FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-area-food-banks-small-businesses-feel-impact-president-donald-trumps-sweeping-new-tariffs/16123883/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKVkjubiPl4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pZuNfAQjdk
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/fact-check-trumps-misleading-tariff-chart/3713631/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/a-look-at-the-financial-impact-of-president-trumps-tariffs/3713603/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/kelly-evans-the-trump-tariffs-heres-what-we-know/3712805/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-tariffs-reactions-april-03-2025-live-updates/3712750/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-area-retailers-consumers-concerned-effects-tariffs/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/rep-raja-krishnamoorthi-weighs-in-on-president-trumps-latest-tariffs/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-announcement-sends-stock-market-plunging/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-car-dealers-trump-tariffs-price-hikes
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619476
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619254
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619138
— Democrat and RINO leaders vehemently oppose home schooling.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619259
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racists.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/03/chicago-police-continued-target-black-latino-drivers-traffic-stops-2024-advocacy-group
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://wgnradio.com/news/trump-sued-over-china-tariffs/
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/ap-these-are-the-places-affected-by-trumps-tariffs/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use low-income students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/03/k-12-schools-must-say-no-to-dei-to-receive-federal-money-administration-says
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/04/04/families-turn-to-illinois-attorney-general-to-help-bring-back-surgeries-for-transgender-youth
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hundreds of Democrats protest at Northbrook Tesla dealership against Elon Musk and DOGE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/hundreds-protests-at-northbrook-tesla-dealership-against-musk-doge/
— Partisan politics in Naperville’s nonpartisan election raises questions over how future races will be run
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/naperville-election-council/
— Illinois Democrat leaders join Democrat leaders in 18 other states suing to block Trump’s election order
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/illinois-states-sue-trump-election-order/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/editorial-trumps-foolish-tariffs-take-the-us-economy-back-centuries/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/answering-your-questions-about-president-trumps-vast-new-tariffs/
— Sanctuary cities pose an unacceptable risk to public safety
https://www.thedailynewsonline.com/opinion/fabbricatore-sanctuary-cities-pose-an-unacceptable-risk-to-public-safety/article_aa45c31e-f001-11ef-b918-dbbf5c6fa882.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly spin everything that Trump says or does against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/trumps-changes-federal-government/
— To vote for Democrat candidates is to promote more poverty and crime. To vote for Democrat candidates is to promote more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. To vote for Democrat candidates is to get of Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/04/ballot-initiative-illinois-voters/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use low-income students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/03/k-12-schools-must-say-no-to-dei-to-receive-federal-money-administration-says
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/03/trump-dei-diversity-steinberg
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/03/donald-trump-tariffs-global-trade-congress-republicans-mona-charen
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-news-car-prices-chicago
DAILY HERALD
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250403/nation-and-world-politics/sources-trump-moves-to-fire-several-national-security-officials-over-concerns-theyre-not-loyal-sou/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/these-chicago-stocks-took-worst-beating-after-trump-tariffs
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/finance-banking/wall-street-reacts-global-tariff-upheaval
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/understanding-trumps-tariff-will-take-time-and-consultants
— Democrat and RINO law firms fight Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/opinion-big-law-must-stop-caving-trumps-demands
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Reparations Committee discusses DNA ancestry testing
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/04/city/reparations-committee-discusses-dna-ancestry-testing-updates-from-reparations-business-climate-survey/
SOUTHERN
— Musk still plans a major role in midterm elections despite loss in Wisconsin
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/03/musk-still-plans-a-major-role-in-midterm-elections-despite-loss-in-wisconsin-sources/
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/gov-pritzker-slams-trumps-tax-on-working-families-following-mexico-trade-mission-81217.cfm
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-says-things-are-going-very-well-after-worst-stock-market-drop-in-years-over-tariffs/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-what-to-know-about-the-trump-tariffs-upending-global-trade-and-markets/
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-moves-to-fire-several-national-security-officials-over-concerns-theyre-not-loyal-ap-sources/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders use troubled veterans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-03/trumps-va-is-ending-a-rescue-program-thats-saved-17-000-military-veterans-homes
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-03/brutal-day-for-stocks-dow-plunges-almost-1-700-points-on-new-trump-tariffs
CHALKBEAT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/03/trump-policies-on-gender-mobilize-lgbtq-students-and-school-staff/
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/03/hands-off-anti-trump-protests-saturday-chicago-area
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Election turnout numbers: “Voter turnout for the April 1 election was 286,301 or 16.9 percent. That tops the previous Consolidated election turnout in 2023 which was 57,400 and 2021 which totaled 70,747. Early Voting also exceeded previous years with 97,697 suburban voters casting an early ballot compared with 57,400 in 2023 and 24,311 in 2021,” Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon said in a release.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/04/rep-danny-davis-weighing-2026-00271841
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-282/
— DuPage Democrats say they flipped 38 offices. If those in DuPage County who voted for Democrats were asked why they did that, what would they say?
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/03/roundup-dupage-dems-say-they-flipped-38-offices-rock-island-elects-black-mayor-after-police-shooting-meyerhoffman-over-gregorykern-in-belleville/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois townships vote to fix pensions, gerrymandering and unfunded mandates
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-townships-vote-to-fix-pensions-gerrymandering-and-unfunded-mandates/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump tariffs to hit autos, iPhones, food and more
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/3/trump-tariffs-hit-autos-iphones-food/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum says ‘good relationship’ with US spared country from reciprocal tariffs
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/3369760/mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-good-relationship-us-trump-spared-reciprocal-tariffs/
— Education Department threatens K-12 funding unless schools adhere to Trump’s anti-DEI orders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3369969/education-department-threatens-k-12-funding-schools-adhere-trump-anti-dei-orders/
AMERICAN FAMILY RADIO
— Media Malfeasance
https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2025/04/media-malfeasance/
AMERICAN THINKER
— With the border secure, Trump cleans up Biden’s excesses on parole, TPS
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/with_the_border_secure_trump_cleans_up_biden_s_excesses_on_parole_tps.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— DNC, Schumer, Jeffries sue Trump over preventing illegals from voting
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/03/dnc-schumer-jeffries-sue-trump-over-preventing-illegals-from-voting-1533793/
— Mexico-born judge orders Trump admin. to restore legal aid to unaccompanied illegal alien children
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/03/mexico-born-judge-orders-trump-admin-to-restore-legal-aid-to-unaccompanied-illegal-alien-children-1533692/
DAILY SIGNAL
— We Were Paying for What? Trump HHS Slashes Hundreds of Millions in Woke LGBTQ Grants.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/03/we-were-paying-what-trump-hhs-cuts-woke-lgbtq-grants/
DAILY WIRE
— ‘We Do Not Ask Permission From Far-Left Democrats’: Vance Scorches Dems Over Deportations
https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-do-not-ask-permission-from-far-left-democrats-vance-scorches-dems-over-deportations
EPOCH TIMES
— US Markets Down Upon Global Tariff Announcement. Energy, technology, and consumer discretionary sectors took the hardest hits, with losses around 7 percent. Industrials and financials fell by about 5 percent.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/us-markets-down-upon-global-tariff-announcement-5836531
FOX NEWS
— Illinois homeschool bill would create a ‘pipeline to the criminal justice system for parents’: Dem lawmaker. IL’s Homeschool Act, slammed by critics as ‘government overreach’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-homeschool-bill-would-create-pipeline-criminal-justice-system-parents-dem-lawmaker
JUDICIAL WATCH
— HUD, DHS Team up to End Subsidized Public Housing for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.judicialwatch.org/subsidized-housing-illegal-immigrants/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lays Off 900, Kept Chief DEI Officer. Neela Rajendra has been rebranded as “Chief of the Office of Team Excellence and Employee Success.” The move is a clear attempt to bypass the restrictions against DEI now being implemented.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/nasas-jet-propulsion-laboratory-lays-off-900-kept-chief-dei-officer/
NEWSMAX
— House Democrats Demand Answers on IRS Staff Cuts. During the 1980s and 1990s, Democrat and Republican leaders let Gingrich gut GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/house-dems-irs/2025/04/03/id/1205601/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— China imposes 34% reciprocal tariffs on imports of US goods in retaliation for Trump’s trade war
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/business/china-us-tariffs-retaliation-hnk-intl/index.html
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/countries-worldwide-weigh-in-on-trumps-tariffs-announcement/
NEW YORK TIMES
— More Americans Can’t Afford Medical Care. The Democrat Party platform promotes dependency on government and charity, poverty, and crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/health/health-care-costs-gallup.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/04/india-trump-tariffs-modi-trade/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/republicans-who-were-against-tariffs-now-downplay-trumps/2025/04/03/3f76184e-de3a-4b43-8988-72ed7ae6f365_video.html
USA TODAY
— Trump’s tariffs on cars will create good jobs and increase wages in America. No longer does America fully manufacture its own automobiles. We largely assemble high-value parts made overseas. I worked part-time on the Chrysler assembly line in Belvidere in early 1970.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/04/02/trump-tariffs-auto-imports-ford-toyota-honda/82754296007/
UNION LEADER
— ACLU fights for the rights of criminals and illegals
https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letter-aclu-fights-for-the-rights-of-criminals-and-illegals/article_79619792-cd55-4ef9-ad0d-67f1c7d15eff.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What the Illinois Home Schooling Bill Reveals About Democrats. The lack of school choice in the state is fueling the left’s broader assault on educational freedom.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-the-illinois-home-schooling-bill-reveals-about-democrats-c683be85
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-tariffs-trade-war-stock-market-04-03-2025
— The Census Defines the Poverty Rate Up. Its flawed income measure leads to the overpayment of welfare, including Medicaid, to recipients.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-census-defines-poverty-down-measure-poor-welfare-transfer-payments-f09be540
BLOOMBERG
— GOP Considering New Tax Bracket Of Up To 40% For Millionaires
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/republicans-debate-hiking-top-tax-rate-to-40-for-millionaires
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April 3, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois GOP suffered major election losses in suburbs that are critical for its rebuilding effort
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/illinois-gop-suburban-election-struggles/
— Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs as some Republicans vote to halt taxes on Canadian imports
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/senate-rebukes-trumps-tariffs/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/04/02/trump-liberation-day-tariffs-manufacturing-inflation-trade-wars
— Pritzker tries to bolster Illinois ties with Mexico, even as country prepares for Trump tariffs
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/02/jb-pritzker-mexico-trade-mission-trump-tariffs
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Judge extends pause on firing federal probationary employees in Illinois. If I had not already served my probationary period working for IRS, my Democrat GAO superiors would have fired me immediately after I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/judge-extends-pause-firing-federal-probationary-employees
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker and Mexico
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/02/jb-pritzker-mexico-trade-mission-trump-tariffs
— What’s in Trump’s sweeping new tariff plan?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/whats-trumps-sweeping-new-tariff-plan/16120384/
— Wisconsin and Florida elections provide early warning signs to Trump and Republicans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/wisconsin-florida-elections-provide-early-warning-signs-trump-republicans/16119269/
NBC5
— Democrats celebrate gains made in Chicago suburbs, Wisconsin. Gov. JB Pritzker says the results signal Democratic momentum and a rejection of the Trump administration.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/democrats-celebrate-gains-made-in-chicago-suburbs-wisconsin/3712524/
— Trump announces sweeping 10% tariffs on all countries
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-tariffs-tiktok-musk-april-02-2025-live-updates/3711695/
— As Trump aims to promote US manufacturing with new tariffs, many brace for backlash
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-aims-promote-manufacturing-with-new-tariffs-many-brace-backlash/3712621/
CBS2
— Trump imposes sweeping new tariffs
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-imposes-sweeping-new-tariffs/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-unwraps-his-plan-for-new-tariffs/
FOX32
— Pritzker says suburban Chicago election results were rejection of Trump
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1618566
— Rally against Trump, Musk to be held in Chicago area on Saturday
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/anti-trump-musk-rally-chicago
— Illinois lawmakers criticize Trump’s tariffs, say he’s ‘enamored’ with them despite economic risks
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1618626
SOUTHERN
— Democrats vow to fight Trump’s tariffs ‘tooth and nail’
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/02/democrats-vow-to-fight-trumps-tariffs-tooth-and-nail-as-they-slam-chaotic-trade-war/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Senate Republicans move forward with their budget plan to promote Trump’s agenda
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-02/senate-republicans-move-forward-with-their-budget-plan-to-promote-trumps-agenda
DARIEN PATCH
— Downers Grove Township GOP Swept Away. Democrats win in landslides in supervisor and trustee races, according to unofficial returns.
https://patch.com/illinois/darien-il/downers-grove-township-gop-swept-away
ELMHURST PATCH
— York Township Republicans Defeated: Unofficial Returns. The Democratic supervisor hopeful, who the GOP clerk tried to keep off the ballot, wins in landslide.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/york-township-republicans-defeated-unofficial-returns
EVANSTON PATCH
— Hands Off 2025 Protest Planned For Saturday In Evanston
https://patch.com/illinois/evanston/hands-2025-protest-planned-saturday-evanston
POLITICO
— ELECTION RESULTS: Illinois GOP suffered major election losses in suburbs that are critical for its rebuilding effort: In DuPage, where Democrats came out big winners, GOP Chair Kevin Coyne said “it was obviously a very disappointing night” and that “Republicans faced ‘a perfect storm’ — trying to navigate campaigns in the era of Trump, Pritzker’s spending on Democratic infrastructure and the Democrats’ longtime advantage in delivering mail-in voting, which Trump has criticized and Republicans have been slow to adopt,” by the Tribune’s Rick Pearson.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/03/pritzker-sees-tariff-troubles-00268081
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-488/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-281/
— Ives tries to explain ‘complete wipeout,’ says GOP needs ‘Trumpian type of voice’ in 2026
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/02/ives-tries-to-explain-complete-wipeout-says-gop-needs-trumpian-type-of-voice-in-2026/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you asked the Republican candidates on the ballot in your precinct who lost why they lost, what would they say? If you asked the leaders of your Republican township and county party organizations and the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party why Republican candidates lost, what would they say? What impact will April 1, 2025 Republican losses have on the November 3, 2026 election? How strongly will qualified Republicans be discouraged to run? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents attribute their successes to? My critics/opponents attribute their successes to meritocracy. But they attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. In my defense, my parents never attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were wealthy, who bought them cars, who paid for their college education, who got them jobs, etc. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How will Illinois Democrat and RINO leaders use April 1, 2025 Republican losses? They will ever-increasingly do more to drive Republicans out of Illinois. They will especially drive out those Republicans who share Trump’s demographics. Trump is conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How will the April 1, 2025 Democrat victories in your township, municipality, and school district impact you? Poverty and crime will ever-increasingly increase. There will be more and more and more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, and diminishment of Second Amendment rights. There will be more and more and more Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, there will be more and more and more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and notional origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— New teacher contract: CTU wins, CPS wins…Chicago taxpayers lose
https://wirepoints.org/new-teacher-contract-ctu-wins-cps-winschicago-taxpayers-lose-wirepoints/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Links to Contested Election Race Results in McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/02/links-to-contested-election-race-results-in-mchenry-county/
— Voter Turnout Remains Dismal
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/02/voter-turnout-remains-dismal/
— Crystal Lake Grade School District 47 Election Results, Personal PAC Big Winner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/01/crystal-lake-grade-school-district-47-election-results-personal-pac-big-winner/
— Grafton Township Democrats Win Control of Township Board
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/01/grafton-township-democrats-win-control-of-township-board/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— As Trump aims to curb mail-in voting, some Illinois lawmakers look to expand it
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b5149676-f1ea-4cb8-ac4e-0bf94061de7a.html
CHICAGO’S MORNING ANSWER
— Breakthrough Ideas’ Jeanne Ives goes over our local election results
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1otnClLQWC0
JOHN BIVER
— Even Astronauts are Not Guaranteed the Right Stuff for Politics
https://johnbiver.com/even-astronauts-are-not-guaranteed-the-right-stuff-for-politics/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICA GREATNESS
— Democrats File Lawsuit To Block Trump’s Executive Order Requiring U.S. Citizenship to Vote
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/02/democrats-file-lawsuit-to-block-trumps-executive-order-requiring-u-s-citizenship-to-vote/
BLAZE
— Mass deportation or bust: Trump’s one shot to get it right
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/mass-deportation-or-bust-trumps-one-shot-to-get-it-right
BREITBART
— On Mexico-US border, Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ brings fears for future
https://www.breitbart.com/news/on-mexico-us-border-trumps-liberation-day-brings-fears-for-future/
— Is Musk’s political career descending to Earth?
