FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco ruled late Friday that Trump cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/22/trump-sanctuary-city-funding-ruling/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Democrat leaders promote Chicago pastor Donovan Price who says to Trump “Stay out of our city.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250822/nation-and-world-politics/stay-out-of-our-city-chicago-officials-slam-trumps-threat-to-target-city-in-next-crime-crackdown/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do things that increase poverty and crime.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pritzker-says-safety-of-illinois-people-the-highest-priority-as-trump-targets-chicago-in-crime-crackdown/3813798/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-mayor-has-grave-concerns-as-trump-threatens-to-send-in-national-guard/3813669/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do things that increase poverty and crime.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/mayor-brandon-johnson-president-trump-chicago-federal-law-enforcement-crime-national-guard/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do things that increase poverty and crime.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/08/22/donald-trump-national-guard-troops-chicago-threat-brandon-johnson-jb-pritzker-washington-dc
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders threaten to use the Texas fight against Democrat gerrymandering to gerrymander Illinois, California, and New York even more.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/texas-lawmakers-give-final-approval-to-redrawn-congressional-map-favoring-gop-send-to-governor/article_4f5e4910-98d8-570f-8a42-c522ebbbb7cd.html
25 NEWS NOW
— Republican central Illinois official responds to White House calls for the end of mail-in voting
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/22/central-illinois-official-responds-white-house-calls-end-mail-in-voting/
WCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wcia.com/news/illinois-news/new-statewide-hotline-helps-lgbtq-people-navigate-illinois-laws/
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Illinois Democrats ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/08/22/illinois-lgbtq-hotline-pride-connect-trump-legal-rights
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Mayor Still Wallows in the Worst Job Approval Rating in the Country
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-mayor-worst-job-approval-rating
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Trump Pushes Major Election Reforms
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/trump-pushes-major-election-reforms/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Wirepoints Faces 74% Revenue Drop Since 2020 as Spending Spikes 57% as Leader Eyes Governor Run on Fiscal Issues. Since its peak, the number of GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter subscribers has decreased a) because subscribers give up on Illinois politics and government, b) because subscribers die, and c) because subscribers move out of Illinois. But the number of my subscribers who are my critics/opponents and who read my newsletters for opposition research increases. Further, subscribers and potential subscribers see that the following not only do not encourage reading my newsletters, but that they discourage reading my newsletters by taking adverse actions against me including more recently removing me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and ending by service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I should write about the aforesaid. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. Further, subscribers and potential subscribers see that while I promote my direct competitors, they do not promote me.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/wirepoints-faces-74-revenue-drop-since-2020-as-spending-spikes-57-as-leader-eyes-governor-run-on-fiscal-issues.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Dabrowski, a close ally of state central committee member Jeanne Ives and Naples-based Chicago radio host Dan Proft, regularly offers commentary on Illinois’ finances and economy. He has led Wirepoints since its founding in 2018. . .For years, Dabrowski has maintained his distance from Trump, carefully avoiding any hint of an endorsement. Dabrowski will face DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick in the Republican primary for governor, with additional candidates expected to enter the race in the coming months.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Words Democrats should avoid to stop sounding like ‘enforcers of wokeness’ — according to center-left think tank
https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/us-news/words-democrats-should-avoid-to-stop-sounding-like-enforcers-of-wokeness/
— National Guard mobilizing up to 1,700 in 19 states amid immigration, crime crackdown
https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/trump-to-mobilize-national-guard-in-19-states-in-crackdown-on-crime-illegal-immigration/
DAILY WIRE
— Your Child’s School Might Still Be Pushing Transgender Ideology Despite Trump’s Orders. Many schools still allow boys in girls’ bathrooms and to participate in girls’ sports.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/your-childs-school-might-still-be-pushing-transgender-ideology-despite-trumps-orders
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— New York State Claims Right to Give Welfare to Illegal Aliens. States should not get federal money for breaking the law.
https://www.fairus.org/press-release/new-york-state-claims-right-give-welfare-illegal-aliens
NEW AMERICAN
— Is Wokeness Really Dying? Or Is It Just Undergoing a Luciferian Change in Form?
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/is-wokeness-really-dying-or-is-it-just-undergoing-a-luciferian-change-in-form/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Pritzker slams Trump’s threat to target Chicago next: ‘We don’t play those games’
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5467209-jb-pritzker-donald-trump-chicago-crime-crackdown/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat Chicago leaders vehemently oppose Trump cracking down on crime in Chicago. A Chicago pastor says ““Stay out of our city.” Because of crime, I left Chicago in 1971 and my wife and I left Chicago in 1978. While I worked for IRS in Chicago, a) my 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in Chicago in 1971 and b) my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen in Chicago in 1973.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-chicago-likely-next-193746631.html
— Florida puts rainbow crosswalks in the crosshairs, as cities face deadlines to remove them. If you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat and RINO employers a) will not hire you and b) will get rid of you if you are an employee.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-lgbtq-rainbow-crosswalks-desantis-58b22e99150bc89f91362e0bd99aa52a
NEWSWEEK
— Florida Locals Defy Ron DeSantis By Restoring Pulse Rainbow Crosswalk. If you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat and RINO employers a) will not hire you and b) will get rid of you if you are an employee.
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-locals-ron-desantis-pulse-rainbow-crosswalk-2117628
MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint Democrats as having fought against slavery in the Civil War and b) paint Republicans as having fought for slavery in the Civil War. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint today’s Republicans as being yesterday’s Democrats. All my ancestors were Republicans because Republicans fought against slavery.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/here-we-go-again-trump-wants-smithsonian-to-focus-on-americas-brightness-and-hide-the-dark-truth-about-slavery/ar-AA1KT09s
MSNBC
— Trump admin lowers FBI recruitment standards in a deeply ironic twist. The administration is reportedly set to lower its education and training standards for people looking to work for the nation’s top law enforcement agency.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-patel-fbi-recruitment-standards-lower-rcna226690
— Quigley: FBI’s search of Bolton will have ‘extraordinary chilling effect.’ The adverse actions that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and dupes take against me have had a chilling effect on conservatives in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/fbi-s-search-of-bolton-will-have-extraordinary-chilling-effect-rep-quigley-245600325582
NBC NEWS
— Pulse Memorial’s rainbow crosswalk removed. If you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat and RINO employers a) will not hire you and b) will get rid of you if you are an employee.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/pulse-memorial-rainbow-crosswalk-removed-orlando-florida-rcna226335
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO Leaders Decry That Republicans Elect Joe Gruters, a Trump Ally From Florida, to Lead the R.N.C.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/rnc-joe-gruters-trump-republicans.html
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve Governors. According to the judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO, the Democrats who run the federal government can fire federal employees because they are Republican, and especially if they are Republican and White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. And even more especially if they complain about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/can-trump-fire-a-fed-governor.html
— Year Will End With 300,000 Fewer Federal Workers. The reduction would be the largest single-year decline in civilian federal employment since World War II. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/trump-federal-workers.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump nominates his presidential personnel chief Sergio Gor to be U.S. ambassador to India. Gor has hired almost 4,000 people into government roles. My undergraduate major and my MBA area of concentration was personnel management. If I could do it over again, it would have been accounting. I say that because I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt when I was 30 and 32 respectively and I became a licensed CPA when I was 32. But by the time I did the foresaid, the accounting profession deemed me to be far too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/23/sergio-gor-trump-india-ambassador/
— Democrat leaders say that FBI raid on Bolton is part of a Trump revenge campaign. My Democrat superiors in the federal government took adverse actions against me a) because I refused to become a Democrat, b) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and c) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. They would not have taken adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. But if I had been any of the aforesaid, I would not have had anything to complain about.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/22/john-bolton-trump-fbi-revenge-search/
— Trump turns $11B in US government funds into a 10% stake in downtrodden Intel. Trump on Friday announced the U.S. government has secured a 10% stake in the struggling Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal completed just a couple weeks after he depicted the company’s CEO as a conflicted leader unfit for the job. Constructively, my Democrat IRS superiors treated me like I was unfit to be a GS-13 and my Democrat GAO superiors treated me like I was unfit to be a GS-14. In my defense, while I worked for IRS, I earned an MBA when I was 27 and I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 While I worked for GAO, I earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32, I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading when I was 48.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/22/trump-intel-us-equity-stake/1d42ac44-7f8e-11f0-971c-6c8e53bd2f21_story.html
— Trump ever-increasingly fights race based preference giving. My critics/opponents promote race and gender based preference giving, that is, they discriminate against Whites and men.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/22/college-grants-hispanic-populations/
— Appeals court rules that the $515 million in fines against Trump were excessive. The adverse actions that my Democrat superiors in the federal government took against me because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination were excessive. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old, delayed my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions, and disallowed my travel vouchers. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign and disallowed my sick leave requests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/22/trump-james-fraud-lawsuit-appeal/3bbdbd24-7fa9-11f0-971c-6c8e53bd2f21_story.html
— ‘Stay out of our city’: Chicago officials slam Trump’s threat to target city in next crime crackdown. President Donald Trump says Chicago will likely be the next target of his efforts to address crime, homelessness and illegal immigration. Because of crime, I left Chicago in 1971 and my wife and I left Chicago in 1978. While I worked for IRS in Chicago, a) my 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in Chicago in 1971 and b) my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen in Chicago in 1973.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/22/trump-crime-crackdown-dc-chicago-new-york/948da974-7f8f-11f0-971c-6c8e53bd2f21_story.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Test That Rules Chinese Society. The gaokao is China’s college entrance exam, but it shapes the country and its people far beyond the classroom.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/the-test-that-rules-chinese-society-dd9c8dc7
— The Price of Parenting. My Democrat GAO superiors decried the time and money they needed to raise their children. Their spouses had little or no income.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/the-price-of-parenting-284b505a
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders say that what Texas is doing is gerrymandering.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/23/texas-passes-congressional-map-gerrymander-00519116
DAILY KOS
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. If my parents had sent me to Crete Elementary instead of Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete and Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest, I would not have been able to earn an ACT score of 24, graduate from Crete-Monee High School in the upper 20% of my class, and get accepted by UIC.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/22/2339791/-Oklahoma-Imposes-PragerU-Wokeness-Test-on-Teachers-Undermining-Education-and-Democracy
AXIOS
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents who falsely claim to be Republican will not only switch parties and become Democrats, they will crow that they have always done everything that they could to destroy Republicans. Far too many get involved in Republican politics to get the Republican Party to strike the following planks from its 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 more of the aforesaid planks that they reject, the harder that they work against me.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/23/fbi-probes-trumps-political-enemies
GOOGLE AI
— Ukraine officially declared its independence from the Soviet Union on August 24, 1991, a declaration overwhelmingly supported by a popular referendum on December 1, 1991. This established Ukraine as an independent nation, though it has since faced numerous challenges to its sovereignty, particularly Russian aggression, which escalated into a full-scale invasion in 2022.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ukraine+independence
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August 22, 2025
Who will Pritzker pick to lead his gerrymandering, that is, his cracking and packing?
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/empathy-sin-conservative-christian-argument/3812929/
CBS2
— Could Chicago museums be affected by Trump administration review of Smithsonian museums?
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/could-some-chicago-museums-be-affected-by-trump-administrations-smithsonian-crackdown/
WTTW
— Veterans Affairs Workers, Unions Push Trump Administration to Reinstate Collective Bargaining Rights. If GAO had been unionized, I might still be a GAO employee. My Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, d) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/21/veterans-affairs-workers-unions-push-trump-administration-reinstate-collective
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly have their operatives and their dupes sue Trump. Beyond overwhelmingly, courts favor Democrats. I should write about the lawsuits that I have filed. My critics/opponents have always sided with the defendants.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/president-trump-legal-cases/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/22/column-donald-trump-human-rights-shackelford/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lower education standards.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/22/education-proficiency-reading-math-isbe/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— New Chicago police oversight boss has been wiping out recommendations to fire cops. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office for almost 18 years, every time the Democrats who ran GAO assigned the office a new manager, they gave him/her a list of employees to get rid of. Of course, I was on all those lists. My doing the following helped me survive for almost 18 years: a) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, b) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, c) I became a licensed CPA, d) I earned four more job-related professional certifications, and e) I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/08/22/lakenya-white-civilian-office-police-accountability-chicago-police-department-kersten-snelling
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use slavery to get more votes from Blacks.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250822/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-bad-move-trumps-targeting-of-smithsonian-a-disturbing-attempt-to-gloss-ove/
— Russia strike hits US-owned factory in Ukraine. Flex has four locations in Buffalo Grove.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250821/nation-and-world-politics/russia-hammers-ukraine-with-drones-and-missiles-as-peace-efforts-drag-on/
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO
— Illinois state Sen. Christopher Belt readies for congressional redistricting. How successful will Pritzker be in further gerrymandering Illinois so that Republicans cannot be elected in any of Illinois’ 17 congressional districts?
https://www.stlpr.org/podcast/politically-speaking/2025-08-21/illinois-state-sen-christopher-belt-readies-for-congressional-redistricting
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Inside the facility where ICE is training recruits to take on Trump’s deportation goals. The first 6 months that I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer in 1971 was classroom training in the Loop. According to Google AI: key areas of Revenue Officer training include: “Tax Law and Procedures: This is fundamental, encompassing various aspects of tax law, regulations, and IRS procedures applicable to individuals and businesses. Business Law: Revenue officers may need to understand business law principles to navigate legal and financial situations encountered during their work. Investigative Techniques: They are trained in investigative methods to uncover discrepancies, errors, or potential fraud in tax filings. Collections Procedures: A significant part of the role involves working with taxpayers to discuss payment options and resolve delinquent tax accounts, according to ZipRecruiter. Training covers various collection strategies and techniques. Negotiation and Communication: Since they interact with taxpayers to discuss sensitive financial matters, revenue officers must possess strong negotiation and communication skills, says ZipRecruiter. Training often focuses on developing these interpersonal abilities. Ongoing Development: Revenue officers are expected to engage in continuous learning to stay abreast of changes in tax laws and regulations, industry trends, and best practices. In essence, IRS revenue officer training prepares individuals to effectively apply tax law, investigate tax-related issues, negotiate with taxpayers, and collect delinquent taxes in a professional and ethical manner.” In today’s dollars, my salary was $55,850/year.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-inside-the-facility-where-ice-is-training-recruits-to-take-on-trumps-deportation-goals/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: At an obstacle course in the humid Georgia heat, an instructor shows recruits how to pull a wounded partner out of danger. In a classroom with desks cluttered with thick legal books about immigration law, recruits learn about how the Fourth Amendment governs their work. And on a firing range littered with shell casings, new recruits for Immigration and Customs Enforcement practice shooting their handguns. “Instructors, give me a thumbs up when students are ready to go,” a voice over the loudspeaker said before a group of about 20 ICE recruits practiced drawing and firing their weapons. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia, is the epicenter of training for almost all federal law enforcement officers, including the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who are at the center of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.)
