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FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Illinois lawmakers pass public transit funding bill to address RTA budget gap. DD: I saved lots of money by using public transit. I used public transit in 1971 and then 1973-1997. I spent lots of time reading newspapers, and between 1973 and 1981 and between 1992 and 1997, doing homework. I took graduate evening business courses at Loyola 1973-1976, graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1980, Becker CPA Review courses 1978-1979, an undergraduate internal auditing course at Roosevelt in 1980, a graduate internal auditing course at Roosevelt in 1981, and graduate evening finance courses at IIT 1992-1997. I worked in the Loop in 1971 and then 1973-1997. I can remember when there was public transit (buses) between Crete and Chicago Heights during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-house-passes-public-transit-funding-bill-address-rta-budget-gap/18094306/

NBC5
— Illinois to offer $50 million in loans to unpaid federal workers during shutdown. The loans will be available through local banks, the treasurer’s office said. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. Federal workers have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-to-offer-50-million-in-loans-to-unpaid-federal-workers-during-shutdown/3845801/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois lawmakers pass bill to tackle constitutional violations in immigration raids, ban courthouse arrests
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/30/illinois-lawmakers-push-to-tackle-constitutional-violations-in-immigration-raids-ban-courthouse-arrests/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Amid increased public calls for Illinois elected officials to more strongly push back against the Trump administration’s sometimes-violent crackdown on immigrants in the Chicago region, the Illinois General Assembly early Friday passed a bill to formally ban federal agents from arresting people near courthouses and allowing lawsuits if individuals’ rights have been violated in civil immigration arrests. The legislation came in response to what one of the bill’s sponsors, Democratic state Sen. Celina Villanueva of Chicago, described as “the reality of the pain and the cruelty and the inhumanity that’s being inflicted on my community, on my district, on the communities in this state — that are also American — for the simple fact of looking the way that I do.” “I’m going to fight back,” she said on the Senate floor late Thursday, shortly before the bill passed 40-18. The Illinois House passed the legislation 75-32 a little more than an hour later. While supporters applauded the bill’s passage, even its key sponsor, Senate President Don Harmon, called it “imperfect.” But he said Democratic lawmakers in Springfield felt the need to act, as state and local officials have often felt hamstrung in countering the federal government’s often-aggressive tactics. “I’m prepared for this law to be challenged, but I think we still have an obligation to try to do something,” Harmon, of Oak Park, told a committee hearing in Springfield Thursday. “There is no need for the same people who are charged with protecting our constitutional rights to violate our constitutional rights in the process.” Under the bill, individuals could sue officers for knowingly violating the state or U.S. Constitution during civil immigration enforcement. The bill would also codify a 1,000-foot “safe zone” around courthouses, free from civil arrests, in an attempt to limit potential disruptions to court activities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol activities in Chicago and the surrounding areas have come under increased scrutiny and criticism. In what the federal government has described as an initiative to deport the “worst of the worst” individuals who lack legal status, agents have repeatedly detained people first and sought information about them later, without immediate regard for citizenship or legal status. The bill came together in collaboration with House lawmakers, the state attorney general’s office and the governor’s office, Harmon said on the Senate floor. While the governor and lawmakers have used their bully pulpits to push back, and some legislators have at times taken an activist role themselves in opposition to the federal actions, the statehouse has little formal role in immigration policy. In a sign of lawmakers’ frustration with the federal agents’ tactics, damages under the lawsuit provision could go up due to various factors. They include whether the defendant wore a mask; used crowd control equipment like tear gas; failed to identify themselves as a law enforcement officer; used a vehicle without an Illinois license plate; or failed to turn on a necessary body camera — all behaviors advocates and Democratic lawmakers have accused immigration agents of since the start of “Operation Midway Blitz” under the administration of President Donald Trump. It doesn’t impede ICE from “doing its job lawfully,” Harmon told his colleagues on the Senate floor. But in the floor debate Thursday, Senate GOP Leader John Curran of Downers Grove called those aggravating factors for damages a form of overreach. “You are … teeing this up for the Supreme Court to set this aside. You’re actually making it easy on them,” Curran said. Violators who arrest individuals improperly at or near a courthouse would face civil damages for false imprisonment and $10,000 in statutory damages, according to the bill. A judge can also issue an order preventing arrest under the provision, according to the bill. “When witnesses or parties don’t come to court, it doesn’t just affect them. It affects all of us,” Villanueva said. A judge can also issue an order preventing arrests under the