FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
BURR RIDGE PATCH
— Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso, an attorney, has announced he would run as a Republican for chairman of the DuPage County Board. Republican candidates increasingly lose elections in DuPage County because Democrats increasingly move into DuPage County to take advantage of the prosperity and safety that Republicans created there.
https://patch.com/illinois/burrridge/burr-ridge-mayor-seeks-higher-office
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The current chairman is Democrat Deb Conroy, who is in her first term. He served on the county board from 2012 to 2018. He has been mayor twice – 2005 to 2012 and since 2019. Historically, Republicans have controlled DuPage’s government. However, that has changed in recent years as Democrats have become more popular in suburbs across the country. In his statement, Grasso described himself as “socially moderate.” But Grasso may have trouble attracting the party’s MAGA wing. In 2022, Grasso lost the Republican race for Congress to MAGA enthusiast Keith Pekau, then Orland Park’s mayor, who went on to lose to Democratic incumbent Sean Casten. In his announcement, Grasso said Burr Ridge was the first to receive busloads of migrants from Chicago without notice or information about them. He said Burr Ridge welcomed the migrants while assuring the community that all were respecting the law. He said he would protect law-abiding, taxpaying immigrants who want to become citizens. But he said he would never offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants who commit violent or serious crimes. Grasso also promoted his handling of the pandemic. He said he worked with the Village Board to provide stipends to small businesses to pay rents and salaries. He also said he found money to erect tents for restaurants rather than follow an “ill-advised” order to close them. Grasso said he was proud that Burr Ridge did not close or lose one business to COVID. “This is one of several reasons why the Village of Burr Ridge is debt-free today,” the mayor said. In his statement, Grasso noted he was chairman of the county’s 911 board. In that post, he said he led the consolidation of the county’s 21 call centers to two. He announced his Republican candidacy on his Facebook page titled, “Gary Grasso – Mayor of Burr Ridge” and labeled “Public & Government Service.” The Democratic and Republican primaries are March 17.)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/24/donald-trump-onetime-friendship-jeffrey-epstein/
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/25/opinion-harvard-university-donald-trump-free-speech/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Tribune lays off 8 from newsroom, including 5 union members. The cuts amount to about 10% of the newsroom. Meanwhile, the owner of the Tribune submitted a bid to buy the Dallas Morning News.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/07/24/chicago-tribune-newsroom-layoffs-alden-global-capital
— Last remnant of Columbus statue being removed from Grant Park as city looks to add ‘rotating art.’ The statue’s pedestal removal Thursday angered the president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, who called it a betrayal of a deal the committee had with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025/07/24/columbus-statue-pedestal-removal-grant-park-rotating-art
— Just like their flock, Catholic priests are deeply divided politically, based on their campaign contributions. The Chicago Sun-Times found that more than 70 Catholic clerics in Illinois collectively gave over $50,000 to political campaigns since 2021. The money was almost evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with President Donald Trump and his 2024 rival Kamala Harris both recipients. The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/07/25/catholic-priests-illinois-campaign-contributions-donald-trump-kamala-harris-democrats-republicans
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Former Glendale Heights village president accused of forgery, perjury
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250724/crime/former-glendale-heights-village-president-accused-of-forgery-perjury/
— Feds weigh in on lawsuit challenging how Illinois maintains voter registration rolls
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250724/illinois/feds-weigh-in-on-lawsuit-challenging-how-illinois-maintains-voter-registration-rolls/
ABC7
— How Hulk Hogan came to endorse Trump in 2024
https://abc7chicago.com/post/how-hulk-hogan-came-endorse-trump-2024/17277974/
CBS2
— Trump signs executive order aimed at making it easier to remove homeless people from the streets
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-executive-order-homeless-people/
WGN9
— Trump and Hulk Hogan forged a decadeslong bond based on wrestling, reality stardom and politics
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/ap-politics/ap-trump-and-hulk-hogan-forged-a-decadeslong-bond-based-on-wrestling-reality-stardom-and-politics/
FOX32
— CTU calls on governor to ‘Trump-proof’ Illinois and fund education
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1679977
CRAIN’S CHICAG BUSINESS
— Chicago Tribune begins newsroom layoffs in wake of failed buyouts. My Democrat GAO superiors always wanted to get rid of me and my coworkers who shared my demographics. In 1993, when I was 45 years old, they “offered” those like me who had 25 or more years of federal service a $25,000 buyout if we retired early. They succeeded in forcing me to retire 4 years later just before their “offer” expired. I would not have been eligible for regular retirement for another 6 years. Beyond the tremendous negative financial impact of being forced to retire early, it gives your critics/opponents something very big to use against you. They will hint/imply/argue/shout that the real reason why you were forced to retire early is that you are a bad person. Further, the more qualifications that you have, the more that they will hint/imply/argue/shout that the real reason why you were forced to retire early is that you are a bad person. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marketing-media/chicago-tribune-begins-newsroom-layoffs-after-buyouts-fail
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/rep-raja-krishnamoorthi-we-need-full-disclosure-of-the-epstein-files/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Sooner or later, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be on SNAP.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/07/23/illinoisans-will-see-reduced-snap-benefits-under-big-beautiful-bill/85311267007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump offers support to Musk’s car company in a surprising post as Tesla stock plunges. President Donald Trump took a break from his bitter public feud with Elon Musk by offering support to Tesla in an early morning post on Truth Social.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-offers-support-to-musks-car-company-in-a-surprising-post-as-tesla-stock-plunges/article_329095a2-843a-550d-a554-cc2fcbd32dd0.html
FOX ILLINOIS
— Obama to headline Martha’s Vineyard fundraiser amid Trump administration treason claim
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/obama-to-headline-marthas-vineyard-fundraiser-amid-trump-administration-treason-claim
NPR ILLINOIS
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-07-24/the-trump-administration-is-drastically-changing-education-in-america-whats-it-mean-for-you
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/most-americans-support-legal-access-to-abortions-in-most-cases-survey/amp/
— Trump signs bill to cancel $9 billion in foreign aid, public broadcasting funding
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-signs-bill-to-cancel-9-billion-in-foreign-aid-public-broadcasting-funding/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trumps-onetime-friendship-with-jeffrey-epstein-is-well-known-and-also-documented-in-records/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/illinois-capitol-news/majority-disapprove-of-trumps-handling-of-epstein-files-emerson-college-polling-survey/amp/
WCIA & WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wcia.com/news/national/most-americans-support-legal-access-to-abortions-in-most-cases-survey/
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/how-us-adults-feel-about-legal-abortion-3-years-after-roe-was-overturned-according-to/article_e79f9e55-bdde-507d-a47a-90564b54413f.html
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/illinois-keeps-988-services-for-lgbt-youth-20483503
CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America. They see them as being future Democrats.
https://chicagocrusader.com/raoul-praises-court-for-upholding-birthright-citizenship/
CHICAGO READER
— The great divide between Chicago and the rest of Illinois. A report on the state of our uncomfortable union. The Democrats who run Chicago despise/hate a) the rest of Illinois and b) Republicans. Democrats ever-increasingly invade, infiltrate, infest, and destroy a) the rest of Cook County and b) the collar counties.
https://chicagoreader.com/columns-opinion/opinion/divide-chicago-illinois-chris-ware/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois basically has two regions: Chicago and “downstate.” Dense Chicago is reliably Democratic, whereas downstate skews conservative, but rarely enough to flip the electoral switch. The last time Illinois voted in the federal elections for a Republican president was in 1988.)
CAPITOL CITY NOW
— Sooner or later, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be on Medicaid. How dependent is your hospital on Medicaid?
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-state-financial-officers-including-illinois-frerichs-claim-medicaid-cuts-will-put-healthcare-into-disarray/
STATE OF ILLINOIS
— Illinois Reinforces Commitment to Pay Transparency and Equity. My Democrat superiors in the federal government were always proud to report that they paid their Democrat employees more than they paid their Republican employees including me. They especially paid my Democrat coworkers more who were minority, female, veteran, and/or younger. They were especially proud to report that they forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1997. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, veteran, and/or younger, they would transferred me in as a GS-13, currently $117.807/year. Because I am a Republican, they did not assign me to audits of IRS and promote me to GS-13 until I was 38 years old in 1986. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. GAO audits IRS. I had worked 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 had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. All my coworkers who my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who were minority, female, veteran, and/or younger and/or b) 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.
https://www.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/illinois/iisnewsattachments/31501-072425-idol-eprc-reporting-requirement-change.pdf.pdf
DURBIN
— The Only Qualification That President Trump Looks For In His Nominees Is Loyalty To Him And His MAGA Agenda. Durbin took to the Senate floor to denounce President Trump’s extreme and unqualified judicial nominees. The only employee qualifications that my Democrat superiors in the federal government looked for was being Democrat, minority, female, and/or younger. They replaced me with my Democrat Black subordinate when I was 49 years old in 1997. He had less job-related work experience than I had. He had less job-related education than I had. He had one job-related professional certification while I had six. He had no job-related professional license like the one I had.
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-on-trumps-extreme-judicial-nominees-the-only-qualification-that-president-trump-looks-for-in-his-nominees-is-loyalty-to-him-and-his-maga-agenda
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-559/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-352/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— McHenry County’s Biggest Pollical Action Committee: McHenry County GOPAC
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/07/25/mchenry-countys-biggest-polical-action-committee-mchenry-county-gopac/
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois is just treading water, at best
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-is-just-treading-water-at-best-wirepoints-joins-tom-miller-of-wjpf-carbondale/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump creates new classification of non-career federal government worker. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, their top priority always was hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, younger and/or veteran who would take the jobs. Because I failed/refused to become a Democrat, they wasted my career and they got rid of me. My critic/opponents have no problem with the aforesaid.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3475158/trump-new-classification-non-career-federal-government-worker/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In line with Trump’s approach to federal government hiring during his second administration, an emphasis will be placed on loyalty, with the classification providing another opportunity for the president to recruit people who align with his political and policy agenda.)
NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin appeals to Supreme Court to allow $783M research-funding cuts over DEI. Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/24/us-news/trump-admin-appeals-to-supreme-court-to-allow-783m-research-funding-cuts-over-dei/
COLLEGE FIX
— University of Chicago may be next to cut humanities, language majors. What you majored in says more about you than anything that you can say about yourself. I majored in management, then business, then accounting, and then finance. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight,, I should have majored in accounting first because I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt and I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-chicago-may-be-next-to-cut-humanities-language-majors/
DAILY SIGNAL
— ICE Ramps up Recruiting, Offers $50K Signing Bonuses. My critics/opponents despise/hate past, present, and future federal employees and federal retirees. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/24/ice-ramps-up-recruiting-offers-50k-signing-bonuses/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Admin Locates 13,000 Unaccompanied Minors, Arrests Hundreds Of Sponsors
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-locates-13000-unaccompanied-minors-arrests-hundreds-of-sponsors-report
FOX NEWS
— Student suspended for saying ‘illegal aliens’ in class gets cash, apology from school. Student’s counsel said school board sought to smear the teen’s mother when she attempted to stand up for her son. How strongly do the Democrats who run your school district punish students who say “illegal aliens?”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/student-suspended-saying-illegal-aliens-class-gets-cash-apology-from-school
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Medical School Accreditors Scale Back DEI Requirements After Trump Executive Order
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/medical-school-accreditors-scale-back-dei-requirements-after-trump-executive-order/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5419304-newsom-on-trump-epstein-controversy/
AOL
— Senate Republicans Want To Charge Federal Workers Thousands Of Dollars For Job Security. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign when I was 20 years old in 1969.
https://www.aol.com/senate-republicans-want-charge-federal-163110256.html
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPpbHEtu9IE
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more LGBTQ in the military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kbDeVS5sOY
https://abcnews.go.com/US/transgender-air-force-cadets-dream-joining-military-put/story?id=124048051
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-files-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/arts/television/late-night-jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/epstein-trump-birthday-book.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/epstein-files-trump-bondi-justice-department-fbi.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/migration-deportation-sudan-trump.html
— Ever-increasingly, Mamdani represents the Democrat Party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/nyregion/mamdani-democratic-party.html
— Anticipate/expect that Democrats and RINOs will ever-increasingly use AI to destroy Republicans
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/technology/trump-ai-chatbots-bias.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07/24/trump-homeless-forced-hospitalization-executive-order/
— Trump administration sues New York City for impeding immigration crackdown efforts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/24/trump-presidency-news/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/24/trump-jeffrey-epstein-relationship-controversy-timeline/
— Democrat and RINO leaders use AI to destroy Republicans. Then again, Democrat and RINO leaders use everything to destroy Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/24/trump-ai-woke-executive-order/
— IRS considers eliminating non-English language tax services. To comply with an order making English the official language, Treasury officials say, the IRS may need to get rid of free interpreters and translation services.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/24/irs-non-english-tax-services-trump-administration/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Like Trump, Obama Has Immunity
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-barack-obama-presidential-immunity-2847d7a1
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-files-pam-bondi-kash-patel-house-gop-donald-trump-todd-blanche-0aa6fa49
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-birthday-album-included-letters-from-bill-clinton-leon-black-a7cd8cb1
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-approval-rating-poll-july-2025-745b0f5f
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Republicans Must Stop Being Democrat-Lite. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. RINO, Democrat-Lite, and Democrat-plant leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) are anti-conservative and have always a) shouted that conservative candidates cannot win in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton and b) done everything that they could to defeat conservative candidates and to drive conservatives out of the IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.usnews.com/debate-club/is-the-gops-problem-in-its-strategies-or-its-policies/republicans-must-stop-being-democrat-lite
WASHINGTON POST
— Hulk Hogan was a well-known Trump supporter. Their ties go back 40 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/24/hulk-hogan-death-trump-maga-wrestlemania/
PBS
— Trump pushes cities to remove homeless people from streets
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-trump-pushes-cities-to-remove-homeless-people-from-streets
MS. MAGAZINE
— Democrats crow about their success in destroying men to get votes from women. How soon will Democrats outlaw muscle cars?
https://msmagazine.com/2025/07/24/ms-magazine-men-masculinity-jackson-katz-special-feature/
Tag: LGBT
July 20, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/19/immigrant-medicaid-access/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/19/trump-wall-street-journal-epstein-lawsuit/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, sooner or later, we will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/in-the-wake-of-snap-cuts-feeding-hungry-illinoisans-falls-more-than-ever-on-food-pantries/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders eve-increasingly use Pope Leo to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/lgbtq-inclusion-chicago-catholics/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Vandals target immigration organizations in Little Village
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/07/19/vandals-target-immigration-organizations-in-little-village
DAILY HERALD
— Republican state Sen. Don DeWitte of St. Charles will not seek reelection to the 33rd District seat in 2026.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250719/news/state-sen-dewitte-wont-seek-reelection/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Companies warn Illinois will be ‘toxic tort’ capital if bill is signed, but lawyers call it ‘fundamental fairness’ All my critics/opponents side with all the defendants in all the lawsuits I filed. I should write about that.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250719/illinois-state-politics/companies-warn-illinois-will-be-toxic-tort-capital-if-bill-is-signed-but-lawyers-call-it-fundame/
— Economic mobility top priority of Krishnamoorthi’s Senate campaign. Sadly, my father, my grandfather, and my great grandfather are examples of downward mobility. In 1902, my great grandfather had 1285 Main Street built in Crete (4,030 sq. ft. https://www.redfin.com/IL/Crete/1285-Main-St-60417/home/23199035 ). In 1926, my grandfather had 1286 Wood Street built in Crete (1793 sq. ft. https://www.redfin.com/IL/Crete/1286-Wood-St-60417/home/23199039 ). My father never had a home built. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250719/news/economic-mobility-top-priority-of-krishnamoorthis-senate-campaign/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250718/news/rep-underwood-demands-answers-over-reckless-ice-activity-in-joliet/
NBC5
— Several Chicago suburbs ranked among safest places to live in the US. Naperville is ranked 19th.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/several-chicago-suburbs-ranked-among-safest-places-to-live-in-the-us/3793464/
FOX32
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1677376
— Democrat leaders decry EPA employees losing jobs because of Republican budget cuts. Virtually no one decried 3,000+ GAO employees losing their jobs because of Republican budget cuts 1980-1997 while I worked for the agency.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/epa-research-development-office-layoffs-scientists-fired
SOUTHERN
— MAGA supporters rally around Trump following WSJ article. According to my critics/opponents, I am a MAGA supporter. But I am a conservative. I am a platform Republican. Many MAGA supporters would disagree that I am a MAGA supporter.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/07/19/we-are-so-back-maga-supporters-rally-around-trump-following-wsj-article/
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— I did not even try to get a student loan. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I washed dishes during my junior and senior years and the summer in between. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. But because I worked my way through college, I was able to buy a new townhome in University Park when I was 24 in 1972.
