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FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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