WJOL
— State Representative Regan Deering has filed legislation in response to Governor Pritzker’s signing of House Bill 460 that guarantees undocumented students in Illinois have access to student financial aid.
https://www.wjol.com/state-representative-regan-deering-has-filed-legislation-against-governor-pritzkers-house-bill/
WAND TV
— Pritzker signs bill allowing immigrants to become driving instructors
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-signs-bill-allowing-immigrants-to-become-driving-instructors/article_24cef4c5-8db6-44bc-996c-a3757cdc11a8.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump delivers pizza to National Guard working on his DC crackdown
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-21/trump-delivers-pizza-to-national-guard-working-on-his-dc-crackdown
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Effort revived to push for fair maps constitutional amendment in Illinois. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-08-21/effort-revived-to-push-for-fair-maps-constitutional-amendment-in-illinois
25 NEWS NOW
— 9 years after initial attempt, ‘Fair Maps Illinois’ tries again to ban gerrymandering in Illinois. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/22/9-years-after-initial-attempt-fair-maps-illinois-tries-again-ban-gerrymandering-illinois/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump won’t back wind and solar power projects, blames renewable energy for rising costs
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-wont-back-wind-and-solar-power-projects-blames-renewable-energy-for-rising-costs-us-department-of-agriculture-farmland-one-big-beautiful-bill-department-of-interior-truth-social-tax-breaks
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-574/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— The Income Transfer from the Suburbs to the CTA–the Whole Purpose of the RTA–Appears
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/21/the-income-transfer-from-the-suburbs-to-the-cta-the-whole-purpose-of-the-rta-appears/
— Invisible McHenry County Mounts Another Demonstration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/21/invisible-mchenry-county-mounts-another-demonstration/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you critics/opponents promote? My critics/opponents promote a) dependency on government and charity, that is, socialism and then communism, b) LGBTQ, that is, destruction of traditional marriage and family, c) abortion, that is, promiscuity and disrespect of human life, d) mass/illegal immigration, that is, destruction of America, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, that is, destruction of America, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, that is, surrender to America’s enemies, and/or g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Parents Outraged as Lyons Township Civics Assignment Pushes Political Labels on 16-Year-Olds. If I had been active in Republican politics when I was a Crete-Monee High School student, the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office would not have hired me in 1966. If I had been active in Republican politics when I was a UIC and NIU student, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have hired me in 1971. If I had been active in Republican politics when I took graduate evening business courses at Loyola, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If I had been active in Republican politics when I took graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have hired me in 1980 and promoted me in 1986. If I had been active in Republican politics when I took graduate evening finance courses at IIT, the Democrats who ran GAO would have forced me to retire earlier than they did.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/opinion-parents-outraged-as-lyons-township-civics-assignment-pushes-political-labels-on-16-year-olds.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Parents send their children to school to learn math, science, history, and civics – not to be pawns in a political mind game. Yet at Lyons Township High School, sophomores were handed a so-called “non-political quiz” in civics class that looks more like an exercise in political conditioning than education. The assignment, titled “Liberal vs. Conservative Style Non-Political Quiz,” presents students with a series of questions about trivial school-related scenarios – cafeteria food, classroom seating, sports uniforms, school mascots – and forces them into binary “liberal” or “conservative” categories. . .This is presented to 15 and 16-year-old students as a civics lesson. The problem? These questions have absolutely nothing to do with actual liberalism or conservatism in the American civic or political sense. They are arbitrary and misleading parallels that equate curiosity, creativity, or even preference for variety with being a “liberal,” while equating tradition or consistency with being “conservative.” In other words: if your child prefers the same lunch menu every week, they’re “conservative.” If they like trying a new sandwich, suddenly they’re “liberal.” This is not education – it’s indoctrination. . .This is the danger – conditioning young students to see normal preferences and personality traits through a false political lens. And worse, doing so under the guise of a neutral civics lesson, without parents’ knowledge. Civics, Not Social Engineering The goal of civics education should be to teach the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, how government functions, and why civic responsibility matters. It should not be to manipulate teenagers into political identity boxes through cafeteria hypotheticals and mascot debates. Parents need to know this is happening in their children’s classrooms. Thankfully, there are options. Illinois families do not have to accept indoctrination disguised as curriculum. What Parents Can Do Now is not the time to stop paying attention to what your kids are learning in high school. These years are some of the most formative – and potentially the most detrimental – of their lives. You need to be a part of it. Ask questions. Be present. And most importantly: make your kids show you their assignments. Groups like Awake Illinois provide resources and guidance on how parents can opt their children out of this type of political conditioning and restore civics education to what it’s supposed to be – education, not indoctrination. Visit Awake Illinois to learn more about your options and how to push back. Our kids deserve civics lessons grounded in truth and history – not politically loaded quizzes that sort teenagers into categories they never asked to be put in. The teacher responsible for distributing this assignment could not be reached for comment.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREITBART
— Trump Seeks to Purge Wokeness from Smithsonian Museums
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/21/report-trump-seeks-to-purge-wokeness-from-smithsonian-museums/
— Pew Research: Biden Administration Packed Swing States with Over 1 Million Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/21/pew-research-biden-administration-packed-swing-states-over-1-million-illegal-aliens/
— Trump’s next RNC chairman Joe Gruters is a longtime believer.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trumps-next-rnc-chairman-joe-gruters-is-a-longtime-believer-heres-what-to-know-about-him/
— Podcaster Gavin Newsom Imitates Joe Biden: Says He’ll Punch ‘Sons of Bitches’ Trump, Republicans ‘In the Mouth’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/21/trump-gavin-newsom-punch-violence-mouth/
— US slams door on foreign truck drivers after deadly crash
https://www.breitbart.com/news/us-slams-door-on-foreign-truck-drivers-after-deadly-crash/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Affirmative Action is Still Alive in College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XgQXvD1zcI
DAILY CALLER
— Supreme Court Lets Trump Admin Axe Millions In NIH Grants Involving DEI, Gender Ideology
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/21/supreme-court-trump-admin-nih-grants-dei/
LIFE NEWS
— Abortion Pills are Dangerous for Women and Kill Babies
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/08/21/abortion-pills-are-dangerous-for-women-and-kill-babies/
NEW AMERICAN
— Naturalized Citizens Indicted for Smuggling, Harboring Illegals
https://thenewamerican.com/us/crime/naturalized-citizens-indicted-for-smuggling-harboring-illegals-in-albuquerque/
NEWS BUSTERS
— Fox Covers Illegal Alien Who Killed Three After California Gave Him Drivers License
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2025/08/21/fox-covers-illegal-alien-who-killed-three-after-california-gave
NEWSMAX
— Trump Ramps Up Deportations
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-administration-deportations-illegals/2025/08/21/id/1223476/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Vance: “It’s Not About Kicking People Off Of Healthcare, It’s About Kicking Illegal Aliens The Hell Out”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/21/vance_its_not_about_kicking_people_off_of_healthcare_its_about_kicking_illegal_aliens_the_hell_out.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/political-briefing/episodes/9351565c-585a-11f0-bf06-871a73e51251
REUTERS
— US judge rejects challenges by Trump, affirmative action foe to Illinois nonprofit diversity law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-rejects-challenges-by-trump-affirmative-action-foe-illinois-nonprofit-2025-08-21/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://apnews.com/article/california-texas-redistricting-congressional-map-4c22e21d5d4022d33a257045693b6fd4
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to fight crime.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-washington-dc-federal-immigration-deportation-81e3493e73e8af1ecce47af23d9911f4
— FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/08/22/fbi-searches-home-and-office-of-ex-trump-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-ap-source-says/
MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-moves-forward-with-gerrymander-to-counter-texas/ar-AA1KYXVb
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-redraws-congressional-map-here-s-the-worst-gerrymanders-in-the-us/ar-AA1KX0Pj
— Trump abruptly nixes signing of executive order to punish American flag burners
https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other/trump-abruptly-nixes-signing-of-executive-order-to-punish-american-flag-burners/ar-AA1KYBxB
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/rep-gwen-moore-texas-is-leading-a-race-for-the-bottom-passing-gerrymandered-map-245549125559
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weeknight/watch/breaking-ca-gov-gavin-newsom-signs-redistricting-plan-245535813939
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to fight crime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtktIyUibzA
ABC NEWS
— 750 HHS employees send signed letter to RFK Jr. asking him to stop spreading misinformation
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/750-hhs-employees-send-signed-letter-rfk-jr/story?id=124805697
ABC LOS ANGELES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://abc7.com/live-updates/california-redistricting-state-supreme-court-denies-gop-petition-delay-vote-new-congressional-maps/17590010/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010354945/california-votes-redistricting-gerrymandering.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/newsom-gerrymandering-california-fundraising.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/podcasts/the-daily/california-texas-newsom-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/opinion/gerrymandering-redistricting-texas.html
— Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/alligator-alcatraz-florida-ruling.html
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/trump-diversity-black-americans.html
— Democrats run elections in America. Enough said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/trump-midterm-elections-mail-in-ballots.html
— F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, to hire, retain, and promote more young Democrat minorities and females, they ever-increasingly lowered standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/fbi-agent-recruitment-requirements-trump.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under a plan pushed by the director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree, according to people familiar with the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe it. The shift comes as the agency anticipates losing more than 5,000 employees by September, largely as a result of agents, analysts and others taking severance or early retirement packages offered by the Trump administration to try to reduce the budget. Instead of spending about 18 weeks training at the academy in Quantico, Va., the group of agents, tentatively scheduled to start in October, will receive eight weeks, according to the people. And the agents will no longer need to fulfill a longstanding requisite for joining the bureau: a bachelor’s degree.
WASHINGTON POST
— Illinois could redistrict before the 2026 midterms. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/20/congressional-redistricting-states-midterms/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois jumped into the redistricting story when Gov. JB Pritzker (D) invited Texas House Democrats to stay in suburban Chicago after they left their state to stall the Republicans redistricting efforts. Pritzker has been vocal about the redistricting battle nationally, and Illinois state lawmakers have full control of the map-drawing process. But the impact of any map changes could be limited here — Democrats hold 14 out of the state’s 17 House seats, and the map is already carved largely in Democrats’ favor.)
