October 17, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Federal agents take people into custody at Back of the Yards flea market, protesters detained nearby
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-ice-activity-federal-agents-make-arrests-north-side-flea-market-demonstrators-detained-sw-bp-gas-station/18022110/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/17/no-kings-protests-chicago-ice/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/16/naperville-no-kings-rally-protest-downtown/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/16/elgin-no-kings-trote-skeletons-saturday/
— Chicago’s civic-minded business leaders are just fat cats to Mayor Brandon Johnson
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-chicago-civic-minded-business-100000467.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Chicago federal appeals court upholds block on National Guard deployment. While President Donald Trump insists the troops are needed to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and personnel, Illinois attorneys allege the deployment is really meant to punish states with policies Trump opposes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/16/chicagos-federal-appeals-court-upholds-block-national-guard-deployment-political-opposition-not-rebellion
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/10/16/president-donald-trump-upcoming-no-kings-protest-dowtown-chicago

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251016/news/no-kings-protests-and-rallies-scheduled-all-around-chicago-suburbs-on-saturday/

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR & BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH & SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/weather/2025/10/17/no-kings-rallies-oct-18-weather-forecast-for-illinois-chicago-springfield-peoria-rockford/86731294007/
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/article_7bf3a54d-1b27-5be5-a7af-637afb81e20c.html
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/10/15/no-kings-protest-is-set-for-springfield-this-weekend-what-to-know/86687883007/

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO & NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-10-16/no-kings-protests-planned-across-northern-illinois
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-17/no-kings-organizers-project-a-massive-turnout-for-this-weekends-protests

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER & WJOL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/10/16/illinoisans-could-stop-receiving-snap-benefits-starting-nov-1/86732959007/
https://www.wjol.com/illinois-governor-calls-on-congressional-republicans-to-preserve-snap-benefits/

WBEZ
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote international students over American students.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/10/17/fewer-international-students-studying-at-some-illinois-universities

OAK PARK
— Oak Park changes enforcement of gas leaf blower ban over ICE activity. The village plans to issue tickets only to property owners, not contractors, amid fears over immigration enforcement
https://www.oakpark.com/2025/10/16/oak-park-change-enforcement-gas-leaf-blower-ban-ice-activity/

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Illinois releases draft numeracy plan to improve math education. DD: One reason why I transferred from UIC to NIU when I was 20 years old in 1969 was my having trouble understanding math instructors whose English was not their first language.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/10/16/illinois-releases-draft-numeracy-plan/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-613/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— McHenry County GOPAC’s Kirk Remembrance and Petition Party Where Two Gubernatorial Candidates Spoke. DD: What Kirk events have the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township party organization hosted? If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would have hosted a major Kirk event by now. If I was still an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer, the organization would have hosted a major Kirk event by now.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/17/mchenry-county-gopacs/

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Krishnamoorthi spends $450K per week on TV ads in Senate race. Stratton, Kelly struggle to keep pace with Krishnamoorthi’s prolific fundraising.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/krishnamoorthi-spends-450k-per-week-on-tv-ads-in-senate-race/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Far too many a) become major Republican donors, b) become Republican Precinct Committeemen, c) become leaders in Republican organizations, and/or d) become Republican elected officials to strike the following planks from the Republican Party platform: 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). The aforesaid are not just RINOs, they are Democrat plants. I should write about the aforesaid in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, and in Wheaton. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes tale the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Norine Hammond’s Campaign in Crisis: McCombie Sends Paid Knockers as Voters Revolt, Refuse to Sign Petitions
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/norine-hammonds-campaign-in-crisis-mccombie-sends-paid-knockers-as-voters-revolt-refuse-to-sign-petitions.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden’s DHS let migrants on bogus documents claim asylum
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/16/bidens-dhs-catching-releasing-migrants-bogus-documents-audit/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ICE arrests illegal immigrant serving as Chicago-area police officer
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3853891/ice-illegal-immigrant-chicago-police-officer/
— Blue-city blues: Democratic mismanagement is not limited to the biggest urban centers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3852252/blue-city-blues-democratic-mismanagement-baltimore-detroit-portland/

ACCURACY IN MEDIA
— Illegal DEI Tactics Live On
https://aim.org/2025/10/16/washington-times-illegal-dei-tactics-live-on-aim-president-warns/

AIR FORCE TIMES
— Air Force Academy alumni board to vote on honoring Charlie Kirk
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/air-force-academy-alumni-board-221633529.html

BREITBART
— Shutdown Driven by Democrat Desire for Free Health Care for Illegals, Schumer’s ‘Political Crisis’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/16/cruz-shutdown-driven-by-democrat-desire-for-free-health-care-for-illegals-schumers-political-crisis/
— Newsom Jokes That People Compare Him to God
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2025/10/16/newsom-jokes-that-people-compare-him-to-god/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Harvard’s rebranded DEI office gets more cash than all DEI centers it replaced
https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvards-rebranded-dei-office-gets-cash-dei-centers-replaced/28782

DAILY WIRE
— Florida Sues California Over Sanctuary Policies, Trucker Licenses For Illegal Immigrants. “They care more about their love affair with illegals than protecting American citizens.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-sues-california-over-sanctuary-policies-trucker-licenses-for-illegal-immigrants

ICE
— ICE arrests illegal alien serving as a local police officer in Suburban Chicago. Hanover Park Police Department authorized illegal alien to carry a firearm in violation of federal law. DD: All my employers would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-serving-local-police-officer-suburban-chicago

NEW AMERICAN
— ICE Arrests Illegal-alien Hired as Cop in Pritzker’s Illinois
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-hired-as-cop-in-pritzkers-illinois/

RED STATE
— Cook County, IL, Slides Toward Full-Blown Insurrection As Judges Try to Stop Immigration Enforcement
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/10/16/cook-county-il-slides-toward-full-blown-insurrection-as-judges-try-to-stop-immigration-enforcement-n2195121

TOWNHALL
— Schumer Shutdown Is a National Security Concern
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/10/16/rsc-chair-cooks-dems-explains-how-schumer-shutdown-is-a-national-security-concern-n2665033

U.S. HOUSE
— Democrats’ Failed Health Care Policies: Shut Down Government to Restore Taxpayer Subsidies for Illegal Immigrants’ Health Care
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2025/10/16/democrats-failed-health-care-policies-shut-down-government-to-restore-taxpayer-subsidies-for-illegal-immigrants-health-care/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— ICE Agents Arrest Illegal Alien Found Working as a Police Officer in Suburban Chicago
https://www.westernjournal.com/ice-agents-arrest-illegal-alien-found-working-police-officer-suburban-chicago/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Appeals court declines to lift order blocking Trump from deploying National Guard in Illinois, finding scant evidence of ‘rebellion’  “Political opposition is not rebellion,” the judges wrote in their decision.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-declines-lift-order-blocking-trump-deploying/story?id=126599445
— DD: Democrat leaders gerrymander to defeat Republicans.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/supreme-court-case-lead-loss-black-representation-congress-126566427

CBS NEWS
— Mental health among LGBTQ youth is worsening. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/mental-health-among-lgbtq-youth-is-worsening-report-finds/

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders gerrymander to defeat Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/15/us/supreme-court-voting-rights
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasing paint Trump-supporters who are German American as being Nazis and especially German Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, and/or Protestant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/opinion/defiance-nazi-germany.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/no-kings-protest.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Why racial redistricting might go the way of affirmative action. The Supreme Court seems poised to address the discrepancy between two rulings on racial preferences. DD: My critics/opponents have always given preference to those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/16/supreme-court-affirmative-action-race-redistricting/
— Do you need a better job? Answer these five questions to find out. Accounting for such metrics as schedule stability and advancement opportunities, few people have jobs that meet all their needs, a Gallup survey of 18,400 workers finds. DD: Fewer and fewer and fewer citizens America will take bad jobs. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never have stooped to take. They hint/imply/argue/shout that they did not have to take bad jobs because they are much better than me. To add insult to injury, they hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I have always been grossly overpaid and b) that my pension benefits are much too generous. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/16/quality-job-workers-gallup/

BALTIMORE SUN
— Feds warn of antifa infiltration, hidden funding ahead of ‘No Kings’ protests
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/17/feds-warn-of-antifa-infiltration-hidden-funding-ahead-of-no-kings-protests/

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/15/no-kings-protests-trump-oct-18-turnout/86627101007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Chamber of Commerce Sues Over Trump’s New $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee. The business lobby is entering the fight over a move it says will hurt employers. DD: All employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-h1b-visa-fee-lawsuit-chamber-of-commerce-2c55f183
— Didn’t Get That Promotion? How to Turn ‘No’ Into Opportunity. DD: My Democrat IRS superiors refused to promote me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors delayed my promotions and refused to promote me beyond GS-13. What did you do to get promotions? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32. But nevertheless, all my coworkers who were promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. The aforesaid is political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/didnt-get-that-promotion-how-to-turn-no-into-opportunity-caf0f66f

ACCOUNTING TODAY
— The myth of meritocracy. DD: The accounting profession had no interest in me even after a) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, b) I earned a master’s degree in accounting, c) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, d) became a licensed CPA, e) worked for IRS, and f) worked for GAO. The accounting profession would have had great interest in me if I had been a minority, female, and/or younger.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/the-myth-of-meritocracy-in-accounting

FED WEEK
— Trump Orders New Hiring Committees to Approve Creation, Filling of All Posts. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who would take the job. I qualified myself for the Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and an earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for the GAO job by earning an MBA and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.fedweek.com/federal-managers-daily-report/trump-orders-new-hiring-committees-to-approve-creation-filling-of-all-posts/

YALE INSIGHTS
— DD: According to my critics/opponents a) they owe their successes to meritocracy and b) I owe my successes to my benefiting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for less time than my ancestors. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/how-meritocracy-worsens-inequality-and-makes-even-the-rich-miserable

MERCURY NEWS
— Federal government to withhold $40 million from California for not enforcing trucker English requirements. DD: This harkens back to George Ryan. I should write about my critics/opponents in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who blame me the most for George Ryan’s problems. They stress what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. They stress what I did as Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township campaign coordinator in 2001 and 2002. They stress what I did as an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer 2003-2007. They stress what I did as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012. I would focus on my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, 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.mercurynews.com/2025/10/16/federal-government-to-withhold-40m-from-california-for-not-enforcing-trucker-english-requirements/amp/

HUFFINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-no-kings-protests-october_n_68f120eae4b0ab08d3194190?ncid=NEWSSTAND0001

TEEN MAGAZINE
— DD: To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.  My critics/opponents are woke.
https://www.theteenmagazine.com/woke-shouldn-t-be-a-derogatory-term

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

DAILY MAIL
— Woke Illinois Dem. Governor JB Pritzker has added $1.4m in GAMBLING winnings to his vast $4bn fortune
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15198961/amp/jb-pritzker-illinois-democrat-governor-vegas.html

October 16, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— More than 3,000 Illinois workers have received layoff notices in last 90 days. Layoff notices were filed in accordance with the Illinois WARN Act, including more than 300 at a Momence book distribution center.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/more-than-3000-illinois-workers-have-received-layoff-notices-in-last-90-days/3839118/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Videos of ‘targeted’ immigration raids in Carpentersville circulate online, including activity near village hall
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/carpentersville-immigration-ice/
— DD: Since the 1960s, Democrat leaders have ever-increasingly pressured/forced colleges to admit Democrats who were minority and/or female. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1980, and IIT in 1992 because they could not find a qualified Democrat minority or female to admit. I qualified myself for UIC by getting an ACT score of 24 and graduating in the upper 20% of my high school class. I qualified myself for NIU by completing courses at UIC. I qualified myself for Loyola by earning a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU and passing the GMAT. I qualified myself for DePaul by earning an MBA from Loyola. I qualified myself for IIT by passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, becoming a licensed CPA, and becoming a Certified Fraud Examiner.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/16/opinion-college-admissions-merit/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— What to know about PIT, the driving maneuver feds used in Southeast Side car chase. After Border Patrol agents rammed a car they were pursuing, causing it to spin and crash, on Tuesday, the Chicago community raised questions and concerns about the controversial tactic.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10/15/pit-maneuver-feds-car-chase

