FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Trump Tower plaza barricades pulled back after months of complaints. The fencing violated the planned development ordinance requiring open access to the 1.2-acre public plaza, according to the city’s Department of Planning and Development.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/06/trump-tower-plaza-barricades-pulled-back-after-months-of-complaints
— Proposed bill would limit where customers could buy EVs. The stated goal of anti-consumer legislation like Senate Bill 1939 is to protect the viability of franchise dealerships.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/07/electric-vehicles-limit-options-illinoisans-anti-consumer-car-dealerships-liam-condon
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/07/new-study-suggests-insuring-immigrants-in-illinois-gives-hospitals-a-financial-lift
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/column-donald-trump-free-trade-tariffs-due-process-chapman/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders promote Raja Krishnamoorthi big time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250506/us-congress-politics/u-s-rep-krishnamoorthi-running-for-durbins-senate-seat/
— The Democratic Party of DuPage County announced a unique protest, Hands Across Chicagoland, from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 18. Area Democrats plan to form a human chain along Ogden Avenue stretching from Chicago to Aurora. They promised “we will not block streets or businesses along the route.” How successful have Democrat leaders been driving Republicans out of your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250506/nation-and-world-politics/political-roundabout-duckworths-senate-pick-gop-on-jbs-future-dems-plan-a-human-chain/
NBC5
— Illinois political scene sees seismic shift with high-profile retirements
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-political-scene-sees-seismic-shift-with-high-profile-retirements/3739479/
— Democrat leaders promote Raja Krishnamoorthi
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/democrat-raja-krishnamoorthi-launches-illinois-senate-campaign-rcna204834
CBS2
— Snarky back-and-forth ahead of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s visit to Springfield
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/snarky-back-and-forth-ahead-of-dhs-secretary-kristi-noems-visit-to-springfield/
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/07/city/executive-order-against-sanctuary-cities-is-likely-unconstitutional-experts-say/
DAILY EGYPTIAN
— Democrat leaders push DEI initiatives amid Trump cuts. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that Republicans cause all of their problems: liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, prostitutes, criminals, are in America illegally, etc.
https://dailyegyptian.com/121383/news/siu-students-push-for-dei-initiatives-amid-trump-cuts/
KSDK
— Bill invites Illinois counties to join Indiana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBUeoLhFOW8
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-507/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The poorest homeowners are being crushed by Illinois’ property taxes
https://wirepoints.org/the-poorest-homeowners-are-being-crushed-by-illinois-property-taxes-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
JOHN KASS
— Where’s Columbus? Chicago’s Italians Mocked as Clowns & Chumbolones
https://johnkassnews.com/wheres-columbus-chicagos-italians-mocked-as-clowns-chumbolones/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump’s DEI crackdown increasingly makes Democrat and RINO employers worried about lawsuits. Because Democrats have always controlled the courts, my Democrat superiors in the federal government were never concerned about lawsuits against them from their Republican employees. Actually, they welcomed such lawsuits against them, if not encouraged such lawsuits against them. You would see that if you would read the documents in Diersen v. GAO https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf According to them, in that lawsuit, the courts ruled that federal employers can use the following to waste the careers of and to get rid of their Republican employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American: budget cuts, up-or-out, and/or Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. My Democrat superiors crow that they succeeded in destroying a Republican federal employee who had a) three job-related master’s degrees, b) six job-related professional certifications, and c) a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump. What will Democrat leaders destroy next to destroy Trump? Anticipate/expect that the more demographics that you share with Trump, the more that Democrat leaders will do to destroy you. Trump is conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. I share all of the aforesaid demographics with Trump. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me since 2015. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Because my Missouri Synod Lutheran grade school teachers promoted reading, writing, and arithmetic instead of the Democrat Party platform, I was able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, and get accepted by UIC even though neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always painted me as being lower Caste. They stress a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, d) that my mother never attended high school, e) that I had to work my way through college, f) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, g) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, h) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, i) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars, and j) that I am Protestant and German American. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do the schools that you graduated from think of you? I graduated from NIU in 1970, Loyola in 1976, DePaul in 1980, and IIT in 1997. From what I see, the aforesaid schools have a very low opinion of me because I am conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What did your coworkers do to advance? Extremely few if not virtually none of my Democrat coworkers in the federal government did what I did. I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office when I was 18-20, IRS 22-31, and GAO 31-49. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32. To advance, my coworkers glorified and praised their superiors and supervisors, pandered to their superiors and supervisors, and served as operatives or dupes for their superiors and supervisors. They helped their superiors get rid of their Republican coworkers like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders push DEI initiatives amid Trump cuts. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that Republicans cause all of their problems: liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, prostitutes, criminals, are in America illegally, etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) calls on Illinois sheriffs to defy Pritzker’s sanctuary law. What is your county sheriff’s position on this?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3403533/mary-miller-illinois-sheriffs-defy-sanctuary-law/
NEW YORK POST
— How black Americans were on the rise before affirmative action, author Jason Riley explains in fascinating new book
https://nypost.com/2025/05/06/opinion/black-americans-on-the-rise-before-affirmative-action-jason-riley-writes-in-new-book/
BREITBART
— Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett Fumes Over $1,000 for Illegals to Self-Deport: ‘It’s a Damn Scam’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/06/democrat-rep-jasmine-crockett-fumes-over-1000-illegals-self-deport-its-damn-scam/
— Pro-Immigration Lawyers Whine that Trump Deportations Apply to All Illegals, Including Irish
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/06/trumps-deputies-deporting-irish-migrants/
COLLEGE FIX
— How black Americans were on the rise before affirmative action: new book
https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/how-black-americans-were-on-the-rise-before-affirmative-action-new-book/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Admin Cuts Funds For ‘Divisive,’ ‘Woke’ Children’s Programing At PBS. Because my Missouri Synod Lutheran grade school teachers promoted reading, writing, and arithmetic instead of the Democrat Party platform, I was able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, and get accepted by UIC even though neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-cuts-funds-for-divisive-woke-childrens-programing-at-pbs
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Chief Diversity Officers Struggling Under New Rules and DEI Bans
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/chief-diversity-officers-struggling-under-new-rules-and-dei-bans/
MEGYN KELLY
— How the Trump Admin Is Finally Fighting Back Against Elite Universities and Illegal Discrimination
https://www.megynkelly.com/watch/how-the-trump-admin-is-finally-fighting-back-against-elite-universities-and-illegal-discrimination/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Richard Porter: Hyperbole, Lies, and Delusions
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/06/hyperbole_lies_and_delusions_152752.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Obama’s presidential library
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5286297-obama-foundation-trump-mockery-response/
— Democrat leaders say “The real ‘DEI hire’ was Clarence Thomas.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/5284388-clarence-thomas-dei-hire/
REUTERS
— Biden accuses Trump of appeasement of Russia
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-president-biden-accuses-trump-appeasement-russia-2025-05-07/
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-05-06/800m-in-lgbtq-health-research-funding-nixed-by-trump-administration
MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump. What will Democrat leaders destroy next to destroy Trump? Anticipate/expect that the more demographics that you share with Trump, the more that Democrat leaders will do to destroy you. Trump is conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. I share all of the aforesaid demographics with Trump. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me since 2015. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tesla-s-europe-customers-continue-abandoning-brand-in-the-wake-of-musk-s-trump-ties/ar-AA1EhFvO
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Buttigieg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwB6aL_Ubc
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Canada against America
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-canada-s-pm-humiliated-trump-today-but-not-as-much-as-trump-humiliated-himself-239052357934
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Europe against America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/business/tariffs-europe-boycott-american-goods.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America
https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china.html
— Democrat leaders promote Alcatraz tourists
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/alcatraz-trump-tourists.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Trump Denies Posting Image of Himself as Pope
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/trump-pope-photo-ai.html
— Environmentalists “Stunned” After 35 House Dems Vote Against California EV Mandate. How will my critics/opponents use against me my buying a new 2005 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV? Will they stress that it is not eligible for a federal rebate because it costs too much, that it weighs 6,000 pounds, and/or that it can do the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/climate/democrats-california-ban-electric-vehicles.html
— What do the schools that you graduated from think of you? I graduated from NIU in 1970, Loyola in 1976, DePaul in 1980, and IIT in 1997. From what I see, the aforesaid schools have a very low opinion of me because I am conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/opinion/trump-universities-woke.html
— Democrat leaders want Democrat Presidents to have power but not Republican Presidents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/opinion/trump-obama-biden-presidency.html?searchResultPosition=1
WASHINGTON POST
— Canada’s new leader tries charm after tough talk on Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/06/trump-canada-carney/
— Supreme Court lets Trump ban transgender troops while case continues
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/06/transgender-troops-ban-supreme-court-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Canada against America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/06/trump-presidency-news/
TWO PARAGRAPHS
— What did your coworkers do to advance? Extremely few if not virtually none of my Democrat coworkers in the federal government did what I did. I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office when I was 18-20, IRS 22-31, and GAO 31-49. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32. To advance, my coworkers glorified and praised their superiors and supervisors, pandered to their superiors and supervisors, and served as operatives or dupes for their superiors and supervisors. They helped their superiors get rid of their Republican coworkers like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://2paragraphs.com/2025/05/trump-offers-obama-help-on-construction-site-i-could-recommend-professionals/
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with the rest of the world against America
https://fortune.com/2025/05/06/trump-tariffs-exports-plummet-ports/
BUSINESS JOURNAL
— Trump’s DEI crackdown increasingly makes Democrat and RINO employers worried about lawsuits. Because Democrats have always controlled the courts, my Democrat superiors in the federal government were never concerned about lawsuits against them from their Republican employees. Actually, they welcomed such lawsuits against them, if not encouraged such lawsuits against them. You would see that if you would read the documents in Diersen v. GAO https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf According to them, in that lawsuit, the courts ruled that federal employers can use the following to waste the careers of and to get rid of their Republican employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American: budget cuts, up-or-out, and/or Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. My Democrat superiors crow that they succeeded in destroying a Republican federal employee who had a) three job-related master’s degrees, b) six job-related professional certifications, and c) a job-related professional license.
https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2025/05/07/trump-dei-littler-company-2025-lawsuits-ice.html
INDIAN EXPRESS
— What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always painted me as being lower Caste. They stress a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, d) that my mother never attended high school, e) that I had to work my way through college, f) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, g) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, h) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, i) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars, and j) that I am Protestant and German American.
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/caste-census-counting-caste-census-savarna-caste-census-2026-9987844/
Tag: IRS
May 5, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump rules out another presidential run, floats Rubio and Vance as potential successors
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-third-term-president-rules-another-presidential-run-floats-rubio-vance-potential-successors/16329961/
— New DePaul policy would require those wearing face coverings to remove them upon request
https://abc7chicago.com/post/depaul-university-policy-would-require-wearing-masks-face-coverings-remove-request-jewish-student-attack/16331702/
CBS2
— Cinco de Mayo Parade is canceled, but there are other celebrations and deals in Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/cinco-de-mayo-parade-little-village-canceled/
FOX32
— 16-year-old becomes youngest to receive Ph.D. in the US. I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, and a master’s degree in finance until I was 48. By then, it was too late. I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30 and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. By then, it was too late. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, it was too late. I did not earn additional job-related professional certifications until I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. By then, it was too late.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/16-year-old-becomes-youngest-receive-ph-d-us-university-claims
WBEZ
— Trump Administration takes renewed aim at Illinois, other sanctuary states and cities
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/05/05/trump-administration-takes-renewed-aim-at-illinois-other-sanctuary-states-and-cities
WGN RADIO
— Should immigrants who self-deport be paid $1000? Any money paid to illegals to deport should come from those who invited them.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-should-immigrants-who-self-deport-be-paid-1000/#/questions
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump administration says it will pay immigrants in the United States illegally $1,000 to go home. Any money paid to illegals to deport should come from those who invited them.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/trump-immigrants-pay-home/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Deportation fears mute Cinco de Mayo in Little Village: ‘It’s so sad and a little scary’ Little Village, which markets itself as the “Mexican Capital of the Midwest” was to have held its annual Cinco de Mayo parade Monday, but it was canceled over fears of deportations.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/05/cinco-de-mayo-little-village-chicago-immigration-deportation
DAILY EGYPTIAN
— Conservative watchdog group recruits SIU students to investigate ‘liberal bias’ on campus
https://dailyegyptian.com/121370/news/conservative-watchdog-group-recruits-siu-students-to-investigate-liberal-bias-on-campus/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Cinco de Mayo parades canceled in some cities amid fears of immigration crackdown
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/cinco-de-mayo-parades-canceled-in-some-cities-amid-fears-of-immigration-crackdown/
KSDK
— Water in over 20 Illinois communities is contaminated, state EPA warns
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/illinois-water-contamination-pfas-forever-chemicals-epa-metro-east/63-7056b8a1-33b1-43fc-a2cb-1a7e64b20fa7
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-298/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Conservative U.S. Catholics hope next pope won’t echo Francis
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/5/conservative-us-catholics-hope-next-pope-wont-echo-francis-observers/
— Trump has booted 11,000 IRS employees so far, and counting. If I was still working for the Democrats who run IRS, they would have killed me by now figuratively, if not literally.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/5/donald-trump-booted-11000-irs-employees-far-counting/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Assimilation isn’t a dirty word
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3399769/legal-immigration-assimilation-not-a-dirty-word/
— America has more foreign residents than ever
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3399780/america-foreign-born-residents-immigrant-population/
NEW YORK POST
— Migrant Tren de Aragua punks brawl with NYPD cops in wild Times Square melee
https://nypost.com/2025/05/05/us-news/migrant-tren-de-aragua-punks-brawl-with-nypd-cops-in-wild-times-square-melee/
BREITBART
— Trump Administration to Pay for Migrant Flights of Illegals Who Self-Deport. Any money paid to illegals to deport should come from those who invited them.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/05/trump-administration-to-pay-for-migrant-flights-of-illegals-who-self-deport/
CENTER SQUARE
— Republicans mull federal cuts to FBI, IRS, abortion services and more
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_544fb228-cde5-4b8e-a4b9-3bcfc25a343c.html
FOX NEWS
— The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into an Illinois school district based on a teacher’s allegations of racial segregation practices. The complaint, filed by the Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) on behalf of teacher Dr. Stacy Deemar, alleges Evanston-Skokie School District 65 is acting in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by using “privilege walks” and other racial practices at school. “The policies and practices to which the District allegedly subjects students and teachers shocks the conscience. Amid a dismal academic achievement record, the District appears to focus on unlawfully segregating students by race, instructing students to step forward and others to step back on the basis of race, and associating ‘Whiteness’ with the devil. If true, how is this conceivable in America today?” Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in a press release on May 1 by the Trump Education Department.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-administration-investigates-school-district-near-chicago-amid-reports-antiracist-training
NEWSMAX
— Rwanda Talking With US to Take Deported Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/rwanda-trump-administration-deportations/2025/05/05/id/1209643/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Cinco De Mayo Celebrations Canceled Across America: “People Are Very Scared,” “Thinking About Going Back To Mexico”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/05/cnn_cinco_de_mayo_celebrations_canceled_over_fear_of_deportation.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Rwanda in Early Talks With U.S. to Take Expelled Migrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/world/africa/rwanda-trump-deportees.html
WEVV
— Marijuana is extremely dangerous to the fetus in the womb
https://www.wevv.com/news/health/forget-common-folklore-about-the-safety-of-weed-marijuana-harms-babies-research-shows/article_79c5e7de-625f-5a22-9086-ee3f0c67f86f.html
May 5, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— When does Illinois’ gas tax increase, and what decides how much it goes up?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/when-does-illinois-gas-tax-increase-and-what-decides-how-much-it-goes-up/3737450/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-takes-credit-for-good-parts-of-economy-blames-bad-parts-on-biden/3737382/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/protesters-hold-may-the-4th-resistance-event-in-daley-plaza/
— Trump says he’ll reopen Alcatraz, order 100% tariff on foreign movies
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-says-hell-reopen-alcatraz-order-100-tariff-on-foreign-movies/
— 3 dead, 6 hurt in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-may-2-to-5/
CBS2 & CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders want due process, but only for past, present, and future Democrat voters. My Democrat GAO superiors denied me due process when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Democrat judges and justices denied me due process in Diersen v. GAO by granting GAO summary judgement, that is, by denying me my 7th Amendment rights.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-says-hes-unsure-whether-citizens-non-citizens-in-u-s-deserve-due-process/
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-in-a-new-interview-says-he-doesnt-know-if-he-backs-due-process-rights/article_d49d3224-ce57-59ad-9811-4c578803127c.html
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-04/during-tv-interview-president-trump-questions-due-process-rights-of-u-s-residents
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/walk-from-aurora-to-elgin-puts-focus-on-experience-of-immigrants/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “arts” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/editorial-national-endowment-arts-grants-trump/
— Illinois is Uncle Sam’s piggy bank again. But Pritzker must follow the law.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/05/editorial-illinois-is-uncle-sams-piggy-bank-again-but-gov-jb-pritzker-must-follow-the-law/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote their foreign students and b) promote more hatred against Jews.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/05/trump-pro-palestinian-activists-jailing-deporting-immigrants-chinese-asian-american-rick-baldoz
WAND TV
— Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-says-he-will-reopen-alcatraz-prison/article_21657477-4cc7-588f-9e25-d9a7d9e2b4a0.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their judicial branch against Trump.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/america-s-long-history-of-checks-and-balances-is-being-tested-by-trump-like-rarely/article_2b84824d-f4b4-5579-b0a9-611436295987.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats run education in America. Under them, college students ever-increasingly take college courses a) that are not job-related and/or b) that depend on government spending. What were your majors? Mine were business (1966-1976), accounting (1976-1980), and finance (1992-1997). If I could do it over again, I would have majored in accounting first because I was able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-04/how-the-trump-administration-has-impacted-these-college-seniors-career-plans
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give more and more and more preference to their foreign students.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-04/trump-administration-confirms-targeting-international-students-with-minor-offenses
WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/04/rockford-protesters-search-unified-message-against-trump-administration/
LOCAL 4 NEWS
— Pritzker ever-increasingly discourages those who are the following from visiting Illinois: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94rgnLz9B84
EFFINGHAM RADIO
— To what extent are your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on foreign countries and on their citizens?
