FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— CA Legislature approves special election on new congressional map favoring Democrats. California lawmakers passed a legislative package Thursday advancing a partisan redistricting plan aimed at winning Democrats five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 elections. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/california-democrats-prepare-pass-redistricting-plan-texas-house-approves-new-maps/17605698/
— Trump administration is reviewing all 55 million foreigners with US visas for any violations
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-is-reviewing-55-million-foreigners-us-visas-any-violations/17608307/
— School district meeting gets heated over debate on transgender Conant High School volleyball player
https://abc7chicago.com/post/school-district-211-meeting-gets-heated-debate-transgender-conant-high-volleyball-player/17608275/
NBC5
— Newsom signs legislation calling special election on redrawn congressional map. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/california-congressional-maps/3813201/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/08/21/what-could-marijuana-drug-reclassification-mean-for-chicago-cannabis-companies
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Newsom signs legislation calling for special election on redrawn congressional map. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/california-congressional-map-special-election/
— New Illinois law gives media better ability to curb retaliatory lawsuits. I should write about retaliatory acts taken against me since 2000 because I included links in GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to articles that my critics/opponents do not like.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/new-illinois-law-gives-media-better-ability-to-curb-retaliatory-lawsuits/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/08/21/trumps-black-mayors-washington-chicago-johnson-bowser-bass-marc-morial
— Durbin questions Attorney General Pam Bondi about ‘politicized’ firings of immigration judges. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. If I had been any of the aforesaid, I would not have had any basis a) to complain about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination or b) to become an active member in a class action lawsuit in 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/21/sen-dick-durbin-attorney-general-pam-bondi-politicized-firings-immigration-judges
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/08/21/channyn-lynn-parker-lgbtq-gay-advocacy-equality-illinois-brave-space-alliance-chicago
DAILY HERALD
— Appeals court tosses $500 million fine in N.Y. case against Trump, upholds fraud finding
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250821/nation-and-world-politics/appeals-court-tosses-500-million-fine-in-n-y-case-against-trump-upholds-fraud-finding/
CRAINS’CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/equality-illinois-names-channyn-parker-new-ceo
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Federal Reserve official says she won’t be ‘bullied’ by Trump into resigning. My Democrat GAO superiors did far than bully me to force me to take their early retirement “offer” that expired on September 30, 1997 when I was 49 years old. They made it very clear that if I did not take their “offer,” they would demote me, assign me to work for my former subordinates, give me adverse job transfers, give me bad job assignments, give me unfair performance expectations, give me unfair performance appraisals, and even worse things. If had not succumbed to their threats, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until I was 55 years old in 2003. If GAO had been unionized, I would have sought its protection. But GAO did not unionize until 2007. I should write about the aforesaid. By forcing me to retire, my Democrat GAO superiors flushed down their toilets what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, d) becoming a licensed CPA, and e) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. So far, by forcing me to retire, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-calls-on-federal-reserve-official-to-resign-after-official-accuses-her-of-mortgage-fraud/article_ab0c1b7b-36e6-5dc9-82d2-8428c6b3686e.html
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-petitions-fda-to-remove-burdensome-restrictions-on-mifepristone-85520.cfm
WAND TV
— Newsom signs legislation calling special election on redrawn congressional map. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/california-gov-newsom-signs-legislation-calling-special-election-on-redrawn-congressional-map/article_f5f16b1a-83dc-5d6d-9214-4858e03f4580.html
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1181 into law, clarifying that the protections in the Citizen Participation Act apply to the freedom of the press to opine, report, or investigate matters of public concern. My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Failing that, they want to stop everyone from reading those newsletters. Failing that, they have their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me.
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-journalists-gain-new-legal-shield-under-amended-citizen-participation-act
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-08-20/do-trumps-d-c-moves-echo-an-authoritarian-playbook
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/21/pritzker-signs-law-guaranteeing-public-education-for-illinois-students-regardless-of-immigration-status/
ILLINOIZE
— Darren Bailey “Seriously Considering” Entering Governor’s Race
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/darren-bailey-seriously-considering-gov
CAPITOLFAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-367/
— Democrat leaders promote rule-breaking in schools.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/it%e2%80%99s-now-a-law-5/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker: Fair maps in Illinois would be ‘disarming’ to Democrats
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4d8c1bbe-9a3a-4849-b950-8067c9874e1c.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illegal immigrant population reached 14 million under Biden in 2023. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3760400/illegal-immigrant-population-reached-14-million-under-biden-in-2023/
NEW YORK POST
— ICE director vows to ‘flood’ Boston with immigration agents after Mayor Michelle Wu refused to end city’s sanctuary laws
https://nypost.com/2025/08/21/us-news/ice-director-vows-to-flood-boston-with-immigration-agents-after-mayor-michelle-wu-refused-to-end-citys-sanctuary-laws/
— The media is all aflutter over socialism — but America isn’t convinced
https://nypost.com/2025/08/21/opinion/media-is-giddy-over-socialism-but-america-isnt-convinced/
AMAC
— Time to Fire Woke Generals and Restore Apolitical Military Leadership
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/time-to-fire-woke-generals-and-restore-apolitical-military-leadership/
BREITBART
— Major Hollywood Democrats to Hold Fundraiser for Republican Senator Susan Collins
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/08/21/susan-collins-will-go-hollywood-at-major-fundraiser-with-democrats/
— Trump on Track to Deport 400,000 Illegals in 2025. An estimated 14 million are in America illegally. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/21/new-york-times-trump-on-track-to-deport-400000-illegals-in-2025/
FOX NEWS
— Vance, Hegseth ‘unfazed’ by protesters during trip to thank DC National Guard troops
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377157637112
— Trump’s civil fraud penalty was obviously excessive.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377197144112
FOX NEWS RADIO
— Stop Giving Driver’s Licenses to ILLEGALS
https://radio.foxnews.com/2025/08/20/stop-giving-drivers-licenses-to-illegals/
NEW AMERICAN
— Illinois Mandates “Mental Health” Testing of ALL Children. Children’s minds are now officially in the crosshairs of one of the most out-of-control state governments in America. Under a controversial new measure just signed into law by far-left Governor J.B. Pritzker, government schools in Illinois will begin mandatory “mental health” testing of all students each year, starting in 3rd grade. According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/education/illinois-mandates-mental-health-testing-of-all-children/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Illegal immigration hit record in 2023. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5463595-surge-unauthorized-immigrants-biden-era/
REUTERS
— DOJ blocks use of justice grants for legal aid to migrants in US illegally
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/doj-blocks-use-justice-grants-legal-aid-migrants-us-illegally-email-shows-2025-08-21/
— Canada sees rise in US refugee claims, highest since 2019. Trans Americans increasingly seek asylum in Canada. US policies on trans rights cited as asylum motivation. How successful have Democrat leaders been forcing LGBTQ on everyone in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/more-americans-applying-refugee-status-canada-data-shows-2025-08-21/
UPI
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/21/pew-unauthorized-immigration-14-million-2023/6221755788008/
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-immigrant-population-decline-undocumented-peak-data-maps-2116385
ABC NEWS
— Will Pritzker do more cracking and packing and stop Republicans from being elected in all of Illinois’ 17 congressional districts?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/redistricting-arms-race-states-addition-texas-california-parties/story?id=124855541
NBC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigrant-population-shrinking-trump-administration-rcna225881
CBS NEWS
— Newsom signs California redistricting plan that could tilt 5 House seats toward Democrats. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-redistricting-gavin-newsom-vote/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/undocumented-immigrants-left-us-2025-data-estimate/
— Trump hands out burgers and pizza to federal law enforcement amid D.C. police surge
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-patrol-dc-police-national-guard/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry Trump success in stopping illegal immigration. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/immigration-decline-united-states-trump.html
WTHI TV
— Lawmakers speak out against illegal immigrants receiving drivers licenses
https://www.wthitv.com/news/lawmakers-speak-out-against-illegal-immigrants-receiving-drivers-licenses/article_5b816e3c-7ea9-472a-adf4-1c1901c04987.html
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Illinois Democrat and RINO leaders destroyed organizations like Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans that refused to discriminate against those like me who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. While I was an ICRC officer and a TAPROOT chairman, I was under tremendous pressure to give preference to those who are not the aforesaid. To give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group.
https://news.bgov.com/litigation/anti-dei-group-loses-bid-to-block-illinois-demographic-data-law
FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/08/21/texas-is-catching-up-to-california-in-number-of-unauthorized-immigrants-pew-data-shows/
POLITICO
— Supreme Court lets Trump admin cut off health grants it says advance DEI or ‘gender ideology extremism’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/21/supreme-court-nih-funding-grants-00518782
PEW RESEARCH
— U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population Reached a Record 14 Million in 2023. Democrat and RINO leaders have flooded Americans with their illegals; Democrat leaders because illegals vote for Democrats and RINO leaders because they want cheap labor. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/
— What the data says about immigrants in the U.S. Democrat and RINO leaders have flooded Americans with their illegals; Democrat leaders because illegals vote for Democrats and RINO leaders because they want cheap labor. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/21/key-findings-about-us-immigrants/
PBS
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/illegal-immigration-hit-record-of-14-million-in-2023-pew-report-finds
AXIOS
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/california-texas-states-unauthorized-immigrant-pew
ONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION
— Do not anticipate/expect that any of the speakers or sponsors at ONA’s upcoming annual conference will be conservative or Republican.
https://ona25.journalists.org/about/
Tag: gay
August 21, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Texas House approves redrawn congressional maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections. Will this prompt Pritzker to redraw Illinois congressional maps so that absolutely no Republican candidates can win in Illinois? How badly has Pritzker gerrymandered your congressional district? I should write about Pritzker’s 3rd Congressional District that I live in. Pritzker is an expert at cracking and packing.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/texas-house-approves-redrawn-maps/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/08/20/cash-assistance-gender-domestic-violence-net-ameya-pawar-amanda-pyron
DAILY HERALD
— Marter slams mail-in voting as ‘a scam.’ Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250820/us-congress-politics/gop-house-hopeful-marter-slams-mail-in-voting-as-a-scam/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Judge tosses Trump-era challenge to Illinois E-Verify law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/illinois-wins-fight-over-trump-e-verify-challenge
ABC7
— Pritzker says he supports independently drawn legislative maps if done on national basis
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-says-he-supports-independently-drawn-legislative-maps-done-national-basis/17598750/
— Newly installed U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illinois encourages former federal prosecutors to apply. For course, after my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they never encouraged me to apply. For them, GAO exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicagos-legal-community-buzzing-us-attorney-northern-district-illinois-andrew-boutros-recruiting-mail/17600171/
NBC5
— New college program allows Illinois students to apply with only a GPA. One reason why UIC admitted me in 1966 was that my ACT score of 24.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/new-college-program-allows-illinois-students-to-apply-with-only-a-gpa/3812390/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/illinois-snap-education-program-end-amid-federal-funding-cuts-how-could-impact-local
— CTU President Rejects Pritzker’s Assertion No More Money to Be Found in Springfield for Schools. During the 1950s and 1960s, Crete-Monee School District 201-U did not spend anything to give my brother and I grade school educations because my parents sent us to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools in Crete and Park Forest. For me, 1953-1962, and for my brother, 1958-1968.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/ctu-president-rejects-pritzker-s-assertion-no-more-money-be-found-springfield-schools
SAUK VALLEY
— State Rep. Brad Fritts, R-Dixon, has withdrawn his Sauk Valley Chamber of Commerce membership after the organization published a DEI statement on its website and removed the word “God” from a prayer at a recent scholarship fundraiser that it hosted.
https://www.shawlocal.com/sauk-valley/2025/08/21/state-rep-nixes-sauk-valley-chamber-membership-over-prayer-wording-at-fundraiser-dei-statement-on-its-website/
HERALD NEWS
— Will County Board member accused of illegally accessing fellow board member’s emails
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/08/20/will-county-board-member-accused-of-illegally-accessing-fellow-board-members-emails/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders have their protesters heckle Vance, Hegseth at photo op to thank National Guard troops in DC.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/20/protesters-heckle-vance-hegseth-miller-as-they-get-photo-op-with-dc-national-guard/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Mail-in voting ban could affect 1/3 of voters in Tazewell County. Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/illinois-voting-machine-restrictions/
WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.wsiu.org/siu/2025-08-20/2025-hemp-cannabis-symposium-at-siu-to-focus-on-agronomy
ILLINOIS PUBLIC MEDIA
— Your food probably traveled a long way before reaching the grocery store.
https://will.illinois.edu/217today/episode/217-today-your-food-probably-traveled-a-long-way-before-reaching-the-grocery-store-heres-why
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject federal law
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/21/illinois-to-bondi-sanctuary-status-stands-firm-00517387
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-573/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-366/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHANGE ILLINOIS
— Long-time redistricting reform advocates raise concerns about the new “fair maps” ballot question.