— Newsom signs bills for redrawing voting maps as parties fight for control. California’s Democratic lawmakers want to redraw congressional maps as Texas, led by Republicans, moves toward final approval of its plans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/21/california-texas-redistricting-trump/
— Trump and selective prosecution. I was selected by my Democrat GAO superiors for forced early retirement a) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, b) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and c) because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/21/new-york-trump-fraud-case/
— White House targets ‘woke’ Smithsonian content in new list. By their actions, if not by their words, my critics/opponents have always painted themselves as being work, that is, as being champions of 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/entertainment/art/2025/08/21/white-house-smithsonian-exhibitions-targets/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/21/trump-redistricting-congress-texas-california/
— Democrat cities are chaotic dystopias in need of occupation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/21/trump-cities-crime-washington-dc-los-angeles/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/22/sanctuary-cities-bondi/
USA TODAY
— These are the wealthiest suburbs of America’s biggest cities
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/13/wealthiest-suburbs-usa-income-home-values/85609633007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Fewer Americans might recognize the name of Hinsdale, Chicago’s wealthiest suburb. And some non-Texans might struggle to differentiate between University Park and West University Place, the most affluent suburbs, respectively, of metropolitan Dallas and Houston. . .Hinsdale. Most people associate Chicago’s North Shore with suburban wealth, but the city’s wealthiest suburb (and the nation’s eighth wealthiest) sits to the west. Hinsdale has an average household income of $376,366. Home values average $1.3 million.)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/20/west-texas-university-drag-ban-blocked-by-appeals-court/85722250007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/08/14/divorce-women-perimenopause-menopause/85622804007/
DESERT REVIEW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.thedesertreview.com/news/state/democrats-torn-on-gerrymandering-ethics/article_199ac1e7-7b30-4d68-b133-c718ef69bd12.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/partisan-gerrymandering-texas-california-gop-democrats-donald-trump-gavin-newsom-7ee26118
— Who Is a ‘Journalist’ in Gaza? ‘Press freedom’ groups take up the cause of Hamas propagandists and alleged terrorists. According to my critics/opponents, you are not a journalist unless you promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/who-is-a-journalist-in-gaza-18a70ad0
BLOOMBERG
— US Halts Visas for Truck Drivers After Fatal Florida Crash
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/us-halts-visas-for-truck-drivers-after-fatal-florida-crash/ar-AA1KYYa8
FORBES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OsENz8ocow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2pQt2cYtnY
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook-pm/2025/08/21/sacramento-takes-its-gerrymandering-bow-00518959
PEW RESEARCH
— 550,000 illegals in Illinois. If there had been as many illegals in Illinois when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.pewresearch.org/about/privacy-policy/
August 21, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Texas House approves redrawn congressional maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections. Will this prompt Pritzker to redraw Illinois congressional maps so that absolutely no Republican candidates can win in Illinois? How badly has Pritzker gerrymandered your congressional district? I should write about Pritzker’s 3rd Congressional District that I live in. Pritzker is an expert at cracking and packing.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/texas-house-approves-redrawn-maps/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/08/20/cash-assistance-gender-domestic-violence-net-ameya-pawar-amanda-pyron
DAILY HERALD
— Marter slams mail-in voting as ‘a scam.’ Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250820/us-congress-politics/gop-house-hopeful-marter-slams-mail-in-voting-as-a-scam/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Judge tosses Trump-era challenge to Illinois E-Verify law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/illinois-wins-fight-over-trump-e-verify-challenge
ABC7
— Pritzker says he supports independently drawn legislative maps if done on national basis
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-says-he-supports-independently-drawn-legislative-maps-done-national-basis/17598750/
— Newly installed U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illinois encourages former federal prosecutors to apply. For course, after my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they never encouraged me to apply. For them, GAO exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicagos-legal-community-buzzing-us-attorney-northern-district-illinois-andrew-boutros-recruiting-mail/17600171/
NBC5
— New college program allows Illinois students to apply with only a GPA. One reason why UIC admitted me in 1966 was that my ACT score of 24.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/new-college-program-allows-illinois-students-to-apply-with-only-a-gpa/3812390/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/illinois-snap-education-program-end-amid-federal-funding-cuts-how-could-impact-local
— CTU President Rejects Pritzker’s Assertion No More Money to Be Found in Springfield for Schools. During the 1950s and 1960s, Crete-Monee School District 201-U did not spend anything to give my brother and I grade school educations because my parents sent us to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools in Crete and Park Forest. For me, 1953-1962, and for my brother, 1958-1968.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/ctu-president-rejects-pritzker-s-assertion-no-more-money-be-found-springfield-schools
SAUK VALLEY
— State Rep. Brad Fritts, R-Dixon, has withdrawn his Sauk Valley Chamber of Commerce membership after the organization published a DEI statement on its website and removed the word “God” from a prayer at a recent scholarship fundraiser that it hosted.
https://www.shawlocal.com/sauk-valley/2025/08/21/state-rep-nixes-sauk-valley-chamber-membership-over-prayer-wording-at-fundraiser-dei-statement-on-its-website/
HERALD NEWS
— Will County Board member accused of illegally accessing fellow board member’s emails
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/08/20/will-county-board-member-accused-of-illegally-accessing-fellow-board-members-emails/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders have their protesters heckle Vance, Hegseth at photo op to thank National Guard troops in DC.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/20/protesters-heckle-vance-hegseth-miller-as-they-get-photo-op-with-dc-national-guard/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Mail-in voting ban could affect 1/3 of voters in Tazewell County. Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/illinois-voting-machine-restrictions/
WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.wsiu.org/siu/2025-08-20/2025-hemp-cannabis-symposium-at-siu-to-focus-on-agronomy
ILLINOIS PUBLIC MEDIA
— Your food probably traveled a long way before reaching the grocery store.
https://will.illinois.edu/217today/episode/217-today-your-food-probably-traveled-a-long-way-before-reaching-the-grocery-store-heres-why
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject federal law
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/21/illinois-to-bondi-sanctuary-status-stands-firm-00517387
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-573/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-366/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHANGE ILLINOIS
— Long-time redistricting reform advocates raise concerns about the new “fair maps” ballot question.
https://www.changeil.org/2025/08/long-time-redistricting-reform-advocates-raise-concerns-about-the-new-fair-maps-ballot-question/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker defends mental health mandate, rejects parental consent plan. According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6fd339b5-6d3a-4ff1-9288-cffd18017e8b.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s right: America should end mail-in voting. It’s a stupid practice rife with fraud potential.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/trumps-right-america-end-mail-voting/
— Blue state tax hikes drive residents out. Democrats double down on taxing the wealthy while red states like Texas and Florida reap the rewards of migration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/blue-state-tax-hikes-drive-residents/
— Little of DOGE’s work likely to survive
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/little-doges-work-likely-survive/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump isn’t trying to ‘erase history’ at Smithsonian — he’s reversing a destructive woke takeover
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/opinion/trump-isnt-trying-to-erase-history-at-smithsonian-hes-reversing-a-destructive-woke-takeover/
BREITBART
— State Department employee fired after questioning talking points on Israel and Gaza. My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career, took many adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire early because I questioned their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/state-department-employee-fired-after-questioning-talking-points-on-israel-and-gaza/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Immigration Court No-Shows Increase as Backlog Falls and Asylum Denials Rise
https://cis.org/Arthur/Immigration-Court-NoShows-Increase-Backlog-Falls-and-Asylum-Denials-Rise
FOX NEWS
— It would be wonderful to get Chicago Democrats on board in the migrant crime crackdown
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377161503112
— Sanctuary cities defy Bondi’s deadline to cooperate
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-defy-bondis-deadline-cooperate-no-intention-changing
— ICE unveils plans for new detention facilities across the US
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377144130112
NRCC
— Illegals get handouts, cops get demonized, and Americans foot the bill
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/08/20/illegals-get-handouts-cops-get-demonized-and-americans-foot-the-bill-under-harder/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Accused of Betraying Citizens by Signing Bill to Give Illegals a Big Handout
https://www.westernjournal.com/illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-accused-betraying-citizens-signing-bill-give-illegals-big-handout/
— Target CEO Who Steered Struggling Retail Giant Into Wokeness to Step Down
https://www.westernjournal.com/target-ceo-steered-struggling-retail-giant-wokeness-step-company-lost-grip/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrats go ‘Trump Lite’ in latest plan to save democracy. Not in Illinois.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/politics/newsom-obama-trump-texas-california-redistricting-analysis
NBC NEWS
— Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/fort-bliss-japanese-americans-internment-camp-immigrant-detention-rcna226044
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis. The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/trump-transgender-children-care-subpoena.html
— He Tried to Endorse From the Pulpit. He Wound Up Without a Church. In 1961, if the pastor of the Missouri Synod Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete had taken a calling from a Wisconsin Synod church instead of splitting Trinity and switching it to the Wisconsin Synod, my entire post-1961 life would have been dramatically different. In 1961, to stay with the Missouri Synod, when I was in eight grade and my brother was in second grade, my parents transferred to Hope Lutheran Church in Park Forest and transferred my brother and I to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22trinity+lutheran+church%22+crete+1961+missouri+wisconsin+synod
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/church-endorsements-irs-kenosha.html
— Trump demanded on Wednesday that a Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook resign. My Democrat GAO superiors deliberately misled me to believe that they were going to let me work for GAO until I was eligible for regular retirement when I would be 55 in 2003. But in September of 1997, when I was 49 years old, they succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” that expired on September 30, 1997. I should write about that. Their forcing me to retire early has had a tremendous negative impact on me.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/20/us/trump-news
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise foreign students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/trump-visa-vetting-international-students.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-cartel-mexico-fentanyl.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly infiltrate, invade, infest, and conquer churches.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/irs-church-free-speech.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump says Smithsonian is too focused on slavery. Democrats fought the Civil War against Republicans to preserve slavery. Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrat leaders have tried to a) paint Democrats as having been the Union Army and b) to paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/08/20/trump-smithsonian-slavery-historians/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/18/she-spoke-up-for-trans-rights-at-8-now-her-family-is-leaving-texas/85454513007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/17/gay-marriage-supreme-court-lgbtq-rights/85666114007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote mail-in voting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/19/trump-mail-in-voting/85725029007/
COURIER & PRESS
— Vanderburgh GOP leaders install supporters ahead of crucial Saturday election. Anti-conservative RINOs succeeded in getting someone to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman in 2000, but not since then. I should write about anti-conservative RINOs. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/28/vanderburgh-gop-leaders-install-supporters-ahead-of-crucial-saturday-election/80497015007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Send Harvard’s Chinese Students Home. It makes no sense for the U.S. to be educating the scientific and leadership class of a future adversary.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/send-harvards-chinese-students-home-national-security-risk-research-2e43313d
— Surrogacy is typically the most expensive path to parenthood. My Democrat GAO superiors viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/surrogacy-cost-parenting-eb87c3b3
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Trump Administration Loses Bid to Block Illinois E-Verify Law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/trump-administration-loses-bid-to-block-illinois-e-verify-law
ACCOUNTING TODAY
— IRS flouted procedures when terminating employees. My Democrat GAO superiors did far more than just flout regulations when they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They flushed my Civil Service protections down their toilets. My critics/opponents stand with my Democrat GAO superiors. My critics/opponents are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-flouted-procedures-when-terminating-probationary-employees
FIVE THIRTY EIGHT
— Opposition Research Far too many who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and read my newsletters for opposition research. I should write about them. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-introduction-to-the-dark-arts-of-opposition-research/
PEW RESEARCH
— How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age. According to my liberal and moderate critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a conservative. According to my Democrat and RINO critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a Republican. They stress a) that none of my four college degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license are in journalism, b) that I have never been paid for what I have done as your GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, c) that I send my newsletters out free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth a) that my newsletters have included links to more than 520,000 articles since 2004, b) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) that much of what I did for GAO is very similar to what journalists do, d) that my professional certifications are in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and e) that I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I should write about the following who not only treat me like I am not a journalist, but who do everything that the can to stop me from sending out newsletters and to stop everyone from reading my newsletters: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. The aforesaid have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or d) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-americans-view-journalists-in-the-digital-age/
August 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois and Texas Democrat leaders glorify and praise each other.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-illinois-arrive-ohare-airport-chicago-go-home/17575353/
— The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-house-democrats-illinois-protesting-redistricting-visit-chicagos-saint-sabina-church-prepare-travel-home-week/17569909/
NBC5
— Trump halts visas for people from Gaza
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-administration-halts-visas-gaza/3810913/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/17/column-washington-dc-national-guard-makes-things-worse-page/
— The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/17/texas-rep-james-talarico-sermon-south-side/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. To push pot is to push destruction.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2025/08/17/marijuana-reclassification-would-sprout-many-benefits-for-businesses-industry-leaders-say
— For Democrat educators, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/08/17/sustainable-community-schools-cps-trump-black-brown-communities-stacy-davis-gates
RIVER CITY READER
— Illinois GOP Split on Whether to Appease Teachers Unions; Dems Expect to be the Cui That Bonos in Next Race
https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/illinois-gop-split-whether-appease-teachers-unions-dems-expect-be-cui-bonos-next-race
WMBD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/08/16/over-300-protests-held-saturday-against-trump-redistricting-push/
TRI STATE PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://www.tspr.org/2025-08-17/with-more-national-guard-troops-on-the-way-to-d-c-hundreds-march-in-protest
WSIL TV
— Six generations gather in Marion for a rare family reunion. All my ancestors were Missouri Synod Lutherans. Their big family reunions on both sides of my family ended in the 1960s because of a religious split. About half of them left the Missouri Synod for the Wisconsin Synod starting in 1961 when I was in eighth grade.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/illinois/six-generations-gather-in-marion-for-a-rare-family-reunion/article_1302d801-6ba9-47f7-9fd1-698a974cfd12.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois and Texas Democrat leaders glorify and praise each other
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/18/the-hot-commodity-in-illinois-texans-00513312
— Which Congressional District do you live in? Who is your Republican State Central Committee member? Is he/she running again?
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/18/the-hot-commodity-in-illinois-texans-00513312
(FROM THE ARTICLE: — Kevin Lamm is running for the State Central Committee in the 16th District, and he’s been endorsed by Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara and state Rep. Dave Vella, among others. He talked to WGLT’s Ben Howell about his campaign.)