https://chicagocrusader.com/unsettling-accounts-illinois-confronting-growing-student-loan/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With $49,000 in student loan debt, Josue Villalpando figured becoming a homeowner was a long way off. “The thought of purchasing a home was definitely floating around, however I never actually looked into it knowing that I had such a big burden with my student loans,” he said. A recent graduate of the University of Illinois Chicago, Villalpando, 29, took out private loans to pay for college. Unlike federal student loans, private loans typically have higher interest rates and fewer forgiveness programs, making them harder for borrowers to pay off. Then, his fiancé came across the SmartBuy program – an initiative set up by the state to help incentivize residents to purchase a home while paying off their student loan debt, one of the leading factors delaying homeownership among young adults. SmartBuy pays up to $40,000 in student loans and contributes up to $5,000 towards a down payment or closing costs at the time of purchase.)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Wise Up New York: Don’t Be a Chumbolone Town Like Chicago
https://johnkassnews.com/wise-up-chicago-dont-be-a-chumbolone/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who do Democrat plants ( https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Democrat+plant%22 ) work against the hardest? The more planks in the Republican Party platform that Republicans promote, the harder that Democrat plants work against those Republicans. They work extremely hard against me because I promote all the planks in the Republican Party platform, and especially 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 Democrat plants who have worked the hardest against me since 2000. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024 and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you say to Democrat plant candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who fail/refuse to promote planks in the Republican Party platform? They most commonly fail/refuse to promote the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Because I promote those planks, Democrat plants work against me. I should write about Democrat plants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Do you fill a void? I do. With my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, I fill a tremendous Republican communication void in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. Far too many Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders fail/refuse to defend/promote the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. I defend/promote those planks. – Dave Diersen
http://wwwigopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Biden DOJ sought ‘federal hook’ to treat protesting parents as ‘domestic terrorists.’ For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. Because of that, my great great grandfather, my great grandfather, my grandfather, and my father all were Republicans who sent all their children to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3476377/biden-doj-protesting-parents-as-domestic-terrorists/
— Conservative legal gains against LGBT agenda spur pride activism.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/3475547/conservative-legal-gains-against-lgbt-agenda-spur-pride-activism/
— Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward over ‘Trump tapes’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3476531/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-against-journalist-bob-woodward/
BREITBART
— Biden AG and White House Conspired to Chill Local Parents’ School Board Protests
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2025/07/19/documents-biden-ag-white-house-conspired-chill-local-parents-school-board-protests/
DAILY CALLER
— Huckabee Reportedly Threatens Israel Over Treatment Of Christians
https://www.aol.com/huckabee-reportedly-penned-letter-lambasting-162816314.html
FOX NEWS
— Trump is the one world leader trying to pull the West away from the abyss
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375861200112
— ICE arrests illegal immigrant accused of decapitating Illinois woman after judge set him free. ICE agents tracked down and arrested Mexican national after Illinois court released him despite gruesome crime accusations.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-arrests-illegal-immigrant-accused-decapitating-illinois-woman-after-judge-set-him-free
PJ MEDIA
— Woke Educators Protect Illegals Instead of Improving Curricula for Americans. If my teachers had promoted wokeism instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic, I would not have been able to get an ACT score of 24 or graduate in the upper 20% of my class.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/19/woke-educators-protect-illegals-instead-of-improving-curricula-for-americans-n4941899
POST MILLENNIAL
— 150,000 criminal illegal immigrants arrested so far during Trump’s second term
https://thepostmillennial.com/150000-criminal-illegal-immigrants-arrested-so-far-during-trumps-second-term-wh
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— She left her federal job because of Trump. Now she’s running for office to fight his policies. Needless-to-say, the many adverse actions that my Democrat supervisors in the federal government took against me because I fought their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination motivates me to defend and advance the Republican Party platform.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/politics/democrats-federal-employees-midterms
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/politics/epstein-trump-ties-analysis
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more government spending to protect everyone from Republicans.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-funding-cut-stalls-water-projects-increasing-risks-millions-2025-07-19/
UPI
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/07/19/lgbtq-suicide-lifeline-service/3471752970492/
MSN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/donald-told-me-trump-s-biographer-spills-new-details-on-deeper-epstein-relationship/ar-AA1IUIjh
— Top Trump Official Says Americans on Medicaid Should Replace Deported Farm Workers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/top-trump-official-says-americans-on-medicaid-should-replace-deported-farm-workers/ar-AA1IczWA
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/makeup-artist-us-deportees-el-salvador-venezuela-congressman-123884627
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-calls-epstein-files-released-troublemakers/story?id=123890604
CBS NEWS
— I oppose illegal immigration. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got. If not that, my wages would have been lower. My critics/opponents cannot say that. Their parents had lots of money.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-immigration-crackdown-labor-shortages-california-construction-industry-builder-says/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Inspectors General Are Worried Doing Job Could Get Them Fired. I often worked with Inspector General employees while I worked for GAO for almost 18 years and while I served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter for 13 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/inspectors-general-trump.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the Trump Administration, Watchdogs Are Watching Their Backs. The president has fired or demoted over 20 inspectors general since he took office. Employees say they are demoralized and reluctant to pursue investigations that could prompt political blowback.)
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/inside-trump-epstein-friendship.html (FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/timeline-trump-epstein.html
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/17/us/trump-news-updates
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/16/us/trump-news
— The more planks in the Republican Party platform that my Democrat plant critics/opponents reject, the harder that they work against me. Most commonly, they reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my Democrat plant critics/opponents who have worked the hardest against me since 2000. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024 and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/us/politics/trump-gop-platform-convention.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/america-safety-net.html
— Democrat leaders use public media to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/opinion/pbs-npr-cuts-funding.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/immigrants-ice-deportation.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/politics/immigration-senior-caregivers.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/20/trump-epstein-economy-immigration-approval/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/18/trump-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-murdoch-epstein/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/20/trump-epstein-files-political-fallout-risks/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-07-20/trump-jeffrey-epstein-sex-power-government-conspiracy
USA TODAY
— Democrat plants promote division within the Republican Party. They stress that Trump rejects some conservative principles. But Democrat plants promote those principles.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-iran-republican-party-conservatives/84538150007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/20/trump-epstein-files-evidence-election/85275266007/
BABYLON BEE
— Newsom Founds Underground Railroad To Help Mexican Kids Travel To Work The Marijuana Farms. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint their illegals as being runaway slaves.
https://babylonbee.com/news/newsom-founds-underground-railroad-to-help-mexican-kids-travel-to-work-the-marijuana-farms
LA PROGESSIVE & CHATTANOUGA TIMES FREE PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting hatred against Republicans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/exclusionism
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/jul/19/opinion-the-rights-war-against-the-truth-of-our/
PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/transgender-military-members-fight-to-continue-serving-despite-trumps-ban
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-is-publicly-known-about-trumps-yearslong-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein
NPR
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/19/nx-s1-5473430/trump-calls-release-jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-testimony
POLITICO
— Republicans’ food aid cuts will hit grocers in many towns that backed Trump. According to my critics/opponents, because I have always voted for Republican candidates, Democrats and RINOs have every right to screw me.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/19/trump-snap-food-cuts-rural-grocers-megabill-00463048
TRUTHOUT
— Trump Administration Will Shut Down 7 Major HUD Discrimination Cases. My critics/opponents have always used my buying a new townhome in University Park in 1972 against me. They a) stress that University Park was created by HUD and b) hint/imply/argue/shout that because I bought, a minority and/or female could not.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-will-shut-down-7-major-housing-discrimination-cases/
LIBERTY NATION
— DEI Goes Incognito in Academia
https://www.libertynation.com/dei-goes-incognito-in-academia/
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— The Importance of Early Career Planning. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school friend had not invited me to take the postal employment examination with him earlier that year. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. If I had been active in Republican politics when I was young, the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2025/07/14/importance-early-career-planning-opinion
GOOGLE AI & PEW RESEARCH
— The influence of parents on children’s political party affiliation & Most U.S. parents pass along their religion and politics to their children. For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. Because of that, my great great grandfather, my great grandfather, my grandfather, and my father all were Republicans who sent all their children to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete.
https://www.google.com/search?q=parents+children+political+party
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/10/most-us-parents-pass-along-their-religion-and-politics-to-their-children/
July 3, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— 4 dead, 14 wounded in River North mass shooting
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/03/near-north-side-mass-shooting/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/02/wisconsin-supreme-court-abortion-ban/
— Tesla sales plunge again
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/02/tesla-sales-musk/
— Trump administration withholds over $6 billion for after-school, summer programs and more. What did you do after school and summers? I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, and worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/02/trump-school-program/
— Dolton buying Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in village, price uncertain
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/02/dolton-buying-pope-childhood-home/
— Protecting/improving my credit score was always a top priority for me. That enabled me to get loans to buy a) a new 1972 Corvette when I was in 23 in 1971 and b) a new town home in University Park a year later.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/03/opinion-student-loan-repayment-credit-scores-donald-trump/
— Illinois is aging faster than the rest of the country a) because Democrat policies drive young people out of Illinois and b) because Pritzker has not yet taxed retirement income.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/03/illinois-aging-population-loss-retirees/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Student group banned by DePaul continues to run covert birth control delivery service. University officials recently suspended the group from campus because of its affiliation with Planned Parenthood. Student leaders accuse DePaul of kowtowing to President Donald Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/07/03/depaul-student-group-covertly-delivers-birth-control-after-being-banned-from-campus
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/06/29/pride-month-drag-queens-gigs-corporations-trump-administration-lgbtq
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/politicians-pastors-protest-downtown-chicago-house-gears-vote-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-citing-medicaid-cut-fears/16923156/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqOX3kyz-SA
NBC5
— Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/pritzker-spending-bill-leaves-trump-gop-with-blood-on-their-hands/3781336/
WGN9
— Illinois State Police recruiting women to join their workforce. Recruiting, retaining, and promoting those who are minority, female, and/or younger has always been a top priority for all those above me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyRdUj11ClU
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1668285
WBEZ
— Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance. Since I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my wife’s health insurance. In my defense, I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my critics/opponents who would never stoop to take a federal job. I would especially focus on my critics/opponents who look down on if not despise a) wage earners like I was for 33 years and b) pensioners like I have been for almost 28 years.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/07/02/trump-policy-bill-threatens-medicaid-coverage-for-americans-with-disabilities
KWQC
— ICE arrests skyrocket in Illinois in Iowa since Trump took office
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i56Q9cySikI
25 NEWS NOW
— Illinois to rely less on testing to judge teachers’ performance. To recruit, retain, and advance more young minorities and more young females, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) replace objective criteria with subjective criteria and b) lower standards. The aforesaid ever-increasingly rendered worthless my bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/07/02/illinois-rely-less-testing-judge-teachers-performance/
CHICAGO PATCH
— A new wave of protests against Trump is set to boycott the traditional parades and fireworks that celebrate America’s Independence this week. How many hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will boycott Wheaton’s and Glen Ellyn’s fireworks and parades this year?
https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/no-flags-or-fireworks-what-nationwide-july-4-protests-mean-il
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. My Republican parents’ sending 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 put me on track to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/07/02/illinois-superintendent-tony-sanders-responds-to-trump-withholding-education-funds/
AXIOS
— “Chicago’s Morning Answer” cuts Amy Jacobson
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/07/02/chicago-morning-answer-cuts-amy-jacobson-dan-proft-wind
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-338/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
— Democrats in Disarray: Rep. Harry Benton on Christian Mitchell
https://illinois.gop/democrats-in-disarray-rep-harry-benton-on-christian-mitchell/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump 1.0 vs. Trump 2.0
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/trump_1_0_vs_trump_2_0.html
— The statistics of systemic racism.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/the_statistics_of_systemic_racism.html
BREITBART
— Drag Queen Pattie Gonia Ends Pride Month with Anti-Trump Tirade
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/07/02/celebrity-drag-queen-pattie-gonia-closes-pride-month-with-a-message-for-trump-better-to-be-a-fot-than-a-fascist/
DAILY CALLER
— Blue States Try To Keep Illegals’ Medicaid Data Hidden From Trump Admin
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/02/blue-states-sue-to-hide-medicaid-info/
FEDERALIST
— Poll: Only 36% Of Democrats Are Proud To Be American. According to Democrat leaders, what does it mean to be American? From what I see, it is getting rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/02/poll-only-36-of-democrats-are-proud-to-be-american/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Alligator Alcatraz — an Idea Whose Time Has Come
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/alligator-alcatraz-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Bill de Blasio vows to organize ‘human shield’ if Trump seeks to arrest Zohran Mamdani over promised anti-ICE actions should he become mayor. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they hate America and that they hate Americans.
https://thepostmillennial.com/bill-de-blasio-vows-to-organize-human-shield-if-trump-seeks-to-arrest-zohran-mamdani-over-promised-anti-ice-actions-should-he-become-mayor
REAL CLEAR MARKETS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2025/07/02/how_trumps_immigration_policy_will_slow_economic_growth_1120155.html
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Laura Ingraham: The Left Is Only Happy With America When They Get Their Way, But Otherwise We Have Sins To Atone For. According to Democrat leaders, what does it mean to be American? From what I see, it is getting rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/07/02/laura_ingraham_the_left_is_only_happy_with_america_when_they_get_their_way_but_otherwise_we_have_sins_to_atone_for.html
TOWNHALL
— Another Day, Another Rogue Judge
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/07/02/federal-judge-blocks-trump-order-barring-migrants-who-cross-the-border-from-applying-for-asylum-n2659848
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump will kick off a yearlong celebration of America’s 250th anniversary with event in Iowa. How long have your ancestors been in America? My ancestors have been in America since 1844. The longer that your ancestors have been in America and the more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat leaders do to get rid of you: conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, and/or German American.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-will-kick-off-a-yearlong-celebration-of-america-s-250th-anniversary-with-event-in-iowa/ar-AA1HRVXh
CNN
— What would you stress about yourself if you sought a political or government office? 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 and that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years before that, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) that I have master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, c) that I became a certified public accountant, internal auditor, fraud examiner, government financial manager, financial services auditor, and forensic accountant, and d) that I became a licensed CPA.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/politics/kfile-paul-ingrassia-office-of-special-counsel-nomination
YAHOO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/buffalo-neighbors-leaders-speak-against-020613676.html
NEWSWEEK
— Trump’s Approval Rating Spikes With Millennials
https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-approval-rating-spikes-millennialspolls-2093288
NEW YORK TIMES
— Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance. Since I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my wife’s health insurance. In my defense, I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my critics/opponents who would never stoop to take a federal job. I would especially focus on my critics/opponents who look down on if not despise a) wage earners like I was for 33 years and b) pensioners like I have been for almost 28 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/business/poor-americans-senate-legislation.html
— Everyone in politics and in journalism should fully disclose where the money came from. My money came from what I earned doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, working on an automotive assemble line, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumping more gasoline, collecting delinquent federal taxes, and auditing federal agencies. Since 1997, my money has come from my Civil Service Retirement System pension, and since 2010, Social Security. More recently, I have inherited some money.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/trump-finances-crypto.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly vote for candidates who do not share Trump’s demographics: Trump is conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. That is, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly vote for candidates who are liberal, minority, female, younger, unmarried, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. How many voters in the following are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-voters-strategy.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump to destroy the Republican Party to destroy America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/business/tesla-sales-elon-musk.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opinion/trump-deportation-immigration-control.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The Summer Job, a Rite of Passage for Teens, May Be Fading Away. I got summer jobs doing the following because my peers would not stoop to take them: doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, and delivering mail. Because I took the aforesaid bad jobs, I was viewed as being a loser.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/business/summer-jobs-teens.html
WASHINGTON POST
— How Trump’s media war brought Paramount to its knees. Tuesday night’s $16 million settlement with Trump followed months of tension between CBS’s journalistic mission and its corporate interest.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/02/trump-paramount-cbs-settlement-media/
— Trump administration withholds $7 billion from schools; advocates to sue. For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/02/schools-education-trump-administration-funding-hold/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/02/mahmoud-skrmetti-supreme-court-lgbt/
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters hate his successes.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/01/trump-stock-market-jobs-border-security/84415919007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/06/30/trump-dei-rollback-slowdown/84421308007/
KTUL
— My critics/opponents look down on manufacturing jobs and would never take them. I chipped slag in 1966 and I worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970.
