FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— 2 ex-Obama administration officials Bill Daley and Ray LaHood launch bipartisan effort to create fairer legislative maps in Illinois
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-redistricting-news-fair-maps-bill-daley-ray-lahood-seek-create-fairer-state-legislative/17589140/
FOX32
— Darren Bailey mulls another run for Illinois governor, matchup with Pritzker
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1693954
WTTW
— As Trump Vows to Eliminate Mail-In Voting, Illinois Elections Officials Say Fraud is ‘Extremely Rare’
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/19/trump-vows-eliminate-mail-voting-illinois-elections-officials-say-fraud-extremely-rare
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Bipartisan group led by ex-Obama officials ‘rolling the dice’ on new remapping plan for Illinois legislature
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/19/illinois-legislative-independent-map-effort-2026/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/08/19/immigrants-trump-violent-crime-putin-air-water-show-air-pollution-sensors
— New Illinois law guarantees immigrant students access to public education. The law prohibits public schools from denying access to a free education based on immigration status. It also requires schools to have procedures for law enforcement requests to enter a building. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/19/illinois-law-immigrant-students-access-public-education
— To get more votes from minorities and females, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give them more preference over Whites and males.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/work/2025/08/20/illinois-preapprenticeship-programs-women-minorities-construction
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Election lawyers, Obama alumni Bill Daley and Ray LaHood renew Illinois redistricting reform push
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250819/news/election-lawyers-obama-alumni-renew-illinois-redistricting-reform-push/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/08/19/illinois-law-immigrant-students-access-public-education
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicagodefender.com/sick-pathetic-border-agents-appear-at-gavin-newsom-redistricting-rally/
SOUTHERN
— Trump says Smithsonian should portray America’s ‘Brightness,’ not ‘how bad Slavery was.’ America’s greatness put me on track a) to take college preparatory courses in high school 1964-1962, b) to get an ACT score of 24 in 1962, c) to graduate in the upper 20% of my class in 1962, d) to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, e) to earn job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, f) to earn job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) to earn a job-related professional license in 1981. That put me on track to be hired by S.S. Kresge in 1964, Post Office in 1966, Firestone Stores in 1970, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980. That put me on track a) to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) to buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., and c) to get married when I was 29.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/19/trump-says-smithsonian-should-portray-americas-brightness-not-how-bad-slavery-was/
SHAW LOCAL
— The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/08/19/underwood-decries-yorkvilles-stance-on-fining-possibly-jailing-homeless-people-during-town-hall-meeting/
SUBURBAN LIFE
— When Ian Dimler, a St. Francis High School student from Glen Ellyn, recently achieved a perfect score on his ACT test. Since 1966, my critics/opponents have stressed that my ACT score was only 24. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights during my junior and seniors years at Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/08/19/st-francis-student-gets-perfect-score-on-act-test/
HOMETOWN REGISTER
— Illinois GOP U.S. Senate candidates point to economy, Trump gains
https://www.hometownregister.com/news/state/illinois-gop-u-s-senate-candidates-point-to-economy-trump-gains/article_678e5ae5-37d6-5206-8530-f055673c7106.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump vows to lead effort to end mail-in voting
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-19/trump-vows-to-lead-effort-to-end-mail-in-voting
— Trump expands ‘woke’ criticism from Smithsonian to other museums. Democrats and RINOs use wokeness/wokeism to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-19/trump-expands-woke-criticism-from-smithsonian-to-other-museums
TRISTATES PUBLIC RADIO
— Illinois legislature passes bill to shed more light on how schools support homeless students. Just under 3 percent of Illinois students were considered homeless last year. That’s still more than 47,000 kids statewide.
https://www.tspr.org/illinois-public-radio/2025-08-20/illinois-legislature-passes-bill-to-shed-more-light-on-how-schools-support-homeless-students
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote mail-in voting
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trumps-war-on-mail-in-voting-could-boomerang-on-gop/amp/
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/forsyth-cannabis-dispensary-joint-days-away-from-opening-doors/article_f090eb3f-c61f-45ed-95d1-c2423d3722d2.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Trump says he’ll expand his focus on crimes to other Democratic-led cities. The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-08-19/trump-says-hell-expand-his-focus-on-crimes-to-other-democratic-led-cities
WCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wcia.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1062432/pres-trumps-chance-to-fix-deas-marijuana-policy-failures-rescheduling/
UIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://today.uic.edu/uic-study-shows-how-abortion-provider-laws-hinder-access-to-womens-health-care/
CHICAGO MAROON
— College Sees Small Drops in Black, Hispanic Enrollment After Affirmative Action Ban. Affirmative Action is reverse discrimination.
https://chicagomaroon.com/48310/news/college-sees-small-drops-in-black-hispanic-enrollment-after-affirmative-action-ban/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Bill Daley, Ray LaHood revive Illinois map fight. Since 2000, Pearson has worked against me very hard.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/20/daley-lahood-revive-illinois-map-fight-00515793
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Diving into the details: The proposal would create a 12-member “Legislative Redistricting Commission,” by Capitol News’ Andrew Adams About Tuesday’s presentation: It was organized by the Lincoln Forum of Chicago, and the Tribune’s Rick Pearson moderated.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-572/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-365/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker is out of sync with what Illinoisans and Americans nationwide want
https://wirepoints.org/go-down-the-list-gov-pritzker-is-out-of-sync-with-what-illinoisans-and-americans-nationwide-want-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do Affirmative Action, DEI, CRT, 1619, and wokeness/wokeism lead you toward? They lead you toward blaming your problems on those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Question to ask candidates: What put you on track for your successes in life? For me, it was my following conservative principles. My parents were conservative Republicans who had me baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) in 1948, sent me to MSL grade schools 1953-1962, and had me confirmed as a MSL in 1962. My parents and my teachers promoted conservative principles, and especially personal responsibility. That put me on track a) to take college preparatory courses in high school 1964-1962, b) to get an ACT score of 24 in 1962, c) to graduate in the upper 20% of my class in 1962, d) to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, e) to earn job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, f) to earn job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) to earn a job-related professional license in 1981. That put me on track to be hired by S.S. Kresge in 1964, Post Office in 1966, Firestone Stores in 1970, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980. That put me on track a) to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) to buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., and c) to get married when I was 29. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What motivated you to get a college degree? For me, it included my father who frequently decried his not having a college degree. My IRS and GAO employee manuals motivated me a) to earn master’s degrees in business (1976), accounting (1980), and finance (1997), b) to earn professional certifications in accounting (1979), internal auditing (1981), fraud examination (1990), government financial management (1994), financial services auditing (1996), and forensic accounting (1997), and c) to earn a CPA license (1981). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
JOHN KASS
— The Iron Triangle of Deception
https://johnkassnews.com/the-chicago-way-w-john-kass-the-iron-triangle-of-deception/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Recent college grads struggle to find jobs amid AI boom, Trump tariffs. When you graduated, what frustrated your job search? When I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in business in 1970, potential employers saw me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/19/recent-college-grads-struggle-find-jobs-amid-ai-boom-trump-tariffs/
NEW YORK POST
— Chicago residents blast ‘monstrosity’ Obama Presidential Center as displacement fears grow
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/us-news/chicago-residents-blast-monstrosity-obama-presidential-center-as-displacement-fears-grow/
— Pritzker signs bill opening financial aid to all Illinois residents — including illegal immigrants
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/us-news/illinois-gov-signs-bill-opening-financial-aid-to-all-residents-including-illegal-immigrants/
— Trump’s war on mail-in voting is futile — and could hurt the GOP. Democrat leaders promote mail-in voting.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/opinion/trumps-war-on-mail-in-voting-is-futile-and-could-hurt-the-gop/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Pritzker of cash-strapped Illinois signs ‘slap in the face’ bill giving financial aid to illegals
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/19/dem-governor-of-cash-strapped-blue-state-signs-slap-in-the-face-bill-giving-financial-aid-to-illegals-1577342/
BLAZE
— Pritzker hands tax dollars to illegal aliens for college tuition while Illinois drowns in debt
https://www.theblaze.com/news/democratic-governor-hands-tax-dollars-to-illegal-aliens-for-college-tuition-while-state-drowns-in-debt
COLLEGE FIX
— Open the Books announces a $25,000 Adam Andrzejewski Memorial Scholarship to help a high school or college journalist pay for school. Open the Books is a national government watchdog group which filed more than half a million Freedom of Information Act requests during Andrzejewski’s tenure.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/govt-watchdog-offers-25000-college-scholarship-to-journalists-in-honor-of-deceased-founder/
— University of Wisconsin med school admits black students at 6 times rate of Asians
https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-wisconsin-med-school-admits-black-students-at-6-times-rate-of-asians/
— One in five faculty job ads require DEI statement. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, ever-increasingly, to get promoted, you had to promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, you had to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/survey-one-in-five-faculty-job-ads-require-dei-statement/
DAILY CALLER
— Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy introduces anti-sanctuary city legislation with the toughest provisions to date.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/19/chip-roy-to-hit-sanctuary-city-officials/
— Pritzker Signs Bill Giving Illegals Financial Aid For College
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/19/jb-pritzker-illegal-immigrants-financial-aid-college/
DAILY WIRE
— Oklahoma To Require Ideology Test For Incoming Teachers From California And NY To Weed Out Wokeness. “We will not allow these leftists’ plans and schemes to take place here.” For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/oklahoma-to-require-ideology-test-for-incoming-teachers-from-california-and-ny-to-weed-out-wokeness
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Assures No US Boots on the Ground as Part of Ukraine Security Guarantees
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/trump-assures-no-us-boots-on-the-ground-as-part-of-ukraine-security-guarantees-5903074
FOX BUSINES.
— The Left is so Trump-deranged they can’t root for peace.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6377057918112
FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor says flood victims can get aid without revealing immigration status
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377098393112
— Trump slams mail-in ballots as corrupt, but may not have the power to derail them. President calls mail-in ballots ‘corrupt’ and claims Putin advised him on election integrity. In America, and especially in Illinois, Democrats run elections.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-slams-mail-ballots-corrupt-may-not-have-power-derail-them
— Do you trust a system that’s failing at education to handle your child’s mental health? Rooftop Revelations: Mental health is deeply personal. No two kids are alike, and a one-size-fits-all tablet quiz in the classroom can’t capture that. According to Democrat leaders, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/do-you-trust-system-thats-failing-education-handle-your-childs-mental-health
— DHS plans ‘Cornhusker Clink’ detention center as Trump expands immigration enforcement. DHS Secretary Noem warned illegal aliens could find themselves at the new facility in McCook, Nebraska, and encouraged self-deportation.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-plans-cornhusker-clink-detention-center-trump-expands-immigration-enforcement
— Entire southern border wall to be painted black at President Trump’s request
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377097677112
NEWSMAX
— Law Enforcement Must Unite, Halt Democrats Attacks on ICE
https://www.newsmax.com/clarencevmckee/booker-padilla-police/2025/08/19/id/1223102/
— Trump Admin Opens Sprawling ‘Lone Star Lockup’ Immigration Detention Center
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/immigration-detention-texas/2025/08/19/id/1223144/
— Dems Hypocrites on Redistricting
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/brian-harrison-texas-democrats/2025/08/20/id/1223213/
TOWNHALL
— Pritzker: We Can’t Afford Medicaid Cuts! But Also, Here’s Funding for Illegal Immigrants.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/08/19/illinois-governor-signs-bill-giving-student-financial-aid-to-illegal-immigrants-n2662027
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— State Department revokes over 6,000 student visas, citing law breaking and overstays
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-visas-revoked-state-department/
CBS NEWS
— Gov. Josh Shapiro says Trump’s push to end mail-in voting won’t affect Pennsylvania elections
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/mail-in-voting-trump-josh-shapiro/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Oklahoma ideology test for teachers from New York and California draws criticism. For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-teacher-test-ideology-california-new-york-1d08d0ef4e6e3dc71d8537601d8455e9
— Trump says American troops will not be sent to defend Ukraine. If America had not sent troops to defend South Vietnam, my life would have been dramatically different. Since 1966, my critics/opponents have used my getting student draft deferments (1966-1970) and a financial hardship draft deferment (1970-1971) against me big time. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government who were veterans. They stressed that I was 1-A, conservative, and Republican. They blamed Republicans for America losing the war. They strongly hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was both a hypocrite and a coward. They stressed that if I had served, I would not have been sent into combat anyway because I could not run because I had a bone disease, because my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and because I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-ukraine-war-defend-american-troops-85704282576324a36567798e9cb741ec
REUTERS
— What do your critics/opponents stress to make your ancestors responsible for slavery, and therefore, to make you pay reparations, that is, to make you pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI? My critics/opponents stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my ancestors’ defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-targets-smithsonian-again-says-it-focuses-too-much-how-bad-slavery-was-2025-08-19/
— Trump says US may provide air support to back a Ukraine peace deal
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-says-us-may-provide-air-support-back-ukraine-peace-deal-2025-08-19/
NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— What do your critics/opponents stress to make your ancestors responsible for slavery, and therefore, to make you pay reparations, that is, to make you pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI? My critics/opponents stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my ancestors’ defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/trump-smithsonian-slavery.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Illinois could redistrict before the 2026 midterms. As Trump pushes for a more Republican-friendly House map, more than half a dozen states are potential targets for mid-decade tweaks to congressional boundaries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/20/congressional-redistricting-states-midterms/
— While Biden was president, he viciously, but unsuccessfully, used the levers of presidential power to defeat Trump in 2024.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/19/trump-midterms-election-2026-voting-redistricting/541b2eb2-7d4f-11f0-971c-6c8e53bd2f21_story.html
— What percent of restaurant workers are illegals? I washed dishes for the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, an illegal with “good papers” would have gotten my job. I was the only White male dishwasher that the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights employed. Many people look down on dishwashers. Nevertheless, the money that I earned washing dishes enabled me to buy a new base red 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint ( https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf ), a poor man’s GTO, in May of 1966.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/08/19/dc-restaurants-business-down-police-crackdown/
— On Trump’s order, dozens arrested daily in D.C. The details are hidden.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/19/trump-crime-arrest-reports-hidden/
— Trump administration cancels annual employee survey amid civil service tumult. The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey has been sent to millions of federal workers over the years. I filled out annual employee surveys while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. My Democrat GAO superiors talked and acted like the overwhelming majority of their employees wanted them 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 should write about that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/19/federal-survey-employees-canceled/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote crime and criminals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/fear-confusion-resistance-one-night-under-trumps-dc-crackdown/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— How California plans to boost EVs with no federal help
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-08-19/california-officials-release-report-on-zero-emission-vehicle-goals
USA TODAY
— Guns or weed? Trump administration says you can’t use both. The Justice Department wants the Supreme Court to make clear that regular pot smokers, and other users of illegal drugs, cannot own guns.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/20/trump-gun-rights-drug-users-marijuana-supreme-court/85660246007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Administration to Screen Immigrants for ‘Anti-American’ Views. The new guidance builds on the agency’s policy of vetting social media for evidence of antisemitism.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-immigration-social-media-vetting-9da2d2d1
FORBES
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresahopke/2022/03/30/white-men-are-feeling-left-out-of-dei-diversity-equity–inclusion-why-should-we-care-and-what-should-we-do/
DUKE CHRONICLE
— The Class of 2028’s first year: Political beliefs and lifestyles. If you had responded to a survey like this when you were in college, how would you have responded? Ever-increasingly students are products of a) Democrat teachers, b) the Democrat mainstream news media, and c) the Democrat entertainment industry.
https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke-chronicle-class-of-2028-survey-political-beliefs-and-lifestyles-voting-activity-registration-conservative-liberal-institutional-neutrality-dei-affirmative-action-religion-election-first-year-alcohol-drugs-20250820
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For the eighth consecutive year, The Chronicle surveyed the first-year class about their political leanings, religious beliefs and lifestyles. As fervent policy debates with the potential to reshape the nation’s higher education landscape continue to reverberate across the country, we also asked the Class of 2028 for their stances on a few key issues: affirmative action, institutional neutrality, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Political leanings and voting habits Like classes before them, the Class of 2028 leans mostly to the left. Nearly two-thirds of respondents described their political views as somewhat liberal or very liberal — 33.9% and 29.9%, respectively. About a fourth of respondents — 24.1% — identified as moderate. Eleven percent of our respondents identified as somewhat conservative, and only 0.9% identified as very conservative. This is less than last year’s survey of the Class of 2027, which had 14.8% of respondents self-identify as conservative, but up from our surveys of the Classes of 2026, 2025 and 2024 with 9.9%, 6.6% and 6.4%, respectively. The 2024 election was a key piece to the Class of 2028’s fall semester. Many members of the class reported voting in what may have been the first election they were eligible. The vast majority of respondents — 83.0% — said they were registered to vote in the United States. 6.2% of respondents said they were not registered to vote in the U.S., while the remaining 10.7% were ineligible to vote because of citizenship status or age. . .Only two respondents identified as very conservative. Thus, The Chronicle excluded them from further written analysis. Members of the Class of 2028 of all political leanings were more likely to be registered to vote than not. But a sizable portion of moderate students, 18.5%, indicated they were eligible but not registered. A majority of students of all political affiliations said they voted in the most recent general election. . .Excluding the small sample of only two students who identified as very conservative, moderate students were least likely to report voting in the Nov. 5, 2024 general election. Respondents who identified as very liberal were most likely to have voted. 90.3% of respondents who voted in last November’s election said they did so in North Carolina. Political opinions The Class of 2028’s opinions on affirmative action, institutional neutrality and DEI tended to align with their political views. But students were more broadly divided over these issues than across the political spectrum in general, and many expressed ambivalence or uncertainty. Nearly half of respondents said they oppose the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling to end the use of race and ethnicity in college admission decisions — 28.1% were somewhat opposed, and 17.4% were strongly opposed. Just about a third of respondents — 32.1% — neither support nor oppose the decision, and under one-fourth of respondents strongly support or somewhat support the ruling: 7.1% and 15.2%, respectively. All students who self-identified as very conservative strongly supported the ruling, while four in five students identifying as very liberal opposed the decision. Students identifying as moderate were more likely than not to neither support nor oppose the decision. . .DEI has come under intense scrutiny at universities across the country, especially after the Trump administration took office in January. Duke indicated a shift to “inclusive excellence” in official messaging in June with the release of a potential new set of principles for the University. Our survey was conducted prior to that in March and April. Slightly over half our respondents said they thought Duke was putting just enough emphasis on DEI in hiring, curriculum, student life and campus activities generally. 29.9% thought the University was not giving enough attention to DEI, while 17.0% thought it was doing too much. Again, the Class of 2028’s policy stances generally correlated to their political beliefs. But, with the exception of the small sample of very conservative students, a plurality of respondents of each political leaning felt Duke was giving DEI just the right amount of attention. . .More generally, three in five respondents said they found it “very easy” or “somewhat easy” to express their political opinions freely on campus — 23.7% and 38.0%, respectively. 23.2% said they found it “neither easy nor difficult,” while 10.3% of respondents believe it is “somewhat difficult,” and only 4.9% find it “very difficult.” More than half of respondents who found it very difficult to express their political opinions freely on campus identified as conservative. Those who found it very or somewhat easy to express their political beliefs were significantly more likely to identify as liberal or moderate. . .Religion and lifestyle Nonreligious students saw the greatest representation in the Class of 2028 at 42.3%: 15.6% identified as atheist and 20.9% as agnostic, and 5.8% selected no religion. They were closely followed by Christian students at 41.1%, including just under one in six students who identify as Catholic. Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim students each made up less than 10% of our respondents. . .Reporting a religious affiliation did not necessarily indicate religiosity. Of the 144 respondents who did not consider themselves atheist or agnostic, nearly a third considered themselves not very religious or not religious at all — 27.1% and 4.2%, respectively. 22.9% of respondents said they were religious, while 38.2% considered themselves somewhat religious. Only 7.6% of respondents considered themselves very religious. Political preferences varied by religious affiliation. Many religious groups had small sample sizes, though, limiting the significance of our findings. . .Buddhist students were the only religious group where a majority identified as politically moderate, though there were only 7 Buddhist students in our sample. Students identifying as non-religious or Protestant Christian Protestant had the largest proportion of conservative respondents; these groups had 13 and 32 students, respectively. For many students, college marks the first taste of independence — and, for some, the first brush with alcohol, tobacco, marijuana or sex. Three in five respondents reported having drunk alcohol since arriving on campus. About 8.5% said they had obtained a fake ID since getting to Duke, although those who had a fake ID before moving to campus are not captured in our survey. 11.6% of respondents said they have used tobacco products since arriving on campus, and 16.5% said the same for marijuana products. 22.8% have had sex. Just over a third of respondents reported not having done any of these.)
AXIOS
— Trump administration revives plan to paint border wall black
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/19/trump-border-wall-black-paint-noem-immigration
— MAGA isolationists brace for details of Ukraine security guarantees
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/19/trump-ukraine-security-guarantees-maga-bannon
Tag: gun
August 10, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— At least 27 shot, 5 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-10-shot-2-fatally-gun-violence-city-police-department-says/17483197/
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-welcomed-saint-sabina-church-chicago-mark-1-week-illinois-protesting-redistricting/17494831/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/abortion-laws-what-know-how-donald-trumps-judicial-picks-could-reshape-rights-decades/17493499/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/will-gov-jb-pritzker-run-for-president-in-2028-governor-addresses-speculation/3807572/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander to favor minorities
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/rainbow-push-coalition-texas-democrats-republican-redistricting-protest/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://wgntv.com/news/texas-democrats-find-support-at-st-sabina-church-amid-redistricting-battle/
— I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/from-homework-help-to-career-prep-where-can-students-get-free-tutoring-in-chicago/
FOX32
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-considers-reclassifying-marijuana-less-dangerous-drug-report
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/10/jb-pritzker-wont-rule-out-2028-presidential-bid-meet-press/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pritzker-trump-abbott-cheating-texas-gerrymandering-1235404675/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/10/texas-democrats-gop-redistricting-illinois
DAILY HERALD
— Texas governor promises to keep redistricting fight going for years
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250810/nation-and-world/texas-governor-promises-to-keep-redistricting-fight-going-for-years/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/jb-pritzker-wont-rule-out-presidential-run
FOX RADIO
— My critics/opponents despise/hate unions. I was a union member for almost 12 years.
https://wgnradio.com/the-workers-mic/the-workers-mic-08-10-25-the-workers-mic-talk-about-the-updated-requirments-for-ice-recruitment/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump vows crackdown on crime in D.C., orders homeless to leave capital immediately.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-vows-crackdown-on-crime-in-dc-orders-homeless-to-leave-capital-immediately-news-conference-doge-carjacking-task-force-doug-burgum-interior-secretary-citywide-curfew-juveniles-karoline-leavitt-zones
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Vance says Republican redistricting efforts remedy Democratic gerrymandering in blue states
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/10/vance-says-republican-redistricting-efforts-remedy-democratic/
— Texas launches full legal assault on runaway Democrats blocking redistricting
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/10/texas-launches-full-legal-assault-runaway-democrats-blocking/
— Pritzker calls runaway Texas Democrats ‘heroes,’ vows to provide ‘safe haven’ in Illinois
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/10/jb-pritzker-calls-runaway-texas-democrats-heroes-vows-provide-safe/
— Why Americans aren’t having children. Careers and consumerism can’t bring fulfillment.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/10/americans-arent-children/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pritzker rips ‘joke’ Abbott on Texas redistricting for ‘licking the boots’ of Trump
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3495748/jb-pritzker-greg-abbott-texas-illinois-redistricting/
NEW YORK POST
— Pritzker hits back at Mamdani for declaring billionaires shouldn’t exist.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/10/us-news/illinois-gov-pritzker-rips-mamdani-for-attacking-billionaires/
— Trump vows to push homeless people out of DC, jail criminals: ‘We want our Capital BACK’
https://nypost.com/2025/08/10/us-news/trump-vows-to-push-homeless-people-out-of-dc-and-get-our-capital-back/
DAILY CALLER
— ‘You’re Using The Same Tactics’: Pritzker Ducks Question When Pressed On Illinois Gerrymandering Hypocrisy
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/10/youre-using-the-same-tactics-jb-pritzker-ducks-question-when-pressed-on-illinois-gerrymandering-hypocrisy/
DAILY SIGNAL
— When Liberals Say What They Really Think of Illegal Immigrants. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/10/condescension-when-liberals-say-what-they-really-think-illegal-immigrants/
PJ MEDIA
— Obama’s Rise to Power Was Engineered by Gerrymandering
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/10/barack-obama-owes-his-entire-political-career-to-gerrymandering-n4942578
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Vance: Blue States Have Already Maxed Out Advantage With Gerrymandering, Counting Illegals In Census
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/vance_blue_states_have_already_maxed_out_advantage_by_gerrymandering_districts_counting_illegals_in_census.html
— Pritzker is asked: How Do You Preserve Democracy If Illinois Uses The Same Tactics You’re Criticizing Texas Republicans For?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/pritzker_texas_republicans_whittling_away_democray_to_lick_trumps_boots.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The more protected groups that citizens of foreign countries are a member of, the more that Democrat leaders invite them to falsely claim asylum. Those Democrat leaders should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5444217-salvadoran-woman-denied-asylum/
CBS NEWS
— Trump says homeless should leave D.C. “IMMEDIATELY” — after floating federal takeover of capital
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-homeless-should-leave-d-c-immediately-after-floating-federal-takeover-of-capital/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat candidates win because of Democrat gerrymandering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/politics/fighting-fire-with-fire-democrats-on-defense-as-texas-redistricting-looms.html
WASHINGTON POST
— FBI moves to dispatch 120 agents to D.C. streets as Trump vows crackdown on crime. The Trump administration has assigned FBI agents to work overnight shifts to combat carjackings and other crimes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/10/dc-crime-trump-crackdown/
MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dhs-stoops-to-new-low-in-racist-attack-on-democratic-lawmaker/ar-AA1JXpkL
NPR
— Democrat leaders encourage citizens of foreign countries to falsely claim asylum in America. Those Democrat leaders should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.wypr.org/2025-08-10/asylum-seekers-thought-they-were-following-the-rules-now-some-are-told-to-start-over
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/10/democrats-pritzker-republicans-redistricting-gerrymandering-00501739
ROLLING STONE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pritzker-trump-abbott-cheating-texas-gerrymandering-1235404675/
August 3, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/dehumanizing-inside-the-broadview-ice-facility-where-immigrants-sleep-on-cold-concrete/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/30/charles-selle-deportations/
— Indiana Gov. Braun greenlights state police, agencies to cooperate with ICE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/indiana-gov-braun-greenlights-state-police-agencies-to-cooperate-with-ice/
— Former Kane County Coroner Rob Russell announces bid for sheriff
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/24/former-coroner-rob-russell-joining-sheriff-race/
— The mainstream news media exists to get rid of Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/column-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-maga-support-page/
— State control of Chicago Public Schools grows likelier as budget crisis intensifies
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-state-control-chicago-public-100000308.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Anticipate/expect that your critics/opponents will use the jobs that you get against you.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/08/01/job-hunting-tips-teenagers
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTUTE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/news/a-chilling-effect-on-justice-ice-argues-courthouse-immigration-arrests-make-sense-but-local-oppo/
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250802/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-karma-and-epa-policy-local-weather-conditions-add-worrisome-irony-to-proposed/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Hundreds of motorcycles ride to raise fentanyl awareness Saturday in Kane and DuPage counties. Grieving families, elected officials and law enforcement agencies unite to spread awareness.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/08/03/hundreds-of-motorcycles-ride-to-raise-fentanyl-awareness-saturday-in-kane-and-dupage-counties/
STARVED ROCK MEDIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.starvedrock.media/wlpo/protests-against-trump-still-strong-in-ottawa/article_e63a907e-deec-4b98-b796-5ce1b50e7ed2.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-appeals-court-keeps-order-blocking-trump-administration-from-indiscriminate-immigration-sweeps/
WJBC
— Illegals Reduce US Workers’ Wages. When I was young, if there had been as many illegals as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, but if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/08/01/homan-to-newsmax-illegals-reduce-us-workers-wages/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders oppose work requirements for Medicaid.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-02/how-the-new-work-requirements-for-medicaid-could-impact-some-states
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-02/from-the-clinics-to-the-capitol-links-anti-abortion-movement-to-far-right-extremism
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Milton Township Under Criminal Investigations
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2025/08/milton-township-under-criminal-investigations/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTOM EXAMINER
— End the ‘mission creep’ of Temporary Protected Status. To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat and RINO leaders give them protected status: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non- German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, have less money than others, citizens of foreign countries, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3488896/trump-afghanistan-temporary-protected-status/
NEW YORK POST
— Texas Roadhouse hit with civil rights complaint alleging DEI discrimination in hiring practices. All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they bragged about the preference that gave to their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/03/business/texas-roadhouse-hit-with-discrimination-civil-rights-complaint-for-dei-hiring-practices/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Texas Roadhouse wrote that it is committed to “attracting, retaining, engaging, recognizing, and developing a workforce that mirrors the diversity of our guests” and provided a chart breaking down the percentages of their employees and managers who were either women or people of color in its 2024 10-K annual report. . .According to the Texas Roadhouse 2024 sustainability report, the company takes DEI factors such as gender and race into consideration when determining nominees to its Board of Directors.)
DAILY CALLER
— Senate Confirms Trump’s Pick for U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, Brian Burch, who resides in Chicago
https://www.aol.com/senate-confirms-trump-vatican-pick-214131318.html
— Universities Use Social Credit To Bypass Affirmative Action Ban. What social credits do you get? I get no social credits because I promote personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, enforcement of immigration laws, discouragement of vices, Second Amendment rights, and equal opportunity. That is, I get no social credits because I oppose the promotion of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, more gun controls, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/02/opinion-universities-use-social-credit-to-bypass-affirmative-action-ban-casey-ryan/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As the situation appears, Dialogue portfolios are nothing more than a system modeled after the Chinese Communist Party’s Social Credit System that essentially blacklists Chinese citizens from society if they hold the wrong opinions. Under China’s system, citizens can gain a bad social credit score by daily activities deemed negative by the government. This can include posting opinions on social media or making too many frivolous purchases. A negative social credit score can lead to bans from traveling, throttled internet speeds, or rejections from universities – which sounds eerily similar to the intent of Dialogue portfolios. The last thing college applicants in America need is a dystopian measure to filter out perceived wrongthink. The Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action for universities was to help ensure everyone has an equal opportunity. These “Dialogues” appear to be a purity test that is even worse than affirmative action. While affirmative action is awful, at least there was a chance for universities to admit students of differing viewpoints. Dialogue portfolios give universities the explicit power to reject students solely because of the opinions they hold.)
DAILY WIRE
— For The First Time In 40 Years, The Federal Government Can Judge Applicants By Merit. The move opens the door to an elite federal workforce — and a major victory for President Donald Trump. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the postal job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU. I qualified myself for the GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA from Loyola, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/for-the-first-time-in-40-years-the-federal-government-can-judge-applicants-by-merit
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A decades-old court order that blocked the federal government from using tests to measure job applicants’ skills was terminated by a D.C. judge on Friday, setting the stage for an overhaul of the federal workforce that could be one of President Donald Trump’s most lasting achievements. In 1981, Angel Luevano sued the federal government over the Professional and Administrative Career Examination, a test that helped identify the best and brightest out of the tens of thousands who apply for government jobs each year. Luevano argued that the test kept too many blacks and Hispanics out of government, and, in the waning days of President Jimmy Carter’s administration, OPM agreed to pause the test for five years. Forty-four years later, the “Luevano Consent Decree” was somehow still intact. In January, the Trump administration filed a brief challenging the agreement — a feat which required reopening a decades-closed court case in which the original judge had died. The administration argued that it was doubtful the decree was ever appropriate, and that, with Supreme Court case law outlawing affirmative action, it was certainly not now. Angel Luevano is still alive, and agreed to terminate the consent decree, court papers show. Luevano was represented by lawyers from Hispanic and black civil rights groups, two of whom did not return a request for comment. For almost half a century, the federal government has operated like a college that didn’t look at SAT scores when admitting students. Rescinding the Luevano Consent Decree could take the government from safety-school status to Ivy League. “We’re making civil service great again,” Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told The Daily Wire Friday. The move opens the door to technocratic hiring assessments that allow the government to hire applicants who objectively demonstrate the most aptitude. Kupor told The Daily Wire in an interview that the move means Americans may start getting better service at government agencies, with government being more helpful and responsive. “The lasting opportunity here is: can we change the culture of the workforce in the federal government? Can we make it a high-performance culture? That will definitely be the president’s legacy, if we can make that successful,” he said. After the demise of the Professional and Administrative Career Examination and similar tests, the government began relying on “self-assessments” to sift through job applicants, as it was the only measure that saw a sufficient number of minorities enter government. Applicants simply declared how good they were at a task, with no attempt to verify it or compare them to other applicants. That led to a hiring process that rewarded boasting and fabrications as much as merit. Kupor said the de facto prohibition on government checking people’s competency before hiring them — at which point they become difficult to remove — had become particularly crippling in the modern age, with people using artificial intelligence or simply copy-and-paste to take a job advertisement’s requirements and send an application asserting that they had all those skills. The inability to use objective measures to sort the most qualified applicants from a large pool — as virtually all other large employers do — has profoundly impacted the caliber of government employees. The Luevano Consent Decree was perhaps one of the largest applications ever of the philosophy known as “disparate impact,” which holds that anything that produces racially unbalanced outcomes must inherently be racist. But the fallout went beyond just minorities, leaving little way to differentiate a brilliant white job applicant from an incompetent white applicant. OPM General Counsel Andrew Kloster told The Daily Wire in an interview that the government did not make any concessions to reach the agreement. “It was a very easy process,” he said. “They just flat out agreed. It would not have happened without the original named plaintiff agreeing to it and the judge agreeing to accept it.” “This is really kind of an understanding that disparate impact as a way to measure things is not the law of the land anymore. You have to actually show real discrimination. The explicit argument was that the objective tests themselves were racially biased, and obviously that’s bogus.” It is yet to be decided whether OPM will institute a general aptitude test across agencies. But many specific job categories are likely to have their own tests. If the government is hiring, say, computer programmers, it won’t simply ask them how good they are at a programming language. Instead, it will administer a coding test to rank applicants on a uniform scale. The hiring process used by government agencies for decades resulted in hiring that was, at best, random, and at worst, allowed the sort of cronyism and favoritism that the consent decree was supposed to avoid, Kupor said. “We’re going to be able to attract really, really good people, because they’re going to be fairly tested for their merit,” he said. “It also really does eliminate a lot of potential for a bias in the hiring process if you actually use objective standards.” “This is a win for fairness, as well as a win for getting American people the ability to get people with the appropriate skills into the right jobs.”)
FOX NEWS
— DOJ cracking down on noncitizen voters
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376491200112
PJ MEDIA
— Democrat and RINO leaders want Trump to grant amnesty, that is, Democrat and RINO leaders want Trump to destroy the Republican Party. Those who come to America illegally and/or stay in America illegally will always vote for Democrats.
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/08/02/now-that-trump-has-really-truly-secured-our-borders-is-it-time-for-a-gop-pivot-on-immigration-n4942338
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Statisticians blast Trump over BLS firing: ‘Dangerous precedent.’ My Democrat superiors in the federal government followed a strong anti-Republican precedent when they wasted my career and forced me to retire. My RINO superiors in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois followed a strong anti-conservative precedent when they wasted me and got rid of me.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5433583-trump-bls-firing-precedent-controversy/
NEWSWEEK
— Pope Francis Critic Brian Burch Confirmed as Vatican Ambassador
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-critic-brian-burch-confirmed-vatican-ambassador-2108079
MSN
— The most competitive college in your state. In Illinois, it is the University of Chicago. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/the-most-competitive-college-in-your-state-according-to-data-and-see-the-rest-of-the-hardest-schools-to-get-into/ss-AA1JAp3M#image=14
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois: University of Chicago #7 hardest college to get into nationwide, Acceptance rate: 7%, Net price: $36,584, SAT range: 1500-1570. The University of Chicago boasts a low student-to-teacher ratio—5:1—as well as an affiliation with 97 Nobel laureates, 34 MacArthur “genius grant” fellows, and 23 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Saul Bellow and Thornton Wilder, who won on three occasions. The school is proud of its nationally recognized medical and law programs.)
— Trump administration rescinds Jimmy Carter‑era DEI mandates for federal hiring. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the postal job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU. I qualified myself for the GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA from Loyola, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-admintration-rescinds-jimmy-carter-era-dei-mandates-for-federal-hiring/ar-AA1JKxut
NBC NEWS
— Chicago Democrats issue warnings about their mayor amid Zohran Mamdani’s rise
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chicago-democrats-issue-warnings-mayor-090042907.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion/ice-immigration-protest-resistance.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opinion/epstein-trump-polls.html
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/02/supporters-decry-ice-arrests-south-korean-student-peruvian-asylum-seeker-court-hearings/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly badmouth the American Flag.
https://www.aol.com/trump-installs-massive-flag-poles-135836687.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.aol.com/americans-views-immigration-massive-positive-190958366.html
WTOP
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly disparage Republicans.
https://wtop.com/national/2025/08/ohio-city-whose-haitian-migrants-were-disparaged-by-trump-braces-to-defend-them-against-deportation/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at young men that Trump causes all their problems.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-asked-young-men-who-voted-for-trump-to-grade-him-here-s-what-they-said/ar-AA1JG2Kl
INDEPENDENT
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Trump causes all their problems.
https://www.aol.com/more-70-black-voters-disapprove-205101322.html
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-rage-against-the-regime-protests-over-300-us-cities-hosting-anti-trump-demonstrations-today-on-jd-vances-birthday-50501-group-full-list/articleshow/123060369.cms
INDIA HERALD
— Can an Indian Citizen Have More Than One Caste Certificate in case of Inter-Caste Marriage? What Caste were you born into? I was born into a low Caste because neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school. My critic/opponents have always used the aforesaid against me. My critics/opponents have parents who have lots of money.
https://www.indiaherald.com/Breaking/Read/994838885/Can-an-Indian-Citizen-Have-More-Than-One-Caste-Certificate-in-case-of-InterCaste-Marriage
TIMES OF INDIA & MSN
— Google stops funding of 214 groups, over 50 of them related to diversity and equity. I should write about how Google has treated me and my www.gopillinois.com website.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-stops-funding-of-214-groups-over-50-of-them-related-to-diversity-and-equity-report/articleshow/123073327.cms
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/google-quietly-removes-dozens-of-dei-focused-groups-from-funding-list-amid-policy-shift/ar-AA1JLWsO
GOOGLE AI
— Too conservative, Republican According to my critics/opponents, I have always been to conservative, that is, I promote too many planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22too+conservative%22+republican
July 30, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump administration requests voter data from Illinois elections board
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-administration-requests-voter-data-illinois-elections-board/17356550/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ghislaine-maxwell-offers-testify-before-congress-epstein-she-is-pardoned/17352347/
— Northwestern University announced hundreds of layoffs, citing ‘mounting financial pressure’ on Tuesday. Because of Gingrich-led budget cuts, GAO shrank from more than 6,000 employees down to less than 3,000. The agency was almost always under hiring freezes and/or promotion freezes. The Democrats who ran GAO were beyond furious about that. They took their anger against Gingrich out against me, one of the few remaining Republican employees in the agency. They wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/northwestern-funding-freeze-university-faculty-members-urge-no-deal-donald-trump-administration/17354796/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/some-democrats-warn-epstein-is-a-distraction-from-trumps-unpopular-big-bill/3800360/
— Ever-increasingly, the longer that your ancestors have been in America and the more of the following that you are, the more hatred that Democrat and RINO leaders promote against you: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, and/or German American
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-m-a-product-of-immigrants-hundreds-of-ice-protesters-march-through-chicago/ar-AA1GvcWD
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-expert-alarm-u-s-epa-greenhouse-gas-regulations/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for problems that older people have.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1682159
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/29/epa-endangerment-finding-trump-climate-change-illinois/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/29/health-care-providers-warn-of-dire-impact-of-medicaid-cuts/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/30/independent-maps-effort-for-2026-election/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/29/fire-west-garfield-park-building/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/29/alleged-ice-rules-vandal-released/
— First the festival, now the India Day Parade canceled for this year
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/29/napervilles-india-day-parade-festival-canceled/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Attorney General Raoul promotes more and more and more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/07/29/kwame-raoul-town-hall-trump-policies
— Northwestern University cuts 425 positions amid Trump funding freeze.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/07/29/northwestern-university-lays-off-425-amid-trump-funding-freeze
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/07/29/trump-environmental-protection-agency-moves-to-repeal-finding-that-allows-climate-regulation
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Northwestern announces layoffs amid Trump’s federal funding freeze.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/northwestern-laying-staff-amid-trump-funding-freeze
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for problems that older people have.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/07/29/chicago-program-providing-senior-citizens-with-job-training-paused-because-of-federal-cuts
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/07/29/the-rundown-who-steps-in-as-trans-youth-care-scales-back
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— President of Wirepoints Dabrowski strongly considering gubernatorial challenge to Pritzker
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/dabrowski-illinois-gubernatorial-challenge/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/globenewswire/9502921/747-media-house-helps-cannabis-brands-like-budwell-drive-revenue-with-seo-excellence/
WCIA
— Decatur school district introduces ‘marijuana smell’ policy. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. How successful have they been pushing pot in your school district?
https://www.wcia.com/news/macon-county/decatur-school-district-introduces-marijuana-smell-policy/
KWQC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/07/28/epstein-files-where-do-quad-cities-lawmakers-stand/
SUBURBAN LIFE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/07/29/the-need-is-going-to-increase/
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/217-today-after-husband-was-deported-a-mother-alone-with-three-children-turns-to-trumps-voluntary-self-deportation-program/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Southland Chicago used to be booming… now it’s a parking lot in many places
https://wirepoints.org/southland-chicago-used-to-be-booming-now-its-a-parking-lot-in-many-places-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Economist explains flight of people, dollars from Illinois. The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrats and RINOs do to drive you out of Illinois: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German America, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_db1f0852-6e9c-4944-8c52-c31c7e4a8e10.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Almost 2M illegal migrants with deportation orders or criminal records are roaming US
https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/us-news/almost-2m-illegal-migrants-with-deportation-orders-or-criminal-records-are-roaming-us/
— Since 1965, Democrat and RINO leaders have used President Lyndon Johnson’s Executive Order 11246 to get rid of Republicans. I should write about how my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors used that Executive Order to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-bold-strike-against-dei-ends-60-years-of-discrimination-and-makes-history/ar-AA1xOYYb
BREITBART
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/29/wa-a-g-trump-admin-is-going-after-illegals-getting-benefits-not-criminals/
DAILY CALLER
— Young Men Fail To Name Any Masculine Democrat Leaders Not Named Obama. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn masculinity. Democrats hate muscle cars. To promote more hatred against me, my Democrat superiors in the federal government stressed that I bought muscle cars.
https://www.aol.com/young-men-fail-name-masculine-174046779.html
FOX NEWS
— Trump’s border enforcement unleashes new weapon against illegal immigration. AI systems now flag human traffickers in real time while ensuring no illegal crossers released into interior.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/one-president-trumps-strongest-weapons-border-security
— Trump pick Emil Bove confirmed as federal judge after furious Democrat walkout, whistleblower complaint. GAO would not have promoted me to GS-13 when I was 38 years old in 1986 if the GAO manager (Dave) who led the effort to get rid of me had not gone on extended sick leave. That finally allowed the GAO manager (Bill) who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 to assign me to audits of IRS in 1986 and to promote me in 1986. But Dave a) came back in 1987, b) forced Bill to resign in 1987, c) threw me off audits of IRS in late 1988, d) gave me a bad job assignment in 1989, e) gave me unfair performance expectations in 1989, f) gave me an unfair performance appraisal in 1989, g) ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance (PFP) in 1989, h) assured that I would always be ranked in the bottom half of my coworkers for PFP for the rest of my GAO career, i) assured that I would never again be assigned to audits of IRS, and j) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-pick-emil-bove-confirmed-federal-judge-after-furious-democrat-walkout-whistleblower-complaints
— Race-based hiring allegations lead RFK to pull millions from Duke under Trump DEI order. Secretaries Robert F Kennedy Jr and Linda McMahon call affirmative action in medical context a danger to patient care and scientific discovery.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hhs-pulls-millions-from-duke-under-trump-dei-order-alleging-race-based-hiring-health-arm
PJ MEDIA
— The Heinous Hypocrisy of Demanding IDs From ICE Agents But Not Illegals
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/29/the-heinous-hypocrisy-of-demanding-ids-from-ice-agents-but-not-illegals-n4942219
— Universities Double Down on Wokeness
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/29/sexual-minorities-and-lavender-orientation-universities-double-down-on-wokeness-n4942207
TOWNHALL
— Pritzker Signs Two Gun Control Measures Into Law
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/tomknighton/2025/07/29/pritzker-signs-two-gun-control-measures-into-law-n2661109
— Senator Padilla Pushes Amnesty While Legal Immigrants Wait in Line for Decades
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/07/29/senator-padilla-introduces-bill-that-carves-a-path-for-illegals-to-become-citizens-n2661120
— Jeanine Pirro, former host of Judge Jeanine at Fox News and current interim United States attorney for the District of Columbia, has announced that to combat DC’s sanctuary city policies, the immigration status of all defendants entering the DC justice system will be verified.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/07/29/jeanine-pirro-fights-against-dc-sanctuary-city-policies-n2661108
U.S. OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
— Merit Hiring Plan. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. 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. They wasted my career and they got rid of me because I refused to become a Democrat.
https://www.dcpas.osd.mil/sites/default/files/2025-05/Merit%20Hiring%20Plan%205-29-2025.pdf
(FROM THE MEMORANDUM: The American people deserve a Federal workforce dedicated to American values and efficient service. Yet, Federal hiring criteria long ago abandoned any serious need for technical skills and adherence to the Constitution. Instead, the overly complex Federal hiring system overemphasized discriminatory “equity” quotas and too often resulted in the hiring of unfit, unskilled bureaucrats. The American people, who deserve a government that works for them, have suffered. In his January 20, 2025 Executive Order 14170, Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service (“Restoring Merit”) President Trump directed that “recruitment and hiring processes” become “more efficient and focused on serving the Nation” and that hiring be based on “merit, practical skill, and dedication to our Constitution.” These changes will “ensure that the Federal workforce is prepared to help achieve American greatness, and attract the talent necessary to serve our citizens effectively.” President Trump directed the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy to “develop and send to agency heads a Federal Hiring Plan that brings to the Federal workforce only highly capable Americans dedicated to the furtherance of American ideals, values, and interests.” President Trump stated that this Merit Hiring Plan must achieve seven goals: 1. Prioritize recruitment of individuals committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution; 2. Prevent the hiring of individuals based on their race, sex, or religion, and prevent the hiring of individuals who are unwilling to defend the Constitution or to faithfully serve the Executive Branch; . . . Finally, the Merit Hiring Plan must provide specific best practices for the human resources (HR) function in each agency, which each agency head shall implement. These HR best practices are included as Appendix 1.2 The key elements of the following Merit Hiring Plan are: 1. Reforming the Federal recruitment process to ensure that only the most talented, capable and patriotic Americans are hired to the Federal service; 2. Implementing skills-based hiring, eliminating unnecessary degree requirements, and requiring the use of rigorous, job-related assessments to ensure candidates are selected based on their merit and competence, not their skin color or academic pedigree;)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trumps-poll-numbers-immigration-shifted-enacted-agenda-rcna220826
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-jail-video-investigation/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-revoke-endangerment-finding-regulating-greenhouse-gases/
— Democrat crow about their success in turning young people against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/young-people-trumps-job-handling-cbs-news-analysis/
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for gun violence.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-slashed-federal-funding-gun-violence-prevention-2025-07-29/
MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly paint themselves as being protectors, that is, they ever-increasingly paint Republicans as being destroyers.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/-protecting-americans-from-their-president-washington-ag-brown-on-suing-trump-244041285906
NEWSWEEK
— According to Democrats, the more money that you have, the more that you have benefitted from discrimination against Democrats.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-baby-accounts-generation-millionaire-retirees-2102733
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-redistricting-push-backfire-2105986
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government. My parents, my Missouri Synod Lutheran grade school teachers, and my Crete-Monee high school teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/07/30/trump-cuts-legal-services-rural-america/85340070007/
— Trump isn’t gutting Medicaid and food stamps. He’s fixing our broken welfare system.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/07/28/trump-medicaid-food-stamps-benefit-cuts-work-requirement/85355304007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/25/republicans-house-epstein-files-tax-bill-explained-voters/85345489007/
SPECTRUM NEWS
— Pritzker calls President Trump “a disease” during panel on SNAP cuts. The hate-filled Trump-hating Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/news/2025/07/29/st-louis-pritzker-trump-snap
COLUMBUS DISPATCH
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against German Americans.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2025/07/30/donald-trump-hitler-german-mom/85410112007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Ever-increasingly, nonprofits exist to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tax-spending-bill-charitable-donation-rules-bbc2f0e2
FORBES
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly se DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2025/07/30/how-dei-optimizes-not-compromises-merit/
BLACK PRESS USA
— The Washington Post Sees Major Exodus of Black Journalists. There are very few Black CPAs. My Democrat GAO superiors can stress that they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Democrat Black CPA 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 was not a licensed CPA like I was.
https://blackpressusa.com/the-washington-post-sees-major-exodus-of-black-journalists/
WASHINGTON MONTHLY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use foreign countries to destroy America.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/30/has-donald-trump-ended-free-trade/
NPR
— How many illegals have used their false identifications to vote in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/nx-s1-5462836/noncitizen-voting-trump-ceir-review
MS. MAGAZINE
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://msmagazine.com/2025/07/29/investing-in-inclusion-how-dei-initiatives-uplift-both-companies-and-consumers/
GOOGLE AI
— Reforming Federal Agencies. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be a GAO employee. In any event, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old, b) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-performance, d) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO.
https://www.google.com/search?q=reforming+federal+agencies
July 28, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump calls for Kamala Harris, celebrities who endorsed her, like Oprah, Beyoncé, to be prosecuted
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-calls-former-vp-kamala-harris-celebrities-endorsed-like-oprah-beyonce-prosecuted/17338450/
NBC5
— Pritzker signs new gun safety bills, with DOJ opposition emerging to laws
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/pritzker-signs-new-gun-safety-bills-with-doj-opposition-emerging-to-laws/3799637/
WTTW
— Chicago Organizers, Officials Call on ICE to Keep Away From Fiesta del Sol and Other Community Events. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/28/chicago-organizers-officials-call-ice-keep-away-fiesta-del-sol-and-other-community
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker ever-increasingly demonizes, denigrates, and condemns gun owners.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/28/illinois-gun-laws/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/07/28/fiesta-del-sol-organizers-immigrant-ice-arrests
— The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/07/28/the-rundown-trump-targets-signs-of-homelessness-not-causes
JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Former Illinois GOP Chair Don Tracy weighs run for governor
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_d10557a5-6fe8-561c-8d29-35f32083164c.html
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/carlinville-protesters-stories-illinois-macoupin-20782377.php
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with their illegals against America.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-07-28/immigrants-sue-over-trumps-mandatory-detention-no-bail-policy
BURR RIDGE PATCH
— Did Burr Ridge Mayor Post On Politics In Right Spot? Mayor Gary Grasso announced his candidacy on a page that may be seen as linked to the village government.
https://patch.com/illinois/burrridge/did-burr-ridge-mayor-post-politics-right-spot
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois GOP chair Kathy Salvi blasts Pritzker’s North Carolina speech
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_593340e7-467c-4407-a396-3e2345cf84dc.html
WIREPOINTS
— Once an Illinois showpiece E.V. maker, bankrupt Lion Electric voids warranties on school buses sold in Illinois and across the U.S.
https://wirepoints.org/once-an-illinois-showpiece-e-v-maker-bankrupt-lion-electric-voids-warranties-on-school-buses-sold-in-illinois-and-across-the-u-s-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats conduct political autopsy but ignore the real cause of death. Party driven by socialism, open borders, and gender ideology heading for more election defeats.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/28/democrats-conduct-political-autopsy-ignore-real-cause-death/
— California’s 2.2 million illegal immigrants constitute a national security crisis.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/28/californias-22-million-illegal-immigrants-constitute-national/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The True Roots of Transgenderism. The pro-family movement is surging back, aiming not just to stop transgenderism—but to roll back the entire LGBT agenda and restore a culture rooted in biology, truth, and tradition.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/28/the-true-roots-of-transgenderism/
— Democrats Are Endangering ICE Agents to Support Open Borders
https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/26/democrats-are-endangering-ice-agents-to-support-open-borders/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Law Firm Discrimination
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/law_firm_discrimination_an_insider_s_view.html
— Chicago believes it just scored a huge win over Trump’s lawsuit against ‘sanctuary’ policies – but it’s a hollow victory
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/chicago_believes_it_just_scored_a_huge_win_over_trump_s_lawsuit_against_sanctuary_policies_but_it_s_a_hollow_victory.html
— Major Shipping Line Matson Closes the Hatch on Transport of Electrical Vehicles
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/major_shipping_line_matson_closes_the_hatch_on_transport_of_electrical_vehicles.html
— It’s Time for the Administration To Start Creatively Downsizing The Federal Workforce Again. Democrats run the federal government. They use budget cuts to get rid of any remaining Republican employees.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/it_s_time_for_the_administration_to_start_creatively_downsizing_the_federal_workforce_again.html
BREITBART
— Majority Favor Deporting Migrants in the Country Illegally
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/28/immigration-poll-majority-favor-deporting-migrants-in-the-country-illegally/
COLLEGE FIX
— Drones, cameras, AI: University of Illinois real time crime center raises privacy concerns
https://www.thecollegefix.com/drones-cameras-ai-university-of-illinois-real-time-crime-center-raises-privacy-concerns/
DAILY CALLER
— Democrats Using Time Off To Travel To Red States, Try Convincing People Trump’s Bad
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/25/democrats-time-off-travel-red-states-convincing-people-trump-bad/
— Wealthy Residents Of Maine Resort Town Fret Over Losing Access To Cheap Illegal Labor
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/28/wells-maine-police-department-ice-immigrants-hospitality-economy/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Arrests of Criminal Illegal Aliens Have Made a Real Impact on Public Safety
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/28/exclusive-dhs-celebrates-falling-crime-rates-amid-removal-of-worst-of-the-worst-criminal-illegal-aliens/
FEDERALIST
— Apple Puts America At Risk By Partnering With China
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/28/apple-puts-america-at-risk-by-partnering-with-china/
— Continued Enrollment Slide For Public Schools. Most public schools are now failing in three critical areas that parents care about when deciding on their children’s K-12 education: academic rigor, student discipline, and the campus’ moral influence.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/28/heres-why-new-data-finds-continued-enrollment-slide-for-public-schools/
— ‘Riddled With Errors,’ Dirty Voter Rolls Pose Growing Threat To Election Integrity
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/28/riddled-with-errors-dirty-voter-rolls-pose-growing-threat-to-election-integrity/
— American Birth Rates Drop To Levels Of Civilizational Suicide
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/25/american-birth-rates-rates-drop-to-levels-of-civilizational-suicide/
FOX NEWS
— Dems’ sanctuary policies shield ‘gangbangers,’ harm Latino families, businesses
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-sanctuary-policies-shield-gangbangers-harm-latino-families-businesses-says-hispanic-gop-lawmaker
HEARTLAND INSTITUTE
— Electricity Generated from Wind and Solar Cannot Replace Fossil Fuels
https://heartland.org/opinion/electricity-generated-from-wind-and-solar-cannot-replace-fossil-fuels/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Dept. Education Investigates Discrimination Against American-Born Students
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/dept-education-investigates-discrimination-against-american-born-students-after-equal-protection-project-complaints/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Wall Street Journal Poll Finds Lowest Approval for Democratic Party in 35 Years
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/wall-street-journal-poll-finds-lowest-approval-for-democratic-party-in-35-years/
TOWNHALL
— Do Republicans Have a Decent Shot at Defying History in the Midterms?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2025/07/28/early-analysis-do-republicans-have-a-decent-shot-at-defying-history-in-the-midterms-n2661004
— Democrats Are the Physically Broken Party
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/kurtschlichter/2025/07/28/democrats-are-the-physically-broken-party-n2661047
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
FED SMITH
— The IRS Is Targeting Federal Workers Over Unpaid Taxes
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/07/24/irs-is-targeting-federal-workers-over-unpaid-taxes/
AGA
— Jeffrey C. Steinhoff. One could compare and contrast Steinhoff’s very successful 40-year GAO career with my failed 18-year GAO career. While both Steinhoff and I are CPAs, Certified Fraud Examiners, and Certified Government Financial Managers, I am also a Certified Internal Auditor, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant and a licensed CPA. While Steinhoff served as a National President of the Association of Government Accountants (AGA), I only served on the Executive Committee of AGA’s Chicago Chapter for 13 years. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. Steinhoff had no interest in me even though a) I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) I had earned an MBA in 1976, c) I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and d) I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting. I completed those requirements in 1980 and I subsequently earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997.
https://www.agacgfm.org/Chapters/Washington-DC-Chapter/OurChapter/Chapter-Awards-2025-Winners.aspx
July 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Hunter Biden blames dad’s disastrous Trump debate on sleeping pills.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/hunter-biden-blames-ambien-for-president-bidens-terrible-trump-debate/3794408/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1678025
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/ice-arrests-increase-across-chicago-under-trump-many-with-no-convictions-data-shows/
— Democrat leaders promote video gambling. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/gambling-machines-chicago-bars-airports-aldermen/
— Banishing a reporter: Trump escalates battle with Wall Street Journal over Epstein story. I should write about those who have banished me and why.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/trump-wall-street-journal-epstein/
— Democrat leaders use vandalism against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/little-village-buildings-swastikas-vandalism/
— Democrats complain about Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/rep-brad-schneider-town-hall/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/opinion-hiv-campaign-chicago-cook-county/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump on manufacturing jobs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/22/opinion-us-manufacturing-economy-tariffs/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/07/21/illinois-lawsuit-trump-administration-undocumented-immigrants-public-benefits
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/07/22/a-family-came-to-chicago-seeking-asylum-he-was-deported-now-she-wants-to-leave
DAILY HERALD
— Homeland Security takes Bolingbrook man into ICE custody after he appears in Kane County court on DUI
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250721/news/homeland-security-takes-bolingbrook-man-into-ice-custody-after-he-appears-in-kane-county-court-on-du/
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/gov-pritzker-joins-governors-to-take-collective-action-84506.cfm
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-07-22/rockford-immigrant-families-anxious-about-increased-immigration-raids
WCIA
— Republican legislators call on IL governor to participate in federal school choice program. My parents had less money because they paid to send me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. Because of that, I had to work my way through college.
https://www.wcia.com/news/capitol-news/republican-legislators-call-on-il-governor-to-participate-in-federal-school-choice-program/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Teen gangs feud in the west side of Chicago.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/18/this-austin-space-fighting-gun-violence-has-been-designated-chicagos-first-safe-zone/
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing make children sexually active LGBTQers.
https://phimc.org/initiatives/alliance-home/youth-organizing-and-leadership/action-camp/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, more dependency on government and charity, more LGBTQ, more abortion, more mass/illegal immigration, more booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, more diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and more Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/22/pritzker-on-dems-weve-lost-our-way-00466724
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-556/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-349/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The toxic combination of Illinois’ sanctuary status and the SAFE-T Act
https://wirepoints.org/the-toxic-combination-of-illinois-sanctuary-status-and-the-safe-t-act-wirepoints-quickpoint/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hegseth held the military rank of Major in the U.S. Army National Guard. IRS promoted me to GS-12 when I was 25. The military equivalent is Captain. GAO promoted me to GS-13 when I was 38. The military equivalent is Major. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. When I was 25, I had worked for IRS for 3 years and I had completed 10 graduate evening business courses. When I was 38, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years and for GAO for almost 7 years. I had passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I had earned an MBA and a master’s degree in accounting. I had become a licensed CPA. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I never would have made GS-12 let alone GS-13. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Hunter Biden rages against Trump deportations in bizarre YouTube interview: ‘How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? Who do you think washes your dishes?’ While I never was a maid, I was a dishwasher for 18 months, yard worker for 6 months, newspaper deliverer for 48 months, golf shoe cleaner for a month, slag chipper for 3 months, gasoline pumper for 23 months, and mailman for 34 months. The aforesaid totals 133 months or 11 years.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/21/us-news/hunter-biden-rages-against-trump-deportations-in-bizarre-youtube-interview-its-a-f-ing-crime-what-theyre-doing/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Will Trump Grant Amnesty? My Republican critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/will-trump-grant-amnesty/
BREITBART
— Hunter Biden Rejects American Citizens, Praises Illegal Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-rejects-citizens-praises-illegal-migrants/
— GOP Establishment Still Has Amnesty Fetish. My Republican critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/21/rep-maria-salazar-gives-away-the-game-gop-establishment-still-has-amnesty-fetish/
— Suit Over In-State Tuition for Illegals Is Just ‘Blue State Retaliation’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/21/ellison-suit-over-in-state-tuition-for-illegals-is-just-blue-state-retaliation/
— Trump’s ‘CBP Home App’ Gets Tens of Thousands of Illegals to Self-Deport
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/21/trumps-cbp-home-app-gets-tens-of-thousands-illegals-to-self-deport/
— Harvard heads to court in $2.6B lawsuit against Trump administration
https://www.breitbart.com/news/the-latest-harvard-heads-to-court-in-2-6b-lawsuit-against-trump-administration/
— The Fed Is Like Universal Basic Income for Academic Economists
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/07/21/bessent-the-fed-is-like-universal-basic-income-for-academic-economists/
— More Than 20 Democrat AGs Seek to Reopen Federal Welfare, Aid for Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/07/21/20-democrat-ags-seek-reopen-federal-welfare-aid-illegal-aliens/
— Hunter Biden Says to Those Upset About Illegal Immigration: ‘Who Do You Think Washes Your Dishes?’ I was a dishwasher for 18 months, yard worker for 6 months, newspaper deliverer for 48 months, golf shoe cleaner for a month, slag chipper for 3 months, gasoline pumper for 23 months, and mailman for 34 months. The aforesaid totals 133 months or 11 years.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-says-fck-you-to-those-upset-about-illegal-immigration-who-do-you-think-washes-your-dishes/
— Stephen Colbert Was Propped Up by $160 Million in Left-Wing Affirmative Action
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/07/21/nolte-stephen-colbert-was-propped-up-by-160-million-left-wing-affirmative-action/
CHRISTIAN POST
— DHS blames Dems, media for fueling 830% increase in assaults on ICE agents. A major reason why people do not want to work for IRS is that so much hatred is promoted against IRS employees. I was an IRS employee for almost 9 years.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/dhs-blames-media-dems-for-830-rise-in-assaults-on-ice-agents.html
COLLEGE FIX
— UChicago Medicine ends ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors after Trump order
https://www.thecollegefix.com/uchicago-medicine-ends-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-after-trump-order/
— Universities rejected applicant pools with too many white scholars. I passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination (FSEE) when I was 21 years old in 1970. The Democrats who run the federal government killed the FSEE because too few Blacks and Hispanics passed it.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/universities-rejected-applicant-pools-with-too-many-white-scholars-records-reveal/
DAILY CALLER
— Hunter Biden Says He Would Invade Sovereign Nation To Bring Illegals Back To US. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-invade-sovereign-nation-illegals-us/
— Taxpayer-Funded Group Teaches Marxist, ‘Queer’ Resistance At Anti-Trump Summer Camp
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/21/taxpayer-funded-nonprofit-marxist-queer-resistance-anti-trump-summer-camp/
— Trump Forces Employers To Stop Turning Blind Eye To Illegal Workers
https://www.aol.com/trump-forces-employers-stop-turning-204808389.html
DAILY WIRE
— Tens Of Thousands Of Illegal Aliens Self-Deport Through CBP Home App
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tens-of-thousands-of-illegal-aliens-self-deport-through-cbp-home-app-report
FEDERALIST
— Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/21/pentagon-replaces-naval-academy-leader-who-oversaw-racist-affirmative-action-policies/
FOX NEWS
— White House flips script on Hunter Biden’s profanity-laced rant against Trump’s immigration policies. White House spokesperson references Biden’s pardon and calls out ‘Biden Crime Family’ after profanity-laced interview.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-flips-script-hunter-bidens-profanity-laced-rant-trumps-immigration-policies
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Buttigieg Handed Out $80 Billion on DEI Grants. “He was definitely pushing an agenda.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/report-buttigieg-handed-out-80-billion-on-dei-grants/
LEGAL NEWSLINE
— IL law targets E-Verify, undermines federal law. To fight E-Verify is to fight federal immigration law.
https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/il-law-targets-e-verify-undermines-federal-law-doj-says/article_60f5fbbb-6dbc-478f-98cd-99b38dc96fcb.html
MRC TV
— Hunter Biden went off on a profane rant against Americans who support enforcement of U.S. immigration law, in which he characterized illegal aliens as cooks, maids and dish washers. While I never was a cook or a maid, I was a dishwasher for 18 months, yard worker for 6 months, newspaper deliverer for 48 months, golf shoe cleaner for a month, slag chipper for 3 months, gasoline pumper for 23 months, and mailman for 34 months. The aforesaid totals 133 months or 11 years.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/hunter-biden-upset-about-illegal-immigration-fk-you
NEWS BUSTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that LGBTQers have. How successful have Democrat leaders been pushing LGBTQ on everyone in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/lucas-escala/2025/07/22/msnbcs-weekend-panel-throws-tantrum-over-lgbtq-hotline-abandonment
NEWSMAX
— Rubio: Deport Permanent Residents for Haitian Gang Aid
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/haiti-gangs/2025/07/21/id/1219506/
— Noem, Homan Take NYC Officials to Task After Officer Shot by Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/NYC-immigration-kristi-noem/2025/07/21/id/1219531/
— Lawsuit Challenges Restrictions on Head Start for Kids in the US Illegally. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/illegals-immigration/2025/07/21/id/1219500/
PJ MEDIA
— There Are Some Fights Trump Should Stay Out Of
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/21/there-are-some-fights-trump-should-stay-out-of-n4941966
STARS AND STRIPES
— Army secretary fires 4-star general for meddling in promotion process. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government designed and implemented their promotion processes to promote Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-12-10/army-general-fired-16126446.html
TOWNHALL
— Minneapolis Dems Dump Incumbent Mayor for Socialist Who Vowed to Fight Trump
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/07/21/socialist-mayoral-candidate-for-minneapolis-wins-democratic-endorsement-over-incumbent-n2660687
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Hate-fille Trump-hating Trump-haters want everyone to focus on Epstein.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-steer-conversation-away-jeffrey-epstein/story?id=123927092
CBS NEWS
— Family in Colorado seeking asylum fearful of Venezuelan gangs, says crime is getting worse around their apartment.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/family-colorado-fearful-venezuelan-gangs-crime-apartments-asylum-denver/
— Democrat leaders had no problem with raging inflation when Biden was President.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-disapprove-of-how-trump-is-handling-inflation-poll-finds/
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/video/trumps-approval-rating-slides-after-6-months-in-office-cbs-news-poll-shows/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump administration releases records on FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-7-21-2025
— Banishing a reporter: Trump escalates battle with Wall Street Journal over Epstein story. I should write about those who have banished me and why.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-epstein-wall-street-journal-b006f3ef25e6b4ab910cc3b41c865227
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-deports-grandfather-green-card-luis-leon-2101628
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry their illegals leaving America.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/economic-warning-as-more-than-half-million-people-could-leave-us-this-year/ar-AA1IQ9ON
NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/trump-news-media.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/trump-illegal-immigration-raids-arkansas.html
— Democrats exist to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opinion/are-the-democrats-dead-or-alive.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Wall Street Journal banned from Trump’s Scotland trip over Epstein story. I should write about those who have banned me and why.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/22/white-house-wall-street-journal-trump-epstein/
— Hate-fille Trump-hating Trump-haters want Republicans to focus on Epstein.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/21/trump-epstein-distractions/
— Trump intervenes to boost Hegseth aide who left military for politics. A waiver granted by the president allows Ricky Buria, a top adviser to the defense secretary, to bypass federal law and depart the Marine Corps at a rank he held only briefly. Hegseth held the military rank of Major in the U.S. Army National Guard. IRS promoted me to GS-12 when I was 25. The military equivalent is Captain. GAO promoted me to GS-13 when I was 38. The military equivalent is Major. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. When I was 25, I had worked for IRS for 3 years and I had completed 10 graduate evening business courses. When I was 38, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years and for GAO for almost 7 years. I had passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I had earned an MBA and a master’s degree in accounting. I had become a licensed CPA. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I never would have made GS-12 let alone GS-13. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/21/hegseth-ricky-buria-waiver/
BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrat and RINO leaders want Republican leaders to fight Trump. But wait, the voters elected Trump.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-gop-rolling-over-for-trump/
USA TODAY
— Trump is racking up GOP wins no one else could. What do Never Trumpers say now?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/21/trump-pbs-education-department-abortion-republican-presidents/85269657007/
— Democrat leaders decry flood of ICE agents coming to cities run by Democrats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/21/white-house-democrat-cities-flood-ice-agents/85308354007/
— Hunter Biden blames dad’s disastrous Trump debate on sleeping pills.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/07/21/hunter-biden-joe-biden-trump-debate-ambien/85315170007/
– Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/19/trump-immigration-medicaid-cuts-economy-failure/85259690007/
KBOI
— Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes Up 58% in Chicago. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring antisemites into Chicago.
https://www.kboi.com/2025/07/21/anti-jewish-hate-crimes-up-5837-in-chicago/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Here’s What a Late-Career Layoff Looks Like in America, in 5 Charts. Many take longer to find new jobs, while others retire earlier than planned. Being forced to retire early is extremely damaging. I should write about that.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/heres-what-a-late-career-layoff-looks-like-in-america-in-5-charts-63f5c809
— 18,000 Jobs Out the Drive-Thru Window. California’s $20 minimum wage at fast-food chains has hit employment. I earned the minimum wage for 18 months washing dishes during my junior and senior years in high school 1964-1966. Adjusted for inflation, I earned $12.36/hour. If I had earned $20/hour in today’s dollars, I would not have had to work as many hours and/or I would have bought a new loaded 1966 Pontiac GAO instead of a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, a poor man’s GTO.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/california-minimum-wage-18000-jobs-fast-food-restaurants-70610af4?mod=opinion_lead_pos2
INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— Taxpayer-Funded Group Teaches Marxist, ‘Queer’ Resistance At Anti-Trump Summer Camp
https://ijr.com/taxpayer-funded-group-teaches-marxist-queer-resistance-at-anti-trump-summer-camp/
NEW YORKER
— What percent of foreign students focus on destroying Israel?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/a-federal-trial-reveals-the-sprawling-plan-behind-trumps-attacks-on-pro-palestinian-students
ATLANTIC
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.aol.com/trump-campaign-crush-media-194800857.html
SPORTS BETTING
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more gambling.
https://www.legalsportsbetting.com/news/illinois-becomes-3rd-state-to-hit-50-billion-in-sports-bets-07-16-2025/
July 21, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— At least 28 shot, 6 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-16-shot-4-fatally-gun-violence-city-police-say/17195012/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/ice-arrests-increase-across-chicago-under-trump-many-with-no-convictions-data-shows/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/trump-deportation-letters-chicago-children/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, dependency on government ever-increasingly increases.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/snapshot-of-food-insecurity-in-illinois-and-the-u-s/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/in-the-wake-of-snap-cuts-feeding-hungry-illinoisans-falls-more-than-ever-on-food-pantries/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for pollution and bad weather.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/aspen-climate-chicago-rally/
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County Fair opening Thursday, July 24. I should write about Republican participation in the fair since 1978 and especially since 1999.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250721/submitted-content/dupage-county-fair-opens-with-animals-axe-throwing-and-drone-light-shows/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/20/when-the-raids-started-fear-spread-la-mayor-bass-on-trumps-deportation-efforts/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Affirmation Action, DEI, and other laws anyways required my employers to give preference to my coworkers who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/business/article_4795d6bd-a173-476c-bad6-1db4d3ee182b.html
RIVER BENDER
— Did your father earn enough money so that your mother could stay home and raise you? Because my father did, my critics/opponents have always used that to paint me as being filthy rich. But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. Because of that, I had to work my way through college. What was your mother’s earning potential? My mother’s earning potential was very limited because she never attended high school.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-durbin-help-reintroduce-bill-to-help-families-get-the-affordable-child-care-they-need-84462.cfm
–Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/idhs-preserves-lgbtqia-youth-support-on-988-lifeline-amid-federal-cuts-84450.cfm
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) fight deportation of their illegals and b) push pot..
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/vigil-held-in-las-vegas-for-man-who-died-after-ice-raid-at-cannabis-farm
— Trump touts record GOP support amid Epstein files backlash
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-touts-record-gop-support-amid-epstein-files-backlash-truth-social-maga-billionaire-convicted-sex-offender-jeffrey-epstein-attorney-general-pam-bondi-ghislaine-maxwell-client-list-transcripts
DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in DeKalb. I successfully resisted pot pushers while was a NIU student there 1969-1970.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/07/20/city-of-dekalb-gives-final-ok-to-cannabis-dispensary-tasting-rooms/?
ELMHURST PATCH
— Sexism Claims Against Addison Township Consultant
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/sexism-claims-against-addison-township-consultant
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-555/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Blago Works Lincolnshire Party
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/21/blago-works-lincolnshire-party/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— White House says Trump will ‘not support amnesty’ when asked about Dignity Act. Needless-to-say, no one who comes to America illegally or stays in America illegally should get citizenship.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-says-trump-will-not-support-amnesty-when-asked-about-dignity-act/ar-AA1IO02m
— Democrat and RINO leaders want to make America more and more and more dependent on illegal labor.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3476746/karen-bass-la-cant-rebuild-after-wildfires-without-immigrant-labor/
NEW YORK POST
— NY awarded more than $600M to ‘sanctuary’ groups helping defy Trump, federal immigration law
https://nypost.com/2025/07/20/us-news/ny-awarded-more-than-600m-to-sanctuary-groups-helping-defy-trump-federal-immigration-law/
COLLEGE FIX
— University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign affiliates reported Young Americans for Freedom to the bias team around 50 times for hosting conservative commentator Elisha Krauss.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/dangerous-pro-israel-event-reported-50-times-to-university-of-ilinois-bias-team-public-records/
FOX NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-mayor-bass-dodges-question-whether-all-illegal-immigrants-city-should-allowed-stay
— Far too many civil rights groups exist get rid of 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.
https://www.aol.com/civil-rights-group-declares-state-140858175.html
TOWNHALL
— No Amnesty Ever
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/07/21/read-our-lips-no-amnesty-ever-n2660661
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Pence: Trump hasn’t changed Republican Party
https://www.aol.com/pence-trump-hasn-t-changed-185514537.html
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5411271-trump-vows-to-push-agenda-amid-criticism/
NBC NEWS
— Vance’s and Marco Rubio’s Senate successors avoid GOP primary drama. Primaries are nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents wanted Jim Ryan to win the 2002 Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary. Because I supported Pat O’Malley who lost in that primary and because Blagojevich won the general election, my critics/opponents continue to do everything that they can to destroy me. My critics/opponents wanted Andy McKenna to win the 2004 Illinois Republican U.S. Senate primary. They falsely claim that I supported Jack Ryan in that primary to falsely justify their continuing to do everything that they can to destroy me because Ryan withdrew after winning the primary and Obama won the general election.
https://www.aol.com/vances-marco-rubios-senate-successors-090000696.html
CBS NEWS
— ICE head says agents will arrest anyone found in the U.S. illegally, crack down on employers of unauthorized workers
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-head-todd-lyons-agents-will-arrest-anyone-found-illegally-crack-down-on-employers/
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trumps-approval-dipping-cbs-news-poll-finds/
MSN
— The Dignity Act would encourage more illegal immigration.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-lawmakers-ridicule-republican-colleague-s-bill-to-allow-some-migrants-to-obtain-citizenship-no-amnesty/ar-AA1IRQuv
— How many inmates in Illinois, in your county, in your township, and in your municipality are illegals?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-asks-san-diego-sheriff-for-data-on-all-noncitizen-inmates-despite-state-law/ar-AA1IOUey
MSN & AOL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they are not only anti-American, but that they hate America. They ever-increasingly promote those who invade, infiltrate, infest, and destroy America.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/were-settlers-fox-news-personality-dismisses-nation-of-immigrants-idea/ar-AA1IJL9f
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pete-hegseth-announces-dangerous-expansion-of-ice-s-powers/ar-AA1ISdpq
https://www.aol.com/newsom-escalates-trump-immigration-feud-185110057.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Federal court says Arkansas can enforce ban on critical race theory in classrooms. To promote critical race theory is to promote more hatred against 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.
https://www.livingstonparishnews.com/stories/federal-court-says-arkansas-can-enforce-ban-on-critical-race-theory-in-classrooms,174006
YAHOO
— Musk Caught Filing for Benefits Meant for Small Businesses Run by Minorities. Politics is nasty/vicious. I should write about my critics/opponents who hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the new town home in the HUD-financed University Park that I bought when I was 24 years old in 1972 was meant for minorities.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-neuralink-caught-filing-164520479.html
AOL
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting hatred against Trump.
https://www.aol.com/democrats-more-motivated-vote-2026-151138434.html
NEWSWEEK
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/map-shows-donald-trump-s-approval-rating-in-each-state-after-six-months/ar-AA1IX2eg
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/economic-warning-as-more-than-half-million-people-could-leave-us-this-year/ar-AA1IQ9ON
NEW YORK TIMES
— Google ever-increasingly steers everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/us/politics/trump-google-prosecute.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations. Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/reparations-bill-amid-headwinds-could-skirt-californias-affirmative-action-ban/ar-AA1IyUv1
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-07-20/volunteers-flock-to-immigration-courts-to-support-migrants-arrested-in-the-hallways
NEW YORK SUN
— Far-Left Mamdani Would Be Wrong Turn for Democrats, Who Need To Move Beyond Intersectional Obsessions and Woke Grievances. The party’s problem is structural, and it requires a rethink and a reboot from soup to nuts.
https://www.nysun.com/article/far-left-mamdani-would-be-wrong-turn-for-democrats-who-need-to-move-beyond-intersectional-obsessions-and-woke-grievances
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/19/trump-immigration-medicaid-cuts-economy-failure/85259690007/
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/19/trump-education-department-cuts-school-funding/85259833007/
— That news article on Google? Its headline may have been written by a political campaign. Google ever-increasingly steers everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/08/13/kamala-harris-article-google-ads/74789965007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/20/trump-jeffrey-epstein-white-house-political-crisis/85287607007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Real Risk to the Electric Grid. Power shortages are coming thanks to wind and solar subsidies. Here’s how they distort energy investment.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-real-risk-to-the-energy-grid-wind-solar-power-data-shortage-c297e93b
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-detention-tent-cities-5c2e135d?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
BARRON’S
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/trumppoll
BLOOMBERG
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-07-20/how-elon-musk-s-trump-feud-and-wild-bets-threaten-his-empire
FORBES
— Employee Training As A Strategic Investment For Long-Term Growth. IRS invested in me. The first 6 months that I worked for IRS in 1971 was classroom training. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22revenue+officer%22+IRS+training After working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980. GAO audits IRS. My Democrat GAO superiors wasted what I learned working for IRS. They kept me off audits for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2025/04/17/employee-training-as-a-strategic-investment-for-long-term-growth/
MOTLEY FOOL
— Department of Justice Steps Back From Marijuana Enforcement. I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.aol.com/2013-08-30-department-of-justice-steps-back-from-marijuana-en.html
LEGAL NEWSLINE
— IL trial lawyer campaign pushes Pritzker to OK lawsuit expansion law. All my critics/opponents side with the defendants in all the lawsuit that I filed. I should write about that.
https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/il-trial-lawyer-campaign-pushes-pritzker-to-ok-lawsuit-expansion-law/article_06aa308f-dda9-4ea6-8fbd-3a98c3ebc8e9.html
IMMIGRATION FORUM
— The Dignity Act would encourage more illegal immigration.
https://immigrationforum.org/article/the-dignity-act-of-2025-bill-summary/
PBS
— Google faces off against U.S. government attempt to break up company in search monopoly case. Google ever-increasingly steers everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/google-faces-off-against-u-s-government-attempt-to-break-up-company-in-search-monopoly-case
MINT
— Hegseth Orders Tech Companies To STOP Using ‘Cheap Chinese Labour’ For Sensitive US Cloud Services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iu2C1yj8Wc
PHYS
— Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that to hint/imply/argue/shout a) that my parents were filthy rich and/or b) that I am not college material.
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scholar-meritocracy-schools-redefine-purpose.html
INDEPENDENT
— Trump threatened tough punishment for employers who hired migrant workers. So far only a handful have faced the wrath. If they could have, all my employers would have hired illegals instead of me. Illegals work for less money and are easier to exploit.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/trump-threatened-tough-punishment-for-employers-who-hired-migrant-workers-so-far-only-a-handful-have-faced-the-wrath/ar-AA1HIk6K
SPECTATOR
— America’s top medical schools still hire by race. Ever-increasingly, everyone in health care in America is more and more and more of the following: citizens for foreign countries, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time
https://thespectator.com/topic/americas-top-medical-schools-still-hire-by-race/
July 14, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— At least 21 shot, 3 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-6-shot-1-fatally-gun-violence-city-police-say/17086053/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/record-festival-turnout-after-federal-agents-are-spotted-in-chicago/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/chicago-ice-lawsuit/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois Democrat leaders blame Trump for vaccine-preventable-illnesses
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/07/14/illinois-official-calls-out-trump-administration-for-dangerous-misinformation/84540517007/
— Democrat leaders decry Trump’s firing the Librarian of Congress. No one decried my Democrat GAO superiors firing me, that is, forcing me to retire in 1997. No one decried my Democrat Post Office superiors firing me in 1969, that is, forcing me to resign. Of course, my critics/opponents stress that. GAO works for Congress. They especially stress that neither Hyde, Fitzgerald, Hastert, nor Bush decried my GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old. Constructively, since 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.86 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/07/14/former-librarian-of-congress-joins-mellon-foundation/84693514007/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— How dependent on Medicaid funding are the nursing homes in your area? To avoid having to go on Medicaid, my outstanding aunt, who never attended college, worked as a key-punch operator, lived frugally, and saved more than $600,000 for her retirement.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/state/2025/07/14/study-579-us-nursing-homes-at-risk-of-closing-over-medicaid-cuts/84538477007/
QUAD CITY TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://qctimes.com/article_e3741520-d1a7-433d-81a6-36bca8cc0036.html
WHEATON PATCH
— What did you focus on when you were young? I focused on earning job-related college degrees, job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license to qualify myself for better paying jobs.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/calendar/event/20250715/cf201694-f4b4-4237-bdb3-c8e122796c4b/dupagepads-young-professionals-council-kick-off
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Republicans lining up against Pritzker
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/14/republicans-lining-up-against-pritzker-00450761
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A few Republicans are looking to get in the ring. Ted Dabrowski and Aaron Del Mar are testing the waters, speaking with GOP insiders and potential donors about mounting campaigns. They would face DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, who’s already jumped in, and Joseph Severino who’s posted in social media that he’s running, too. Darren Bailey, who challenged Pritzker in 2024, hasn’t made any decisions yet about 2026. Jeanne Ives, who ran in 2018, says she’s not running. And though state Rep. Dan Ugaste and Posen Park District Supervisor Phil Perez toyed with the idea, neither will run for governor in 2026. Mendrick, a law-and-order candidate, has raised just $127,000 since he announced in February, according to filings with the state. Dabrowski and Del Mar, who are better known around the state for their work in policy and politics, would likely have an easier time raising funds. Del Mar is recognized in party circles across the state as he’s a former co-chair of the Illinois GOP and current Cook County Republican chair who ran as lieutenant governor alongside Gary Rabine in 2022. Dabrowski is president of Wirepoints Corp., the conservative-leaning media company. While he lacks campaign experience, he’s a former banking executive and policy wonk whose fiscal message could resonate at a time of economic uncertainty. Severino has made two unsuccessful bids for Congress, first as a Republican and then as an Independent. Along with the money challenge, messaging will be an issue for GOP candidates as Pritzker and his Democratic Party will blame Republicans and President Donald Trump for the megabill that’s giving tax breaks to the wealthy and cutting Medicaid and food assistance programs. . .Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders held a fundraiser in Barrington the other day at the home of Rick and Alisa Heidner. Among the attendees were Illinois Congressman Darin LaHood, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, state Sen. Andrew Chesney, political strategist Brett Corrigan, businessman and 2022 GOP gubernatorial candidate Gary Rabine, possible 2026 gubernatorial candidate Aaron Del Mar, Illinois National Republican Committee member Dean White, former Chicago GOP Chair Eloise Gerson and McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Troubling Case of Jeffrey Epstein
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/the-troubling-case-of-jeffrey-epstein/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— State Farm faces backlash over $523 million insurance rate hike in Illinois
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3469774/state-farm-faces-backlash-over-insurance-rate-hike-in-illinois/
NEW YORK POST
— NY scraps race-based STEM program after Asians claim discrimination
https://nypost.com/2025/07/14/us-news/ny-scraps-race-based-stem-program-after-asians-claim-discrimination/
AMRICAN THINKER
— Pot farm raided for illegals has a big history of violating labor law, donating to Democrats
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/pot_farm_raided_for_illegals_has_a_big_history_of_violating_labor_law_donating_to_democrats.html
FOX BUSINESS
— Trump says Powell should resign immediately from Federal Reserve leadership position over economic missteps. My Democrat superiors in the federal government wanted me to resign because I refused to become a Democrat. Because I refused to become a Democrat, they ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me. My RINO leaders in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party want me to become a RINO. Because I refuse to become a RINO, they ever-increasingly take more and bigger adverse actions against me.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-says-powell-should-resign-immediately-from-federal-reserve-leadership-position-over-economic-missteps
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— What websites serve those who share your demographics?
https://www.aol.com/websites-serving-harvard-undergrad-women-134724551.html
YAHOO
— To promote Affirmative Action and DEI is to promote discrimination
https://www.aol.com/finance/more-200-p-500-companies-143039217.html
CBS NEWS
— Scathing report on Trump assassination attempt released. One of my best friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/scathing-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-released-trump-says-hes-satisfied-with-it/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding the University of Illinois with foreign students. UIC accepted me when I was 17, NIU when I was 20, Loyola when I was 23, DePaul when I was 27, and IIT when I was 43. But they all would have accepted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/dining/chinese-food-urbana-champaign-student-visa.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opinion/medicaid-pregnancy-danger.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/democrats-transgender-rights.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Senate report details failures ahead of Trump assassination attempt. One of my best friends during the 1960s and 1970s was a Secret Service Agent during the 1970s.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/13/trump-assassination-attempt-senate-investigation/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/13/homan-border-czar-ice-raid-death-california/85081107007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight bringing manufacturing jobs back to America
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/29/tariffs-boost-us-manufacturing-revival/84284972007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Cleared to Lay Off Workers, Some Federal Agencies Find Many Already Left. Thousands of workers in government jobs have taken buyouts or retired early. Many say morale is low. Ever-increasingly, after I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 year old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors made I ever-increasingly clear that they wanted to get rid of me because I refused to become a Democrat. Nevertheless, to thwart their ever-increasing efforts to get rid of me, a) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) I became a licensed CPA in 1981, d) I earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. However, that was not enough. They succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/federal-layoff-plans-buyout-offers-9d115dcd
— The Federal Government Is Retreating From Student Lending. Did you get a student loan? I did not even try. Did you get any scholarships? I did not even apply. I was not viewed as being college material. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother had never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes. My critics/opponents have always stressed the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/trump-student-loans-tax-spending-bill-9dfc96eb
MOTLEY FOOL
— The 4 Banks That Rule Illinois
https://www.aol.com/news/2013-10-11-the-4-banks-that-rule-illinois.html
AUTOGUIDE
— The 10 Most Iconic American Cars. I am big on American cars. I own a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV, 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 and 1972 Corvette, and 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX. I used to own a 1958 and 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air, 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS, 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, 1968 Oldsmobile 442, 1968 Charger R/T, 1969 Charger SE, 1990 Thunderbird LX, 1994 Thunderbird, and 2016 Mustang.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/top-10/s-fourth-of-july-the-10-most-iconic-american-cars-44622346
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. Ford Mustang . . . 2. Chevrolet Corvette . . . 4. Dodge Charger . . . 5. Chevrolet Bel Air. . . 8. Pontiac GTO)
WNEM
— Tough questions to ask your boss. My Democrat superiors in the federal government made it clear that to keep your job, you not only had to be a Democrat, you had to a) defend and advance the Democrat Party platform, most importantly, its race and gender based preference giving plank and b) help them get rid of their Republican employees. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I am amazed that I survived for almost 3 years at the Post Office, for almost 9 years at IRS, and for almost 18 years at GAO. I would not have survived if I had not 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.wnem.com/2025/07/11/ask-advance-tough-questions-ask-your-boss/
TIMES OF INDIA
— Amid US federal pressure, Harvard replaces DEI offices with ‘community and culture’
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/amid-us-federal-pressure-harvard-replaces-dei-offices-with-community-and-culture/articleshow/122418960.cms
— To promote Affirmative Action and DEI is to oppose meritocracy
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/harvard-quietly-dismantles-student-diversity-offices-without-notice-is-this-the-end-of-inclusion-on-campus/ar-AA1Il8kv
WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE
— How much money did your parents have? My critics/opponents have always painted my parents, and therefore me, as having been filthy rich a) because my father made enough money that my mother could stay home and raise me and my brother and b) because they sent me and my brother to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools K-8. But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/13/lomy-j13.html
INDEPENDENT
— Voters label Democrats ‘out of touch’ and ‘weak’ in latest troubling poll ahead of 2026 midterms
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/voters-label-democrats-out-of-touch-and-weak-in-latest-troubling-poll-ahead-of-2026-midterms/ar-AA1IrkEa
July 7, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— At least 55 people shot, 6 fatally, in 4th of July weekend gun violence
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-19-people-shot-2-fatally-july-4th-gun-violence-police-department-says/16952731/
NBC5
— Trump says Musk has gone ‘off the rails’ after Tesla CEO announces new political party
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-says-musk-has-gone-off-the-rails-after-tesla-ceo-announces-new-political-party/3783514/
FOX32
— Musk political party: What to know about the ‘America Party’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/elon-musk-political-party-america-trump-big-beautiful-bill
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump and GOP target ballots arriving after Election Day that delay counts and feed conspiracy fears
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/06/trump-gop-target-ballots-election-day/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump budget cuts
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/06/trump-lead-pipes-pfas-epa-cuts/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250706/news/schaumburg-town-square-businesses-seeking-harmony-with-political-protests/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/2025/07/06/pride-month-drag-queens-gigs-corporations-trump-administration-lgbtq
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more poverty and crime in DuPage County.
https://www.nctv17.org/news/loaves-fishes-plans-new-facility-to-address-growing-demand-in-community/
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://chicagodefender.com/planned-parenthood-of-illinois-vows-to-stay-open-after-trump-defunding-bill/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Why do we pay nearly $100K in salary for each Illinois lawmaker?
https://wirepoints.org/why-do-we-pay-nearly-100k-for-each-illinois-lawmaker-wirepoints/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois moves over $300M out of road fund as infrastructure crumbles
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-moves-over-300m-out-of-road-fund-as-infrastructure-crumbles/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court decision allowing third-country deportations will help mitigate bogus asylum claims
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/6/supreme-court-decision-allowing-third-country-deportations-help/
— Musk lays out America Party’s look
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/5/elon-musk-lays-proposed-america-partys-look/
— The tide has turned on transgender insanity
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/6/tide-turned-transgender-insanity/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats should learn from Mamdani’s focus on ‘affordability.’ What did you do to get better paying jobs? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3463851/khanna-democrats-learn-from-mamdani-focus-on-affordability/
NEW YORK POST
— Why the future of NY under a ‘Mayor Mamdani’ has already arrived
https://nypost.com/2025/07/05/opinion/why-the-future-of-ny-under-a-mayor-mamdani-has-already-arrived/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— A Big, Beautiful Financial Weapon Against Illegal Immigration. The U.S. is finally poised to take advantage of remittances.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-big-beautiful-financial-weapon-against-illegal-immigration/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Census Was Never Intended Just To Be A Body Count, But It Can Be Fixed. How many citizens of foreign countries have Democrat and RINO leaders illegally dumped into America, Illinois, your congressional district, your state senate and house districts, your county, your county district, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/the_census_was_never_intended_just_to_be_a_body_count_but_it_can_be_fixed.html
BREITBART
— Puerto Rican Pop Megastar Bad Bunny Conflates Illegal Aliens and Legal Immigration In Music Video Featuring AI-Generated Trump Voice. https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/07/06/puerto-rican-pop-megastar-bad-bunny-conflates-illegal-aliens-and-legal-immigration-in-music-video-featuring-ai-generated-trump-voice/
— Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok Blames Donald Trump for Texas Flood Deaths
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/07/06/elon-musks-ai-chatbot-grok-blames-donald-trump-for-texas-flood-deaths/
FEDERALIST
— Trump Admin Should Purge IRS Of Officials Who Targeted Conservatives
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/07/trump-admin-should-purge-irs-of-officials-who-targeted-conservatives/
— Ditch The DNA Test And Learn More About Your American Ancestors
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/04/this-independence-day-ditch-the-dna-test-and-learn-more-about-your-american-ancestors/
FOX NEWS
— Trump spending cuts, his approach to climate change attacked as catalyst of catastrophic Texas flooding. White House said it was ‘shameful and disgusting’ to see people politicizing the tragedy in Texas.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-spending-cuts-his-approach-climate-change-attacked-catalyst-catastrophic-texas-flooding
— Red states consider ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ spinoffs as WH urges them to follow DeSantis’ lead: ‘Lots of bears’ White House official Stephen Miller called on all GOP governors to pitch their own versions of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/red-states-consider-alligator-alcatraz-spinoffs-wh-urges-them-follow-desantis-lead-lots-bears
GOPUSA
— The End of Patriotism?
https://www.gopusa.com/the-end-of-patriotism/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Equal Protection Project Calls On HHS To Conduct “Comprehensive Review” Of Hundreds Of Potentially Discriminatory Grants
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/equal-protection-project-calls-on-hhs-to-conduct-comprehensive-review-of-hundreds-of-potentially-discriminatory-grants/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— How deportations help American workers. If my employers could have, they all would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/victor-joecks-how-deportations-help-american-workers/ar-AA1HeNzJ
— Federal agencies are scrambling to rehire employees laid off by DOGE. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee. I should write a book about that. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s employees like me who were Republican and conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. They flushed down their toilets what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, c) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, d) earning professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and e) earning a CPA license. They succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/federal-agencies-are-scrambling-to-rehire-employees-laid-off-by-doge/ar-AA1HlBWG
CNBC
— While the impact from the DOGE layoffs has been fairly muted so far in relation to total job growth, recent trends show that’s about to change. Applications from workers at federal agencies have soared by 150%, a trend that has been particularly acute at knowledge-work jobs such as data analytics, marketing and software development. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They not only knew that would make it impossible for me to find a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license, they intended that. I should write about that.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/with-june-jobs-report-looming-doge-government-layoffs-could-start-becoming-a-factor/ar-AA1HR140
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/politics/democrats-immigration-trump.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/trump-immigration-rights-ice.html
— According to Democrat leaders, governments exist “to keep their citizens insured and fed.” What did you do to keep yourself insured and fed? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/us/politics/states-trump-bill.html
— How Will Trump’s Big Bill Affect Your Wallet?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/business/trump-tax-bill-personal-finances.html
— As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas. Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Staff members in those positions are meant to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate. That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees, according to a person with knowledge of his departure.)
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with Hamas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/07/israel-trump-netanyahu-peace-meeting-gaza/
— Beijing wants America to depend on China.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/06/america-china-beijing-trump-xi-industrial-policy/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government. What did you do to assure that you would always have affordable health insurance? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981. I fought for almost 30 years ever-increasing efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to get rid of me.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/06/the-bill-will-come-due-gop-buckles-to-trump-and-passes-disastrous-one-big-beautiful-bill/
USA TODAY
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/30/trump-dei-rollback-slowdown/84421308007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-07-07-2025
— Late-Career Job Losses Are Blurring What Retirement Looks Like in America. I should write a book about the tremendous negative impacts of being forced to retire early. Beyond the tremendous negative financial impacts, I would focus on how your critics/opponents use against you your having been forced to retire early. The more qualifications that you had when you were forced to retire, the more that they hint/imply/argue/shout that the real reason why you were forced to retire was that you were an extremely bad person. My critics/opponents use my having the following qualifications when I was forced to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 to hint/imply/argue/shout that I was forced to retire because I am an extremely bad person: a) I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years, b) I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, c) I had earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, d) I had earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and e) I had earned a CPA license.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/early-retirement-layoff-america-77c94667
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A bumpy transition often awaits people who get laid off or take buyouts late in their careers. For many, the line between working years and retirement starts to blur. It is a growing concern for people with jobs in the federal government or at private companies cutting jobs. Economic uncertainty has persisted in recent months, though employers continued to add jobs in June. For older people who want to stay in the workforce, a layoff can be followed by a longer spell of unemployment. It takes nearly 26 weeks, on average, for people ages 55 to 64 to find a job, compared with 19 weeks for people ages 25 to 34, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. People laid off at higher ages are less likely to move into a new field than those who quit, said Kevin Cahill, an economist at FTI Consulting. Ageism and higher compensation expectations can be obstacles to re-employment, he said. Older career workers who find new jobs take an 11% pay cut, on average, according to a forthcoming study Cahill co-wrote. Those who retire might need to break into their savings early. They might miss out on making 401(k) or IRA contributions, never mind the catch-up contributions allowed for those 50 and older.)
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government. What did you do to assure that you would always have affordable health insurance? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981. I fought for almost 30 years ever-increasing efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to get rid of me.
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicaid-cuts-healthcare-trump-bill-7236d5e6
CAPITOL CIITY NOW
— Housing funding cut in Illinois budget as homelessness increases. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-housing-funding-cut-in-illinois-budget-as-homelessness-increases/
CLEARANCE JOBS
— What Got Cut from the White House Spending Bill That Benefits Federal Employees. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have ever-increasingly promoted more and more and more hatred against me for my benefitting from federal employment. They have ever-increasingly demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being overpaid and has being a recipient of benefits that are too generous. They ever-increasingly ignore, dismiss, belittle my having I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2025/07/06/what-got-cut-from-the-white-house-spending-bill-that-benefits-federal-employees/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Notably, the bill does not include any revival of Schedule F, the controversial 2020 executive order aimed at reclassifying civil servants. It also doesn’t authorize reductions-in-force (RIFs) or introduce across-the-board benefit cuts. While civil service reform continues to be debated in policy and political circles, those broader changes remain tied to executive orders—not this legislation.)
NASDAQ
— 5 Compromises People Make To Afford a Home. Back in the good old days, I was able to buy a new town home when I was 24 years old in 1972. My IRS salary in today’s dollars had just increased from $55,850/year to $68,315/year. My down payment came from a) my IRS salary for the previous 15 months, b) my part-time Firestone Store salary for the previous 18 months, and c) my full-time Firestone Store salary for 7 months before that. That income had also enabled me to buy a new Corvette in 1971 and to pay for graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972. I did not take any vacations in 1972.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/5-compromises-people-make-afford-home-are-they-worth-it
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Forgoing All Discretionary Spending Yes, you can tighten your belt and skip the lattes and lunches out at work. But that doesn’t mean you should make yourself so house-poor that you can’t travel at all or enjoy the occasional small luxury. Melanie Musson, finance expert at Clearsurance.com, sees this all the time among first-time homebuyers. “They often can’t afford to go on vacation or meet up with friends. They may have to give up their weekends and take on a side job,” she said.)
July 5, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— At least 42 people shot, 4 fatally, in 4th of July weekend gun violence
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-19-people-shot-2-fatally-july-4th-gun-violence-police-department-says/16952731/
— Candidates vying for US Senate seat show up for 4th of July parades in Chicago, suburbs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/2026-senate-election-candidates-juliana-stratton-raja-krishnamoorthi-robin-kelly-show-4th-july-parade-festivities/16956827/
— EPA union alleges political retaliation, Chicago workers put on leave after criticizing Trump. I did far more than criticize my Democrat GAO superiors. When I was 40 years old in 1988, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. GAO audits IRS. They had unofficially thrown me off audits of IRS in 1988 because I had complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. They had kept me off audits of IRS 1980-1985. They had forced the GAO manager to retire in 1987 who had hired me in 1980 and who had finally been able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986. They had delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. To punish me, they officially threw me off audits of IRS in late 1988, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very unfair performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay for performance. They forced me to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 in 1997. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/environmental-protection-agency-union-alleges-political-retaliation-chicago-epa-workers-put-leave-criticizing-trump/16958213/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ4jM3-KMZU
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1669451
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1669380
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1669372
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— To get more votes from those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/04/editorial-unity-america-bicentennial-birthday-250/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly defend/promote America’s enemies.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/04/editorial-on-july-4-of-all-days-a-naturalized-citizen-is-not-less-than-a-u-s-citizen/
— FRONT PAGE TO OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/05/ag-scotus-ruling/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/04/july-4-great-america-ben-jealous-slaves-peter-gleick-frederick-douglass
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/07/03/trump-bill-chicago-medicaid-snap-community-hospitals-funding-challenges
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that they are members of protected groups and that they are disadvantaged, marginalized, discriminated against, and oppressed by Republicans: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-said-he-didnt-know-an-offensive-term-he-used-in-a-speech-is-considered/article_72017762-a3d7-543b-a78f-b70a1a0fe63a.html
OUR QUAD CITIES
— Over $7 million awarded to early childhood education programs in Western Illinois. How much money did your parents have when you were young? My critics/opponents have always painted my parents as having been filthy rich because my mother stayed home and raised me and because they sent me kindergarten through eighth grade to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. But neither of them attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/over-7-million-awarded-to-early-childhood-education-programs-in-western-illinois/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/how-cutbacks-could-affect-illinois-farmers-and-soil-resources/
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-07-04/protestors-rail-against-trumps-megabill-at-bloomington-4th-of-july-rally
WSIL TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/planned-parenthood-of-illinois-vows-to-continue-care-despite-federal-defunding-bill/article_03de738c-10ea-4607-b0bc-430f35f1f558.html
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Because Democrat leaders promote LGBTQ, they promote the destruction of traditional marriage, and therefore, they promote homelessness.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/housing-funding-cut-in-illinois-budget-as-homelessness-increases/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Big win for taxpayers and common sense: ‘No Gotion’ restrictions on federal tax credits will become law.
https://wirepoints.org/big-win-for-taxpayers-and-common-sense-no-gotion-restrictions-on-federal-tax-credits-will-become-law-wirepoints/
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Don’t Let Rural America Become The Next New York City
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/07/dont-let-rural-america-become-the-next-new-york-city/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Newsom, Buttigieg, Harris, AOC vie in Democrats’ early 2028 lineup
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/3/gavin-newsom-pete-buttigieg-kamala-harris-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/
— Anticipating America’s 250th. Upcoming national birthday bash must rival all past celebrations.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/4/editorial-anticipating-americas-250th/
— Mamdani rises on scapegoating. When his lofty promises fail to materialize, it will be the Jews’ fault.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/3/mamdani-rises-scapegoating/
NEW YORK POST
— Black New Yorkers rage over Zohran Mamdani’s ‘African American’ claim: ‘He’s a fraud’
https://nypost.com/2025/07/04/us-news/black-new-yorkers-rage-over-mamdanis-african-american-claim/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals to pay for their own phony asylum filings
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/bbb_passes_in_house_illegals_to_pay_for_their_own_phony_asylum_filings_comments.html
BREITBART
— More than 100 Thousand Patients Identified as Illegal Migrants in Texas Hospital Visits
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/07/04/more-than-100-thousand-patients-identified-as-illegal-migrants-texas-hospital-visits/
CHRISTIAN POST
— Most Christians say they would never vote for a Democrat
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-christians-say-they-would-never-vote-for-a-democrat-poll-finds/ar-AA1HsgZM
DAILY CALLER
— Dems’ ‘Project 2029’ May Not Actually Bode Well For Party’s Future. The Democrat Party exists to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/04/dems-project-2029-may-not-actually-bode-well-for-partys-future/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Tears Into ‘Marxist Lunatic’ Mamdani, Honors American Heroes In Bold Rebuke. “Generations of Americans before us did not shed their blood only so that we could surrender our country to Marxist lunatics.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-tears-into-marxist-lunatic-mamdani-honors-american-heroes-in-bold-rebuke
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Illinois Keeps Hemorrhaging Young People. “A dwindling youth population means shrinking potential — not just economically, but in civic energy, creativity and community life. That’s bad news for a state that depends on young people to power its workforce and its future.” In Illinois, under the Democrats and under the RINOs. if you are young, the bleaker that your future is if you are conservative, Republican, White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/illinois-keeps-hemorrhaging-young-people/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— A Real Affordability Agenda. What has helped you afford things? For me it was the money that I earned doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, working on an automotive assemble line, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumping more gasoline, collecting delinquent federal taxes, and auditing federal agencies. Since 1997, it has been my Civil Service Retirement System pension, and since 2010, Social Security. More recently, I have inherited some money.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/a-real-affordability-agenda/
— San Francisco’s ‘Equity’ Grading Would End Education. According to my critics/opponents, I did better academically than those who share their demographics because I benefited big time from discrimination against who share their demographics. My critics/opponent are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/san-francisco-s-equity-grading-would-end-education/ar-AA1FHCsq
TOWNHALL
— Barack Obama and the Corruption of Independence Day
https://townhall.com/columnists/scotthogenson/2025/07/04/barack-obama-and-the-corruption-of-independence-day-n2659855
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Musk’s primary threats pose danger for Republicans
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5384620-elon-musk-threatens-republicans/
CBS NEWS
— Sooner or later, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be on Medicaid. What did you do to avoid going on Medicaid? I earned a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. I took and kept jobs that my critics/opponents would never stoop to take or hold.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/as-trump-signs-domestic-policy-bill-some-families-worry-about-medicaid-cuts/
REUTERS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that Republicans disadvantage you, marginalize you, discriminate against you, and oppress you: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-supreme-court-liberals-increasingly-marginalized-conservatives-flex-muscles-2025-07-04/
MSN
— The places in Illinois where the highest earners live. As more and more and more non-limousine liberal Democrats and RINOs move into DuPage County, DuPage County will crash and burn.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/the-places-in-illinois-where-the-highest-earners-live/ss-AA1HD2sv
(FROM THE ARTICLE: #2. DuPage County, Median household income: $94,930, 38.7% above state average, 46.1% above national average, Households earning over $100k: 47.6%, #67 highest among all counties nationwide, Households earning less than $15k: 5.0%, #66 highest among all counties nationwide)
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more and more and more dependency on government. As Democrats move into your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct, anticipate/expect that more and more and more of them will depend on government spending, that is, more and more and more of them will depend on welfare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/us/politics/states-trump-bill.html
— The Democrat Party and its mainstream news media exist to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2025/07/03/donald-trump-current-presidential-approval-rating-june-2025-trumps-latest-poll-numbers-now-today-rcp/84464425007/
— Mamdani Once Claimed to Be Asian and African American. Should It Matter? To stress that you are the following is to claim that you have been discriminated against by Republicans and that you want/need/demand Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, preference, if not reparations: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or that your ancestors have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/nyregion/mamdani-college-black-reaction.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/04/trump-travel-ban-venezuela-maduro/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/04/trump-administration-preparing-deport-detainees-south-sudan/
— Anti-Americans hate the American flag.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/04/trump-flag-patriotism-independence-day/
— 200 Marines sent to Florida to support ICE, U.S. Northern Command says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/04/marines-deploy-florida-ice-operations/
— ICE prepares detention blitz with historic $45 billion in funding
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/04/trump-bill-ice-immigrant-detention/
— Mexico braced for Trump’s mass deportations. They haven’t happened.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/02/trump-deportations-mexico-biden/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTUTE: 6 towns where it ‘always’ feels like the Fourth of July. I should write about the big negative impact on Wheaton Independence Day parades that Democrat and RINO leaders have caused since 1978.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/04/fourth-of-july-patriotic-small-towns/84233861007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against America, and especially against Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/03/patriotism-trump-america-freedom/84357009007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Trump’s not being a veteran against him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/07/04/trump-budget-bill-veteran-healthcare-va/84446523007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-big-beautiful-bill-immigrants-a991470e
— Far too many Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois are anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-republican-party-critics-47bf5e67
— UPS Offers Buyouts to Drivers, a First in Its 117-Year History. What is your position on buyouts and early retirement offers? In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO used Gingrich budget cuts to “offer” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of their older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003.
https://www.wsj.com/business/logistics/ups-driver-buyout-first-117-years-f3be772c
— No One is ‘Gutting’ the Safety Net. The GOP will have to rebut the Democratic and media distortions about their reforms or lose the 2026 election.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-one-is-gutting-the-safety-net-e3029eb4
BLOOMBERG
— Progressives’ Disdain of Genius Is a Problem for the West. My critics/opponents were furious when I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, earned six professional certifications, and earned a professional license. They were especially furious when I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 in 1979, when I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and when I became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-04/progressives-disdain-of-genius-is-a-problem-for-the-west?embedded-checkout=true
FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRr8xdyYDFY
REASON
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/07/04/trump-vs-the-declaration-of-independence/
TIME
— Limousine liberals despise/hate me because my following conservative principles enabled me to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license even though 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, and I had to work my way through college.
https://time.com/4322883/limousine-liberal-history-excerpt/
COMMUNIST PARTY USA
— Communist leaders, socialist leaders,, Democrat leaders, and RINO leaders ever-increasing fight Trump.
https://cpusa.org/article/trumps-bill-passed-the-resistence-continues/
NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
— How Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City mayoral primary could ripple across the US
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2025/Jun/29/how-zohran-mamdanis-win-in-new-york-city-mayoral-primary-could-ripple-across-the-us
GUARDIAN
— The Democrat Party and its mainstream news media exist to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/05/trump-attack-us-media