https://www.changeil.org/2025/08/long-time-redistricting-reform-advocates-raise-concerns-about-the-new-fair-maps-ballot-question/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker defends mental health mandate, rejects parental consent plan. According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6fd339b5-6d3a-4ff1-9288-cffd18017e8b.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s right: America should end mail-in voting. It’s a stupid practice rife with fraud potential.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/trumps-right-america-end-mail-voting/
— Blue state tax hikes drive residents out. Democrats double down on taxing the wealthy while red states like Texas and Florida reap the rewards of migration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/blue-state-tax-hikes-drive-residents/
— Little of DOGE’s work likely to survive
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/little-doges-work-likely-survive/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump isn’t trying to ‘erase history’ at Smithsonian — he’s reversing a destructive woke takeover
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/opinion/trump-isnt-trying-to-erase-history-at-smithsonian-hes-reversing-a-destructive-woke-takeover/
BREITBART
— State Department employee fired after questioning talking points on Israel and Gaza. My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career, took many adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire early because I questioned their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/state-department-employee-fired-after-questioning-talking-points-on-israel-and-gaza/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Immigration Court No-Shows Increase as Backlog Falls and Asylum Denials Rise
https://cis.org/Arthur/Immigration-Court-NoShows-Increase-Backlog-Falls-and-Asylum-Denials-Rise
FOX NEWS
— It would be wonderful to get Chicago Democrats on board in the migrant crime crackdown
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377161503112
— Sanctuary cities defy Bondi’s deadline to cooperate
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-defy-bondis-deadline-cooperate-no-intention-changing
— ICE unveils plans for new detention facilities across the US
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377144130112
NRCC
— Illegals get handouts, cops get demonized, and Americans foot the bill
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/08/20/illegals-get-handouts-cops-get-demonized-and-americans-foot-the-bill-under-harder/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Accused of Betraying Citizens by Signing Bill to Give Illegals a Big Handout
https://www.westernjournal.com/illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-accused-betraying-citizens-signing-bill-give-illegals-big-handout/
— Target CEO Who Steered Struggling Retail Giant Into Wokeness to Step Down
https://www.westernjournal.com/target-ceo-steered-struggling-retail-giant-wokeness-step-company-lost-grip/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrats go ‘Trump Lite’ in latest plan to save democracy. Not in Illinois.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/politics/newsom-obama-trump-texas-california-redistricting-analysis
NBC NEWS
— Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/fort-bliss-japanese-americans-internment-camp-immigrant-detention-rcna226044
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis. The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/trump-transgender-children-care-subpoena.html
— He Tried to Endorse From the Pulpit. He Wound Up Without a Church. In 1961, if the pastor of the Missouri Synod Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete had taken a calling from a Wisconsin Synod church instead of splitting Trinity and switching it to the Wisconsin Synod, my entire post-1961 life would have been dramatically different. In 1961, to stay with the Missouri Synod, when I was in eight grade and my brother was in second grade, my parents transferred to Hope Lutheran Church in Park Forest and transferred my brother and I to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22trinity+lutheran+church%22+crete+1961+missouri+wisconsin+synod
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/church-endorsements-irs-kenosha.html
— Trump demanded on Wednesday that a Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook resign. My Democrat GAO superiors deliberately misled me to believe that they were going to let me work for GAO until I was eligible for regular retirement when I would be 55 in 2003. But in September of 1997, when I was 49 years old, they succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” that expired on September 30, 1997. I should write about that. Their forcing me to retire early has had a tremendous negative impact on me.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/20/us/trump-news
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise foreign students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/trump-visa-vetting-international-students.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-cartel-mexico-fentanyl.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly infiltrate, invade, infest, and conquer churches.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/irs-church-free-speech.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump says Smithsonian is too focused on slavery. Democrats fought the Civil War against Republicans to preserve slavery. Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrat leaders have tried to a) paint Democrats as having been the Union Army and b) to paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/08/20/trump-smithsonian-slavery-historians/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/18/she-spoke-up-for-trans-rights-at-8-now-her-family-is-leaving-texas/85454513007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/17/gay-marriage-supreme-court-lgbtq-rights/85666114007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote mail-in voting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/19/trump-mail-in-voting/85725029007/
COURIER & PRESS
— Vanderburgh GOP leaders install supporters ahead of crucial Saturday election. Anti-conservative RINOs succeeded in getting someone to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman in 2000, but not since then. I should write about anti-conservative RINOs. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/28/vanderburgh-gop-leaders-install-supporters-ahead-of-crucial-saturday-election/80497015007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Send Harvard’s Chinese Students Home. It makes no sense for the U.S. to be educating the scientific and leadership class of a future adversary.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/send-harvards-chinese-students-home-national-security-risk-research-2e43313d
— Surrogacy is typically the most expensive path to parenthood. My Democrat GAO superiors viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/surrogacy-cost-parenting-eb87c3b3
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Trump Administration Loses Bid to Block Illinois E-Verify Law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/trump-administration-loses-bid-to-block-illinois-e-verify-law
ACCOUNTING TODAY
— IRS flouted procedures when terminating employees. My Democrat GAO superiors did far more than just flout regulations when they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They flushed my Civil Service protections down their toilets. My critics/opponents stand with my Democrat GAO superiors. My critics/opponents are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-flouted-procedures-when-terminating-probationary-employees
FIVE THIRTY EIGHT
— Opposition Research Far too many who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and read my newsletters for opposition research. I should write about them. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-introduction-to-the-dark-arts-of-opposition-research/
PEW RESEARCH
— How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age. According to my liberal and moderate critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a conservative. According to my Democrat and RINO critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a Republican. They stress a) that none of my four college degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license are in journalism, b) that I have never been paid for what I have done as your GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, c) that I send my newsletters out free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth a) that my newsletters have included links to more than 520,000 articles since 2004, b) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) that much of what I did for GAO is very similar to what journalists do, d) that my professional certifications are in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and e) that I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I should write about the following who not only treat me like I am not a journalist, but who do everything that the can to stop me from sending out newsletters and to stop everyone from reading my newsletters: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. The aforesaid have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or d) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-americans-view-journalists-in-the-digital-age/
August 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois and Texas Democrat leaders glorify and praise each other.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-illinois-arrive-ohare-airport-chicago-go-home/17575353/
— The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-house-democrats-illinois-protesting-redistricting-visit-chicagos-saint-sabina-church-prepare-travel-home-week/17569909/
NBC5
— Trump halts visas for people from Gaza
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-administration-halts-visas-gaza/3810913/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/17/column-washington-dc-national-guard-makes-things-worse-page/
— The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/17/texas-rep-james-talarico-sermon-south-side/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. To push pot is to push destruction.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2025/08/17/marijuana-reclassification-would-sprout-many-benefits-for-businesses-industry-leaders-say
— For Democrat educators, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/08/17/sustainable-community-schools-cps-trump-black-brown-communities-stacy-davis-gates
RIVER CITY READER
— Illinois GOP Split on Whether to Appease Teachers Unions; Dems Expect to be the Cui That Bonos in Next Race
https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/illinois-gop-split-whether-appease-teachers-unions-dems-expect-be-cui-bonos-next-race
WMBD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/08/16/over-300-protests-held-saturday-against-trump-redistricting-push/
TRI STATE PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://www.tspr.org/2025-08-17/with-more-national-guard-troops-on-the-way-to-d-c-hundreds-march-in-protest
WSIL TV
— Six generations gather in Marion for a rare family reunion. All my ancestors were Missouri Synod Lutherans. Their big family reunions on both sides of my family ended in the 1960s because of a religious split. About half of them left the Missouri Synod for the Wisconsin Synod starting in 1961 when I was in eighth grade.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/illinois/six-generations-gather-in-marion-for-a-rare-family-reunion/article_1302d801-6ba9-47f7-9fd1-698a974cfd12.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois and Texas Democrat leaders glorify and praise each other
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/18/the-hot-commodity-in-illinois-texans-00513312
— Which Congressional District do you live in? Who is your Republican State Central Committee member? Is he/she running again?
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/18/the-hot-commodity-in-illinois-texans-00513312
(FROM THE ARTICLE: — Kevin Lamm is running for the State Central Committee in the 16th District, and he’s been endorsed by Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara and state Rep. Dave Vella, among others. He talked to WGLT’s Ben Howell about his campaign.)
— While I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, the organization encouraged Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders to defend and advance the Republican Party platform.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/18/the-hot-commodity-in-illinois-texans-00513312
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Sept. 9: The Edgar Fellows Chicago Dinner takes place.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-570/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Primary Election Candidate Preview
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/17/primary-election-candidate-preview/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois takes over health insurance marketplace in 2026 amid skepticism
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_aa4fc075-0fe6-4b68-b8f3-b18278a1f627.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Chicago Expands Parental Replacement Centers Disguised as “Schools”
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/chicago-expands-parental-replacement-centers-disguised-as-schools/
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Mentally Disordered IL Dems Force All Schools to “Screen” Kids’ Mental Health
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/08/14/mentally-disordered-il-dems-force-all-schools-to-screen-kids-mental-health
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats push ‘free stuff’ agenda as welfare dependency and mass immigration threaten America. Decades-old strategy pushes U.S. to the brink.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/17/democrats-push-free-stuff-agenda-welfare-dependency-mass-immigration/
— Big cities are the face of the Democratic Party. Trump can make America safe again.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/17/big-cities-face-democratic-party/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Democrats Support the New Slavery. Illegal immigration is a horror show of exploitation and human misery. Yes, but RINOs are just as bad.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/democrats-support-the-new-slavery/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Hundreds of white karens protest against Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, D.C.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/hundreds_of_white_karens_protest_against_trump_s_crime_crackdown_in_washington_d_c.html
BREITBART
— Migrant Detention Center Opening in Texas Will Be Largest in History
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/17/video-migrant-detention-center-opening-in-texas-will-be-largest-in-history/
COLLEGE FIX
— University of Michigan Law Review sued for discrimination against white men. My critics/opponents use Affirmative Action and DEI to discriminate against White men like me who are conservative, Republican, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents. They rudely ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024. They rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. They rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015. They rudely ended my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012. They rudely ended my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004. They rudely ended my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007. They almost got ICRC to rudely censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. They rudely ended my bid to serve as the MTRO Treasurer in 2004.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/corrupt-and-illegal-umich-law-review-sued-for-alleged-discrimination-against-white-men/
DAILY CALLER
— Woke Banks Are Cancelling Americans – Here Is How They Should Fight Back
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/17/opinion-woke-banks-are-cancelling-americans-here-is-how-everyday-americans-should-fight-back-bob-rubin/
FOX NEWS
— Newsom lashes out at universities for agreeing to ‘sell their soul’ to Trump for federal funding
https://www.foxnews.com/media/newsom-lashes-out-universities-agreeing-sell-soul-trump-federal-funding
— Democrats ‘wielded the deep state’ to ‘undermine’ Trump. Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrats exist to destroy Republicans.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377021366112
— How many in America are loyal to Taylor Swift before anyone else? What does Swift think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-fbi-director-james-comey-confesses-hes-swiftie-new-anti-trump-video-message
— Far Left media calling Trump-Putin summit a ‘disaster’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377020886112
NEWS BUSTERS
— Legacy Newscasts OMIT Illegal Alien Trucker Causing Deadly Crash in FL
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/08/17/legacy-newscasts-omit-illegal-alien-trucker-causing-deadly-crash
TOWNHALL
— Newsom is running for President. We get it. No doubt about it.
https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2025/08/18/newsom-mandering-faces-major-headwinds-n2661956
— Don’t Do the Democrats’ Dirty Work. Politics is nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. I should write about them. They rudely ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024. They rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. They rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015. They rudely ended my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012. They rudely ended my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004. They rudely ended my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007. They almost got ICRC to rudely censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. They rudely ended my bid to serve as the MTRO Treasurer in 2004.
https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2025/08/18/dont-do-the-democrats-dirty-work-n2661945
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump tells Zelensky to give up Crimea and agree to never join NATO. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-ukraine-zelensky-russia-putin-08-18-25
UPI
— Trump declares that Kyiv would not be regaining Moscow-annexed Crimea, nor would it be allowed to join NATO. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/18/Trump-Ukraine-Crimea-NATO/8291755485345/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Is Pushing India Back Toward China. In WWIII, which countries will side with America? How many millions are in America who continue to side with their motherland? I am 100% German American. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/world/asia/india-china-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— U.S. ready to give Ukraine security guarantees when Trump meets Zelensky. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/17/trump-zelensky-meeting-europe/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/17/dc-arrests-violent-takedown-immigration/
— Eligible for asylum in Canada, stuck in ICE detention.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/18/canada-afghan-migrants-ice-detention/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Black mayors of cities claim that crime is down.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-08-17/black-mayors-of-cities-trump-decries-as-lawless-tout-significant-declines-in-violent-crimes
USA TODAY
— Ever-increasingly, Democrats side with their motherlands against America. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/17/oklahoma-requires-blue-state-teachers-america-first-curriculum/85510568007/
— Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RIO leaders destroy you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/17/gay-marriage-supreme-court-lgbtq-rights/85666114007/
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/palm-springs/2025/01/22/dei-meaning-dei-candidate-meaning-what-is-dei-hire-dei-hire-meaning-trump-executive-orders-ca/77879316007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2019/02/26/workplace-diversity-should-list-minority-status-job-application/2950883002/
— Cities hope to attract more police officers by cutting education requirements. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/10/police-jobs-college-requirements/85324780007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: $50,000 Signing Bonus, No Age Caps: The Blitz to Hire ICE Officers. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ice-recruitment-tactics-trump-d4bc32cf
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/50-000-signing-bonus-no-age-caps-the-blitz-to-hire-ice-officers/ar-AA1KFxxg
— How Rich Are the 1% of ‘The Gilded Age’ in 2025? How much is $300,000 really worth in 1883 New York?