https://www.effinghamradio.com/2025/05/05/illinois-celebrates-world-trade-month/
CHICAGO MAROON
— College Republicans Reflect on Trump’s First 100 Days in Office. If I had been active in Republican politics, a) the Post Office would not have hired me in 1966, b) IRS would not have hired me in 1971, and c) GAO would not have hired me in 1980.
https://chicagomaroon.com/47308/news/ucdems-and-college-republicans-reflect-on-trumps-first-100-days-in-office/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning edition
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-505/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The Real Scandal in Bally’s Chicago Deal: Exploiting Minorities While Pretending to Help
https://wirepoints.org/the-real-scandal-in-ballys-chicago-deal-exploiting-minorities-while-pretending-to-help-wirepoints/
— Illinois increasingly surrounded by school choice states. Gov. Abbott signs universal school choice into Texas law.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-increasingly-surrounded-by-school-choice-states-gov-abbott-signs-universal-school-choice-into-texas-law-wirepoints/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Libs of TikTok Pick Up Craig Wilcox Brandon Johnson Critique
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/04/libs-of-tiktok-pick-up-craig-wilcox-brandon-johnson-critique/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN THINKER
— The NYT bemoans that Trump has cut over $800 million in spending on LGBTQ+ health issues
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/the_nyt_bemoans_that_trump_has_cut_over_800_million_in_spending_on_lgbtq_health_issues.html
BLAZE
— Trump and Musk tag-team to deflate the woke power structure
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trump-and-musk-tag-team-to-deflate-the-woke-power-structure
CAMPUS REFORM
— These colleges received $300M+ in donations for DEI
https://www.campusreform.org/article/colleges-received-300m-donations-dei-/27888
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump DOE investigates Chicago-area district over ‘privilege walks,’ racist lessons
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-doe-investigates-chicago-area-district-over-privilege-walks-racist-lessons/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Asylum Seekers Primarily Responsible for Large Spike in Homelessness
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/05/study-asylum-seekers-primarily-responsible-for-large-spike-in-homelessness/
FOX NEWS
— ICE leader scolds sanctuary cities resisting Trump’s deportation laws
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DUvGOyZNNRrA
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Americans are looking at these campuses, like Harvard, and saying, why are we paying for this?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/americans-are-looking-at-these-campuses-like-harvard-and-saying-why-are-we-paying-for-this/amp/
PJ MEDIA
— Dear Democrats, We the People Have Had Enough of Your Illegal Immigrants’ Violence
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2025/05/05/the-morning-briefing-dear-democrats-we-the-people-have-had-enough-of-your-illegal-immigrants-violence-n4939467
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump admin slashes NIH research funding for LGBTQ health issues
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-admin-slashes-nih-research-funding-for-lgbtq-health-issues
TOWNHALL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get Whites to hate their own ancestors and to revile their accomplishments as being ill-gotten. This self-hatred has been the root of the modern decline of the West, and could very well ultimately lead to the end of Western civilization as we know it.
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2025/05/05/race-and-the-biggest-mass-psyop-in-human-history-n2656525
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump confirms he offered to send troops into Mexico, but says Sheinbaum ‘so scared of the cartels she can’t walk’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5282312-trump-tariffs-us-troops-mexico-sheinbaum-cartels/
ABC NEWS
— Trump threatens tariff on all movies produced abroad
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates-trump-threatens-100-tariff/?id=121461146
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) fight deportation of their illegals and b) do not want sheriffs to work with ICE.
https://www.newsweek.com/sheriff-trump-admin-intimidating-police-ice-collaboration-2067799
— Which US Cities Canceled Cinco de Mayo Parades Amid Immigration Crackdown
https://www.newsweek.com/cinco-de-mayo-parades-canceled-immigration-chicago-2067809
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— A former bartender emerges as a Trump resistance leader. Are you in politics? If so, what did you do before that? I audited federal agencies for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I collected delinquent taxes 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 earned a CPA license. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://apnews.com/article/pritzker-trump-ocasio-cortez-democrats-resistance-message-9d4f7868892629e34df7ea1e29dc0b34
MSN
— Lara Trump confronts Elon Musk over allegiance to her father-in-law, Donald. My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lara-trump-confronts-elon-musk-over-allegiance-to-her-father-in-law-donald/ar-AA1E7wHI
REUTERS
— Those who have benefitted the most from Biden’s giving them the most preference are consider moving to Europe.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fearful-trump-some-americans-look-make-life-europe-2025-05-04/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/health/trump-administration-slashes-research-into-lgbtq-health.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000010122048/how-trumps-cuts-are-stifling-lgbtq-health-research.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use “democracy” to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/05/trump-pro-democracy-global-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/05/transgender-hud-fair-housing-trump-lgbtq-turner/48a02a2e-2971-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trumps-wants-judges-who-will-skip-trials-before-deportation/2025/05/05/6143206b-cff5-4a71-b9b2-19b443d87464_video.html
— The U.S. welcomed Indian students. Under Trump, they fear for their future. U.S. colleges host more than 300,000 students from India. As the Trump administrations targets foreign students for deportation, many are rethinking their plans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/05/india-student-visas-revoked-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/05/pritzker-president-trump-resistance/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/05/american-democracy-under-trump/
USA TODAY
— Trump’s national parks proposal: Cut $1 billion, transfer many sites to states
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/04/trump-budget-proposal-cuts-to-parks/83428514007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discredit Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/04/trump-interview-abc-time-mental-decline/83391080007/
— Average Americans struggle with savings. Many continue to live paycheck to paycheck. According to my critics/opponents, I have always been grossly overpaid. In my defense, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/01/americans-one-crisis-away-from-homelessness/83388068007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders want the next Pope to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/05/03/conclave-smoke-signals-chimney-stoves/83429402007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/05/05/the-next-pope-odds-rise-parolin-tangle/83415163007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Is Harvard Complying With the Tax Code? Section 501(c)(3) bars campaigning and makes clear propaganda isn’t the same as education.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-harvard-complying-with-the-tax-code-exemption-political-educational-speech-b4a24ed4
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will cause a recession, and even worse things, to destroy Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-says-hes-not-worried-about-a-recession/DB83B00E-5E69-42DE-A0DE-82A2D6898BB5
— The Politics of EVs Have Changed. Thirty-five Democrats joined the GOP to repeal California’s EV mandate. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. What is your attitude toward EVs and toward those who buy them?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-politics-of-evs-has-changed-house-vote-california-waiver-1f951a68
— Democrat leaders want the next Pope to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-world-needs-a-second-john-paul-ii-venezuela-cuba-nicaragua-human-rights-9f3c08a4
— Government Should Fund Religious Schools. The Establishment Clause was a barrier, but recent decisions have changed that. My parents had a lot less money because they a) sent a me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod and b) sent my brother to Trinity 1958-1961 and then to Hope 1962-1968. Because of that, I had to work my way through college 1966-1970.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/government-should-fund-religious-schools-f50922dc
— New AI tools give users insight on how skills in one field can transfer to a different one. When I was 31 years old in 1980, I transferred from IRS to GAO. My Democrat and IRS and GAO superiors outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically ignored, dismissed, and belittled the many skills that I had gained working for IRS for almost 9 years that would transfer directly to what I would do for GAO. In addition, they ignored, dismissed, and belittled a) my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) my passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, and d) the fact that GAO audits IRS. They outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically used the aforesaid to force me to take $23,472/year pay cut to transfer. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/not-sure-whats-next-for-your-career-ask-ai/2e83d12c-6538-4272-81c2-ec2362e39d16
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do everything that they can to get more votes from their five million student loan deadbeats.
https://www.businessinsider.com/five-years-student-debt-relief-suddenly-over-trump-default-collections-2025-5
BUZZFEED
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Constitution to destroy Republicans.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/donald-trumps-comment-about-upholding-the-constitution
THE AGE
— ‘The reckoning is here’: Have the Democrats found a billionaire of their own (Pritzker) to take down Trump?
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/when-you-see-a-danger-you-yell-top-democrat-unleashes-call-to-arms-against-trump-20250429-p5luxp.html
GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump’s attacks on the Democrat news media. I should write about those who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican and who have attacked me and attacked my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/05/patsy-widakuswara-voice-of-america-lawsuit-trump-administration-press-freedom
May 4, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Italian-American residents blast deal to move Christopher Columbus statue indoors: ‘Hiding history’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/italian-american-chicago-residents-criticize-settlement-move-christopher-columbus-statue-indoors-arrigo-park-little-italy/16323384/
NBC5
— Trump rejects concerns about prices, economic uncertainty as he defends his agenda
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/trump-rejects-concerns-prices-economic-uncertainty-defends-agenda/3737411/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders promote Wisconsin Governor Evers
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tony-evers-donald-trump-border-immigration-threats/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://wgntv.com/news/features/cannabis-entrepreneurs-urge-state-lawmakers-to-enact-industry-reform/
WGN RADIO
— Settlement reached regarding the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue in Arrigo Park
https://wgnradio.com/karen-conti/settlement-reached-regarding-the-removal-of-a-christopher-columbus-statue-in-arrigo-park/
— Retirement planning when you’re on the home stretch. My Democrat GAO destroyed my retirement planning when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. In today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and less than what my salary was when I was 24 years old in 1972.
https://wgnradio.com/the-alpha-wealth-hour/retirement-planning-when-youre-on-the-home-stretch/
WBEZ
— Solution for Chicago’s empty office buildings could be microapartments. In 1974, when I was 25 years old, when IRS promoted me to a GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) Revenue Officer job in the Loop, I bought a 650 square foot studio condo in the Outer Drive East building ( https://www.homesbymarco.com/properties/2809824/400_e_randolph_st_1322_chicago_il_60601 ) so that I could walk to/from work and graduate business courses at Loyola. I traded it in to the building’s developer in 1976 for a one bedroom condo. I sold it when I got married in 1978 and we bought a home in Wheaton.
https://www.wbez.org/housing/2025/05/03/solutionchicago-empty-office-buildings-microapartments-gensler-pew-study
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker and AOC: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/pritzker-ocasio-cortez-trump-resistance/
— How the stock market made back all its losses after Donald Trump escalated the trade war
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/stock-market-trump-trade-war/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2025/05/04/pot-business-owners-relief-regulations-legal-recreational-medical-cannabis
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/alton-trump-protest-illinois-lincoln-douglas-20309437.php
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— DeSantis sets pace for GOP governors on immigration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/florida-gov-ron-desantis-sets-pace-gop-governors-immigration/
— Kamala Harris talks party unity while Democrats brawl in leadership vacuum she left
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/kamala-harris-talks-party-unity-democrats-brawl-leadership-vacuum/
— MAGA doesn’t need more RINOs
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/4/maga-doesnt-need-rinos/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Proposal would deduct from Illinois paychecks to create new state agency
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/3400469/proposal-illinois-paychecks-new-state-agency/
BREITBART
— Pritzker Angling for 2028 While Taking Aim at Trump with Questionable Attacks
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/04/gov-jb-pritzker-angling-for-2028-while-taking-aim-at-trump-with-questionable-attacks/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Abrego Garcia: The Poster Child for the Left’s Demands of Endless ‘Due Process’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/04/abrego-garcia-the-poster-child-for-the-lefts-demands-of-endless-due-process/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders. Democrats are looking for the right message and messengers to lead the opposition to President Donald Trump in his second term.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pritzker-ocasio-cortez-billionaire-former-bartender-emerge-trump-121444008
NBC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders want the next Pope to be anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/pope-francis/cardinal-tagle-philippines-lgbtq-catholics-conclave-rcna203837
MSN & COMMERCIAL APPEAL
— How marginalized are you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that you are marginalized by Republicans: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-s-first-100-days-target-diversity-policies-civil-rights-protections/ar-AA1DUdpR
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinion/columnists/2025/05/01/pope-francis-medicaid-medicare-head-start-social-security/83365758007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump: I’m Not Looking at a Third Term
https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-im-not-looking-at-a-third-term/60F2B9B7-11EF-49A1-80EF-1B30CEFAB647
— The Affirmative Action Myth
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-the-affirmative-action-myth/43875715-6B37-45C5-B000-ED4C67B13C54
INC.
