FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/rev-al-sharpton-young-activist-reflect-social-justice-impacts-george-floyds-death-5-years-later/16520771/
CBS2
— Chicago Jewish leaders warn of dangerous trend, announce increased security measures after deadly D.C. shooting. Democrats run Chicago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-jewish-leaders-washington-dc-shooting/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s budget cuts
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/05/24/health-social-services-cuts-israel-gaza-holocaust-trump-black-students-jim-gardiner-rahm-jan-6-sox
DAILY HERALD
— Dan and Ada Rice’s legacy lives on in revamped Danada House
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250523/news/its-a-castle-dan-and-ada-rices-legacy-lives-on-in-revamped-danada-house/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump is set to give the commencement address to West Point graduates
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-president-donald-trump-is-set-to-give-the-commencement-address-to-west-point-graduates/
WBEZ
— Under the Democrats, more and more and more will be on Medicaid
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/05/23/how-medicaid-cuts-from-congress-could-affect-every-cook-county-resident
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more and more and more interracial marriage
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/g-s1-68211/loving-day-virginia-interracial-marriage
CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) that Republicans cause Black crime and b) that police are racist.
https://mailchi.mp/chicagoreader/arrest-rates-drop-when-shooting-victims-are-black?e=c968c7978e
CHOOSE CHICAGO
— Choose Chicago Foundation Announces Largest-Ever Class of Scholarship Recipients. Did you get a scholarship? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes.
https://www.choosechicago.com/press-media/press-releases/choose-chicago-foundation-announces-largest-ever-class-of-scholarship-recipients/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
SUBURBAN CHICAGOLAND
— State GOP Chair Salvi applauds Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”
https://suburbanchicagoland.com/2025/05/23/state-gop-chair-salvi-applauds-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/
WIREPOINTS
— The Bloomington area is at the very bottom of the country for economic growth. Other Illinois metros are almost as bad.
https://wirepoints.org/the-bloomington-area-is-at-the-very-bottom-of-the-country-for-economic-growth-other-illinois-metros-are-almost-as-bad-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What did Biden do? Biden made it clear that the next Democrat President would use DEI get rid of non-Democrats once and for all, and especially non-Democrats who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. That is why Trump got elected. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— DEI forces Americans who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, poor, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time to first see themselves as being members of the aforesaid groups instead of first seeing themselves as being Americans. Further, DEI forces those who are members of the aforesaid groups to see themselves as being victims of those who are not members of the aforesaid groups. I am not a member any of the aforesaid groups. The more of the aforesaid groups that my critics/opponents are, the more/bigger adverse actions that they have taken against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are members of the following groups that they are marginalized by those who are not members of the following groups, that is, that all their problems are caused by those who are not: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, poor, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I am not a member any of the aforesaid groups. The more of the aforesaid groups that my critics/opponents are, the more/bigger adverse actions that they have taken against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, a) only Whites can be racist and b) only non-Whites can be victims of racism. Further, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, only men can be sexists, only older people can be ageist, and only heterosexuals, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time can be bigoted. Further, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, a) those who are the aforesaid can never be the victims of discrimination and b) because I am all of the aforesaid, by definition, I have never been discriminated against. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and nation origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who do you know who is/was an internal auditor? When I was 32 years old in 1981, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt and I became a licensed CPA. Only about 20% of those who take the CIA examination pass it on their first attempt and very few, if not extremely few, CPAs become licensed CPAs. My Democrat GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the aforesaid. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. I had worked for GAO for a year. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. Only about 20% of those who take the CPA examination pass it on their first attempt. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Auditees have always challenged internal auditors’ objectivity. I have always been a Republican. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. GAO audits IRS. The Democrats who ran IRS and GAO back then did not want Republicans to audit IRS. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS until early 1986. But then, in late 1988, they succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for the rest of my GAO career. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Supreme Court is deciding Trump’s Agency Firings. In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), federal courts ruled that the Democrats who ran GAO during the 1980s and 1990s could legally waste the careers of and force to retire their employees a) because they became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, b) because they complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination, and/or c) because they were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I was all of the aforesaid. Further, federal courts ruled that having three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license was no defense.
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Indiana to explore redrawing state line with Illinois despite opposition from Pritzker
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/23/indiana-explore-redrawing-state-line-illinois-despite-opposition-gov/
— OMB Director Russ Vought slams GAO for calling pause of funding EV charging program ‘illegal’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/23/omb-director-russ-vought-slams-gao-calling-pause-funding-ev-charging/
AMAC
— DEI: The Real Threat to American Unity. DEI forces Americans who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, poor, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time to first see themselves as being members of the aforesaid groups instead of first seeing themselves as being Americans. Further, DEI forces those who are members of the aforesaid groups to see themselves as being victims of those who are not members of the aforesaid groups. I am not a member any of the aforesaid groups. The more of the aforesaid groups that my critics/opponents are, the more/bigger adverse actions that they have taken against me.
https://amac.us/better-for-america-podcast/unmasking-dei-dr-carol-swain-on-the-real-threat-to-american-unity/
BREITBART
— Noem Gives Fiery Response to Dismissal of Illegals’ Gitmo Lawsuit
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/23/suck-it-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-gives-fiery-response-to-dismissal-of-illegals-gitmo-lawsuit/
— Trump’s DHS Pressures Thousands of Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport with Billions in Fines
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/23/trump-pressures-thousands-of-illegals-to-self-deport-with-billions-in-fines/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Media Hypocrisy on Afrikaner Refugees
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/23/media-hypocrisy-afrikaner-refugees/
— Here’s How the SPLC Suggests ‘White Christian Supremacy’ Is Taking Over the Government
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/23/heres-how-splc-suggests-white-christian-supremacy-is-taking-over-government/
FOX NEWS
— Sen Mike Lee accuses Chicago mayor — who called Trump a ‘monster’ — of ‘bragging about’ violating the law. DOJ launches probe to examine whether Chicago is engaging in race-based discrimination. In Diersen v. GAO, GAO argued that it treated me the way that Congress wanted it to, that is, that it followed Affirmative Action law, that is, that it gave preference to its Democrat employees who were minority and/or female, that is, that it discriminated against its Republican employees who were White and/or male.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-mike-lee-accuses-chicago-mayor-who-called-trump-monster-bragging-about-violating-law
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Richard Porter: Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Make Midterms Harder for Democrats
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/23/richard_porter_trumps_one_big_beautiful_bill_makes_midterms_harder_for_democrats.html
TOWNHALL
— From Hate Crime Hoax to Handshake Settlement — Jussie Smollett Walks Away
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/23/jussie-smolletts-to-pay-50000-to-settle-fake-hate-crime-lawsuit-n2657553
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Trump to address West Point graduates following DEI crackdown. The school removed diversity related curriculum after Trump order.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-address-west-point-graduates-dei-crackdown/story?id=122116685
CNN
— Trump’s IRS layoffs will lead to billions in lost tax revenue as agency sheds auditors. GAO audits IRS. Gingrich’s gutting of GAO instead of reforming it resulted in billions if not trillions of not only lost tax revenue, but trillions of dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/irs-staffing-cuts-revenue-loss-trump-dg
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-doge-cuts-layoffs-31-percent-auditors-tax-revenue-impact/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/world/harvard-international-students-trump-intl
MSNBC
— White House eyes primaries for GOP members who opposed the Trump agenda megabill. The president seems less interested in persuading GOP members like Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson and more interested in threatening them. I should write about those who continue to punish me the most for my supporting Pat O’Malley in the 2002 Republican gubernatorial primary. They continue to blame me for Jim Ryan’s defeat in 2002. In my defense, I did everything that I could to help Jim Ryan win the general election.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-primaries-gop-republicans-house-2026-rcna208759
NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Immigrant arrests at courthouses signal new tactic in Trump’s deportation push. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been instructed to arrest people immediately after a judge has ordered them to be deported or after prosecutors move to drop their cases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/23/immigration-court-arrests-ice-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/23/trump-harvard-international-students/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/23/harvard-international-students-trump/
— Judge extends order blocking Trump’s mass federal worker layoffs. A federal judge said the president needs to seek congressional cooperation for such widespread changes. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my having been a federal employee for almost 30 years and my being a federal retiree for almost 28 years against me the most.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/23/federal-workers-trump-administration-layoffs-block-extended/
SACRAMENTO OBSERVER
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are members of the following groups that they are marginalized by those who are not members of the following groups, that is, that all their problems are caused by those who are not: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, poor, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I am not a member any of the aforesaid groups. The more of the aforesaid groups that my critics/opponents are, the more/bigger adverse actions that they have taken against me.
https://sacobserver.com/2025/05/trump-administration-inequality-effects/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Supreme Court Showdown on Trump’s Agency Firings. In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), federal courts ruled that the Democrats who ran GAO during the 1980s and 1990s could legally waste the careers of and force to retire their employees a) because they became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, b) because they complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination, and/or c) because they were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I was all of the aforesaid. Further, federal courts ruled that having three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license was no defense.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/humphreys-executor-supreme-court-nlrb-mspb-gwynne-wilcox-cathy-harris-donald-trump-5f40818b
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/george-floyds-death-almost-consumed-america-in-revolution-fdb9d785
— Race, Hiring and Chicago’s Mayor. Brandon Johnson brags about diversity. The Justice Department launches an investigation. My Democrat superiors in the federal government bragged about their success in meeting/exceeding their Affirmative Action and DEI quotas, targets, and goals, that is, they bragged about their success in getting rid of their employees like me who were Republican, white, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/brandon-johnson-donald-trump-chicago-hiring-dei-investigation-harmeet-dhillon-7d38d7b5
— Woke Education Is Going Strong, Even in Middle America. Schools in Wauwatosa, Wis., embrace far-left fads from ‘gender identity’ to ‘restorative justice.’ Democrat teachers focus on cranking out good little Democrats.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/woke-education-is-going-strong-even-in-middle-america-schools-sexuality-gender-5d1ccd11
RECORD
— Trump to speak at West Point graduation
https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/local/2025/05/23/west-point-graduation-when-trump-will-speak-protests-planned/83770478007/
PORTLAND PRESS HERALD
— Democrat leaders use government to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/05/24/who-gains-from-the-promises-trump-keeps-letter/
REASON MAGAZINE
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, a) only Whites can be racist and b) only non-Whites can be victims of racism. Further, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, only men can be sexists, only older people can be ageist, and only heterosexuals, Protestants, German Americans, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time can be bigoted. Further, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, by definition, a) those who are the aforesaid can never be the victims of discrimination and b) because I am all of the aforesaid, by definition, I have never been discriminated against. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and nation origin discrimination.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/18/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees/
AUTO NEWS
— Dodge says it’s eliminating Canada-made Charger Daytona R/T for 2026 because of tariffs. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T. I am one of 1,266 who did during the first 3 months of this year. Please let me know if you share my interest in the car. I own a 2013 Charger R/T Max. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T show car 1994-2005. I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971.
https://www.autonews.com/stellantis/an-dodge-charger-daytona-rt-dropped-0519/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The electric Charger Daytona, which is made in Canada, began arriving at dealerships in January as a 2024 model in two varieties: the R/T and the higher-end Scat Pack. The 670-hp Scat Pack, which starts at $75,185 with shipping, will be the only electric Charger available as a 2026 model. Mopar Insiders first reported the decision to eliminate the R/T, which starts at $61,590 with shipping. “Production of the Dodge Charger Daytona R/T is postponed for the 2026 model year as we continue to assess the effects of U.S. tariff policies,” Dodge CEO Matt McAlear said in a statement. “The Charger’s flexible, multi-energy STLA Large platform allows us to focus on the Charger Daytona Scat Pack’s performance as the world’s quickest and most powerful muscle car, add the new four-door model to the Charger mix for the 2026 model year and lean into the new Charger SIXPACK models that will launch in the second half of the year.” Sign up to get our monthly Done Deals newsletter focused on the latest dealership transactions and insights into the buy-sell market. The Charger is produced at Windsor Assembly Plant in Ontario along with the Chrysler Pacifica and Voyager minivans for the U.S. market. It also builds the Pacifica and Grand Caravan for the Canadian market. The plant shut down for two weeks in April, just hours after President Donald Trump imposed 25 percent duties on vehicles imported to the U.S. The Daytona made up 65 percent of Charger sales in the U.S. in the first quarter with 1,947 deliveries. Stellantis is still selling off remaining ICE versions of the previous Charger model, which saw production in Brampton, Ont., end in 2023. The Daytona is available only as a coupe, but it will get a four-door variant this year. The gasoline-powered Sixpack models are slated to debut this year as well, in two-door and four-door configurations.)
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTANCY
— Internal pressures challenge internal auditors’ objectivity. I have always been a Republican. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. GAO audits IRS. The Democrats who ran IRS and GAO back then did not want Republicans to audit IRS. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS until early 1986. But then, in late 1988, they succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for the rest of my GAO career.
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2015/jun/internal-audit-objectivity/
PWC
— The evolving role of Internal Auditors. When I was 32 years old in 1981, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt and I became a licensed CPA. Only about 20% of those who take the CIA examination pass it on their first attempt and very few, if not extremely few, CPAs become licensed CPAs. My Democrat GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the aforesaid. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. I had worked for GAO for a year. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. Only about 20% of those who take the CPA examination pass it on their first attempt. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.
https://www.pwc.com/mt/en/publications/other/the-evolving-role-of-internal-auditors.html
GUARDIAN
— To get more and more and more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint White Republicans as being White supremacists.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/trump-threat-far-right-white-supremacist
Tag: GOPUSA
May 23, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-bars-harvard-enrolling-international-students/16508338/
— Mag Mile Chicago police stops and searches challenged as unlawful. I walked the Mag Mile weekday evenings 1974-1976 to/from my IRS job in the Loop and graduate business classes at Loyola and my Outer Drive East studio condo.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mag-mile-shakedown-magnificent-chicago-police-stops-searches-challenged-unlawful-drivers-speak-abc7-team/16512120/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-5/23/2025
NBC5
— Motive, possible writings of alleged gunman in D.C. museum shooting investigated. According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday, alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez bought a ticket to the American Jewish Committee’s annual Young Diplomat’s reception just three hours before the event began.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/motive-possible-writings-of-alleged-gunman-in-d-c-museum-shooting-investigated/3752247/
— How did man charged in fatal Jewish museum shooting get gun on plane from Chicago. One motive was shouted and repeated by the Chicago man as he was arrested, officials said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/how-did-man-charged-in-fatal-jewish-museum-shooting-get-gun-on-plane-from-chicago/3752227/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/hate-groups-usa-decline-influence-grows-report/3752407/
— ‘Investment, not tariffs,’ says Japan’s PM following telephone talks with Trump. The U.S. is charging a 25% tariff on imports of autos, a mainstay of Japan’s trade with the U.S. and a key driver of growth for the economy.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-immigration-japan-harvard-may-23-2025-live-updates/3752558/
CBS2
— D.C. shooting suspect graduated from UIC, was part of Chicago activist scene
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/elias-rodriguez-dc-shooting-israeli-embassy-staff-what-to-know/
WGN9
— Agents raid East Albany Park residence amid probe into killing of Israeli Embassy staffers
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/fbi-raids-east-albany-park-residence-amid-investigation-into-fatal-shooting-of-israeli-embassy-staffers-in-dc/
— Officials beef up security at Chicago-area Jewish institutions following ‘act of terror’
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/hate-is-not-an-american-value-state-officials-react-to-fatal-shooting-of-2-israeli-embassy-staffers-in-dc/
WTTW
— Chicago Man Charged With Murdering 2 Israeli Embassy Staffers in DC Told Police ‘I Did It for Palestine,’ Records Say
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/22/fbi-searching-chicago-home-suspect-after-2-staff-members-israeli-embassy-killed-shooting
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump has amassed $600 million in political donations. Here’s how he plans to use it.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/president-donald-trump-campaign-donations/
— Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the Education Department. I should write about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/trump-mass-layoffs-education-department/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Charges filed against Chicago man in the fatal shooting near DC Jewish museum
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/alleged-dc-shooter-israeli-embassy/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/chicago-immigration-court-arrests/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students over American students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/international-students-legal-status/
— Trump organization to pay $4.8M to settle fish-kill lawsuit against its Chicago high-rise
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/trump-organization-to-pay-4-8m-to-settle-fish-kill-lawsuit-against-its-chicago-high-rise/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/illinois-medicaid-gender-affirming-care/
— U. of C. students protest trustees’ ties to Israel as war in Gaza continues
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/university-chicago-palestinian-protest/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Feds charge Elias Rodriguez with murder in embassy shooting: ‘I did it for Gaza’ Authorities say Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, continued to fire on one of the two Israeli Embassy employees as she tried to crawl away.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/05/22/feds-charge-chicago-man-with-murder-in-embassy-shooting-i-did-it-for-gaza
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05/22/elias-rodriguez-chicago-israeli-embassy-staffers-dc
— Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul takes leading role in fighting Trump. ‘We are winning’ Illinois AG Kwame Raoul is a key figure in the Democratic legal battle against Trump’s executive orders and policies. And he believes Democrats are winning.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/05/23/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-fight-against-donald-trump
— They came to a hearing at Chicago’s immigration court, then got arrested. Arrests at immigration courts across the nation this week have rattled people showing up for hearings.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/22/ice-agents-hallways-immigration-court-trump-mass-arrest
— Trump Tower fish-kill lawsuit settled with state for $4.8 million. Illinois Attorney General, Sierra Club and Friends of the Chicago River sued the building operator over violations of environmental law.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/05/22/trump-tower-lawsuit-illinois-settled-friends-of-chicago-river-fish-sierra-club
— ‘Big, beautiful bill’ is another big example how GOP has abandoned conservatism. I should write about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/22/big-beautiful-bill-trump-conservatism-s-e-cupp
— I had to work my way through college. If I had not had to do that, my GPA would have been higher. Instead of studying, I worked far too many hours a) washing dishes during my junior and senior years in high school 1964-1966 and b) delivering mail while I attended UIC 1966-1968 and NIU in 1969.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/21/chicagoans-with-student-debt-stressed-as-trump-gop-cut-back-relief
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ‘Vital step’ to ending discrimination: Senate approves bill raising age for senior road exams
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250522/transportation/vital-step-to-ending-discrimination-senate-approves-bill-raising-age-for-senior-road-exams/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause hate crimes.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250523/news/police-say-attackers-called-her-a-slur-why-arent-the-suspects-charged-with-a-hate-crime/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— A year ago, Oberweis Dairy was in bankruptcy. Now it’s launching an expansion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/retail/oberweis-dairy-expand-chicago-st-louis-and-florida
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2025/05/22/planned-parenthood-illinois-warns-about-dire-consequences-of-medicaid-cuts/83799626007/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Soon, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/22/genevas-northern-illinois-food-bank-frets-over-trump-food-aid-cuts/
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/22/city/activists-rally-for-climate-legislation-in-springfield-during-annual-climate-action-lobby-day/
WMBD
— RNC Chairman delivers message to central Illinois GOP on how to turn area and state red
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/22/rnc-chairman-delivers-message-to-central-illinois-gop-on-how-to-turn-area-and-state-red/
WTVO
— Illinois bill to allow mothers paid breaks to breastfeed passes House. While I worked for GAO in Chicago during the 1990s, it gutted its smoking room and turned it into a lactation room.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-bill-allow-mothers-paid-191756705.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— GAO has long done DOGE-like work. I should write a book about GAO. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $117,807-153,151/year. Instead of reforming GAO, Gingrich gutted GAO. Because of that, and because I was one of their very few Republican employees, they wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They flushed down their toilets a) my three job-related master’s degrees, b) my six job-related professional certifications, and c) my job-related professional license. I should write a book about GAO. Further, I should write a book about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-21/gao-has-long-done-doge-like-work
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has attempted to embed itself in another agency. This time, it’s the Government Accountability Office. The office has refused, but as NPR’s Chris Arnold reports, many experts say, rather than try to elbow its way in the door, DOGE should have been asking GAO for help all along. CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: For months, DOGE has been strong-arming its way into government agencies, gaining access to sensitive data and helping to fire workers. Doing that at the Government Accountability Office, that would be way over the line, says David Walker. He used to run the GAO. DAVID WALKER: The DOGE team needs to read the Constitution again. There are three separate and equal branches of government. ARNOLD: GAO operates under the legislative branch – in other words, Congress – not the White House. WALKER: DOGE has zero authority to review GAO’s operations. ARNOLD: Walker’s been nominated to positions by both Republican and Democratic presidents, and he says GAO and DOGE supposedly have a very similar mission – to root out waste, fraud and abuse, except, he says, that GAO has been doing that for decades, has a staff of several thousand people and it’s really good at it. WALKER: GAO’s like a longstanding professional football team, and DOGE has some very bright people, but it’s more like a much smaller pickup football team from MIT. It’s like intramurals, OK? ARNOLD: Over the past 15 years, GAO says its recommendations have resulted in $725 billion in savings and revenue increases. It just came up with an updated list of proposals. It says that could save another hundred billion or more. Just one example – it’s been studying a space-based laser communication system that the Defense Department’s designing. GAO says it’s found a tweak to the program that could save hundreds of millions of dollars. The White House didn’t respond to NPR’s request for comment but has defended DOGE for finding waste, fraud and abuse. And the current head of the GAO recently said that DOGE lately has been engaging more with GAO about some of its recommendations. Still, David Walker says poor planning and inadequate coordination with Congress have hamstrung DOGE. WALKER: DOGE way overpromised on savings, originally promising 2 trillion. They now claim that they’ve saved about 170 billion. But in reality, I think the real savings is maybe one-tenth to one-fifth of what they claim because only Congress can cut spending. ARNOLD: Walker says, so far, DOGE has mostly been targeting programs that the Trump administration just doesn’t like and indiscriminately firing people. Linda Bilmes is a government efficiency expert at the Harvard Kennedy School. She says that DOGE could have learned a lot from GAO. LINDA BILMES: One of the real tragedies of the whole DOGE effort is that they just ignored this kind of expertise and they didn’t tap into the knowledge base of the people already working in government. ARNOLD: She says the chance to work alongside Elon Musk to help reform government lured in a lot of very talented young people. Some of them were students of hers at Harvard. BILMES: I know firsthand some of the individuals who work for Elon Musk, but they were not leveraged in terms of their own talents. They were put in charge of a website that they had no idea what it was and asked to fire people, and they really were put into positions in which they were entirely unsuited for. ARNOLD: Meanwhile, as far as DOGE trying to embed itself in GAO, there’s another thorny issue there. GAO currently has dozens of investigations underway into whether the Trump administration improperly froze funding that was already allocated by Congress. David Walker again. WALKER: There clearly is a conflict of interest there. DOGE shouldn’t be anywhere close to looking at what GAO’s doing in connection with those activities. ARNOLD: The current head of GAO recently told Congress that the Trump administration was not immediately responsive to its investigations.)