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/the-gilded-age-rich-prices-today-2025-2c8f3b38
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/eeoc-commissioners-urge-caution-care-for-employers-dei-programs
FORTUNE
— Trump’s education reform hasn’t touched ‘affirmative action for the rich’: legacy admissions. What about legacy admissions when alumni are minority, female, LGBTQ, non-rich, and/or members of other marginalized/oppressed groups?
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/what-is-legacy-admissions-affirmative-action-for-the-rich-trump/
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://hbr.org/2013/06/is-your-firm-really-an-equal-o
SUSAN S. LEWIS, CPA
— How to Avoid the Illinois Estate Tax
https://www.lewis.cpa/blog/how-to-avoid-illinois-estate-tax
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While the government discusses the bill that will raise the estate tax exemption to $8 million, the Illinois estate tax, with rates up to 16 percent, still impacts estates that exceed the threshold of $4 million as of 2025. Effective estate planning can potentially lower the estate’s taxable burden and maximize the assets passed on to intended beneficiaries. It’s also important to consider the implications of federal estate taxes alongside the state tax. At Lewis.cpa, our experienced team can provide tailored advice and assistance with estate and trust tax preparation services to help you achieve your estate planning goals. Contact us if you want to know how to avoid the Illinois estate tax in your case. What Is the Illinois Estate Tax Rate? As of 2025, the Illinois estate tax applies to estates with values exceeding the $4 million exemption. The tax is assessed on a graduated scale, with rates escalating to 16 percent. The estate’s value over the exemption amount determines the precise estate tax liability using the most current tax rate table. Understanding these rates is essential for strategic estate planning, which can impact the structure of an estate and the amount of tax levied. For meticulous planning and execution, we recommend seeking the expertise of a tax professional or estate planning specialist who is up-to-date with the latest tax laws and rates. . .Please note that the marginal rates are applied incrementally, not to the entire estate’s value over the exemption amount. For instance, an estate valued at $5 million would not incur a flat 16 percent on the taxable amount. Instead, it would be taxed at varying rates according to each estate portion within the specified tax brackets.)
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat educators use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not admit Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican students.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/18/federal-district-judge-rules-against-trumps-anti-dei-orders
JD SUPRA
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/trump-revokes-executive-order-11246-8672003/
ATLANTIC
— According to my critics/opponents, a) those who share their demographics advance because of meritocracy and b) those who advance who do not share their demographics advance because they benefit from discrimination. My critics/opponents negatively stress that I am White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/
POLITICO
— The tech company stocking up on Democrats as Silicon Valley turns right. Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/sam-altman-chatgpt-california-00449492
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/08/17/trump-dc-takeover-protests-lawsuits
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/6/2337083/-Are-you-an-old-uneducated-racist-Join-the-ICE-gestapo-today
— Zelensky responds to Trump comments: “Russia must end” war it started. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/trump-russia-ukraine-zelensky-european-leaders-summit
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/trump-equal-employment-executive-order
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-dei-lbj-rollback
SALON
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/19/reverses-decades-of-civil-rights-advances/
GOOGLE AI
— Assessing reporter credibility. I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Reporter since 2000. My critics/opponents have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned my credibility. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or d) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000. Better yet, I should sue them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Assessing+reporter+credibility
August 12, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Pritzker again makes Nazi comparisons after President Trump threatens DC-like takeover in Chicago. Because Trump is German American, anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump is a Nazi.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/gov-jb-pritzker-again-makes-nazi-comparisons-after-president-trump-threatens-dc-like-takeover-in-chicago/
DAILY HERALD
— Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250811/media/illinois-newsrooms-receive-4-million-from-state-through-tax-credits/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/trump-lifts-hopes-chicago-cannabis-companies
NBC5
— Trump calls up National Guard to combat crime in DC, says Chicago could be next
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/president-trump-calls-up-national-guard-to-combat-crime-in-dc-says-chicago-could-be-next/3808191/
CBS2
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/pritzker-president-trump-has-no-legal-ability-to-send-troops-into-chicago/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU0H9TGv_6E
— Chicago to install 50 flood sensors providing real-time alerts of flash flooding
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/verizon-50-flood-sensors-real-time-flash-flooding-alerts/
WGN9
— Trump puts D.C. police under federal control, warns Chicago could be next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjxQFYQpF70
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNfOQqZD8G4
FOX32
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1689617
WTTW
— Johnson, Pritzker Dismiss Trump’s Threat to Send National Guard to Chicago. The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/11/johnson-pritzker-dismiss-trump-s-threat-send-national-guard-chicago
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Who is running on the Republican ticket for Illinois governor? Here are the candidates so far.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2025/08/12/here-are-the-candidates-for-illinois-governor-in-2026-so-far/85609674007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders call you a racist.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/article_bd8bbe5e-ce83-5b5d-9303-3bd543f568b6.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & WMBD & NPR ILLINOIS
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/trump-criticizes-illinois-safe-t/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiZZKxJowY4
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-11/trump-is-taking-over-d-c-police-and-sending-in-the-national-guard-locals-are-furious
NPR ILLINOIS
— Were you an unhoused college student?” I was not. My parents provided me with room and board in their Crete home a) while I was a full-time UIC student 1966-1968, b) weekends while I was a full-time NIU student during my first semester in 1969, c) the summer of 1969, and d) while I worked part-time during the school years and full-time during the summers for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-11/trump-administration-proposal-could-harm-funds-for-unhoused-students
WCIA
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders call you a racist.
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trumps-washington-police-takeover-echoes-history-of-racist-narratives-about-urban-crime/
AXIOS CHICAGO
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/08/11/trump-cash-bail-chicago
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-566/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Manipulated maps, hypocrisy and Illinois’ collapsing Congressional influence
https://wirepoints.org/manipulated-maps-hypocrisy-and-illinois-collapsing-congressional-influence-wirepoints/
— Pritzker is gunning for the presidency, sacrificing Illinoisans for the national spotlight
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzker-is-running-for-president-which-means-illinoisans-needs-are-sacrificed-for-the-national-spotlight-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Rushing for the exit: Illegal immigrant population down 1.6 million under Trump crackdown
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/12/illegal-immigrant-population-16-million-trump-crackdown/
CAMPUS REFORM
— New academic coalition calls for reparations, end to US global influence. Professors, educators, and activists have formed a coalition to dismantle what they call an “imperialist” world order headed by the United States.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/new-academic-coalition-calls-reparations-end-us-global-influence/28434
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Promises To Liberate D.C. From ‘Savagery, Filth, And Scum’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-promises-to-liberate-d-c-from-savagery-filth-and-scum
FEDERALIST
— Democrats Promise To Turn Illegal Aliens Into Voters
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/11/democrats-promise-to-turn-illegal-aliens-into-voters/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Long Battle Ahead to Stamp Out DEI
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-long-battle-ahead-to-stamp-out-dei/
NEWSMAX
— Trump: Liberation Day for D.C.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-washington-d-c-crime/2025/08/11/id/1221999/
— Hold Members of Congress to Their Oath
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/guatemala-omar-somalia/2025/08/11/id/1222008/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Rep. Delia Ramirez is the latest congresswoman to draw flak from remarks that call her allegiance to the United States into question, an allegiance to which they had both pledged when they were sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Speaking before a Mexico City summit over the last weekend, the Illinois Democrat announced, “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.” Ramirez is a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and the Department of Homeland Security retweeted her statement along with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt: “There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism,” the 28th president said. “Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.” That’s especially true for members of Congress. Their oath of office is as follows: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” As Roosevelt noted, there is no room for divided loyalties in this country — especially where one expresses a greater loyalty to a foreign country than to the United States. Although Ramirez was the latest politician to call her loyalty into question, she’s not the only one to do so.)
U.S. HOUSE ENERGY & COMMERCE COMMITTEE
— Chairman Guthrie Issues Statement Regarding CBO Coverage Update from the One Big Beautiful Bill
https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairman-guthrie-issues-statement-regarding-cbo-coverage-update-from-the-one-big-beautiful-bill
(FROM THE POSTING: “The prolonged lie exacerbated by Democrats that 17 million individuals will lose health care coverage from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has finally been dispelled by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In the most recent coverage update released by CBO, CBO estimates 10 million individuals enrolled in federal health care programs will no longer be covered, with 5.3 million being able-bodied adults refusing to work, 3.7 million having access to other forms of coverage, and the remaining balance being removed from the rolls since coverage was limited to U.S. citizens and lawfully permanent residents. It’s easy to scare people with coverage loss estimates, but the facts are clear – the vast majority of these individuals are either choosing to lose coverage or aren’t actually eligible for Medicaid, and nearly all are eligible for other forms of coverage. “I think about Americans all across the country, who work hard every day but have to pay with their own taxpayer dollars for the health care of millions of able-bodied Americans who are choosing not to work. Republicans will continue to find commonsense solutions that ensure these programs are available for those who need them most, for generations to come. I thank President Trump for his steadfast leadership on this issue and for signing a piece of legislation that promotes the future of our health programs to serve their intended purpose.” BACKGROUND: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released the updated coverage numbers for H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). CBO estimated the total number of uninsured beneficiaries to be 10 million by 2034. The breakdown includes: 5.3 million able-bodied adults currently covered by Medicaid who are choosing not to work; 3.7 million individuals who will have access to another form of health insurance; and
1 million individuals who are not U.S. citizens or lawfully permanent residents.)
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Illegal Alien Criminals Exploited Loophole Meant for Abused Children to Sneak Into U.S.
https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-alien-criminals-exploited-loophole-meant-abused-children-sneak-u-s/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5447320-chicago-mayor-trump-national-guard/
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans like me who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, an/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5443275-with-anti-dei-and-esg-battles-trump-is-waging-war-against-freedom/
CNN
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-washington-dc-police-national-guard-analysis
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/politics/police-washington-dc-trump-take-over
— Democrat leaders send in Democrats to taunt Republicans at Republican townhalls
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/politics/california-gop-congressman-doug-lamalfa-town-hall
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders call you a racist.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-dc-takeover-race-39388597bad7e70085079888fe7fb57b
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Jd7O_g65Y
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Trump causes all the problems that Blacks have. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government hinted/implied/argued/shouted at my Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-s-approval-rating-collapses-with-black-voters/ar-AA1K8PHG
ABC NEWS
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-reclassifying-marijuana/story?id=124552149
— Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling. Kim Davis, a former clerk who refused gay couples, brought the appeal.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302
NBC NEWS
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/legality-trumps-deployment-national-guard-l-argued-federal-court-rcna224432
NEW YORK TIMES
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/trump-mayor-washington-dc-crime.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/undocumented-immigrants-aid-texas-floods.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump is sending National Guard troops to D.C. Here’s how home rule works. The president also placed city police under federal control.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/11/trump-dc-national-guard-deployment/
— Democrat leaders call Trump’s takeover of D.C. police department ‘unsettling and unprecedented’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/11/trump-presidency-news/
— Trump nominates Bureau of Labor Statistics critic to replace fired agency head. My Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with my Black subordinate. He was the office’s leading advocate of Affirmative Action and DEI. 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 was not a licensed CPA like I was.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/11/trump-bls-nomination-antoni/
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/10/trump-crime-data-federal-takeover/
— The federal government should “intervene in business” to protect national security. Ever-increasingly, everything depends on chips.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/11/trump-nvidia-amd-chips-china/
— — Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/11/texas-gerrymandering-redistricting-reforms/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-08-11/scotus-gerrymander-texas-redistricting
USA TODAY
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/11/donald-trump-washington-dc-takeover-civil-rights-advocates/85617724007/
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/10/texas-redistricting-standoff-democrats-republicans-gerrymandering/85548057007/
BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad including bad health.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/12/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-alzheimers-trump-funding/
OHIO CAPITAL JOURNAL
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/12/stop-the-steal-politicians-cheat-voters-and-destroy-democracy-with-shameless-gerrymandering/
NBC SAN DIEGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ in the military
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXMcqq0Futo
THE WEEK
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://theweek.com/politics/texas-gerrymander-battle-states
VANGUARD NWS GROUP
— Wealth Inequality. Why do you have less money? My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://davisvanguard.org/2025/08/reduce-wealth-inequality-america/
LAW 360 & JD SUPRA
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans like me who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, an/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/2373417/what-to-know-following-doj-s-guidance-on-unlawful-dei
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/department-of-justice-issues-new-8831676/
MONDAQ
— Illinois Employers Get Ready—Busy Equal Pay Reporting Season Is Coming. My Democrat superiors in the federal government always paid their similarly qualified employees who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran more than they paid those like me who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. As I earned more qualifications, the gap got bigger. I earned an MBA when I was 27. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30. I earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32. I earned four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a master’s degree in finance when I was 48.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/employee-benefits-compensation/1664682/illinois-employers-get-readybusy-equal-pay-reporting-season-is-coming
POLITICO
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/11/california-national-guard-trial-00504664
AXIOS
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/trump-marijuana-reclassification-federal-dangerous-drugs
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/trump-law-enforcement-new-york-oakland-baltimore-chicago
GUARDIAN
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/trump-washington-dc-crime-los-angeles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/trump-washington-dc-national-guard-police
July 1, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Anti-Trumpers ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against his Big Bill.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/polls-show-americans-largely-oppose-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/16892044/
NBC5
— To what extend does your hospital depend on Medicaid?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/medicaid-cuts-could-devastate-hospitals-throughout-illinois-officials-warn/3779676/
WGN9
— New laws aim to make higher education easier for Illinois students. Without benefit of these laws, I nevertheless was able to get UIC to accept me in 1966. I took college preparatory courses at Crete-Monee High School. I got an ACT score of 24. I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. Further, with my parents providing me with room and board during my first 3 years, I was able to pay for my college expenses by working for the Park Forest Post Office part-time during the school years and full-time during the summers.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/new-laws-aim-to-make-higher-education-easier-for-illinois-students/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/01/opinion-chicago-protecting-reproductive-health/
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250701/letters-to-the-editor/children-seeking-asylum-trapped-in-legal-limbo/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s spending cuts.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-states-brace-for-impact-as-trumps-big-bill-nears-completion-in-congress/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-bush-obama-and-a-tearful-bono-fault-trumps-gutting-of-usaid-on-agencys-last-day/
WQAD
— Pritzker ever-increasingly does everything that he can to a) attract voters to Illinois who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) drive out of Illinois voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans. Demographics that vote for Democrats include liberal, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, want/need/demand massive government assistance, boozers, gamblers, stoners, prostitutes, criminals, and citizens of foreign countries. Demographics that vote for Republicans include conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, non-poor, etc.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/politics/illinois-politics/pritzker-presidential-run-rumors-future-third-term-reelection-campaign/526-380c0b14-b392-4e55-9f24-f29db6705baa
— Local lawmakers call US Army secretary’s visit to the Rock Island Arsenal a success. A merger proposed by the U.S. Department of Defense could cut up to 400 jobs from the base. During the first 6 months of 1989, I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO in Rock Island on an audit of the Department of Defense 1990 ammunition budget request. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/assets/150/148194.pdf My Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to this audit to throw me off audits of IRS and to punish me for becoming an active member in a class action lawsuit in September of 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/us-army-secretary-rock-island-arsenal-potential-merger-job-cuts/526-fda097bf-7b24-467c-857d-d92bf1c3df60
LEGAL NEWSLINE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/il-law-threatening-employers-who-use-e-verify-doesn-t-break-fed-law/article_cef1e75d-c680-4ed7-9e14-aba9358132b3.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Pritzker announces Christian Mitchell as LG pick
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/01/pritzker-announces-christian-mitchell-as-lg-pick/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-543/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CONTTRARIAN
— Jim Crow Strikes Again in Chicago
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/jim-crow-strikes-again-chicago
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL taxpayers begin funding record-high budget with tax hikes July 1
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d59871a8-4829-457a-a6af-22507151d1b9.html
— Chicago officials blame Trump for rising expenditures as city budget talks begin. To what extent are the following dependent on federal deficit spending: America, Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, your precinct, and you?