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire those who are the following and b) to get rid of their employees who are the following: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO organizations use DEI a) to not admit those who are the aforesaid and b) to get rid of their members who are the aforesaid.
https://www.inc.com/mandy-gilbert/91183943/91183943
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
— Pope Francis: Champion of EVs. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Of course, my critics/opponents stress that it is not eligible for a federal rebate because it costs too much, that it weighs 6,000 pounds, and that it can do the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH..
https://www.autonews.com/technology/mobility/an-pope-francis-electric-vehicle-0424/
MOPAR INSIDERS
— Stellantis to Halt Windsor Charger Production for One Week. 3,800 Workers Temporarily Laid Off as Stellantis Reacts to U.S. Tariff Fallout.
https://moparinsiders.com/stellantis-to-halt-windsor-minivan-and-charger-production-for-one-week/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This is the second time in just over a month that production has been halted at the facility, which builds the Chrysler Pacifica, Chrysler Grand Caravan, Chrysler Voyager, and both the gas-powered Dodge Charger and electric Charger Daytona. Stellantis had previously shut the plant down for two weeks in April to evaluate the impact of new 25% U.S. tariffs on imported vehicles. The tariffs, introduced by the Trump administration on April 3, apply to vehicles with a significant amount of non-U.S. content. They’ve already shaken up the North American auto industry, especially for companies like Stellantis that rely on cross-border production. . .But behind the scenes, it’s clear the broader trade environment is weighing heavily. During the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call, Stellantis CFO Doug Ostermann acknowledged that the automaker is actively looking at relocating some production and supply chains to the U.S. to avoid the steep import duties. “It’s something that we’re working very hard on,” said Ostermann. “To think through how quickly can we make those changes to mitigate any tariff impacts?” Meanwhile, workers at the Windsor plant—many of whom were just called back from a two-week layoff in April—are once again facing an uncertain week ahead. With both minivan and Charger output affected, this could be a sign of bigger shifts coming for Stellantis’ North American operations.)
AUTO EVOLUTION
— 96-Year-Old Kept 1968 Dodge Charger in Storage for 30 Years. I bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger in 1968 and owned until it was stolen in 1971. I drove it to Daytona Beach from NIU in 1969 and 1970 for spring breaks. I bought a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T show car in 1994 and owned it until I sold it in 2005 to buy a 2005 Corvette. I bought a new 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max in 2012 and I continue to own it. I recently bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/96-year-old-kept-1968-dodge-charger-in-storage-for-30-years-his-wife-hated-the-car-250906.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A senior gentleman has been keeping the Dodge Charger in a storage facility for he can’t even remember how long. The car hides under a thick layer of dust that leaves its original color to the imagination. Will it shine and drive again, or should it already be on its way to the scrap yard? The 96-year-old owner of the 57-year-old Dodge Charger is Peter. He has big plans for the car he used to drive and rock the streets with back in the day. He remembers that his wife didn’t like the car. “It was a little louder than necessary,” he recalls. He wants to restore it to its former glory. The time has come for that car to run and drive again. He can’t even remember the last time he drove it, but assumes that it has been in the storage facility for around 30 years. That’s three decades away from the sunlight and off the road. Surprisingly, the tires still hold air and a few more goodies of the era. The Fratzog logo shows up on the dashboard. It is the iconic triangle-like badge that Dodge brought back with the Charger Daytona EV.)
TOP SPEED
— Why The Dodge Charger Daytona Is A Great Weekend Getaway EV. I recently bought a new red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.topspeed.com/ideal-ev-weekday-commutes-weekend-adventures/
MASS MEDIA
— How oppressed are you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that you are oppressed by Republicans: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://umassmedia.com/38691/opinions/the-importance-of-student-activism-in-an-increasingly-oppressive-world/
May 3, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois officials react to death of embattled former Gov. George Ryan
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-officials-gov-jb-pritzker-democrats-republicans-react-death-embattled-former-governor-george-ryan/16305092/
— Kankakee pays tribute to native George Ryan after death of former Illinois governor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4foWxiVu7oE
NBC5
— Here’s what your monthly student loan bill could be under a new Republican plan
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/heres-what-your-monthly-student-loan-bill-could-be-under-a-new-republican-plan/3735367/
WGN9
— Family, friends remember Former Illinois Governor George Ryan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uydDXos3x1s
FOX32
— Trump admin ramping up investigations into Chicago-area public schools
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1634987
— Democrat leaders say “Trump pushes deep spending cuts as tariffs poised to hit everyday purchases.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkcopjljTuU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sB_GJlLI78
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump’s Justice Department sues Illinois over E-Verify worker privacy provisions feds say interfere with immigration enforcement
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/trumps-justice-department-sues-illinois-over-worker-privacy-provisions-feds-say-interfere-with-immigration-enforcement/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The United States has preeminent authority to regulate the administrative processes governing Form I-9 (federal employment eligibility verification forms) documentation and inspection, and E-Verify,” the Justice Department wrote. “Illinois therefore has no authority to enforce laws that obstruct or otherwise conflict with federal immigration enforcement efforts by imposing additional regulations, requirements, and possible sanctions on employers that seek to participate in the federal ‘E-Verify’ program.”)
— Pritzker mocks his weight, tells TV host Jimmy Kimmel he’s undecided on third term.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/gov-jb-pritzker-mocks-his-weight-tells-tv-host-jimmy-kimmel-hes-undecided-on-third-term/
— Former Chicago Blackhawks player Patrick Kane sells Trump Tower condo for $2.11M. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Trump. In 1978, I made a $10,000 profit when I sold my Outer Drive East condo. That is about $50,000 in today’s dollars.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/blackhawks-patrick-kane-trump-tower-condo/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Kane has taken a nearly $1 million loss on the 69th-floor condo. He first listed it for $3 million in May 2024, and he cut his asking price to $2.7 million in November and then to $2.5 million in February. He struck a deal to sell the unit on March 12.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Here’s how Trump’s order to cut federal funding to NPR and PBS could impact Illinois. His order seeking to cut off funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting affects about 1,500 stations, including Chicago’s WBEZ and WTTW. But it’s likely headed for the courts or for drama in Congress.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05/02/trump-executive-order-cut-federal-funding-npr-pbs-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/art/2025/05/02/the-first-homosexuals-exhibit-wrightwood-695-chicago-museum
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Stratton
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250503/news/strattons-top-priority-in-senate-campaign-fighting-back-against-trump/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Leaders recall Ryan’s successes, flaws
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250502/illinois-state-politics/im-sure-he-felt-that-all-his-life-leaders-recall-ryans-successes-flaws/
— Krishnamoorthi leads panel at Harper College on value of public service careers under attack from DOGE. Democrats run the federal government. My critics/opponents disapprove of, if not despise, if not hate my getting the federal jobs and promotions that I did. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and Post Office 1966-1969. They were furious when IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and when GAO promoted me in 1986. According to my critics/opponents, Democrats should have gotten those jobs and promotions, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250502/news/krishnamoorthi-leads-panel-at-harper-college-on-value-of-public-service-careers-under-attack-from-do/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/uchicago-faculty-push-proactive-defense-amid-trump-blitz
— George Ryan governed — and lived — with empathy. What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/george-ryan-remembered-hedy-ratner
— Patrick Kane loses nearly $1 million in Trump Tower condo sale. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Trump. In 1978, I made a $10,000 profit when I sold my Outer Drive East condo. That is about $50,000 in today’s dollars.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/patrick-kane-loses-nearly-1m-trump-tower-condo-sale
— Democrat leaders say “Amid Trump attacks on higher ed, UChicago faculty want to see more from leadership.”
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/uchicago-faculty-push-proactive-defense-amid-trump-blitz
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight all Trump’s cuts.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-02/trump-cuts-demolish-agency-focused-on-toxic-chemicals-and-workplace-hazards
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois lawmakers mark 50th anniversary of Vietnam War’s end
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/02/illinois-lawmakers-mark-50th-anniversary-of-vietnam-wars-end/
WREX
— Vietnam Veterans to be honored in event marking 50th anniversary of the end of war
https://www.wrex.com/news/vietnam-veterans-to-be-honored-in-event-marking-50th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-war/article_7009c2b0-c01e-4e1f-b7b3-03525f5e33ca.html
WJBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/05/02/on-may-day-thousands-march-for-immigrant-labor-women-and-lgbtq-rights/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Tim Cook says Trump tariffs could cost Apple more than $900M in June quarter
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/tim-cook-says-trump-tariffs-could-cost-apple-more-than-900m-in-june-quarter/
— Trump says he’ll strip Harvard of tax-exempt status. Most, if not virtually all, tax-exempt organizations exist to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-says-hell-strip-harvard-of-tax-exempt-status/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use May Day to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/on-may-day-thousands-march-for-immigrant-labor-women-and-lgbtq-rights/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-297/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters think of you? They despise, if not hate me. They blame their problems on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. I should write about them. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Sadly, there are far too many reasons to not help elect candidates. Far too often, the more that you do to help elect a candidate, if that candidate is defeated, you will be blamed for their defeat. I have done much to help elect Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000. I should write about those that have suffered defeats and that I have been blamed the most for their defeats. They blame what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and what I did as a leader of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2000-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007, and Pat O’Malley’s Milton Township gubernatorial primary campaign 2001-2002. They following lead the blaming, that is, the following lead the scapegoating: major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Illinoisans avoid nation’s 7th-highest gas prices whenever they can. My brother used to drive from Crete to Indiana to fill up.
https://wirepoints.org/illinoisans-avoid-the-states-7th-highest-gas-prices-whenever-they-can-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Feds seek to strike down IL law that threatens employers for using E-Verify
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/671128992-feds-seek-to-strike-down-il-law-that-threatens-employers-for-using-e-verify
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump proposes cuts of $163 billion in new budget, seeks sharp increase in defense
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/2/donald-trump-proposes-cuts-163-billion-new-budget-seeks-sharp/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Wait until you see what’s coming’: Homan delivers ominous message for those harboring illegals.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/02/wait-until-you-see-whats-coming-homan-delivers-ominous-message-for-those-harboring-illegals-1540674/
BLAZE
— Trump’s DOJ files lawsuit against Illinois for restricting E-Verify, a program meant to bar illegal alien workers
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-lawsuit-illinois-everify-law
CHRISTIAN POST
— Over a dozen Christian leaders urge Trump to protect Afghan Christians from deportation
https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-leaders-tell-trump-not-to-deport-afghan-christians.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Rightly Defunded PBS and NPR’s Long History of Anti-Conservative, Pro-Leftist Content
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/02/trump-rightly-defunded-pbs-nprs-long-history-anti-conservative-leftist-content/
DAILY WIRE
— Here’s What Trump’s Team Wants To Accomplish In the Next 100 Days
https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-trumps-team-wants-to-accomplish-in-the-next-100-days
FEDERALIST
— Here Are 12 Reasons Why NPR And PBS Deserved To Be Defunded
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/02/here-are-12-reasons-why-npr-and-pbs-deserved-to-be-defunded/
FOX BUSINESS
— Trump is defunding Biden’s ‘woke and weaponized’ bureaucracy
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6372231045112
FOX NEWS
— Musk: It was essential for Trump to win to ensure the US remained great
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372228946112
MRC TV
— Trump’s Deporting Illegals, and Pro-Crime Leftists Can’t Stand It
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/trumps-deporting-illegals-and-pro-crime-leftists-cant-stand-it
— The First 100 Days Of Media Rage!
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/eric-scheiner/first-100-days-media-rage-wacky-mole
NEWSMAX
— Somber White House Video Highlights Angel Parents
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/immigration-angel-parents-white-house/2025/05/02/id/1209338/
TOWNHALL
— Trump Eliminates Another Vestige of Racial Discrimination— the Fraud of Disparate Impact. Of all the many tests that I have taken, fewer Blacks, Hispanics, and/or females a) took those tests than I did and b) fewer passed those tests than I did. According to my critics/opponents, that was because I benefitted from discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and/or females. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never attended high school, and I had to work my way through college. The many tests that I took and pasted enabled me a) to earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, c) to get hired by the Post Office when I was 18, by IRS when I was 22, and by GAO when I was 31, and d) to get promoted by IRS when I was 23, 24, and 25 and by GAO when I was 38..