https://www.breitbart.com/news/is-musks-political-career-descending-to-earth/
— US Democrats at last see reason for cheer
https://www.breitbart.com/news/shot-in-the-arm-us-democrats-at-last-see-reason-for-cheer/
— Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump from Defunding Free Lawyers for Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/02/biden-appointed-judge-stops-trump-free-lawyers-migrants/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Claims Historic Low In Migrant Crossings
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/02/trump-hits-lowest-border-level-in-history/
FOX NEWS
— DOGE volunteer credits Trump for unprecedented effort to curb ‘jaw-dropping’ Social Security fraud
https://www.foxnews.com/media/doge-volunteer-credits-trump-unprecedented-effort-curb-jaw-dropping-social-security-fraud
— Restoring Meritocracy My critics/opponents attribute their successes to meritocracy, but they attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. In my defense, my parents never attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/restoring-meritocracy-trump-administration-cuts-dei-as-factor-in-state-department-promotions/
PJ MEDIA
— The Trump Effect: The Border Crossing Numbers That Democrats Don’t Want You to See
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/02/the-trump-effect-the-border-crossing-numbers-that-democrats-dont-want-you-to-see-n4938520
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Tren de Aragua Are Effectively Terrorists, They’re Here Illegally, I Don’t Want Them Here
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/02/scott_jennings_tren_de_aragua_are_effectively_terrorists_theyre_here_illegally_i_dont_want_them_here.html
TOWNHALL
— ‘Operation Take Back America’ Is in Full Force
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2025/04/02/operation-take-back-america-n2654886
— When Journos Report a Deportation ‘Sob Story,’ Be Sure to Check the Context and Fine Print
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/print/2654819
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Tesla sales plunge: Biggest decline in history
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/business/tesla-sales
WASHINGTON POST
— Pardoned by Trump, Rod Blagojevich has new job: Lobbying for Bosnian Serbs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/02/rod-blagojevich-bosnian-serb-lobbying/
— Over a dozen states weigh laws that ban Pride flags in government buildings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/02/pride-flag-bans-state-government-buildings/
March 19, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENRT-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DuPage Democrats hold ‘Tesla takedown’ rally outside Lisle dealership, protesting Elon Musk’s DOGE. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars. I currently own nine. They especially despise/hate Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/group-holds-lisle-protest-outside-tesla-car-dealership-opposition-donald-trump-elon-musks-doge-cuts/16046354/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYt3-L9Oszw
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “I mean, here’s Elon Musk, working for literally nothing, giving up literally billions of dollars for his activism and his patriotism, and all he is doing is saving our country,” said Mark Rice, a Republican who ran in the 2024 election to represent Illinois’ 8th Congressional District. . .Calls for protests and boycotts of Tesla have revved up across the country with reports of vandalism against Tesla vehicles and dealerships. . .The DuPage County GOP chairman released a statement on the protest, saying, “It is ridiculous that the DuPage Democrats are harassing and intimidating a local business that has contributed significantly to the Village of Lisle’s economy. This is why the Democratic Party has the lowest approval ratings that it has had since there has been polling. We are not long removed from violent protests and looting that destroyed businesses across the suburbs. Of late, Tesla locations have been vandalized across America. This thinly veiled attempt by DuPage Democrats to cancel and scare a local business over political differences is repugnant. Americans are done with it and, increasingly, done with the Democratic Party.”)
CBS2
— Over 100 people protest at Tesla dealership in Lisle.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/over-100-people-protest-tesla-dealership-lisle-illinois/
FOX32
— Trump administration rehiring nearly 25K fired workers after court order. In Diersen v. GAO, a court ruled that federal agencies can force their employees to retire if they became active members in class action lawsuits that charge reverse discrimination and/or age discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-administration-rehiring-fired-workers-court-order
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pentagon is cutting up to 60,000 civilian jobs. About a third of those took voluntary resignations. During the 1980s and 1990s, because of Republican budget cuts, the Democrats who ran GAO cut 3,000 jobs or half of GAO’s workforce. Even though they focused on cutting their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time, I nevertheless survived until 1997. I would not have survived that long if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (finance), 1980 (accounting), and 1976 (business), b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting), and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA).
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/18/pentagon-job-cuts/
— Nominations are open for 2025 Chicago Top Workplaces (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that GAO will win this a) because Democrats run GAO and b) because they give their Democrat employees tremendous preference, and especially those 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. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans that GAO hired.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/top-workplaces-nominations-2025/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/column-lgbtq-hotel-chicago-nothalsted-washington/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hundreds rally against Musk, Trump at Tesla dealership in Lisle. The company’s stock market value and reputation have taken hits since the billionaire joined the Trump administration to lead the Department of Government Efficiency.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/photography/2025/03/18/photos-hundreds-rally-against-musk-trump-at-tesla-dealership-in-lisle
— Chicago Sun-Times to lose 20% of staff after buyout offer. Columnists, editorial writers and many more head for the exits as the paper’s nonprofit owner, Chicago Public Media, deals with fiscal hardship.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/03/18/chicago-sun-times-lose-20-staff-buyout-offer
DAILY HERALD
— ‘Tesla Takedown’ protest drives crowd to Lisle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYt3-L9Oszw
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker likens Trump’s tenure to the Great Chicago Fire. Pritzker ever-increasing promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/jb-pritzker-likens-trump-tenure-great-chicago-fire
WGN RADIO
— Parents urged to teach kids about drug dangers on social media. Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://wgnradio.com/news/fentanyl-crisis/parents-urged-to-teach-kids-about-drug-dangers-on-social-media/
SOUTHERN
— Concerns about the FAA’s air traffic control system date back decades. I worked for GAO on an audit of FAA’s traffic control system in the early 1980s.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/19/concerns-about-the-faas-air-traffic-control-system-date-back-decades/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In 1990, Government Accountability Office Transportation Issues Director Kenneth Mead told a congressional subcommittee that although the FAA had made progress, the agency had “inexperience in developing large-scale, highly automated systems” and was “still experiencing problems in modernizing the ATC system.”)
WAND TV
— Violent attacks on Tesla dealerships spike as Musk takes prominent role in Trump White House. Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk’s electric-car company are cropping up from coast to coast and even overseas.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/violent-attacks-on-tesla-dealerships-spike-as-musk-takes-prominent-role-in-trump-white-house/article_dd6fcf1d-f611-5b89-9bed-239ba4fa82dd.html
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois Republicans urge Democrats to stop supporting illegal immigration. Outstanding.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/03/18/watch-illinois-republicans-urge-democrats-to-stop-supporting-illegal-immigration/
WIFR
— Illinois lawmakers propose bills on illegal immigration in the state. Outstanding.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2025/03/19/illinois-lawmakers-propose-bills-illegal-immigration-state/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Poll: AOC best reflects Democrats’ ‘core values’ over Pelosi, Obama. What does that say about Democrats? I should write about the positions that Democrats in my precinct have on the current issues of the day. Democrats and ever-increasingly promote more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/aoc-best-reflects-democrats-core-values-over-pelosi-obama-poll
NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal judge blocks Trump effort to ban transgender troops from military service. Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGHTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-18/federal-judge-blocks-trump-effort-to-ban-transgender-troops-from-military-service
— Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-18/researchers-fear-grants-for-studies-on-health-disparities-may-be-cut-in-anti-dei-push
ELMHURST PATCH
— National Politics At Elmhurst City Meetings? Anticipate/expect that the Democrat leaders of your municipality will ever-increasingly promote more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/national-politics-elmhurst-city-meetings
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Democrat teachers to make students sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/03/18/illinois-conservative-group-files-federal-complaint-title-ix/
LOYOLA PHOENIX
— Loyola is ever-increasingly an arm of the Democrat Party.
https://loyolaphoenix.com/2025/03/chicagos-leaders-stand-up-for-the-city-and-gainst-ice/
POLITICO
— Casten and over 100 other House Democrats sent a letter demanding the Government Accountability Office create and maintain a database to track delays in the disbursement of funds to Americans. That move two months after the White House froze federal funds associated with the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and put major infrastructure projects on pause. Because of Gingrich, GAO is less than a shell of what it once was.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/19/pritzkers-quiet-dig-at-durbin-00236635
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Removing homeless encampments could be violation of human rights. How soon will Democrat and RINO leaders succeed in setting up a homeless encampment in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct?
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/19/illinois-encampments-unhoused-legal-rights
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-477/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-270/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DUPAGE GOP
— Chairman’s Statement on Tesla Takedown. It is ridiculous that the DuPage Democrats are harassing and intimidating a local business that has contributed significantly to the Village of Lisle’s economy. This is why the Democratic Party has the lowest approval ratings that it has had since there has been polling. We are not long removed from violent protests and looting that destroyed businesses across the suburbs. Of late, Tesla locations have been vandalized across America. This thinly veiled attempt by DuPage Democrats to cancel and scare a local business over political differences is repugnant. Americans are done with it and, increasingly, done with the Democratic Party.
https://dupagegop.com/
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Milton Township GOP Chair Castle: ‘We must reject candidates like Chris LeVan, John Monino, and Elizabeth Buffy Higgins Beard’
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/670497432-milton-township-gop-chair-castle-we-must-reject-candidates-like-chris-levan-john-monino-and-elizabeth-buffy-higgins-beard
WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker’s real record on jobs
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzkers-real-record-on-jobs-wirepoints/
— There’s an open invitation to commit crimes in Chicago because the chance of getting caught is negligible
https://wirepoints.org/theres-an-open-invitation-to-commit-crimes-in-chicago-because-the-chance-of-getting-caught-is-negligible-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— 100 to 1 in opposition to Illinois Homeschool Act ahead of hearing
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_82b4c780-0363-11f0-a788-638324956a18.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— If AOC is its future, the Democratic Party is hopelessly lost. Ever-increasingly Democrats promote more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/18/opinion/if-aoc-is-their-future-the-democrats-are-hopelessly-lost/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals working for Congress — addendum.. If my employers had been able to hire illegals instead of me, they certainly would have.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/illegals_working_for_congress_addendum.html
BREITBART
— Trump Haters Hit Tesla Facilities in Las Vegas, Kansas City with Arson Attacks. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/03/18/trump-haters-hit-tesla-facilities-in-las-vegas-kansas-city-with-arson-attacks/
— 38K Chinese Illegal Aliens Living in U.S. Despite Being Ordered Deported
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/18/report-38k-chinese-illegal-aliens-living-in-u-s-despite-being-ordered-deported/
— Democrats use the Constitution to destroy Republicans.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/03/18/sanders-should-frighten-every-american-that-trump-doesnt-respect-our-constitution/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Chicago college interim president says ‘DEI is in our blood’ at ‘Diversity Campus Town Hall.’ Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/chicago-college-interim-president-says-dei-blood-diversity-campus-town-hall/27683
DAILY CALLER
— America Can’t Be Safer If Dems And Their ‘Rogue Judges’ Keep Inundating Country With Illegal Aliens
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/18/brandon-gill-tren-de-aragua-james-boasberg-impeachment/
FOX NEWS
— Illinois parents, lawmakers sound alarm over proposed homeschooling bill: ‘Direct assault on families’ Parents would be required to fill out a ‘homeschool declaration form’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-parents-lawmakers-sound-alarm-proposed-homeschooling-bill-direct-assault-families
— Jewish Tesla owner ‘speechless’ after finding Nazi symbol on his Cybertruck. Avi Ben Hamo joins ‘Fox & Friends’ after his Cybertruck was vandalized with the image of a Swastika and the word ‘Elon,’ saying he no longer feels safe in New York. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370187212112
— Trump says Elon Musk haters also hate America. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370209436112
NEWSMAX
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/georgementz/dei-diversity-equity/2025/03/18/id/1203352/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Website Exposes Tesla Owners’ Personal Data. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.newsweek.com/dogequest-tesla-elon-musk-doxxing-website-2046920
USA TODAY
— Trump wants benefits for those who purchase cars ‘made in America.’ None fully are. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/trump-wants-benefits-for-cars-made-in-usa/81614278007/
WYOMING PUBLIC RADIO
— Wyoming bans sanctuary cities and ranked choice voting. Outstanding.
https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/politics-government/2025-03-18/wyoming-bans-sanctuary-cities-and-ranked-choice-voting
NEWS 18
— Tesla Vehicles Torched In Las Vegas Arson Attack, Elon Musk Calls It ‘Insane’ My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.news18.com/viral/tesla-vehicles-torched-in-las-vegas-arson-attack-elon-musk-calls-it-insane-aa-9266948.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DeSantis: Good Riddance to the U.S. Education Department. Florida shows how states can lead in ensuring that children learn.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ron-desantis-good-riddance-to-the-u-s-education-department-387e2ea3
— FRONT PAGE: Morgan Stanley Went Big on DEI, and No One Is Happy About It. Black and white employees say the efforts added to a divisive culture. Now, as political pressure rises, the bank is watering down initiatives. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, and Republican budget cuts big time to get of their Republican employees.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/morgan-stanley-corporate-dei-what-happened-4a61427c
— FRONT PAGE: RS Retreats From Some Audits as Agency Slashes Workforce. Officials put faith in shift to technology, but others see dangers in cutting thousands of jobs
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/internal-revenue-service-doge-taxes-f00ac956
PLURBUS NEWS
— Fired federal workers set states scrambling. Processing a wave of claims from former federal workers will “absolutely” require more resources.
