FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-tariffs-chicago-business-owners-worried-rising-costs-president-donald-pauses/16150962/
— UIC, Northwestern, U of C students have visas terminated
https://abc7chicago.com/post/7-university-chicago-students-recent-graduates-have-student-exchange-visitor-program-sevp-status-terminated/16149194/
— Under the Democrats, soon, if not already, everyone will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-food-banks-worried-ability-meet-need-amid-trump-administrations-cuts-us-department-agriculture/16149767/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-area-residents-brace-for-impact-of-china-tariffs-as-trade-war-escalates/3718508/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPxLSJ9M0w
— Trump orders probes of two former officials who defied him. Because I opposed my Democrat federal superiors’ political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination and because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with discrimination in 1988, they disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and1969, forced me to resign in 1969, disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer between agencies in 1980, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/donald-trump-miles-taylor-chris-krebs-executive-orders/3718632/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-tariff-pause-china-illinois-families-industry-agriculture/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-pauses-tariffs-for-90-days-on-all-countries-except-china/
WGN9
— Wall Street surges to one of its best days since WWII after Trump pauses most tariffs
https://wgnradio.com/news/markets-tumble-toward-more-big-losses-after-china-retaliates-with-huge-tariff-increase/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use White supremacists to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.wbez.org/2025/04/09/how-much-influence-did-white-supremacist-groups-have-on-chicago-housing
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump budget cuts
https://www.wbez.org/museums/2025/04/09/institute-museum-library-services-funding-kwame-raoul-trump-illinois-library-association-illinois-association-museums-park
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump administration revokes student visas from U. of C.; students at SIU and U. of I. also targeted.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/trump-administration-revokes-student-visas-from-u-of-c-students-at-siu-and-u-of-i-also-targeted/
— Democratic-led Illinois Supreme Court rejects GOP challenge to legislative maps that kept Democrats in control
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/democratic-led-illinois-supreme-court-rejects-gop-challenge-to-legislative-maps-that-kept-democrats-in-control/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s college fund freezing against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/trump-administration-funding-freeze-northwestern-university/
— According to Democrats, government exists to take money away from those who have more money and to give that money to those who have less money.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/10/opinion-donald-trump-funding-cuts-tariffs-easter/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/republicans-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders promote Rivian to punish Musk and Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/musk-tesla-backlash-opening-doors-for-ev-startups-like-rivian/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their law firms.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/10/editorial-jenner-block-trump-executive-orders/
— Democrats move to ban January 6 rioters from Chicago work. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in banning me from getting work appropriate for my work experience, master’s degrees, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/chicago-aldermen-ban-jan-6-rioters-city-work/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois State Board of Education rebuffs Trump administration demand to reject DEI in schools. The Education Department said states risk federal funding if they don’t end DEI programs the feds deem illegal. Illinois said it already pledges to comply with anti-discrimination laws. DEI is discrimination. DEI programs give preference to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, that is, DEI programs discriminate against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/09/illinois-state-board-of-education-rebuffs-trump-administration-demand-to-reject-dei-in-schools
— Trump administration revokes visas for international students in universities across Illinois
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/09/trump-administration-revokes-visas-for-international-students-in-universities-across-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/09/anti-defamation-league-illinois-hate-crimes-extremism-report
— Northwestern braces for massive cuts that could nearly wipe out all its federal research funding
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/09/northwestern-braces-for-massive-cuts-that-could-nearly-wipe-out-all-its-federal-research-funding
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to rid get of Republicans
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/09/trump-administration-edits-history-race-based-black-brown-erasure-smithsonian-ben-jealous
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump budget cuts.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025/04/09/institute-museum-library-services-funding-kwame-raoul-trump-illinois-library-association-illinois-association-museums-park
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: DuPage County has rolled out ‘Text-to-911.’ As Democrats ever-increasingly take over DuPage County, crime will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250409/news/dupage-county-has-rolled-out-text-to-911-heres-how-to-use-the-new-service/
CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicagoreader.com/news/dispensary-33-prizker-warehouse-tonys-fresh-market-ctu-cps/
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emmett Till to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://chicagodefender.com/why-illinois-must-honor-emmett-tills-legacy/
SOUTHERN
— Democratic Party ‘doubling down’ on town hall meetings targeting Republican-held districts
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/10/democratic-party-doubling-down-on-town-hall-meetings-targeting-republican-held-districts/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump administration will screen for antisemitic activity in granting immigration benefits. I should write the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had in forcing my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-administration-will-screen-for-antisemitic-activity-in-granting-immigration-benefits/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Ever-increasingly, NIU exists to promote the Democrat Party platform. I graduated from NIU in 1970.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-10/no-change-to-core-values-in-light-of-trumps-challenge-to-dei-says-niu-president
WGLT
— Trump administration revokes visas of some ISU students
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-09/trump-administration-revokes-visas-for-some-isu-students
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting voters to punish Trump by voting for Democrats in local elections.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/09/suburban-gop-aurora-orland-park-municipal-elections-trump-pritzker
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-493/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-286/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago Flips Red says mayors ‘fueled’ city’s collapse with migrant sanctuary
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a5bca7a8-ed66-4ac8-ab13-357708d39bd9.html
— IL Supreme Court ruling against map challenge does Dems’ ‘dirty work,’ GOP says
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_38c9d4dd-2636-4b5b-a161-389feeb83996.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Democrat Party exists to destroy Trump and to destroy everyone who voted for him. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the faster that the Democrat Party will destroy you. Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. The more of the aforesaid that you are, the more that you should do to defend yourself. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When Democrats take over your state, county, township, municipality, school district, and/or precinct, crime ever-increasingly increases. No-go zones around you will increase. If you elect to stay, you should focus on protecting yourself against crime. Install all the home security devices that you can afford. Avoid leaving your home at night if not stop completely. Consider concealed carry. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What discrimination have you faced and why? What retaliation have you suffered because you complained? Because I opposed my Democrat federal superiors’ political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination and because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with discrimination in 1988, they disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and1969, forced me to resign in 1969, disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer between agencies in 1980, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans mull higher taxes on wealthiest Americans to pay for other cuts. My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes. They stress that I avoided the Vietnam War draft, that I worked for the federal government and especially that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, that my wife has always had good jobs, and that my wife and I did not have children.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/9/republicans-mull-higher-taxes-wealthiest-americans-pay-cuts/
WASHINGON EXAMINER
— The IRS must get smaller — and smarter. I should write about those who wasted my knowledge of IRS the most. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years and I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years. I would focus on my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, Gingrich, Hastert, my Republican U.S. Senators and Representatives, and their staff members.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3376197/irs-must-get-smaller-smarter/
— House budget hawks should continue to fight for spending cuts. How dependent on federal spending are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3375266/house-budget-hawks-should-fight-another-day-on-spending-cuts/
NEW YORK POST
— Texas university creates ‘the most meritocratic admissions policy’ in the US
https://nypost.com/2025/04/04/us-news/texas-university-argues-college-admissions-policies-are-unjust/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Acting IRS commissioner takes a buy-out in protest because she doesn’t want DHS to know where the illegal aliens are. Democrat leaders do not want Republicans to be federal employees. They certainly did not want me to be a federal employee. They especially did not want me to audit IRS.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/acting_irs_commissioner_takes_a_buy_out_in_protest_because_she_doesn_t_want_dhs_to_know_where_the_illegal_aliens_are.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Conservatives lay into Coney Barrett for joining liberal justices … AGAIN.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/09/conservatives-lay-into-coney-barrett-for-joining-liberal-justices-again-1535098/
BREITBART
— Black Chicagoan Torches Democrats: They Live in Gated Communities While Demanding We Take In Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/09/black-chicagoan-torches-democrats-they-live-in-gated-communities-while-demanding-we-take-in-illegal-aliens/
— CNN’s Jennings to Former MSNBC Host Tiffany Cross: ‘You Got Fired from Your Job — How Relevant Are You?’ My critics/opponents stress the success that they have had getting their operatives and their dupes to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/09/cnns-jennings-to-former-msnbc-host-tiffany-cross-you-got-fired-from-your-job-how-relevant-are-you/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/09/sanders-expelling-foreign-students-hurts-ability-to-solve-gaza-climate-we-dont-have-to-hate-china/
— Remittances from U.S. Propping up Nicaragua’s Economic Growth. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. They never sent a penny back to Germany, In fact, my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI. My uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII. My father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/04/09/report-remittances-from-u-s-propping-up-nicaraguas-economic-growth/
— Sanctuary Cities Protected Over 25 Thousand Criminal Illegals from Federal Law in Two Years
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/09/expert-witness-sanctuary-cities-protected-over-25-thousand-criminal-illegals-federal-law-two-years/
— Beijing Claims Pete Hegseth ‘Maliciously Attacking’ China by Visiting Panama
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/04/09/beijing-claims-pete-hegseth-maliciously-attacking-china-by-visiting-panama/
— 1 in 4 Job Seekers Could Be AI-Powered Fraudsters by 2028. What helped you get hired? For my Post Office job, it included passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966. For my IRS job, it included my passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU in 1970. For my GAO job, it included my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/04/09/researchers-1-in-4-job-seekers-could-be-ai-powered-fraudsters-by-2028/
— Democrat Leaders Sue to Block Trump from Deporting Alleged Illegal Alien Gangs
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/09/migration-activists-sue-to-block-trump-from-deporting-alleged-illegal-alien-gangs/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump DHS to Fine Illegal Aliens Ordered Deported $998 for Each Day Overstayed. Will wealthy Democrats, Independents, and RINOs step forward and pay those fines for their illegals. How many wealthy Democrats. Independents, and RINOs are there in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? In my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton, 478 voted for Harris.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/09/trump-dhs-fine-deported-illegals-998-each-day-overstayed/
DAILY WIRE
— The Reason Globalists Undermine Trump’s Deportations of Illegals. Globalists want cheap labor.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/interview-ryan-girdusky
FEDERALIST
— Conservatives Aren’t ‘Christian Nationalists,’ They’re Just Homesick For America. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct are ever-increasingly anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-married people, anti-rich people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/10/conservatives-arent-christian-nationalists-theyre-just-homesick-for-america/
— How DEI Left Service Academies In A ‘State Of Decay,’ And How Trump Can Fix It
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/09/how-dei-left-service-academies-in-a-state-of-decay-and-how-trump-can-fix-it/
FOX NEWS
— Illinois Dem says Republicans are scapegoating illegal immigrants with a few ‘tragedies’ Illinois Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García waved away examples of violence committed by illegal immigrants as just “a few crimes.”
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371283490112
HANNITY
— Thousands of Illegal Migrants Self-Deport Using CBP Home App
https://hannity.com/media-room/see-yourself-out-thousands-of-illegal-migrants-self-deport-using-cbp-home-app-dhs-data/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Southern Illinois University Hit with Civil Rights Complaint for Racial, Sex-Based Discrimination
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/southern-illinois-university-hit-with-civil-rights-complaint-for-racial-sex-based-discrimination/
NEW AMERICAN
— Almost 60 Percent of Leftists Justify Assassinating Trump, Almost 50 Percent Musk
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/poll-almost-60-percent-of-leftists-justify-assassinating-trump-almost-50-percent-musk/
NEWS BUSTERS
— CBS Tells Illegals to Have No Fear, You Have the Full Constitution, JUST Like Citizens. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Party Army.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/04/09/cbs-tells-illegals-have-no-fear-you-have-full-constitution-just
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/trump-tariffs-live-updates-us-stronger-despite-market/?id=120551033
CNBC
— Dow surges 2,900 points, S&P 500 posts biggest gain since 2008 on Trump tariff reversal
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/stock-market-today-live-updates-.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/china-trump-tariffs-live-updates.html
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote illegal immigration.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-administrations-deportations-policy-crushes-us-credibility-rcna200439
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-tariffs-cnn-town-hall-04-10-25/index.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-tariffs-negotiations-f5acfd1ef8f3573f92e8963a8150bdfb
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-u-turns-tariffs-turns-trade-war-heat-china-2025-04-10/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump/trump-tariffs-live-china-tells-us-there-are-no-winners-trade-war-2025-04-10/
ABC NEW YORK
— LaHood expresses concerns about tariff impact for farmers
https://abc7ny.com/live-updates/trump-tariff-news-eu-imposes-new-tariffs-us-goods-china-hits-back-increased-84/16148808/entry/16149195/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ask “Can Musk Pull Trump Back From the Tariff Ledge?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/elon-musk-tariffs-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/business/trump-china-tariffs-prices-goods.html
— To discredit you, what do your critics/opponent stress about you? Mine stress that my ACT score was only 24, that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, that I got no scholarships, that my UIC, NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT GPAs were not great, and that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not great,
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/arts/what-is-elon-musks-iq.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/08/robin-givhan-deported-tattoos/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/10/trump-china-tariffs-imports-stocks-reaction/83014507007/
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a ) to not hire Republicans, and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.aei.org/articles/what-did-you-expect-to-happen-how-dei-wound-up-in-trumps-crosshairs/
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-09/irs-to-lose-billions-in-revenue-if-migrants-stop-filing-taxes
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://fortune.com/asia/2025/04/10/trump-tariff-pause-china-asia-markets/
HOT AIR
— Blue States Are Gearing Up to Defy Trump’s DEI Order for Schools. Federal Law Trumps State And Local Laws.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/04/09/blue-states-are-gearing-up-to-defy-trumps-dei-order-for-schools-n3801635
POLITICO
— The Democrat Party exists to destroy Trump and to destroy everyone who voted for him. The more demographics that you share with Trump, the faster that the Democrat Party will destroy you. Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. The more of the aforesaid that you are, the more that you should do to defend yourself.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/10/donald-trump-vulnerabilities-tariffs-budget-00283251
EDUCATION WEEK
— Democratic-Led Cities, States Push Back on Trump’s Threats to Cut School Funding Over DEI. Federal Law Trumps State And Local Laws.
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/democratic-led-cities-states-push-back-on-trumps-threats-to-cut-school-funding-over-dei/2025/04
CONVERSATION
— My critics/opponents have always stressed that I was baptized a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL), raised as a MSL, and confirmed as a MSL.
https://theconversation.com/black-americans-are-more-likely-than-other-racial-groups-to-express-their-faith-in-the-workplace-253203
INDEPENDENT
— Trump accused of ‘market manipulation’ after abrupt U-turn on reciprocal tariffs: President’s 90-day pause sends markets soaring as White House attempts to spin climbdown as latest brilliant maneuver by master dealmaker. The more market volatility, the more money that day traders make.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-china-live-updates-b2730469.html
WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE
— Democrats are socialists.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/10/uqxn-a10.html
COMMUNIST PARTY USA
— Will there be war with China? Democrat leaders ever-increasing side with Communist China against America.
https://www.cpusa.org/article/will-there-be-war-with-china/
Tag: illegals
April 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Supreme Court allows Trump to terminate 16,000 probationary federal workers. Democrats run IRS and GAO. When I transferred from IRS to GAO, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious that they could not immediately terminate me because I had already served my probationary period at IRS.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/supreme-court-allows-trump-terminate-16000-probationary-federal-workers/16144669/
— AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists. I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. I should write about Republican leaders who have barred me from their events since then. I would focus on those who had me thrown out of their events.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ap-lawsuit-white-house-ban-judge-trevor-mcfadden-rules-donald-trumps-government-cant-bar-associated-press-journalists/16146124/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/fact-check-trump-misleads-on-transgender-issues/3717199/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s tariffs.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/local-leaders-react-to-trump-administrations-tariffs-impact-on-chicago/3717296/
CBS2
— White House says Trump open to negotiating tariffs as 104% tariff on China set to begin
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/white-house-says-trump-open-to-negotiating-tariffs-as-104-tariff-on-china-set-to-begin/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s tariffs.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/white-house-keeps-world-guessing-as-clock-ticks-down-to-trumps-new-tariffs/
FOX32
— Trump: Tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals coming ‘shortly’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tariffs-imported-pharmaceuticals-coming-shortly
— Some DePaul University scholarships are discriminatory. Did you get a scholarship? I did not. Since 1966, my critics/opponents have used that to demonize, denigrate, and condemn me as a) being stupid and b) having filthy rich parents.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/depaul-scholarship-discrimination-complaint
— Trump tariffs: Some big-name automakers no longer shipping to US
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1621775
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Northwestern University says Trump administration to freeze $790 million in funding
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/08/northwestern-university-trump-admininistration-federal-funding-freeze/
— Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/08/supreme-court-federal-workers/
— Brian Burch, Chicago-area man up for Vatican ambassador, defends recent cuts to US foreign aid
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/08/vatican-ambassador-nominee/
— US stocks dive after another stunning reversal as uncertainty reigns about Trump’s tariffs
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/08/us-stocks-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/08/supreme-court-deportation-ruling/
— The Democrat Party exists to promote more hatred not only against Trump, but against all those who share Trump’s demographics.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/column-democrats-cory-booker-speech-protests-washington/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/cpd-striving-for-diversity-on-the-force-but-results-depend-on-how-new-officers-are-counted/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE IN NAPERVILLE SUN: Police make 3 more firearm-related arrests at Naperville Topgolf lot, up to 7 for the year
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/08/naperville-topgolf-firearm-gun-police-parking-cannabis-arrests/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. How much success have Democrat leaders had so far turning those around you into stoners?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250408/news/elgin-could-get-its-second-recreational-cannabis-dispensary/
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250409/syndicated-columnists/holocaust-denial-trumps-assault-on-dei-is-an-affront-to-american-history/
— Wheaton OKs municipal grocery tax, as Lombard, other towns look to follow suit
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250408/news/wheaton-oks-municipal-grocery-tax-as-lombard-other-towns-look-to-follow-suit/
— Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers. After my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, a low level Democrat GAO Personnel Office employee hinted that he might be able to get me reinstated. But my Democrat GAO superiors had made it clear that if did not retire, they would make the next 6 years until I would be eligible for regular retirement a living hell for me. They promised to demote me and to give me adverse transfers, bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations and evaluations, and even worse things. They could easily do that because GAO was not unionized.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250408/nation-and-world-politics/supreme-court-blocks-order-requiring-trump-administration-to-reinstate-thousands-of-federal-workers/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— How unions can navigate the Trump years. I should write about my critics/opponents who are the most anti-union. They stress that while I was a union member, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars. In my defense, during that time, I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU and an MBA from Loyola and I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/trump-administration-calls-union-strategies-opinion
BLOOMINGTOM PATAGRAPH
— Charlie Kirk draws mixed crowd of more than 700 at Illinois State University. If Kirk spoke in your county, in your township, or in your municipality, how many would attend? How many in support of Kirk. How many in opposition of Kirk?
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/article_c3340704-50a5-4fd9-88d9-7800d7cb221b.html
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Communist China against America
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/china-says-it-will-fight-to-the-end-after-trump-threatens-to-impose-still-more/article_aeaa3d24-02d0-563f-af11-41f3e43116fb.html
CHAMPAIHN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & WQAD & WAND TV
–Illinois Democrat legislators ever-increasingly pass bills that promote abortion and dependency on government.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/politics/illinois-house-approves-new-abortion-protection-plan-to-ease-college-admissions-student-teacher-stipends/article_dfa475dd-3864-44be-8080-2900c3f807ae.html
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/politics/illinois-politics/il-house-approves-new-abortion-protection-plan-ease-college-admissions-capitol-news/526-09b3ffc5-c9ef-4a40-9896-0e3ded71757b
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-house-democrats-pass-bill-requiring-contraception-medication-abortion-at-public-college-health-centers/article_ec5ba4f0-4649-4a07-9933-31e1770fc06a.html
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.bnd.com/opinion/article303681606.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump’s election order could jeopardize ‘hundreds of thousands’ of future mail ballots
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-08/trumps-election-order-could-jeopardize-hundreds-of-thousands-of-future-mail-ballots
— Democrat and RINO leaders stress Trump’s age and attack his health.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-09/trump-is-getting-a-physical-what-will-be-included-in-the-report
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Pot destroys you
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/cision/20250408LA59568/most-cannabis-users-want-healthier-munchies-cbd-oracle-survey-finds/
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF DUPAGE COUNTY
— Township Annual Meetings I should write a book about what I have done since 1999 to help elect and to reelect Republican Milton Township officials. I would focus on those officials who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIMPzHIOK9z/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-492/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-285/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCNENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Thomas More Society Comments on Rockford Court Victory in Which McHenry County’s 1st Way Pregnancy Center Was a Plaintiff
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/08/thomas-more-society-comments-on-rockford-court-victory-in-which-mchenry-countys-1sr-way-pregnancy-center-was-a-plaintiff/
— McLaughlin Holding Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/08/mclaughlin-holding-fundraiser/
— CORRECTION: Algonquin Township Clerk Maureen Huff Passed Over for Lake in the Hills Sanitary District Trustee Appointment BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT LIVE IN THE DISTRICT
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/07/algonquin-township-clerk-maureen-huff-passed-over-for-lake-in-the-hills-sanitary-district-trustee-appointment/
— Local GOP Feature Darin Bailey as Main Lincoln Day Speaker
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/07/local-gop-feature-darin-bailey-as-main-lincoln-day-speaker/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— More than 900K migrants who entered US with Biden-era CBP One app told to ‘self-deport’
https://nypost.com/2025/04/08/us-news/more-than-900k-migrants-who-entered-us-with-biden-era-cbp-one-app-told-to-self-deport/
— Head of IRS to resign in protest as agency inks deal to share tax data on illegal immigrants with DHS
https://nypost.com/2025/04/09/us-news/irs-commissioner-melanie-krause-quits-post-after-dhs-deal-to-share-tax-data-on-illegal-immigrants/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Rep. Jasmine Crockett calls on illegals to pick her cotton because ‘we done picking cotton’ I never picked cotton, but I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, delivered mail, worked on an automobile assembly line, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumped more gasoline, collected delinquent taxes, and audited federal agencies. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/rep_jasmine_crockett_calls_on_illegals_to_pick_her_cotton_because_we_done_picking_cotton.html
BREITBART
— Trump’s DHS Signs Deal with IRS to More Easily Locate Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/08/report-trump-s-dhs-signs-deal-irs-more-easily-locate-illegal-aliens/
— Why Trump Haters Keep Getting Caught Red Handed as They Vandalize Tesla EVs
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/04/08/why-trump-haters-keep-getting-caught-red-handed-as-they-vandalize-tesla-evs/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Justices Hand Trump National Security Win That Protects Public From Illegal Alien Criminals
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/08/justices-hand-trump-national-security-win-that-protects-public-illegal-alien-criminals/
DAILY WIRE
— See The Staggering Number Of Illegals Who Got Social Security Numbers Under Joe Biden. “No interview. No proof of identity, just put it in the mail.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-the-staggering-number-of-illegals-who-got-social-security-numbers-under-joe-biden
FOX NEWS
— Up to 1M migrants who used Biden’s CBP One app ordered to deport by Trump admin
https://www.foxnews.com/us/up-1m-migrants-who-used-bidens-cbp-one-app-ordered-deport-trump-admin
NEWSMAX
— Trump Plans to Fine Migrants $998 a Day for Failing to Leave
https://www.newsmax.com/us/illegals-migrants-deportation/2025/04/08/id/1206056/
ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK
— Trump Admin To Fine Undocumented Migrants $1K Daily For Ignoring Deportation Orders
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-admin-to-fine-undocumented-migrants-1k-daily-for-ignoring-deportation-orders/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Trump admin revokes legal status for migrants who entered the U.S. on Biden-era CBP One app
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-admin-revokes-legal-status-migrants-entered-us-biden-era-cbp-one-rcna200177
NEW YORK TIMES
— I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants’ Tax Information With ICE. The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/irs-ice-tax-data-deal.html
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in driving the stock market down to destroy Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/economy/stock-market-economy-trump-tariffs.html
WASHINGTON POST
— The Democrat Party exists to promote more hatred not only against Trump, but against all those who share Trump’s demographics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/08/donald-trump-elon-musk-nationwide-protest-responses/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/herald-tribune/20250408/281715505440830?srsltid=AfmBOooRWgH1Bk-5JzQrIbYM4rs2MGU7Rbxf4ydv1b3egBpLqO5U02ta
NPR
— Migrants who entered the U.S. via CBP One app should leave ‘immediately,’ DHS says
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-58984/cbp-one-app-migrants-dhs-border
April 7, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE AND GRAPHIC: Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Democrat and Non-Affiliated voters to vote for Democrat candidates to punish Trump. They succeeded in getting from 166 to 179 in my precinct to vote for Democrat Milton Township candidates while only 126-143 voted for Republican Township candidates. I base my opinions on the many conversations that I have had with many registered voters in my precinct since 2015 and the political actions that those voters have and have not taken.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250406/local-politics/what-drove-voter-turnout-in-some-suburban-counties-this-election/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— As teens ‘take over’ downtown once again, Chicago faces a choice
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/06/chicago-teen-takeovers/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/06/tariffs-new-york-economy-candy/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/06/editorial-international-tourism-choose-chicago-trump/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/07/opinion-america-first-isolationism-ukraine/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s budget cuts to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/06/shutdown-of-regional-head-start-offices-creates-confusion-but-feds-say-funding-will-continue/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders use “young classical musicians” to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/music/2025/04/06/young-classical-musicians-undeterred-by-trumps-dei-reversal-earn-standing-ovation-at-symphony-center
ABC7
— Democrat leaders use a “youth orchestra” to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/equity-arc-pathways-orchestra-performs-chicago-youth-music-festival-washington-dc-show-canceled-due-anti-dei-order/16136411/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-county-swung-trump-grapples-immigration-crackdown-panaderia-is-targeted/16134652/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/what-is-a-recession-and-what-could-it-mean-for-you-heres-what-to-know/3715188/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Israel.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/israel-gaza-bombing/3715082/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/thousands-packed-chicagos-daley-plaza-part-of-nationwide-hands-off-protests/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://thesouthern.com/news/even-after-rain-cancellation-450-people-protest-trump-with-hands-off-campaign/article_8e9d1e79-c7e4-5f02-9ddf-4edce241d853.html
SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/04/06/northern-illinois-hands-off-protests-rally-thousands-against-government-overreach/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-05/photos-see-demonstrators-around-the-country-rally-in-hands-off-protests
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-06/how-the-trump-administration-is-sidestepping-the-legal-process-for-deportations
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— UIC accepted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992, But if they could have, they would accepted foreign students instead of me.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/gop-senators-back-crackdown-on-foreign-students/
DEPAULIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://depauliaonline.com/76339/news/thousands-of-chicagoans-participate-in-nationwide-hands-off-protests/
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://chicagodefender.com/costcos-foot-traffic-increases-for-13th-week-after-reaffirming-dei/
CHICAGOLAND JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/thousands-of-chicagoans-rise-up-and-fight-back-against-trump-musk-agenda-in-massive-rally-march/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Funds cut for cultural groups
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/07/feds-cut-grants-to-illinois-humanities-council-00276184
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-490/
— Behind the ‘complete wipeout’ in DuPage and what’s to come
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/07/behind-the-complete-wipeout-in-dupage-and-whats-to-come/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— As the Democrat Party tightens its grip on Illinois, on DuPage County, on Milton Township, and on Wheaton, anticipate/expect that more elected Republicans will officially become Democrats. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all my critics/opponents who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican will officially become Democrats. They all have always been anti-religious, anti-conservative, and/or anti-Republican. They all have always been RINOs if not Democrat plants. I should write about them. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats run the federal government. If I had become a Democrat, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service before I was 40 years old in 1988. I say that because a) I earned an MBA when I was 27, a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and a master’s degree in finance when I was 48, b) I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt when I was 30 and 32, c) I became a licensed CPA when I was 32, and d) I earned additional job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 46, and 48. None of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing anything like the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly position themselves as being protectors of disadvantaged/marginalized/oppressed groups. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause all the problems that members of those groups have. Members of those groups include those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, in America illegally, have less money than others, have financial, health, and or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, prostitutes, and criminals. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders use up-or-out, that is, age discrimination, to get rid of Republicans. Republicans should know that Democrat and RINO leaders will get rid of you if you are not making say a) $100,000/year by age 25, c) $200,000/year by age 30, d) $300,000/year by age 35, e) $400,000/year by age 40, f) etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend their platform. Trump got elected by promising to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. Republican Trump critics/opponents have standing to complain when he promotes things that are not in the Republican Party platform and especially when he does things against the Republican Party platform. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pope criticizes immigration walls while living behind one
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/6/pope-criticizes-immigration-walls-living-behind-one/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illinois Democrats bully home school families
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3371486/illinois-democrats-bully-home-school-families/
— Trump’s MAGA brand may be nontransferable to rest of GOP. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend their platform. Trump got elected by promising to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. Republican Trump critics/opponents have standing to complain when he promotes things that are not in the Republican Party platform and especially when he does things against the Republican Party platform.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3370799/trump-maga-brand-nontransferrable-rest-of-gop/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The Poverty of the Criticism of Trump’s Agenda. The left rages against Trump but offers no real alternatives on debt, trade, or immigration—just noise, while results quietly pile up.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/07/the-poverty-of-the-criticism-of-trumps-agenda/
BREITBART
— Trump Plan Will Reindustrialize, Revitalize Private Sector and Raise Wages
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/06/bessent-trump-plan-will-reindustrialize-revitalize-private-sector-and-raise-wages/
— Carville Compares Those Cooperating with Trump to Nazi Collaborators
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/06/carville-compares-those-cooperating-with-trump-to-nazi-collaborators/
— DOJ Says Judge Cannot Order Deported Illegal Migrant Be Returned to U.S.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/06/doj-judge-cannot-order-deported-illegal-migrant-returned-u-s/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Workplace Enforcement Is the Key to Mass Deportations
https://cis.org/Mortensen/Workplace-Enforcement-Key-Mass-Deportations
CHRISTIAN POST
— Wheaton alumni single out ‘critical race theorist’ professor as example of leftist infiltration
https://www.christianpost.com/news/wheaton-alumni-single-out-critical-race-theorist-professor.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Alumni of Wheaton College concerned about the school’s alleged leftward drift recently singled out a philosophy professor at the school as an example of liberalism seeping into the flagship Evangelical institution. Nathan Cartagena, Ph.D., who has been an assistant professor of philosophy at Wheaton College since 2018, has repeatedly exhibited “left-wing racial politics laundered through a patina of ‘Christianese,'” according to an analysis of his writings posted on the website “For Wheaton.” Educated at Grove City College, Texas A&M University and Baylor University, Cartagena’s profile asserts that he specializes in Thomas Aquinas, civil rights activist James Baldwin, Critical Race Theory, military ethics, “Evangélic@ Theology,” and Christian pedagogy.)
FOX NEWS
— DURBIN: Closing federal offices punishes everyday Americans. DOGE claims it canceled 793 federal leases which will make it hard for Americans to access benefits. According to Durbin, the federal government exists to dish out welfare.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-dick-durbin-closing-federal-offices-punishes-everyday-americans
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Democrat Leaders Organize Over 1,000 Anti-Trump ‘Hands Off’ Protests across Nation
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/activists-organize-over-1000-anti-trump-hands-off-protests-across-nation/
PJ MEDIA
— Make the Illegal Alien Criminals Stay at Judge Boasberg’s House
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/04/06/the-morning-briefing-make-the-illegal-alien-criminals-stay-at-judge-boasbergs-house-n4938654
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump says he’s not backing down on tariffs, calls them ‘medicine’ as markets reel
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-recession-financial-markets-negotiations-retaliation-860760cdc1aa2cc58853c9aab987e36d
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-beach-pride-parade-lgbtq-community-trump-policy-changes/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelan-migrants-deportations-el-salvador-prison-60-minutes/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/world/europe/trade-trump-tariffs-brexit.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/us/trump-tariffs-shopping-consumer-panic-buying.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/anti-trump-protests-hands-off.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Younger Democrats want to force an uncomfortable conversation about age. Many complain the party is dominated by an older generation of leaders who have lost touch with Americans’ day-to-day struggles. Democrat and RINO leaders use up-or-out, that is, age discrimination, to get rid of Republicans. Republicans should know that Democrat and RINO leaders will get rid of you if you are not making say a) $100,000/year by age 25, c) $200,000/year by age 30, d) $300,000/year by age 35, e) $400,000/year by age 40, f) etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/06/young-democrats-age-leadership/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— We Had Been Scraping By on Two Paychecks. Now We Have One. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. In today’s dollars, a) my GAO salary was $153,151/year and b) my Civil Service Retirement System pension is $66,780/year. That means that my wife and I have had $86,371/year less income since 1997.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/starting-business-couple-one-paycheck-13538648
— Republicans in Congress are drafting a tax bill that raises the state and local tax deduction cap for individuals from $10,000 to $25,000. I started itemizing when I was 24 years old in 1972 and my wife and I started in 1978. We paid less federal income tax because of that. But SALT ended all that. My critics/opponents have been furious that we have paid less federal income tax by itemizing. They want SALT and they do not want the SALT cap to be increased.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-republican-tax-proposal-could-harm-american-businesses-csalt-deduction-cap-economy-8c888837
— Is Anyone a Patriot Anymore? It’s not buying American flag boxer briefs. It’s following up words with actions. I should write about those who have acted like they disapproved of if not hated my having displayed an 18X12-foot American Flag in my Iron Gate Motor Condo that I just sold.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-anyone-a-patriot-anymore-america-commitment-country-f4056f00
— Cars Were Already Unaffordable Before Tariffs. Common advice to not spend more than 10% of pay on a car loan payment is getting harder to follow. The 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus that I recently bought is very expensive.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/trump-auto-tariffs-car-prices-0b7ca5f2
FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly position themselves as being protectors of disadvantaged/marginalized/oppressed groups. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause all the problems that members of those groups have. Members of those groups include those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, in America illegally, have less money than others, have financial, health, and or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, prostitutes, and criminals.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sughnenyongo/2024/06/10/the-urgent-case-for-supporting-marginalized-groups-in-todays-society/
NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/nx-s1-5354187/trump-vows-to-stay-the-course-as-demonstrators-hold-weekend-protests-across-the-u-s
LATIN TIMES
— More Elected Democrats Are Becoming Republicans As The GOP Strengthens Grip On Texas. As the Democrat Party tightens its grip on Illinois, on DuPage County, on Milton Township, and on Wheaton, anticipate/expect that more elected Republicans will officially become Democrats. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all my critics/opponents who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican will officially become Democrats. They all have always been anti-religious, anti-conservative, and/or anti-Republican. They all have always been RINOs if not Democrat plants. I should write about them. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.latintimes.com/more-elected-democrats-are-becoming-republicans-gop-strengthens-grip-texas-577688
April 5, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson responds to Trump threat to revoke CPS funding over DEI: ‘We’re gonna sue’ Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/04/mayor-brandon-johnson-trump-threat-cps-funding-sue/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/04/trump-administration-ends-disaster-grant-program/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/04/ice-venezuelan-migrant-kidney-transplant/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Vote by mail system helped Democrats win big in DuPage County. Democrats have far more trust in mailed-in ballots than Republicans, so they’re much more likely to sign up for the permanent vote by mail program. Democrats run DuPage County’s Election Division.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/04/vote-by-mail-dupage-county-township-municipal-elections-democrats-republicans-trump-rich-miller
— Hemp hangup: Why Illinois leaders have failed to regulate delta-8
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2025/04/05/hemp-delta8-tetrahydrocannabinol-thc-illinois-legislature
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving the stock market down.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/chicago-stocks-take-another-beating-trump-tariff-fears
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/stocks-tumble-again-reaction-trump-tariffs
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump tariffs for everything that is bad.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-area-food-banks-small-businesses-feel-impact-president-donald-trumps-sweeping-new-tariffs/16123883/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-area-consumers-stock-groceries-inflation-expected-ramp-due-president-donald-trumps-sweeping-new-tariffs/16128202/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/powell-warns-trumps-tariffs-expected-hike-inflation/16127929/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-expected-temporarily-release-man-trying-save-brother-cicero-need-kidney-transplant/16126250/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders react to threats of school funding cuts over DEI practices.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/illinois-leaders-react-to-threats-of-school-funding-cuts-over-dei-practices/3714447/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/man-detained-by-ice-temporarily-released-to-give-brother-life-saving-kidney/3714021/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving the stock market down.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-administration-tariffs-stocks-slide-worst-day-2020-april-04-2025-live-updates/3713786/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lead protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/hands-off-2025-april-5-protests-chicago-suburbs/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving the stock market down.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/stocks-fall-for-second-day-after-trump-announced-new-tariffs/
WGN9
— Democrat Illinois public health director on Trump plan to cancel over $400M in pandemic-era grants
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/trump-admin-set-to-cancel-more-than-half-a-billion-dollars-in-pandemic-era-grants/
— Energy Department considers more than 40 percent of its employees non-essential as layoffs loom. As Gingrich GAO budget cuts worsened during the 1980s and 1990s, my Democrat GAO superiors ever-increasingly treated their employees who were the following to being non-essential: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://wgntv.com/news/national/energy-department-considers-more-than-40-percent-of-its-staff-non-essential-as-layoffs-loom/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619984
NORTHWEST HERALD
— Political divide on display Saturday as anti-Trump rally, McHenry GOP dinner happen within miles of each other. McHenry County Republicans host annual dinner in Lake in the Hills hours after organizations protest against Trump in Algonquin.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/04/05/political-divide-on-display-saturday-as-anti-trump-rally-mchenry-gop-dinner-happen-within-miles-of-each-other/
SOUTHERN
— Trump says it could take 2 years before tariffs result in American manufacturing boom
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/04/trump-says-it-could-take-2-years-before-tariffs-result-in-american-manufacturing-boom/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Al Sharpton calls on PepsiCo to restore DEI initiatives, threatens boycott. Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/al-sharpton-calls-on-pepsico-to-restore-dei-initiatives-threatens-boycott/article_79753c83-5aca-5dee-a3df-935046dca78c.html
SHAW LOCAL
— Trump shuts Head Start office that serves all of Illinois. Did your parents send you to kindergarten? My critics/opponents started painting me as being privileged in 1953 when my parents sent me to kindergarten.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/04/04/trump-administration-shuts-head-start-office-that-serves-all-of-illinois-several-other-states/
STATELINE & WTVO
— Indiana Senate advances bill to absorb Illinois counties seeking secession
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/indiana-senate-illinois-secession/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukng69HlaSE
25 NEWS NOW
— Supreme Court allows Trump to cut teacher-training money that promotes DEI.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/04/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-cut-teacher-training-money-part-its-anti-dei-efforts/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/video/economics-professor-details-impact-of-president-trumps-tariffs/10602460/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use trees to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-trump-administration-rolls-back-forest-protections-in-bid-to-ramp-up-logging/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use retirees to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-retirees-keep-their-eyes-on-the-economy-as-trumps-tariffs-roil-financial-markets/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Federal Reserve to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-federal-reserve-chief-says-trump-tariffs-likely-to-raise-inflation-and-slow-us-economic-growth/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-hands-off-protests-against-trump-and-musk-are-planned-across-the-us/
IPM NEWSROOM
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly rebrand the following: a) their race and gender based preference giving, b) their patronage, c) their political affiliation discrimination, d) their reverse discrimination, e) their age discrimination, f) their religious discrimination, and g) their notional origin discrimination.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/instead-of-ending-dei-university-of-illinois-will-add-open-to-all-language-to-websites/
CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/standing-up-to-trumps-attacks-on-our-lgbtqia-communities/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-283/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Illinois DOGE Profile: $1.5 million to the Chicago Therapy Collective to advocate for cross-dressing
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/670767448-illinois-doge-profile-1-5-million-to-the-chicago-therapy-collective-to-advocate-for-cross-dressing
WIREPOINTS
— Springfield Diocese: New IL abortion discrimination law tramples religious freedoms
https://wirepoints.org/springfield-diocese-new-il-abortion-discrimination-law-tramples-religious-freedoms-madison-st-clair-record/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Connie Cain’s Take on Kane County Election Results: GOP Lost Day Vote-By-Mail Ballots Put in the Post Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/04/connie-cains-take-on-kane-county-election-results-gop-lost-day-vote-by-mail-ballots-put-in-the-post-office/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use foreign countries to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/4/foreign-allies-warn-travelers-us-no-longer-safe-bet/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Measure threatens to dissolve Illinois’ rural townships, sparking opposition
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3370818/measure-threatens-to-dissolve-illinois-rural-townships-sparking-opposition/
— HUD moves to kill public housing assistance for ‘sanctuary’ cities and states
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3370932/hud-scott-turner-moves-kill-public-housing-assistance-sanctuary-states-illegal-immigrants/
— Democrats switch from racism to oligarchy
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3368984/democrats-switch-strategy-racism-oligarchy/
AMAC
— Elites Hate Trump’s Tariffs Because They Work
https://amac.us/newsline/economy/elites-hate-trumps-tariffs-because-they-work/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Obama-Appointed Judge Orders Trump Administration to Return Alleged MS-13 Gang Member Back to the U.S.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/04/obama-appointed-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-return-alleged-ms-13-gang-member-back-to-the-u-s/
BREITBART
— Homeland Security to Switch Migrant Housing Funds to Deportation
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/04/homeland-security-to-switch-migrant-housing-funds-to-deportation/
— Woke Backlash: Leftists Organize Walmart Boycott over DEI Rollback
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/04/woke-backlash-leftists-organize-walmart-boycott-over-dei-rollback/
— Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Freeze Teacher Grants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/04/supreme-court-allows-trump-admin-freeze-teacher-grants/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump’s China Tariffs Aim to Tackle Decades of Trade Imbalance, National Security Threats
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/trumps-china-tariffs-aim-to-tackle-decades-of-trade-imbalance-national-security-threats-5837188
FOX NEWS
— IRS cutting its workforce by 25%, eliminating agency’s civil rights office. The layoffs come as the Trump administration continues to shrink the size of the federal workforce through the Department of Government Efficiency. If I was still working for IRS, my IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/irs-cutting-workforce-25-percent-eliminating-agencys-civil-rights-office
NEWSMAX
— DHS Looks to Divert Migrant Aid to Immigration Enforcement
https://www.newsmax.com/us/dhs-migrant-aid-funds/2025/04/04/id/1205772/
— HUD Moves to Cut Public Housing Funds for ‘Sanctuary’ Areas
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/hud-scott-turner-immigration/2025/04/04/id/1205757/
PJ MEDIA
— Trump Goes to War Against Gender Ideology in Schools
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/04/trump-goes-to-war-against-gender-ideology-in-schools-n4938595
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work against Trump’s economic plan.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5233705-trump-tariffs-economy-approval-survey/
https://thehill.com/business/5233486-jp-morgan-trump-tariffs-recession/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— IRS plans to cut up to 25% of staff, starting with closing its civil rights office. If I was still working for IRS, my IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/05/irs-plans-cut-up-25-staff-starting-with-closing-its-civil-rights-office-ap-sources-say/
CNN
— Social Security targets tech team for cuts at a time when systems are under strain. To deal with Gingrich budget cuts 1980-1997, my Democrat GAO superiors targeted their employees like me 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. Gingrich had to have known that.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/social-security-tech-team-layoffs/index.html
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump/
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hundreds-of-protests-planned-as-trump-s-abuses-generate-wide-array-of-grievances-236612677727
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving the stock market down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gidoyQigSOY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGxHFv7gSfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8B1xDmj_KU
CNBC
— Automakers seek ‘opportunity in the chaos’ of Trump’s tariffs
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/05/automakers-seek-opportunity-in-the-chaos-of-trumps-tariffs.html
— China says ‘market has spoken’ after Trump tariffs spark global stocks rout
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/05/china-says-market-has-spoken-after-trump-tariffs-spark-stocks-rout.html
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use world leaders against Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/stock-markets-tumble-response-trumps-sweeping-tariffs/story?id=120440390
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daca-recipient-kansas-city-father-deported-mexico-despite-valid-documentation/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Supreme Court Lets Trump Suspend DEI Grants to Teachers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/supreme-court-trump-teacher-grants.html
— New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/new-york-trump-dei-order.html
— Republicans Like to Cut Taxes. With Tariffs, Trump Is Raising Them. President Trump’s tariffs are scrambling the Republican plan for the economy, long centered on tax cuts and growth.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/business/economy/republicans-tax-cuts-tariffs-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ask “Do Americans Approve of President Trump?”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Trump’s Tariffs Are a Self-Inflicted Debacle
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/opinion/trump-tariffs-stock-market-recession.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying the American automotive industry.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/04/05/which-cars-vehicles-made-in-america/82758650007/
ABC DC
— Hundreds gather in DC to support sanctuary cities and immigrant families’ rights
https://wjla.com/newsletter-daily/hundreds-gather-in-dc-to-support-sanctuary-cities-and-immigrant-families-rights
WBUR
— Trump sets forth demands for Harvard to avert loss of billions in federal funding
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/04/harvard-federal-funding-trump-demands-letter
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Is Replacing the Nanny State With a Daddy State. The president is using the powers of his office in an aggressive, paternalistic way without precedent. Is an old form of intrusive government being replaced by a new one?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-is-replacing-the-nanny-state-with-a-daddy-state-d78a37c0
— The Peril of Trump’s Tariffs for America’s Auto Titans. The administration’s new levies will be a massive blow to the bottom line of Ford and GM and force job cuts across the industry.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/the-peril-of-trumps-tariffs-for-americas-auto-titans-ae3504e0
POLITICO
— Canada says its friendship with the US is ‘over.’ Now what? Trump’s aggressive trade policies have rocked an alliance that seemed unshakeable.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/05/canada-us-friendship-trade-tariffs-trump-00273255
— A slate of pro-climate candidates in Naperville swept city council races Tuesday in a political victory hailed by some as a referendum on the city’s ties to coal-fired electricity.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/chicago-suburb-rebukes-coal-elects-pro-climate-council/
HOT CARS
— New U.S. Tariffs Stall Dodge Charger Production, Trigger Layoffs
https://www.hotcars.com/dodge-charger-production-paused/
April 4, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-area-food-banks-small-businesses-feel-impact-president-donald-trumps-sweeping-new-tariffs/16123883/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKVkjubiPl4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pZuNfAQjdk
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/fact-check-trumps-misleading-tariff-chart/3713631/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/a-look-at-the-financial-impact-of-president-trumps-tariffs/3713603/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/kelly-evans-the-trump-tariffs-heres-what-we-know/3712805/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-tariffs-reactions-april-03-2025-live-updates/3712750/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-area-retailers-consumers-concerned-effects-tariffs/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/rep-raja-krishnamoorthi-weighs-in-on-president-trumps-latest-tariffs/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-announcement-sends-stock-market-plunging/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-car-dealers-trump-tariffs-price-hikes
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619476
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619254
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619138
— Democrat and RINO leaders vehemently oppose home schooling.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1619259
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racists.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/03/chicago-police-continued-target-black-latino-drivers-traffic-stops-2024-advocacy-group
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://wgnradio.com/news/trump-sued-over-china-tariffs/
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/ap-these-are-the-places-affected-by-trumps-tariffs/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use low-income students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/03/k-12-schools-must-say-no-to-dei-to-receive-federal-money-administration-says
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/04/04/families-turn-to-illinois-attorney-general-to-help-bring-back-surgeries-for-transgender-youth
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hundreds of Democrats protest at Northbrook Tesla dealership against Elon Musk and DOGE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/hundreds-protests-at-northbrook-tesla-dealership-against-musk-doge/
— Partisan politics in Naperville’s nonpartisan election raises questions over how future races will be run
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/naperville-election-council/
— Illinois Democrat leaders join Democrat leaders in 18 other states suing to block Trump’s election order
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/illinois-states-sue-trump-election-order/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/editorial-trumps-foolish-tariffs-take-the-us-economy-back-centuries/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/answering-your-questions-about-president-trumps-vast-new-tariffs/
— Sanctuary cities pose an unacceptable risk to public safety
https://www.thedailynewsonline.com/opinion/fabbricatore-sanctuary-cities-pose-an-unacceptable-risk-to-public-safety/article_aa45c31e-f001-11ef-b918-dbbf5c6fa882.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly spin everything that Trump says or does against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/trumps-changes-federal-government/
— To vote for Democrat candidates is to promote more poverty and crime. To vote for Democrat candidates is to promote more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and 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. To vote for Democrat candidates is to get of Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/04/ballot-initiative-illinois-voters/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use low-income students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/03/k-12-schools-must-say-no-to-dei-to-receive-federal-money-administration-says
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/03/trump-dei-diversity-steinberg
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/03/donald-trump-tariffs-global-trade-congress-republicans-mona-charen
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-news-car-prices-chicago
DAILY HERALD
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250403/nation-and-world-politics/sources-trump-moves-to-fire-several-national-security-officials-over-concerns-theyre-not-loyal-sou/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/these-chicago-stocks-took-worst-beating-after-trump-tariffs
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/finance-banking/wall-street-reacts-global-tariff-upheaval
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/understanding-trumps-tariff-will-take-time-and-consultants
— Democrat and RINO law firms fight Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/opinion-big-law-must-stop-caving-trumps-demands
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Reparations Committee discusses DNA ancestry testing
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/04/city/reparations-committee-discusses-dna-ancestry-testing-updates-from-reparations-business-climate-survey/
SOUTHERN
— Musk still plans a major role in midterm elections despite loss in Wisconsin
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/03/musk-still-plans-a-major-role-in-midterm-elections-despite-loss-in-wisconsin-sources/
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/gov-pritzker-slams-trumps-tax-on-working-families-following-mexico-trade-mission-81217.cfm
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-says-things-are-going-very-well-after-worst-stock-market-drop-in-years-over-tariffs/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-what-to-know-about-the-trump-tariffs-upending-global-trade-and-markets/
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-moves-to-fire-several-national-security-officials-over-concerns-theyre-not-loyal-ap-sources/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders use troubled veterans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-03/trumps-va-is-ending-a-rescue-program-thats-saved-17-000-military-veterans-homes
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-03/brutal-day-for-stocks-dow-plunges-almost-1-700-points-on-new-trump-tariffs
CHALKBEAT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/03/trump-policies-on-gender-mobilize-lgbtq-students-and-school-staff/
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/03/hands-off-anti-trump-protests-saturday-chicago-area
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Election turnout numbers: “Voter turnout for the April 1 election was 286,301 or 16.9 percent. That tops the previous Consolidated election turnout in 2023 which was 57,400 and 2021 which totaled 70,747. Early Voting also exceeded previous years with 97,697 suburban voters casting an early ballot compared with 57,400 in 2023 and 24,311 in 2021,” Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon said in a release.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/04/rep-danny-davis-weighing-2026-00271841
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-282/
— DuPage Democrats say they flipped 38 offices. If those in DuPage County who voted for Democrats were asked why they did that, what would they say?
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/03/roundup-dupage-dems-say-they-flipped-38-offices-rock-island-elects-black-mayor-after-police-shooting-meyerhoffman-over-gregorykern-in-belleville/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois townships vote to fix pensions, gerrymandering and unfunded mandates
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-townships-vote-to-fix-pensions-gerrymandering-and-unfunded-mandates/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump tariffs to hit autos, iPhones, food and more
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/3/trump-tariffs-hit-autos-iphones-food/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum says ‘good relationship’ with US spared country from reciprocal tariffs
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/3369760/mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-good-relationship-us-trump-spared-reciprocal-tariffs/
— Education Department threatens K-12 funding unless schools adhere to Trump’s anti-DEI orders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3369969/education-department-threatens-k-12-funding-schools-adhere-trump-anti-dei-orders/
AMERICAN FAMILY RADIO
— Media Malfeasance
https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2025/04/media-malfeasance/
AMERICAN THINKER
— With the border secure, Trump cleans up Biden’s excesses on parole, TPS
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/with_the_border_secure_trump_cleans_up_biden_s_excesses_on_parole_tps.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— DNC, Schumer, Jeffries sue Trump over preventing illegals from voting
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/03/dnc-schumer-jeffries-sue-trump-over-preventing-illegals-from-voting-1533793/
— Mexico-born judge orders Trump admin. to restore legal aid to unaccompanied illegal alien children
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/03/mexico-born-judge-orders-trump-admin-to-restore-legal-aid-to-unaccompanied-illegal-alien-children-1533692/
DAILY SIGNAL
— We Were Paying for What? Trump HHS Slashes Hundreds of Millions in Woke LGBTQ Grants.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/03/we-were-paying-what-trump-hhs-cuts-woke-lgbtq-grants/
DAILY WIRE
— ‘We Do Not Ask Permission From Far-Left Democrats’: Vance Scorches Dems Over Deportations
https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-do-not-ask-permission-from-far-left-democrats-vance-scorches-dems-over-deportations
EPOCH TIMES
— US Markets Down Upon Global Tariff Announcement. Energy, technology, and consumer discretionary sectors took the hardest hits, with losses around 7 percent. Industrials and financials fell by about 5 percent.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/us-markets-down-upon-global-tariff-announcement-5836531
FOX NEWS
— Illinois homeschool bill would create a ‘pipeline to the criminal justice system for parents’: Dem lawmaker. IL’s Homeschool Act, slammed by critics as ‘government overreach’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-homeschool-bill-would-create-pipeline-criminal-justice-system-parents-dem-lawmaker
JUDICIAL WATCH
— HUD, DHS Team up to End Subsidized Public Housing for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.judicialwatch.org/subsidized-housing-illegal-immigrants/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lays Off 900, Kept Chief DEI Officer. Neela Rajendra has been rebranded as “Chief of the Office of Team Excellence and Employee Success.” The move is a clear attempt to bypass the restrictions against DEI now being implemented.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/nasas-jet-propulsion-laboratory-lays-off-900-kept-chief-dei-officer/
NEWSMAX
— House Democrats Demand Answers on IRS Staff Cuts. During the 1980s and 1990s, Democrat and Republican leaders let Gingrich gut GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/house-dems-irs/2025/04/03/id/1205601/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— China imposes 34% reciprocal tariffs on imports of US goods in retaliation for Trump’s trade war
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/business/china-us-tariffs-retaliation-hnk-intl/index.html
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/countries-worldwide-weigh-in-on-trumps-tariffs-announcement/
NEW YORK TIMES
— More Americans Can’t Afford Medical Care. The Democrat Party platform promotes dependency on government and charity, poverty, and crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/health/health-care-costs-gallup.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/04/india-trump-tariffs-modi-trade/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/republicans-who-were-against-tariffs-now-downplay-trumps/2025/04/03/3f76184e-de3a-4b43-8988-72ed7ae6f365_video.html
USA TODAY
— Trump’s tariffs on cars will create good jobs and increase wages in America. No longer does America fully manufacture its own automobiles. We largely assemble high-value parts made overseas. I worked part-time on the Chrysler assembly line in Belvidere in early 1970.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/04/02/trump-tariffs-auto-imports-ford-toyota-honda/82754296007/
UNION LEADER
— ACLU fights for the rights of criminals and illegals
https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letter-aclu-fights-for-the-rights-of-criminals-and-illegals/article_79619792-cd55-4ef9-ad0d-67f1c7d15eff.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What the Illinois Home Schooling Bill Reveals About Democrats. The lack of school choice in the state is fueling the left’s broader assault on educational freedom.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-the-illinois-home-schooling-bill-reveals-about-democrats-c683be85
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-tariffs-trade-war-stock-market-04-03-2025
— The Census Defines the Poverty Rate Up. Its flawed income measure leads to the overpayment of welfare, including Medicaid, to recipients.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-census-defines-poverty-down-measure-poor-welfare-transfer-payments-f09be540
BLOOMBERG
— GOP Considering New Tax Bracket Of Up To 40% For Millionaires
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/republicans-debate-hiking-top-tax-rate-to-40-for-millionaires
April 2, 2025
All eight Republican township candidates on my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 ballot lost because the Democrats in the township, including my precinct, voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump. How successful were your Republican township candidates? Ever since my wife and I moved to Milton Township in 1978, all of the Milton Township elected officials have been Republican. Since 2000, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, I have done much to help elect and reelect Republican Milton Township candidates, including hand-delivering their campaign literature to the residences in my precinct (currently 400) that have at least one Republican or one Independent registered voter.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Richard Irvin concedes defeat to John Laesch in Aurora mayoral race
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/richard-irvin-concedes-defeat/
— Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau concedes defeat in bid for third term
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/orland-park-mayoral-race-results/
— Evanston voters re-elect Daniel Biss as mayor, per unofficial results
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/evanston-mayor-election-results/
— Illinois AG Kwame Raoul warns legal community against ‘being complicit’ with Trump. Federal law trumps state and local law.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/illinois-ag-kwame-raoul-warns-legal-community-against-being-complicit-with-trump/
— Lawsuit claims Chicago approval for cannabis store in Streeterville was illegal
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/streeterville-cannabis-store/
— Wisconsin votes to enshrine voter ID requirement in state constitution
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/wisconsin-election-education-official-voter-id-amendment/
— Democratic-backed Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, cementing liberal majority
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/wisconsin-supreme-court-race-control/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/trump-liberation-day/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use pollution to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/trump-epa-pollution-climate-change/
— Democrats on Illinois’ high court must recuse themselves on gerrymandering. I should write about the gerrymandering my precinct in 2015.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/opinion-illinois-gerrymandering-state-supreme-court/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/01/trumps-tariff-smarter-trade-strategy-american-workers-environment-manufacturing-ben-jealous
DAILY HERALD
— School board incumbents fare well in DuPage County
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250401/local-politics/school-board-incumbents-fare-well-in-dupage-county/
— Burket edges past Fasules in Glen Ellyn village president’s race; mayors losing in other DuPage towns
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250401/local-politics/burket-edges-past-fasules-in-glen-ellyn-village-presidents-race-mayors-losing-in-other-dupage-town/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Republicans eye $25,000 SALT cap as Trump’s tax cuts take shape. I started itemizing in 1972 and my wife and I in 1978. We paid less federal income tax because we itemized. But SALT ended our itemizing.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-tax-cuts-gop-eyes-raising-salt-cap
— Democrat leaders promote the lawyer leading Jenner’s battle with Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/jenner-blocks-rep-trump-case-michael-attanasios-backstory
ABC7
— Aurora mayoral election: Two-term incumbent Richard Irvin concedes race to challenger John Laesch. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss is projected to win a second term in office.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/aurora-mayor-election-2025-voters-head-polls-mayoral-race-incumbent-richard-irvin-facing-challenger-john-laesch/16114822/
— Jason House projected to win Dolton mayoral election, replacing Tiffany Henyard: ‘It’s a new day’ State Sen. Napoleon Harris projected to win the Thornton Township supervisor election.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dolton-illinois-election-results-today-voters-seek-replace-tiffany-henyard-mayor-thornton-township-supervisor/16116392/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC8_DMNhvFo
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “financial experts” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-news-today-financial-experts-raising-concerns-consumer-protections-costs-current-administration/16116870/
NBC5
— Suburban Chicago race results
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/2025-illinois-election-results-wisconsin-supreme-court/3711433/
— Chicago suburb hires private security to help patrol amid police shortage
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-suburb-winnetka-private-security-police-help/3711369/
— Liberal wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, GOP keeps House specials
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-tariffs-wisconsin-florida-elections-april-01-2025-live-updates/3710727/
CBS2
— Dodge wins in Orland Park, Biss wins another term in Evanston
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2025-municipal-elections-chicago-suburbs/
— Chicago area school district prepares for potential drop in federal funding
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-area-school-district-prepares-for-potential-drop-in-federal-funding/
WGN9
— Illinois court rules lawsuit against maker of gun used in Highland Park mass shooting can proceed. What if he had used an SUV to kill people?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-court-rules-lawsuit-against-222626925.html
FOX32
— Illinois election results
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-election-results-live-updates
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Duckworth to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617771
— Trump administration begins mass layoffs of federal workers. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s 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. The agency shrank from more than 6,000 to less than 3,000. It was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617888
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use farmers to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617885
WBEZ
— Because Democrats run Illinois, 25% of Illinois residents are on Medicaid.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/04/01/potential-medicaid-cuts-leave-25-of-illinois-at-risk
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Venezuelans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/04/01/venezuelans-in-chicago-relieved-their-deportation-protection-is-safe-for-now
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/04/01/the-rundown-what-tariffs-could-mean-for-your-budget
EFFINGHAM DAILY NEWS
— Effingham GOP celebrates second Trump presidency. How strongly have the leaders of your county and township Republican organizations celebrated Trump’s second presidency?
https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/local_news/effingham-gop-celebrates-second-trump-presidency/article_4146c186-2160-42a8-9b6a-04b4e65258fb.html
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use foreign college students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/01/some-foreign-college-students-are-being-targeted-for-deportation-what-rights-do-they-have/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Dan Brady wins Bloomington mayor race
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/your-local-election-hq/dan-brady-wins-bloomington-mayoral/
— Democrats ever-increasingly call you a racist if you do not promote illegal immigration.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/no-tip-for-illegal-customers-leave-racist-note-for-lax-server/
— — Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-trump-is-set-to-announce-reciprocal-tariffs-in-a-risky-move-that-could-reshape-the-economy/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Trump and Musk support not enough to overturn the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-02/trump-and-musk-support-not-enough-to-overturn-the-wisconsin-supreme-courts-liberal-majority
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use bad weather to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-04-01/weather-experts-say-federal-cuts-could-impact-forecasting
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s executive orders to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-01/administration-lawyers-make-missteps-in-defending-trumps-orders
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/transgender-day-of-visibility-means-resistance-and-solidarity-for-c-us-lgbtq-community/
CWB CHICAGO
— New law would ban fines, criminal penalties for homeless people occupying public land
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/04/new-law-would-ban-fines-criminal-penalties-for-homeless-people-occupying-public-land.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Election Night winners and losers
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/02/election-night-winners-and-losers-00265592
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In DuPage County, Democratic Party Chair Reid McCollum said “we’re leading in 48 of 49 partisan races and only down in the one by 35 votes. Several of our townships have never had an elected Dem, and it’s sweep after sweep tonight,” via BlueSky. . .Greg Hart elected Hinsdale president)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-487/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-280/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How successful were your Republican township candidates? All eight of my Republican Milton Township candidates lost both townshipwide and in my precinct. Ever since my wife and I moved to Milton Township in 1978, all of the Milton Township elected officials have been Republican. The eight lost in this election because the Democrats in the township voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— The numbers don’t lie. Illinoisans aren’t prospering, our neighbors are.
https://wirepoints.org/the-numbers-dont-lie-illinoisans-arent-prospering-our-neighbors-are-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
JOHN KASS
— NPR & Public Television: Leftists Using Government to Take Your Money Without Asking
https://johnkassnews.com/npr-public-television-using-government-to-take-your-money/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL Attorney General vows to use resources to sue Trump administration
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4cfeb377-1e98-4d45-98fa-0f44547b8106.html
ILLINOIS RECORD
— Inside DuPage County Sheriff Mendrick’s Social Media Meltdown
https://www.illinoisrecord.com/p/inside-dupage-county-sheriff-mendricks
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Vallas: Brandon Johnson’s war against Chicago’s Black community
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-brandon-johnsons-war-against-chicagos-black-community/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREITBART
— DOGE Reportedly Finds Millions of Illegals on Social Security Rolls
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/01/irs-ice-partnershiptrump-administration-nears-historic-deal-as-doge-reportedly-finds-millions-of-illegals-on-social-security-rolls/
— Democrats Appointed 92% of Judges Blocking Trump Agenda: ‘Judicial Coup D’Etat’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/01/democrats-appointed-92-of-judges-blocking-trump-agenda-judicial-coup-detat/
DAILY CALLER
— Anti-Musk Group Behind ‘Day Of Action’ Against Tesla Offers Tips On ‘Jail Support,’ Finding ‘Target’s’ Home Address
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/01/anti-musk-group-behind-day-of-action-against-tesla-offers-tips-on-jail-support-finding-targets-home-address/
— How Small Town America Stopped A Chinese Communist Party Takeover
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/01/small-town-michigan-stopped-chinese-communist-party-takeover-gotion/#google_vignette
DAILY SIGNAL
— Hegseth Bids Adieu to Military Wokeness
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/01/hegseth-bids-adieu-to-military-wokeness/
FOX NEWS
— ‘A bubble of unreality’: Illinois GOP chair blasts governor for Mexico trade agreement. Illinois GOP Chair Kathy Salvi joins ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss Gov. JB Pritzker signing a trade agreement with Mexico despite business fleeing the state.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370868324112
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump demands Republicans defund, ‘totally disassociate’ from NPR, PBS
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-demands-republicans-defund-totally-disassociate-from-npr-pbs
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trumps-tariffs-cause-recession-experts/story?id=120329597
— Democratic base’s anger puts some party leaders on shaky ground
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/democratic-bases-anger-puts-party-leaders-shaky-ground-120326767
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Venezuelans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-deported-238-venezuelans-el-salvador-dozens-have-active-asylum-cases-2025-04-01/
MSN
— Pritzker Bans Capitol Rioters Pardoned by Trump From Being Hired for Government Jobs. Constructively, after my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49years old in 1997, they banned me from being hired for any job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/illinois-governor-bans-capitol-rioters-pardoned-by-trump-from-being-hired-for-government-jobs/ar-AA1yclU8
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/01/elon-musk-social-security-immigrants/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— In Chicago, the Union Wins Again. Teachers get hefty raises, while test scores and enrollment fall.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chicago-teachers-union-contract-public-schools-students-brandon-johnson-e9f4b64e?mod=opinion_lead_pos4
— U.S. Looks for More Countries to Take Migrants. Officials say they have asked several countries in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Migrants prefer America because Democrat and RINO leaders give citizens of foreign countries tremendous preference over citizens of America.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-looks-for-more-countries-to-take-migrants-3db9af5a
— The Campus DEI Retreat Is a Tactical Withdrawal. Colleges are learning to rebrand and lie low during the Trump years. Enjoy the sanity while it lasts.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-campus-dei-retreat-is-a-tactical-withdrawal-enjoy-it-while-it-lasts-636f88d0
— Mike Johnson Loses Battle to Limit GOP Rebels’ Power. House speaker fails to kill proposal allowing proxy voting by House lawmakers who are new parents. All my Democrat GAO superiors were parents who hinted/implied/argued/shouted a) that parents should get more preference and b) that I was unfairly advantaged because I was not a parent.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mike-johnson-republican-proxy-voting-parents-3a48ccf4
FORBES
— Duckworth ever-increasingly takes the lead in promoting more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYiV7gWpnc
NPR
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/1242229709/trump-dei-ban-whats-lost
INDEPENDENT
— Democrats want to punish Trump in the 2026 midterms. All eight Republican township candidates on the ballot in my precinct lost because the Democrats in the township voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-want-punish-trump-2026-184520308.html
April 1, 2025
Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use international students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-immigration-news-concern-local-colleges-us-student-visa-revoked-southern-illinois-university-enrollee/16113193/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders say “ICE and IRS: Unholy alliance or border saviors.”
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/ice-and-irs-unholy-alliance-or-border-saviors/3710504/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump executive orders to promote more hatred against him..
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-executive-orders-tariffs-march-31-2025-live-updates/3709767/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-gov-pritzker-declares-march-31-as-transgender-day-of-visibility/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use postal workers to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/31/postal-workers-union-pushes-back-potential-usps-cuts-and-outlines-impact-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump budget cuts to promote more hatred against him.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/31/illinois-cook-county-public-health-officials-say-federal-funding-cuts-came-little-notice
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ask “Why it’s important to vote in local elections.”
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/why-its-important-to-vote-in-local-elections/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump executive orders to promote more hatred against him.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/dr-hartman-trump-is-trying-to-whitewash-history/
https://wgnradio.com/news/trump-says-hes-not-joking-about-a-third-term-republicans-insist-he-is/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/protests-elon-musk-tesla/
— Democrat ever-increasingly use Venezuelans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/trump-legal-protections-venezuelans/
— Democrat ever-increasingly use bad weather to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/tornado-season-weather-service-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for antisemitism.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/amid-trump-administration-crackdown-on-campus-antisemitism-northwestern-reports-dip-in-incidents/
— Democrat leaders say Trump is stronger on immigration and weaker on trade.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/31/trump-immigration-trade/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum/
— Paul Vallas: The decline in Black teachers has nothing to do with CPS’ evaluation system
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/opinion-chicago-decline-black-teachers/
— Democrat leaders use joint World Cup to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/us-canada-mexico-world-cup/
— Democrat leaders say Illinois becomes first state to mandate halal, kosher meals be available in public institutions such as schools
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/halal-kosher-meals-schools/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/03/31/trump-liberation-day-tariffs-eu-korea-brazil-coming-heres-what-mean-for-you
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders say “Guide to voting in the suburbs Tuesday: Polling places, ID rules, write-ins and more.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250331/news/guide-to-voting-in-the-suburbs-tuesday-polling-places-id-rules-write-ins-and-more/
— Democrat leaders make endorsements in April 1 elections
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250319/endorsements/a-summary-of-daily-herald-endorsements-in-april-1-elections/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders do not want any of their illegals to be deported.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trumps-michael-jordan-jersey-immigration-guidance-challenged
— Democrat leaders have their law firms work against Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-daily-gist/chicago-law-firm-pushes-back-against-trump
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/opinion-stop-autocratic-attacks-legal-profession
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/business/2025/04/01/illinois-eagle-closes-springfield-office-still-publishing-online/82745002007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders say State Sen. Michael Hastings, a Democrat from Frankfort, won his last two elections. Now he’s filed lawsuits against defeated Republicans that charge they led a “smear campaign” against him.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey-state-senator-taking-former-opponents-to-court/article_9a9088de-1a74-45dc-9db5-7f97d3291918.html
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in driving the stock market down to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/31/markets-jittery-as-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-loom/
HERALD NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s executive orders to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/03/28/joliet-activists-to-join-nationwide-protest-against-trump-musk-on-april-5/
OUR QUAD CITIES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/march-31-officially-designated-transgender-day-of-visibility-in-illinois/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/illinois-transgender-athletes-protected-from-discrimination-despite-trumps-orders
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Green Card holders and travelers to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-01/green-card-holders-travelers-caught-in-trumps-immigration-crackdown
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders do not want any of their illegals to be deported.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-administration-deports-more-migrants-to-salvadoran-prison/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use disabled people to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-03-31/intellectual-and-developmental-disability-services-brace-for-potential-medicaid-cuts
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/how-is-the-trans-community-faring-under-the-trump-administration
CHICAGO MAROON
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for antisemitism.
https://chicagomaroon.com/46758/news/uchicago-to-investigate-faculty-members-posters-for-alleged-antisemitism/
CWB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders acknowledge that Streeterville alderman encourages residents to demand mayoral action on teen takeovers.
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/03/arrest-made-in-march-9-teen-trend-shooting-as-alderman-calls-on-mayor-to-take-action.html
STATE OF ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://gov.illinois.gov/news/press-release.31087.html
https://www.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/illinois/iisnewsattachments/31087-3.31.25-illinois-recognizes-march-31st-as-transgender-day-of-visibility-final-002.pdf.pdf
CAPITOL FAX
— Democrat leaders say “Morning briefing.”
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-486/
— Democrat leaders say “Afternoon roundup.”
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/31/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-279/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Illinoisans hit by nation’s 9th-worst economic growth, 3rd-worst wage gains
https://wirepoints.org/fresh-2024-data-illinoisans-hit-by-nations-9th-worst-economic-growth-3rd-worst-wage-gains-wirepoints/
— The six-figure salaries of school superintendents turn into massive pensions when they retire. In today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is a) only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and b) less than what my salary was in 1972.
https://wirepoints.org/the-six-figure-salaries-of-school-superintendents-turn-into-massive-pensions-when-they-retire-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To what extend did your teachers make you woke, that is, to what extent did they make you anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-nonveteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time? My teachers did none of the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump DHS sued for requiring illegal immigrants to register with government
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3364657/trump-dhs-sued-requiring-illegal-immigrants-register-government/
NEW YORK POST
— Illegal border crossings hit stunning new low in March, down 94% in a year because migrants are ‘scared there are consequences now’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/31/us-news/illegal-border-crossing-for-march-hit-stunning-new-low/
BLAZE
— Florida sheriff’s deputies make feds’ jobs easier by catching illegal aliens by the truckful
https://www.theblaze.com/news/florida-sheriff-s-deputies-make-feds-jobs-easier-by-catching-illegal-aliens-by-the-truckful
BREITBART
— Musk: ‘Tesla Takedown’ Events Are ‘Paid Protests’ Funded and Organized by Trump Haters
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/03/31/elon-musk-tesla-takedown-events-are-paid-protests-funded-and-organized-by-trump-haters/
— Tariffs: Economic ‘liberation’ or straitjacket?
https://www.breitbart.com/news/tariffs-economic-liberation-or-straitjacket/
— CBS Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Americans Support Trump’s Mass Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/31/cbs-poll-nearly-6-in-10-americans-support-trumps-mass-deportations/
FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— With New Agreements, the Trump Administration Expands its Whole-of-Government Approach to Combatting Illegal Immigration. Yes, but virtually all federal employees are Democrats.
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/executive/trump-whole-government-approach-illegal-immigration
FOX NEWS
— Chicago alderman slams the murder capital’s ‘disregard for human life’ The city was named the US murder capital for the 13th year in a row.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-alderman-slams-murder-capitals-disregard-human-life
— SCOTUS must stop leftist judges’ lawless sabotage of Trump agenda. District judges are causing a Constitutional crisis with partisan overreach.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/scotus-must-stop-leftist-judges-lawless-sabotage-trump-agenda
— Colleges in ICE’s deportation crosshairs shelled out discounts, financial aid to illegal immigrants. Trump admin’s immigration crackdown has so far affected Columbia, Tufts, among others.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/colleges-ices-deportation-crosshairs-spent-years-courting-illegals-discounts-financial-aid-gop-rep
NEW AMERICAN
— Trump Terminates Parole for Some 530,000 “Migrants” Whom Biden Imported
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/trump-terminates-parole-for-some-530000-migrants-whom-biden-imported/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5221094-trans-day-of-visibility-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5224628-trump-administration-cutting-funds-planned-parenthood/
— Democrat ever-increasingly use bad weather to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5220484-trump-energy-policy-global-warming/
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/us/pride-month-protests-lgbtq/index.html
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump budget cuts to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-college-university-leaders-funding-threatened-federal-level/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ask “Do Americans Approve of President Trump?”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders say “As Trump Squeezes the Immigrant Work Force, Employers Seek Relief. Businesses that rely on immigrants are pushing for legislation to ensure an adequate, legal flow of laborers from abroad as deportations ramp up.” If they could have, all my employers would have hired immigrants instead of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/business/economy/trump-immigrant-workers-visas.html
— Democrat leaders say “America Has Never Been Wealthier. Here’s Why It Doesn’t Feel That Way.” Everyone in politics, government, and journalism should be required to disclose where their money came from. Recently, my money came from inheritance. Before that, Social Security since 2010, CSRS pension since 1997, GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, Firestone Stores 1970-1972, Chrysler in 1970, Post Office 1966-1969, John’s Sinclair, Thrall Car, and Flossmoor Country Club in 1966, S.S. Kresge 1964-1966, delivering newspapers 1962-1966, and doing yard work 1962-1964.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/business/economy/wealth-cash-inequality.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders say that Trump says that the ultimate fruits of tariffs will be worth the pain.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/31/trump-tariffs-benefits-costs/82700560007/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use postal employees to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/30/postal-service-changes-doge-musk/82696231007/
KENTUCKY LANTERN
— Democrat leaders say top Democrats in Congress are asking GAO to open an investigation into whether the Trump administration violated federal law by freezing funding for several programs.
https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/04/01/repub/democrats-ask-congressional-watchdog-agency-to-probe-trumps-funding-freezes/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders say Trump Doesn’t Need Congress to Cut Waste. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-doesnt-need-congress-to-cut-waste-courts-law-63db5289
— Democrat leaders say “Trump Takes On the Judges.”
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-trump-takes-on-the-judges/5276BB29-B0CE-436B-BF19-100A413AB2F9
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders say “The Democrats Who Are Fighting—and Winning—Against Trump in Court. State attorneys general have brought 11 lawsuits against the president and his administration; strategy carries political risk.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-democrats-lawsuits-states-8b765117
— Democrat leaders say “A $6 Trillion Trump Tax Increase? Navarro says tariffs will raise $600 billion a year for the government, but he says this is a tax cut.”
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-peter-navarro-6-trillion-tax-increase-2e5cc39d
— Democrat leaders say “Retire at 65? It’s More Like 62. People are overly optimistic about how much they can work later in life.” If your employer is Democrat or RINO, anticipate/expect that the more of the following that you are, the sooner that you will be forced to retire: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/retire-at-65-its-more-like-62-d5f943c4
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders get Chicago’s retired teachers to question pension’s Tesla holdings.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-31/tesla-stock-plunge-raises-questions-for-chicago-teachers-pensions?srnd=phx-businessweek
NATION
— Democrats a) run the federal government and b) use the federal government to destroy Republicans.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/doge-white-supremacy-racism/
March 30, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump. I should write about those who took down the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tesla-takedown-protestors-rally-elon-musk-downtown-chicago-dealership-north-rush-street-side/16103560/
— 15-year-old boy shot as large crowd of teens gather in Streeterville. Streeterville today, your neighborhood tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shooting-injures-boy-large-crowd-teens-seen-north-city-front-plaza-drive-streeterville-cpd/16102153/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/protesters-rebelling-against-elon-musks-purge-of-us-government-swarm-tesla-showrooms/3709285/
— Brandon Johnson, other officials react to massive Streeterville teen gatherings. Streeterville today, your neighborhood tomorrow.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/brandon-johnson-other-officials-react-to-massive-streeterville-teen-gatherings/3709275/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-tesla-dealership-protests-elon-musk/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-tesla-dealership-protests-elon-musk/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-protesters-rally-at-tesla-showrooms/
— Trump says he’s considering all options to obtain Greenland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQc6S_8tjTw
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1616579
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against large corporations to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/26/some-consumers-are-boycotting-large-corporations-over-dei-rollbacks-here-s-what-know
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump budget cuts to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/28/illinois-intellectual-and-developmental-disability-services-brace-potential-medicaid
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/29/hundreds-gather-at-gold-coast-tesla-dealership-as-part-of-national-protests-against-doge/
— Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/29/student-protester-deportations/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump executive orders to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/29/trump-election-order-confusion/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote crime and criminals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/opinion-second-chance-month-reentry-incarceration/
— More Black families are choosing to homeschool. A new bill undermines their choices.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/opinion-homeschool-regulation-illinois-black-families/
— Springfield missed another opportunity to cut red tape and get Illinoisans back to work
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/jobs-economy-licensing-springfield/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing unite those who have demographics that vote for Democrats against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/03/29/black-brown-community-migrants-federal-cuts-democrats-trump-musk-durbin-music-editorials
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/03/28/veterans-affairs-nurse-va-jesse-brown-protest
DAILY HERALD
— The hottest mayor’s races to watch in DuPage, Kane counties. What about the hottest township supervisor races?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250329/news/the-hottest-mayors-races-to-watch-in-dupage-kane-counties/
— Partisan politics creeping into local races
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250329/local-politics/unnecessary-angst-partisan-politics-creeping-into-local-races/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Illinois is a state where effective government ideas go to die
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-illinois-is-a-state-where-effective-government-ideas-go-to-die/article_d3275911-c755-4a55-903c-d95ffa057b99.html
JOURNAL COURIER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/farmers-trump-tariffs-impact-20200091.php
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Trump’s election order creates much confusion before the next federal election in 2026. President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order seeking to change how elections are run in the U.S. is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion before the next federal election, the 2026 midterms.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/article_11d9359e-f855-5a37-8e45-fb582a081a2e.html
HERALD NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/03/28/joliet-activists-to-join-nationwide-protest-against-trump-musk-on-april-5/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly argue/shout against deporting their illegals.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/29/southwest-border-mission-has-cost-330m-so-far-with-over-40m-for-guantanamo-bay-alone-sources/
— Dozens of emotional Department of Education employees took part in a final “clap-out” in Washington, D.C., after losing jobs amid the Trump administration’s agency restructuring. Needless-to-say, I got no clap out from my Democrat GAO coworkers on my last day September 30, 1997. They were furious about Gingrich’s gutting of the agency. They took their anger against Gingrich out on me.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/29/emotional-education-department-clap-outs-celebrate-departed-federal-employees/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-transgender-people-are-about-1-of-the-us-population-yet-theyre-a-political-lightning-rod/ .
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-juggling-advocacy-with-schoolwork-2-new-hampshire-transgender-girls-fight-to-play-team-sports/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-protesters-rebelling-against-elon-musks-purge-of-us-government-swarm-tesla-showrooms/
WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump budget cuts to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/03/29/intellectual-developmental-disability-services-brace-potential-medicaid-cuts/
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois’ rainy-day fund, emergency reserves lowest in country
https://www.cities929.com/2025/03/29/illinois-rainy-day-fund-emergency-reserves-lowest-in-country/
CWB CHICAGO
— Street takeovers clog North Side streets again as CPD tries to beef up its response
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/03/street-takeovers-clog-north-side-streets-again-as-cpd-tries-to-beef-up-its-response.html
— 1 shot, 1 stabbed, at least 15 arrested as teen mob swarms downtown Chicago again
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/03/1-shot-1-stabbed-at-least-15-arrested-as-teen-mob-swarms-downtown-chicago-again.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Are Democrats Whitewashing Hitler with Lame Attacks on Trump?
https://johnkassnews.com/are-democrats-whitewashing-hitler-with-lame-attacks-on-trump/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump administration returns immigration authority to the states
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/opinion-restoring-america/3363012/trump-administration-returns-immigration-authority-to-the-states/
— AOC and Bernie Sanders fill the Democratic Party leadership vacuum. Pritzker wants to fill that vacuum.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3363162/progressives-leadership-vacuum-biden-2024-loss/#google_vignette
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— The Inconvenient Truth about H-1B Visas. Americans are told that mass immigration will bring the world’s geniuses to our country. The numbers tell a different story.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-inconvenient-truth-about-h-1b-visas/
BREITBART
— ICE Has Nearly 50,000 Illegal Migrants in Detention
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/29/ice-has-nearly-50000-illegal-migrants-in-detention/
DAILY WIRE
— Homan Steps In After Officers In Sanctuary City Targeted For Helping ICE. “Help is coming!” Gingrich did not step up for Republican GAO employees like me who my Democrat GAO superiors got rid of because of Gingrich GAO budget cuts.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-steps-in-after-officers-in-sanctuary-city-targeted-for-helping-ice
EPOCH TIMES
— Nationwide ‘Tesla Takedown’ Demonstrations Bring Out Protesters, Counter-Protesters. Seeking a nationwide ‘Tesla Takedown’ protest, organizers published an online interactive map for hundreds of protests across the country on March 29. I should write about those who took down the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/nationwide-tesla-takedown-demonstrations-bring-out-protesters-counter-protesters-5833559
— Federal Judge Halts Shutdown of Voice of America
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-halts-shutdown-of-voice-of-america-5833487
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/tesla-elon-musk-anti-trump-protests-rcna198708
— Trump administration is working to reinstate fired federal employees to comply with court orders. During the 1980s and 1990s, Republican Senators and Congressmen did not come to the defense of GAO’s Republican employees who the Democrats who ran GAO got rid of because of Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts.
https://www.aol.com/trump-administration-says-working-reinstate-164826963.html
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/worldwide-protests-at-tesla-dealerships-blast-trump-and-musk-for-u-s-government-purge/
CNBC
— In Trump era, companies are rebranding DEI efforts, not giving up
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/30/in-trump-era-companies-are-rebranding-dei-efforts-not-giving-up.html
AOL
— Melania Trump Reveals Barron Trump’s Living Situation For College. Like Barron, I lived with my parents while I attended college. I lived with them in Crete while I took classes at UIC 1966-1968, weekends while I attended NIU during the winter/spring of 1969, and the summer of 1969.
https://www.aol.com/melania-trump-reveals-barron-trumps-120119348.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Melania Trump said her son Barron Trump is living at home while he attends New York University. “I could not say I’m an empty nester. I don’t feel that way,” the former first lady told Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt in an interview that aired Thursday. “It was his decision to come here, that he wants to be in New York and study in New York and live in his home, and I respect that.” That would presumably mean that the new college man is living at the family’s longtime Trump Tower residence on Fifth Avenue and commuting a few miles south to the Greenwich Village campus. Barron Trump is former President Donald Trump’s youngest son and his only child with Melania Trump. He graduated from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, in May and began classes at NYU’s Stern School of Business in early September.)
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less that you belong in America: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/finance/merrill-lynch-wealth-adviser-lgbtq-212907655.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— The Democrats Are in Denial About 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/opinion/democrats-strategy-2024.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Bernie Sanders
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/opinion/bernie-sanders-rallies-anger.html
— They Want More Babies. Now They Have Friends in the White House. According to my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/business/economy/birthrate-politics-vance-musk.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s threat of towering tariffs on European booze is sobering. Wine and spirits can be markers of national and regional identity — which could make a coming trade fight between the U.S. and Europe much more emotional. The Democrat GAO Chicago office manager who led the Democrat effort to waste my career and to get rid of me was an extremely big drinker. If he had not had to go on extended sick leave in 1985 because of his big drinking, the GAO manager who arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 would not have been able to assign me to audits of IRS in 1986 or to promote me in 1986.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/30/trump-tarrifs-alcohol-wine-spirits/
— Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if auto prices rise because of his tariffs. My critics/opponents despise/hate cars, and especially American nameplate cars, and more especially muscle cars, and even more especially Corvettes. I have owned American nameplate cars since 1964, muscle cars since 1966, a 1972 Corvette since 1971, and a 2005 Corvette since 2005. The cars that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/29/trump-auto-tariffs-prices-rise/
— Trump seeks takeover of elections in a bid for more presidential power
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/30/trump-seeks-takeover-elections/
USA TODAY
— Republicans have turned on judges. Imagine who they would pick for SCOTUS. I should write about the judges and justices who have ruled against me. The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ) sided with GAO, that is, they sided with political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and retaliation. Their rulings tremendously discourage those who share my demographics from applying to work for GAO. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and I have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I have three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/28/trump-supreme-court-maga/82665953007/
KGW NEWS
— After more than 30 years as a social security worker, Laura Novakoski’s last day on April 7. She’s worried about how staff shortages will impact the agency. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would no need for DOGE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT0lDC12Nqw
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Taiwan Dares to Hope Trump Will Back It Against Beijing. White House push to confront China has reassured officials in Taipei, who watched Trump’s shift on Ukraine with alarm.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/trump-taiwan-support-china-8041630d
POLITICO
— White House Correspondents’ Association cancels comedian headliner for annual dinner
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-00259299
INDEPENDENT
— Why plans are already in motion for a Trump third term – no matter what the law says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-third-term-republicans-b2723487.html
March 28, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders say that Illinois has too many townships and that Pritzker-backed bills to prune them should get action.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/27/township-consolidation-pritzker-springfield/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Jenner & Block
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/jenner-block-should-stand-strong-against-trump-order-hinz
CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Rep. Davis: ‘We’re in a social war vs. Trump and his puppeteers’
https://chicagocrusader.com/rep-davis-were-in-a-social-war-vs-trump-and-his-puppeteers/
ABC7
— Illinois AG joins calls for unity against Trump administration’s retaliation on law firms
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-joins-calls-unity-trump-administrations-retaliation-law-firms/16092800/
NBC5
— Prices of new cars expected to rise with tariffs, but by how much?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/prices-of-new-cars-expected-to-rise-with-tariffs-but-by-how-much/3707990/?amp
CBS2
— Chicago car dealers, repair shops prepare for new Trump tariffs on imported vehicles, car parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwGdSl4PNlQ
— Chicago car dealerships say President Trump’s auto tariffs will trickle down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYDvdFxUaPI
— Chicago car dealerships, repair shops brace for Trump’s tariffs on imported vehicles and auto parts
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-car-dealerships-repair-shops-trump-tariffs/
FOX32
— Chicago mayor fires back at border czar’s ‘reprehensible’ threats to prosecute him over ICE raids
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-mayor-fires-back-border-czars-reprehensible-threats-prosecute-him-over-ice-raids
— Trump cuts finding for Illinois health departments
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1615467
— How dependent on federal spending are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1615467
WTTW
— Chicago Muslim Civil Rights Group Condemns Trump’s Immigration Crackdown of Pro-Hamas Students
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/27/chicago-muslim-civil-rights-group-condemns-trump-s-immigration-crackdown-pro-palestinian
— Federal Judge Struggles With Scope of Relief for Fired Federal Employees in Lawsuit Filed by Illinois, Other States. My critics/opponents despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees. They not only do not want me to get any relief for my being forced to retire, they object to my Civil Service Retirement System pension and the 72% federal health insurance subsidy that my wife and I get.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/27/federal-judge-struggles-scope-relief-fired-workers-lawsuit-filed-illinois-other-states
— Trump Administration Blocks More Than $400M in Funding for Illinois Health Programs
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/27/trump-administration-blocks-more-400m-funding-illinois-health-programs
WBEZ
— Cuts to public health program hit Illinois
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/03/27/the-rundown-cuts-to-public-health-program-hit-illinois
HERALD REVIEW
— Illinois Democrats vow to defend state elections law against Trump’s executive order
https://herald-review.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_e589cc97-f517-5f8b-b137-e97de33bfead.html
NORTHERN STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://northernstar.info/124222/opinion/banning-same-sex-marriage-is-unconstitutional/
WCIA
— Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done
https://www.wcia.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-anti-abortion-groups-mount-effort-to-strip-planned-parenthood-funding-ahead-of-supreme-court-hearing/
— What to do if you can’t pay the taxes you owe. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years. I worked on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years.
https://www.wcia.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-what-to-do-if-you-cant-pay-the-taxes-you-owe/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— How dependent on federal spending are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/top-stories/federal-funding-cutbacks-public-health/
NPR ILLINOIS
— How dependent on federal spending are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.nprillinois.org/health-harvest/2025-03-27/trump-administration-blocks-more-than-400m-in-funding-for-illinois-health-programs
— What percent of foreign students are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, and/or anti-American?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-28/u-s-revokes-hundreds-of-visas-to-repress-student-activism-and-hhs-cuts-jobs
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-28/trump-administration-advances-immigration-crackdown-on-foreign-student-protesters
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Despite Trump order, Illinois won’t require voter proof of citizenship. April 1 elections being conducted under existing state, federal law. Illegals vote for Democrats.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/despite-trump-order-illinois-wont-require-voter-proof-of-citizenship/
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders promote hatred against Tesla to promote hatred against Musk to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/28/tesla-takedown-protests-chicago-sales-drop-illinois
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-484/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-277/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-483/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they reject Trump’s election and they reject the rule of law. Constructively, they have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and illegals are their soldiers in their army.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_363fe78a-b06d-4550-a904-325f3792401f.html
JOHN KASS
— How Corporate Media Narratives Distort Reality About Ukraine
https://johnkassnews.com/how-corporate-media-narratives-distort-reality-about-ukraine/
WIREPOINTS
— Do Illinois and Chicago really need to sweeten Tier 2 pension benefits? My critic/opponents hold against me big time my getting a Civil Service Retirement System pension and the federal government paying 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums. I should write about that.
https://wirepoints.org/do-illinois-and-chicago-really-need-to-sweeten-tier-2-pension-benefits-wirepoints-in-the-chicago-tribune/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Embarrassing displays of media blindness
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3361771/embarrassing-displays-media-blindness-katherine-maher-npr/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump more popular than ever – percentage of Americans who think country is on the right track ‘through the roof’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/27/us-news/trump-more-popular-than-ever-percentage-of-americans-who-think-country-is-on-the-right-track-through-the-roof-says-cnn-analyst/
— Trump orders elimination of ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian institutions. Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly anti-American. Democrats run the federal government. Co, The de
https://nypost.com/2025/03/28/us-news/trump-orders-elimination-of-anti-american-ideology-from-smithsonian-institutions/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Bill to require public colleges offer ‘medication abortion’ advances to Illinois House
https://www.campusreform.org/article/bill-require-public-colleges-offer-medication-abortion-advances-illinois-house/27747
FOX NEWS
— Criminal illegal aliens face justice for the first time in years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjyTrtqPiN8
LIFE NEWS
— Planned Parenthood Gets $2 Million of Our Tax Dollars Every Single Day
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/03/28/planned-parenthood-gets-2-million-of-our-tax-dollars-every-single-day/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— ‘Restoring Meritocracy’: Trump Administration Cuts DEI as Factor in State Department Promotions
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/restoring-meritocracy-trump-administration-cuts-dei-as-factor-in-state-department-promotions/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump signs executive order ending collective bargaining rights for many federal workers. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors could not have taken the many big adverse actions against me that they did.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/politics/executive-order-collective-bargaining-national-security/index.html
REUTERS
— US car buyers face higher prices, less choice under Trump’s tariffs
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-car-buyers-face-higher-prices-less-choice-under-trumps-tariffs-2025-03-28/
AOL
— Broad Categories Of Government Workers Eligible To Lose Civil Service Protections. Because Democrats run the federal government, constructively, federal employees who are Republican have no Civil Service protections. If I had been a Democrat, my Democrat superiors would not have and could not have taken the many big adverse actions against me that they did. The more of the following that Democrat federal employees are, the more Civil Service protections that they have: 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.aol.com/broad-categories-government-workers-eligible-212903755.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly highlight Republican federal employees who have been harmed my Trump’s actions. Since the 1980s, Democrat leaders could have highlighted how I have been harmed by Gingrich’s budget cuts. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Gingrich ever-increasingly cut GAO’s budget. GAO was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s budget cuts to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.aol.com/finance/heart-just-sank-former-federal-120300308.html
NBC NEWS
— Vance and second lady visit Greenland amid Trump takeover talk
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-vance-greenland-musk-doge-live-updates-rcna197448
NEW YORK TIMES
— Auto Stocks Rattled as Investors Assess Hit From Trump’s Tariffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/business/auto-trump-tariffs-stocks-futures.html
— Trump Moves to End Union Protections Across Broad Swath of Government. An executive order signed by the president would cancel collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of workers. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors could not have taken the many big adverse actions against me that they did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/politics/trump-unions-executive-order.html
— FRONT PAGE: What Happens to Your Brain When You Retire? What helps you stay sharp? For me, it includes putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS together and sending them out every day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/well/mind/retirement-brain-mental-health-tips.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian. The executive order also calls for the replacement of memorials and monuments removed since 2020.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025/03/27/trump-issues-executive-order-eliminate-anti-american-ideology-smithsonian/
— Internal White House document details layoff plans across U.S. agencies. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly highlight Republican federal employees who have been harmed my Trump’s budget cuts. Since the 1980s, Democrat leaders could have highlighted how I have been harmed by Gingrich’s actions. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Gingrich ever-increasingly cut GAO’s budget. GAO was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s budget cuts to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/27/federal-worker-layoffs-government-agencies/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Federal officials are preparing for agencies to cut between 8 and 50 percent of their employees as part of a Trump administration push to shrink the federal government, according to an internal White House document obtained by The Washington Post that contains closely held draft plans for reshaping the 2.3-million-person bureaucracy.)
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Trump executive order targets the Smithsonian over ‘divisive, race-centered ideology’
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-03-27/trump-executive-smithsonian-museums-race-public-monuments
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump Warned U.S. Automakers Not to Raise Prices in Response to Tariffs
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/trump-tariffs-automaker-prices-warning-928bc7a9
— Trump’s Giant New Car and Truck Tax. He’s dead set on remaking the economy on his import substitution model.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-auto-tariffs-general-motors-usmca-e7d72e04
— The Federal Workers Who Are Not Quite Fired, Not Quite Working. Thousands of people fired then rehired by the Trump administration remain in limbo. ‘They want to get rid of us one way or another.’ All my Democrat superiors in the federal government always wanted to get rid of me because I was a Republican, but more so because I was conservative, White, male, older (born in 1948), Vietnam War draft avoider, Protestant, German American and my ancestors have been in America since 1844, but even more so because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, but even more so because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with some of the aforesaid discrimination when I was 40 years old in 1988.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/trump-federal-employee-layoffs-rehired-plans-06e85f78
March 27, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders reject Trump order that requires voters to show proof of US citizenship before registering to vote in federal elections.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-election-news-today-voting-rights-groups-urge-local-voters-follow-il-law-despite-presidents-executive-order/16087064/
— Democrat leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protest-immigration-advocates-rally-loop-possible-travel-ban-president-donald-trump-administration/16087244/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Hamas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-initiative-could-use-terror-laws-college-students-protesting-war-gaza-sparks-free-speech-concerns/16087394/
NBC5
— How to get election results in Chicago-area elections Tuesday
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/how-to-get-election-results-in-chicago-area-elections-tuesday/3707107/
CBS2
— Democrats leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-immigrant-rights-groups-possible-new-travel-ban/
FOX32
— Trump imposes 25% tariff on imported cars: ‘This is permanent’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/money/trump-tariffs-auto-imports
— Democrats leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1614866
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois Democrats vow to defend state elections law against Trump executive order
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/illinois-democrats-vow-to-defend-state-elections-law-against-trumps-executive-order/
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/27/opinion-black-americans-donald-trump-civil-rights/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump cuts $153 million in Illinois public health, substance abuse programs. The Illinois cuts are part of $12 billion in grants that the federal Department of Health and Human Services canceled this week.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/03/26/trump-administration-cuts-illinois-mental-health-and-substance-abuse-programs-28-million
— Race, wealth disparities underlie turnout for ballot questions hitting voters’ wallets. Anticipate/expect that voters want tax increasers that they will not have to pay.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2025/03/26/tax-referendum-race-wealth-disparity-cook-county
— Democrat leaders always want higher taxes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/03/26/illinois-education-funding-poll-public-schools
— Democrat leaders glorify and praise Lake View high school senior Bella Brown. What leadership skills did you show in high school? I showed none. Because I needed money for college, I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School and the summer in between. I used the money that I earned and saved to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in May of 1966 that I used to commute from my parents’ home in Crete to a) summer jobs in 1966, b) classes at UIC 1966-1967, and c) delivering mail in Park Forest 1966-1967.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/03/26/education-bella-brown-national-honor-society-scholarship
DAILY HERALD
— District 200 school board race pits incumbents against challengers questioning middle school projects
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250326/local-politics/district-200-school-board-race-pits-incumbents-against-challengers-questioning-middle-school-project/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— As Trump’s attack sets in, Chicago’s Jenner & Block faces a choice: Fight or fold? GAO is just a shell of what it once was. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it and/or if Bowsher had reformed GAO and/or successfully fought Gingrich, there would be no need for a DOGE today.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/trump-executive-order-forces-hard-choices-jenner-block
— Illinois EV sales surged, fueled by incentives
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-ev-sales-surge-early-2025-fueled-incentives
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders always want higher taxes.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/03/26/new-poll-shows-most-in-illinois-want-more-funding-for-public-schools
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wbez.org/curious-city/2025/03/26/dnp
WGN RADIO
— The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/how-has-the-trump-administration-affected-illinois/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the ever-increasingly profane Duckworth.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/03/26/us-senator-tammy-duckworth-calls-pete-hegseth-a-f-liar/82677446007/
JOURNAL COURIER
— Federal workers targeted for DEI-related activities file class action complaint. To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/politics/article/federal-workers-targeted-for-dei-related-20242710.php
RIVER BENDER
— All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/on-equal-pay-day-duckworth-durbin-join-senate-democrats-in-reintroducing-paycheck-fairness-act-to-help-end-wage-discrimination-close-gender-pay-gap-80977.cfm?
WAND TV & PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against non-Republicans, and because of that, non-Republicans cannot succeed without massive government assistance.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/founders-of-black-owned-brands-adapt-their-hopes-and-business-plans-for-a-post-dei/article_9b6c8758-1614-5a7c-baf5-132208171197.html
https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-03-26/senior-issues/facing-funding-hurdles-il-march-for-meals-event-moves-forward/a95992-1
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-276/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at voters to punish Trump by voting for Democrat and RINO candidates in the April 1, 2025 election. How much success have they had doing that in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. What do you say to RINO leaders who display yard signs for Democrat and RINO candidates? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I oppose mass/illegal immigration. All of my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have and I had to work my way through college. None of my critics/opponents can say that because they had wealthy parents who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To promote Affirmative Action, DEI, and/or wokeness/wokeism is to promote more hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www/gopillinois.com
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Another Democrat Uses the “F” Word
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/another-democrat-uses-the-f-word/
— Text Reveals Kat Abughazaleh’s Anti-Israel Views
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/text-reveals-out-kat-abughazalehs-anti-israeli-views/
— Kat Abughazaleh Upsets the Democratic Party Establishment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/kat-abughazaleh-upsets-the-democratic-party-establishment/
— The Key Difference in the Schakowsky v. Abughazaleh Primary Election
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/the-key-difference-in-the-schakowsky-v-abughazaleh-primary-election/
— Democrats Shut Off Rep. Jeff Keicher’s Microphone
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/democrats-shut-off-rep-jeff-keichers-microphone/
— Lesperance Mails in Support of His Campaign for Nunda Township Road Commissioner Re-Election
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/lesperance-mails-in-support-of-his-campaign-for-nunda-township-road-commissioner-re-election/
— 26-Year Old Chicago Resident, TicTok “Influencer” Challenging 80-Year Old Jan Schakowsky
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/26-year-old-chicago-resident-tictoc-influencer-challenging-80-year-old-jan-schakowsky/
— Former Nunda Township Clerk Endorses Parrish for Road Commissioner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/former-nunda-township-clerk-endorses-parrish-for-road-commissioner/
— Bill Maher Sems to Say Blue State Dems Too Stupid to Save Themselves, Illinois Set To Lose One or Two Seats in Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/bill-maher-sems-to-say-blue-state-dems-too-stupid-to-save-themselves/
— Wilcox Opposes Shopping Bag Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/wilcox-opposes-shopping-bag-tax/
— Pharmacies Must Sell One Hundred Needles Upon Request to Anyone Over 18 under Bill That Had No Committee Opposition
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/pharmacies-must-sell-one-hundred-needles-upon-request-under-bill-that-had-no-committee-opposition/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— The Democratic Party Exposes its True Allegiance. Democrat leaders want their illegals to vote.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/opinion-the-democratic-party-exposes-its-true-allegiance.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago aggravated batteries hit 5-year high; 3 in 5 victims are Black
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-aggravated-batteries-hit-5-year-high-3-in-5-victims-are-black/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pritzker puts himself forward as the Democrats’ anti-Trump champion
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/25/jb-pritzker-puts-forward-democrats-anti-trump-champion/
— Why women are struggling with marriage. Finding ‘Mr. Right’ What did you do to make yourself marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 years old in 1978, I had a) earned a job-related bachelor’s degree from NIU when I was 21, b) earned and a job-related master’s degree from Loyola when I was 27 , c) started earning more than $100,000/year in today’s dollars when I was 25, and c) bought a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building when I was 27.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/26/women-struggling-marriage/
— Military academy leaders find ‘woke’ classes after combing through curriculum for DEI violations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/26/military-academy-leaders-find-handful-possibly-woke-courses-offered/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin bars illegal migrants and non-permanent residents from receiving taxpayer-backed mortgages. I got my first mortgage when I was 24 years old in 1972. I there had been as much pressure back then to give mortgages to illegals as there is now, I might not have gotten that mortgage.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/26/us-news/trump-admin-bars-illegal-migrants-and-non-permanent-residents-from-receiving-taxpayer-backed-mortgages/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— If Judges Can Stymie the Will of the People, We Don’t Have a Democracy Anymore. The Trump administration is right: Judge Boasberg has no authority to direct the national security operations of the United States.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/if-judges-can-stymie-the-will-of-the-people-we-dont-have-a-democracy-anymore/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Hegseth boards plane flanked by two ‘bada**’ women, and the politically correct capitulation tour continues
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/hegseth_boards_plane_flanked_by_two_bada_women_and_the_politically_correct_capitulation_tour_continues.html
BLAZE
— GOP torches NPR, PBS for political bias amid public funding scrutiny
https://www.theblaze.com/news/gop-torches-npr-pbs-for-political-bias-amid-public-funding-scrutiny
BREITBART
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the ever-increasingly profane Duckworth.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/26/dem-sen-tammy-duckworth-calls-for-pete-hegseth-to-resign-fking-liar/
CHRISTIANITY TODAY
— Religious Employers in Illinois May Be Compelled to Hire Abortion-Related Employees
https://www.christianitydaily.com/news/employers-in-illinois-may-be-compelled-to-hire-abortion-employees.html
COLLEGE FIX
— No-whites-allowed Illinois scholarship program for future professors under fire. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a stupid son of rich parents because I never got any scholarships. In my defense, I have stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, d) that my mother never attended high school, and e) that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/no-whites-allowed-illinois-scholarship-program-for-future-professors-under-fire/
DAILY CALLER
— Companies Backing Out Of Supporting Several Major Gay Pride Events Amid Trump’s DEI Crackdown
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/26/companies-backing-out-of-supporting-several-major-gay-pride-events-amid-trumps-dei-crackdown/
FOX NEWS
— Migrants abusing the asylum system have slowed down dramatically
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370602052112
LIFE NEWS
— Illinois Pro-Life March Calls Pritzker the Most Radically Pro-Abortion Governor in America
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/03/26/illinois-pro-life-march-calls-jb-pritzker-the-most-radically-pro-abortion-governor-in-america/
REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— K-12 Is Getting More Woke, Not Less
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/03/26/k-12_is_getting_more_woke_not_less_1100069.html
TOWNHALL
— Trump Admin Needs to Reverse Biden Wokeness and Weaponization
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/03/27/government-needs-to-root-out-wokeness-all-the-way-down-to-the-root-n2654509
— Rogue Judges Are a Threat to Democracy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeremyfrankel/2025/03/26/gill-comments-on-boasberg-n2654516
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Trump’s immigration policies find support as he expands crackdown
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-immigration-policies-find-support-he-expands-crackdown-2025-03-26/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-Filled Trump-Hating Trump-Haters Say That Trump Is Taking The Law Into His Own Hands.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/opinion/trump-judges-congress.html
FOX NASHVILLE
— PBS and NPR exist to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwYQHJEb5to
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Supreme Court, Race and Redistricting. The Justices have a chance to stop racial gerrymanders. Illinois Democrats horribly gerrymandered Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District to favor Hispanics.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/louisiana-v-callais-supreme-court-redistricting-racial-gerrymanders-brett-kavanaugh-23a099a3
BLOOMBERG
— Pritzker Is Ready to Brawl Through 2028
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-27/jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-is-ready-to-brawl-through-2028
BARRON’S
— Democrat And RINO Leaders Say That New Cars Could Become Luxury Purchase as Trump Tariffs Threaten Jump in Domestic Prices. I was able to buy a new car when I was 17 years old in 1966 with money that I earned washing dishes for the minimum wage for 18 months.
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-032725/card/new-cars-could-become-luxury-purchase-as-trump-tariffs-threaten-jump-in-domestic-prices-cVEhyHjttRIWsf0LJ5IE
NPR
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, tariffs on auto makers will not bring manufacturing back. I worked on an automotive assembly line in Belvidere in early 1970.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5341796/will-trump-new-tariffs-on-auto-makers-bring-manufacturing-back
AMERICAN PROSPECT
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.
http://www.gopillinois.com
https://prospect.org/civil-rights/2025-03-27-trumps-simple-racism/
LGBTQ NATION
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/donald-trumps-anti-dei-crusade-takes-a-page-straight-from-the-authoritarian-playbook/
DAILY MAIL
— DeSantis reveals bombshell plan to replace undocumented migrant workers. All of my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have and I had to work my way through college. None of my critics/opponents can say that because they had wealthy parents who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14541435/Ron-DeSantis-bombshell-plan-replace-undocumented-migrant-workers.html
GUARDIAN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) paint today’s Democrats as being Union soldiers in the Civil War and b) paint today’s Republicans as being Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. While all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, they always lived in northeast Illinois and they all were Republicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/confederacy-trump-republican