— While I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, the organization encouraged Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders to defend and advance the Republican Party platform.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/18/the-hot-commodity-in-illinois-texans-00513312
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Sept. 9: The Edgar Fellows Chicago Dinner takes place.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-570/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Primary Election Candidate Preview
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/17/primary-election-candidate-preview/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois takes over health insurance marketplace in 2026 amid skepticism
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_aa4fc075-0fe6-4b68-b8f3-b18278a1f627.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Chicago Expands Parental Replacement Centers Disguised as “Schools”
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/chicago-expands-parental-replacement-centers-disguised-as-schools/
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Mentally Disordered IL Dems Force All Schools to “Screen” Kids’ Mental Health
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/08/14/mentally-disordered-il-dems-force-all-schools-to-screen-kids-mental-health
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats push ‘free stuff’ agenda as welfare dependency and mass immigration threaten America. Decades-old strategy pushes U.S. to the brink.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/17/democrats-push-free-stuff-agenda-welfare-dependency-mass-immigration/
— Big cities are the face of the Democratic Party. Trump can make America safe again.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/17/big-cities-face-democratic-party/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Democrats Support the New Slavery. Illegal immigration is a horror show of exploitation and human misery. Yes, but RINOs are just as bad.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/democrats-support-the-new-slavery/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Hundreds of white karens protest against Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, D.C.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/hundreds_of_white_karens_protest_against_trump_s_crime_crackdown_in_washington_d_c.html
BREITBART
— Migrant Detention Center Opening in Texas Will Be Largest in History
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/17/video-migrant-detention-center-opening-in-texas-will-be-largest-in-history/
COLLEGE FIX
— University of Michigan Law Review sued for discrimination against white men. My critics/opponents use Affirmative Action and DEI to discriminate against White men like me who are conservative, Republican, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents. They rudely ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024. They rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. They rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015. They rudely ended my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012. They rudely ended my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004. They rudely ended my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007. They almost got ICRC to rudely censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. They rudely ended my bid to serve as the MTRO Treasurer in 2004.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/corrupt-and-illegal-umich-law-review-sued-for-alleged-discrimination-against-white-men/
DAILY CALLER
— Woke Banks Are Cancelling Americans – Here Is How They Should Fight Back
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/17/opinion-woke-banks-are-cancelling-americans-here-is-how-everyday-americans-should-fight-back-bob-rubin/
FOX NEWS
— Newsom lashes out at universities for agreeing to ‘sell their soul’ to Trump for federal funding
https://www.foxnews.com/media/newsom-lashes-out-universities-agreeing-sell-soul-trump-federal-funding
— Democrats ‘wielded the deep state’ to ‘undermine’ Trump. Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrats exist to destroy Republicans.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377021366112
— How many in America are loyal to Taylor Swift before anyone else? What does Swift think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-fbi-director-james-comey-confesses-hes-swiftie-new-anti-trump-video-message
— Far Left media calling Trump-Putin summit a ‘disaster’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377020886112
NEWS BUSTERS
— Legacy Newscasts OMIT Illegal Alien Trucker Causing Deadly Crash in FL
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/08/17/legacy-newscasts-omit-illegal-alien-trucker-causing-deadly-crash
TOWNHALL
— Newsom is running for President. We get it. No doubt about it.
https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2025/08/18/newsom-mandering-faces-major-headwinds-n2661956
— Don’t Do the Democrats’ Dirty Work. Politics is nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. I should write about them. They rudely ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024. They rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. They rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015. They rudely ended my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012. They rudely ended my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004. They rudely ended my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007. They almost got ICRC to rudely censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. They rudely ended my bid to serve as the MTRO Treasurer in 2004.
https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2025/08/18/dont-do-the-democrats-dirty-work-n2661945
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump tells Zelensky to give up Crimea and agree to never join NATO. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-ukraine-zelensky-russia-putin-08-18-25
UPI
— Trump declares that Kyiv would not be regaining Moscow-annexed Crimea, nor would it be allowed to join NATO. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/18/Trump-Ukraine-Crimea-NATO/8291755485345/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Is Pushing India Back Toward China. In WWIII, which countries will side with America? How many millions are in America who continue to side with their motherland? I am 100% German American. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/world/asia/india-china-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— U.S. ready to give Ukraine security guarantees when Trump meets Zelensky. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/17/trump-zelensky-meeting-europe/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/17/dc-arrests-violent-takedown-immigration/
— Eligible for asylum in Canada, stuck in ICE detention.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/18/canada-afghan-migrants-ice-detention/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Black mayors of cities claim that crime is down.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-08-17/black-mayors-of-cities-trump-decries-as-lawless-tout-significant-declines-in-violent-crimes
USA TODAY
— Ever-increasingly, Democrats side with their motherlands against America. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/17/oklahoma-requires-blue-state-teachers-america-first-curriculum/85510568007/
— Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RIO leaders destroy you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/17/gay-marriage-supreme-court-lgbtq-rights/85666114007/
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/palm-springs/2025/01/22/dei-meaning-dei-candidate-meaning-what-is-dei-hire-dei-hire-meaning-trump-executive-orders-ca/77879316007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2019/02/26/workplace-diversity-should-list-minority-status-job-application/2950883002/
— Cities hope to attract more police officers by cutting education requirements. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/10/police-jobs-college-requirements/85324780007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: $50,000 Signing Bonus, No Age Caps: The Blitz to Hire ICE Officers. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ice-recruitment-tactics-trump-d4bc32cf
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/50-000-signing-bonus-no-age-caps-the-blitz-to-hire-ice-officers/ar-AA1KFxxg
— How Rich Are the 1% of ‘The Gilded Age’ in 2025? How much is $300,000 really worth in 1883 New York?
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/the-gilded-age-rich-prices-today-2025-2c8f3b38
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/eeoc-commissioners-urge-caution-care-for-employers-dei-programs
FORTUNE
— Trump’s education reform hasn’t touched ‘affirmative action for the rich’: legacy admissions. What about legacy admissions when alumni are minority, female, LGBTQ, non-rich, and/or members of other marginalized/oppressed groups?
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/what-is-legacy-admissions-affirmative-action-for-the-rich-trump/
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://hbr.org/2013/06/is-your-firm-really-an-equal-o
SUSAN S. LEWIS, CPA
— How to Avoid the Illinois Estate Tax
https://www.lewis.cpa/blog/how-to-avoid-illinois-estate-tax
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While the government discusses the bill that will raise the estate tax exemption to $8 million, the Illinois estate tax, with rates up to 16 percent, still impacts estates that exceed the threshold of $4 million as of 2025. Effective estate planning can potentially lower the estate’s taxable burden and maximize the assets passed on to intended beneficiaries. It’s also important to consider the implications of federal estate taxes alongside the state tax. At Lewis.cpa, our experienced team can provide tailored advice and assistance with estate and trust tax preparation services to help you achieve your estate planning goals. Contact us if you want to know how to avoid the Illinois estate tax in your case. What Is the Illinois Estate Tax Rate? As of 2025, the Illinois estate tax applies to estates with values exceeding the $4 million exemption. The tax is assessed on a graduated scale, with rates escalating to 16 percent. The estate’s value over the exemption amount determines the precise estate tax liability using the most current tax rate table. Understanding these rates is essential for strategic estate planning, which can impact the structure of an estate and the amount of tax levied. For meticulous planning and execution, we recommend seeking the expertise of a tax professional or estate planning specialist who is up-to-date with the latest tax laws and rates. . .Please note that the marginal rates are applied incrementally, not to the entire estate’s value over the exemption amount. For instance, an estate valued at $5 million would not incur a flat 16 percent on the taxable amount. Instead, it would be taxed at varying rates according to each estate portion within the specified tax brackets.)
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat educators use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not admit Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican students.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/18/federal-district-judge-rules-against-trumps-anti-dei-orders
JD SUPRA
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/trump-revokes-executive-order-11246-8672003/
ATLANTIC
— According to my critics/opponents, a) those who share their demographics advance because of meritocracy and b) those who advance who do not share their demographics advance because they benefit from discrimination. My critics/opponents negatively stress that I am White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/
POLITICO
— The tech company stocking up on Democrats as Silicon Valley turns right. Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/sam-altman-chatgpt-california-00449492
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/08/17/trump-dc-takeover-protests-lawsuits
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/6/2337083/-Are-you-an-old-uneducated-racist-Join-the-ICE-gestapo-today
— Zelensky responds to Trump comments: “Russia must end” war it started. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/trump-russia-ukraine-zelensky-european-leaders-summit
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/trump-equal-employment-executive-order
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-dei-lbj-rollback
SALON
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/19/reverses-decades-of-civil-rights-advances/
GOOGLE AI
— Assessing reporter credibility. I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Reporter since 2000. My critics/opponents have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned my credibility. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or d) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000. Better yet, I should sue them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Assessing+reporter+credibility
August 16, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson seeing low (26%) approval rating in new poll. This is significant because the mainstream news media does everything that it can to drive up his approval rating.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-sees-low-approval-ratings-poll-university-mansueto-institute-urban-innovation/17550271/
WTTW
— Unions Rally at Jesse Brown VA Facility, Demand Trump Administration Restores Collective Bargaining Rights. The Democrats who ran GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had unionized earlier, I might still be a GAO employee.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/15/unions-rally-jesse-brown-va-facility-demand-trump-administration-restores-collective
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump’s tax law could cause Medicare cuts if Congress doesn’t act. I have been paying into Medicare since I was 35 years old in 1983.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/15/trump-tax-law-could-cause-medicare-cuts-if-congress-doesnt-act-cbo-says/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend their gerrymandering.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/15/texas-democrats-in-illinois/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/15/rental-assistance-program-restarts/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/16/illinois-snap-education-program-eliminated/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/15/ice-nyc-trump-immigration-crackdown/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/15/venezuela-brothers-donated-kidney/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Republican discord over Illinois Education Association support
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/08/15/republican-illinois-education-association-mccombie-curran-devore-rich-miller
DAILY HERALD
— Joining the fray: Candidates for governor, Senate lead GOP surge for state offices.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250816/news/joining-the-fray-candidates-for-governor-senate-lead-gop-surge-for-state-offices/
— DOJ demands Illinois hand over complete voter database, including sensitive redacted information
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250815/illinois/doj-demands-illinois-hand-over-complete-voter-database-including-sensitive-redacted-information/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Pritzker signs bill raising age for senior road tests
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250815/transportation/pritzker-signs-bill-raising-age-for-senior-road-tests/
— Former Kane County coroner Rob Russell announces bid for sheriff
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250815/local-politics/former-kane-county-coroner-rob-russell-announces-bid-for-sheriff/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot. To push pot is to push destruction.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250815/news/its-something-thats-here-now-once-banned-second-pot-shop-takes-root-in-arlington-heights/
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/15/trump-approval-rating-in-illinois-how-does-trump-approval-compare-to-previous-presidents/85676534007/
STATELINE
— Pritzker signed a new law Friday that guarantees undocumented students in Illinois have access to student financial aid.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/gov-pritzker-signs-illinois-law-granting-financial-aid-access-to-undocumented-students/
SHAW LOCAL
— According to Democrat leaders, ever-increasingly, everything in America is dependent on federal spending and should be.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/08/16/federal-cuts-to-weather-staff-put-illinois-emergency-alerts-at-risk/
WGLT
— Mayor Brady says Bloomington Police should not take part in events that promote illegal immigration
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-08-15/mayor-brady-says-bloomington-police-should-not-take-part-in-immigration-related-events
CITIES 92.9
— ‘Lawsuit inferno’ bill takes effect after Pritzker signed 267 measures Friday. All my critics/opponents have always sided big time with the defendants in the lawsuits that I filed. I should write about those lawsuits, the defendants, judges, justices, lawyers, and retaliation.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/08/15/illinois-quick-hits-lawsuit-inferno-bill-takes-effect-after-pritzker-signed-267-measures-friday/
SUBURBAN CHICAGOLAND
— Quigley slams Trump’s meeting on Ukraine with accused war criminal Putin. Putin invaded Ukraine while Biden was president. What do you say to those who blame Trump, and therefore blame me, for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine?
https://suburbanchicagoland.com/2025/08/15/congressmen-slam-president-trumps-meeting-on-ukraine-with-accused-war-criminal-putin/
ILLINOIS TIMES
— More work to be done’ as hiring reform signed into law. What helped you get hired? For my Post Office job, it included my passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. For my Firestone Store and IRS jobs, it included my earning a bachelor’s degree in management. For my IRS job, it included my passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination. For my GAO job, it included my having worked for IRS for almost 9 years, my earning an MBA, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and my almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/sen-turner-says-still-more-work-to-be-done-as-hiring-reform-signed-into-law-20589519
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-363/
— Pritzker vetoed an initiative by Treasurer Michael Frerichs today, citing the danger of SB246 being used to “benefit fringe and extremist groups.” My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were extremist groups, if not hate groups. I served as the ICRC Treasurer 2003-2007. I served as the TAPROOT Chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/15/frerichs-calls-pritzker-veto-misguided/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Vallas: Brandon Johnson’s War on the Black Community
https://johnkassnews.com/brandon-johnsons-war-on-the-black-community/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Anderson Goes after Double-Dippers. My critics/opponents are furious that I got both full-time Social Security credit and full-time Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) credit while I worked part-time for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. In my defense I paid into both Social Security (3.5%) and CSRS (7%). One of my Democrat GAO superiors was so furious that he got Congress to change the law so that my CSRS credit would have been pro-rated.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/15/anderson-goes-after-double-dippers/
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Bad Climate Policy Fuels Skyrocketing Electric Bills
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/08/bad-climate-policy-fuels-skyrocketing-electric-bills/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Government benefit system traps 710,000 Illinoisans. Benefit programs in Illinois punish people for hard work. An estimated 710,000 Illinoisans have intentionally held themselves back financially to avoid losing government benefits. Nearly 1 in 4 people on government assistance nationwide actively avoid career advancement to maintain eligibility for benefits turning down promotions, working fewer hours, declining job offers or avoiding building up savings.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/government-benefit-system-traps-710000-illinoisans/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Why blue-state cities are failing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3498963/why-blue-state-cities-are-failing/
— Jamie Dimon profits from trashing Trump’s economy
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/3500418/jamie-dimon-credit-cards-trump-economy-inflation/
NEW YORK POST
— Fresh proof the federal workforce is still stuck on #Resisting Trump. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they were ever-increasingly anti-Republican. They ever-increasingly punished me because they could not punish Republican elected officials. My Democrat GAO superiors especially punished me because Gingrich cut GAO’s budget dramatically. I should write about that.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/opinion/fresh-proof-the-federal-workforce-is-still-stuck-on-resisting-trump/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Studies have found support for Dems over GOPers running as high as 2-1 among the federal workforce, and far higher at certain agencies. Plus, Uncle Sam’s employees gave a whopping 84% of their donations last year to Kamala Harris, Government Executive found; 42% admitted plans to “resist” Trump, including 73% of Democratic managers, per the Napolitan Institute. Such #Resistance clearly hobbled Trump during his first term, weighing him down with probes, impeachments, insider leaks, and all manner of “creative noncompliance” with his policies. It’s outrageous. Federal workers take an oath to “faithfully discharge the duties” of their office — i.e., without bias against a president or policies they dislike. The system can’t function any other way.)