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Charting her course as a “Big Tent” Republican. Pamela “Denise” Long seeks 2026 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/charting-her-course-as-a-big-tent-republican-20196900
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A little-known candidate seeking the Republican nomination for Richard Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat says the GOP needs to adopt a “big tent” mentality that encourages bipartisan cooperation and prioritizes substantive solutions over partisan rhetoric. Pamela “Denise” Long, 52, a longtime contributor to Newsweek and Real Clear Politics, is leveraging her experience as a journalist, political analyst and adjunct professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to carve out a space in the crowded field to replace Durbin. Durbin, 80, a Springfield Democrat, is retiring from Congress after five terms in the Senate and seven in the House. Long says she built her experience by dissecting complex policy issues in a bipartisan manner, particularly those affecting Black voters, immigration, economic mobility and environmental protections. She has challenged both major parties to reconsider their outreach strategies. On her side, she’s ascribing to so-called Big Tent Republicanism, which says that certain conservative positions, such as abortion bans or transgender issues, while important to Republicans, push away moderates and liberals open to cooperation on issues that affect nearly every resident, such as property taxes, gerrymandering and budgeting. Long said she wants her candidacy to reflect a focus on those widespread national issues while offering bipartisan criticism and praise when it is called for. “For me, I champion President Donald Trump when he takes actions that align with the principles of conservatism and constitutionality,” she said. “When he deviates from that, as with (former President Joe) Biden and any other candidate, I call those things out. So, I’m not partisan in that way. My focus is on the best interest of the nation.” Long said one example bringing conservative and liberal issues together is her support for increasing environmental protection in the U.S., but implementing it in issues that bring attention to conservative interests. “Being able to take something like environmental policy and be able to apply it to these modern-day issues like immigration is one method to increase environmental protections without incurring too much animosity from any one side,” Long said. Long said she wants to see more investment in urban infrastructure that has been abandoned, rather than support Trump’s plans to allow development and commercial usage of federally protected lands, including national parks. “One thing which unnerves me is how much of our urban infrastructure has degraded and has just been left rotting in many cities, and I would like to see more development,” said Long. “Development of the dilapidated infrastructure that already exists rather than developing our national parks and green space, I think that could bring more jobs to urban residents.” As a Black woman, Long sees the persistent issues facing African American communities and agrees with the conservative sentiment against handouts or excessive support. But she argues that giving job opportunities, career advancements and a general ability to move out of poverty is a large part of that attitude as well. “I think it is important for Black Americans to hear that our federal government is looking for ways to pull them into the workforce,” said Long. “It’s not handholding as much as it is recruitment and making sure that folks realize that they’re pointing to avenues leading to jobs. We must look at recruitment, retention, development and promotion. At what point do we start thinking about the current and potential future state of our economy and what it’s going to look like? Do we somehow work to offer apprenticeships to students in middle school, shadowing perhaps in high school?” Long says her time as an occupational therapist has shifted her view of prisoners and felons to be viewed as people first, criminals second. She supports the idea of low-level and nonviolent criminals having the ability to either work off their crimes or build themselves up in prison to better support their rehabilitation outside of confinement. While she did clarify violent criminals and felons like murderers and rapists require more nuance based on the case, the goal is to produce a rehabilitated member of society. Helping former convicts get their lives together after their due punishment is the way to do that. “Sequestering a human being from society is a solid punishment by itself; you shouldn’t have to be faced with rape, beatings or dehumanizing treatment,” said Long. “You should be sequestered, rehabilitated, strengthened and developed so that you can be moved forward into society and hit the ground running to be productive. I also think that they should maintain their right to vote. They need to be engaged with the society that they’re going to be coming back into. People who are engaged with society and see a path forward and find a vision for themselves, sometimes for the first time, are less likely to offend.”)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-519/
— Evening roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-311/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Here come more pension sweeteners…(aka tax hikes) My critics/opponent have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension as being too generous. They are furious that I earned full-time CSRS credit while I worked only part-time for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. They are furious that I got CSRS credit for my more than a year of unused sick leave. In today’s dollars, my CSRS pension is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and less than what my salary was in 1972
https://wirepoints.org/video-here-come-more-pension-sweeteners-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What differentiated you from your coworkers? I took undergraduate business courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I took a graduate evening business course while I worked for the Democrats who ran Firestone Stores in 1971. I took graduate evening business courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1972-1976. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I took graduate evening accounting courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1976-1980 and GAO in 1980. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. I took graduate finance courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1992-1997. I earned a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997. None of my coworkers came close to doing what I did. Of course, my critics/opponents use what I did against me. They hint/imply/argue/shout that because I did the aforesaid and nevertheless my Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO superiors wasted my career, took many adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire in 1997, I must have been an extremely bad person. They ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact a) that I have always been a conservative Republican, b) that all my superiors were Democrats, c) that they never would have taken the adverse actions against me that they did if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, d) that I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and e) that I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation in 1988. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The ‘pro-Palestinian’ movement is pro-terrorist
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3419729/the-pro-palestine-movement-is-pro-terrorist/
NEW TORK POST
— Israeli Embassy terror bares the evil targeting Jews — and America
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/opinion/israeli-embassy-terror-bares-evil-aimed-at-jews-and-america/
— How left-wing Chicago social justice warrior Elias Rodriguez allegedly became homegrown anti-Israel terrorist
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/us-news/homegrown-terror-dc-jewish-museum-shooting-suspect-elias-rodriguezs-path-to-self-radicalization/
AMERICAN WIRE NEWS
— Reporter William J. Kelly asks Chicago mayor point blank, ‘Why are you a racist?’
https://americanwirenews.com/reporter-asks-chicago-mayor-point-blank-why-are-you-a-racist/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Reporter William J. Kelly asks Chicago mayor point blank, ‘Why are you a racist?’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/22/reporter-asks-chicago-mayor-point-blank-why-are-you-a-racist-1545534/
— Disney World suspends migrant workers following Supreme Court brief
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/22/disney-world-suspends-migrant-workers-following-supreme-court-brief-1545543/
BREITBART
— Lockheed ‘Doubles Down’ on Eviscerating DEI After Completing Review Complying with Trump Executive Order on Ending Controversial Practice
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/22/exclusive-lockheed-martin-drops-diversity-equity-inclusion-policies-comply-trump-executive-order/
DAILY WIRE
— Med School Caught Rejecting White And Asian Applicants With Better Scores Than Minorities It Accepts. Statistics show that little has changed at the medical school two years after affirmative action was overturned.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/med-school-caught-rejecting-white-and-asian-applicants-with-better-scores-than-minorities-it-accepts
EPOCH TIMES
— What’s in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’? The House passed the legislation in a 215–214 vote. It now heads to the Senate.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/whats-in-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-5861362
FEDERALIST
— Democrat-Run States Risk Billions To Push Race Discrimination In Schools. Democrat educators hint/imply/argue/shout
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/23/democrat-run-states-risk-billions-to-push-race-discrimination-in-schools/
— The Left Indulges Anti-White Racism In South Africa Because They Want The Same Thing Here
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/22/the-media-dismiss-anti-white-violence-in-south-africa-because-it-undermines-their-agenda/
NEWSMAX
— Alleged D.C. Shooter Leftist Activist, Biden Backer
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/shooter-terrorism-political/2025/05/22/id/1211966/
— Trump Spending Bill Would Hike Taxes on Elite Colleges. What do those who have degrees from elite colleges think of you? My critics/opponents who have degrees from elite colleges, their operatives, and their dupes look down on me if not despise me if not hate me. I should write about them and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me lately.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/trump-bill-taxes/2025/05/23/id/1212080/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/22/crime_rates_of_illegal_migrants_underreported_152825.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
TIME
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies.
https://time.com/7288251/alien-enemies-act-repealed/
CNN
— Which countries will join with China against America in WWIII?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/china/china-harvard-trump-students-ban-int-hk
— Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tariff if it doesn’t build iPhones in America
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/economy/trump-threatens-tariff-apple
ABC NEWS
— Judge says Trump has power to impose tariffs, but punts lawsuit to different court. The judge cites the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-trump-power-impose-tariffs-punts-lawsuit-court/story?id=122099656
NBC NEWS
— Trump’s image of dead ‘white farmers’ came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa. President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of the video to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as part of what he falsely presented as proof of mass killings of white South Africans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/africa/trump-image-dead-white-farmers-congo-not-south-africa-rcna208699
— MAGA world turns against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
https://www.aol.com/maga-world-turns-supreme-court-221051688.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/briefing/five-years-after-floyd.html
— Trump’s New Position on the War in Ukraine: Not My Problem. In a reversal, President Trump appears to have backed off joining a European push for new sanctions on Russia, seemingly eager to move on to doing business deals with it. Those who voted for Trump anticipated/expected that he would drive Russia out of Ukraine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/trump-ukraine-russia.html
— Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students. The move was a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the college to fall in line with President Trump’s demands. The following prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America: a) Democrat and RINO leaders and b) Democrat and RINO employers. Democrats want citizens of foreign countries because they want socialism if not communism. RINOs want citizens of foreign countries because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html
— Republicans Harness Tax Code to Punish Trump’s Political Nemeses. Immigrants and wealthy universities, as well as foreign companies, would see higher taxes under the House-passed bill. I paid less federal income tax 1972-1977 and my wife and I paid less federal income tax 1978-1980 and 1992-1997 because we deducted my job-related education expenses. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. I should write about that. Who do you know who deducted their job-related education expenses? I deducted graduate evening a) business courses while I worked for IRS 1972-1976, b) accounting courses while I worked for IRS 1977-1979 and for GAO in 1980, and c) finance courses while I worked for GAO 1992-1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/republicans-taxes-trump-opponents.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/opinion/ice-raids-nashville-immigrants.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-administration-fine-undocument-immigrants.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump welcomes Afrikaners but turns his back on all other refugees. President Trump’s embrace of far-right theories about South Africa led to the resettlement of some 50 White Afrikaners as refugees to the United States this month.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/23/trump-ramaphosa-afrikaners-refugees-south-africa/
— Administration bars Harvard from having foreign students, says thousands must transfer. The Trump administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/president-donald-trump/7fb883aa-3707-11f0-9c9e-0db2d748bea7_story.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat educators use DEI to crank out good little Democrats
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/trump-k-12-public-school-funding-dei-order/83458073007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Supreme Court Lets Trump Fire Agency Officials, but Moves to Protect Fed. Order suggests justices will soon eliminate congressional power to insulate agencies from the White House. In Diersen v. GAO, ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), the courts reaffirmed GAO’s power to waste the careers of and to get rid of its Republican employees, and especially those like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-lets-trump-fire-nlrb-and-merit-board-members-cc2dc09a
FORTUNE
The following prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America: a) Democrat and RINO leaders and b) Democrat and RINO employers. Democrats want citizens of foreign countries because they want socialism if not communism. RINOs want citizens of foreign countries because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/23/trump-ban-international-students-affect-us-companies/
FAST COMPANY
— Democrat leaders badmouth Tesla to badmouth Musk to badmouth Trump.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91338704/tesla-cybertruck-is-officially-a-flop
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/resident-scholar/2025/05/23/king-misrepresented-anti-dei-congressional-hearing
PROPUBLICA
— Foreign countries are illegally ever-increasing illegally sending their citizens illegally into America, that is, foreign countries are ever-increasingly invading America illegally.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courts
GUARDIAN
— Which countries will join with China against America in WWIII?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/may/23/harvard-university-international-students-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-us-politics-latest-news
May 20, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DOJ investigating Chicago hiring practices amid backlash over Mayor Johnson’s viral comments. 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://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-justice-opens-civil-rights-investigation-chicago-hiring-practices-letter-mayor-brandon-johnson/16472280/
— Ashli Babbitt’s family to receive $5M to settle lawsuit with Trump administration.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ashli-babbitts-family-receive-5-million-settlement-trump-admin-sources/16471666/
NBC5
— Former Chicago Public Schools students say they were groomed by teachers. A months-long investigation by NBC 5 Investigates has uncovered allegations of grooming and teacher misconduct dating back more than a decade at one Chicago public school.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/lessons-in-betrayal-former-chicago-public-schools-students-say-they-were-groomed-by-teachers/3749386/
— DOJ investigates Chicago’s hiring practices following comments by Mayor Johnson. Justice officials are investigating whether the city is violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/doj-investigates-chicagos-hiring-practices-following-comments-by-mayor-johnson/3749322/
— Trump allies shift from well-wishes to suggesting Biden hid his cancer diagnosis
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/donald-trump-allies-suggest-biden-hid-cancer-diagnosis/3749387/
CBS2
— Southwest Side Chicago alderman, state rep said city extended use of migrant shelter without notice
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-extended-use-migrant-shelter-notice/
— Trump questions why Biden’s cancer wasn’t caught earlier
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-questions-why-bidens-cancer-wasnt-caught-earlier/
— Justice Department opens discrimination investigation into Chicago city hiring practices.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/justice-department-discrimination-investigation-chicago-city-hiring-practices/
WGN9
— First Trump $1,000 ‘self-deport’ flight conducted by DHS.
https://wgntv.com/news/national/first-trump-1000-self-deport-flight-conducted-by-dhs/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/illinois-mulls-ending-a-health-program-for-some-immigrants-living-in-the-us-illegally/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/19/illinois-lawmakers-discuss-budget-priorities-legislative-deadline-looms
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/05/19/how-birthright-citizenship-ruling-could-affect-illinois
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/trump-venezuelans/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/chicagos-venezuelan-migrants-face-uncertainty-after-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protected-status/
— Cupich says Pope Leo XIV will champion the environment, immigrants. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/pope-leo-chicago-visit/
— Justice Department investigating Mayor Brandon Johnson for racially motivated hiring.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/justice-department-chicago-alleged-racially-motivated-hiring/
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/garrison-school-four-rivers-oversight/
— Chicago’s south and southwest suburbs see population declines — but there are bright spots in census estimates
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/south-suburbs-population-drop-census/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Those seeing decreases of at least 2% but below 3% included Bridgeview, Crestwood, Harvey, Matteson, Oak Forest, Olympia Fields, Palos Hills and Tinley Park. Suburbs having losses over the four years of at least 3% included Alsip, Blue Island, Calumet City, Chicago Heights, Country Club Hills, Dolton, Evergreen Park, Flossmoor, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Lansing, Markham, Midlothian, Oak Lawn, Park Forest and South Holland.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Justice Department launches probe into City Hall’s hiring practices, claims they’re solely race-based. The Trump administration on Monday opened a civil rights investigation into Chicago’s hiring practices one day after Mayor Brandon Johnson boasted about the record number of African-Americans he has hired for top city jobs.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/19/justice-department-probe-city-hall-hiring-practices-brandon-johnson-woodlawn
— Venezuelans in Illinois could be deported after Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protected status. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end the Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans, including in Illinois. — Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/19/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protections-from-some-venezuelans-deportations-could-follow
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting vice in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250519/news/new-pot-dispensary-tattoo-parlor-get-approval-from-elgin-city-council/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump officials launch hiring probe after Johnson touts number of Black advisers
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-doj-investigating-chicago-hiring-discrimination
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “social justice” a) to promote more hatred against Republicans and b) to get more votes from minorities and females.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/siue-east-st-louis-center-for-the-performing-arts-gives-social-justice-rhythm-and-motion-during-its-spring-dance-recital-82614.cfm
NPR ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-05-20/in-the-fight-for-youth-transgender-health-care-illinois-remains-at-the-forefront
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-19/trump-administration-cuts-school-mental-health-grants
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pritzker to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-says-every-state-faces-financial-challenges-under-trump-but-is-optimistic-illinois-will-have/article_1d68e4ce-9dcb-4e4c-ba07-e9f0c328b9aa.html
JOLIET PATCH
— 2024 Tesla Faces Seizure After Joliet Police Find Marijuana Inside: The EV belongs to Mokena residents Eddy Curry and Mitchell Rashada and is now the subject of a Will County civil forfeiture.
