FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump calls Tesla dealership vandals terrorists, compares actions to Jan. 6
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-calls-tesla-vandalism-suspects-terrorists-compares-actions-jan-6-vowing-send-el-salvador-prisons/16063808/
— Democrat leaders ask a judge to force ICE to regularly release details on immigration arrests in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/groups-asking-judge-lawsuit-force-ice-regularly-release-details-immigration-arrests-chicago/16065322/
NBC5
— Major League Baseball removes ‘diversity’ references from MLB Careers home page. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred had launched a Diversity Pipeline Program in 2016. Democrats and RINOs use diversity to get of Republicans. To promote diversity is to discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/mlb/mlb-removes-references-diversity-mlb-careers-home-page/3703939/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Stricter truck pollution rule would prevent 500 deaths a year in Chicago region
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/18/illinois-truck-pollution/
— Naperville Election 2025: Council candidates weigh in on city’s role in supporting DEI. To support DEI is to support race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/21/naperville-city-council-election-candidate-diversity-inclusion/
— Transgender-related locker room complaint puts Lake County middle school in national spotlight. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/19/transgender-related-locker-room-complaint-puts-lake-county-middle-school-in-national-spotlight-the-girls-want-their-privacy-back/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago cops have been making fewer traffic stops, but more are ending in violence
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/03/21/chicago-police-department-dexter-reed-traffic-stops
WGN RADIO
— Rep. Wilhour on why he opposes homeschooling bill
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/rep-wilhour-parents-have-the-right-to-educate-as-they-see-fit/
JOURNAL COURIER
— Illinois law challenged by Catholic Diocese over hiring based on abortion beliefs. Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs destroy you if you do not promote abortion.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/illinois-law-catholic-diocese-lawsuit-20234153.php
NPR ILLINOIS
— DEI is race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-21/is-planting-trees-dei-trump-administration-cuts-nationwide-tree-planting-effort
WLDS
— Davidsmeyer Has Been Regular Voice of Opposition On State Budget, Illegal Immigration Policies During Current ILGA Session
https://wlds.com/davidsmeyer-has-been-regular-voice-of-opposition-on-state-budget-illegal-immigration-policies-during-current-ilga-session/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Durbin, Pritzker put pressure on Republicans to oppose cuts to key programs. Thousands of Illinoisians could lose coverage from Medicaid cuts, governor warns. Soon, as Democrat and RINO leaders destroy America, everyone in America will want/need/demand Medicaid.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/durbin-pritzker-put-pressure-on-republicans-to-oppose-cuts-to-key-programs/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-273/
— Playing the Trump card in Aurora
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/21/playing-the-trump-card-in-aurora/
— Republicans argue that Pritzker township elimination plan would raise property taxes
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/21/republicans-argue-that-pritzker-township-elimination-plan-would-raise-property-taxes/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What are the biggest differences between the Democrat and Republican Parties? The Democrat Party requires its leaders to defend and advance all the planks its platform. The Republican Party not only does not do that, it lets it leaders who reject planks in the Republican Party platform destroy those Republicans who support those planks. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you reject, the more of a RINO that you are. I should write about those RINO leaders of the following who reject the most planks: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP). Most commonly, they reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I would focus on those RINO leaders who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately including a) ending my membership in the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. Which planks in the Republican Party platform do you support? Ever-increasingly, the more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the more that Democrats and RINOs do to destroy you. I support all the planks in the Republican Party platform, including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. RINOs reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. Because I support the aforesaid planks, the following have taken many big adverse actions against me since 2000: past and present a) RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP), b) RINO leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and c) RINO conservative and religious leaders and activists. I should write about the aforesaid RINOs. I would focus on the aforesaid RINOs who had their operatives and dupes a) end my membership in the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Republicans should be advised that Democrat and RINO employers use up-or-out to not hire Republicans and to get rid of their Republicans employees. The Democrats who run the federal government use use-or-out to get rid of their Republican employees who they did not promote to GS-13 ($117,807/year) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211/year) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749/year) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200/year) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. My Democrat superiors in the federal government never promoted me beyond GS-13 and did not promote me to GS-13 until I was 38. They would never have promoted me to GS-13 if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, b) earned job-related professional licenses when I was 30 and 32, and c) earned a job-related professional license when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— QUESTION: What encourages people to come to America? ANSWER: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to citizens of foreign countries a) who are minority, female, younger, b) who lack education and/or job skills, and/or c) who want/need/demand massive government assistance. Democrat leaders want the aforesaid because they vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want the aforesaid because RINOs want cheap labor. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Democratic Party Attorney General Reuses to Defend Remap Challenge by Republicans
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/democratic-party-attorney-general-refuses-to-defend-remap-challenge-by-republicans/
— Republicans Not Only Ones in Congress Having Town Hall Meetings Disrupted
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/republicans-not-only-ones-in-congress-having-town-hall-meetings-disrupted/
— Algonquin Township Supervisor Randy Funk Spend $7,598.81 to Mail Self-Serving Pre-Election Township Newsletter
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/algonquin-township-supervisor-randy-funk-spend-7598-81-to-mail-self-serving-pre-election-township-newsletter/
— Southern Illinois State Senator Says Township Consolidation Might Raise Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/southern-illinois-state-senator-says-township-consolidation-might-raise-taxes/
— Mental Health Board Saves Money on IT by Allowing County Government to Do It
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/21/mental-health-board-saves-money-on-it-by-allowing-county-government-to-do-it/
— Lesperance Summarizes Twelve Years as Nunda Township Road Commissioner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/20/lesperance-summarizes-twelve-years-as-nunda-township-road-commissioner/
— McDOT’s Scott Hennings Mass Transit Testimony to Senate Transportation Committee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/20/mcdots-scott-hennings-mass-transit-testimony-to-senate-transportation-committee/
— Conservation District Plans to Continue Borrowing WITHOUT Voter Approval
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/20/conservation-district-plans-to-continue-borrowing-with-voter-approval/
— Mike Lesperance Mails in Support of His Campaign for Re-Election as Nunda Township Road Commissioner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/19/mike-lesperance-mails-in-support-of-his-campaign-for-re-election-as-nunda-township-road-commissioner/
— No New Net Non-Government Jobs Under Pritzker
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/19/no-new-non-government-jobs-under-pritzker/
— Looks as if Chief Justice John Roberts Needs Lesson in Constitutional Law
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/18/looks-as-if-chief-john-justice-roberts-needs-lesson-in-constitutional-law/
— Population Shifts from Democratic to Republican States Favor Republicans
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/18/population-shifts-from-democratic-to-republican-states-favor-republicans/
— Marengo Park District Schedules EASTER Egg Hunt
— https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/18/marengo-park-district-schedules-easter-egg-hunt/
— Rob Parrish Makes Two Mailings in Support of His Campaign for Nunda Township Road Commissioner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/18/rob-parrish-makes-two-mailings-in-support-of-his-campaign-for-nunda-township-road-commissioner/
— Illinois Road Condition Not Up to Rank of Second Highest Gas Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/18/illinois-road-condition-not-up-to-rank-of-second-highest-gas-taxes/
— Democrats Seem in Disagreement as to Favored Huntley School District Candidates
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/17/democrats-seem-in-disagreement-as-to-favored-huntley-school-district-candidates/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Leftists display willingness to harm anyone who gets in the way, and America pays the price.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/21/editorial-leftists-display-willingness-harm-anyone-gets-way/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Wokeness finds new life south of the border
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3355427/wokeness-finds-new-life-south-of-the-border/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrat mayor vows to keep Minneapolis a ‘safe haven’ for illegal immigrants: ‘We love you’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/21/us-news/democrat-mayor-vows-to-keep-minneapolis-a-safe-haven-for-illegal-immigrants-we-love-you/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Trump Puts #TakeDownTesla Vandals on Notice, Says the ‘Sick Terrorist Thugs’ Should Get 20 Year Sentence in El Salvadoran Prison
https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/21/trump-puts-takedowntesla-vandals-on-notice-says-the-sick-terrorist-thugs-should-get-20-year-sentence-in-el-salvadoran-prison/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Reclaiming Control of America’s Immigration System
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/reclaiming_control_of_america_s_immigration_system.html
BREITBART
— Tuberculosis cases in the US rose to their highest levels in more than a dozen years
https://www.breitbart.com/news/tuberculosis-cases-in-the-us-rose-to-their-highest-levels-in-more-than-a-dozen-years/
DAILY CALLER
— Republicans Aren’t The Only Ones Facing Rabid Town Halls
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/21/democrat-town-halls-glenn-ivey-debbie-dingell-schumer-budget-shutdown/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Chip Roy’s New Bills Aim to Ensure No One Is ‘Indoctrinated to Hate Our Country’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/21/exclusive-chip-roys-new-bills-aim-ensure-no-one-indoctrinated-hate-country/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Vows Toughest Penalties For ‘Terrorists’ Attacking Tesla. “I view these people as terrorists,” Trump said.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-vows-toughest-penalties-for-terrorists-attacking-tesla
EPOCH TIMES
— Tesla Trade-Ins Spike Amid Musk Backlash and Competitors Capturing More EV Market Share. How soon, if already, will Democrat and RINO leaders officially call for boycotting Tesla to harm Musk to harm Trump?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/tesla-trade-ins-spike-amid-musk-backlash-and-competitors-capturing-more-ev-market-share-edmunds-reports-5829231
FEDERALIST
— Illinois Bill Would Let Failing School System Send Homeschooling Parents To Jail
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/21/illinois-bill-would-let-failing-school-districts-send-homeschooling-parents-to-jail/
— The Biden Education Department Burned $100M On ‘Anti-Racist’ Social Workers And DEI For K-12 Schools
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/20/the-biden-education-department-burned-100m-on-anti-racist-social-workers-and-dei-for-k-12-schools/
— California’s Massive Medicaid Shortfall Would Disappear If It Quit Paying $8B For Illegals’ Health Care
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/21/californias-massive-medicaid-shortfall-would-disappear-if-it-quit-paying-8b-for-illegals-health-care/
FOX NEWS
— Trump admin pulling legal status for more than 530K migrants. The roughly 532,000 migrants have been told to leave the U.S. before their humanitarian parole and work permits are canceled on April 24.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-pulling-legal-status-more-than-530k-migrants
NEW AMERICAN
— Boston, Minneapolis Mayors Repeat Vow to Break Law Against Harboring Illegals
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/boston-minneapolis-mayors-repeat-vow-to-break-law-against-harboring-illegals/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPOTT
— Trump Revokes Legal Status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-03-21/trump-revokes-legal-status-for-530-000-cubans-haitians-nicaraguans-and-venezuelans
CBS NEWS
— U.S. to revoke legal status of more than a half-million migrants, urges them to self deport
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-to-revoke-legal-status-of-over-a-half-million-migrants-chnv/
— Tesla trade-ins spike amid anti-Elon Musk backlash
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-trade-ins-record-high-musk-backlash/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Biden, Harris, Clinton and More. The tally of names read like President Trump’s enemies list, from Letitia James to Liz Cheney.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/politics/trump-security-clearances-biden-harris-clinton.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump escalates threats against those who destroy Tesla vehicles. Trump wrote on social media that people who vandalize vehicles made by Tesla — the company owned by Trump ally Elon Musk — could get lengthy jail sentences.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/21/trump-tesla-vehicles-elon-musk-bondi-vandalism/
NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— Political Affiliation Discrimination: Know Your Rights Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO employers will ever-increasingly a) not hire Republicans and b) get rid of their Republican employees. Democrat employers hire Democrats. RINO employers hire RINOs. The federal government is a Democrat employer.
https://natlawreview.com/article/political-affiliation-discrimination-know-your-rights
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The increased interest in this topic comes amid a highly charged political environment and the decision by the Trump Administration to terminate the employment of civil service employees across a wide array of government agencies. Additionally, many employees are unclear about their rights and obligations as their employers are retreating from commitments to corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in response to the Administration’s aggressive efforts to eradicate DEI initiatives. These actions have left many employees in a state of confusion regarding their rights around these issues. Legal protections for discrimination based on political affiliation vary widely based on state law. Below is a broad overview of employment protections across the United States, but as these can vary even by local jurisdiction, contacting an employment attorney with specific questions about your legal protections may be the best course of action. . .There are currently no federal protections for private sector employees from workplace discrimination based solely on political affiliation. If you are a federal employee and you believe that you have been discriminated against because of your political affiliation, you may be entitled to some protections under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CRSA). Learn more on KBK’s political affiliation discrimination practice as it relates to federal workers here. If you are a federal employee looking for legal support services regarding recent federal government layoffs, see KBK’s Federal Employment Resources page here.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Why Many Americans Are On Board With Federal Worker Firings. Some envision bloat and cushy jobs. ‘Let ’em go; get rid of them.’ Who do you know who is/was a federal employee? I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. Who do you know who is/was a federal retiree? I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years. I should write about my critics/opponents who say that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican and who despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees the most. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would not have become a postal employee in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to join him in taking the postal employment examination. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/why-many-americans-are-on-board-with-federal-worker-firings-d5d58e98
— The Illinois Assault on Home-Schoolers. Democrats want to impose new rules and bureaucracy on parents.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/illinois-homeschool-act-democrats-education-public-schools-6065d5ab?mod=opinion_lead_pos3
BLOOMBERG
— McKinsey Piles ‘Up or Out’ Pressure on Some US Consultants. Democrat and RINO employers use up-or-out to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-27/mckinsey-piles-up-or-out-pressure-on-some-us-consultants
— Work Visa Sponsorship H1-B: Foreign Students Struggle to Find Jobs in Trump Era. All my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/work-visa-sponsorship-h1-b-foreign-students-struggle-to-find-jobs-in-trump-era
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Home Depot Drops Diversity Language as Trump Targets DEI Efforts
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/home-depot-drops-diversity-language-as-trump-targets-dei-efforts
FORTUNE
— JPMorgan renames DEI program ‘DOI’ following political backlash
https://fortune.com/2025/03/21/jpmorgan-dimon-trump-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-doi-politics-backlash/
FORBES
— Democrat and RINO employers use up-or-out to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2018/11/23/managing-up-or-out-sounds-harsh-but-can-be-effective/
FISHER PHILLIPS
— EEOC Issues Guidance on Unlawful Workplace DEI Programs. How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me because I had accepted that offer. I had to have a job. The aforesaid directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS.
https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/news-insights/eeoc-issues-guidance-on-unlawful-workplace-dei-programs-top-takeaways-for-employers.html
ARMY
— Is “Up or Out” Holding Us Back? Democrat and RINO employers use up-or-out to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.army.mil/article/247749/is_up_or_out_holding_us_back
LINKEDIN
— Overcoming Ageism at Any Career Stage. Democrat and RINO employers use up-or-out, that is, age discrimination, to waste the careers of their Republican employees and to get rid of them. To fight that, 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 licenses when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. The Democrats who run the federal government use up-or-out to get rid of their Republican employees who they do not promote to GS-13 ($117,807/year) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211/year) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749/year) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200/year) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. I did not make GS-13 until I was 38 in 1986.
https://www.linkedin.com/events/7302825370712477696/
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Many federal employees ordered to submit recent accomplishments. GAO audits IRS. If I had gotten such an email while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, I would have stressed how they wasted my knowledge of IRS. Before I transferred from IRS to GAO, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I would also have stressed how they wasted what I had learned a) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance and b) passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/03/federal-employees-ordered-submit-recent-accomplishments-second-musk-email/403425/
IMMIGRATION FORUM
— Democrat and RINO leaders have joined with leaders of Mexico and other foreign counties to have their citizens invade, conquer, and destroy America. Democrat and RINO leaders should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://immigrationforum.org/article/invasion-influx-in-a-time-of-falling-border-encounters/
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— GOP Viewed More Favorably Than Democrats
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/gop_viewed_more_favorably_than_democrats
Tag: inclusion
March 21, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois Democrats condemn Trump’s executive order to dismantle Department of Education
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-education-illinois-democrats-condemn-president-donald-trumps-executive-order-dismantle/16058847/
— Congressman Sean Casten Downers Grove town hall shut down by police after protester jumps on stage. In another instance, a woman in the audience stood up and yelled at Casten about U.S. support going to Israel.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/democrat-us-rep-sean-casten-downers-grove-town-hall-shut-down-police-pro-palestinian-protester-jumps-stage/16058039/
— Former Trump Tower Chicago board member alleges racketeering scheme, retaliation in new lawsuit.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-trump-tower-chicago-board-member-onisim-dorneanu-alleges-racketeering-scheme-retaliation-new-lawsuit/16059400/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhoatbT4Lo
NBC5
— Trump AG highlights three Tesla arson cases, adding to White House defense of Musk’s company.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-ag-highlights-three-tesla-arson-cases-adding-to-white-house-defense-of-musks-company/3703111/
— Tough lesson for Chicago employees of US Education Dept.: they’re gone. Friday is final day at Ed’s Office for Civil Rights; NBC5 Investigates what will happen to hundreds of complaints and open cases. I should write about the audit work that GAO would have done if Gingrich had not gutted the agency during the 1980s and 1990s.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/tough-lesson-for-chicago-employees-of-us-education-dept-theyre-gone/3703088/
CBS2
— Musk says Tesla has activated security cameras on vehicles at dealerships amid attacks
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-elon-musk-dealerships-security/
— Pritzker and Underwood hold Romeoville event about protecting Social Security. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, everything that Republicans want harms everyone, and especially Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-jb-pritzker-lauren-underwood-romeoville-social-security/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders get doctors and patients to rally against Trump-backed Medicaid cuts.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-doctors-patients-rally-against-trump-backed-medicaid-cuts-im-furious
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more Medicaid. What percent are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_YkiIS49s
WTTW
— Thousands of Venezuelans in Illinois Could Lose Deportation Protections by April
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/20/thousands-venezuelans-illinois-could-lose-deportation-protections-april
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/trump-closing-education-department-executive-order/
— Sen. Seth Lewis: Just trust Chicago? Not when it comes to public transit
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/opinion-metra-public-transit-fiscal-cliff-chicago/
— US Rep. Sean Casten’s town hall cut short amid protests over Israel and Gaza
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/casten-town-hall-shut-down/
— If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/amid-discontent-at-classical-station-wfmt-employees-announce-intent-to-unionize/
— HUD Midwest director, other longtime Chicago staff retiring early amid Trump administration threats, cuts to agency. I should write about the tremendous amount of work experience that my Democrat GAO Chicago office superiors flushed down their toilets when they got rid of their Republican employees who were the following 1980-1997 because of Gingrich budget cuts: White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/hud-midwest-director-staff-retire-trump/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Eight Chicago-based U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development staffers with more than 180 years of service collectively have retired or are retiring later this year as the agency undergoes scrutiny and faces cuts from billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and President Donald Trump.)