https://ktul.com/news/nation-world/demographic-collapse-could-pose-a-major-threat-to-trumps-hope-of-a-manufacturing-revival-china-economy-spending-cuts-immigration-crackdown-import-taxes-tariffs
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump to destroy the Republican Party to destroy America.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-sales-q2-2025-e2087c11
— Mamdani Brings Third World Prejudices to New York. The mayoral candidate champions policies that make countries poor and spews anti-Israel rhetoric.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/zohran-mamdani-brings-third-world-prejudices-to-new-york-4b87c111
— The mainstream news media exists to destroy Republicans, and especially to destroy Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-lawfare-media-kristi-noem-cnn-iceblock-cbs-paramount-2ce75c5e
— The Problematic Politics of Trump’s Bill: More Lower-Income Americans Are Voting GOP. The class inversion of the two parties is making it harder for Republicans to cut the social safety net. What percent of the voters in the following are on Medicaid: your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/the-problematic-politics-of-trumps-bill-more-lower-income-americans-are-voting-gop-0b6288d0
POLITICO
— According to my critics/opponents, I have always been too conservative, that is, I have always promoted too many planks in the Republican Party platform. Most commonly, my critics/opponents reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operative and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/20/bill-spadea-new-jersey-governor-republican-00298483
TIME
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://time.com/7299514/bill-will-devastate-public-schools/
PBS
— To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use government to give them more preference: liberal, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-trumps-big-bill-could-affect-women-children-and-lgbtq-americans
PEW RESEARCH
— Behind Trump’s 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/behind-trumps-2024-victory-a-more-racially-and-ethnically-diverse-voter-coalition/
INDEPENDENT
— NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani holds rally with union leaders. My critics/opponents despise/hate unions and union members. I was a union member for almost 12 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFwho5alDBs
June 18, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump admin. reverses course, allowing immigration raids to resume at farms, hotels, restaurants
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-raids-trump-administration-reverses-course-allowing-immigration-resume-farms-hotels-restaurants/16781064/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-supreme-court-gender-affirming-care-decision-local-advocates-expect-more-seeking-health-come-illinois/16784336/
CBS2
— Chicago ICE Director Sam Olson defends immigration actions after touring facility with House Speaker Mike Johnson
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-ice-director-sam-olson-house-speaker-mike-johnson/
— Illinois members of Congress say they were denied access to an ICE facility for second day
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-members-congress-denied-access-ice-facility-second-day/
WGN9
— House Speaker Mike Johnson makes visit to ICE Chicago field office
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/house-speaker-mike-johnson-makes-visit-to-ice-chicago-field-office/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/2025-chicago-pride-fest-performers-jesse-mccartney
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-juneteenth-2025-things-to-do
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/18/illinois-democrats-immigration-advocates-denied-entry-into-ice-processing-center-in-visit-wednesday/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/18/opinion-remittance-tax-donald-trump-immigrants/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/06/18/supreme-court-tennessee-ban-gender-affirming-care-transgender-rights
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250618/nation-and-world-politics/supreme-court-oks-tennessee-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-big-loss-for-transgender-rights/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Rahm Emanuel confirms he’s eyeing a run for president
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/rahm-emanuel-confirms-hes-eyeing-run-president
— Illinois is driving out its financial industry.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/secure-illinois-future-revive-its-finance-sector-op-ed
RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth ever-increasingly insults Hegseth, that is, ever-increasingly insults Trump
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-to-hegseth-let-the-military-get-back-to-its-real-job-defending-americans-not-policing-them-83549.cfm?
JOURNAL COURIER
— State Rep. Davidsmeyer calls for Democrats to donate campaign funds from Madigan-led committees
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/rep-says-democrats-get-rid-madigan-adjacent-20379834.php
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/protest-meditaid-snap-benefits/
WSIL
— Marijuana use dramatically increases risk of dying from heart attacks and stroke
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/marijuana-use-dramatically-increases-risk-of-dying-from-heart-attacks-and-stroke-large-study-finds/article_1ba66707-d121-5ba8-980f-4daab8b7cd9c.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Durbin ever-increasingly insults Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/trump-targets-democrat-cities-immigration/
CWB CHICAGO
— Cops from 6 districts brought in to handle large crowd leaving North Avenue Beach; 5 arrests
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/06/cops-from-6-districts-brought-in-to-handle-large-crowd-leaving-north-avenue-beach-5-arrests.html
SOUTHWEST REGIONAL PUBLISHING
— Crete Approved a Resolution Honoring and Thanking Michael S. Einhorn for His Distinguished Service to the Village of Crete. Einhorn did not seek reelection to another term after 40 years as village president. Newly elected Village President Mark Wiater composed the Resolution and read it to the board during the May meeting. It was not on the agenda for approval at that time, however. The Resolution notes he was born to Russell and Martha Einhorn on November 13, 1950, grew up in Crete and graduated from Crete-Monee High School in 1968.
https://southwestregionalpublishing.com/2025/06/17/new-clerk-in-crete/
CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— Chicago Teachers Union responds to city council’s Jim Crow vote in favor of “snap” curfews
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/chicago-teachers-union-responds-to-city-councils-jim-crow-vote-in-favor-of-snap-curfews/
CITY OF WHEATON
— Wheaton promotes LGBTQ
https://www.wheaton.il.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/12836?fileID=18002
— Wheaton promotes booze
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/dwa/1672863/r/website
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-329/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Pritzker OKs $237M in partisan pork as part of record Illinois budget
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pritzker-oks-237m-in-partisan-pork-as-part-of-record-illinois-budget/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s pledge not to plunge U.S. into war questioned over his support for Israel’s strikes on Iran
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/17/elected-moments-like-trump-faces-ultimate-leadership-test-amid/
DAILY CALLER
— Dems Are Sliding Into Trump Derangement Blender. It’s Costing Them More Than They Realize
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/18/democrats-trump-admin-arrests-alex-padilla/
DAILY WIRE
— The Left Keeps Screaming ‘Gay!’ And Men Are Running Away. The Democratic Party, for some reason, still believes that it can reach American men while pushing the most ridiculous LGBT talking points.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-left-keeps-screaming-gay-and-men-are-running-away
NEWSMAX
— ICE Raid Nets Dozens of Illegals Using Stolen Identities
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ice-enforcement-omaha/2025/06/18/id/1215522/
TOWNHALL
— CNN Host Calls for Illegals to Continue ‘God-Awful Work’ in the Dairy Industry
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/abigail-johnson/2025/06/18/cnn-host-calls-for-illegals-to-continue-god-awful-work-in-the-dairy-industry-n2659033
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— According to my critics/opponents, Whites are racists and especially Whites who are conservative, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/16-things-to-watch-to-educate-yourself-about-systemic-racism/ss-BB1oAoNr
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-988-national-lgbtq-suicide-lifeline-backlash/
— Duckworth ever-increasingly insults Hegseth, that is, ever-increasingly insults Trump
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/duckworth-says-hegseths-tenure-has-been-a-failure-blasts-focus-on-troops-sent-to-us-cities/
FORTUNE
— How retail giant Home Depot is preparing employees for ICE raids
https://fortune.com/2025/06/18/home-depot-employee-policies-focal-point-ice-raids/
FORBES
— Duckworth ever-increasingly insults Hegseth, that is, ever-increasingly insults Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMQJl5hkWI8
FED SMITH
— Significant overhaul to federal employee performance management. My Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems a) to advance their Democrat employees who were minority, female, and/or younger and b) to get rid of their Republican employees. My Democrat GAO superiors always ranked me in the bottom half for pay-for-performance purposes.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/06/17/ending-performance-rating-inflation-opms-strategy-for-fair-evaluations/
MEDIAITE
— Duckworth ever-increasingly insults Hegseth, that is, ever-increasingly insults Trump
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/unqualified-yes-man-senator-erupts-on-pete-hegseth-in-fiery-hearing-clash/
June 6, 2025
How strongly will Democrat and RINO leaders use the Trump/Musk feud against all Republicans?
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump-Musk feud explodes with claim president is in Epstein files. Trump has not responded to Musk’s attack regarding the alleged sex trafficker.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-says-hes-disappointed-elon-musk-tesla-ceo-doubles-down-criticism/16667318/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trumps-resurrected-travel-ban-12-countries-affect-minority-families-chicago-area-refugee-groups-say/16669189/
NBC5
— Trump and Musk feud explodes online and turns personal. The world’s most powerful man and richest man are lobbing threats and insults on their rival social media platforms, sparked by disagreements over Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-very-disappointed-elon-musk-criticism-gop-bill/3761322/
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ continues assault on Obamacare.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill-continues-assault-on-obamacare/3761424/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/juneteenth-parade-steps-off-next-week/
WGN9
— Elon Musk’s stock plummets among Republicans
https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/elon-musks-stock-plummets-among-republicans/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders want big government spending on those who have demographics that vote for Democrats
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/05/illinois-rental-assistance-program-funding-cut/
— Trump and Musk relationship flames out
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/05/trump-musk-social-media/
— Democrats and RINOs run governments. They use budget cuts to get rid of any remining Republican employees.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/opinion-chicago-budget-cps-transit/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/opinion-leave-it-to-beaver-1950s-nostalgia-conservatives/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/06/05/chicagos-immigrant-community-sad-and-numb-over-trumps-new-travel-ban
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/06/05/newly-minted-u-s-citizens-celebrate-naturalization-at-rate-field-its-a-dream-come-true
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders want to promote more LGBTQ in Mount Prospect
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250605/news/residents-ask-mount-prospect-to-fly-pride-flag-but-village-sticks-to-flag-policy/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/hemp-derived-thc-would-be-banned-under-federal-budget-bill
— McDonald’s keeps ‘core’ inclusion programs despite DEI backlash. Democrat employers use “inclusion” a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get of their Republican employees.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/mcdonalds-keeps-inclusion-programs-despite-dei-backlash
— Because pot sellers are losing sales to hemp, they want to ban hemp.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/hemp-derived-thc-would-be-banned-under-federal-budget-bill
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump and Musk’s bromance crumbles: Billionaire bashes bill as Trump fires back
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-very-disappointed-in-musk-after-tech-mogul-criticizes-spending-bill
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump threatens to cut ‘crazy’ Musk’s government contracts
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trump-threatens-to-cut-crazy-musks-government-contracts/
WQAD
— Illinois congressional leaders raise concerns about the future of the Rock Island Arsenal. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors threw me off audits of IRS and assigned me to a 6-month long audit of the Rock Island Arsenal in 1989.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SnODrSRvdU
WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://www.wglt.org/2025-06-05/trumps-travel-ban-includes-afghanistan-where-thousands-await-u-s-resettlement
SOUTH SIDE PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans
https://patch.com/illinois/southside/11th-chicago-juneteenth-parade-steps-next-week-east-garfield-park
WHEATON PATCH
— Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton is the best golf course Illinois has to offer, according to a new ranking developed by golfers themselves. The Chicago Golf Club is south and east of my precinct. Golf Lane and Golf Circle are in my precinct.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/best-golf-course-il-golf-digest-says
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Golf Digest deploys 1,700 professionally trained low-handicap golfers to continually assess the golf courses. The rankings are based on more than 80,000 evaluations over 10 years looking at criteria such as short options, challenge, design variety, conditioning, aesthetics, and character. Established in 1892, Chicago Golf Club stands out as one of five golf clubs that founded the United States Golf Association in 1894, its website states. Its original location at Belmont Golf Club in Downers Grove made history in 1893 as the first 18-hole golf course in the United States. In 1894, the club moved to its current home in Wheaton on Warrenville Road. Chicago Golf Club was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. There are plenty of other courses in Illinois that prioritize the aesthetics of their fairways and greens and test the golfers who play on them with a variety of challenges. . .Wheaton’s Cantigny Golf came in at #35 on Golf Digest’s new list.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-529/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-321/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago’s Mayor Johnson wants the ultra rich to ‘step up.’ They’re more likely to step out.