provision, according to the bill. In addition to the provisions on courts and private actions, the bill also asks hospitals, day care centers and higher education institutions to put policies on the books about how they would respond to the presence of federal immigration agents, following incidents of ICE activity at or near some of those locations across the Chicago area. It would also largely prohibit hospitals, day care centers and higher education institutions from disclosing the immigration status of patients, clients and students. Hospitals would be fined $500 per day for noncompliance if they fail to meet the deadlines for developing their policies during the first quarter of next year. The higher education provisions on immigration status could be enforced through private lawsuits. And violations of the day care policy requirement would result in a licensing violation, according to the bill. Democratic state Sen. Omar Aquino, of Chicago, 2nd District, sponsored the day care provisions after his child’s day care center went into lockdown because of nearby immigration enforcement activity, he said. “Our kids were fine, but families were in fear because they didn’t know what to do,” Aquino said. “Here in the state, we must do something to make sure that no family feels that way. The package put forward this week doesn’t include a ban on masks for federal officers, as California enacted, or any expansions of Illinois’ existing law that generally bans local law enforcement from cooperating on civil immigration actions. At a subject matter hearing on the legislation Thursday, representatives from local law enforcement pushed back on parts of the legislation, including the private right of action for constitutional violations, over concerns that local officers could get swept up. “There’s going to be frivolous litigation that will be filed against state and local law enforcement officers,” even if it’s eventually thrown out, said Jim Kaitschuk, executive director of the Illinois Sheriffs’ Association. Pritzker, for his part, on Thursday in his ceremonial Springfield office, called on top federal immigration officials, including Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, to pause their activities for the Halloween weekend. “Mr. Bovino, your operation has sown fear and division and chaos among law-abiding residents in our communities,” Pritzker said. “No child in America should have to go trick-or-treating in fear that they might be confronted with armed federal agents and have to inhale tear gas.” At a news conference in Gary, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem dismissed Pritzker’s call for the Halloween pause. “The fact that Gov. Pritzker is asking for that is shameful and I think unfortunate that he doesn’t recognize how important the work is that we do to make sure we’re bringing criminals to justice and getting them off our streets — especially when we’re going to send all of our kiddos out on the streets and going to events and enjoying the holiday season. We want to make sure that they’re safe,” she said.)
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use children to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/halloween-chicago-immigration-snap-benefits/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/halloween-trick-or-treat-bovino-ellis-chicago-immigration/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put more people on SNAP.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/30/snap-benefits-illinois-food-pantries/
— Residents could see 76% increase for ACA plans. DD: The federal government paying 72% of my health care insurance premiums since 1966 and paying 72% of my wife’s health care insurance premiums since 1978 helped me endure my Democrat superiors wasting my career, their taking many big adverse actions against me, and their forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/27/illinois-affordable-care-act-plans/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE IN NAPERVILLE SUN: NCTV17 seeks additional $200,000 in funding from Naperville to cover dropping revenue. DD: As costs ever-increasingly increase to put together and to send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, I ever-increasingly use take more from my Civil Service Retirement System pension, Social Security, and RMD to pay for it.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/30/nctv17-funding-naperville-revenue-cable/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: IDs are mismatched, illegible — or still missing three weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers. In dozens of photographs at four locations, Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists documented federal officers failing to wear the “visible identification” needed to hold individuals accountable during the ongoing immigration “blitz.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/31/ice-border-patrol-operation-midway-blitz-ids-gregory-bovino-immigration-enforcement-chicago-arrests-detention
— Trump taps big City Hall contractors for ICE operation Brandon Johnson opposes. “We do have to take this seriously and make sure that we are not collaborating by hiring or benefiting companies that are acting against us,” said 33rd Ward Ald. Rossana Rodriguez.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/10/30/ice-border-patrol-contract-weapons-noem-homan-president-donald-trump-brandon-johnson-chicago
— DD: Democrats, RINOs, and Libertarians want stoners to have guns.
https://www.oaoa.com/opinion/sullum-trump-an-avowed-second-amendment-champion-defends-a-gun-ban-with-no-historical-justification/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Transit bailout passes overnight in Springfield
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/transit-compromise-bill-being-debated-springfield

