June 15, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 19 shot, 6 fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-eight-shot-fatally-gun-violence-city-police-department-says/19287969/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: The Democrat Party platform drives Democrat teen takeovers. It destroys traditional marriage and family. It destroys personal responsibility. It destroys respect for the rule of law.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/15/chicago-teen-takeovers-causes/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/summer-heats-driving-chicago-teen-100000507.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/14/annual-pride-parade-in-downtown-aurora-seen-as-having-impact-around-the-fox-valley-this-is-important/

ABC7 & CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & FOX ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders decry Trump celebrating his turning 80 with a UFC cage-fight at the White House.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ufc-fight-white-house-today-trump-turns-80-showstopping-spectacle-cage-fights-south-lawn/19294864/
https://www.news-gazette.com/trump-celebrates-turning-80-with-a-ufc-cage-fighting-event-while-big-issues-loom-over/article_8451420e-8a76-5861-a15e-b68665aaab64.html
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/the-latest-trump-celebrates-his-80th-birthday-with-a-ufc-cage-fight-at-the-white/article_ca828266-2098-5b6d-bcea-dcbca0d5e579.html

BELLEVIEW NEWS DEMOCRAT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/lgbtq-families-metro-east-belleville-112101579.html

CENTRALILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/prairie-pride-picnic-normal/amp/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn America to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint today’s Republicans as being yesterday’s Confederates.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-14/fate-of-historic-slavery-exhibit-targeted-by-trump-hangs-in-the-balance

DELIA RAMIREZ
— DD: Ramirez ever-increasingly promotes the Democrat Party platform.
https://ramirez.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/ramirez.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/-spanish-1362026-19315-2.pdf

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Money’s worth: Conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley packed the ballroom at Friday’s Illinois GOP fundraiser in Elk Grove Village. But some Republicans wonder whether the $30,000 speaking fee bought much beyond a one-night appearance. Despite his sizable online audience — including 1.6 million followers on X — we haven’t seen Shirley post about Friday’s Red Gala. Targeted audience: Illinois GOP Chair Bob Grogan said bringing Shirley in was part of a larger effort to connect with younger voters, a group that Republicans have long struggled to reach. “The Republican Party’s age-old problem is that we have failed to attract young people,” he said. Republicans “sort of bucked that trend” in the last election cycle, Grogan added, by finding messages and communication channels that resonated with younger audiences. The generational divide was on display Friday. While a few older attendees had never heard of Shirley, Grogan said younger Republicans were eager to see him in person. He said that underscores the need for the party to meet voters where they are — on YouTube and other digital platforms. The challenge, of course, is that the reach doesn’t end when the event wraps up. If the goal is to introduce the Illinois GOP to Shirley’s audience, it would help if some of that content actually made it onto his social media feeds. . .Events: June 24: The DuPage County GOP is holding its summer kickoff party.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/15/the-obamas-back-in-chicago-00961830

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What are your demographics? When did your ancestors immigrate? According to Democrat leaders, the more of the following that you are and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that you have benefitted from slavery the more that you should pay the price of Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, and/or German American. I am all of the aforesaid and all of my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. My critics/opponents have always made me pay the price of AA and DEI big time. In my defense, I have always stressed that all my ancestors have always lived in northeast Illinois, that they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents want Blacks to get preference. They were overjoyed when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. 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
— Life is a series of choices. What big choices in life did you make? Mine include a) following and promoting conservative principles, b) not becoming a Democrat or a RINO, c) working my way through college rather than relying on the G.I Bill, d) avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments and a financial hardship deferment, e) earning enough money to pay for my college expenses and to buy new cars and real estate, f) earning a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license to advance my career, g) making myself marriage material and getting married, h) staying a federal employee once I became one, i) complaining about my federal superiors’ political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, j) becoming the subject of a 4-page Money Magazine One Person’s Finances article, k) taking a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, l) becoming an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat superiors with the aforesaid discrimination, m) succumbing to my Democrat superiors’ threats and retiring when I was 49 in 1997, n) filing lawsuits, o) becoming a Republican Precinct Committeeman, p) becoming the GOPUSA Illinois Editor, q) backing Pat O’Malley in the 2002 Illinois Republican Party gubernatorial primary, r) becoming an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, s) becoming the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, t) organizing Wheaton’s 9/11 events, u) promoting Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, and v) leading efforts to ban video gambling and the sale of pot in Wheaton. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Nick Shirley Headlines Major GOP Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/15/nick-shirley-headlines-major-gop-fundraiser/
— One End of a New Crude Oil Pipeline Would Terminate in Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/14/one-end-of-a-new-crude-oil-pipeline-would-end-in-illinois/
— What McHenry County’s Water Expert Has To Say about Data Centers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/14/what-mchenry-countys-water-expert-has-to-say-about-data-centers/
— Bizarrely, Apartment Fire in Oak Lawn Qualifies McHenry, Will, DuPage, Kane and Lake County Homeowners, Renters, Non-Profits and Businesses for Low Cost Small Business Administration Loans
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/13/bizzarely-apartment-fire-in-oak-lawn-qualifies-homeowners-renters-non-profits-and-businesses-for-low-cost-small-business-administration-loans/
— Pritzker Presidential Support Within the Margin of Error
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/13/pritzker-presidential-support-within-the-margin-of-error/
— Unintended Consequences of Action at Algonquin Township’s Annual Meeting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/12/unintended-consequences-of-action-at-algonquin-townships-annual-meeting/
— Bailey Greatly Outraising Corbett
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/bailey-greatly-outraising-corbett/
— 2.4% to 12.5% of Illinois Homeowners Face Federal Capital Gains Taxes Upon Sale, Plus 4.9% State Income Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/2-4-to-12-5-of-illinois-homeowners-face-federal-capital-gains-taxes-upon-sale-plus-4-9-state-income-tax/
— Crystal Lake Trump Store Holding Potluck Celebration of Trump’s June 14th Birthday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/crystal-lake-trump-store-holding-potluck-celebration-of-trumps-june-14th-birthday/
— Althoff and Gottemoller Fund Raiser June 29th in Crystal Lake
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/althoff-and-gottemoller-fund-raiser-june-29th-in-crystal-lake/
— Danijela Sandberg Schedules Fund Raiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/danijela-sandberg-schedules-fund-raiser/
— Distributing Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/distributing-taxes/
— NITA (New Name for RTA) Raising Sales Taxes on August 1st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/nita-new-name-for-rta-raising-sales-taxes-on-august-1st/
— Imagine If Politicians Had to Gain Voter Approval Before Raising Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/10/image-if-politicians-had-to-gain-voter-approval-before-raising-taxes/
— Ness Passes Four Bills
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/10/ness-passes-four-bills/
— Emanuel Sets Up Pritzker for a Fall, Whether Illinois Loses or Subsidizes the Bears
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/10/emanuel-sets-up-pritzker-for-a-fall-whether-illinois-loses-or-subsidizes-the-bears/
— Allen Skillicorn as Kingmaker
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/10/allen-skillicorn-as-kingmaker/
— Assisted Suicide, Other Bills Take Effect July 1st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/09/assisted-suicide-other-bills-take-effect-july-1st/
— Laurie Parman Schedules Fundraiser for State Rep. Campaign Wednesday, June 17th
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/09/laurie-parman-schedules-fundraiser-for-state-rep-campaign-wednesday-june-17th/
— Jeanne Ives Publishes Cartoon of JB’s Punting Bears to Indiana
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/08/jeanne-ives-publishes-cartoon-of-jbs-punting-bears-to-indiana/
— Governance: Indiana vs. Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/07/governance-indiana-vs-illinois/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Pride Month’ nothing to be proud of
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/14/pride-month-nothing-proud/

NEW YORK POST
— How the Southern Poverty Law Center drives demonization of its conservative foes
https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/opinion/southern-poverty-law-center-doesnt-just-go-against-the-bad-guys/

BREITBART
— Restaurant Let Illegals Use SSNs of Former Employees
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/14/report-former-employees-face-big-tax-bills-after-north-carolina-restaurant-allowed-illegals-to-steal-social-security-numbers/
— Biden-Appointed Judge: Trump Administration Must Restore Leftist Ideology to National Parks
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2026/06/14/biden-appointed-judge-trump-administration-must-restore-leftist-ideology-to-national-parks/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Increasing Support for ‘Mass Deportations’
https://cis.org/Arthur/Latest-HarvardHarris-Poll-Shows-Increasing-Support-Mass-Deportations

COLLEGE FIX
— University broke state law to hire black candidate over more qualified white one. DD: My critics/opponents want Blacks to get preference. They were overjoyed when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. 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.thecollegefix.com/university-broke-state-law-to-hire-black-candidate-over-more-qualified-white-one/

DAILY SIGNAL
— The Academic Achievement Gap Is a Knowledge Gap. DD: Neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, my mother never attended high school. But they sent me to Missouri Synod grade schools. That put me on track to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/14/academic-achievement-gap/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Children of married parents with high education levels are more likely to be healthy and succeed in school and life than their peers. Children from these families are also more likely to live above the poverty line and benefit from extracurricular activities such as music lessons, sports, and summer camp. These activities offer students prized background knowledge. Students from families with lower education levels must rely more on schools to provide information. Poor reading and math scores nationwide do not give confidence that schools in low-income areas are bridging the gap. Many schools have reduced time spent on history, science, geography, literature, and civics in favor of generic reading strategies, so-called social-emotional learning, and “gender” studies. Schools often cut the very subjects that help students.)
— Lawsuit Exposes Virginia’s Neo-Confederate Approach to Immigration. DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/13/blatantly-unconstitutional-new-lawsuit-exposes-virginias-neo-confederate-immigration-policies/

FOX NEWS
— Katie Abraham’s father: Open borders were insane, politicians didn’t care, families like mine paid the price.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/open-borders-insane-politicians-didnt-care-families-like-mine-paid-price
— DHS directs ICE to deport illegal immigrants who vote in American elections
https://www.aol.com/articles/dhs-directs-ice-deport-illegal-191737993.html
— SPLC chief doubles down on placing Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA on ‘hate map.’  DD: TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were conservative groups. My critics/opponents are anti-conservative. I served as the TAPROOT chairman from 2005 until 2012 when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me and destroy the group. I served as an ICRC Steering Committee member from 2003 until 2007 when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me and destroy the group. My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue that TAPROOT and ICRC were hate groups.
https://www.aol.com/articles/watch-splc-chief-doubles-down-191116000.html

PJ MEDIA
— DD: Leftist ideology is poison.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/14/a-new-study-just-confirmed-the-lefts-worst-kept-secret-n4953961
— DD: The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans.
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/06/14/the-dirty-little-secret-why-newspaper-dailies-are-killing-their-editorial-pages-n4953960

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

AOL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/news/house-republicans-hold-another-hearing-210300406.html

MSN
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly blame all problems on Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/american-ideals-and-the-reality-of-inequality/ss-AA25vO8U
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/governor-desantis-signs-dei-ban-bill-in-jacksonville/ar-AA21ypBk

NEW YORK TIMES
— Americans Aren’t Money Savvy, and They’re Only Getting Worse. DD: I worked for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years. Many delinquents taxpayers ask for payment agreements. I took many financial statements from them to determine ability to pay.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/your-money/americans-financial-knowledge.html
— FRONT PAGE: Wages Are Falling. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I have always  been overpaid. To qualify myself for better paying jobs, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/business/economy-trillionaire-wealth-wages.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. I argue that my wife and I are far better off today because we got married in 1978. Our marriage motivated me to earn a) two more master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-05-26/1950s-marriage-family-nostalgia-economic-inequality
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A majority of Americans believe our country’s culture and way of life have “mostly changed for the worse” since the 1950s, according to the Public Religion Research Institute’s 2025 American Values Survey. That includes 55% of white people, 53% of Black people and 57% of Latinos. For many, the problem lies in the collapse of the marriage system of that decade, when the majority of women married before they turned 21, only 6% of men and women reached age 35 without having married, and divorce rates fell to a postwar low of 9.2 divorces per 1,000 married women. The solution, according to the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” blueprint for family policy, is to incentivize early marriage and childbearing (for heterosexual partners only) and abolish no-fault divorce.)

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2026/06/10/olympic-gene-testing-woman-trans-athletes-2028-olympics/89948469007/

PRESS READER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. I argue that my wife and I are far better off today because we got married in 1978. Our marriage motivated me to earn a) two more master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/rockdale-citiizen/20260614/281629606966269

CLICK 2 HOUSTON
— Americans fault news media for dividing nation. DD: The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/politics/2023/05/01/poll-americans-fault-news-media-for-dividing-country/

COURIER JOURNAL
— DD: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racists.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-courier-journal-louisville-/20260614/282505780294786

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

GUARDIAN
— Choices in life. DD: What big choices in life did you make? Mine include a) following and promoting conservative principles, b) not becoming a Democrat or a RINO, c) working my way through college rather than relying on the G.I Bill, d) avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments and a financial hardship deferment, e) earning enough money to pay for my college expenses and to buy new cars and real estate, f) earning a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license to advance my career, g) making myself marriage material and getting married, h) staying a federal employee once I became one, i) complaining about my federal superiors’ political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, j) becoming the subject of a 4-page Money Magazine One Person’s Finances article, k) taking a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, l) becoming an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat superiors with the aforesaid discrimination, m) succumbing to my Democrat superiors’ threats and retiring when I was 49 in 1997, n) filing lawsuits, o) becoming a Republican Precinct Committeeman, p) becoming the GOPUSA Illinois Editor, q) backing Pat O’Malley in the 2002 Illinois Republican Party gubernatorial primary, r) becoming an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, s) becoming the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, t) organizing Wheaton’s 9/11 events, u) promoting Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, and v) leading efforts to ban video gambling and the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/02/the-big-idea-could-you-have-made-different-choices-in-life

June 14, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Juneteenth. DD: Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/juneteenth-elgin-music-festival-panton-family/
— Side-by-side Wheaton mansions are for sale at $2.4M and $3.3M. DD: How diverse is your precinct economically? My DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton is extremely diverse economically. Generally, the further south that you go in my precinct, the higher that household incomes and housing values are. Since 1984, my critics/opponents have wanted public housing to be built on the north border of my precinct on the south side of Roosevelt Road. Currently, the aforesaid side-by-side mansions in my precinct are for sale at $2.4M and $3.3M.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/05/wheaton-mansions/

ABC7
— JANUARY 8, 2023 FLASHMACK: DD: Those who want the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) to be the Illinois Democrat Lite Party are destroying the IRP.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jim-durkin-illinois-house-republican-resigning/12678017/

CBS2
— DD: Trump opposes abortion. Democrat leaders remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center building. In 2025, Democrat leaders removed Hyde’s name from the DuPage County Courthouse because he opposed abortion.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trumps-name-removed-from-kennedy-center-building/

WGN9
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-weekend-morning-news/12th-annual-chicago-juneteenth-parade-set-to-take-over-west-side/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2026/06/12/here-are-events-happening-to-celebrate-juneteenth-in-springfield/90456349007/

JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL COURIER
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/lincoln-library-museum-celebrating-juneteenth-22302668.php

STATELINE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly disparage America to disparage Republicans.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/national/ap-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-restore-national-park-changes-at-sites-that-disparaged-us/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— House conservatives mount push to codify Trump border policies.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/house-conservatives-mount-push-to-codify-trump-border-policies/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump turns 80 with a showstopping spectacle of cage fights at the White House. But big issues loom. Trump celebrates turning 80 with a UFC cage-fighting event on the White House’s South Lawn.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-turns-80-with-a-showstopping-spectacle-of-cage-fights-at-the-white-house-but/article_2b136f66-ab21-5bd9-a498-36187534c370.html
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/local/juneteenth-family-day-celebration/article_1f3fee3d-9725-582c-b5f9-db89efa79f1a.html

WCIA
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.aol.com/news/guide-celebrating-juneteenth-central-illinois-013447577.html

WSIL TV
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/illinois/city-of-carbondale-announces-juneteenth-celebration-series/article_bd518684-ccf3-4af0-b590-49ee55f64dac.html

WAND TV
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.wandtv.com/community/5-things-to-do-this-weekend-across-central-illinois-june-12-14/article_a2bb17de-bc1f-47c1-bc7a-a5602ca4c1b7.html