AMERICAN THINKER
— The illegals of D.C.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/the_illegals_of_d_c.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Newsom FUMES after ‘Trump’s private army’ arrests illegals outside his presser
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/15/newsom-fumes-after-trumps-private-army-arrests-illegals-outside-his-presser-1576408/
BREITBART
— Voluntary Departures Have Increased Since Alligator Alcatraz Opened
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/14/ron-desantis-voluntary-departures-increased-since-alligator-alcatraz-opened/
— Trump: 275,000 Illegal Aliens Removed from Social Security System. I collected delinquent Social Security taxes for IRS 1971-1980.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/15/trump-275000-illegal-aliens-removed-from-social-security-system/
CAMPUS REFORM
— New Trump memo closes affirmative action’s backdoor access into DEI infrastructure.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/analysis-new-trump-memo-closes-affirmative-actions-backdoor-access-dei-infrastructure-/28444
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Administration Ensuring Colleges Follow Supreme Court Ruling. Anticipate/expect that Democrats and RINOs will continue to use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/16/opinion-trump-administration-ensuring-colleges-follow-supreme-court-ruling-casey-ryan/
DAILY WIRE
— Judge Deals Major Blow To Trump’s Efforts To Purge DEI From Public Schools
https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-deals-major-blow-to-trumps-efforts-to-purge-dei-from-public-schools
EPOCH TIMES
— Key Takeaways From Trump–Putin Summit on Ukraine
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/key-takeaways-from-trump-putin-summit-on-ukraine-5901960
NEWS BUSTERS
— How Dare Anyone Question Wokeness at the Smithsonian Museums? My critics/opponents are woke, that is, they are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-those who have more money than they have, anti-draft avoiders, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those who do not share their national origin, and/or anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/08/15/column-how-dare-anyone-question-wokeness-smithsonian-museums
NEWSMAX
— Woke War on Young Men. Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/woke-war-young-men/2025/08/15/id/1222625/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump to deploy 4,000 Marines around Latin American waters to combat cartels. Democrats and RINOs promote recreational drugs, therefore, they promote cartels.
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-trump-to-deploy-4000-marines-around-latin-american-waters-to-combat-cartels-report
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Pritzker: Our Values Are Exactly Where They Ought To Be, It’s Time To Stop Apologizing When We Are Not Wrong. Democrats exist to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/pritzker-our-values-are-exactly-where-they-ought-to-be-it-s-time-to-stop-apologizing-when-we-are-not-wrong/ar-AA1KATCZ
TOWNHALL
— Democrats Nuancing Their Way to Irrelevancy
https://townhall.com/columnists/scotthogenson/2025/08/16/democrats-nuancing-their-way-to-irrelevancy-n2661900
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Trump says Putin agrees with him US should not have mail-in voting
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-putin-agrees-with-him-us-should-not-have-mail-in-voting-2025-08-16/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump administration agrees to keep DC police chief in place, but with immigration enforcement order
https://apnews.com/article/washington-dc-trump-federal-police-takeover-lawsuit-eacd387053520c9e3640c2f91924deeb
MSN
— America needs electricians, plumbers, not LGBTQ graduates
https://www.msn.com/en-in/autos/photos/need-electricians-plumbers-not-lgbtq-graduates-white-house-s-fresh-attack-at-harvard/ar-AA1FDqYg
— Naval Academy midshipmen going ‘underground’ to avoid Trump and Hegseth scrutiny. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I never hid the fact that I was conservative, Republican, draft avoider, Protestant, German American, and that my ancestors had been in America since 1844. Democrats despise/hate the aforesaid demographics. Democrats blame Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/naval-academy-midshipmen-going-underground-to-avoid-trump-and-hegseth-scrutiny/ar-AA1FpIKe
— Biden Admin Went On Trillion-Dollar Spending Spree Embedding DEI Across Gov’t. My critics/opponents have always promoted DEI, that is, they have always promoted discrimination if not hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-admin-went-on-trillion-dollar-spending-spree-embedding-dei-across-gov-t-study-says/ar-AA1ACrEq
— My ZIP Code 60189 in south Wheaton makes list of ‘hottest’ ZIP codes in US for real estate.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/chicago-suburb-makes-list-of-hottest-zip-codes-in-us-for-real-estate/ar-AA1KsQwZ
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally. Democrat leaders because illegals vote for Democrats and RINO leaders because RINO leaders want cheap labor.
https://www.newsweek.com/immigrant-benefits-health-care-changes-one-big-beautiful-bill-2113749
— Putin Takes Swipe At Biden, Says ‘No War’ if Trump Had Been President. What do you say to those who blame Trump, and therefore blame me, for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine?
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-takes-swipe-biden-2114362
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Cabinet Picks Panned in Washington. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my IRS manager (Dave) picked me for a high-profile developmental assignment when I was 25 years old in 1973. They stressed a) that I had worked for IRS for only 2 1/2 years, b) that I had completed only eight graduate business courses at Loyola, c) that I was not a Democrat, d) that I was not a veteran, and e) that I did not fill any Affirmative Action quotas, that is, I was a White male. They were even more furious when Dave promoted me to GS-12 in 1974 because of my performance on that assignment. My Democrat IRS superiors a) disallowed my travel vouchers, b) got rid of Dave, and c) made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/us/trump-cabinet-picks-voter-reactions.html
WASHINGTON POST
— New Air Force policy denies transgender troops hearings before they’re discharged. My Democrat GAO superiors gave me no hearing before they forced me take early retirement when I was 49 years old in 1997. If they had, I would have stressed a) my almost 18 years of experience working for GAO, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) my almost 9 years of experience working for IRS, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) my performance appraisals, d) my three job-related master’s degrees, e) my six job-related professional certifications, f) my job-related professional license, g) my being 6 years away from being eligible for regular retirement, and h) the tremendous reduction in my Civil Service Retirement benefits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/15/transgender-air-force-airmen-trump-discharge-dysphoria/23a94060-7a30-11f0-a013-3892e10b2f53_story.html
— The Washington Post exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/16/trump-washington-dc-police-takeover-crime/da862daa-7a55-11f0-a013-3892e10b2f53_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/15/rainbow-crosswalks-traffic-safety-florida/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Real House Democratic Nightmare. Democrats could lose 10 seats in 2030 as voters flee blue states.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-real-house-democratic-nightmare-3002f098
— Will the Democrats Go Centrist in the 2028 Election? Rahm Emanuel resists far-left ideas and says Democrats should run on ‘build, baby, build.’ From what I see, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly move their party further and further and further to the left.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/will-the-democrats-go-centrist-in-2028-politics-policy-elections-voters-a498edaa
— Why ‘The Gilded Age’ Resonates in 2025. My ancestors, especially on my father’s side, advanced the most during the gilded age.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-the-gilded-age-resonates-in-2025-c5c6aa20
— FRONT PAGE: America’s Mobility Is Stalling. How mobile were you? I moved from Crete to University Park in 1972, to downtown Chicago in 1976, and to Wheaton in 1978. I moved from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/american-job-housing-economic-dynamism-d56ef8fc
BLOOMBERG
— Bloomberg exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-15/what-trump-means-when-he-say-s-he-ll-clean-up-dc-citylab-daily
NPR
— D.C. AG accuses federal government of attempting a hostile takeover of city police
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/nx-s1-5503427/d-c-ag-accuses-federal-government-of-attempting-a-hostile-takeover-of-city-police
HARVARD CRIMSON
— More than 14,000 students, faculty, alumni, and members of the public signed a letter urging Harvard to reject any deal with the Trump administration that would sacrifice the University’s autonomy. What college(s) did you graduate from? What do the students, faculty, and alumni think of Trump? I graduated from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT. From what I see, they overwhelmingly disapprove of/hate Trump, and therefore, they overwhelmingly disapprove of/hate me.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/16/alumni-letter-trump-demands/
GOOGLE AI
— Electric vehicles. I bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger R/T Plus not because it is an EV, but a) because it is an American nameplate muscle car, b) because I am a big Charger fan; I own a 2013 Charger R/T Max and I previously owned a 1969 Charger SE and a 1968 Charger R/T, and c) because of its styling and performance. It being my first EV, it has focused my attention on EV pros and cons. If you share my interest in Chargers, please let me know.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22electric+vehicles%22+pros+cons
OTHER SOURCES
IRON GATE MOTOR CONDOS
— CARTOBERFEST!! Car/Condo Show Saturday, September 20, 2025. Today, Saturday, August 16, 2025, there is a friends and family event at Iron Gate. If you might be interested in attending, please let me know. I have owned a unit there since 2020.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1337892657162486/
August 11, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/10/letters-081025/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Higher education pays off in Illinois. Without my 1970 bachelor’s degree in management from NIU, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 and IRS in 1971. Without my taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Without my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, GAO would not have hired me in 1980. Without my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986. Without my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 and my earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors would have succeeded in forcing me to retire sooner than they did.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/higher-education-economic-mobility/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/06/immigrants-deportations-shrinking-health-care-workforce
NORTHWEST HERALD
— Which McHenry County offices are up next year and who’s running for reelection? Nominating petitions are circulating for the March 2026 primary election.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/08/10/which-mchenry-county-offices-are-up-next-year-and-whos-running-for-reelection/
HERALD REVIEW
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://herald-review.com/opinion/columnists/article_975e3036-fc97-549f-9b12-62ece3f00ee8.html
WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-judicial-picks/507-c6195acd-84c9-4ff9-8d62-3482e2d0f813
EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-illinois-texas-politics/
OAK LAWN PATCH
— Robert Cruz: IL-GOP on life support. Can the il-GOP swing the pendulum and compete. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders must focus on defending and advancing the Republican Party platform.
https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/il-gop-life-support
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/11/texas-dems-preach-defiance-in-chicago-00502628
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who is your Republican Precinct Committeeman (PC)? Is he/she running again? I am running again to be the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 Republican PC in Wheaton. Google AI’s overview of the Republican Precinct Committeeman position is at: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22precinct+committeeman%22+republican I was appointed as an Assistant PC in 1999 and then as a PC in 1999 to fill a vacancy. I was elected PC in 2000 and reelected every 2 years since. I served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010 and I served on all the MTRO fundraising committees 2000-2010. But those who continue to dominate MTRO a) rudely terminated as me as MTRO webmaster in 2004 and 2010, b) rudely defeated me when I ran for the open MTRO Treasurer office in 2004, c) rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, d) rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and e) rudely ended my Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee membership in 2024. They have never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer. They continue to demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being too conservative. They ever-increasingly blame me, blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, blame my serving as the Milton Township campaign coordinator for Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial campaign in 2002, blame my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership 2003-2007, blame my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship 2005-2012, and blame my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2012 for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They especially blame me for Jim Ryan losing to Blagojevich in 2002. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/10/sordid-history-gerrymandering/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump’s Full-Court Press on Immigration
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-full-court-press-on-immigration/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump cracks down on covert affirmative action with admissions transparency order
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-cracks-down-on-covert-affirmative-action-with-admissions-transparency-order/
DAILY WIRE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-gov-says-his-states-gerrymandering-is-ok-because-democracy
FEDERALIST
— Is Equal Outcome the Same as Equal Opportunity. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/disparate-impact-is-equal-outcome-the-same-as-equal-opportunity
FOX NEWS
— Vance calls on Republicans to take ‘decisive action’ to counter Democratic gerrymandering. Vance says Democrats benefit from illegal immigration through skewed census counts and gerrymandered maps.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jd-vance-calls-republicans-take-decisive-action-counter-democratic-gerrymandering
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376777340112
— Trump DOJ to fight ‘race-based gerrymandering.’ Illinois 3rd Congressional District is race-based gerrymandering.
https://www.aol.com/watch-trump-doj-fight-race-210941546.html
PJ MEDIA
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/10/the-left-is-trying-to-have-it-both-ways-on-gerrymandering-n4942582
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
— Illinois family battles state’s race-based scholarship. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.