https://townhall.com/columnists/print/2656399
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump proposes steep cuts in first budget request of second term
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5279446-trump-proposes-steep-cuts-in-first-budget-request-of-second-term/
NEWSWEEK
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls-2067414
MSN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing promote more hatred against Trump and against those who share Trump’s demographics.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cannot-unify-with-evil-here-s-what-really-drives-evangelicals-support-for-trump/ar-AA1DMnIt
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-waited-for-trump-to-crumble-now-they-re-starting-to-fight-back/ar-AA1E5zVp
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/new-poll-shocker-majority-of-americans-now-view-donald-trump-as-a-dangerous-dictator-amid-mounting-public-concern/ar-AA1E3Pje
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trump-s-100-day-approval-rating-hits-historic-low-new-poll-reveals/ar-AA1DSXat
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/no-floor-for-trump-s-approval-rating-cnn-analysts-detail-data-that-s-scaring-the-white-house/ar-AA1E3ZLP
REUTERS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-deflects-blame-economy-contraction-says-be-patient-2025-04-30/
ABC NEWS
— Steelmaker Cleveland Cliffs to idle 3 steel plants in Pennsylvania and Illinois
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/steelmaker-cleveland-cliffs-idle-3-steel-plants-pennsylvania-121415395
NBC NEWS
— White House brings conspiracy theorists, former Trump officials and a family friend to its ‘influencer briefings’ A review of attendees to the first three influencer briefings shows an overwhelming right-leaning guest list.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-influencer-briefings-conspiracy-theorists-rcna204437
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Could Apple Exist Without Its Ties to China? Probably Not. The world’s most valuable company has become so reliant on Chinese suppliers and sales that it would be worth half as much or less without them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/technology/apple-china-tariffs.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly do everything that they can to keep Republicans out of parades. I should write about those Democrat and RINO leaders in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who have had the most success in keeping Republicans out of Wheaton Independence Day parades. I would focus on those who succeed in ending my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades in 2021, a role that I had since 2005.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/01/birthday-bash-president-donald-trump-and-army-plan-june-14-parade/83401058007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/03/trump-lowest-approval-rating-president-unpopular/83345826007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/01/is-trump-winning-dei-fight/83368731007/
COMMERCIAL NEWS
— Duckworth and Durbin ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.commercial-news.com/news/state_news/duckworth-durbin-reintroduction-equality-act-to-ban-discrimination-against-lgbtq-americans/article_ba7e2a82-6eca-4738-9588-fc87e3aaf857.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Tragedy of Affirmative Action. Blacks were making rapid progress before the 1960s. Racial preferences didn’t help, and if anything they slowed the improvement.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-tragedy-of-affirmative-action-black-mobility-racial-preferences-merit-b1ca70e3
— The End of the Free College Lunch. The GOP begins to rein in student loans and forgiveness plans.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/house-republicans-higher-education-reform-reconciliation-bill-student-loans-colleges-7bfcd3c8
— Most, if not virtually all, tax-exempt organizations promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-officials-explore-ways-of-challenging-tax-exempt-status-of-nonprofits-94ff0c6e
POLITICO
— Trump’s budget asks Congress for unprecedented federal funding cuts. The request for obliterating many domestic programs sets up a clash with Congress ahead of the Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/02/trumps-budget-asks-congress-00323256
— More than 15,000 USDA employees take Trump’s offer to resign. Their departures will affect how the department administers food safety and nutrition programs, conducts research and offers services to farmers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/03/more-than-15000-employees-resign-agriculture-department-trump-00324834
May 2, 2025
WHITE HOUSE
— ENDING TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZATION OF BIASED MEDIA
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/president-trump-finally-ends-the-madness-of-npr-pbs/
— TRUMP EFFECT: Mercedes to Shift More Vehicle Production to U.S.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/trump-effect-mercedes-to-shift-more-vehicle-production-to-u-s/
— JOBS BOOM: More Americans Working for Higher Pay
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/jobs-boom-more-americans-working-for-higher-pay/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/chicago-shelter-systems/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/cps-deportation-fears-impact/
— Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/01/may-day-rally-underway-in-union-park-with-march-planned-to-grant-park-later-in-the-day/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/01/photos-thousands-march-through-downtown-chicago-for-may-day/
— Advocates press for continued funding to college test prep support program. Were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Nevertheless, I took college preparatory courses and got an ACT score of 24.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/01/advocates-press-for-continued-funding-to-college-test-prep-support-program/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/02/opinion-donald-trump-garden-of-american-heroes/
— McDonald’s store traffic falls unexpectedly. Have Democrat leaders unofficially/officially called for McDonald’s to be boycotted because of Trump?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/01/mcdonalds-store-traffic-falls/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Columbus statue removed from Arrigo Park going to Italian American group. The statue will be indefinitely “loaned” to the Joint Civic Committee for Italian Americans for display at a building on Taylor Street.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/01/columbus-statue-removal-arrigo-park-potential-agreement
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Pritzker.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/05/02/gov-jb-pritzker-creates-nicknames-for-trump-to-call-him-including-jbeefy-in-jimmy-kimmel-appearance
— Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/01/meet-the-chicagoans-who-came-out-to-protest-trump-on-may-day
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/02/trump-immigration-policy-undocumented-villified-crime-misinformation-tom-homan-mona-charen
— Hate-fille Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/01/world-press-day-elon-musk-donald-trump-media
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250501/news/we-need-to-voice-our-concerns-suburbs-join-in-on-global-may-day-rallies/
— The mainstream news media in America is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250502/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-world-press-freedom-day-a-threat-to-press-freedom-is-a-threat-to-democracy/
ABC7
— Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/may-day-2025-thousands-expected-protest-march-rally-downtown-chicago-union-park-grant/16292225/
— Dept. of Education investigating Evanston-Skokie school district for alleged racial discrimination
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-education-investigating-evanston-skokie-school-district-65-allegations-racial-discrimination/16298331/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/may-day-rallies-marches-trump-polices-chicago-evanston/
— Pritzker team calls congresswoman ‘damaged goods’ to stop Senate run. Multiple sources confirmed the governor’s team is trying to dissuade U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood from running for U.S. Senate, with Pritzker denying any interference.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/sources-pritzker-calls-congresswoman-damaged-goods-senate/3735712/
CBS2
— Chicago Park District to loan Columbus statue to Italian American group for museum, end lawsuit
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-park-district-columbus-statue-italian-american-group/
FOX32
— Christopher Columbus statue finds new home as Chicago Park District plans fresh start for Arrigo Park
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/christopher-columbus-statue-chicago-arrigo-park
— Democrat leaders crow about their success promoting May Day anti-Trump protests.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1634485
WTTW
— Columbus Statue Will Not Return to Grant Park
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/01/columbus-statue-will-not-return-grant-park-officials-announce
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/arts/2025/05/01/the-first-homosexuals-exhibit-wrightwood-695-chicago-museum
CHAMPAIHN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & WGLT & FOX2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/may-day-demonstrations-in-us-and-around-the-globe-protest-trump-agenda/article_394c8641-a109-5c43-a76a-5437b80fc227.html
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-05-01/hundreds-in-bloomington-join-another-nationwide-anti-trump-protest
https://fox2now.com/news/illinois/illinois-protesters-call-for-government-accountability/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Illinois GOP lawmakers want to ban transgender athletes from women sports through legislation
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-05-01/republican-lawmakers-in-illinois-seek-to-ban-transgender-athletes-from-women-sports-through-legislation-and-the-trump-administration
WAND TV
— Illinois House GOP strongly oppose potential tax hikes in FY26 budget
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-house-gop-strongly-oppose-potential-tax-hikes-in-fy26-budget/article_f2a04c50-4d77-47e8-8660-36312d4a00b1.html
LEGACY
— Carol Smith Donovan, a former vice chair of the Republican State Central Committee in the 7th District, has died.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/carol-donovan-obituary?id=58278688
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting hatred against Trump in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://chicagocrusader.com/not-in-our-state-illinois-urgently-calls-on-residents-to-help-stop-hate/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/01/may-day-protesters-in-chicago-rebuke-trumps-agenda-we-will-never-bow/
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Chicago’s WGN Radio adds Ted Cruz to lineup
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/30/chicago-wgn-radio-ted-cruz-lineup-verdict
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-504/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-296/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— If you try to make the rich pay for tax hikes, it hurts jobs and job creation. It chases wealthy people away from the state… meaning less investment in Illinois.
https://wirepoints.org/if-you-try-to-make-the-rich-pay-for-tax-hikes-it-hurts-jobs-and-job-creation-it-chases-wealthy-people-away-from-the-state-meaning-less-investment-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-wttw/
— $27,000 per student, yet not one is proficient in math?
https://wirepoints.org/27000-per-student-yet-not-one-is-proficient-in-math-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Justice Department files second anti-sanctuary lawsuit against Illinois
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/1/justice-department-files-second-anti-sanctuary-lawsuit-illinois/
— The best DEI policy is no DEI policy. Hire the best people, and don’t worry about a person’s skin color or gender.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/1/best-dei-policy-no-dei-policy/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Liberal city councils continue transgender activism amid Trump executive orders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3397795/liberal-city-councils-transgender-sanctuary-cities/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Why Trump Wants Truckers to Speak English
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-trump-wants-truckers-to-speak-english/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— We Need a Government That Obeys the Law. If it takes an executive order to enforce laws that already bar illegal immigrants from Social Security, the problem isn’t policy—it’s a government that’s given up on enforcement.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/02/we-dont-need-an-executive-order-to-bar-illegals-from-social-security-we-need-a-government-that-obeys-the-law/
AMERICAN WIRE NEWS
— Blue City prints red cards for illegals, informing them of their ‘rights’
https://americanwirenews.com/blue-city-prints-red-cards-for-illegals-informing-them-of-their-rights/
— DeSantis asks DHS for permission to fly 10,000 illegals to El Salvador
https://americanwirenews.com/desantis-asks-dhs-for-permission-to-fly-10000-illegals-to-el-salvador-i-can-set-up-at-a-moments-notice/
— Homan delivers ominous message for those harboring illegals. How many illegals are Democrat and RINO leaders harboring in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://americanwirenews.com/wait-until-you-see-whats-coming-homan-delivers-ominous-message-for-those-harboring-illegals/
DAILY CALLER
— ‘Cost A Lot Of People Their Jobs’: JD Vance Slams Biden Admin For Deciding Products Would No Longer Be Made In America. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights because his employers moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulations.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/01/jd-vance-biden-american-manufacturing-nucor-steel/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump administration is all over Chicago schools Black-only ‘Success Plan’ Were you viewed as being college material? I was not. There was no success plan for me. But nevertheless, I took college preparatory classes, earned an ACT score of 24, graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and got accepted by UIC.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/01/trump-administration-is-all-over-chicago-schools-black-only-success-plan-1540519/
— FBI reportedly reassigns agents who took a knee for George Floyd. My Democrat superiors in the federal government took the knee for Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they took the knee for race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/01/fbi-reportedly-reassigns-agents-who-took-a-knee-for-george-floyd-1540420/
BREITBART
— Trump Justice Department Budget Request Depoliticizes FBI and ATF, Supports Law Enforcement, and Focuses on Fighting Crime
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/01/exclusive-trump-justice-department-budget-request-depoliticizes-fbi-and-atf-supports-law-enforcement-and-focuses-on-fighting-crime/
— First Look Inside Trump’s Historic Deportation Operation Targeting Gang Members, Criminals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/01/exclusive-footage-first-look-inside-trumps-historic-deportation-operation-targeting-gang-members-criminals/
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
— The Department of Justice Files Complaint Against Illinois for Encroaching on Federal Immigration Authority
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-complaint-against-illinois-encroaching-federal-immigration
EPOCH TIMES
— Tesla Says Report Its Board Is Looking to Replace CEO Elon Musk Is False
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/tesla-says-report-its-board-is-looking-to-replace-ceo-elon-musk-is-false-5850622
— US Ends Trade Exemption That Enabled Flood of Cheap Chinese Goods. What percent of everything that you own was made in China?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/us-ends-trade-exemption-that-enabled-flood-of-cheap-chinese-goods-5845670
FOX NEWS
— Acting ICE director says agency will ‘ramp up’ raids if sanctuary jurisdictions don’t cooperate. ‘How can anyone argue with you when you’re deporting violent gang members, sex offenders and fentanyl traffickers?’ Lyons said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/acting-ice-director-says-agency-ramp-up-raids-sanctuary-jurisdictions-dont-cooperate
— DOJ sues four blue states over ‘unconstitutional’ climate laws threatening US energy security. In a push to defend US energy production, the DOJ challenges aggressive state climate laws.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-sues-four-blue-states-over-unconstitutional-climate-laws-threatening-us-energy-security
— Trump declares May 8 as ‘Victory Day’ for World War II: ‘Going to start celebrating our victories again!’ President Donald Trump also declared Nov. 11 as World War I Victory Day. My uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII. My father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F. My grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-declares-may-8-victory-day-world-war-ii-going-start-celebrating-our-victories-again
— Trump tells University of Alabama graduates not to be a victim. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that they are victims of Republicans: non-Republican, citizen of America, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestor who have not been in America for a long time, citizen of a foreign country, boozer, gambler, stoner, prostitute, criminal, etc.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-tells-university-alabama-graduates-not-victim-urges-them-beat-odds
— Trump claps back at courts for ‘interfering’ with job, asks ‘how you can give due process’ to illegal migrants. ‘How can you give due process to people who came into our country illegally?’ Trump asked.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-claps-back-courts-interfering-job-asks-how-you-can-give-due-process-illegal-aliens
— Southern Illinois University administrators caught on tape pledging to ignore Trump’s executive orders on DEI and other areas
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unearthed-footage-exposes-medical-school-administrators-pledging-resist-trump-executive-orders
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/blue-state-university-administrators-caught-on-tape-pledging-to-ignore-trump-s-executive-orders-on-dei-and-other-areas/vi-AA1E0Jsx
— Trump DHS slams more ‘sob story’ reporting after Tren de Aragua gang members send SOS signal. Tren de Aragua – also known as ‘TdA’ – is a brutal international criminal group linked to Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-dhs-slams-more-sob-story-reporting-after-tren-de-aragua-gang-members-send-sos-signal
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Illinois Targeting Glock Handguns in Its Latest Gun Grab. Illinois Democrats will stop at nothing until the state government bans all guns.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/illinois-targeting-glock-handguns-in-its-latest-gun-grab/
LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER
— Major Win for Equal Opportunity: Bally’s Overhauls Casino IPO, Drops Race and Sex Requirements
https://libertyjusticecenter.org/pressrelease/major-win-for-equal-opportunity-ballys-overhauls-casino-ipo-drops-race-and-sex-requirements/
NEWSMAX