https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/fired-federal-workers-set-states-scrambling/
FED SMITH
— Trump Calls for Eliminating More Federal Agencies. President Trump has issued an Executive Order that requires making cuts to 7 federal entities that he has deemed unnecessary. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it in the 1980s and 1990s, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had formed a team to reform GAO, I would have volunteered to be a member of that team. I would have stressed a) that I had worked for GAO since 1980 and the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in1981, d) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and e) that I earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/03/15/trump-calls-for-eliminating-more-federal-agencies/
LIBERAL PATRIOT
— The Blue State Exodus Should Scare Democrats. The electoral consequences could be massive. Democrats ever-increasingly promote more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-blue-state-exodus-should-scare
INDEPENDENT
— Violent attacks on Tesla spread from coast to coast – and overseas. In Donald Trump’s first term, his properties became a natural place for protest. In the early days of his second term, Tesla is filling that role. My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate cars, and especially Corvettes. I have owned a Corvette since 1971 and two since 2005.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-elon-musk-trump-cybertruck-las-vegas-fire-b2717706.html
March 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/17/families-impacted-by-ice-raids-denounce-trump-administrations-arrests-file-emergency-motion/
— Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin. My ancestors on my father’s side immigrated from what is now Germany in 1844. They worked in a Chicago brick factory until 1854 when they had saved enough money to homestead a farm in southeast Crete Township.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/16/irish-chicago-kilgubbin/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with foreign countries against America.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/03/17/denmark-europe-boycott-us-goods-trump-tariffs-trade-greenland-eu-musk-tesla
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/03/17/trump-administration-deports-hundreds-immigrants-court-order-el-salvador
DAILY HERALD
— Illinois could legalize internet gambling. Casinos say it will hurt them.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250317/business/illinois-could-legalize-internet-gambling-casinos-say-it-will-hurt-them/
ABC7
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Kinzinger.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-biden-pardons-ex-rep-adam-kinzinger-jan-6-committee-member-fires-back-claim-are-invalid/16040145/
NBC5
— Trump says autopen voids Biden’s pardons for Jan. 6 committee. Trump has argued that the committee members are guilty of unspecified “major crimes.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-biden-autopen-voids-jan-6-pardons/3699413/?os=dio____ref%3Dapp&ref=app
FOX32
— A French Parliament member wants America to return the Statue of Liberty. Far too many foreign countries despise/hate America. Far too many of them dump their problematic citizens on America.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/raphael-glucksmann-statue-liberty-back
— MN lawmakers want to define ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ as a mental illness. Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOIs blame Trump for all their problems, for all your problems, and for all of everyone’s problems.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/mn-lawmakers-want-make-trump-derangement-syndrome-mental-illness
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad. I should write about my critics/opponents who blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I would focus on a) those candidates, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, c) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and d) conservative and religious leaders and activists. It is called scapegoating.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1609814
WGN RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders want Democrats and RINOs to punish Tesla owners because of Musk, that is, because of Trump.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-is-it-okay-to-vent-doge-criticism-on-tesla-owners/#/questions
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-476/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-269/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinoisans haven’t yet connected the dots between bad policies, bad outcomes and the politicians they vote for.
https://wirepoints.org/illinoisans-havent-yet-connected-the-dots-between-bad-policies-bad-outcomes-and-the-politicians-they-vote-for-wirepoints-on-the-crisis-cast/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad. I should write about my critics/opponents who blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I would focus on a) those candidates, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, c) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and d) conservative and religious leaders and activists. It is called scapegoating. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it in the 1980s and 1990s, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had formed a team to reform GAO, I would have volunteered to be a member of that team. I would have stressed a) that I had worked for GAO since 1980 and the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in1981, d) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and e) that I earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do you deal with your critics/opponents? I should write about my critics/opponents and how they use their adverse actions against me against me. I would start with my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— What Exactly is in the Homeschool Bill – HB 2827?
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/what-exactly-is-in-the-homeschool-bill-hb-2827/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Musk: Democrats used $200 billion to ‘buy’ votes of illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3349807/musk-democrats-200-billion-buy-votes-illegal-immigrants/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Trump Admin Launches Probe Into Big Law DEI Policies. The EEOC is asking white shoe firms to provide detailed information about their hiring practices.
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/trump-admin-launches-probe-into-big-law-dei-policies/
NEW YORK POST
— Federal judges’ Trump hate is only harming the courts themselves
https://nypost.com/2025/03/17/opinion/how-federal-judges-trump-hate-is-harming-the-courts/
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY
— Trump Administration Brings Changes to the Federal Hiring System. 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 had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://americansforprosperity.org/policy-corner/trump-administration-brings-changes-to-the-federal-hiring-system-a-brief-look-at-president-trumps-schedule-f-policy-career-policy-and-civil-service-reform/
BLAZE
— History affirms Trump’s right to use the Alien Enemies Act against gangs
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/history-affirms-trumps-right-to-use-the-alien-enemies-act-against-gangs
BREITBART
— Pritzker Dumping Healthcare Program for Older Illegal Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/17/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-dumping-healthcare-program-older-illegal-migrants/
— DOJ Argues ‘Court Lacks the Jurisdiction’ After Judge Blocks Trump Use of Alien Enemies Act
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/17/doj-argues-court-lacks-jurisdiction-judge-blocks-trump-use-alien-enemies-act/
— Left Portrays Pro-Hamas Activist Mahmoud Khalil as Victim of Trump’s Deportation Policy
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/17/left-portrays-mahmoud-khalil-as-victim-of-trumps-deportation-policy/
— Socialist Venezuela Compares Trump Deporting Tren de Aragua Thugs to the Holocaust
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/03/17/hold-for-ezra-socialist-venezuela-compares-trump-deporting-tren-de-aragua-thugs-to-the-holocaust/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Colleges and universities are not backing away from wokeness. They are putting it under the table, off the books.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/our-colleges-and-universities-arent-backing-away-from-wokeness/
NEWSBUSTERS
— The Media Protest Trump Deportations of Illegal Alien Gangbangers to El Salvador’s CECOT Prison
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/03/18/unhinged-media-now-protest-trump-deportations-illegal-alien
TOWNHALL
— 95 Percent of Federal Employees Express Liberal Views at Work. As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates got ever-increasingly anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacob-sagert/2025/03/18/95-percent-of-federal-employees-express-liberal-views-at-work-n2653950
— Democrat Gov: I Won’t Allow Trump to Take Illegal Aliens ‘Off the Streets.’ Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/03/17/hochul-speaking-on-ice-and-illegal-aliens-in-nyc-n2653928
— DEI-Obsessed Democrats Are Doing This on Purpose
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/03/17/arlington-cemetery-removes-pages-on-black-veterans-and-women-n2653943
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Under Biden, constructively, Americans were barred from everything if they did not promote LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5199691-third-challenge-trump-order-transgender-troops/
— Harvard is expanding free tuition in diversity push My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. Nevertheless, he believed that was too much to qualify for financial scholarships. And as my critics/opponents have always stressed, I did not qualify for scholastic scholarships because my ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. Therefore, I worked my way through college.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5198613-harvard-free-tuition-diversity-ivy-league-supreme-court/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Harvard University announced Monday it will be expanding free tuition to more students, a move adopted by other schools since the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action could no longer be used in college admissions. Harvard said students from families making less than $200,000 a year will not be charged for tuition, expanding on a previous decision to make the school completely free, covering tuition, housing and other costs, for those coming from families making less than $100,000 a year.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Hard-Line Tactics Are Driving Down Illegal Migration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/americas/mexico-trump-migration.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly oppose a) all Trump budget cuts and b) all Trump spending increases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/nyregion/columbia-research-grants-trump.html
— Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-order-voice-of-america.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/americas/el-salvador-venezuela-deportations-families.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/trump-china-trade-war.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ask “Do Americans Approve of President Trump?”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump’s Grievance-Filled Speech Makes Clear His Quest for Vengeance Is Personal.” I should write about my critics/opponents and how they use their adverse actions against me against me. I would start with my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-speech-doj-retribution.html
— Trump Appoints Michael Flynn, Walt Nauta and Other Allies to Oversee Military Academies. Among other appointees were Charlie Kirk, Sean Spicer and the daughter of Steve Bannon. President Trump purged several of the military oversight boards last month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-military-academies-flynn-nauta.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in promoting more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-economy-polling.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/upshot/abortion-bans-births-study.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration moves to reinstate thousands of probationary employees. After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that because I had served my probationary period when I was an IRS employee, they could not just fire me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/17/trump-administration-reinstates-fired-probationary-workers/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly paint their illegals as being GOD-LIKE.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/17/trump-presidency-news/
USA TODAY
— Trump has promised to rid the government of “waste, fraud and abuse.” But he’s fired many of the people who look for it in schools. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/03/16/education-department-waste-fraud-abuse-cuts/82370646007/
SACRAMENTO BEE
— Soon, if not already, everyone in healthcare will be most, if not virtually all of the following: non-Republican, liberal, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article302217539.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly paint their illegals as being GOD-LIKE.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-deportations-gang-members-james-boasberg-tom-homan-nayib-bukele-ms-13-tren-de-aragua-6e377106
BUSINESS STANDARD
— US to undocumented immigrants: Leave now or pay up to $700 per day
https://www.business-standard.com/finance/personal-finance/us-to-undocumented-immigrants-leave-now-or-pay-up-to-700-per-day-125031800940_1.html
POLITICO
— Trump stacks military academy boards with MAGA loyalists, including Michael Flynn, Charlie Kirk, and Steve Bannon’s daughter. Just kidding, but will Trump form a GAO oversight board and appoint me to it?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/michael-flynn-charlie-kirk-trump-appointments-00234637
PBS
— The history of civil service and the impact of Trump’s slashing of the workforce. For Democrats, government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2025/03/the-history-of-civil-service-and-the-impact-of-trumps-slashing-of-the-workforce
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY
— Trump is the right’s tool to dismantle a century of progress
https://www.peoplefor.org/trump-rights-tool-dismantle-century-progress
March 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-threatens-new-tariffs-canada-including-250-tax-dairy/15992544/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more gender based preference giving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF5ujLyO_7E
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Something should be done’: Illinois Democratic lawmakers hear from public frustrated about President Donald Trump’s initiatives (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/09/something-should-be-done-illinois-democratic-lawmakers-hear-from-public-frustrated-about-president-donald-trumps-initiatives/
— Hundreds gather to criticize Trump, Musk’s spending cuts at ‘Takedown Tesla’ protest (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/08/hundreds-gather-to-criticize-trump-musks-spending-cuts-at-takedown-tesla-protest/
— FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/08/fema-national-fire-training-academy/
— Five years ago, COVID gripped the world in fear. Now local scientists, doctors warn Trump’s policies are weakening public health. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/09/five-years-later-pandemic-response-fears-return/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Purdue star blows whistle on Illinois’ ‘Orange Krush’ fans, alleging racist comments directed at brother, 13. The teams played Friday night at State Farm Center.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/college-sports/2025/03/08/purdue-boilermakers-trey-kaufman-renn-illinois-fans-racist-state-farm-center
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more preference for women.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250308/nation-and-world-politics/we-wont-be-silent-hundreds-show-support-for-international-womens-day-in-geneva/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats lost in the wilderness of their own making (COMMENT: From what I see, Democrat leaders plan on winning again by promoting even more a) 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 nation origin discrimination. From what I see, Democrat leaders plan on winning again by promoting even more hatred against Trump, against the 77 million who voted for Trump, and especially against those who share Trump’s demographics. Trump is conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, German American, and his ancestor have been in America for a long time.)
https://johnkassnews.com/democrats-lost-in-the-wilderness-of-their-own-making/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Rep. Martin McLaughlin, R-Barrington, says Illinois’ liberal policies are to blame for the state’s poor demographic showing.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7a35b4be-fb9a-11ef-8f9c-e3450e6997a2.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you say to the following who state that they are Republican, but who ever-increasingly paint themselves as being moderate/centrist, RINO, Democrat Lite, anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican: candidates, elected officials, and party leaders? Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In your precinct, how many voted for Harris? 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. Who do the hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters in your precinct take their hatred of Trump out against? Anticipate/expect it will be against their Republican Precinct Committeeman. I will get a measure of that hatred while I hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and marked sample ballots for the April 1, 2025 election to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. – Dave Diersen
http://gopillinois.com
— How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? As Democrats move into DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, more and more and more are dependent of government spending. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Republicans and their Republican Party platform create prosperity and safety. Democrats and their Democrat Part platform create poverty and crime. Republicans created a prosperous DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. But as Democrats ever-increasingly move in and take over, poverty and crime increase. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The less money that your parents have/had, the less money that you have, the less protection that you have against political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I had to work my through college. My father never made more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. The more of the following that you are, the more that you will be forced to pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. If my parents had not sent me Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, I never would have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my class, earn a bachelor’s degree, earn three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, and earn a professional license. – Dave Diersen
http:///www.gopillinois.com
— All during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they ever-increasingly fought Republican-led budget cuts. I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. My Democrat GAO superiors took their hatred against Republicans out on me. They took many adverse actions against me and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that. SEE: NBC NEWS: “You lose all hope: Federal workers gripped by mental health instability amid Trump cuts. In interviews with NBC News, many federal workers shared stories of overwhelming stress, personal crises, rapid weight loss, panic attacks and more” at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-gripped-mental-health-instability-trump-cuts-rcna194485 – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Employers have an extremely low opinion of federal employees. Democrats run the federal government. Democrats despise/hate Republicans. I should write about that. The longer that you are a federal employee, the more impossible it is to get a job in the private sector. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been an unemployed federal retiree for more than 27 years. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school classmate had not asked me to join him taking the postal employment test. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 a) if I had not taken the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 as backstop if I could not get a job in the private sector and b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. SEE: MSN: Nearly 12,000 federal employees file unemployment claims in DC at https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nearly-12-000-federal-employees-file-unemployment-claims-in-dc/ar-AA1AtTS5 – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What has harmed your Republican Precinct Committeeman’s credibility? My credibility has been harmed big time by the many big adverse action that the following have taken against me since 1999. 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) conservative and religious leaders and activists, d) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, and e) Republican donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, campaign volunteers, etc. I should write about the aforesaid. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I took delivery of my red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV yesterday. If you share my interest in the car, please let me know. I owned a 1969 Dodge Charger SE 1968-1971. Some at NIU called me “Daytona Dave” because I drove it to Daytona Beach for the 1969 and 1970 spring breaks. SEE: TOP SPEED: 10 Ways The Dodge Charger Daytona EV Will Change Muscle Cars Forever at https://www.topspeed.com/how-dodge-charger-daytona-ev-change-muscle-cars-forever/ FROM THE ARTICLE: “The Dodge Charger Daytona name carries a legacy of power, performance, and bold design. First introduced in 1969 as a revolutionary muscle car built for NASCAR dominance, the original Daytona became an icon, breaking records and turning heads with its striking aerodynamic design. Over the decades, the Daytona has symbolized Dodge’s relentless pursuit of speed and innovation.” – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democratic politicians continue race-baiting hysteria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3341274/democratic-politicians-continue-race-baiting-hysteria/
— Democrats kneel for criminals but won’t stand for a child cancer survivor
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3340576/democrats-kneel-criminals-wont-stand-child-cancer-survivor-dj-daniel/
— DOGE must audit and disarm the IRS (COMMENT: GAO audits IRS. Democrats run GAO and IRS and do not want Republicans employees. Nevertheless, I worked for IRS for almost 9 years for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3340559/department-of-government-efficiency-must-audit-disarm-irs/
— The less money that your parents have/had, the less money that you have, the less protection that you have against political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I had to work my through college. My father never made more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. The more of the following that you are, the more that you will be forced to pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3311108/dei-and-deviancy-wealth-doesnt-always-buy-protection/
NEW YORK POST
— Purdue’s Trey Kaufman-Renn alleges Illinois fans hurled racist taunts at family
https://nypost.com/2025/03/08/sports/purdues-trey-kaufman-renn-alleges-illinois-fans-hurled-racist-taunts/
— Some House members have mental faculties so diminished they can no longer do their jobs — and others voting drunk, high: lawmakers
https://nypost.com/2025/03/08/us-news/some-house-members-have-mental-faculties-so-diminished-they-can-no-longer-do-their-jobs-and-others-voting-drunk-high-lawmakers/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Does mourning brutally murdered children who are white mean you are a ‘white supremacist?’ Some leftists think so.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/does_mourning_brutally_murdered_children_who_are_white_mean_you_are_a_white_supremacist_some_leftists_think_so.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, everything that Trump says and does creates economic worries.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-economic-worries-mount-as-trump-implements-tariffs-cuts-workforce-and-freezes-spending/ar-AA1AuInz
— What do you say to the following who state that they are Republican, but who ever-increasingly paint themselves as being moderate/centrist, RINO, Democrat Lite, anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican: candidates, elected officials, and party leaders? Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-opposition-principles-first-076bf16a73a9c66f10ad3a2fbc0df1c1
MSN
— ‘Cruel and Disrespectful’: Musk’s Ultimatum To Federal Workers Sparks Backlash (COMMENT: If I was still a federal employee, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cruel-and-disrespectful-musk-s-ultimatum-to-federal-workers-sparks-backlash/ss-AA1AfHY1
— Nearly 12,000 federal employees file unemployment claims in DC (COMMENT: Employers have an extremely low opinion of federal employees. Democrats run the federal government. Democrats despise/hate Republicans. I should write about that. The longer that you are a federal employee, the more impossible it is to get a job in the private sector. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been an unemployed federal retiree for more than 27 years. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school classmate had not asked me to join him taking the postal employment test. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 a) if I had not taken the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 as backstop if I could not get a job in the private sector and b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nearly-12-000-federal-employees-file-unemployment-claims-in-dc/ar-AA1AtTS5
YAHOO
— Millions of Americans will get a Social Security boost thanks to new law — find out if (and when) you’ll get paid (COMMENT: Yesterday, Social Security deposited $3,237.90 into my checking account for 2024. Great, but I hoped that it would have been more.)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/millions-americans-social-security-boost-103400386.html
ABC NEWS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, everything that Trump says and does harms everyone.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/funding-cuts-could-harm-global-efforts-to-fight-tuberculosis-who-warns/ar-AA1AoKkh
NBC NEWS
— ‘You lose all hope’: Federal workers gripped by mental health instability amid Trump cuts. In interviews with NBC News, many federal workers shared stories of overwhelming stress, personal crises, rapid weight loss, panic attacks and more. (COMMENT: All during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they fought Republican-led budget cuts. I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. My Democrat GAO superiors took their hatred against Republicans out on me. They took many adverse actions against me and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-gripped-mental-health-instability-trump-cuts-rcna194485
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/activists-march-for-lgbtq-shows-at-kennedy-center/3862284/
CBS NEWS
— DHS administering lie detector tests to employees in effort to find leakers
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-lie-detector-tests-employees-leakers-immigration-raids/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say that “Musk Is Making Republicans Sweat and Giving Democrats a New Target.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-politics.html
— State Republicans Eager to Climb on Cost-Cutting Bandwagon
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/us/state-doge-oklahoma.html
— Democrats say “Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/us/politics/veterans-affairs-doge-cuts.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/08/medicaid-cuts-rural-hospitals/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/09/trump-mexico-asylum-migrants-refugees/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-09/donald-trump-race-gender-dei-pete-hegseth-cq-brown-college-military-amazon-target-boycott-robin-abcarian
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks, and at everyone else, that Trump is a racist.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/03/08/trump-dei-black-people-fight-racism-civil-rights/81609951007/
HUFFINGTON POST
— How many of those on Medicaid voted for Trump and why?