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— You can be paid to live in these two central Illinois counties
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/paid-live-two-central-illinois-090325056.html

HERALD REVIEW
— Illinois school report card continues to show wide achievement gaps. DD: According to Democrats and to RINOs, if those who are the following achieve less, it is because Republicans discriminate against them: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://herald-review.com/news/state-regional/education/article_751a111f-79fa-5e39-91ed-376e4d589331.html

NORTH SHORE RECORD
— ICE activity confirmed in Wilmette. Number of arrests remains unclear
https://www.therecordnorthshore.org/2025/10/29/ice-activity-confirmed-in-wilmette-number-of-arrests-remains-unclear/

97.7
— 41% of Fatal Crash Drivers Across the Country Tested Positive for THC. DD: Pot is poison.
https://977wmoi.com/2025/10/study-finds-41-of-fatal-crash-drivers-across-the-country-tested-positive-for-thc/

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Pritzker warns immigration crackdown becoming ‘wider and more intense’
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/pritzker-warns-immigration-crackdown-becoming-wider-and-more-intense/
— Lawmakers approve $1.5B transit funding package without statewide tax increases. Funding for downstate transit agencies decreases from previous plan.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/lawmakers-approve-1-5b-transit-funding-package-without-statewide-tax-increases/

CHICAGO READER
— Chicago keeps controversial police promotion list secret.  DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less likely that you will be hired, retained, or promoted: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://chicagoreader.com/news/reader-investigative-reports/cpd-merit-promotion-police/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect ever-increasing dependency on food pantries.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/food-pantries-brace-for-huge-increase-in-need-as-feds-cut-off-snap-funding/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois lawmakers early this morning approved sweeping legislation designed to curb federal immigration enforcement within the state — a move that follows Gov. JB Pritzker’s warnings about an increasingly aggressive federal campaign targeting Chicago-area communities. The 12:40 a.m. vote capped a busy last day of the General Assembly session in which lawmakers also passed bills to expand clean-energy projects and lower costs for consumers, and fund public transit systems across the Chicago region — “The transformation bill,” as state Rep. Kam Buckner called it. That vote came just before the House wrapped at 2:35 a.m. The Senate wrapped up even later. About the immigration enforcement bill: It designates “safe zones” around schools, hospitals and courthouses, and allows Illinois residents to sue immigration agents who violate their constitutional rights, including for false imprisonment or unlawful detention. “This bill is a statement on behalf of the legislature to say that what ICE is doing is unacceptable,” said Democratic Sen. Celina Villanueva, one of the bill’s sponsors. Senate President Don Harmon delivered an emotional speech before the final vote. “I am distraught and frightened,” he said. “I never thought I’d live in a world where masked federal employees, brandishing military-style weapons, would jump out of unmarked vans to kidnap and disappear people — U.S. citizens. And today, those people are targeting residents who look like Senator (Omar) Aquino, Senator (Celina) Villanueva, Senator (Karina) Villa, Senator (Cristina) Castro, Senator Javier Cervantes and Senator (Graciela) Guzman.” The bill allows for punitive damages against immigration agents who conceal their identities, fail to wear body cameras, or use unmarked or out-of-state vehicles. It also bans civil immigration arrests inside courthouses or within 1,000 feet of them and requires schools, hospitals and child-care facilities to adopt protocols for responding to enforcement actions. Harmon expects the bill to face challenges. “That doesn’t mean it’s not the right thing to do,” he told lawmakers. And House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch likened the legislation’s importance to the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. “History will judge our actions in this moment, just as it did our predecessors,” he said. Republicans fiercely opposed the measure, calling it unconstitutional and dangerous. The bill “goes too far,” argued state Rep. Patrick Windhorst, echoing state Sen. Andrew Chesney, who said it would “tie the hands” of law enforcement. And state Rep. John Cabello, another Republican, said the measure sends a message to police officers that “you could be next,” referring to the provision allowing lawsuits against federal agents.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/31/lawmakers-pass-transit-energy-ice-bills-00631231