WQAD
— Illinois distributes first $25M to local pharmacies in low-income areas to help them compete. DD: How wealthy is/was your hometown. To demonize, denigrate, and condemn my parents and me as being filthy rich, my critics/opponents have always falsely hinted/implied that Crete was filthy rich when I lived there 1948-1972.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/state/illinois-distributes-first-25m-to-local-pharmacies-to-help-them-compete/526-88ae94bf-9520-493b-9c33-68b81b4811de

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/a-look-inside-new-obama-museum-ahead-of-its-juneteenth-official-opening/

IPM NEWS
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/champaign-danville-and-urbana-to-mark-juneteenth-by-celebrating-black-freedom-and-families/

CWB CHICAGO
— A 21-year-old Indiana man was killed when a gunman armed with an illegally modified pistol opened fire during a stunt driving “sideshow” in the Ford City Mall parking lot early Saturday.
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/06/gunman-sprays-ford-city-parking-lot-with-automatic-gunfire-killing-man-during-car-sideshow.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Glen Ellyn residents say spiking encounters with volatile homeless population, lack of policing ‘not a compassionate answer’ from the village. DD: The Democrat Party platform destroys traditional marriage and family, that is, it promotes homelessness.
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/glen-ellyn-residents-say-spiking-encounters-with-volatile-homeless-population-lack-of-policing-not-a-compassionate-answer-from-the-village

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago’s sustainable community high schools: Lower outcomes, higher costs. The Chicago Teachers Union’s preferred model fails in academic proficiency, absenteeism and cost. DD: My parents sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. That put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicagos-sustainable-community-high-schools-lower-outcomes-higher-costs/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Registration is open for political entries in Wheaton’s July 4 Independence Day Parade. SEE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wheaton-independence-day-parade-entry-2026-tickets-1984881886153  The deadline is June 26. The cost is $183.58. I hope that all the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct will walk in the parade: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Wheaton in 1999, I have encouraged Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to walk in Wheaton Independence Day parades. In 2003, the day after all the announced Republican candidates for U.S. Senate attended (Cox, Kathuria, McKenna, Oberweis, and Ryan) had walked in the parade, they all attended a picnic that I had organized in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. More than 200 attended. In 2005, I started raising $2,500/year from Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders to help sponsor the parade and fireworks. Each year I would hand-deliver 500 parade flyers to the homes and businesses along the parade route. In 2007, I raised $2,000 for an elephant to walk behind Roskam in the parade. But my critics/opponents ended that in 2021 by having the Wheaton Park District stop parade and fireworks sponsorships. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take many other adverse actions against me. They want to de-politized the parade, that is, they want to keep Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders out of the parade.
— What discourages/stops you from helping elect Republican candidates? For me, it is knowing that far too many of them will blame me and will blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you attribute your successes in life to? I attribute my successes in life to my parents who promoted personal responsibility and conservative principles. Their sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license. But my critics/opponents attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, parents, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your purpose in life? My purpose in life is to promote conservative principles. My following conservative principles enabled me to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. I have always fully disclosed that I am conservative and that I promote conservative principles. I have always used my personal experiences to promote conservative principles. According to my critics/opponents, that disqualifies me as being a journalist. But they have no problem with journalists who falsely claim to be nonpartisan. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who do your critics/opponents side with? My critics/opponents side with a) liberals and moderates who are against conservatives, b) Democrats and RINOs who are against Republicans, c) minorities who are against Whites, d) women who are against men, e) younger people who are against older people, f) those who have less money who are against those who have more money, g) unmarried people who are against married people, h) those who have children who are against those who do not have children, i) those who are against federal employees and retirees, j) those who are against reporters and journalists, k) veterans who are against draft avoiders, l) non-Protestants who are against Protestants, m) non-German Americans who are against German Americans, n) those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time who are against those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, o) countries that are against America, and/or p) citizens of foreign countries who are against citizens of America. – Dave Diersen
http:http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you had adverse actions taken against you? When your critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against you, who has come to your defense? My critics/opponents continue to stress that when they had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me, virtually no one came to my defense. They had their operatives and their dupes a) rudely throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) rudely end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) rudely gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) rudely end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) rudely end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) rudely end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, h) rudely defeat my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, i) etc. Who have you hoped would have come to your defense, but did not? For me, it is those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect in general elections. Further, my critics/opponents stress that when my Democrat superiors in the federal government took many big adverse actions against me including my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, the following did not come to my defense: my Republican U.S. Senators and Representatives, Speakers Gingrich and Hastert, and the six professional associations that I was a member of: Illinois CPA Society, Institute of Internal Auditors, Nation Association of Fraud Examiners, Association of Government Accountants, National Association of Financial Services Auditors, and National Association of Forensic Accountants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Mayhem mars euphoria as New York City celebrates the Knicks’ first championship in 53 years
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/14/mayhem-mars-euphoria-new-york-city-celebrates-knicks-first/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Pritzker Depicts White People, Cops as Mosquitoes in Microaggression Training That Rails Against ‘Color Blindness.’  The training from Pritzker’s Department of Human Rights—offered to ‘private-sector, government, and public participants’—also shows a black woman torching the mosquitoes with a flamethrower.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/jb-pritzker-admin-depicts-white-people-cops-as-mosquitoes-in-microaggression-training-that-rails-against-color-blindness/

AMERICAN THINKER
— The kids are not alright. Trump’s team is working night and day to track down all the alien minors “lost” by Joe Biden.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/the_kids_are_not_alright.html

ANN COULTER
— This Week in Hate Crimes. DD: My critics/opponents despise/hate Ann Coulter. My critics/opponents side with a) liberals and moderates who are against conservatives, b) Democrats and RINOs who are against Republicans, c) minorities who are against Whites, d) women who are against men, e) younger people who are against older people, f) those who have less money who are against those who have more money, g) unmarried people who are against married people, h) those who have children who are against those who do not have children, i) those who are against federal employees and retirees, j) those who are against reporters and journalists, k) veterans who are against draft avoiders, l) non-Protestants who are against Protestants, m) non-German Americans who are against German Americans, n) those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time who are against those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, o) countries that are against America, and/or p) citizens of foreign countries who are against citizens of America.
https://prescottenews.com/2026/06/13/opinion-this-week-in-hate-crimes-ann-coulter/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Tuesday this week, 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murder for fatally stabbing a competitor at track meet in Texas last year. The killing quickly became national news because Anthony is black, his victim was white and black people were rooting for the stabber. The events that led to Anthony’s plunging a knife into Austin Metcalf’s heart are these: Driven for some reason to sit in a rival team’s tent, Anthony was repeatedly asked to leave by Metcalf. He refused, and tauntingly dared, “Touch me and see what happens.” Metcalf pushed him, whereupon Anthony knifed him. For killing a white kid who had the affrontery to 1) ask him to leave a tent he was not supposed to be in, and 2) touch him, Anthony collected more than $600,000 in donations and gained a small group of protesters outside the courthouse, yelling racist abuse at white people. Anthony’s admirers claimed to be protesting “white supremacy.” Don’t these white people realize Anthony is black? You can’t ask a black person to move! A minister outside the courthouse denounced the entire justice system as the “final frontier of racism and it’s legalized here.” A potential juror admitted, “I don’t know if I feel right putting a brother in jail.” One thing you’ll never see is a group of white people rooting for whites who kill blacks — or anyone else for that matter — just because the accused is white. Nobody protested the arrests of Derek Chauvin, Kim Potter, George Zimmerman or Jake Gardner, and two of those were accidents, the other two self-defense. [Point of law: Lying on your back, having your head smashed into a concrete sidewalk, or being locked in a chokehold so lethal that police are no longer allowed to use it, is not remotely similar to being pushed.] Gardner, for example, an Omaha bar owner, shot and killed a black career criminal who was choking him to death during a BLM riot. The district attorney, along with his entire homicide department, investigated and concluded the shooting was justified. But realizing he was white, the Democratic D.A. recused himself and assigned a black special prosecutor to the case. The black prosecutor promptly issued an arrest warrant for Gardner’s arrest, charging him with manslaughter, attempted first-degree assault, making terroristic threats, and use of a weapon to commit a felony. With a legion of white people rushing to disavow him, evict him, destroy his business, and manipulate the system to ensure his conviction, Gardner killed himself. In other news this week, a 14-year-old black kid in Indianapolis fatally shot a 23-year-old white man in the head during a carjacking. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department chief of police (the city’s first female police chief!!!) and deputy chief of police (a black guy, naturally) held press conferences, emoting over the horrible thing that had happened — to the killer. Chief Tanya Terry, who looks like Janet Reno’s younger, more butch sister, barely mentioned the victim, Brett Scrogham, a serious Christian, who’d been returning from having dinner with his family when he was attacked. Terry began by saying she had “mixed emotions” about his murder — as one does when an innocent man has been shot in the head. In her telling, the vicious cold blooded crime was merely a “tragic incident.” Tearing up, she bemoaned the fact that the suspected killer would “face lifelong consequences,” his life “forever impacted and changed by short-sighted, impulsive, and reckless decisions.” You know, if you think about it, you could say that Scrogham’s life was also impacted, in a way. Finally remembering him, Terry added, “There are victims on the other side of those decisions. And those victims matter.” Yes, we all remember the “tragic incident” in Minneapolis when police officer Derek Chauvin’s life was forever “impacted and changed.” It’s easy to forget, but there was another victim in that encounter, too. Deputy Chief Kendale Adams also called the unprovoked attack a “tragedy,” saying it was “a setback for all of us.” Yes, especially Scrogham. He then called on the community to ensure that potential teenage killers feel valued. “I know that those community-based organizations are out there doing this kind of work, and I would like to keep encouraging them to continue to do the work. … we have to do more.” Everybody has to step up and “do more,” except the teenagers who keep killing people. This is like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) saying, the day after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, that she grieved for both “the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday,” or Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) referring to the 9/11 terrorist attack as a day when “some people did something.” Sometimes it seems as if, no matter who kills whom, it’s either the white person’s fault or it’s nobody’s fault.)

COLLEGE FIX
— Professor: Should Americans not cheer for the U.S. World Cup team … because Trump? DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly punish America to punish Trump.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-should-americans-not-cheer-for-the-u-s-world-cup-team-because-trump/
— Pro-Palestinian Swarthmore College activists arrested for 2025 encampment demand all charges be dropped.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/pro-palestinian-swarthmore-college-activists-arrested-for-2025-encampment-demand-all-charges-be-dropped/

COMMON SENSE
— The World Has Moved Past Peak Woke. The high point of the ideology has passed, the direction of travel has changed, and that is a very good thing. DD. All my critics/opponents either a) are woke or b) pander to those who are woke.
https://www.thecommonsense.co.za/editorials/world-has-moved-past-peak-woke

DAILY SIGNAL
— California’s Election System Keeps Democrats in Power. DD: The Illinois Republican Party’s (IRP) system for electing IRP State Central Committee members keeps conservatives, that is, platform Republicans, out of power.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/12/californias-election-system-power/

FOX NEWS
— San Francisco Giants pitcher writes Bible verse on hat in defiance of Pride Night
https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/san-francisco-giants-pitcher-writes-bible-verse-hat-defiance-pride-night.amp

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Talarico Worked As ‘Equitable Education’ Consultant for Firm that Designed DEI Strategies for Texas Schools
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/talarico-worked-as-equitable-education-consultant-for-firm-that-designed-dei-strategies-for-texas-schools/amp/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Los Angeles City Council has approved amendments that would slow the implementation schedule for the City’s Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance and related airport worker wage provisions. The move revises the framework adopted in 2025, which had been set to increase covered hotel and airport worker wages to $30 per hour by 2028. DD: In today’s dollars, I did not earn $27/hour until I was 22 in 1971 and I had earned a job-related bachelor’s degree. In today’s dollars, I did not earn $33/hour until I was 23 in 1972 and had completed three job-related evening graduate courses.
https://natlawreview.com/article/los-angeles-amends-hotel-worker-minimum-wage-ordinance-advance-july-2026

NEW AMERICAN
— Illinois DEI Training Equates Whites With Mosquitoes — Which Can Be Killed With Fire
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/illinois-dei-training-equates-whites-with-mosquitoes-which-can-be-killed-with-fire/

TOWNHALL
— Let’s Have a Serious Conversation About Race.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/06/14/lets-have-a-serious-conversation-about-race-n2677727
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “What the hell is wrong with these people?” I heard someone ask as a clip of Jasmine Crockett played on the television at the restaurant bar the other day. What was Crockett talking about? Her sympathy for the murderer named Karmelo Anthony because he’s black. Yes, that’s why she cares, or at least pretends to care, about the fate of the man who’ll spend at least the next 17.5 years of his life in prison in Texas. How could anyone, real or not, go on camera and express sympathy for a murderer, at the expense of the murder victim and his family, no less? There’s really only one possibility: the cancerous cultural rot Democrats have forced and enforced on the black community.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

AOL
— Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday that eligible state employees will receive merit-based pay increases tied to their most recent performance evaluations. DD: Democrats run the federal government. They use the subjectivity in their performance evaluations to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my attention was drawn to the aforesaid because my undergraduate degree was personnel management and my MBA area of concentration was personnel management.
https://www.aol.com/articles/arkansas-state-employees-receive-merit-160000000.html

MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. Traditional marriage and family put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/experts-call-for-rethinking-traditional-marriage-roles-amid-strain-on-women/ss-AA25whgN

NBC NEWS
— JANUARY 17, 2016 FLASHBACK: Jeb Bush: Trump Has ‘No Proven Leadership Skills.’  Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush tells NBC’s Chuck Todd that his campaign has the resources to “go the distance.” DD: One could stress the conservative principles that Trump rejects.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/jeb-bush-trump-has-no-proven-leadership-skills-n498176
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush remained defiant in his contrasts with Donald Trump during an exclusive interview with Chuck Todd for “Meet the Press.” “He has no proven leadership skills in the public domain,” he said of the Republican frontrunner. “So my path is to say I do.” Bush focused his attack further on Trump’s conservative bona-fides and insisted he’s the only person willing to go after Trump on those issues, saying simply, “He’s not a conservative.” “I’m gonna continue to be critical of him when he doesn’t advocate conservative principles,” Bush said. “He’s running for the conservative party’s nomination. He should be a conservative, and he hasn’t shown it.” The former Florida governor acknowledged Trump’s ability to “entertain” but said his ideas won’t help people and questioned Trump’s ability to bring people together.)

NEW YORK TIMES
— Americans Flee to Red States. DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. That is why Democrats flee to Republican areas. Democrats want to take advantage of the prosperity and safety that Republicans created there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/build-baby-build-how-blue-states-can-stop-losing-population.html
— How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War. DD: My critics/opponents have always used against me the fact that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/books/review/andrew-delbanco-war-before-the-war.html
— ‘All Men Are Created Equal’? Not Everyone Agrees. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I was born with tremendous unfair advantages because I was born a White male. In addition, my father earned enough money that he could send me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/opinion/inequality-musk-thiel-carvalho-billionaires.html
— Republicans Thought They Owned ‘Values.’ Not Anymore.  DD: Far too often, far too many candidates have run for offices as Republicans, but they should not have because they have far too much personal baggage. Voters hold Republican candidates to far higher standards than they hold Democrat candidates. I should write about the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they were critical of them or reported their wrong doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/opinion/democrats-politics-morality-values.html
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/opinion/epstein-trump-white-house.html

HARVARD GAZETTE
— Democrats and Republicans do live in different worlds. DD: How diverse is your precinct economically? My DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton is extremely diverse economically. Generally, the further south that you go in my precinct, the higher that household incomes and housing values are. Since 1984, my critics/opponents have wanted public housing to be built on the north border of my precinct on the south side of Roosevelt Road. Currently, side-by-side mansions in my precinct are for sale at $2.4M and $3.3M.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/democrats-and-republicans-live-in-partisan-bubbles-study-finds/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Most Democratic and Republican voters live in partisan bubbles, with little daily exposure to those who belong to the other party. For instance the typical Democrat has “almost zero interactions” with Republicans in their neighborhood, according to an article by Harvard doctoral student Jacob R. Brown and government Professor Ryan D. Enos published March 8 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. “There’s a lot of evidence that any separation between groups has a lot of negative consequences. We see this in race; we see this in religion; we see this in all kinds of things,” said Enos. “And increasingly, we see this in partisanship in the United States.”)