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/2024-tesla-faces-seizure-after-joliet-police-find-pot-forfeiture
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Trump attacks City Hall’s discrimination. It easier for Democrat employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. It is harder for Republican employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. Democrats want to work for Democrats. Republicans want to work for Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/20/trump-attacks-chicago-city-hall-diversity-00358327
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-516/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-308/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Higher and higher salaries means Chicagoans’ public pension problem gets bigger and bigger.
https://wirepoints.org/higher-and-higher-salaries-means-chicagoans-public-pension-problem-gets-bigger-and-bigger-wirepoints-on-full-measure-with-sharyl-attkisson/
— Why expand in Illinois when there’s little economic growth?
https://wirepoints.org/what-one-business-owner-said-to-me-why-expand-in-illinois-when-theres-little-economic-growth-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, Firestone Stores in 1970, 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. After I graduated from NIU when I was 21 years old in 1970, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from Firestone Stores. But that job did not really require a college degree. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me in 1971 because I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. He would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. All during my entire life, employers that might have hired me were under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat leaders to hire Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1970 (management) bachelor’s degree, b) my 1976 (business), 1980 (accounting), and 1997 (finance) master’s degrees, c) my 1979 (accounting), 1981 (internal auditing), 1990 (fraud examination), 1994 (government financial management), 1996 (financial services auditing), and 1997 (forensic accounting) professional certifications, and d) my 1981 professional license (CPA). Because I complained about the aforesaid, a) my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969, b) my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and my education deductions in 1978 and never promoted me beyond GS-12, and c) my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and forced me to retire in 1997. My RINO critics/opponents have no problem with what my Democrat superiors did to me. Actually, they applaud it. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What makes candidates for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc. Since 1999, RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed a) the almost 18 years of experience that I gained working for GAO, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) the almost 9 years of experience that I gained 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 bachelor’s degree in management, d) my master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, e) my professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and f) my CPA license. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you avoid the Vietnam War draft? Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had 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, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The bronze statue of Melania Trump in Slovenia has been chopped off at the feet and stolen. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What did your superiors require you to do? Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
JEFF BERKOWITZ
— Does the IL GOP have competitive US Senate & GOV candidates on deck for 2026? What makes a candidate for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc.
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/does-the-il-gop-have-competitive
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— What’s in the Homeschooling Regulation Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/whats-in-the-homeschooling-regulation-bill/
— Nunda Township Officials Sworn into Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/nunda-township-officials-sworn-into-office/
— Connie Cain Flips Parties, Running for Kane County Treasurer as Democrat after Being Fired by GOP Treasurer Chris Lauzen
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/connie-cain-flips-parties-running-for-kane-county-treasurer-as-democrat-after-being-fired-by-gop-treasurer-chris-lauzen/
— No New Face for Conservation District Board, John Henning Being Appointed to a Second Run
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/no-new-face-for-conservation-district-board-john-henning-being-appointed-to-a-second-run/
— Poor Loser Randy Funks Out for the Fifth Time
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/poor-loser-randy-funks-out-for-the-fifth-time/
— Possible Taxes You Might Want to Ask Your Local Democrat to Oppose
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/possible-taxes-you-might-want-to-ask-your-local-democrat-to-oppose/
— With Two Weeks Left in Legislation Session, Sosnowski Gives Take on the Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/with-two-weeks-left-in-legislation-session-sosnowski-gives-take-on-the-budget/
— Rest of Algonquin Township Officials Sworn In
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/rest-of-algonquin-township-officials-sworn-in/
— Another Mailing Asking Voters to Call Sue Ness about Cost of Pension Increases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/another-mailing-asking-voters-to-call-sue-ness-about-cost-of-pension-increases/
— Underwood Not Running for U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/underwood-not-running-for-u-s-senate/
— Is This the Year that Democrats Will Start Taxing Services?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/is-this-the-year-that-democrats-will-start-taxing-services/
— Huntley’s Move to Shut Down Trump Store on Route 47 Making Regional News
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/huntleys-move-to-shut-down-trump-store-on-route-47-making-regional-news/
— $500,000 Judgement for Sending Campaign Postcard Found False–“Reckless Regard of the Truth”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/500000-judgement-for-sending-campaign-postcard-found-false-reckless-regard-of-thetruth/
— A Stupidity of the Chicago School System I Missed
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/a-stupidity-of-the-chicago-school-system-i-missed/
— Homeland Security Calls Out “Fake News” in Press Releases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/homeland-security-calls-out-fake-news-in-press-releases/
— GOP Precinct Committeeperson & Candidate Training in Rockford May 31st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/gop-precinct-committeeperson-candidate-training-in-rockford-may-31st/
— Census Reports McHenry County Growth Tips, Plus Population Gains and Losses for All Municipalities
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/census-reports-local-growth-tips-population-gains-and-losses-for-all-mchenry-county-municipalities/
— Data Centers among Reasons Electricity Prices Going Up in June
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/data-centers-among-reasons-electricity-prices-going-up-in-june/
— Daniel Biss Raises Big Money in Day after Announcement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/daniel-biss-raises-big-money-in-day-after-announcement/
— Chicago Republican Infighting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/chicago-republican-infighting/
— DeWitte Points to Pritzker’s Budget Having Increased 40% Since He Took Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/dewitte-points-to-pritzkers-budget-having-increased-40-since-he-took-office/
— Handful of Local Officials Miss Deadline for Filing Income Disclosure Forms
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/handful-of-local-officials-miss-deadline-for-filing-income-disclosure-forms/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Washington awash with suspicion of a Biden cancer cover-up
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/washington-awash-suspicion-biden-cancer-cover/
— Trump hammers illegal immigrants with full weight of law, criminal prosecutions up 45-fold
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/trump-hammers-illegal-immigrants-full-weight-law-criminal/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Brandon Johnson touts diverse administration, says black people run Chicago because ‘we’re most generous’ Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3415666/brandon-johnson-diverse-administration-black-people-most-generous/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/brandon-johnson-touts-diverse-administration-says-black-people-run-chicago-because-we-re-most-generous/ar-AA1F4UqR
AMERICAN THINKER
— Will the Supreme Court Succumb to Democratic Party Pressure?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/will_the_supreme_court_succumb_to_democratic_party_pressure.html
— Trump throws back stink bombs at celebrities
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/trump_throws_back_stink_bombs_at_celebrities.html
— Biden was not a decent man, nor was he a public servant
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/joe_biden_was_not_a_decent_man_nor_was_he_a_public_servant.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/
— Flailing Schumer tries to blame DOGE for Mexican ship’s Brooklyn Bridge collision
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/flailing-schumer-tries-to-blame-doge-for-mexican-ships-brooklyn-bridge-collision-1544487/
BLAZE
— Schumer tries to blame Trump for lethal Mexican boat crash into Brooklyn Bridge — but DHS fires back
https://www.theblaze.com/news/schumer-trump-cuauhtemoc-lethal-crash
— ‘Self-deport’ flights begin as some illegal migrants take advantage of Trump’s tempting offer
https://www.theblaze.com/news/self-deport-flights-begin-as-some-illegal-migrants-take-advantage-of-trump-s-tempting-offer-report
BREITBART
— Department of Homeland Security Conducts First Self-Deportation Charter Flight of 64 Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/20/department-of-homeland-security-conducts-first-self-deportation-charter-flight-of-64-migrants/
— U.S. hits Indian travel agencies facilitating illegal migration with visa bans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/u-s-hits-indian-travel-agencies-facilitating-illegal-migration-with-visa-bans/
— Trump’s immigration crackdown targets Washington restaurants
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trumps-immigration-crackdown-targets-washington-restaurants/
— Trump administration agrees to pay nearly $5M to settle suit over Ashli Babbitt shooting in Capitol
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-administration-agrees-to-pay-nearly-5m-to-settle-suit-over-ashli-babbitt-shooting-in-capitol/
— Supreme Court allows Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status for Venezuelans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-revoke-temporary-protected-status-for-venezuelans/
DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Sudden Cancer Diagnosis Doesn’t Add Up, Doctors Say
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/joe-biden-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-doesnt-add-up-doctors-presidency/
— Trump Suggests Biden Diagnosis Could Be Part Of Bigger Conspiracy
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/donald-trump-joe-biden-cancer-diagnosis-conspiracy-cover-up/
— Cash Flowing Into Anti-ICE Group’s Coffers Came From Chinese Gov’t-Linked Sources
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/cpc-bankrolled-by-chinese-government-linked-sources/
DAILY SIGNAL
— There’s No Love Like the Democrats’ Love of Illegal Alien Criminals
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/theres-no-love-like-the-democrats-love-of-illegal-alien-criminals/
DAILY WIRE
— Biden Has Terminal Cancer. The Cover Up Was Way Worse Than We Thought.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1599-member-exclusive
EPOCH TIMES
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove Protected Status for Venezuelans
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-remove-protected-status-for-venezuelans-5859993
TOWNHALL
— Trump Admin’s ICE Operation Nets Over 400 Arrests and 500 Deportations, Targeting Criminal Immigrants
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/05/19/ice-arrests-422-undocumented-immigrants-deports-528-in-houston-operation-n2657306
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSNBC & NPR
— Democrat leaders want sellers to use Trump’s tariffs to raise their prices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnYR-zYpU0
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5387330/trump-tariffs-china-collect-manufacturing-revenue
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff. I should write about my RINO leaders who are White and/or male and who promote Affirmative Action and DEI. They a) want votes from minorities and/or from females and/or b) have children who are minority and/or female.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-afrikaners-trump-refugees-ramaphosa-c87264523d555a64c0588d8734bba83a
MSN
— My critics/opponents attribute their successes to meritocracy. They attribute my and everyone else’s successes to their benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, 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.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/the-case-for-meritocracy/ar-AA1EeV7W
REUTERS
— US launches unit to target DEI policies at colleges with civil fraud probes
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-launches-unit-target-dei-policies-colleges-with-civil-fraud-probes-2025-05-20/
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-sides-venezuelan-man-seeking-return-us/story?id=121968260
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/most-venezuelans-not-at-immediate-risk-despite-tps-decision-immigration-attorney-says/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Melania Trump (the Statue) Vanishes in Slovenia. The bronze sculpture, erected near Ms. Trump’s hometown in eastern Slovenia, was chopped off at the feet and stolen, the police said. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/world/europe/slovenia-melania-trump-statue.html
— DOJ to use false claims act to pursue institutions over their discrimination efforts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/false-claims-act-dei-harvard.html
— The Miners Who Lost Their Jobs, but Not Their Faith in Trump’s Tariffs. With demand for steel down and a trade war underway, miners in the Iron Range of Minnesota are feeling the hit. But they hope better times are ahead. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be working for GAO. But I was collateral damage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/business/trump-tariffs-mining-steel.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Putin is stringing Trump along, and Trump doesn’t seem to realize it. As Putin stonewalls Trump’s ceasefire efforts, the U.S. president extends him patience and goodwill.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/19/putin-ukraine-ceasefire-trump/
BOSTON GLOBE
— Those who have demographics that vote for Republicans are more likely to enlist.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/20/opinion/military-recruiting-rebound-trump-biden/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders want the Pope to promote the anti-Catholic Democrat Party platform, that is, they want him to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/16/pope-leo-catholic-church-lgbtq-harrison-butker/83626547007/
— What should I do if my duties don’t match my job description? What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a) three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/05/13/job-duties-dont-match-description-hr/83410689007/
— Thousands of federal employees are on a roller coaster of being fired, rehired. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/federal-employees-fired-rehired-await-court-decision/83600693007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: These fired federal employees are considering running for public office. ‘It’s forced a choice’: Fired federal workers prepare to run for office. Democratic groups want to help. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/fired-federal-workers-run-politics-office/79329174007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip Biden Status From Venezuelan Migrants
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-migrant-legal-status-a2fc2f8d
— Will Anyone Take the Factory Jobs That Trump Wants to Bring Back to America? The president has pledged to bring more factory work back to U.S., but many manufacturing jobs are already going unfilled. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. Those jobs included two factory jobs: chipping slag and working on an automotive assembly line.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/will-anyone-take-the-factory-jobs-trump-wants-to-bring-back-to-america-f6cd377b
INC.
— Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/businesses-csr-corporate-social-responsibility-policies-trump/91190849
FAST COMPANY
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had 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, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91310203/it-costs-nearly-300000-to-raise-a-child-in-2025
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
— Are/were you collateral damage? I have been collateral damage since 1964 because I have always been a Republican and virtually all those above me have been Democrats or RINOs.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0403/trump-tariffs-immigration-signal-doge
MEDICAL NEWS
— Study reveals high rates of cannabis use disorder in older US veterans. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250519/Study-reveals-high-rates-of-cannabis-use-disorder-in-older-US-veterans.aspx
EDUCATION WEEK
— Boys Are Struggling in School. What Can Be Done? It’s time to take a hard look at gender equity.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-boys-are-struggling-in-school-what-can-be-done/2025/05
POLITICO
— How Congress could crush Trump’s Qatari plane gift. Lawmakers are weighing everything from sticking amendments in defense legislation to holding up nominees as they try to stop the president from accepting the foreign-owned aircraft.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/19/trump-qatar-jet-gift-congress-block-00357593
AXIOS
— Swift, Beyoncé, Springsteen: Trump’s new political foes are pop stars
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/19/trump-celebrity-investigations-feud-taylor-swift-beyonce-bruce-springsteen
TIMES OF INDIA
— ‘Could he be more racist?’ Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson slammed for ‘only hiring black people’ comment in viral speech. My critics/opponents have always given preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always discriminated against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/could-he-be-more-racist-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-slammed-for-only-hiring-black-people-comment-in-viral-speech/articleshow/121265000.cms
May 19, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— 30-mile protest against President Trump policies links Aurora to Chicago. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/hands-chicagoland-rally-30-mile-protest-president-donald-trump-policies-links-aurora-chicago-ogden-avenue/16462021/
— Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-president-joe-biden-diagnosed-prostate-cancer-routine-exam-hospital-philadelphia/16461073/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hands Across Chicagoland event stretches from Aurora to Chicago to protest Trump administration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/hands-across-chicagoland-event-stretches-from-aurora-to-chicago-to-protest-trump-administration/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stuebner was one of over 18,000 gathered over a 30-mile stretch across DuPage and Cook counties from Aurora to Chicago on Sunday to protest Trump administration policies, per a news release from the Hands Across Chicagoland event organized by the Democratic Party of DuPage County, Indivisible Illinois, the Illinois Federation of Teachers and other political organizations across the Chicago area. The idea was to “form a human chain of solidarity against Trump’s illegal and authoritarian actions and the GOP’s failure to defend the Constitution,” per the release. Protestors signed up in advance based on their ZIP code, and lined the sidewalk along Ogden Avenue and 26th Street, from Aurora to the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago, on Sunday afternoon. The idea arose out of past protests organized by the DuPage Democratic party, according to the group’s chair Reid McCollum. In March, the group hosted a “Tesla Takedown DuPage” protest against Elon Musk’s efforts to slash and restructure the federal government and decided they wanted to stage a protest that stretched further. Sunday’s demonstration was spurred on by the Trump administration sending individuals — like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the United States — to detention centers, McCollum said. The protest’s goal is to reach a significant number of people passing by the protest so that the people of the U.S. won’t “just slide into authoritarianism without fighting back,” McCollum said. Amongst a few dozen protestors gathered in Lisle, several local officials offered their remarks. Standing in front of an inflatable chicken meant to be a caricature of President Trump, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Matteson, told The Beacon-News that these kinds of demonstrations show that people are “ready to resist” the Trump administration. She described concerns about Medicaid, SNAP and tariffs as some of the everyday issues that are affecting ordinary residents’ lives.