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER & PEORIA JOURNAL STAR & BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/10/15/no-kings-protest-is-set-for-springfield-this-weekend-what-to-know/86687883007/
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/local/2025/10/16/no-kings-protest-will-be-held-in-peoria-illinois-on-oct-18/86712282007/
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article312512734.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-supreme-court-case-could-lead-to-loss-of-black-representation-in-congress-but-the-scope-is-unknown/amp/

KSDK
— Pride event organizers face fresh pushback over drag show in Greenville, Illinois
https://www.ksdk.com/video/news/local/pride-event-organizers-face-fresh-pushback-over-drag-show-in-greenville-illinois/63-3690c32a-6dd5-4da8-8559-664d8092724e

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Danny Davis calls for resistance
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/16/danny-davis-calls-for-resistance-00611177

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood Announces Strong Fundraising Quarter — $6.5 Million Cash on Hand
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/16/lahood-builds-hefty-campaign-fund/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Mamdani revives DEI goal of ending gifted and talented program in NYC schools
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/15/zohran-mamdani-revives-dei-goal-ending-gifted-talented-program-nyc/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— A group of prominent Democratic women, including several members of Congress and former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, is blasting EMILY’s List for endorsing Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton in the state’s open U.S. Senate race, accusing the group of caving to “money and influence” from Gov. JB Pritzker’s (D-IL) political machine.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3852570/emilys-list-endorsement-illinois-senate-race/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Minneapolis High Schools Bar White and Asian Students From ‘BLACK Culture’ Classes
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/minneapolis-high-schools-bar-white

NEW YORK POST
— Illegal migrants sparked riot after ramming attack on Border Patrol SUV in Chicago
https://nypost.com/2025/10/15/us-news/illegal-migrants-arrested-over-attack-on-border-patrol-suv-in-chicago-officials/
— Woke Los Angeles politicians declare state of emergency over ICE raids — sparking outrage
https://nypost.com/2025/10/15/us-news/la-county-declares-state-of-emergency-for-ice-raids-in-region/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago becomes warzone between DHS agents and leftists after illegal alien rammed car into Border Patrol
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/15/chicago-becomes-warzone-between-dhs-agents-and-leftists-after-illegal-alien-rammed-car-into-border-patrol-1592712/
— Los Angeles County declares state of emergency in response to ICE raids, will provide financial relief to illegals.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/15/la-county-declares-state-of-emergency-in-response-to-ice-raids-will-provide-financial-relief-to-illegals-1592685/

BLAZE
— ICE accuses LA officials of giving ‘a middle finger to the law’ after county paves way for illegal aliens to receive funding
https://www.theblaze.com/news/la-emergency-ice-response-deport

BREITBART
— Slowed Job Growth Is Due to 2 Million Deportations; Americans Are ‘Doing Quite Well’ Getting Jobs. DD: If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take jobs when they were young, let alone take bad jobs, because their parents had lots of money. To have money to buy cars and to pay for college expenses a) I did yard work 1962-1964, b) I delivered newspapers 1962-1966, c) I washed dishes 1964-1966, d) I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, e) I delivered mail 1966-1969, and f) I worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/10/15/scott-bessent-slowed-job-growth-due-to-2-million-deportations-americans-doing-quite-well-getting-jobs/
— Highways Safer as Oklahoma Troopers, ICE Arrest 91 Illegal Alien Commercial Truckers
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/10/15/highways-safer-as-oklahoma-troopers-ice-arrest-91-illegal-alien-commercial-truckers/amp/
— Newsom wants House probe of young Republicans’ offensive chat messages
https://www.breitbart.com/news/newsom-wants-house-probe-of-young-republicans-offensive-chat-messages/

CAMPUS REFORM
— West Virginia University hosts ‘Alphabet Soup Series’ celebrating identities in ‘LGBTQ+’ acronym
https://www.campusreform.org/article/wvu-hosts-alphabet-soup-series-celebrating-identities-lgbtqacronym/28773

DAILY WIRE
— Los Angeles County Declares Emergency Over ICE Raids, Pledges To Provide Rent Assistance. ICE sources told The Daily Wire that politicians in Los Angeles “keep shielding illegals and putting Americans and legal residents second.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/los-angeles-county-declares-emergency-over-ice-raids-pledges-to-provide-rent-assistance

FEDERALIST
— Trump Border Czar Asks Indiana To Help Send Biden’s Millions Of Border Crossers Home
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/15/trump-border-czar-asks-indiana-to-help-send-bidens-millions-of-border-crossers-home/
— Trump Deserves A Nobel Peace Prize For Securing America’s Border
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/15/trump-deserves-a-nobel-peace-prize-for-securing-americas-border/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Governor Reynolds Signs E-Verify Executive Order in Iowa
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/state-and-local/governor-reynolds-signs-e-verify-executive-order-iowa
— Democrats Fight for Illegal Alien Healthcare Benefits as Government Shutdown Continues
https://www.fairus.org/news/congress/democrats-fight-illegal-alien-healthcare-benefits-government-shutdown-continues

FOX NEWS
— Hannity: Democratic candidates are woke, a joke and want constituents broke
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382820514112
— Charlie Kirk woke up a generation to fight for family, faith and the flag
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382814702112
— Turning Point USA shares ’31 ways to live like Charlie Kirk’ tribute on his birthday. Conservative organization touts Kirk’s love of family, faith. DD: Ways I live like Kirk include #s 2, 5, 6, 13, 18, 23, 29, and 31.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/turning-point-usa-shares-31-ways-live-like-charlie-kirk-tribute-his-birthday

FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
— Gov. Mike Braun on how merit, excellence, and innovation replaced DEI in Indiana
https://thefga.org/video/gov-mike-braun-on-how-merit-excellence-and-innovation-replaced-dei-in-indiana/
— Loopholes Fueling Illegal Alien Medicaid and ObamaCare Benefits
https://thefga.org/research/loopholes-fueling-illegal-alien-medicaid-obamacare-benefits/
— Congress Can Fight Back Against Partisan Bureaucrats and Shrink the Federal Workforce. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. I should write a book about how Gingrich could have and should have reformed GAO. I would base the book on what I 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) earning professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, c) becoming a licensed CPA, and d) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://thefga.org/research/congress-can-fight-back-against-partisan-bureaucrats-shrink-federal-workforce/

NEWS BUSTERS
— NBC News Guts Woke Journalism as Split Looms
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/10/15/not-so-important-work-nbc-news-guts-woke-journalism-split

PJ MEDIA
— Democrats Storm the Capitol — Again — After Shutting It Down
https://pjmedia.com/maureen-steele/2025/10/15/democrats-storm-the-capitol-again-after-shutting-it-down-n4944905

POST MILLENNIAL
— Venezuelan illegal immigrants arrested for ramming Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago
https://thepostmillennial.com/venezuelan-illegal-immigrants-arrested-for-ramming-border-patrol-vehicle-in-chicago

TOWNHALL
— White House Reveals Dozens of Criminal Illegal Immigrants Received Medicaid. DD: How many illegals get Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/10/15/wh-reveals-illegal-immigrants-who-received-healthcare-n2664994
— Dems Question Legality of President Trump Helping Americans Weather the Schumer Shutdown
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/10/15/democrats-threaten-to-sue-over-trump-paying-troops-funding-wic-n2664995

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/opinion/trump-compact-universities-rowan.html
— Not Even Congress Knows How Much Money DOGE Cut. Elon Musk’s team started a behind-the-scenes push for White House control over federal spending that is now an undercurrent of the government shutdown. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. I should write a book about how Gingrich could have and should have reformed GAO. I would base the book on what I 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) earning professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, c) becoming a licensed CPA, and d) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/upshot/congress-doge-cuts-mystery.html

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their Saturday October 18 No Kings protests.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/16/no-kings-protests-trump-what-to-know/86694507007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups. Effort would install Trump ally at agency’s criminal unit who has drawn up list of investigative targets.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-irs-investigations-left-leaning-groups-democratic-donors-612a095e
— Government Shutdown? No, an Efficiency Audit. Based on data from past closings, roughly 25% of the federal workforce could be permanently cut. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. I should write a book about how Gingrich could have and should have reformed GAO. I would base the book on what I 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) earning professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, c) becoming a licensed CPA, and d) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/government-shutdown-no-an-efficiency-audit-6dcc4917
— Republicans, Ditch MAGA and Return to the Basics. The GOP traditionally stood for the rule of law, limited government and unity. It should again.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/republicans-ditch-maga-and-return-to-the-basics-1a3d3073
— Canada Threatens Stellantis With Legal Action Over Jeep Move to U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/canada-threatens-stellantis-with-legal-action-over-jeep-move-to-u-s-24f5b293

FORBES
— Speaker Johnson Rails Against Democrats As Shutdown Enters 15th Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A7dtUNg9AI
— You Want To Put Illegals Over Americans!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8mjOvnwAVA
— The culture that killed Charlie Kirk won’t be changed by politics. Only personal responsibility can cure it. DD: My critics/opponents reject personal responsibility. According to them, if you have problems, it is because those who are the following discriminate against you: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2025/09/17/the-only-cure-for-this-age-of-rage-individual-response-ability/

BARRON’S
— The Wealthy Are Paying Their Adult Kids’ Bills. Some of Them Are Starting to Worry. A new survey released by Ameriprise shows that about three-quarters of affluent parents are helping to fund their kids’ homes, cars, and health insurance. DD: My critics/opponents had wealthy parents. My critics/opponents did not have to take jobs when they were young, let alone take bad jobs, because their parents were wealthy. To have money to buy cars and to pay for college expenses a) I did yard work 1962-1964, b) I delivered newspapers 1962-1966, c) I washed dishes 1964-1966, d) I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, e) I delivered mail 1966-1969, and f) I worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970.  I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.barrons.com/advisor/articles/wealthy-pay-adult-children-bills-worry-59b19561

CITY JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders have always used Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI to get rid of Republicans and they always will. Ever-increasingly, Republican candidates on ballots in Illinois and leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization a) promote AA and DEI and/or b) are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/justin-driver-fall-affirmative-action-supreme-court-race-college-admissions

DESK
— NBC News eliminates DEI-focused news teams amid layoffs
https://thedesk.net/2025/10/nbc-news-dei-groups-closed/

NEWSDAY
— Paying for college: What to know about scholarships. DD: I never got any scholarships and my critics/opponents have always used that against me big time. They stress that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. In my defense, I stress that I spent far too many hours washing dishes during my junior and senior years instead of studying. Further, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. Further, I never could run because I had a bone disease, my eyesight has never been corrected to 20/20, and I have always had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/paying-for-college-financial-aid-scholarships-o1gbw338

SHRM
— DD: According to my critics/opponents, if employees who are the following do not get promoted, it is because they lack merit: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. According to my critics/opponents. employees who are the aforesaid have always gotten tremendous preference and have always benefitted from tremendous discrimination against employees who are: liberal/moderate, non-Republican, non-American, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/tools/toolkits/empowering-employee-growth-building-dynamic-career-paths