— Pritzker’s Illinois Democratic Party targets Richard Irvin as he seeks third term as Aurora mayor.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/21/richard-irvin-aurora-mayor-governor-bid/
CHICAGO SUN-TINES
— A flood of emails, ‘intimidation’ allegations as homeschooling advocates fight regulation. The measure that is dividing the state Capitol would require homeschooling families to notify their school districts when they decide to homeschool and require administrators to have a minimum high school education.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/20/home-school-regulation-proposed-legislation-illinois-general-assembly
— Don’t take it as a joke when Trump and his allies say he’ll run again in 2028. “I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028,” Steve Bannon said. “We’ll see what the definition of term limit is.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/20/president-trump-third-term-2028-no-joke-constitution-22nd-amendment-se-cupp
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2025/03/20/dispensary-33s-chicago-weed-shops-employee-owned
— Is the Flamingo endangered? Trump fires workers who look after federal artwork. The General Services Administration owns a wide assortment of collector-quality sculptures, paintings and other art from top-tier artists, most of it accessible to the public and now at risk under President Trump. Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ) featured a big picture of me and the Flamingo. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/03/20/flamingo-sculpture-trump-firings-general-services-administration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they are anti-American if not America-haters.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/03/21/trump-american-exceptionalism-dangerous-wars-america-james-huffman
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump Organization sued over alleged malfeasance at Chicago tower.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/trump-sued-over-alleged-malfeasance-chicago-tower
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject the rule of law unless they can use it to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/donald-trump-seeks-retribution-against-lawyers-op-ed
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://chicagocrusader.com/could-trumps-anti-dei-initiatives-spark-the-return-of-jim-crow/
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Democrat leaders get doctors and patients to rally against Trump-backed Medicaid cuts.
https://www.bnd.com/news/politics-government/article302415079.html
SOUTHERN
— DNC reports record February grassroots fundraising haul
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/21/dnc-reports-record-february-grassroots-fundraising-haul/
NPR ILLINOIS
— 3 people face federal charges for Tesla attacks. Such acts are domestic terrorism.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-20/3-people-face-federal-charges-for-tesla-attacks-are-such-acts-domestic-terrorism
— Since the 1960s, ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO leaders have forced employers to give more and more and more preference to minorities and to females. I should write about the tremendous preference that my employers gave.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-20/with-trumps-crackdown-on-dei-some-women-fear-a-path-to-good-paying-jobs-will-close
WAND TV
— Proposal requiring contraception, medication abortion at public college health centers heads to House floor. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/proposal-requiring-contraception-medication-abortion-at-public-college-health-centers-heads-to-house-floor/article_4fd237ae-fefc-4348-a465-37e386740b43.html
25 NEWS NOW
— Illinois bill would require public higher ed. institutions to provide contraception, abortion medication. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/03/20/illinois-bill-would-require-public-higher-ed-institutions-provide-contraception-abortion-medication/
KWQC
— Illinois Republicans push gerrymandering lawsuit. I should write about the 2015 gerrymandering of my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/03/21/illinois-republicans-push-gerrymandering-lawsuit/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— More than 80% of cannabis users admit to driving within hours of consuming. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Anticipate/expect that vehicle accidents will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/more-than-80-of-cannabis-users-admit-to-driving-within-hours-of-consuming-report/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-479/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-272/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Homeschooling and the hypocrisy of Illinois politicians
https://wirepoints.org/homeschooling-and-the-hypocrisy-of-illinois-politicians-wirepoints/
JOHN BIVER
— How to Help Political Judges and Lawyers: Teach Law in High Schools
https://johnbiver.com/how-to-help-political-judges-and-lawyers-teach-law-in-high-schools/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are the following, and because of that discrimination, those who are the following cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance and preference: minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. My precinct having three different ballot styles complicates matters. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois Federation of Teachers spends $46.1M on state politics
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-federation-of-teachers-spends-46-1m-on-state-politics/
FROM INATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— It’s absolutely legal to deport hate-monger Mahmoud Khalil.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/20/opinion/its-absolutely-legal-to-deport-hate-monger-mahmoud-khalil/
— Trump accuses federal judge of trying to ‘usurp’ his presidential power amid legal fight over deportation flights
https://nypost.com/2025/03/21/us-news/trump-accuses-federal-judge-of-trying-to-usurp-his-presidential-power-amid-legal-fight-over-deportation-flights/
CENTER SQUARE
— Michigan Senate passes resolution promoting Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/article_cb2fcc40-cdcc-4492-bc98-e92cac978a07.html
EPOCH TIMES
— Attorney General Announces Federal Charges for Tesla Dealership Attacks. ‘If you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars,’ Pam Bondi says.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/attorney-general-announces-federal-charges-against-3-tesla-attackers-warns-against-domestic-terrorism-5828736
FOX NEWS
— Fox News Poll: Voters are split on Trump policies. Banning trans women from women’s sports is the most popular, closing the DoEd much less so.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-are-split-on-trump-policies
— Canadian politician claims Trump admin’s ’51st state’ rhetoric is an ‘act of war’ ‘That’s an act of war,’ a Canadian member of Parliament said of the Trump admin’s tariffs and ’51st state’ comments. Many countries, including Mexico, want to take America.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/canadian-politician-claims-trump-admins-51st-state-rhetoric-act-war
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Slimmed-Down Education Dept. Will Focus On Fighting DEI Discrimination. Under Trump’s Executive Order the revamped DoEd will be fully aligned with our mission of fighting discrimination done in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/03/slimmed-down-education-dept-will-focus-on-fighting-dei-discrimination/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The ABA Should Have No Role in the Judicial Nomination Process.
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/the-aba-should-have-no-role-in-the-judicial-nomination-process/
NEWSMAX
— Trump Admin Sends New Group of Migrants to Gitmo
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-administration-migrants-gitmo/2025/03/20/id/1203719/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly reject Trump’s election, that is, Democrats ever-increasingly reject democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-republicans-attack-democrats-actblue.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats are anti-manufacturing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/20/trump-manufacturing-mirage/
— Musk steps up criticism of judges, offers $100 to voters who will do the same. The billionaire’s political group will pay Wisconsin voters who sign a petition against ‘activist judges’ ahead of a state Supreme Court race. The judges in Diersen v. GAO rejected meritocracy and promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about Diersen v. GAO.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/20/musk-trump-impeach-judges/
HARTFORD CUURANT
— 67,000 White South Africans have expressed interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status. They should be advised that as soon as the next Democrat President is elected. Affirmative Action and DEI will resume, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination will resume.
https://www.courant.com/2025/03/20/south-africa-trump-white-refugees/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Tesla Recalls Most Cybertrucks. More than 46,000 of the electric vehicles have potential exterior panel issue, federal agency says.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-recalls-most-cybertrucks-71ef6fee
— Trump Signs Order Seeking to Abolish Education Department. Existing law doesn’t allow the president to unilaterally shut an agency established by Congress.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-education-department-executive-order-e88561b5
FOWARD
— How Pritzker uses the Holocaust to position himself as the (Jewish) face of Trump resistance. Pritzker, one of five Jewish governors, has taken a combative tone against President Trump in rallying Democrats after election loss.
https://forward.com/news/705526/jb-pritzker-trump-holocaust/
PBS
— Legal Showdown Over Sanctuary Laws Tests Federal vs. State Power Again. Federal law trumps state and local laws.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12031821/legal-showdown-over-sanctuary-laws-tests-federal-vs-state-power-again
FED SMITH
— Federal Workforce Freedom Act Would Ban Federal Employee Union Representation. If GAO had been unionized while I worked for it 1980-1997, and if the union had come to my defense, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, e) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, or f) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/03/17/legislation-would-ban-union-representation/
AXIOS
— Trump suggests sending Tesla vandals to El Salvador prisons
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/trump-musk-tesla-protests-el-salvador-prisons
ECOMOMITC TIMES
— As Barron Trump turns 19, US President reveals what the business college student plans to do for a career. As a business student when I turned 19 in 1967, I planned on a career in the automotive industry. But that all ended in 1971 when a) I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, b) my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I gave him my 2-week notice, and c) Oldsmobile withdrew its offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/as-barron-trump-turns-19-us-president-reveals-what-the-business-college-student-plans-to-do-for-a-career/articleshow/119303470.cms?from=mdr
INDIAN EXPRESS
— We are looking for you: Trump says those ‘sabotaging’ Tesla cars may face up to 20 years in jail
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/donald-trump-tesla-attack-jail-term-elon-musk-9898438/lite/
March 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Amid backlash against Musk and DOGE, Tesla owners say they’re caught in the middle. Tesla owners have been victims of vandalism, rude behavior and assumptions about their politics since CEO Elon Musk joined the Trump administration and began slashing jobs. Owners say they’re regular folks with regular jobs who can’t afford to pay for repairs. (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/03/16/tesla-elon-musk-doge-vandalism-trump
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illegals scramble as state health insurance faces the axe in Pritzker’s budget plan. Democrat and RINO leaders use free health insurance to get citizens of foreign countries to immigrate illegally.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/16/immigrant-illinois-health-insurance-cuts-impact/
— The cards are stacked against the humanities. How should colleges respond? (COMMENT: What did you major in? I majored in business at UIC 1966-1968, personnel management at NIU 1969-1970 and at Loyola 1972-1976, accounting at DePaul 1976-1980, and finance at IIT 1992-1997. I should have majored in accounting from the beginning. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. But by then, the accounting profession viewed me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting.)
https://www.aol.com/commentary-cards-stacked-against-humanities-080000140.html
— What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Donald Trump sent hundreds of immigrants there
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/16/el-salvadors-mega-prison/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/17/mayor-brandon-johnson-outreach-to-black-chicago/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Fighting antisemitism (COMMENT: I should write about my Democrat superiors in the federal government who had the greatest success in forcing my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, and German American. They stressed that I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and in Wheaton since 1978.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/03/16/fighting-antisemitism-requires-dialogue-education-and-shared-values
DAILY HERALD
— Vandals tag new Tesla dealership in Buffalo Grove with graffiti (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? The vehicles that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself. I own a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus, 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2021 Chevrolet Malibu Premier, 2019 Ford Escape Titanium, 2018 Chevrolet Cruze LT, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 Corvette, 1996 Ford thunderbird LX, and 1972 Corvette. If you share my interest in the aforesaid vehicles, please let me know.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250315/news/vandals-tag-new-tesla-dealership-in-buffalo-grove-with-offensive-graffiti/
— Milton Township Highway Commissioner Gary Muehlfelt doing a great job – Chuck Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250317/letters-to-the-editor/highway-commissioner-doing-a-great-job/
— Democrat leaders want more low income housing in DuPage County. The less income that you have, the more likely that you vote for Democrats.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250316/news/how-dupage-county-could-expand-affordable-housing/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois Universities continue to function as arms of the Democrat Party, that is, they continue to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-daily-gist/illinois-universities-stay-put-diversity-efforts-despite-trump
ABC7
— Tesla dealership vandalized in Buffalo Grove with graffiti critical of Trump, Musk (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tesla-car-dealership-vandalized-buffalo-grove-graffiti-critical-president-donald-trump-elon-musk-police-say/16035252/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwxl3avx7Zs
— Trump is invoking the Alien Enemies Act. Here are answers to key questions about the 1798 law
https://abc7chicago.com/post/amid-donald-trumps-invocation-alien-enemies-act-here-are-answers-key-questions-1798-law/16034035/
— Early voting expands in Illinois for April 1 municipal election
https://abc7chicago.com/post/early-voting-expands-illinois-april-1-municipal-election/16036875/
CBS2
— Early voting kicks off Monday for April 1 municipal election in Illinois (COMMENT: Today, using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will start hand-delivering Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy7l4EjAk8E
FOX32
— Hundreds of Venezuelans deported by Trump administration despite judge’s order
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/venezuelans-deported-trump-alien-enemies-act
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Hundreds protest Tesla showrooms over Musk’s DOGE work
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/hundreds-protest-tesla-showrooms-over-musks-doge-work/
— Is Public Service Loan Forgiveness going away? Understanding Trump’s executive order. (COMMENT: I was a public servant for almost 30 years; almost 18 years while I worked for GAO, 9 years for IRS, and 3 years for the Post Office.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/is-public-service-loan-forgiveness-going-away-understanding-trumps-executive-order/
WBEZ
— Only 6% of Chicago shootings lead to arrests
https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2025/03/16/shootings-nonfatal-unsolved-chicago-police-department-clearance-rate
QUAD CITY TIMES
— According to my critics/opponents they owe their successes in life to meritocracy, but you do not. According to my critics/opponents they were discriminated against by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://qctimes.com/opinion/letters/article_b48a01da-f616-11ef-8cb4-2f5cf2ffae99.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump deports hundreds of migrants to El Salvador
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-16/president-trump-deports-hundreds-of-migrants-to-el-salvador
WIFR
— AAA analyzes cannabis users’ views of driving while high
https://www.wifr.com/2025/03/16/aaa-analyzes-cannabis-users-views-driving-while-high/
WCIA
— Trump admin deports hundreds of migrants, despite judge’s order stopping removal
https://www.wcia.com/news/national/trump-admin-deports-hundreds-of-migrants-despite-judges-order-stopping-removal/
— Trump administration ramps up rhetoric targeting the courts amid mounting legal setbacks
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-administration-ramps-up-rhetoric-targeting-the-courts-amid-mounting-legal-setbacks/
IPM NEWS
— Dozens protest Trump policies and congresswoman in Mahomet; Other Reps. quiet on town hall planning
https://ipmnewsroom.org/dozens-protest-trump-policies-and-congresswoman-in-mahomet-other-reps-quiet-on-town-hall-planning/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-475/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Today, using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will start hand-delivering Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris.- Dave Diersen
http://www/gopillinois.com
— To help elect a candidate is to entwine your fate with that candidate. Far too many candidates who I have helped elect have disappointed me. Far too many blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats. Far too many have dumped more and more and more planks in the Republican Party platform. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anticipate/expect that some Democrat and RINO leaders will put their promotion of DEI under the table and off the books. I should write about those Democrat and RINO leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who have bragged the most about their DEI promotion, that is, who have bragged the most about their promotion of race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— From the beginning, according to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. But in fact, I owe my successes in life a) to my parents, b) to my Missouri Synod Lutheran grade school teachers, and c) to my following the conservative principles that they taught me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— All during my lifetime, everyone around me came under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to give ever-increasing preference to those who were minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents who promote Affirmative Action and DEI the most, that is, my critics/opponents who promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination the most. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents they owe their successes in life to meritocracy, but you do not. According to my critics/opponents they were discriminated against by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Despite paying second highest gas taxes, study shows Illinoisans deal with subpar roads
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_61bf4080-0112-11f0-a347-d37deb3fcf96.html
— Bloomington Public Schools District 87 staff were directed to participate in “Privilege Walks” in which teachers start on a line and take a step forward for each “privilege” they identify with, like being white, a male, having married parents, etc. Illinois state Rep. Regan Deering, R-Decatur, anticipates DEI “privilege walks” will likely continue despite Trump’s executive orders banning these types of programs in the public sector. (COMMENT: From the beginning, according to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. My critics/opponents are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. But in fact, I owe my successes in life a) to my parents, b) to my Missouri Synod Lutheran grade school teachers, and c) to my following the conservative principles that they taught me.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_0ea41120-0106-11f0-a517-1325eb54974e.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Conservation District Provides 196-Page Data Dump to County Board
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/16/conservation-district-provides-data-dump-to-county-board/
— Ness at Crystal Lake Library Monday March 17th
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/16/ness-at-crystal-lake-library-monday-march-17th/
— Sign War in Nunda Township Road Commissioner Contest
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/16/sign-war-in-nunda-township-road-commissioner-contest/
— Sosnowski, Ugasta Quoted in Real Estate Tax Article
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/16/sosnowski-ugasta-quoted-in-real-estate-tax-article/
— Schakowsky & Durbin at Chicago Stand Up for Science Demonstration, Photos from MSNBC
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/16/schakowsky-durbin-at-chicago-stand-up-for-science-demonstration-photos-from-msnbc/
— Free Columbia University Hamas Student Leader, Dick Dubin’s Democratic Party Committee X Account Urges
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/15/free-columbia-university-hamas-student-leader-dick-dubins-democratic-party-x-account-urges/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ‘Homeschool Act’ attacks religious rights of homeschool, private school parents
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/homeschool-act-attacks-religious-rights-of-homeschool-private-school-parents/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— As ICE arrests increase, illegal immigrants are fighting back
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/16/ice-arrests-increase-illegal-immigrants-fighting-back/
— New poll shows Democratic Party’s popularity at an all-time low
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/16/new-poll-shows-democratic-partys-popularity-time-low/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Illinois Restricts Government Contracts to DEI Supporters, Propping Up Divisive Industry. Pritzker-backed law requires contract bidders to ‘prioritize their diversity initiatives if they hope to be competitive.’
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/illinois-restricts-government-contracts-to-dei-supporters-propping-up-divisive-industry/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump ties for highest approval he’s ever had — as more Americans say US is on right track than any time in 20 years.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/16/us-news/trump-hits-highest-approval-hes-ever-had/
— Here’s why real diversity should focus on class — not race (COMMENT: What if Affirmative Action was only for those whose parents did not have a college degree? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://nypost.com/2025/03/15/opinion/real-diversity-should-focus-on-class-not-race/
BREITBART
— Despite court order, Trump deports hundreds of migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/news/despite-court-order-trump-deports-hundreds-of-migrants/
DAILY SIGNAL
— 5 Reasons Why We’re Finally Seeing Democrats Implode
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/16/5-reasons-why-were-finally-seeing-democrats-implode/
DAILY WIRE
— ‘These Are The Monsters’: Trump Admin Deported Over 250 Gang Members To El Salvador
https://www.dailywire.com/news/these-are-the-monsters-trump-admin-deported-over-250-gang-members-to-el-salvador
FOX NEWS
— Sanctuary city lawyers plot to help illegal migrants evade ICE in exposed group email
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sanctuary-city-lawyers-plot-help-illegal-migrants-evade-ice-exposed-group-email
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump says he’s buying ‘brand new’ Tesla to support Musk (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-says-buying-brand-tesla-115136885.html
— Trump buys Tesla to ‘make a statement’ about Musk backlash (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-buys-tesla-statement-musk-193238152.html
REUTERS
— India’s Modi says Trump has ‘clear roadmap’ in second term
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-modi-says-trump-has-clear-roadmap-second-term-2025-03-17/
MSN
— Boston Mayor Stands By $650,000 Legal Bill To Prepare For Sanctuary City Congressional Hearing
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/boston-mayor-stands-by-650-000-legal-bill-to-prepare-for-sanctuary-city-congressional-hearing/ar-AA1AMyyn
— Musk’s ‘hostile takeover’ of Social Security Administration
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musks-hostile-takeover-of-social-security-administration-detailed-by-insider/ar-AA1ABW6G
— White Privilege Satire ‘Slanted’ Take Top Awards at SXSW
https://www.msn.com/en-my/movies/news/white-privilege-satire-slanted-and-addiction-industry-expos%C3%A9-shuffle-take-top-awards-at-sxsw/ar-AA1AOmSe
(FROM THE ARTICLE: She immediately enjoys the perks of white privilege, but isn’t at all prepared for the downsides.)