https://wirepoints.org/chicagos-mayor-johnson-wants-the-ultra-rich-to-step-up-theyre-more-likely-to-step-out-wirepoints/
— Illinois’ New Budget: Hypocrisy and Deceit Are Now Grotesque in the General Assembly.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-new-budget-hypocrisy-and-deceit-are-now-grotesque-in-the-general-assembly-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Feds paid $80 billion to bogus Social Security numbers during pandemic
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/6/feds-paid-80-billion-bogus-social-security-numbers-covid-19-pandemic/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Converted Democrat David Jolly launched bid for Florida governor. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all my critics/opponents who falsely claim to be Republican will officially become Democrats and will announce that they have always done everything that they could to destroy Republicans and to destroy the Republican Party. They certainly destroyed the Illinois Center Right Coalition, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Milton Township Republican Organization, etc.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3432187/converted-democrat-david-jolly-bid-florida-governor/
NEW YORK POST
— Steve Bannon calls on Trump to deport Elon Musk: ‘Strong belief that he is an illegal alien’
https://nypost.com/2025/06/05/us-news/steve-bannon-calls-on-trump-to-deport-elon-musk-strong-belief-that-he-is-an-illegal-alien/
— Liberals turn killers, racists, and haters into martyrs
https://nypost.com/2025/06/05/opinion/douglas-murray-liberals-turn-killers-racists-and-haters-into-martyrs/
AMERICAN THINKER
— How ‘Equity’ debases education. According to my critics/opponents, I was able to do the following not because of meritocracy, but because I benefitted from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger than me, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time: a) earn master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, b) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, d) become a licensed CPA, and e) earn four more job-related professional certifications.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/06/how_equity_debases_education.html
BREITBART
— Rand Paul: My Goal Is Not to Stop Big Beautiful Bill, But ‘Make It Better’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/05/exclusive-sen-rand-paul-my-goal-is-not-to-stop-big-beautiful-bill-but-make-it-better/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump’s Tariffs Will Slash Deficits by $2.8 Trillion Over 10 Years
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trumps-tariffs-will-slash-deficits-by-2-8-trillion-over-10-years-cbo-5867890
— Trump, Musk Trade Barbs Amid Break Over Policy Bill. The relationship ruptured in real time online, spurred by disagreement over the deficit impact of Trump’s policy bill.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-says-hes-very-disappointed-with-musk-over-criticism-of-gop-megabill-5868450
FOX NEWS
— Republican lawmakers stand firm against Musk’s ‘Kill the Bill’ assault on Trump’s agenda. House Speaker Johnson attempts peace talks as world’s richest man refuses to return calls and threatens GOP unity.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-lawmakers-stand-firm-against-musks-kill-bill-assault-trumps-agenda
— Supreme Court rules unanimously in favor of straight Ohio woman who claimed discrimination. Ohio employee’s victory eliminates higher standard of proof for majority groups in discrimination cases. The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO held me to a higher standard of proof because I was a White male who charged his Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination. While I worked for GAO, the majority of its employees were White males, but I doubt that they are now. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always had quotas, goals, and targets for LGBTQers, but they were unofficial. They always met those quotas, goals, and targets. Of course, that meant getting rid of their employees like me who did not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-rules-unanimously-favor-straight-ohio-woman-who-claimed-discrimination
— Americans are tired of leftists creating standards for everyone they don’t hold themselves to
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373927020112
— ‘Gone too far’: GOP lawmakers rally around Trump after Musk raises Epstein allegations. ‘Elon crossed the line today,’ Rep. Chip Roy told Fox News Digital.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gone-too-far-gop-lawmakers-rally-around-trump-after-musk-raises-epstein-allegations
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— When Titans Collide: Trump-Musk Feud Spirals Out of Control
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/when-titans-collide-trump-musk-feud-spirals-out-of-control/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Straight Woman in Discrimination Case. The judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO held me to a higher standard of proof because I was a White male who charged his Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination. While I worked for GAO, the majority of its employees were White males, but I doubt that they are now. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always had quotas, goals, and targets for LGBTQers, but they were unofficial. They always met those quotas, goals, and targets. Of course, that meant getting rid of their employees like me who did not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-straight-woman-in-discrimination-case/
NEWSMAX
— Trans US Woman Seeks Asylum in Canada Citing Trump. Democrat and RINO leaders are ever-increasingly successful in promoting LGBTQ. How successful have they been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/transgender-canada-donald-trump/2025/06/05/id/1213809/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump and Musk break up, and Washington holds its breath
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-donald-trump-28263ffbfc191602b3657618138ee585
— Investors dump Tesla stock following war of words between Elon Musk and Donald Trump
https://apnews.com/article/musk-tesla-robotaxi-trump-tax-bill-budget-359f8ddd3739793b3c5e8ab92d191879
CBS2
— Trump threatens to cut off Elon Musk’s federal subsidies. That could cost Tesla and SpaceX billions.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-elon-musk-federal-subsidies-cost-tesla-spacex-billions/
— Trump and Musk trade insults and accusations as public feud reaches new heights
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-german-chancellor-merz-meeting-white-house-today-2025-06-05/
CNN
— Musk calls for President Trump’s impeachment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q61fLCh_LZA
— Allies tried to broker Trump-Musk peace. An Epstein files allegation complicated things
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-musk-epstein-files-accusation
CNBC & MSN
— From bromance to bitter feud — a timeline of Trump and Musk’s relationship
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/a-timeline-of-donald-trump-and-elon-musks-relationship.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/from-bromance-to-bitter-feud-a-timeline-of-trump-and-musk-s-relationship/ar-AA1Gca62?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds
CNBC
— Trump and Musk’s breakup spills into the markets
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/cnbc-daily-open-trump-and-musks-breakup-spills-into-the-markets.html
— Trump and Musk feud draws reactions from billionaires, politicians and pundits. Here’s who said what
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/trump-musk-feud-draws-reactions-from-billionaires-politicians-and-pundits.html
MSNBC
— ‘Our enemies are celebrating’: How the Trump-Musk feud endangers America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSuMLXpMiA4
— Musk inadvertently gives away the game in spat with Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUI0DkK7Las
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the midst of Donald Trump and Elon Musk throwing insults and threats at each other on their respective social media platforms, Musk accused Donald Trump of being ungrateful to Musk for purchasing the election for him, an admission of sorts that his support for Trump was transactional.)
— Trump humiliated globally while Musk live-tweets Trump’s Oval Office ‘stupidity festival’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5vvjXZK08s
REUTERS
— From bros to foes: how the unlikely Trump-Musk relationship imploded
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bros-foes-how-unlikely-trump-musk-relationship-imploded-2025-06-06/
— Musk-Trump breakup puts $22 billion of SpaceX contracts at risk, jolting US space program
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-will-decommission-dragon-spacecraft-musk-says-feud-with-trump-escalates-2025-06-05/
— Trump-Musk row slams Tesla shares, $150 billion in market value wiped out
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-shares-slide-musk-steps-up-criticism-ally-trump-2025-06-05/
MSN
— White House: ‘No plans’ for Trump to issue Pride Month proclamation
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-no-plans-for-trump-to-issue-pride-month-proclamation/ar-AA1G1Li8
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump and Musk Attack Each Other in Remarkable Break. Will Democrats start buying Teslas again?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/05/us/trump-elon-musk
— Read the Insults Hurled Between Trump and Musk
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/05/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-feud-timeline-posts.html
— The Age Issue: More of Congress Is 70-Plus Than Ever Before. How old are you? I am 76. Democrat and RINO leaders use age discrimination to get rid of Republicans. I have ever-increasingly fought age discrimination since I was 25 years old in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors started using up-or-out against me. They deemed me too be old to be promoted to GS-13. To fight that, I earned an MBA in 1976. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I transferred to GAO in 1980. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I earned more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I earned a master’s degree in finance in 1997. I should write a book about age discrimination.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/05/us/politics/congress-age.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight travel bans
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/world/asia/myanmar-afghanistan-trump-ban.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/harvey-milk-navy-sf-hegseth.html
WASHINGTON POST
— The epic breakup of Trump and Musk’s White House bromance. Trump’s criticism illuminated the dramatic erosion in his alliance with the world’s richest man.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/05/trump-musk-fight/
— Trump, Musk and the real fiscal ‘abomination’ on the horizon. The Big Beautiful Bill is bad enough. But the trillions in U.S. debt are terrifying.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/05/trump-musk-spending-debt-entitlements/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— The Trump-Musk war: Elon and Donald go on the attack
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/06/the-trump-musk-war-trump-musk-relationship-imlodes/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTUTE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2025/06/01/stonewall-riot-veterans-recount-police-clash/83923105007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/05/trump-administration-pride-month-lgbtq-policies/84027617007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/04/harvey-milk-navy-ship-hegseth-renaming/84030017007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Trump-Musk Relationship Ruptures in Real Time
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-rips-musk-for-attacking-tax-bill-34c81d81
— Feud Between Trump and Elon Musk Escalates in Public View. A rift between President Trump and billionaire backer Elon Musk erupted Thursday with the two trading insults.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-elon-musk-feud
— The Trump-Musk ‘War of the Roses’ The erstwhile political allies will both lose this nasty divorce.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-trump-musk-war-of-the-roses-543065a0
FORTUNE
— Raging feud between Trump-Musk tanks Tesla after Trump-Xi call calmed markets
https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/trump-musk-feud-tesla-xi-china-trade-stock-market-drop/
BARRON’S
— Musk, Trump Row. What Just Happened.
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/trump-musk-tesla-djt-spacex/card/musk-trump-row-what-just-happened–MrMuYmbD1rRJBeyiShBb
BLOOMBERG
— McDonald’s Keeps ‘Core’ Inclusion Programs Despite DEI Backlash. Democrat employers use “inclusion” a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get of their Republican employees.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-05/mcdonald-s-keeps-core-inclusion-programs-despite-dei-backlash
— Elon Musk Is Trying to ‘Kill’ Trump’s Tax Bill
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-05/elon-musk-is-trying-to-kill-trump-s-tax-bill
FORBES
— California Pioneers New Quotas For LGBTQ People. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always had quotas, goals, and targets for LGBTQers, but they were unofficial. They always met those quotas, goals, and targets. Of course, that meant getting rid of their employees like me who did not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenrosenblum/2020/10/05/california-pioneers-new-quotas-for-people-of-color–lgbt-people/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Here’s how big business leaders are reacting to the Trump-Musk breakup
https://www.businessinsider.com/business-leaders-reaction-elon-musk-donald-trump-breakup-tax-bill-2025-6
FED SMITH
— New OPM Rule Would Make it Easier to Fire Federal Employees. According to my critics/opponents, because I had so many job-related master’s degrees (3) and professional certifications (6) and a professional license, I had to have been an extremely bad employee or they would not have fired me, that is, they would not have forced me to retire.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/06/04/new-opm-rule-would-make-it-easier-to-fire-federal-employees/
DAILY BEAST
— Trump-Musk Feud Heading Toward ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kara-swisher-warns-trump-musk-feud-heading-toward-mutually-assured-destruction/
BUZZ FEED
— Jim Ryan supporters have never forgiven me, and they never will, for my having supported Pat O’Malley in the 2002 Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary. I headed his campaign in Milton Township. I should write about the biggest adverse actions that they have taken against me and continue to take against me to punish me for that. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth what I did to help Jim Ryan win the general election.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/best-political-tweets-4-18-2025
POLITICO
— House passes legislation requiring SBA offices to leave ‘sanctuary cities’ Democrats argued that the bill “is all about punishing cities for their politics” and would cause disruptions for small businesses.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/05/congress/house-legislation-sba-sanctuary-cities-small-business-immigration-00390801
ATLANTIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly deny responsibility for Boulder
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-boulder-attack-immigration-policies-visa/683041/
NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ask “Just How Bad Is Trump’s New Travel Ban?”
https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/just-how-bad-is-trumps-new-travel-ban
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER
— Musk Has Grown Even Wealthier Through Serving in Trump’s Administration. As Musk attacks Trump, will Democrats start buying Teslas again?
https://campaignlegal.org/update/elon-musk-has-grown-even-wealthier-through-serving-trumps-administration
AXIOS
— Musk becomes GOP pariah after “ridiculous” Trump attacks
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/musk-trump-republican-congress-epstein-impeach
GOOGLE AI
— Legalized discrimination. In Diersen v. GAO, the Democrats who ran GAO argued that they treated me just like Congress wanted them to treat me, that is, to waste my career and to get rid of me because I was a Republican a) who objected to their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination and b) who was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. I should write about that in light of recent developments.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22legalized+discrimination%22+%22affirmative+action%22
(FROM THE POSTING: Arguments Against Affirmative Action: Reverse Discrimination: Opponents argue that affirmative action policies can discriminate against members of the dominant group by favoring minority groups in employment and education, even if those individuals are equally qualified.)
INDEPENDENT
— Musk says Trump is ‘in the Epstein files’ which is why they haven’t been made public. Elon Musk said it was ‘time to drop the really big bomb’ as the feud between the billionaire and President Donald Trump reached new heights.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-feud-epstein-files-b2764693.html
— Trump Tower is throwing a Pride month party for LGBTQ+ Republicans despite White House dodging events. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.aol.com/trump-tower-throwing-pride-month-014441655.html
GUARDIAN
— Trump aides ‘to broker peace talks’ with Elon Musk after feud. White House aides have reportedly scheduled a call on Friday with the billionaire Tesla chief executive after the pair traded insults.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/06/donald-trump-elon-musk-feud-steve-bannon-jeffery-epstein-us-politics-live-news-updates
— From White House sleepovers to Epstein allegations, how the relationship between Musk and Trump spectacularly imploded. In today’s newsletter: The rift between the Tesla owner and the US president started with a broadside about government spending – but the true explanation may be much more personal.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/06/first-edition-donald-trump-elon-musk-relationship
ECONOMIC TIMES
— From barbs to blows? 6 ways Trump can harm Musk
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/from-barbs-to-blows-6-ways-trump-can-harm-musk/articleshow/121670196.cms
— Trump-Musk bromance turns nasty as Musk threatens decommissioning SpaceX over Trump’s ‘green’ cuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq_MuiJI-MU
TIMES OF INDIA
— Trump vs Musk: Representative AOC takes humorous jab, says ‘girls are fighting’
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/trump-vs-musk-representative-aoc-takes-humorous-jab-says-girls-are-fighting/articleshow/121668717.cms
— Trump says ‘I asked him to leave’; public spat X-plodes
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/donald-trump-elon-musk-public-feud-escalates-tesla-doge-spacex-us-news-epstein-files-live-updates/liveblog/121659317.cms
— Feud intensifies: Amid public spat, Musk shares 1992 video; Trump seen with Epstein
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/feud-intensifies-amid-public-spat-elon-musk-shares-1992-video-donald-trump-seen-with-jeffrey-epstein-in-throwback-clip/articleshow/121662441.cms
— Trump vs Musk: From ‘disgusting abomination’ to Epstein ‘bombshell’; social media war spirals — timeline
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/disgusting-abomination-to-bombshell-trump-musk-feud-spirals-timeline-of-the-public-meltdown/articleshow/121662823.cms
— Elon Musk vs Donald Trump: Musk claims Trump is in the Epstein files – What we know so far
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/elon-musk-vs-donald-trump-musk-claims-trump-is-in-the-epstein-files-what-we-know-so-far/articleshow/121663538.cms
INDIA TODAY
— We’re 4-5 tweets away from national secrets: Internet grabs popcorn as Trump, Musk spar. The dramatic fallout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has captivated global attention, with their escalating feud playing out online.
https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/elon-musk-donald-trump-feud-doge-argument-epstein-files-national-secret-new-bill-tesla-spacex-2736601-2025-06-06
May 30, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court for now
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-tariffs-reinstated-by-appeals-court-for-now/3756338/
FOX32
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1649490
WGN9
— Cannabis is bad for your heart
https://wgntv.com/news/trending/smoke-it-or-eat-it-cannabis-is-bad-for-your-heart-new-research-shows/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders promote assisted suicide
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/29/illinois-bill-would-allow-terminally-ill-adults-end-their-lives-medical-assistance
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,’ Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder as lawyers praise Trump choice.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/larry-hoover-trump-fbi-boss/
— Democrat leaders use Chinese students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/chinese-students-visa/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racist.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/30/traffic-stops-black-drivers-illinois-public-universities-campus-police-departments
DAILY HERALD
— ‘Huge opportunity’ or ‘stealing’ from suburbs? Senate debates funding plan to save transit
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250529/transportation/huge-opportunity-or-stealing-from-the-suburbs-senate-debates-funding-plan-to-save-transit/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/trump-move-chinese-visas-could-impact-chicago-universities
STATELINE
— Gun owners in Illinois face $10K fine if weapon is stolen and used in a crime. Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/gun-owners-in-illinois-face-10k-fine-if-weapon-is-stolen-and-used-in-a-crime/
DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/29/proposed-edible-tasting-room-for-dekalb-dispensary-gets-early-support/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-30/federal-workers-keep-americas-farms-healthy-what-now-under-trump
HOMEWOOD/FLOSSMOOR PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBT in Homewood/Flossmoor
https://patch.com/illinois/homewood-flossmoor/homewood-flossmoor-pride-fest-set-celebrate-diversity-inclusion
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Chinese students over American students.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/uncertain-future-for-chinese-students-cause-concern-at-uiuc/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-523/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-315/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The pension sweetener bill is yet another reminder that lawmakers don’t care about ordinary Illinoisans. Because State of Illinois employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Democrats politicians defend and promote them. Because federal employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Republican politicians demonize, denigrate, and condemn them.