ED LEDGER
— Trump Expands Anti-DEI Higher Ed Compact to All Colleges Nationwide
https://www.theeduledger.com/leadership-policy/article/15769428/trump-expands-antidei-higher-ed-compact-to-all-colleges-nationwide

ED SURGE
— Parents Think Their Kids Are Getting a Good Education. The Public Disagrees. DD: My parents sent me to Trinity Lutheran Missouri Synod Grade School in Crete and then Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest to stay with the Missouri Synod. That put me on track a) to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) to earn three job-related master’s degrees, c) to earn six job-related professional certifications, and d) to earn a job-related professional license. One could compare and contrast the educational, professional, and other successes that my peers had whose parents sent them to Crete Elementary Grade School. One could focus on my peers who share the most demographics with me but whose parents sent them to Crete Elementary School. My Crete-Monee High School 60th reunion is next year.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2025-10-16-parents-think-their-kids-are-getting-a-good-education-the-public-disagrees

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

DECCAN HERALD
— DD: What Caste were you born into? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/elite-india-and-the-costs-of-caste-denial-3765728

October 15, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump vows federal ‘surge’ in more American cities to combat crime
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-vows-federal-surge-more-american-cities-combat-crime/18014613/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-community-leaders-condemn-federal-agents-clash-tear-gas-deployed-se-side/18012200/

CBS2
— Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul suing State Farm over homeowners insurance data
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-lawsuit-state-farm-homeowners-insurance-data/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/illinois-sues-state-farm-over-home-insurance-data/

WTTW
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/15/federal-immigration-agents-targeted-northwest-side-neighborhoods-residents-banded
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/15/back-pritzker-blames-ice-strike-teams-creating-mayhem-across-chicago
— Trump Administration Continues Crackdown on Press, Critics Following Federal Judge’s Ruling in Illinois
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/14/trump-administration-continues-crackdown-press-critics-following-federal-judge-s-ruling

WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://wgnradio.com/bob-sirott/can-chicagos-business-owners-refuse-service-to-ice-agents/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Gov. JB Pritzker and his wife report $10.3 million in taxable income — $1.4 million in gambling winnings
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/gov-jb-pritzker-and-his-wife-report-10-3-million-in-taxable-income-1-4-million-in-gambling-winnings/
— Homan lobbies for Indiana bill that allows local law enforcement to act on immigration detainers
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/homan-lobbies-for-indiana-bill-that-allows-local-law-enforcement-to-act-on-immigration-detainers/
— Lake County votes to bar federal agents from government-owned property: ‘We are in a time of fascism’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/lake-county-bar-feds-properties/
— Federal workers endure financial strain and fear layoffs as the government shutdown drags on. DD: I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for more than 28 years. I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees the most.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/federal-workers-government-shutdown/
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/ice-ohare-rideshare-drivers/
— Aurora looks to expand allowed number of gambling machines. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/aurora-looks-to-expand-allowed-number-of-gambling-machines/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Gov. JB Pritzker won $1.4 million via gambling, 2024 tax returns show. The governor and first lady MK Pritzker more than tripled their income in 2024 to $10.7 million, according to documents released by his campaign. A good chunk of that came at a casino.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/10/15/jb-pritzker-tax-returns-gambling-casino
— Pritzker joins Democratic governors’ health coalition to combat Trump’s ‘war on science’  The Governors Public Health Alliance is an effort to protect Democratic states from massive public health changes being enacted by the Trump administration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/10/15/gov-jb-pritzker-joins-democratic-governors-health-coalition-to-combat-trump
— ICE activity is stressing Chicago’s building managers, who warn rents could rise. Frightened by federal agents, some tenants can’t pay rent on time after missing work, while maintenance staff aren’t showing up to job sites. Property owners and managers worry continued ICE activity will force them to pass costs to tenants.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2025/10/15/ice-raids-patrol-chicago-building-owners-managers-rents-rise
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/15/southeast-side-organizers-after-feds-ram-suv-and-tear-gas-crowd-leave-our-city-you-are-not-welcome-here

DAILY HERALD
— Wheaton man detained pretrial on gun charges
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251015/crime/wheaton-man-detained-pretrial-on-gun-charges/
— Top Cook County judge bars civil immigration arrests at courthouses
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251015/news/top-cook-county-judge-bars-civil-immigration-arrests-at-courthouses/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DD: Pot users slowly come to realize that pot destroys them. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to earn three job-related master’s degrees, earn six job-related professional certifications, or c) earn a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/cannabis-sales-slump-illinois-september

SOUTHERN
— DD: Fewer and fewer and fewer citizens America will take bad jobs. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never have stooped to take. They hint/imply/argue/shout that they did not have to take bad jobs because they are much better than me. To add insult to injury, they hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I have always been grossly overpaid and b) that my pension benefits are much too generous. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/10/15/family-farm-in-idaho-faces-worker-shortage-as-trump-administration-immigration-raids-escalate/

WAND TV
— Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules. Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/journalists-turn-in-access-badges-exit-pentagon-rather-than-agree-to-new-reporting-rules/article_0ef975d5-7abf-59e2-90a6-d3dbf299ef89.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Many rural schools rely on international teachers. Trump’s visa changes threaten that. DD: One reason why I transferred from UIC to NIU when I was 20 years old in 1969 was my having trouble understanding math instructors whose English was not their first language.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-15/many-rural-schools-rely-on-international-teachers-trumps-visa-changes-threaten-that

NORTHERN STAR
— Trump administration pulls funding from Chicago Public Schools
https://northernstar.info/128940/news/trump-administration-pulls-funding-from-chicago-public-schools/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/15/hundreds-pack-chicago-whistlemania-events-in-effort-to-fight-ice-we-have-to-stand-up-for-one-another/

CHICAGO PATCH
— Border Patrol Arrests 12 Drivers At O’Hare; Rideshare Group, Johnson Respond. The parking lot where the arrests occurred is typically a safe place for rideshare drivers to wait between trips, the drivers alliance said.
https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/border-patrol-arrests-12-drivers-ohare-rideshare-group-johnson-respond

IPM NEWS
— University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign unlikely to join federal higher education compact
https://ipmnewsroom.org/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-unlikely-to-join-federal-higher-education-compact/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-403/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— GOP Leader Norine Hammond Takes $50K from Liberal Groups Backing Transgender Lessons, Mask Mandates, Anti-Trump Agendas
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/gop-leader-norine-hammond-takes-50k-from-liberal-groups-backing-transgender-lessons-mask-mandates-anti-trump-agendas.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois State Representative and Deputy House Republican Leader Norine Hammond (R-Macomb) is drawing sharp criticism from conservatives after campaign finance records revealed she accepted $50,000 from far-left teachers’ unions that have long opposed Republican priorities and the Trump agenda. According to filings with the Illinois State Board of Elections, Hammond received $10,000 from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in 2024 and $40,000 from IPACE, the Illinois Political Action Committee for Education, in 2022. Both organizations are deeply connected to progressive causes, including transgender curriculum in schools, abortion expansion, and classroom DEI mandates. The donations are now fueling questions about Hammond’s alignment with the same liberal institutions her conservative constituents overwhelmingly reject. In 2024, roughly 70 percent of voters in her 94th District backed Donald Trump, signaling clear support for conservative and pro-family policies. Yet Hammond’s recent record tells a different story. In 2023, she voted with Democrats to expand “gender-affirming” patient rights legislation – allowing broader access to taxpayer-funded services for transgender individuals, including minors. The bill was celebrated by progressive activists and condemned by conservatives as an overreach that undermines parental rights and faith-based medical freedoms. The AFT, led by Randi Weingarten, was a driving force behind extended school shutdowns, student mask mandates, and the promotion of controversial and pornographic books in classrooms. The $40,000 from IPACE ties Hammond even closer to Springfield’s left-wing education establishment, which routinely funds Democrats pushing transgender policies, abortion rights, and the removal of parental oversight in schools.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— News organizations, including Hegseth’s former employer Fox, reject new Pentagon reporting rules. DD: I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Reporter since 2000. I should write about how Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have treated me since 2000. I would focus on those who have blamed me the most for their defeats. I would focus on those who 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 e) who refuse to give them money. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/15/news-organizations-including-hegseths-former-employer-fox-reject/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Pentagon has said the rules establish “common sense media procedures” and wants news outlets to sign a statement acknowledging them, even if they don’t agree with them. The news outlets have said that they are concerned, however, that their reporters will be subject to expulsion if they simply try to report news not approved by Hegseth. The Pentagon’s new press policy undermines the First Amendment and AP’s core values as an independent global news organization,” the AP said in its statement. “The restrictions impede the public’s access to information about their government and limit the people’s right to know. AP remains focused on continuing to produce strong independent coverage of the Pentagon in the public interest.”)
— Trump says India agreed to stop buying Russian oil
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/15/donald-trump-says-india-agreed-stop-buying-russian-oil/
— The Supreme Court must end illegal vote counting. Ballot tallying must conclude on Election Day.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/15/supreme-court-must-end-illegal-vote-counting/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illinois spent more on healthcare for illegal immigrants than roads, foster kids, elderly, and the arts — combined
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign unlikely to join federal higher education compact

NEW YORK POST
— Transportation secretary withholding $40M from California for not enforcing English proficiency in truckers
https://nypost.com/2025/10/15/us-news/transportation-secretary-withholding-40-million-from-california-for-not-enforcing-english-proficiency-in-truckers/

BREITBART
— Election Official Confirms Tim Walz Driver’s License Law Allows Illegals to Vote
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/15/nolte-election-official-confirms-tim-walz-drivers-license-law-allows-illegals-to-vote/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Antifa-linked Northeastern Illinois University professor Elias Cepeda arrested for bringing loaded gun to anti-ICE protest.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/antifa-linked-professor-arrested-bringing-loaded-gun-anti-ice-protest/28774

COLLEGE FIX
— Newsom says colleges should give preference to slave descendants. DD: UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992 because they could not find qualified slave descendants to admit instead of me.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/newsom-says-colleges-should-give-preference-to-slave-descendants/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Immigration Enforcement Officers Targeted with Gang Bounties in Chicago
https://www.fairus.org/news/executive/immigration-enforcement-officers-targeted-gang-bounties-chicago

NEWSMAX
— LA County Approves Emergency Declaration Over ICE Raids. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/la-county-emergency-ice-raids/2025/10/14/id/1230370/

TOWNHALL
— The Democrats Don’t Want You to Have a Good Life
https://townhall.com/columnists/doug-blair/2025/10/15/the-democrats-dont-want-you-to-have-a-good-life-n2664980

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Threatens ICE Agents with Prosecution, Says Dems Will Come for Them When They Regain Power
https://www.westernjournal.com/jb-pritzker-threatens-ice-agents-prosecution-says-dems-will-come-regain-power/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Senate fails to advance GOP funding bill for 9th time on Day 15 of government shutdown
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/government-shutdown-2025-latest-republicans-democrats-trump/

NEWSWEEK
— Pritzker Compares Trump’s ICE Crackdown to Nazi Germany. DD: Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly call German-American Republicans Nazis.
https://www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-ice-immigration-nazi-germany-10883758
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: How Retirees Are Living Off the Backs of the Young. DD: To get more votes from those who are young, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against those who are old. Further, to get more votes from those who are minority, female, LGBTQ, non-married, non-rich, non-Protestant non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, they ever-increasingly promote more hatred against those who are White, male, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-medicare-young-workers-cost-10477619

NEW YORK TIMES
— Supreme Court Questions Role of Race in State Election Maps. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/15/us/supreme-court-voting-rights#supreme-court-affirmative-action