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. To come into a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/opinion-immigration-us-donald-trump-jb-pritzker/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/19/trump-maga-fake-news-right-wing-media-lies-fox-propaganda-democracy-andy-shaw
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Is Gov. JB Pritzker the wealthiest person in Illinois? Here’s the top 5.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/05/19/top-5-richest-people-in-illinois-according-to-forbes/83669860007/
SUBURBAN LIFE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/05/19/thousands-line-ogden-avenue-to-protest-trump-administration/
WIFR
— Democrat leaders want Walmart to charge more to punish Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/18/trumps-tariffs-may-mean-walmart-shoppers-pay-more-his-treasury-chief-acknowledges/
TRIBE
— What’s it like to raise teens in 2025? What did you do when you were a teen? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail.
https://thetriibe.com/2025/05/whats-it-like-to-raise-teens-in-2025/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump order targets barcodes on ballots. Democrats object.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-order-targets-barcodes-on-ballots-theyve-long-been-a-source-of-misinformation/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-515/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Open borders + sanctuary status + free benefits + Gov. Abbott = Chicago population growth
https://wirepoints.org/open-borders-sanctuary-status-free-benefits-gov-abbott-chicago-population-growth-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who has had since 2015, who is having, and who will have the biggest impact on you/? For me, because I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, it is Trump. Since 2015, I have ever-increasingly included links to articles that involve Trump in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. My critics/opponents despise/hate Trump, and according to them, my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters promote Trump. Since 2015, to punish me, my critics/opponents have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. My critics/opponents stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Release of an important IVF report is approaching. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had 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, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always boasted that they discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Federal Dollars Going to Perv-Promoting Institutions of Baser Learning. On May 8, 2025, Northwestern University’s student newspaper the Daily Northwestern cheerily reported on Sex Week, a three-day event during which free sex toys were distributed at the student union, Norris University Center. Students lined up for the freebies which included “phallic-shaped, glitter-covered candles. … dildos and vibrators,” and “cute, little, squishy penis toys.”
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/15/federal-dollars-going-to-perv-promoting-institutions-of-baser-learning
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump unleashes on justices after Supreme Court blocks Tren de Aragua deportations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/18/trump-unleashes-justices-supreme-court-blocks-tren-de-aragua/
— Bruce Springsteen scorns blessings of being born in the U.S.A.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/16/bruce-springsteen-scorns-blessings-born-usa/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Owner of Trump-themed Huntley shop says local officials are targeting her business
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3411133/owner-trump-themed-shop-local-officials/
— There is only one reason Democrats want to make it easier for noncitizens to vote. They vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3413664/only-one-reason-democrats-want-easier-noncitizen-voting/
— Rubio says people should be ‘celebrating’ US welcoming South African immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3415297/rubio-says-people-should-be-celebrating-us-welcoming-south-african-immigrants/
NEW YORK POST
— The end is near for on-the-job reverse discrimination — another blow to DEI. My Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of their Republican subordinates like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/18/opinion/the-end-is-near-for-reverse-discrimination-a-blow-to-dei/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people. My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always boasted that they discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/
BREITBART
— Tim Walz Claims ICE Agents Are ‘Trump’s Modern Gestapo’ Chasing ‘Folks’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/18/tim-walz-claims-ice-agents-trumps-modern-gestapo-chasing-folks/
DAILY CALLER
— Hillary Clinton Appears To Have Learned Nothing From 2016 ‘Basket Of Deplorables’ Remark. I should write about past and present leaders of the following who have ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed/demonized/denigrated/condemned conservatives like me the most: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/18/hillary-clinton-appears-to-have-learned-nothing-from-2016-basket-of-deplorables-remark/
FEDERALIST
— The Ongoing Failure Of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/19/the-ongoing-failure-of-affirmative-action/
PJ MEDIA
— The Spirit Needed to Win Our Culture War
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/18/the-spirit-needed-to-win-our-culture-war-n4939922
— DEI Deathwatch Vol. XXI: Chicago Mayor Explains Black Hiring Preferences. 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://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/05/18/dei-deathwatch-vol-xxi-chicago-mayor-explains-black-hiring-preferences-n4939927
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump warns America’s businesses: Eat my tariffs, or pay the price
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/business/trump-tariffs-price-consumers
AOL
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly call Trump and those who voted for him Nazis.
https://www.aol.com/tim-walz-suggests-ice-trump-025837320.html
— ‘My Coworkers Think I’m DOGE’—A Federal Worker Says, ‘I Receive Mean Looks And Conversations Are Straight-Up Dying When I Walk By’ What did your coworkers do to get pay increases and promotions? My Democrat coworkers in the federal government did everything that they could to help their Democrat superiors and supervisors get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.aol.com/coworkers-think-im-doge-federal-010031089.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump’s big bill advances in rare weekend vote, but conservatives demand more changes
https://apnews.com/article/republicans-tax-cuts-house-trump-johnson-border-f03b7e9cc3015ef9a0ece37b76bc5f66
NEWSWEEK
— Trump called for a “major investigation” into celebrities who aided Kamala Harris’s 2024 election campaign, including Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé, saying their appearances were potentially illegal contributions.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-investigation-beyonce-bruce-springsteen-performances-2073941
NBC NEWS
— Key House committee advances Trump agenda bill after appeasing conservatives
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/key-house-committee-advances-trump-agenda-bill-conservatives-rcna207555
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html
— Key House Panel Approves Trump’s Megabill After Conservatives Relent
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/18/us/trump-news-updates
— Inside the I.V.F. Deliberations at the White House as Key Report Nears. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had 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, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never have had able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/ivf-policy-white-house.html
— Everyone Hates ‘Debanking’ But Is Unclear on What to Do. What do the leaders of your bank think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-debanking-crypto.html
— DOGE Seeks to Investigate GAO. GAO rejected the request, saying it reports to Congress and is exempt from oversight by Elon Musk’s budget-cutting group. The Democrat who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/doge-musk-gao-accountability-office.html
USA TODAY
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/23/what-is-a-rino-in-gop-politics/73817513007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/15/red-states-join-trump-dei-fight/83518866007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/
TAMPAS FREE PRESS
— Victor Davis Hanson Predicts Democratic Shift To Centrist In 2028
https://www.tampafp.com/victor-davis-hanson-predicts-democratic-shift-to-centrist-in-2028/
DESERET NEWS
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/05/18/jason-riley-affirmative-action-myth-dei/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-approval-rating-charts-eaf089db
REASON
— According to Democrat leaders a) only Whites discriminate and b) only Whites should pay for the sins of their forefathers.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/18/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees/
CHRISTIAN SICENCE MONITOR
— Belvidere aims for economic revival – but will Trump tariffs help?
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0519/trump-tariffs-midwest-manufacturers?icid=rss
RAW STORY
— Snubbed: Pope gives JD Vance just 17 seconds — but has long meetings with other leaders
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-pope-2672071466/
AUTOPIAN
— Direct competitors of the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the muscle car. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle car’s direct competitors?
https://www.theautopian.com/dodge-is-blaming-the-tariffs-for-killing-the-charger-daytona-r-t-a-car-seemingly-no-one-wanted-anyway/
SAVING ADVICE
— 7 Cars That Only The 1% Can Afford. The 5 vehicles that I have at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville are among the least expensive ones there: 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2021 Chevrolet Malibu Premier, 2019 Ford Escape Titanium, and 2005 Corvette.
https://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2025/05/15/10156332_7-cars-that-only-the-1-can-afford.html
May 17, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WGN9
— Illinois Democrat leaders focus on turning Illinois farmers against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/farming-anxieties-rise-among-illinoisans-as-trade-war-affects-crop-exports/ar-AA1EVUzf
FOX32
— Democrat and RINO leaders got the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s Alien Enemies Act deportations. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/supreme-court-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump’s bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/supreme-court-rejects-trump-deportations/
— Democrat leaders say that the Republican tax bill is filled with illogicalities, craven giveaways
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/editorial-republicans-tax-bill-tips-salt-overtime/
— Under Trump, Republican leaders fight Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, they fight race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/trump-dei/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/16/tariffs-trump-maga-corruption-democracy-america-voters-mona-charen
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/05/16/chicago-catholics-pope-leo-xiv-marriage-lgbtq
— House speaker on Crespo ouster: ‘Can’t allow someone to go rogue’ “He’s free to speak his mind. He’s free to vote his conscience,” House Speaker Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch, said, but added that no one would be allowed to use their official leadership roles “to pursue an agenda that is antithetical to our shared goals” of passing a budget. Since I was 53 years old in 2001, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have rudely dumped me forever because I supported Pat O’Malley in the primary for governor instead of their candidate Jim Ryan. I ran O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. They continue to blame me not only for Ryan’s loss in the 2002 general election, but for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since then. I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/16/emanuel-chris-welch-fred-crespo-ouster-house-commitee-seperate-budget-rich-mller
DAILY HERALD
— GOP candidates for state offices will host discussion in St. Charles Saturday morning
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250516/illinois-state-politics/gop-candidates-for-state-offices-will-host-discussion-in-st-charles-saturday-morning/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250517/news/illinois-seeks-to-prevent-feds-from-tying-funding-for-states-to-immigration-enforcement/
WBEZ
— A quarter of Chicago high schoolers missed more than a month of school last year. When you were in grade school and high school, how many days did you miss? I missed extremely few.
https://www.wbez.org/
SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote protests against Trump
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/05/15/thousands-to-line-ogden-avenue-sunday-to-protest-trump-administration/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— AUGUST 16, 2012 FLASHBACK: GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters: A bunch of political info — daily
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2012/08/16/bernard-schoenburg-bunch-political-info/41733104007/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Republicans forge their tax bill in Trump’s image, with ‘MAGA accounts’ and more
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-republicans-forge-their-tax-bill-in-trumps-image-with-maga-accounts-and-more/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DOGE tried assigning a team to GAO. GAO refused. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They wasted my career and they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They rudely flushed down their toilet a) my three job-related master’s degrees (business-1976, accounting-1980, and finance-1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997), c) my job-related professional license (CPA-1981), and d) what I had learned about IRS by working for it for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year). They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-16/doge-tried-assigning-a-team-to-the-government-accountability-office-it-refused
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5401008/doge-gao-congress
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its attempts to expand its reach beyond executive branch agencies, this time seeking to embed in an independent legislative watchdog that finds waste, fraud and abuse in the government. But the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a legislative branch entity that helps audit government spending and suggest ways to make it more efficient, rejected that request on Friday by noting that GAO is not subject to presidential executive orders. The request to GAO had cited President Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order creating DOGE, which, despite its name, is not a formal agency. DOGE’s request to GAO and its response was first reported by NOTUS. A spokesperson for GAO confirmed DOGE’s outreach, and reiterated that “as a legislative branch agency, GAO is not subject to Executive Orders and has therefore declined any requests to have a DOGE team assigned to GAO.” In an announcement to employees posted Friday afternoon, GAO leadership said they sent a letter to Acting Administrator of DOGE Amy Gleason and notified members of Congress, according to a copy of the notice shared with NPR by an employee not authorized to speak publicly. The GAO regularly releases reports that highlight ways to improve government efficiency, like a May 13 review of federal programs with fragmented, overlapping, or duplicative actions it says could save over $100 billion in spending. But there’s been little overlap between GAO’s work and DOGE’s actions so far. “DOGE’s attempted intrusion into an independent, nonpartisan legislative branch agency is a direct assault on our nation’s sacred separation of powers,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which oversees GAO, in a statement to NPR. “DOGE cannot and must not have any access to GAO. Oversight Democrats are monitoring this situation closely and stand behind GAO’s well-established status as a critical legislative branch agency.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about DOGE’s attempts to place a team at GAO. . .DOGE’s efforts to embed at GAO also heighten growing tensions between Congress and the executive branch. Last week, President Trump abruptly fired the Librarian of Congress, a year before the end of her term — raising concerns from members of Congress including Senate Majority leader John Thune. Meanwhile, the watchdog agency has dozens of investigations underway into whether the White House violated the law by freezing funding that had already been allocated by Congress. “ We have right now 39 different investigations underway,” Gene Dodaro, the current head of the GAO, told a Senate hearing on Apr. 29. “We’re trying to get the information from the agencies about what their legal position is for not expending the money,” Dodaro told lawmakers.)
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/community/springfield-pridefest-celebrates-15th-year-on-saturday/article_b8a69af1-3e9c-4178-ae65-55fc98fd9fe5.html
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Vacancy Tax On Landlords Could Help Fill City’s Affordable Housing Gap, UChicago Students Say. I was a reluctant landlord 1976-1984 because I could sell my University Park town home only if I sold it at a big loss.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/16/vacancy-tax-on-landlords-could-help-fill-citys-affordable-housing-gap-uchicago-students-say/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-307/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The state and the media refuse to ask the proper questions about Chinese companies in Illinois
https://wirepoints.org/the-state-and-the-media-refuses-to-ask-the-proper-questions-about-chinese-companies-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
JEFF BERKOWITZ
— IL GOP US Senate & GOV candidates can win in 2026
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/il-gop-us-senate-and-gov-candidates
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Illinois Freedom Caucus: “Cut the Waste & Bloat”
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/illinois-freedom-caucus-cut-the-waste-bloat-in-budget/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Kids and Marijuana – A Bad Combination
https://illinoisfamily.org/marijuana-2/kids-and-marijuana-a-bad-combination/
— Papal Warmup
https://illinoisfamily.org/faith/papal-warmup/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL prioritizes $3.2B for immigrants, leaves working families behind
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b7099305-d374-404e-8bfd-ee4bc3037919.html
— Illinois home to 15th largest share of roads in poor conditions across country. The smaller the vehicle that you drive, the more adversely that you are impacted by bad roads.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e4846ca4-5b89-4254-b9de-8a0437342e10.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Under Trump, Republican leaders fight Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, they fight race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Since I was 53 years old in 2001, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have rudely dumped me forever because I supported Pat O’Malley in the primary for governor instead of their candidate Jim Ryan. I ran O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. They continue to blame me not only for Ryan’s loss in the 2002 general election, but for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since then. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— DOGE has tried to assign a team to GAO. GAO refused. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They wasted my career and they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They rudely flushed down their toilet a) my three job-related master’s degrees (business-1976, accounting-1980, and finance-1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997), c) my job-related professional license (CPA-1981), and d) what I had learned about IRS by working for it for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year). They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that minorities, females, younger people, and veterans should get reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. All my coworkers who were the aforesaid and who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors and supervisors who despised/hated me the most because I was a Republican and/or because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I would focus on my Democrat superiors who flushed down their toilets my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The White House has launched a Drudge Report lookalike website. I should write about the many GOPUSA ILLINOIS lookalike websites and newsletters that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes publish since 2005. Sooner or later, they all go dark. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— India’s Caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am low Caste. They have aways stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that my mother never attended high school, and d) that I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ernst & Young was one of the many CPA firms that had no interest in me because I was too old, that is, a) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, b) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, c) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, and d) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, I was not a minority, female, or veteran. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you attend you senior prom? I did not. I was not viewed as being college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I had spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I was viewed as being draft bait. I had been accepted by UIC, but UIC is not Ivy League. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Federal employees do not have to take a vow of poverty. But few federal employees make GS-13 ($117,807/year). Fewer make GS-14 ($139,211/year). Even fewer make GS-15 ($163,749/year). Extremely few make Senior Executive Service (SES) ($195,200/year). Becoming a federal employee severely limits your earning potential. Unless you are a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government waste your career and get rid of you if they do not promote you to GS-13 by age 25, GS-14 by age 30, GS-15 by age 35, and SES by age 40. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines. They especially use against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. In my defense, I did not earn a) my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) my professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45 , 47 and 48, and c) my professional license until I was 32. Further, I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Congresswoman leading reparations movement says wealthy Black Americans deserve payments, too. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/16/rep-summer-lee-leading-reparations-movement-says-wealthy-black/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Harvard slams ‘abusive and retaliatory’ DOJ investigation over race-based admissions. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if they could have found a qualified minority, female, younger person, and/or veteran, they would have admitted them instead of me.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3414475/harvard-slams-doj-investigation-race-based-admissions/
— GOP should be codifying Trump’s executive orders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3413695/gop-not-dems-should-codify-trump-executive-orders-lauren-boebert/
NEW YORK POST
— Supreme Court again blocks quick deportations under Alien Enemies Act in new blow to Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/supreme-court-again-blocks-quick-deportations-under-alien-enemies-act-in-new-blow-to-trump/
— Trump’s ‘knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution’ is tackling long-festering ills no one else would
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/opinion/trump-is-taking-on-long-festering-ills-no-one-else-would-via-his-knock-down-drag-out-counterrevolution/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘U.S. owes us a debt’: Dems demand trillions in reparations ‘NOW’ Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/16/u-s-owes-us-a-debt-dems-demand-trillions-in-reparations-now-1543940/
BREITBART
— Trump Slams SCOTUS for Ruling on Alien Enemies Act: ‘This Decision Will Let More Criminals Pour’ In
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/16/ttrump-slams-scotus-for-ruling-on-alien-enemies-act-this-decision-will-let-more-criminals-pour-in/
DAILY CALLER
— IRS Quietly Puts On New Face, Ousts Anti-Trump Spokeswoman With Drunk Driving Record. I should write about my Democrat IRS superiors and supervisors who despised/hated me the most because I was a Republican and/or because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I would focus on those who a) disallowed my travel vouchers, b) disallowed my education deductions, and c) stopped me from being promoted to GS-13. I would focus on those who flushed down their toilets my earning master’s degrees in business and accounting and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/16/exclusive-irs-ousts-anti-trump-spokeswoman-arrest-record/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Bashes Supreme Court Following Order Further Blocking Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Illegal Gang Members
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/16/trump-bashes-supreme-court-following-order-further-blocking-use-of-alien-enemies-act-to-deport-illegal-gang-members/
FOX NEWS
— Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to deport Venezuelan migrants under Alien Enemies Act. Conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the court’s decision.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-blocks-trump-effort-deport-venezuelan-migrants-under-alien-enemies-act
— Trump says Comey knew ‘assassination’ meaning behind deleted social media post. President Trump claims deleted Instagram post was deliberate call for assassination as Justice Department investigates.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-says-comey-knew-assassination-meaning-behind-deleted-social-media-post
— Trump admin wants 20K National Guard troops to help with mass deportation effort