https://pacificlegal.org/illinois-family-battles-states-race-based-scholarship/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Reince Priebus: The House Is Already Completely Gerrymandered — There Are What, 10 Competitive Seats Out Of 435?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/reince_priebus_the_house_is_already_completely_gerrymandered_–_there_are_what_10_competitive_seats_out_of_435.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/eric_holder_gop_gerrymandering_is_a_threat_to_our_democracy_dems_must_gerrymander_to_save_our_democracy.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The damaging effects of shifting from equal opportunity to ‘equal outcomes.’ My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/529262-the-damaging-effects-of-shifting-from-equal-opportunity-to-equal-outcomes/
MSN
— Since the 1960s, ever-increasingly, all those above me have been under ever-increasing pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, they have been under ever-increasing pressure to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-many-women-on-the-board-fewer-companies-are-saying/ar-AA1JTlM7
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Attacked California’s Congressional Maps. Republicans Want to Save Them. The independent body that redraws the state’s political maps isn’t perfect, many Republicans say. But they prefer that to the gerrymander that Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to offset one proposed in Texas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/california-redistricting-independent-commission.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/supreme-court-voting-redistricting.html
— Minimum Wage in L.A. Could Rise to $30 an Hour. In today’s dollars, I started earning $32.84/hour when I was 23 years old in 1972. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I had worked for IRS for 15 months and for Firestone Stores for 7 months before that. I had completed 3 graduate evening business courses at Loyola.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/minimum-wage-olympics-losangeles.html
— Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos. Young adults without jobs that provide insurance find that their options are limited and expensive. The problem is about to get worse. The federal government paying 72% of my health insurance helped withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/health/young-adults-health-insurance-26.html
— FRONT PAGE: The more that fight Trump, the more that Democrat leaders promote you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/politics/mayor-bass-los-angeles-raids.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Cannabis Poisonings Are Rising, Mostly Among Kids. As products like weed gummies proliferate, more children and teens are suffering symptoms including seizures and life-threatening breathing problems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/health/cannabis-poisoning-children.html
— Unions Push Democrats to Win Back Members Who Went to Trump. My critics/opponents despise/hate unions. I was a union member for almost 12 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/politics/democrats-labor-unions-nevada.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-school-choice-elections/
NEW YORK SUN
— Vance Assails 2020 Census as Flawed, Demands Complete Do-Over as Redistricting War Rages. Argument over mid-decade redistricting takes a new turn as the vice president declares U.S. Census Bureau made ‘major statistical error’ in 2020.
https://www.nysun.com/article/vance-assails-2020-census-as-flawed-demands-complete-do-over-as-redistricting-war-rages
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-texas-reopens-the-gerrymander-wars/20F020D8-3963-4D25-9BAB-9B28FFB903B9
— Equity, Equality, Fairness and Good Sense. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/equity-equality-fairness-and-good-sense-11612903580
— Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Solve U.S. Chip-Making Dilemma. Because Chevrolet suspended Malibu production in 2021 because of chip shortage, I bought one off the showroom floor instead of ordering one.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trumps-tariffs-wont-solve-u-s-chip-making-dilemma-c5aec29b
— Make Cars Beautiful Again. Congress quietly axed the fuel-economy standards that help drive the ugliness.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/make-cars-beautiful-again-design-auto-requirements-policy-e08fcfac
— FRONT PAGE: More Job Hunters Seek Pricey Help To Land New Roles. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they made it impossible for me to get a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hunting-expenses-resume-linkedin-887b4bd2
FORBES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2krf_LvgI1o
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/edi-meritocracy-why-hard-understand
AXIOS
— Which federal workers could lose protections under Trump order. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/28/trump-executive-order-federal-workforce
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/out-of-control-republicans-are-viciously-attacking-a-congresswoman-with-calls-to-deport-her/ar-AA1KcZAb
DAILY KOS
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/10/2337315/-Americans-hate-gerrymandering-Texas-Republicans-don-t-care
BUSINESS STANDARD
— How quota system looks across the globe. Around the world, quota systems in government jobs are employed as a tool to enhance the representation of historically marginalized or underrepresented groups. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.tbsnews.net/analysis/how-does-quota-system-look-across-globe-894951
August 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— ‘ICE Academy’ training materials for warrantless arrests challenged in Chicago court. I should write about the 6 months of training that IRS gave me in 1971 to be a GS-7 (currently $55,850/year) Revenue Officer. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=IRS+%22revenue+officer%22+training Democrats run IRS and Democrats run GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO In 1980 after working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit IRS. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/immigration-customs-enforcements-ice-academy-training-materials-warrantless-arrests-challenged-chicago-court/17476470/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While in the Chicago area Friday, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem touted her department is in the midst of a hiring surge, with more than 80,000 applications received in the past week. To meet the demand, Noem said training at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Academy that once took up to a year to complete could be hastened to a matter of weeks, if the applicant has the relevant training and experience. The ABC7 I-Team had a rare look at some of the ICE Academy training materials for new agents that immigrant rights advocates say is concerning and their lawyers argue is illegal.)
— Trump offers $50M for Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro arrest. The Trump administration accused Maduro of being one of the world’s largest narco-traffickers.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-offers-50m-venezuela-president-nicols-maduro-arrest-accuses-being-worlds-largest-narco-traffickers/17474129/
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Because Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot, it is fair to ask them if they use pot and if they say yes, how much, and if they say no, why not.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/loan-applications-for-all-cannabis-social-equity-licensees-set-to-open-august-11th-85158.cfm
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who wants to be the next chairman of the Illinois Republican Party? Leading a political organization is a thankless job. I served as an officer of the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) 2003-2007 and as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. My critics/opponents ever-increasingly blamed ICRC and TAPROOT for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct suffered. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes not only end my aforesaid roles, they destroyed the aforesaid organizations. I should write about my critics/opponents. They demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being too conservative. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois. They have always been Democrat plants who have always done everything they could to destroy Republicans, and sooner or later, they will proudly proclaim that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASINGTON TIMES
— Trump hunts for colleges still using race in student selection. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But because of my bad demographics, I doubt that they would admit me today.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/8/trump-orders-colleges-prove-ended-race-based-admissions/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Indiana goes all-in to help ICE arrest, detain, and deport illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3495104/indiana-helps-ice-deport-illegal-immigrants-speedway-slammer/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Great Gerrymandering War Of 2025
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_great_gerrymandering_war_of_2025.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Adam Schiff says quiet part out loud about Dems needing illegals to win. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/08/adam-schiff-says-quiet-part-out-loud-about-dems-needing-illegals-to-win-1574766/
BREITBART
— Catholic Bishops Compare ICE Deportations to Nazis and Slave Catchers. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success invading, infiltrating, infesting, and conquering religion.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2025/08/08/catholic-bishops-compare-ice-deportations-to-nazis-and-slave-catchers/
— Andrew Cuomo Calls on Socialist Zohran Mamdani to ‘Move Out’ of His Rent Stabilized Apartment. The only rent that I have ever paid was while I was a student at NIU 1969-1970.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/08/andrew-cuomo-calls-on-socialist-zohran-mamdani-to-move-out-of-his-rent-stabilized-apartment/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump orders more oversight of federal grants after funds went to drag shows, DEI
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-orders-more-oversight-of-federal-grants-after-funds-went-to-drag-shows-dei/
CREATORS SYNDICATE
— There Are 50 Million Illegal Aliens in the USA. We Can and Must Deport Them All. Here Are the Top 10 Ways for President Trump To Make It Happen Efficiently and Quickly.
https://www.creators.com/read/wayne-allyn-root/08/25/there-are-50-million-illegal-aliens-in-the-usa-we-can-and-must-deport-them-all-here-are-the-top-10-ways-for-president-trump-to-make-it-happen-efficiently-and-quickly
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Moves To Keep Leftists From Pilfering Tax Dollars For Radical Agendas
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/08/trump-move-liberals-left-pilfering-tax-dollars-radical-agendas/
DAILY SIGNAL
— DEI Will Implode. Here’s Why. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used DEI the most to destroy me. I would focus on a) my Democrat superiors in the federal government and b) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party; Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois; Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers; conservative leaders; and religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/08/how-trump-broke-the-dei-machine/
— The DEI Scam is Falling Apart, and Trump Broke It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lh2dQrU1kA
FEDERALIST
— Education Dept. Demands Receipts From Universities That Do Affirmative Action Under The Table. Democrats and RINOs have always crowed about their giving preference to those who are Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/education-dept-demands-receipts-from-universities-that-do-affirmative-action-under-the-table/
— Trump Order Targets Self-Appointed ‘Experts’ Funneling Tax Dollars To Leftist Pet Projects
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/trump-order-targets-self-appointed-experts-funneling-tax-dollars-to-leftist-pet-projects/
ICE
— ICE Houston arrests more than 350 gang members in past 6 months who illegally entered US over 1,400 times, been convicted of nearly 1,700 criminal offenses. Among those arrested were convicted murderers, child predators, thieves, and arsonists and an alien who illegally entered the US 40 times.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-houston-arrests-more-350-gang-members-past-6-months-who-illegally-entered-us-over
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— To promote wokeness is to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/can-wokeness-be-defeated/amp/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Gerrymandering Wars Have Begun. Threats have been exchanged, and now we wait until someone pulls the trigger.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/08/begun-the-gerrymandering-wars-have/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot. The more pot that you use, the less that you accomplish in life. If I had used pot, I would not have been able a) to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) to earn six professional certifications, or c) to earn a professional license. If I had used pot, a) the Post Office would not have hired me in 1966, b) Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970, c) IRS would not have hired me in 1971 or promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, and d) GAO would not have hired me in 1980 or promoted me in 1986. If I had used pot, would not have been able to get married in 1978.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/trump-marijuana-reclassify-dea
NEWSWEEK
— Redistricting Wars: Map Shows How Many Seats Could Change Before Midterms
https://www.newsweek.com/redistricting-map-midterm-election-2026-gerrymandering-republicans-democrats-states-2110170
MSN
— ‘Worrying time for Irish in US’ as Trump makes good on illegals promise
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/worrying-time-for-irish-in-us-as-trump-makes-good-on-illegals-promise/ar-AA1Jq43p
MSNBC
— Why the Air Force is denying early retirement for longtime transgender service members. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/air-force-denying-early-retirement-longtime-transgender-service-member-rcna223839
NBC NEWS
— Air Force revokes approved retirement for trans service members. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/air-force-revokes-approved-retirement-trans-service-members-complete-u-rcna223876
NEW YORK TIMES
— Air Force Denies Early Retirement for Transgender Men and Women. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/politics/air-force-transgender-service-members-early-retirement.html
— More Turmoil at I.R.S. as Trump Ends Chief’s Short Tenure. Democrats run IRS. While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980, they were ever-increasingly angry against Nixon and Ford. They took their ever-increasing anger against Nixon and Ford out against me, one of their very few Republican employees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/politics/trump-billy-long-irs-commissioner.html
— Mexico ever-increasingly makes it clear that it is anti-American. Will Mexico side with America’s enemies in WWIII?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/world/americas/mexico-trump-military-cartels.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration weighs military actions against drug cartels
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/08/trump-mexico-pentagon-drug-cartels/
NEW YORK SUN
— Trump’s New Census Could Spell Trouble for Democrats, Like Ocasio-Cortez and Jeffries, in Districts With Many Non-Citizens. The number of blue state members of Congress is swelled by the constitutional requirement that the decennial census include an ‘actual enumeration’ of the population. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army. During their First Civil War, Democrats failed to get foreign countries to join them. But Democrats are succeeding during their Second Civil War.
https://www.nysun.com/article/trumps-new-census-could-spell-trouble-for-democrats-like-ocasio-cortez-and-jeffries-in-districts-with-many-non-citizens
— Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collapses Under Weight of Its Own Paradoxes, Even Before President Trump’s Order Banning It. Half of all Americans no longer approve of racial and gender preferences. My critics/opponents have always promoted race and gender based preference giving. I should write about my critics/opponents and the reasons why they promote race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.nysun.com/article/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-collapses-under-weight-of-its-own-paradoxes-even-before-president-trumps-order-banning-it
USA TODAY
— From Bibles to prayer groups: What Trump’s new religion memo for federal workers means. The memo provides guidance on religious expression for federal workers. Backers say it mirrors Clinton-era policies. But to others, the overtly Christian language raises First Amendment concerns. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, virtually none of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Protestant and none that knew of were Missouri Synod Lutheran like me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/07/trump-religion-federal-employees/85516547007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Is Right on ‘Debanking’ Regulators have abused their power to cut off political opponents. What does your bank think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-debanking-executive-order-bank-examiners-biden-obama-operation-choke-point-8396e49d
— How the West Was Really Won. If I had ever ran for a government office, my opponent would have used against me that all my ancestors immigrated from what is now German during the 1840s and 1850s, that on my father’s side they homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete township, and that on my mother’s side, they sharecropped 180-acre farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-undiscovered-country-review-into-the-west-13866720
— Trump Takes a Destructive Turn Against India. He has a point about New Delhi’s relationship with Russia, but 50% tariffs are a counterproductive policy. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-takes-a-destructive-turn-against-india-tariffs-d77a2a79
— Living in Zohran Mamdani’s America. How did socialism rise from the dead, and what can freedom-loving Americans do about it? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. According to Democrat leaders, you cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance, and especially if you are a minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or if your ancestors have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/living-in-zohran-mamdanis-america-44ea8b90
— Gerrymandering Is Deepening America’s Political Divide. Less than 20% of Americans live in a state where the minority party has a meaningful voice in governance. In Illinois, ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the less voice that you have in governance: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly I have no voice in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton Warrenville School District 200.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/us-gerrymandering-political-divide-a2a83a28
ATLANTIC
— Democrats cannot win without massive gerrymandering.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/lawlessness-fbi-against-texas-democrats/683804/
BRITANNICA
— American Civil War – Emancipation, Slavery, Union. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army. During their First Civil War, Democrats failed to get foreign countries to join them. But Democrats are succeeding during their Second Civil War.
https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War/The-Emancipation-Proclamation
GOOGLE AI
— Peers play a significant role in an individual’s life, influencing success, happiness, and overall well-being. I should write about the impact that my childhood peers had on me. I would focus on my childhood friends and classmates. Further, because one could argue that the most relevant criteria to use to measure one’s success in life is the success of one’s peers, I would focus on the successes that my childhood peers have had.
https://www.google.com/search?q=peers+success+life
— Living on one paycheck. Since I got married when I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have always been furious that my wife and I have always lived on just one of our paychecks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who are not married, b) whose spouse has little or no income, and/or c) who decry the tremendous amount of time and money needed to raise children. Initially, my wife and I lived on just one of our paychecks because we intended to have children. But because we gave up trying to have children because of our fertility problems, we then lived on just one of our paychecks to save more for our retirement.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22living+on+one+paycheck%22
August 5, 2025 Evening Edition
According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.” Can/will Pritzker further gerrymander Illinois so that no congressional district in Illinois is Republican?