— Homan Hints at More Arrests for Harboring Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/homan-sanctuary-states-illegals/2025/05/01/id/1209194/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— White House: “Children Will Be Taught To Love America,” Not “Cancerous, Communist Woke Culture”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/01/white_house_children_will_be_taught_to_love_america_not_cancerous_communist_woke_culture.html
— Trump’s Push for Equal Rights and Against Quotas. Virtually all employers are Democrats or RINOs. They do not want to hire, retain, or promote Republicans. They especially do not want to hire, retain, or promote Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/02/trumps_push_for_equal_rights_and_against_quotas_152739.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders say that Trump is weakened, but they are still divided over how to battle him.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5275979-democrats-divided-trump-resistance/
— Trump threatens sanctions on countries that buy oil from Iran
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5278691-trump-threatens-sanctions-on-countries-that-buy-oil-from-iran/
— I should write about my critics/opponents who claim to be Republican, who are White, male, and/or older, who reject the equal opportunity plank in the Republican Party platform, that is, who promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, who promote discrimination against Republicans who are White, male, and/or older. They are really Democrats who want to curry favor with minorities, females, and those who are younger by getting rid of Republicans who are White, male, and/or older. They have had great success in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. According to them, Republicans who are White, male, and/or older cause all the problems that minorities, females, and younger people have.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5277823-bill-oreilly-diversity-inclusion-newsnation-town-hall/
— Pritzker campaign launches video series on Illinois residents impacted by Trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5273424-pritzker-campaign-trump-impact/
UPI
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/view/upi/9f33a0ce410e2adf6d97dbb4355ed594/May-Day-protests-in-Chicago-Illinois/
CNN
— Trump repeats that the government will revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status. Far too many tax-exempt organizations are fronts for the Democrat Party.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/us/white-house-harvard-tax-status
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have joined with foreign countries to destroy America. They want America to be totally dependent on foreign countries for everything.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/economy/europe-lower-inflation-us-tariffs-analysis-intl
— What the House GOP is proposing in its first draft of Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/politics/what-is-in-trump-tax-spending-cuts-package
— What percent of everything that you own made in China? China wants to conquer America and has made great progress doing that.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/economy/de-minimis-packages-tariff
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Army plans for a potential parade on Trump’s birthday call for 6,600 soldiers
https://apnews.com/article/army-parade-trump-birthday-96bb9c8e9af1ef285c56fdc3d1ba4b35
— Trump tells University of Alabama graduates that “You’re the first graduating class of the golden age of America.” I graduated from NIU in 1970. Because of Affirmative Action and because of DEI, that is, because of Democrat and RINO political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, opportunities for who were the following ever-increasingly diminished: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-alabama-commencement-address-protests-6bcea5b4058c819c26a8135b41d73dd1
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/may-day-protesters-across-us-rally-against-trump-policies-urge-rule-law-2025-05-01/
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders say “Donny 2 Dolls Trump’s cruelty ignores little girl who asked him to make Barbies cheaper.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP_BJisSuBc
MSN
— US manufacturing activity shrinks by most since November. What percent of everything that you own was manufactured in foreign countries?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/us-manufacturing-activity-shrinks-by-most-since-november/ar-AA1E1Qwz
CBS NEWS
— Migrant crossings at U.S.-Mexico border stay at historically low levels 3 months into Trump crackdown
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-crossings-u-s-mexico-border-historically-low-levels/
— McDonald’s says tariffs are hurting sales after reporting largest decline since pandemic
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-tariffs-hurting-sales/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/may-day-protests-trump-photos/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/millions-of-asylum-seekers-left-waiting-in-immigration-court-backlog/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/may-day-trump-protests.html
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/01/us/trump-news#may-day-protests-trump
— Appeals Court Allows Trump to Block Money for Federally Funded Newsrooms, for Now. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. No one calls my tunes because I have enough motivation, time, money, ability, experience, and good health to put together and send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Everyone in the news media should fully disclose where their money comes from. The money I need to put the newsletter together and to send them out comes from my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension and Social Security (SS). Previously, my money came from what I earned working for GAO (1980-1997), IRS (1971-1980), Firestone Stores (1970-1972), Chrysler (1970), Post Office (1966-1969), John’s Sinclair, Thrall Car, and Flossmoor Country Club (1966), and S.S. Kresge (1964-1966). Of course, my critics/opponents want Trump to cut CSRS and SS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/trump-blocks-federal-news-funding.html
— Democrat and RINO justices and judges ever-increasingly destroy Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/supreme-court-justice-jackson.html
— House Votes to Block California’s Plan to Ban New Gasoline-Powered Cars. I have owned gasoline-powered cars since I was 16 in 1964.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/climate/california-gas-cars-waiver-house-vote.html
WASHINGTON POST
— JD Vance: What President Trump achieved in his first 100 days. The president and I campaigned on reversing Joe Biden’s failures. And we’re delivering.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/02/jd-vance-trump-hundred-days/
— Stephen Miller touts Trump’s war against ‘cancerous, woke culture’ in fiery remarks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/01/trump-stephen-miller-immigration-transgender-diversity/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Israel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/02/gaza-israel-trump-crisis-100-days/
— As Trump attacks higher education, some students avoid U.S. colleges. Virtually all employers are Democrats or RINOs. They do not want to hire, retain, or promote Republicans. They especially do not want to hire, retain, or promote Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/02/colleges-international-students-trump-visas-deportations/
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-us-economy-republicans-congress/83290133007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-approval-rating-polls-down-economy/83349237007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have joined with foreign countries to destroy America. They want America to be totally dependent on foreign countries for everything.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/30/will-tariffs-cause-shortages-high-prices/83371447007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/02/trump-tariffs-auto-industry-economy/83364760007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “They love a parade: President Trump and US Army to celebrate their June 14 birthdays.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/01/birthday-bash-president-donald-trump-and-army-plan-june-14-parade/83401058007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will get rid of you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/04/30/trump-shut-down-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-kids/83334766007/
— ‘Victory of faith’, Vietnamese celebrate 50 years since end of Vietnam War. I should write about those who have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me the most.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/04/30/vietnamese-celebrate-50-years-since-end-of-vietnam-war/83362123007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Despite lashing, DEI still has grip. Groups ‘fly below the radar’ to stay focused. For college graduates, the more of the following that you are, the harder it still is to get a good job: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. It is called race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/01/is-trump-winning-dei-fight/83368731007/
IAFF
— Financial tips to help you plan post-WEP/GPO repeal. Needless-to-say, my critics/opponents will be beyond furious if my application for spousal benefits is approved. Prior to the WEP/GPO repeal, my Social Security (SS) was only $3,000/year. My post-WEP/GPO SS might increase from $6,000/year to $20,000/year. Since 1978, my critics/opponents have been beyond envious of my wife’s salaries. In my defense, I paid into SS 1964-1973 while I washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, delivered mail, worked on an automotive assembly line, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances, and pumped more gasoline.
https://www.iaff.org/news/financial-planning-tips-after-the-wep-gpo-repeal/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Married People May Be Eligible for Spousal Benefits. If your Social Security benefit is small, you may also be entitled to spousal benefits. However, you must be at least 62 years old, and your spouse must be drawing benefits before you can apply. Calculate your spousal benefits here.)
DURBIN & DUCKWORTH
— Durbin, Duckworth Colleagues Reintroduce Assault Weapons Ban
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/releases/durbin-duckworth-colleagues-reintroduce-assault-weapons-ban
POLITICO
— Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act for swift deportations is illegal, Trump-appointed judge rules. The Alien Enemies Act applies only when the country is facing an armed, organized attack, the judge ruled.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/trump-deportations-court-ruling-00321455
NPR
— Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. No one calls my tunes because I have enough motivation, time, money, ability, experience, and good health to put together and send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Everyone in the news media should fully disclose where their money comes from. The money I need to put the newsletters together and to send them out comes from my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension and Social Security (SS). Previously, my money came from what I earned working for GAO (1980-1997), IRS (1971-1980), Firestone Stores (1970-1972), Chrysler (1970), Post Office (1966-1969), John’s Sinclair, Thrall Car, and Flossmoor Country Club (1966), and S.S. Kresge (1964-1966). Of course, my critics/opponents want Trump to cut CSRS and SS.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/pritzkers-total-war-message-is-a-hit-among-angry-democrats.html
ADVOCATE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will get rid of you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-voters-blood-on-hands
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— GOP Is The Man’s Party
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/gop_is_the_man_s_party
INKL
— Trump administration investigating Illinois school district for discrimination over ‘privilege walks’ and diversity training
https://www.inkl.com/news/trump-administration-investigating-illinois-school-district-for-discrimination-over-privilege-walks-and-diversity-training
COUNTER CURRENTS
— What is the Purpose and Potential Impact of Caste Census in India? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always painted me as being lower Caste. They stress a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, d) that my mother never attended high school, e) that I had to work my way through college, f) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, g) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, h) that I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, i) that I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars, and j) that I am Protestant and German American.
https://countercurrents.org/2025/05/what-is-the-purpose-and-potential-impact-of-caste-census-in-india/
April 30, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump targets sanctuary cities like Chicago with new orders
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/04/29/trump-executive-orders-sanctuary-cities-law-enforcement
— Andrew Boutros is the new U.S. Attorney. My critics/opponents have always stressed that the U.S. Attorney who represented GAO in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he sided with Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he sided with race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/29/andrew-boutros-us-attorney-chicago-trump
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that Jews have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/04/29/antisemitism-dei-university-jewish-robert-crimo-iii-neil-steinberg-kristi-noem-purse-littering
— Native American mascots should be phased out of K-12 schools in Illinois. What about the Crete-Monee Warriors?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/04/30/native-americans-mascots-logo-illinois-elementary-high-schools-sports-matthew-beaudet
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson sues Trump over cuts to federal workforce. Democrat leaders defend Democrat federal employees. Republican leaders do not defend Republican federal employees. I should write about that. I would use myself as an example.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/mayor-brandon-johnson-lawsuit-trump-federal-worker-firings/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLDF WITH PICTURE: Andrew Boutros is the new U.S. Attorney. My critics/opponents have always stressed that the U.S. Attorney who represented GAO in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he sided with Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he sided with race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/chicagos-new-u-s-attorney-balances-offices-tradition-with-new-directives/
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/feds-probe-chicago-public-schools-over-alleged-racial-discrimination-in-black-student-success-plan/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s spending cuts against him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/head-start-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-efforts-to-dismantle-early-childhood-development-program/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/30/column-donald-trump-100-days-approval-rating-washington/
— Where did the money come from to pay for your bachelor’s degree? Mine came from what I earned doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, and working on an automotive assembly line. That enabled me graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. But that was the good old days when tuition was much lower.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/30/college-loans-frerichs-debt/
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving the economy down to punish Trump and to punish those who voted for him.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250430/economy/u-s-economy-shrinks-0-3-in-first-quarter-as-trump-trade-wars-disrupt-business/
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-news-today-chicago-il-involved-100-lawsuits-filed-administration-1st-days/16280838/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-immigration-news-ice-detains-lyons-illinois-father-abel-orozco-wife-battles-breast-cancer-family-says/16280691/
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-education-investigating-chicago-public-schools-black-students-success-plan-defending-complaint/16281583/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-economy-news-donald-trump-tariffs-hurting-small-businesses-black-owned-chicago/16281385/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-news-today-how-presidents-tariffs-1st-100-days-could-contribute-ongoing-price-increases-housing-groceries/16280607/
NBC5
— Trump aide: Pritzker’s call for protests could be seen as ‘inciting violence’
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-aide-pritzkers-call-for-protests-could-be-seen-as-inciting-violence/3733550/
— Chicago joins suit against Trump administration over firing of federal employees. Democrat leaders defend Democrat federal employees. Republican leaders do not defend Republican federal employees. I should write about that. I would use myself as an example.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/chicago-joins-suit-against-trump-administration-over-firing-of-federal-employees/3733402/
FOX32
— Chicago sues Trump admin over cuts to federal workforce. My critics/opponents have always stressed that the U.S. Attorney who represented GAO in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he sided with Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he sided with race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1632939
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/29/chicago-may-day-rally-planned-trump-ramps-attacks-immigrants-sanctuary-cities
WBEZ
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/04/29/trump-education-department-cps-investigation-black-student-success-plan
NPR ILLINOIS
— Who has targeted you? I should write about those who have targeted me. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-29/trump-has-used-government-powers-to-target-more-than-100-perceived-enemies
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-29/100-days-into-office-views-about-trumps-job-performance-are-on-the-decline
NORTHERN STAR
— NIU’s removal of DEI language is a strategic shield against federal retaliation. NIU accepted me when I was 20 years old in1969. But because of my terrible demographics, NIU would not accept me today if I was 20 years old today.
https://northernstar.info/125858/opinion/editorial-nius-removal-of-dei-language-is-a-strategic-shield-against-federal-retaliation/
CAPITOL NEW ILLINOIS
— After-school programs continue push for state aid. What did you do while you were in grade school and high school? I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. That enabled me to buy a 1958 Chevy Bel Air in 1964 and a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/after-school-programs-continue-push-for-state-aid/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-502/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrat Judges Spit on Rule of Law
https://johnkassnews.com/democrat-judges-spit-on-rule-of-law/
WIREPOINTS
— We’re talking 18,000 kids unable to read or do math, with a hard future, just in these 80 zero-schools alone
https://wirepoints.org/were-talking-18000-kids-unable-to-read-or-do-math-with-a-hard-future-just-in-these-80-zero-schools-alone-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— West Coast gas prices for Rust Belt Illinoisans.