https://www.aol.com/news/chicago-officials-blame-trump-rising-155300255.html
WIREPOINTS
— Durbin throws Illinois students under the bus, including kids from his own East St. Louis
https://wirepoints.org/sen-durbin-throws-illinois-students-under-the-bus-including-kids-from-his-own-east-st-louis-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write a book about Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on Republican participation in those parades. I would focus on those who are working the hardest to diminish/end Republican participation in this year’s Wheaton and Glen Ellyn parades. They argue that the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) cannot afford the $1,500+ cost of entry fees and candy for the parades. In 2007, I succeeded in raising $2,000 on short notice so that an elephant could walk behind U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam in Wheaton’s 2007 parade. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/ I served as the Republican fundraiser for the Wheaton Independence Day parades 2005-2021. In my book, I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end what I did. I have urged MTRO to encourage Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congressional District 3, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois senate, Illinois house, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, etc. to participate in this year’s Wheaton and Glen Ellyn parades. Please join me in urging MTRO to maximize its participation in those parades. Please join me in urging Republican candidates to participate in those parades. I certainly hope that LaHood walks in both parades. His father walked in Wheaton’s 2005 parade. I spoke with him before the parade kicked off. Bob Dole walked in Wheaton’s 1996 parade, Jim Ryan in its 2002 parade, and Obama and his wife in its 2004 parade. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. If I had smoked pot, I would not have been able to a) get hired in 1964, 1966, 1970, 1971, and 1980, b) earn a bachelor’s degree in 1970 and master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) earn more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, e) earn a professional license in 1981, f) buy new cars in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1978, etc., g) buy real estate in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, and 1984, f) get married in 1978, g) etc.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/30/us-news/mike-tyson-urges-trump-to-deliver-on-cannabis-reform/
— Trump threatens to unleash DOGE on Musk to save money tied to his numerous gov’t subsidies: ‘Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history.’ My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue shout that I have no standing to criticize the federal government a) because the federal government employed me for almost 30 years, b) because I get a $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension, and c) because the federal government continues to pay 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance. In my defense, the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Further, I would not have become a postal employee in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to join him in taking the postal employment test and I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if I had not taken and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 as a backup if I could not get a job in the private sector and if Oldsmobile had not withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My efforts to get a good job in the private sector were frustrated by being viewed as being draft bait. Potential employers did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/01/us-news/trump-threatens-to-unleash-doge-on-elon-musk-to-save-money-tied-to-his-numerous-govt-subsidies/
BREITBART
— Gallup Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Democrat Pride in America. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/30/gallup-poll-shows-sharp-decline-american-pride-democrats/
— Senate Rejects Big, Beautiful Bill Measure to Remove Illegal Aliens from Medicaid. Getting free Medicaid is one of the biggest reasons why citizens of foreign countries a) come to America illegally and/or b) stay in America illegally.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/30/senate-rejects-big-beautiful-bill-measure-to-remove-illegal-aliens-from-medicaid/
DAILY CALLER
— Democrats Created A Monster That’s Rapidly Destroying Their Party. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/30/zohran-mamdani-upper-middle-class-college-kids-new-york-city-socialism/
— Shockingly Small Portion Of Democrats Are Proud To Be American. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/30/shockingly-small-portion-democrats-proud-american-poll/
DAILY WIRE
— Panicking Dems Turn To Familiar Sounding Playbook. Project 2029 aims to create a list of policies for the next Democrat presidential nominee.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/panicking-dems-turn-to-familiar-sounding-playbook
— Why It Might Be Impossible For Illegals To Escape Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-will-be-nearly-impossible-for-illegal-aliens-to-escape-alligator-alcatraz
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Kari MacRae as fired over some anti-CRT social media “memes” she posted before she was even hired. I was fired, that is, I was forced to retire, because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/supreme-court-refuses-to-take-school-teacher-free-speech-case-justice-thomas-files-statement-agreeing-with-epps-amicus-brief/amp/
MINDING THE CAMPUS
— Woke Orthodoxy Creeps In Through the Backdoor—These Laws Change the Locks
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/06/30/woke-orthodoxy-creeps-in-through-the-backdoor-these-laws-change-the-locks/
NATIONAL REVIEW & MANHATTEN INSTITUTE
— Watering Down the SAT Weakens Meritocracy. As Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly lower standards to advance their young minorities and to advance their young females, my having done the following ever-increasingly means more: a) my getting an ACT score of 24, b) my graduating in the upper 20% of my high school class, c) my earning a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, d) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, e) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, f) my becoming a licensed CPA, and g) my earning four more professional certifications.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/watering-down-the-sat-weakens-meritocracy/
https://manhattan.institute/article/watering-down-the-sat-weakens-meritocracy
NEWS BUSTERS
— New York Times Touts ‘Defiance and Joy’ of Gay Pride Parade vs. Trump ‘Anti-Diversity Fervor.’ Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/06/30/new-york-times-touts-defiance-and-joy-gay-pride-parade-vs-trump-anti
REAL CLEAR POLICY
— Trump Poised to Try to Remove Noncitizens from Census. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/06/30/trump_poised_to_try_to_remove_noncitizens_from_census_1119880.html
TOWNHALL
— Stop Bailing Out the Big Woke States
https://townhall.com/columnists/terrypaulson/2025/07/01/stop-bailing-out-the-big-woke-states-n2659717
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump will visit a remote immigration detention site in the Florida Everglades
https://apnews.com/article/trump-everglades-immigrant-detention-facility-visit-5dc5568ec15534947c29c9149b773d1d
CNN
— Democrat and RINOs say that Trump’s visit to a migrant camp called ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will stir dark echoes
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/politics/alligator-alcatraz-trump-florida
YAHOO
— Democrat pride in America is declining. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/americans-pride-country-declining-gallup-210041107.html
MSN
— Democrat pride in America hits historic low, new poll finds just days before July 4 holiday. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/pride-in-america-hits-historic-low-new-poll-finds-just-days-before-july-4-holiday/ar-AA1HImw7
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/should-illegal-migrants-get-legal-status-views-shifted-in-past-year-poll-finds/ar-AA1HyBGz?ocid=a2hs%252Ca2hs
NEWSMAX
— Gen Z Drives Sharp Decline in American Pride. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-drives-decline-american-pride-poll-2092705
CBS NEWS
— Hundreds of National Guard forces deployed to L.A. by Trump could be sent to wildfire duty
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/some-national-guard-trump-los-angeles-wildfire-duty/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Musk Promises a New Political Party if Republicans Pass Trump’s Policy Bill
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-bill-republicans.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-class-action-lawsuits.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/opinion/pornography-restrictions-free-speech-obscenity.html
WASHINGTON POST
— In 24-hour span, two in GOP who split with Trump say they won’t seek reelection. The decisions by Rep. Don Bacon and Sen. Thom Tillis illustrate how dissenting voices have little room in the GOP and complicate the party’s path to holding its majorities in the midterms. My critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party are ever-increasingly furious a) that I continue to run for Republican Precinct Committeeman and b) that I continue to send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/30/bacon-tillis-trump-republicans-retire/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-30/california-republicans-tell-trump-ice-raids-should-focus-on-criminals-not-ordinary-workers
USA TODAY
— Trump’s tariffs have businesses moving production to US soil. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights because his employers moved to Mexico.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/29/businesses-reshore-production-trumps-tariffs/84284982007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/30/trump-dei-rollback-slowdown/84421308007/
— My critics/opponents have always stressed that I did not get any internships. In my defense, I had to work my way through college. I could and I did work full-time for the Park Forest Post Office during the summers of 1967, 1968, and 1969. In today’s dollars, my salary was $19.37/hour in 1967, $20.02/hour in 1968, and $20.67/hour in 1969.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/06/24/students-engaged-benefit-internships-hr/84321756007/
NILEPOST NEWS
— Trump Says Musk Would Go Broke Without U.S. Subsidies. My critic/opponents stress that I get a Civil Service Retirement System pension and that my wife and I get a 72% federal health insurance subsidy. In my defense, I had to work my way through college. Further, I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years to get the aforesaid. I should write my critics/opponents. Their parents had lots of money. They bought them cars. They paid for their college expenses. They got them good jobs.
https://nilepost.co.ug/news/268933/trump-says-elon-musk-would-go-broke-without-u-s-subsidies
JD SUPRA
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/e-verify-trends-evolving-employer-3947188/
AXIOS
— Musk blasts Trump’s bill and calls for new political party
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/musk-trump-big-beautiful-bill-new-political-party
FINANCIAL TIMES
— Trump suggests US government review subsidies to Elon Musk’s companies
https://www.ft.com/content/2591f830-d707-499e-a1ae-36eaf6ebc6ca
INDEPENDENT
— Democrat Pride in America is declining. Will Democrats and RINOs boycott Independence Day parades and fireworks? Republican pride in America has increased from 85% to 92%.