— ‘Slanted’ Review: Extreme Makeover Satire Critiques Lopsided Beauty Standards Through Asian Eyes (COMMENT: All during my lifetime, everyone around me came under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to give ever-increasing preference to those who were minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/reviews/slanted-review-extreme-makeover-satire-critiques-lopsided-beauty-standards-through-asian-eyes/ar-AA1AXixe
(FROM THE ARTICLE: From the moment 8-year-old Joan arrives in the U.S. (played by Kristen Cui at that point), she’s confronted with signs of what the locals consider to be desirable: billboards with blond, bikini-clad models; Norman Rockwell-like propaganda art on the classroom walls; and a freckle-faced bully who makes fun of her eyes. Flash-forward nine years, and Joan (now played by a grad school-aged actor) is bleaching her hair and doctoring her selfies with the Ethnos app (designed to make people of color look white). It feels edgy to call out such self-effacing, approval-chasing behavior at a time when appearance-altering practices are widespread, and potentially controversial to suggest that what Joan wants most is to be white.)
— Why is this American family requesting asylum in Canada? An Illinois family flees the Trump regime
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/usa-why-is-this-american-family-requesting-asylum-in-canada/ss-AA1AN72r
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On March 4, the Berg family, from Illinois, crossed the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, to request asylum in Canada. Parents Ted and Caitlin, both veterans, say they’ve felt unsafe in their home country since Donald Trump returned to the White House. They took their children out of school the day after the presidential inauguration, fearing for their mental health.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— Conservatives’ Tesla Rescue Mission Has Its Work Cut Out. Trump rallied support for Elon Musk’s car company, but there may not be enough conservatives willing to buy electric cars to make up for the Democrats who now shun Teslas. (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/business/elon-musk-trump-tesla-conservatives.html
WASHINGTON POST
— As Musk’s business empire falters, Trump summons a wave of conservative support. Amid calls for Musk to step back from the U.S. DOGE Service, Trump is offering a White House lifeline to his biggest donor — further entwining their fates. (COMMENT: To help elect a candidate is to entwine your fate with that candidate. Far too many candidates who I have helped elect have disappointed me. Far too many blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats. Far too many have dumped more and more and more planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/16/elon-musk-tesla-trump-sales-republicans/
NBC PALM SPRINGS
— ‘Pretty Privilege’ Impacts Hiring, Promotions, and Social Treatment (COMMENT: Employers, voters, and everyone else prefer men who are handsome and women who are attractive.)
https://www.nbcpalmsprings.com/therogginreport/2025/03/16/survey-reveals-pretty-privilege-impacts-hiring-promotions-and-social-treatment
TIMES TRIBUNE
— Trump’s executive orders are nothing new. Neither are the court challenges.
https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/2025/03/17/editorial-trumps-executive-orders-are-nothing-new-neither-are-the-court-challenges/
NEWS NATION NOW
— Chicago neighborhood calms after ICE raids fail to materialize
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/chicago-neighborhood-calms-after-ice-raids-fail-to-materialize/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Can Trump Ban Birthright Citizenship?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-trump-ban-birthright-citizenship-law-history-policy-1e77ccd7
— CEOs Face More Accountability When a Board Member Has Military Experience (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who have had the greatest success in getting veterans to take adverse actions against me. Of course, they stress that I avoided the Vietnam War draft.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/military-veteran-board-members-fire-ceo-c9135073
FAST COMPANY
— Tesla owners are disguising their cars with fake badges as a form of resistance. When anti-Elon bumper stickers aren’t enough. (COMMENT: In how much danger are Tesla owners in in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91294552/tesla-owners-are-disguising-their-cars-with-fake-badges-as-a-form-of-resistance
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— Talk About Privilege at Work (COMMENT: All during my lifetime, everyone around me came under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to give ever-increasing preference to those who were minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://hbr.org/2021/08/talk-about-privilege-at-work
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH
— The Continuing Power of White Preferences in Employment (COMMENT: All during my lifetime, everyone around me came under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to give ever-increasing preference to those who were minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://cepr.net/publications/the-continuing-power-of-white-preferences-in-employment/
FREE PRESS
— Pritzker Wants to Lead the Trump Resistance. But Is He Turning His Back on DEI? (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that some Democrat and RINO leaders will put their promotion of DEI under the table and off the books. I should write about those Democrat and RINO leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who have bragged the most about their DEI promotion, that is, who have bragged the most about their promotion of race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://www.thefp.com/p/jb-pritzker-dei-donald-trump-pritzker-family-foundation-website
(FROM THE ARTICLE: According to a Free Press review of internet archive records, Pritzker’s own family nonprofit appears to have scrubbed a slew of DEI language from its website on March 11. The Pritzker Family Foundation eliminated the phrase justice and equity from its mission statement and jettisoned the word inequities to describe its focus on social justice. The group also removed the word equitable from the statement that said the group had a “deep desire to create more just and equitable outcomes.” And the foundation removed an entire sentence from its website that read: “Learn more about our ongoing efforts to apply a lens of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) to our grantmaking here,” which linked to a downloadable foundation document detailing its “ongoing journey” to embrace DEI. This document can no longer be found on the foundation’s site, but was located by The Free Press on the internet archive.)
FULCRUM
— Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that Republicans are, the more that they should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI: conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://thefulcrum.us/inclusion-diversity/trump-dei-executive-order
DIVERSE EDUCATION
— The Weaponry of Whiteness, Entitlement, and Privilege (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who promote Affirmative Action and DEI the most, that is, my critics/opponents who promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination the most. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.)
https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/african-american/article/15106980/the-weaponry-of-whiteness-entitlement-and-privilege
LSE
— The many shapes of religious privilege in the workplace (COMMENT: When I was young, most of those around me were Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL). But as I grew older, ever-increasingly, fewer and fewer and fewer of those around me were Protestant, let alone let alone MSL.)
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2022/03/24/the-many-shapes-of-religious-privilege-in-the-workplace/
INDEPENDENT
— ‘I assume I’ll be driven out the country’: Workers fear Trump is leading a purge of LGBTQ+ federal employees (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO leaders get rid of those like me who do not promote LGBTQ.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/assume-ll-driven-country-workers-202837832.html
March 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Scum,’ ‘crooked’ elections and ‘corrupt’ media. What Donald Trump said inside the Justice Department.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/14/what-trump-said-inside-the-justice-department/
— University of Chicago under investigation as part of Trump’s anti-DEI initiative (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/14/universities-investigated-for-dei/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Dems split on bill to avert government shutdown
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/03/14/illinois-democrats-shutdown-federal-budget-vote-reaction-durbin-duckworth-casten
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders get Black faith leaders to threaten corporations if they do not restore DEI. Democrat and RINO corporations use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://chicagodefender.com/black-faith-leaders-to-corporations-restore-dei-or-lose-our-business/
ABC7
— Appeals court allows Trump to enact anti-DEI executive orders
https://abc7chicago.com/post/appeals-court-lifts-blocks-trumps-orders-restricting-diversity-equity-inclusion-programs/16024964/
NBC5
— Appeals court lifts blocks on Trump’s orders restricting DEI programs (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/appeals-court-lifts-blocks-on-trumps-orders-restricting-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-programs/3698406/
CBS2
— Chicago area food pantries, farmers say federal funding cuts causing ‘sense of panic’ (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more will be dependent on food pantries.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-food-pantries-farmers-federal-funding-cuts-panic/
FOX32
— Chicago university under investigation in Trump’s anti-DEI campaign (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-university-under-investigation-trumps-anti-dei-campaign
— Trump Tower protests: 150 Mahmoud Khalil supporters storm Midtown building; 90+ arrested (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mahmoud Khalil and what he does.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/students-storm-trump-tower-support
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSIONESS
— Trump administration targets University of Chicago over DEI (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/uchicago-investigated-trump-administration
WBEZ
— Trump takes aim at Chicago again — this time with a federal task force on antisemitism (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mahmoud Khalil and what he does.)
https://www.wbez.org/city-hall/2025/03/14/federal-task-force-antisemitism-schools-campus-chicago-brandon-johnson-bondi-justice-department
— Trans people facing gender-affirming care bans flee to Illinois, shield law states (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.)
https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/2025/03/14/trans-people-facing-gender-affirming-care-bans-flee-to-illinois-shield-law-states
STATELINE
— Illinois GOP introduce bills to reduce property taxes and address migration issues
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-republicans-propose-property-tax-bills/
RIVER BENDER
— Pritzker, Stratton, Statements On Government Funding Bill In Congress (COMMENT: What about statements in opposition?)
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/pritzker-stratton-statements-on-government-funding-bill-in-congress-80607.cfm
WJBC
— In remarks to teachers union, Pritzker lashes out at Trump’s education cuts (COMMENT: Few objected to Gingrich’s dramatic GAO budget cuts. My Democrat GAO superiors used those cuts along with the following to waste my career and to get rid of me: Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans preference.)
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/03/14/in-remarks-to-teachers-union-pritzker-lashes-out-at-trumps-education-cuts/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump reclaims a DOJ reshaped in his wake (COMMENT: Biden shaped his DOJ. All presidents shape their DOJs. The DOJ that Bush shaped 2000-2008 sided with GAO in Diersen v. GAO. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. To side with GAO is promote Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans’ preference.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-14/trump-reclaims-a-justice-department-reshaped-in-his-wake
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Most disapprove of Trump’s approach to Ukraine, Russia
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/most-disapprove-of-trumps-approach-to-ukraine-russia-survey/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump calls European Union ‘nasty’ for its treatment of American businesses
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-calls-european-union-nasty-for-its-treatment-of-american-businesses
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-268/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals Working for Congress?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/illegals_working_for_congress.html
BREITBART
— Trump Administration to Modernize IRS, Make Agency ‘Most Efficient and Effective’ for Taxpayers (COMMENT: Democrat IRS and GAO leaders do not want Republicans to audit IRS. They certainly did not want me to audit IRS. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of that almost 18 years that I worked for GAO 1980-1997. They did that even though I had a) worked for IRS for almost 9 years 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a master/s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997, c) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981, and e) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/14/trump-admin-to-modernize-irs-make-agency-most-efficient-and-effective-for-taxpayers/
— Actor John Cusack Compares Trump Buying a Tesla to Hitler, Calls Musk ‘Only Immigrant I Wanted Deported’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/03/14/actor-john-cusack-compares-trump-buying-a-tesla-to-hitler-calls-musk-only-immigrant-i-wanted-deported/
— Trump touts law-and-order vision, sounds off on past grievances with DOJ, FBI
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-touts-law-and-order-vision-sounds-off-on-past-grievances-with-doj-fbi/
FOX NEWS
— Trump rallies support for ‘tough on crime’ agenda at DOJ visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J1u244Kv_8
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Vance booed by Kennedy Center crowd in wake of Trump takeover
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/14/vice-president-jd-vance-booed-kennedy-center-crowd-wake-trump/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Pentagon Schools Instruct Use of Minecraft to Promote DEI Trojan Horse (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/14/pentagon-schools-instruct-use-minecraft-promote-dei-trojan-horse/
FEDERALIST SOCIETY
— FOID Cards and the Second Amendment at the Illinois Supreme Court
https://fedsoc.org/scdw/foid-cards-and-the-second-amendment-at-the-illinois-supreme-court
FOX NEWS
— Reparations fight hits Congress as GOP looks to defund new DC task force. DC is expected to form a slavery reparations task force this year.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reparations-fight-hits-congress-gop-looks-defund-new-dc-task-force
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Appeals court allows Trump administration to enforce ban on DEI programs, for now (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/appeals-court-allows-trump-administration-enforce-ban-dei-programs-now-rcna196551
REUTERS
— Countries considered for Trump’s potential new travel ban (COMMENT: What do say to countries a) that despise/hate America and/or b) that illegally send their citizens into American and/or illegally keep their citizens in America to destroy America?)
https://www.reuters.com/world/countries-considered-trumps-potential-new-travel-ban-2025-03-15/
MSN
— ‘Chilling’: NYT reveals list of words banned by Trump’s ‘anti-woke’ initiatives
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chilling-nyt-reveals-list-of-words-banned-by-trump-s-anti-woke-initiatives/ar-AA1AvE2k
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies (COMMENT: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-order-voice-of-america.html
— Appeals Court Lets Trump’s DEI Crackdown Proceed (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-dei-court-ruling.html
— Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries. A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States. (COMMENT: Based on their actions, far too many who come to America despise/hate Americans who are Jewish, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. All those who come to America illegally and/or stay in America illegally a) want/need/demand massive government assistance, b) lack education and/or job skills, and/or have severe financial, health, and/or other problems.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html
— Trump Administration Expels South Africa’s Ambassador to the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had lashed out on social media over comments critical of President Trump that the ambassador had made to a think tank in Johannesburg.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/south-africa-ambassador-marco-rubio.html
— Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale. The president and his allies accuse South Africa of discriminating against and killing white people, and warn that it could happen in America if attempts to promote diversity aren’t stopped. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/world/africa/south-africa-whites-trump.html
USA TODAY
— Trump talks tough on antisemitism while Musk reposts vile Hitler excuse
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/15/elon-musk-hitler-trump-antisemitism/82408339007/
BLOOMBERG
— A Fair Workplace? Not Everywhere. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers do not treat their employees who are the following fairly: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The more of the aforesaid that their employees are, the more unfairly that Democrat and RINO employers treat them.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1999-04-26/a-fair-workplace-not-everywhere
STARS & STRIPES
— ‘What’s happening to veterans is not right’: Thousands attend rally on National Mall to protest cuts to jobs, services (COMMENT: During all the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they always protected their Democrat employees who were veterans from the adverse impacts of Republican budget cuts.)
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-03-14/veterans-rally-national-mall-17143611.html
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
— What is it like to argue before the Supreme Court? (COMMENT: I argued Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange before the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, in 1996. SEE: https://casetext.com/case/diersen-v-chicago-car-exchange and https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-7th-circuit/1385001.html I should write about the material factual errors in the decision. I argued Diersen v. GAO before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2000-2005. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf I should write about the material factual errors in the decision.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhxlH18iHg
POLITICO
— Trump calls for imprisoning his opponents in bellicose speech at Justice Department. For more than an hour, he delivered an insult-laden speech that shattered the traditional notion of DOJ independence. (COMMENT: Biden shaped his DOJ. All presidents shape their DOJs. The DOJ that Bush shaped 2000-2008 sided with GAO in Diersen v. GAO. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. To side with GAO is promote Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination (up-or-out), religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and the veterans preference.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/14/trump-doj-speech-prison-opponents-00231438
March 10, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Democrat leaders say “Drawing huge crowds, Bernie Sanders steps into leadership of the anti-Trump resistance. For now, at least, Sanders stands alone as the only elected progressive willing to mount a national campaign to harness the fear and anger of the sprawling anti-Trump movement.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/huge-crowds-bernie-sanders-anti-trump-resistance/3692595/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders say “How Trump admin cuts affect Illinois farmers, food banks.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1605518
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DuPage County and county Sheriff James Mendrick agree to $11 million payout for jail death
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/10/dupage-jail-death-settlement/
— Democrat leaders organize an anti-Trump, anti-Musk protest at Orland Park Tesla, but it is countered by MAGA demonstrators
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/08/anti-trump-musk-protest-orland-park-tesla/
— Democrats leaders say that their legal community is stunned by Trump’s attacks on DEI.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/09/legal-community-stunned-by-trumps-attacks-on-dei-professor-says/
— Democrat leaders say “Investors are thrown by Mr. Trump’s wild tariff ride” and ask “Will the president listen to the market?”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/10/editorial-donald-trump-tariffs-market-warnings/
— Democrat leaders say “Chicago’s storied U.S. attorney’s office at crossroads as indictments dip, search for leader underway.” (COMMENT: If there had been a different U.S. Attorney when Diersen v. GAO was pending in Chicago 2000-2005, everything could have been different for me. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf My critics/opponents have always stressed that the U.S. Attorney sided with the Democrats who ran GAO against me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/10/chicago-us-attorney-office/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s HUD cuts would devastate Illinois.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/03/10/trump-cuts-hud-housing-homelessness-civilian-office-police-accountability-andrea-kersten
— Democrat leaders say “Republican plan for ‘school choice’ is just a scheme for private school vouchers.” (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who have used against me my parents having sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran schools the most.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/03/10/republican-school-choice-is-really-a-scheme-for-private-school-vouchers
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Keeping Henry Hyde’s legacy alive: Addison Township looks to use sign removed from DuPage courthouse (COMMENT: After I met with Hyde in the Addison Township building in 1989, he came to my defense and got my Democrat GAO superiors to back off from their tremendous efforts to get rid of me. As your GOPUSA Illinois reporter, I attended Hyde’s press conference in that building in which he endorsed Roskam in 2006. Those around Hyde and Roskam not want me to attend that press conference. They threatened me to not ask any questions. They were setting me up to be the scapegoat if Roskam lost to Duckworth.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250309/news/keeping-henry-hydes-legacy-alive-addison-township-looks-to-use-sign-removed-from-dupage-courthouse/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: During Hyde’s 32 years as a congressman, his local office was in the township building at 401 N. Addison Road.)
WGN RADIO
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats
https://wgnradio.com/lets-get-legal/the-homeschool-act-aims-to-implement-regulations-to-protect-kids-in-illinois/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders claim credit for reducing illegal immigration
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-09/the-trump-administration-claims-credit-for-a-quiet-border-the-data-shows-otherwise
— Democrat leaders oppose extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-09/trump-wants-to-extend-his-2017-tax-cuts-an-economist-explains-what-that-would-do
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders say “Musk and DOGE try to slash government by cutting out those who answer to voters.”