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket. Can/will Pritzker further gerrymander Illinois so that no congressional districts in Illinois are Republican?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/05/democrats-vow-whatever-it-takes-redistricting-battle/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker says Illinois remap is possible as DNC chair vows to fight Texas GOP efforts ‘tooth and nail.’ Democrats in New York, California and Illinois are threatening to redraw their own maps in retaliation to Republican redistricting efforts in Texas. Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket. Can/will Pritzker further gerrymander Illinois so that no congressional district in Illinois is Republican?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/08/05/jb-pritzker-illinois-remap-texas-democrats-greg-abbott
— Chicago Abortion Fund to receive $2 million grant from Cook County. The grant aims to lower barriers to abortion access and provide wraparound services like childcare, transportation and lodging. Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/abortion/2025/08/05/chicago-abortion-fund-to-receive-2-million-grant-from-cook-county
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/04/chicago-immigration-judges-fired-trump-white-house-dick-durbin
DAILY HERALD
— Pritzker says redistricting in Illinois a possibility if Texas goes ahead with remap. Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket. Can/will Pritzker further gerrymander Illinois so that no congressional districts in Illinois are Republican?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250805/news/pritzker-says-mid-term-redistricting-in-illinois-a-possibility-if-texas-goes-ahead-with-remap/
ABC7
— Pritzker, DNC chair praise Texas Dems in Illinois as Gov. Abbott calls for their arrest. Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-remain-illinois-halt-gop-redistricting-governor-greg-abbott-orders-arrest/17438511/
NBC5
— According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/what-is-gerrymandering-what-do-illinois-congressional-districts-look-like-what-to-know/3804655/
— Texas redistricting fight leads some to question Illinois’ maps. As Illinois Democrats support Texas lawmakers leaving the state, some Republicans are questioning the Land of Lincoln’s maps. Charlie Wojciechowski explains why.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/video-texas-redistricting-fight-leads-some-to-question-illinois-maps/3805146/
CBS2
— Attorney General Kwame Raoul warns Texas politicians that police can’t just come to Illinois to arrest Democrats. Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/kwame-raoul-warns-texas-democrats-illinois-arrest/
WGN9
— According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.”
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/are-illinois-democrats-guilty-of-hypocrisy-in-texas-map-battle/
WGN RADIO
— DuPage County to open new crisis center for mental health and substance use care
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/dupage-county-to-open-new-crisis-center-for-mental-health-and-substance-use-care/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Pritzker calls Trump a ‘cheater’ as he rallies with Texas Democrats. Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/08/05/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-rallies-with-texas-democrats-in-chicago/85523370007/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— The VA wants to end coverage of abortion for US military veterans
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-trump-administration-wants-to-end-abortion-coverage-through-veterans-affairs/
ILLINOIS PATCH
— The Department of Justice has named Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois among a list of sanctuary jurisdictions that have “policies, laws, or regulations that impede enforcement of federal immigration laws.”
https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/il-named-sanctuary-jurisduction-doj
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-355/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CONTRAIRIAN
— Johnson Doubles Down on Chicago’s Financial Death Spiral
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/johnson-chicago-financial-death-spiral
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Squad’ member Rep. Delia Ramirez puts America second at gathering in Mexico City. Illinois native’s GOP colleague calls for her deportation.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/5/squad-member-rep-delia-ramirez-puts-america-second-leftist-gathering/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Rep. Delia Ramirez took the stage at a leftist conference in Mexico City over the weekend and declared that she was more proud of her Guatemalan heritage than her American citizenship. The Illinois Democrat, who attended the Panamerican Congress with fellow members of the House’s left-wing “Squad,” told the crowd in Spanish that she was “a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.” In the U.S., her remarks were met with questions about her allegiance to the voters who elected her and calls for her to be deported. “These Democrats’ comments are despicable and underscore their commitment to putting Americans last,” White House spokesperson Liz Huston said in a statement. “In stark contrast, President Trump is working tirelessly to secure peace deals, deport illegal alien criminals and advance America’s interests at home and abroad.” Ms. Ramirez has seldom been in the political spotlight. She has described herself as the “daughter of working-class Guatemalan immigrants.” She also has boasted that she is the only lawmaker in Congress “in a mixed-status family.” Her husband, Boris, is a Dreamer, or someone brought to the U.S. illegally as a child. Other House Democrats attending the Panamerican Congress, a gathering of leftist politicians from throughout the Americas, included Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Jesus G. Garcia of Illinois. The Panamerican Congress concluded with pronouncements condemning the U.S. persecution of migrants and Israel’s aggression in the Gaza Strip. Ms. Ramirez’s speech garnered the most attention in the U.S. Rep. Andrew Ogles, Tennessee Republican, wrote in a post on X: “Denaturalize, deport, and kick her off the Homeland Committee. We know where her allegiances lie.” Rep. Claudia Tenney, New York Republican, said it’s “embarrassing” that the Democratic Party “no longer even pretends to put America first.” Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative Turning Point USA, said, “Any person who values any other country over America does not belong in Congress. Period.” Ms. Ramirez doubled down on her Mexico City speech with a post Monday on social media. “Honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens my commitment to America. That is the truth I carry with me always. And it is a truth that many Americans carry with them,” she said. “Anyone who denies our claims on this country simply because we dare to honor our diverse heritage and immigrant roots only exposes how fragile and small-minded their own idea of America really is.” She called the attacks on her “a weak attempt to silence my dissent and invalidate my patriotic criticism of the nativist, white supremacist, authoritarians in government.” “It is the definition of hypocrisy that members of Congress — who betray their oath each day they enable Trump — are attacking me for celebrating my Guatemalan-American roots,” Ms. Ramirez said. The Department of Homeland Security responded to Ms. Ramirez with a quote from former President Theodore Roosevelt: “There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. … Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.” Other Squad members have experienced travails similar to Ms. Ramirez’s. Ms. Omar, an immigrant from Somalia, was criticized last year after she said that, according to one translation, she was serving in Congress to “protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system.” She later said the widely shared translation was wrong and she was actually saying she was advocating for the U.S. to take a particular position in a dispute between Somalia and Ethiopia. Democrats are showing increasing hostility to Mr. Trump and, by extension, the government he controls, particularly concerning immigration. In New Jersey, Rep. LaMonica McIver faces federal charges after a clash with Homeland Security Department agents at a migrant detention facility. The Democrat was captured on video throwing elbows at officers amid a scuffle over whether a local mayor should be allowed access to the detention center. In Mexico City, Ms. Ramirez and her Democratic colleagues were attending the second annual Panamerican Congress. The event is billed as a gathering of delegates from countries “across the hemisphere with an ambitious agenda that ranges from equality to prosperity, solidarity to sovereignty.” Event attendees criticized U.S. immigration policy under Mr. Trump. Gerardo Fernandez Norona, president of the Mexican Senate, talked about the “persecution of migrants in the United States.” He called it “unjust, infamous and incorrect persecution where just for being a migrant, and just for your skin color or nationality, you are persecuted.”)
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The Justice Department has published a list of cities, counties, and states that identify as “sanctuary” zones or places where law enforcement will not turn over illegal immigrants to federal immigration authorities. Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago are included.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3491161/justice-department-sanctuary-cities-states-list-eradicate/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrats howling at Texas redistrict push should take a look in the mirror. Let’s take a tour of the 13th congressional district in Illinois.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/opinion/dems-furious-at-texas-redistricting-need-to-look-in-the-mirror/
FEDERALIST
— UNACCEPTABLE: Homeland Security Committee Member Delia Ramírez Says She’s Loyal To A Different Homeland
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/05/homeland-security-committee-member-says-shes-loyal-to-a-different-homeland/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The founders knew our republic could not survive if its people — let alone leaders — were filled with foreign attachments. Forty-two years ago, a pregnant Guatemalan woman illegally crossed the Rio Grande River and gave birth to a baby who now has “birthright” citizenship. Today, that child sits in Congress — proudly declaring her allegiance to the country her mother left behind. This is the predictable result of a broken immigration system — one that has allowed the mass importation of both legal and illegal aliens regardless of their capacity or willingness to assimilate into the country. “I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American,” Illinois Democrat Rep. Delia Ramírez said in Spanish during the opening remarks of the second annual Panamerican Congress in Mexico City. Notably, she sits on the House Homeland Security Committee — a committee dedicated to protecting the homeland.)
FOX NEWS
— Bondi DOJ names and shames 35 sanctuary jurisdictions that ‘put American citizens at risk.’ Attorney General Pam Bondi warns of possible legal action against jurisdictions with uncooperative immigration policies. Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago are included.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bondi-doj-names-shames-35-sanctuary-cities-put-american-citizens-risk
NEWSMAX
— DOJ Releases List of Sanctuary Jurisdictions. Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago are included.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/doj-sanctuary-cities-illegal-migrants/2025/08/05/id/1221332/
— Illegals in Sanctuary Cities are ‘Ticking Time Bombs’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/john-torres-ice-migrants/2025/08/05/id/1221316/
— Trump Vows to Work With US Farmers on Migrant Labor
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-migrants-farm-labor/2025/08/05/id/1221333/
TOWNHALL
— Democrat Congresswoman Says She’s More Proud to Be Guatemalan Than American
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/08/05/delia-ramirez-n2661419
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-bondi-russia-texas-gerrymander-tariffs-immigration-live-updates-rcna222681
— DNC chair says Texas redistricting will be fought with ‘every option on the table.’ Democrat leaders put more of their eggs in their gerrymander basket.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/texas-democrats-in-illinois-and-party-leaders-rebuke-redistricting-244382277885
WASHINGTON POST
— According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/trump-presidency-news/
NEW YORK SUN
— JP Morgan Once Told Donald Trump He Has 20 Days To Get Out. The president is going to prevent this kind of debanking with an executive order that will punish firms that discriminate against conservatives — or any other groups.
https://www.nysun.com/article/jp-morgan-once-told-donald-trump-he-has-20-days-to-get-out
WGME
— According to the WSJ, “Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.”
https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/illinois-and-texas-democrats-unite-in-chicago-to-oppose-texas-redistricting-plan-republican-party-governor-greg-abbott-trump-administration
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot. Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/pritzkers-illinois-temporary-home-to-texas-democrats-is-gerrymandering-hot-spot-1c00cbd0
— Justice Department Slashes List of Sanctuary Jurisdictions to Target. The Trump administration removed a much longer list months ago after some local officials said it contained errors.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/justice-department-slashes-list-of-sanctuary-jurisdictions-to-target-03881cb1
— White House Preps Order to Punish Banks That Discriminate Against Conservatives
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/white-house-preps-order-to-punish-banks-that-discriminate-against-conservatives-8af18854
— Trump’s Firing of BLS Chief Prompts Democrats to Propose Bill Protecting Stats-Agency Heads. It would have been great if Republicans had protected Republican federal employees like me.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/democratic-congressmen-to-propose-bill-to-protect-stats-agency-chiefs-51915619
GUARDIAN
— Trump says Republicans are ‘entitled’ to five more congressional seats in Texas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/texas-republicans-redistricting-maps-trump
GOOGLE AI
— Muscle car definition. A muscle car is generally defined as a high-performance, American-made, two-door coupe or convertible, typically with a powerful V8 engine, designed for straight-line speed and acceleration. They are known for their bold, aggressive styling.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22muscle+car%22+definition
August 4, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Gov. Abbott orders arrests of Texas Democrats who fled to Illinois to halt GOP redistricting plan
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-plan-staying-illinois-2-weeks-halt-redistricting-gov-greg-abbott-threatens-loss-seats/17426930/
NBC5
— Illinois officials face pushback over Texas gerrymandering criticisms. Critics say Illinois’ maps are just as gerrymandered as Texas’ would be under a proposed law that has sparked controversy.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-officials-face-pushback-over-texas-gerrymandering-criticisms/3804336/
— Rep. Darin LaHood won’t run for Illinois governor, he says. LaHood also revealed he would not run for U.S. Senate.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/rep-darin-lahood-wont-run-for-illinois-governor-he-says/3804440/
— Redistricting clash escalates in Texas after Democrats scatter
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-trade-tariff-texas-redistricting-august-04-2025-live-updates/3804074/
CBS2
— Pritzker says redrawing Illinois district map “on the table” in response to Texas redistricting push
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pritzker-illinois-district-map-texas-democrats/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Tesla awards CEO Musk millions of shares valued at about $29 billion
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/tesla-elon-musk-share/
— Democrats prevent Texas House from moving forward with Trump-backed congressional map
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/texas-house-congressional-map/
— Why dozens of Democrats left Texas and how Republicans want to punish them
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/democrats-texas-republicans/
— Texas Democrats who fled to Chicago to deny GOP’s congressional redistricting effort speak out
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/watch-live-texas-democrats/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Public Schools needs $1.6 billion more from the state to provide an adequate education
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/08/04/chicago-public-schools-budget-deficit
— Pritzker’s signature on police pension bill adds pressure for state bailout and city property tax hike. The bill will cost the city $60 million more in 2027, and by 2055, city pension payments will be $750 million higher than they are now. It adds one more big pressure point onto Mayor Brandon Johnson, who already has said he won’t raise property taxes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/08/04/jb-pritzker-police-pension-bill-brandon-johnson-pressure-chicago-budget-state-bailout
DAILY HERALD
— Former GOP official Porter won’t run for Durbin’s Senate seat
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250804/us-congress-politics/gop-official-porter-wont-run-for-durbins-senate-seat/
— ‘We will hide them at our own legal peril’: DuPage Democratic leader pledges to protect Texan lawmakers
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250804/nation-and-world-politics/we-will-hide-them-at-our-own-legal-peril-dupage-democratic-leader-pledges-to-protect-texan-lawmak/
— Geneva woman Jessica Breugelmans running for Republican nomination for state Senate
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250804/news/geneva-woman-running-for-republican-nomination-for-state-senate/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push Blacks to be pot pushers.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/how-black-owned-label-can-help-grow-cannabis-brands-oped
WAND TV
— New DPS policies target students and visitors smelling of marijuana, other ‘distracting’ odors
https://www.wandtv.com/news/education/new-dps-policies-target-students-and-visitors-smelling-of-marijuana-other-distracting-odors/article_3450f262-c6fa-41ce-963a-452589331826.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Ahead of the new school year, Decatur Public Schools updated its district policies to emphasize banning marijuana and other “offensive” odors in its facilities. A DPS flyer said that students who come to school smelling like marijuana or other “distracting” odors will be instructed to call home for a change of clothes, or be picked up to change. Visitors who smell of marijuana or other “distracting” odors will be asked to leave the premises. The district justified the changes by saying that marijuana has an odor that causes/triggers allergic reactions, affecting indoor air quality and putting others at risk of getting sick. The district added that marijuana potentially has cancer-causing chemicals that put students, staff and others at risk. That policy went into effect July 1. According to the DPS 61 student code of conduct and parent handbook, those who use marijuana for medical purposes must provide a medical card upon request.)