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/15/judges-trump-rebel-military-insurrection/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Supreme Court Questions Use of Race in Drawing Voting Districts. Justices are re-examining tools for addressing discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-fe7e2f58
— Judge Temporarily Blocks Move to Fire Federal Employees During Shutdown. Decision deals setback to Trump administration’s move to shrink agencies as it pressures Democrats to agree to reopen the government.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/judge-blocks-trump-layoffs-government-shutdown-636cb707

POLITICO
— Judge blocks Trump admin from laying off federal workers during government shutdown. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled that the administration isn’t following legal requirements for conducting reductions in force.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/trump-administration-layoffs-order-00609833

ATLANTIC
— DD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans discriminate against minorities and against females and that is why minorities and females must always be given big time preference forever.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/trump-admissions-compact-diversity/684558/

October 15, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Crews dismantle fence surrounding Broadview ICE facility to meet judge’s order
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-news-crews-dismantle-fence-surrounding-broadview-facility-meet-judges-order/18010395/
— Agents tackle US citizen after East Side operation leads to crash, spills into Walgreens. Federal agents deployed tear gas into a crowd of people protesting two immigration-related arrests, exposing 13 CPD officers.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crash-massive-law-enforcement-presence-south-avenue-east-side-live/18005825/

NBC5
— Fencing outside Broadview ICE processing facility removed just before deadline
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/deadline-nears-for-removal-of-fencing-outside-broadview-ice-processing-facility/3838747/
— Tear gas released on Chicago crowd as Border Patrol describes chase, crash and arrests. Chicago police said they were attempting to de-escalate the situation when “individuals then began throwing objects at the federal agents.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/tear-gas-released-on-chicago-crowd-as-border-patrol-describes-chase-crash-and-arrests/3838716/

CBS2
— Former Chicago Ald. Bob Fioretti to run for Illinois Attorney General
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/former-chicago-ald-bob-fioretti-run-illinois-attorney-general/
— Broadview ICE facility fence taken down within hour of deadline
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/broadview-ice-facility-fence-taken-down-within-hour-of-deadline/
— Illinois Drivers Alliance working with Mayor Johnson to keep federal agents away from O’Hare rideshare lot
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-drivers-alliance-brandon-johnson-ohare-rideshare-lot/

WTTW
— Trump Administration Continues Crackdown on Press, Critics Following Federal Judge’s Ruling in Illinois
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/14/trump-administration-continues-crackdown-press-critics-following-federal-judge-s-ruling

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Controversial security fence around Broadview ICE facility comes down shortly ahead of court-ordered deadline
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/broadview-ice-fence-removed/
— Elections board hearing officer recommends Illinois Senate President Don Harmon pay nearly $10 million fine
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/don-harmon-10-million-fine-upheld-hearing-officer/
— DD: Hundreds in Waukegan side with illegals against America
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/waukegan-peace-march/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ICE facility fence in Broadview has been removed, in compliance with federal judge’s order. U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt of the Northern District of Illinois had set a deadline for 11:59 p.m. Tuesday for the removal after finding that ICE had placed the fence on city property without permission, exceeding its authority.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/ice-facility-fence-in-broadview-removed
— DD: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are solders in the Democrat Army.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/10/15/trump-ice-1968-chicago-protests-judy-gumbo-frank-joyce-abe-peck-don-rose-lee-weiner
— Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/top-cook-county-judge-bars-civil-arrests-at-courthouses-citing-chilling-effect
— Federal immigration agents to continue to use Naval Station Great Lakes until at least December
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/federal-immigration-agents-to-continue-to-use-naval-station-great-lakes-until-at-least-december

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their illegals
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-pulse/patients-fear-ice-pressures-chicago-health-centers

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— DD: Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2025/10/15/illinois-community-colleges-feed-the-need-campus-food-drive-2025/86581956007/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Thousands of federal employees are getting laid off. Will a judge intervene? DD: No judge intervened when Gingrich gutted GAO during the 1980s and 1990s. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-15/thousands-of-federal-employees-are-getting-laid-off-will-a-judge-intervene

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-611/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— McCombie and Norine Hammond Face Growing Backlash Over Taxpayer Spending and Political Favoritism
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/pillowgate-mccombie-and-norine-hammond-face-growing-backlash-over-taxpayer-spending-and-political-favoritism.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Delay-prone F-35 program was led by DEI advocates, rewarded by Biden for late deliveries
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3849654/delay-prone-f-35-program-led-by-dei-advocates/

NEW YORK POST
— Stubborn Columbia now the last Ivy League holdout to not require SAT or ACT scores — but why? DD: If I had not gotten an ACT score of 24, UIC would not have admitted me in 1966. UIC would have admitted a minority, female, and/or veteran instead of me.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/14/opinion/princeton-reinstates-sat-requirement-making-stubborn-columbia-the-last-test-optional-ivy/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Fired library director wins $700K settlement after dispute over LGBTQ children’s books. DD: How successful have Democrats been making the children in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/14/fired-library-director-wins-700k-settlement-after-dispute-over-lgbtq-childrens-books-1592463/
— U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defended herself against criticism from within her own party, with a direct rebuke of “weak Republican men.”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/14/marjorie-taylor-greene-continues-media-blitz-from-hell-by-bashing-republican-men-1592487/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Oakland student required to attend DEI networking event to graduate. DD: I should write about the Affirmative Action and DEI training that my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors required their employees to take.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/exclusive-oakland-student-required-attend-dei-networking-event-graduate-/28768
— Auburn University promoted DEI grading rubric despite state ban
https://www.campusreform.org/article/auburn-university-promoted-dei-grading-rubric-despite-state-ban/28763

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— ‘Sanctuary’ Policies Are at the Heart of L.A., Chicago, Portland Stand-Offs. If states and localities really believe only a small minority of immigrants are criminals, give ICE access to the criminals and watch the ‘at large’ arrests plummet.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Sanctuary-Policies-Are-Heart-LA-Chicago-Portland-StandOffs

COLLEGE FIX
— 22 states (including Illinois) still offer in-state tuition to illegal immigrant students
https://www.thecollegefix.com/22-states-still-offer-in-state-tuition-to-illegal-immigrant-students/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As part of a string of recent lawsuits seeking to enforce the 1996 law, President Trump’s Department of Justice recently sued the state of Illinois, which offers illegal immigrants comprehensive access to in-state tuition. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is fighting the lawsuit. “While the Trump Administration strips away federal resources from all Americans, Illinois provides consistent and inclusive educational pathways for all students,” a spokesperson for the governor said, according to Axios.)

DAILY SIGNAL
— Newsom Forces Schools to Promote Radical Trans Group’s LGBTQ ‘Hotline’ on Student IDs. DD: How successful have Democrats been making the children in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/14/newsom-forces-schools-to-promote-radical-trans-groups-lgbtq-hotline-on-student-ids/

DAILY WIRE
— Rioters In Chicago Hurl Rocks At Feds After Illegal Immigrant Rams Border Patrol Car. “This incident is not isolated.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/rioters-in-chicago-hurl-rocks-at-feds-after-illegal-immigrant-rams-border-patrol-car

FOX NEWS
— Illegal immigrants arrested after ramming Border Patrol in Chicago amid violent clash with protesters
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrants-arrested-after-ramming-border-patrol-chicago-amid-violent-clash-protesters

NEW AMERICAN
— ICE Data on Oklahoma Busts: 120 Illegals Captured, 91 Had Commercial Driver Licenses
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/ice-data-on-oklahoma-busts-120-illegals-captured-91-had-cdl/

NEWSMAX
— Pritzker Broke Law Threatening ICE
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/markwayne-mullin-jb-pritzker-threats/2025/10/14/id/1230356/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Greene: ‘There’s a lot of weak Republican men’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5554265-greene-republican-men-criticism/amp/

NEWSWEEK
— Democrats Unveil Plans to Reign in ICE Agents If They Win Midterms
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-ice-oversight-midterms-10870867
— Los Angeles County Declares State of Emergency Over ICE Raids
https://www.newsweek.com/los-angeles-county-declares-state-of-emergency-over-ice-raids-10880807

ABC NEWS
— Cartels issuing bounties up to $50,000 for hits on ICE, CBP agents
https://abcnews.go.com/US/cartels-issuing-bounties-50000-hits-ice-cbp-agents/story?id=126521867

CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly downplay crime in their Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-chicago-dangerous-city-data/

NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/immigrants-detained-denied-bond-ice-self-deportation-rcna237505

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/15/pritzker-trump-democrats-national-guard/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/10/15/chicago-war-ice-national-guard-protests/86606913007/
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/14/miss-major-transgender-activist-stonewall-death/86570840007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Since 1965, Democrat leaders have used to Civil Rights Act to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/13/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-black-louisiana-redistrict/86659491007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Racial Gerrymandering Is a Bad Idea Whose Time Has Gone
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/racial-gerrymandering-is-a-bad-idea-whose-time-has-gone-05b55106

FORBES
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2025/10/14/with-the-new-eeoc-set-will-an-end-dei-mentality-eliminate-eeo-1-reporting-for-business/

BUSINESS INSIDER
— 10 occupations that are still dominated by men. DD: According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs. Because the federal jobs that I had were bad jobs, my federal superiors had great difficulty hiring and retaining qualified minorities and females to take and keep those jobs. Qualified minorities and females could always get better jobs in the private sector. Consequently, all the many minorities and females who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.businessinsider.com/male-jobs-women-underrepresented-numbers-2019-8

ADVISORY BOARD
— Do you have a ‘good’ job? DD: According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs. Because the federal jobs that I had were bad jobs, my federal superiors had great difficulty hiring and retaining qualified minorities and females to take and keep those jobs. Qualified minorities and females could always get better jobs in the private sector. Consequently, all the many minorities and females who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2022/10/06/good-jobs

BRITANNICA
— DD: Since the 1960s, my critics/opponents have ever-increasingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted at women that men who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time cause all the problems that women have who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, younger, veteran, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/feminism/The-second-wave-of-feminism

COUTHOUSE NEWS
— DD: How successful have Democrats been making the children in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://courthousenews.com/parents-who-claim-school-lgbtq-club-turned-their-kids-trans-denied-supreme-court-redo/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE
— DD: Socialists ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/15/grls-o15.html

SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE
— DD: Socialists ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.socialistalternative.org/2025/10/14/shut-down-trumps-invasion-of-chicago/

October 14, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders look at limiting federal immigration agents as Broadview shrinks designated protest area.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/broadview-protest-zone-ice-legislation/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/opinion-ice-agents-masks-chicago/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/ice-forest-park-cemetery-workers/
— Professors: Most Jewish Americans believe Donald Trump is exploiting antisemitism to assault universities  DD: Jews in America are predominantly liberal. Jews in Israel are predominantly conservative. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=jews+israel+america+conservative+liberal

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/opinion-donald-trump-antisemitism-universities/

INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Derek Chauvin to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://indianapolisrecorder.com/opinion-remembering-george-floyd/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries met in a Zoom meeting with members of the Illinois congressional delegation Monday to talk about redistricting in the state — an effort that is already triggering concern among lawmakers who fear the changes could dilute Black political power. DD: I should write about the 2015 gerrymandering of my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/14/dems-eye-another-illinois-seat-00607241
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois House Republican Leader Tony McCombie said “it would be obscene” for Illinois Democrats “to erase” any Republican-held seats given Trump won 44 percent of the statewide vote.)