BARRON’S
— Wealthy parents. DD: My critics/opponents had wealthy parents. They attribute their successes in life to meritocracy. They attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, parents, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/wealthy-parents-have-turned-into-banks-for-their-children-why-thats-a-problem-f6f1878b

FORBES
— DD: Democrat leaders used to promote integration, but now the promote segregation. They promote Black power, Hispanic power, Asian power, female power, youth power, non-Christian power, non-German American power, and immigrant power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8CClX5w-E4

CAREERS IN GOVERNMENT
— Virtually all government entities are run my Democrats or by RINOs. Because of that, the more of the following that you are, the more that you “need not apply:” conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.careersingovernment.com/

POLITICO
— Freedom 250’s fair on National Mall highlights conservative groups. In May, several musical artists dropped out of planned performances at the fair after learning of its ties to Trump. DD: TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were conservative groups. My critics/opponents are anti-conservatives. I served as the TAPROOT chairman from 2005 until 2012 when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me and destroy the group. I served as an ICRC Steering Committee member from 2003 until 2007 when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me and destroy the group. My critics/opponents hinted/implied/argued that TAPROOT and ICRC were hate groups. One could stress the conservative principles that Trump rejects.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/12/freedom-250-national-mall-fair-conservative-groups-00960904

ADVOCATE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-abandons-lgbtq-veterans

DERRICK
— DD: to get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn men.
https://www.thederrick.com/news/entertainment/beth-kowitt-corporate-america-is-no-meritocracy-just-ask-women/article_25ed6a9c-63d5-5bbf-a325-a1d1159329b7.html

TRUTHOUT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Blacks to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://truthout.org/articles/over-160-years-after-abolition-anti-black-racism-still-structures-us-economy/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

INDEPENDENT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use displays and exhibits to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-national-park-crackdown-backfires-091310942.html

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALIS’ NETWORK
— Personal perspectives can be valuable when transparently articulated. As the industry has recognized the importance of giving space for people to tell their own stories, knowing how to incorporate personal experiences in your reporting can be an effective approach. DD: My following conservative principles enabled me to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. I have always fully disclosed that I am conservative and that I promote conservative principles. I have always used my personal experiences to promote conservative principles. According to my critics/opponents, that disqualifies me as being a journalist. But they have no problem with journalists who falsely claim to be nonpartisan.
https://ijnet.org/en/story/how-journalists-can-implement-personal-experiences-their-reporting

MAGZTER
— Why we are haunted by the choices we didn’t make. DD: I should have majored in accounting from the beginning. My undergraduate major at UIC and NIU should have been accounting, my graduate major at Loyola should have been accounting, and I should have taken and passed the CPA examination much sooner than I did. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses at DePaul until I was 27 in 1976. I did not take the CPA examination and pass it on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting at DePaul until I was 31. I did not take the Certified Internal Auditor examination and pass it on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, it was too late for me because the accounting profession saw me as being too old to have a successful career in accounting and because the accounting profession was under tremendous pressure to hire, retain, and promote minorities, females, and veterans, and I was none of the aforesaid.
https://www.magzter.com/stories/newspaper/The-Straits-Times/WHY-WE-ARE-HAUNTED-BY-THE-CHOICES-WE-DIDNT-MAKE

MIBOLSILLO
— Rich vs. Poor? The Money Habits That Separate Wealth Builders.  DD: According to my critics/opponents, I owe all the money that I have to my benefiting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, parents, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://www.mibolsillo.co/tips/rich-vs.-poor-the-money-habits-that-separate-wealth-builders-20260613-0003.html

June 13, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS2
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/america-at-250-how-lgbtq-activism-helped-shape-the-evolution-of-chicago/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2026/06/13/alix-shulman-cancer-breast-cancer-queer-affirmation

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Bloomington.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/article_7db4aaab-f499-42fd-9c56-e14df972dcf4.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint today’s Republicans as being yesterday’s Democrats, that is, they ever-increasingly paint today’s Republicans as being yesterday’s Confederate Army and today’s Democrats as being yesterday’s Union Army.
https://pantagraph.com/opinion/column/article_1b89e761-8b3f-4e28-a5d9-f90f192e9b17.html

STATELINE
— Pritzker announces $25 million fund for pharmacies in low-income communities. DD: How wealthy is/was your hometown. To demonize, denigrate, and condemn my parents and me as being filthy rich, my critics/opponents have always falsely hinted/implied that Crete was filthy rich when I lived there 1948-1972.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/gov-pritzker-announces-25-million-fund-for-pharmacies-in-low-income-communities/
— DD: Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly punish America to punish Trump.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-declines-great-american-state-fair/

WAND TV
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/bill-expanding-access-to-prescription-hormone-therapy-arrives-on-pritzkers-desk/article_383b53be-12b3-4d3d-a2e5-6d07ee6415ab.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/bill-allowing-undocumented-immigrants-to-pay-in-state-tuition-arrives-on-pritzkers-desk/article_812e3443-761b-473d-ac01-67760006502d.html

WSIU
— Illinois educators urge Pritzker to reject federal school voucher program. DD: My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. Because he sent my brother and me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, he had less money. Because of that, I had to work my way through college. Because of that, my ACT score and GPA suffered.
https://www.wsiu.org/2026-06-12/illinois-educators-urge-pritzker-to-reject-federal-school-voucher-program

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/video/normal-township-raises-pride-flag-in-support-of-pride-month/11879782/

ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO
— 10K Illinois noncitizens to lose Medicaid coverage due to federal changes. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens work for less money. They are easier to exploit.
https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2026-06-12/10k-illinois-noncitizens-medicaid-coverage-federal-changes

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Government Schools Are Failing Students and Betraying Parents
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/government-schools-are-failing-students-and-betraying-parents/
— SPLC’s War on Biblical Values
https://illinoisfamily.org/faith/the-splcs-war-on-biblical-values/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What does voting for Democrats say about you? It says that you want more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or Affirmative Action, DEI, and/or wokeness/wokeism, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination. It shows that you blame your problems on those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What shows that you are politically conservative? It includes following conservative principles. It includes not doing anti-conservative things.  – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What shows that you are an advocate of conservative principles? It includes regularly and substantially defending and promoting conservative principles. Since 2000, I have put together and send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Since 2004, those newsletters have gone out each and  every morning, and often in the evening too, except a few days after I suffered a brain bleed. Since 2004, those newsletters have included links to more than 541,900 articles. I served as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois from 2005 until 2012 when anti-conservatives had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me. I served as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member from 2003 until 2007 when anti-conservatives had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me. I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999. I served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster from 2008 until 2010 when anti-conservatives had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me. I served as the MTRO webmaster from 2000 until 2004 when anti-conservatives had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— How left-wing curricula fan the flames of antisemitism in public schools
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/4604626/left-wing-curricula-antisemitism-public-schools/
— When inclusion becomes illegal
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4601247/when-dei-inclusion-becomes-illegal/

NEW YORK POST
— How the trucking industry has become part of the immigration debate—and left safety as the main casualty
https://nypost.com/2026/06/13/opinion/how-trucking-has-become-part-of-the-immigration-debate/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Race-Based Mitigation Of Murder Sentences Remains Indefensible And Deadly. Equal justice under law protects the innocent and deters the guilty, regardless of race.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/06/race_based_mitigation_of_murder_sentences_remains_indefensible_and_deadly.html

BREITBART
— ABC News Complains: Only Three Percent of Deported Migrants Are Violent Felons
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/12/abc-news-complains-only-3-percent-of-deported-migrants-are-violent-felons/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Welfare Use by Noncitizens Across States in the U.S. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens work for less money. They are easier to exploit.
https://cis.org/Report/Welfare-Use-NonCitizens-Across-States-US

FEDERALIST
— The American Bar Association Is Unfit To Accredit Law Schools, And The Trump Admin Can Stop Them
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/13/the-american-bar-association-is-unfit-to-accredit-law-schools-and-the-trump-admin-can-stop-them/

FIRE
— Illinois’ doomed plan to tax social media. DD: My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They would love to tax me for every newsletter that I send out and for every time anyone visits www.gopillinois.com .
https://www.fire.org/news/illinois-doomed-plan-tax-social-media

FOX NEWS
— John Fetterman’s fall from hero to heretic exposes Democrats’ hard left turn
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/john-fettermans-fall-hero-heretic-exposes-democrats-hard-left-turn
https://www.aol.com/articles/john-fetterman-fall-hero-heretic-130047000.html

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Campus Graduation Chaos Shows Higher Education Needs a Serious Moral Reset
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/campus-graduation-chaos-shows-higher-education-needs-serious-moral-reset

PJ MEDIA
— For Democrats, Everything Is About Sex, Class, or Race
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/13/for-democrats-everything-is-about-sex-or-race-n4953919
— Miller: Biden Admin Handed Kids to Traffickers With Fake Addresses ‘on a Daily Basis’
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/12/miller-biden-admin-handed-kids-to-traffickers-with-fake-addresses-on-a-daily-basis-n4953910

TOWNHALL
— Waning Prominence of Pride Month Is Cause for Hope
https://townhall.com/columnists/lathanwatts/2026/06/13/waning-prominence-of-pride-month-is-cause-for-hope-n2677688

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSN
— Majority backs deporting all illegal immigrants
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/poll-finds-majority-back-deporting-all-illegal-immigrants/gm-GM0D48315C
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/marriage-is-an-outdated-concept-here-s-why/ar-AA25dt1a
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens work for less money. They are easier to exploit.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/merit-based-immigration-push-gains-momentum-amid-policy-funding-fight/ss-AA25nCUd

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders equate Platner with Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/13/platner-maine-supporters-say-trump-has-lowered-bar/

LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
— LA noncitizen voting proposal awaits key Monday hearing. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens work for less money. They are easier to exploit.
https://www.dailynews.com/2026/06/12/la-noncitizen-voting-proposal-awaits-key-monday-hearing/

NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA
— Nebraska’s third party voices are growing. DD: My critics/opponent would be beyond overjoyed if I would leave the Republican Party and join the hopeless Illinois Conservative Party. SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(United_States)#Illinois  According to my critics/opponents, I am far too conservative. According to them, that not only causes Republican candidates to lose in Illinois, it causes their problems.
https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/nebraskas-third-party-voices-are-growing/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: DD: Aging Poses Test As Trump Turns 80. How old are you? I am 77. What best shows your mental/physical health? For me, it is my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-birthday-80-years-48541ecd
— Erika Kirk Lays Out a Vision for the Conservative Christian Woman. With birth rates in steep decline, marriage falling out of fashion and the future of MAGA up in the air, Turning Point USA held its annual women’s leadership conference.
https://www.wsj.com/style/turning-point-usa-womens-summit-erika-kirk-97abb601

FORTUNE
— DD: My critics/opponents had wealthy parents. They attribute their successes in life to meritocracy. They attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/27/income-wealth-inequality-housing-consumer-pessimism-index-high/

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Most Americans never move far from their hometown. DD: As Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase. I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and in University Park 1972-1976. I should write about how poverty and crime have increased there because Democrats moved in.
https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-are-moving-less-social-demographic-changes-2022-8

MARKET WATCH
— My boyfriend’s parents say he shouldn’t marry me until he earns $50K a year. DD: What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/weve-been-dating-for-5-years-my-boyfriends-parents-say-he-doesnt-earn-enough-to-marry-should-i-speak-to-his-father-44b48700

ACCOUNTING TODAY
— Institute of Internal Auditors protests GAO budget cuts. DD: I have been an IIA member since 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of their employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. They wasted my career, they took many big adverse actions against me, and they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/iia-protests-gao-budget-cuts

FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION
— Congress Should Reform the Government Accountability Office for the Twenty-First Century. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.thefai.org/posts/congress-should-reform-the-government-accountability-office-for-the-twenty-first-century

PEW RESEARCH
— Who Moves? Who Stays Put? Where’s Home? DD: As Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase. I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and in University Park 1972-1976. I should write about how poverty and crime have increased there because Democrats moved in.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2008/12/17/who-moves-who-stays-put-wheres-home/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Democrats that they are victims of Republicans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who have demographics that vote for Democrats that they are victims of those who have demographics that vote for Republicans
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/05/20/how-much-discrimination-do-americans-say-groups-face-in-the-u-s/

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
— DD: As Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase. I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and in University Park 1972-1976. I should write about how poverty and crime have increased there because Democrats moved in.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/race-rising-anxiety-white-america

PUBLIC NOTICE
— Trump’s preemptive attack on whistleblowers. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I ever-increasingly blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with the aforesaid when I was 40 in 1988. I filed a federal lawsuit against them after they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/federal-government-ndas-don-moynihan

CATO
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more immigration. Democrat leaders because immigrates vote for Democrats. RINO leaders because they want cheap labor.
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/immigrants-cut-victimization-rates-boost-crime-reporting
— DD: According to CATO, federal employees are overpaid. According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are overpaid and federal pensions are too generous. While I was a federal employee 1966-1997, my salary in today’s dollars increased from $19.57/hour to $154,682/year. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is $68,640/year. That is less than what my salary was in 1972 in today’s dollars.
https://www.cato.org/blog/growth-government-employment

SALON
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) at minorities that they victims of Whites, b) at females that they are victims of males, c) at younger people that they are victims of older people, d) at those who have less money that they are victims of those who have more money, e) at veterans that they are victims of non-veterans, f) at non-Protestants that they are victims of Protestants, g) at non-German Americans that they are victims of German Americans, and h) at those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time that they are victims of those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time
https://www.salon.com/2022/02/22/men-as-victims-americas-most-fantasy/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

TIMES OF ISRAEL
— DeSantis Joins Pride Backlash & Designates June for “Biblical Marriage”
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/desantis-joins-pride-backlash-designates-june-for-biblical-marriage/

INDEPENDENT
— IRS gets green light to swiftly hire 8,000 employees after agency struggled following Elon Musk’s ‘severe’ DOGE cuts. DD: Anticipate/expect that all those hired will be liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/irs-gets-green-light-swiftly-201556829.html

MEAWW
— Elon Musk’s trillionaire status sparks backlash from Democrats calling for taxing the ultra-rich. Progressives targeted Musk after SpaceX IPO made him the world’s first trillionaire. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I have always been overpaid and I have always had too much money.
https://news.meaww.com/elon-musks-trillionaire-status-sparks-backlash-from-democrats-calling-for-taxing-the-ultra-rich

FINANCE
— Having wealthy parents leads to young adults being six times better off. DD: My critics/opponents had wealthy parents. They attribute their successes in life to meritocracy. They attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/having-wealthy-parents-leads-young-230100398.html

FROM OTHER SOURCES

AUTOEVOLUTION
— 1968 Dodge Charger R/T. DD: I sold my 1968 Dodge Charger R/T and my 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS in 2005 because I needed money to buy my 2005 Corvette and I lacked garage space.  If I had had more money and more garage space, I would not have done that. I had owned the Charger since 1994 and the Impala since 1989.
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/dad-s-1968-dodge-charger-r-t-spent-decades-in-hiding-emerges-with-mr-norm-s-paperwork-271408.html

June 12, 2026 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS2
— Pritzker signs Illinois law banning sale of intoxicating hemp products to anyone under 21
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pritzker-signs-illinois-law-intoxicating-hemp-products/

WTTW
— Pritzker Signs Bill Banning Sale of Intoxicating Hemp to Anyone Younger Than 21
https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/12/pritzker-signs-bill-banning-sale-intoxicating-hemp-anyone-younger-21
— As State Approves 1st Video Gambling Licenses in Chicago, Mayor Asks City Council to Reverse Course. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton, and in 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/12/state-approves-1st-video-gambling-licenses-chicago-mayor-asks-city-council-reverse