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/31/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-623/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Reick Criticizes Pension Increase Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/30/reick-criticizes-pension-increase-bill/
— UPDATE: How the Crystal Lake Park District Intends to Spend the Four Cent Tax Rate the Legislature Did Not Put Under the Property Tax Cap
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/30/how-the-crystal-lake-park-district-intends-to-spend-the-four-cent-tax-rate-the-legislature-did-not-put-under-the-property-tax-cap/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— House GOP Leader Tony McCombie Blocks Public Comments on Facebook – Critics Call It Authoritarian Censorship
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/house-gop-leader-tony-mccombie-blocks-public-comments-on-facebook-critics-call-it-authoritarian-censorship.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DOJ investigating allegations Black Lives Matter defrauded donors
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3870220/doj-investigation-black-lives-matter-fraud-donors/

NEW YORK POST
— DOJ investigating possible fraud within Black Lives Matter movement
https://nypost.com/2025/10/30/us-news/doj-investigating-possible-fraud-within-black-lives-matter-movement/
— Noem warns trucks are becoming ‘weapons’ as Newsom, sanctuary states license illegal immigrants
https://nypost.com/2025/10/30/us-news/noem-warns-trucks-are-becoming-weapons-as-newsom-sanctuary-states-license-illegal-immigrants/

BREITBART
— Democrats Holding the Neediest Americans Hostage with Gov’t Shutdown
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/30/hawley-democrats-holding-the-neediest-americans-hostage-with-govt-shutdown/
— Mamdani: We Need Less Cooperation with Feds on Immigration So NYPD Can Focus More on Crime
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/30/mamdani-we-need-less-cooperation-with-feds-on-immigration-so-nypd-can-focus-more-on-crime/amp/
— Armed Salvadoran Illegal Alien Arrested in Texas Home Depot Parking Lot
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/10/30/watch-armed-salvadoran-illegal-alien-arrested-in-texas-home-depot-parking-lot/amp/
— 7,200 Truck Drivers Taken Off U.S. Highways After Failing English Test. DD: While I worked for the Post Office in Park Forest 1966-1969, I often drove a truck to pick up mail and to deliver mail.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/30/feds-more-than-7200-truck-drivers-removed-from-u-s-highways-after-failing-english-test/amp/

COLLEGE FIX
— DeSantis tells Florida universities to hire Americans first. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/desantis-tells-florida-universities-to-hire-americans-first/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Pritzker Warns Kids About ICE on Halloween
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63TejpnSkG4
— — DD: Democrats create a culture of dependency
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/30/schumer-shutdown-presents-opportunity-snap-americas-spirit-charity/

FEDERALIST
— Report Tracks $200 Million Spent On Illegal Immigrant Health Care. DD: Reasons to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally include Democrats and RINOs giving you free housing, free food, free clothing, free health care, free transportation, free education, and free everything.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/30/exclusive-new-report-tracks-200-million-spent-on-illegal-immigrant-health-care/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Chicago Mayor Dodges Question by Quibbling Over Term “Illegal Alien”
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/10/30/chicago-mayor-dodges-question-over-term-illegal-alien

FOX NEWS
— Democrats create a culture of dependency
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6384314800112
— Florida Republican vows to block welfare benefits for noncitizens: ‘If you want free stuff, go home.’  ‘Not one penny,’ Fine wrote. DD: Soon, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-republican-vows-block-welfare-benefits-noncitizens-if-you-want-free-stuff-go-home
— Staff at top university reveal scheme to continue DEI under ‘changed’ names. DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less likely that you will be hired, retained, or promoted: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-staff-at-top-university-reveal-scheme-to-continue-dei-under-changed-names-doin-the-same-work.amp

ICE
— ICE arrests 223 illegal aliens along northwest Indiana highways
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-223-illegal-aliens-along-northwest-indiana-highways

NEWS BUSTERS
— Democrats’ Support of Illegal Aliens Also Caused the Previous Shutdown
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/10/30/democrats-support-illegal-aliens-also-caused-previous

NEWSMAX
— Kristi Noem: Illegals can’t speak English, read road signs. DD: All this harkens back to George Ryan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkuMBxr0uw

POST MILLENNIAL
— Illegal immigrant MS-13 suspect gets stuck on business sign during failed rooftop escape in Houston. ICE identified the man as 29-year-old Marlon Odir Gomez Hernandez, an illegal immigrant who had previously been arrested in El Salvador for aggravated extortion alongside six other suspected MS-13 members.
https://thepostmillennial.com/illegal-immigrant-ms-13-suspect-gets-stuck-on-business-sign-during-failed-rooftop-escape-in-houston