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/america-pride-decline-gallup-poll-b2779980.html
— Trump threatened tough punishment for employers who hired migrant workers. So far only a handful have faced the wrath. All my employers would have hired illegals if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that. Their parents had lots of money, bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, got them good jobs, etc.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/trump-threatened-tough-punishment-for-employers-who-hired-migrant-workers-so-far-only-a-handful-have-faced-the-wrath/ar-AA1HInFV
SKY NEWS
— Democrats ‘brainwashed’ into hating US through critical race theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-VlJxkdU0k
June 29, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/29/pride-month-protest-history-chicago/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting faith leaders to promote the anti-religious Democrat Party platform.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/29/opinion-immigration-raids-donald-trump-civil-rights/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/28/jb-pritzker-president-trump-thick-references-rich-miller-re-election-address
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/06/28/berwyn-pride-walk-celebrates-neighborhood-diversity
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/equity/dei-will-remain-relevant-demographics-change-opinion
ABC7
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-ruling-whats-14th-amendment-guarantee-scotus-limits-nationwide-injunctions/16865677/
NBC5
— Elon Musk rips into ‘utterly insane’ Trump-backed megabill. Musk’s earlier comments led to the deterioration of his relationship with the president.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/elon-musk-rips-into-utterly-insane-trump-backed-megabill/3778480/
— GE Appliances moves washing machine production from China to Kentucky with $490 million investment. What percent of what you own was made in China or other foreign countries?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/ge-appliances-washing-machine-production-china-kentucky/3778408/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-pride-parade-2025-route-map-time/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/justice-journey-bus-tour-launches-from-chicago-defend-immigrant-rights
SATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/stop-billionaire-bus-tour-illinois/
QUAD CITY TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://qctimes.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_2ffc57ee-6dc4-50bc-8218-31ddcf0b8e12.html
SOUTHERN
— Republicans aim to tie Democrats to Zohran Mamdani after primary upset
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/28/republicans-aim-to-tie-democrats-to-zohran-mamdani-after-primary-upset/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/28/252223/
WJBC
— Trump Admin Streamlines Process to Fine Illegal Aliens
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/06/28/trump-admin-streamlines-process-to-fine-illegal-aliens/
FOX59
— New law sets up commission to review Indiana-Illinois boundary
https://fox59.com/indiana-news/new-law-sets-up-commission-to-review-indiana-illinois-boundary/
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick announced his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in February. Mendrick told The Center Square that Pritzker’s policies have gone too far.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/gop-challenger-speaks-as-il-governor-maintains-focus-on-washington/article_b98eec7d-144a-4fd7-ba0d-e6219053d7fa.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrat Anguish Will Only Get Worse
https://johnkassnews.com/democrat-anguish-will-only-get-worse/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. That is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time with those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write about the success that Democrat leaders have had doing that in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you have to work your way through college? I did. That harmed my GPA. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my having to work my way through college against me the most. They stress a) that my ACT score was only 24, b) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, c) that I got no scholarships, and d) that no Ivy League University would have accepted me. I would focus on my critics/opponents whose parents had lots of money, who bought them cars, who paid for their college expenses, and who got them jobs. Instead of studying, I worked far too many hours a) washing dishes during my junior and senior years in high school and b) delivering mail while to took classes at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU in 1969. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I ever-increasingly complained about their use of Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, the veterans preference, and budget cuts to get rid of their Republican employees. When I was 40 years old in 1988, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed the aforesaid. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have used the aforesaid against me the most. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— There are very few Black CPAs. To keep my Black CPA subordinate from leaving GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave him my job and my preferred corner office when I was 49 years old in 1997. 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 was not a licensed CPA like I was. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Vallas: Illinois returning to soft bigotry of low expectations. Illinois students are not learning, but instead of boosting the quality of education state leaders are trying to lower standards so scores don’t look as bad. Blame it on the Chicago Teachers Union and other teachers unions pushing for less accountability.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-illinois-returning-to-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illegal immigrants have no right to choose which country they are deported to. 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.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3452694/illegal-immigrant-deportation-no-right-choose-country/
NEW YORK POST
— Why it’s time to make America think again — as international students outperform Americans. Do parents of foreign students do more to help their children succeed?
https://nypost.com/2025/06/28/opinion/why-its-time-to-make-america-think-again/
— JD Vance has blistering response for Catholic bishops who criticized ICE raids in churches: ‘Worried about their bottom line’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jd-vance-has-blistering-response-for-catholic-bishops-who-criticized-ice-raids-in-churches-worried-about-their-bottom-line/ar-AA1xTyl5
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— 160 Dems oppose House bill to deport illegal aliens convicted of DUI
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/28/160-dems-oppose-house-bill-to-deport-illegal-aliens-convicted-of-dui-1554846/
COLLEGE FIX
— New ‘Queer Studies’ certificate at Illinois State University aims to ‘reconfigure’ social norms. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/new-queer-studies-certificate-at-illinois-state-u-aims-to-reconfigure-social-norms/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago braces for deadly July 4 weekend.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-braces-deadly-july-4-weekend-fox-news-analyst-takes-action-brothers-unsolved-murder
— Trump threatens to support a primary challenger against GOP senator. In 2000, my critics/opponents succeeded in getting a registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman, but not since.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-threatens-support-primary-challenger-against-gop-senator-opposing-big-beautiful-bill
— Group launches tip line for DOD employees to report DEI, ‘woke’ overreach. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I ever-increasingly complained about their use of Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, the veterans preference, and budget cuts to get rid of their Republican employees. When I was 40 years old in 1988, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed the aforesaid. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have used the aforesaid against me the most. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-group-launches-tip-line-115153511.html
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— The LA Riots and the Left’s Treason. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, Democrats will riot in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/the-la-riots-and-the-lefts-treason/amp/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— DHS and DOJ Team Up, Make Overhaul That Illegal Aliens Will Absolutely Hate. If there were as many citizens of foreign countries in America when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs and college admissions that I got. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college. Their parents bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them jobs.
https://www.westernjournal.com/dhs-doj-team-make-overhaul-illegal-aliens-will-absolutely-hate/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— National Association Of Black Accountants Convention Struggled With Sponsors Amid DEI Pushback. There are very few Black CPAs. To keep my Black CPA subordinate from leaving GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave him my job and my preferred corner office when I was 49 years old in 1997. 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 was not a licensed CPA like I was.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/national-association-of-black-accountants-convention-struggled-with-sponsors-amid-dei-pushback/ar-AA1Hqyf4
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/trump-cuts-lgbtq-funding.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/nyc-pride-parade-march.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/gay-lesbian-trans-rights.html
— What Every Buyer Should Know About Home Inspections. A thorough home inspection can be the difference between a great deal and a terrible one. Here are the questions any home buyer should ask. Do not buy real estate unless the seller agrees to pay for any needed heating and cooling equipment repairs for at least a year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/realestate/home-inspection-guide.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/opinion/los-angeles-protests-raids-ice.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/trump-iran-protests-mamdani.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/06/29/iran-immigration-arrests-us-trump-deportations/f3a7c9c0-549d-11f0-baaa-ba1025f321a8_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/26/baby-boom-aging-population-immigration/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2025/05/05/francis-conclave-cardinals-catholic-demographics-global/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/29/lgbtq-pride-nyc-san-francisco-parade-protest/a8807b36-549d-11f0-baaa-ba1025f321a8_story.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-14/immigration-demographic-change-california-asian-latino
LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly unite Hispanics and Asians against Republicans
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/06/28/an-attack-on-us-asian-american-leaders-condemn-ice-raids-and-urge-solidarity-with-latinos/
USA TODAY
–Ever-increasingly, antisemites demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://www.aol.com/protests-erupt-calling-trump-u-194721923.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/28/iran-nuke-airstrikes-trump-obliterate/84389392007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/27/undocumented-immigrants-massive-fines-trump-rule/84390565007/
SAN FRENCISCO CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ and illegal immigration.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/drag-performer-detained-ice-20399122.php
BALTIMORE SUN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that manufacturing jobs are bad jobs that Americans refuse to take.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/06/28/how-demographics-major-spending-cuts-threaten-trumps-hope-of-manufacturing-revival/
FORBES
— DeSantis Unveils New Higher Ed Accrediting Agency As Alternative To ‘Woke Accreditation Cartels’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxfRXtXsG_o
BUSINESS STANDARD
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America.
https://www.tbsnews.net/world/immigrants-scramble-clarity-after-us-supreme-court-birthright-ruling-1176016
NPR
— America is Changing Lanes on EVs. Outstandingly, Illinois approved my application for a $4,000 rebate for my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona Plus EV.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/29/1254999546/america-is-changing-lanes-on-evs
GOOGLE AI
— Working Your Way Through College. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my having to work my way through college against me the most. They stress a) that my ACT score was only 24, b) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class, c) that I got no scholarships, and d) that no Ivy League University would have accepted me. I would focus on my critics/opponents whose parents had lots of money, who bought them cars, who paid for their college expenses, and who got them jobs.
https://www.google.com/search?q=working+your+way+through+college
BEST COLLEGES
— Changing Demographics Will Impact Higher Education for Years. Under the Democrats, a) fewer and fewer and fewer young people who have demographics that vote for Republicans will seek college degrees and b) more and more and more young people who have demographics that vote for Democrats will seek college degrees. Under the Democrats, more and more and more college students will be liberal/moderate, minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/changing-demographics-will-impact-higher-education-for-years/
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://stateline.org/2024/09/27/changing-demographics-and-the-political-calculus-of-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-in-swing-states/
PEW RESEARCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/03/the-changing-face-of-congress-in-7-charts/
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/the-changing-demographic-composition-of-voters-and-party-coalitions/
PSY POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.psypost.org/white-americans-do-not-feel-threatened-by-demographic-change-new-study-finds/
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-release/new-research-reveals-changing-demographics-foreign-born-voters-and-younger-voters-swing-2/
MCKINSEY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/dependency-and-depopulation-confronting-the-consequences-of-a-new-demographic-reality
TELEGRAPH
— Liberal leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those who have demographics that vote for conservatives with those who have demographics that vote for liberals.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/15/demographics-politics-transformation-stats/
INDEPENDENT
— Trump Tower is throwing a Pride month party for LGBTQ+ Republicans despite White House dodging events
https://www.aol.com/trump-tower-throwing-pride-month-014441655.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/pride-funding-trump-dei-sponsorship-b2779029.html
HR MAGAZINE
— Changing demographics will shape work/life integration. As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, fewer and fewer and fewer of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates shared my demographics, that is, fewer and fewer and fewer of them were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been America for a long time. Similarly, since I have served as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, fewer and fewer and fewer of those involved in Republican politics around me share my demographics.
https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/comment/changing-demographics-will-shape-worklife-integration/
SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE
— Ever-increasingly, unions promote socialism and the rest of the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.socialistalternative.org/2025/06/28/union-members-against-ice-meeting/
June 27, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Huntley Trump store owner agrees to move to new location after legal battle with village. Village says store owner cannot keep items in right-of-way.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-truth-store-owner-agrees-move-new-location-legal-battle-village-huntley-illinois-eviction-notice/16855914/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-police-mayor-brandon-johnson-talk-2025-pride-parade-safety-thursday-1m-expected-gather-city/16854453/
— Largest Midwest ICE detention center opens in Michigan, could soon house people detained in Chicago. Advocates say private prison company that owns North Lake facility, GEO Group, has troubled past.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/largest-midwest-ice-detention-center-opens-geo-north-lake-baldwin-michigan-could-soon-house-people-detained-chicago/16857442/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/when-and-where-is-chicago-pride-parade-street-closures-route-and-what-else-to-know/3777219/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/how-the-republican-megabill-targets-immigrant-finances/3777043/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/aids-garden-chicago-honors-greg-harris/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-pride-parade-2025
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/06/26/illinois-congress-members-push-back-after-being-denied-access-ice-facilities
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-should-anyone-born-in-the-us-automatically-be-a-citizen-of-the-us/#/questions
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/fashion-style/2025/06/26/chicago-drag-designers-wearable-art-rupauls-drag-race
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/06/26/trans-migrant-chicago-deportation-trump
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker makes third-term bid official, castigates President Donald Trump and Democrats who shy away from progressive causes.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/26/gov-jb-pritzker-running-third-term/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/27/jb-pritzker-timeline-illinois-governor/