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-musk-and-doge-try-to-slash-government-by-cutting-out-those-who-answer-to-voters/
— The harder that you work against Trump, the greater that Democrat and RINO leaders promote you
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-meet-the-federal-worker-who-went-rogue-i-hope-that-it-lights-a-fire-under-people/
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/illinois-motions-to-dismiss-doj-case-against-state-s-migrant-sanctuary-policies/article_cb0b4a50-fab1-11ef-b3b1-03060e68b24b.html
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Universities quietly adjust DEI policies amid Trump threats
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/10/chicago-universities-dei-trump-funding-cuts
CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/april-2025/how-much-sanctuary-does-chicago-really-offer-immigrants/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— It’s LaHood v. LaHood over Musk
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/10/its-lahood-v-lahood-over-musk-00220235
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-470/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— A sample of trans-genderism taught in Illinois 4th-grade classrooms
https://wirepoints.org/a-sample-of-trans-genderism-taught-in-illinois-4th-grade-classrooms-wirepoints/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— CPS per student spending soars while private school excels on thin budget
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_8e52b4c4-fb9f-11ef-88f2-77f11202e363.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you have the power to fire, you have the power to reinstate. GAO works for Congress. My Democrat GAO superiors had the power to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. My critics/opponents stress that those who gave them that power include my U.S. Congressman Hyde and my U.S. Senators Durbin and Braun at the time. Subsequently, they and my U.S. Senators Fitzgerald, Obama, Burris, Kirk, and Duckworth and Speakers Gingrich, Hastert, Pelosi, Boehner, Ryan, and McCarthy had the power to reinstate me. Johnson has the power to reinstate me now. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If you have the power to fire, you have the power to reinstate. If you were forced to retire early, would you take a reinstatement offer? After my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, a low-level employee in GAO’s personnel office hinted verbally that he might be able to get me reinstated. I asked that he put the terms in writing, but he never did. To force me to retire, my Democrat GAO superiors made it clear to me that if I did not, they would make my next 6 years until I would be eligible for regular retirement a living hell for me. According to them, they would demote me, give me adverse transfers, give me bad job assignments, give me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, and even worse things. Previously, they had 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, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer to GAO from IRS when I was 31 years old in 1980. Previously, they had focused on making all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates despise me, if not hate me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, White, male, older, draft-avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a Crete resident 1948-1972, a Wheaton resident since 1978, an IRS employee 1971-1980. They stressed that my wife had a good job, that we had no children or other dependents, that we had a more built in Wheaton in 1984, that we had no debts, that we owned two collector cars, etc. If GAO had been unionized, my GAO superiors would not have been able to take the aforesaid adverse actions against me that they did. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The more money that your parents have, the better chance that you have to become an Ivy League university graduate. How much money did your parents have? My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. Consequently, I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA. During my junior and senior years in high school, I spent far too many hours washing dishes instead of studying. While I took undergraduate courses at UIC and NIU, I spent far too many hours delivering mail instead of studying. While I took graduate courses at Loyola and DePaul, I spent far too many hours working for IRS instead of studying. While I took graduate courses at IIT, I spent far too many hours working for GAO instead of studying. Consequently, I got no scholarships. Consequently, I got no Ivy League degree. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you stress to defend yourself? I stress that I earned three masters degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But my critics/opponents stress that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. They stress that I got no scholarships. They stress that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, that my GPAs were not that great, and that I spent 21 long years earning those degrees. They stress that I earned only two of my professional certifications by passing tests, that while I passed those tests on my first attempt, my scores were not that great, and that I earned my other four professional certifications by grandfathering in. They stress that while I earned a professional license, I let it go inactive in 2000. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The federal government hired me and promoted me a) for objective reasons, not for subjective reasons and b) notwithstanding the fact that I was not a Democrat, female, or veteran. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school classmate had not asked me to join him taking the postal employment test and I passed that test. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 a) if I had not taken and pasted the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 as a backstop if I could not get a job in the private sector and b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. I would not have become a GAO employee in 1980 if I had not earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. GAO would not have promoted me in 1986 if I had not a) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and c) became a licensed CPA in 1981. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats have introduced a bill forcing Trump to rehire fired veterans. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I got were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. Notwithstanding that, accord to my critics/opponents, all those jobs should have been given to veterans instead of me. Further, according to my critics/opponents, all the promotions that I got should have been given to veterans instead of me. My critics/opponents applaud GAO’s sheltering its employees who were veterans from any adverse impacts from Republican budget cuts. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have stressed that I avoided the Vietnam War draft.)
— Democrats run the federal government. For them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestor who have not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Gingrich should have reformed GAO during the 1990s instead of gutting it. Trump should reform IRS now instead of gutting it. Democrat leaders say “Stalled Audits and a Skeleton Staff: Inside Trump’s War on the I.R.S. Trump is planning to gut the work force while trying to turn the I.R.S. into a more political agency.” I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS for almost 9 years 1971-1980. I should write about my IRS superiors who despised/hated Republicans the most. I would focus on those who took the biggest/most adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who a) disallowed my travel vouchers 1974, b) got rid of my mentor in 1975 who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) never promoted me beyond GS-12, and d) disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They did the aforesaid even though I earned an MBA in 1976 and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, since the 1960s, everyone above me has been under ever-increasing pressure to give ever-increasing preference to those who do not share my demographics, that is, to discriminate against those who share my demographics. Those who share my demographics 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. Trump is doing things to stop the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Sen. Rick Scott: Elon Musk does not have the power to fire people (COMMENT: If you have the power to fire, you have the power to reinstate. GAO works for Congress. My Democrat GAO superiors had the power to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. My critics/opponents stress that those who gave them that power include my U.S. Congressman Hyde and my U.S. Senators Durbin and Braun at the time. Subsequently, they and my U.S. Senators Fitzgerald, Obama, Burris, Kirk, and Duckworth and Speakers Gingrich, Hastert, Pelosi, Boehner, Ryan, and McCarthy had the power to reinstate me. Johnson has the power to reinstate me now.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/9/rick-scott-florida-republican-elon-musk-power-fire-people/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats have turned Women’s History Month into a joke
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3341676/democrats-have-turned-womens-history-month-into-a-joke/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Trump’s Democratic ‘Allies’ Democrats’ obsessive Trump hatred blinds them to their own unpopularity, making his counter-revolution seem inevitable—and even normal.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/10/trumps-democratic-allies/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— From wokeism to nationalism: Corporations are changing strategies in the Trump era
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/03/10/from-wokeism-to-nationalism-corporations-are-changing-strategies-in-the-trump-era-1527868/
BREITBART
— Trump isn’t alone in his geopolitical aspirations. Some in Illinois and Oregon want change too.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-isnt-alone-in-his-geopolitical-aspirations-some-in-illinois-and-oregon-want-change-too/
CHRISTIAN POST
— The Left’s spectacle of ‘resistance’ to Trump is becoming pathetic
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/the-lefts-spectacle-of-resistance-to-trump-is-pathetic.html
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Blowing Dems Out Of Water On Every Issue That Matters Most To Americans
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/09/opinion-trump-dems-issue-americans-larry-elder/
— Dems Still Can’t Figure Out Why Americans Don’t Like Them
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/09/opinion-dems-americans-poor-messaging-josh-hammer/
DAILY WIRE
— Feds Can’t Hire For Competence Because Jimmy Carter Said It Was Racist. Trump Wants To Fix That. Trump admin to seek to overturn prohibition on using tests to identify top federal job applicants. (COMMENT: The federal government hired me and promoted me a) for objective reasons, not for subjective reasons and b) notwithstanding the fact that I was not a Democrat, female, or veteran. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school classmate had not asked me to join him taking the postal employment test and I passed that test. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 a) if I had not taken and pasted the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 as a backstop if I could not get a job in the private sector and b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. I would not have become a GAO employee in 1980 if I had not earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. GAO would not have promoted me in 1986 if I had not a) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and c) became a licensed CPA in 1981.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-cant-hire-for-competence-because-jimmy-carter-said-it-was-racist-trump-wants-to-fix-that
(FROM THE ARTILE: If government bureaucrats seem a little slower than employees elsewhere, it could be because a court order prohibits the federal government from using tests to objectively rank job applicants — on the basis that hiring the most competent employees had an “adverse impact” on blacks and Hispanics. A 1981 court order blocked agencies from using any test for job applicants that would result in a statistically significant difference in hiring rates between blacks and Hispanics on one hand, and whites on the other. That is akin to blocking colleges from using the SAT. Now, the Trump administration is set to ask a Washington, D.C., court to dissolve the 40-year ban, arguing that it illegally puts race over merit when it comes to federal hiring, The Daily Wire has learned. The move seems likely to prevail given the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action, and could allow Donald Trump to permanently reshape the permanent federal workforce into one comprised of the best and brightest. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management “must be relieved of the Luevano Consent Decree to return common sense to federal hiring,” the Trump administration will tell the D.C. federal court, according to a motion exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire. The motion says that the decree “blatantly conflicts with current law” because it “requires the federal government to make hiring decisions using explicit racial classification” and “this kind of blatant racial favoritism is not permitted under current Supreme Court precedent.” It cites a string of cases, including the 2023 Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case that ended affirmative action. “By favoring the applications of blacks and Hispanics, the Decree disfavors all other racial groups. Like school admissions, hiring in the federal government is a ‘zero-sum’ proposition,” it says. The administration will argue that the decree blocks the president from using “heavily researched and predictive tests that would streamline the federal hiring process and lead to a more capable workforce.” In the 1970s, OPM evaluated hiring prospects via a written test called the Professional Administrative Career Examination (PACE). Its scores accurately predicted who would go on to be exemplary employees. But a class-action lawsuit said that testing for cognitive ability would reduce the number of blacks and Hispanics in the workforce. President Jimmy Carter’s administration maintained that PACE was rigorously developed to be fair and was accurate and useful. But in the final days of Carter’s term, the administration agreed to a legal settlement with the plaintiffs agreeing to stop using the test and give them veto power over any replacement. In the next decade, OPM developed six different tests to attempt to satisfy the decree. But every test that accurately identified the most competent workers also had “the greatest adverse impact” to blacks, the court was told years ago, even though nothing in the tests was, on its face, racist. In 1990, OPM tried another test, which combined objective questions that measured cognitive ability with a “self-rating section that helps reduce adverse impact.” That still wasn’t enough to create the exact statistical equity demanded by the ruling. As a result, OPM began using solely the self-rating section. In other words, the only test OPM has found to result in a large portion of blacks in the workforce is one that essentially measures boastfulness. Many federal agencies now hire based on a multiple choice questionnaire where applicants rank themselves based on how great they are at different tasks. This has become a common method of ranking applicants to federal jobs, even though the Merit Systems Protection Board found that is “far less able to predict future performance.” “By relying solely on self-assessments of ‘life and work experience and training,’ the rating schedule struggles to distinguish between entry-level candidates, none of whom have ‘a great deal of experience,’” the Trump administration’s motion says. “As a result, many agencies have expressed ‘dissatisfaction with the quality of candidates referred by OPM from this rating schedule.’” The Carter-era settlement also gave a boost to those with “oral Spanish language proficiency and/or the requisite knowledge of Hispanic culture,” while not even mentioning any racial groups except blacks and Hispanics. The Trump administration will argue that “such institutional reform decrees were never intended to turn the federal court into an ‘indefinite institutional monitor.’” It said that the government can only use race in certain “narrowly-tailored” situations that must “be flexible, have a sunset provision, and be of limited duration.” It said that when the Supreme Court struck down Harvard’s affirmative action program, it pointed out that affirmative action was supposed to have been temporary. The Luevano Consent Decree said “jurisdiction shall expire…five years after the cessation of the use of PACE results,” yet the motion says that “was more than forty years ago, and there is still no end in sight.” Even if it were permissible to make hiring decisions to achieve racial outcomes, none of its plans have worked as intended, the motion adds. OPM also added a fast-track to hiring for employees who had a high GPA or ranked near the top of their class, intended to attract people from historically black colleges. Yet “white women came to be the primary group hired through the Outstanding Scholar Program.” A Daily Wire analysis of OPM data showed that blacks are over-represented in the federal workforce, not under-represented, making it hard to justify the continuance of the affirmative action decree. Eighteen percent of cabinet agency employees are black, about 50% higher than the percentage of blacks in the population of the United States. At some agencies, the disproportionality is astounding, such as 36% at the Department of Education and Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 29% at the Department of Treasury. The 1981 consent decree relies on the “disparate impact” theory — which holds that, any time an outcome doesn’t exactly mirror the races of the overall population, it is enough to prove racism even if no tangible racism occurred — that has been rejected by even many Democrats. Many on the Left have been reduced to arguing that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) measures don’t pit racial identity against competence — something that is plainly untrue when it comes to OPM using competency tests. Colleges that flirted with going SAT-free around 2021 have largely reversed their decisions. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has told New York City Democrats to stop trying to do away with the entrance exam to a math magnet high school just because mostly Asians do well on it. President Joe Biden signed a law getting rid of a similar “life experience” survey used to boost minority hiring for air traffic controllers after outrage about how it could put lives at risk. The motion will be argued by the office of U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin, a hard-charging conservative who has sought to undo liberals’ use of the D.C. court system for political purposes, including dismissing January 6 cases after Trump pardoned them. He has also indicted an alleged Chinese spy, investigated a Kamala Harris staffer for alleged fraud, and vowed to imprison “thugs with guns.” The motion set to be filed soon by the Trump administration says that “by favoring the applications of blacks and Hispanics, the Decree disfavors all other racial groups. Like school admissions, hiring in the federal government is a ‘zero-sum’ proposition.”)
FOX NEWS
— It is a crime to illegally cross the border. Illegal entry into the United States violates Title 8 USC 1325 and can be punishable with up to six months in prison. (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jasmine-crockett-insists-its-not-crime-illegally-cross-border
— ICE forced to release some illegal migrants who could pose danger to Americans. Congress, in FY 2024, funded ICE to have 41,500 beds for migrants.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-forced-release-some-illegal-migrants-who-could-pose-danger-americans-immigration-attorney
HOT AIR
— The Democratic Fork in the Road and the Woke Repudiation Imperative
https://hotair.com/josh-hammer/2025/03/08/the-democratic-fork-in-the-road-and-the-woke-repudiation-imperative-n3800533
NEWSMAX
— Rev. Corey B. Brooks Celebrates Trump’s DEI Rebuke
https://www.newsmax.com/platinum/dei-donald-trump-pastor/2025/03/02/id/1201047/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— UAW chief: Trump’s Canada, Mexico tariffs try to ‘stop the bleeding’ in US economy
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-canada-mexico-tariffs-stop-134400185.html
— Democrats introduce bill forcing Trump administration to rehire fired veterans. (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I got were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. Notwithstanding that, accord to my critics/opponents, all those jobs should have been given to veterans instead of me. Further, according to my critics/opponents, all the promotions that I got should have been given to veterans instead of me. My critics/opponents applaud GAO’s sheltering its employees who were veterans from any adverse impacts from Republican budget cuts. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have stressed that I avoided the Vietnam War draft.)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/democrats-introduce-bill-forcing-trump-administration-rehire-fired/story?id=119619654
NEW YORK TIMES
— Affirmative Action for the rich (COMMENT: The more money that your parents have, the better chance that you have to become an Ivy League university graduate. How much money did your parents have? My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. Consequently, I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA. During my junior and senior years in high school, I spent far too many hours washing dishes instead of studying. While I took undergraduate courses at UIC and NIU, I spent far too many hours delivering mail instead of studying. While I took graduate courses at Loyola and DePaul, I spent far too many hours working for IRS instead of studying. While I took graduate courses at IIT, I spent far too many hours working for GAO instead of studying. Consequently, I got no scholarships. Consequently, I got no Ivy League degree.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/podcasts/the-daily/college-legacy-admissions.html
— Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk. Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html
— Stalled Audits and a Skeleton Staff: Inside Trump’s War on the I.R.S. Trump is planning to gut the work force while trying to turn the I.R.S. into a more political agency. (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS for almost 9 years 1971-1980. I should write about my IRS superiors who despised/hated Republicans the most. I would focus on those who took the biggest/most adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who a) disallowed my travel vouchers 1974, b) got rid of my mentor in 1975 who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) never promoted me beyond GS-12, and d) disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They did the aforesaid even though I earned an MBA in 1976 and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/us/politics/irs-taxes-trump-musk-federal-workers.html
— Trump’s Tariffs Could Help Tesla, by Hurting Its Rivals More. The electric car company led by Elon Musk builds all the cars it sells in the United States in California and Texas, shielding it from tariffs that could devastate competitors. (COMMENT: I just bought an EV that was built in Canada. I took delivery of my red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV Saturday. If you share my interest in the car, please let me know. I owned a 1969 Dodge Charger SE 1968-1971. Some at NIU called me “Daytona Dave” because I drove it to Daytona Beach for the 1969 and 1970 spring breaks. I owned a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T 1994-2005.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/world/asia/trump-trade-musk-tesla.html
USA TODAY
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/03/08/trump-eliminates-education-department-consequences/81766553007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump’s Choice in Ukraine: Chamberlain or Eisenhower? To avoid another Munich, follow the example of the 1953 armistice that resolved the Korean War.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-choice-in-ukraine-chamberlain-or-eisenhower-567ee1da
— To Win McConnell’s Senate Seat, Kentucky Hopefuls Run Away From Mitch. As contest turns nasty, onetime allies now seek Trump’s endorsement in sign of how GOP politics have shifted.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/to-win-mcconnells-senate-seat-kentucky-hopefuls-run-away-from-mitch-4b53f0bc
AMERICAN PROSPECT
— Democrats say “Trump Rips Up the Government’s Agreement With Its Workers.” (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. For them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestor who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-03-10-trump-rips-up-governments-agreement-with-workers/
FED SMITH
— Understanding the Costs and Downsides of Retiring Early (COMMENT: I should write about the terrible negatives of being forced to retire early.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/03/06/understanding-the-costs-and-downsides-of-retiring-early/
NPR
— Postal workers conducting the census is part of a Trump pitch for a USPS takeover (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969.)