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— DeWitte Previews Veto Session
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/14/dewitte-previews-veto-session/
— McHenry County College Doesn’t Follow Other Local Governments Concerning Columbus Day
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/13/mchenry-county-college-doesnt-follow-other-local-governments-concerning-columbus-day/
— Northern Bypass Bridge Arises Like a Zombie from the Dead in County’s 2050 Comprehensive Plan
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/13/northern-bypass-bridge-arises-like-a-zombie-from-the-dead-in-countys-2050-comprehensive-plan/
— McHenry County’s 2050 Comprehensive Plan for New Train Service Overtaken by Event
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/13/mchenry-countys-2050-comprehensive-plan-overtaken-by-event/
— Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate Celebrates Trump’s Peace Victory
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/13/republican-candidate-for-u-s-senate-celebrates-trumps-peace-victory/
— DeWitte Uses Madigan Incarceration Day to Prod Democrats to Pass Anti-Corruption Bills
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/13/dewitte-uses-madigan-incarceration-day-to-prod-democrats-to-pass-anti-corruption-bills/
— SUV Hits Metra Train at Tragic Fox River Grove Intersection
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/13/suv-hits-metra-train-at-tragic-fox-river-grove-intersection/
— McHenry County State’s Attorney Randi Freese Holding Fundraiser Tuesday Night in Crystal Lake
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/13/mchenry-county-states-attorney-randi-freese-holding-fundraiser-tuesday-night-in-crystal-lake/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Left-wing Chicago group teaches tactics for attacking ICE officers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3848331/left-wing-group-chicago-listener-facebook-anti-ice-violence/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A left-wing group in Chicago is teaching tactics on social media for attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as deportation operations intensify in the sanctuary city and an unprecedented number of assaults on ICE employees have increased 1,000%. The group’s public Facebook page, called “Chicago Listener,” is posting content encouraging violence against immigration authorities and sharing various ways to target ICE vehicles.)
— California Democrats bemoan Newsom’s ‘disappointing’ veto of racial justice bills
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3849096/california-democrats-newsom-reparations-bills/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump’s Pressure on Sanctuary Cities Is Working
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-pressure-on-sanctuary-cities-is-working/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Seattle hires unqualified illegal immigrants as jail guards, over 100 suspected
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/13/whistleblower-claims-seattle-hires-unqualified-illegal-immigrants-as-jail-guards-over-100-suspected-1592194/

BREITBART
— At Least 12 Shot During Weekend in Democrat-Run Chicago
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/10/13/more-bloodshed-at-least-12-shot-during-weekend-in-democrat-run-chicago/
— Trump Policies Yield Lowest Illegal Border Crossing Arrests in Half-Century
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/10/13/historic-trump-policies-yield-lowest-illegal-border-crossing-arrests-in-half-century/
—  ICE Agents Arrest Illegal Pedophile Convicted of Identity Theft
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/13/virginia-ice-agents-arrest-illegal-alien-pedophile-identity-theft/amp/
— Democrats Literally Shut the Government Down to Give Healthcare to Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/13/exclusive-rep-gill-yes-the-democrats-literally-shut-the-government-down-to-give-healthcare-to-illegal-aliens/
— Scalise: Schumer Wants to Fund Illegal Alien Health Care by Gutting Money for Rural Hospitals
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/13/scalise-schumer-wants-to-fund-illegal-alien-health-care-by-gutting-money-for-rural-hospitals/

DAILY CALLER
— Newsom Forces Schools To Promote Radical Trans Group’s LGBTQ ‘Hotline’ On Student IDs
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/13/newsom-forces-schools-to-promote-radical-trans-groups-lgbtq-hotline-on-student-ids/
— Oregon Now Spends More On Program Offering Free Health Care For Illegal Immigrants Than State Police
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/13/oregon-now-spends-more-on-program-offering-free-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants-than-state-police/

DAILY WIRE
— Trump Shutdown Layoffs Target Left-Wing HUD Office That Tried To Abolish The Suburbs
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-layoffs-target-left-wing-hud-office-that-tried-to-abolish-the-suburbs

FEDERALIST
— California Law Requires Government Schools To Do Free PR For Radical Trans Group
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/13/california-law-requires-government-schools-to-do-free-pr-for-radical-trans-group/

FOX NEWS
— Charlie Kirk’s colleagues and pastors praise his patriotism as Trump readies highest civilian honor. Trump is honoring Kirk on ‘what would have been his 32nd birthday’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/charlie-kirks-colleagues-pastors-praise-his-patriotism-trump-readies-highest-civilian-honor

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Immigration Raid at O’Hare Airport Rideshare Lot Leads to 12 Arrests
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/immigration-raid-ohare-airport-rideshare-lot-12-arrested

LIFE NEWS
— Massachusetts Revokes Christian Couple’s Foster License Because They Won’t Push LGBTQ Agenda
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/10/13/massachusetts-revokes-christian-couples-foster-license-because-they-wont-push-lgbtq-agenda/

NEWSMAX
— Newsom Rejects Preference Bill for Slave Descendants
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/gavin-newsom-vetoed-bill/2025/10/13/id/1230206/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

SCRIPPS NEWS
— On Charlie Kirk’s birthday, Trump to present posthumous Medal of Freedom. President Trump will award Charlie Kirk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom today at the White House on what would have been the activist’s 32nd birthday.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/the-president/on-charlie-kirks-birthday-trump-to-present-posthumous-medal-of-freedom

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— California’s Newsom signs a reparations study law but vetoes other racial justice proposals. DD: Affirmative Action (AA) is reparations. Reparations is AA. Democrats and RINOs use AA to get rid of Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/california-reparations-black-slavery-legislature-newsom-67bb435bf325e8d2343cce91c8ddae1c
— Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury. Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being undeservedly wealthy. It all started when I was 17 years old in 1966 when I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint. In my defense, I bought that car with money I earned washing dishes for the minimum wage for 18 months. It got worse in 1967 when I bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 and in 1968 when I bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE. In my defense, I bought those cars with money I earned delivering mail for the Park Forest Post Office. It got worse in 1971 when I bought a new 1972 Corvette. I my defense, I bought that car with money I earned working for IRS and working part-time for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights. It got worse in 1972 when I bought a new town home in University Park. I my defense, I bought that town home with money I earned working for IRS and working part-time for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights.
https://www.ncnewsonline.com/news/national/pope-leo-condemns-economies-that-marginalize-the-poor-while-the-wealthy-live-in-a-bubble/article_136e77cb-98ab-5dab-b468-137ff14fad03.html

NEWSWEEK
— The Most Dangerous Jobs in America and What They Pay. DD: What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. Because my ACT score was only 24 and because I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, one could argue that because I did the aforesaid, just about anyone could. I graduated from NIU in 1970. In 1971, in today’s dollars, my IRS salary was only $55,850/year.
https://www.newsweek.com/most-dangerous-jobs-america-what-they-pay-10871576
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The most dangerous jobs in the United States don’t always have the payoff of a sky-high salary, according to a new report from Resume Now. In fact, some of the riskiest roles don’t even clear $60,000. . .Based on the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries and Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, drivers/truck drivers had some of the most dangerous, lowest-paying jobs in America. With a fatality rate of 984 in 2023, this group only brought a median pay of $57,440.)

NEW YORK TIMES
— The New Julia Roberts Movie Seethes With Anti-Woke Resentment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/opinion/after-the-hunt-metoo-backlash.html
— FRONT PAGE: For Young Men, Video Gaming Is a Social Play DD: Since 2009, I have stopped video gambling in Wheaton. My critics/opponents in Wheaton continue to take big adverse actions against me because of that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/upshot/video-games-boys-young-men.html

SACREMENTO BEE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article312419934.html

SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://sfbaytimes.com/honorees-for-the-inaugural-honoring-lgbtq-bay-area-latine-leaders/

MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE
— About those federal workers people so love to hate … Perhaps you just don’t know what they’re doing for you. DD: I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for more than 28 years. I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees the most.
https://www.startribune.com/about-those-federal-workers-people-so-love-to-hate/601225654
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I am tired of hearing about the federal workers of this country. They are lazy. They are overpaid. They are incompetent. There is no need for their work. For almost 40 years I have listened to this, and now I have to watch these workers be thrown from their jobs in the middle of the night. Why? Please meet a federal worker, my husband. He used his Bachelor of Science degree to work for the Department of Defense and then the National Weather Service. He worked jobs that required schedules of six days on and two days off, rotating shifts from midnights to days to evenings, and most holidays were worked. He didn’t get many weekends off, or holidays, but it didn’t matter because we never got to live near family. We moved a lot in support of the work. In our 40-plus years of marriage the closest we have ever lived near family was for the one year when we were within a three-hour drive of my family. Otherwise, family has been anywhere from 1,500 miles to 4,000 miles away. My husband could have taken a job in the private sector, working as an engineer as most of his friends did, where the paychecks would have been much greater. No, he was determined that his place was working to serve our government. So, for 40-plus years we have watched everyone around us celebrating holidays with family, enjoying weekends with family, and raking in the dollars of the private sector. We have kept our mouths shut when conversations turned to raking over the federal worker. No more!)

MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY MEDIA
— First of Its Kind Federal Workforce Career Center Opens in Wheaton. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. In today’s dollars, that meant a $86,371/year (56%) loss of income ($153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension). My Democrat GAO superiors not only did not help me find a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license, they sabotaged my job search. I should write about that.
https://www.mymcmedia.org/first-of-its-kind-federal-workforce-career-center-opens-in-wheaton/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Supreme Court Reckoning for Racial Gerrymanders. The Justices can put an end to this cynical use of race to redistrict for partisan advantage in Louisiana v. Callais. DD: Illinois Democrats gerrymandered Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District to elect Delia Ramirez.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-supreme-court-reckoning-for-racial-gerrymanders-35d361ec
— Michael J. Fox’s new book. DD: Duckworth had one of her thugs throw me out of her press conference with Fox in Wheaton on October 24, 2006.  SEE: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/sixth-congressional-district-democratic-candidate-tammy-news-photo/72254318
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/future-boy-review-the-double-life-of-marty-mcfly-8d2204c4

HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL
— DD: According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. They use that to demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being a loser and even worse things. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/social-policy/are-bad-jobs-dead-ends-or-steppingstones-better-things

EDUCATION NEXT
— The Predictive Power of Standardized Tests. DD: What standardized tests have you taken? If I had not taken and passed standardized tests, a) UIC would not accepted in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992, b) I would not have earned degrees from NIU in 1970, Loyola in 1976, DePaul in 1980, and IIT in 1997, c) the Post Office would not have hired me in 1966, Firestone Stores in 1970, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980, d) IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, e) I would not have become a licensed CPA in 1981, and f) GAO would not have promoted me in 1986. I took and passed the postal employment examination in 1966, Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, CPA examination in 1979, and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination in 1981. I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt. Since 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I owe my test taking successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.educationnext.org/predictive-power-standardized-tests-middle-school-scores-preview-college-career-outcomes/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

INDEPENDENT NEWS
— Trump to present Charlie Kirk’s Presidential Medal of Freedom to his widow
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-present-charlie-kirk-presidential-130609003.html

October 13, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against ICE
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-agents-spotted-church-rogers-park-chicago-gov-pritzker-speaks-national-guard-ruling-broadview-protests-continue/17994356/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against ICE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/trump-immigration-blitz-chicago-wards/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/chicago-marathon-immigration-illinois-pilsen/
— Residents cope with food deserts in Harvey, Chicago Heights, Richton Park and Park Forest. DD: I washed dishes in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. I chipped slag and pumped gasoline in Chicago Heights in 1966. I delivered mail in Park Forest 1966-1969. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances in Chicago Heights 1970-1971. I pumped gasoline in Chicago Heights 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes in Harvey 1972-1973. My father worked in Chicago Heights 1941-1969. I was born in Chicago Heights in 1948.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/food-deserts-harvey-chicago-heights-richton-park/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against ICE. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly equate their runaway slaves with their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/10/13/chicago-fugitive-slave-act-ice-fuentes-immigration-claudia-fegan-linda-rae-murray
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/13/poll-chicagoans-national-guard-policing-deportation-campaign-norc-university-of-chicago