TOWNHALL
— Let Illegal Immigrants Trick-or-Treat Pritzker Tells Feds
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/10/30/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-asks-for-halloween-immigration-truce-n2665706

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Noem: ICE will be out in ‘full force’ on Halloween in Chicago
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5581764-kristi-noem-chicago-immigration-enforcement-halloween/

NEWSWEEK
— SNAP Update: 1.7M People to Be Banned From Benefits Under GOP Proposal. DD: Soon, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.newsweek.com/snap-update-1-7m-people-to-be-banned-from-benefits-under-gop-proposal-10964509

NEW YORK TIMES
— Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country. DD: The federal government paying 72% of my health care insurance premiums since 1966 and paying 72% of my wife’s health care insurance premiums since 1978 helped me endure my Democrat superiors wasting my career, their taking many big adverse actions against me, and their forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/30/upshot/obamacare-subsidies-new-prices.html

WASHINGTON POST
— In Trump’s GOP, the once-mighty tea party is hard to find. Since the movement upended politics 15 years ago, Republicans have moved in a sharply different direction under MAGA — with many tea party veterans along for the ride.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/31/tea-party-trump-maga-republicans/

USA TODAY
— Alzheimer’s doesn’t change just one person. DD: My aunt had Alzheimer’s. I had full health and financial power of attorney for her from 2009 until her death in 2022. That consumed lots of my time and attention during that period. SEE: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/eunice-diersen-obituary?id=52792433
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/10/30/dementia-alzheimers-caregiver-help-support/83878926007/

SACRAMENTO BEE
— As shutdown stretches on, Congress’ efforts to pay federal employees stall. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. Federal workers have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article312713846.html

DETROIT NEWS
— DD: Democrats create a culture of dependency
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/kaitlyn-buss/2025/10/30/buss-are-americans-sick-of-government-dependency/86966217007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Economics of Culture. People from cultures that emphasize productive habits tend to advance. The reverse is also true. DD: My parents and grade school teachers promoted personal responsibility. 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. My parents and grade school teachers were German American Missouri Synod Lutherans.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-culture-29c337f2

BLOOMBERG
— EEOC Lawyer Tells Companies How to Refresh Affirmative Action Plans for Trump Era. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because my Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted that offer and because I needed a job because I was helping support my mother and brother, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-30/trump-eeoc-lawyer-suggests-employers-refresh-affirmative-action-plans?embedded-checkout=true

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Uncertainty over back pay, RIFs deepening apprehension for federal employees under shutdown. DD: In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans that GAO hired. Virtually all GAO employees have always been Democrats. As I worked them 1980-1997, they got ever-increasingly depressed and angry because of Gingrich’s ever-increasing budget cuts. They ever-increasingly took their anger against Gingrich out on me. It all culminated with their forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/uncertainty-over-back-pay-rifs-deepening-apprehension-for-federal-employees-under-shutdown/

NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— New DHS Rule to End the Automatic Work Permit Extension. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they  could have.
https://natlawreview.com/article/new-dhs-rule-end-automatic-work-permit-extension?amp

YOU GOV
— Americans’ rankings of 30 occupations. DD: What jobs have you had? I did yard work 1962-1964. 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 assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1971-1972. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. According to my critics/opponents, I was grossly overpaid for those jobs and my pension and retirement benefits are much too generous.
https://today.yougov.com/economy/articles/45927-americans-rank-30-occupations-pay-happiness-impact

WIRED
— Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown. The US government shutdown 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by. DD: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years. Federal workers have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous.
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-workers-barely-making-it-through-government-shutdown/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

INDEPENDENT
— Laura Ingraham tells laid-off federal employees to get ‘real jobs.’  Fox News dismissed federal employees’ concerns about being fired, saying they need to find ‘real jobs’ in ‘the real world.’ DD: In my defense, if my high school friend had not asked me to take the postal employment test with him, I would not have become a postal employee in 1966. In my defense, if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint, I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971. In my defense, if my Democrat IRS superiors had not made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13, I would not have become a GAO employee in 1980. Once you become a federal employee, it is almost impossible to get a job outside of the federal government. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. Federal employees have always been demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being grossly overpaid and that their benefits are far too generous.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/laura-ingraham-federal-employees-doge-b2704308.html