure that saw a sufficient number of minorities enter government. Applicants simply declared how good they were at a task, with no attempt to verify it or compare them to other applicants. That led to a hiring process that rewarded boasting and fabrications as much as merit. Kupor said the de facto prohibition on government checking people’s competency before hiring them — at which point they become difficult to remove — had become particularly crippling in the modern age, with people using artificial intelligence or simply copy-and-paste to take a job advertisement’s requirements and send an application asserting that they had all those skills. The inability to use objective measures to sort the most qualified applicants from a large pool — as virtually all other large employers do — has profoundly impacted the caliber of government employees. The Luevano Consent Decree was perhaps one of the largest applications ever of the philosophy known as “disparate impact,” which holds that anything that produces racially unbalanced outcomes must inherently be racist. But the fallout went beyond just minorities, leaving little way to differentiate a brilliant white job applicant from an incompetent white applicant. OPM General Counsel Andrew Kloster told The Daily Wire in an interview that the government did not make any concessions to reach the agreement. “It was a very easy process,” he said. “They just flat out agreed. It would not have happened without the original named plaintiff agreeing to it and the judge agreeing to accept it.” “This is really kind of an understanding that disparate impact as a way to measure things is not the law of the land anymore. You have to actually show real discrimination. The explicit argument was that the objective tests themselves were racially biased, and obviously that’s bogus.” It is yet to be decided whether OPM will institute a general aptitude test across agencies. But many specific job categories are likely to have their own tests. If the government is hiring, say, computer programmers, it won’t simply ask them how good they are at a programming language. Instead, it will administer a coding test to rank applicants on a uniform scale. The hiring process used by government agencies for decades resulted in hiring that was, at best, random, and at worst, allowed the sort of cronyism and favoritism that the consent decree was supposed to avoid, Kupor said. “We’re going to be able to attract really, really good people, because they’re going to be fairly tested for their merit,” he said. “It also really does eliminate a lot of potential for a bias in the hiring process if you actually use objective standards.” “This is a win for fairness, as well as a win for getting American people the ability to get people with the appropriate skills into the right jobs.”)
FOX NEWS
— DOJ cracking down on noncitizen voters
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376491200112
PJ MEDIA
— Democrat and RINO leaders want Trump to grant amnesty, that is, Democrat and RINO leaders want Trump to destroy the Republican Party. Those who come to America illegally and/or stay in America illegally will always vote for Democrats.
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/08/02/now-that-trump-has-really-truly-secured-our-borders-is-it-time-for-a-gop-pivot-on-immigration-n4942338
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Statisticians blast Trump over BLS firing: ‘Dangerous precedent.’ My Democrat superiors in the federal government followed a strong anti-Republican precedent when they wasted my career and forced me to retire. My RINO superiors in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois followed a strong anti-conservative precedent when they wasted me and got rid of me.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5433583-trump-bls-firing-precedent-controversy/
NEWSWEEK
— Pope Francis Critic Brian Burch Confirmed as Vatican Ambassador
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-critic-brian-burch-confirmed-vatican-ambassador-2108079
MSN
— The most competitive college in your state. In Illinois, it is the University of Chicago. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/the-most-competitive-college-in-your-state-according-to-data-and-see-the-rest-of-the-hardest-schools-to-get-into/ss-AA1JAp3M#image=14
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois: University of Chicago #7 hardest college to get into nationwide, Acceptance rate: 7%, Net price: $36,584, SAT range: 1500-1570. The University of Chicago boasts a low student-to-teacher ratio—5:1—as well as an affiliation with 97 Nobel laureates, 34 MacArthur “genius grant” fellows, and 23 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Saul Bellow and Thornton Wilder, who won on three occasions. The school is proud of its nationally recognized medical and law programs.)
— Trump administration rescinds Jimmy Carter‑era DEI mandates for federal hiring. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. 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. I qualified myself for the postal job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU. I qualified myself for the GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA from Loyola, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-admintration-rescinds-jimmy-carter-era-dei-mandates-for-federal-hiring/ar-AA1JKxut
NBC NEWS
— Chicago Democrats issue warnings about their mayor amid Zohran Mamdani’s rise
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chicago-democrats-issue-warnings-mayor-090042907.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion/ice-immigration-protest-resistance.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opinion/epstein-trump-polls.html
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/02/supporters-decry-ice-arrests-south-korean-student-peruvian-asylum-seeker-court-hearings/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly badmouth the American Flag.
https://www.aol.com/trump-installs-massive-flag-poles-135836687.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.aol.com/americans-views-immigration-massive-positive-190958366.html
WTOP
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly disparage Republicans.
https://wtop.com/national/2025/08/ohio-city-whose-haitian-migrants-were-disparaged-by-trump-braces-to-defend-them-against-deportation/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at young men that Trump causes all their problems.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-asked-young-men-who-voted-for-trump-to-grade-him-here-s-what-they-said/ar-AA1JG2Kl
INDEPENDENT
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Trump causes all their problems.
https://www.aol.com/more-70-black-voters-disapprove-205101322.html
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-rage-against-the-regime-protests-over-300-us-cities-hosting-anti-trump-demonstrations-today-on-jd-vances-birthday-50501-group-full-list/articleshow/123060369.cms
INDIA HERALD
— Can an Indian Citizen Have More Than One Caste Certificate in case of Inter-Caste Marriage? What Caste were you born into? I was born into a low Caste because neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school. My critic/opponents have always used the aforesaid against me. My critics/opponents have parents who have lots of money.
https://www.indiaherald.com/Breaking/Read/994838885/Can-an-Indian-Citizen-Have-More-Than-One-Caste-Certificate-in-case-of-InterCaste-Marriage
TIMES OF INDIA & MSN
— Google stops funding of 214 groups, over 50 of them related to diversity and equity. I should write about how Google has treated me and my www.gopillinois.com website.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-stops-funding-of-214-groups-over-50-of-them-related-to-diversity-and-equity-report/articleshow/123073327.cms
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/google-quietly-removes-dozens-of-dei-focused-groups-from-funding-list-amid-policy-shift/ar-AA1JLWsO
GOOGLE AI
— Too conservative, Republican According to my critics/opponents, I have always been to conservative, that is, I promote too many planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22too+conservative%22+republican