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Springfield now faces the $2B question: How much to invest in mass transit’s future. DD: I used mass transit in 1971 and then 1973-1997. A major reason why my wife and I bought a home in Wheaton in 1978 and had one built in Wheaton in 1984 was their being in walking distance of Wheaton train stations.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/springfield-weighs-2b-fix-chicago-transit-system

STATELINE
— ‘National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk’ is Tuesday, October 14, 2025
https://www.mystateline.com/news/national-day-of-remembrance-for-charlie-kirk-is-this-week-what-to-know/

WHEATON PATCH
— 12 Wheaton Students Named Semifinalists For National Merit Scholarships. DD: Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. In my defense, during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966, I spent far too many hours washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights instead of studying. Consequently, my ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/12-wheaton-students-named-semifinalists-for-national-merit-scholarships/ar-AA1NirxA

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Appeals Court rejects Trump administration bid to lift TRO in Illinois’
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6cec4a79-4cac-42fa-b104-2943ffcddc4b.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Kash Patel severs FBI’s ties with James Comey-backed Anti–Defamation League after group ripped Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA
https://www.aol.com/news/kash-patel-severs-fbi-ties-205327655.html
— Biden admin weaponized DOJ to target Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA to put movement ‘out of business’
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-claims-biden-admin-weaponized-104731208.html

BREITBART
— Truckers Gain Wages as ICE Detains Highway Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/12/truckers-gain-wages-as-ice-detains-highway-illegals/
— DHS Reveals New York City Gave Indian Illegal Alien ‘No Name Given’ Commercial Driver’s License
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/12/dhs-reveals-new-york-city-gave-illegal-alien-no-name-given-drivers-license/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Biden DOJ Sought Direction From Leftist Group That Put Turning Point USA on a ‘Hate Map’ Shortly Before Charlie Kirk’s Assassination. However Bad You Think Biden’s DOJ Was, New Documents Show It Was Even Worse
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/12/biden-doj-sought-direction-splc-leftist-group-that-put-turning-point-usa-hate-map-shortly-before-charlie-kirks-assassination/

FOX NEWS
— Students are more motivated than ever to continue Charlie Kirk’s mission. DD: Who is leading TPUSA in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382659911112
— Harvard charging $13K for DEI certificate on ‘bias’ and ‘privilege’  Classes include ‘Understanding Race and Racism’ and ‘Power and Privilege in Systems’ DD: According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/harvard-charging-13k-dei-training-bias-privilege
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/harvard-launches-13k-dei-certificate-on-bias-and-privilege-is-it-a-valuable-career-move-or-an-overpriced-ideological-course/articleshow/124508068.cms
— Pope Leo says family based on ‘union between a man and a woman,’ defends dignity of unborn
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-leo-says-family-based-union-between-man-woman-defends-dignity-unborn

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Demented Democrats
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/demented-democrats-week-at-legal-insurrection/

NEWSMAX
— Tuesday, October 14: National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/charlie-kirk-national-day/2025/10/12/id/1230016/
— Trump Moves to Purge ‘Woke’ Ideology From Colleges. DD: All my critics/opponents are woke. To be woke is to blame your problems on those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/donald-trump-college-dei/2025/10/12/id/1230043/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— ‘National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk’ is Tuesday, October 14, 2025
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5527054-national-day-of-remembrance-for-charlie-kirk-is-this-week-what-to-know/

YAHOO
— Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois for being overweight
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-national-guard-troops-replaced-153000480.html

AOL
— Harvard Quietly Ends ‘Minority Recruitment Program’ Amid Battle With Trump Admin. DD: UIC accepted me when I was 18 in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992 because they could not find a qualified minority, female, and/or veteran to accept.
https://www.aol.com/articles/harvard-quietly-ends-minority-recruitment-175414037.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame conservatives for all the problems that those who are the following have: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/business/economy/black-unemployment-federal-layoffs-diversity-initiatives.html
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Kirk-hating Kirk-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/27/us/politics/charlie-kirk-debate.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly prefer international students over American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/06/upshot/us-international-student-travel.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/09/world/americas/drug-trafficking-venezuela.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: More People Feel the Strain Of a Shutdown. DD: How dependent on federal spending are those in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/government-shutdown-effects.html

USA TODAY
— How To Choose The Right College Major. DD: My biggest career mistake was not majoring in accounting from the beginning. I erroneously believed that because I was not strong in math, I could never pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate evening accounting courses until I was 27 in 1976.  I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30.  I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession viewed me as being much too old. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.usatoday.com/press-release/story/16252/how-to-choose-the-right-college-major-student-career-decision-guide/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Assessment first: Use personality tests, skills evaluations, and values assessments to understand natural strengths before picking a major. Research reality: Look beyond salary figures to examine job market trends, daily responsibilities, and long-term career satisfaction rates in chosen fields. Timing matters: The 15-25 age window offers optimal decision-making opportunities before life circumstances make career changes more difficult. Avoid pressure: Don’t let parental expectations, peer choices, or social media influence override personal interests and natural abilities. Get expert help: Professional career advice can provide structured guidance to help students make confident decisions within weeks rather than years of trial and error.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What Is the One Trait That Makes for a Great Manager? DD: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who arranged my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986.
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/manager-strengths-rellocating-talent-f0add2da
— Giving Career Advice to Kids Has Never Been Harder. DD: Were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/career-advice-children-ai-148983e5
— DD: I owned a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T 1994-2005. I owned a 1969 Dodge Charger SE 1968-1971. I have owned my 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max since 2012. I have owned my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus since March of this year.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/the-texan-who-scored-a-1968-cincinnati-bengals-themed-dodge-charger-d1753412

MUST READ ALASKA
— Anchorage Republican Women’s Club Gives $1,000 to Turning Point USA
https://mustreadalaska.com/anchorage-republican-womens-club-gives-1000-to-turning-point-usa-uaa/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Government Accountability Office Issues Scathing Report on Army Readiness
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/government-accountability-office-issues-scathing-report-on-army-readiness/ar-AA1O5tBT

POLITICO
— Inside Uthmeier’s path to a critical Trump endorsement in Florida. DD: Of the candidates on the Republican primary ballot in your county, which ones are seeking Trump’s endorsement?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/12/uthmeier-florida-trump-endorsement-00603089
— The impending retirement that could rock Capitol Hill. The director of the Government Accountability office will step down in a few short months, leaving a void atop the agency that has found the White House guilty of violating congressional spending law. DD: GAO is just a shell of what it once was. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/17/gao-trump-impoundment-spending-00569967

FROM OTHER SOURCES

GOOGLE AI
— Good old days. DD: When were your good old days? Mine included 1971-1981 when a) I bought new cars in 1971, 1973, and 1978, b) IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) I bought real estate in 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1978, c) I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) I got married in 1978, e) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, f) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, g) I passed the Certified Internal Auditing examination on my first attempt in 1981, and h) I became a licensed CPA in 1981. They include 1986-1988 when a) GAO assigned me to audits of IRS and b) promoted me in 1986.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22good+old+days%22

October 12, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders: What to know about National Guard deployments in other cities after plans stalled in Chicago.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-know-national-guard-deployments-memphis-other-cities-trumps-plans-stalled-chicago-portland/17993154/

FOX32
— Trump plans whirlwind trip to Israel, Egypt before rushing back for Charlie Kirk honor
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-israel-egypt-trip-gaza-peace-deal

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/pritzker-vance-national-guard-illinois/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/ice-fears-chicago-school-districts/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/gov-jb-pritzker-national-guard-trump-levers-of-power/
— Vance warns ‘deeper’ cuts ahead for federal workers as shutdown enters 12th day
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/jd-vance-federal-workers-shutdown/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Feds deploy tear gas in Albany Park
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/12/ice-chicago-albany-park-tear-gas

DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County looks to regulate short-term rental properties with annual fee, inspection
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251012/news/dupage-county-looks-to-regulate-short-term-rental-properties-with-annual-fee-inspection/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders get 400 in Rogers Park to protest ICE
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/12/400-rogers-park-neighbors-rally-after-ice-arrests-4-including-tamale-vendor/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

TED DABROWSKI
— Celebrate Columbus Day, reject those who try to divide us
https://mailchi.mp/tedforillinois/colombusday-323?e=c4ad197eda

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Lakewood Plans Affordable Housing Near Intersection of Routes 47 and 176 In Woodstock School District 200
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/12/lakewood-plans-affordable-housing-near-intersection-of-routes-47-and-176-in-woodstock-school-district-200/
— Armed Alleged Antifa Northeastern Illinois Professor Arrested, Homeland Security Press Release That Won’t End Up in the Mainstream Media
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/11/armed-alleged-antifa-professor-arrested/
— A New Finding Concerning Chicago’s Depopulation
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/12/a-new-finding-concerning-chicagos-depopulation/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Federal Officials: WGN Producer Arrested for Assaulting ICE Agents, Not for Reporting
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/federal-officials-wgn-producer-arrested-for-allegedly-assaulting-ice-agents-not-for-reporting.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Vance criticizes Pritzker over Chicago violence
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/12/jd-vance-vice-president-criticizes-illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-chicago/
— Neither side flinches as shutdown pain intensifies, thousands of federal workers lose their jobs
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/12/neither-side-flinches-shutdown-pain-intensifies-thousands-federal/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pritzker says Trump can’t invoke Insurrection Act unless there is ‘rebellion’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3847381/pritzker-trump-insurrection-act-rebellion/
— Europe continues to guzzle Russian gas
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3846371/europe-continues-guzzle-russian-gas/

NEW YORK POST
— Spoiled leftists despise Columbus Day— but what they really hate is America
https://nypost.com/2025/10/12/opinion/spoiled-leftists-despise-columbus-but-really-just-hate-america/
— Illinois State Police CONFRONT Aggressive Anti-ICE Protesters in Broadview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbHZgrAfz-c

BLAZE
— PBS tries to destroy notion of black 2-parent households
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/fearless-with-jason-whitlock/black-family

BREITBART
— Illinois State Police Arrest Unlawful Anti-ICE Protesters in Broadview
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/12/illinois-state-police-arrest-unlawful-anti-ice-protesters/

DAILY CALLER
— Corporate Fact Checkers Keep Ignoring Key Facts When Denying Dems Want To Give Illegals Free Healthcare
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/12/fact-checkers-wrong-on-migrant-healthcare/

EPOCH TIMES
— The Death of Personal Responsibility. DD: My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-death-of-personal-responsibility-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-freedom-5917141

FOX NEWS
— Blagojevich: Pritzker ‘doesn’t care’ that citizens are ‘less safe’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382637847112
—  IL leadership’s refusal to accept help from Trump admin is out of ‘hatred of the President’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382658981112

JOHNATHAN TURLEY
— Princeton Joins Move Back to Standardized Testing. DD: How has standardized testing impacted you? UIC would not have accepted me in 1966 if I had not gotten an ACT score of 24 and graduated in the upper 20% of my class. The Post Office would not have hired me in 1966 if I had not passed the postal employment examination and earned a high school diploma. Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 if I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU. IRS would not have hired me in 1971 if I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination. GAO would not have hired me in 1980 if I had not earned an MBA from Loyola and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/10/12/princeton-joins-move-back-to-standardized-testing/

NEWSMAX
— Vance: Pritzker Should Pay for Chicago’s Failures
https://www.newsmax.com/us/jd-vance-jb-pritzker-chicago/2025/10/12/id/1230041/