https://wirepoints.org/the-pension-sweetener-bill-is-yet-another-reminder-that-lawmakers-dont-care-about-ordinary-illinoisans-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The sanctuary counties in Illinois that Trump just put on notice include DuPage County ( https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759 ). Is your county on the list? The following Illinois counties are on the list: Adams, Alexander; Bond, Boone, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cook, Crawford, Cumberland, DeKalb, Dewitt, Douglas, DuPage, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Franklin, Fulton, Gallatin, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jackson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lawrence, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Massac, McDonough, McLean, Mercer, Menard, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Perry, Piatt, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richland, Rock Island, Saint Clair, Saline, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Stephenson, Tazewell, Union, Vermilion, Wabash, Warren, Washington, Wayne, White, Whiteside County, Will, Williamson, Winnebago, and Woodford. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on Civil Service protections? Trump wants to cut them. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly stress that Trump is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while 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, and 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. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Constructively, if not literally, Democrat and RINO leaders rank those who are under them. The more of the following that you are, the more points that they give you: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The more of the following that you do, the more points that they give you: glorify and praise them, pander to them, serve as one of their operatives or dupes, cover up their wrongdoing, and/or give them money. Of course, Democrat and RINO leaders give me no points. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Uber/Lyft and Real Estate Transfer Taxes Proposed to Bail Out CTA
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/uber-lyft-and-real-estate-transfer-taxes-proposed-to-bail-out-cta/
— Sosnowski Introduces Bill to Allow Switch of Casino Sites
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/sosnowski-introduces-bill/
— Four-Year Community College Degree Legislation Still Alive, But Severely Limited
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/four-year-community-college-degree-legislation-still-alive-but-severely-limited/
— Dems Advance Gun Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dems-advance-gun-bill/
— DeWitte Notes Dems’ Revision of Shift from RTA to NITA (Northern Illinois Transit Authority) Takes Power from Suburbs
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dewitte-notes-dems-revision-of-shift-from-rta-to-nita-northern-illinois-transit-authority-takes-power-from-suburbs/
— McLaughlin Bill for Privately-Financed Statue of Pope Leo IV on Capitol Grounds Stuck in Committee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/mclaughlin-bill-for-privately-financed-statue-of-pope-leo-iv-on-capitol-grounds-stuck-in-committee/
— Ness Goes after Trump
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ness-goes-after-trump/
— Senate Republicans on Electric Rates
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/senate-republicans-on-electric-rates/
— Ugasta’s Views on Democrats’ Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ugastas-views-on-democrats-budget/
— Johnsburg’s Kirk Donald Running for Re-Election as Vice Chairman of the McHenry County Republican Party
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/johnsburgs-kirk-donald-running-for-re-election-as-vice-chairman-of-the-mchenry-county-republican-party/
— Cook County Homeowners Beginning to Feel the Pain the Rest of Have All Along & How State Law Gives Cook County Homeowners Tax Breaks Not Seen in the Other 101 Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/cook-county-homeowners-beginning-to-feel-the-pain-the-rest-of-have-all-along-how-cook-county-homeowners-get-tax-breaks-not-seen-in-the-other-101-counties/
— For Those Interested in a Deep Dive into What DODE Did…
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/for-those-interested-in-a-deep-dive-into-what-dode-did/
— Casten Endorses Biss for Algonquin Township Congressman
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/casten-endorse-biss-for-algonquin-township-congressman/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Assisted Suicide Passes House, Moves to Senate
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/assisted-suicide-passes-house-moves-to-senate/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— DHS releases name-and-shame sanctuary list with more than 600 states, cities, counties. DuPage County is in the list.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/29/dhs-releases-name-shame-sanctuary-list-600-states-cities-counties/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago’s government-by-racism is failing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3424244/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-race-comments/
— Trump administration orders ICE to more than triple number of daily arrests
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3425621/trump-ice-triple-arrests/
NEW YORK POST
— ICE shakes up agency with ‘leadership realignment’ in push for a ‘minimum’ of 3,000 migrant arrests per day
https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/us-news/ice-shakes-up-leadership-amid-push-for-3000-migrant-arrests-per-day/
AFPI
— Massive Scale of Chinese Illegal Immigration Threatens National Security
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/massive-scale-of-chinese-illegal-immigration-threatens-national-security
CENTER SQUARE
— ICE calling law enforcement in all counties to help with deportation efforts
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_efdabd74-5fba-4c22-a3ec-1f8fef4ef79d.html
COLLEGE FIX
— K-12 schools spent $19 million in federal tax dollars on ‘restorative justice,’ ‘equitable grading.’ What depressed your GPA? For me, it was my spending far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/k-12-schools-spent-19-million-in-federal-tax-dollars-on-restorative-justice-equitable-grading/
DAILY CALLER
— Washington’s Spending Party Continues As Elon Musk Bids Farewell To Swamp
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/washingtons-spending-party-elon-musk-bids-farewell-swamp/
— FBI Tells Employees No ‘Pride’ Activities On Company Time. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ever-increasingly required their employees to attend more DEI training and events. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Democrat Black subordinate who ran the office’s Black events.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/fbi-employees-no-pride-activites-company-time-june/
EPOCH TIMES
— State Department Says It Will Expand Scrutiny of All Chinese Visa Holders in US. The department has already paused new student visa interviews worldwide and is preparing to revoke visas for Chinese nationals currently in the United States.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/state-department-says-it-will-expand-scrutiny-of-all-chinese-visa-holders-in-us-5865198
FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor calls DOGE ‘an act of war,’ compares second Trump term to Third Reich. ‘You have a president that is cutting off medicine and food [and] working to erase culture,’ Brandon Johnson claimed
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-mayor-calls-doge-an-act-war-compares-second-trump-term-third-reich
NEWSMAX
— Harvard’s Standards Have Dropped. To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly dropped their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-harvard-dei/2025/05/29/id/1212899/
PJ MEDIA
— The Education Department and the Demise of Our Schooling
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/29/the-education-dept-intellectual-silliness-and-the-demise-of-our-schooling-n4940257
TOWNHALL
— Chaos Erupts Outside Immigration Court As Protesters Clash With Police
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/29/police-arrest-dozens-protesting-outside-immigration-court-in-manhattan-n2657815
— Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2025/05/30/democrats-and-their-dei-albatrosses-n2657857
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Karl Rove: Trump tariffs could cost GOP their majorities
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5325112-karl-rove-trump-tariffs-could-cost-gop-their-majorities/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-university-slave-photos-d9c01b7926bba2a686ff325617e93ce9
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/universities-seek-lure-us-bound-students-amid-trump-crackdown-2025-05-30/
NEWSWEEK
— The Sanctuary Cities, Counties and States the Trump Admin Just Put on Notice. DuPage County is on the list.
https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759
— Levi’s ever-increasingly promotes more DEI and LGBTQ.
https://www.newsweek.com/levis-pride-collection-dei-programs-2078557
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/29/us/harvard-trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/chinese-students-rattled-by-trump-plan-to-aggressively-revoke-visas.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/trump-china-visas-tariffs.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/29/chinese-students-data-visa/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/29/harvard-international-students-hearing/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have they been 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. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/05/29/pew-lgbtq-poll-transgender-acceptance-trump/6498f882-3c95-11f0-912d-d5f4792db3e4_story.html
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and stress that he is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while 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, and 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. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/28/trump-due-process-deportations/83824951007/
— Trump lashes out at judges on tariffs, blames Federalist Society for bad legal advice
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/29/donald-trump-federalist-society-judges-tariffs-attacks/83933632007/
TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Florida Attracts Wave Of Newcomers As California, New York, & Illinois See Resident Exodus. Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct.
https://www.tampafp.com/florida-attracts-wave-of-newcomers-as-california-new-york-illinois-see-resident-exodus/
FORBES
— If Trump’s Tariffs Raise Prices Or Are Perceived To, GOP Will Be Hurt In Midterms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdn-0d7mI-w
PBS
— Trump administration pressures ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ by publishing list of places ‘deliberately obstructing’ immigration enforcement
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-pressures-sanctuary-jurisdictions-by-publishing-list-of-places-deliberately-obstructing-immigration-enforcement
FED SMITH
— Important Changes to Proposed Benefits Cuts in House-Passed Spending Bill. Trump wants to cut Civil Service protections. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/28/important-changes-to-proposed-benefits-cuts-in-house-passed-spending-bill/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Election for At-Will Employment The provision for new hires to elect at-will employment remains in the legislation as well. Newly hired federal employees could opt to become at-will employees in exchange for a lower contribution rate to FERS (the standard 4.4%). This would be an irrevocable decision per the language of the legislation as currently written. However, if employees were to choose to keep their Civil Service protections, they would pay an additional 5% contribution rate to FERS (9.4% total for most federal employees). Federal employees who opt to become at-will employees could face adverse actions, including removal, without notice or the right to appeal the action. Per the language of the bill as currently written, they “may be subject to an adverse action up to and including removal, without notice or right to appeal, by the head of the agency at which the individual is employed for good cause, bad cause, or no cause at all.”)
INSIDE HIGHTER ED
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/05/30/trump-targets-chinese-students-harsh-blow-higher
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/black-and-empowered/202505/finding-compassion-in-the-darkness-of-racism-and-discrimination
AMAZON
— Proud to be Woke. My critics/opponents act like they are proud to be woke. That is, they discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.amazon.com/Politically-Well-Informed-Socialist-Proud/dp/B0BY2LFD7S
TIMES OF INDIA
— IIT has the highest percentage of international students. IIT admitted me in 1992. But it would have admitted an international student instead of me if it could have.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/which-us-university-has-the-highest-percentage-of-international-students-well-its-not-harvard/articleshow/121513373.cms
March 5, 2025
WHITE HOUSE
— Democrats Showed Whose Side They’re On — And it’s Not the American People
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/democrats-showed-whose-side-theyre-on-and-its-not-the-american-people/
ILLINOIS GOP
— ILGOP Responds to President Trump’s Address To Joint Session Of Congress: Following President Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress in his second term as president, ILGOP Chair Kathy Salvi released the following statement: “Tonight, President Trump addressed millions of Americans around the country and outlined his administration’s first 43 days in office – common sense solutions, securing our border, stopping government waste and abuse, and putting America First. The next four years will be full of prosperity as we get our country back on track and the Illinois Republican Party will continue to work with President Trump to help Illinois families and Make America Great Again.”
https://illinois.gop/ilgop-responds-to-president-trumps-address-to-joint-session-of-congress/
EPOCH TIMES
— 12 Takeaways From Trump’s First Major Policy Speech to Congress. Trump touted his administration’s achievements in its first 42 days, and promised greater prosperity and security for the nation.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/12-takeaways-from-trumps-first-major-policy-speech-to-congress-5820120
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. Tax Cuts Promised for All Americans. . .2. Border Closed, Deportations Underway. . .3. Trump Touts ‘Common Sense Revolution’. . .including rooting out “woke” ideas from the government and federally-funded programs. He referenced an executive order signed early in his second term declaring that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, based on biological sex at conception and not “gender ideology.” Trump highlighted his executive order stripping federal funding for schools that allow males to compete in female sports. One order declared that it is the official policy of the United States that Title IX applies to women and not men who identify as transgender females. The first gallery guest introduced by Trump was Payton McNabb, a female athlete who suffered injuries while playing volleyball against a male player. Trump also referenced merit-based hiring—rather than hiring to meet diversity quotas—as part of his “common sense revolution” agenda. . .4. Tariffs Explained, ‘A Little Disturbance’. . .5. DOGE Findings Highlighted. . .6. Promises Balanced Budget. . .7. Victims Spotlighted. . .8. Direct Appeal to Greenlanders. . .9. Letter From Zelenskyy. . .10. New Shipbuilding Office. . .11. Arrest of Top Terrorist Responsible for Abbey Gate. . .12. Democrats Respond)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders spin Trump’s speech against him
https://abc7chicago.com/post/key-takeaways-pres-trumps-speech-congress/15979123/
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/trump-joint-session-of-congress-live-updates/15977198/entry/15978756/
— Democrat leaders fact check Trump’s speech. During the last 11 years that I worked for GAO at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, I often worked as a fact-checker.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/fact-checking-trumps-speech-congress/15978671/
— A disjointed response from the Democrats
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/trump-joint-session-of-congress-live-updates/15977198/entry/15978647/
— Chicago-area protests held as Trump delivers address to Congress; local politicians weigh in
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-speech-today-federal-plaza-chicago-protest-among-several-held-area-response-address-congress/15978909/
— Trump administration ends reimbursements for Illinois food programs. USDA funds are part of nearly $2 billion being withheld from Illinois, Pritzker says. (COMMENT: To what extent are those in your country, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on federal food programs?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-administration-ends-reimbursements-program-designed-help-farmers-supply-fresh-food-illinois-banks/15978548/
— Stocks tumble after Trump tariffs take effect
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/trump-joint-session-of-congress-live-updates/15977198/entry/15978114/
CBS2
— CTU holding rallies, walk-ins in Chicago for “Protect our Kids” day of action
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-teachers-rally-protect-our-kids/
FOX32
— Illinois politicos react to Trump’s first speech to Congress in 2nd term
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-speech-reax-illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEBpaq1CGhg
— Chicago activists push for immigrant rights amid scrutiny of sanctuary cities. As Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson prepares to face questioning from members of Congress over the city’s sanctuary laws, local activists argued for the importance of the city upholding immigrants’ rights.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1602832
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs against Trump
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1603216
— Krishnamoorthi expects ‘attack on Chicago’ at Johnson hearing
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-congressman-expects-attack-chicago-johnson-hearing
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://news.wttw.com/2025/03/04/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-trump-administration-birthright-citizenship-and
WBEZ
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/03/05/dei-isnt-just-lawful-its-mission-critical
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: After nearly four-month break, gun arrests outside Naperville Topgolf resume with three busts in four weeks
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/04/naperville-police-topgolf-gun-firearm-arrest/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump’s Justice Department files to join legal challenge to Illinois nonprofit diversity law
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-justice-department-join-challenge-illinois-dei-law
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Trump says he’ll cut funds to colleges for ‘illegal’ protests, arrest and deport agitators
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2025/03/05/rockford-activists-say-trump-lacks-authority-over-on-campus-protests/81380530007/
SOUTHERN
— Who do you blame for high grocery prices and why?
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/05/in-democratic-response-slotkin-says-trump-has-no-credible-plan-to-lower-grocery-prices/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump touts success of immigration crackdown, pushes Congress to pass funding
https://foxillinois.com/news/connect-to-congress/president-donald-trump-touts-success-of-immigration-crackdown-pushes-congress-to-pass-funding-migrants-asylum-border-wall-deportations-ice-dhs-title-42
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump says he is ‘just getting started,’ as he faces vocal protests from Democrats
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-04/trump-says-he-is-just-getting-started-as-he-faces-vocal-protests-from-democrats
WIFR
— Illinois representatives react to Trump’s joint address to congress
https://www.wifr.com/2025/03/05/illinois-representatives-react-trumps-joint-address-congress/
WCIA
— Democrats ever-increasingly push pot in Danville
https://www.wcia.com/news/vermilion-county/seven-point-dispensary-to-expand-in-danville-after-approval-of-consumption-lounge/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— You want privacy with that? (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, including almost 9 years for IRS and 3 years for GAO on audits of IRS. Federal employees who are Republican should anticipate/expect that their Democrat superiors will get your tax information and use it against you. My Democrat IRS superiors used my tax information to disallow my education deductions. My Democrat GAO superiors used my and my wife’s tax information to paint me as being undeservedly filthy rich.)
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-03-05/perspective-you-want-privacy-with-that
(FROM THE ARTICLE: We’re well into a particularly dreaded time of year. Ah, yes. It’s time to pay 2024 taxes. According to a 2023 report from an ad hoc Congressional committee, “Big Tax Prep has recklessly shared tens of millions of taxpayers’ sensitive personal and financial data…for years in what appears to represent a violation of taxpayer privacy laws.” That’s pretty scathing. Think about this: the instant you open that commercial tax package and start uploading your data, you may be risking the loss of your financial privacy. It has me thinking about going back to the twentieth century and filing on paper! Fortunately, Congress and the Internal Revenue Service are rolling out a remedy. This year, it’s now possible for taxpayers in twenty-five states (including Illinois and Wisconsin) to file directly with the IRS – for free. The process will forever be (dare I say) taxing. But at least we’re getting some privacy protections with the new IRS Direct File program. I suppose we can call that……progress.)
AXIOS CHICAGO
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent om Medicaid?