https://wirepoints.org/west-coast-gas-prices-for-rust-belt-illinoisans-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How has Affirmative Action and DEI been used against you? All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. I should write about my coworkers who were promoted over me. I would focus on those who were virtually all of the aforesaid, if not all of the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘We’ve just gotten started:’ Trump takes Michigan victory lap at 100-day mark
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/29/trump-takes-michigan-victory-lap-100-day-mark/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Don’t fall for the DEI sleight of hand
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3395570/dei-critical-social-justice-civil-rights-act/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— The process due illegals is deportation
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/29/victor-joecks-the-process-due-illegals-is-deportation-1539719/
BREITBART
— Venezuela Prepares Marxist May Day Rallies Demanding Release of U.S.-Deported Tren de Aragua Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/04/29/venezuela-prepares-marxist-may-day-rallies-demanding-release-of-u-s-deported-tren-de-aragua-illegals/
DAILY WIRE
— Here’s How Trump Crippled Radical Gender Ideology In His First 100 Days
https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-everything-trump-did-on-gender-ideology-in-his-first-100-days
— ‘Just Getting Started’: Trump Vows More Action In ‘100 Days Of Greatness’ Rally
https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-getting-started-trump-vows-more-action-in-100-days-of-greatness-rally
FOX NEWS
— Democrats are no longer defined by principles, but by hatred of Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372091573112
NEW AMERICAN
— ICE in First 100 Days: Almost 70K Illegals Arrested, Nearly 66K Removed; 75 Percent Dangerous Criminals
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/ice-in-first-100-days-almost-70k-illegals-arrested-nearly-66k-removed-75-percent-dangerous-criminals/
NEWSMAX
— Education Dept. Investigating Chicago Public Schools. Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/education-chicago-schools/2025/04/29/id/1208846/
— Postal Service Assisting With Deportations
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/usps-inspection-service-deportations/2025/04/29/id/1208879/
— ICE: 66,463 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Trump’s First 100 Days
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-criminal-aliens-arrests/2025/04/29/id/1208808/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5273836-trump-second-term-abortion-access/
— UPS to cut 20K jobs amid Trump tariff uncertainty
https://thehill.com/business/5273014-ups-job-cuts-donald-trump-tariff-agenda/
ABC NEWS
— Federal cuts gut food banks as they face record demand. How dependent on food banks are those in the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/federal-cuts-gut-food-banks-face-record-demand/story?id=121234012
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-trump-democrats/index.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Saigon fell 50 years ago. Back then, I was a 26-year-old IRS employee. Virtually all of my superiors and supervisors were Democrat veterans. They blamed non-veteran Republicans for the fall of Saigon. I was one of an extremely few non-veteran Republicans in the office. My Democrat IRS superiors and supervisors who were veterans held my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me big time. They had disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. They had made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://apnews.com/article/saigon-vietnam-war-americans-50-years-f6b8b5823b99038fcdb87bdbcd4c0125
REUTERS
— Trump touts economy at Michigan 100-day rally
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-touts-100-day-achievements-michigan-amid-concerns-about-economy-2025-04-29/
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbSMcIDwdmg
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly sue Trump. What Republican leaders had sued Biden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npUCmpAFEKs
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down and his disapproval rating up.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Housing on Federal Lands Aims to Ease Affordability Crisis. During the 1960s and 1970s, Democrat leaders spent many millions of dollars making housing in University Park affordable. My critics/opponents have always been furious that I took advantage of that and bought a new town home in University Park when I was 24 years old in 1972. According to them, Blacks should have bought the town home that I did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/housing-federal-land-trump.html
— Democrat educators ever-increasingly give more preference to Black students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against non-Black students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-chicago-schools-black-students.html
— GAO Reveals Dozens of Inquiries Into Trump’s Withholding of Funds. Democrats run GAO. When I was 31 years old in 1980, I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-funds-gao.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: According to those who have taken many big adverse actions against Trump, Trump is driven by vengeance.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/04/30/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf
— Democrat leaders to ever-increasingly capitalize on Trump federal spending cuts. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://politicalwire.com/2025/04/28/democrats-to-capitalize-as-gop-outlines-spending-cuts/
WASHINGTON POST
— USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/29/usps-immigration-trump-deportations/
— Hegseth ‘proudly’ terminates Women, Peace, and Security program supported by Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/29/hegseth-wps-rubio-noem/
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/dei-companies-sec-filings/
USA TODAY
— Donald Trump signs two new executive orders on immigration enforcement
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2025/04/29/trump-signs-new-executive-orders-aiming-at-sanctuary-cities/83339906007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Canada against America.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/30/canada-election-liberals-win-trump-referendum/83329799007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/28/trump-anti-trans-lgbtq-executive-orders/83248377007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/04/30/trump-shut-down-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-kids/83334766007/
— Already more than 1,000 workers down, EPA tries to convince others to depart. EPA will try again in another round of offers to convince its employees to take deferred resignations or early retirements. My Democrat GAO superiors ever-increasingly use Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of GAO employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write about that.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/28/epa-staff-cuts-voluntary-retirement-resignation/83329753007/
KWQC
— Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/04/30/duckworth-trump-making-americans-weaker-sicker-less-secure/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Pence: What the 47th President Can Learn From the 45th. Time-honored conservative principles guided the first Trump administration. America needs them now.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-the-47th-president-can-learn-from-the-45th-trump-second-term-policy-ea1bf83e
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-hemorrhages-support-100-days-in-policy-second-term-presidency-014d6dd3
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/amazon-tariff-prices-karoline-leavitt-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-d085537c
BLOOMBERG
— Trump’s New Orders Targeting Sanctuary Cities
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-04-29/trump-s-new-orders-targeting-sanctuary-cities-police-reform-citylab-daily
NEW REPUBLIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193040/trans-federal-employee-discrimination-trump
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-immigration-enforcement-100-days-due-process_n_6810f2bae4b0241e22ed2cae
CONVERSATION
— All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. I should write about my coworkers who were promoted over me. I would focus on those who were virtually all of the aforesaid, if not all of the aforesaid.
https://theconversation.com/trump-says-diversity-initiatives-undermine-merit-decades-of-research-show-this-is-flawed-255100
GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White Afrikaners.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/30/a-godsend-the-white-afrikaners-lining-up-to-accept-trumps-offer-of-asylum
April 28, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-approval-rating-100-days-is-lowest-any-president-past-80-years-abc-newswashington-postipsos-poll-shows/16260005/
ABC7 & NBC5 & FOX32 & WGN RADIO & CHICAGO TRIBUNE & NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST & NBC NEWS & CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker. Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump and the Democrat Party platform, that is, dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, and the rest of the Democrat Party platform. Under Pritzker, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. Under Pritzker, poverty and crime will ever-increasingly increase.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-potential-2028-democratic-presidential-candidate-headlines-new-hampshire-fundraiser/16262580/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/jb-pritzker-headlines-major-democratic-fundraiser-amid-presidential-race-talk/3731560/
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pritzker-2028-new-hampshire-fundraiser
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/ap-jb-pritzker-a-potential-2028-democratic-presidential-candidate-headlines-new-hampshire-fundraiser/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/pritzker-potential-presidential-candidate/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/politics/jb-pritzker-2028-new-hampshire-trump-democrats.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/pritzker-democratic-party-new-hampshire/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/jb-pritzker-implores-democrats-fight-trump-new-hampshire-rcna203229
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-speaks-new-hampshire/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/musk-washington-popularity-fallen/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/28/chicago-head-start-donald-trump-budget-cuts-impact-childcare-preschool-brighton-park
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/04/28/lgbtq-chicagoans-art-project-intergenerational
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat and RINO leaders decry that Trump inauguration got millions from Illinois residents and companies
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250427/nation-and-world-politics/trump-inauguration-got-millions-from-illinois-residents-and-companies-reports-shows/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Donors using Chicago-area addresses included Chicago Cubs co-owner and former Republican National Committee finance chair Todd Ricketts of Wilmette; former Illinois Republican National Committee representative Richard W. Porter of Northfield; and Lake Forest resident Laura Seidensticker, according to a report filed April 20 with the Federal Election Commission. Additionally, Huizenga Capital Management chair Heidi Huizenga used the company’s Oak Brook address for her donation despite living in Florida. Chicago-area companies that contributed to the Jan. 20 inauguration included Lake County’s Abbott Laboratories, McDonald’s Corp. of Chicago and Motorola Solutions, also of Chicago.)
— Illinois lawmakers stop in Buffalo Grove to protest federal funding cuts
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250427/news/illinois-lawmakers-stop-in-buffalo-grove-to-protest-federal-funding-cuts/
WGN9
— More than 100 immigrants detained at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado
https://wgntv.com/news/more-than-100-immigrants-detained-at-an-illegal-after-hours-nightclub-in-colorado/
WGN RADIO
— Rep. Cabello wants to create an Illinois Department of Government Efficiency. If you would apply for that department, what would you stress? I would stress a) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I 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, c) that I became a licensed CPA, d) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, e) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, f) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, and g) that I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/rep-cabello-wants-to-create-an-illinois-department-of-government-efficiency/
NORTHWEST HERALD
— Veterans rally in McHenry against ‘goal’ to cut tens of thousands of VA jobs. Rally draws political speakers like contender for Congress Kat Abughazaleh.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/04/27/veterans-rally-in-mchenry-against-goal-to-cut-tens-of-thousands-of-va-jobs/
SOUTHWEST REGIONAL PUBLISHING
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://southwestregionalpublishing.com/2025/04/27/anti-immigrant-protesters-rally-near-chicago-holiday-inn/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump says Columbus Day will now just be Columbus Day
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-says-columbus-day-will-now-just-be-columbus-day/article_8c28c376-7418-5a47-a00a-4d5c14a7ac0b.html
KSDK
— Communities rally to defend Native American mascots in Illinois bill dispute. What about the Crete-Monee Warriors?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni9GIsmyGqo
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— A kick-off campaign for a ballot measure targeting sanctuary status has been moved to a new location after owners of 115 Bourbon Street, where the event was originally to be held, were subject to threats, according to Terry Newsome, a MAGA Republican and Jan. 6 protester who’s helping organize the Wednesday event with the Save Illinois Coalition. The kick-off is now at Belvedere Banquets in Elk Grove Village instead. . .More than a hundred Jewish members of Northwestern University’s faculty and staff are pushing back against claims that there is “widespread antisemitic harassment” at the school.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/28/duckworth-endorses-stratton-for-durbin-seat-illinois-00312142
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-500/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— 2024 data: Not a single child tested proficient in math in 80 Illinois schools. For reading, it was 24 schools.
https://wirepoints.org/2024-education-fail-not-a-single-child-tested-proficient-in-math-in-80-illinois-schools-for-reading-its-24-schools-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you would apply to work for Cabello’s Illinois Department of Government Efficiency and/or Musk’s DOGE, what would you stress? I would stress a) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I 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, c) that I became a licensed CPA, d) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, e) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, f) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, and g) that I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What if anti-conservative leaders had not had their operatives and their dupes destroy TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC)? Under my chairmanship, TAPROOT would still be holding monthly breakfast meetings, an August picnic, and a December Christmas party. Speakers at those events would still be advocating conservative principles. They would still be advocating 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. I should write about those anti-conservative leaders who had their operatives and their dupes destroy TAPROOT and ICRC. I would focus on those who reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you fight against that your critics/opponents fight for. I fight against race and gender based preference giving. My critics/opponents fight for race and gender based preference giving. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females. But neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. Further, virtually all federal employees are Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they gave tremendous preference to their Democrat employees who were minority and/or female. All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats and many if not most of them were minority and/or female. They all had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Duckworth calls Trump a “draft-dodging coward.” Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me. My Democrat Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO superiors always stressed to my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I did not enlist and that I got student draft deferments 1966-1970 while I attended UIC and NIU and that I got a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They have always stressed that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars in 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1978, etc., b) buy real estate in 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1978, c) earn a bachelor’s degree in 1970 and master’s degrees in 1976 and 1980, d) pass the CPA examination in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981, e) become a licensed CPA in 1981, or f) get married in 1978. My Democrat superiors got my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were veterans to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— DOGE IL – $237 Million to Racial, Ethnic and Religious NGOs in FY 25 IL Budget
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/04/26/doge-il-237-million-to-racial-ethnic-and-religious-ngos-in-fy-25-il-budget
— DOGE IL – Illinois Fails to Prosecute Government Employees Despite Investigations Showing Malfeasance
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/04/26/doge-il-illinois-fails-to-prosecute-government-employees-despite-investigations-showing-malfeasance
— SCOTUS Hears Case on LGBTQ Books Forced on Little Ones
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/04/24/scotus-hears-case-on-lgbtq-books-forced-on-little-ones
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— House budget proposes $46.5 billion for border wall
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/27/house-budget-proposes-465-billion-border-wall/
— Democrats’ weird fixation on sex is making our children sick. Mental, physical and moral contagions all have a cause.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/27/democrats-weird-fixation-sex-making-children-sick/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— A baby bonus won’t solve our fertility crisis, marriage will
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3391451/baby-bonus-wont-solve-fertility-crisis-marriage-will/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump’s $5K push present won’t bring more babies — we have better ways to reverse sinking birth rates. According to my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors all had children and/or spouses who had and little or no income. They all decried how time-consuming and expensive raising their children was.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/27/opinion/trumps-5k-bonus-wont-bring-more-babies-heres-what-will/
— How Democrats wage war on the ‘rule of law’ — and weaponize it against Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/04/27/opinion/how-the-democrats-are-waging-war-against-the-rule-of-law/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Forget Trump’s blue suit. What about those so-called ‘transgender’ mourners at the Pope’s funeral?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/forget_trump_s_blue_suit_what_about_those_so_called_transgender_mourners_at_the_pope_s_funeral.html
— The illegal alien raid in Colorado reveals a cancer in our military.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/the_illegal_alien_raid_in_colorado_reveals_a_cancer_in_our_military.html
BREITBART
— White House Releases Video Encouraging Illegal Aliens to Self Deport: ‘Take Me Home’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/26/white-house-releases-video-encouraging-illegal-aliens-to-self-deport-take-me-home/
— Police Bust Illegal Accused of Swiping DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Purse
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/04/27/report-police-bust-illegal-accused-of-swiping-dhs-secretary-kristi-noems-purse/
DAILY WIRE
— Democrat leaders want a future in which those who have demographics that vote for Democrats run everything. Those demographics are: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-says-dems-lack-vision-for-the-future
FEDERALIST
— Rate Of Serious Or Life-Threatening Complications After Abortion Pill Is 22 Times Higher Than FDA Claims
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/28/study-rate-of-serious-or-life-threatening-complications-after-abortion-pill-is-22-times-higher-than-fda-claims/
FOX NEWS
— Homan sends fiery message to judges seeking to obstruct Trump’s immigration agenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etgb6Iy6Otg
JUST THE NEWS
— Federal workers are waging a resistance against Trump agenda.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/federal-workers-paid-taxpayers-openly-defying-trump-agenda-will-voters
PJ MEDIA
— Democrats’ Latest Immigration Propaganda Stunt Just Blew Up in Their Faces
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/27/democrats-latest-immigration-propaganda-stunt-just-blew-up-in-their-faces-n4939284
— This is What Happens When Law Enforcement Works Together on Illegal Immigration
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/04/27/this-is-what-happens-when-law-enforcement-works-together-on-illegal-immigration-n4939276
TOWNHALL
— Why Are the Democrats So Desperate?