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Peoria museum to represent Illinois at Trump’s ‘Great American State Fair’ as Pritzker administration opts out
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/peoria-museum-to-represent-illinois-at-trumps-great-american-state-fair-as-pritzker-administration-opts-out/
— Where Trump has lost support with independents, according to AP-NORC polling
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/trump-independent-support-poll/
— Oak Park home vandalized with antisemitic message
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/oak-park-home-vandalized-with-antisemitic-message-officials/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker can’t expect to escape Bears stadium bill blame. The Bears failure will overshadow everything else and highlight his national ambitions. And his low attendance rate in Springfield does him no favors.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/06/12/pritzker-bears-stadium-bill-springfield-low-attendance-national-presidency-rich-miller
— Mayor Johnson will ask City Council committee to repeal video gambling in Chicago. Brandon Johnson wants the City Council’s Committee on Workforce Development to meet Monday to consider an ordinance that would essentially reverse the Council’s decision to allow video gambling in the city. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton, and in 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2026/06/11/mayor-brandon-johnson-repeal-video-gambling-bid-chicago

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Illinois Democrats opt out of Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/government/2026/06/12/illinois-opts-out-of-trumps-great-american-state-fair-freedom-250/90529251007/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who have financial problems that Republicans caused their financial problems.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-11/half-of-americans-cant-afford-necessities-report-finds
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for problems that children have.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-11/socioeconomic-factors-are-becoming-biologically-embedded-in-childrens-brains

WAND TV
— Bill allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition arrives on Pritzker’s desk
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/bill-allowing-undocumented-immigrants-to-pay-in-state-tuition-arrives-on-pritzkers-desk/article_812e3443-761b-473d-ac01-67760006502d.html

MARIJUANA MOMENT
— Illinois Governor Signs Bill To Double Marijuana Possession Limit, Restrict Hemp THC Products And Reform Rules For Businesses
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/illinois-governor-signs-bill-to-double-marijuana-possession-limit-restrict-hemp-thc-products-and-reform-rules-for-businesses/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Presidential poll numbers show Pritzker at 2%
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/presidential-poll-numbers-show-pritzker-181200476.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Bernie Sanders pulls Democratic Party hard left as his primary picks rack up wins. DD: According to RINO leaders, Republican candidates have to be Democrat Lite to win.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/12/bernie-sanders-pulls-democratic-party-hard-left-primary-picks-rack/
— IRS overpaying supervisors to do grunt work after Trump budget cuts: Inspector general DD: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors tried to get me to go back to IRS.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/12/irs-overpaying-supervisors-grunt-work-trump-budget-cuts-inspector/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The perpetual victimhood and racial tribalism of Karmelo Anthony’s defenders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4606786/victimhood-racial-tribalism-karmelo-anthony-defenders/
— Sins of fear and omission: How legacy media fuels conspiracy crisis
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4606022/fear-omission-legacy-media-fuels-conspiracy-crisis/
— Elephant takes a massive leak at the Texas GOP convention. DD: In 2007, I arranged for an elephant to walk behind Roskam in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade. Twice I had to shovel up two big dumps during the parade.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/12/us-news/elephant-takes-a-massive-leak-at-the-texas-gop-convention/

BREITBART
— Majority Believe Democrats Support Open Borders
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/12/poll-majority-believe-democrats-support-open-borders/

FEDERALIST
— Hundreds Of Noncitizens Found On New Jersey Voter Rolls
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/12/hundreds-of-noncitizens-found-on-new-jersey-voter-rolls-after-senate-gop-helps-block-save-america-act/

FOX NEWS
— ‘60 Minutes’ devoted lots of time to aiding Democrats over the years. From the Clintons’ damage control to calling Biden ‘Catholic and devout,’ show’s pattern is hard to deny.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/60-minutes-devoted-lots-time-aiding-democrats-years.amp

GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA
— IL: Stop Illinois’ Backdoor Handgun Ban – TAKE ACTION
https://www.gunowners.org/il06122026/

NEWS BUSTERS
— CNN Bemoans ICE Arrest at School, Buries Illegals Fighting Cops
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/james-waterman/2026/06/12/cnn-bemoans-ice-arrest-school-buries-illegals-fighting-cops

PJ MEDIA
— Platner Is a Problem for the Entire Democrat Party
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/12/graham-platner-is-a-problem-for-the-entire-democrat-party-n4953903

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire with SpaceX’s IPO
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-spacex-ipo-trillionaire-wealth/

NEW YORK TIMES
— To Defeat Democrats, Texas Governor Embraces the Hard Right. After years of keeping his distance, Gov. Greg Abbott is set to address Texas Republicans’ activist-led convention as hard-line conservatives gain influence within the party. DD: What do you say to those in Illinois who state that they are conservative Republicans but who ever-increasingly blame me and blame my blame GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the problems that the following have a) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP), c) Republican elected officials in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and d) opponents and advocates direct election of IRP State Central Committee members?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/us/greg-abbott-texas-governor-hard-right.html

DES MOINES REGISTER
— DeSantis says Trump isn’t conservative, has ‘moved left’ on issues. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Far too often, the Republican Party lets, if not encourages, candidates to run for and hold government and party offices who reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2023/12/13/ron-desantis-says-hes-more-conservative-than-donald-trump-iowa-caucuses-presidential-election-2024/71880946007/

ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZETTE
— Decertify. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors constructively decertified me. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980. I had earned an MBA when I was 27 and became a CPA when I was 30. After I transferred, I a) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, b) became a Certified Internal Auditor and licensed CPA when I was 32, c) became a Certified Fraud Examiner when I was 41, d) became a Certified Government Financial Manager when I was 45, e) became a Certified Financial Services Auditor when I was 47, f) became a Forensic Accountant when I was 48, and g) earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading when I was 48. To constructively decertify me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,699 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) gave me bad job assignments, c) gave me unfair performance expectations, d) gave me unfair performance appraisals, e) kept off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, f) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, g) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and h) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2026/jun/09/panel-declines-requests-to-decertify-former/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Overpaid Government Workers. DD: According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are overpaid and federal pensions are too generous. While I was a federal employee 1966-1997, my salary in today’s dollars increased from $19.57/hour to $154,682/year. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is $68,640/year. That is less than what my salary was in 1972 in today’s dollars.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/overpaid-government-workers-on-strike-47cb7627
— School Choice Benefits Low-Income Families. Vouchers and scholarships help children from cash-strapped families achieve the American dream. DD: My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. Because he sent my brother and me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, he had less money. Because of that, I had to work my way through college. Because of that, my ACT score and GPA suffered.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/school-choice-benefits-low-income-families-37bb8381

NARFE
— Advocacy Alert  DD: My Democrat GAO superiors were furious when I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 in 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://narfe.informz.net/informzdataservice/onlineversion/ind/bWFpbGluZ2luc3RhbmNlaWQ9MzY1MzY0NiZzdWJzY3JpYmVyaWQ9NTI4MzExMjM1
(FROM THE ADVOCACY ALERT: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a notice with request for comment on a draft nondisclosure agreement (NDA) that new and existing federal employees be required to sign. NARFE opposes the new potential requirement as it imposes an implicit threat of retaliation for engaging in legal and protected speech. NARFE will be submitting formal comments on the notice, but we encourage you to share your views via the comments as well. Follow this link to leave a comment before the June 26th deadline: http://www.regulations.gov/commenton/OPM-2026-0100-0004  When drafting a comment, here’s a step by step guide NARFE has written to guide you. Thank you for your efforts to support NARFE’s advocacy and your federal community!)

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— GAO: Federal workforce losses had steeper impact on probationary employees. DD: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that they could not use probationary procedures to get rid of me. Further, in 1970, my Chicago Heights Firestone Store boss would never had hired me, but his boss had assigned me to him. He did not have a college degree. He refused to let me start until after I passed a probationary period in Indiana. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft, my being Protestant, my being German American, my having ancestors who had been in America since 1844, and my living in Crete.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/06/federal-workforce-losses-had-steeper-impact-on-probationary-employees/

ATLANTIC
— America’s ‘Marriage Material’ Shortage. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/america-marriage-decline/681518/

HIGHER ED DRIVE
— Warren requests GAO investigation into Education Department employee reductions. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of their employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, GS-13 or below, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I was all of the aforesaid. I survived until I was 49 in 1997 because I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.highereddive.com/news/warren-requests-gao-investigation-education-department-layoffs/821144/

PEW RESEARCH
— DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Far too often, the Republican Party lets, if not encourages, candidates to run for and hold government and party offices who reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2013/07/31/whither-the-gop-republicans-want-change-but-split-over-partys-direction/

GALLUP
— New High Say Supreme Court Is Too Conservative. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me because I am “too conservative.”
https://news.gallup.com/poll/695759/new-high-say-supreme-court-too-conservative.aspx

June 11, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Walmart ever-increasingly promotes more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/10/lgbtq-brands-shine-for-pride-month-at-walmart/
— Storms knock out power in Chicago area and disrupt flights. DD: What exposure do you have to weather-caused power, internet, and phone outages? Overhead lines about 200 feet long to the west of my home at 915 Cove Court in Wheaton expose me to weather-caused power, internet, and phone outages big time. The lines are in a utility easement on private property that is full of trees that have not been trimmed for decades and pull the lines down and to the north. I have filed a “tree and vegetation request” with ComEd, and outstandingly, a ComEd employee came out yesterday to inspect. According to Xfinity and AT&T, they cannot do any trimming until ComEd is done. It would be great if all the lines would be put underground. The last outage caused me big problems because my 17-month-old 24kW Generac failed.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/11/chicago-area-storms/
— DD: The Democrat Party platform destroys traditional marriage and family. That promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/11/opinion-99-men-chicagos-most-violent-neighborhoods/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/11/editorial-andrew-boutros-us-attorney-broadview-six-grand-jury/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2026/06/11/attorney-general-illinois-19-other-states-sue-trump-federal-contracts-changes-dei

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260610/crime/transcripts-detail-grand-jurors-doubts-about-broadview-six-case/
— In no one we trust. DD: What are your biggest regrets? Mine include my giving too many the “benefit of the doubt.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260611/syndicated-columnists/in-no-one-we-trust-americans-grow-increasingly-cynical-with-increasingly-good-reason/

CHAMPAIN/URBANA NEW GAZETTE
— DD: Democrat leaders do everything that they can to get as many people as they can on Medicaid.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/politics/capitol-news-illinois-10-000-noncitizens-to-lose-medicaid-coverage-due-to-federal-changes/article_514a7d56-f0d8-4478-92fb-d2051d8d887d.html

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— DD: Democrat leaders do everything that they can to get as many as the can on Medicaid.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/factcheck/2026/06/11/did-trumps-signature-2025-bill-cut-medicaid-1-trillion-over-decade/90498404007/

JOURNAL GAZETTE
— Congress should reconsider the ACA to make quality health insurance affordable. DD: My critics/opponents are ever-increasingly furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance premiums since 1966 and 72% of my wife’s health insurance premiums since 1978 because I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and because I have been a federal retiree for almost 29 years.
https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/editorials/congress-should-reconsider-the-aca-to-make-quality-health-insurance-affordable/article_6993e914-a2bd-4da7-9e11-45ca056ee1a7.html

EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Illinois DNA program for Black residents extended through 2027, connecting families across Africa and Evanston. DD: What are your demographics? When did your ancestors immigrate? According to Democrat leaders, the more of the following that you are and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that you have benefitted from slavery the more that you should pay the price of Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, and/or German American. I am all of the aforesaid and all of my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. My critics/opponents have always made me pay the price of AA and DEI big time. In my defense, I have always stressed that all my ancestors have always lived in northeast Illinois, that they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/06/10/illinois-dna-program-for-black-residents-extended-through-2027-connecting-families-across-africa-and-evanston/

WCIA
— Three Wisconsin farmers filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Wednesday for requiring dairy producers to provide operational data and pay mandatory fees to the Dairy Checkoff Program. . .The plaintiffs allege the funds that are supposed to be used to drive dairy consumption through the “Got Milk” campaign and other programs are being used to back environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities that farmers have not agreed to support.
https://www.wcia.com/news/national/dairy-farmers-sue-trump-administration-over-checkoff-program/

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion and LGBTQ.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/bill-creates-gender-affirming-reproductive-care-protections-for-out-of-state-foster-placements/

ILLINOIS PATCH
— After The Storm: Power Outages, Downed Wires And Road Closures. DD: What exposure do you have to weather-caused power, internet, and phone outages? Overhead lines about 200 feet long to the west of my home at 915 Cove Court in Wheaton expose me to weather-caused power, internet, and phone outages big time. The lines are in a utility easement on private property that is full of trees that have not been trimmed for decades and pull the lines down and to the north. I have filed a “tree and vegetation request” with ComEd, and outstandingly, a ComEd employee came out yesterday to inspect. According to Xfinity and AT&T, they cannot do any trimming until ComEd is done. It would be great if all the lines would be put underground. The last outage caused me big problems because my 17-month-old 24kW Generac failed.
https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/after-storm-power-outages-downed-wires-road-closures-left-storms-wake

POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/11/soybean-farmers-bet-beyond-beijing-00958016

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GATEWAY PUNDIT
— Pritzker Blames Chicago Bears for Stadium Collapse Despite $2 Billion Private Offer — Then Lies About Billions Spent on Illegal Migrants and Blames Abbott Instead
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/pritzker-blames-chicago-bears-stadium-collapse-despite-2/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— It’s time America adopts a merit-based immigration system. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/4602437/time-america-adopt-merit-based-immigration-system/

AMERICAN FAITH
— SPLC Refuses to Remove Charlie Kirk, TPUSA from ‘Hate’ List. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://mycharisma.com/news/splc-refuses-to-remove-charlie-kirk-tpusa-from-hate-list/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump moves against controversial disparate impact standard, setting off outrage. DD: Because those who have demographics that vote for Republicans do better on tests, Democrat leaders ever-increasing lower standards.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/10/trump-moves-against-controversial-disparate-impact-standard-setting-off-outrage-1645173/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Chip Roy grills SPLC over targeting TPUSA, FRC on ‘hate map’ despite violent attacks. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/splc-defends-including-frc-tpusa-on-its-hate-map.html

DAILY CALLER
— DOJ Attacks One Of The Left’s Vital Tools: ‘Disparate Impact’ Doctrine. DD: Because those who have demographics that vote for Republicans do better on tests, Democrat leaders ever-increasing lower standards.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/10/disparate-impact-department-justice-doj-doctrine-discrimination-equal-employment-eeoc/

DAILY WIRE
— Bears Leaving Illinois? Pritzker Says An Out-Of-State Republican Is To Blame. Pritzker dodged, weaved, and then — in a moment of breathtaking gall  — pointed the finger at Texas governor Greg Abbott.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bears-leaving-illinois-pritzker-says-an-out-of-state-republican-is-to-blame

FEDERALIST
— Democrats Defend Giving SPLC Police Power To Target Conservatives With Impunity. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/10/democrats-defend-giving-splc-police-power-to-target-conservatives-with-impunity/

FOX NEWS
— SPLC’s tax-exempt status under threat after fiery Capitol Hill hearing. Rep Chip Roy says tax-exempt status should not benefit organizations ‘engaged in partisan political warfare.’ DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/first-fox-splcs-tax-exempt-status-under-threat-after-fiery-capitol-hill-hearing.amp

FOX NEWS
— Cancel culture. DD: My critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes cancel me. They a) ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) ended my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, d) ended my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, e) ended my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2010 and 2004, f) ended my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, g) almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, and h) defeated my bid for the open as a MTRO Treasurer position in 2004. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6398096684112

HEATLANDER
— SPLC head doubles down on smearing Charlie Kirk, TPUSA. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://heartlandernews.com/2026/06/10/splc-head-doubles-down-on-smearing-charlie-kirk-tpusa/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Southern Poverty Law Center Leader Won’t Take Charlie Kirk Off ‘Hate Map.’ The Southern Poverty Law Center stands by its inclusion of mainstream conservative group Turning Point USA on its “hate map.” DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/southern-poverty-law-center-leader-wont-take-charlie-kirk-off-hate-map/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Chicago’s May Day Action Civics Nightmare. DD: My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chicagos-may-day-action-civics-nightmare/

PJ MEDIA
— Teacher’s end: the race, class, and gender malady. DD: What are your demographics? When did your ancestors immigrate? According to Democrat leaders, the more of the following that you are and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that you have benefitted from slavery the more that you should pay the price of Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, and/or German American. I am all of the aforesaid and all of my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. My critics/opponents have always made me pay the price of AA and DEI big time. In my defense, I have always stressed that all my ancestors have always lived in northeast Illinois, that they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did.
https://pjmedia.com/ashli-meghan-eskeldson/2026/06/10/the-race-class-and-gend-n4953782
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Over the course of time, historians have tried to downplay conservative doctrines and their influence on cultures. They commonly utilize race, class, and gender history in order to decide which facts to report and which to omit. Why is this ideology flawed? In recent years, some historians have greatly emphasized race, class, and gender in their writings, as opposed to the white Protestant males who are the usual focus of history books. Rather than Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, the emphasis is on the minorities — women, the poor, or people of other races. It is now about their thoughts, feelings, and actions from bygone times. This research venue once seemed fresh and innovative prior to critical race theory being commonly used during the early 2020s. Unfortunately, a few of these historians selectively and creatively interpret these subjects, skewing reality. To them, what matters is “representation,” not necessarily recounting the past accurately. In their eyes, arguments showing favoritism to some people groups, incorrect research, and strange interpretations are justified. With a nose-to-the-grindstone-publishing-academic-papers lifestyle glorifying their own social goals, they use faulty arguments, twisting facts to fit their flawed theories. Over-emphasis on race, class, and gender is just one of the many incorrect ideologies circulating today. One infamous example of racial over-importance was the 1619 Project, which changed the year of our nation’s creation to 1619 instead of 1776 due to enslaved people being imported to America before the Founding Fathers. The forced arguments that estimated our country to have been born in 1619 were later revealed to be completely wrong. The heritage of Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Columbus Day led to a similarly intense argument. Christopher Columbus shaped history, but allegedly mistreated many Indigenous people during his discovery of America. Indigenous Peoples’ Day was made as a replacement, while Columbus, Oh. had been sued to reinstate Columbus Day.)