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/trump-admin-wants-20k-national-guard-troops-to-help-with-mass-deportation-effort/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— House Democrat Launching Resolution for U.S. to Spend ‘Trillions’ on Reparations. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/house-democrat-launching-resolution-for-u-s-to-spend-trillions-on-reparations/
MRC TV
— Trump Signs EO Redirecting Funds Used to Help Illegals to Build a National Center for Homeless Vets
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/nick-kangadis/trump-signs-eo-redirecting-funds-used-help-illegals-build-national-center
NEWSMAX
— Academia’s ‘Mafia’ Cares Little for American Dream, Students
https://www.newsmax.com/parthachakraborty/columbia-sinwar-stem/2025/05/16/id/1211267/
PJ MEDIA
— Most U.S. Voters Want Deportations to Continue
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/16/poll-most-us-voters-want-deportations-to-continue-n4939865
POST MILLENNIAL
— Dem lawmakers demand TRILLIONS in reparations for black Americans. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-lawmakers-demand-trillions-in-reparations-for-black-americans
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5302561-trump-administration-diversity-equity-inclusion/
— White House launches Drudge Report lookalike site. I should write about the many GOPUSA ILLINOIS lookalike websites that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes publish since 2005. Sooner or later, they all go dark.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5277015-white-house-drudge-report-dupe-site/
ABC NEWS
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-weigh-blocks-trumps-order-end-birthright/story?id=121710507
NBC NEWS
— Conservatives block Trump’s big tax breaks bill in a stunning setback. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, named with a nod to Trump, is teetering at a critical moment.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/conservatives-block-trumps-big-tax-breaks-and-spending-cuts-bill-in-a-stunning-setback/3747778/
ASSOCIATED PRESS & NEWS NATION NOW
— Police investigate disappearance of Melania Trump’s statue in her native Slovenia
https://apnews.com/article/melania-trump-statue-slovenia-9440b43a0a6771256522290fb219efce
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/melania-trump-statue-slovenia-stolen/
CNN
— India’s Caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am low Caste. They have aways stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that my mother never attended high school, and d) that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.news8000.com/news/national-world/india-s-caste-system-is-controversial-and-discriminatory-so-why-is-it-being-included-in/article_87c15db9-3951-5039-a397-265ef3c3efde.html
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/takeaways-from-the-supreme-court-arguments-on-birthright-citizenship-and-nationwide-injunctions/ar-AA1ER4zr
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-workers-eeoc-trump-texas-lgbtq-harassment-ab89a52aca37c3b0319ed665852d6252
MSN
— American Pope promises to have an ‘active social media presence’ after using his old account to criticize Trump. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy not only Trump, but to destroy all those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, 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-za/news/other/american-pope-promises-to-have-an-an-active-social-media-presence-after-using-his-old-account-to-criticize-trump/ar-AA1EIpLH
MSNBC & PRETORIA NEWS & NATION
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, a) only Whites discriminate and b) only Whites should pay for the sins of their forefathers.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-afrikaners-apartheid-refugees-genocide-rcna206660
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/pretoria-news/20250516/281672555844566
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/white-south-african-refugees-trump/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. They ever-increasingly do everything that they can to drive his approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Republicans Push to End Immigrant Benefits in Democratic States. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/immigrant-trump-states-california.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/nyregion/nyc-migrants-legal-help-ending.html
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010163960/can-trump-really-end-birthright-citizenship.html
— How many able-bodied people are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/opinion/medicaid-work-requirements-pointless.html
WASHINGTON POST & MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-deportation-el-salvador/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/supreme-court-trump-venezuelan-migrants-gang/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/trump-immigration-asylum-lawsuit-courts/46e1364c-320e-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d6-LRpPzwA
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump bashes Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift on Truth Social
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/16/trump-bruce-springsteen-taylor-swift/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/trans-organizers-describe-prides-importance-under-trump/2025/05/16/85974861-97af-46c7-a279-e585e43a2fec_video.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Pope Took a Vow of Poverty. He May Still Need to File U.S. Taxes. The first American pontiff has special circumstances but may want to file a return even if he doesn’t owe anything. Federal employees do not have to take a vow of poverty. But few federal employees make GS-13 ($117,807/year). Fewer make GS-14 ($139,211/year). Even fewer make GS-15 ($163,749/year). Extremely few make Senior Executive Service (SES) ($195,200/year). Becoming a federal employee severely limits your earning potential. Unless you are a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government waste your career and get rid of you if they do not promote you to GS-13 by age 25, GS-14 by age 30, GS-15 by age 35, and SES by age 40. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines. They especially use against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. In my defense, I did not earn a) my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) my professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45 , 47 and 48, and c) my professional license until I was 32. Further, I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/pope-leo-xiv-us-taxes-f7f1de28
— It Was a Mistake to Skip My Senior Prom. Did you attend you senior prom? I did not. I was not viewed as being college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I had spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I was viewed as being draft bait. I had been accepted by UIC, but UIC is not Ivy League.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/never-be-too-cool-for-your-own-life-why-it-was-a-mistake-to-skip-my-senior-prom-c7900da0
— Americans Are Redefining Old Age. Are you old? I am 76. If you are old, what are you doing with your life? I spend 10+ hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/americans-in-their-80s-and-90s-are-redefining-old-age-5f8ae8a6?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
BLOOMBERG
— Chicago Taps Ernst & Young to Close $1 Billion Gap as Trump Threatens Funds. Ernst & Young was one of the many CPA firms that had no interest in me because I was too old, that is, a) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, b) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, c) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, and d) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, I was not a minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/chicago-taps-ey-to-close-1-billion-gap-as-trump-threatens-funds
FAST COMPANY
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91335032/trump-attacks-digital-equity-act-rural-internet
POLITICO
— Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit, citing rising debt. What percent of Moody’s employees despise/hate Trump?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/moodys-downgrade-us-debt-00355217
ATLANTIC & NPR
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/supreme-court-national-injunctions/682824/
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5399779/supreme-court-justices-seem-divided-in-birthright-citizenship-arguments
PEW RESEARCH
— Among Republicans, conservatives are less likely to trust information from national news media. The mainstream news media exists to elect and to reelect Democrats.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/05/08/republicans-have-become-more-likely-since-2024-to-trust-information-from-news-outlets-social-media/
May 16, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Hyde Park residents threatening lawsuit against city for planned permanent homeless shelter SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY
https://abc7chicago.com/post/hyde-park-residents-threatening-lawsuit-chicago-planned-permanent-dusable-lake-shore-drive-homeless-shelter/16417298/
NBC5
— Owner of Trump souvenir shop says she is being targeted because of politics
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/owner-of-trump-souvenir-shop-says-she-is-being-targeted-because-of-politics/3746829/
WGN9
— What if the mainstream news media had blamed Biden for price increases like it blames Trump for price increases?
https://wgntv.com/news/walmart-raising-prices-due-to-tariff-costs/
FOX32
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2G_er_7B7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEYwVyGcjw8
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://www.wbez.org/springfield/2025/05/15/lawmakers-save-program-health-benefits-illinois-without-legal-status
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/05/14/illinois-immigrants-closely-watching-supreme-court-arguments-on-birthright-citizenship
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/does-trump-have-a-case-to-end-birthright-citizenship/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— What if the mainstream news media had blamed Biden for price increases like it blames Trump for price increases?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/retailers-price-hikes-tariffs/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/april-us-consumer-goods-price-tracker/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE IN THE NAPERVILL SUN: Chicago posts 7th largest population increase in nation. What percent of Chicago residents are illegals?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/chicago-census-population-growth/
— Democrat leaders drive the stock market down and then blame it on Trump
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/editorial-donald-trump-stock-market-volatility-tariffs/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/medicaid-cuts-illinois/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/what-birthright-citizenship/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/trumps-beautiful-bill-explainer/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/april-us-consumer-goods-price-tracker/
— Buckle up, folks, Illinois’ budget is $536M short. Tax hikes cannot be the fix.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/pritzker-budget-service-tax-illinois/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/05/15/pope-leo-xiv-foreign-language-brother-maga-catholic-theological-union-hyde-park-trump-doge
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250515/nation-and-world-politics/what-to-know-about-the-supreme-court-arguments-in-the-birthright-citizenship-case/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago’s population is growing again. What percent of Chicago residents are illegals?
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-reverses-population-slide-2024-gains
RIVER BENDER & JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they ever-increasingly promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-leads-coalition-backing-challenge-to-executive-orders-unlawfully-targeting-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-82535.cfm
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c871cdb7-1410-5d5b-b1ac-f48a2d3e1a5f.html
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-as-trump-targets-dei-republican-led-states-intensify-efforts-to-stamp-it-out/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOUNAL REGISTER
— Illinois Democrats defend Carla Hayden because Trump fired her. My critics/opponents stress that Illinois Republicans did not defend me because my Democrat GAO superiors fired me, that is, because they forced me to retire.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/nation-world/2025/05/14/former-librarian-of-congress-carla-hayden-has-springfield-connections/83548743007/
JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c871cdb7-1410-5d5b-b1ac-f48a2d3e1a5f.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-16/historical-precedent-courts-wrestle-with-white-houses-invasion-claim
— DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist in deportations
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-15/dhs-asks-for-20-000-national-guard-troops-to-assist-in-deportations
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote illegal immigration
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-15/a-once-fringe-theory-on-birthright-citizenship-comes-to-the-supreme-court
WAND
— Pritzker uses Trump’s tariffs to lower Fiscal Year 2026 revenue projection by $536 million. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to force me to retire.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-administration-lowers-fiscal-year-2026-revenue-projection-by-536-million-citing-unpredictable-trump-economy/article_a4e086f6-be18-4409-b9f8-ec8c8e7f9451.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Porn would become crime under Republican proposal
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/porn-would-become-crime-under-republican-proposal/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-south-africa-says-trumps-aid-cuts-stripped-more-than-8000-health-workers-from-its-hiv-program/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their Afghan refugees against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-policy-moves-worry-afghan-refugees-in-us-military-town-and-christian-groups-that-assist-them/
— Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-asylum-seekers-still-arrive-at-the-us-border-but-what-will-happen-to-them/
— Texas Democrats propose resolution to ban Cruz from college playoffs: ‘Well-known curse’ I should write those who have constructively, if not literally, banned me from their events since 2000. I would focus on those who have/had lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and who paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/texas-democrats-propose-resolution-to-ban-cruz-from-college-playoffs-well-known-curse/
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/towns-depend-on-immigrant-labor-20164671
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO
— Youth Employment Data Brief: Racial and Geographic Inequities in Youth and Young Adult Joblessness and Disconnection in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, and the U.S. According to my critics/opponents, they would never have stooped to take the jobs that I took. I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, etc.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CHa2yCwDsgQl6ZF-9NRXPILdLCWPj8vp/view
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Illinois considers lowering scores students need to be considered proficient on state exams. Democrats run the federal government. Since the 1960s, to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, they have ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1976, 1980, and 1997 job-related master’s degrees, b) my 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 job-related professional certifications, and c) my 1981 job-related professional license. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/05/15/illinois-considers-changes-to-test-cut-scores/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-514/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-306/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Republicans say Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act is broken, needs fixing
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_43f9b28d-6ede-4e3f-b102-ca9b48140a9e.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois lawmakers push new $2.7B sales tax on haircuts, Netflix, Uber and other services
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-lawmakers-push-new-2-7b-sales-tax-on-haircuts-netflix-uber-and-other-services/
— Nearly all Illinois communities smaller since 2020; Chicago loses nearly 30K
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/nearly-all-illinois-communities-smaller-since-2020-chicago-loses-nearly-30k/
— Why Chicago Teachers Union’s $7.3B tax hike will hurt all of Illinois
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/why-chicago-teachers-unions-7-3b-tax-hike-will-hurt-all-of-illinois/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they ever-increasingly promote 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
— Democrat Leaders Revive Reparations Demand in Congress. The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you should pay reparations to Blacks: 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. Democrat leaders shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have. I should write about the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that. I would write about the success that they had with my Black subordinates. I would focus on the success that they had with my Black subordinate who they replaced me with. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 and gave him my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are biggest losses of income that you have suffered? For me, in today’s dollars, they include a) $86,371/year ($2.4 million so far) since 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire ($153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension), b) $23,472/year in 1980 when my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors forced me to take that pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO, c) about $55,000/year in 1971 when my Firestone Store boss fired me, and d) $20.67/hour in 1969 when my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign. I should write a book about the aforesaid adverse actions. They would not have happened if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats run the federal government. Since the 1960s, to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, they have ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1976, 1980, and 1997 job-related master’s degrees, b) my 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 job-related professional certifications, and c) my 1981 job-related professional license. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I had. If not that, my wages would have been lower. The jobs that I had enabled me to a) buy a 6-year-old car when I was 16, b) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. and c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Take American jobs back from China. Remove all vestiges of Biden-Harris China trade policy.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/15/take-american-jobs-back-china/
NEW YORK POST
— World’s tallest building lit up with American flag as President Trump arrives in UAE
https://nypost.com/2025/05/15/world-news/worlds-tallest-building-lit-up-with-american-flag-as-president-trump-arrives-in-uae/
— Vance blasts ‘weak-willed’ US leaders of ‘sanctuary’ cities for turning police into ‘enemies’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/15/us-news/vance-sears-us-leaders-turning-police-into-enemies/
— Secret Service probing ex-FBI chief James Comey for allegedly threatening Trump in since-deleted ‘8647’ Instagram post
https://nypost.com/2025/05/15/us-news/ex-fbi-chief-james-comey-accused-of-threatening-trump-in-since-deleted-8647-instagram-post-deeply-concerning/
AMAC
— Trump Finds the Only Refugees Liberals Don’t Like
https://amac.us/newsline/society/trump-finds-the-only-refugees-liberals-dont-like/
BREITBART
— Majority Support Deporting Illegals from U.S., Including Most Swing Voters
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/15/poll-majority-support-deporting-illegals-from-u-s-including-most-swing-voters/
— Democrat Messaging Falters as They Ask Constituents to Foot Medicaid Costs for 1.4 Million Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/15/democrat-messaging-falters-as-they-ask-constituents-to-foot-medicaid-costs-for-1-4-million-illegal-aliens/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Sounds Off On Birthright Citizenship Ahead Of SCOTUS Argument: ‘Drug Cartels Love It’ “The United States of America is the only Country in the World that does this, for what reason, nobody knows…”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sounds-off-on-birthright-citizenship-ahead-of-scotus-argument-drug-cartels-love-it
FOX BUSINESS
— What are biggest losses of income that you have suffered? For me, in today’s dollars, they include a) $86,371/year ($2.4 million so far) since 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire ($153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension), b) $23,472/year in 1980 when my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors forced me to take that pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO, c) about $55,000/year in 1971 when my Firestone Store boss fired me, and d) $20.67/hour in 1969 when my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign. I should write a book about the aforesaid adverse actions. They would not have happened if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/youve-just-gotten-fired-how-forgive-yourself-move
FOX NEWS
— Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., reintroduces reparations legislation for Black Americans. The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you should pay reparations to Blacks: 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.foxnews.com/video/6372861348112
MRC TV
— Democrats Introduce Congressional Resolution Demanding ‘Reparations’ For Blacks
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/democrats-introduce-congressional-resolution-demanding-reparations-blacks
NEWSMAX
— Democrat Leaders Revive Reparations Demand in Congress. Democrat leaders shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have. I should write about the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that. I would write about the success that they had with my Black subordinates. I would focus on the success that they had with my Black subordinate who they replaced me with. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 and gave him my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/reparations-injustice-slavery/2025/05/15/id/1211150/
— GOP Bill Would Codify Trump’s Trans Military Ban
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/gop-bill-codify/2025/05/15/id/1211134/
PJ MEDIA
— Bombshell Revelation Exposes Pete Buttigieg’s Role in Reagan Airport Crash
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/15/bombshell-revelation-exposes-pete-buttigiegs-role-in-reagan-airport-crash-n4939805
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Noem says DHS, Secret Service investigating Comey over alleged ‘assassination’ threat
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5303091-noem-dhs-secret-service-investigating-comey/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-saudi-arabia-human-rights-f005cb14a8a0d51b1963a05215305d04
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-israel-gaza-hamas-hostages-05-16-2025-fb5e3b08af46a55b6faeead7b8647dc6
MSN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trump-bragging-about-brokering-ceasefire-between-india-pakistan-may-cause-us-billions-former-pentagon-official/ar-AA1ESP2P
— Trump proposes a MAGA bank account for kids. When I was 16 years old In 1964, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air with the money that I earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers. When I was 17 years old in 1966, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint with the money that I earned washing dishes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-big-beautiful-bill-proposes-a-maga-bank-account-for-kids-what-does-it-mean/ar-AA1EHITi
ABC NEWS
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-targets-dei-republican-led-states-intensify-efforts-121862885
NBC NEWS
— Former FBI Director James Comey under investigation for post seen as a potential threat to Trump’s life
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/james-comey-investigation-instagram-post-threat-trump-8647-rcna207167
CBS NEWS
— DHS requests 20,000 National Guard troops to help with mass deportation. Democrat ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/department-homeland-security-requests-20000-national-guard-troops/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/world/asia/trump-india-pakistan-ceasefire.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/trump-voice-of-america-firings.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/politics/trump-south-africa-afrikaners.html (FRONT PAGE)
WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/05/15/trump-military-parade-soldiers-sleep-office-buildings/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/05/15/voa-staff-firings-termination-trump/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/15/white-south-africans-trump-racial-discrimination/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/15/trump-qatar-iran-ukraine/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/trump-immigration-asylum-lawsuit-courts/46e1364c-320e-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
USA TODAY
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/15/red-states-join-trump-dei-fight/83518866007/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at women that Republicans cause all the problems that women have.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/13/women-disadvantage-retirement/83370449007/
— House Republicans propose $5 billion for Donald Trump’s school voucher agenda. My parents had less money because they paid to send a) me to Lutheran grade schools for 9 years and b) my bother to Lutheran grade schools for 10 years. Because of that, I had to work my way through college.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/14/house-republicans-advance-school-voucher-bill/83626836007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Bags of Cash From Drug Cartels Flood Teller Windows at U.S. Banks. Chinese money-launderers allegedly made six-figure deposits at Chase, Bank of America and Citibank branches across Los Angeles County. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/china-mexico-drug-money-laundering-banks-907f35f8
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: What if the mainstream news media had blamed Biden for price increases like it blames Trump for price increases?