https://www.aol.com/gop-sen-josh-hawley-warns-110010376.html
NEW YORKER
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/09/trump-mexico-asylum-migrants-refugees/
DAILY KOS
— Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. GAO audits IRS. Democrats run GAO and IRS. Nevertheless, I worked for IRS for almost 9 years for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3/8/2308932/-Trump-through-Musk-uses-government-waste-race-handout-code-words-to-destroy-it-for-tax-cut
GUARDIAN
— Democrats say that “Chaos on campuses as schools warn Trump cuts could harm US for decades.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/trump-universities-higher-education-cuts
TIMES
— More Americans seeking asylum in Ireland since Trump’s comeback. Growing political unease in the United States has led many people to seek sanctuary in stable EU countries.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/more-americans-seeking-asylum-in-ireland-since-trumps-comeback-57kngc03j
February 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS2
— Durbin, congresspeople highlight what they say would be detrimental effects of federal spending cuts (COMMENT: To what extent is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on federal spending?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/durbin-congresspeople-detrimental-effects-federal-spending-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/protesters-rally-in-chicago-against-president-trumps-policies/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFkVQUBlIoY
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-presidents-day-trump-musk-protests/
— Illinois Congressional Democrats rail against Trump, Musk cuts (COMMENT: To what extent is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on federal spending?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luDPZki4H5Q
FOX32
— Illinois Dem lawmakers push back against Trump budget cuts (COMMENT: To what extent is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on federal spending?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1594717
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/18/opinion-illinois-fighting-unconcstitutional-actions-donald-trump/
— Homer Township Reset slate challenges Freedom Caucus incumbents in Republican Primary
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/17/homer-township-republican-primary/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/02/17/protesters-march-donald-trump-nationwide-presidents-day-demonstration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/02/17/trump-presidency-republicans-maga-mean-federal-layoffs-debt-conservatives-new-party-usaid
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-17/thousands-of-people-protest-in-washington-d-c-and-across-the-u-s-on-presidents-day
WCIA
— Central Illinois federal workers face unemployment, uncertainty (COMMENT: Because of Republican-led budget cuts, all during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, I faced Democrat retaliation, that is, I faced political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about that.)
https://www.wcia.com/news/champaign-county/there-were-people-crying-central-illinois-federal-workers-face-unemployment-uncertainty/
WAND TV
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/planned-parenthood-of-illinois-expands-medication-abortion-access-through-app/article_206323fe-edf3-11ef-ab84-1f11aa00a2cd.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— TROLLING TRUMP: The Illinois Democratic Party has been trolling President Donald Trump by projecting digital phrases onto the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago’s River North neighborhood and a stream of online messaging.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/18/richard-irvin-returns-to-the-ring-00204650
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-457/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How much success have the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district had promoting fear, anger, and hatred against Trump and against those who voted for Trump? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about the tremendous negative impacts from Republican gutting GAO instead of Republican reforming of GAO. If Republicans had reformed GAO, the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, 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, or d) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— GAO is supposed to fight waste in the federal government. But Democrats run the federal government and Democrats run GAO. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. Because I have always been a Republican, they did not want me fight waste. To get rid of me, they. a) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) delayed my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees, c) earning six job-related professional certifications, and d) earning a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents, the courts in Diersen v. GAO decided that employers can fire their employees a) because they oppose political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination and/or b) because they have performance problems. According to my critics/opponents, both of the aforesaid applied to me a) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my employer with reverse discrimination and age discrimination and b) because my employer never promoted me beyond GS-13 and always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, I had to have performance problems because they took those adverse actions against me even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But in fact, they took those adverse actions against me a) because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination and age discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents stress about you to turn people against you? My critics/opponents stress that I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, my ancestors have been in America since 1844, I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and almost 9 of which working for IRS, I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years, I have been married for almost 47 years, I have more education than they have, I have six professional certifications and a professional license, I have more real estate, vehicles, and/or money than they have, I have better health than they have, etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents stress to promote envy against you? Mine stress that I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years, that I have been married for almost 47 years, that I have more education than they have, that I have six professional certifications and a professional license, that I have more real estate, vehicles, and/or money than they have, that I have better health than they have, etc.
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Congressman Robert C. McClory’s Significant Law
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/17/congressman-robert-c-mcclorys-significant-law/
— Crystal Lake Grade School District Has 20% Fewer Students Than in 2008, But More Staff
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/17/crystal-lake-grade-school-district-has-20-fewer-students-than-in-2008-but-more-staff/
— The Censures of Randy Funk – Part 1
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/17/the-censures-of-randy-funk-part-1/
— The Contract with Peter Bensinger I Would Not Sign in the Thompson Administration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/17/the-contract-with-peter-bensinger-i-would-not-sign-in-the-thompson-administration/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
U.S. Department of HOMELAND SECURITY
— Secretary Kristi Noem announced a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to leave our country now or face deportation with the inability to return to the United States. The international ads warn criminal illegal aliens not to come to America and break its laws or they will be hunted down and deported. (COMMENT: Of course, Democrats and RINOs oppose/reject the aforesaid.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hezXQvjzCkQ
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Time to go: DHS tells illegal immigrants to ‘self-deport and stay out’ Secretary Kristi Noem vows ‘We will hunt you down’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/17/dhs-tells-illegal-immigrants-self-deport-stay/
NEW YORK POST
— AOC’s harmful migrant assistance (COMMENT: It is criminal to help people commit crimes.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/opinion/aocs-harmful-migrant-assistance-letters/
— Eric Adams is a hostage to New Yorkers’ will — not to Donald Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/opinion/memo-to-eric-adams-critics-hes-a-hostage-to-nyers-will-not-donald-trump/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Buttigieg insinuates that Trump’s IG firing spree has something to do with promoting ‘waste, fraud, and abuse’ (COMMENT: When the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago Office forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, the Democrats who ran IG offices in Chicago could have offered to hire me, but they did not. I should write about those who they hired instead of me.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/buttigieg_insinuates_that_trump_s_ig_firing_spree_has_something_to_do_with_promoting_waste_fraud_and_abuse.html
BREITBART
— Supreme Court Path for President Trump on Birthright Citizenship
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/17/scotus-path-birthright-citizenship-trump/
— Kristi Noem Warns Migrants Against Entering U.S. Illegally: ‘You Will Be Caught’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/17/kristi-noem-warns-migrants-entering-u-s-illegally-will-be-caught/
FOX BUSINESS
— DOGE critics are in favor of government waste (COMMENT: GAO is supposed to fight waste in the federal government. But Democrats run the federal government and Democrats run GAO. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. Because I have always been a Republican, they did not want me fight waste. To get rid of me, they. a) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) delayed my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and d) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees, c) earning six job-related professional certifications, and d) earning a job-related professional license.)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6368973252112
FOX NEWS
— Homan takes victory lap after illegal immigrant crossings plummet during Trump admin: ‘He is delivering’ Homan said it’s the lowest he’s seen since President Reagan was in office.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/homan-victory-lap-after-illegal-immigrant-crossings-plummet-during-trump-admin-delivering
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Dear DOGE – Why Is The U.S. Government Funding “Media Literacy” Informers And Indoctrination? DHS, Defense, and State are all involved. I know, I took the trainings. Do Secretaries Noem, Hegseth, and Rubio know?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/02/dear-doge-why-is-the-u-s-government-funding-media-literacy-informers-and-indoctrination/
NEWSMAX
— Some Shelters Close as Migrant Flow Slows
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/migrant-shelters-closing-border/2025/02/17/id/1199406/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Supreme Court could decide who Trump is allowed to fire (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, the courts in Diersen v. GAO decided that employers can fire their employees a) because they oppose political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination and/or b) because they have performance problems. According to my critics/opponents, both of the aforesaid applied to me a) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my employer with reverse discrimination and age discrimination and b) because my employer never promoted me beyond GS-13 and always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance (PFP). According to them, I had to have performance problems because they took those adverse actions against me even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But in fact, they took those adverse actions against me a) because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination and age discrimination.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2hVZ_zz94
MSN
— Hegseth reports that IRS has audited him and says he owes $33,558.16. (COMMENT: I should write about why my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education deductions when I was 29 years old in 1978. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pete-hegseth-shares-back-taxes-self-own-while-blasting-biden-irs-for-audit/ar-AA1zfqGt
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Fox News host until being nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Defense Department, Hegseth’s annual salary at the media company was north of $2 million, according to a financial disclosure report he filed as part of the confirmation process. Additionally, he earned $900,000 in speaking engagement fees over the last two years, according to the report. As Secretary of Defense, Hegseth will be paid $246,000 per year. The Trump administration is expected to soon announce substantial layoffs at the IRS. Furthermore, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is looking to gain access to the IRS’s highly-classified system for housing taxpayers’ financial information.)
ASSOCIATED PRESS & MSNBC & NEWSWEEK & LOS ANGELES & ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER & NBC BOSTON & ABC DENVER & BUSINESS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/president-donald-trump-protest-c8796556fbf20e796f42167f61c3d942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLJLFiB6bb8
https://www.newsweek.com/photos-show-trump-musk-50501-protests-across-us-2032448
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-17/presidents-day-rally-long-beach
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/02/17/on-presidents-day-in-irvine-demonstrators-rally-against-president-trump-and-elon-musk/
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/presidents-day-brings-protests-against-trumps-policies/3634753/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKbNe3qG8MQ
https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/172879/20250218/no-kings-on-presidents-day-rallies-target-trump-policies-musk-s-influence.htm
NEW YORK TIMES
— What do your critics/opponents stress to promote envy against you? Mine stress that I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years, that I have been married for almost 47 years, that I have more education than they have, that I have six professional certifications and a professional license, that I have more real estate, vehicles, and/or money than they have, that I have better health than they have, etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/learning/do-you-ever-feel-envious-of-others.html
— Democrats Fear They Are Missing the Moment to Remake the Party. As President Trump steamrolls over their priorities, Democrats say they could miss the opportunity to learn lessons from their defeat and undertake needed reform. (COMMENT: From what I see, the Democrat Party will forever promote dependency on government charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, 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. By doing the aforesaid, the Democrat Party wants to get more votes from those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, are in America illegally, boozers, gamblers, stoners, and criminals.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/democrats-trump-future.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump Targets a Growing List of Those He Sees as Disloyal. In his first month in office, the president has carried out a campaign of retribution that has little analogue in history. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty and 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 coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/trump-retribution-list.html
USA TODAY
— Federal government has wasted trillions. Trump and Musk are saying, ‘Enough!’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/17/trump-musk-doge-government-waste-national-debt/78518870007/
WEEK
— How much did Germany pay as WWI reparations? Here’s why Donald Trump’s proposed $500 billion offer for Ukraine is even worse. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked his officials to reject Donald Trump administration’s $500 billion deal, saying it does not give adequate security guarantees for Kyiv.
https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2025/02/18/how-much-did-germany-pay-as-wwi-reparations-here-s-why-donald-trump-s-proposed-500-billion-offer-for-ukraine-is-even-worse.html
WBAL TV
— Employees across federal agencies detail impacts of layoffs, DOGE action (COMMENT: I should write about the tremendous negative impacts of Republicans gutting GAO instead of reforming GAO. If Republicans had reformed GAO, the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, 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, or d) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/federal-employees-layoffs-impacts-doge-executive-orders/63821109
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Media Claim to Find No Fraud in Government. Then again, they also told us Biden was sharp as a tack and nothing was amiss at the border.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-media-claim-to-find-no-fraud-in-government-waste-abuse-agencies-8ed673b2
— 6 Ways to Fix the Job-Application Nightmare. Companies are needlessly hurting their reputations among potential employees. Here’s what they can do to improve the process—and attract better talent. (COMMENT: I did not apply to be an IRS employee. IRS offered me a job because I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-search-applications-fixes-476ed638
— America’s Trumpiest City Council Is Thriving—in Newsom’s California. Huntington Beach has become a laboratory for Trump-style local governance; ‘non-sanctuary city’ status and a MAGA plaque at the library. (COMMENT: How strongly do the Republican leaders of the following support Trump: a) your state senate and house districts, county, township, municipality, and school board and b) the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county and township/ward party organizations?)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americas-trumpiest-city-council-is-thrivingin-newsoms-california-e671f21c
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/race-ethnicity/2025/02/18/after-trumps-diversity-threats-what-should-colleges-do
February 16, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season (COMMENT: I was involved in IRS’s 1974 tax season big time. Have you ever phoned IRS with a tax question? If you did during the 1974 filing season, the IRS employee who answered your call was one of my subordinates. Back then, as a 25-year-old GS-11 (currently $82,655/year) IRS Revenue Officer, I supervised all of the IRS employees, which included a rotating staff of about 90 IRS Revenue Agent trainees, in IRS’s new downtown Chicago office who answered taxpayer questions using IRS’s new tollfree CentiPhone system. Because of my job performance, the IRS manager who had given me that developmental opportunity and who had promoted me in 1972 and 1973 promoted me to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) in 1974.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-are-propationary-employees-irs-is-set-lay-off-thousands-middle-2025-tax-season-many-await-refunds/15915432/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-2/16/2025
NBC5
— Mexico’s President Sheinbaum offers sarcastic response to Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ comment
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/mexicos-president-sheinbaum-offers-sarcastic-response-to-trumps-gulf-of-america-comment/3641113/
— Sikh communities fear immigration raids as Trump ends sanctuary for temples
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/sikh-communities-fear-immigration-raids-trump-ends-sanctuary/3675500/
— AP reporter, photographer barred after ‘Gulf of Mexico’ dispute
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-denies-media-access-gulf-of-mexico-first-amendement/3675490/
CBS2
— Trump administration face criticism from European allies after Vance speech
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trump-administration-face-criticism-from-european-allies-after-vance-speech/
FOX32
— Poll: Increasing number of Democrats say party should become more moderate
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/democrats-moderation-gallup-poll-2025
WGN9
— Here are the agencies purging federal employees (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, because of Republican imposed budget cuts, they ever-increasingly purged their employees starting with those who were Republican and then those who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.)