TOWHALL
— DD: My critics/opponents promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination. My critics are the following or want to curry favor with those who are the following: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/julia-cassidy/2026/06/10/democrat-rep-summer-lee-says-equity-policies-are-only-a-threat-to-white-supremacists-n2677555

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Woke Presbyterians Go to War So Pastors Can Keep Having Sex with Multiple Partners at the Same Time. DD: I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL). According to my critics/opponents, MSLs are far too conservative.
https://www.westernjournal.com/woke-presbyterians-go-war-pastors-can-keep-sex-multiple-partners-time/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Teens’ reading and math scores have stagnated. DD: For Democrat teachers, cranking out good little Democrats is their top priority.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/education/teens-reading-and-math-scores-have-stagnated-us-test-results-show

MSN
— SPLC chief defends ‘hate’ label for TPUSA amid fraud probe. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/splc-chief-defends-hate-label-for-tpusa-amid-fraud-probe/gm-GM0ACE3FCD
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy you if you do not promote LGBTQ. My critics/opponents promote LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-study-examined-support-for-gay-candidates-based-on-gender-presentation-the-results-may-surprise-you/ar-AA253yAz
— Vance seeks DOJ probe of Minnesota leaders over $9B fraud claims. DD: It would be great if Trump would call for a DOJ probe of GAO’s political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I would be more than happy to provide evidence for that probe.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/vance-seeks-doj-probe-of-minnesota-leaders-over-9b-fraud-claims/gm-GM4C12086A
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. Democrat leaders want everyone to be dependent on government.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-marriage-has-evolved-over-decades/ss-AA24XlWB

NEW YORK TIMES
— Debt Collectors Know They Are Reviled. They Have Bills to Pay, Too. DD: I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile when I was 22 in early 1971. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely, if not violently, fired me because I had accepted that offer. I had to have a job. So I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from IRS to be a Revenue Officer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/business/debt-collectors-jobs-abuse.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Most Americans don’t know this free college money is on the way. DD: My critics/opponents have always used my having to work my way through college against me. They have always stressed that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who got academic scholarships.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/06/11/workforce-pell-grant-expansion/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Ever-increasingly, USA TODAY exists to promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/06/10/gay-transgender-pride-pullback-could-hurt-brands/90466051007/

NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/06/11/pride-ball-is-first-ever-lgbtq-ballroom-event-at-city-hall-chambers/

TUCSON
— Indoctrination. DD: I escaped liberal Democrat indoctrination by majoring in business, accounting, and finance.
https://tucson.com/opinion/column/article_6a0d84b4-43aa-501a-bd1e-8eb612bbf087.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Graham Platner and Ken Paxton: When Ugliness Is the Point. They advanced thanks to a small subset of voters.  DD: Far too often, far too many candidates have run for offices as Republicans, but they should not have because they have far too much personal baggage. Voters hold Republican candidates to far higher standards than they hold Democrat candidates. I should write about the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they were critical of them or reported their wrong doing.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/graham-planter-and-ken-paxton-when-ugliness-is-the-point-54a08678

BLOOMBERG
— DD: All my coworkers in the federal government who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-06-10/opinion-corporate-america-is-giving-up-on-women-video

FORBES
— Veterans. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in turning veterans against Trump. Democrat leaders had great success in tuning my many Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who veterans against me. They stressed that I avoided the Vietnam War draft.
https://www.forbes.com/lists/best-employers-for-veterans/
— DD: Under the Democrats, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, if not already, employers will officially post signs that say those who are following need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/lists/best-employers-diversity/

FAST COMPANY
— DD: Under the Democrats, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, if not already, employers will officially post signs that say those who are following need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91557275/companies-are-spending-on-pride-again-but-not-like-they-used-to

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT NEWS
— With AI driving Gen Z to blue-collar jobs, these sectors must ramp up safety, training. DD: My critics/opponents look down on blue-collar jobs and those who hold/held them. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. My critics/opponents did have to take such bad jobs because they had wealthy parents.
https://www.benefitnews.com/news/with-ai-driving-gen-z-to-blue-collar-jobs-these-sectors-must-ramp-up-safety-training

IBM
— The bottom rung returns as AI reshapes entry-level jobs. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO when I was 31 in 1980 did not let me transfer from IRS unless I started at the bottom rung, this, if I did not come in at the entry level. They forced me to take a $23,699 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt. They ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact that much of what I did for IRS was very similar to what I would do for GAO. They used my having to take a pay cut to transfer to waste my GAO career and to get rid of me. They would not have done the aforesaid if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran,
https://www.ibm.com/think/news/entry-level-roles-get-reset-ai

EPA
— Economic Impacts of Superfund Site Redevelopment. DD: My father worked in a hazardous waste site for 29 years before he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969.
https://www.epa.gov/superfund-redevelopment/economic-impacts-superfund-site-redevelopment

FED WEEK
— OPM Sets Standards for Hiring into Schedule P/C; Including Form to Sign. For Democrat leaders, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who can and will advance the Democrat Party platform and are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. GAO would not have hired me if I had not passed the CPA examination on my first attempt and earned an MBA. IRS would not have hired me if I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earned a bachelor’s degree in business. The Post Office would not have hired me if I had not passed the postal employment test and earned a high school diploma.
https://www.fedweek.com/federal-managers-daily-report/opm-sets-standards-for-hiring-into-schedule-policy-career-positions/

DEMOCRACY DOCKET
—  DD: Democrat leaders know they cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/florida-supreme-court-greenlights-gop-gerrymander-that-violates-state-ban/

June 10, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker ‘happy to call a special session’ if Illinois lawmakers reach Bears stadium deal.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadium/2026/06/09/pritzker-bears-stadium-indiana-illinois-special-session-arlington-heights
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/06/09/broadview-six-grand-jury-midway-blitz-boutros-trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2026/06/10/hegseth-d-day-immigration-teen-takeovers-trump-nba-boos-bears-stadium

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/09/broadview-six-grand-jury-transcripts/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE IN NAPERVILLE SUN: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/09/naperville-juneteenth-rotary-park-dancing/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/10/opinion-george-floyd-protests-public-safety-debate/

ABC7
— 4 arrests made, 3 guns recovered amid ‘teen takeover’ at NW Indiana beach. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/4-arrests-made-3-guns-recovered-amid-teen-takeover-michigan-city-beach-la-porte-county-drug-task-force-response/19264099/

NBC5
— Chicago alderperson blasts parents after 7 teens hurt in Bronzeville shootings.  DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/chicago-alderperson-blasts-parents-after-7-teens-hurt-in-bronzeville-shootings/ar-AA253viJ

CBS2
— Chicago Public Schools CEO Dr. Macquline King to be grilled by GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-public-schools-ceo-dr-macquline-king-grilled-gop-lawmakers/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/meet-the-chicago-smelts-one-of-the-the-citys-longest-running-lgbtq-organizations/

FOX32
— Northwest Indiana beach ‘teen takeover’: Police seize guns, make arrests. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/northwest-indiana-beach-teen-takeover-police-seize-guns-make-arrests

WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/09/chicago-s-director-lgbtq-affairs-marriage-equality-pride-and-protecting-trans

WBEZ
— Immigration advocates slam Trump administration over World Cup entry treatment.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2026/06/09/world-cup-soccer-immigration-trump-ice-border-patrol-iran-iraq-team-ohare-trump-administration
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-with-sasha-ann-simons/2026/06/09/queer-elders-reflect-on-lgbtq-pride-and-intergenerational-connections-in-2026

PBS CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.pbs.org/video/chicagos-first-ever-director-of-lgbtq-affairs-on-his-new-role-pride-month-efdvhi/

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicagodefender.com/illinois-welcomes-travelers-to-celebrate-pride-in-the-middle-of-everything/

CHICAGO READER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://chicagoreader.com/city-life/reader-radar/juneteenth-celebrations-black-life-through-space-time/

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Former Peoria congressman Aaron Schock subject of national news story.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/08/former-peoria-congressman-aaron-schock-politico-story-venezuela-gold-mine/90458644007/

WAND TV
— Defying Trump ended some Republicans’ careers. It could help Susan Collins win reelection in Maine. Maine Sen. Susan Collins often boosts her popularity by keeping her distance from President Donald Trump. DD: My critics/opponents destroy not only those who defy them, but those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/defying-trump-ended-some-republicans-careers-it-could-help-susan-collins-win-reelection-in-maine/article_a3106da7-57a8-5666-912f-bf7507d1abee.html

WIFR
— Bailey discusses Pritzker, Illinois crime, and data centers.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2026/06/09/extended-interview-darren-bailey-discusses-gov-pritzker-illinois-crime-data-centers/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Republican state legislators are coming up with their own ideas. State Rep. Dan Ugaste is proposing the Major Economic Development and Property Tax Relief Act, “which creates frameworks for qualifying megaprojects in Illinois while also addressing property tax reforms,” per WGN 9. And state Rep. Martin McLaughlin is drafting the Taxpayer Investment Protection Act, which would provide “a structured alternative to the current stadium development proposal involving the Chicago Bears,” he said in a statement.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/10/why-rahm-emanuel-said-no-to-fifa-00955357

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-754/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Emanuel Sets Up Pritzker for a Fall, Whether Illinois Loses or Subsidizes the Bears.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/10/emanuel-sets-up-pritzker-for-a-fall-whether-illinois-loses-or-subsidizes-the-bears/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What are your biggest regrets? Mine include my giving too many the “benefit of the doubt.” – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BLAZE
— Trump’s Justice Department is shining a light on woke universities — finally.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trumps-justice-department-is-shining-a-light-on-woke-universities-finally

BREITBART
— Trump Admin Eyes Expansion of E-Verify for All Federal Grants.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/09/trump-admin-eyes-expansion-of-e-verify-for-all-federal-grants/

EPOCH TIMES
— SNAP Benefits Go to 186,000 Dead People–And Stopping Them Might Be Difficult. In one case, the name of a 14-year-old shooting victim in Los Angeles was used for two decades to claim benefits, including SNAP, worth more than $280,000. DD: Under the Democrats, more and more and more people will be on SNAP. How many are on SNAP in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/snap-benefits-go-to-186000-dead-people-and-stopping-them-might-be-difficult-6039487

TOWNHALL
— When Leadership Loses Its Moral Compass
https://townhall.com/columnists/joe-abraham/2026/06/10/when-leadership-loses-its-moral-compass-n2677489
(FROM THE ARTICLE: My daughter, Katie Abraham, was killed in Urbana, Illinois, by an intoxicated illegal immigrant with a troubling background and serious health issues; circumstances that, in my view, were enabled by reckless sanctuary policies that lacked meaningful vetting and prioritized ideology over public safety.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSN
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS

NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders use GAO against Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-ice-camp-east-montana-gao-report-tuberculosis-guard-lost-gun-rcna349213

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders use GAO against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/09/ice-detention-camp-wasted-millions-endangered-migrants-gao-finds/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: All my coworkers in the federal government who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-06-10/hegseths-meddling-with-promotions-tarnishes-leadership-endangers-country

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.aol.com/articles/rockford-galena-among-illinois-lgbtq-084754116.html
— DD: Democrat leaders use GAO against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/09/camp-east-montana-federal-investigation-migrant-detainees/90474567007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Why Teenagers Stopped Working in the Summer. For the most part not because they couldn’t find work. They found better opportunities instead. DD: While I was in high school and college, few of my peers did what I did. I took bad jobs. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser. My critics/opponents had wealthy parents.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-teenagers-stopped-working-in-the-summer-e359b6ba

FORTUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders use GAO against Trump.
https://fortune.com/2026/06/09/texas-ice-facility-wasted-millions-tb-outbreak-gao-report/

BLOOMBERG
— DD: All my coworkers in the federal government who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-06-09/women-in-business-are-losing-ground-in-corporate-america

BLOOMBERG TAX
— GAO: Probationary Workers Left Federal Jobs at Higher Rate. DD: Democrat leaders use GAO against Trump. After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that they could not use probationary procedures to get rid of me.
https://news.bloombergtax.com/payroll/probationary-workers-left-federal-jobs-at-higher-rate-gao-finds

GAO
— DD: Democrat leaders use GAO against Trump.
https://www.gao.gov/video/dhs-spending-55-billion.-where-it-going

HOUSE DEMOCRATS
— DD: Democrat leaders use GAO against Trump.
https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/news/press-releases/congressional-democrats-release-gao-report-detailing-dangerous-expansion-of-immigration-detention-under-trump

FEDWEEK
— EEOC Announces Focus on Enforcing Trump Priorities. DD: For Democrat employers, their top priority has always been a) hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats, and especially 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 and b) getting rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/eeoc-announces-focus-on-enforcing-trump-priorities/
— DD: Democrat leaders use GAO against Trump. After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that they could not use probationary procedures to get rid of me.
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/gao-maps-2025-losses-of-probationary-employees-at-health-and-safety-agencies/

MANHATTEN INSTITUTE
— Who Pays for Reparations? DD: Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI are reparations. The more of the following that you are, the more credit that you should be given for having paid the price of AA and DEI: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Since the 1960s, because I am all of the aforesaid, those above be had made me pay the price of AA and DEI big time. If I had not been the aforesaid, my Democrat superiors in the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://manhattan.institute/article/who-pays-for-reparations-the-immigration-challenge-in-the-reparations-debate
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Since the 2020 “racial reckoning,” there has been increased political momentum behind reparations for slavery. Debates about reparations have moved from the halls of academia to legislatures in California and a number of cities. Americans and their leaders are increasingly asking: Are reparations justified at all? And, if so, who should get how much? This report concerns itself with a different question: Who pays for reparations? Reparations are a form of compensation for historical injustice. But many Americans did not have any ancestors present in the country at the time that injustice was committed. It is hard to argue that Americans whose ancestors arrived after 1860 should be on the hook for the costs of reparations. What fraction of nonblack Americans have ancestors who arrived after the end of the Civil War? Using demographic modeling techniques, this report pegs the figure as high as 70%, including more than half the non-Hispanic white population. These Americans are the descendants of immigrants who came to the U.S. either in the first great wave of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, or in the second great wave, begun in 1965 and still ongoing today. Many of these more recent arrivals are at the top of America’s economic distribution. Indeed, the recent-arrival share of top wealth earners is likely only to grow in coming years, given the prevalence of immigrants and children of immigrants at the head of top businesses. This means that the base of people and wealth that could plausibly be taxed for reparations is shrinking and will continue to shrink for the foreseeable future. This dynamic plays out in other areas of social policy. Any transfer or subsidy proposal that is justified by historical injustice—e.g., affirmative action—will lose legitimacy as the population changes. This is an important, and often overlooked, feature not only of the reparations debate but of debates about such proposals in general.)