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/walmart-wmt-q1-earnings-report-stock-2026-b978bcf5
— First-Time Home Buyers Are Struggling. Back in the good old days, that is, back in 1972, I bought a new town home wan I was 24 years old. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary had just increased from $55,850/year to $68,315/year. The down payment came from what I had earned working for IRS for15 months, working part-time for Firestone Stores for 18 months, and working full-time for Firestone Stores for 7 months before that. Those earnings also enabled me to buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971 and to pay for graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/first-time-home-buyers-builders-1bfa046d
FORBES
— Boeing Gets 28 Plane Order From Etihad Airways As Trump Tour Continues
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2025/05/16/boeing-gets-28-plane-order-from-etihad-airways-as-trump-tour-continues/
FED SMITH
— Additional Details Regarding Proposed Cuts to Federal Employee Benefits. Democrats run the federal government. If I was still working for the federal government, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinate would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/15/additional-details-regarding-proposed-cuts-to-federal-employee-benefits/
BROOKINGS
— What Immigration Means For U.S. Employment and Wages. If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I had. If not that, the wages that I earned would have been lower. The jobs that I had enabled me to a) buy a 6-year-old car when I was 16, b) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. and c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-immigration-means-for-u-s-employment-and-wages/
CREATORS SYNDICATE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racists.
https://www.creators.com/read/Ruben-Navarrette/05/25/trumps-racist-refugee-policy-depends-on-whos-coming-to-dinner
LGBTQ NATION
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/republicans-are-obsessed-with-trans-hate-this-one-election-shows-how-democrats-can-push-back/
GOOGLE AI
— Lowering standards. Democrats run the federal government. Since the 1960s, to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, they have ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1976, 1980, and 1997 job-related master’s degrees, b) my 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 job-related professional certifications, and c) my 1981 job-related professional license. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lowering+standards+employment
May 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— IRS criminal investigators in Chicago being ‘deputized’ as immigration enforcers under Trump administration plan. I worked for GAO for 3 years on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) while I was a GS-13 Step 1-3, currently $117,807-$125,661/year. I worked with CID employees for 5 1/.2 years while I was an IRS Revenue Officer at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/irs-criminal-investigators-in-chicago-being-deputized-as-immigration-enforcers-under-trump-administration-plan/
— Trump marvels at wealth of his Arab hosts while he eyes White House and Air Force One upgrades
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/trump-arab-hosts-air-force-one-upgrades/
— Redirect migrant funds to empower Chicago’s youths. What did you do get accepted by a college? I a) took college preparatory courses, b) earned an ACT score of 24, and c) graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/opinion-chicago-teen-takeovers-migrant-funds/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Have you been on a do not hire list? When I was 49 years old in 1997, constructively, if not literally, my Democrat GAO superiors put me on everyone’s do not hire list when they forced me to retire. Previously, they had a) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and d) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/14/lincoln-park-high-school-administrators-removed-chicago-public-schools-do-not-hire-list
DAILY HERALD
— ‘The claims against me are unfounded’: Huntley Trump store’s eviction trial delayed
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250514/local-politics/the-claims-against-me-are-unfounded-huntley-trump-stores-eviction-trial-delayed/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/medicaid-illinois-danger-several-fronts
RIVERSIDE BROOKFIELD LANDMARK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their May 18 protest against Trump
https://www.rblandmark.com/2025/05/13/protest-anti-trump-human-chain-brookfield/
WAND TV
— Gun rights activists take to Springfield as state Democrats look to pass multiple gun laws
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/gun-rights-activists-take-to-springfield-as-state-democrats-look-to-pass-multiple-gun-laws/article_e8a4c3cd-f397-4e49-9209-29e68b38c1ca.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-senate-committee-approves-bill-ensuring-medication-abortion-access-amid-uncertainty-with-trumps-fda/article_f126e72a-d598-44c2-b49b-01a58b3272c1.html
WCIA
— Retirement Wave Hits CPA Industry. Why did the CPA industry have no use for me? I was too old. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. If I had majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, my entire life would have been different.
https://www.wcia.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/812689749/as-retirement-wave-hits-cpa-industry-prohorizons-guides-firm-owners-through-smooth-transitions/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-funds-from-migrants-sent-back-home-help-fuel-some-towns-economies-a-gop-plan-targets-that/
— How Project 2025 has guided the Trump administration
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-13/how-project-2025-has-guided-the-trump-administration
SOUTH SIDE PATCH
— 11 Students Sickened, Taken To Hospital After Eating Marijuana Edibles At South Side Chicago School. The students got sick just after 2 p.m. at Fort Dearborn Elementary School, at 9025 S. Throop St. in the Brainerd neighborhood. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://patch.com/illinois/southside/11-students-sickened-taken-hospital-after-eating-marijuana-edibles-south-side
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-513/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-305/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats Drag America Into the Mouth of Their Madness
https://johnkassnews.com/a-civilization-that-descends-into-madness/
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— IL Freedom Caucus Statement on IGOLD rally in Springfield
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/il-freedom-caucus-statement-on-igold-rally-in-springfield/
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois politicians killed school choice. Now the federal government could deliver it anyway.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-politicians-killed-school-choice-now-the-federal-government-could-deliver-it-anyway-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write about the ever-increasing success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters, that is, the ever-increasing success that Democrat leaders and their mainstream news media are having promoting more and more and more hatred against Trump. I should write about their ever-increasing success in promoting more and more and more hatred against those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters paint you? They paint me as being blindly loyal to Trump a) because Trump and I share so many demographics and b) because of what I do as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor. But they are wrong. I have never been blindly loyal to any politician and I never will. I am loyal to conservative principles and to the Republican Party platform. My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What percent of the students are female in the college(s) that you graduates from? Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, the future is bleaker for males, and especially for males who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Notwithstanding the fact that I am all of the aforesaid, I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But that was many years ago. All those who were promoted over me were Democrats a) who were female, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When you were in college, what did you major in? I should have majored in accounting. If I had majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, my entire life would have been different. I did not start taking graduate accounting course until I was 27. Because of that, the CPA industry had no use for me. I was too old. Further, I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have ever considered taking a pay cut? To force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that much of what I had done for IRS for almost 9 years was very similar to what I would do for GAO, b) that GAO audits IRS, 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. I earned that degree in 1980. The aforesaid helped me pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, GAO would have offered me a $5,527/year (5%) pay increase to $117,807/year (GS-13) in today’s dollars to transfer. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Buffett is stepping down at age 94. How has age discrimination impacted you? When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to ever be promoted to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. I ultimately got promoted to GS-13, but not until I was 38 and I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO when I was 31, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, and e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— South African president calls refugees ‘cowards’ after arrival in US
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3410821/south-african-president-afrikaner-refugees-us-cowards/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Presently, many Afrikaner activists and observers believe the group is being purposefully subjected to violence from the black majority, with the government being complicit. Attacks against white Afrikaner farmers are a highly controversial matter. The government doesn’t keep statistics regarding the number of white farmers killed, but news of particularly brutal attacks has enraged many Afrikaners. These attacks are often accompanied by extensive torture, rape, and mutilation. The South African government has emphatically denied any bias against Afrikaners and has maintained that white farmers are victims of a larger crime wave. However, the White House has been unambiguous in its assessment of the situation. “Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white,” Trump said Monday. “But whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa, and the newspaper and the television media don’t even talk about it.” “I don’t care about their race, their color, their height, their weight — I don’t care about anything,” Trump continued. “I just know that what’s happening is terrible.” Trump also punished South Africa on a diplomatic level. He withheld the U.S. government’s participation in the G20 summit scheduled to be held in South Africa later this year. South African Ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool was declared a persona non grata and ordered to leave the country by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called him a “race-baiting politician who hates America and hates [Trump].”)
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— MSNBC declares South African asylum seekers are ‘descendants of white supremacists.’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/14/msnbc-declares-south-african-asylum-seekers-are-descendants-of-white-supremacists-1543501/
CENTER SQUARE
— Antisemitism watchdog calls for IRS probe of nonprofit supporting anti-Israel protests
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_9925f97b-0456-480b-8256-17ecd9b3d93e.html
COLLEGE FIX
— Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1 as graduation speakers. For Democrats, the purpose of education is to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/democrats-outnumber-republicans-5-to-1-as-graduation-speakers/
DAILY SIGNAL
— White House Praises House Panel for Booting Illegals Off Medicaid
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/14/white-house-praises-house-panel-for-booting-illegals-off-medicaid/
— Democrats Defend Medicaid Coverage for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/14/white-house-praises-house-panel-for-booting-illegals-off-medicaid
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Strikes $244 Billion in Deals With Qatar, Including ‘Historic’ Boeing Jet Sale. Qatar Airways signed a $96 billion agreement to acquire up to 210 American-made 787 Dreamliner and 777X aircraft from Boeing.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/qatar-airways-signs-agreement-to-buy-160-boeing-planes-5857662
FEDERALIST
— Here Are 16 Of The Most Egregious Injunctions Barring The Trump Administration From Doing Its Job
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/14/here-are-16-of-the-most-egregious-injunctions-barring-the-trump-administration-from-doing-its-job/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Arizona State to Focus on ‘Gender Equity’ for Women Even Though Campus is 70% Female. What percent of the students are female in the college(s) that you graduates from? Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, the future is bleaker for males, and especially for males who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Notwithstanding the fact that I am all of the aforesaid, I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But that was many years ago. All those who were promoted over me were Democrats a) who were female, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/arizona-state-to-focus-on-gender-equity-for-women-even-though-campus-is-70-female/amp/
NEWSMAX
— Alien Enemies Act Will Keep US Safe
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/pam-bondi-immigration-habeus-corpus/2025/05/14/id/1210991/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting sellers to use Trump’s tariffs to raise prices.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/business/walmart-prices-tariffs
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/trump-law-firms-attacks.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders use a “pregnant Cuban emigre” to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/14/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-immigration-trump/aa603c82-3078-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/14/pope-leo-lgbtq-catholics/
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/13/trump-lies-china-tariffs-qatar-jet/83583303007/
DESERET NEWS
— Utah Democrats hope for revival as Gov. JB Pritzker scheduled to speak at convention. New poll finds only 35% of Democrats are optimistic about future of party.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/05/14/utah-democrats-debate-how-to-respond-to-donald-trump/
SC TIMES
— Trump’s U.S. Attorney pick for Minnesota has never been a prosecutor. To force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that much of what I had done for IRS for almost 9 years was very similar to what I would do for GAO, b) that GAO audits IRS, 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. I earned that degree in 1980. The aforesaid helped me pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, GAO would have offered me a $5,527/year (5%) pay increase to $117,807/year in today’s dollars to transfer.
https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2025/05/15/trump-nominates-daniel-rosen-as-minnesotas-next-u-s-attorney/83604701007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE. Buffett is stepping down at age 94. How has age discrimination impacted you? When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to ever be promoted to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. I ultimately got promoted to GS-13, but not until I was 38 and I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO when I was 31, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, and e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.wsj.com/business/warren-buffett-reveals-he-stepped-down-after-finally-feeling-his-age-b060251f
— FRONT PAGE: Women Are Drinking More—and Doctors Are Worried
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/women-alcohol-use-health-risks-86999148
— Democrats Are Stuck in the Soup. The party is both too old and too extreme. It needs to look to history for a way out.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-are-stuck-in-the-soup-c6cad7b2
— Welcome to the Post-Progressive Political Era. For decades, the right lost almost every battle in the culture. But now the left has clearly gone too far.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/welcome-to-the-post-progressive-political-era-history-culture-4ad308c1
— Career Advice for 2025 Graduates. Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/career-advice-for-2025-graduates-c79b5126
— I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them jobs.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/529-plans-college-savings-alternatives-tips-958b2556
— My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-market-overpaid-salary-9eeabbaa
BANKRATE
— What to do if you are dropped from your home insurance
https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/homeowners-insurance/dropped-from-home-insurance/
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE
— Our Mission: To protect consumers by providing assistance and information, by efficiently regulating the insurance industry’s market behavior and financial solvency, and by fostering a competitive insurance marketplace.
https://idoi.illinois.gov/
ILLINOIS FAIR PLAN
— About Us: The Illinois FAIR Plan Association provides basic and affordable property insurance to applicants in the state of Illinois who are unable to purchase coverage through the standard insurance market for reasons beyond their control. The Illinois FAIR Plan is considered to be one of the top FAIR Plans in the country based the products and services it offers, its excellent working relationship with the Department of Insurance, and the support it has received from the Industry including their effective participation on the Governing Committee. Who We Are: The Illinois FAIR Plan Association is a not-for-profit property insurance association supported by nearly 500 Illinois insurance companies.
https://www.illinoisfairplan.com/about.html
May 14, 2025
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write a book about Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on Republican participation in those parades. I would focus on those who are working the hardest to diminish/end Republican participation in this year’s Wheaton and Glen Ellyn parades. They argue that the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) cannot afford the $1,500 cost of entry fees and candy for the parades. In 2007, I succeeded in raising $2,000 on short notice so that an elephant could walk behind U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam in Wheaton’s 2007 parade. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/ I served as the Republican fundraiser for the Wheaton Independence Day parades 2005-2021. In my book, I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end what I did. I have urged MTRO to encourage Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congressional District 3, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois senate, Illinois house, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, etc. to participate in this year’s parades. Please join me in urging MTRO to participate in the parades. Please join me in urging Republican candidates to participate in the parades. I certainly hope that LaHood walks in both parades. His father walked in Wheaton’s 2005 parade. I spoke with him before the parade kicked off. Bob Dole walked in Wheaton’s 1996 parade, Jim Ryan in its 2002 parade, and Obama and his wife in its 2004 parade. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Will the Illinois GOP show up for the 2026 state elections?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-illinois-republican-party-candidates-2026-funding/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: We are in the important pre-primary phase of the 2026 elections in Illinois (circulation of petitions opens in September), when prospective candidates strut their endorsements — and money raised — in efforts to scare off possible opponents. In our basically one-party state, Democratic wannabes are coming off a long bench to make their cases. In contrast, Republicans have no bench of experienced, well-known prospects to speak of. Because of extreme gerrymandering, the GOP has few state legislators and no statewide officials whatsoever. Attractive but no-name candidates are being counseled by Republican insiders that this is a no-win year for the GOP and it’s better to stay out. Will the GOP even show up with a slate of credible candidates for the U.S. Senate, the governorship and all other statewide offices? After all, the party in the White House generally does poorly in the midterm election. And Gov JB Pritzker has more money than Croesus ($3.7 billion, according to Forbes) and seemingly giddy enthusiasm for spending it. Recent history shows he stands ready to bankroll all the Democratic statewide candidates with more than enough money to blow away the opposition. After all, he wants to show national Democrats that he leads his party to victory up and down the line. GOP woes don’t end there. Illinois Republicans are divided into a downstate (outside the seven metro Chicago counties) that is enthusiastically pro-Donald Trump, versus the suburbs, where moderates and Democrats reign. For example, DuPage County and its 920,000 residents used to be largely white and GOP. But the times, they are a’changin’. According to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), a language other than English is now spoken at home in nearly one-third of the households in the six counties surrounding Cook. Republican George Ryan won the governorship in 1998 with 70% of the DuPage County vote, whereas Trump garnered 42% of that county’s vote in 2024. GOP nominees for the U.S. Senate and governorship will have to declare their position on Trump, a no-win situation: Come out strongly for Trump and lose the suburbs or come out against Trump and watch voters downstate sit on their hands in November. Be wishy-washy on Trump, and lose votes across the board. And who will bankroll GOP candidates in the face of such dour prospects? Billionaire Ken Griffin has departed Illinois for Florida, with his millions for GOP causes. Make no mistake: Big money has replaced party organization as the engine of candidate success. Lightning does strike, however. In 2004, little-known state Sen. Barack Obama entered a crowded field that sought an open seat in the U.S. Senate. Trailing in the polls throughout in the Democratic primary, Obama surged to victory when, near the end of the primary, the front-runner’s candidacy imploded almost overnight as a result of juicy revelations of messy marital discord. In the general election campaign that followed, the attractive GOP nominee dropped out of the race because of sexual peccadilloes revealed in unsealed divorce records, and Obama skated into the U.S. Senate. The rest, as they say … I expect there will be no-name and, maybe otherwise, very attractive candidates on the ballot next year for the GOP but with little money. I have mentioned money several times in this essay. In the past decade, Pritzker has spent $400 million on his own and associates’ campaigns. A Democrat, he even sabotaged the Republican primary campaign for governor in 2022. In that year, according to this newspaper, Pritzker spent $24 million to boost the nomination of possibly the weakest of his possible opponents for the general election. Pritzker’s money advertised that Darren Bailey was “too extreme” for Illinois — which was, irony definitely intended, an attractive message for a big swath of conservative GOP primary voters. Shameful politics. Big money, corrosive of democracy, could be the overarching issue for Republican candidates in 2026: “You can’t buy my vote! Don’t let JB Pritzker continue to buy elections in Illinois!” Lightning does strike. But you have to show up.)
— 2002 FLASHBACK: Politicians parade for voters at 4th fests. Jim Ryan, the Republican candidate for governor, began his parade marching in Wheaton in DuPage County, the heart of GOP territory in the Chicago area. Ryan looked fresh and cool after stepping out of an air-conditioned van into the boiling morning heat. He and his wife, Marie, joined the procession just as his sweaty supporters, who had been standing in the sun waiting for him, began their way down North Main Street. “All politics is local–never forget your base,” Ryan said. Indeed, blue-and-white Ryan balloons were fastened to lawn chairs, strollers and benches along the parade route. Only an occasional sign for his Democratic rival, Rod Blagojevich, could be spotted. . .. .But political jockeying surely was in play Thursday. An old political tradition holds that the more influence a politician wields, the closer he will be to the front of the parade line. For example, in GOP-laden Wheaton, U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) launched the parade, with Ryan right behind him. In third place was Republican Joe Birkett, the DuPage County state’s attorney who is running for Illinois attorney general. His Democratic rival, Lisa Madigan, was placed far back.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/07/05/politicians-parade-for-voters-at-4th-fests/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Trump-themed shop in Huntley could be closed over code issues, but owner says it’s political
— Federal judge OKs use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans who are labeled gang members
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/alien-enemies-act-deport-venezuelans/
— Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge in immigration case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/wisconsin-judge-immigration-case/
— The mainstream news media ever-increasingly serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/column-journalism-decline-chicago-local-news-washington/
— From what I see, in the Chicagoland area, jurors are overwhelmingly Democrats
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-juror-act-trial-reform-paul-st-louis/
— Why is CPS treating charter and private schools like liquor stores?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/chicago-charter-schools-vacant/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— City Council committee OKs removal of college degree requirement for city jobs. 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. I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/13/city-council-committee-paper-ceiling-college-degree-city-jobs
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote hated against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/14/five-years-george-floyds-murder-national-urban-league-racial-justice-dei-police-reform-marc-morial
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker budget team slashes state’s revenue forecast by $536 million
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-budget-office-cuts-revenue-forecast-536m
— State Farm cleared to hike California homeowner premiums 17%
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/insurance/state-farm-cleared-hike-california-homeowner-rates-17
ABC7
— Federal judge in Pennsylvania rules that Trump’s invocation of Alien Enemies Act is lawful
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-judge-pennsylvania-rules-trumps-invocation-aea-is-lawful/16406471/
— Inflation eased after Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/new-inflation-data-reveal-impacts-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs/16400850/
NBC5
— Senate Republicans react to Qatar gifting Trump a $400 million jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/watch-senate-republicans-react-to-qatar-gifting-trump-a-400-million-jet/3744811/
— Democrat leaders promote a Trump critic
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/commentator-hasan-piker-detained-ohare-airport/3744867/
— Chuck Schumer to block Trump DOJ nominees over Qatari jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/chuck-schumer-pauses-trump-justice-department-nominees-over-qatari-jet/3744418/
FOX32
— 22 Chicago students ingest weed edibles at South Side elementary school. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/22-chicago-students-ingest-weed-edibles-south-side-school
— A new SmartAsset study ranked the 10 wealthiest counties in Illinois based on income, home values, and investment income. Lake, DuPage, and Kendall counties took the top three spots. Cook County, which includes Chicago, ranked ninth overall.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-wealthiest-counties-study
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone in America will be on Medicaid. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer in America are on track to become productive members of society.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1640556
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emma Shafter to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/05/13/family-of-emma-shafer-felt-exploited-by-recent-kristi-noem-visit/83568796007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump’s plan to accept free Air Force One replacement from Qatar raises ethical and security worries
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trumps-plan-to-accept-free-air-force-one-replacement-from-qatar-raises-ethical-and-security/article_909d5190-12f5-59fe-b541-d2d9b9ed1829.html
SOUTHERN
— Republicans dodge, laugh off questions about Trump’s gift plane from Qatar
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/13/republicans-dodge-laugh-off-questions-about-trumps-gift-plane-from-qatar/
RIVER BENDER
— Attorney General Raoul Leads Coalition Suing Trump Administration Over Illegal Immigration Conditions Placed On Billions In Federal Funding. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-leads-coalition-suing-trump-administration-over-illegal-immigration-conditions-placed-on-billions-in-federal-funding-82440.cfm?