PJ MEDIA
— Democrats Are Quietly Pulling the Plug on Free Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants. DD: For me since 1966, and for my wife and I since 1978, the federal government paying 72% of our healthcare insurance helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors to get rid of me.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/10/12/democrats-are-quietly-pulling-the-plug-on-free-healthcare-for-illegal-immigrants-n4944764

TOWNHALL
— Leftist Social Media Is a Cesspool, but One We Must Be Keenly Aware About
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/10/12/sun-vip-reddit-wants-to-kidnap-gop-kids-and-reeducate-them-n2664750

TPUSA
— DHS Purchases Chicago Buildings to Support Operations
https://tpusa.com/live/dhs-purchases-chicago-buildings-to-support-operations/
— University of Chicago Condemns Violence After Professor Charged in Anti-ICE Riot
https://tpusa.com/live/university-of-chicago-condemns-violence-after-professor-charged-in-anti-ice-riot/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5551298-no-kings-protests-what-to-know/

CNN
— Protesters clash with police outside Broadview ICE facility
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/us/video/protesters-clash-police-broadview-vrtc
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/us/video/protest-clash-broadview-ice-digvid

NEWS NATION
— At least 15 arrested during protests at Broadview ICE facility
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/at-least-15-arrested-protests-broadview-ice-facility/

NBC NEWS
— Vance says Trump is ‘looking at all his options’ as the president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. The Insurrection Act would allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically for law enforcement purposes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/vance-trump-options-invoke-insurrection-act-national-guard-rcna237060

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/opinion/mensa-ice-raids-chicago-black-citizens.html

TEXAS TRIBUNE
— Texas GOP censures five lawmakers. DD: I should write about the following who reject the most planks in the Republican Party platform: 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, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. Most commonly, they reject 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. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/11/texas-gop-srec-censure/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under the Texas GOP’s censure rule, lawmakers can be reprimanded for working against the state party’s legislative priorities or the broader principles outlined in the party platform and preamble.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Where Have All the Young Home Buyers Gone? Check the Stock Market. The rent vs. buy debate has taken on new meaning for Gen Z thanks to soaring share prices and more investment options.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/where-have-all-the-young-home-buyers-gone-check-the-stock-market-e79f89ad

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

TIMES OF INDIA
— ICE Broadview Facility Attacked; Dramatic Fighting
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/ice-broadview-facility-attacked-dramatic-fighting-near-chicago-fed-agents-vs-anti-trump-mob/videoshow/124496930.cms

SKY NEWS
— Immigration without assimilation labelled ‘reckless beyond belief’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight assimilation. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Their slow assimilation held them back. All my grandparents spoke German. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1zIhHHpO8

October 12, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/gov-jb-pritzker-national-guard-trump-levers-of-power/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/silverio-villegas-children-foster-care-idaho/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/ice-fears-chicago-school-districts/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/opinion-donald-trump-national-guard-chicago-free-speech/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/editorial-april-perry-ice-national-guard-justice-department/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Oak Park.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/oak-park-gender-affirming-care-discussion/
— Lapel pins awarded to honor area Vietnam era veterans. DD: I should write about those who have used against me my avoiding the Vietnam War draft the most. I would focus on my Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans. They blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/vietnam-war-brad-schneider-pins/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Duckworth, Durbin demand feds not use Chicago Harbor Lock on river as backdrop for social media videos
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/duckworth-durbin-demand-feds-not-use-chicago-harbor-lock-on-river-as-backdrop-for-social-media-videos

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly coverup their poverty and their crime in Chicago.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251011/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-a-celebration-of-chicago-the-disparagement-in-our-national-politics-of-our-ci/

EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— DD: Fundraising success indicates electability
https://www.theintelligencer.com/opinion/article/money-shouldnt-decide-illinois-senate-race-21090956.php

MILWAUKEE COURIER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint Derek Chauvin as being a typical conservative White male Republican.
https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2025/10/11/remembering-george-floyd-we-are-the-stewards-of-his-story/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to ‘reclaim’ the explorer’s legacy
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-11/trump-issues-a-columbus-day-proclamation-to-reclaim-the-explorers-legacy

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Newsom approves agency to administer slavery reparations. DD: Affirmative Action is reparations. To get even more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders promise Blacks even more reparations.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/3846786/newsom-approves-agency-administer-slavery-reparations/

NEW YORK POST
— Cornell MBA council warns ‘non-marginalized’ students to avoid minority recruiting events. DD: All my critics/opponents attribute all my successes in my life to my benefitting from marginalization of minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/cornell-mba-council-warns-non-marginalized-students-to-avoid-minority-recruiting-events-report/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Renowned chef who catered for George W Bush deported, stuns Texas town. DD: I have always helped elect in general elections candidates who won Republican primary elections. Far too often, those candidates were the lesser of two evils.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/10/renowned-chef-who-catered-for-george-w-bush-deported-stuns-texas-town-1591643/

BREITBART
— Gavin Newsom Signs Bill to Build Reparations Bureaucracy. DD: Affirmative Action is reparations. To get even more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders promise Blacks even more reparations.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/11/gavin-newsom-signs-bill-to-build-reparations-bureaucracy/amp/

COLLEGE FIX
— Michigan State University opens $38 million ‘sanctuary’ for ‘minorities’  DD: Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have attributed my successes in my life to my benefitting from oppression of minorities and females. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. All the many minorities and females who were promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/michigan-state-u-opens-38-million-sanctuary-for-minorities/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The MSU Multicultural Center (MCC), guided by a student-developed mission, aims to provide a supportive space for students from historically oppressed backgrounds to learn, grow, and access the resources necessary to succeed and graduate from a predominantly white institution,” the room reservation page for the center states.)

FOX NEWS
— Atlantic article likens Charlie Kirk to George Floyd, sparking online fury
https://www.aol.com/news/atlantic-article-likens-charlie-kirk-151941835.html

NEWSMAX
— Trump Admin’s Immigration Raids Blamed for Potential Food Supply Crisis. DD: What percent of food industry workers are illegals? What percent of food industry jobs are bad jobs?
https://www.newsmax.com/us/immigration-migrants-farm-workers/2025/10/11/id/1229953/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Gingrich on Trump’s shutdown layoffs: ‘He’s willing to take the heat’ DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5551386-trump-gingrich-federal-layoffs/

AOL
— NFL Removing ‘End Racism’ Message From End Zones. DD: Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have attributed my successes in my life to my benefitting from discrimination against minorities and against females. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. All the many minorities and females who were promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/nfl-removing-end-racism-message-120600237.html

NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-life-and-style/gay-harlem-renaissance-exhibit-new-york-historical-rcna236671

CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-roslindale-restaurant-pride-flag-ripped-down/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “We’re in a Worse Place Than We Were Under Nixon.” DD: My Democrat Post Office superiors, my Democrat Firestone Store boss, and my Democrat IRS superiors who were veterans hated Nixon. They blamed Nixon for America losing the Vietnam War. They took their hatred against Nixon out against me. My Democrat Post Office superiors denied my sick leave requests and forced me to resign. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I gave him my 2-week notice. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers and my education deductions and never promoted me beyond GS-12. They were furious that I was a Republican and that I avoided the Vietnam War draft.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/opinion/letitia-james-donald-trump-nixon.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders say “Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration.” DD: All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. The aforesaid was true for my Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/black-leaders-trump.html
— 1 in 5 millennials, Gen Zers gifted down payment for home from their parents. DD: Where did the down payment for your first home come from? For me, back in the good old days when I was 24 in 1972, it came from what I had earned and saved a) working for IRS for 15 months and b) working part-time for Firestone Stores for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that. The money I earned and saved during that time also enabled me a) to buy a new 1972 Corvette in October of 1971 and b) pay for tuition and books for graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/realestate/parents-money-down-payment-home-buying.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump escalates his use of federal power to target Democratic states. Democrats see a pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly, while Trump has declared his intent to hurt liberal areas and policies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/12/trump-blue-states-target-red-states/
— DD: What percent of food industry workers are illegals? What percent of food industry jobs are bad jobs?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/11/immigration-crackdown-food-prices/
— DD:: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/10/ice-immigrants-protest-signs-dc/
— Trump is in ‘excellent’ health, White House says, amid questions about second exam. Outside physicians asked why the president was making a return trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, six months after undergoing medical tests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/11/trump-physical-doctor/

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/11/lgbtq-queer-youtubers-national-coming-out-day/86569357007/

MIAMI HERALD
— Vance Responds to Joy Reid Calling Him ‘Mediocre’  DD: My critics/opponents have always stressed 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 never got any scholarships, d) that GPAs at UIC, NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT were not that great, and d) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great.
https://www.newsbreak.com/miami-herald-1592483/4287110141419-vance-responds-to-joy-reid-calling-him-mediocre

WSBTV
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Atlanta
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/thousands-attend-atlanta-pride-festival-piedmont-park-this-weekend/PZEZBVOW7VDHRA4C52KCZSJERE/

BUSINESS INSIDER
— DD: What decisions did you make that were career limiting? I spent far too many hours washing dishes while I was in high school instead of studying. I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I spent far too many hours delivering mail while I was earning my bachelor’s degree instead of studying. I should have majored in accounting. I did not become a Democrat. I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-recover-after-mistake-bad-decision-at-work-2021-9

INC.
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly prefer foreign employees over American employees.
https://www.inc.com/entrepreneurs-organization/why-your-workforce-strategy-must-go-global/91248906

U.S. CENSUS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that those who are the following have: minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/09/poverty-rates-for-blacks-and-hispanics-reached-historic-lows-in-2019.html

EQUITABLE GROWTH
— America’s job-quality crisis and how to revive workers’ pay, dignity, job advancement, and economic well-being. DD: According to my critics/opponents, a) all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and b) I was always grossly overpaid. In my defense, to qualify myself for better paying jobs, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree (management), b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), c) I earned six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and d) I earned a job-related professional license (CPA). Nevertheless, I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars. The fact that few qualified minorities and women wanted the federal jobs that I had proves that they were bad jobs. Qualified minorities and females could always get better jobs in the private sector.
https://equitablegrowth.org/americas-job-quality-crisis-and-how-to-revive-workers-pay-dignity-job-advancement-and-economic-well-being/

HUFFINGTON POST
— Don Lemon Flames Hegseth As ‘Not Qualified’ To Be Defense Secretary. DD: What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree (management) when I was 21. I earned three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance) when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting) when I was 30 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license (CPA) when I was 32. But by the time I earned the aforesaid, it was too late, I was views as being too old to have a successful career. That would not have been the case if I had been a minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.aol.com/articles/ex-cnn-host-flames-hegseth-214110998.html

October 11, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump asks appeals court to intervene after judge blocks National Guard deployment to Illinois. Justice Department lawyers say U.S. District Judge April Perry “impermissibly second-guessed the Commander in Chief.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/10/trump-asks-appeals-court-to-intervene-after-judge-blocks-national-guard-deployment-to-illinois