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: To get more votes from those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat candidates and Democrat elected officials ever-increasingly promise to use government to give them more preference. To give preference to one demographic is to discriminate against another demographic. Demographics that vote for Democrats include liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Demographics that vote Republicans include conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/diversity/2026/06/10/reaching-young-black-men-creating-sense-belonging

COLLEGE RECRUITER
— Affirmative Action and DEI: DD: Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO employers want to a) hire, retain, and promote Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, and/or younger and b) get rid of their Republican employees, and especially those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license.
https://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2026/06/09/hack-the-2026-federal-hiring-boom-why-your-skills-matter-more-than-your-major

SWARTHMORE PHOENIX
— The myth of personal responsibility. DD: My critics/opponents had wealthy parents. They attribute their success in life to meritocracy. They attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2016/09/15/the-myth-of-personal-responsibility/

DISPATCH
— Trump Emasculates the GOP at His Own Peril. He can’t expect to preserve party unity through humiliation.
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-emasculates-the-gop-at-his-own-peril/

FULCRUM
— Democrats Don’t Get Why They’ve Lost Most Working Class Voters. DD: My critics/opponents look down on the working class. I was a member of the working class 1964-1997. I had to work my way through college. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I should write about my critic/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://thefulcrum.us/democracy/democratic-strategy

DAILY KOS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/9/800052617/community/trump-and-religious-right-allies-launch-coordinated-attack-on-pride-month/

FROM OTHER SOURCES

POWER MAGAZINE
— Growing Grid Strategy: Undergrounding Power Lines to Withstand Weather. DD: What exposes you to weather-caused power, internet, and phone outages? Overhead lines about 200 feet long to the west of my home at 915 Cove Court in Wheaton expose me to weather-caused power, internet, and phone outages big time.  The line is in a utility easement on private property that is full of trees that have not been trimmed for decades. The Trees and vegetation are pushing the lines down and to the north. I have filed a “tree and vegetation request” with ComEd, but so far, ComEd has not responded. Further, according to Xfinity and AT&T, they cannot do any trimming until ComEd is done. It would be great if all the lines would be put underground.
https://www.powermag.com/growing-grid-strategy-undergrounding-power-lines-to-withstand-weather/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The power generation sector, including electric utilities and grid operators, recognizes the value of moving equipment underground to mitigate outages, lessen risks to assets, and reduce the chances of that equipment causing a wildfire. Electric utilities and power grid operators increasingly are looking at ways to diminish and avoid disruptions from extreme weather. The power sector also has experience with the financial impacts of wildfires, both with damage to assets and losses incurred when equipment is found liable for causing those events. Undergrounding lines, in addition to enhancing safety, also can improve the performance of transmission infrastructure, by mitigating hazards such as impacts from trees and other vegetation. A report from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Grid Deployment Office, along with Berkeley Lab in California, notes a “key advantage of underground transmission and distribution lines is substantially reduced vulnerability to disruption from extreme weather and wildfires [by preventing initial ignition as well as propagation], resulting in both reliability and resilience improvements.” Several electric utilities and other agencies have noted that undergrounding offers protection against lightning, animal incursions, high winds (including thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and derechos), and ice and snow. It also eliminates the chances of fallen power lines caused by auto accidents (Figure 1), or simply due to aging infrastructure.)

June 9, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Teen takeovers are spreading across the U.S.  DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/national-international/teen-takeover-across-us-explained/3945492/?amp

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Over 100 ex-federal prosecutors call out ‘failure of leadership’ by Chicago’s embattled U.S. attorney Boutros. DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating ex-federal prosecutors attack Boutros. They charge him with letting political considerations infect his prosecutorial decisions. The Republicans who ran DOJ under Bush sided with my Democrat GAO superiors in Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf  To side with my Democrat GAO superiors is to promote the Democrat Party platform. That is, to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/06/08/broadview-six-andrew-boutros-federal-prosecutor-justice-department-doj
— Northwestern researcher among group kicked out of conference for distributing paper critical of Trump. DD: I should write about the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they because they were critical of them or reported their wrong doing.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2026/06/08/northwestern-researcher-among-group-kicked-out-of-conference-for-distributing-paper-critical-of-trump

WGN9
— Judge blocks $100,000 fee for H-1B visas imposed by Trump. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/judge-blocks-100000-fee-for-h-1b-visas-imposed-by-trump/

WTTW
— Teen Takeovers Prompt Discussion About Community Engagement, Police Intervention. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/08/teen-takeovers-prompt-discussion-about-community-engagement-police-intervention

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/factcheck/2026/06/09/did-a-wisconsin-gop-governor-sign-the-nations-first-lgbtq-rights-law/90462420007/

DECATUR DAILY
— Cal Thomas: Lessons from Graham Planter. DD: Far too often, far too many candidates have run for offices as Republicans, but they should not have because they have far too much personal baggage. Voters hold Republican candidates to far higher standards than they hold Democrat candidates. I should write about the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they were critical of them or reported their wrong doing.
https://www.decaturdaily.com/opinion/columnists/cal-thomas-lessons-from-graham-platner/article_e209c6f0-5b47-4e42-a9c2-06d22304be48.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: How can Graham Planter, who might win the Democratic nomination for senator from Maine in next Tuesday’s primary election ever be seriously considered for such a job, given the amount of personal baggage he carries? The answer is we have so lowered our standards and think so little of our politicians that, as the saying used to go, anyone can grow up to be president, or senator.)

WSIL TV
— Teens Struggling to find Summer Jobs. DD: While I was in high school and college, few of my peers did what I did. I took bad jobs. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser. My critics/opponents had wealthy parents.
https://www.wsiltv.com/video/teens-struggling-to-find-summer-jobs/video_eb52f5f0-c021-54ba-bc03-72d88ac5e851.html

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL
— ‘Pay Attention to the World Around You.’  Remarks Offered by Judge David S. Tatel, ’66, at the 2026 Law School Diploma and Hooding Ceremony. DD: The fastest, easiest, and least costly way for Illinois Republicans to stay up to date with Illinois government and political news and commentary from a conservative perspective is to read GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.
https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/pay-attention-world-around-you

ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— Streamline Your Hiring Process. DD: Under the Democrats, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, if not already, employers will officially post signs that say those who are following need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://learn.icpas.org/Public/Catalog/Details.aspx

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/09/no-pride-in-mary-millers-proposal-00954034

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-753/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois Lawmakers Thumb Noses at Constitution to Impose New Taxes
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-lawmakers-thumb-their-noses-at-constitution-to-impose-new-taxes-wirepoints/

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago’s Pathway to Real Pension Reform
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-pathway-real-pension-reform

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Jeanne Ives Publishes Cartoon of JB’s Punting Bears to Indiana
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/08/jeanne-ives-publishes-cartoon-of-jbs-punting-bears-to-indiana/
— Would You Want a DEI Doctor? Illinois State Rep. Bill Hauter, a Republican physician and graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, sharply criticized reports that the school is promoting “equitable assessments” in medical education. DD: Democrats run the federal government. They use the subjectivity in their performance management systems to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my attention was drawn to the aforesaid because my undergraduate degree was in personnel management and my MBA area of concentration was personnel management.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/08/would-you-want-a-dei-doctor/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Google AI, “The top political newsletters in Illinois for Republican and conservative news include Illinois Review, the Illinois Conservative Union, and state politics staple Capitol Fax.” What does that say about Google AI? I have been sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000. Since 2004, those newsletters have included links to more than 541,500 articles. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. For Democrat leaders, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially 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. Far too many Republican leaders accept the aforesaid. I should write about that. I would show how my career in the federal government would have been dramatically different if the Republican U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives who represented me had fought political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old. All my coworkers in the federal government who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats dodge Platner scandal — after years of ‘believe all women.’ DD: My Democrat GAO superiors had their female GAO Chicago Office manager and my female supervisor force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/8/democrats-silent-platner-misconduct-allegations-despite-believe-women/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Ex-Border Patrol official Bovino not ruling out 2028 run if that’s ‘what it takes
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/4599700/gregory-bovino-2028-president-bid/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Britain’s Anti-White Wokeness. No one prominent has taken the knee for Henry Nowak, the young man stabbed to death in Britain.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/britains-anti-white-wokeness-americas-pro-israel-madness/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump team faces growing threat of investigations and criminal referrals. DD: If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, my Democrat superiors in the federal government would not have taken the many big adverse actions against me that they did.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/08/trump-team-faces-growing-threat-of-investigations-and-criminal-referrals-1644787/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Loyola University Chicago faculty donate almost exclusively to Democrats during 2026 midterms. The university’s faculty gave over $34,000 to the left, representing 99% of total donations. Only one individual donated to Republicans, making a single contribution of $25.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/loyola-university-chicago-faculty-donate-almost-exclusively-democrats-2026-midterms/29994

CENTER SQUARE
— DC schools use sex ed curriculum that avoids using ‘male,’ ‘female,’ promotes abortion.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_cd674363-d2f8-4a13-baf8-351bde0ff738.html

DAILY CALLER
— Bears Set To Leave Democratic Chicago After Over 100 Years. DD: The aforesaid is because the Bears failed/refused to do enough to elect Democrats.
https://www.aol.com/news/bears-set-leave-democratic-chicago-174615602.html
— Bernie Sanders lashes out at GOP ‘morality’ while rallying behind Dem with Nazi-linked tattoo
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-lashes-out-gop-morality-while-backing-dem-nazi-linked-tattoo

FEDERALIST
— GOP-Run Indiana City Considers Democrat-Run, California-Style Homeless Center. Hundreds of billions spent nationwide on homeless services have only resulted in more homelessness. Councilman Russ Jehl says Fort Wayne should try a third option besides doing nothing or enabling addicts.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/09/gop-run-indiana-city-considers-democrat-run-california-style-homeless-center/

FOX NEWS
— ‘You’re destroying your countries’: Is Europe finally heeding Trump’s warning on illegal immigration?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/youre-destroying-your-countries-europe-finally-heeding-trumps-warning-illegal-immigration

HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
— The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/southern-poverty-law-center-manufacturing-hate-part-ii

POST MILLENNIAL
— Patriots chant ‘USA’, leftists boo Trump as he attends NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden.
https://thepostmillennial.com/patriots-chant-usa-leftists-boo-trump-as-he-attends-nba-finals-at-madison-square-garden

TOWNHALL
— Deranged Man Re-Enacts Charlie Kirk’s Murder Outside of TPUSA Women’s Summit Hosted by Erika Kirk.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/julia-cassidy/2026/06/08/man-re-enacts-charlie-kirks-murder-outside-of-tpusa-womens-summit-hosted-by-erika-kirk-n2677414

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: For Democrats, democracy exists to take opportunities, money, and everything else away from Republicans and to give it all to Democrats.
https://apnews.com/article/ap-poll-america-250-democracy-exceptional-474874cbb88c08908c8b6c01e386ba91

YAHOO
— As teens seek summer jobs, finding roles becomes more challenging: ‘Hard work of life.’ DD: While I was in high school and college, few of my peers did what I did. I took bad jobs. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser. My critics/opponents had wealthy parents.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/teens-seek-summer-jobs-finding-233937948.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Vance Blames Migrant ‘Invasion’ for Henry Nowak Stabbing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/world/europe/vance-uk-stabbing-migrants.html
— Veterans. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran federal government for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times, virtually all of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and/or subordinates were veterans who blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. My Democrat superiors preferred veterans because they wanted employees who “followed orders.” The most important order that they wanted followed was to get rid of their employees who were Republican, and especially those who were conservative, 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. And on top of that, I was 1-A for Vietnam War draft, but had avoided it with draft deferments. Further, earlier in my federal career, many of my superiors and supervisors had parents, siblings, grandparents, relatives, friends, etc. who had been killed by Germans in WWI and WWII.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/opinion/veterans-politics.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-06-09/school-programs-to-aid-black-students-under-increased-scrutiny-as-illegal-dei-under-trump

BOSTON GLOBE
— DD: To get more votes from those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat candidates and Democrat elected officials ever-increasingly promise to use government to give them more preference. To give preference to one demographic is to discriminate against another demographic. Demographics that vote for Democrats include liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Demographics that vote Republicans include conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/09/opinion/race-dei-survey-democrats-politics/

PRESS HERALD
— Platner’s ex tells New York Times about Nazi tattoo, ‘toxic’ relationship. The latest scandalous report on Platner comes days after stories about sexually explicit texts he had previously sent several women while married.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/04/platner-bragged-of-nazi-tattoo-to-ex-physically-threatened-another-new-york-times-report-says/

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Adverse Actions. DD: My Civil Service Retirement System pension is dramatically less a) because my Democrat superiors wasted my career and b) because they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I should write about the adverse actions that my Democrat GAO superiors would have taken against me if I had tried to work to my regular retirement age of 55 in 2003. They had made it clear that they would constructively, if not literally, demote me and that they would have given me adverse transfers, bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance evaluations. I continue to ask myself what exactly would have happened if I had not succumbed to their threats. Would Speaker Gingrich, Speaker Hastert, U.S. Senator Fitzgerald, U.S. Representative Hyde, and/or the Bush Administration have come to my defense? The aforesaid did not come to my defense in Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf  To not come to my defense was a) to reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform, that is, b) to promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/06/opm-details-changes-for-federal-employees-in-schedule-policy-career/

JD SUPRA
— EEOC Releases New National Enforcement Plan. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? EEOC had a tremendous impact on me. When I was 22 in 1971, I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had accepted that offer, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me. Because of that, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eeoc-releases-new-national-enforcement-4768151/

PEW RESEARCH
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies against America.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/05/01/americans-remain-critical-of-trump-administrations-approach-to-iran/

RESEARCH GATE
— Transparency in journalism: Meanings, merits and risks. DD: At a minimum, everyone involved in journalism should be required to disclose their sources and amounts of income. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is $68,640/year. My Social Security is $18,712/year.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353597370_Transparency_in_journalism_Meanings_merits_and_risks

PBS
— Teen Takeovers. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.pbs.org/video/a-look-at-teen-takeovers-and-efforts-to-keep-kids-safe-this-summer-rr2zch/

POLITICO
— Democrats are furious after latest Platner revelations. A New York Times report with new allegations about the Democrat’s Nazi symbol tattoo and conduct with women has the party freaking out over its Maine Senate chances. DD: Political parties should have the power to stop candidates from running for government offices as members of their party. But I acknowledge if the RINOs who ran the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party had that power, and if I had tried to run for a government office, they would have stopped me. According to them, I am far too conservative, that is, I defend and advance far too many planks in the Republican Party platform. They would have stressed my bad demographics, the lawsuits that I filed, and that I was forced to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/platner-democrats-furious-new-york-times-report-00951496

MEDIUM
— Retirement Bravery: Criticizing Trump After Stepping Down. Politicians lack the courage while still in office. DD: I did not sue my Democrat GAO superiors for political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination until after they had forced me to retire in 1997. Since I was 40 in 1988, I had been an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://aninjusticemag.com/retirement-bravery-criticizing-trump-after-stepping-down-d5dfa24c349a

COMPACT MAGAZINE
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Henry Nowak.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/there-will-be-more-henry-nowaks/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

SPECTATOR
— Ten reasons why the murder of Henry Novak was an example of Wokeness
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/06/ten-reasons-why-the-murder-of-henry-novak-was-an-example-of-wokeness/

DAILY STAR
— DD: Governments ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/wisdom/news/why-more-people-are-choosing-stay-single-4192891

June 8, 2026 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Justice Department moves to strip citizenship from 17 people in unprecedented denaturalization push
https://abc7chicago.com/post/doj-moves-strip-citizenship-17-people-unprecedented-denaturalization-push-donald-trump-administration/19259005/

WGN9
— Illinois’ new social media tax explained. DD: My critics/opponents would love it if the Democrats who run Illinois would tax me lots of money for each GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter that I send out.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-new-social-media-tax-explained/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois’ new budget includes a variety of new taxes. One of those targets social media companies that operate in the state. Here’s how it’s supposed to work: Platforms that have 100,000 to almost half a million users will be taxed 10¢ a month for each user. That’s the lowest tier. It increases for middle tier platforms with 500,000 users to just shy of a million users. That charge will be $40,000 a month and an additional 25¢ a month for each user above the half a million mark. The highest tax tier is for platforms with a million or more users. Their fee is $165,000 a month on top of 50¢ a month for each user beyond the million mark. The tax is projected to raise $200 million a year, and social media platforms can’t pass along the fees to their users.)