— Why have Illinois and Chicago not yet clamped down on unregulated intoxicating hemp?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/26/editorial-hemp-texas-greg-abbott-chicago-pritzker-welch/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/27/opinion-bruce-scott-lavender-scare-chicago-gay-lgbtq-history/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/27/immigrant-student-trio-graduate/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker announces run for 3rd term to protect Illinois from ‘chaos and craziness’ of Trump. The Democratic incumbent returned to the Grand Crossing Park Field House where he launched his first run for governor in 2017, making his case for another term.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/06/26/jb-pritzker-campaign-reelection-trump?tpcc=cst_cm
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/06/26/chicago-pride-parade-2025-route-map-street-closures-get-there-items-tickets
DAILY HERALD
— Under the Democrats, soon, everyone will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/gay-marriage-obergefell-hodges-anniversary.html
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzkers-re-election-bid-looks-ahead-2028-greg-hinz
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/06/27/pritzker-said-hes-running-for-re-election-to-protect-our-story/84372667007/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Geneva Republican Dan Ugaste eyes run for governor. No decision yet as GOP state rep considers support, financial backing.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/06/26/geneva-republican-dan-ugaste-eyes-run-for-governor/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/06/26/kane-health-dept-hosts-free-training-on-affirming-lgbtq-terms/
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Duckworth.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-hosts-telephone-town-hall-highlighting-negative-impacts-of-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-on-illinois-83801.cfm
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ask how does Trump make his money and say real estate, hospitality, and his name.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-26/how-does-president-trump-make-his-money-real-estate-hospitality-and-his-name
WVIK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wvik.org/podcast/whats-happenin-qc/2025-06-26/pride-celebrating-inclusion-in-the-quad-cities
CHICAGOLAND JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/personal-pac-statement-on-shameful-supreme-court-rulings-in-medina-v-planned-parenthood/
WHEATON PATCH
— Gary Sinise And The Lt. Dan Band To Perform At Cantigny Park. Proceeds from the concert will benefit West Suburban Foundation for Disabled Veterans.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/gary-sinise-lt-dan-band-perform-cantigny-park
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/06/27/pritzkers-new-moves-00429182
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-334/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
— ILGOP Statement on JB Pritzker’s Re-Election Announcement
https://illinois.gop/ilgop-statement-on-jb-pritzkers-re-election-announcement/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL state Sen. Andrew Chesney slams Evanston reparations; city will defend policy ‘vehemently’
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_118ff0e2-9e96-48bc-97cc-f745e1f0909e.html
— Pritzker dismisses Census data showing youth flight from Illinois. Ever-increasingly, the more the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is in Illinois: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d5216b3e-b569-4f59-9dfb-22196bc11c04.html
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Trump’s Jobs Boom Skips Illinois—Thanks to Pritzker’s Tax Hikes
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/06/trumps-jobs-boom-skips-illinois-thanks-to-pritzkers-tax-hikes.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— July 1 starts Illinois laws on gender-inclusiveness, climate education, prostitution privacy
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/july-1-starts-illinois-laws-on-gender-inclusiveness-climate-education-prostitution-privacy/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— After Trump reclassifies cartels, terrorist watchlist encounters soar at southern border
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/26/terrorist-watchlist-encounters-soar-southern-border-trump/
— Tennessee Congressman calls for DOJ probe into Mamdani’s naturalization. What percent come to America a) to get the free stuff that Democrats give them, b) to take advantage of Democrat race and gender based preference giving, c) to turn America into their motherland, and/or d) to destroy those who do not share their religion and/or national origin?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/26/zohran-mamdani-needs-deported-says-andy-ogles/
— A federal employee pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud, admitting she used teleworking so she could claim to be working full-time for three different government agencies at the same time. While I worked for IRS 1971-1972, with IRS’s approval, I worked part-time pumping gasoline for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights. That helped me a) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, b) pay for graduate business courses at Loyola in 1972, and c) buy a new town home in University Park in 1972.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/26/triple-dipping-teleworker-fed-employee-claimed-working-three-jobs-one/
— Liberals want Americans to depend on government. My parents and my teachers at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete, Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest, and Crete-Monee High School promoted personal responsibility. That motived me to take college preparatory courses, to buy a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air at the start of my junior year in 1964, to use that car to get to/from my dish washing job in Chicago Heights, to get an ACT score of 24, to earn/save enough to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in May of 1966, to graduate in the upper 20% of my class, and to get accepted by UIC.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/26/liberals-want-americans-depend-government/
— The socialist takeover of the Democratic Party. Mamdani’s win highlights ideological shifts.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/26/socialist-takeover-democratic-party/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats continue leftward lurch with socialist candidate for New York City mayor
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3455678/democrats-continue-leftward-lurch-socialist-candidate-new-york-city-mayor-zohran-mamdani/
— After Iran strikes, Trump goes nuclear on the media
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3455733/after-iran-strikes-trump-goes-nuclear-on-the-media/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more LGBTQ and b) destroy those like me who do not promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3453922/thu-trumps-view-on-same-sex-marriage-is-a-political-winner/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegal immigration, Chicago style
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/06/illegal_immigration_chicago_style.html
BREITBART
— Pritzker’s Run for Third Term Slammed as Legacy ‘Merits Firing Not Rehiring’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/26/watch-illinois-democrat-gov-jb-pritzkers-run-for-third-term-slammed-as-legacy-merits-firing-not-rehiring/
— Authoritarian Trump’s Attacks on the Press Are Very Dangerous. I should write about my critics/opponents who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse action against me to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/06/26/van-hollen-authoritarian-trumps-attacks-on-the-press-are-very-dangerous/
— Trump’s DOJ Sues Orange County, California for Hiding Illegal Voter Registrations of Noncitizens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/26/trumps-doj-sues-orange-county-california-for-allegedly-hiding-illegal-voter-registrations-of-noncitizens/
— Trump Forcing States to End Tuition Giveaways to Illegal Migrants. To pay for my UIC and NIU expenses 1966-1970, I worked far too many hours. That dragged down my GPA.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/06/26/trump-forcing-states-to-end-tuition-giveaways-to-illegal-migrants/
DAILY SIGNAL
— NYC Mayoral Candidate Vows $65 Million in Funds for ‘Transgender’ Care; Penalties for Noncompliant Hospitals.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/26/nyc-mayoral-candidate-vows-65-million-funds-transgender-care-penalties-noncompliant-hospitals/
— Tuberville Demands Parliamentarian’s Firing Over Ruling on Medicaid for Illegals
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/26/tuberville-demands-parliamentarians-firing-ruling-medicaid-illegals/
FOX NEWS
— Trump admin takes action after massive fraud uncovered at agency (SBA) Dems tried to protect from DOGE. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. GAO audits IRS. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors did not want me, a Republican, to audit IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980. I had 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. They succeeded in keeping off audits of IRS until 1986,that but then succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS after 1988 for the rest of my GAO employment. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980. I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I had become a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997. To keep me off audits of IRS, they hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I could not be objective auditing IRS because of the many big adverse actions that they had taken against me.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-trump-admin-takes-action-after-massive-fraud-uncovered-agency-dems-tried-protect-from-doge
NEWSMAX
— Supreme Court Narrows Window for Illegal Migrants to Appeal Deportation
https://www.newsmax.com/us/supreme-court-migrant-riley/2025/06/26/id/1216583/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting illegal immigration.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/quinnipiac-poll-immigration-legal-status/2025/06/26/id/1216624/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— NYC Mayor Kicks Off Reelection Bid As Independent, Casts Mamdani As Too Young, Liberal, Privileged
https://apnews.com/article/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-independent-campaign-mamdani-781d1a47b6281aeb139ce175c2fa6aec
NBC NEWS
— How JB Pritzker’s decision to run for re-election could impact his 2028 aspirations
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/jb-pritzker-reelection-impact-2028-aspirations-politics-desk-rcna215418
— The Social Security Administration said Thursday that it had hired Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old nicknamed “Big Balls” who the White House said earlier in the week had left the Trump administration. Coristine joined the Social Security Administration this week as a special government employee, a type of temporary position with relatively few disclosure obligations, the benefits agency said. What did you do when you were 19? I turned 19 in September of 1967. I lived with my parents and brother in Crete. I was a full-time UIC student. I worked part-time for the Park Forest Post Office. I bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in December of 1967.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/teen-doge-staffer-big-balls-left-trump-administration-rcna214900
CNBC
— UK auto production for May slumps to lowest level since 1949 as Trump tariffs hit hard. Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents glorify/praise foreign-nameplate cars and despise/hate American nameplate cars. I have owned American nameplate cars since I was 16 years old in 1964 and I have only owned American nameplate cars. I bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971 which I continue to own. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates used that against be viciously. Most commonly, my critics/opponents despise/hate unions and union members. I was union member 1966-1969 and 1971-1980.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/27/trump-tariffs-uk-car-and-vehicle-output-falls-to-76-year-low-in-may.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/magazine/trump-civil-rights-law-discrimination.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/us/politics/trump-immigrants-deportations.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/gay-marriage-obergefell-hodges-anniversary.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/hiv-lenacapavir-vaccine-trump-cuts-africa.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is the face of the Democratic Party
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/26/republicans-zohran-mamdani-democrats-socialist/
— Another mysterious anti-Trump sculpture appears on the National Mall. This time, featuring clips of President Trump dancing. The White House was not amused. If you ran for an office, what would your critics/opponents stress? If I ran for an office, my critics/opponents would stress the many big adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/26/mystery-trump-tv-sculpture-national-mall/
— Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/26/mamdani-new-york-mayor-socialism/
USA TODAY
— My Democrat coworkers and subordinates in the federal government took far more sick days than I did.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/24/liberal-conservative-mental-health-gap/84285127007/
WABASH VALLEY
— Duckworth introduces bill to promote Democrat riots.
https://www.mywabashvalley.com/news/local-news/illinois-senator-introduces-bill-to-limit-trump-from-using-armed-forces-on-civilians/
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
— Where Do Refugees Settle in the United States? FOIA Documents Reveal Where Refugees Arrive and Their Demographic Data. Democrats have settled many refugees in Wheaton.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/where-do-refugees-go-after-they-get-here-foia/
LAW 360
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/2355255
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-years-after-obergefell-lgbtq-couples-wrestle-with-new-fears_n_685cb75fe4b02f1b49a85c36/amp
ACLU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/the-supreme-court-dealt-a-blow-to-trans-rights-heres-how-to-take-action
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/trumps-remarks-on-birthright-citizenship-explained
AXIOS
— Trump won a higher percentage of the Latino vote in 2024 than previously believed and came within striking distance of capturing a historic majority of those voters, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of the election results.
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/trump-harris-latino-voters-2024-election-pew
GOOGLE AI
— Gut federal agencies. Democrat U.S. Senators and Congressmen let Gingrich gut GAO during the 1980s and 1990s because the Democrats who ran GAO could and did use Gingrich’s budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s remaining Republican employees, including me.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gut+federal+agencies
ECONOMIC TIMES
— ‘You misquote Trump the most’: Pentagon’s Pete Hegseth slams Fox News reporter in explosive briefing.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/you-misquote-trump-the-most-pentagons-pete-hegseth-slams-fox-news-reporter-in-explosive-briefing-over-iran-strike-question/articleshow/122106117.cms
June 24, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/chicago-protest-israel-iran-war/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/us-iran-israel-nuclear-sites-strike/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/ctu-president-rebukes-president-trump/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/24/opinion-northwestern-university-michael-schill/
— Rahm versus JB in a presidential primary? Bring it on. Big reasons to not support candidates in primary elections include that if the candidates that you support lose primary elections and/or if the candidates who win primary elections lose general elections, far too often, the losing candidates and the following will blame you for their loses: their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers. I should write about the aforesaid. I would cite Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/24/rahm-emanuel-jb-pritzker-presidential/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— My critics/opponents are ever-increasingly furious that I have the time, money, experience, ability, and motivation to put together and to send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. They ever-increasingly a) discourage me from sending out the newsletters and b) discourage everyone from reading them. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/support-cst?tpcc=FY25-FYE-Email-PrintSub-
NBC5
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-iran-israel-nato-june-23-2025-live-updates/3773825/
FOX32
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/supreme-court-trump-deportations-third-countries
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1663366
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljYUYQMEH_o
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/06/23/advocates-say-really-vulnerable-lives-stake-trump-administration-moves-shutter-lgbtq
WGLT
— McLean County Democrats fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-06-23/rally-crowd-opposes-federal-immigration-crackdown-after-ice-arrest-at-mclean-county-courthouse
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump and his political operation target their first GOP incumbent: Kentucky’s Thomas Massie. My critics/opponents succeeded in getting a Republican voter in my precinct to run against me for Precinct Committeeman in 2000. But they have failed to do that since then. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who I have done the most to help elect and to reelect.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-and-his-political-operation-target-their-first-gop-incumbent-kentuckys-thomas-massie/
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TV
— DuPage Republicans looking to increase vote-by-mail participation
https://www.nctv17.org/news/dupage-republicans-looking-to-increase-vote-by-mail-participation/
WHEATON PATCH
— $1 Million In Grants Awarded By DuPage Foundation Includes New Seed Grants
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/1-million-grants-awarded-dupage-foundation-includes-new-seed-grants
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/1-million-in-grants-awarded-by-dupage-foundation-includes-new-seed-grants/ar-AA1HgH3A
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-538/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DOUG IBENDAHL
— The Illinois GOP’s last chance to head-off its next embarrassing election disaster
https://dougelstonibendahl.substack.com/p/the-illinois-gops-last-chance-to
JEFF BERKOWITZ
— Pritzker to announce his Gov re-election bid this Thursday. Can Wirepoints’ Pres Ted Dabrowski be far behind in his bid to beat the Pres wannabe in IL’s Gov race on Nov 3, 2026?
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/jb-pritzker-to-announce-his-gov-re
WIREPOINTS
— What New York City’s near-bankruptcy can teach Chicagoans
https://wirepoints.org/what-nycs-near-bankruptcy-can-teach-chicagoans-attend-drop-dead-city-documentary-screening-on-july-1/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— The Significance of Trump’s Actions in Iran
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/06/opinion-the-significance-of-trumps-actions-in-iran.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump expresses frustration toward Iran and Israel following post-ceasefire attacks
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/24/donald-trump-expresses-frustration-toward-iran-israel-following-post/
BREITBART
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/06/23/glaude-trumps-deportations-part-of-the-great-replacement-theory/
— Anti-Israel Activist Mahmoud Khalil Leads ‘Free Palestine!’ Chant in NYC After Release from ICE Custody. What percent of those who come to America do so to promote their motherland, their religion, their race, their gender, their sexual orientation, their etc.? What percent come to America to destroy America?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/23/watch-anti-israel-activist-mahmoud-khalil-leads-free-palestine-chant-in-nyc-after-release-from-ice-custody/
— Democrats Rely on Paid Activists to Create Fear About Rural Hospitals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/23/democrats-rely-on-radical-groups-paid-activists-to-create-fear-about-rural-hospitals/amp/
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/06/23/exclusive-rnc-chair-michael-whatley-on-u-s-strikes-on-iran-nuclear-sites-democrats-engaging-in-theater-trump-a-man-of-his-word-once-again/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/23/poll-majority-say-democrats-should-take-wait-and-see-attitude-toward-trumps-actions/
DAILY CALLER
— Democrats Who Backed Obama’s Unilateral Bombings Now Have Problem With Trump’s Iran Strike
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/23/nancy-pelosi-ed-markey-democrats-donald-trump-iran-strikes-barack-obama/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— DHS Awards Second Border Wall Contract to Restart Construction in Arizona. The next Democrat or RINO President will again flood America with their illegals.
https://www.fairus.org/news/executive/27-mile-border-wall-contract-restart-construction-tuscon-arizona
NEW AMERICAN
— Biden Released Almost 1,300 Iranians Into U.S.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/homan-biden-released-almost-1300-iranians-into-u-s-trump-lets-bomb-iran/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Black Lives Matter Organization Spends Juneteenth Demanding White People ‘Pay Reparations.’ Democrat and RINO leaders want Republicans who are the following to pay reparations: conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-lives-matter-organization-spends-juneteenth-demanding-white-people-pay-reparations/ar-AA1H7Caa
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump rebukes Israel and Iran hours after ceasefire
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-conflict-us-trump-06-24-25-intl-hnk
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/analysis-trump-iran-strikes-middle-east-ceasefire
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-trump-ceasefire-attacks-continue-f1e60190722cc3410b69f21717872ffa
REUTERS
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/big-questions-loom-over-trumps-announcement-israel-iran-ceasefire-deal-2025-06-24/
MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDyat4dOUvc
MSN
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasing destroy Republicans, and especially Republicans who share Trump’s demographics. Republicans should ever-increasingly prepare for that. To help keep my Post Office job, I took business courses at UIC and NIU. To help keep my IRS job, a) I took business courses at Loyola and earned an MBA, b) I took accounting courses at DePaul, and c) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. To help keep my GAO job, a) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, b) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, c) I became a licensed CPA, d) I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, and e) I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/rock-singer-ripped-after-banning-trump-fans-from-his-shows-your-band-is-doomed-now/ar-AA1GWpps
AOL
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-says-farmers-being-hurt-194412793.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Israel and Iran Agree to Cease-Fire Announced By Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/world/ceasefire-iran-israel-trump
— Democrat and RINO leaders say that Trump got the fight that he wanted in LA and ask if It turned out the way he expected.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/magazine/trump-los-angeles-immigration.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/style/trump-lgbtq-gay-maga.html
— Trump Lashes Out at Israel and Iran as Fragile Truce Is Tested
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/world/ceasefire-iran-israel-trump
USA TODAY
— Those who have demographics that vote for Democrats ever-increasing blame their problems on those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/24/liberal-conservative-mental-health-gap/84285127007/
DAILY ORANGE
— To get more votes from minorities, females, and younger people, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Whites, men, and older people.
https://dailyorange.com/2025/06/opinion-u-s-interference-is-white-supremacy-disguised-as-favors/
WOAI
— Democrats Hope To Turn Every Illegal Trump Doesn’t Deport Into A Voter
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2025-06-20-democrats-hope-to-turn-every-illegal-trump-doesnt-deport-into-a-voter/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: $30 Minimum Wage Has L.A. Hotel Owners in Revolt. In today’s dollars my IRS salary was $26.85/hour in 1971. To get that job, I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination earned a bachelor’s degree in manage from NIU in 1970. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $32.84/hour in 1972. By then, I had completed three graduate evening business courses at Loyola.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/los-angeles-hotel-minimum-wage-a1fa6871
— FRONT PAGE: A New Meatpacking Plant’s Novel Pitch to Attract American Workers. To promote more mass/illegal immigration, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at Americans that with more foreigners in America, Americans should no longer have to take bad jobs. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take.
https://www.wsj.com/business/meatpacking-american-workers-immigration-d6bdd47a
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing students who are White and/or male with students who are minority and/or female.
https://www.epi.org/blog/public-colleges-are-more-diverse-than-ever-but-anti-dei-policies-threaten-that-progress/
HARVARD CRIMSON
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give foreign students more preference over American students.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/24/preliminary-injunction-trump-proclamation/
DAILY BEAST
— Democrat and RINO leaders want everything that Trump does to be a failure.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-announces-complete-and-total-israel-iran-ceasefire/
HIFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.aol.com/trumps-total-disregard-juneteenth-underscores-213906390.html
MINDING THE CAMPUS
— To get more votes from minorities, females, and younger people, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Whites, men, and older people.
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/06/23/all-men-are-created-equal-but-they-are-not-equal-in-any-other-way/
PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.pbs.org/video/trump-administration-to-shut-down-suicide-helpline-for-lgbtq-youth-fdgj0h/
SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA
— Democrats ‘furious’ Donald Trump took out Iran’s nuclear capabilities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVAltNoOvA
June 23, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Democrats to protest against Trump’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dozens-attend-downtown-chicago-protest-federal-plaza-us-strikes-iran-donald-trump-administration/16821316/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxv7lpK9-n0
CBS2
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Democrats to protest against Trump’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/protesters-downtown-chicago-opposition-u-s-strikes-iran/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Want to know how a socialist mayor would govern New York City? Ask Chicago.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/new-york-city-johnson-mamdani-cuomo-chicago/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/trumps-strategy-iran-split-congress/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Despite moves by Indiana lawmakers, Illinois’ borders unlikely to change.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/illinois-indiana-border-explainer/
— Illinois is wooing foreign tourists, despite a hostile White House and a blue-red divide
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/illinois-chicago-tourism-international/
— My Democrat superiors in the federal government illegally discriminated against their employees because they were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran because unconstitutional Democrat and RINO laws made them do that.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/23/opinion-military-follow-donald-trump-protests/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders say that they stand with government employees. But Democrat leaders stand only with their government employees who are Democrat and minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. Because I was none of the aforesaid, no Democrat leader stood with me when Republican Gingrich gutted GAO during the 1980s and 1990s. Democrat leaders were overjoyed when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and replaced me in 1997 with my Democrat Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had. It is called patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/06/23/cook-county-public-servants-federal-government-purge
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The truth is, government doesn’t work without the professionals who show up every day to serve the public. Effectiveness depends on more than elected officials or public leaders. It requires the daily efforts of those working quietly behind the scenes. Their roles are rarely glamorous or celebrated, yet they perform them diligently because they believe in something bigger than themselves.
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Democrats to protest against Trump’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
https://thesouthern.com/news/southern-illinoisans-speak-out-against-u-s-strike-on-iran/article_a6768763-da9c-54f6-a8fb-319824430d80.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-06-22/are-americans-at-risk-after-u-s-bombing-of-iran
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-go-it-alone-strategy-on-iran-risks-dividing-an-already-split-congress/
WSIL TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Hamas and Iran.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/peace-coalition-of-southern-illinois-rally-scheduled-in-carbondale-for-peace-in-gaza-and-iran/article_160af493-f2d3-4f37-b5d5-90ccb6e435b7.html
CHICAGOLAND JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to illegal students over American students.
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/advocates-await-action-on-bill-protecting-rights-of-immigrant-students-in-illinois/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-537/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— According to Bill O’Reilly, U.S. Congressman Sean Casten, who represented Algonquin Township in his first term, called for President Donald Trump’s impeachment ten minutes after the bombs were dropped on Iran’s underground nuclear facility.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/22/algonquin-townships-past-member-of-congress-calls-for-trumps-impeachment/
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Amy Grant joins lawsuit over alleged violation of legislative procedure
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/673270796-amy-grant-joins-lawsuit-over-alleged-violation-of-legislative-procedure
— Community Unit School District 200 administrators rank 173rd highest in state for average salary in 2024
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/671797139-analysis-community-unit-school-district-200-administrators-rank-173rd-highest-in-state-for-average-salary-in-2024
WIREPOINTS
— New Illinois law makes it tougher for voters to block school district borrowings/tax hikes.
https://wirepoints.org/new-illinois-law-makes-it-tougher-for-voters-to-block-school-district-borrowings-tax-hikes-effingham-is-a-good-illustration-wirepoints/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois lawmakers pass almost 100 bills on final day
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-lawmakers-pass-almost-100-bills-on-final-day/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Why do people work against you? People work against me a) because they reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote, most commonly, the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks, b) because they blame their problems on those who share my demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, c) because they despise/hate present/past union members and/or federal employees and retirees, and/or d) because they destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anticipate/expect that when push comes to shove, many, most, virtually all, if not all of your supporters will dump you. I should write about my supporters who dumped me when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes a) defeat my candidacy for Milton Township Republican Organization Treasurer in 2004, b) end my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership in 2007, c) end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, d) gerrymander my precinct 2015, e) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and f) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. I would focus on those who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for opposition research and who I have done the most to help elect and to reelect since 2000. I would focus on those who blame me the most for their defeats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Why do people fail/refuse to come to your defense? People who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican fail/refuse to come to my defense because my critics/opponents have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and are nasty/vicious. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents want me to stop sending out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. But failing that, they want me to not include links in the newsletters to articles that they do not like. I should write about my critics/opponents, the articles that they do not like, and why they do not like those articles. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— DHS issues terrorism advisory alert amid U.S. attack on Iran
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/22/dhs-issues-terrorism-advisory-alert-amid-us-attack-iran/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Homan warns of possible Iranian sleeper cells who entered US under Biden
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3450326/homan-warns-of-possible-iranian-sleeper-cells-who-entered-us-under-biden/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump’s support keeps growing while Democrats howl at the moon
https://nypost.com/2025/06/22/opinion/trumps-support-keeps-growing-while-democrats-howl-at-the-moon/
CENTER SQUARE
— More than 700 Iranians released into the U.S. under Biden. More than 1,500 Iranians apprehended by Border Patrol agents alone.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_8a9f5ec5-e337-4d29-8650-ea01eec3ff6a.html
— Heightened alert: Iranians in U.S. previously charged with support for terrorism.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1a142a36-bf3b-414e-8396-e0cd08a05ee0.html
FOX NEWS
— Trump’s taking necessary steps to keep nuclear weapons out of Iran’s hands
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6374725361112
— Trump battled Democrats and isolationists
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6374724600112
NEWS BUSTERS
— MSNBC Compares LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health To That Of Combat Veterans
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/ashley-taylor/2025/06/22/msnbc-compares-lgbtq-youth-mental-health-combat-veterans
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The NextGen Bar Exam is DEI in action, dangerously lowering standards. Every time that Democrat and RINO leaders lower standards, my having done the following means more. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I became a licensed CPA. I earned four more job-related professional certifications. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5359119-the-nextgen-bar-exam-is-dei-in-action-dangerously-lowering-standards/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The American legal profession is in crisis, and the NextGen Bar Exam is the latest symptom of a disease that’s rapidly metastasizing: the abandonment of merit in favor of ideological box-checking. For decades, the bar exam was the last line of defense — a rigorous filter ensuring that only those with real legal chops could represent the public. Today, that filter is being shredded, sacrificed on the altar of equity and inclusion. The result? A collapse in standards, the death of meritocracy, and a profession on the brink of irrelevance. The NextGen Bar Exam, set to roll out in 2026, is not about modernizing legal education or making better lawyers. It is about making the exam easier to pass. Out go the demanding essays and complex legal analysis; in come more multiple-choice questions and “practical” scenarios that test little more than common sense and the ability to regurgitate buzzwords. The new mantra is “minimal competence,” a phrase so hollow as to be meaningless. The new system benefits neither clients, who deserve skilled and well-prepared advocates, nor the public, who depend on lawyers to guide them through a complex legal system. The only winners are bureaucrats and activists obsessed with “equity.” And even then, this is not to say that the new bar somehow guarantees equality of opportunity. Rather, it tries to force equality of outcome, no matter how much the universal bar must be lowered in the process. In truth, the NextGen Bar Exam is DEI ideology in action. By blaming the bar exam itself, rather than differences in preparation or effort, for unequal pass rates among various groups, the legal establishment has chosen to lower the standards until everyone passes. This is neither fairness nor justice, but the soft bigotry of low expectations, institutionalized. DEI has become a Trojan horse, smuggling mediocrity into the heart of the legal profession. Instead of demanding that all aspiring lawyers rise to meet high standards, the system now bends over backward to ensure that the standards themselves are erased. The message is clear: merit is out, identity is in. The legal profession was once a meritocracy. It didn’t matter where you came from or what you looked like — if you could master the law, you could make it. That’s what made American law great — it consisted of the best and brightest, tested and proven. Now, that ideal is being tossed aside. The NextGen Bar Exam is just the latest example, following major formatting changes to the LSAT to “reduce anxiety” and the proliferation of alternative “pathways” to licensure that bypass rigorous testing altogether. This isn’t just a legal education problem. It is a societal problem. When we stop rewarding excellence and start rewarding box-checking, we get a weaker, less competent, and less trustworthy profession. As a result, we end up with lawyers who lack essential skills in writing, reasoning, and effective advocacy, in turn, undermining the credibility of our justice system. If this trend continues, the outcome is inevitable: Clients will find themselves represented by lawyers who only managed to pass a watered-down exam. Our courts will be overwhelmed by incompetence, and the already fragile reputation of the legal profession will deteriorate further. Those who will suffer most are everyday Americans — people who need legal help, not just a participation trophy. The legal profession must wake up before it’s too late. Reform is acceptable and necessary when things are made better. But what’s happening now is not reform, it is surrender. Surrender to ideology and mediocrity. Surrender to the idea that the only way to achieve “equity” is to undermine true merit. The NextGen Bar Exam is a disaster in the making. It is time for lawyers, judges, educators, and the public to speak out and demand a return to merit, rigor, and excellence. The fate of the legal profession and the trust of those it serves now hang in the balance.)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— What do you say to countries that side with Iran?
https://apnews.com/article/us-attack-iran-israel-reaction-united-nations-c10cc46ec236816d958ced2497a11464
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-war-nuclear-trump-bomber-news-06-22-2025-c2baca52babe915e033ae175ce8b2687
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-under-missile-attack-iran-says-all-options-open-after-us-strikes-2025-06-22/
MSN
— MSNBC Examines Trump’s Appeal to Working-Class Voters. My critics/opponents despise/hate the working class, that is, they despise/hate wage earners. Are/were you a wage earner? I washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped more gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/msnbc-examines-trump-s-appeal-to-working-class-voters/ar-AA1H44jc
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Putin and Iran.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-new-warning-trump-iran-pandora-box-2089188
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-taunts-gambler-trump-new-threat-criminal-america-2089171
https://www.newsweek.com/no-more-war-protest-donald-trump-iran-us-strike-israel-2088964
https://www.newsweek.com/what-trumps-strikes-iran-mean-gas-prices-oil-costs-surge-2088900
NBC NEWS
— Trump’s team launches group to unseat GOP Rep. Thomas Massie. I should write about a) those Republican leaders who had their operatives and their dupes unseat me as an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer and as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman and b) those who could have come to my defense but did not.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-thomas-massie-criticism-us-strikes-iran-kentucky-maga-rcna214387
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/world/middleeast/us-protests-iran-attack.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010243288/trumps-risky-gamble-on-attacking-iran.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/trump-strikes-war-iran.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/briefing/a-legal-gamble.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/22/israel-iran-live-updates-us-trump/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/22/trump-iran-kaine-youngkin-van-hollen/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/22/iran-trump-nuclear-sites-strikes/9a90bf76-4f67-11f0-baaa-ba1025f321a8_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/22/trump-iran-bombing-maga/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/22/iran-trump-war-iraq-history-ghosts/
— APRIL 3, 2015 FLASHBACK: Would the government have hired you in 1956? IRS offered me a job when I was 22 years old in 1971 because I had taken and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970. IRS would have offered me the job sooner if I had been a veteran.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/04/03/would-the-government-have-hired-you-in-1956/
(FROM TRHE ARTICLE: The old civil service exam was introduced in 1955, a proctored, pencil-and-paper test that thousands of Americans took each year to get federal jobs. It was called the Federal Service Entrance Examination. A brochure called “Futures in the Federal Government” opened with these words: “Wanted: People of Promise” and urged Americans to take the exam. Starting salaries were listed at $4,040. The civil service exam is making a comeback. The old test was eventually thrown out after legal challenges found that it discriminated against minority groups, who did poorly.)
BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/22/opinion/gay-lesbian-trans-lgbtq-military-veterans/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/22/donald-trump-steve-bannon-maga-iran-bombing-nuclear/84307459007/
FORTUNE
— Wealthy business-owning Trumpers are clashing with MAGA purists over who should get deported
https://fortune.com/2025/06/22/ice-raids-deportation-maga-business-workers/
BLOOMBERG
— China sides with Iran.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-22/china-condemns-trump-s-iran-attack-in-first-comment-since-us-hit
BLOOMBERG TAX
— Alternate Path to Be a Licensed CPA Has Wide-Ranging Benefits. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled a) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in when I was 30 years old 1979, b) my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and d) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/alternate-path-to-be-a-licensed-cpa-has-wide-ranging-benefits
ALL GOVERNMENT
— APRIL 7, 2015 FLASHBACK: U.S. Government Brings Back Civil Service Exams after 34-Year Gap. IRS offered me a job when I was 22 years old in 1971 because I had taken and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970. IRS would have offered me the job sooner if I had been a veteran.
http://www.allgov.com/news/unusual-news/us-government-brings-back-civil-service-exams-after-34-year-gap-150407?news=856171
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Joining the federal workforce these days can involve doing something other federal workers haven’t had to do since the early 1980s: take a test. The federal government abolished the civil service exam in 1981 following multiple discrimination lawsuits that claimed the test was biased against minorities. But with so many people applying to become federal employees, some agencies decided to bring back the civil service exam, albeit in a much newer and modern format that tries to avoid being unfair to blacks and Hispanics. About 10% of would-be bureaucrats at three dozen government agencies—including the departments of Defense, Justice, and Health and Human Services—will take the USA Hire test that utilizes “animated avatars and videos to simulate challenges that could confront employees, testing their reasoning and problem-solving skills,” Lisa Rein wrote at The Washington Post. “Advances in technology allow the tests to scale questions; a correct answer leads to a harder question and an incorrect one ratchets down to an easier option. Scoring is instantaneous, an advance that can quickly winnow the pool of applicants,” Rein said. The test is designed to gauge an applicant’s general aptitude as well as teamwork, problem solving, judgment and specific job skills. Civil service exams originated in 1955 as the Federal Service Entrance Examination. At that time, starting salaries for federal employment were $4,040.)
CPA JOURNAL
— NASBA and the AICPA Propose an Alternative Path to CPA. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled a) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in when I was 30 years old 1979, b) my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and d) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/03/03/nasba-and-the-aicpa-propose-an-alternative-path-to-cpa-2/
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.aol.com/trumps-total-disregard-juneteenth-underscores-213906390.html
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/06/23/academic-freedom-service-academies-dissipates-under
GUARDIAN
— Mohamad Bazzi: Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/trump-iran-george-w-bush-netanyahu
GOOGLE AI
— Push comes to shove. Anticipate/expect that when push comes to shove, many, most, virtually all, if not all of your supporters will dump you. I should write about my supporters who dumped me when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes a) defeat my candidacy for Milton Township Republican Organization Treasurer in 2004, b) end my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership in 2007, c) end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, d) gerrymander my precinct 2015, e) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and f) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. I would focus on those who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and who I have done the most to help elect and to reelect since 2000. I would focus on those who blame me the most for their defeats.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22push+comes+to+shove%22
June 22, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-same-sex-marriage-10-years-later/16810015/
— What do you say to nations that side with Iran?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-strikes-iran-nations-react-american-iranian-nuclear-sites-many-calling-diplomacy/16816470/
NBC5
— Republican Party has nearly five times more cash on hand than the Democrats
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/republican-party-has-nearly-five-times-more-cash-on-hand-than-the-democrats/3773252/
WGN9
— US warns of ‘heightened threat environment’ after strikes on Iran
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/us-warns-of-heightened-threat-environment-after-strikes-on-iran/
FOX32
— Illinois lawmakers (Casten, Duckworth, Durbin, and Kelly) slam Trump’s strike on Iran as ‘impeachable’ and ‘illegal’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-congress-iran-strikes
— Following Iran strike, Pritzker says he’s looking out for threats to Illinois
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/following-iran-strike-pritzker-says-hes-looking-out-threats-ilinois
— Fears grow that US strikes on Iran could spark wider war
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1662597
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/chicago-abortion-clinic-late-pregnancy/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/ice-chicago-honduras-mother-child/
— What do you say to nations that side with Iran?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/editorial-iran-nuclear-war-donald-trump-ali-khamenei/
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250622/letters-to-the-editor/a-welcome-reminder-of-why-pride-is-important/
25 NEWS NOW
— Central Illinois congressmen (LaHood and Sorensen) at odds on U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, Duckworth claims military strikes illegal
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/06/22/central-illinois-congressmen-odds-us-bombing-iranian-nuclear-sites-duckworth-claims-military-strikes-illegal/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Iran, Israel and the Constant Threat of Nuclear War
https://johnkassnews.com/war-and-the-constant-threat-of-more-war/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The billionaires behind the ‘No Kings’ riots. Same global elites funding protesters are the ones pretending to be their enemies.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/22/billionaires-behind-no-kings-riots/
— GOP must tie all Democrats’ to the party’s radical policies and appointees
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/22/gop-must-tie-democrats-partys-radical-policies-appointees/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump did the right thing in Iran
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/opinion-restoring-america/3450215/trump-did-the-right-thing-in-iran/
— Trump’s devastating Iran strikes eliminate an intolerable threat
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3450058/trump-devastating-iran-strikes-eliminate-intolerable-threat/
NEW YORK POST
— Anti-ICE protests to cost Los Angeles taxpayers over $30M
https://nypost.com/2025/06/22/us-news/anti-ice-protests-to-cost-los-angeles-taxpayers-over-30m-official/
BREITBART
— Iran’s President Responds to U.S. at Rally in Tehran: ‘Revenge, Revenge!’
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/06/22/irans-president-responds-to-us-at-rally-in-tehran-revenge-revenge/
FOX NEWS
— GOP senators call for end to funding for sanctuary cities: ‘Enough is enough’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-gop-senators-call-end-funding-sanctuary-cities-enough-enough
— Americans found to have increasing appetite for active US global leadership, led by MAGA Republicans.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/americans-found-have-increasing-appetite-active-us-global-leadership-led-maga-republicans-report
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Media’s Stubbornly Skewed Coverage of the Trans ‘Treatment’ Debate
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/the-medias-stubbornly-skewed-coverage-of-the-trans-treatment-debate/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Republican party divisions emerge following U.S. strikes on Iran
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/republican-party-divisions-emerge-following-u-s-strikes-on-iran-242053189926
CBS NEWS
— “We want real conservatives, real Republicans” says Texas GOP Chair in planned lawsuit against the state to close Republican primaries. What do you say to Democrats who cast Republican primary ballots to harm the Republican Party?
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/conservatives-republicans-texas-gop-chair-lawsuit-against-state-close-republican-primaries/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/opinion/gay-marriage-republicans-obergefell-hodges.html
— I should write about the leaders of the following who have blamed me, blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, blamed my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship, and blamed my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership the most for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/trump-blame-politics.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats, and some Republicans, question Trump’s unilateral attack.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/22/us-iran-strikes-congress/
— MAGA is divided over Trump’s decision to bomb Iran. Will it last?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/22/trump-iran-bombing-maga/
USA TODAY
— Iran warns it ‘reserves all options’ after US airstrikes on nuclear sites.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/21/trump-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites/84303364007/
— Not what ‘MAGA wanted to hear’: Trump’s Iran strike stoking GOP tensions.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/22/donald-trump-steve-bannon-maga-iran-bombing-nuclear/84307459007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Medicaid work requirements.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/republican-medicaid-work-requirement-push-d97170e9
FORBES
— Illinois Vehicle Mileage Tax—Fix The Roads And Fund The Future
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2025/06/22/illinois-vehicle-mileage-tax-fix-the-roads-and-fund-the-future/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Accounting is a fast track to an upper-middle-class life. My not majoring in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970 was a tremendous career mistake. I wrongly thought that I could never pass the CPA examination. Even though I did not start taking graduate evening accounting courses until 1976, I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. But by then, the accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cpa-jobs-millennial-accounting-great-career-path-comfortable-life-2024-12
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Accounting classes were actually fun because what I was doing finally made sense. I enjoyed the material and liked my classmates. Since I switched my major after my freshman year, I caught up on the credits I’d need to eventually get a CPA license by taking extra classes over the summer and winter breaks. During my sophomore and junior years, I interned with a tax firm and a CPA firm doing bookkeeping and tax work. The internships were interesting and helpful. At bigger firms, interns might get assigned to scanning client documents and other repetitive tasks, but I worked at smaller firms and was able to see the majority of the tax process from start to finish. After I graduated with a B.S. in accounting in 2017, I took a job with a local CPA firm in Oklahoma City. . .I joined a national firm doing tax work in 2018. I got my CPA license the following year because the company paid for part of my testing fees. Getting a CPA license isn’t mandatory for accountants — I know plenty of accountants without licenses who’ve had successful careers — but it’s still considered the gold standard for accounting and I knew it’d help me move up in my career. Later that year, I job-hopped to another local CPA firm and worked in a client-facing position doing tax and accounting work. In 2021, I got a job with the federal government as an IRS agent. In May 2023, I left the IRS to join a different agency, where I still work, and the following month I launched my own CPA practice. . .Almost every time I job-hopped, I got around a 20% pay bump, a title increase, and a better work-life balance. I feel comfortable and happy with my life.)
FED WEEK
— Have you ever taken a pay cut? I did. I took a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors had made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13, currently $117,807/year, even though I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I finally made GS-13 at GAO in 1986, but I would not have if I had not earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981. I should write about my IRS and GAO coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me. They all were Democrats a) who had less wok experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or who were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran.
https://www.fedweek.com/retirement-financial-planning/my-federal-career-was-it-a-good-decision-to-leave-the-private-sector/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I began my federal career in 1985. My starting salary with a Master’s Degree was $21,804. I was taking a 12,000 dollar pay cut to begin my federal career. This 35 percent salary pay cut was mind-blowing. My friends and co-workers laughed at me and told me that it was a horrible mistake working for the government especially for such a large pay cut. My intuition told me that it was not a mistake and I was prepared to take a step backward in order to take a giant step forward. My vision of a federal career was that I saw growth and opportunity. The hospital continued to suffer with several other mergers and today it has been leveled to an empty parking lot.)
NATION
— I should write about the leaders of the following who have blamed me, blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, blamed my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship, and blamed my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership the most for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-elite-responsible-catastrophe/
GOOGLE AI
— What discourages you from helping elect candidates? Too many Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 have blamed their defeats on me, on my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, on my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship, and on my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22help+elect+candidates%22