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/05/house-budget-medicaid-cuts-illinois
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— ICE Says It Will Reveal Who Was Arrested In Chicago ‘As Soon As Possible’ — Which Might Be Never
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/04/ice-says-it-will-reveal-who-was-arrested-in-chicago-as-soon-as-possible-which-might-be-never/
STATE OF ILLINOIS
— Pritzker Acts to Support Federal Workers. State of Illinois will host two career fairs in March for former federal employees in Edwardsville and Chicago. (COMMENT: I have been a former federal employee for more than 27 years. Illinois has never indicated that it might want to hire me. It has never helped me find a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license. For that matter, neither has DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, or Wheaton Warrenville School District 200.)
https://www.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/illinois/iisnewsattachments/30997-030525-cms-march-job-fairs-press-release.pdf.pdf
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Trump: ‘Wokeness is trouble’
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/05/trump-wokeness-is-trouble-00213050
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-467/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— We shouldn’t be proud to have 3.6 million Illinoisans on Medicaid, it means we’re an economic failure
https://wirepoints.org/we-shouldnt-be-proud-to-have-3-6-million-illinoisans-on-medicaid-it-means-economic-failure-wirepoints-on-chicago-tonight/
— So-called voter education group — League of Women Voters — says don’t attend, engage or watch State of Union speech
https://wirepoints.org/so-called-voter-education-group-league-of-women-voters-says-dont-attend-engage-or-watch-state-of-union-speech-wirepoints-quickpoint/
— Be ready for Mayor Johnson to wiggle out of every question he’s asked
https://wirepoints.org/be-ready-for-mayor-johnson-to-weasel-out-of-every-question-hes-asked-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Early childhood agency proposes budget, questioned about ‘White Fragility’
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_9012a9d8-f94a-11ef-af4e-2b0663225ced.html
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— IL high court questions if GOP gerrymandering suit is ‘timely;’ GOP: ‘Unquestionably’ so
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/670216205-il-high-court-questions-if-gop-gerrymandering-suit-is-timely-gop-unquestionably-so
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What discourages you from helping elect Republican candidates? For me, it includes my seeing far too many of them who I have helped elect since 2000 a) dump planks in the Republican Party platform if not work against those planks and/or b) blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats and RINOs are woke. To be woke is to work against Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Wokeness/wokeism is Affirmative Action, DEI, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Since the 1960s, Democrats and RINOs have ever-increasingly used the aforesaid to get rid of me. If my Democrat superiors in the federal government had not used the aforesaid against me, I would have made Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year, long before I was 40 years old. I say that because a) I earned job-related master’s degree when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) I became a licensed CPA when I was 32. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32. None of my coworkers had accomplishments anywhere near the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If my parents had not sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran Grade Schools, I would not have been able to a) get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my class, or c) get accepted by UIC. To teach wokeness/wokeism is to demonize, denigrate, and condemn students who are White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— League of Women Voters Advised “DO NOT ATTEND, ENGAGE, OR WATCH THE STATE OF THE UNION”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/league-of-women-voters-advises-do-not-attend-engage-or-watch-the-state-of-the-union/
— CBS Turns Burton’s Bridge Brushfire into a Climate Change Story, Three Stations Use Alex Vucha’s Stunning Photos
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/cbs-turns-burtons-bridge-brushfire-into-a-climate-change-story-three-stations-use-alex-vuchas-stunning-photos/
— LaHood Comments on President’s Speech
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/lahood-comments-on-presidents-speech/
— Two Subjects Trump Did Not Talk About
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/two-subjects-trump-did-not-talk-about/
— The Wrath of God’
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox?compose=DmwnWrRsqXnvpzZnJQcwnDnbnqTbbgzdsqPDLMrJsHxshZzzctVLVhdPLBfmpLqXfKkqpTvmnlwB
— Legislative Reaction to Data Centers’ Electricity Sucking
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/04/legislative-reaction-to-data-centers-electricity-sucking/
— Dems’ Illegal Alien Health Care Lives Down to Republican Expectations
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/03/dems-illegal-alien-health-care-lives-down-to-republican-expectations/
— No Car? How To Get Around in McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/03/no-car/
— Illinois Still Has Second Highest Property Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/03/illinois-still-has-second-highest-property-taxes/
— Pritzker Urged to Ban Chinese Communist Party DeepSeek Software on State Devices
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/03/pritzker-urged-to-ban-chinese-communist-party-deepseek-software-on-state-devices/
— Lakewood’s Golfing Elected Officials In for a Surprise When They Read This
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/03/lakewoods-golfing-elected-officials-in-for-a-surprise-when-they-read-this/
— Barack’s Crumbling Tower of Babble
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/02/baracks-crumbling-tower-of-babble/
— Darin LaHood Interviewed on WGN Radio, Blames Putin for Starting the War
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/01/darin-lahood-interviewed-on-wgn-radio-blames-putin-for-starting-the-way/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Teachers unions don’t want teachers evaluated on how well students are learning
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/teachers-unions-dont-want-teachers-evaluated-on-how-well-students-are-learning/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump promises that U.S. ‘will be woke no longer’ (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs are woke. To be woke is to work against Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Since the 1960s, Democrats and RINOs have ever-increasingly used wokeness/wokeism to get rid of me.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/4/donald-trump-promises-us-woke-longer/
— Speaker Johnson says Democratic Rep. Al Green faces censure for disrupting Trump speech
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/5/speaker-mike-johnson-says-democratic-rep-al-green-faces-censure/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump brings back sanity, rebukes the LGBT lobby
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3336980/trump-brings-back-sanity-rebukes-lgbt-lobby/#google_vignette
NEW YORK POST
— Trump hails his whirlwind, six-week ‘common sense revolution’ — as downbeat Dems protest address to Congress
https://nypost.com/2025/03/04/us-news/trump-hails-whirlwind-six-weeks-as-common-sense-revolution-as-dems-heckle-and-protest-address-to-congress/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump Is On The Verge Of Ending The EPA’s Tyranny
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/trump_is_on_the_verge_of_ending_the_epa_s_tyranny.html
BREITBART
— Trump Touts Getting Wokeness Out of the Military, Recruiting Numbers Up
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/04/trump-touts-getting-wokeness-out-of-the-military-recruiting-numbers-up/
— Trump: Deporting Biden’s Migrants Is ‘Great Liberation of America’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/trump-deporting-bidens-migrants-is-great-liberation-of-america/
— Trump: We Needed a ‘New President,’ Not ‘New Legislation’ to Secure Border
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/04/trump-needed-new-president-not-new-legislation-secure-border/
— Trump Shutting Down Biden’s Texas-Based Soft Sided Migrant Detention Centers
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/03/04/exclusive-trump-shutting-down-bidens-texas-based-soft-sided-migrant-detention-centers-says-source/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Overpowers Democrat Protests With Verbal Highlight Reel Of First Six Weeks In Office
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/04/donald-trump-address-joint-session-congress-al-green-protest/
DAILY SIGNAL
— 13 Winners and Losers From Trump’s Address to Congress
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/04/winners-losers-trumps-address-to-congress/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump: It Is Time For America To ‘Wage War On The Cartels’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-it-is-time-for-america-to-wage-war-on-the-cartels
— Trump Will Use ‘Full Might’ Of Government To Crush Cartels
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-tells-daily-wire-trump-will-use-full-might-of-government-to-crush-cartels
FOX NEWS
— Chicago alderman says Mayor Brandon Johnson can’t defend sanctuary city policies: ‘Lamb to the slaughter’ The Chicago mayor has promised to defend the sanctuary city’s policies on illegal immigrants.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-alderman-says-mayor-brandon-johnson-cant-defend-sanctuary-city-policies-lamb-slaughter
— Trump takes on ‘toxic ideologies’ in schools and gender surgeries in children: ‘Wokeness is trouble’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369618651112
— Trump proclaims that ‘wokeness is dead,’ calls to permanently ban sex changes for minors. Trump said that wokeness is ‘out of our society.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-proclaims-wokeness-dead-calls-permanently-ban-sex-changes-minors
— Trump promises ‘this will be our greatest era’ in joint address to Congress
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-promises-this-our-greatest-era-joint-address-congress
NEWSMAX
— Democrats Backing Largest Tax Hike in History
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/kevin-hern-democrats-joe-biden/2025/03/04/id/1201402/
— Dem Mayors in Congress Talking Sanctuary Cities Protecting Criminal Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/democrat-sanctuary-city/2025/03/05/id/1201461/
PJ MEDIA
— Trump Honors Girls Murdered by Illegals, Dems Refuse to Applaud
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/03/05/trump-tells-story-of-angel-laken-murdered-by-illegal-n4937580
TOWNHALL
— Under President Trump, America’s Borders Are Secure Again
https://townhall.com/columnists/congressmanandybiggs/2025/03/05/under-president-trump-americas-borders-are-secure-again-n2653226
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump vows to press ahead on reshaping America in speech to Congress as Democrats register dissent
https://apnews.com/article/trump-speech-congress-immigration-tariffs-guests-93f6107ede260854f90c65c4bde60de8
REUTERS
— Trump touts relentless start to term in speech to Congress, drawing catcalls from Democrats
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-address-congress-after-upending-us-foreign-domestic-policies-2025-03-04/
NBC NEWS
— Key takeaways from Trump’s speech to Congress: A focus on culture wars and GOP unity, as Democrats protest. Trump defended his tariffs, bashed “wokeness” and outlined his tax agenda as Democrats heckled him, while some in the party chose between audible and silent protests.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-speech-highlights-takeaways-congress-address-rcna193844
NEW YORK TIMES
— Full Transcript of President Trump’s Speech to Congress. In a speech to Congress in his first weeks in office, the president laid out his vision to remake U.S. policy on the military, trade, immigration and foreign aid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/us/politics/transcript-trump-speech-congress.html
— Congressional Speech Highlights: Trump Asserts Term Is Off to a ‘Swift and Unrelenting’ Start. President Trump highlighted the many actions his administration has taken in the past six weeks, including drastic cuts to the federal work force and the eradication of diversity initiatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/04/us/trump-speech-congress
— What Republican Men Think About Trump and Masculinity
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/upshot/trump-men-masculinity-gender.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Defiant Trump signals full speed ahead on divisive policies. Trump addressed a divided nation in a speech marked by acrimony, as a Texas Democrat was escorted from the chamber within the first few moments and as Trump taunted Democrats in the room.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/04/trump-speech-to-congress/
— Republicans applaud Trump address to Congress; Democrats blast it as divisive
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/trump-presidency-news-speech/
USA TODAY
— Elon Musk gets high praise and a shoutout in Trump’s joint address: ‘He didn’t need this’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/04/elon-musk-gets-shoutout-by-trump-in-joint-address/81155034007/
— Trump puts tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, China. Where does the tariff money go? (COMMENT: I am importing a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T from Canada. How will tariffs impact that?)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/where-does-tariff-money-go/81375235007/
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/04/trump-dei-backlash-explained/81170427007/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Trust in Trump’: President’s supporters dismiss alarm bells from critics (COMMENT: What discourages you from helping elect Republican candidates? For me, it includes my seeing far too many who I have helped elect since 2000 a) dump planks in the Republican Party platform if not work against those planks and/or b) blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/04/trump-trust-joint-address-congress/78245523007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Touts Rapid Action on Border, Budget and Economy
The State-of-the-Union-style address gave the president a chance to sell his agenda to the American public six weeks into his second term
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/donald-trump-speech-congress-32b8bda1
— Trump’s Tariffs Whack Trump Voters. Whatever happened to GOP concern for the working class?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-working-class-voters-dc140dbc
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders say “Trump “delivered the biggest speech of his presidency yet, hitting on partisan talking points favored by his conservative base, while largely sidestepping the effects of his sweeping tariff proposals on consumers.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-05/tariff-defense-democrats-protest-takeaways-from-trump-s-speech
— Democrat leaders say “How Trump Is Fueling the Backlash Against DEI.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-04/dei-trump-s-executive-orders-targeting-diversity-policies-are-fueling-backlash
POLITICO
— Trump celebrates disruption and defies backlash. “The people elected me to do the job, and I’m doing it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/04/trump-joint-address-speech-what-happened-00212916
PBS
— Trump says his administration is getting ‘wokeness out of our schools’ (COMMENT: If my parents had not sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran Grade Schools, I would not have been able to a) get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my class, or c) get accepted by UIC. To teach wokeness/wokeism is to demonize, denigrate, and condemn students who are White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGVXBniEsz8
NDTV
— “Permanently Ban Sex Change, End This Lie”: Trump Rages Against ‘Wokeness’ Trump also said he had “removed the poison of critical race theory” from public schools, referring to a framework identifying racial bias as inherent in parts of Western society.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-us-congress-speech-us-2-gender-policy-ban-sex-change-permanently-ban-sex-change-end-this-lie-trump-rages-against-wokeness-7851999
February 5, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump planning to attend Super Bowl in New Orleans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-planning-attend-super-bowl-new-orleans-sources/15864809/
— USPS temporarily suspends package service from China, Hong Kong as Trump’s tariffs kick in
https://abc7chicago.com/post/usps-china-suspends-service-packages-hong-kong-donald-trumps-tariffs-kick/15866614/
— Democrat leaders promote Black History Month. My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-is-black-history-month/15865426/
NBC5
— Trump says U.S. will ‘take over’ Gaza to develop it, and Palestinians should leave
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-says-u-s-will-own-and-develop-gaza-strip/3665651/
WGN9
— Mayor Johnson slams Trump’s education policy as ‘reckless,’ pledges to protect Chicago’s future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh6R6enuBy8
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/04/marco-rubio-el-salvador/
— Trump won’t rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees ‘long-term’ US ownership
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/04/trump-netanyahu-gaza/
— Pritzker stresses importance of federal education funding amid latest threats from Trump
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/04/gov-jb-pritzker-stresses-importance-of-federal-education-funding-amid-latest-threats-from-trump/
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. They give preference to those who are Democrat, that is, they discriminate against those who are Republican.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/05/opinion-defend-civil-service-federal-worker-cuts-donald-trump/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump wants US to own, develop Gaza after Palestinians resettled elsewhere. Trump added the U.S. would level destroyed buildings and “create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/02/04/trump-gaza-united-states-own-develop-palestinians-displaced-netanyahu
— Federal transit dollars for Chicago, Illinois could be jeopardized via Trump administration directive. The order, issued in a U.S. Department of Transportation memo late last week, calls on the department to “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/02/04/donald-trump-federal-funding-mass-transit-cta-rta-executive-order
DAILY EGYPTIAN
— Carbondale promotes DEI, that is, Carbondale promotes discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://dailyegyptian.com/120234/news/national-dei-changes-lead-carbondale-to-monitor-inclusion-goals/
WAND TV
— Moms could receive paid break time to breastfeed their children in set of Illinois Democrat bills (COMMENT: During the 1990s, GAO’s Chicago office gutted its smoking room and turned it into a lactation room.)
https://www.wandtv.com/community/moms-could-receive-paid-break-time-to-breastfeed-their-children-in-set-of-illinois-democrat/article_9c811f84-e33c-11ef-84cd-1352da872df0.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Fearing that DeSantis will run for U.S. President in 2028, Democrat leaders do everything that they can to destroy him. Fearing that I would run for DuPage County Auditor, DuPage County RINOs did everything that they could to destroy me notwithstanding the fact that I never said or did anything that indicated that I might run for DuPage County Auditor. In fact, I did everything that I could to help elect a) Jim Rasins in 2000 and 2004 and b) Bob Grogan in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024. To destroy me, they have ignored, dismissed, belittled, and badmouthed my qualifications. I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117-807-$153,151/year: I worked for IRS 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 became a licensed CPA in 1981. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt in 1981. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. I earned master’s degrees in business in 1976, accounting in 1980, and finance in 1997. I should write about DuPage County RINOs. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-desantis-goes-to-battle-with-florida-republicans-in-trying-to-get-closer-to-trump/
— Trump says he’s given advisers instructions for Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it assassinates him
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-says-hes-given-advisers-instructions-for-iran-to-be-obliterated-if-it-assassinates-him/
WIFR
— Democrat leaders get Rockford students to promote illegal immigration
https://www.wifr.com/2025/02/05/east-students-walk-out-protest-trumps-immigration-policies/
WGLT
— U.S. cannabis shoppers face a market flush with illegal weed
https://www.wglt.org/2025-02-05/u-s-cannabis-shoppers-face-a-market-flush-with-illegal-weed
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Mayor Johnson has lost his credibility and the ability to govern Chicago. The only question is, who will replace him?