WBEZ
— Northwestern researcher among group kicked out of conference for distributing paper critical of Trump. DD: I should write about the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they reported their candidates’ wrong doing.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2026/06/08/northwestern-researcher-among-group-kicked-out-of-conference-for-distributing-paper-critical-of-trump

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Proposed Illinois law would shut down unlicensed intoxicating hemp shops. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Because intoxicating hemp competes with pot, Democrat leaders want intoxicating hemp to be regulated.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/08/hemp-marijuana-laws-lllinois-federal/
— DD: Democrat leaders cheer congressional Republicans who show newfound willingness to rebuff Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/08/trump-massie-hawley-cornyn-redistricting-anti-weaponization-fund-irs-audits/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Aurora.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/08/upcoming-pride-month-events-aurora/

DAILY HERALD
— Could a Bears move give Illinois Republicans midterm momentum?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260608/illinois-state-politics/could-a-bears-move-give-illinois-republicans-midterm-momentum-experts-weigh-in/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa application fee rejected by judge. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/ccb-h1b-visa-fee-rejected-20260608/
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating ex-federal prosecutors attack Boutros. They charge him with letting political considerations infect his prosecutorial decisions. The Republicans who ran DOJ under Bush sided with my Democrat GAO superiors in Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf  To side with my Democrat GAO superiors is to promote the Democrat Party platform. That is, to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-andrew-boutros-prosecutors-rebuke-broadview-6-20260608/

RIVER BENDER
— DD: Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media serves as a spokesperson for the Democrat Party.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-joins-markey-senate-democrats-in-calling-for-affordability-safety-worker-priorities-in-surface-transportation-bill-94087.cfm?

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-538/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Republican to offer Bears stadium bill, new property tax initiatives.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_771cdfd4-a412-4b3e-8874-47828886543c.html
— Illinois State Rep. Bill Hauter, a Republican physician and graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, sharply criticized reports that the school is promoting “equitable assessments” in medical education. DD: Democrats run the federal government. They use the subjectivity in their performance management systems to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my attention was drawn to the aforesaid because my undergraduate degree was in personnel management and my MBA area of concentration was personnel management.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_9fa5073c-4a1e-4014-ad5a-082b2508946d.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Platner’s bid tests how much personal baggage Maine voters will tolerate. DD: Far too often, far too many candidates have run for offices as Republicans, but they should not have because they have far too much baggage. Voters hold Republican candidates to far higher standards than they hold Democrat candidates. I should write about the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they reported their candidates’ wrong doing.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/8/platners-bid-tests-much-personal-baggage-maine-voters-tolerate/
— Foreign service has become a haven for leftists
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/7/foreign-service-become-haven-leftists/
— Government about to defund national parks and fund abortion
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/8/government-defund-national-parks-fund-abortion/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Homan says most anti-ICE protesters at New Jersey’s Delaney Hall are not state residents.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4598964/homan-anti-ice-protesters-delaney-hall-new-jersey/
— Six injured in stabbing at NYC’s Penn Station, day before Trump attends Game 3 of NBA Finals.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/4598639/stabbing-at-nyc-penn-station-day-before-trump-attends-game-3-of-nba-finals/
— There’s no spinning California’s disgraceful, third-world vote-counting mess
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4599135/cannot-spin-california-disgraceful-third-world-vote-counting/

NEW YORK POST
— Tom Homan reveals plans set to flood NYC with more ICE agents
https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/us-news/tom-homan-reveals-plans-are-in-place-to-flood-nyc-with-more-ice-agents-than-youve-ever-seen/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Homan says ICE ‘Nazi’ rhetoric has led to 8K percent surge in death threats against officers and their families.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/08/homan-says-ice-nazi-rhetoric-has-led-to-8k-percent-surge-in-death-threats-against-officers-and-their-families-1644805/

DAILY SIGNAL
— DOJ Moves to Denaturalize Immigrants Who Lied on Citizenship Applications About Egregious Crimes.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/08/doj-denaturalize-immigrants-lied/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Fallout from Video Release Expands: Police Sought to Cast Henry Nowak as Aggressor. Europe Reacts with Demonstrations and “Taking a Knee” Movement while Media Deflects in Wake of Henry Nowak Killing.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/fallout-from-video-release-expands-police-sought-to-cast-henry-nowak-as-aggressor/

LIFE ZETTE
— Teen Takeover Chaos Forces Ohio Church to Cancel Festival After Massive Brawls and 11 Arrests. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.lifezette.com/2026/06/teen-takeover-chaos-forces-ohio-church-to-cancel-festival-after-massive-brawls-and-11-arrests-watch/

NUMBERS USA
— 219,000 Fewer Teens Working – Don’t Expand H-2 Visas! DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid jobs prove that I have always been an unmitigated loser.
https://www.numbersusa.org/message-action/

REPUBLICAN BALLOT NEWS
— Twelve Shot as Chaos Breaks Out Near Toledo Festival
https://republicanballotnews.com/twelve-shot-as-chaos-breaks-out-near-ohio-street-festival/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump calls on Thune to fire Senate parliamentarian. DD: My critics/opponents do not publicly call for adverse actions to be taken against me. Instead, they have their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me for them. They had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) end my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) end my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, e) end my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2010 and 2004, f) end my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, g) almost get ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, and h) defeat my bid for the open as a MTRO Treasurer position in 2004. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5915219-trump-parliamentarian-thune-save-america-act/

SPLC
— DD: SPLC exists to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/june-2026-intelligence-project-dispatch-trends-incidents-of-the-hard-right/

FROM OTHER SOURCES

FEED SPOT
— Top 100 Political RSS Feeds. DD: GOPUSA ILLINOIS is ranked 6th for State and local US political coverage focused on individual states and metros across America. I should write about my critics/opponents who have their operatives and their dupes work the hardest a) to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading them. My critics/opponents have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. They make it clear that they can and that they will destroy anyone who encourages people to read my newsletters.
https://rss.feedspot.com/political_rss_feeds/

LINKED IN
— Editor roles with over $100K/yr salary. DD: I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000.  All of the money needed to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out every day comes from my Civil Service Retirement System pension, my Social Security, and my retirement savings. All of the time, experience, ability, and motivation to put the newsletter together and to send them out comes from me. GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter subscriptions are worth a least $1,000/year. But I send them out free of charge, without any advertising, and without any donation requests. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I do not want anyone to call my tunes.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4414534224&f_SB2=4&f_TPR=r604800&geoId=103644278&keywords=Editor&trk=eml-email_career_insights_01-top~insights~cta-0-view~job~openings

June 7, 2026

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Registration is open for political entries in Wheaton’s July 4 Independence Day Parade. SEE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wheaton-independence-day-parade-entry-2026-tickets-1984881886153  The deadline is June 26. The cost is $183.58. I hope that all the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct will walk in the parade: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Towns to go all out on July 4 for America’s 250th year. DD: Since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Wheaton in 1999, I have encouraged Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to walk in Wheaton Independence Day parades. In 2003, the day after all the announced Republican candidates for U.S. Senate attended (Cox, Kathuria, McKenna, Oberweis, and Ryan) had walked in the parade, they all attended a picnic that I had organized in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. More than 200 attended. In 2005, I started raising $2,500/year from Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders to help sponsor the parade and fireworks. Each year I would hand-deliver 500 parade flyers to the homes and businesses along the parade route. In 2007, I raised $2,000 for an elephant to walk behind Roskam in the parade. But my critics/opponents ended that in 2021 by having the Wheaton Park District stop parade and fireworks sponsorships. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take many other adverse actions against me. They want to de-politized the parade, that is, they want to keep Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders out of it.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260606/news/something-spectacular-towns-to-go-all-out-on-july-4-for-americas-250th-year/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In Wheaton, the Fourth of July is not just a day, but a state of the mind, to borrow a line from another holiday movie. . .The Wheaton Park District will usher in the Fourth with a $100,000 fireworks and drone show, or $50,000 for fireworks and $50,000 for drones, on Friday, July 3. The devices fly up to 400 feet. “I make sure it is something spectacular,” said James, who designs the dual production with vendor Mad Bomber Fireworks. “Across the board, everyone’s saying let’s make this a pretty awesome Fourth of July,” James said. . .Free entry is being offered to nonprofits that roll out parade floats. The Wheaton Park District is also drumming up participation in the Fourth of July parade with new, lower rates for community and neighborhood groups. . .There’s even merch: commemorative T-shirts and hats bearing the City of Wheaton America 250 logo designed by student artist Asher Boriss (the city does not receive any profit from the sale of apparel). Mayor Phil Suess championed a sweet idea: an ice cream social. The city, in conjunction with Kilwins and Kimmer’s Ice Cream, will provide 1,776 scoops during the municipal band concert July 9. . .The city also has made an effort to mark the 250th with “things that are going to be lasting,” Suess said. So there’s a newly planted “Liberty Tree” outside city hall. Both Wheaton and Glen Ellyn have sponsored new murals depicting significant landmarks. “People appreciate freedom, they appreciate liberty, and they appreciate self-determination,” Suess said. Keller certainly does. He reads the dedication tags attached to the flags, planted by volunteers in the Wheaton park. . .Rudy Keller oversees the setup for the Field of Honor, a display of American flags at Seven Gables Park in Wheaton. New this year: A car show and cupcakes for the nation’s 250th birthday.)
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Video gambling revenue collections continue to grow for local governments. DD: To get more votes, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton and in 2019 I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260606/news/video-gambling-revenue-collections-continue-to-grow-for-local-governments/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois lawmakers lead US in spending campaign cash for childcare — and one dog.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/07/illinois-lawmaker-childcare-campaign-funds/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In one small but notable instance, a candidate who narrowly lost a 2023 race for the Chicago Police District Council reported spending $325 on his dog. Illinois State Board of Elections campaign finance reports show the money was spent at a business called Cruisin’ Canines. The reason given in the reports? “Care of dependent family member (dog).”)
— DD: Democrat leaders use social media, AI, and everything else to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/07/opinion-social-media-polarization-ai/

WAND TV
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/what-to-know-about-the-ongoing-protests-and-arrests-outside-a-new-jersey-detention-center/article_01c2e603-6ff5-5b42-a2cb-c8b74b1dc342.html

CHICAGO READER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movie-feature/steven-toushin-bijou-theater-gay-porn/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINAR
— DD: How soon, if not already, will Democrats in your county, township, municipality, and school district elect socialists?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/4596773/graham-platner-rise-mamdani-moraff-katz-fan/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Harvard’s Slide into Stupidity
https://freebeacon.com/culture/harvards-slide-into-stupidity/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Henry Nowak’s death exposed Britain’s two-tier justice system
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/henry-nowaks-death-exposed-britains-two-tier-justice-system.html

DAILY SIGNAL
— Explaining Britain’s ‘Sickly Reversed’ George Floyd Moment
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/04/britains-reversed-george-floyd/
— Why Britain’s ‘DEI Police’ Watched a 19-Year-Old Boy Die in Front of Their Eyes
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/04/britains-dei-police-boy-die/
— California Was a Paradise, Then Newsom Happened
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/02/california-paradise-then-newsom/
— Trump Derangement Goes to Newark: The Anti-ICE Protest Industry
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/03/anti-ice-protest-delaney-hall/
— The Real Victims of Biden’s Border Crisis
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/03/real-victims-bidens-border-crisis/

FOX NEWS
— Chaos erupts at NY reparations hearing as ‘Foundational’ Black Americans clash with left-leaning groups. DD: How would Democrat and RINO leaders respond if asked how you have benefitted from slavery? Anticipate/expect that if you are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American, they would stress the length of time your ancestors have been in America. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois, they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and they never did discriminate against anyone.
https://www.aol.com/articles/chaos-erupts-ny-reparations-hearing-110034415.html

ICE
— ICE Chicago arrests violent, criminal illegal alien after Chicago PD releases him into community. Luis Manuel Saucedo-Cardenas was wanted on a federal criminal warrant after Chicago PD refused to cooperate with ICE.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-chicago-arrests-violent-criminal-illegal-alien-after-chicago-pd-releases-him

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Mamdani introduces New York to socialism, ‘block by block.’ DD: How soon, if not already, will Democrats in your county, township, municipality, and school district elect socialists?
https://www.aol.com/articles/opinion-mamdani-introduces-york-socialism-140000000.html

CNN
— Job qualifications. All my coworkers in the federal government who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/politics/trumps-warped-view-of-job-qualifications-what-matters

MSN
— Trump administration moves to roll back Biden-era gun rules
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/trump-administration-moves-to-roll-back-biden-era-gun-rules/gm-GM08D02F75
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use buyouts and early retirement to get rid of employees who are Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/microsoft-is-planning-voluntary-retirement-buyouts-for-some-senior-employees-as-it-grapples-with-the-threat-of-ai-here-s-who-the-offer-targets/ar-AA2503b0

MS NOW
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight assimilation. Sadly, my ancestors were slow to assimilate. Consequently, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. All my grandparents spoke German.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/rubio-white-south-african-refugees-assimilation

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Scholarships. DD: Since I was in high school in 1966, my critics/opponents have stressed that I did not get any scholarships. They have always hinted/implied/argued that proves that I am inferior and/or that my parents were filthy rich.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/slideshows/things-to-know-about-merit-aid-scholarships

AOL
— Republican support for same-sex marriage declining
https://www.aol.com/news/poll-republican-support-same-sex-231033613.html
— Signs it’s time to leave your first job. DD: What was your first job after college? When I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 in 1970, potential employers saw me as being draft bait. They did not believe my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be granted. Further, they were under tremendous pressure to hire minorities, females, and veterans. Further, I had the stigma of having been a federal employee who had been forced to resign. I had to have a job. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from Firestone Stores for a sales job that did not really require a college degree. My Chicago Heights store boss would never had hired me, but his boss had assigned me to him. He did not have a college degree. He refused to let me start until after I passed a probationary period in Indiana. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft, my being Protestant, my being German American, my having ancestors who had been in America since 1844, and my living in Crete. Under him, I saw that my Firestone career was bleak, if not nonexistent. Consequently, I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile in early 1971. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely, if not violently, fired me because I had accepted that offer. I had to have a job. So I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from IRS to be a Revenue Officer.
https://www.aol.com/articles/signs-time-leave-first-job-185543000.html

ABC NEWS
— Job qualifications. All my coworkers in the federal government who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://abcnews.com/Business/women-aggressive-men-applying-jobs-hired-frequently-linkedin/story?id=61531741

NBC LOS ANGELES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/weho-pride-weekend-west-hollywood/3900791/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Led by Elon Musk, C.E.O. Pay Heads Toward the Stars. Executive compensation is accelerating while rank-and-file workers lag, widening the pay gap in corporate America. DD: Trump’s salary is only $400,000/year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/business/highest-paid-ceos-elon-musk.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opinion/voting-rights-act-black-voters-south.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals and fight their deportation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opinion/aliens-ice-immigration-white-house.html
— DD: My many Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans blamed Republicans like me for America losing the Vietnam War.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/opinion/iran-us-war-military-washington.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/opinion/democrats-reconstruction-project-2029.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump Keeps Immunity from I.R.S., a Victory in a Long-Running Feud. DD: Has IRS audited you? To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education deductions when I was 29 years old in 1978. I had deducted graduate evening business courses at Loyola 1972-1976 and accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1978. They outrageously, disgustingly, falsely, and unethically argued in tax court a) that the courses I deducted did not relate to my job duties, b) that they did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) that I took them to get a job in the private sector, and d) that I took them to qualify myself for a new trade or business. They outrageously, disgustingly, falsely, and unethically ignored the fact a) that my IRS employee manual encouraged me to take the courses, b) that the course descriptions and my position descriptions show that the courses are deductible, and c) that I had stated in my applications that I wanted to take the courses to maintain and improve my IRS job skills. They would not have disallowed the courses a) if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran and/or b) if I had not complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/trump-immunity-tax-audit.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Female Navy officers say they fear a career cap after Hegseth cuts women from promotions list. DD: All my female coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-06-07/female-navy-officers-say-they-fear-career-cap

USA TODAY
— DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes do the most to destroy TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012 and Illinois Center Right Coalition in 2007.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2026/06/03/exclusive-documents-expose-growth-of-patriot-front/90392634007/

BOSTON HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/06/06/rainbows-over-boston-pride-parade-2026-photos/

WEST CENTRAL TRIBUNE
— It’s time to get tougher on teen takeovers. Teen takeovers aren’t a problem only in Chicago. They’ve been a challenge for mayors all over the country, from Washington, D.C., to Detroit to … Atlanta and beyond.”  DD: What is your municipality doing to stop teen takeovers?
https://www.wctrib.com/opinion/editorials/american-opinion-its-time-to-get-tougher-on-teen-takeovers

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/pink-triangle-lgbtq-pride-22288623.php

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Parents aren’t waiting to pass down wealth. DD: All my critics/opponents have/had wealthy parents. My father died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/parents-aren-t-waiting-to-pass-down-wealth/ar-AA24YWQZ

24/7 WALL STREET
— 57% Say They Haven’t Saved Enough. 42% of retirees exit the workforce early due to health issues or job loss, shrinking contributions while stretching withdrawals across more years. DD: My retirement savings and income are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government saved far less for their retirement than my wife and I did. According to them, my wife and I could do that a) because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) because we gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents, and c) because I benefitted tremendously from Republican discrimination against Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American ,and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://247wallst.com/personal-finance/2026/06/06/57-say-they-havent-saved-enough-and-the-data-confirms-it/

FORBES
— 9 Best Desktop Computers. DD: I recommend Dell.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/article/best-desktop-computer/

LADDERS
— Career success. DD: My critics/opponents attribute their career successes to meritocracy. They attribute my career success to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/bill-gates-says-he-attributes-his-success-to-these-3-things

INDEPENDENT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/06/06/great-replacement-or-market-outcome/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It’s by now common knowledge that the U.S. is undergoing observable demographic shifts from a majority-white, native-born population toward a more foreign-born and diverse one. The foreign-born share of the population went from 4.7% in 1970 to over 15% today. The non-Hispanic white American share of the population over that period went from 84% to 58%. Both factors combined have produced steady shifts in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and voting patterns.