NPR ILLINOIS
— Jewish people in Israel are overwhelmingly conservative. Jewish people in America are overwhelming liberal. Enough said.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-14/multiple-trump-white-house-officials-have-ties-to-antisemitic-extremists
WGLT
— Before Trump weaponized the IRS to advance his political agenda, there was Nixon. How did Nixon impact you? Nixon was president while I worked for the Democrats a) who ran the Post Office in 1969 and b) who ran IRS 1971-1974. They despised/hated Nixon. They blamed Nixon, and therefore Republicans, for America losing the Vietnam War. They punished me, a draft avoider, to punish Nixon. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave request and forced me to resign in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, they disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and they made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They did the aforesaid even though a) I earned an MBA in 1976, b) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and c) I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-05-13/before-trump-weaponized-the-irs-to-advance-his-political-agenda-there-was-nixon
WMBD RADIO
— Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/13/illinois-seeks-to-prevent-feds-from-tying-funding-for-states-to-immigration-enforcement/
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders cite Democrat think tanks
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/12/campus/northwestern-study-finds-democrats-left-leaning-think-tanks-cite-scientific-studies-more-than-republicans/
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://newschannel20.com/question/vote-do-you-support-the-irs-sharing-data-with-ice-to-help-track-down-illegal-migrants-question-of-the-day-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-border-patrol-deportation-trump-administration
NPR ILLINOIS
— Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition. According to Democrat leaders, only Whites discriminate. White Afrikaners should anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will deport them.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-12/episcopal-church-refuses-to-resettle-white-afrikaners-citing-moral-opposition
— According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League colleges are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.nprillinois.org/education-desk/2025-05-13/new-study-suggests-changes-to-illinois-community-college-university-pipeline
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn Native Americans against Republicans.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/our-identity-has-been-frozen-in-time-how-native-american-advocates-are-influencing-springfield/
WHEATON PARK DISTRICT
— 2016 FLASHBACK: WHEATON PARK DISTRICT HOSTS INDEPENDENCE DAY “CELEBRATION!” At press time, sponsors for the Independence Day Celebration included Jerry Haggerty Chevrolet, DuPage County Republicans, and the City of Wheaton.
https://wheatonparkdistrict.com/wheaton-park-district-hosts-independence-day-celebration-july-3-and-4/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-512/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-304/
— Democrat leaders blame Trump and Musk for revenue dip. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump and Musk for everything that is bad.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/manar-trump-musk-are-to-blame-for-revenue-dip/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Illinois DOGE Profile: Centro De Trabajadores Unidos gets $4 million to help illegal aliens evade ICE
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/671354954-illinois-doge-profile-centro-de-trabajadores-unidos-gets-4-million-to-help-illegal-aliens-evade-ice
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL House Republicans call out $1B for NGOs, plan their own budget proposal
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_105bd8f5-b568-41b5-b567-bf49c03bfc51.html
— Legislation would limit how consumers can buy an electric vehicle in Illinois. I should write my experience buying a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Please let me know if you share my interest in that American nameplate muscle car. I also own a 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 Corvette, 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX, and 1972 Corvette. Phone: 630-653-0462 (home) and 630-414-6079 (cell). Email: diersen@aol.com
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1352ecca-a4b6-41f6-b0ae-b18e6dc01128.html
WIREPOINTS
— These NGO funds don’t help ordinary Chicagoans, they sustain networks that keep failed politicians in power.
https://wirepoints.org/these-ngo-funds-dont-help-ordinary-chicagoans-they-go-to-sustain-networks-that-keep-failed-politicians-in-power-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lower standards. 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. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to a recent study, White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Is David Axelrod Pimping for Rahm?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/is-david-axelrod-pimping-for-rahm/
— Americans for Prosperity Send Second Postcard Seeking to Put Pressure on Sue Ness to Vote against Hiking Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/americans-for-prosperity-send-second-postcard-seeking-to-put-pressure-on-sue-ness-to-vote-against-hiking-taxes/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Protesters swarm House committee as Republicans take up cuts to Medicaid, taxes
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/13/protesters-swarm-house-committee-republicans-take-cuts-medicaid-taxes/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— There’s no such thing as a free jet. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3409713/trump-qatar-jet-gift-air-force-one/
— Trump’s deal for illegal immigrants will increase deportations and decrease spending
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/3410142/trump-deal-illegal-immigrants-increase-deportations-decrease-spending/
NEW YORK POST
— Officials describe persecution of South African refugees who are arrived in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te_Syuqog8A
— Trump recklessly accepting a plane from Qatar is the type of unnecessary risk that could ruin his presidency
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/opinion/michael-goodwin-trump-accepting-financial-gifts-from-qatar-is-one-of-the-many-ways-he-can-ruin-his-legacy/
BREITBART
— Saudi Arabia Sets Up Mobile McDonald’s for Trump’s Visit to the Middle East
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/saudi-arabia-sets-up-mobile-mcdonalds-for-trumps-visit-to-the-middle-east/
— Pope Leo’s Brother: The Pope Is Not Woke — He Will ‘Be Down the Middle’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/pope-leos-brother-the-pope-is-not-woke-he-will-be-down-the-middle/
FOX NEWS
— Gianno Caldwell seeks justice for brother killed in blue city ‘enamored with criminals’ rights’: alderman Gianno Caldwell’s 18-year-old brother was fatally shot, along with a female victim, in Chicago in June 2022
https://www.foxnews.com/us/gianno-caldwell-seeks-justice-brother-killed-blue-city-enamored-criminals-rights-alderman
MEGYN KELLY
— Racist and Hypocritical Left and Media Attack White Afrikaners Arriving in United States as Refugees
https://www.megynkelly.com/watch/racist-and-hypocritical-left-and-media-attack-white-afrikaners-arriving-in-united-states-as-refugees/
NRCC
— Hardworking Californians Get the Bill, Illegals Get the Benefits
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/05/13/hardworking-californians-get-the-bill-illegals-get-the-benefits-2/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Medical Schools Are Still Discriminating by Race
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/medical-schools-are-still-discriminating-by-race/
NEWSMAX
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lgbtq-rfk-hhs/2025/05/13/id/1210803/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/13/msnbc_panel_trumps_refugees_descendents_of_the_people_who_created_the_most_diabolical_system_of_white_supremacy_in_human_history.html
TOWNHALL
— Democrats Just Can’t Stop Pushing Nonsensical Assault Weapon Bans
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2025/05/13/the-democrats-just-cant-stop-pushing-nonsensical-assault-weapon-bans-n2656972
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5298112-house-democrats-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-funding-cuts/
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5296524-x-tiktok-meta-youtube-instagram-lgbtq-users-glaad/
ASSOCIATE PRESS
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly blame Trump’s tariffs for all price increases.
https://apnews.com/article/inflation-economy-tariffs-trump-5436b90e8e5a003f228c1bd08186589c
NEW YORK TIMES
— Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-immigration.html
— Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-welfare-medicaid-requirements.html
— Democrat leaders pay “researchers” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump. Who are the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How successful have they been?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-due-process-habeas-corpus.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/13/trump-democrats-sanctuary-lawsuit-immigration/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race based preference giving, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against Whites.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/13/black-doctors-scholarship-ohio/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-05-14/trump-guts-fema-as-climate-disasters-worsen
— Democrat leaders used Voice of America to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-14/voice-of-america-pbs-npr-trump
MIAMI TIMES
— White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/business/studies-show-white-women-benefit-more-from-dei-than-black-people/article_f0bb761e-334c-4151-832d-f3fa0026531a.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/12/slowing-inflation-trump-tariffs/83524058007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/14/gay-pride-month-lgbtq-forum/83583013007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/13/democratic-lawmakers-urge-kennedy-to-save-lgbtq-lifeline/83600490007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How the Ivy League Earned Donald Trump’s Ire. Too many instructors at Harvard, Columbia and elsewhere are less interested in teaching and more interested in student indoctrination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-the-ivy-league-earned-donald-trumps-ire-higher-education-colleges-universities-96631031
— The U.S. Once Built Airplanes Quickly. At its peak, a Ford factory produced one B-24 bomber an hour during World War II.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-u-s-once-built-airplanes-quickly-7e526511
— FRONT PAGE: The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send White Afrikaners back
https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/trump-afrikaner-south-africa-refugee-d5ad7b94
— How Young People Are Coping With Economic Anxiety. I should write about how my avoiding the Vietnam War draft negatively impacted my career big time.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/how-young-people-are-coping-with-economic-anxiety/3ea69cb0-9736-49c5-8f94-f5c1f9be316a
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— How successful have Democrat leaders been taking over Catholic organizations in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.ncronline.org/news/catholic-college-presidents-decry-trump-administrations-interference-higher-ed
GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/us-mexico-border-surveillance
May 11, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-president-donald-trumps-cuts-federal-climate-research-could-mean-illinois/16371824/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote tax increases
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/the-trump-tax-cut-debate-is-heating-up-here-are-the-key-issues-and-who-stands-to-benefit/3742665/
— Your ACT/SAT score impacts you for the rest of your life. My critics/opponents have always stressed that my ACT score was only 24.
https://wgntv.com/news/features/chicago-student-achieves-record-sat-score/
— Nashville group cancels events surrounding MLS game, cites immigration arrests. Many in the group also boycotted the game vs. Charlotte.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/nashville-cancels-events-mls-game-immigration-arrests/3742811/
CBS2
— Trump administration threatens more arrests after showdown outside ICE detention center
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trump-administration-threatens-more-arrests-after-showdown-outside-ice-detention-center/
FOX32
— Brandon Johnson praises court order blocking Trump’s federal job cuts. A judge on Friday halted Trump’s plan to cut federal jobs. Johnson calls it a win for workers. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrats run the federal government. They use budget cuts first to get rid of any remining Republican employees and then to get rid of any remaining non-Democrat employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. That is what happened at GAO 1980-1997 in response to Gingrich budget cuts. I should write about that. Because I am all of the aforesaid, because I complained about discrimination, and because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with discrimination in 1988, I never would have survived those 18 years if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1639280
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-mayor-praises-court-order-215706745.html
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) fight budget cuts and b) promote tax increases
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/republican-economic-priorities-trump-era/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/weather-enthusiasts-illinois-noaa/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/transgender-issues-strength-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote discrimination against Whites in South Africa. According to Democrat leaders, non-Whites do not discriminate against Whites.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/trump-white-south-africans-refugees-persecution/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/trump-habeas-corpus-deportations/
— Dolton hopes ties to Pope Leo XIV will burnish town’s image and spur growth
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/dolton-residents-officials-image-pope-leo/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasing do everything that they can to use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/column-pope-leo-xiv-page/
— The Vietnam War has had a tremendous impact on me. I should write a book about that. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me the most.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/opinion-vietnam-lessons-us-50-years/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders crow that “Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies.” Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/05/10/judge-pauses-much-of-trump-administrations-massive-downsizing-of-federal-agencies
— Credit the Chicago nuns for Robert Prevost’s rise to pope. Pope Leo XIV is this: a Catholic schoolboy of a certain age and era who was taught by the nuns.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/08/credit-the-chicago-nuns-for-robert-prevosts-rise-to-pope
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that Blacks have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/09/homeownership-race-black-white-inequities-mortgage-lending-great-recession-alden-loury
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250510/nation-and-world-politics/trump-team-mulls-suspending-the-constitutional-right-of-habeas-corpus-to-speed-deportations-can-it/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasing do everything that they can to use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250510/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-a-chicago-pontiff-new-popes-origins-are-a-source-of-pride-but-it-is-his-mis/
WBEZ
— What was your childhood home? Mine was an apartment atop my grandfather’s hardware store in downtown Crete 1948-1953. The building was torn down in 1966 for a gas station. Then it was his home at 1286 Wood Street in Crete. My parents inherited it, then my brother and I inherited it, and then I inherited it.
https://www.wbez.org/religion/2025/05/10/chicagoans-want-pope-leo-xiv-to-remember-his-humble-beginnings
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Dems will have to fight each other for right to fight Trump
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-dems-will-have-to-fight-each-other-for-right-to-fight-trump/article_6598c7a6-4576-40b0-ae9c-a7a98df2eab9.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/transgender-issues-are-a-strength-for-trump-ap-norc-poll-finds/article_54dc6d2e-2bdd-5b97-babe-2c8c48bcd4ee.html
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/10/do-trumps-tariffs-put-small-businesses-at-greater-risk-experts-weigh-in/
ST. LOUIS TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/column/article_24ef8087-cef0-4b3c-864e-ff01fe90d61c.html
NEWS CHANEL 20
— Democrat Illinois lawmakers ever-increasingly push for healthcare funding for illegals amid budget cuts
https://newschannel20.com/newsletter-daily/illinois-lawmakers-push-for-immigrant-healthcare-funding-amid-budget-cuts#
25 NEWS NOW
— To promote DEI is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, that is, to promote DEI is to promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump.
https://www.25newsnow.com/video/2025/05/11/diversity-display-peoria-schools-host-multicultural-fair/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump tries to eviscerate them. I was a union member while I worked for the Post Office 1966-1969 and for IRS 1971-1980. I should write about my critics/opponents who use that against me the most.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-11/federal-employee-unions-fight-for-survival-as-trump-tries-to-eviscerate-them
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— According to Democrat leaders, non-Whites do not discriminate against Whites.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/world/ap-trump-is-bringing-white-south-africans-to-the-us-as-refugees-but-what-persecution-are-they-facing/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders and for other hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Sooner or later, everything will come out in the wash. Sooner or later, it will become clear that all my critics/opponents a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks, b) destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dudes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money, c) blame me for all of their problems, your problems, my problems, and everyone’s problems, and/or d) despise/hate those who share my demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write a book about Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on Republican participation in the parades. I would focus on those who have worked the hardest to diminish/end Republican participation. I served as the Republican fundraiser for the parades 2005-2021. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end what I did. I have urged the Milton Township Republican Organization to encourage Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress District 3, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois senate, Illinois house, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, etc. to participate in this year’s parade. In 2007, I succeeded in raising $2,000 on short notice so that an elephant could walk behind U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/ and https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-2023/ – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— JULY 5, 2017 FLASHBACK: Republicans who participated in Wheaton’s outstanding Independence Day Parade this morning were: DuPage State’s Attorney Bob Berlin; DuPage County District 4 officials Grant Eckhoff, Tim Elliott, Amy Grant, and Tim Whelan; James Mendrick for DuPage Sheriff; Frank Bibbianno for DuPage Sheriff; Karen Wilson for DuPage Judge; and the Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC). Republicans who walked with entries included Ron Almiron, Lori Carlson, Joseph Caruso, Flo Dangelo, Sal Falbo, Chris Heidorn, Pat Hinchey, Marty Keller, Larry LaVanway, Antonio Lollino, Paula McGowen, Ron Menna, David Norck, Thommen Poozhikunnel, Mary Rash, Pat Ryan, and Janet Shaw. Gary Muehlfelt drove the truck that pulled the outstanding MTRCC float. Peter Breen, Mike Connelly, and Jeanne Ives could not participate in the parade because of the Democrats. Peter Roskam participated in a different parade. This year, for the 12th year in a row, “DuPage Republicans” helped sponsor the parade and fireworks. “DuPage Republicans” was one of the two $2,500 “Star” sponsors and again sponsored the Wheaton high school bands and the Tunes of Glory Pipes and Drums parade entries. Because of a last minute shortage of banner carriers, I had the honor of helping carry the “Sponsored by DuPage Republicans” banner ahead of the Tunes of Glory Pipes and Drums. Outstandingly, again this year Tim Whelan coordinated Republican use of the “DuPage Republicans” booth at the fireworks. This year again, I delivered flyers to the residences and businesses on the parade route. The flyers listed the Republican entries in the parade and the Republicans who helped sponsor entries. Outstandingly, the flyers were printed courtesy of Alpha Graphics. This year, outstandingly, Roger Claar is a $500 contributor, Chris Nybo is a $250 contributor, Phil Suess is a $150 contributor, and Bob Berlin, Peter Breen, Mike Connelly, Grant Eckhoff, Tim Elliott, Amy Grant, Gwen Henry, Paul Hinds, Jeanne Ives, Marty Keller, Deanne Mazzochi, Paula McGowen, James Mendrick, Peter Roskam, Darlene Ruscitti, and Tim Whelan are $100 contributors. Please thank them for helping sponsor the parade and fireworks. This year was the 10th anniversary of an elephant walking behind Roskam in the parade. For that 2007 parade, I had the honor of raising $2,000 on short notice from DuPage Republicans to sponsor that elephant. – Dave Diersen
https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal judge warns Trump can’t sidestep his order with latest sanctuary city play
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/10/federal-judge-warns-trump-cant-sidestep-order-latest-sanctuary-city/
WAHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3407546/transgender-issues-strength-for-trump-ap-norc-poll/
— Republicans are afraid to defund Planned Parenthood
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3406464/republicans-afraid-defund-planned-parenthood/
— US Customs and Border Protection employees told not to use DEI terms. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3407031/customs-border-protection-employees-told-no-dei-terms/
— Media can blur faces, but not the effects of illegal immigration
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3406858/media-cannot-blur-effects-of-illegal-immigration/
TOWNHALL
— Throw The Book At Illegals-Loving Insurrectionist Democrats
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/05/11/throw-the-book-at-illegals-loving-insurrectionist-democrats-n2656870
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Big Government Is Chaos: Trump’s 2026 Budget Is a Step Toward Sanity
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/10/big-government-is-chaos-trumps-2026-budget-is-a-step-toward-sanity/
FOX NEWS
— Will President Trump protect the Christian Afghan refugees who fled here to escape martyrdom? President Trump is a champion for persecuted Christians
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/president-trump-protect-christian-afghan-refugees-who-fled-here-escape-martyrdom
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— Leo XIV looks like a Never Trumper Republican, based on his voting record
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/leo-xiv-looks-like-a-never-trumper-republican-based-on-his-voting-record/ar-AA1EslB4
— Democrat leaders blame Trump for Chicago’s Michelada Fest being cancelled
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/why-cancelling-michelada-fest-will-leave-a-gaping-hole-in-chicagos-summer-season-our-culture-is-being-targeted/ar-AA1Els2G
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/chicago-s-michelada-fest-cancels-2025-edition-over-artist-visa-uncertainty-under-trump/ar-AA1EhBnJ
— I should write about being forced to retire early. It has a tremendous negative impact on the rest of your life.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/what-if-you-had-a-plan-to-retire-comfortably-by-age-60/ar-AA1Ecvzr
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Whoopi Goldberg
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/whoopi-goldberg-schools-trump-wh-press-sec-with-a-brutal-lesson-on-wokeness/ar-AA1y70E9
AOL
— I should write about being forced to retire early. It has a tremendous negative impact on the rest of your life.