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2025/04/28/why-are-the-democrats-so-desperate-n2656167
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more hated against Trump and against those who voted for Trump. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting that hatred in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-republicans-in-the-toughest-swing-districts-become-hard-to-find-for-people-angry-about-trump/
MSN
— How successful have hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters been promoting more hatred against Trump? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-first-100-days-approval-rating-double-digits-below-biden-obama-poll/ar-AA1DIL8q
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/he-s-totally-blown-it-trump-warned-his-polling-numbers-are-about-to-get-much-worse/ar-AA1DHQjh
NBC NEWS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly glorify and praise Harvard.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-university-showdown-trump-administration-rcna202468
CBS NEWS
— Man arrested for stealing Kristi Noem’s bag was in America illegally
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/krist-noem-bag-stolen-arrest/
— Democrat leaders want refugees because refugees vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want refugees because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/douglas-brinkley-gerald-ford-and-americas-moral-obligation-to-refugees/
— NOVEMBER 24, 2024 FLASHBACK: Musk’s DOGE is hiring. Here’s the kind of person he’s looking for. If I had applied, I would have stressed a) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I 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, c) that I became a licensed CPA, d) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, e) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, f) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, Government Financial Manager, Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, and g) that I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-trump-doge-government-job-how-to-apply/
— Duckworth calls Trump a “draft-dodging coward.” Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me. My Democrat Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO superiors always stressed to my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I did not enlist and that I got student draft deferments 1966-1970 while I attended UIC and NIU and that I got a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. My Democrat superiors got my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were veterans to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/at-dnc-sen-tammy-duckworth-uses-her-personal-history-to-call-out-donald-trump/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing fight “made in America.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-car-industry-tariffs.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump to Sign Order Requiring Nationwide List of Sanctuary Cities and States. Action comes after legal setbacks in president’s bid to target Democratic jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with immigration enforcement.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-sign-order-requiring-nationwide-list-of-sanctuary-cities-and-states-dbcc5ada
— Obscure Element Has the EV Industry in a Panic. The rare-earth mineral dysprosium, used for magnets in electric-vehicle motors, is among exports China slowed in response to Trump’s trade war.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/dyspro-what-why-an-obscure-element-has-the-ev-industry-in-a-panic-70623bf4
— Trump Tightens Control of Federal Workforce as Musk Pulls Back From DOGE. The administration’s HR wing is approving new federal positions and firings, judging employees on their ‘faithful administration’ of the president’s policies. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly got rid of their employees like me who opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tightens-control-of-federal-workforce-as-musk-pulls-back-from-doge-bd025673
April 27, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Trump’s third-term talk freezes the potential 2028 Republican field
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-third-term-2028-republican-field/3731227/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz
— A couple who bought their first home in 2023 on the Northwest Side and soon discovered a “putrid” odor is suing the seller, their inspector and their real estate agent after finding voluminous amounts of cat feces and urine in an unfinished attic.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/25/homebuyers-nightmare-grandview-capital-living-space-attic-hoarder-cat-poop-pee
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/trump-first-100-days/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting “faith leaders” to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/opinion-federal-government-assault-protests/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders say “Trump voters reflect on controversial first 100 days of second term.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/trump-first-100-days/
— FRONT PAGE: With US Sen. Dick Durbin retiring, Illinois’ tradition of upstate-downstate senators is in peril
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/with-us-sen-dick-durbin-retiring-illinois-tradition-of-upstate-downstate-senators-is-in-peril/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for him.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/27/opinion-america-return-statue-of-liberty-immigration/
DAILY HERALD
— Another risk facing public transit: As hearing showed, lawmakers need to deal with public safety as much as with financial security. I used public transportation in 1971 and 1973-1997. In 1971 and 1973-1980 while I worked for IRS in the Loop and 1980-1997 while I worked for GAO in the Loop.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250426/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-another-risk-facing-public-transit-as-hearing-showed-lawmakers-need-to-deal/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois sues to block Trump from freezing school funding over DEI. Democrat teachers use DEI to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-sues-block-trump-school-fund-freeze-over-dei
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— While Durbin runs out his term, others run for his job
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-while-durbin-runs-out-his-term-others-run-for-his-job/article_44e7ba73-6841-47f3-a4f5-2398c2ee6b72.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Even a member of the moribund Illinois Republican Party — Peoria U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood — indicated interest. From the outside looking in, a GOP candidate would appear to be the political equivalent of a kamikaze pilot in this reflexively Democratic state. Perhaps that’s why another Republican, former state Rep. Tom Demmer, issued a statement that parodied candidates’ expressions of interest. “Following today’s announcement from Sen. Durbin, I’m preparing to have conversations to consider the potential formation of a tentative exploratory committee to look in to the possibility of floating my candidacy. I hope to have potential decisions narrowed down sometime within the next 12-24 months. Get ready to stay tuned,” Demmer tweeted.)
STARVED ROCK MEDIA
— Pritzker has been contacted by the U.S. Department of Labor to remind him that unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in the country illegally. The letter was sent to all 50 governors in the U.S. Citing the executive order “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders,” the letter said it is critical that officials ensure American taxpayer dollars do not go toward encouraging or rewarding illegal immigration to the United States.
https://www.starvedrock.media/news/state/illinois-quick-hits-no-unemployment-for-illegals-pritzker-endorses-stratton/article_84e9e2c0-16d6-5234-86e3-3f5f483e12c1.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders claim to speak for Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-only-about-half-of-republicans-say-trump-has-focused-on-the-right-priorities-ap-norc-poll-finds/
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/entertainment-news/ap-white-house-journalists-use-annual-press-dinner-to-celebrate-first-amendment/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight school choice. If my parents had not sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest to stay with the Missouri Synod 1961-1962, I would not have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my Crete-Monee High School class in 1966, or get accepted by UIC in 1966.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-republican-led-states-keep-adding-school-voucher-programs-even-as-critics-worry-about-cost/
WAND TV
— To promote diversity is to promote discrimination.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trumps-attack-on-diversity-takes-center-stage-as-boston-remembers-1965-freedom-rally-led-by/article_c4c9b9b9-b545-5004-af74-4f305858cb06.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts. According to my critics/opponents, a) the Post Office should hired a Black instead of me in 1966, b) IRS should have hired a Black instead of me in 1971 and promoted Blacks instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and c) GAO should have hired a Black instead of me in 1980 and promoted a Black instead of me in 1986. My critics/opponents are overjoyed that my Democrat superiors took so many adverse actions against me and especially my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire in 1997 and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-27/federal-work-shaped-a-black-middle-class-now-its-destabilized-by-trumps-job-cuts
AXIOS CHICAGO
— According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/04/25/chicago-college-student-debt-trump-save-money
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Pritzker, Durbin’s “Surprise” and the Musical Chairs of Illinois
https://johnkassnews.com/pritzker-durbins-surprise-and-the-musical-chairs-of-illinois/
JOHN BIVER
— Illinois Republicans and Conservatives are Failing in Every Direction. (COMMENT: I should write about Democrat and RINO success in destroying the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois.)
https://johnbiver.com/illinois-republicans-and-conservatives-are-failing-in-every-direction/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees was illegal because it was not performance-based. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of me. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors. They used that subjectivity a) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to give me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals, d) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) to force me to retiree when I was 49 years old in 1997. The following frustrated their painting me as being a poor performer: a) my earning an MBA in 1976, b) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, f) my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) my earning a master’s degree in finance in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Spectacle of arresting Wisconsin judge is important: A message has to be sent. My Democrat superiors used me to send strong messages. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How have your critic/opponents used you to send messages? Leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) rudely terminated my membership on the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. Republican leaders of Wheaton rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. Leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015. Republican leaders rudely ended my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012 and my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007. They almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter in 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have your critics/opponent taken adverse actions against you, and if so, why? My critics/opponents have taken many big adverse actions against me a) because they destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money, b) because they are Democrats or RINOs, and/or c) because I have sued them. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopilinois.com
— What have your critics/opponents used against you the most? My critics/opponents have used against me the most a) my fighting Democrat promotion of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, b) my having been a federal employee for almost 30 years and especially my having been an IRS employee for almost 9 years and my having been a federal retiree for almost 28 years, c) my demographics and especially my being a draft avoider, Protestant, and German American, and/or d) my having sued them. But of course, my critics/opponents use pretexts. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on equal outcome? My critics/opponents promote equal outcome, that is, according to them, no matter what your demographics are, you should be as successful at what you do as those who do not share your demographics, and if you don’t, it is because of discrimination. According to my critics/opponents, if minorities and/or females are less successful doing something than Whites and/or men are, it is because Whites and/or men discriminated against them. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. Few of those who took those examinations were minorities and/or women. Even fewer passwd the examinations on their first attempt. According to my critics/opponents, I passed the examinations because I benefitted from discrimination against minorities and against women. But in my defense, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21, my mother never attended high school, and I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What should you tell your children about up-or-out? If your children are White and/or male, you should tell them that Democrats and RINOs will use up-or-out to get rid of them if they are not making at least $100,000 by age 25, $200,000/year by age 30, $300,000 by age 35, $400,000 by age 40, etc. Because of that, unless your children become Democrats, they should do everything that they can to get good grades, to get the best ACT/SAT score that they can, to get accepted by the best college that they can, and to pick the right major. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors used up-or-out to get rid of me. The Democrats who run the federal government use up-or-out to get rid of their employees who are not Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran and who they do not promote to GS-13 ($117,807) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of me because I am not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran and because I did not make GS-12 ($99,069) until I was 25 and I did not make GS-13 until I was 38. They did that notwithstanding my earning an MBA in business when I was 27, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, my earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32, my earning four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and my earning a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to my critics/opponents, low-level federal jobs should be Black jobs. According to my critics/opponents, a) the Post Office should hired a Black instead of me in 1966 when I was 18, b) IRS should have hired a Black instead of me in 1971 and promoted Blacks instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, and c) GAO should have hired a Black instead of me in 1980 and promoted a Black instead of me in 1986. My critics/opponents are overjoyed that my Democrat superiors took so many adverse actions against me and especially that my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— What’s at stake for Illinois colleges with DEI policies. To promote DEI is to promote discrimination.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3392534/whats-at-stake-for-illinois-colleges-with-dei-policies-under-discussion/
— Democrats need to come to grips with 2030 census reality. Illegals should be counted separately and they should not count for allocation of congressional seats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3391436/democrats-face-2030-census-reality/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Congress Must Repair Biden’s Destructive Immigration Policies
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/27/congress-must-repair-bidens-destructive-immigration-policies/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Woke Ideology Requires Antisemitism
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/04/woke_ideology_requires_antisemitism.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Spectacle of arresting Wisconsin judge is important: A message has to be sent. My Democrat superiors used me to send strong messages. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/26/scott-jennings-says-spectacle-of-arresting-wi-judge-important-a-message-has-to-be-sent-1539253/
BREITBART
— Rod Blagojevich on Running for Senate as MAGA Republican: ‘Never Say Never’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/04/26/exclusive-rod-blagojevich-on-running-for-senate-as-maga-republican-never-say-never/
— Blagojevich: Democrats Are ‘Going to Run Far to the Left’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2025/04/26/exclusive-rod-blagojevich-democrats-are-going-to-run-far-to-the-left/
DAILY CALLER
— Federal, state and local law enforcement carried out Operation Tidal Wave in Florida, arresting nearly 800 illegal immigrants during the four-day operation.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/26/dhs-spox-touts-major-success-in-florida-after-nabbing-nearly-800-illegals-in-4-days/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Labor Dept Threatens States Giving Unemployment Benefits To Illegals. “Unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in our country illegally.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-labor-dept-threatens-states-giving-unemployment-benefits-to-illegals
FOX NEWS
— Trump Reverses Biden’s Student-Loan Forgiveness. The Education Department wants its money back. Did you get a student loan? I did not. If I had gotten a student loan, my GPA would have been higher. To earn money for tuition and books, instead of studying, I a) washed dishes 1964-1966, b) delivered mail 1966-1969, c) sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, d) collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and e) audited federal agencies in 1980 and 1992-1997.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371977493112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lowest-100-day-approval-rating-80-years/story?id=121165473
CBS NEWS
— Kennedy Center cancels week of events celebrating LGBTQ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbtq-rights-dc-kennedy-center-cancels-week-of-events/
AOL
— Trump’s mass firing of probationary employees was illegal because it was not performance-based. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of me. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors. They used that subjectivity a) to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) to delay my promotions and to never promote me beyond GS-13, c) to give me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals, d) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) to force me to retiree when I was 49 years old in 1997. The following frustrated their painting me as being a poor performer: a) my earning an MBA in 1976, b) my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, f) my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) my earning a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://www.aol.com/trumps-mass-firings-federal-probationary-194951617.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Tesla to promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump to promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/marin-tesla-owners-musk.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/trump-crypto-musk-spacex.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/100-days-trump-world.html
— The mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/business/media/white-house-correspondents-dinner.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Mexico
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/mexico-united-states-migration.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-american-values.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-poll-approval-rating-100-days/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-polls-policies/
— Trump’s team isn’t dissuaded by the challenges of their first 100 days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/trump-presidency-100-days/
— Democrats seize on a new issue to use against the GOP: Social Security
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/27/social-security-cuts-democrats-trump-republicans/
POLITICO
— Democrat and RINO leaders disapprove of Trump’s immigration policies.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/26/trump-immigration-polling-100-days-00311687
NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/05/a-hundred-days-of-ineptitude
April 26, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— A Milwaukee County circuit judge was arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-fbi-allegedly-helping-undocumented-immigrant-evade-arrest/16247147/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-988-hotline-suicide-prevention-service-lgbtq-youth-would-eliminated-leaked-budget-proposal/16248201/
NBC5
— Who is Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge arrested by the FBI? The FBI took Dugan into custody Friday on the courthouse grounds — the same building federal immigration agents entered last week in search of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/who-is-hannah-dugan-milwaukee-judge-arrested-by-the-fbi/3730907/
WTTW
— Stratton Secures Pritzker’s Backing in Senate Bid, Positions Herself as ‘Fighter’ of Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/25/stratton-secures-pritzker-s-backing-senate-bid-positions-herself-fighter-trump
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/24/federal-judge-blocks-trump-yanking-funding-16-sanctuary-cities-counties-ruling-could
WBEZ
— ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around U.S.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/04/25/ice-international-students-legal-status-visa-reversal
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Milwaukee judge arrested in deportation case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arresta-a-jueza-de-milwaukee-acusada-de-ayudar-a-un-hombre-a-evadir-a-autoridades-migratorias/
— Who is Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/who-is-milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan/
— Kennedy Center’s events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration canceled. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/kennedy-centers-lgbtq-celebration-canceled/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their international students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/illinois-academics-relieved-after-trump-administration-restores-legal-status-of-some-international-students/
— Cutting candy from SNAP won’t fix the bigger problem of growing dependency. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/24/snap-sugar-soda-benefits-ban-health/
— Judge blocks Trump administration from nixing collective bargaining for most federal employees. According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are grossly overpaid, that is, GAO, IRS, and the Post Office grossly overpaid me. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/judge-blocks-trump-administration-federal-employees/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/26/trump-trade-war-illinois-soybean-farmers/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want more success in getting Blacks hate Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/25/anti-donald-trump-protests-black-participation
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/04/16/americans-victimhood-doge-cuts-joker-batman-elon-musk-trump-dannagal-young-kevin-arceneaux
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/25/trump-administration-motherhood-marriage-sexual-assault-sexist-ivf-baby-bonus-adultry-mona-charen
— State treasurer offers no-cosigner loans to Illinois students trying to pay for college. The Funding U Illinois No-Cosigner Loan program is open to Illinois residents attending public or private colleges and universities. The fixed annual percentage rate ranges from 7.99% to 9.49%, and the program won’t take a student’s credit score into account. If I had not had to work my way through college, my GPA word have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/25/education-no-cosigner-loans-college-money
— Casino crime logs show thefts, fights, patrons passing counterfeit bills
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/04/25/casino-crime-illinois-chicago-ballys-rivers-harrahs-gambling
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of helping a man evade immigration agents and is arrested
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250425/crime/fbi-arrests-wisconsin-judge-on-charges-of-obstructing-immigrant-arrest/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Car condo project pitched for Lake Zurich would include clubhouse, luxury car dealership. I should write about Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville and its unit owners. I have attended many events there since its opening. I bought a small unit there in 2020. I sold it and bought a bigger unit in 2023. I sold it and bought a bigger unit this year. If you are interested in muscle cars, especially Corvettes, Chargers, Mustangs, and Thunderbirds, please let me know.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250425/business/car-condo-project-pitched-for-lake-zurich-would-include-clubhouse-luxury-car-dealership/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The developer of the Sanctuary of Lake Zurich residential community wants to build a different kind of condo project in town. Luxury still would be the watchword but these units would be used to store classic and rare cars, some worth millions of dollars. And there is a ready market, says Romeo Kapudija. “It’s shocking to me how many rare cars are out there and how much they’re valued at but this is a very popular business model right now and type of development and they’re selling out across the country,” he explained to the Lake Zurich village board this week during a courtesy review of Luxe Corsa Car Condominiums. . .Kapudija said the market is hot for these types of developments, referencing Iron Gate in Naperville and another planned in Barrington as examples of their popularity. Iron Gate Motor Condos was among the first in Illinois to offer space exclusively for classic, collector or exotic vehicles. Ground was broken on 50 acres near Interstate 88 and Route 59 in 2014. “Proof of concept didn’t exist when I started,” said commercial builder, car enthusiast and founder Tom Burgess. “I had to go out of state and bring in people who could explain it” to city officials. Popularity fueled expansion to include 40,000 square feet of auto-related retail. “It turned into more than just the condos,” he said. “There’s a huge car community in Chicagoland. It’s deep and broad. It’s amazing.”)