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/here-are-the-agencies-purging-federal-workers/
WGN RADIO
— Should the IRS be abolished? (COMMENT: I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years while I was at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,661/year. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.)
https://wgnradio.com/lets-get-legal/should-the-irs-be-abolished/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season (COMMENT: During the 1974 tax season, I was responsible for assuring that all the phone calls that came into IRS’s new tollfree number in the Loop were answered promptly and correctly.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/irs-probationary-workers-tax-season/
— The US auto industry will fall behind if it retreats from electric vehicles (COMMENT: I have ordered a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/editorial-the-us-auto-industry-will-fall-behind-if-it-retreats-from-electric-vehicles/
— Zelenskyy calls for ‘armed forces of Europe’ as EU leaders bristle at new US policies on Ukraine
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/ukraine-armed-forced-of-europe/
— Trump’s reciprocal tariffs will overturn decades of trade policy
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-2/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ‘Whole different level.’ The Illinois-Indiana political divide widens amid Trump 2.0, from immigration to DEI to LGBTQ rights.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/16/illinois-indiana-political-divide-widens-trump-immigration-dei-lgbtq-rights/
— Federal plan to reduce government office space could be a blow to Chicago, where selling properties wouldn’t be easy (COMMENT: I worked in the Kluczynski building 1973-1980 for IRS and then for GAO 1980-1981.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/16/federal-office-space-chicago/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE IN THE NAPERVILLE SUN: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/dupage-naperville-homeless-winter-emergency-shelter/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/02/15/hundreds-gather-outside-lurie-childrens-hospital-to-protest-youth-gender-care-change-i-want-my-healthcare
ST. LOUIS TODAY
— White South Africans gather in support of Trump and his claims that they are victims of racism
https://www.stltoday.com/news/article_419396d2-eb99-11ef-a041-830ca4999d70.html
BELOIT DAILY NEWS
— Trump tours Boeing plane to highlight aircraft maker’s delay in delivering a new Air Force One
https://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/illinois-news/trump-tours-boeing-plane-to-highlight-aircraft-makers-delay-in-delivering-a-new-air-force/article_789b296d-0e0d-5460-8c0f-19d1085a855c.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO leaders will negatively analogize Trump to Nixon.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-15/after-watergate-congress-curbed-the-presidency-now-trump-is-testing-those-limits
WAND TV
— Trump tours Boeing plane to check out features that would be on overdue new Air Force One aircraft
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-tours-boeing-plane-to-check-out-features-that-would-be-on-overdue-new-air/article_6c73d2e6-5d71-581e-8683-60dbf3479e7f.html
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Springfield sees rise in gambling addiction amid booming video gaming revenue
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/springfield-sees-rise-in-gambling-addiction-amid-booming-video-gaming-revenue#
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use health care professionals to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump. Sooner or later, if not already, everyone in health care will be Democrat, citizens of foreign countries, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time,
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/health-care-professionals-warn-trump-medical-research-cuts-could-impact-lifesaving-efforts
— Student who moved to DC for internship finds out Trump’s federal freeze canceled it. (COMMENT: EEOC cancelled my career in the automotive industry. In 1971, when I was 22 years old, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 and I had to have a job to help support my mother and brother. My father had died suddenly in 1969.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/student-who-moved-to-dc-for-internship-finds-out-trumps-federal-freeze-canceled-it-doge-elon-musk-department-of-transportation-donald-trump-federal-government-internships-university-of-cincinnati-graduate-school
WSIL TV
— IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season. The IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season, according to two sources familiar with the agency’s plans, and cuts could come as soon as next week. (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors and supervisors were furious that they could not use probationary employee procedures to get rid of me in 1980 because I had already survived my probationary period when I worked for IRS.)
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/irs-will-lay-off-thousands-of-probationary-workers-in-the-middle-of-tax-season/article_97d05354-732c-5dd5-8b09-a7be5df80852.html
WGLT
— EEOC seeks to drop discrimination case after Trump executive order (COMMENT: If Trump had been President in 1971, my entire life since then would have been completely different. EEOC cancelled my career in the automotive industry. In 1971, when I was 22 years old, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 and I had to have a job to help support my mother and brother. My father had died suddenly in 1969.)
https://www.wglt.org/2025-02-15/eeoc-seeks-to-drop-gender-discrimination-case-after-trump-executive-order
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI is to replace Republicans like me who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time with Democrats and RINOs who are not the aforesaid. So far, Democrat and RINO leaders have used DEI to a) waste my federal career and force me to retire early, b) end my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2004 and 2010, c) end my bid to serve as the MTRO treasurer in 2004, d) end my American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board membership in 2004, e) almost get the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, f) end my ICRC Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) end my Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee membership in 2011, h) end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, i) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, j) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and k) end my service on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. I should write about the Democrat and RINO leaders who had their operatives and their dupes take the aforesaid adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Far too many say that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican, but do little or nothing to defend or advance religious, conservative, and/or Republican principles. What do you say to the aforesaid who work against those like me who defend and advance religious, conservative, and/or Republican principles? Should I write about them? Should I focus on those who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to get information to use against me? Should I focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What quotas/goals/targets do Democrats have for turning students in your school district into sexually active LGBTQers at each grade level?
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Senate Republican warns that Trump’s downsizing of federal workforce will do ‘more harm than good’ (COMMENT: Downsizing GAO did more harm than good.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/15/senate-republican-warns-trump-downsizing-federal-w/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— What would a Harris-Walz administration be doing right now?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3320673/what-would-a-harris-walz-administration-be-doing-right-now/
NEW YORK POST
— Corporate America’s lame attempts to dress up DEI is plainly laughable (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/15/business/corporate-americas-lame-attempts-to-dress-up-dei-is-plainly-laughable/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Political backlash and public outcry have prompted a compromise between Florida governor Ron DeSantis and the state’s Republican legislators on Florida’s immigration policy, following a prolonged dispute over how to handle illegal aliens.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/the_trump_act_the_worst_named_legislation_ever.html
— No More Mr. Nice Guy
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/no_more_mr_nice_guy.html
— False claims: universities can’t make them anymore
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/false_claims_universities_can_t_make_them_anymore.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Finger-wagging NY AG Letitia James rages about ‘unelected’ Elon Musk
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/02/15/finger-wagging-ny-ag-letitia-james-rages-about-unelected-elon-musk-1522939/
BREITBART
— Much of Illinois Chafes Under Chicago’s, Governor’s Support for Migrants (COMMENT: Sooner or later, the lower that the income is in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct and the closer that you are to Chicago, the greater that the negative impact of illegal immigration will be.)
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/15/much-of-illinois-chafes-under-chicagos-governors-support-for-migrants/
— Fire-Ravaged California Spending Nearly $10 Billion on Health Care for Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/15/fire-ravaged-california-spending-nearly-10-billion-on-health-care-for-illegal-aliens/
— NYC to Sue Trump Administration over $80 Million in Funding Revoked for Migrant Shelters
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/15/report-nyc-to-sue-trump-administration-over-80-million-in-funding-revoked-for-migrant-shelters/
FOX NEWS
— Florida Speaker Daniel Perez: We stand with President Trump on illegal immigration crackdown. Illegal alien criminals will find no sanctuary in the Sunshine State.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/florida-speaker-daniel-perez-we-stand-president-trump-illegal-immigration-crackdown
— At 50, SNL should drop the woke, get back to the joke. The show can once again be funny, if only it will stop preaching at us.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-50-snl-should-drop-woke-get-back-joke
— Department of Education warns that public schools must remove DEI policies or lose federal funding. ‘Institutions that fail to comply with federal civil rights law may, consistent with applicable law, face potential loss of federal funding,’ the letter reads.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/department-education-warns-public-schools-must-remove-dei-policies-lose-federal-funding
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Wheaton College Is Abandoning Its Conservative Alumni
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/02/wheaton-college-is-abandoning-its-conservative-alumni/
NEW AMERICAN
— Universities Get Rich Off Illegal Migrants; 408,000 Currently Enrolled (COMMENT: UIC accepted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992, but from what I see, if there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, they would have been accepted instead of me.)
https://thenewamerican.com/us/universities-get-rich-off-illegal-migrants-408000-currently-enrolled/
NEWS BUSTERS
— CNN Lets Pro-Gay Activist Complain About Trump on Transgenders
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2025/02/15/trying-erase-cnn-lets-pro-gay-activist-complain-about-trump
NEWSMAX
— Dems Tie the Hands of Law Enforcement
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/law-enforcement-dems/2025/02/15/id/1199228/
TOWNHALL
— Here Are the Top DOGE Takedowns So Far (COMMENT: By far, Newt Gingrich’s biggest takedown was GAO. I was collateral damage.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/02/15/doge-week-round-up-n2652105#google_vignette
TRUMP VANCE
— Should I authorize Elon Musk & D.O.G.E. to audit the IRS? (COMMENT: I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years while I was at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,661/year. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.)
https://secure.winred.com/trump-national-committee-jfc/lp-hf-email-presidential-poll-v6
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
YAHOO
— Wall Street’s diversity dilemma deepens as JPMorgan’s Dimon sounds off on ‘stupid’ DEI expenses
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-streets-diversity-dilemma-deepens-as-jpmorgans-dimon-sounds-off-on-stupid-dei-expenses-143000294.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— White South Africans gather in support of Trump and his claims that they are victims of racism (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will come down on Americans whose ancestors homesteaded. My ancestors on my father’s side homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete Township in 1854.)
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2025/02/15/south-africa-trump-supporters/78739407007/
CBS NEWS
— Trump tours updated Boeing plane to highlight delay in delivery of new Air Force One
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-air-force-one-tour-boeing/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Charlie Kirk
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/magazine/charlie-kirk-american-right.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their manipulation and domination of religious leaders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/us/trump-usaid-christian-aid.html
WASHINGTON POST
— ICE struggles to boost arrest numbers despite infusion of resources. Trump has ordered a wartime effort to increase deportations, but ICE statistics show arrests have dipped so far this month.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/15/ice-arrests-immigration-deportations/
— Scholz blasts Vance’s support for Germany’s far right. Some see the Trump administration actively promoting political extremism in the West. (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, since 1999, RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have demonized me, denigrated, and condemned me as being far-right, as being an extremist.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/15/vance-germany-afd-scholz-weidel-far-right/
USA TODAY
— Fired federal workers say ‘cold and cruel’ cuts upended their lives (COMMENT: My cold/cruel/nasty/vicious Democrat GAO superiors forced me retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Before that, they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS. Before that, my cold/cruel/nasty/vicious Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions, and disallowed my travel vouchers. Before that, my cold/cruel/nasty/vicious Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign and before that, disallowed my sick leave requests.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/16/federal-workers-trump-musk-firings/78728081007/
WEST ORLANDO NEWS
— Florida Senator Rick Scott and Republicans Introduce Dismantle DEI Act (COMMENT: What are the Republican elected officials who represent you in your county, township, municipality, and school district doing to fight DEI?)
https://westorlandonews.com/florida-senator-rick-scott-and-republicans-introduce-dismantle-dei-act/
STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS
— Musk’s DOGE pays visit to IRS as millions file tax returns (COMMENT: I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years while I was at the GS-13 Step1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,661/year. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.)
https://san.com/cc/elon-musks-doge-pays-visit-to-irs-as-millions-file-tax-returns/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Musk’s cost-cutting agency is reviewing the IRS’s operations. DOGE is focusing on reducing non-essential contracts and scrutinizing the agency’s expanded workforce. Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Ron Wyden, have criticized Musk’s efforts.)
FORBES
— ‘It Can’t Be America Alone’: Hegseth Touts Work With Allies To Counter ‘Ascendant Chinese Threat’ (COMMENT: In WWIII, which countries will side with China against America? They will include those countries that are a) sending their citizens into America illegally and/or b) are keeping their citizens in America illegally.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLpL4__2Ql8
FINANCIAL REVIEW
— As Trump tries to kill DEI, Labor moves to lock it in
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/as-trump-tries-to-kill-dei-labor-moves-to-lock-it-in-20250212-p5lblw
INDIA TODAY
— Return Of ‘DUNKIS’: Two Flights With Deported Indian Illegals From US To Land In Amritsar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te8bJPi9mH4
— Legs chained, hands cuffed: Indian deportee on 2nd US flight recounts ordeal
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/us-migrant-flight-illegal-indian-immigrants-deportee-claims-legs-chained-hands-cuffed-military-plane-amrtisar-2680787-2025-02-16
TIMES OF INDIA
— Trump Blasts ‘Woke’ U.S. Media In Rare Joint Interview With Elon Musk
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/theyve-failed-trump-blasts-woke-u-s-media-in-rare-joint-interview-with-elon-musk/videoshow/118286894.cms
SKY NEWS
— Democrats used to promote integration, but now they promote segregation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txOCBET5Ij4
February 14, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump administration begins mass layoffs across multiple federal agencies (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, the agency ever-increasingly shrank because of Republican-led budget cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors ever-increasingly punished me for that. I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. GAO audits IRS. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 let me transfer from IRS when I was 31 years old, but only if I took a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars. They could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications included having a) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, c) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, and d) 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. To further punish me for Republican-led budget cuts, my Democrat GAO superiors a) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-begins-mass-layoffs-multiple-federal-agencies-sources/15903559/
NBC5
— Local businesses concerned about DEI rollbacks as Illinois AG releases guidance (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/local-businesses-concerned-about-dei-rollbacks-as-illinois-ag-releases-guidance/3674153/
FOX32
— Trump’s Illinois approval rating: New poll sheds light on president’s favorability (COMMENT: How strongly do the following approve of Trump: a) the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county, township, and ward party organizations, b) the Republican leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district, c) the Republican candidates on the April 1 ballot in your precinct, and d) your Republican Precinct Committeeman?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-illinois-approval-rating-new-poll
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Donald Trump’s approval rating in Illinois stands at 45%, slightly higher than his election day numbers. Trump’s support grew in suburban Cook County and the collar counties but remained steady in Chicago. The poll highlights a gender gap and varied opinions on Trump’s early policy moves.)