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Transgender Movement is Not Just About Men in Girls’ Sports.
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/child-exploitation/the-transgender-movement-is-not-just-about-men-in-girls-sports/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who do your critics/opponents call losers? SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=losers  My critics/opponents call federal employees losers who are White, male, and/or nonveteran and who do not make GS-13 ($117,807) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. My critics/opponents stress that I did not make GS-13 until I was 38 in 1986 and that I never made GS-14. In my defense, I stress that Democrats run the federal government and I never became a Democrat and a) that I did not earn job-related master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) that I did not earn job-related professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) that I did not earn a job-related professional license until I was 32. Further, my critics/opponents call Republican Precinct Committeemen (RPC) losers who are White, male, and/or nonveteran and who not become township party leaders, county party leaders, and Illinois Republican Party leaders. Extremely few RPCs become party leaders. My critics/opponents stress that while I have been a RPC since 1999, I have never been a party leader. In my defense, I stress that I am a conservative, that is, that I am a platform Republican. – Dave Diersen
https://www.google.com/search?q=losers
— What do your critics/opponent do? My critics/opponents increasingly make it clear that they are anti-conservative, if not conservative-haters. They ever-increasingly blame conservatives for their problems, for your problems, and for everyone’s problems. They ever-increasingly dismiss, belittle, badmouth, isolate, ostracize, marginalize, blacklist, cancel, demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservatives. They ever-increasingly take adverse actions against conservatives. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who are/were 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, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— QUESTION: What has motivated anti-conservatives and conservative-haters to promote more hatred against conservatives recently? ANSWER: Trump’s successes and Kirk’s assignation. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Enough of Chuck Schumer’s shutdown scam. Democrats are willing to harm Americans to safeguard illegals’ benefits.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/10/enough-chuck-schumers-shutdown-scam/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Newsom approves agency to administer slavery reparations. DD: Affirmative Action is slavery reparations.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/3846786/newsom-approves-agency-administer-slavery-reparations/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Trump Administration Lays Off Last of Minority Business Development Agency. The move effectively shutters the agency, which had already faced dramatic cuts. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, a) there would be no need for DOGE and b) I might still be a GAO employee.
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/trump-administration-lays-off-last-of-minority-business-development-agency/
— DD: Democrats and RINOs will never stop using Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/why-democrats-are-finally-giving-up-on-dei/

NEW YORK POST
— Illegal migrant trucker with ‘No Name Given’ on NY driver’s license ID’d, arrested in Oklahoma
https://nypost.com/2025/10/11/us-news/illegal-migrant-trucker-with-no-name-given-on-ny-drivers-license-idd-arrested-in-oklahoma/

BREITBART
— Robert De Niro Pushes Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Anti-Trump October 18 Protest Campaign
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/10/10/watch-robert-de-niro-pushes-nationwide-no-kings-anti-trump-protest-campaign/amp/

COLLEGE FIX
— Academics continue hypocritical whining about ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/academics-continue-hypocritical-whining-about-freedom-and-democracy/

DAILY CALLER
— ICE Nabs Illegal Migrant Truck Driver With ‘No Name’ Listed On Driver’s License
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/10/ice-nabs-migrant-trucker-with-no-name/
— Migrant ‘Invaders’ Under Biden Led To Government Shutdown
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/10/c-span-caller-says-migrant-invaders-under-biden-led-to-government-shutdown/
— The Politics Of The Shutdown, Obamacare, Crime And Deportations
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/11/opinion-the-politics-of-the-shutdown-obamacare-crime-and-deportations-larry-elder/

FOX NEWS
— Biden-era ‘unvetted’ immigrants nabbed after Virginia highway gunfire as border debate hits governor’s race
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-era-unvetted-immigrants-nabbed-after-virginia-highway-gunfire-border-debate-hits-governors-race
— New York in the hot seat after ICE busts Illegal immigrant with ‘NO NAME GIVEN’ on license. ICE arrested 91 illegals who were operating commercial motor vehicles with driver’s licenses granted by sanctuary states.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blue-state-hot-seat-after-ice-busts-illegal-immigrant-with-no-name-given-license

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Harvard Cashing in on DEI With $13,760 Certificate Program. “You will gain critical knowledge and skills to address bias and marginalization and to foster an inclusive corporate culture.” DD: Democrats and RINOs will never stop using Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/harvard-cashing-in-on-dei-with-13760-certificate-program/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Teacher Training and Licensure Are Serious Problems; Oklahoma Has an Unserious Solution
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/teacher-training-and-licensure-are-serious-problems-one-red-state-has-an-unserious-solution/

NEW AMERICAN
— Media’s Illegal-alien Sob Stories Are Meant to Deceive
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/manipulation-medias-illegal-alien-sob-stories-are-meant-to-deceive/

NEWSMAX
— ICE Arrests Illegal Driving Rig With N.Y. License for ‘No Name Given’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ice-semitruck-illegal-alien/2025/10/10/id/1229893/
— Use Shutdown for Cuts in ‘Bloated’ Washington. DD: To justify gutting GAO, Gingrich charged GAO with being bloated. My Democrat GAO superiors used that charge to deem its employees like me who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749/year and were the following as being bloat: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/marlin-stutzman-washington-shutdown/2025/10/10/id/1229790/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/lonesome-cowboys-movie-theater-police-raid-atlanta-lgbtq-movement-pride/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Blocking Chicago Guard Deployment, Judge Questions Government’s Veracity. The Trump administration’s “perceptions are not reliable,” a federal judge wrote, explaining why she has temporarily blocked the deployment of troops to the Chicago area.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/politics/ice-national-guard.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Republicans shrank the agency from over 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me for that by wasting my career, by taking adverse actions against me, and by forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/politics/federal-layoffs-government-shutdown.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: The Democrat Party exists to get rid of Trump and everyone who voted for Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/11/trump-war-military-domestic-national-guard/

BALTIMORE SUN
— Chef who used to cater events for President George W. Bush gets deported
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/10/chef-who-used-to-cater-events-for-president-george-w-bush-gets-deported/

EL PASO TIMES
— Abbott warns against road markings seen as ‘social, political or ideological messages’
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/texasregion/2025/10/09/gov-abbott-directive-on-removing-political-street-markings/86599004007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders side with MIT against Trump
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-merit-and-mit-aaf4ac58

FORTUNE
— Billionaire MacKenzie Scott doubles down on DEI with $42 million donation. DD: Democrats and RINOs will never stop using Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://fortune.com/2025/10/10/billionaire-mackenzie-scott-doubles-down-on-dei-with-42-million-donation/

October 10, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Chicago federal judge temporarily blocks National Guard deployment in Illinois. Ruling in effect for 14 days.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/national-guard-chicago-area-thursday-federal-court-weigh-trumps-deployment-troops-protect-ice-officers-broadview/17970024/

NBC5
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/ruling-pausing-national-guard-deployment-draws-praise-from-illinois-officials/3836419/

WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wgntv.com/news/operation-midway-blitz/uic-students-protest-ice-detentions-after-viral-video-sparks-outrage/

FOX32
— Chicago immigration crackdown forces Argentina, Puerto Rico soccer match to relocate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em_nCqD86ZI

WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/09/planned-parenthood-illinois-ceo-future-reproductive-care-amid-federal-threats

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: What helped you avoid leftist indoctrination? My parents sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. My college majors were business, accounting, and finance.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/10/06/academic-neutrality-critical-thinking-texas-a-m-university-melissa-mccoul-akash-belsare

DAILY HERALD
— Scholarship brunch supports Latinx students at Elgin Community College. DD: My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me. They hint/imply/argue/shout that proves that I am stupid and/or that my parents were filthy rich.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251006/submitted-content/scholarship-brunch-supports-latinx-students-at-elgin-community-college/

WJBC
— Black Chicagoans Welcome ICE, National Guard Presence
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/10/09/report-black-chicagoans-welcome-ice-national-guard-presence/

CHALKBEAT
— DD: Democrat leaders do everything that they can to flood America with citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/10/09/chicago-mayor-has-not-appointed-noncitizen-advisory-board/

WHEATON PATCH
— DuPage Clerk Seeks Restraining Order; Says Over $230K Owed To Election Vendors. DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek is seeking a temporary restraining order for DuPage County to pay two election vendors.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/dupage-clerk-seeks-restraining-order-says-over-230k-owed-election-vendors

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-609/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you say to those who harm those who help them. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22harm+those+who+help+you%22 I should write about those who I have helped the most, but who then have harmed me the most. I would focus on Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000.
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Chicago anti-ICE chaos only proves why National Guard is needed, Windy City Dem says
https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/us-news/chicago-anti-ice-chaos-proves-national-guard-is-needed-alderman-raymond-lopez/

AMERICAN THINKER
— The Left’s multicultural conquest
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/the_left_s_multicultural_conquest.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Black Chicagoans Welcome ICE and Military Protectors
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/09/black-chicagoans-welcome-ice-military-protectors/

BLAZE
— Turning Point USA to offer ‘All American Halftime Show’ alternative to NFL’s woke Super Bowl spectacle
https://www.theblaze.com/news/turning-point-usa-to-offer-all-american-halftime-show-as-alternative-to-nfls-deviant-super-bowl-spectacular

CAMPUS REFORM
— Harvard Sells DEI certificate for $14k
https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvard-sells-dei-certificate-14k/28748

COLLEGE FIX
— University of Minnesota hosts ‘Trans and Queer Strength group’ led by ‘certified queer personal trainer’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/uminn-hosts-trans-and-queer-strength-group-led-by-certified-queer-personal-trainer/

DAILY CALLER
— As Pritzker Tees Up Presidential Run, Time For A Look At His Real Record
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/07/opinion-as-pritzker-tees-up-presidential-run-time-for-a-look-at-his-real-record-diana-rickert/

DAILY WIRE
— Social Justice Warriors Shouldn’t Control West Point. The military’s biggest problem isn’t meeting diversity quotas; it’s restoring a warrior ethos to military culture.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-justice-warriors-shouldnt-control-west-point

FOX NEWS
— Trump could make non-essential federal workers permanently non-essential. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having been a grossly overpaid non-essential federal employee.  I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6381623165112

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Chicago Mayor Won’t Answer if He’d Want Illegal Alien Who’d Raped, Beaten His Wife Deported
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/chicago-mayor-wont-answer-if-hed-want-illegal-alien-whod-raped-beaten-his-wife-deported/

MERCURY
— Tolerance of violence in US cities is stoking insurrection
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-mercury-south-africa/20251009/281535117187362

NEWSMAX
— Black Chicagoans Welcome ICE, National Guard Presence
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chicago-ice-national-guard/2025/10/09/id/1229739/
— Democrats Should Support Americans, Not Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/sean-duffy-government-shutdown/2025/10/09/id/1229755/

REAL CLEAR POLICY
— Illegal Immigrants Access Public Health Benefits
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/10/09/of_course_illegal_immigrants_access_public_health_benefits_1139906.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday said he would fire air traffic controllers who are skipping work because of the government shutdown.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5547946-duffy-threatens-fire-air-traffic-controllers-skip-work-shutdown/amp/

NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/newfest-new-york-lgbtq-film-festival-rcna236232

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Blue states ever-increasingly reject federal law.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/national-guard-governors.html
— DD: Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less protected that you are: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. That is because Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that those who are aforesaid discriminate against those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, non-American, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, poor, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/opinion/anthony-kennedy-supreme-court.html
— How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests and forced me to resign. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers, disallowed my education deductions, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would not have done the aforesaid if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/07/us/politics/trump-enemies-justice-department-investigations.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Urban Crime Spike Is Real. A national victimization survey confirms Trump’s claim that U.S. cities have grown more dangerous.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-urban-crime-spike-is-real-555b7410
— Democrats Keep Shoveling Money at ObamaCare. It wasn’t supposed to cost hundreds of billions of tax dollars a year to make healthcare ‘affordable.’
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-keep-shoveling-money-at-obamacare-936c25f2
— Federal Workers and Troops to Miss Paychecks Soon. Here’s What to Know. Government shutdown means employees won’t get paid until standoff is resolved.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/government-shutdown-federal-employee-military-pay-72a842d1?mod=Searchresults&pos=1&page=1

PBS
— DD: What do your critics/opponents attribute your successes to? Mine attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against minorities, females, younger people, veterans, LGBTQers, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been not been in America for a long time. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/pope-leo-condemns-economies-that-marginalize-the-poor-while-the-wealthy-live-in-a-bubble-of-luxury