https://wirepoints.org/mayor-johnson-has-lost-his-credibility-and-the-ability-to-govern-chicago-the-only-question-is-who-will-replace-him-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Have you been offered a buyout? In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Venezuelan gang members become first migrants shipped to Guantanamo Bay
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/4/tren-de-aragua-gang-members-shipped-guantanamo-bay/
— USAID spent funds on DEI, transgender initiatives, terrorist groups
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/4/usaid-spent-funds-dei-transgender-initiatives-terr/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump executive order ends travel stipends for female troops getting abortions
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3309749/travel-stipends-abortions/
BREITBART
— Wokism Became a ‘Bastardized’ Religion Praying to the ‘Great God of Equality’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/02/04/comedian-bryan-callen-wokism-became-a-bastardized-religion-praying-to-the-great-god-of-equality/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— A Proposal for a Better H-1B Guest Worker Program. ‘H1B Refreshed’ would train an American for each visa issued (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If the employers that hired me could have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me, they would have. What did you do to get hired and/or to stay employed? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970. I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997. I earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I earned a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://cis.org/Lundgren/Proposal-Better-H1B-Guest-Worker-Program
FOX NEWS
— Unions sue Trump administration over ‘arbitrary and capricious’ federal employee buyout offers. American Federation of Government Employees warns workers to not be ‘misled by slick talk from unelected billionaires’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unions-sue-trump-administration-arbitrary-capricious-employee-buyout-offers
— Sen. Kaine claims Trump will ‘stiff’ federal employees who take buyout offer: ‘Do not be fooled’
https://www.aol.com/news/sen-kaine-claims-trump-stiff-182414416.html
— Sanctuary cities that refuse ICE removal requests could be punished under state, federal legislation. Opponents of sanctuary cities say their policies harbor criminals, including violent gang members.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sanctuary-cities-refuse-ice-removal-requests-could-punished-under-state-federal-legislation
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Homan Suggests Prosecuting New Jersey Governor for Sheltering Illegal Immigrant
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/border-czar-tom-homan-suggests-prosecuting-new-jersey-governor-for-sheltering-illegal-immigrant/
NEWSMAX
— Harboring Illegals Against the Law
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/nancy-mace-illegal-immigrants/2025/02/04/id/1197847/
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— DHS, Border Patrol, Marines Battle To Deport 100k Illegal Aliens From San Diego
https://www.oann.com/video/pearsonsharpreports/dhs-border-patrol-marines-battle-to-deport-100k-illegal-aliens-from-san-diego/
PJ MEDIA
— Trump ‘Welcomes’ New ‘Members’ to Club GITMO
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/02/04/club-gitmo-welcomes-new-guests-n4936672#google_vignette
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrats call for GAO investigation into Musk access of Treasury payment systems (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5126204-democrats-call-for-investigation-into-musk-access-of-treasury-payment-systems/
— Union sues over Trump buyout offer
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5126770-federal-workers-union-sues-trump-buyouts/
ROLL CALL
— White House opens funding spigot for DOGE expenses. Budget-slashing group is given nearly $7 million in a week as Musk gets access to sensitive government data
https://rollcall.com/2025/02/04/white-house-opens-funding-spigot-for-doge-expenses/
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders promote their 50 State Anti-Trump Protest
https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-50501-explainer-2026115
— Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett slammed “mediocre white boys” complaining about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, telling them: “If you are competent, you are not concerned.” (COMMENT: My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout that I must be incompetent and even worse things because IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and GAO never promoted me beyond GS-13 even though I a) earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) earned a job-related professional certification when I was 32.)
https://www.newsweek.com/jasmine-crockett-dei-donald-trump-politics-2025745
MSN
— Trump Targets ‘Woke’ Biden Appointees With Termination (COMMENT: All my critics/opponents are woke and the all promote wokeness/wokeism.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-targets-woke-biden-appointees-with-termination/ss-AA1ylGs3?ocid=iehp
NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S. Begins Flying Migrants to Guantánamo. The decision to send migrants from the United States to Guantánamo Bay is a change in how the country handles people it deports.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/us/politics/migrants-guantanamo-trump.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders say that Musk flouts accountability in his drive to slash budgets and oust workers. What about the Government Accountability Office that I worked for almost 18 years?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html
— To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/trump-diversity-racism.html
— Many Americans Say the Democratic Party Does Not Share Their Priorities. A poll from The New York Times and Ipsos found that Americans believe abortion, L.G.B.T.Q. issues and climate change concern Democrats more than the cost of living.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/democrats-ipsos-poll-abortion-lgbt.html
WASHINGTON POST
— USPS suspends package service from China as Trump’s tariffs kick in. The U.S. Postal Service’s decision may block or delay parcels from retailers including Amazon, Shein and Temu from entering the country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/04/usps-suspends-china-packages-shein-temu/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to claim asylum in America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/04/amnesty-migrants-border-trump-europe/
— At Guantánamo Bay detention camp, tents go up and troops await detainees. As immigration officials run out of detention space for migrants who might be deported, the Trump administration plans to send thousands to the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/04/guantanamo-bay-immigrants-deportation-flights/
— Key functions of the Education Department, which Trump is moving to dismantle. Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at shrinking the department as he looks to fulfill his campaign promise to shut it down. (COMMENT: I should write about how Republicans shrank GAO from more than 6,000 employees in 1980 to less than 3,000 in 1997.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/02/04/department-of-education-explained-trump/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Lawsuit accuses UC of illegally giving admissions preference to Black and Latino students
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-05/lawsuit-accuses-uc-racial-preference-in-admissions
MIAMIA HERALD
— To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/florida-showed-trump-demonize-dei-225956004.html
USA TODAY
— Trump’s right to slim federal workforce (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrats run the federal government. When they have to get rid of employees, they first get rid of those very few who are Republican and then those who they have not promoted to GS-15 ($!63,749-$195,200/year) and are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/03/trump-federal-employee-cuts-buyout-deficit/78026673007/
— ‘We would call it a coup’: Watchdogs and Dems attack Elon Musk Treasury Department takeover
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/03/dems-elon-musk-doge-takeover-treasury/78187978007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The CIA Is About to Get a Trump Makeover. Spy agency’s workforce receives buyout-style offer.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/the-cia-is-about-to-get-a-trump-makeover-16fc0cbf
— Why Trump’s Tariff Idol, McKinley, Abandoned His Own Tariff Policy. President Donald Trump often cites the 25th President, William McKinley, as an inspiration. The ‘McKinley Tariffs’ were some of the largest hikes in U.S. history, but in his second term, McKinley changed his mind, and argued for more free trade. (COMMENT: How much have you benefitted from free trade, that is, how much have you benefitted from cheap foreign labor? Ever-increasingly, virtually everything that America needs is made in foreign countries. Ever-increasingly, America is dependent on countries that want to conquer America if not destroy America.)
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/news-explainers/why-trumps-tariff-idol-mckinley-abandoned-his-own-tariff-policy/38A9364C-142B-4656-AFE3-B6F7F4F504E2
FORBES
— How Many Federal Workers Accepted Trump’s Buyout Offer To Resign So Far?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/terinaallen/2025/02/05/how-many-federal-workers-accepted-trumps-buyout-offer-to-resign-so-far/
POLITICO
— 37 ways Project 2025 has shown up in Trump’s executive orders
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2025/trump-executive-orders-project-2025/
— Why some centrist Dems fear David Hogg could ‘do more harm than good.’ The activist’s election as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee was pilloried in conservative media. (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, I am “too conservative.”)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/david-hogg-dnc-election-00202496
NPR
— Venezuelans illegally accepted Biden’s illegal invitation to illegally come illegally to America illegally. Now those Venezuelans hate Trump for ending that.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5285470/venezuelans-florida-tps-immigration-trump
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly encourage illegals to hide out in schools, churches, hospitals, etc.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5277170
WASHINGTON MONTHLY
— To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/05/trumps-blunderbuss-war-on-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
INSIDE HIGHER ED
— Hegseth Moves to End Race-Based Admissions at Military Academies
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/05/hegseth-orders-military-academies-end-affirmative-action
AUTO EVOLUTION
— Owner of a Dodge Charger EV Just Had His Car Delivered, This Is What He Likes and Dislikes (COMMENT: I have ordered a red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T. If you share my interest in the car, please let me know.)
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/owner-of-a-dodge-charger-ev-just-had-his-car-delivered-this-is-what-he-likes-and-dislikes-246564.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Now that we have that out of the way, we can go right back to Paul Mangelsdorf’s brand-new non-muscle-car Dodge Charger Daytona R/T. Paul mostly uses the Auto driving mode. He has three more available: Eco, Sport, and Wet/Snow. There are also three regenerative braking levels. Right now, Paul uses the second of the three. He finds the third too aggressive, and the first one not quite enough. The R/T starts at $61,590. Paul’s car is painted in a gorgeous After Dark paint, which is a $795 option. The car rides on the 20-inch Blacknoise aluminum wheels. Paul likes the steering wheel, the seating position, and the fact that he has everything at hand. It is, he says, a step up from the Challenger. In terms of engagement, though… “It’s not lifeless, it’s got some character and feel to it,” he says. He enjoys the way the suspension handles the road imperfections. It is stable at high speeds and handles corners with much agility while remaining composed. Paul will, however, change the stock tires for grippier ones to get some extra traction. His car is equipped with the Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust, which he finds to be a lot of fun around the city, but he prefers to turn it off on the highway because he doesn’t need the drama and the heads turning. The fake V8 sound mimics the growls and roars of a real engine, but it can’t fool a petrolhead. Dodge confirmed that the R/T and the Scat Pack have the same motors and battery but are tuned differently. So, the output gap between them might only be software-based. Now, Paul is considering tuning up the power in his R/T if that’s possible.)
LEE ERNST REALTY
— FOR SALE: Iron Gate Motor Condo at 2216 Ferry Road # 109, Naperville – $675,000
https://leeernst.exprealty.com/holp/listing/103/12283041
BUSINESS TODAY
— From ‘Illegals’ To Tariffs, A Look At The Thorny US-India Bilateral Issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tsd86LPuwc
INDEPENDENT
— Bernie Sanders accuses Musk of seeking cheaper, not brainier, immigrant labor with H-1B visas
https://www.aol.com/news/bernie-sanders-accuses-musk-seeking-013103992.html
DAILY MAIL
— CIA offers buyouts to entire staff in effort to slash spending and ensure agency aligns with MAGA agenda
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14361785/CIA-offers-buyouts-entire-staff-trump-federal-purge.html
— ICE reveals 6,000 illegal migrants deported in Trump’s first two weeks including rapists, murderers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14360521/ice-illegal-migrants-deported-donald-trump-rapists-murderers.html
February 3, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago businesses to close for ‘Day Without Immigrants’ protest: ‘Show how strong we are’ (COMMENT: To promote their illegals, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly lump illegal immigrants in with legal immigrants. Republicans oppose illegal immigration, but promote legal immigration.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/day-immigrants-protest-chicago-business-owners-close-shops-monday-social-media-campaign-calls-shopping-strike/15858588/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Durbin
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/us-sen-dick-durbins-latest-role-leading-democrats-on-judging-president-trumps-top-nominees/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn school choice.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/opinion-school-choice-drains-public-resources-illinios/
— Do Chicago voters know there are 1,900 places to buy hemp and get high?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/editorial-hemp-brandon-johnson-regulation/
— Heading into budget season, Gov. JB Pritzker faces major challenge to show ‘Illinois can govern itself’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/heading-into-budget-season-gov-jb-pritzker-faces-major-challenge-to-show-illinois-can-govern-itself/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: The Chicago Auto Show is back Saturday
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250202/transportation/start-your-engines-jeep-is-back-and-hybrids-are-hot-at-the-chicago-auto-show/
JOURNAL COURIER
— Hysterical rhetoric on Trump’s funding pause obscures historically important issue
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/hysterical-rhetoric-obscures-important-issue-20096012.php
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrats promote more illegal immigration in Elgin
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-02-02/hundreds-gather-in-elgin-to-rally-against-mass-deportations
NPR ILLINOIS
— How safe is your weed? Patchy regulations may leave contaminants in the weed supply.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-03/how-safe-is-your-weed-patchy-regulations-may-leave-contaminants-in-the-weed-supply
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— State Rep. David Friess, R-Red Bud, responds to Kinzinger’s criticism of reimbursing military members dismissed over COVID vaccine refusal (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors dismissed me when I was 49 years old in 1997 because in 1988 I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. Because of that, I should get reimbursed. I suggest $2.4 million, that is $4.2 million in backpay in today’s dollars minus the $1.8 million in pension payments that I have received in today’s dollars.)
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/lawmaker-responds-to-kinzinger-s-criticism-of-reimbursing-military-members-dismissed-over-covid-vaccine-refusal/article_3bd2ba94-dfea-11ef-a28e-d3e4e54c1fc9.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Friess, a veteran, agrees that servicemen should be reinstated and questioned the necessity of healthy servicemen needing to get the COVID vaccine. . .Friess confirmed service members do have to make sure that their shots are up to date before they deploy. . .Friess said there might be some resentment from military members who were forced to get the COVID vaccine. “What are the other military members going to say? How are they going to feel about it? And, and I think it’s going to be mixed. I think you’re going to have some people say, ‘yeah, [this was the] way to go,’ and people that might be resentful,” said Friess. Friess pointed out that during government shutdowns, non-essential federal employees go home and that they don’t get paid during the shutdown, but always receive back pay. “Now they don’t get paid during that government shutdown, but they always get back pay. They get compensated because it’s no fault of their own. So, is that [giving them back pay] right? Probably not. There’s a bright line on this,” said Friess. About 8,000 troops were booted from the military for refusing COVID-19 vaccinations. The order, signed by Trump, paves the way for them to be reinstated in the military with back pay.)
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/03/trumps-trans-military-ban-sparks-alarm-00202050
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-448/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIRE POINTS
— No matter what Pritzker or the Tribune says, Illinois’ NAEP education results are abysmal
https://wirepoints.org/no-matter-what-pritzker-or-the-tribune-says-illinois-naep-education-results-are-abysmal-wirepoints/
— Trump is showing he cares more about safe streets in Illinois than Gov. Pritzker does
https://wirepoints.org/trumps-showing-he-cares-more-about-safe-streets-in-illinois-than-gov-pritzker-does-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
MCHENRY CUNTY BLOG
— Legislators at County Board Meeting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/02/legislators-at-county-board-meeting/
— Does DEI -> National Idiocy?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/02/does-dei-national-idiocy/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What are the main things that distinguish you from your critics/opponents? Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents had parents who had way more money than my parents had. They did not have to work their way through college like I had to. Their parents bought them cars and paid for their college expenses. Further, they benefitted from Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI or want to benefit from AA and DEI. Further, they look down on if not despise if not hate Protestants, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors. I should write about my critics/opponents and the pretexts they used to take big adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If Trump had been elected earlier, how would that have impacted your career? Democrats run the federal government. Democrats hate Trump. Because of my demographics, if Trump had been elected before 1980, the Democrats who ran GAO back then would not have hired me in 1980, and if they had, they would not have promoted me in 1986 and they would have forced me to retire much sooner. If Trump had been elected before 1971, the Democrats who ran IRS back then would not have hired me in 1971, and if they had, they would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1975. If Trump had been elected before 1966, the Democrats who ran the Post Office back then would not have hired me in 1966, and if they had, they would have forced me to resign much sooner. However, if Trump had been elected before 1971, EEOC would not have forced Oldsmobile to stop hiring Whites and Oldsmobile would not have withdrawn the job offer that I had accepted. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Consolidation of Marengo FPD, Rescue District, and Union Fire Protection District Being Given Serious Consideration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/03/consolidation-of-marengo-fpd-rescue-district-and-union-fire-protection-district-being-given-serious-consideration/
— McHenry County College Awarded $118,788 for Mental Health Support
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/03/mchenry-county-college-awarded-118788-for-mental-health-support/
— Consolidation of Marengo FPD, Rescue District, and Union Fire Protection District Being Given Serious Consideration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/03/consolidation-of-marengo-fpd-rescue-district-and-union-fire-protection-district-being-given-serious-consideration/
— Woodstock Willie Makes Front Page of Chicago Tribune, TV, Even Pittsburgh Paper
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/03/woodstock-willie-makes-front-page-of-chicago-tribune/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Crying and coping: Left struggles with Trump’s aggressiveness
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/crying-coping-left-struggles-donald-trump-aggressi/
NEW YORK POST
— Thousands protest against Trump’s immigration crackdown, blocking traffic on Los Angeles freeway (COMMENT: Los Angeles today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/us-news/protesters-against-trumps-immigration-crackdown-block-los-angeles-freeway/
— The left’s lies just keep growing — even as each of them gets debunked
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/opinion/the-lefts-lies-keep-just-growing-even-as-each-of-them-gets-debunked/
AMERICAN REATNESS
— Ten Problems with DEI That Frighten the Public. DEI policies are facing scrutiny amid recent disasters, raising concerns about their impact on competence, meritocracy, and public safety.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/03/the-problems-with-dei-that-frighten-the-public/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The first issue is whether hiring, retention, and promotion in the airline industry or the military is not fully meritocratic. That is, were personnel hired on the basis of their exhibited superior education, practical experience, and superb scores on relevant examinations in matters relating to air travel? Or were they instead passed over because of their race, gender, or sexual orientation? Was the shortage of controllers a direct result not of an unqualified pool of applicants but rather because of racial restrictions place upon it to reduce its size? Second, were the promoters of DEI confident that they could argue that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” were as important criteria for the operation of a complex aircraft system as the past traditional criteria that had qualified air traffic controllers, pilots, and administrators? Not only did DEI considerations often supersede past traditional meritocratic requirements for employment, but DEI champions had also argued that “diversity” was either as important to, or more important than, traditional hiring and retention evaluations. The answers to these first two questions make it incumbent to ask further whether DEI played a role in the Washington, D.C., crash, similar to how it may have in the Los Angeles wildfires. It is not racist, sexist, or homophobic to ask such legitimate questions, especially because advocates themselves so often give more attention and emphasis to their race, gender, and sexual orientation than their assumed impressive expertise, proven experience, and superior education. In other words, had one’s race, sex, or orientation been incidental to employment rather than essential, such questions from the public might never have arisen. Finally, what are the problems with DEI that have not just lost its support but put fear into the public that, like the Russian commissar system of old, it has the potential to undermine the very sinews of a sophisticated, complex society? . .In sum, because of these inconsistencies, Donald Trump may well be able to end DEI with a wave of an executive order—simply because its foundations were always built of sand and thus any bold push would knock over the entire shaky edifice.)