— Durbin slams RFK Jr. as ‘unqualified, unfit, and dangerous’ after health secretary confirmation
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-senator-slams-rfk-jr-unqualified-unfit-dangerous-health-secretary
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Brandon Johnson, brooking no diversity of opinion, summons his inner Donald Trump. Chicago’s mayor is taking precisely the wrong lessons from his administrative failures
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/editorial-brandon-johnson-donald-trump-loyalty/
— Democrats ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/opinion-dei-trump-administration-free-speech/
— Reader: Illinois should follow President Donald Trump’s example and cut the waste (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs oppose cutting government waste because Democrats and RINOs benefit from government waste. Democrats and RINOs do not want Republicans like me to fight government waste. GAO fights government waste. I would not have survived as a GAO Analyst for almost 18 years 1980-1997 if I had not a) earned master’s degrees in business in 1976, in accounting in 1980, and in finance in 1997, b) passed on my first attempt the CPA examination in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981, c) became a licensed CPA in 1981, d) became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and e) worked for IRS for almost 9 years 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/13/letters-021325/
— Mayor Johnson’s public food market idea leaves us hungry for details
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/13/editorial-mayor-johnsons-public-market-idea-leaves-us-hungry-for-details/
— What to know about the federal workforce under President Trump (COMMENT: GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized in 1997, I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/13/president-trump-federal-workforce-explainer/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The civilian federal workforce, not including military personnel and postal workers, comprises about 2.4 million people. While a chunk of federal workers, about 20%, are in Washington, D.C., and the neighboring states of Maryland and Virginia, more than 80% are distributed outside the region. . .Civil servants are the vast majority of federal workers. They’re generally hired through an application process and have strong protections once in their positions. Political appointees, who number roughly 4,000, serve at the discretion of the president and can be dismissed at will by the chief executive. . .“Civil servants tend to be in their jobs as careers, some of them for decades,” said Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who worked in President Bill Clinton’s Democratic administration when about 426,000 federal jobs were cut over more than eight years in a deliberative effort aimed at reinventing government. . .It’s not easy to fire the vast majority of federal workers — they have considerable job security with a long legal history. Federal employees who are not political appointees have strong protections designed to prevent political whims from clearing out the workforce. The protections have grown over time, under leadership of both major political parties. “The president definitely has his work cut out for him,” said Donald Kettl, a professor emeritus and former dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Federal workers are entitled to due process, which means they can challenge disciplinary actions through a formal process. They have to be notified of the allegations against them and allowed to respond and present their side. “You have to build a record to fire somebody, and that doesn’t often happen,” Kamarck said. . .Federal workers have union representation, but, unlike those of many industries, they do not have the power to strike. Federal workers also can’t bargain over pay, because salaries are set in law. Federal unions can bargain over working conditions and basic protections for their members. Recently, unions have battled over remote working conditions, which they’ve successfully bargained for in the past and Trump is working to sharply reduce. “There also are some limits about what they can bargain over, so, for example, they can’t bargain over what the policy of their agency is,” Super said. “That’s a matter for the political process to work out, but they can bargain for things that affect workers on their jobs and their well-being.”)
— Trump administration begins sweeping layoffs with probationary workers, warns of larger cuts to come (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors and supervisors were furious that they could not use probationary employee procedures to get rid of me because I had already survived my probationary period when I worked for IRS.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/13/trump-administration-lays-off-probationary-workers/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump, pensions, health care among pressure points as Gov. JB Pritzker crafts state budget. Uncertainty in federal funding under President Donald Trump’s administration has made a tough state budget season even more difficult for Gov. JB Pritzker and Illinois Democrats who control Springfield.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2025/02/14/jb-pritzker-budget-proposal-donald-trump
— Aviation, COPA chiefs out after Johnson vows to purge disloyal staff (COMMENT: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty and 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 coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/02/13/aviation-commissioner-retiring-jamie-rhee-ohare-midway-mayor-brandon-johnson-clean-house
DAILY HERALD
— EDITORIAL: Removing Henry Hyde’s name from Wheaton courthouse feels petty. Because it is.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250213/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-removing-henry-hydes-name-from-wheaton-courthouse-feels-petty-because-it-is/
— Elgin moves to ban sale of THC products (COMMENT: Money spent on THC products, booze, gambling, prostitution, and other vices is money not spent on pot.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250213/news/elgin-moves-to-ban-sale-of-thc-products/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use illegals and students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250213/news/this-is-a-safe-environment-amid-fears-of-deportation-sweeps-schools-work-to-protect-students/
CARROLL COUNTY NEWS
— Early voting begins for April 1 election (COMMENT: What offices are on the April 1 ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates? Which ones are Republican?)
https://www.mycarrollcountynews.com/news/article_b1cc4bac-ea21-11ef-a282-2ff1c3444292.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— The more demographics that voters have who vote for Republicans, the more that Democrats and RINOs discriminate against those voters. Demographics that vote for Republicans include: conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-given-christianitys-dominance-in-us-trump-raises-eyebrows-with-anti-christian-bias-initiative/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump administration was set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-12/trump-administration-was-set-to-purchase-400-million-worth-of-armored-teslas
— Trump hired Musk as a special federal employee. Here is what that means. (COMMENT: I was just a regular federal employee. But notwithstanding tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors to waste my career and to get rid of me, I survived for almost 18 years and got promoted to GS-13 Step 10, currently $153,151 year.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-13/trump-hired-musk-as-a-special-government-employee-heres-what-that-means
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-02-13/statewide-counting-the-unhoused
— A federal worker tried to take Trump’s ‘Fork’ resignation offer. Here’s what happened
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-14/a-federal-worker-tried-to-take-trumps-fork-resignation-offer-heres-what-happened
— Immigration poll shows growing support for restrictions, but deep divisions remain (COMMENT: Democrats want immigrants because immigrants vote for Democrats. RINOs want immigrants because RINOs want cheap labor.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-14/immigration-poll-shows-growing-support-for-restrictions-but-deep-divisions-remain
NPR ILLINOIS & WEEK
— As Chicago strengthens immigrant protections, downstate officials split on sanctuary laws (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, those who are the following are discriminated against by Republicans and protected by Democrats: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, in America illegally, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-02-13/as-chicago-strengthens-immigrant-protections-downstate-officials-split-on-sanctuary-laws
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/02/13/chicago-strengthens-immigrant-protections-downstate-officials-split-sanctuary-laws/
WAND TV
— Attorney General Raoul joins coalition proving DEI guidance for businesses (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote discrimination.)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/attorney-general-raoul-joins-coalition-proving-guidance-for-businesses-on-diversity-and-inclusion/article_7d3937ce-ea3f-11ef-8955-0341fccb6b8c.html
RUSS STEWART
— DEMOCRATS BESEECH SEN. DURBIN: TIME TO STEP ASIDE IN 2026
http://www.russstewart.com/articles/2025/01-29-25.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-456/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-248/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ever-increasing, when push comes to shove, Democrats and RINOs make it clear that they are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago Public Schools is so corrupted, both morally and financially, that it begs for an intervention like DOGE
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-public-schools-is-so-corrupted-both-morally-and-financially-that-it-begs-for-an-intervention-like-doge-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Illinois State Corporate Tax Rate Second Highest in the Nation, How the Personal Property Tax Made It So and How It Could Have Been (and Still Could Be) Different?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/13/illinois-state-corporate-tax-rate-second-highest-in-the-nation-how-the-personal-property-tax-made-it-so-and-how-it-could-have-been-and-still-could-be-different/
— Crystal Lake Grade School District Follows Cary’s Lead on Possible Contacts with ICE
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/13/crystal-lake-grade-school-district-follows-carys-lead-on-possible-contacts-with-ice/
— DuPage Appearance of Lara Trump Sponsored by McHenry County GOPAC
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/13/dupage-appearance-of-lara-trump-sponsored-by-mchenry-county-gopac/
— Movie Tentatively Titled “The Lottery” Being Shot in McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/13/movie-tentatively-titled-the-lottery-being-shot-in-mchenry-county/
— Reick Explains Attack on Home Schooling, Plus Private Schools
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/13/reick-explains-attack-on-home-schooling-plus-private-schools/
— Salvi Name Still Potent in Northwest Suburbs, But Joe Salvi No Longer Seeking the Senate Appointment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/13/salvi-name-still-potent-in-northwest-suburbs/
— Madigan Loses $13,170 Monthly Pension
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/13/madigan-loses-13170-monthly-pension/
— Three McHenry County Nursing Homes Fined by Illinois Public Health Department
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/13/three-mchenry-county-nursing-homes-fined-by-illinois-public-health-department/
— Chinese Companies Indicted for Trade Secret Theft from Aurora Company
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/13/chinese-companies-indicted-for-trade-secret-theft-from-aurora/
— $1.5 Million Food Stamp, that is, SNAP Fraud
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/13/1-5-million-food-stamp-that-is-snap-fraud/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s spending pause exposes extreme reach of federal government. Uncle Sam pays for up to 40% of states’ expenses. (COMMENT: To what extent are those in the following dependent on government spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/13/trump-spending-pause-exposes-extreme-reach-federal/
NEW YOR POST
— AOC shares tips on how illegal immigrants can evade ICE: ‘Do not open your door’
https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/aoc-shares-tips-on-how-illegal-immigrants-can-evade-ice-do-not-open-your-door/
BREITBART
— Former GAO Head David Walker: What DOGE Is Doing ‘Needs to Be Done,’ But Needs More Transparency (COMMENT: Who does Trump want the next head of GAO to be? Walker headed GAO 1998-2008. Walker could have, but he did not a) rescind GAO’s forcing me to retire in 1997 or b) settle Diersen v. GAO. Therefore, Walker further promoted patronage, political affiliation, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in GAO.)
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/02/12/fmr-gao-head-what-doge-is-doing-needs-to-be-done-but-needs-more-transparency/
— New York ‘Doing Everything They Should Do’ by Tipping Off Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/02/13/hispanic-caucus-chair-new-york-doing-everything-they-should-do-by-tipping-off-illegals/
— New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D): ‘We Need’ Illegals Who Haven’t Committed Further Crimes, ‘That Is Part of Who We Are’ (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Of course, illegals say that under Biden’s policies, they came into America “legally” and/or that they are staying in America “legally.”)
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/02/14/adams-we-need-illegals-who-havent-committed-further-crimes-that-is-part-of-who-we-are/
— Hegseth: Woke Generals ‘Will Have a Different Job in Due Time’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/13/exclusive-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-woke-generals-have-different-job/
EPOCH TIMES
— IRS to Be Audited by DOGE. IRS collects trillions in taxes. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders do not want Republicans to audit IRS. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO on audits of the Democrats who ran IRS for 3 years 1986-1988 while I was at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,661/year. I had worked for the Democrats who ran IRS for almost 9 years 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I agreed to take a $23,472/year pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, that is, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10, because the Republican GAO Staff Manager (Bill) who had arranged the transfer promised me that he would assign me to audits of IRS and that he would rapidly promote me back to GS-12 Step 5 and then to GS-13. But my Democrat GAO superiors immediately replaced Bill with a nasty/vicious Democrat Staff Manager (Dave) who despised Republicans and especially Republicans who shared my demographics. Dave kept me off audits of IRS, gave me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, and delayed my promotions back to GS-12 Step 5. But then, in 1985, Dave had to have major heart surgery and go on extended sick leave because of his heavy drinking. That enabled Bill to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me to GS-13 in 1986. But then, Dave came back from sick leave and a) forced Bill to retire in 1987, b) threw me off audits of IRS in late 1988, c) gave me an extremely bad job assignment and unfair performance expectations and appraisal in 1989, and d) ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance (PFP) purposes in 1989. But thankfully, Dave’s efforts to get rid of me moderated because my Congressman Henry Hyde came to my defense. But Dave nevertheless succeeded in a) keeping me off audits of IRS for the rest of my GAO career, b) always ranking me in the bottom of my coworkers for PFP, and c) forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. If Dave had not taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me that he did, I would have always been assigned to audits of IRS and I would have been promoted to GS-13 sooner and then to GS-14, currently $139,211-$180,974/year, and then to GS-15, currently $163,749-$195,200/year, and then to Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/irs-to-be-audited-by-doge-trump-says-5809719
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The IRS will be audited by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), President Donald Trump said on Feb. 13. “The Internal Revenue Service will be looked at like everybody else,” Trump told reporters at the White House in Washington. He said that just about every federal agency will be examined by DOGE, led by billionaire Elon Musk. “They’re doing a hell of a job. It’s an amazing job they’re doing,” Trump said. “I call it the force of super-geniuses, but it’s building, and you know they go up, and they talk to some of the people about certain deals, and they get all tongue-tied because these people get it. They’re very smart people. We need smart people.” The IRS declined to comment on the remarks. Trump was responding to a question about how DOGE reportedly arrived at the IRS on Thursday and whether he wanted to close the IRS. Trump said he did not expect the IRS, which is currently processing 2024 taxes, to be shuttered. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said on social media platform X, owned by Musk, that his office has heard that DOGE is at the IRS. “That means Musk’s henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America. And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason,” Wyden said. After DOGE accessed U.S. Department of Treasury payment systems earlier in the year, a group of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives wrote to the acting IRS commissioner asking what confidential information DOGE had requested from the IRS and how many taxpayers had had their confidential information accessed by DOGE. Separately on Thursday, senior IRS executives were instructed to identify all contracts that were nonessential for termination, according to an internal email. The email said that the General Services Administration (GSA), which manages most government contracts, is demanding they review consulting contracts under their purview and determine whether they can be justified. The GSA deems a contract nonessential if it “merely generates a report, research, coaching, or an artifact,” the email says. “Consistent with the goals and directives of the Trump administration to eliminate waste, reduce spending, and increase efficiency, GSA has taken the first steps in a government-wide initiative to eliminate non-essential consulting contracts.” The GSA did not respond to a request for comment by publication time.)
FEDERALIST
— Advocating For Asylum Seekers Made Me Less Sympathetic To Illegal Migrants
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/14/advocating-for-asylum-seekers-made-me-less-sympathetic-to-illegal-migrants/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— AOC Webinar Teaches Illegal Immigrants How to Avoid ICE Deportation
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-webinar-teaches-illegal-immigrants-how-to-avoid-ice-deportation/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Homan: “AOC Is Going To Be In Trouble Now” For Delivering Webinar On How Illegals Can Evade ICE Apprehension
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/02/13/tom_homan_aoc_is_going_to_be_in_trouble_now_for_delivering_webinar_on_how_illegals_can_evade_ice_apprehension.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— RAHM EMANUEL JOINS CNN
https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2025/02/13/rahm-emanuel-joins-cnn-as-senior-political-and-global-affairs-commentator/
REUTERS
— Thousands fired in US government as Trump, Musk purge federal workers (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, the agency ever-increasingly shrank because of Republican-led budget cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors ever-increasingly punished me for that. I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. GAO audits IRS. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 let me transfer from IRS when I was 31 years old, but only if I took a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars. They could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications included having a) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, c) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, and d) 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. To further punish me for Republican-led budget cuts, my Democrat GAO superiors a) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mass-firings-federal-workers-begin-trump-musk-purge-us-government-2025-02-13/
CBS NEWS
— U.S. is deporting African and Asian migrants to Panama in diplomatic breakthrough
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-deportations-panama-african-asian-migrants/
NEW YORK TMES
— Democrats say “Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trump-college-academia-woke.html
USA TODAY
— Musk, Trump degrade federal workers as they put them out of work. It’s sadistic. (COMMENT: What is your opinion of federal employees? From what I see, employers and just about everyone else have a negative opinion of past, present, and future federal employees. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/12/elon-musk-donald-trump-federal-workers-jobs-cruelty/78428472007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump’s EEOC Firing Will Likely Prevail in Court. The justices’ precedents imply that he has the power to dismiss officials of ‘independent’ agencies. (COMMENT: How has EEOC impacted you? I became an IRS Revenue Officer when I was 22 years old in 1971 because my Firestone Store boss had rudely fired me. He did that because I had told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/youre-fired-trump-says-the-justices-will-likely-agree-officials-dismissed-supreme-court-precedent-9b40b529
— Trump Layoffs Push Federal Workers Into Tough Job Hunt. Companies have pulled back on white-collar hiring, limiting options for government workers. (COMMENT: What is your opinion of federal employees? From what I see, employers and just about everyone else have a negative opinion of past, present, and future federal employees. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years.)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/federal-workers-jobs-doge-37b761cd
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Trump administration’s effort to slash the federal workforce is pushing employees into a challenging job market, where their age and lack of corporate experience can hold them back. Federal workers are also facing an environment where hiring for white-collar jobs has slowed. Despite the availability of state and local government jobs, many of these positions take place outside offices and aren’t a good match for federal workers’ experience.)