https://www.aol.com/americans-1-26-million-retire-110023927.html
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting the mainstream news media to drive Trump’s approval ratings down.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-economy-plunges-new-low-2070511
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about all the lawsuits that they have filed against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trumps-legal-woes-deepen-with-major-lawsuit-from-15-states/ar-AA1ExgmK
YAHOO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-deportation-database-puts-students-103000423.html
— According to Democrat leaders, non-Whites do not discriminate against Whites.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-south-african-refugees-arrive-131805439.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders want to keep disparate impact. Those who are the following are negatively impacted by Democrat laws: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-civil-rights.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Jeanine Pirro.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-pirro-interim-prosecutor.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Russia and China against America
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000010157380/how-xi-and-putin-got-closer.html
–Democrat teachers ever-increasingly crank out good little Democrats
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/us/education-politics-learning.html
— How Much Are We Paying for Newsletters? GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter subscriptions are worth at least $3,000/year. But I send them our free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. All the time, money, experience, ability, and motivation needed to put the newsletters together and to send them comes from me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/business/substack-newsletter-subscription-costs.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The Pope grew up in a Catholic enclave on Chicago’s South Side. That community is gone now. My parents had me baptized in Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete in 1948. They sent me Trinity Lutheran Grade School 1953-1961. But then transferred to Hope Lutheran Church and Grade School in Park Forest in 1961 to stay with the Missouri Synod. Hope Lutheran is gone now, but Trinity Lutheran continues on. SEE: https://www.trinitycrete.org/ .
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/us/pope-leo-childhood-chicago-catholics.html
WASHINGTON POST
— The hidden ways Trump, DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/11/trump-government-operations-halt-funding-cuts/
— Hegseth ever-increasingly fights Affirmative Action and DEI in the military, that is, he ever-increasingly fights race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination in the military.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/09/hegseth-affirmative-action-service-academies/
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
— College Majors That Lead to Low Paying Jobs. What were your majors? Mine were business (1966-1976), accounting (1976-1980), and finance (1992-1997). If I could do it over again, I would have majored in accounting first because I was able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. But by then, according to the accounting profession, I was much too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.universitymagazine.ca/college-majors-that-lead-to-low-paying-jobs/
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Whites and men will forever discriminate against non-Whites and against women, and because of that, non-Whites and women will forever need massive Affirmative Action and massive DEI, that is, they will forever need massive race and gender preference giving, that is, Whites and men will forever have to be gotten rid of.
https://www.epi.org/blog/trump-led-attacks-on-equity-are-setting-the-stage-for-our-next-public-health-crisis/
GOOGLE AI
— Sooner or later, everything will come out in the wash. Sooner or later, it will become clear that all my critics/opponents a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks, b) destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dudes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money, c) blame me for all of their problems, your problems, my problems, and everyone’s problems, and/or d) despise/hate those who share my demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22sooner+or+later%22+%22come+out+in+the+wash
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
— Canadian car show kicks out Tesla, citing safety concerns amid Musk protests. Tesla was at the Iron Gate Motor Condo car show yesterday in Naperville.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/canadian-car-show-kicks-out-tesla-citing-safety-concerns-amid-musk-protests-20250319-p5lkvr.html
May 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Facts to know about Chicago native, newly elected Pope Leo XIV
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/facts-to-know-about-chicago-native-newly-elected-pope-leo-xiv/3741733/
WGN9
— Prevost’s boyhood neighbors predicted he would become Pope
https://wgntv.com/news/robert-prevost-neighbors-predict-pope-leo-xiv/
WTTW
— Democrat and RINO leaders forever promote George Ryan.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/08/former-death-row-inmates-complicated-legacy-late-illinois-gov-george-ryan
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders promote Pope Leo XIV criticism of Trump and Vance
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/pope-leo-social-media-criticisms/
— Welcome, Pope Leo XIV, Chicago’s Holy Father
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/pope-leo-chicago-vatican-francis/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— The rush in Illinois to become a U.S. citizen amid immigration crackdown. As the Trump administration begins “social media vetting for anti-Americanism” among immigrants and other efforts, growing numbers are choosing to become citizens.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/09/the-rush-in-illinois-to-become-a-u-s-citizen-amid-immigration-crackdown
— Who will the Democrats nominate for U.S. President in 2028? All the current contenders are anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/07/democrats-2028-president-elections-trump-biden-mistakes-harris-candidates-pritzker-s-e-cupp
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Pope Leo XIV is a Democrat. To be a Democrat is to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-whats-in-a-name-pope-leo-xivs-choice-signals-a-commitment-to-social-justice/
NPR ILLINOIS
— First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S. They should fear that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back. Needless-to-say, they should avoid Illinois.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5391815/first-afrikaners-granted-refugee-status-due-to-arrive-in-u-s
25 NEWS NOW
— Senate bill to allow death penalty for illegal immigrants who kill Americans
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/05/08/senate-bill-allow-death-penalty-illegal-immigrants-who-kill-americans/
WINDY CITY TIMES
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://windycitytimes.com/2025/05/06/chicago-teachers-union-codifies-lgbtq-protections-in-new-contract/
CAPITOL FREE BEACON
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-509/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— GOP senators slam the latest push for higher taxes by Illinois Democrats
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_cbe4c9d3-c86d-4d6f-8371-c2ea0bfc0b4b.html
— Lion Electric bankruptcy raises concerns over state’s EV incentives
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_309a4583-df72-4cfe-80fb-db65d07d774c.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Pope Leo XIV was selected because he hates Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. 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 and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponent credit meritocracy for their successes, but discredit meritocracy for everyone else’s successes. Democrat and RINO leaders, that is, liberal and moderate leaders, have always used “disparate impact” to get rid of Republicans, that is, to get rid of conservatives. Conservatives do better on tests than liberals and moderates. My critics/opponents continue to be furious that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt in 1981. They stress others who passed the examinations on their first attempt and got better scores than I did. Extremely few of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal promoted over me took the CPA examination, let alone passed it, let alone passed it on their first attempt. None passed the CIA examination. I should write about my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me. They all were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) who had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. According to my critics/opponents, I passed the aforesaid examinations because the tests favored those who share my White male demographics. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother attended high school. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a Democrat. The RINOs who ran the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) in 2000 let me publish the organization’s first website and serve as its webmaster. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a RINO. They rudely fired me as MTRO webmaster in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— George Ryan, 1934-2025. What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. 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 and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-obituary/3405131/george-ryan-life-obit-illinois-death-penalty/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— University of Chicago Stats Professor Cancels Midterm, Pushes Students To Join Anti-Trump Protest Instead. ‘Marching against this dangerous authoritarian administration is of utmost importance!’ Yali Amit says.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/university-of-chicago-stats-professor-cancels-midterm-pushes-students-to-join-anti-trump-protest-instead/
NEW YORK POST
— Pope Leo XIV was an active Republican primary voter and voted in 2024 presidential election
https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/pope-leo-xiv-was-an-active-republican-primary-voter-and-voted-in-2024-presidential-election/
— Pope Leo XIV in his own words: The pontiff on abortion, climate change, homosexuality, and capital punishment
https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/pope-leo-xiv-in-his-own-words-the-pontiff-on-abortion-climate-change-homosexuality-and-capital-punishment/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Makes Judge Jeanine Interim US Attorney For DC
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/trump-makes-judge-jeanine-interim-us-attorney-for-dc/
EPOCH TIMES
— What to Know About Robert Francis Prevost: The First American Pope. The Augustinian from Chicago has spent much of his time in Latin America.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/what-to-know-about-robert-francis-prevost-the-first-american-pope-5854705
FEDERALIST
— Read The New Pope’s Far-Left Takes On Immigration, Climate, Covid, And Race Relations
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/08/read-the-new-popes-far-left-takes-on-immigration-climate-covid-and-race-relations/
— There’s No ‘Sanctuary’ For Family Of Chicago Woman Killed By Illegal Alien
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/09/theres-no-sanctuary-for-family-of-woman-allegedly-killed-by-illegal-alien/
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/06/try-telling-this-dad-whose-daughter-was-killed-by-an-illegal-that-open-borders-are-compassionate/
FREE PRESS
— How Can You Be a Cop in a City (Chicago) That Hates You?
https://www.thefp.com/p/chicago-police-suicides
NEW AMERICAN
— New Pope’s X Feed Reveals Far-left Sympathies, but Traditional Catholics Still Hope for the Best
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/new-popes-x-feed-reveals-far-left-sympathies-but-traditional-catholics-still-hope-for-the-best/
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Pope Leo XIV Previously Criticized Trump’s Deportation Policies
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/pope-leo-xiv-previously-criticized-trumps-deportation-policies-while-damning-allegations-of-abuse-resurface/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Newly-Elected American Pope Has Taken Multiple Shots at the Trump Administration in Recent Months
https://www.westernjournal.com/newly-elected-american-pope-taken-multiple-shots-trump-administration-recent-months/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Pope Leo XIV voted in 2024 U.S. general election — here’s which primaries he’s voted in
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-robert-prevost-voting-records-republican-democratic-primaries/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Chicago-born pope — formerly Cardinal Robert F. Prevost — is registered to vote in the Chicago suburb of New Lenox, Ill., and has a mixed voting history of participating in primaries for both parties, according to voting records shared with CBS News and data from the Illinois State Board of Elections. There is no party registration in Illinois, but to vote in a primary you have to choose a party’s ballot to vote on. Prevost has voted in more Republican primaries than Democratic, and the last primary election he voted in was the 2016 Republican presidential primary. . .He voted in the Republican primaries in 2012, 2014 & 2016, including the presidential primaries in 2012 and 2016. L2 Data records show he last voted in a Democratic primary in 2010. He had also voted in the party’s presidential primary in 2008. He has voted in at least nine general elections, including in five presidential election cycles: 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2024. There’s no record of him voting in the 2016 or 2020 general election. Records show he also voted in a “consolidated general election” in April 2001, when local Illinois offices were on the ballot.)
— Here’s what Pope Leo XIV has posted about politics — and the Trump administration — on social media
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-xiv-social-media-account-trump-vance-criticism/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a
MSN
— Pope Leo XIV’s attacks on ‘homosexual lifestyle’ spark fears in Catholic LGBTQ+ community
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pope-leo-xiv-s-attacks-on-homosexual-lifestyle-spark-fears-in-catholic-lgbtq-community/ar-AA1Eqh25
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Catholic Chicagoans Celebrate as Native Son Pope Leo XIV Becomes First American Pope. Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision was announced that a native son, Cardinal Robert Prevost, had been elected pope.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-05-08/catholic-chicagoans-celebrate-as-native-son-pope-leo-xiv-becomes-first-american-pope
NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST & NEWSWEEK & CNN & REUTERS & MSN & POLITICO & DAILY BEAST & PEOPLE & ADVOCATE & MEDIA MATTERS & RAW STORY & UNHERD & IRISH STAR & REASON & DAILY VOICE & NEW REPUBLIC & POLITICO
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will do everything that they can to paint Pope Leo XIV as being a Democrat, that is, as being anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq-gay.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/pope-leo-xiv-robert-francis-prevost.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-views-political-robert-prevost/
https://www.newsweek.com/what-pope-leo-said-lgbtq-issues-2069889
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-leo-sparks-maga-criticism-2069864
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/politics/video/biden-pope-leo-xiv-election-reaction-bash-vrtc
https://www.reuters.com/world/before-becoming-pontiff-pope-leo-levied-criticism-trump-vance-2025-05-08/
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/new-pope-robert-prevost-s-voting-history-as-his-stance-on-abortion-and-party-registration-revealed/ar-AA1EqsIj
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/trump-welcomes-new-american-born-pope-and-says-he-can-t-wait-to-meet-him-despite-leo-xiv-once-blasting-vance/ar-AA1Eq5aK
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maga-goes-into-meltdown-branding-pope-leo-xiv-woke-marxist-and-never-trump-er/ar-AA1Er6jj
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/marxist-pope-maga-rages-against-new-pope-for-being-critical-of-trump-s-policies/ar-AA1Eqgqv
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/leo-american-pope-worldview-00337247
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-popes-voting-record-reveals-real-thoughts-on-trump-analyst/
https://people.com/where-does-pope-leo-xiv-stand-lgbtq-issues-what-we-know-11731335
https://www.advocate.com/voices/vatican-message-trump-opinion
https://www.mediamatters.org/jack-posobiec/jack-posobiec-criticizes-pope-leo-xiv-promoting-anti-trump-and-anti-bukele-articles-0
https://www.rawstory.com/jack-posobiec-pope-leo/
https://unherd.com/newsroom/pope-leo-xiv-heralds-a-renewal-of-catholic-social-justice/
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/irish-catholics-respond-first-american-35196239
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/presidential-elections-pope-leo-voted-35196053
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-and-immigration/
https://dailyvoice.com/virginia/arlington/robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv-blasted-trump-on-x/
https://newrepublic.com/post/195017/new-pope-robert-prevost-lgbtq-immigration
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/pope-leo-tweets-social-media-00337322
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/leo-american-pope-worldview-00337247
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/health/migrants-health-care-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Leo XIV’s New Lenox brother recalls feeling of ‘disbelief’ over his sibling becoming pope
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/05/09/pope-leo-xiv-brother-john-prevost/0772f2be-2c93-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/07/pride-flag-ban-utah-idaho/83493956007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight to keep their control of their colleges
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/08/trump-research-funding-cuts-china/83417543007/
NEW YORK TIMES & BLOOMBERG LAW & ECONOMIST
— My critics/opponent credit meritocracy for their successes, but discredit meritocracy for everyone else’s successes. Democrat and RINO leaders, that is, liberal and moderate leaders, have always used “disparate impact” to get rid of Republicans, that is, to get rid of conservatives. Conservatives do better on tests than liberals and moderates. My critics/opponents continue to be furious that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination on my first attempt in 1981. They stress others who passed the examinations on their first attempt and got better scores than I did. Extremely few of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal promoted over me took the CPA examination, let alone passed it, let alone passed it on their first attempt. None passed the CIA examination. I should write about my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me. They all were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) who had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. According to my critics/opponents, I passed the aforesaid examinations because the tests favored those who share my White male demographics. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother attended high school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-civil-rights.html
https://news.bgov.com/litigation/doj-ends-longstanding-disparate-impact-suit-over-nyc-fire-hiring
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/05/08/trump-knocks-down-a-controversial-pillar-of-civil-rights-law
STATE JOURNAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.state-journal.com/opinion/guest-columnist-the-new-barbarians-at-the-gates/article_9382434e-bd53-40da-a0a1-e11d989f392f.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What Does Your Car Model Say About You? My critics/opponents despise/hate cars, and especially American nameplate cars, and even more especially American nameplate muscle cars.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-does-your-car-model-say-about-you-55f7faa1
FORTUNE
— Pension fund has voted to block new investments in Tesla: ‘Musk has destroyed the brand’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/pension-fund-tesla-lehigh-elon-musk/
FAST COMPANY
— You can buy the new pope’s childhood Dolton home for $199,000. Robert Prevost’s former house is about to become a landmark.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91326862/you-can-buy-the-new-popes-childhood-home-for-199000
BUSINESS INSIDER
— The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a Democrat. The RINOs who ran the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) in 2000 let me publish the organization’s first website and serve as its webmaster. They gambled and lost that I would cave in and become a RINO. They rudely fired me as MTRO webmaster in 2004.
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-left-republican-party-register-democrat-2016-10
DAILY MAIL
— How a humble Chicago schoolboy Robert Prevost with a veteran father rose to become America’s first Pope
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14693031/robert-prevost-american-pope-leo-childhood-beginnings.html
INDEPENDENT
— According to Democrat leaders, Pope Leo XIV is anti-Trump.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-xiv-new-robert-prevost-conclave-vatican-live-updates-b2747726.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maga-woke-american-pope-leo-xiv-b2747600.html
GUARDIAN
— Unearthed comments from new pope alarm LGBTQ+ Catholics. Previous negative remarks by Pope Leo XIV about ‘homosexual lifestyle’ at odds with papacy of Pope Francis.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq