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August 26, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Congressional committee investigating antisemitism allegations at UIC College of Medicine
https://abc7chicago.com/post/house-education-workforce-committee-investigating-allegations-antisemitism-university-illinois-college-medicine/17648205/

NBC5
— Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juk687H8Yfg

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— According to Democrat leaders, voters want more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/25/in-chicago-us-sen-bernie-sanders-says-progressive-agenda-is-what-the-american-people-want/
— Southwest Detroit small businesses reeling amid Trump immigration crackdown: ‘A disaster’ How successful have Democrat and RINO leaders been making your county, your township, your municipality, and your precinct dependent on cheap illegal labor?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/25/detroit-trump-immigration-crackdown/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/26/washington-dc-schools-reopen-trump-armed-patrols/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Kids in ‘low opportunity’ areas are up to 20 times more likely to be shot. When you were young, what were the employment opportunities where you lived? While I lived in Crete 1948-1972, the best jobs that I could get were a) doing yard work in Crete 1962-1964, b) delivering newspapers in Crete 1962-1966, c) washing dishes in Chicago Heights 1964-1966, d) cleaning golf shoes in Flossmoor and chipping slag and pumping gasoline in South Chicago Heights in 1966, e) delivering mail in Park Forest 1966-1969, f) working on an automobile assembly line in Belvidere in 1970, and e) collecting delinquent federal taxes in in Harvey in 1972. My critics/opponents would never had stooped to take the aforesaid bad jobs and they have always used my taking the aforesaid bad jobs against me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/08/25/northwestern-study-finds-kids-in-low-opportunity-areas-are-up-to-20-times-more-likely-to-be-shot

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Of course, the mainstream news media sides with Pritzker against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250825/local-politics/do-not-come-to-chicago-pritzker-tells-trump-national-guard-not-needed-in-chicago/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PHOTOS: DuPage judge sides with county board in ongoing dispute with clerk
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250825/news/dupage-judge-sides-with-county-board-in-ongoing-dispute-with-clerk/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-25/how-an-undocumented-teen-is-trying-to-get-an-education-amid-trumps-immigration-crackdown

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump hints at investigation into ‘Bridgegate’ hours after Chris Christie criticizes him. Immediately after I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation when I was 40 in 1988, they a) threw me off audits of IRS, b) gave me a very bad job assignment, c) gave me very unfair performance expectations, d) gave me a very unfair performance appraisal, and e) ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. I should write about that.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-hints-at-probe-into-bridgegate-hours-after-chris-christie-criticizes-him

WGLT & 25 NEWS NOW
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/25/bloomingtons-mayor-will-sign-pledge-combat-bigotry-city-council-asked-make-same-commitment/
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-08-25/group-urges-bloomington-leaders-to-sign-pledge-against-intolerance-bigotry

WAND TV
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with teachers and with school staff against parents.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/people-could-face-criminal-charges-for-threatening-teachers-school-staff-under-new-illinois-bill/article_d2dbee68-0f8e-4c0f-a2de-354efcf44e18.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-576/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINIOIS
— What do your critics/opponents use to hint/imply/argue/shout that you are privileged? Mine use a) my parents having sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, b) my avoiding the Vietnam War draft, c) my having been a federal employee for almost 30 years, d) my having bought new cars and real estate, e) my having earned three masters degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license, f) my being married for more than 47 years, and g) my being a federal retiree for almost 28 years. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— House GOP probes antisemitism claims at University of Illinois College of Medicine
https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/us-news/house-gop-probes-antisemitism-claims-at-3-blue-state-medical-schools/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Five major DEI rollbacks reshape higher ed under state and federal pressure. Democrat and RINO leaders will never stop using DEI to get rid of Republicans, they just put it under the table.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/five-major-dei-rollbacks-reshape-higher-ed-state-federal-pressure/28510

COLLEGE FIX
— George Mason University broke federal law with race-based hiring. If the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 could have found qualified Democrats, minorities, and/or females, they would have hired them instead of me.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/george-mason-u-broke-federal-law-with-race-based-hiring-ed-dept-says/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Fires Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. In a published letter to Cook, Trump accused her of ‘deceitful and potentially criminal conduct in a financial matter.’
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-fires-federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook-5906052

FOX NEWS
— Trump will make Americans feel safe and secure again
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377380781112
— From ban to embrace: Trump’s evolution on TikTok
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377361020112

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Teachers Unions Poured Over $40 Million into Left-Wing Groups. For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/teachers-unions-poured-over-40-million-into-left-wing-groups-watchdog-finds/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Trump Is Trying To Remove Leftist Poison From Institutions And They Can’t Stand It
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/25/megyn_kelly_trump_is_trying_to_remove_leftist_poison_from_institutions_and_they_cant_stand_it.html

REAL CLEAR WIRE
— The Democrats’ hackneyed falsehood that Republican gerrymandering in Texas is racist and will end American democracy is not only hysterical – it’s hypocritical. While gerrymandering is ethically impaired, it has been part of U.S. politics for more than 200 years, and a mainstay of Democratic Party election strategy since the 1980s. When redistricting is designed to favor one group over another, it is referred to as gerrymandering. Prior to the 1960s, court challenges to congressional redistricting plans were generally considered to be political questions outside judicial purview. In 1962, however, the Supreme Court held that federal courts could ensure compliance with the constitutional requirement of “one person, one vote” when Tennessee created districts with population variances as large as ten-to-one. Courts also hear challenges to redistricting plans based on claims of racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, and the 15th Amendment, and until recently, also claims that a gerrymander was intended to benefit a particular candidate, ideology or party. . .The congressional map drawn by Illinois Democrats after the 2020 census transformed its congressional delegation from 13 Democrats and 5 Republicans to 14 Democrats and just 3 Republicans – in a state where Donald Trump won 44% of the 2024 vote. The respected Gerrymandering Project at Princeton University gave Illinois an “F” for its partisan gerrymander.
https://www.fox26medford.com/news/politics/is-it-time-to-end-mandated-majority-minority-congressional-districts/article_8949a686-d01a-5fe2-b60b-c92111021d1f.html

TOWNHALL
— Mass Illegal Migration Makes Sex Trafficking Worse
https://townhall.com/columnists/pawelstyrna/2025/08/26/mass-illegal-migration-makes-sex-trafficking-worse-n2662318

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

REUTERS
— Trump says US military may or may not deploy to Chicago
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-us-military-may-or-may-not-deploy-chicago-2025-08-25/

MSN
— Montgomery County launches federal worker hiring preference. As GAO ever-increasingly got rid of its Chicago office employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran during the 1980s and 1990s, there was no GAO employee hiring preference in Chicago.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/montgomery-county-launches-federal-worker-hiring-preference/ar-AA1Jf54X
— Trump’s white South African ‘refugees’ regret moving to the United States. Because Democrat and RINO employers hate Trump, they will not hire South African refugees.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/the-trump-white-house-wants-to-bring-20-000-afrikaners-to-the-us/ss-AA1L0bPP

NEWSWEEK
— Trump supporters are outraged by his announcement that 600,000 Chinese students will be allowed into the United States to study. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if they could have admitted Chinses students instead of me, they would have.
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-rages-trump-chinese-student-numbers-2119215

NEW YORK TIMES
— Can Trump Fire a Fed Governor? The federal judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) ruled that federal agencies can force their employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran to retire, that is, to fire them, if they become active members in class action lawsuits like I did that charge them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/can-trump-fire-a-fed-governor.html
— Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government. On the town with the A-Gays of Washington, who have never been happier to be out, proud and Republican. Republican leaders in Illinois who promote LGBTQ have had their operatives and their dupes work the hardest against me. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/style/gay-men-trump-administration-republicans.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make Blacks hate Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/black-student-achievement-diversity-trump.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders say that Trump melds a fractious coalition: The six factions of Trumpworld Trump’s coalition is built for internal conflict — held together by fealty to him, but riven by differences on immigration, tariffs, abortion and other policies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/26/trump-coalition-factions-tariffs-immigration/
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/25/george-mason-president-refuses-apology-dei/

USA TODAY
— Trump eases red tape on bare-bones health insurance. What this means for you. My critics/opponents are furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance since 1966 and 72% of my wife’s health insurance since 1978. My critics/opponents despise if not hate federal employees like I was for almost 30 years and federal retirees like I have been for almost 28 years.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/25/trump-expand-short-term-health-insurance/85742442007/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD:
— No English, no commercial driving. Crackdown on truckers speeds up. All my critics/opponents not only support George Ryan, they blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for George Ryan’s problems.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/21/trump-crackdown-commercial-truckers-non-english-speakers/85563272007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Newsom
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/23/gavin-newsom-trump-2028-presidential-primary/85740242007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/21/bela-trump-gavin-newsom-dana-perino-trolling/85725925007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— America’s Newest Auto Plant Is Full of Robots. It Still Needs the Human Touch. There were no robots when I worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/hyundai-factory-georgia-automation-jobs-6d7d4e5d
— Some Parents Plan Decades of Allowances. A new camp of financial advice suggests it is OK to help your adult children financially, and you might as well start saving early. My father died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. My mother never worked outside of the home before he died. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/adult-children-allowance-9b57d59c
— Employers want cheap foreign labor
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/whats-news/what-the-immigration-slowdown-means-for-the-us-labor-market/78282d69-4818-4fbe-8cbc-8199cb33df24

FORBES
— How To Choose A College In Trump’s America. Why did you choose the college(s) that you did? I chose UIC in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992 because I wanted to earn degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawhitford/2025/08/26/how-to-choose-a-college-in-trumps-america/

FEDWEEK
— What to Know About the New Federal Application Process. The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, 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 business. I qualified myself for the GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.fedweek.com/careers/what-to-know-about-the-new-federal-application-process/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Illinois Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/26/public-ill-universities-will-provide-medication-abortions

GOOGLE
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/100216277234000582-research-intern/
https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/94968445673579206-global-process-lead/
https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/92835942871507654-performance-expert/
https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/128704760948630214-customer-onboarding-strategist/

AXIOS
— AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers. What impacted entry-level jobs when you were in your 20s? For me, it was the Vietnam War draft. Potential employers saw me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. I did not get offers for jobs that required a college degree until after my application was approved and because of my draft number, I was no longer subject to the draft. By then, my career was already behind schedule. To try to catch up, a) I earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27 and a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31, b) I passed the CPA examination when I was 30 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, and c) I became a licensed CPA when I was 32. But by then, it was too late. The federal government uses up-or-out to rid of its employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who do not make GS-13, currently $117,807/year, by age 25. I did not make GS-13 until I was 38.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/26/ai-entry-level-jobs

INDEPENDENT
— Illinois man secretly gave woman abortion pills to cause a miscarriage and now faces murder charge, police say. Authorities claimed Emerson Evans, 31, had admitted to dosing his girlfriend with mifepristone without her knowledge or consent. Will Democrat leaders side with Evans?
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/illinois-abortion-pills-murder-b2813818.html

August 25, 2025 Evening Edition

August 25, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Johnson, Pritzker, other local leaders ponder steps to counter potential Pentagon plans to deploy National Guard in Chicago
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/24/illinois-chicago-leaders-react-trump-national-guard-deployment/

CRAINS’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Because of Democrat and RINO leadership failures, more than 1.8 million people (15%) in Illinois rely on SNAP to help buy food.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-forum-state-and-local-food-policy/snap-changes-expected-shake-illinois-food-system

ABC7
— Pentagon planning National Guard deployment in Chicago, Mayor Johnson responds
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-responds-washington-post-report-president-donald-trump-preparing-deploy-national-guard-troops/17635877/

NBC5
— Mayor Johnson: Chicago military deployment would be ‘flagrant violation’ of Constitution
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/chicago-military-deployment-would-be-flagrant-violation-of-constitution-mayor/3814180/

CBS2
— 4 dead, 19 hurt in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-aug-22-to-25/

FOX32
— Chicago residents split on National Guard presence as officials resist Trump’s plan
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-residents-split-national-guard-presence-officials-resist-trumps-plan

25 NEWS NOW
— Duckworth sides with Chicago criminals against Trump
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/24/duckworth-deploying-national-guard-troops-chicago-comes-trumps-authoritarian-playbook/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-575/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Another $26 Billion of Debt Has Magically Disappeared From Illinois Financial Statements
https://wirepoints.org/poof-another-26-billion-of-debt-has-magically-disappeared-from-illinois-financial-statements-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do your critics/opponents do? My critics/opponents ever-increasingly paint themselves as being protectors of those who are the following, if not champions of those who are the following: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, have less money than others, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.golillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— From Murder Capital to Migrant Crisis: Why Trump Must Deploy the National Guard to Chicago
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/from-murder-capital-to-migrant-crisis-why-trump-must-deploy-the-national-guard-to-chicago.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Partner with us’: Rahm Emanuel on potential National Guard deployment to Chicago
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/24/rahm-emanuel-ex-chicago-mayor-questions-potential-deployment-national/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Vance says GOP redistricting a ‘push back’ to Democrats ‘aggressively’ gerrymandering. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander. Pritzker has had tremendous success gerrymandering Illinois.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3780141/vance-republican-redistricting-democrats-gerrymandering/

NEW YORK POST
— Democrats’ policies are the problem
https://nypost.com/2025/08/24/opinion/democrats-wokeism-is-annoying-but-their-policies-are-the-problem/
— House Dem leader Jeffries accuses Trump of trying to ‘steal’ midterms with redistricting. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander. Pritzker has had tremendous success gerrymandering Illinois.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/24/us-news/hakeem-jeffries-accuses-trump-of-trying-to-steal-midterms/

AMERICAN THINKER
— The fall of wokeness
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/the_fall_of_wokeness.html
— The Return of Eugenics
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_return_of_eugenics.html

DAILY SIGNAL
— 3 Reasons True Christians Must Oppose Transgender Orthodoxy
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/24/why-true-christians-must-reject-cruel-dehumanizing-false-gospel-transgender-orthodoxy/
— Court Upholds Ban on ‘Unusually Dangerous Weapons’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/24/federal-court-upholds-connecticut-ban-on-assault-weapons/
— What Is the Democrat Alternative to Trump?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/22/what-is-democrat-alternative-trump/
— Unhinged Washington Protesters Show Why Democrats Are Losing Ground
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/23/unhinged-washington-protesters-show-why-democrats-are-losing-ground/
— US an Outlier on Mail-In Voting Among Advanced Democracies
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/24/trump-wants-get-rid-mail-ballots-most-other-countries-already-have/
— Mamdani Surges Ahead in NYC Race, Promises to Dismantle Traditional Policing
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/24/mamdani-surges-ahead-in-nyc-race-promises-to-dismantle-traditional-policing/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Modern Radicals Diminish Martin Luther King Jr.’s Message
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/08/modern-radicals-diminish-martin-luther-king-jr-s-message/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrats are on the wrong side of normal. The people — they’re out of step with the norms of society. To vote for Democrats is to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/24/reince_priebus_the_electoral_elephant_in_the_room_is_democrats_are_on_the_wrong_side_of_normal.html

TOWNHALL
— Crackdown and Clean-Up in DC
https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2025/08/25/crackdown-and-clean-up-in-dc-n2662267

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump to sign order targeting cashless bail
https://thehill.com/homenews/5468513-donald-trump-cashless-bail/

CNN
— Chicago Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Chicago criminals. How has Chicago crime impacted you? The theft of my 1969 Dodge Charger SE while I worked for IRS in Chicago in 1971 had a big impact on me. The theft of my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air while I worked for IRS in Chicago in 1973 had a big impact on me.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/politics/trump-crime-washington-dc-chicago-baltimore-national-guard-analysis

MSN
— More Americans applying for refugee status in Canada
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-americans-applying-for-refugee-status-in-canada-data-shows/ar-AA1KYyey

AOL
— OPM has announced that federal employees will no longer be required to send a “5 things” email at the end of each working week, during which they were expected to summarize their work and list five things they accomplished. What do you accomplish? I put together and send out a GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter each and every morning, and when warranted, an evening edition too.
https://www.aol.com/white-house-ends-controversial-practice-140747345.html

ABC NEWS
— Four ways ICE is training new agents and scaling up. I should write about the 6 months of training that IRS gave me in 1971 to be a GS-7 Revenue Officer, currently $55,850/year.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ways-ice-training-new-agents-scaling-124929833

THE HILL & REUTERS & AOL & POLITICO & NBC NEWS & YAHOO & MSN & LOS ANGELES TIMES & ABC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander. Pritzker has had tremendous success gerrymandering Illinois.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5465782-partisan-gerrymandering-democracy-warning/
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5466970-dont-forget-who-unleashed-the-partisan-gerrymandering-war/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5467859-vance-republicans-fairness-congressional-map/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-redistricting-push-could-bring-decades-republican-rule-us-house-2025-08-24/
https://www.aol.com/news/political-gerrymandering-legal-083543528.html
https://www.aol.com/democrats-gavin-newsom-win-gold-095500751.html
https://www.aol.com/majority-dems-gerrymandering-never-acceptable-141205887.html
https://www.aol.com/newsom-announces-liberation-day-november-223808887.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/24/jeffries-democratic-redistricting-texas-california-00521839
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/jd-vance-defends-gop-redistricting-democrats-have-gerrymandered-their-states-245658693958
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-congressional-map-faces-court-220303211.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-supreme-court-declines-to-halt-dem-led-gerrymandering-efforts-in-the-state/ar-AA1KVOrp
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-redraws-congressional-map-here-s-the-worst-gerrymanders-in-the-us/ar-AA1KX0Pj
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-08-24/california-redistricting-newsom-gerrymander-citizens-commission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulfEIZ9wYo

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Says Chicago and New York Are Next for Federal Crackdown on Crime. President Trump wants to use Washington as a template to target crime in cities around the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/trump-chicago-new-york-crime.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/opinion/trump-crime-national-guard-community.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that deportations reach a new high
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/08/21/us/trump-deportations-summer-data-immigration-arrests.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders oppose vetting of visa holders
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/continuous-vetting-visa-holders.html
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/politics/trump-far-right.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Chicago leaders denounce Pentagon plans for military deployment in city. Chicago’s leaders sharply criticized Pentagon proposals that The Washington Post reported could deploy thousands of troops there.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/24/chicago-national-guard-deployment/
— The government’s Intel stake is antithetical to American greatness. The Trump-engineered 10% stake in long-struggling Intel is a dangerous intrusion of government into private enterprise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/24/trump-intel-government-marketplace/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/23/trump-republicans-midterms-redistricting/85769182007/
— President Trump threatens Chris Christie with new ‘Bridgegate’ investigation. My Democrat IRS superiors were furious when GAO ruled in my favor in Diersen v. IRS in 1977. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11-0 & https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11 To punish me, they did not promote me beyond GS-12. They disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. They badmouthed me to GAO when I applied to transfer to GAO in 1980.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/24/donald-trump-chris-christie-bridgegate-investigation/85811006007/
— Five ways students can avoid or reduce college debt. Back in the good old days, I was able to work myself through college delivering mail par-time and graduate debt-free from NIU owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1970. I would not have been able to do that if my parents had not provided me with room and board in their Crete home while took courses at UIC 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/15/ways-to-avoid-reduce-college-debt/85674155007/
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/23/trump-republicans-midterms-redistricting/85769182007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Red vs. Blue: Who’s Next in the Redistricting Fight. Republican and Democratic legislatures consider new maps to tilt the U.S. House their way.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/texas-california-redistricting-congressional-maps-fd2af203
— FRONT PAGE: Trump’s Next Fight With Universities: Racial ‘Proxies’ in Admissions. Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to give preference to Democrats and to RINOs, that is, to get rid of Republicans. Because Democrats and RINOs are far more of the following than Republicans, Democrats and RINOs give them preference big time: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write about how Democrats and RINOs above me who have given the most preference to those who are the aforesaid since the 1960s.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trumps-next-fight-with-universities-racial-proxies-in-admissions-c8677633
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In late July, Attorney General Pam Bondi warned in a memo against using “unlawful proxies” for race—such as geography or applicant essays on overcoming hardships—in admissions. Soon after, the U.S. Education Department announced it would require universities to report new data on applicants, broken down by race, to “ensure race-based preferences are not used.”)
— Training Speeds Up as ICE Ramps Up’ I should write about the 6 months of training that IRS gave me in 1971 to be a GS-7 Revenue Officer, currently $55,850/year.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/we-spent-six-hours-at-ice-training-school-heres-what-we-learned-bdbc175d
— Scientists Strip ‘Diversity’ Language From Research to Keep Federal Grants. To promote diversity is to promote discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/health/scientists-are-removing-dei-language-to-keep-federal-grants-d092833b
— The Doctors Who Cry ‘Science’ The AMA aligns itself with the left on abortion, climate, transgenderism and affirmative action.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-doctors-who-cry-science-506d9b4e

FORBES
— Bernie Sanders Holds Rally In Chicago After Trump Threatens To Send Troops There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohnTvh50YGo

BLOOMBERG
— Trump Threatens NBC, ABC Licenses Over News Coverage. My critics/opponents do not threaten me, instead, they have their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me. In 2024, they had their operatives and their dupes throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they had their operatives and their dupes end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-nbc-abc-licenses-030745625.html

WASHINGTON MONTHLY
— For Democrats. education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/24/higher-education-trump/

POLITICO
— Democrats: Federal agency watchdogs burdened by staff losses. Lawmakers say budget cuts, hiring freezes and departures are hollowing out inspectors general offices. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/08/18/dems-agency-watchdogs-burdened-by-staff-losses-00513534

MIRROR
— Staggering number of Americans applying for refugee status in Canada since Trump took office
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/staggering-number-americans-applying-refugee-1347603

HUFFINGTON POST
— Chicago Mayor Blasts Trump Military Threats As ‘Flagrant Violation’ Of Constitution. “The city of Chicago does not need a military occupation,” he said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brandon-johnson-chicago-trump-national-guard_n_68ab93b3e4b0176c52bfa5f7

GOOGLE AI
— Advocate conservative principles I advocate conservative principles. I advocate the Republican Party platform. My critics/opponents reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the planks in the Republican Party platform. I should write about my critics/opponents and the planks that they reject. Most commonly, they reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.google.com/search?q=advocate+conservative+principles
— Slaves built America. My critics/opponents have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In defense of my ancestors, I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois. That on my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago for 10 years before they homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township. That on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border before they bought that farm.
https://www.google.com/search?q=slaves+built+america

August 24, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Illinois leaders speak out on report Trump preparing to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago. Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-leaders-condemn-report-president-donald-trump-preparing-deploy-federal-troops-chicago/17628504/

NBC5
— Pritzker calls Trump’s statements on National Guard deployment an abuse of power. “Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we’ll straighten that one out probably next,” Trump said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pritzker-calls-trumps-statements-on-national-guard-deployment-an-abuse-of-power/3814097/

CBS2
— Pentagon planning military deployment in Chicago; Pritzker accuses Trump of “attempting to manufacture a crisis”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/brandon-johnson-donald-trump-threat-national-guard-crime-chicago/

FOX32
— ‘There is no emergency’: Pritzker responds to reports Pentagon plans military deployment to Chicago.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pritzker-responds-reports-pentagon-plansmilitary-deployment-chicago

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump was once a Republican Party outsider. Now it’s his GOP and the MAGA faithful are in the lead.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/23/maga-republican-party/
— How Trump’s directive to submit race-based admissions data impacts Chicago-area universities. With less pressure to admit Democrats who are minority, female, and/or citizens of foreign countries, anticipate/expect that more Republicans who are White and/or male will be admitted.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/23/trump-race-based-admissions-data/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pentagon planning military deployment to Chicago in coming weeks. The Washington Post reported Saturday that Defense Department officials have been planning for weeks to deploy federal troops to Chicago.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/23/pentagon-military-deployment-chicago-report-pritzker
— New Illinois law expands protections for reporters from lawsuits. Pritzker signed anti-SLAPP legislation that now explicitly shields journalists from suits intended to stifle public participation. Of course, Illinois Democrat and RINO leaders do not want this to apply to Republican journalists.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/22/slapp-lawsuits-protection-reporters-pritzker-news-medi
— How dependent on Medicaid funding have Democrat leaders made your hospital?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/08/22/medicaid-trump-cuts-big-beautiful-bill-health-care-roseland-community-hospital

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Anticipate/expect that under the Illinois Democrat leaders, the more students that schools have who are minority, female, LGBTQ, and/or illegal, the more taxpayer money that they will get.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250823/education/how-much-additional-revenue-did-your-school-district-receive-through-states-evidence-based-funding/
— How much more gerrymandering, that is, packing and cracking, will Pritzker do assure that Republicans cannot be elected in any of Illinois’ 17 congressional districts instead of just 14 of them?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250823/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-fighting-fire-with-fire-redistricting-free-for-all-portends-disaster-for-amer/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their anti-Israel protestors.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250823/us-congress-politics/lawmakers-continuing-public-events-despite-disruptive-pro-palestinian-protests/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— For Democrats, colleges exist, including commuter colleges, to crank out good little Democrats. UIC was a commuter college when I attended it 1966-1968. UIC failed to make me a Democrat.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/a-commuter-college-thought-it-could-avoid-trump-s-education-crackdown-here-s-what-happened/article_e8b87d9d-de74-5a96-9c08-2fdad3b926b7.html

SHAW LOCAL
— Underwood pressed on Israel, redistricting at DeKalb town hall
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/08/23/us-rep-underwood-pressed-on-israel-redistricting-at-dekalb-town-hall/

WGEM
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wgem.com/2025/08/23/new-laws-aim-shield-providers-abortion-meds-ban-ticketing-schools/

WMBD
— Texas, Florida seek to join legal challenge to abortion pill.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/08/22/texas-florida-seek-to-join-legal-challenge-to-abortion-pill/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Del Mar and Bailey: It might be true, but is it good?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/23/thoughts-on-a-gubernatorial-ticket-containing-darin-bailey-and-aaron-del-mar/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Gavin Newsom is the likely Democratic presidential nominee
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3779080/gavin-newsom-is-the-likely-democratic-presidential-nominee/

NEW YORK POST
— Cracker Barrel’s marketing fiasco shows investors are making woke a massive risk factor
https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/business/cracker-barrels-marketing-fiasco-shows-investors-are-making-woke-a-massive-risk-factor/
— Self-deportation is crucial to undoing the Biden illegal-migrant mess
https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/opinion/donald-trump-doesnt-have-to-deport-10-million-illegals-they-will-leave-by-themselves/
— Pritzker says Trump trying to ‘manufacture a crisis’ as admin plans National Guard deployment to Chicago
https://nypost.com/2025/08/24/us-news/illinois-gov-pritzker-says-trump-trying-to-manufacture-a-crisis-as-admin-plans-national-guard-deployment-to-chicago/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Demography is destiny and control of the House. How many illegals have given birth in America so far?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/demography_is_destiny_and_control_of_the_house.html
— Trump Derangement Syndrome
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/trump_derangement_syndrome_suffering_psychologists.html

BREITBART
— Trump Mobilizing 1,700 National Guardsmen to Help Fight Illegal Immigration and Crime Across America
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/08/23/trump-mobilizing-1700-national-guardsmen-to-help-fight-illegal-immigration-and-crime-across-america/
— National Guard to assist immigration law enforcement in 19 states
https://www.breitbart.com/news/national-guard-to-assist-immigration-law-enforcement-in-19-states/
— Pritzker Slams Trump for Saying Chicago Crime Crackdown May Be Next. Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/23/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-slams-trump-saying-chicago-crime-crackdown-may-be-next/
— Trump hails new Texas electoral map aimed at keeping grip on Congress
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-hails-new-texas-electoral-map-aimed-at-keeping-grip-on-congress/
— Abbott says he’ll swiftly sign new maps on his desk that will boost GOP in 2026
https://www.breitbart.com/news/texas-gov-abbott-vows-to-approve-gop-leaning-congressional-voting-map/
— Newsom Hopes to Turn Gerrymander Fight into Referendum on Trump
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/24/newsom-hopes-to-turn-gerrymander-fight-into-referendum-on-trump/

DAILY CALLER
— The Woke Media Is Wrong. America’s Cities Need To Be Safe Again.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/23/opinion-the-woke-media-is-wrong-americas-cities-need-to-be-safe-again-jorge-martinez/

DAILY SIGNAL
— DeSantis Urges Congress to Defund Sanctuary States That License Illegal Aliens as Drivers. How many illegals have Illinois Democrat and RINO leaders given licenses to so far?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/23/ron-desantis-urges-congress-defund-sanctuary-states/
— The Rise of Open Racism From the Left
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/22/joy-reids-racist-rant-exposes-dei-hypocrisy/

DAILY WIRE
— Obama Judge Blocks Trump From Defunding Sanctuary Cities. Trump has called sanctuary jurisdictions “death traps.” How successful have Democrat and RINO leaders been so far making your municipality a sanctuary municipality?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-judge-blocks-trump-from-defunding-sanctuary-cities

FOX NEWS
— Gianno Caldwell mulls Senate bid as Chicagoans are ‘begging for change’ on crime woes. Public safety advocate weighs run for Dick Durbin’s seat as Trump pushes federal crime crackdown. Gianno began his government relations career serving as the Director of Government Relations for Naperville Township. His primary focus was to develop strategies to cut costs relative to transportation, healthcare, taxes, pensions, and local government. In this position, he successfully lobbied the reduction of property tax rates for the whole of Naperville Township.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gianno-caldwell-mulls-senate-bid-chicagoans-begging-change-crime-woes
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican public safety advocate Gianno Caldwell is mulling a bid for the open Illinois Senate seat in 2026 amid growing conversations about crime in America’s cities. Earlier this month, Caldwell was the keynote speaker at the Illinois Republican Party’s Republican Day event at the state fair, where he touted his record on law and order. Caldwell’s brother, Christian, was killed in 2022 in a Chicago drive-by shooting at the age of 18. “I’ve been about this fight for many years, public service, I’ve worked in every level of government that you can imagine and certainly I think there’s time for a law-and-order U.S. Senate candidate to come to the forefront in Illinois,” said Caldwell, a Fox News contributor and founder of the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety. “My brother’s legacy has become my mission and to save lives,” Caldwell said. “And if that’s something that I can continue in a U.S. Senate seat, that’s worth considering for the many lives that have been lost and the legacies that need to be furthered in the state of Illinois and my home city of Chicago.” Caldwell’s hometown of Chicago is getting renewed attention as President Donald Trump wants to take National Guard and federal agent deployment to lower crime nationwide following the takeover of policing in Washington DC. Both cities have dealt with violent crime woes, which have led to teens and children dying in numerous tragic cases. “My brother’s murder was something that I thought needed to have a conversation to address what has been going on in Chicago,” Caldwell said. “So this impacted me in a very deep and personal way. And when I think about what President Trump is doing by saying, ‘Look, we’re doing this in DC already. We want to take this to other places around the country, I applaud him. Why? Because people have been begging for change in the city of Chicago.” Caldwell spoke even as a backlash has grown from Democrats who have said that the heavy law enforcement presence in the nation’s capital is over-the-top. “American soldiers and airmen policing American citizens on American soil is #UnAmerican,” Mayor Muriel Bowser posted to X last week.)
— Chicagoans are ‘begging for change’ amid Trump’s DC police takeover. Fox News contributor Gianno Caldwell explains that he is mulling a bid for U.S. Senate in Illinois amid crime woes in Chicago and other cities throughout the country.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377293879112
— Over 80% of students lie about their views to appease liberal professors. Because I majored in business, accounting, and finance years ago, I did not have to do that.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/multi-college-study-indicating-over-80-students-lie-about-views-appease-liberal-professors
— Pritzker says Trump trying to ‘manufacture a crisis’ as admin plans National Guard deployment to Chicago. The Pentagon has reportedly planned a military deployment to Chicago for weeks, which could include thousands of National Guard troops.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gov-pritzker-says-trump-trying-manufacture-crisis-admin-plans-national-guard-deployment-chicago

NEWS BUSTERS
— Democrats and RINOs use wokeness/wokeism to destroy Republicans. All my critics/opponents promote wokeness/wokeism.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/08/23/npr-platforms-nikole-hannah-jones-reviewing-museums-wokeness-fascism

PJ MEDIA
— Pride Cometh Before the Fall
https://pjmedia.com/caskeet/2025/08/23/pride-cometh-before-the-fall-n4942985

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSN
— Admitted students’ GPAs and test scores won’t show Trump what he thinks they’ll show. What harmed your GPA and test scores? For me, it was a) my spending far too many hours washing dishes instead of studying when I earned my diploma from Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966, b) my spending far too many hours delivering mail instead of studying while I took undergraduate business courses at UIC 1966-1968 and NIU in 1969, and c) my focusing on my IRS and GAO jobs too much instead of studying while I took graduate courses in business at Loyola 1972-1976, accounting at DePaul 1976-1980, and finance at IIT 1992-1997, prepared to take the CPA examination in 1979, and preparing to take the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/admitted-students-gpas-and-test-scores-won-t-show-trump-what-he-thinks-theyll-show/ar-AA1KPJaT

NEW YORK TIMES
— Where Your Medicines Are Made. President Trump’s planned pharmaceutical tariffs threaten to hit many of the most common and well-known drugs that Americans take.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/health/prescription-drugs-manufacturing-tariffs.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How soon will they officially destroy anyone and everyone who does not promote LGBTQ?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/politics/orlando-pulse-shooting-rainbow-crosswalk-memorial.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown. Military officials are sketching out a plan that could deploy a few thousand National Guard members, officials said. The use of active-duty forces has also been discussed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/23/trump-chicago-military-national-guard/
— New GOP bill is latest push to extend federal control of D.C. police. The bill joins others from Republican legislators aiming to grant the federal government extended power over D.C. police.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/23/dc-federal-takeover-police-extend/
— Democrats have floated redistricting in Illinois, but the congressional map there already favors their party, leaving limited room for gains.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/23/trump-gop-redistricting-missouri-indiana/

LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL
— What is the Democrat alternative to Trump?
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/opinion-columns/victor-davis-hanson/victor-davis-hanson-what-is-the-democrat-alternative-to-trump-3429167/

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.bgov.com/litigation/dozens-of-cities-win-new-block-on-trumps-sanctuary-defunding

GAO
— Democrats run GAO. The more of the following that you are a) the less likely that the Democrats who run GAO will hire you and b) if you are a GAO employee, the sooner that they will get rid of you: heterosexual, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.gao.gov/about/careers/why-work-for-gao/diversity-and-inclusion

CPA JOURNAL
— Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Hiring in Public Accounting. The accounting profession had no use for me because I was too old. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27 in 1976. While I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, I did not do that until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. While I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, I did not do that until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. The accounting profession ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed what I had learned a) 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, b) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $99,069-$153,151/year, c) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, and d) earning professional certifications in fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. But beyond that, the accounting profession has always been under tremendous pressure to hire, retain, and promote minorities, females, and younger people.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/08/18/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-hiring-in-public-accounting-2/

POLITICO
— Illinois has been known for its aggressive Democratic gerrymanders, and it currently has just three Republican seats it can target. It’s also unclear Illinois Democrats have the political will to take on redrawing the congressional map — most of the redistricting talk this week has been on a whole other set of maps. Former Barack Obama chief of staff Bill Daley, a Chicago Democrat, and Ray LaHood, a Peoria Republican who served as Obama’s transportation secretary, rolled out a “Fair Maps Illinois” proposal this week that would end the process of state lawmakers drawing their own districts.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/23/trump-redistricting-california-texas-gerrymander-00521573

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/black-psychology-matters/202508/making-psychology-white-again-the-impact-of-dismantling-dei

GOOGLE AI
— AI in journalism. Your GOPUSA Illinois Editor does rely on AI to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together. Your GOPUSA Illinois Editor uses what he has learned a) serving as your GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, b) working for GAO for almost 18 years 1980-1997, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, d) serving as the TAPROOT Republican of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, e) serving as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, f) serving as the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010, g) serving as an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004, h) earning master’s degrees in business (1976), accounting (1980), and finance (1997), i) earning professional certifications in accounting (1979), internal auditing (1981), fraud examination (1990), government financial management (1994), financial services auditing (1996), and forensic accounting (1997), j) becoming a licensed CPA (1981), k) filing lawsuits, l) being the subject of a nasty 4-page Money Magazine article in 1978 ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ), m) etc.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ai+journalism

August 23, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco ruled late Friday that Trump cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/22/trump-sanctuary-city-funding-ruling/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Democrat leaders promote Chicago pastor Donovan Price who says to Trump “Stay out of our city.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250822/nation-and-world-politics/stay-out-of-our-city-chicago-officials-slam-trumps-threat-to-target-city-in-next-crime-crackdown/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do things that increase poverty and crime.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pritzker-says-safety-of-illinois-people-the-highest-priority-as-trump-targets-chicago-in-crime-crackdown/3813798/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-mayor-has-grave-concerns-as-trump-threatens-to-send-in-national-guard/3813669/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do things that increase poverty and crime.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/mayor-brandon-johnson-president-trump-chicago-federal-law-enforcement-crime-national-guard/

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do things that increase poverty and crime.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/08/22/donald-trump-national-guard-troops-chicago-threat-brandon-johnson-jb-pritzker-washington-dc

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders threaten to use the Texas fight against Democrat gerrymandering to gerrymander Illinois, California, and New York even more.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/texas-lawmakers-give-final-approval-to-redrawn-congressional-map-favoring-gop-send-to-governor/article_4f5e4910-98d8-570f-8a42-c522ebbbb7cd.html

25 NEWS NOW
— Republican central Illinois official responds to White House calls for the end of mail-in voting
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/22/central-illinois-official-responds-white-house-calls-end-mail-in-voting/

WCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wcia.com/news/illinois-news/new-statewide-hotline-helps-lgbtq-people-navigate-illinois-laws/

AXIOS CHICAGO
— Illinois Democrats ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/08/22/illinois-lgbtq-hotline-pride-connect-trump-legal-rights

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Mayor Still Wallows in the Worst Job Approval Rating in the Country
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-mayor-worst-job-approval-rating

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Trump Pushes Major Election Reforms
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/trump-pushes-major-election-reforms/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Wirepoints Faces 74% Revenue Drop Since 2020 as Spending Spikes 57% as Leader Eyes Governor Run on Fiscal Issues. Since its peak, the number of GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter subscribers has decreased a) because subscribers give up on Illinois politics and government, b) because subscribers die, and c) because subscribers move out of Illinois. But the number of my subscribers who are my critics/opponents and who read my newsletters for opposition research increases. Further, subscribers and potential subscribers see that the following not only do not encourage reading my newsletters, but that they discourage reading my newsletters by taking adverse actions against me including more recently removing me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and ending by service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I should write about the aforesaid. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. Further, subscribers and potential subscribers see that while I promote my direct competitors, they do not promote me.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/wirepoints-faces-74-revenue-drop-since-2020-as-spending-spikes-57-as-leader-eyes-governor-run-on-fiscal-issues.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Dabrowski, a close ally of state central committee member Jeanne Ives and Naples-based Chicago radio host Dan Proft, regularly offers commentary on Illinois’ finances and economy. He has led Wirepoints since its founding in 2018. . .For years, Dabrowski has maintained his distance from Trump, carefully avoiding any hint of an endorsement. Dabrowski will face DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick in the Republican primary for governor, with additional candidates expected to enter the race in the coming months.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Words Democrats should avoid to stop sounding like ‘enforcers of wokeness’ — according to center-left think tank
https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/us-news/words-democrats-should-avoid-to-stop-sounding-like-enforcers-of-wokeness/
— National Guard mobilizing up to 1,700 in 19 states amid immigration, crime crackdown
https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/trump-to-mobilize-national-guard-in-19-states-in-crackdown-on-crime-illegal-immigration/

DAILY WIRE
— Your Child’s School Might Still Be Pushing Transgender Ideology Despite Trump’s Orders. Many schools still allow boys in girls’ bathrooms and to participate in girls’ sports.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/your-childs-school-might-still-be-pushing-transgender-ideology-despite-trumps-orders

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— New York State Claims Right to Give Welfare to Illegal Aliens. States should not get federal money for breaking the law.
https://www.fairus.org/press-release/new-york-state-claims-right-give-welfare-illegal-aliens

NEW AMERICAN
— Is Wokeness Really Dying? Or Is It Just Undergoing a Luciferian Change in Form?
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/is-wokeness-really-dying-or-is-it-just-undergoing-a-luciferian-change-in-form/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Pritzker slams Trump’s threat to target Chicago next: ‘We don’t play those games’
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5467209-jb-pritzker-donald-trump-chicago-crime-crackdown/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat Chicago leaders vehemently oppose Trump cracking down on crime in Chicago. A Chicago pastor says ““Stay out of our city.” Because of crime, I left Chicago in 1971 and my wife and I left Chicago in 1978. While I worked for IRS in Chicago, a) my 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in Chicago in 1971 and b) my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen in Chicago in 1973.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-chicago-likely-next-193746631.html
— Florida puts rainbow crosswalks in the crosshairs, as cities face deadlines to remove them. If you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat and RINO employers a) will not hire you and b) will get rid of you if you are an employee.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-lgbtq-rainbow-crosswalks-desantis-58b22e99150bc89f91362e0bd99aa52a

NEWSWEEK
— Florida Locals Defy Ron DeSantis By Restoring Pulse Rainbow Crosswalk. If you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat and RINO employers a) will not hire you and b) will get rid of you if you are an employee.
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-locals-ron-desantis-pulse-rainbow-crosswalk-2117628

MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint Democrats as having fought against slavery in the Civil War and b) paint Republicans as having fought for slavery in the Civil War. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint today’s Republicans as being yesterday’s Democrats. All my ancestors were Republicans because Republicans fought against slavery.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/here-we-go-again-trump-wants-smithsonian-to-focus-on-americas-brightness-and-hide-the-dark-truth-about-slavery/ar-AA1KT09s

MSNBC
— Trump admin lowers FBI recruitment standards in a deeply ironic twist. The administration is reportedly set to lower its education and training standards for people looking to work for the nation’s top law enforcement agency.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-patel-fbi-recruitment-standards-lower-rcna226690
— Quigley: FBI’s search of Bolton will have ‘extraordinary chilling effect.’ The adverse actions that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and dupes take against me have had a chilling effect on conservatives in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/fbi-s-search-of-bolton-will-have-extraordinary-chilling-effect-rep-quigley-245600325582

NBC NEWS
— Pulse Memorial’s rainbow crosswalk removed. If you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat and RINO employers a) will not hire you and b) will get rid of you if you are an employee.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/pulse-memorial-rainbow-crosswalk-removed-orlando-florida-rcna226335

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO Leaders Decry That Republicans Elect Joe Gruters, a Trump Ally From Florida, to Lead the R.N.C.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/rnc-joe-gruters-trump-republicans.html
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve Governors. According to the judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO, the Democrats who run the federal government can fire federal employees because they are Republican, and especially if they are Republican and White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. And even more especially if they complain about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/can-trump-fire-a-fed-governor.html
— Year Will End With 300,000 Fewer Federal Workers. The reduction would be the largest single-year decline in civilian federal employment since World War II. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/trump-federal-workers.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump nominates his presidential personnel chief Sergio Gor to be U.S. ambassador to India. Gor has hired almost 4,000 people into government roles. My undergraduate major and my MBA area of concentration was personnel management. If I could do it over again, it would have been accounting. I say that because I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt when I was 30 and 32 respectively and I became a licensed CPA when I was 32. But by the time I did the foresaid, the accounting profession deemed me to be far too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/23/sergio-gor-trump-india-ambassador/
— Democrat leaders say that FBI raid on Bolton is part of a Trump revenge campaign. My Democrat superiors in the federal government took adverse actions against me a) because I refused to become a Democrat, b) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and c) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. They would not have taken adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. But if I had been any of the aforesaid, I would not have had anything to complain about.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/22/john-bolton-trump-fbi-revenge-search/
— Trump turns $11B in US government funds into a 10% stake in downtrodden Intel. Trump on Friday announced the U.S. government has secured a 10% stake in the struggling Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal completed just a couple weeks after he depicted the company’s CEO as a conflicted leader unfit for the job. Constructively, my Democrat IRS superiors treated me like I was unfit to be a GS-13 and my Democrat GAO superiors treated me like I was unfit to be a GS-14. In my defense, while I worked for IRS, I earned an MBA when I was 27 and I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 While I worked for GAO, I earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32, I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading when I was 48.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/22/trump-intel-us-equity-stake/1d42ac44-7f8e-11f0-971c-6c8e53bd2f21_story.html
— Trump ever-increasingly fights race based preference giving. My critics/opponents promote race and gender based preference giving, that is, they discriminate against Whites and men.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/22/college-grants-hispanic-populations/
— Appeals court rules that the $515 million in fines against Trump were excessive. The adverse actions that my Democrat superiors in the federal government took against me because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination were excessive. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old, delayed my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions, and disallowed my travel vouchers. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign and disallowed my sick leave requests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/22/trump-james-fraud-lawsuit-appeal/3bbdbd24-7fa9-11f0-971c-6c8e53bd2f21_story.html
— ‘Stay out of our city’: Chicago officials slam Trump’s threat to target city in next crime crackdown. President Donald Trump says Chicago will likely be the next target of his efforts to address crime, homelessness and illegal immigration. Because of crime, I left Chicago in 1971 and my wife and I left Chicago in 1978. While I worked for IRS in Chicago, a) my 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in Chicago in 1971 and b) my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen in Chicago in 1973.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/22/trump-crime-crackdown-dc-chicago-new-york/948da974-7f8f-11f0-971c-6c8e53bd2f21_story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Test That Rules Chinese Society. The gaokao is China’s college entrance exam, but it shapes the country and its people far beyond the classroom.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/the-test-that-rules-chinese-society-dd9c8dc7
— The Price of Parenting. My Democrat GAO superiors decried the time and money they needed to raise their children. Their spouses had little or no income.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/the-price-of-parenting-284b505a

POLITICO
— Democrat leaders say that what Texas is doing is gerrymandering.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/23/texas-passes-congressional-map-gerrymander-00519116

DAILY KOS
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. If my parents had sent me to Crete Elementary instead of Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete and Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest, I would not have been able to earn an ACT score of 24, graduate from Crete-Monee High School in the upper 20% of my class, and get accepted by UIC.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/22/2339791/-Oklahoma-Imposes-PragerU-Wokeness-Test-on-Teachers-Undermining-Education-and-Democracy

AXIOS
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents who falsely claim to be Republican will not only switch parties and become Democrats, they will crow that they have always done everything that they could to destroy Republicans. Far too many get involved in Republican politics to get the Republican Party to strike the following planks from its platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). The more of the aforesaid planks that they reject, the harder that they work against me.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/23/fbi-probes-trumps-political-enemies

GOOGLE AI
— Ukraine officially declared its independence from the Soviet Union on August 24, 1991, a declaration overwhelmingly supported by a popular referendum on December 1, 1991. This established Ukraine as an independent nation, though it has since faced numerous challenges to its sovereignty, particularly Russian aggression, which escalated into a full-scale invasion in 2022.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ukraine+independence

August 22, 2025 Evening Edition

August 22, 2025

Who will Pritzker pick to lead his gerrymandering, that is, his cracking and packing?

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/empathy-sin-conservative-christian-argument/3812929/

CBS2
— Could Chicago museums be affected by Trump administration review of Smithsonian museums?
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/could-some-chicago-museums-be-affected-by-trump-administrations-smithsonian-crackdown/

WTTW
— Veterans Affairs Workers, Unions Push Trump Administration to Reinstate Collective Bargaining Rights. If GAO had been unionized, I might still be a GAO employee. My Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, d) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/21/veterans-affairs-workers-unions-push-trump-administration-reinstate-collective

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly have their operatives and their dupes sue Trump. Beyond overwhelmingly, courts favor Democrats. I should write about the lawsuits that I have filed. My critics/opponents have always sided with the defendants.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/president-trump-legal-cases/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/22/column-donald-trump-human-rights-shackelford/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lower education standards.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/22/education-proficiency-reading-math-isbe/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— New Chicago police oversight boss has been wiping out recommendations to fire cops. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office for almost 18 years, every time the Democrats who ran GAO assigned the office a new manager, they gave him/her a list of employees to get rid of. Of course, I was on all those lists. My doing the following helped me survive for almost 18 years: a) I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, b) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, c) I became a licensed CPA, d) I earned four more job-related professional certifications, and e) I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/08/22/lakenya-white-civilian-office-police-accountability-chicago-police-department-kersten-snelling

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use slavery to get more votes from Blacks.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250822/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-bad-move-trumps-targeting-of-smithsonian-a-disturbing-attempt-to-gloss-ove/
— Russia strike hits US-owned factory in Ukraine. Flex has four locations in Buffalo Grove.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250821/nation-and-world-politics/russia-hammers-ukraine-with-drones-and-missiles-as-peace-efforts-drag-on/

ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO
— Illinois state Sen. Christopher Belt readies for congressional redistricting. How successful will Pritzker be in further gerrymandering Illinois so that Republicans cannot be elected in any of Illinois’ 17 congressional districts?
https://www.stlpr.org/podcast/politically-speaking/2025-08-21/illinois-state-sen-christopher-belt-readies-for-congressional-redistricting

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Inside the facility where ICE is training recruits to take on Trump’s deportation goals. The first 6 months that I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer in 1971 was classroom training in the Loop. According to Google AI: key areas of Revenue Officer training include: “Tax Law and Procedures: This is fundamental, encompassing various aspects of tax law, regulations, and IRS procedures applicable to individuals and businesses. Business Law: Revenue officers may need to understand business law principles to navigate legal and financial situations encountered during their work. Investigative Techniques: They are trained in investigative methods to uncover discrepancies, errors, or potential fraud in tax filings. Collections Procedures: A significant part of the role involves working with taxpayers to discuss payment options and resolve delinquent tax accounts, according to ZipRecruiter. Training covers various collection strategies and techniques. Negotiation and Communication: Since they interact with taxpayers to discuss sensitive financial matters, revenue officers must possess strong negotiation and communication skills, says ZipRecruiter. Training often focuses on developing these interpersonal abilities. Ongoing Development: Revenue officers are expected to engage in continuous learning to stay abreast of changes in tax laws and regulations, industry trends, and best practices. In essence, IRS revenue officer training prepares individuals to effectively apply tax law, investigate tax-related issues, negotiate with taxpayers, and collect delinquent taxes in a professional and ethical manner.” In today’s dollars, my salary was $55,850/year.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-inside-the-facility-where-ice-is-training-recruits-to-take-on-trumps-deportation-goals/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: At an obstacle course in the humid Georgia heat, an instructor shows recruits how to pull a wounded partner out of danger. In a classroom with desks cluttered with thick legal books about immigration law, recruits learn about how the Fourth Amendment governs their work. And on a firing range littered with shell casings, new recruits for Immigration and Customs Enforcement practice shooting their handguns. “Instructors, give me a thumbs up when students are ready to go,” a voice over the loudspeaker said before a group of about 20 ICE recruits practiced drawing and firing their weapons. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia, is the epicenter of training for almost all federal law enforcement officers, including the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who are at the center of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.)

WJOL
— State Representative Regan Deering has filed legislation in response to Governor Pritzker’s signing of House Bill 460 that guarantees undocumented students in Illinois have access to student financial aid.
https://www.wjol.com/state-representative-regan-deering-has-filed-legislation-against-governor-pritzkers-house-bill/

WAND TV
— Pritzker signs bill allowing immigrants to become driving instructors
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-signs-bill-allowing-immigrants-to-become-driving-instructors/article_24cef4c5-8db6-44bc-996c-a3757cdc11a8.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump delivers pizza to National Guard working on his DC crackdown
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-21/trump-delivers-pizza-to-national-guard-working-on-his-dc-crackdown

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Effort revived to push for fair maps constitutional amendment in Illinois. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-08-21/effort-revived-to-push-for-fair-maps-constitutional-amendment-in-illinois

25 NEWS NOW
— 9 years after initial attempt, ‘Fair Maps Illinois’ tries again to ban gerrymandering in Illinois. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/22/9-years-after-initial-attempt-fair-maps-illinois-tries-again-ban-gerrymandering-illinois/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump won’t back wind and solar power projects, blames renewable energy for rising costs
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-wont-back-wind-and-solar-power-projects-blames-renewable-energy-for-rising-costs-us-department-of-agriculture-farmland-one-big-beautiful-bill-department-of-interior-truth-social-tax-breaks

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-574/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— The Income Transfer from the Suburbs to the CTA–the Whole Purpose of the RTA–Appears
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/21/the-income-transfer-from-the-suburbs-to-the-cta-the-whole-purpose-of-the-rta-appears/
— Invisible McHenry County Mounts Another Demonstration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/21/invisible-mchenry-county-mounts-another-demonstration/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you critics/opponents promote? My critics/opponents promote a) dependency on government and charity, that is, socialism and then communism, b) LGBTQ, that is, destruction of traditional marriage and family, c) abortion, that is, promiscuity and disrespect of human life, d) mass/illegal immigration, that is, destruction of America, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, that is, destruction of America, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, that is, surrender to America’s enemies, and/or g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Parents Outraged as Lyons Township Civics Assignment Pushes Political Labels on 16-Year-Olds. If I had been active in Republican politics when I was a Crete-Monee High School student, the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office would not have hired me in 1966. If I had been active in Republican politics when I was a UIC and NIU student, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have hired me in 1971. If I had been active in Republican politics when I took graduate evening business courses at Loyola, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If I had been active in Republican politics when I took graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have hired me in 1980 and promoted me in 1986. If I had been active in Republican politics when I took graduate evening finance courses at IIT, the Democrats who ran GAO would have forced me to retire earlier than they did.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/opinion-parents-outraged-as-lyons-township-civics-assignment-pushes-political-labels-on-16-year-olds.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Parents send their children to school to learn math, science, history, and civics – not to be pawns in a political mind game. Yet at Lyons Township High School, sophomores were handed a so-called “non-political quiz” in civics class that looks more like an exercise in political conditioning than education. The assignment, titled “Liberal vs. Conservative Style Non-Political Quiz,” presents students with a series of questions about trivial school-related scenarios – cafeteria food, classroom seating, sports uniforms, school mascots – and forces them into binary “liberal” or “conservative” categories. . .This is presented to 15 and 16-year-old students as a civics lesson. The problem? These questions have absolutely nothing to do with actual liberalism or conservatism in the American civic or political sense. They are arbitrary and misleading parallels that equate curiosity, creativity, or even preference for variety with being a “liberal,” while equating tradition or consistency with being “conservative.” In other words: if your child prefers the same lunch menu every week, they’re “conservative.” If they like trying a new sandwich, suddenly they’re “liberal.” This is not education – it’s indoctrination. . .This is the danger – conditioning young students to see normal preferences and personality traits through a false political lens. And worse, doing so under the guise of a neutral civics lesson, without parents’ knowledge. Civics, Not Social Engineering The goal of civics education should be to teach the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, how government functions, and why civic responsibility matters. It should not be to manipulate teenagers into political identity boxes through cafeteria hypotheticals and mascot debates. Parents need to know this is happening in their children’s classrooms. Thankfully, there are options. Illinois families do not have to accept indoctrination disguised as curriculum. What Parents Can Do Now is not the time to stop paying attention to what your kids are learning in high school. These years are some of the most formative – and potentially the most detrimental – of their lives. You need to be a part of it. Ask questions. Be present. And most importantly: make your kids show you their assignments. Groups like Awake Illinois provide resources and guidance on how parents can opt their children out of this type of political conditioning and restore civics education to what it’s supposed to be – education, not indoctrination. Visit Awake Illinois to learn more about your options and how to push back. Our kids deserve civics lessons grounded in truth and history – not politically loaded quizzes that sort teenagers into categories they never asked to be put in. The teacher responsible for distributing this assignment could not be reached for comment.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BREITBART
— Trump Seeks to Purge Wokeness from Smithsonian Museums
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/21/report-trump-seeks-to-purge-wokeness-from-smithsonian-museums/
— Pew Research: Biden Administration Packed Swing States with Over 1 Million Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/21/pew-research-biden-administration-packed-swing-states-over-1-million-illegal-aliens/
— Trump’s next RNC chairman Joe Gruters is a longtime believer.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trumps-next-rnc-chairman-joe-gruters-is-a-longtime-believer-heres-what-to-know-about-him/
— Podcaster Gavin Newsom Imitates Joe Biden: Says He’ll Punch ‘Sons of Bitches’ Trump, Republicans ‘In the Mouth’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/21/trump-gavin-newsom-punch-violence-mouth/
— US slams door on foreign truck drivers after deadly crash
https://www.breitbart.com/news/us-slams-door-on-foreign-truck-drivers-after-deadly-crash/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Affirmative Action is Still Alive in College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XgQXvD1zcI

DAILY CALLER
— Supreme Court Lets Trump Admin Axe Millions In NIH Grants Involving DEI, Gender Ideology
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/21/supreme-court-trump-admin-nih-grants-dei/

LIFE NEWS
— Abortion Pills are Dangerous for Women and Kill Babies
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/08/21/abortion-pills-are-dangerous-for-women-and-kill-babies/

NEW AMERICAN
— Naturalized Citizens Indicted for Smuggling, Harboring Illegals
https://thenewamerican.com/us/crime/naturalized-citizens-indicted-for-smuggling-harboring-illegals-in-albuquerque/

NEWS BUSTERS
— Fox Covers Illegal Alien Who Killed Three After California Gave Him Drivers License
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2025/08/21/fox-covers-illegal-alien-who-killed-three-after-california-gave

NEWSMAX
— Trump Ramps Up Deportations
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-administration-deportations-illegals/2025/08/21/id/1223476/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Vance: “It’s Not About Kicking People Off Of Healthcare, It’s About Kicking Illegal Aliens The Hell Out”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/21/vance_its_not_about_kicking_people_off_of_healthcare_its_about_kicking_illegal_aliens_the_hell_out.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/political-briefing/episodes/9351565c-585a-11f0-bf06-871a73e51251

REUTERS
— US judge rejects challenges by Trump, affirmative action foe to Illinois nonprofit diversity law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-rejects-challenges-by-trump-affirmative-action-foe-illinois-nonprofit-2025-08-21/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://apnews.com/article/california-texas-redistricting-congressional-map-4c22e21d5d4022d33a257045693b6fd4
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to fight crime.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-washington-dc-federal-immigration-deportation-81e3493e73e8af1ecce47af23d9911f4
— FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/08/22/fbi-searches-home-and-office-of-ex-trump-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-ap-source-says/

MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-moves-forward-with-gerrymander-to-counter-texas/ar-AA1KYXVb
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-redraws-congressional-map-here-s-the-worst-gerrymanders-in-the-us/ar-AA1KX0Pj
— Trump abruptly nixes signing of executive order to punish American flag burners
https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other/trump-abruptly-nixes-signing-of-executive-order-to-punish-american-flag-burners/ar-AA1KYBxB

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/rep-gwen-moore-texas-is-leading-a-race-for-the-bottom-passing-gerrymandered-map-245549125559
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weeknight/watch/breaking-ca-gov-gavin-newsom-signs-redistricting-plan-245535813939
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to fight crime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtktIyUibzA

ABC NEWS
— 750 HHS employees send signed letter to RFK Jr. asking him to stop spreading misinformation
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/750-hhs-employees-send-signed-letter-rfk-jr/story?id=124805697

ABC LOS ANGELES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://abc7.com/live-updates/california-redistricting-state-supreme-court-denies-gop-petition-delay-vote-new-congressional-maps/17590010/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010354945/california-votes-redistricting-gerrymandering.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/newsom-gerrymandering-california-fundraising.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/podcasts/the-daily/california-texas-newsom-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/opinion/gerrymandering-redistricting-texas.html
— Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/alligator-alcatraz-florida-ruling.html
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/trump-diversity-black-americans.html
— Democrats run elections in America. Enough said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/trump-midterm-elections-mail-in-ballots.html
— F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, to hire, retain, and promote more young Democrat minorities and females, they ever-increasingly lowered standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/fbi-agent-recruitment-requirements-trump.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under a plan pushed by the director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree, according to people familiar with the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe it. The shift comes as the agency anticipates losing more than 5,000 employees by September, largely as a result of agents, analysts and others taking severance or early retirement packages offered by the Trump administration to try to reduce the budget. Instead of spending about 18 weeks training at the academy in Quantico, Va., the group of agents, tentatively scheduled to start in October, will receive eight weeks, according to the people. And the agents will no longer need to fulfill a longstanding requisite for joining the bureau: a bachelor’s degree.

WASHINGTON POST
— Illinois could redistrict before the 2026 midterms. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/20/congressional-redistricting-states-midterms/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois jumped into the redistricting story when Gov. JB Pritzker (D) invited Texas House Democrats to stay in suburban Chicago after they left their state to stall the Republicans redistricting efforts. Pritzker has been vocal about the redistricting battle nationally, and Illinois state lawmakers have full control of the map-drawing process. But the impact of any map changes could be limited here — Democrats hold 14 out of the state’s 17 House seats, and the map is already carved largely in Democrats’ favor.)
— Newsom signs bills for redrawing voting maps as parties fight for control. California’s Democratic lawmakers want to redraw congressional maps as Texas, led by Republicans, moves toward final approval of its plans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/21/california-texas-redistricting-trump/
— Trump and selective prosecution. I was selected by my Democrat GAO superiors for forced early retirement a) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, b) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and c) because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/21/new-york-trump-fraud-case/
— White House targets ‘woke’ Smithsonian content in new list. By their actions, if not by their words, my critics/opponents have always painted themselves as being work, that is, as being champions of those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/08/21/white-house-smithsonian-exhibitions-targets/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/21/trump-redistricting-congress-texas-california/
— Democrat cities are chaotic dystopias in need of occupation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/21/trump-cities-crime-washington-dc-los-angeles/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/22/sanctuary-cities-bondi/

USA TODAY
— These are the wealthiest suburbs of America’s biggest cities
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/13/wealthiest-suburbs-usa-income-home-values/85609633007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Fewer Americans might recognize the name of Hinsdale, Chicago’s wealthiest suburb. And some non-Texans might struggle to differentiate between University Park and West University Place, the most affluent suburbs, respectively, of metropolitan Dallas and Houston. . .Hinsdale. Most people associate Chicago’s North Shore with suburban wealth, but the city’s wealthiest suburb (and the nation’s eighth wealthiest) sits to the west. Hinsdale has an average household income of $376,366. Home values average $1.3 million.)
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/20/west-texas-university-drag-ban-blocked-by-appeals-court/85722250007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/08/14/divorce-women-perimenopause-menopause/85622804007/

DESERT REVIEW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.thedesertreview.com/news/state/democrats-torn-on-gerrymandering-ethics/article_199ac1e7-7b30-4d68-b133-c718ef69bd12.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/partisan-gerrymandering-texas-california-gop-democrats-donald-trump-gavin-newsom-7ee26118
— Who Is a ‘Journalist’ in Gaza? ‘Press freedom’ groups take up the cause of Hamas propagandists and alleged terrorists. According to my critics/opponents, you are not a journalist unless you promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/who-is-a-journalist-in-gaza-18a70ad0

BLOOMBERG
— US Halts Visas for Truck Drivers After Fatal Florida Crash
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/us-halts-visas-for-truck-drivers-after-fatal-florida-crash/ar-AA1KYYa8

FORBES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OsENz8ocow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2pQt2cYtnY

POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook-pm/2025/08/21/sacramento-takes-its-gerrymandering-bow-00518959

PEW RESEARCH
— 550,000 illegals in Illinois. If there had been as many illegals in Illinois when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.pewresearch.org/about/privacy-policy/

August 21, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— CA Legislature approves special election on new congressional map favoring Democrats. California lawmakers passed a legislative package Thursday advancing a partisan redistricting plan aimed at winning Democrats five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 elections. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/california-democrats-prepare-pass-redistricting-plan-texas-house-approves-new-maps/17605698/
— Trump administration is reviewing all 55 million foreigners with US visas for any violations
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-is-reviewing-55-million-foreigners-us-visas-any-violations/17608307/
— School district meeting gets heated over debate on transgender Conant High School volleyball player
https://abc7chicago.com/post/school-district-211-meeting-gets-heated-debate-transgender-conant-high-volleyball-player/17608275/

NBC5
— Newsom signs legislation calling special election on redrawn congressional map. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/california-congressional-maps/3813201/

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/08/21/what-could-marijuana-drug-reclassification-mean-for-chicago-cannabis-companies

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Newsom signs legislation calling for special election on redrawn congressional map. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/california-congressional-map-special-election/
— New Illinois law gives media better ability to curb retaliatory lawsuits. I should write about retaliatory acts taken against me since 2000 because I included links in GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to articles that my critics/opponents do not like.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/new-illinois-law-gives-media-better-ability-to-curb-retaliatory-lawsuits/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/08/21/trumps-black-mayors-washington-chicago-johnson-bowser-bass-marc-morial
— Durbin questions Attorney General Pam Bondi about ‘politicized’ firings of immigration judges. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. If I had been any of the aforesaid, I would not have had any basis a) to complain about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination or b) to become an active member in a class action lawsuit in 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/21/sen-dick-durbin-attorney-general-pam-bondi-politicized-firings-immigration-judges
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/08/21/channyn-lynn-parker-lgbtq-gay-advocacy-equality-illinois-brave-space-alliance-chicago

DAILY HERALD
— Appeals court tosses $500 million fine in N.Y. case against Trump, upholds fraud finding
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250821/nation-and-world-politics/appeals-court-tosses-500-million-fine-in-n-y-case-against-trump-upholds-fraud-finding/

CRAINS’CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/equality-illinois-names-channyn-parker-new-ceo

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Federal Reserve official says she won’t be ‘bullied’ by Trump into resigning. My Democrat GAO superiors did far than bully me to force me to take their early retirement “offer” that expired on September 30, 1997 when I was 49 years old. They made it very clear that if I did not take their “offer,” they would demote me, assign me to work for my former subordinates, give me adverse job transfers, give me bad job assignments, give me unfair performance expectations, give me unfair performance appraisals, and even worse things. If had not succumbed to their threats, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until I was 55 years old in 2003. If GAO had been unionized, I would have sought its protection. But GAO did not unionize until 2007. I should write about the aforesaid. By forcing me to retire, my Democrat GAO superiors flushed down their toilets what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) 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, c) passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, d) becoming a licensed CPA, and e) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. So far, by forcing me to retire, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-calls-on-federal-reserve-official-to-resign-after-official-accuses-her-of-mortgage-fraud/article_ab0c1b7b-36e6-5dc9-82d2-8428c6b3686e.html

RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-petitions-fda-to-remove-burdensome-restrictions-on-mifepristone-85520.cfm

WAND TV
— Newsom signs legislation calling special election on redrawn congressional map. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/california-gov-newsom-signs-legislation-calling-special-election-on-redrawn-congressional-map/article_f5f16b1a-83dc-5d6d-9214-4858e03f4580.html

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1181 into law, clarifying that the protections in the Citizen Participation Act apply to the freedom of the press to opine, report, or investigate matters of public concern. My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Failing that, they want to stop everyone from reading those newsletters. Failing that, they have their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me.
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-journalists-gain-new-legal-shield-under-amended-citizen-participation-act

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-08-20/do-trumps-d-c-moves-echo-an-authoritarian-playbook

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/21/pritzker-signs-law-guaranteeing-public-education-for-illinois-students-regardless-of-immigration-status/

ILLINOIZE
— Darren Bailey “Seriously Considering” Entering Governor’s Race
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/darren-bailey-seriously-considering-gov

CAPITOLFAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-367/
— Democrat leaders promote rule-breaking in schools.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/it%e2%80%99s-now-a-law-5/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker: Fair maps in Illinois would be ‘disarming’ to Democrats
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4d8c1bbe-9a3a-4849-b950-8067c9874e1c.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illegal immigrant population reached 14 million under Biden in 2023. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3760400/illegal-immigrant-population-reached-14-million-under-biden-in-2023/

NEW YORK POST
— ICE director vows to ‘flood’ Boston with immigration agents after Mayor Michelle Wu refused to end city’s sanctuary laws
https://nypost.com/2025/08/21/us-news/ice-director-vows-to-flood-boston-with-immigration-agents-after-mayor-michelle-wu-refused-to-end-citys-sanctuary-laws/
— The media is all aflutter over socialism — but America isn’t convinced
https://nypost.com/2025/08/21/opinion/media-is-giddy-over-socialism-but-america-isnt-convinced/

AMAC
— Time to Fire Woke Generals and Restore Apolitical Military Leadership
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/time-to-fire-woke-generals-and-restore-apolitical-military-leadership/

BREITBART
— Major Hollywood Democrats to Hold Fundraiser for Republican Senator Susan Collins
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/08/21/susan-collins-will-go-hollywood-at-major-fundraiser-with-democrats/
— Trump on Track to Deport 400,000 Illegals in 2025. An estimated 14 million are in America illegally. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/21/new-york-times-trump-on-track-to-deport-400000-illegals-in-2025/

FOX NEWS
— Vance, Hegseth ‘unfazed’ by protesters during trip to thank DC National Guard troops
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377157637112
— Trump’s civil fraud penalty was obviously excessive.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377197144112

FOX NEWS RADIO
— Stop Giving Driver’s Licenses to ILLEGALS
https://radio.foxnews.com/2025/08/20/stop-giving-drivers-licenses-to-illegals/

NEW AMERICAN
— Illinois Mandates “Mental Health” Testing of ALL Children. Children’s minds are now officially in the crosshairs of one of the most out-of-control state governments in America. Under a controversial new measure just signed into law by far-left Governor J.B. Pritzker, government schools in Illinois will begin mandatory “mental health” testing of all students each year, starting in 3rd grade. According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/education/illinois-mandates-mental-health-testing-of-all-children/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Illegal immigration hit record in 2023. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5463595-surge-unauthorized-immigrants-biden-era/

REUTERS
— DOJ blocks use of justice grants for legal aid to migrants in US illegally
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/doj-blocks-use-justice-grants-legal-aid-migrants-us-illegally-email-shows-2025-08-21/
— Canada sees rise in US refugee claims, highest since 2019. Trans Americans increasingly seek asylum in Canada. US policies on trans rights cited as asylum motivation. How successful have Democrat leaders been forcing LGBTQ on everyone in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/more-americans-applying-refugee-status-canada-data-shows-2025-08-21/

UPI
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/21/pew-unauthorized-immigration-14-million-2023/6221755788008/

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-immigrant-population-decline-undocumented-peak-data-maps-2116385

ABC NEWS
— Will Pritzker do more cracking and packing and stop Republicans from being elected in all of Illinois’ 17 congressional districts?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/redistricting-arms-race-states-addition-texas-california-parties/story?id=124855541

NBC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigrant-population-shrinking-trump-administration-rcna225881

CBS NEWS
— Newsom signs California redistricting plan that could tilt 5 House seats toward Democrats. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-redistricting-gavin-newsom-vote/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/undocumented-immigrants-left-us-2025-data-estimate/
— Trump hands out burgers and pizza to federal law enforcement amid D.C. police surge
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-patrol-dc-police-national-guard/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry Trump success in stopping illegal immigration. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/immigration-decline-united-states-trump.html

WTHI TV
— Lawmakers speak out against illegal immigrants receiving drivers licenses
https://www.wthitv.com/news/lawmakers-speak-out-against-illegal-immigrants-receiving-drivers-licenses/article_5b816e3c-7ea9-472a-adf4-1c1901c04987.html

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Illinois Democrat and RINO leaders destroyed organizations like Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans that refused to discriminate against those like me who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. While I was an ICRC officer and a TAPROOT chairman, I was under tremendous pressure to give preference to those who are not the aforesaid. To give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group.
https://news.bgov.com/litigation/anti-dei-group-loses-bid-to-block-illinois-demographic-data-law

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/08/21/texas-is-catching-up-to-california-in-number-of-unauthorized-immigrants-pew-data-shows/

POLITICO
— Supreme Court lets Trump admin cut off health grants it says advance DEI or ‘gender ideology extremism’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/21/supreme-court-nih-funding-grants-00518782

PEW RESEARCH
— U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population Reached a Record 14 Million in 2023. Democrat and RINO leaders have flooded Americans with their illegals; Democrat leaders because illegals vote for Democrats and RINO leaders because they want cheap labor. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/
— What the data says about immigrants in the U.S. Democrat and RINO leaders have flooded Americans with their illegals; Democrat leaders because illegals vote for Democrats and RINO leaders because they want cheap labor. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/21/key-findings-about-us-immigrants/

PBS
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/illegal-immigration-hit-record-of-14-million-in-2023-pew-report-finds

AXIOS
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/california-texas-states-unauthorized-immigrant-pew

ONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION
— Do not anticipate/expect that any of the speakers or sponsors at ONA’s upcoming annual conference will be conservative or Republican.
https://ona25.journalists.org/about/

August 21, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Texas House approves redrawn congressional maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections. Will this prompt Pritzker to redraw Illinois congressional maps so that absolutely no Republican candidates can win in Illinois? How badly has Pritzker gerrymandered your congressional district? I should write about Pritzker’s 3rd Congressional District that I live in. Pritzker is an expert at cracking and packing.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/texas-house-approves-redrawn-maps/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/08/20/cash-assistance-gender-domestic-violence-net-ameya-pawar-amanda-pyron

DAILY HERALD
— Marter slams mail-in voting as ‘a scam.’ Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250820/us-congress-politics/gop-house-hopeful-marter-slams-mail-in-voting-as-a-scam/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Judge tosses Trump-era challenge to Illinois E-Verify law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/illinois-wins-fight-over-trump-e-verify-challenge

ABC7
— Pritzker says he supports independently drawn legislative maps if done on national basis
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-says-he-supports-independently-drawn-legislative-maps-done-national-basis/17598750/
— Newly installed U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illinois encourages former federal prosecutors to apply. For course, after my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they never encouraged me to apply. For them, GAO exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicagos-legal-community-buzzing-us-attorney-northern-district-illinois-andrew-boutros-recruiting-mail/17600171/

NBC5
— New college program allows Illinois students to apply with only a GPA. One reason why UIC admitted me in 1966 was that my ACT score of 24.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/new-college-program-allows-illinois-students-to-apply-with-only-a-gpa/3812390/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/illinois-snap-education-program-end-amid-federal-funding-cuts-how-could-impact-local
— CTU President Rejects Pritzker’s Assertion No More Money to Be Found in Springfield for Schools. During the 1950s and 1960s, Crete-Monee School District 201-U did not spend anything to give my brother and I grade school educations because my parents sent us to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools in Crete and Park Forest. For me, 1953-1962, and for my brother, 1958-1968.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/ctu-president-rejects-pritzker-s-assertion-no-more-money-be-found-springfield-schools

SAUK VALLEY
— State Rep. Brad Fritts, R-Dixon, has withdrawn his Sauk Valley Chamber of Commerce membership after the organization published a DEI statement on its website and removed the word “God” from a prayer at a recent scholarship fundraiser that it hosted.
https://www.shawlocal.com/sauk-valley/2025/08/21/state-rep-nixes-sauk-valley-chamber-membership-over-prayer-wording-at-fundraiser-dei-statement-on-its-website/

HERALD NEWS
— Will County Board member accused of illegally accessing fellow board member’s emails
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/08/20/will-county-board-member-accused-of-illegally-accessing-fellow-board-members-emails/

SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders have their protesters heckle Vance, Hegseth at photo op to thank National Guard troops in DC.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/20/protesters-heckle-vance-hegseth-miller-as-they-get-photo-op-with-dc-national-guard/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Mail-in voting ban could affect 1/3 of voters in Tazewell County. Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/illinois-voting-machine-restrictions/

WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.wsiu.org/siu/2025-08-20/2025-hemp-cannabis-symposium-at-siu-to-focus-on-agronomy

ILLINOIS PUBLIC MEDIA
— Your food probably traveled a long way before reaching the grocery store.
https://will.illinois.edu/217today/episode/217-today-your-food-probably-traveled-a-long-way-before-reaching-the-grocery-store-heres-why

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject federal law
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/21/illinois-to-bondi-sanctuary-status-stands-firm-00517387

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-573/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-366/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CHANGE ILLINOIS
— Long-time redistricting reform advocates raise concerns about the new “fair maps” ballot question.
https://www.changeil.org/2025/08/long-time-redistricting-reform-advocates-raise-concerns-about-the-new-fair-maps-ballot-question/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker defends mental health mandate, rejects parental consent plan. According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6fd339b5-6d3a-4ff1-9288-cffd18017e8b.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s right: America should end mail-in voting. It’s a stupid practice rife with fraud potential.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/trumps-right-america-end-mail-voting/
— Blue state tax hikes drive residents out. Democrats double down on taxing the wealthy while red states like Texas and Florida reap the rewards of migration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/blue-state-tax-hikes-drive-residents/
— Little of DOGE’s work likely to survive
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/little-doges-work-likely-survive/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump isn’t trying to ‘erase history’ at Smithsonian — he’s reversing a destructive woke takeover
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/opinion/trump-isnt-trying-to-erase-history-at-smithsonian-hes-reversing-a-destructive-woke-takeover/

BREITBART
— State Department employee fired after questioning talking points on Israel and Gaza. My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career, took many adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire early because I questioned their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/state-department-employee-fired-after-questioning-talking-points-on-israel-and-gaza/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Immigration Court No-Shows Increase as Backlog Falls and Asylum Denials Rise
https://cis.org/Arthur/Immigration-Court-NoShows-Increase-Backlog-Falls-and-Asylum-Denials-Rise

FOX NEWS
— It would be wonderful to get Chicago Democrats on board in the migrant crime crackdown
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377161503112
— Sanctuary cities defy Bondi’s deadline to cooperate
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-defy-bondis-deadline-cooperate-no-intention-changing
— ICE unveils plans for new detention facilities across the US
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377144130112

NRCC
— Illegals get handouts, cops get demonized, and Americans foot the bill
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/08/20/illegals-get-handouts-cops-get-demonized-and-americans-foot-the-bill-under-harder/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Accused of Betraying Citizens by Signing Bill to Give Illegals a Big Handout
https://www.westernjournal.com/illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-accused-betraying-citizens-signing-bill-give-illegals-big-handout/
— Target CEO Who Steered Struggling Retail Giant Into Wokeness to Step Down
https://www.westernjournal.com/target-ceo-steered-struggling-retail-giant-wokeness-step-company-lost-grip/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Democrats go ‘Trump Lite’ in latest plan to save democracy. Not in Illinois.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/politics/newsom-obama-trump-texas-california-redistricting-analysis

NBC NEWS
— Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/fort-bliss-japanese-americans-internment-camp-immigrant-detention-rcna226044

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis. The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/trump-transgender-children-care-subpoena.html
— He Tried to Endorse From the Pulpit. He Wound Up Without a Church. In 1961, if the pastor of the Missouri Synod Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete had taken a calling from a Wisconsin Synod church instead of splitting Trinity and switching it to the Wisconsin Synod, my entire post-1961 life would have been dramatically different. In 1961, to stay with the Missouri Synod, when I was in eight grade and my brother was in second grade, my parents transferred to Hope Lutheran Church in Park Forest and transferred my brother and I to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22trinity+lutheran+church%22+crete+1961+missouri+wisconsin+synod
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/church-endorsements-irs-kenosha.html
— Trump demanded on Wednesday that a Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook resign. My Democrat GAO superiors deliberately misled me to believe that they were going to let me work for GAO until I was eligible for regular retirement when I would be 55 in 2003. But in September of 1997, when I was 49 years old, they succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” that expired on September 30, 1997. I should write about that. Their forcing me to retire early has had a tremendous negative impact on me.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/20/us/trump-news
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise foreign students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/trump-visa-vetting-international-students.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-cartel-mexico-fentanyl.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly infiltrate, invade, infest, and conquer churches.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/irs-church-free-speech.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump says Smithsonian is too focused on slavery. Democrats fought the Civil War against Republicans to preserve slavery. Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrat leaders have tried to a) paint Democrats as having been the Union Army and b) to paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/08/20/trump-smithsonian-slavery-historians/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/18/she-spoke-up-for-trans-rights-at-8-now-her-family-is-leaving-texas/85454513007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/17/gay-marriage-supreme-court-lgbtq-rights/85666114007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote mail-in voting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/19/trump-mail-in-voting/85725029007/

COURIER & PRESS
— Vanderburgh GOP leaders install supporters ahead of crucial Saturday election. Anti-conservative RINOs succeeded in getting someone to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman in 2000, but not since then. I should write about anti-conservative RINOs. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/28/vanderburgh-gop-leaders-install-supporters-ahead-of-crucial-saturday-election/80497015007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Send Harvard’s Chinese Students Home. It makes no sense for the U.S. to be educating the scientific and leadership class of a future adversary.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/send-harvards-chinese-students-home-national-security-risk-research-2e43313d
— Surrogacy is typically the most expensive path to parenthood. My Democrat GAO superiors viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/surrogacy-cost-parenting-eb87c3b3

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Trump Administration Loses Bid to Block Illinois E-Verify Law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/trump-administration-loses-bid-to-block-illinois-e-verify-law

ACCOUNTING TODAY
— IRS flouted procedures when terminating employees. My Democrat GAO superiors did far more than just flout regulations when they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They flushed my Civil Service protections down their toilets. My critics/opponents stand with my Democrat GAO superiors. My critics/opponents are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-flouted-procedures-when-terminating-probationary-employees

FIVE THIRTY EIGHT
— Opposition Research Far too many who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and read my newsletters for opposition research. I should write about them. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-introduction-to-the-dark-arts-of-opposition-research/

PEW RESEARCH
— How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age. According to my liberal and moderate critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a conservative. According to my Democrat and RINO critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a Republican. They stress a) that none of my four college degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license are in journalism, b) that I have never been paid for what I have done as your GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, c) that I send my newsletters out free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth a) that my newsletters have included links to more than 520,000 articles since 2004, b) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) that much of what I did for GAO is very similar to what journalists do, d) that my professional certifications are in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and e) that I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I should write about the following who not only treat me like I am not a journalist, but who do everything that the can to stop me from sending out newsletters and to stop everyone from reading my newsletters: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. The aforesaid have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or d) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-americans-view-journalists-in-the-digital-age/

August 20, 2025

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