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/nx-s1-5311969/usps-privatization-trump-commerce-lutnick
PBS
— Schools brace for immigration arrests after Trump administration changes ICE policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Da4RHUeXU6KY
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— AG Bondi Tells ABA to Drop DEI Requirement (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, since the 1960s, everyone above me has been under ever-increasing pressure to give ever-increasing preference to those who do not share my demographics, that is, to discriminate against those who share my demographics. Those who share my demographics 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. Trump is doing things to stop the aforesaid.)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/03/10/ag-bondi-tells-aba-drop-dei-requirement
March 1, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois lawmakers holding urgent Humboldt Park rally against proposed Medicaid cuts
https://abc7chicago.com/post/medicaid-illinois-chicago-protest-today-proposed-cuts-held-humboldt-park-health/15966039/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-3/1/2025
— Trump and Zelenskyy key takeaways: Oval Office meeting devolves into shouting match. The bitter exchange was unlike any other in the Oval Office in modern times.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-zelenskyy-hold-high-stakes-summit-amid-tensions-peace-talks-putin/15962520/
— Ukrainians rally around Zelenskyy as defender of Ukraine’s interests after Oval Office blowout
https://abc7chicago.com/post/vance-trump-zelenskyy-meeting-ukrainians-rally-around-volodymyr-oval-office-blowout-russia-ukraine-war/15965924/
— Federal workers start to get a new email demanding their accomplishments (COMMENT: What did you accomplish last week? I put together and sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that contained links to 572 articles.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-workers-start-get-new-email-demanding-accomplishments/15965685/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-3/1/2025
CBS2
— Pritzker, other Illinois Democrats warn Republicans against cuts to Medicaid (COMMENT: What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-democrats-warn-against-medicaid-cuts/
— Blowup between Trump and Zelenskyy raises new concerns about Ukraine war in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-white-house-meeting-reaction-ukrainian-village/
FOX32
— Durbin condemns federal cuts, warning they endanger families (COMMENT: What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DDGJS42Ysd5k
WTTW
— Pritzker, Democratic Congressional Members Sound Alarm Over Potential Medicaid Cuts for Nearly 770,000 Illinoisans (COMMENT: What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/28/pritzker-democratic-congressional-members-sound-alarm-over-potential-medicaid-cuts
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker and top Illinois Democrats appeal to public in fight against potential Medicaid cuts (COMMENT: What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/28/democrats-make-medicaid-appeal/
— Illinois hit by President Donald Trump’s cancellation of foreign aid contracts (COMMENT: What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/28/trump-illinois-usaid-funding-terminated/
— Trump administration approves major nearly $3 billion arms sale to Israel
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/28/trump-administration-arms-sale-israel/
— Trump administration to slash funding for enforcement of fair housing laws
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/28/trump-administration-fair-housing-laws/
— Bally’s Chicago $250 million IPO stalled at SEC; casino refunding deposits of potential minority investors
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bally-chicago-250-million-ipo-211600079.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Dems call Donald Trump’s Oval Office blowup with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy a ‘national disgrace’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/02/28/illinois-democrats-reaction-trump-zelenskyy-oval-office-blowup-ukraine
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/28/deportations-schools-shootings-closures-donald-trump-ice-undocumented-immigrants-gina-caneva
— Federal layoffs of national parks, forestry workers are sloppy, dishonest, wasteful (COMMENT: During the 1980s and 1990s, virtually no one objected when the Democrats who ran GAO dealt with Republican-led budget cuts a) by protecting their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and b) by getting rid of their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/28/federal-layoffs-national-park-service-forestry-trump-musk-doge-ben-jealous
— Illinois spends less on education, other services than it did 25 years ago
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/28/illinois-spending-health-care-education-public-safety-payment-teacher-pensions-pritzker-rich-miller
— Northwestern University to get visit from federal antisemitism task force (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government forced my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many adverse actions against me. I should write about that.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/02/28/northwestern-university-visit-federal-antisemitic-task-force
DAILY HERALD
— The Illinois State Board of Education is not telling schools to stop any diversity, equity and inclusion lessons or programs (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote more discrimination/hatred. To promote DEI is to shout at those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, non-American, non-White, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250301/news/the-illinois-state-board-of-education-is-not-telling-schools-to-stop-any-diversity-equity-and-inclu/
— Darby Hills chosen — again — to succeed Dan McConchie in state Senate
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250228/illinois-state-politics/darby-hills-chosen-again-to-succeed-dan-mcconchie-in-state-senate/
WGN RADIO
— LaHood: Putin should be held accountable for invading Ukraine (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for Putin invading Ukraine.)
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/rep-lahood-putin-should-be-held-accountable-for-invading-ukraine/
DEKALB COUNTY DAILY CHRONICLE
— State GOP reps. say budget should prioritize vulnerable Illinoisans first (COMMENT: According to Democrat leaders, the most vulnerable Illinoisans are Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally. According to Democrat leaders, the aforesaid are marginalized oppressed victims of Republicans.)
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/03/01/state-gop-reps-say-budget-should-prioritize-vulnerable-illinoisans-first/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Chosen Geneva candidates stump for votes at GOP event. Mayoral, aldermanic challengers Pawlik, Bertheau stump for their positions.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/03/01/chosen-geneva-candidates-stump-for-votes-at-gop-event/
SOUTHERN
— Democrats dismayed, Republicans applaud after White House says Trump kicked out Zelenskyy (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for Putin invading Ukraine.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/28/democrats-dismayed-republicans-applaud-after-white-house-says-trump-kicked-out-zelenskyy/
RIVER BENDER
— Davidsmeyer Calls For End Of Taxpayer-Funded Health Benefits For Illegal Immigrants
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/davidsmeyer-calls-for-end-of-taxpayerfunded-health-benefits-for-illegal-immigrants-80146.cfm?
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more people will be on welfare.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/washington/washington-dc/republicans-target-snap-in-federal-spending-cuts-food-banks-brace-for-impact/amp/
— What Trump’s order making English the official language in the US could mean (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing force everyone to speak, read, and write Spanish.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-what-trumps-order-making-english-the-official-language-in-the-us-could-mean/
NPR ILLINOIS
— These National Park workers say a Trump agency fired them illegally. A judge agrees. (COMMENT: According to the judges in Diersen v. GAO, it is legal for federal employers to force their employees to retire a) because they became active members in class action lawsuits that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, b) because they complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and/or retaliation, c) because they were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran and had not made Senior Executive Service (currently $195,20/year) by age 40, that is, that selectively-applied up-or-out is legal, and/or d) because they were Republican at a time when Republicans were imposing budget cuts.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-01/these-national-park-workers-say-a-trump-agency-fired-them-illegally-a-judge-agrees
WAND TV
— IL House Republicans announce a package of bills to give ‘relief for working families’
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-house-republicans-announce-a-package-of-bills-to-give-relief-for-working-families/article_a2d22af8-f553-11ef-b124-274c9203412f.html
— Pritzker: ‘Blood will be on Trumps hands’ as Medicaid cuts could pass in federal budget (COMMENT: What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-blood-will-be-on-trumps-hands-as-medicaid-cuts-could-pass-in-federal-budget/article_3001a2ac-f610-11ef-aa9e-4bcb24ebfa9f.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/springfield-city-leadership-celebrate-diversity-achievements/article_9d1687aa-f628-11ef-ae89-2f7c57e90558.html
— Trump expected to sign order designating English as the official language of the US (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing force everyone to speak, read, and write Spanish.)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-expected-to-sign-order-designating-english-as-the-official-language-of-the-us/article_8854bcf3-53b1-58b5-8293-314c97611ba2.html
WQAD
— Combat veteran living in Monmouth loses job amid federal workforce reductions. “I voted for Trump,” James Diaz said. “I still support a lot of his policies, but I don’t necessarily support the method that he is implementing them.” (COMMENT: I was forced to retire early from my $153,151/year federal job in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997 because of a Republican-led workforce reduction. There was no sympathy for me a) because federal employees are viewed negatively, as being nonproductive, grossly overpaid, and even worse things, b) because I got a $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension in today’s dollars, c) because the federal government continues to pay 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums, d) because we owned a home in Wheaton and vehicles, e) because my wife had a good job, f) because we had no debts or dependents, g) because we had retirement savings, and h) because my demographics are terrible: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wqad.com/article/life/people/federal-workforce-layoffs-impact-illinois-veteran/526-b6e7b009-802c-4c0e-b877-7a4131561d9c
WSIL TV
— 5-year-old brings marijuana to preschool in Illinois, parents arrested (COMMENT: Democrats were increasingly push more pot.)
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/illinois/5-year-old-brings-marijuana-to-preschool-in-illinois-parents-arrested/article_378d7ede-3af7-5c3f-9eab-3ba4c138db32.html
CWB CHICAGO
— Violent incidents soared to new highs after alderman vowed to stop talking about ‘racist’ crime
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/02/violent-incidents-soared-to-new-highs-after-alderman-vowed-to-stop-talking-about-racist-crime.html
NEW TRIER NEIGHBORS
— Department of Education launches portal to “End DEI”
https://newtrierneighbors.substack.com/p/department-of-education-launches
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-258/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Black Republicans blast Pritzker’s migrant spending, Nazi comments
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a068d1aa-f61a-11ef-acd9-0bcad6d66883.html
JOHN BIVER
— The Mystery of Richard Uihlein
https://johnbiver.com/the-mystery-of-richard-uihlein/
WIREPOINTS
— Bally’s Chicago delays controversial securities sale, offers money back to investors
https://wirepoints.org/ballys-chicago-delays-controversial-securities-sale-offers-money-back-to-investors-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more sympathy for federal employees who lose their jobs because of Republican budget cuts. I lost my federal job because of Republican budget cuts. I was forced to retire early from my $153,151/year federal job in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. There was no sympathy for me a) because federal employees are viewed negatively, as being nonproductive, grossly overpaid, and even worse things, b) because I got a $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension in today’s dollars, c) because the federal government continues to pay 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums, d) because we owned a home in Wheaton and vehicles, e) because my wife had a good job, f) because we had no debts or dependents, g) because we had retirement savings, and h) because my demographics are terrible: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time. In defense of my former salary, I had earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What did you accomplish last week? I put together and sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that contained links to 572 articles. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Pritzker not only does not represent the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump, he ever-increasingly makes it clear that he despises/hates them. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly take more and bigger adverse actions against the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump. Anticipate/expect that he will ever-increasingly focus Trump voters who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will force employers in Illinois to not hire those who are the aforesaid and to fire their employees who are the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To get more and more and more votes from minorities and from females, Democrat and RINO candidates. elected officials, and party leaders ever-increasingly promote more and more and more hatred against Whites and men who are conservative, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
— During the 1980s and 1990s, virtually no one objected when the Democrats who ran GAO dealt with Republican-led budget cuts a) by protecting their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and b) by getting rid of their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to the judges in Diersen v. GAO, it is legal for federal employers to force their employees to retire a) because they became active members in class action lawsuits that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, b) because they complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and/or retaliation, c) because they were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran and had not made Senior Executive Service (currently $195,20/year) by age 40, that is, that selectively-applied up-or-out is legal, and/or d) because they were Republican at a time when Republicans were imposing budget cuts. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— If I Had Had to Write Five Things I Did One Week in January While I Was Working at the US Budget Bureau for DOGE…
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/28/if-i-had-had-to-write-five-things-i-did-one-week-in-january-while-i-was-working-at-the-us-budget-bureau-for-doge/
— The Most Comprehensive Report on Lara Trump’s Appearance at McHenry County GOPAC’s Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/28/the-most-comprehensive-report-on-lara-trumps-appearance-at-mchenry-county-gopacs-fundraiser/
— Dundee Township Candidates on Display Saturday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/28/dundee-township-candidates-on-display-saturday/
— Fuzzy Math at the Northwest Herald
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/28/fuzzy-math-at-the-northwest-herald/
— Premature Darby Hills’ Wikipedia Page
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/28/premature-darby-hills-wikipedia-page/
— Darby Hills Selected a Second Time to Replace Dan McConchie
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/28/darby-hills-selected-a-second-time-to-replace-dan-mcconchie/
— Ness Asks Opinions on Her Proposal to Eliminate Plastic Bags at Grocery Stores and Restaurants
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/28/ness-asks-opinions-on-her-proposal-to-eliminate-plastic-bags-at-grocery-stores-and-reataurants/
— Marengo Candidates’ Forum Saturday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/28/marengo-candidates-forum-saturday/
— Lake County & State Police Take Down Human Traffickers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/28/lake-county-state-police-take-down-human-traffickers/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Zelenskyy-Trump meeting unravels in heated argument at White House
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/28/zelenskyy-trump-meeting-unravels-heated-argument-white-house/
— Future of Zelenskyy, peace in Ukraine up in air after Oval Office blow-up with Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/28/future-zelenskyy-peace-ukraine-air-oval-office-blow-trump/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Northwestern University Mandatory Anti-Discrimination Training Pushes Unverified CAIR Data
https://freebeacon.com/campus/northwestern-university-mandatory-anti-discrimination-training-pushes-unverified-cair-data/
BREITBART
— Trump Kicks Zelensky Out of White House, Cancels Press Conference After Ukrainian’s Unhinged Oval Office Outburst
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/28/trump-kicks-zelensky-out-white-house-cancels-press-conference-after-ukrainians-unhinged-oval-office-outburst/
— The Collapse of Zelensky: Donald Trump, JD Vance Destroy Ukrainian Leader in Oval Office Beatdown
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/28/the-collapse-of-zelensky-donald-trump-jd-vance-destroy-ukrainian-leader-in-oval-office-beatdown/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Kicks Zelenskyy Out Of White House After Oval Office Blow Up
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/28/donald-trump-zelensky-white-house-oval-office/
— Senior White House Officials Detail How Trump-Zelenskyy Oval Meeting Went Off The Rails
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/28/white-house-officials-trump-zelenskyy-oval-office-meeting/
— Democrat Chuy Garcia Complains About ICE Arresting Migrant ‘Parent’ Outside School. Turns Out Perp Is Twice-Deported Gangbanger
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/28/garcia-rips-ice-for-criminal-ice-arrest/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump-Zelenskyy Meeting Deteriorates Into Heated Argument
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/zelenskyy-to-meet-trump-in-washington-to-sign-minerals-deal-5817851
— 5 Takeaways From the Explosive Trump–Zelenskyy Meeting
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/5-takeaways-from-the-explosive-trump-zelenskyy-meeting-5818097
TOWNHALL
— Conservatism, a Recipe for Happiness
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeremyfrankel/2025/02/28/conservatism-a-recipe-for-happiness-n2652977
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Jury finds Illinois landlord Joseph Czuba guilty of murder, hate crime in 2023 attack on Palestinian American boy (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasing paint Czuba as being a typical Trump supporter.)
https://apnews.com/article/palestinian-family-attacked-illinois-hate-crime-trial-muslim-1834d58621cab37197407204b4104dd3
CBS NEWS
— Second “what did you do last week” email expected to go to some federal workers (COMMENT: What did you accomplish last week? I put together and sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that contained links to 572 articles.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/second-what-did-you-do-last-week-email-expected-federal-workers/
NBC NEWS
— Pritzker amplifies his fight against Trump (COMMENT: Pritzker not only does not represent the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump, he ever-increasingly makes it clear that he despises/hates them. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly take more and bigger adverse actions against the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump. Anticipate/expect that he will ever-increasingly focus Trump voters who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will force employers in Illinois to not hire those who are the aforesaid and to fire their employees who are the aforesaid.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-amplifies-012633301.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Homeland Security Officials Push I.R.S. for 700,000 Immigrants’ Addresses. The tax collector has so far denied the request because of concerns it violates taxpayer privacy laws.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/irs-immigrants-addresses.html
— Because of Trump, more illegals are now invading Canada instead of America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/world/canada/canda-us-border-immigration.html
— How Canadians Are Making Their Anger Toward the U.S. Loud and Clear
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/world/canada/canada-us-trump-tariffs-reactions.html
— The newly released requirements for agencies to move forward with mass cuts to the federal work force have employees even more on edge. (COMMENT: All during the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO 1980-1997, all its employees were always on edge because of Republican-led budget cuts.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/us/politics/trump-federal-worker-layoffs.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Most Trump Supporters Also Back Ukraine. Our poll found that 69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/most-trump-supporters-also-back-ukraine-polling-russia-war-87ab141a
— Putin Wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Spectacle. Vice President Vance starts a public fight that only helps Russia’s dictator.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/putin-wins-the-trump-zelensky-oval-office-spectacle-e23e9b21
— To get more and more and more votes from minorities and from females, Democrat and RINO candidates. elected officials, and party leaders ever-increasingly promote more and more and more hatred against Whites and men who are conservative, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/can-white-men-finally-stop-complaining-f2b190e0
— Booz Allen Hamilton Gets 98% of Its Money From the U.S. Government. DOGE Is Coming for Firms Like It. Memo calls for review of $65 billion in contracts that go to Booz Allen Hamilton and other big firms that do government work. (COMMENT: Charles Bowsher ran GAO 1981-1996. He came from Arthur Andersen. His critics/opponents charged him with gutting GAO to drive federal contracts to Arthur Andersen.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/this-company-gets-98-of-its-money-from-the-u-s-government-doge-is-coming-for-firms-like-it-79db9dc7
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-ice-immigration-crackdown-criminals-1e399e4d
— FRONT PAGE: Inside DOGE’s Federal Takeover (COMMENT: There would be no need for DOGE if Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/inside-doge-elon-musk-government-employees-b87fc17a
February 27, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Pritzker calls for release of $2B in federal funding halted by President Donald Trump administration
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-pritzker-democratic-members-illinois-congressional-delegation-demanding-2b-federal-funding-halted-trump-admin/15957989/
— Federal workers rally at Chicago VA hospital in protest of mass layoffs by Trump administration
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-workers-rally-chicago-jesse-brown-va-west-side-protest-mass-layoffs-president-donald-trumps-administration/15957573/
— Immigration officials say everyone living in the US illegally must register.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/immigration-officials-say-everyone-living-us-illegally-register-what-does-mean/15957638/
— Apple to fix iPhone dictation glitch that suggests replacing the word ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/apple-fix-iphone-dictation-glitch-suggests-replacing-word-racist-trump/15956769/
— ‘Radical agreement’ in SCOTUS discrimination case. The Supreme Court seemed to find common ground in a high-profile case brought by a straight woman alleging “reverse” job discrimination in favor of gay people.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/supreme-court-finds-radical-agreement-employment-discrimination-case/15957259/
— Pritzker announces medical debt relief for 170,000 more Illinoisans under state program (COMMENT: What has helped you avoid medical debt? One thing that helped me endure my Democrat superiors’ tremendous efforts to waste my career and to get rid of me was the federal government paying 72% of my health care insurance premiums since I was 18 years old in 1966 and my wife’s premiums since we got married in 1978.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-pritzker-announces-medical-debt-relief-170000-more-illinois-state-program/15957129/
— Acero Schools officials say immigration agents detained adult outside schools in Gage Park. Vigil held ahead of Chicago Public Schools Board meeting on taking control of some Acero charter schools.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-acero-schools-officials-say-immigration-agents-detained-adult-outside-soto-high-school-idar-elementary-gage-park/15958346/
WGN9
— Illinois lawmakers’ bill would decriminalize prostitution, create sex workers’ bill of rights (COMMENT: Democrats promote vices. Anticipate/expect that Democrats would promote prostitution just as strongly as they promote pot.)