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-08-04/professors-calling-for-northwestern-leaders-to-stand-up-to-the-trump-administration-first-listen
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-354/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Top Illinois GOP Donors Sit Out Upcoming Primary
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/sources-top-illinois-gop-donors-sit-out-upcoming-primary.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Gov. Pritzker to Fight Gerrymandering with… More Gerrymandering?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/08/gov-pritzker-to-fight-gerrymandering-with-more-gerrymandering/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Firing the government’s statically incompetent statisticians. Isn’t it about time? Of course, my Democrat superiors in the federal government hinted/implied/argued that they wasted my career, took adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire because I was incompetent. It is called pretext. But they were frustrated a) by my earning a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) by my passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, c) by my earning four more job-related professional certifications, and d) by my earning a job-related professional license.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/4/firing-governments-statically-incompetent-statisticians/
— Not sorry for immigration enforcement. Without borders, we have no country.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/4/sorry-sorry-immigration-enforcement/
TOWNHALL
— Texas House Approves Arrest Warrants for Democrats Who Fled to Illinois to Block Redistricting Vote
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/08/04/texas-house-approves-arrest-warrants-for-democrats-who-fled-to-illinois-to-block-redistricting-vote-n2661402
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Pritzker says Texas Democrats who fled state will be protected amid arrest threats
https://thehill.com/homenews/5434627-redistricting-battle-texas-illinois/
— Redistricting fights explode across US
https://thehill.com/newsletters/evening-report/5435411-texas-redistricting-political-war/
CBS NEWS
— State Department may require some travelers to post $15,000 bond for business or tourism visas
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-department-visa-bond-pilot-program/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Will Slow, but May Not Stop, the Rise of Electric Vehicles
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-electric-vehicles.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump moves to bar nearly all abortions at Veterans Affairs hospitals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/04/veterans-va-abortion-trump/
— Democrats are becoming a) more liberal, b) bigger advocates of mass/illegal immigration, and c) less proud to be American.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/04/democratic-party-change-under-trump-polls/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats are ever-increasingly becoming more anti-car, anti-American nameplate car, and anti-American nameplate muscle car.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/americas-love-affair-with-the-car-has-soured-over-money-4b73670f
— China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/china-western-defense-industry-critical-minerals-3971ec51
BUSINESS INSIDER
— What does our choice of vehicle reveal about our political preferences?
https://www.businessinsider.com/car-models-owned-by-republicans-democrats-american-politics-jeep-2024-10
CAR BUZZ
— 10 Muscle Cars That Prove America Does It Best. Cars I used to own include a 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS, 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint (a poor man’s GTO), 1968 Oldsmobile 442, 1968 Dodge Charger R/T, and 1969 Dodge Charger SE. Cars I currently own include a 1972 and 2005 Chevrolet Corvette, 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX, 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, and 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus. Please let me know if you share my interest in any of the aforesaid cars.
https://carbuzz.com/10-muscle-cars-showing-america-does-it-best/
GOOGLE AI
— Republican politicians and car choices
https://www.google.com/search?q=Republican+politicians+and+car+choices
August 4, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Texas Democrats plan on staying in Illinois for 2 weeks to halt redistricting
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-plan-staying-illinois-2-weeks-halt-redistricting-gov-greg-abbott-threatens-loss-seats/17426930/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: As political petition passing begins, Illinois Democrats have flood of candidates; Republicans have a trickle. Democrat and RINO leaders and their mainstream news media ever-increasingly treat the anti-conservative anti-Republican anti-Trump Pat Brady as being the spokesperson for the Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/petition-passing-starts-for-2026-election/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: So far, no major GOP candidates have emerged for U.S. Senate or most of the statewide offices. Democrats Gov. JB Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and Treasurer Mike Frerichs are all seeking reelection. DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick is the only announced candidate for governor of any political stature, and he reported July 1 having only $100,000 in cash on hand in his political fund to take on the billionaire Pritzker. Others are said to be weighing a bid, including former state GOP Chair Don Tracy, Palatine Township Highway Commissioner Aaron Del Mar and Ted Dabrowski, president of the conservative advocacy group Wirepoints. On Sunday, Richard Porter, an attorney and former Republican national committeeman from Illinois, used social media to announce he would not seek the GOP nomination for Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat. “After close consultations with my family and friends, I have decided not to pursue this opportunity,” Porter wrote in a Facebook post. “I intend to stay involved in the effort to turn around Illinois.” Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair on Aug. 14 may prove to be an important event for the party, depending upon whether potential candidates use the day to announce a decision to run.)
— Adding $11 billion to Chicago’s liabilities was a decision that lacked courage, Gov. Pritzker. Alas, the Governor just dug Chicago’s fiscal hole far deeper.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/editorial-jb-pritzker-police-fire-pensions-chicago/
— How postsecondary opportunities for students are changing for the better. My father often decried that he did not get promotions because he did not have a bachelor’s degree. That motivated me to earn not only a job-related bachelor’s degree, but three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/opinion-postsecondary-degree-programs-states/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Americans are losing faith in higher education. Nearly half of adults believe a college degree is less important to get a well-paying job than it was 20 years ago, and only a quarter believe a four-year degree is a very important part of getting a job that pays well. The question of value is front and center for policymakers across the country and in Washington.)
ILLINOIZE
— Top Republicans Critical of Illinois GOP Recruitment. According to reports, Richard Porter has decided to not run for U.S. Senate. My critics/opponents stress that the following have never recruited me to run for any office: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. According to the aforesaid, I am “too conservative.”
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/top-republicans-critical-gop-recruitment
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Republican Richard Porter has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Dick Durbin, according to his social media post to friends. “I intend to stay involved in the effort to turn around Illinois.” Here’s his post
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000198-7386-d0d9-a7be-f396cc9b0000
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago homicides lowest in decade, but so is arrest rate
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-homicides-lowest-in-decade-but-so-is-arrest-rate/
WIREPOINTS
— The whopping lie behind huge, new pension liability imposed by Springfield on Chicago
https://wirepoints.org/the-whopping-lie-behind-huge-new-pension-liability-imposed-by-springfield-on-chicago-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Legal group accuses Rutgers University of discrimination against white students in granting scholarships. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrating me, and condemned me for my not getting any scholarships, for my getting an ACT score of only 24, for my only just barely getting into the top 20% of my high school class, for my having to work my way through college, for my not getting a degree from an Ivy League university, etc.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/us-news/legal-group-accuses-rutgers-u-of-discrimination-against-white-students/
BREITBART
— Boston Democrats Opened Housing to Illegals Who Can’t Pay the Rent. Illegals illegally come to America illegally because Democrat and RINO leaders illegally invite them. Illegals come to America with nothing. That is, they come to America needing/wanting/demanding that America provide them with everything including housing, food, clothing, medical care, education, transportation, jobs, etc. Needless-to-say, Democrat and RINO leaders should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/03/boston-democrats-opened-housing-to-migrants-who-cant-pay-the-rent/
EPOCH TIMES
— Texas Democrats Leave the State to Prevent Redistricting Vote. The exodus could expose the Lone Star State lawmakers to fines, and other penalties—including the possibility of arrest.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-democrats-leave-the-state-to-prevent-redistricting-vote-5896083
NEWSMAX
— Texas Dems Arrive in Illinois to Block Trump’s Redistricting Maps
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/texas-democrats-leave-state-congressional-map-vote/2025/08/04/id/1221138/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Leftist Outrage Erupts At California Plan To Stop Paying Criminal Illegals’ Legal Bills
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/leftist-outrage-erupts-at-california-plan-to-stop-paying-criminal-illegals-legal-bills/ar-AA1JolYY
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump defends firing labor statistics chief. In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), the Democrats who ran GAO defended their wasting my career and forcing me to retire by hinting/implying/arguing/shouting that GAO treated me exactly like Congress wanted GAO to treat its employees like me who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran, that is, to waste their careers of and to get rid of them to make way for their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5434438-trump-defends-firing-labor-statistics-chief/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Many Democrats see their political party as being “weak” or “ineffective”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/they-roll-right-over-many-democrats-think-their-party-is-weak-ap-norc-poll-finds
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/nyregion/new-york-immigrant-arrests-trump.html
— White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge. My Democrat GAO superiors viciously used against me my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. They stressed that the cost was covered by my wife’s insurance. They ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact that our doctor advised against it because we both had fertility problems. According to my Democrat GAO superiors, if we had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and d) become a licensed CPA in 1981. All my Democrat GAO superiors had children and spouses who had little no income. They all strongly decried the time and money they had to spend to raise their children. They all hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if they had not had children, they would have professional certifications, master’s degrees, and a professional license like me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/03/trump-administration-ivf-care/
— Laura Loomer succeeds in getting Trump to dump Jen Easterly. I should write about my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors who succeeded in getting the Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO to dump me. They all stressed that I was conservative, Republican, draft-avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/west-point-easterly-trump-loomer.html
USA TODAY
— Democrats have devolved into a clown show. Democrats lose elections because they promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/04/trump-vance-republicans-democrats-harris-future/85462114007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under President Joe Biden, inflation hit a 40-year high, Russia invaded Ukraine, Hamas brutally attacked Israel and Iran built a robust nuclear program. Then Americans learned, while he was running for reelection, that Biden suffered from serious cognitive decline, raising questions about what the Democratic Party knew and when. Americans lost trust that Democrats were transparent and honest.)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/03/what-would-doj-epstein-files-contain/85306180007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/03/trump-epstein-scandal-vance-president/85481602007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ICE is recruiting agents with $50,000 signing bonuses. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/02/ice-recruiting-signing-bonus-incentives-immigration-officers/85478464007/
FLORIDA PATCH
— I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 years old in 1981. My critics/opponents have always viciously ignored, dismissed, and belittled that. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://patch.com/florida/lakeland/john-stossel-raises-important-topic-tortured-bureaucrats-impact-licensing
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Racial Gerrymanders in the Dock. The Supreme Court will hear what could be a voting rights landmark. Democrat leaders will forever shout that Blacks and Hispanics will forever need preference big time because Republicans will forever discriminate against them.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/racial-gerrymanders-in-the-dock-31f93146
— Four Ways to Prepare for When Your Adult Kids Need Financial Help. Many parents continue to support their children after they graduate from college. It helps to start planning for that, just in case.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/adult-children-financial-help-tips-54a7c601
— It’s a Tough Job Market for New College Grads. Is an Advanced Degree Worth It? The temptation for young adults is great, as they struggle to find jobs. The key is to do the numbers. When I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21 in 1970. Immediately going on to earn an MBA was not an option for me because I had to have a job to help support my mother and brother. I took the only job offer that I got, to be the Retail Sales Manager in the Chicago Heights Firestone Store. The job did not really require a college degree. I did not earn an MBA until I was 27 in 1976. By then, it was too late.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/advanced-degree-graduates-job-market-5450de28
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
— Qualifications When I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, I was qualified to transfer as a GS-13 Step 1, currently $117,807/year. But my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to transfer as a GS-9 Step 10, currently $88,809/year, a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars. They ignored/dismissed/belittled a) that GAO audits IRS, b) that I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which as a GS-12 Step 1-5, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. They would have transferred me as a GS-13 if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates viciously used against me my having to take a pay cut to transfer. I made GS-13 in 1986, but only after I had a) completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and c) became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4
GOOGLE AI
— Political recruitment If you had run for a government office or a political office, what would have stressed? I would have stressed a) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which as a GS-12 Step 1-5, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) that I earned an MBA from Loyola, a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and a master’s degree in finance from IIT, d) that I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, e) that I earned four more job-related professional certifications, and f) that I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=7bb187fa02092698&sxsrf=AE3TifMd3VPsMy2JnrWybKuN-BV9ORgeqQ:1754293415076&q=recruit+candidates+%22qualifications%22