PARADE
— Being Forced Into Retirement Is One of the Most Damaging Things That Can Happen to You. DD: I should write about being forced to retire early. The more of the following that you are, the more likely that you will be forced to retire early: Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://parade.com/living/being-forced-into-retirement-can-negatively-impact-mental-health

LIBERTY NATION
— Moral Decline in America. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice.
https://www.libertynation.com/moral-decline-in-america/

PRESS READER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/sunday-independent-ireland/20260607/281758455970247

HARVARD CRIMSON
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/6/7/affirmative-action-task-force-1976/

MARY SUE
— DD: My critics/opponents stress those who I did much to help elect and to help reelect and who could/should have come to my defense when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes take the following adverse actions against me, but did not come to my defense:  a) ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) ended my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, d) ended my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, e) ended my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2010 and 2004, f) ended my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, g) almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, and h) defeated my bid for the open as a MTRO Treasurer position in 2004. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois.
https://www.themarysue.com/george-santos-is-the-only-house-member-to-come-to-the-defense-of-george-santos/

NPR
— Despite a competitive market, finding a summer job is highly beneficial for teens. DD: When you were young, what did you do after-school, weekends, and summers? I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid proves that I have always been an unmitigated loser. With the money I earned, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet BelAir when I was 16 in 1964. I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, poor man’s GTO, when I was 17. I bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 when I was 19. And I bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE when I was 20. I used the aforesaid cars to get to/from jobs and classes at Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966, UIC 1966-1968, and NIU 1969-1970.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/06/nx-s1-5824413/despite-a-competitive-market-finding-a-summer-job-is-highly-beneficial-for-teens

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

GUARDIAN
— The Africa exception: the slavery reparations debate was once ‘unthinkable’. Now it is unavoidable. DD: How would Democrat and RINO leaders respond if asked how you have benefitted from slavery? Anticipate/expect that if you are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American, they would stress the length of time your ancestors have been in America. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois, they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and they never did discriminate against anyone.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jun/06/africa-exception-slavery-reparations-african-union-justice

MEAWW
— DD: Since the 1960s, the Democrats who have run the federal government have ever-increasingly a) promoted more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who had been in America for a long time and b) given more preference to those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, noncitizen, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://news.meaww.com/zohran-mamdani-says-us-government-has-exacerbated-racism-through-decades-of-policy-choices

June 3, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— 9 arrested, dozens of citations issued after large groups of young people gather downtown Naperville. DD: What is your municipality doing to fight Democrat teen takeovers?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/9-arrested-groups-young-people-gather-downtown-naperville-washington-st-corridor-between-chicago-van-buren-ave/19221090/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Palatine.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/activists-urge-village-palatine-illinois-change-code-ordinances-raise-pride-flag-month-2026/19214647/

NBC5
— At least 9 arrests reported after ‘teen takeover’ in Naperville. There were also more than two dozen citations issued. DD: What is your municipality doing to fight Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/at-least-9-arrests-reported-after-teen-takeover-in-naperville/3943243/

CBS2
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/antonio-king-is-first-chicago-city-executive-level-director-of-lgbtq-affairs/
— ICE agents detain man in Albany Park; SUV believed to be driven by agent hits sedan stuck in traffic. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ice-agents-arrest-man-albany-park-suv-crash-kedzie-lawrence/


CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Ald.
Desmon Yancy: The city’s response to the recurring crisis of ‘teen takeovers’ is inadequate. DD: What is your municipality doing to fight Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/02/opinion-chicago-teen-takeover-response-inadequate/
— Illinois senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth demand US Attorney Andrew Boutros resign. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/02/dick-durbin-tammy-duckworth-andrew-boutros-resign/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/03/column-catholic-church-apology-slavery-washington/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Federal agents crash into car while detaining man in Albany Park. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/06/02/federal-agents-crash-into-car-while-detaining-man-in-albany-park
— DD: What is your municipality doing to fight Democrat teen takeovers?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/06/03/teen-takeovers-public-spaces-downtown-youth-disinvestment-online-culture-almethia-franklin

DAILY HERALD
— Nine arrested, dozens cited, at Naperville downtown ‘takeover.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260602/crime/nine-arrested-dozens-cited-at-naperville-downtown-takeover/

WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion and LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/2026/06/02/state-lawmakers-laud-passage-of-bills-protecting-reproductive-gender-affirming-care

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR & PEORIA JOURNAL STAR & RIVER BENDER & WMBD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2026/06/03/rockford-galena-among-illinois-lgbtq-friendly-destinations/90359435007/
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/02/2026-lgbtq-business-climate-index-illinois-ranks-fifth-pritzker/90355861007/
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/as-pride-month-begins-governor-jb-pritzker-christian-mitchell-reaffirm-commitment-to-lgbtq-community-93931.cfm
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pride-events-happening-around-central-illinois-this-june/ar-AA24joLT

NPR ILLINOIS
— The White House’s new site about ‘aliens’ has nothing to do with UFOs  DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-03/the-white-houses-new-site-about-aliens-has-nothing-to-do-with-ufos

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders say Trump has used the presidency to benefit himself and his allies
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-how-trump-has-used-the-presidency-to-benefit-himself-and-his-allies/amp/

WHEATON PATCH
— 5 Teens, 4 Adults Arrested During Teen Takeover In Naperville. Police made arrests for battery, attempted aggravated assault on a peace officer and other violations. DD: What is your municipality doing to fight Democrat teen takeovers?
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/5-teens-4-adults-arrested-during-teen-takeover-naperville

POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/03/mendoza-is-making-it-official-00947595

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-537/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Collin Corbett faces an objection from Aaron Del Mar
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/03/corbetts-petitions-challenged/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How conservative is your county, township, municipality, and school district? Conservative counties, townships, municipalities, and school districts promote personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration law enforcement, anti-vice, Second Amendment rights, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). Conservative political jurisdictions do not promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, or Affirmative Action, DEI, or wokeness/wokeism, that is, they do not promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, or national origin discrimination. I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton Warrenville School District 200. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Record Illinois Budget Includes $800 Million in New Taxes as More Residents and Businesses Leave State
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/06/record-illinois-budget-includes-800-million-in-new-taxes-as-more-residents-and-businesses-leave-state.html
— Illinois Lawmakers Set to Earn Up to $128,000 for a Part-Time Job Under New Budget
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/06/illinois-lawmakers-set-to-earn-up-to-128000-for-a-part-time-job-under-new-budget.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DD: To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/love-woke-pope-leos-first-encyclical-2026-06/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— War Secretary Pete Hegseth recently blocked the promotions of several Navy officers who had been selected by a board of senior admirals to be promoted to one-star admirals. Hegseth, who has long touted his belief that the military should be a meritocracy, blocked the promotions of nine Navy officers, according to the New York Times. Of those nine officers, three of the officers are women, two are black men, and four are white men. DD: I should write about all the promotions that I was passed over for while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 and IRS 1975-1980. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/4590876/hegseth-blocks-promotions-pentagon-meritocracy/

NEW YORK POST
— More than 90% of four-year universities do not require incoming students to submit SAT or ACT standardized test scores after pandemic-era rollbacks in the name of “fairness.” DD: UIC would not have admitted me in 1966 if I had not gotten an ACT score of 24.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/02/us-news/a-shocking-portion-of-colleges-dont-require-sat-or-act-tests-and-profs-are-begging-them-to-reverse-course/

BREITBART
— A Wisconsin Democrat is celebrating her endorsement by a union that is fighting against the Trump administration’s crackdown on dangerous illegal alien commercial truck drivers. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/02/democrat-welcomes-endorsement-from-union-that-defends-illegal-migrant-truck-drivers/amp/
— DD: To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/love-my-woke-pope-why-leos-first-encyclical-went-viral-and-how-it-speaks-to-his-papal-approach/amp/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Talarico runs for the center, dragging years of woke baggage behind him
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/talarico-runs-for-the-center-dragging-years-of-woke-baggage.html

COLLEGE FIX
— DD: To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/uw-madison-trains-future-teachers-in-anti-racist-behaviors-social-justice/

DAILY CALLER
— Texas Announces New Tool To Keep Illiterate Foreigners Away From Driver’s Seats. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/02/texas-crackdown-illiterate-foreign-truck-drivers/

DAILY CITIZEN
— Indoctrinating and Training Radical Activist Children. DD: Ever-increasingly, to send your child to a public school is to turn your child against those who are conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/blm-at-school-week-indoctrinating-and-training-radical-activist-children/

DAILY SIGNAL
— James Talarico’s Church Is Woke Beyond All Recognition. DD: To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/02/just-how-woke-is-james-talaricos-church/

FEDERALIST
— After Decades Of Anti-America Indoctrination, Don’t Expect A Big 250th Celebration. DD: To demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn America.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/02/after-decades-of-anti-america-indoctrination-dont-expect-a-big-250th-celebration/

FOX NEWS
— Walgreens didn’t abandon Chicago’s South Side. We let crime drive them out. Rooftop Revelations: Chicago Alderman William Hall called the closure of Walgreens on the South Side ‘pharmaceutical genocide’ but where was the outrage during the theft crisis?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/walgreens-didnt-abandon-chicagos-south-side-let-crime-drive.amp
— Wisconsin Dem touts endorsement from union pushing back against CDL crackdowns on illegal alien truckers. The union touted a toolkit for businesses on how to circumvent restrictions on CDLs to illegal aliens. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wisconsin-democrat-touts-endorsement-union-pushing-back-cdl-crackdowns-illegal-alien-truckers

NEWSBUSTERS
— NPR Plugs ‘Pride Month,’ Laments Trump Is Curbing Corporate Donations. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2026/06/02/npr-plugs-pride-month-laments-trump-curbing-corporate-donations

U.S. OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNCIL
— Your Rights as a Federal Employee. Prohibited Personnel Practices. DD: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, Democrats ran the federal government. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially 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. I should write about the many big Prohibited Personnel Practices that my Democrat superiors took against me, not the least of which included a) my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delaying my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forcing me take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoting me beyond GS-12, disallowing my education deductions in 1978, and disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors forcing me to resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.justice.gov/media/1439841/dl?inline

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MS NOW
— DD: Democrat leaders decry that Hegseth intervenes on promotion list (again), blocks female and Black officers. I should write about all the promotions that I was passed over for while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 and IRS 1975-1980. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hegseth-intervenes-promotion-list-removes-female-black-officers

MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— How Democrats drifted away from the working class. DD: My critics/opponents look down on the working class. I was a member of the working class 1964-1997. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I should write about my critic/opponents.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-06-02/democrats-working-class-voters-economics-culture

SPOKESMAN REVIEW
— Idaho GOP wants Republican politicians to agree to its party platform. Do they?
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/may/17/idaho-gop-wants-republican-politicians-to-agree-to/

KCRG
— Traditional marriage parade set for June 6 in Ottumwa. The parade was organized in response to an Ottumwa city council proclamation last June, honoring pride month. DD: I owe all my successes in life to my parents and their traditional marriage.
https://www.kcrg.com/2026/06/02/traditional-marriage-parade-set-june-6-ottumwa/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat leaders object to Hegseth blocking promotions. I should write about all the promotions that I was passed over for while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 and IRS 1975-1980. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-blocked-nine-air-force-senior-officer-promotions-delayed-dozens-more-ebf9ea62
— American Idle: The Work Ethic Goes Out of Style. One in 3 working-age American men aren’t so much as looking for a job. DD: From what I see, ever-increasingly, under the Democrats, and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less likely that you will be hired, retained, and promoted: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/american-idle-the-work-ethic-goes-out-of-style-45f7b187

FORBES
— 20 Essential Skills To Advance Your Professional Career. Professional certifications and licenses set you up for long-term success. DD: My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled a) my passing the CPA and the Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, b) my earning four more job-related professional certifications, c) my becoming a licensed CPA, and d) my earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2024/09/26/20-essential-skills-to-advance-your-professional-career/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE WITH PHOTO: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Charlie Kirk.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/01/charlie-kirk-free-speech-first-amendment/90283488007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG GRAPHIC: Summer jobs. DD: When you were young, what did you do after-school, weekends, and summers? I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid proves that I have always been an unmitigated loser.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2026/05/31/teen-summer-jobs-hiring-record-fall/90258555007/

FED WEEK
— GAO Raps Lack of Planning Before DoD/DoW Workforce Cuts, Lack of Attention to Impact. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Gingrich-led budget cuts to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/gao-raps-lack-of-planning-before-dod-dow-workforce-cuts-lack-of-attention-to-impact/

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Pentagon cut workforce with little analysis before or since, GAO finds. Defense officials concurred that lessons should be drawn—but gave no indication they will be. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Gingrich-led budget cuts to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.govexec.com/defense/2026/06/ready-fire-aim-pentagon-cut-workforce-little-analysis-or-gao-finds/413894/

GOOD MEN PROJECT
— Traditional Career Paths. DD: Democrats run the federal government. When I was young, to get a federal job with advancement opportunities, you had to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree and pass the Federal Service Entrance Examination. Further, if you were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran, you had to make GS-13 (currently $118,984/year) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $140,604/year) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $165,386/year) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $197,200/year) by age 40. Very few federal employees made the aforesaid promotion deadlines. If you did not make the aforesaid promotion deadlines and you were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran, your career was wasted and you were gotten rid of. Because I was Republican, White, male, and non-veteran and because I did not make GS-12 (currently $100,659/year) until I was 25, and GS-13 until I was 38, my career was wasted and I was gotten rid of. The aforesaid is up-or-out, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination,  and age discrimination.
https://goodmenproject.com/everyday-life-2/why-more-workers-are-rethinking-traditional-career-paths/

AMERICA MAGAZINE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-reason/2026/06/02/archbishop-wester-lgbtq-catholic-church/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

TIMES
— Hegseth accused of blocking promotions for women and minorities. The Pentagon says it is ushering in a new era, where ‘promoting based on race and gender is over.’  DD: I should write about all the promotions that I was passed over for while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 and IRS 1975-1980. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/pete-hegseth-news-navy-officers-nkbnzvpm2