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-lawmakers-bill-would-decriminalize-prostitution-create-sex-workers-bill-of-rights/
FOX32
— Blagojevich compares his case to Trump’s in FOX 32 interview, says ‘corrupt’ prosecutors should be in jail
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/blagojevich-compares-case-trump-fox-32-interview-corrupt-prosecutors-jail
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1599885
— Trump holds first full cabinet meeting, what was discussed
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1599706
— Trump instructs federal agencies to plan for massive layoffs
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1599560
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Gov. JB Pritzker accuses Donald Trump of being a king, but he has acted like one himself – David E Smith
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/26/letters-022625/
— Extreme gerrymandering is as bad – Ray LaHood and James Nowlan
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/27/opinion-gerrymandering-us-house-fair-maps/
— Hundreds protest Musk at Libertyville Tesla dealership: ‘What Elon has done to the brand is just make it feel dirty’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/26/hundreds-protest-musk-at-libertyville-tesla-dealership-what-elon-has-done-to-the-brand-is-just-make-it-feel-dirty/
— Audit finds thousands were improperly enrolled in state health care program for noncitizens, while costs were vastly underestimated
https://www.yahoo.com/news/audit-finds-thousands-were-improperly-234600903.html
— Local HUD workers terminated in recent Trump administration cuts
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/26/local-hud-workers-terminated-in-recent-trump-administration-cuts/
— Pritzker and state’s Democratic delegation in Washington say White House withholding $1.9 billion in federal funding
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/26/pritzker-omb-freeze-letter/
— Trauma on trauma: Immigration agents detain Acero charter schools parent on eve of school board vote to shutter some locations
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/26/ice-detains-school-parent/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago immigrant advocates plan ‘full week of civil disobediences’ kicking off on May Day. The “week of action” will start with a mega march on May 1 from Union Park to Federal Plaza and end with a “day without margaritas and guacamole” on Cinco de Mayo, May 5. There will also be work stoppages on May 2 and 3.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/02/26/chicago-immigrant-advocates-week-civil-disobediences-may-day
— Trump’s control of press pool, ban of AP clearly aim to drown free speech. The White House’s ongoing beef with the Associated Press and its takeover to control reporters covering President Trump are a slap in the face to Americans who rely on a free press and the First Amendment.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/02/26/white-house-ban-associated-press-freedom-pool-donald-trump-gulf-of-mexico-america-first-amendment
— Elon Musk, a one-man show of conflict of interest. Musk’s role at DOGE has him in charge of what happens next at the very agencies that can make his businesses thrive or suffer. If that sounds like a bad idea, that’s because it definitely is.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/26/elon-musk-doge-conflicts-of-interest-federal-agencies-doge-s-e-cupp
— Trump, feds blame private jet pilot for near-collision with Southwest jet at Midway. A Southwest Airlines jet attempting to land at Midway on Tuesday morning nearly crashed with a Flexjet jet that had crossed into its landing path. Federal officials are investigating the incident. A preliminary report could take 30 days.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/02/26/trumo-ntsb-private-jet-pilot-near-collision-southwest-midway
— Pritzker warns of Medicaid cuts, pushes White House to release $1.88B in funds. Gov. JB Pritzker traveled to Washington Tuesday to push for the release of $1.8 billion in frozen federal funds to the state of Illinois — and to further sound the alarm on a pending GOP budget cut to Medicaid that will strip coverage for more than 700,000 Illinois residents.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/02/26/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-frozen-federal-funds-illinois-medicaid-cuts
DAILY HERALD
— Trump administration sets the stage for large-scale federal worker layoffs in a new memo
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250226/nation-and-world-politics/the-trump-administration-sets-the-stage-for-large-scale-federal-worker-layoffs-in-a-new-memo-2/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Tens of thousands gather for Hindu festival at Nepal temple, with many lighting up marijuana joints
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/tens-of-thousands-gather-for-hindu-festival-at-nepal-temple-with-many-lighting-up-marijuana/article_2d1037c0-2de7-5699-a3aa-f9c66d668d41.html
SOUTHERN
— Republicans pushing forward on Medicaid changes, despite potential political fallout
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/27/republicans-pushing-forward-on-medicaid-changes-despite-potential-political-fallout/
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
— Chicago organizations gather outside Trump Tower on Inauguration Day to protest new administration
https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/watch-chicago-organizations-gather-outside-trump-tower-on-inauguration-day-to-protest-new-administration/
EFFINGHAM DAILY NEWS
— Illinois schools continuing DEI initiatives despite federal funding threats
https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/local_news/illinois-schools-continuing-dei-initiatives-despite-federal-funding-threats/article_a7b56614-f48d-11ef-9b9a-2786de45574a.html
FOX ILLINOIS
— Registry revival: Trump targets undocumented immigrants in sweeping new enforcement push
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/migrants-could-soon-face-fines-and-prison-time-for-failing-to-register-with-government-illegal-immigration-us-mexico-border-asylum-executive-order-immigration-and-nationality-act
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Pentagon orders new purge of social media sites to dump diversity, inclusion mentions by March 5
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-pentagon-orders-new-purge-of-social-media-sites-to-dump-diversity-inclusion-mentions-by-march-5/
— Democrats push pot in Pekin
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/new-cannabis-dispensary-proposed-to-go-in-historic-downtown-pekin-building/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Christianity declines among U.S. adults while ‘religiously unaffiliated’ grows
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-26/christianity-declines-among-u-s-adults-while-religiously-unaffiliated-grows-study-says
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-27/how-trumps-crackdown-plays-into-misperceptions-about-immigrants-and-crime
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters glorify and praise those who say that they can “work with” the hate-filled Trump-hating Pritzker. Pritzker destroys those who do not share his hatred against Trump.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/gop-says-they-can-work-with-dems-19816396
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-463/
— Isabel’s afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-256/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— About that “balanced” budget in Illinois
https://wirepoints.org/and-about-that-balanced-budget-in-illinois-wirepoints-quickpoint/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Washington Post wants to hear from recently fired federal employees. Does the Washington Post what to hear my story? My Democrat GAO superiors fired me, that is, they forced me to retire when was 49 years old in 1997. To justify that, they used massive Republican-led budget cuts and up-or-out, that is, they’re not having promoted me beyond GS-13. But they wanted to retaliate against me because I had been an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation since 1988. Previously, they had a) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, b) delayed my promotions, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and d) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. By doing the aforesaid, my Democrat GAO superiors wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees, c) earning six job-related professional certifications, and d) earning a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, to deal with Republican-led budget cuts, they first got rid of their employees who were Republican and then their employees who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. Because I was all of the aforesaid, I never would have survived for the 18 years if I had not a) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, b) earned additional job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, c) became a licensed CPA in 1981, and d) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— With Bryon Daniels Announcing Candidacy for Florida Governor, Three Past Illinois Congressional Candidates Being Mentioned
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/26/with-bryon-daniels-announcing-candidacy-for-florida-governor-three-past-illinois-congressional-candidates-being-mentioned/
— FOID Retrieval Action in Cary
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/26/foid-retrieval-action-in-cary/
— Ness Reports on Springfield
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/26/ness-reports-on-springfield/
— Illinois Paying for Kaplan Test Preparation Courses for University Students and Those at Five Junior Colleges
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/26/illinois-paying-for-kaplan-test-preparation-courses/
— LaHood Playing Key Role in Selection of Next U.S. Attorney
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/26/lahood-playing-key-role-in-selection-of-next-u-s-attorney/
— Former Algonquin Township Trustee Ed Zimel Reflects on Randy Funk’s Defeat, Posts Victory Celebration Photos
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/26/ed-zimel-reflects-on-randy-funks-defeat-posts-victory-celebration-photos/
— Nail-Biter in Grafton Township Trustee Contest
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/26/nail-biter-in-grafton-township-trustee-contest/
– Pritzker Two-Step 3 AM Tax Hike Predicted
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox?compose=GTvVlcSBpRTKlGmDwHHjfpWkJTSNnwFZNWcqZdGStTcRNvBHZSlhfHFFDjMlLWXSDsbdLWldLzhQg
— Anonymous Letter in Support of Leda Bobera-Drain’s Re-Election Campaign Day Before Voting Did Not Lead to Victory
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/26/anonymous-letter-in-support-of-leda-bobera-drains-re-election-campaign-day-before-voting-did-not-lead-to-victory/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ICE tallies 20,000 arrests in one month
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/26/ice-tallies-20000-arrests-one-month/
— Trump memo orders ‘large-scale’ federal layoffs in sweeping agency cuts
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/26/memo-calls-large-scale-cuts-federal-agencies/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Will Trump’s Second Musk Bet Pay Off? DOGE could reform the government, or it could just aggravate voters.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/will-trumps-second-musk-bet-pay-off/
AMERICAN DECENCY
— Has the Glory of the Lord Departed from Wheaton?
https://americandecency.org/2025/has-the-glory-of-the-lord-departed-from-wheaton/
AMERICAN WIRE
— Michael Moore says deported illegals could cure cancer, stop killer asteroid, but Dem lawmaker reminds people that they are food picking slaves
https://americanwirenews.com/michael-moore-says-deported-illegals-could-cure-cancer-stop-killer-asteroid-but-dem-lawmaker-reminds-people-that-they-are-food-picking-slaves/
BLAZE
— Illegal aliens are criminals, not victims (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise illegals.)
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/illegal-aliens-are-criminals-not-victims
BREITBART
— Illegals Will Have Chance to Register Within 30 Days of Arrival and Be Removed, Will Have Chance to Come Back Later
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/02/26/noem-illegals-will-have-chance-to-register-within-30-days-of-arrival-and-be-removed-will-have-chance-to-come-back-later/
— Migration Arrests Rise Sevenfold Under Trump
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/26/migration-arrests-rise-sevenfold-under-trump/
— Michael Moore: Trump Might Be Deporting Illegals Who Could ‘Cure Cancer’ or Stop an Asteroid (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise illegals.)
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/02/26/michael-moore-trump-might-be-deporting-illegals-who-could-cure-cancer-or-stop-an-asteroid/
— Pentagon Orders the Removal of DEI from All Official Online Content
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/26/exclusive-pentagon-orders-removal-dei-all-official-online-content/
FOX NEWS
— The war on woke has ‘certainly’ not been won yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FlFq4SoiU
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Wokeness in Medicine Lingers
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/wokeness-in-medicine-lingers/
PJ MEDIA
— Trump Revokes Biden’s Concessions to Commie Venezuela
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/02/26/trump-revokes-bidens-concessions-to-commie-venezuela-n4937356
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— USAID Has Done America Extreme Harm Overseas
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/02/26/former_usaid_coo_the_agency_has_done_america_extreme_harm_overseas_its_a_multibillion-dollar_money_pot.html
— Pritzker’s Not a Nazi Either – Richard Porter (COMMENT: In my opinion, Pritzker is ever-increasingly treating Republicans like Hitler treated Jews. That explains why more and more and more Republicans are giving up on Illinois. That explains why more and more and more Republicans are fleeing Illinois.)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/26/pritzkers_not_a_nazi_either_152419.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump suggests pilot’s license be suspended in close call at Chicago airport
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/trump-suggests-pilot-s-license-be-suspended-in-close-call-at-chicago-airport/ar-AA1zQfGk
— Trump hosts event honoring Black History Month (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote Black History Month. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and replaced me with their Black History Month coordinator. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/watch-live-trump-hosts-event-honoring-black-history-month/ar-AA1zsYRv
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democratic governors pitch state jobs to federal workers cut by Trump
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-governors-pitch-state-jobs-to-federal-workers-cut-by-trump/ar-AA1zR4Yr
— Trump administration sets the stage for large-scale federal worker layoffs
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-2-27-2025
ABC NEWS
— As Trump’s deadline to eliminate DEI nears, few schools openly rush to make changes
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trumps-deadline-eliminate-dei-nears-schools-openly-rush-119240446
— A Project 2025 author Russell Vought carries out his vision for mass federal layoffs. The Trump administration’s demand that federal agencies plan to radically downsize is driven by a key figure in the conservative movement who has long planned this move. (COMMENT: Vought is a Wheaton College graduate.)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/project-2025-author-carries-vision-mass-federal-layoffs-119229770
NBC NEWS
— Trump administration creates registry for immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. Everyone who is in the U.S. illegally must register, give fingerprints and provide an address, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-administration-registry-immigrants-illegal-undocumented-rcna193818
CBS NEWS
— Federal agencies told to submit “reorganization plans,” prepare for mass firings
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-personnel-budget-memo-reorganization-plans/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Administration, Breaking With Musk’s Directive, Says Replying to His Email Is Voluntary. The response to Elon Musk’s “What did you do last week?” email to federal employees suggests that there may be limits to how far he can push the government’s work force.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/us/politics/elon-musk-email-federal-workers.html
— The Next Phase of Trump’s Large-Scale Work Force Cuts Is Underway. Workers at a handful of agencies have begun receiving notifications that they are part of the “reduction in force” directed by the president, after a wave of firings that targeted probationary workers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-cuts-federal-workers.html
— Trump Administration Escalates Layoffs of Federal Workers. Federal officials circulated a memo asking agency leaders to plan even more job reductions after thousands of federal workers were fired in recent weeks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/trump-doge-federal-worker-layoffs-memo.html
— Trump Said E.P.A. Would Lose 65 Percent of Staff. Then, a Correction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/climate/trump-epa-layoffs.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding. Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/elon-musk-business-government-contracts-funding/
— Musk attends Trump’s first Cabinet meeting of new term
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/trump-presidency-news/
— Are you a federal employee who was fired after a glowing review? Tell The Post. The Washington Post wants to hear from federal employees who were recently fired after receiving a glowing performance review. Tell us your story through this form.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/26/submissions-federal-dismissals/
USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/27/dei-backlash-erase-black-executives-gains/78475480007/
FORBES
— Here’s Where Trump’s Government Layoffs Reportedly Are—Social Security Administration, FEMA, IRS And More
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/02/26/heres-where-trumps-government-layoffs-reportedly-are-social-security-administration-fema-irs-and-more/
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://hbr.org/2025/02/how-to-assess-the-new-legal-risks-of-your-dei-policies
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Federal workers react to Trump administration’s new plan for restructuring, staff cuts: ‘They’ll have to fire me.’
https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-office-new-staff-cuts-federal-workers-responde-2025-2
FED SMITH
— RIFs Are Coming: What Federal Employees Need to Know About the Upcoming Workforce Optimization Initiative. The Trump administration is directing agencies to plan for large scale reorganizations and RIFs. Details of the plans have emerged. (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, to deal with Republican-led budget cuts, they first got rid of their employees who were Republican and then their employees who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. Because I was all of the aforesaid, I never would have survived for the 18 years if I had not a) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, b) earned additional job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, c) became a licensed CPA in 1981, and d) earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/02/26/rifs-are-coming-what-federal-employees-need-to-know-about-upcoming-workforce-optimization/
POLITICO
— Elon Musk’s bad rep among Dems threatens EV sales push in statehouses. Tesla’s campaigns to sell its electric vehicles directly to consumers, bypassing traditional dealerships, face more challenges in Democratic statehouses as Musk’s national clout grows.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/27/elon-musk-tesla-ev-sales-00206194
PEW RESEARCH CENTER
— All those in the mainstream news media are LGBTQ and/or promote LGBTQ.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/most-lgbtq-adults-expect-trumps-policies-to-affect-gay-lesbian-bisexual-and-trans-people-negatively/
FINANCIAL TIMES
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.ft.com/content/87cdf51c-c8e6-439c-aef6-91cb8faed78a
February 22, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— President Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump speaks at McHenry County fundraising event
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-politics-president-donald-trumps-daughter-law-lara-trump-speaks-mchenry-county-gopac-fundraising-event/15943990/
— Trump clashes with Democratic governor at White House event: ‘See you in court’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/maine-governor-janet-mills-president-donald-trump-clashes-executive-order-banning-transgender-athletes-womens-sports/15943839/
NBC5
— Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating DEI-related grants. The court ruling also prevents the Justice Department from bringing any enforcement actions against contractors and grant recipients who have such programs.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-terminating-dei-related-grants/3680425/
— A look at Trump’s latest executive orders as he signs more than 70 in first month. This week, measures surrounding IVF, federal regulation and benefits for immigrants were among the newest additions.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/a-look-at-trumps-latest-executive-orders-as-he-signs-more-than-70-in-first-month/3680178/
FOX32
— Pritzker receives pushback for comments comparing Trump and the MAGA movement to Nazi Germany. (COMMENT: If you are a conservative Republican and White, male, older, Christian, and/or German American, the more demographics that you share with Hitler, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you are a Nazi. Hitler was White, male, older, Christian, and German American.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1597352
(FROM WIKIPEDIA: The religious beliefs of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, have been a matter of debate. His opinions regarding religious matters changed considerably over time. During the beginning of his political career, Hitler publicly expressed favorable opinions towards traditional Christian ideals, but later deviated from them. Most historians describe his later posture as adversarial to organized Christianity and established Christian denominations. He also staunchly criticized atheism. Hitler was born to a practicing Catholic mother, Klara Hitler, and was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church; his father, Alois Hitler, was a free-thinker and skeptical of the Catholic Church. In 1904, he was confirmed at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Linz, Austria, where the family lived. . .Toland offers the opinion that Hitler “carried within him its teaching that the Jew was the killer of God. The extermination, therefore, could be done without a twinge of conscience since he was merely acting as the avenging hand of God …” Michael Rissmann notes that, according to several witnesses who lived with Hitler in a men’s home in Vienna, he never again attended Mass or received the sacraments after leaving home at 18 years old. In a speech in 1932, Hitler declared himself “not a Catholic and not a Protestant, but a German Christian”.)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/transgender-trump-executive-order-chicago-impact/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote immigrants. Democrat leaders want immigrants because immigrants vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want immigrants because RINO leaders want cheap labor.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/21/elaine-soloway-family-refugee-story-russa-immigration-aslyum
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats had mixed reactions last week to Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget address
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250222/news/majority-party-democrats-had-mixed-reactions-last-week-to-gov-jb-pritzkers-budget-address-with-le/
SHAW LOCAL
— Gary Sinise & The Lt. Dan Band return to Cantigny in Wheaton this summer Saturday, July 12
https://www.shawlocal.com/thescene/2025/02/22/gary-sinise-the-lt-dan-band-return-to-cantigny-in-wheaton-this-summer/
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to have their children born in America. Democrat leaders see those children as being soldiers in their army. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-and-rosen-introduce-born-in-the-usa-act-legislation-79938.cfm?