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINSS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-win-block-trump-funding-freeze
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/25/nearly-two-thirds-of-americans-disapprove-of-trump-tariffs-with-inflation-a-broad-concern-poll/
STATELINE
— Pritzker criticizes arrest of Wisconsin judge for aiding migrant sought by ICE
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-gov-pritzker-criticizes-arrest-of-wisconsin-judge-for-aiding-migrant-sought-by-ice/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-25/rep-underwood-says-call-republicans-with-concerns-about-cuts-during-dekalb-town-hall
CITIES 92.9
— IL U.S. Rep. LaHood reacts to protesters’ Medicaid concerns
https://www.cities929.com/2025/04/25/il-u-s-rep-lahood-reacts-to-protesters-medicaid-concerns/
FOX ILLINOIS
— USDA tells states to boost SNAP verification so illegal immigrants don’t get benefits. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/usda-tells-states-to-boost-snap-verification-so-illegal-immigrants-dont-get-benefits-department-of-agriculture-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-food-stamps-taxpayer-benefits-immigration
WAND TV
— Judge blocks Trump administration from nixing collective bargaining for most federal employees. According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are grossly overpaid, that is, GAO, IRS, and the Post Office grossly overpaid me. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-nixing-collective-bargaining-for-most-federal-employees/article_2a462dc8-36e1-5881-aeae-e66095a3053c.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/tariffs-could-devastate-illinois-economy/article_8c48d537-572e-4890-87eb-c115234d14da.html
WIFR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their international students.
https://www.wifr.com/video/2025/04/23/niu-rally-defends-international-students-after-trump-administration-revokes-visas/
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-04-25/congressman-raises-concerns-about-tariff-chaos-and-uncertainty-during-stop-at-farm-south-of-bloomington
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-how-the-publics-shift-on-immigration-paved-the-way-for-trumps-crackdown/
— As IRS Collections Rise, Clear Start Tax Urges Taxpayers to Take Advantage of the Fresh Start Initiative. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used that against me the most. In my defense, I would not have become an IRS employee a) if Oldsmobile had not offered me a job in 1971, b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me because I accepted that offer, c) if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn its job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint, and d) if I didn’t have to have a job.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1017175/as-irs-collections-rise-clear-start-tax-urges-taxpayers-to-take-advantage-of-the-fresh-start-initiative/
(COMMENT: With IRS Enforcement Increasing in 2025, Clear Start Tax Reminds Americans They Still Have Time to Resolve Back Taxes Through Relief Programs. As the IRS steps up its collection efforts in 2024, more Americans are receiving notices, facing wage garnishments, or dealing with tax liens. In response, Clear Start Tax is urging taxpayers with unresolved IRS debt to act quickly and explore relief options under the IRS Fresh Start Initiative, a program designed to help individuals and businesses resolve back taxes affordably. The IRS recently announced renewed funding and a more aggressive stance on collections, which means taxpayers who have ignored or delayed addressing their debt could face heavier enforcement actions in the months ahead. The Urgency of Exploring Debt Resolution Programs As IRS collection efforts intensify, it’s critical for taxpayers with unresolved debt to act before enforcement escalates. The IRS Fresh Start Initiative offers structured programs designed to ease that burden, including Offer in Compromise, Installment Agreements, and Currently Not Collectible (CNC) status. These options can reduce penalties, halt wage garnishments or levies, and in many cases, allow taxpayers to resolve their debt for significantly less than the full amount owed.)
WEST CHICAGO
— Call for Community Organization to Coordinate the 2025 West Chicago Mexican Independence Day Festival
https://westchicago.org/news/call-for-community-organization-to-coordinate-the-2025-west-chicago-mexican-independence-day-festival/
CHALKBEAT
— Chicago Public Schools floats hundreds of layoffs as one option to close $529 million budget gap
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/04/25/cps-faces-529-million-budget-deficit/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-293/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pritzker Wants Puppet to Replace Durbin in U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/pritizker-wants-puppet-to-replace-durbin-in-u-s-senate/
— Democratic Party State Senator Gets Hung Jury in Bribery Trial
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/democratic-party-state-senator-gets-hung-jury-in-bribery-trial/
— Defenders Push for RTA Tax Hike
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/25/defenders-push-for-rta-tax-hike/
— County Board Member Terri Greeno Rebuts County Board Member John Collins’ Rebuttal of Tim Beck’s Take on Now “We Resist” Picketing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/24/county-board-member-terri-greeno-rebuts-county-board-member-john-collins-rebuttal-of-tim-becks-take-on-now-we-resist-picketing/
— Compensation for Home Value Loss Due to Tax Sales Being Litigated against Illinois Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/24/compensation-for-home-value-loss-due-to-tax-sales-being-litigated-against-illinois-counties/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago Teachers Union pushes kids to miss school for political rally, protest McDonald’s. According to Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-pushes-kids-to-miss-school-for-political-rally-protest-mcdonalds/
— Vallas: Pritzker, Johnson keep playing Trump card
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-pritzker-johnson-keep-playing-trump-card/
— Parents beware: Chicago Teachers Union contract is anti-student
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/parents-beware-chicago-teachers-union-contract-is-anti-student/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Hegseth tells military leaders at Pentagon to review their equal opportunity programs. Democrat leaders reject equal opportunity a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/25/pete-hegseth-tells-military-leaders-pentagon-review-equal-opportunity/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mexico instructs broadcasters to ban Kristi Noem’s ad on illegal immigration. Constructively, Mexico has declared war on America.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3391499/mexico-instructs-broadcasters-ban-kristi-noem-ad-illegal-immigration/
NEW YORK POST
— School district won’t allow child to graduate over LGBTQ health class. How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://nypost.com/2025/04/25/us-news/school-district-wont-allow-child-to-graduate-over-lgbtq-health-class/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— President Trump just delivered a knockout blow for meritocracy. Democrat leaders reject meritocracy a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/25/president-trump-just-delivered-a-knockout-blow-for-meritocracy-1538925/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Donald Trump signed a groundbreaking executive order Thursday eliminating the use of disparate impact theory by the feds. The order “restores the true promise of the Civil Rights Movement—a system that does not differentiate between Americans based on race and where success is determined by individual merit, free from discriminatory practices that prioritize group outcomes over personal achievement.” Disparate impact theory says that any disparity must be the result of discrimination, bigotry, and racism of some kind or another. So for example, if more white people than non-white people pass a firefighter’s exam, then it must be because of racism. Or if more non-white people than white people are pulled over for speeding, that too must be the result of racism and bigotry.)
— New York Times’ fake news headline slammed for fueling media’s information war
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/25/new-york-times-fake-news-headline-slammed-for-fueling-medias-information-war-1538939/
DAILY SIGNAL
— USDA Makes It Tougher for Illegals to Get Food Stamps.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/25/usda-makes-it-tougher-for-illegals-to-get-food-stamps/
DAILY WIRE
— Red States Consider Bills To Push Illegals To Self-Deport. Experts say that mandatory E-Verify policies are one of the most effective ways to prompt illegal alien self-deportations. Democrat and RINO employers vehemently oppose E-Verify. All my employers would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-states-consider-bills-to-push-illegals-to-self-deport
FEDERALIST
— The Nonprofit Hijacking America’s 250th Birthday Celebration Is The 1619 Project On Steroids.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/25/the-nonprofit-hijacking-americas-250th-birthday-celebration-is-the-1619-project-on-steroids/
— Three Rogue Judges Block Trump Admin Efforts To Eradicate Discriminatory DEI From Schools
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/25/three-rogue-judges-block-trump-admin-efforts-to-eradicate-discriminatory-dei-from-schools/
FOX BUSINESS
— Lara Trump: We have to cut out this woke ideology from schools
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6371944312112
LIFE NEWS
— More Illinois Women Face Medical Emergencies After Botched Abortions
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/04/25/more-illinois-women-face-medical-emergencies-after-botched-abortions/
MRC TV
— Dems Demand ‘Due Process’ for Illegal Aliens, But Obama Deported 83% Without a Judge
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/dems-demand-due-process-illegals-obama-deported-83-without-judge
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Trump Dismantles Desperate Impact
https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/president-trump-dismantles-desperate-impact/
REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— Illinois Lawmakers Push Teachers Unions’ Agenda
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/04/23/illinois_lawmakers_push_teachers_unions_agenda_1105991.html
TOWNHALL
— Democrat Chicago Mayor Uses Trump Tariffs As Opportunity to Raise Taxes
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/25/chicago-mayor-uses-trump-tariffs-as-opportunity-to-raise-taxes-n2656098
— Trump Admin Demands Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants Exploiting Food Stamp System
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/25/trump-administration-demands-crackdown-on-illegal-immigrants-at-grocery-stores-n2656115
— ‘Disparate-Impact Liability Is Dead’ Thanks to New Executive Order
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/04/25/disparate-impact-liability-executive-order-n2656073
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5268303-court-ruling-trump-anti-dei-mcmahon-harvard/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint the Pope as having been anti-Trump, that is, as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pope-francis-funeral-vatican-rome-italy-9895e156b90aea1dde7f7ea19bf7b3e1
MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-civil-rights-act-walk-back-pete-hegseth-rcna202857
MSN
— Democrat leaders reject meritocracy a) because Democrat leaders want votes from Blacks, Hispanics, and women and b) because when opportunity is equal, Republican White men do better than Democrat Blacks, Hispanics, and women. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats and many were Blacks, Hispanics, and/or women. They all a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from Republican discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, and women. The aforesaid is race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. The aforesaid is racism and sexism.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-meritocracy-lie-is-coming-for-the-civil-rights-act/ar-AA1DDcOg
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/04/25/in-first-100-days-trump-tells-migrants-leave-the-united-states-2/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-poll-approval.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-approval-rating.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/us-citizen-deported.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-ukraine.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-migrants-due-process.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/upshot/trump-poll-numbers.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-100-days-approval.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/opinion/trump-blackpilled.html
— According to Democrat leaders, the Pope rejected countries, governments, borders, and the rule of law, that is, the Pope was a liberal Democrat who promoted illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/26/thousands-attend-pope-francis-funeral-ceremony-helped-reimagine/
WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/26/trump-independents-second-term-soured/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/26/trump-economy-tariffs-federal-reserve-wall-street/
— Canada as hypothetical 51st state would be a ‘nightmare’ for Trump. Not that Canadians want to join the country anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/26/trump-canada-51st-state-politics/
USA TODAY
— Musk risked Tesla’s health to help our country. We should thank him, not hate him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/25/tesla-earnings-musk-doge-trump/83230018007/
WJBF
— RINO Removal Project Launches Nationwide Effort to Promote Voter Engagement and GOP Candidate Accountability. All my critics/opponents a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform and b) get rid of Republicans like me who support the planks that they reject, that is, they are RINOs.
https://www.wjbf.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/806006349/rino-removal-project-launches-nationwide-effort-to-promote-voter-engagement-and-gop-candidate-accountability/
WHBL
— According to Democrat leaders, the Pope rejected countries, governments, borders, and the rule of law, that is, the Pope was a liberal Democrat who promoted illegal immigration.
https://whbl.com/2025/04/25/how-pope-francis-touched-a-migrants-heart-saying-were-all-the-same-people/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in driving the stock market down to punish Trump and to punish those who voted for him.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economic-sentiment-spending-23d95f36
— Many Big Law Firms Shun Conservative Clients. They denounce Trump for targeting causes he opposes, but they’re guilty of the same thing.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/many-big-law-firms-shun-conservative-clients-politics-attorneys-6bf4db08
— Democrat leaders want the next Pope to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://www.wsj.com/world/the-high-stakes-in-choosing-the-next-pope-1a3d5bc0
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Probationary employees face stricter review process under new executive order. If my Democrat GAO superiors could have used probationary procedures to get rid of me, they would have. My doing the following after I transferred from IRS to GAO in early 1980 frustrated their efforts to get rid of me. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/probationary-employees-face-stricter-review-process-under-new-executive-order/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Probationary employees will now have an additional hurdle to clear before they can solidify their federal employment, according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed Thursday evening. Trump’s new order calls for the creation of “Civil Service Rule XI,” which will require agencies to review and actively sign off on probationary workers’ continued employment before they can be moved out of a probationary period. Federal employees are put into probationary periods when they first enter the civil service, or when they begin a new position, for example after getting a promotion. Once a probationary period ends — usually after one or two years of federal service — employees will automatically transition out of probationary status. “Instead of these employees becoming tenured civil servants by default, Rule XI requires agencies to affirmatively certify that finalizing their appointment after their probationary or trial period concludes advances the public interest,” the White House wrote Thursday in a fact sheet detailing the intentions of the executive order. Under current federal regulations, agencies can only remove probationary employees for issues with performance or conduct. Those rules around probationary periods spurred litigation involving the recent mass terminations of tens of thousands of probationary employees. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked an order for the Trump administration to reinstate the probationary employees. Trump’s new executive order, however, adds a new reason that probationary employees can be removed from their jobs. Under the new “Civil Service Rule XI,” agencies can also determine whether a probationary employee should remain in their job based on agency needs and the interest of the public. “It alters the reason for letting a probationer go to include the generic needs and interests of the agency, as opposed to the individual’s performance or conduct,” Debra D’Agostino, an attorney and partner at Federal Practice Group, said in an interview. “It adds this generic reason where the agency can decide that it’s not in the needs or interest of the agency to keep this person.” “Usually, if someone’s not going to satisfy their probation, it’s going to be because of performance or conduct,” Kevin Owen, a partner at Gilbert Employment Law, added. “If the administration is going to start interjecting some sort of ideological component, we’re going to start again sliding into some level of a spoils system here.”)
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— GOP Holds Wide Lead Over Democrats on Immigration.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/gop_holds_wide_lead_over_democrats_on_immigration
INSIDE PHILANTHROPY
— Class Matters Most: So Why Do Foundations Focus More on Race? What class were you born into? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/class-matters-most-so-why-do-foundations-focus-more-on-race