FORBES
— Jamie Dimon Reportedly Says He’ll Cut Some ‘Stupid’ DEI Costs At JPMorgan Chase (COMMENT: If Affirmative Action and DEI had been implemented earlier/faster, Dimon would have made to where he is now.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/13/jamie-dimon-reportedly-says-hell-cut-some-stupid-dei-costs-at-jpmorgan-chase-here-are-all-the-companies-rolling-back-dei/
FORTUNE
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://fortune.com/2025/02/14/companies-rolling-back-changing-dei-meta-target-fortune-500-diversity-equity-inclusion-policies/
HUFFINGTON POST
— Ever-increasingly, since the 1960s, the Democrats who run the federal government have used Affirmative Action and DEI a) to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, and/or younger and b) to get rid of their Republican employees who are White, male, and/or older.
https://www.aol.com/trump-trying-federal-workforce-whiter-003612069.html
ECONOMIC TIMES & NDTV
— “Will Take Back Verified Illegals”: PM Modi On Illegal Immigrants | PM Modi’s US Visit (COMMENT: How many of those who are in America illegally share you national origin?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqg2zhKkSUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSm7bjhqMMA
INDIA TODAY
— Impact of US immigration raids on Indians: What visa applicants need to know. Many Indians planning to relocate to the United States have been left anxious after Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegals. As deportation of undocumented immigrants continues, here’s how people applying for work visas can avoid complications.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/impact-of-us-immigration-raids-on-indians-what-visa-applicants-need-to-know-2679998-2025-02-14
GUARDIAN
— Trump administration sparks outcry as it continues to gut federal workforce. Major union as well as federal worker advocacy group condemn moves to fire probationary employees as thousands told to leave.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/feb/14/trump-musk-federal-government-layoffs-jd-vance-ukraine-latest
February 8, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Aurora mayoral candidates share their views on city issues at forum (COMMENT: What are the issues in your township, municipality, and school district?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/aurora-mayoral-candidates-share-their-views-on-city-issues-at-forum/
— Donald Trump orders freeze of aid to South Africa citing country’s land expropriation law
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/07/trump-freeze-aid-south-africa/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/community-leaders-speak-out-under-little-village-arch-hundreds-rally-for-day-of-love-and-resistance/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/nonprofit-warns-of-vigilantism-against-migrants-after-skokie-family-receives-deportation-threats/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/02/07/trump-immigration-executive-order-refugees-resettlement-united-nations-stop-work-order
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/07/illinois-jb-pritzker-revenue-squeeze-trump-congressional-gop-cut-medicaid-expansion-rich-miller
DAILY HEARLD
— Democrats far outspent GOP rivals in suburban U.S. House races — none more than Raja Krishnamoorthi (COMMENT: What discourages you from giving money to Republican candidates? For me, it includes my having less money. In today’s dollars, my federal pension a) is only 44% of what my GAO salary was in 1997 and b) less than what my IRS salary was in 1972. Further, my Social Security is dramatically less because I get a federal pension. Further, far too many unsuccessful Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did much to help elect blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250208/us-congress-politics/democrats-far-outspent-gop-rivals-in-suburban-u-s-house-races-none-more-than-raja-krishnamoorthi/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican candidates in northeast Illinois struggle to compete financially with their rivals across the aisle. Of the eight Republican congressional candidates who ran in the suburbs last year, the 10th District’s Jim Carris of Lake Forest spent the most — nearly $681,000. The campaign spending totals for four others — Rice in the 8th District plus James Marter in the 14th, Jerry Evans in the 11th and Niki Conforti in the 6th — were lower in the six-figure range. Ramirez’s GOP challenger in the 3rd District, John Booras, spent less than $40,000 on his campaign; the 9th District’s Seth Cohen spent less than $8,000 on his race. Postelection and year-end reports weren’t available for 5th District GOP candidate Tommy Hanson.)
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250208/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-in-defense-of-dei-the-phrase-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-may-sound-unga/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250207/nation-and-world-politics/latino-evangelical-churches-gear-up-to-face-possible-immigration-enforcement-in-churches/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois revs up more EV incentives amid uncertain fate of federal rebates
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-revs-more-ev-incentives-amid-federal-uncertainties
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more gambling.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/illinois-generates-17-billion-casino-tax-revenue
ABC7
— Trump announces plans to gut the Kennedy Center board, appoint himself chairman
https://abc7chicago.com/post/kennedy-center-president-donald-trump-says-hes-firing-board-trustees-members-naming-himself-chairman/15882171/
— Trump official’s directive tying transportation grants to birth rates could hinder blue states
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-birth-rates-state-donald-trump-transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-circulates-memo-tying-grants-marriage/15881663/
— Chicago Auto Show 2025: Doors open for Day 1 at McCormick Place
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-auto-show-2025-doors-open-saturday-morning-mccormick-place/15881013/
WGN TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/little-village-protest-trump-deportations/
— Illinois faces funding cut-off for electric vehicle charging stations; Pritzker vows to fight back
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/illinois-ev-funding-cuts/
FOX32
— Time magazine cover puts Elon Musk behind Trump’s desk
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/time-magazine-elon-musk-trump-desk
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/06/illinois-farm-workers-consumers-alert-amid-mass-deportation-threats
WBEZ
— Lurie Children’s Hospital pauses gender care surgeries for those younger than 19. The move comes after President Donald Trump’s executive order that said the federal government would not support these procedures.
https://www.wbez.org/2025/02/07/lurie-childrens-hospital-pauses-gender-care-surgeries-for-those-younger-than-19
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-policies-on-gender-affirming-care-and-passports-for-transgender-people-challenged-in-court/article_a7b7c426-ae4e-58d7-934b-d7c89861987a.html
SOUTHERN
— Here are all the agencies that Elon Musk and DOGE have been trying to dismantle so far
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/08/here-are-all-the-agencies-that-elon-musk-and-doge-have-been-trying-to-dismantle-so-far/
EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/donald-trump-protest-edwardsville-il-20154122.php
WIFR
— Democrat leaders get high school students to promote more illegal immigration
https://www.wifr.com/gallery/2025/02/08/jefferson-high-schoolers-protest-trumps-immigration-policies/
EFFINGHAM RADIO
— IL House Leader McCombie Demands Transparency And Accountability On Immigration
https://www.effinghamradio.com/2025/02/08/il-house-leader-mccombie-demands-transparency-and-accountability-on-immigration/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-245/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders will use their mainstream news media a) to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, b) to demonize, denigrate, and condemn the Republican Party platform, c) to elect Democrat candidates, and d) to defeat Republican candidates. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Crystal Laker Trevor Keegan in Super Bowl
mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/crystal-laker-trevor-keegan-in-super-bowl/
— Blago Being Talked about as Trump Pick for Ambassador to Serbia
https://wwwhttps://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/blago-being-talked-about-as-trump-pick-for-ambassador-to-serbia/
— Lakemoor Refuses Comment on $40 Million Illegal Search and Seizure Hemp Suit
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/lakemoor-refuses-comment-on-40-million-illegal-search-and-seizure-hemp-suit/
— Pritzker Flips on No New Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/pritzker-flips-on-no-new-taxes/
— Tariffs and How Value Added Taxes Are “Backdoor Tariffs”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/tariffs-and-how-value-added-taxes-are-backdoor-tariffs/
— Correcting County Administrator Pete Austin’s Salary Information — Seeking 5.3% Raise
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/correcting-county-administrator-pete-austins-salary-information/
— Major “Sin” Tax Brings in $1.5 Billion
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/major-sin-tax-brings-in-1-5-billion/
— Schakowsky on Trump’s Early Days as President
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/schakowsky-on-trumps-early-days-as-president/
— Pritzker Purports to Re-Name Lake Michigan “Lake Illinois”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/pritzker-purports-to-re-name-lake-michigan-lake-illinois/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump says DOGE will look into more federal agencies (COMMENTL Will DOGE look into GAO?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/7/trump-says-doge-look-federal-agencies/
— Alaska lawmakers officially oppose Trump’s push to change Denali to Mount McKinley
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/8/alaska-lawmakers-officially-oppose-trump-push-chan/
— Russia is using Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to create a migration crisis. The axis of evil is sending masses of illegal immigrants to flood the southwest border.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/6/russia-using-cuba-nicaragua-venezuela-create-migra/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump ordered Secret Service to provide ‘every bit of information’ on would-be assassins
https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/us-news/trump-ordered-secret-service-to-provide-every-bit-of-information-on-would-be-assassins/
BAPTIST NEWS
— Remember that time Wheaton College congratulated Russell Vought?
https://baptistnews.com/article/remember-that-time-wheaton-college-congratulated-russell-vought/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Want to know how controversial it was for Russell Vought to be confirmed by the Senate as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget? Just ask Wheaton College, where Vought earned a bachelor’s degree. On Friday, Feb. 7, the Christian college posted a note on its Facebook page with Vought’s photo saying, “Wheaton College congratulates and prays for 1998 graduate Russell Vought regarding his senatorial confirmation to serve as the White House Director of the Office of Management and Budget!” Then the alumni base of the Illinois school began to vent their disdain for Vought and their disbelief that their alma mater would highlight someone responsible for creating Project 2025 and saying he wants to make federal employees so miserable they all quit — among other things. By Saturday morning, the post was removed from Facebook.)
DAILY WIRE
— Wheaton College Caves to Woke Mob, Apologizes For Congratulating Alum In Trump Admin. Wheaton College posted, and then retracted, a message congratulating Russ Vought on his confirmation to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/christian-college-caves-to-woke-mob-apologizes-for-congratulating-alum-in-trump-admin
FOX NEWS
— Hegseth to look into ‘what went wrong’ in Afghanistan and pledges accountability, slams diversity motto. ‘We will find strength in unity,’ not diversity, Hegseth says.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hegseth-look-what-went-wrong-afghanistan-pledges-accountability-slams-diversity-motto
— Teachers express fears as Trump strips federal funding for schools teaching CRT. ‘Every teacher I’ve talked to is completely freaked out by it,’ one retired teacher told The Boston Globe.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/teachers-express-fears-trump-strips-federal-funding-schools-teaching-crt
NEWSMAX
— Time for Homan to Decisively Act on Defiant Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/homan-cbs-ice/2025/02/08/id/1198327/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-rights-lawsuits-challenge-trump-policies/
WASHINGTON POST
— Attacks on Catholics, Lutherans suggest new Trump approach on religion. Allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, and questioning their efforts to help migrants.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/08/catholic-lutheran-vance-flynn-musk-trump/
— Trump says some white South Africans are oppressed, could be resettled in the US. They say no thanks. Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority have responded to a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, but no thanks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/08/trump-south-africa-afrikaners/ac037124-e633-11ef-ab83-bb30e4340014_story.html
REASON
— America’s enemies want mass immigration.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/02/08/trumps-cruel-assault-on-legal-immigration/
February 8, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Pritzker responds to ‘garbage’ DOJ lawsuit over sanctuary city policies
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-responds-garbage-doj-lawsuit-sanctuary-city-policies/15877508/
— Blagojevich may take role as U.S. ambassador to Serbia
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-illinois-governor-rod-blagojevich-may-take-role-trump-administration-us-ambassador-serbia-politico-report/15879085/
FOX32
— Blagojevich may be considered for Trump Administration role
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/rod-blagojevich-may-be-considered-trump-administration-role-report-says
WTTW
— ‘Get out of the way’: Salvi calls on Pritzker to work with Trump administration
https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/illinois-gop-chair-salvi-tells-pritzker-to-work-with-trump
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/a-chicagoans-journey-through-incarceration-deportation-and-the-fight-for-a-new-path/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker trolls Trump with faux Illinois annexation of Green Bay, renaming of Lake Michigan. Pritzker took Trump’s stated desire to take over Greenland as a cue to sarcastically announce “Illinois will now be annexing Green Bay to protect itself against enemies, foreign and domestic.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/02/07/pritzker-lake-illinois-green-bay-video-trump
— Trump says he’s firing Kennedy Center board members, naming himself chairman. Trump also indicated he would be dictating programming at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions, writing on his social media website that the current board members “do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/02/07/trump-firing-kennedy-center-board-trustees-members-naming-himself-chairman
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/02/05/chicago-immigration-lyons-elgin-trump-ice-raids-border-wall-immigration-know-your-rights
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250207/news/conant-high-students-walk-out-to-protest-deportations/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker takes aim at Team Trump over immigration — and Lake Illinois
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-goes-trump-bondi-over-immigration-lawsuit
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Pritzker pokes fun at Trump, jokes he’s renaming Lake Michigan
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/02/07/poking-fun-at-trump-pritzker-moves-to-annex-green-bay/78340045007/
STATELINE
— Illinois bill would remove student performance from teacher reviews (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly attract marginalized students to Illinois.)
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-bill-would-remove-how-students-perform-from-teacher-reviews/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump is signing up local law officers to help with immigration enforcement (COMMENT: Hopefully, the leaders of your county and municipal law enforcement agencies have signed up to help with immigration enforcement.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-is-signing-up-local-law-officers-to-help-with-immigration-enforcement/
WAND TV
— Trump is signing up local law officers to help with immigration enforcement. Republican lawmakers in about dozen states are advancing proposals that could aid President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-is-signing-up-local-law-officers-to-help-with-immigration-enforcement/article_a672a2e8-4544-5594-835c-92b4afc3ee43.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump supporters welcome the first steps in his immigration crackdown
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-07/trump-supporters-welcome-the-first-steps-in-his-immigration-crackdown
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-245/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Update on discrimination lawsuits against Bally’s Chicago and City of Chicago
https://wirepoints.org/update-on-discrimination-lawsuits-against-ballys-chicago-and-city-of-chicago-wirepoints/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Advocate warns ‘lack of community care’ around Obama library in Chicago
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_50582248-e327-11ef-a170-33f03845bdc0.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Answers Sought for Northeastern Illinois Transportation Survey
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/answers-sought-for-transportation-survey/
— Campaign Committees with State Board of Elections Fines Preventing Candidates from Running for Office Until Payment Made
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/campaign-committees-with-state-board-of-elections-fines-preventing-candidates-from-running-for-office-until-payment-made/
— Two Running Write-In Campaigns for Marengo Township Trustee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/two-running-write-in-campaigns-for-marengo-township-trustee/
— Pritzker Celebrates Pot Sales
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/06/pritzker-celebrates-pot-sales/
— McLaughlin Seeks to Emulate Other State’s Emulation of Trump’s DOGE
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/06/mclaughlin-seeks-to-emulate-other-states-emulation-of-trumps-doge/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— From what I see, to win elections going forward, Democrat leaders have decided to double down on promoting a) hatred against Trump and b) dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to the White House, 65,000 federal employees have accepted buyout offers. What is your position on buyouts and early retirement offers? In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of their older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976. If I was still working for GAO, that is, if my Democrat GAO superiors had not forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, a) I would not have gotten $1.8 million in Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension payments since 1997 in today’s dollars and b) I would have paid into the CSRS $286,262 (7% of my salary) in today’s dollar.)