WAND TV
— IL Democrats celebrate Pritzker’s budget, GOP criticize Governor for ‘Nazi comparison’
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-democrats-celebrate-pritzkers-budget-gop-criticize-governor-for-nazi-comparison/article_7b08d028-ef16-11ef-ba5b-efc1d3148209.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump says he may take control of the US Postal Service. (COMMENT: To force me to resign in 1969 when I was 20 years old, my Democrats Park Forest Post Office superiors falsely claimed that I was not available to work enough part-time hours. I was available to work every Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, holiday, and every day that NIU was not in session. Previously, they denied my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-says-he-may-take-control-of-the-us-postal-service-heres-what-to-know/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— People in neighboring states are getting tax cuts. Gov. Pritzker has never offered Illinoisans the same relief.
https://wirepoints.org/people-in-neighboring-states-are-getting-tax-cuts-gov-pritzker-has-never-offered-illinoisans-the-same-relief-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What are Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI? They are tools that Democrats and RINOs use to get rid of Republicans. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about how RINO leaders of the following used DEI to get rid of me: a) Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party leaders, b) Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois leaders, c) conservative leaders, and d) religious leaders. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How would your life have been different if Trump had ended Affirmative Action and DEI earlier? For me, it would have been much more difficult for my Democrat superiors in the federal government to take adverse actions against me and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Because I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service before I was 40 years old in 1988. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How has DEI impacted you, that is, how has race and gender based preference giving impacted you? Since the 1960s, my critics/opponents have used DEI to get rid of me. I should write about that. I would focus on a) my Democrat superiors in the federal government, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, c) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the big adverse actions that the aforesaid would not have taken against me if I had been a minority or female. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you been fired? My Democrat Post Office superiors fired me in when I was 20 years old in 1969. My Democrat Firestone Store boss fired me in 1971. My Democrat GAO superiors fired me in 1997. My RINO Milton Township Republican Organization leaders fired me in 2004 and 2010. My RINO American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter leaders fired me in 2004. My RINO Illinois Center Right Coalition leaders fired me in 2007. My RINO Wheaton Chamber of Commerce leaders fired me in 2011. My RINO TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois leaders fired me in 2012. My RINO Wheaton leaders fired me in 2021. My RINO Illinois Republican Party leaders fired me 2024. I should write about those who have fired me and the pretexts that they used. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you get scholarships? Since I was 17 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used against me my not getting any scholarships. According to them, my not getting any scholarships proves that I am academically deficient and that my parents were filthy rich. They have always stressed that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class and that my ACT score was only 24. In my defense, I stress that even though I had to work my way through college, I went on to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on how much money their parents had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are your demographics? If I had been a minority or a woman when I was 49 years old in 1997, I would have been able to get a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license. I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years. I had earned three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance). I had earned six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting). I had earned a job-related professional license (CPA). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Judge pauses parts of Trump orders aimed at dismantling DEI
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3326999/judge-pauses-parts-trump-dei-orders/
— Noem deputizes State Department employees as immigration officers (COMMENT: I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer for almost 9 years. Will Trump deputize IRS Revenue Officers as immigration officers?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3323486/kristi-noem-deputize-state-employees-dhs-immigration-officers/
NEW YORK POST
— No going back: The left will fail in trying to reverse Trump’s DEI death sentence (COMMENT: How has DEI impacted you, that is, how has race and gender based preference giving impacted you? Since the 1960s, my critics/opponents have used DEI to get rid of me. I should write about that. I would focus on a) my Democrat superiors in the federal government, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, c) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the big adverse actions that the aforesaid would not have taken against me if I had been a minority or female.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/opinion/the-left-will-fail-in-trying-to-reverse-trumps-dei-death-sentence/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump Should Lead A World Summit Against Illegal Immigration. Now is time to internationalize the campaign against illegal immigration.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-should-lead-a-world-summit-against-illegal-immigration/
BREITBART
— Attorney General Pam Bondi warned leftist mayors and governors that if they don’t comply with the law and work with federal authorities to deport illegal immigrants, they will be sued. (COIMMENT: Federal Law Trumps State And Local Law.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bg9yVmbd2k
COLLEGE FIX
— Federal agency halts scholarship program at HBCUs following Trump’s DEI crackdown (COMMENT: Since I was 17 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used against me my not getting any scholarships. According to them, my not getting any scholarships proves that I am academically deficient and that my parents were filthy rich. They have always stressed that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class and that my ACT score was only 24. In my defense, I stress that even though I had to work my way through college, I went on to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on how much money their parents had.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/federal-agency-halts-scholarship-program-at-hbcus-following-trumps-dei-crackdown/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Considers Merging US Postal Service With Commerce Department. ‘We’re losing so much money with the Postal Service, and we don’t want to lose that kind of money,’ Trump said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-considers-merging-us-postal-service-with-commerce-department-5814303
FOX BUSINESS
— Citigroup pulls back on diversity in job hiring as Trump administration dismantles DEI nationwide. Citigroup CEO announced in a memo that a diverse job candidate slate is no longer required. (COMMENT: If I had been a minority or a woman when I was 49 years old in 1997, I would have been able to get a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license. I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years. I had earned three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance). I had earned six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting). I had earned a job-related professional license (CPA).)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/major-bank-pulls-back-diversity-job-hiring-trump-administration-dismantles-dei-nationwide
NEW AMERICAN
— Noem Ends TPS for 520K Haitians; Almost 1M Illegals No Longer Have Status
https://thenewamerican.com/us/noem-ends-tps-for-520k-haitians-almost-1m-illegals-no-longer-have-status/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— At CPAC, the MAGA base is skeptical of Trump’s Big Tech alliance
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/22/politics/cpac-tech-trump-musk/index.html
REUTERS
— Scenes from CPAC
https://www.reuters.com/pictures/scenes-cpac-2025-02-21/
CNBC
— Trump, DOGE mass job cuts: Federal workers’ money questions answered
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/21/trump-doge-mass-job-cuts-federal-workers-money-questions-answered.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Experienced workers, not just rookies, get cut as Trump slashes probationary employees. (COMMENT: To deal with Republican-led budget cuts, while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they protected their employees who were Democrat, minority, female. younger, or veteran from adverse impacts and made their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and or non-veteran pay the price.)
https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2025/feb/22/experienced-workers-not-just-rookies-get-cut-as/
CNN
— Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership (COMMENT: Have you been fired? My Democrat Post Office superiors fired me in when I was 20 years old in 1969. My Democrat Firestone Store boss fired me in 1971. My Democrat GAO superiors fired me in 1997. My RINO Milton Township Republican Organization leaders fired me in 2004 and 2010. My RINO American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter leaders fired me in 2004. My RINO Illinois Center Right Coalition leaders fired me in 2007. My RINO Wheaton Chamber of Commerce leaders fired me in 2011. My RINO TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois leaders fired me in 2012. My RINO Wheaton leaders fired me in 2021. My RINO Illinois Republican Party leaders fired me 2024. I should write about those who have fired me and the pretexts that they used.)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/trump-fires-top-us-general-cq-brown/index.html
NBC NEWS
— Mass federal layoffs deliver a gutting one-two punch to America’s veterans. Veterans who lost their government jobs say they also have to worry about the potential fallout from cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs. (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, many of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were veterans, and at times, most, if not virtually all were veterans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mass-federal-layoffs-deliver-gutting-one-two-punch-americas-veterans-rcna193127
NEW YORK TIMES
— Frustrated Democrats Urge Leaders to Show More Fight Against Trump. Voters, activists and even some governors, like Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, are growing exasperated with congressional Democrats’ restrained approach.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/us/politics/democrats-trump.html
— How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk. Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors. (COMMENT: If I was still a federal employee, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/us/politics/federal-employees-elon-musk.html
— At CPAC, Leaders of the Global Right See a New World, Led by Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/us/politics/cpac-trump-liz-truss-orban-germany-spain.html
WASHINGTON POST
— ‘Lifting’ becomes ‘leveling’: Companies reframe DEI amid Trump upheaval. With private-sector policies in the government’s crosshairs, businesses are ditching representation goals and focusing on inclusion. (COMMENT: I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used Affirmative Action and DEI to waste my career and force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/21/trump-business-dei-policy-rebrand-representation-goals/
— Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board. Experts say the move would likely violate the law. Trump said Friday that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick would be “looking at” the mail agency.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/20/trump-usps-takeover-dejoy/
USA TODAY
— Tracking federal layoffs 2025: Impacted agencies include IRS, FAA, TSA and more
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/21/federal-layoffs-2025-list/79415517007/
— Trump keeps teasing a third term, but his fans at CPAC don’t back him on that
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/22/trump-third-term-steve-bannon-cpac/79468835007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Debt Has Always Been the Ruin of Great Powers. Is the U.S. Next?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/debt-has-always-been-the-ruinof-great-powers-is-the-u-s-next-02f16402?page=1
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Trump administration fires raft of top military officers in unprecedented purge
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-fires-raft-pentagon-leaders-in-unprecedented-purge-2025-2
FORBES
— Trump Celebrates Efforts To End ‘Lawless’ DEI Policies Put In Place By Biden (COMMENT: I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used Affirmative Action and DEI to waste my career and force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBwKM9YIUP8
— Citigroup Rolls Back Diversity Initiatives—Here Are All The Companies Cutting DEI Programs (COMMENT: I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used Affirmative Action and DEI to waste my career and force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/21/pepsi-rolling-back-diversity-initiatives-here-are-all-the-companies-cutting-dei-programs/
NFFE
— What is happening to the federal workforce under Trump, updates and information you need (COMMENT: I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I was a union member for almost 12 of those years. I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years.)
https://nffe.org/nffe_news/what-is-happening-to-the-federal-workforce-under-trump-updates-and-information-you-need/
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Impacts of federal layoffs will be felt for years to come, good government group warns (COMMENT: I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I was a union member for almost 12 of those years. I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years.)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/02/impacts-of-federal-layoffs-will-be-felt-for-years-to-come-good-government-group-warns/
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— DoD to fire 5,400 probationary employees next week, with hiring freeze to follow (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, the agency was almost always under Republican-imposed hiring freezes and promotion freezes.)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2025/02/dod-to-fire-5400-probationary-employees-next-week-with-hiring-freeze-to-follow/
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— A snapshot of the federal workforce that is now under attack from the Trump administration (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are hell-bent on getting rid of Republicans. I should write about that. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I would focus on the many big adverse actions that my Democrat superiors took against me to get rid of me.)
https://www.epi.org/blog/a-snapshot-of-the-federal-workforce-that-is-now-under-attack-from-the-trump-administration/
CONVERSATION
— Trump’s moves to strip employment protections from federal workers threaten to make government function worse – not better (COMMENT: The more of the following that federal employees are, the fewer protections that they have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-union member, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://theconversation.com/trumps-moves-to-strip-employment-protections-from-federal-workers-threaten-to-make-government-function-worse-not-better-248086
ABP
— Pentagon To Layoff 5,400 Employees As President Donald Trump And Elon Musk Continue To Downsize Federal Agencies. So far, over 20,000 workers have been laid off and multiple programs have been dismantled across the US government from foreign aid to financial oversight.
https://news.abplive.com/business/pentagon-to-layoff-5-400-employees-as-president-donald-trump-and-elon-musk-continue-to-downsize-federal-agencies-1753184
MANILA TIMES
— Undocumented Filipinos in US up for deportation as Trump cracks down on illegals
https://www.manilatimes.net/2025/02/22/news/undocumented-filipinos-in-us-up-for-deportation-as-trump-cracks-down-on-illegals/2060620
February 21, 2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— When There Are No Illegal Immigrants, There Is No Need for Shelters
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/when-there-are-no-illegal-immigrants-theres-no-need-for-shelters/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Father Pfleger, faith leaders call for boycott of Target after company scales back DEI initiatives
https://abc7chicago.com/post/target-boycott-father-michael-pfleger-among-faith-leaders-calling-consumer-company-scales-back-dei-initiatives/15942947/
— Judge blocks Trump’s executive order ending federal support for DEI programs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dei-judge-blocks-president-donald-trumps-executive-order-ending-federal-support-diversity-equity-inclusion-programs/15943426/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://abc7chicago.com/post/11-year-old-jocelynn-rojo-carranza-dies-suicide-days-chatter-rumors-ice-raids-gainesville-isd-school/15942540/
WGN9
— Fired IRS employee Vanessa Marie Rollins searching for health insurance after recent cancer diagnosis (COMMENT: I worked for IRS in its downtown Chicago office in 1971 and 1973-1980, its Harvey office 1972-1973, its 63rd & Halsted office in 1973, and its Joliet office 1973-1974.)
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-irs-federal-job-cuts-trump/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Judge blocks Donald Trump’s executive order ending federal support for DEI programs
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/21/judge-trump-dei-programs/
DAILY HERALD
— Darby Hills’ appointment to state Senate on hold as Republicans reopen applications for McConchie’s seat
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250221/illinois-state-politics/republicans-reopen-applications-for-mcconchies-suburban-senate-seat/
SOUTHERN
— Fired IRS employee decries irony of being hired to ‘make the IRS ‘more efficient’ (COMMENT: The purpose of GAO’s audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) that I worked on for GAO for 3 years was to help IRS CID close the tax gap.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/21/fired-irs-employee-decries-irony-of-being-hired-to-make-the-irs-more-efficient/
RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth Slams SecDef Hegseth’s Order to Cut Defense Budget by Eight Percent for the Next Five Years (COMMENT: SEE: Downsizing the U.S. General Accounting Office at https://www.gao.gov/assets/Downsizing_at_the_U.S._General_Accounting_Office.pdf )
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-slams-secdef-hegseths-order-to-cut-defense-budget-by-eight-percent-for-the-next-five-years-79912.cfm
(FROM THE GAO REPORT: In 1995, Congress sent a legislative branch appropriations bill to the President, which he signed, that reduced the fiscal year 1996 budget of the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) by 15 percent. At the same time, Congress indicated that it would be calling for an additional 10 percent
reduction in GAO’S budget for fiscal year 1997. In order to accommodate those reductions, GAO determined that it would have to trim its workforce
from the fiscal year 1995 level of approximately 4,350 employees’ to 3,500 employees (a loss of 850 positions) by the beginning of fiscal year 1997.)
FOX ILLINOIS
— Kristi Noem deputizes hundreds of State Department agents for immigration enforcement
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/kristi-noem-deputizes-hundreds-of-state-department-agents-for-immigration-enforcement-dhs-department-of-homeland-security-trump-mass-deportations-illegal-immigration-ice
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— MAGA is ‘a Nazi movement’: Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested at city council meeting (COMMENT: Under Pritzker’s lead, anticipate/expect that those in Illinois who voted for Harris (3 million) will ever-increasingly call those who voted for Trump (2.4million) Nazis.)
https://newschannel20.com/news/nation-world/maga-is-a-nazi-movement-former-nfl-punter-chris-kluwe-arrested-at-city-council-meeting-california-huntington-beach-city-council-minnesota-vikings-president-donald-trump-politics-make-america-great-again-red-hat-swastika
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise them because of Trump budget cuts.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-administration-looks-to-slash-hud-workers-tackling-the-housing-crisis/
WGLT
— IRS cuts over 6,000 jobs in the middle of tax season
https://www.wglt.org/2025-02-20/irs-cuts-over-6-000-jobs-in-the-middle-of-tax-season
WOC 1420
— Former John Deere Employee Sues For Age Discrimination (SEE: Diersen v. GAO at: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://woc1420.iheart.com/content/2025-02-21-former-john-deere-employee-sues-for-age-discrimination/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A former John Deere employee is suing the agricultural equipment maker for age discrimination. Sixty-one year-old Terence Murphy of Geneseo, Illinois says he was fired last summer after 26 years, and his job filled days later by a 33 year-old woman. In the suit, Murphy says his performance ratings were excellent. He says the new hire had no prior experience in the position, and lacked his credentials. Murphy’s attorneys say statistics show Deere fired employees over age 60 at a rate 7.5% higher than those under age 40. Deere & Company says it can’t comment on pending litigation.)
WQAD
— Employment law experts break down age discrimination lawsuit against John Deere (SEE: Diersen v. GAO at: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://www.wqad.com/article/money/business/john-deere/john-deere-wrongful-termination-lawsuit-age-discrimination/526-5c13b394-2ec9-4933-b724-eb26b9746e13
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Illinois schools chief tells districts to follow state law, not Trump threats (COMMENT: Federal Trumps State Law.)
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/02/21/illinois-schools-chief-says-keep-teaching-black-history-after-trump-letter/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-253/
— ILGOP calls out Jewish governor for ‘vile, antisemitic attacks”
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/21/ilgop-calls-out-jewish-governor-for-vile-antisemitic-attacks/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
— ILGOP Responds To Pritzker’s Vile, Antisemitic Attacks
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
(THE PRESS RELEASE: Lost in the shuffle of the grandstanding and hypocrisy from Governor Pritzker’s budget speech was the dangerous, divisive rhetoric he used – comparing President Trump and the Republican Party to Nazi’s. During Wednesday’s budget speech, Pritzker referred to Nazi’s six times, painting an inaccurate and dangerously partisan picture of the Republican Party. As Pritzker continues to prepare for his 2028 run for President, ILGOP Chair Kathy Salvi released the following statement: “JB Pritzker stoops to a new low and needs to be condemned by both Democrats and Republicans. His disgusting and repulsive attack on Republicans and this administration comes at a time when President Trump and Republicans are supporting Israel and the Jewish people as they defend themselves from barbaric terrorists. Meanwhile, JB Pritzker is standing with criminal illegals and further dividing our great nation. At the Illinois Republican Party, we continue to fight with the Trump Administration to combat an unprecedented wave of antisemitism and will always call out Pritzker’s repulsive language. Bottom Line: In their effort to combat vile, antisemitic attacks like those by Governor Pritzker on Wednesday, President Trump and Republicans are fighting antisemitism in the United States.)
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Those who have demographics that vote for Democrats benefit from DEI. Those who have demographics that vote for Republicans are harmed by DEI. Demographics that vote for Democrats are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Demographics that vote for Republicans are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Stopping the illegal alien invasion. January was the lowest month of people illegally crossing the border since May 2020.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/stopping-illegal-alien-invasion/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Fires Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Charles Q Brown. Trump will nominate Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine to replace the general.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-fires-joint-chiefs-of-staff-gen-chair-charles-q-brown-5814407
FOX BUSINESS
— Chicago resident says his city believes it’s ‘more important’ to take care of illegals than Americans
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6369166557112
— Red state businesses put on notice if they intentionally hire illegal immigrants: ‘Stiff penalties’ The bill would give the Montana prosecutors resources to enforce the law.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/red-state-businesses-put-on-notice-intentionally-hire-illegal-immigrants-stiff-penalties
NEWSMAX
— Military Bases to Be Used to House Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/us/immigration-deportation-ice/2025/02/21/id/1200023/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Elon Musk becomes a new power center at CPAC. The tech billionaire stole the show Thursday, a surprise guest who wielded a chainsaw to symbolize his government cuts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/elon-musk-becomes-new-power-center-cpac-rcna193097
— At town halls, Republicans feel the heat from Trump and Musk’s firing and cutting spree. The White House said the incidents represent just a handful of critics. Others noted similarities to earlier backlash against disruptive moves in Washington.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/town-halls-republicans-feel-heat-trump-musks-firing-cutting-spree-rcna193164
CBS NEWS
— White House pushes back on criticism of Trump spending cuts
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/white-house-pushes-back-on-criticism-of-trump-spending-cuts/
MSNBC
— Not all Republicans want Musk’s chainsaw approach to spending cuts
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/joe-not-all-republicans-want-musk-s-chainsaw-approach-to-spending-cuts-232576069725
USA TODAY
— What is DOGE dividend check? Will Illinoisans get a $5,000 stimulus check?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/02/21/will-illinoisans-get-5000-doge-stimulus-check-heres-what-to-know/79440259007/
— More than one way to slice a workforce: How Trump’s cuts differ from Clinton’s.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/21/clinton-trump-federal-workers-jobs/79306710007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the wake of mass layoffs under President Donald Trump’s new administration, some have compared the government-shrinking initiative to a 1990s effort under President Bill Clinton, when about 400,000 jobs were cut from the federal workforce.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Illinois Cancels Henry Hyde. Progressives stripped the late GOP Congressman’s name from a courthouse over abortion.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dupage-county-democrats-henry-hyde-courthouse-illinois-abortion-hyde-amendment-bffcbb8d
POLITICO
— AP sues Trump officials after being barred from some White House events. The lawsuit says First and Fifth Amendment rights were violated.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/21/associated-press-lawsuit-trump-officials-white-house-00205504
JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE
— Who is calling who a Nazi? “Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s comparison of the Trump administration to the Nazi regime is deeply disturbing and unacceptable,” said Rabbi David Katz, executive director of the Israel Heritage Foundation.
https://www.jns.org/who-is-calling-who-a-nazi/
February 20, 2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— America Is Back — and President Trump Is Just Getting Started
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/america-is-back-and-president-trump-is-just-getting-started/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pritzker Following Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’ Playbook
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/20/pritzker-following-nazi-propaganda-minister-joseph-goebbels-playbook/
— Indiana About to Pass Real Property Tax Relief
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/20/indiana-about-to-pass-real-property-tax-relief/
— Pritzker Four-Year Junior College Proposal Will Hurt Four-Year State Universities
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/20/pritzker-four-year-junior-college-proposal-will-hurt-four-year-state-universities/
— Judges Go to Schools
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/20/judges-go-to-schools/
— The Censures of Algonquin Township Supervisor Randy Funk – Part 4
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/20/the-censures-of-algonquin-township-supervisor-randy-funk-part-4/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Fallout continues after Pritzker’s Nazi comments during budget speech
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_3ad0cf8a-efc3-11ef-b47d-1fb230bbecf6.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Food assistance need grows 12% in Illinois since 2019 (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more will want/need/demand more and more and more food assistance.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/food-assistance-need-grows-12-in-illinois-since-2019/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders promote Pritzker’s hate speech
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-getting-national-attention-speaking-president-donald-trump-during-budget-address/15939325/
— Democrat leaders use their “undocumented immigrant children” to promote hatred against Trump
https://abc7chicago.com/post/latest-trump-cuts-leave-26000-undocumented-immigrant-children-legal-representation/15938544/
— Border crossings are down and refugee shelters in border cities are seeing decrease first hand
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-mexico-border-news-crossings-down-refugee-shelters-cities-seeing-decrease-first-hand/15933759/
NBC5
— What does DOGE’s IRS shake-up mean for tax season? DOGE wants access to filers’ data, and the commerce secretary says Trump wants to scrap the IRS altogether. But filing a return remains mandatory — the earlier the better, tax advisers say.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/doge-irs-shake-up-tax-season/3679235/?os=fuzzscanazstr&ref=app
CBS2
— Thousands of IRS employees facing layoffs by Trump administration. Another round of federal job cuts is coming. This time, it’s at the agency responsible for bringing money into the government’s coffers. (COMMENT: While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, its employees always faced Republican-led layoffs.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/thousands-of-irs-employees-facing-layoffs-by-trump-administration/
FOX32
— Chicago Columbus statues could return as city faces art controversy
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-columbus-statues-could-return-art-controversy
— Chicago aldermen push to restore Columbus statues
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1596704
WTTW
— Democrat leaders promote fired federal employees. Democrats and RINOs either could care less or applauded my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors wasting my career and forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/20/dream-jobs-us-forest-service-unemployment-meet-2-illinois-fired-federal-workers
WGN RADIO
— Former federal employee shares her story of losing her job (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs do not want to hear my story.)
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/former-federal-employee-shares-her-story-of-losing-her-job/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson shares plan to fight food inequity in the city
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/mayor-brandon-johnson-shares-plan-to-fight-food-inequity-in-the-city/
WBEZ
— To get more votes from minorities, Democrat leaders want more federal money to be spent on them.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/02/20/uic-cultural-centers-and-race-based-college-programs-across-illinois-threatened-by-latest-trump-guidance
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump, Musk unpopular with Illinois voters, Pritzker poll finds. It is notable that Gov. JB Pritzker’s team released the poll, and it shows he is prepared for a political fight — both in terms of a potential third term for Illinois governor, or a 2028 presidential bid.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/02/20/president-donald-trump-elon-musk-illinois-voters-poll-jb-pritzker
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A new Illinois poll commissioned by Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker finds President Donald Trump and his cost-cutting czar Elon Musk’s early administration actions aren’t quite popular. A Global Strategy Group poll of 800 “likely 2026 voters” conducted Feb. 5-9 found more than 50% of those surveyed called Trump’s actions “extremely concerning.” Of those polled, 56% called Trump unfavorable, including 49% who called him very unfavorable. For Musk, 56% called him unfavorable, with 50% dubbing him very unfavorable. Democrats were the most negative on Musk and Trump, but independents viewed both unfavorably as well. A party-line split was evident in the poll, with 90% of Republican voters saying they approved of Trump, and 83% saying they approved of Musk. Among independents, 40% approved of Trump, and 38% approved of Musk. The poll also delved into some of Trump and Musk’s actions, with 57% of those polled calling any move to end an initiative to lower the cost of prescription drugs “extremely concerning.” Eliminating government programs, including health care, Meals on Wheels and child care; eliminating all members of the Aviation Safety Board; pardoning all the Jan. 6 rioters; and eliminating the Department of Education were among the most concerning topics for those polled. It is notable that Pritzker’s team released the poll, and it shows the Democratic governor is prepared for a political fight ahead — both in terms of a potential third term for governor, or a 2028 presidential bid. Pritzker has been criticizing Trump since his first gubernatorial campaign began in 2017. But now he’s aiming his ire at Musk as well — and has frequently railed against the billionaire adviser at Illinois news conferences. At a Wednesday briefing at the Illinois State Capitol, Pritzker blamed Musk for the unpredictability of federal funding and its effects on the state budget. And he used a collective “we” when talking about Musk and Trump. “We don’t know what they’re going to do. And you’ve seen that. You know, Elon Musk comes out with tweets about Social Security that turned out to be completely false,” Pritzker said. “We don’t know what they’re going to do. We don’t know whether they’re going to cut off the Medicaid expansion across the country. They’ve been hearing from Republican governors, just like they have from Democratic governors about the negative impact on the people of their state.” Despite the poll’s negative approval rating for Trump, the Republican president’s statewide vote grew to 43.8% last year, up from 38.76% in 2016. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.)
— Alderman introduces plan to punish Chicago city employees and officers for having extremist ties. The plan from 47th Ward Ald. Matt Martin follows growing calls for the Chicago Police Department and Mayor Brandon Johnson to fire cops with ties to extremist groups. (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who painted Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois as being extremist groups. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/extremism-in-the-ranks/2025/02/20/alderman-introduces-plan-to-punish-chicago-city-employees-and-officers-for-having-extremist-ties
DAILY HERALD
— Facing lawsuit, Republicans to meet a second time to choose McConchie’s successor
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250220/illinois-state-politics/facing-lawsuit-republicans-to-meet-a-second-time-to-choose-mcconchies-successor/
HERALD WHIG
— Black and Latino leaders want more government assistance for Blacks and Latinos
https://www.whig.com/news/illinois-news/black-latino-lawmakers-criticize-pritzker-s-proposed-budget/article_6e2f622e-efa5-11ef-9fea-3fe4be18874d.html
FOX ILLINOIS
— MAGA is ‘a Nazi movement’: Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested at city council meeting
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/maga-is-a-nazi-movement-former-nfl-punter-chris-kluwe-arrested-at-city-council-meeting-california-huntington-beach-city-council-minnesota-vikings-president-donald-trump-politics-make-america-great-again-red-hat-swastika
WAND TV
— Illinois House Democrats bash Rep. Steve Reick (R-Woodstock) for saying his caucus is part of ‘team Jew’
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-house-democrats-bash-republican-for-saying-his-caucus-is-part-of-team-jew/article_690a5734-efd4-11ef-843e-c7d87166bf31.html
WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/the-current/black-hawk-college-cannabis-courses-cohort-online-industry/526-ddc205a3-5e9c-46c0-9ed3-2a4a141a9018
WSJD
— Pritzker Insults President Trump and Fails to Take Responsibility for Illinois’ Budget Deficit (COMMENT: Pritzker runs Illinois. He hates Trump and he hates the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump. Anticipate/expect that he will ever-increasingly destroy those 2.4 million voters starting with those who are registered Republicans, who voted in the election, and who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, German America, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://wsjd.fm/new-blog-1/2025/2/20/severin-pritzker-insults-president-trump-and-fails-to-take-responsibility-for-illinois-budget-deficit
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Do you support President Trump’s plan to cut the size of the IRS? (COMMENT: I should write about those who have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me the most for my having been an IRS employee for almost 9 years.)
https://newschannel20.com/question/vote-do-you-support-president-donald-trumps-plan-to-cut-the-size-of-the-irs-question-of-the-day-internal-revenue-service-doge-department-of-government-efficiency-elon-musk-federal-workforce-downsize-taxpayers
EFFINGHAM RADIO
— IL GOP Reacts To Governor Pritzker’s Budget Address
https://www.effinghamradio.com/2025/02/20/il-gop-reacts-to-governor-pritzkers-budget-address/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats push a Democrat push poll.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-approval-rating-appears-to-be-underwater-one-month-into-second-term-survey/
— IRS layoffs could hurt revenue collection and foil efforts to go after rich tax dodgers, experts say (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs either could care less or applauded my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors wasting my career and forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-irs-layoffs-could-hurt-revenue-collection-and-foil-efforts-to-go-after-rich-tax-dodgers-experts-say/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Plan To Turn Lincoln Square’s Diplomat Hotel Into Transitional Housing Gets $5.5 Million TIF Boost. City Council approved additional funding for the $14 million renovation of the former motel into The Haven for people experiencing homelessness.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/02/19/plan-to-turn-lincoln-squares-diplomat-hotel-into-transitional-housing-gets-5-5-million-tif-boost/
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Chicago releases its Black Student Success Plan amid backlash against race-based initiatives
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/02/20/cps-releases-black-student-success-plan/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-252/
— Pritzker’s new Illinois poll has majority ‘extremely concerned’ about a host of Trump’s recent actions
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/20/pritzkers-new-illinois-poll-has-majority-extremely-concerned-about-a-host-of-trumps-recent-actions/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump blasts Zelenskyy as ‘dictator’ who duped U.S. into sending aid
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/19/donald-trump-blasts-volodymyr-zelenskyy-dictator-duped-u-sending-aid/
— Trump has conquered CPAC
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/donald-trump-conquered-cpac/
— Musk wields symbolic chainsaw at CPAC in celebration of his federal role: ‘This is awesome’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/elon-musk-wields-symbolic-chainsaw-cpac/
— Vance emerges as an early favorite at CPAC to carry the MAGA flag into 2028
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/jd-vance-emerges-early-favorite-cpac-carry-maga-flag-2028/
— ‘I want to find out’: Trump says he is going to personally inspect the gold at Fort Knox
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/trump-inspect-gold-fort-knox/
NEW YORK POST
— Musk wields ‘chainsaw for bureaucracy’ on stage at CPAC to symbolize DOGE’s massive government cuts
https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/us-news/elon-musk-wields-chainsaw-for-bureaucracy-on-stage-at-cpac-to-symbolize-doges-massive-government-cuts/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘America-last RINOs’ side with Zelenskyy over Trump
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/02/20/america-last-rinos-side-with-zelenskyy-over-trump-1523948/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Ex-UIC prof files lawsuit saying he was fired for opposing racial hiring preferences. The Liberty Justice Center recently filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), alleging that a professor was fired because he criticized the school’s hiring practices, which the professor believes are racially discriminatory. The federal lawsuit was filed on Feb. 10 in the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. (SEE: Diersen v. GAO at : https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://www.campusreform.org/article/ex-uic-prof-files-lawsuit-saying-fired-opposing-racial-hiring-preferences/27506
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Liberty Justice Center recently filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), alleging that a professor was fired because he criticized the school’s hiring practices, which the professor believes are racially discriminatory. The federal lawsuit, which was filed on Feb. 10 in the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois, asserts that the school administration violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment when it terminated Professor Stephen Kleinschmit. While he was at UIC, Kleinschmit “observed that multiple hiring and funding programs were either a) explicitly designed to use race as a qualification in hiring decisions or b) being subverted to favor nonwhite applicants and faculty,” according to the lawsuit. The document asserts that when Kleinschmit spoke out about the allegedly discriminatory hiring practices, the school administration terminated his contract. “When he complained about this unlawful behavior, he was terminated—ostensibly due to budget cuts, yet the University retained faculty hired under a non-competitive, racially preferential hiring program, and soon after advertised a new job opening in his old department stating ‘members of a recognized underrepresented group are particularly encouraged to apply,’” the complaint says. Kleinschmit has a Ph.D. in Public Administration and was a professor in the school’s Department of Public Policy, Management, and Analytics until he was fired in 2023. Among other specific allegations, the complaint asserts that UIC required Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) statements in hiring. The lawsuit additionally accuses the administration of incorporating the race-conscious statements “into departmental norms and guidelines for promotion and tenure.” The 31-page lawsuit also gives other examples of allegedly racially discriminatory school policies. “The University Faculty Senate on July 29, 2020 released the UIC Senate Statement on Black Lives Matter, which asked the white faculty and administrators to ‘acknowledge their white privilege and power, and to commit to take action against systematic racism through anti-racist action,’” the lawsuit explains. In a statement about the lawsuit, Liberty Justice Center Senior Counsel Reilly Stephens called UIC’s hiring practices “blatantly” illegal. “The University of Illinois Chicago repeatedly engaged in blatant acts of racial discrimination, then added illegal retaliation to the mix to avoid accountability for its unlawful behavior,” Stephens asserted in a press release. “These actions are unacceptable violations of the right to equal protection under the law, and we urge the court to put a stop to it immediately.” Campus Reform has contacted the University of Illinois Chicago for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.)
CATHOLIC LIFE
— At CPAC, Vance talks faith, says policies should help ‘choose life’ and ‘start families’
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/262327/at-cpac-vance-talks-faith-says-policies-should-help-choose-life-and-start-families
DAILY CALLER
— ‘Trump Administration Is Serious’: America’s Southern Border Hasn’t Been This Quiet Since The 1960s
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/20/border-encounters-drop-to-1960s-levels/
EPOCH TIMES
— Federal Judge Allows Trump Admin to Continue Layoffs of Federal Workers. The suit was brought by federal unions seeking to preserve union dues and bargaining power.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-allows-trump-admin-to-continue-layoffs-of-federal-workers-5813651
FOX NEWS
— VP JD Vance speaks on ‘fundamental goal’ of Trump administration at CPAC address. ‘It is easy, unfortunately, to burn the house down. It takes a little bit of time to build it back up and that’s what we have to do,’ said Vance.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vp-jd-vance-speaks-fundamental-goal-trump-administration-cpac-address
— Homan says billions saved on illegal migrants can be used to help Americans
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-says-billions-saved-illegal-migrants-can-used-help-americans
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Pro-Life Issues Are Given Short Shrift at This Year’s CPAC
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/pro-life-issues-are-given-short-shrift-at-this-years-cpac/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump set to speak at CPAC
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5154914-donald-trump-speaking-cpac-2025/
REUTERS
— Musk to appear at CPAC
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-appear-cpac-conservative-gathering-organizer-says-2025-02-20/
CBS NEWS
— Thousands of IRS workers to be laid off (COMMENT: I should write about those who have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me the most for my having been an IRS employee for almost 9 years.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/thousands-of-irs-workers-to-be-laid-off-source-says/
— GOP lawmakers concerned about impact of DOGE cuts on constituents, but most support effort (COMMENT: How dependent on federal spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-lawmakers-doge-cuts-impact/
POLITICO
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote those who seek asylum in America.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/asylum-seekers-trump-administration-021337
— At CPAC, Vance finally gets the reception he wishes he got in Munich. Surrounded by allies, the vice president basked in his role as culture-warrior-in-chief.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/cpac-jd-vance-culture-war-00205236
HARPER’S MAGAZINE
— Rage Against the Machine. Trump’s second attempt at dismantling the bureaucracy.
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03/rage-against-the-machine-andrew-cockburn-trump-bureaucracy/
EDUCATION WEEK
— Parents Lose Appeal Over School’s Gender Identity Notification Policy (COMMENT: Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.)
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/parents-lose-appeal-over-schools-gender-identity-notification-policy/2025/02
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 53% Approve Trump Ending DEI Policies
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/53_approve_trump_ending_dei_policies