— Trump has pledged to remove corrupt FBI agents. To remove me, my Democrat GAO superiors did not hint/imply/argue/shout that I was corrupt. But constructively, they hinted/implied/argued/shouted that because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, I was a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things. They had trouble hinting/implying/arguing/shouting that I was incompetent because I had a) become a licensed CPA, b) passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, c) earned four more job-related professional certifications, and d) earned three job-related master’s degrees. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— David Hogg has become the Democratic National Committee’s First Gen Z Vice Chair. If the following would establish a Vice Chair position for Baby Boomers, I would apply for it: Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. I would also apply for Vice Chair positions for conservatives, Whites, males, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are you or someone who you know interested in buying our Iron Gate Motor Condo in Naperville? If so, please let me know. My wife and I are considering buying a more expensive unit there. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump calls for ‘balanced budget’ after proposing tax cuts costing at least $5 trillion
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/7/donald-trump-calls-balanced-budget-proposing-tax-c/
— Immigrants took nearly 90% of new jobs since 2020 (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/7/immigrants-took-nearly-90-new-jobs-since-2020/
— Breaking free from the addiction to government schools. The state has only its best interests at heart.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/6/breaking-free-addiction-government-schools/
— Trump says he will name himself Kennedy Center board chair and impose programming changes
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/7/trump-says-name-kennedy-center-board-chair-impose-/
— Justice Department takes fight to sanctuary cities
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/7/trump-launches-multi-front-attack-sanctuary-polici/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Radical LGBT activists lash out over Trump protecting women’s sports
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/3314702/lgbt-activists-lash-out-trump-women-sports/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Top Biden EV Bus Maker Nears Bankruptcy, Leaving School Districts and Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars in Limbo. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin tells the Free Beacon he is ‘committed to delivering’ answers on green spending.
https://freebeacon.com/energy/bidens-favorite-ev-bus-maker-is-nearing-bankruptcy-and-producing-no-buses-leaving-tens-of-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars-in-limbo/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump appoints himself Kennedy Center chair, fires board members and blasts past drag shows ‘targeting’ children
https://nypost.com/2025/02/07/us-news/trump-to-purge-kennedy-center-board-of-trustees-and-make-himself-chairman/
— Here’s what’s really driving Donald Trump’s tariff threats
https://nypost.com/2025/02/07/opinion/heres-whats-really-driving-donald-trumps-tariff-threats/
BREITBART
— Newsom Signs $50 Million to Fight Trump — After Asking for Federal Aid for Fires
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/07/newsom-signs-50-million-to-fight-trump-after-asking-for-federal-aid-for-fires/
DAILY WIRE
— ICE Arrests 11,000 Illegal Aliens In First 18 Days Of Trump Administration. The Trump administration is working to expand ICE’s detention capacity.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-arrests-11000-illegal-aliens-in-first-18-days-of-trump-administration
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Revokes Biden’s Security Clearance, Bars Him From Intelligence Briefings. Biden had previously revoked Trump’s access to intelligence briefings after he took office, following the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-revokes-joe-bidens-security-clearance-bars-him-from-receiving-intelligence-briefings-5806401
FOX NEWS
— Frustrated Chicagoans back ICE deportations, applaud DOJ lawsuit targeting sanctuary policies. Vashon Tuncle tells ‘Ingraham Angle’ Trump, Homan have growing support from residents to crack down on migrants.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/frustrated-chicagoans-back-ice-deportations-applaud-doj-lawsuit-targeting-sanctuary-policies
— How Trump is uprooting radical ’60s foundations of poisonous DEI and CRT programs. There had been America haters in the past, but the ’60s was the decade when these ideas took root. (COMMENT: Since the 1960s, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of me.)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/how-trump-uprooting-radical-60s-foundations-poisonous-dei-crt-programs
— Bondi sends warning to sanctuary cities: ‘Comply or you’re next’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368429031112
MRC TV
— Woke Bishop Who Lectured Trump Got Tens of Millions of Taxpayers Dollars to ‘Resettle’ Migrants
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/nick-kangadis/woke-bishop-who-lectured-trump-got-tens-millions-taxpayers-dollars-resettle
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump’s administration is switching positions in a major Supreme Court case on transgender rights, backing away from the Biden administration’s opposition to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. (COMMENT: Under Bush, his DOJ backed the Democrats who ran GAO in Diersen v. GAO, that is, Bush backed political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. The Democrats who ran GAO would not have and could not have forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 if I had been a Democrat, minority, and/or female.)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/supreme-court-lgbtq-skrmetti-switch/index.html
REUTERS
— Trump administration for now not naming January 6 FBI agents, president wants some fired (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors fired me, that is, they forced me to retire, when I was 49 years old in 1997. My critics/opponents have always sided with my Democrat GAO superiors.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-receives-names-january-6-fbi-agents-2025-02-07/
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use courts to block Trump’s agenda
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-sweeping-agenda-hitting-legal-roadblocks-rcna191081
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/democratic-states-sue-trump-administration-order-halt-funding-gender-a-rcna191257
CBS NEWS
— Trolling Trump, Pritzker jokingly renames Lake Michigan, annexes Green Bay
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-joke-lake-michigan-lake-illinois-annex-green-bay/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Will Trump Be the President of Vice? (COMMENT: My critics/opponents promote vices big time. They are beyond furious that I stopped video gambling and the sale of pot in Wheaton.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/opinion/donald-trump-vice-voters.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While never a traditional Republican, Mr. Trump, in a second term, looks likely to go further than in his first in dumping many traditional Republican policies. In particular, Mr. Trump seems willing, even eager, to embrace vice. In his recent campaign, Mr. Trump embraced a strategy of social moderation. Not only did he loudly signal his opposition to hard-line anti-abortion policies, but he also endorsed marijuana legalization in Florida and was aligned with the Biden administration’s move to give pot a less restrictive legal status. And he embraced the crypto craze, starting his own cryptocurrency company. Mr. Trump’s moderation on pot, crypto — which some social conservatives see as closer to gambling than a serious investment — and other vices appears to have been part of a calculated effort to turn out young men, who, surveys suggest, helped propel him to victory. Pushing forward with liberalization in these areas could help establish vice voters as part of the new, post-Trump Republican coalition. But it would also have dangerous social consequences — consequences that could help fuel an already growing backlash against both Mr. Trump and addictive, harmful goods of all kinds. Mr. Trump’s cabinet picks indicate he could give these voters what they want. Take the issue of drugs. Mr. Kennedy, chosen to be the nation’s top health official, has supported federally legalizing marijuana. So has Matt Gaetz, Mr. Trump’s first, failed pick to be attorney general — and even with Mr. Gaetz’s name withdrawn, it signaled something striking, given that the attorney general can, after consulting with the health and human services secretary, reclassify controlled substances.)
— As Ground Shifts, ‘Flailing’ Democrats Struggle to Find Footing in Diversity Fight. President Trump’s aggressive moves against transgender rights and diversity, equity and inclusion programs have left the Democratic Party casting about for a strategy for how to respond.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/democrats-dei-trump.html
— Trump’s New Line of Attack Against the Media Gains Momentum. First Amendment experts say Mr. Trump’s lawsuits, based on an unproven legal theory, lack merit. But more could be on the way.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/business/media/trump-media-lawsuits.html
— Beyond overwhelmingly, mainstream journalists and reporters are Democrats who a) promote the Democrat Party platform and help elect Democrat candidates and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn the Republican Party platform and do everything they can to defeat Republican candidates.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/business/media/trump-musk-attack-journalists.html
— Hegseth Uses His First Town Hall to Attack Diversity (COMMENT: To promote diversity is to promote discrimination against, if not hatred against, those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/hegseth-pentagon-town-hall.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly reject a) Trump’s election, b) the rule of law, and c) America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/opinion/trump-power-surrender.html
— Musk Wields Scythe on Federal Work Force, With Trump’s Full Blessing. The president defended Elon Musk’s role in seeking to slash budgets and cut payrolls as the young aides burrowing into federal agencies came under scrutiny. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents had no problem with my Democrat superiors wasting my career and forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. In fact, they were and continue be overjoyed about it.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-pentagon.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/07/trump-transgender-care-lawsuit/
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/07/trump-dei-federal-government-discrimination/
USA TODAY
— Federal employees on Trump’s buyout offer: ‘The bridge is burned.’ (COMMENT: I succumbed to my Democrat GAO superiors’ threats and took their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997. If I had not done that, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement for 6 years. They made it all too clear to me that if I tried to work for those 6 years, they would make my life a living hell. The least of which would be demotions and adverse transfers,)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/08/why-federal-employees-accept-trumps-buyout/78295456007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Secession From Illinois Is in the Air. Multiple counties want to leave, and Indiana says come on over.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/illinois-counties-secession-vote-indiana-j-b-pritzker-todd-huston-5a93d624
— Politico Draws DOGE’s Ire, Signaling a Shakeout for Media with Major Government Customers. Elon Musk’s cost-cutting project flags more than $8 million in spending on the political publication. (COMMENT: GOPUSA ILLINOIS subscriptions are worth at least $5,000/year. But I send GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to anyone who wants them free of charge, without any advertising, and with no donation requests.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/politico-draws-doges-ire-signaling-a-shakeout-for-media-with-major-government-customers-8b4db480
FORTUNE
— America’s enemies ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to destroy America’s military.
https://fortune.com/well/2025/02/08/american-troops-fear-anxiety-trump-transgender-military-ban/
FORBES
— Bondi Targets DEI At Private Companies And Universities On Day One (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/06/ag-pam-bondi-targets-dei-at-private-companies-and-universities-on-day-one/
— Black History Month 2025: Moving Forward With Purpose And Impact (COMMENT: Democrat leaders promote Black History Month. My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and had always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonemorris/2025/02/07/black-history-month-2025-moving-forward-with-purpose-and-impact/
CLUB ALFA
— Dodge Charger Daytona wins 2025 MotorWeek Drivers’ Choice Award (COMMENT: I have ordered a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV.)
https://www.clubalfa.it/en/dodge-charger-daytona-and-ram-1500-win-the-2025-motorweek-drivers-choice-awards-16296
(FROM THE ARTICLE: John Davis, creator and host of MotorWeek, emphasized the uniqueness of the Charger Daytona: “This is the first time an all-electric model has won the Best Sport Coupe award. Dodge has kept its promise: buyers don’t have to compromise just because the classic HEMI V-8 has been replaced by electric propulsion.” Davis then added: “From the external design to the interior layout, to the virtual sounds that perfectly accompany its extraordinary acceleration, it almost feels like you can still hear the pushrod rhythm under the long, flat ’60s-style hood. The Charger Daytona is first and foremost an all-wheel-drive muscle car, and then an EV.”)
STELLANTIS
— All-new Dodge Charger Daytona Claims 2025 MotorWeek Drivers’ Choice Award
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/all-new-dodge-charger-daytona-ram-1500-claim-2025-motorweek-drivers-choice-awards-302369687.html
(FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: The all-new Dodge Charger Daytona, the next generation of Dodge muscle, is available now at dealerships and represents the start of a multi-energy Dodge Charger lineup. . .”The Dodge Charger Daytona is our choice as Best Sport Coupe of the year, the first time an all-electric model has risen to that honor,” said John Davis, creator and host, MotorWeek. “From the outset, Dodge promised that buyers would not have to accept any compromises just because their hallmark muscle car traded in its classic HEMI® V-8 for electric propulsion. Indeed, from its exterior styling and interior layout, to its amazingly fitting virtual sounds audibly underscoring its rocket-like acceleration, you would be hard pressed not to think there was a chorus of pushrods still pulsating under the Charger’s long, wide, flat, ’60s era hood. When all is said and done, the Dodge Charger Daytona is an all-wheel-drive muscle car first and an EV second.)
RESTAURANT BUSINESS
— How restaurants are pushing back on Trump deportation sweeps (COMMENT: What percent of restaurant employees are illegals?)
https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/workforce/how-restaurants-are-pushing-back-trump-deportation-sweeps
WBZA
— Millions of retirees celebrated after former President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law. This new legislation aims to increase Social Security benefits for over 3.2 million retirees and spouses by eliminating two controversial provisions. However, retirees expecting an immediate financial boost just learned there’s an unexpected delay in receiving their benefits. (COMMENT: My Social Security is dramatically less because I get a Civil Service Retirement System pension.)
https://wbza.co.in/new-social-security-law-increases-benefits-for-3-2-million-retirees/#google_vignette
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CACUS
— Congressional Equality Caucus, Democratic Women’s Caucus, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Congressional Black Caucus charge Trump with undermining civil rights protections and enforcement for workers (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors would not have and could not have forced me to retire when I was 49 year old in 1997 if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, veteran, and/or union member.)
https://cbc.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2774
HUFFINGTON POST
— David Hogg Becomes Democratic National Committee’s First Gen Z Vice Chair (COMMENT: If the following would establish a Vice Chair position for Baby Boomers, I would apply for it: Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. I would also apply for Vice Chair positions for conservatives, Whites, males, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.aol.com/david-hogg-becomes-democratic-national-223229994.html
PBS
— Trump says he’ll fire some FBI agents ‘very surgically’ (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors fired me, that is, they forced me to retire, when I was 49 years old in 1997. My critics/opponents have always sided with my Democrat GAO superiors.)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-hell-fire-some-fbi-agents-very-surgically
NEW YORKER
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/immigration-enforcement-and-the-fears-of-the-undocumented-in-chicago
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/trumps-boogeyman-dei
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Trump Joins a Global War on ‘Gender Ideology’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/magazine/gender-ideology-trump-orban.html
WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE
— White House claims 65,000 federal workers have accepted buyout offers. (COMMENT: What is your position on buyouts and early retirement offers? In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of their older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976. If I was still working for GAO, that is, if my Democrat GAO superiors had not forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, a) I would not have gotten $1.8 million in Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension payments since 1997 in today’s dollars and b) I would have paid into the CSRS $286,262 (7% of my salary) in today’s dollar.)
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/08/hutq-f08.html
INDEPENDENT
— ‘We love Japan:’ Watch Trump welcome Japanese prime minister to White House
https://www.aol.com/love-japan-watch-trump-welcome-175225618.html
DAILY MAIL
— Trump pledges to ‘surgically’ remove ‘corrupt’ FBI agents including those on January 6 investigations (COMMENT: To remove me, my Democrat GAO superiors did not hint/imply/argue/shout that I was corrupt. But constructively, they hinted/implied/argued/shouted that because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, I was a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things. They had trouble hinting/implying/arguing/shouting that I was incompetent because I had a) become a licensed CPA, b) passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, c) earned four more job-related professional certifications, and d) earned three job-related master’s degrees. I should write about the aforesaid.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14374021/donald-trump-fbi-agents-january-6.html