BACON’S REBELLION
— Four Anti-School Choice Myths Exploded (COMMENT: Since 1953 when my parents sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete, my critics/opponents have used that against me. They have outrageously/disgustingly/falsely used that to hint/imply/argue/shout that my parents could do that because they were filthy rich. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and during the 1950s, it was less. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.)
https://www.baconsrebellion.com/four-anti-school-choice-myths-explored-exploded/
BREITBART
— Lady Gaga Preaches Politics at Grammys: ‘Trans People Are Not Invisible’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/02/02/lady-gaga-at-grammys-trans-people-are-not-invisible-queer-community-deserves-to-be-lifted-up/
— Wall St. Journal Scoffs as ‘Dumb’ Trump Uses Tariffs to Reduce American Drug-Deaths
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/02/wall-st-journal-sneers-at-trump-using-tariffs-to-reduce-opioid-deaths/
COLLEGE FIX
— Florida State University to remove general education designation from hundreds of CRT-infused courses (COMMENT: Back in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1990s, I took many courses to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees. But because virtually all of those courses were in business, accounting, and finance, few pushed the Democrat Party platform.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/florida-state-u-to-remove-general-education-designation-from-hundreds-of-crt-infused-courses/
EPOCH TIMES
— Panama Says It Will Not Renew ‘Belt and Road’ Agreement With China After Rubio Visit
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/panama-says-it-will-not-renew-belt-and-road-agreement-with-china-5803181
FEDERALIST
— 5 Shocking Reasons Trump Should Exit The U.N. Now
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/03/5-shocking-reasons-trump-should-exit-the-u-n-now/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— H-1B Visas: Cheap Foreign Labor Versus the American Worker (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://www.fairus.org/issue/h-1b-visas-cheap-foreign-labor-versus-american-worker
FOX NEWS
— Trump order restricting sex-change procedures for minors in line with ‘do no harm,’ doctor says. ‘This fight only ends when children are no longer being abused on our soil. Ever,’ detransitioner Chloe Cole said.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-order-restricting-sex-change-procedures-minors-line-do-no-harm-doctor-says
— Trump defends tariffs, accuses Canada of being ‘very abusive of the United States’: Trump authorized his tariffs against China, Canada and Mexico on Saturday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-defends-tariffs-accuses-canada-being-very-abusive-united-states-video
— Musk rips ‘fraudulent’ Treasury handouts as reports mount DOGE has access to federal payment system
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/musk-rips-fraudulent-treasury-payments-reports-mount-doge-has-access-federal-payment-system
TUBERVILLE
— Tuberville moves to prioritize American workers over ‘cheap’ foreign labor (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/tuberville-moves-to-prioritize-american-workers-over-cheap-foreign-labor-combat-job-outsourcing/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Constitution’s “equal protection” guarantee a) to give more preference to Democrats and b) to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-conservatives-reignite-battle-race-constitution-rcna189842
CNN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.wfft.com/news/national/this-family-of-ten-trekked-from-venezuela-in-hopes-of-asylum-in-america-now-they/article_36b1c546-9826-52b8-8c62-a9bf81b1eb3d.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— American dream out of reach (COMMENT: I was able to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. and real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35. But I doubt that I would be able to do that today at those ages.)
https://www.gjsentinel.com/with-home-prices-and-mortgage-rates-high-many-families-find-the-american-dream-out-of/article_6bc4119e-f033-51a4-aedb-66006acfee6d.html
MSN
— Secret Service Faces Lawsuit Over DEI Standards
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/secret-service-faces-lawsuit-over-dei-standards/ss-AA1rAqbc?ocid=st2
NEW YORK TIMES
— Many Americans Say the Democratic Party Does Not Share Their Priorities. A poll from The New York Times and Ipsos found that Americans believe abortion, L.G.B.T.Q. issues and climate change concern Democrats more than the cost of living.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/democrats-ipsos-poll-abortion-lgbt.html
— To achieve Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI quotas, goals, and targets, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly lower standards big time. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans. That rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, and/or younger. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/trump-diversity-racism.html
— NASA Astronaut Recruitment Faces Trump’s Moves Against D.E.I. The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump administration. (COMMENT: To promote diversity is to discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male. older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/science/nasa-astronauts-dei-trump.html
— The more of the following that you are, the faster that Democrat leaders get rid of you: conservative, Republican, American, White, male. older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid, I would not have survived for almost 9 years working for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980 if I had not a) earned an MBA in 1976, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and c) almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting. Because I am all of the aforesaid, I would not have survived for almost 18 years working for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 if I had not a) earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981, c) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and d) earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/opinion/transgender-military-ban-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use religious leaders to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2025/02/02/bishop-budde-national-cathedral-trump/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more illegal immigration and LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/03/trump-immigrant-children-transgender/
USA TODAY
— Transgender care on kids is dangerous. Trump was right to block it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/03/trump-bans-funding-gender-surgery-transitioning-kids/78051941007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democratic States Are Wards of Washington. There’s a reason for the panic over the Trump White House’s temporary federal spending pause. (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats take money away from Republicans and give it to Democrats.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democratic-states-are-wards-of-washington-federal-spending-dollars-states-cities-92ace121
— Democrats Have a New Leader Ken Martin, but Haven’t Come to Grips With Failure. Cracks emerge as party confronts deep unpopularity; ‘we utilize identity to break ourselves apart.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/democrats-have-a-new-leader-but-havent-come-to-grips-with-failure-ee77234c
— Rich Countries Are Becoming Addicted to Cheap Labor (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/business-immigrant-low-skilled-labor-addiction-bf009a83
FORTUNE
— Tesla Accused of Using Cheap Foreign Labor in Silicon Valley (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://fortune.com/2016/05/16/tesla-cheap-labor/
FORBES
— Why Job Benefits Are Disappearing From 2025 Hiring Posts (COMMENT: The federal government does not reimburse its employees’ tuition expenses for job-related graduate courses except for small token amounts in some cases. My Democrat IRS superiors used that to outrageously/disgustingly/falsely hint/imply/argue/shout that the graduate business and accounting courses that I deducted a) did not relate to my job duties, b) did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) were taken my me to get a job in the private sector, and d) qualified me for a new trade or business. They outrageously/disgustingly/falsely did that knowing full-well that their employee manual encouraged me to take those courses and ignoring my position descriptions and graduate school applications.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cynthiapong/2025/01/19/why-job-benefits-are-disappearing-from-2025-hiring-posts/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: By proactively detailing what makes a role worthwhile—whether that’s flexible scheduling, mental health support, or tuition reimbursement—employers can still differentiate themselves without overwhelming applicants with a laundry list of minor perks.)
— How many marginalized groups are you a member of? My critics/opponents stress that I am not a member of any marginalized group. I am not liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, or citizen of a foreign country. According to my critics/opponents, because I am not a member of any marginalized group, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/genacox/2025/02/02/4-ways-respect-powers-thriving-teams-leadership-and-business-success/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2025/02/02/tired-of-performative-allyship-10-phrases-inclusive-leaders-use/
BLOOMBERG
— Cheap Foreign Labor Soars in Canada as Young Workers Are Left Jobless (COMMENT: Canada today, America tomorrow. If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-12/cheap-foreign-labor-soars-in-canada-as-young-workers-are-left-jobless
— Canada Must End Reliance on Cheap Foreign Labor, Minister Says (COMMENT: Canada today, America tomorrow. If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-06/canada-must-end-reliance-on-cheap-foreign-labor-minister-says
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2024/08/06/canada-moves-to-shrink-low-wage-foreign-worker-program-after-explosive-growth/
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Trump’s Deportation Plans Get Boost From Actions in Red States (COMMENT: Trump’s deportation plans are obstructed in blue states.)
https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/trumps-deportation-plans-get-boost-from-actions-in-red-states
WIRED
— The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover. Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure. (COMMENT: Just kidding, but will Musk ask for my advice on anything? GAO fights fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government. 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. I have three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. Further, 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.)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, tasked by executive order with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.” The engineers all hold nebulous job titles within DOGE, and at least one appears to be working as a volunteer.)
SCHOLARSHIPS
— Did you get scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that to hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I am academically deficient and b) that my parents were filthy rich. In my defense, I worked my way through college and then earned three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarships/scholarships-by-type/full-tuition-scholarships
NATIONAL POST
— Fines issued for abusing Canada’s temporary foreign worker program rise 36% (COMMENT: Canada today, America tomorrow. If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are today, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower because immigrants drive wages down. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to work their way through college because their parents were wealthy.)
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/fines-issued-for-abusing-canadas-temporary-foreign-worker-program-rise-36
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Trump to again freeze federal hiring. The new president will allow some exceptions, but says the freeze is necessary to root out “useless and overpaid” activists from federal rolls. (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats that ran GAO 1980-1997, the agency was almost always under Republican-caused hiring and promotion freezes. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely for that. Who does Trump want the next Comptroller General to be, that is, who does Trump want the next head of GAO to be?)
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/trump-again-freeze-federal-hiring/402335/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Government Accountability Office raised concerns about the impact of Trump’s and previous hiring freezes, saying they were not effective and exacerbate existing workforce problems. Such freezes, GAO said, cause agencies to hire contractors and temporary staff. “If you want to reduce the workforce, you have to reduce the functions they’re doing,” GAO chief Gene Dodaro told Congress in 2017. “And you have to be able to realign the workforce.” GAO also found that agencies with exceptions, such as the Veterans Affairs Department that allowed the hiring of doctors and nurses to continue, still experienced fallout as they suffered from a lack of support staff. When Trump ended the freeze, he tasked agencies to create plans to reshape themselves. Few of those plans were ever brought into effect as they ran headlong into congressional resistance. White House officials later refuted that the overall plans were intended to reduce federal workforce personnel. Some federal agencies have already implemented hiring restrictions due to budget caps and the short-term funding mechanism under which they are currently operating.)
TIMES
— US social mobility is overhyped (COMMENT: I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license even though a) neither of my parents attended college, b) my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) my mother never attended high school, d) my ACT score was only 24, e) I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of high school class, and f) I had to work my way through college.)
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/brutal-truth-us-social-mobility-is-overhyped-xg3dqvg7k
January 23, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DOJ vows to push immigration enforcement in Chicago, other sanctuary cities
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-deportations-fears-raids-loom-public-schools-returns-classes-trump-authorizes-ice-target/15825308/
— Trump wipes out federal DEI programs (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always promoted DEI.)
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/donald-trump-2nd-term-live-updates-more-executive-action-planned-amid-day-1-fallout/15820865/
— Pritzker criticizes President Trump’s courting of tech CEOs, lack of communication
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jb-pritzker-news-illinois-governor-criticizes-president-donald-trumps-courting-tech-ceos-lack-communication/15825993/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/glaad-award-nominations-agatha-abbott-shadows-celebrate-lgbtq-visibility/15826462/
NBC5
— DEI is race and gender based preference giving, that is, DEI is patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. DEI is what Democrats and RINOs use to get in power and to stay in power.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/what-is-a-dei-program-and-what-did-trump-change-heres-an-explainer/3653396/
CBS2
— U.S. border agents told to deport migrants without granting asylum hearings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/u-s-border-agents-told-to-deport-migrants-without-granting-asylum-hearings/
WGN9
— Democrats reject Trump’s election. Democrats reject the rule of law.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-immigrant-protection/
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/dei-policies-rollback-threatens-future-of-minority-women-contractors-in-illinois/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrPEuwfQkpo
FOX32
— Trump shuts down US-Mexico border as House poised to pass ‘Laken Riley Act’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1581201
— More than 1,000 active-duty troops will head to southern border
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/active-duty-troops-heading-to-southern-border
— Illinois among states impacted in ICE’s first large-scale arrest operation under Trump administration
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-ice-arrest-operation-trump
WTTW
— White House Orders Federal Government DEI Employees to be Placed on Leave Effective Immediately (COMMENT: Since the 1960s, under the Democrats, the federal government has existed to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/22/white-house-orders-government-dei-employees-be-placed-leave-effective-immediately
WBEZ
— What President Trump’s ‘national energy emergency” means for Illinois
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/01/22/what-president-trumps-national-energy-emergency-means-for-illinois
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago illegals stay home from work to avoid potential ICE arrests
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/daywatch-immigrants-stay-home-from-work-to-avoid-potential-ice-arrests/
— Chicago schools, churches and hospitals vow to protect migrants in US illegally after Trump lifts ban that limited immigration arrests in safe spaces (COMMENT: Chicago Democrats ever-increasingly reject Trump’s election and the rule of law.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/chicago-trump-immigration-fears-deportation/
— Chicago Public Media offering buyouts to Sun-Times editorial staffers, WBEZ business employees (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/chicago-public-media-buyouts-sun-times-wbez/
— TikTok lives on. So does its harmful effect on kids.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/23/editorial-tiktok-lives-on-so-does-its-harmful-effect-on-kids/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/01/22/bullying-hate-speech-schools-already-bad-will-worsen-second-donald-trump-era-gina-caneva
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly manipulate/dominate religious leaders.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250122/nation-and-world-politics/trump-demands-an-apology-from-bishop-who-asked-him-to-have-mercy-on-lgbtq-people-and-migrants/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— A new Illinois pension reform bill would increase contributions to the state’s three largest retirement systems by a total of nearly $30 billion through fiscal year 2045, according to an actuarial impact study by Segal Group.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-tier-2-pension-reform-could-cost-30-billion-cogfa
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Labor’s dream: More money for higher pension benefits
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-labors-dream-more-money-for-higher-pension-benefits/article_f6aa7418-d83f-11ef-9621-7bd973968aa2.html
WCIA
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wcia.com/news/state-news/illinois-lgbtq-organization-responds-to-trump-executive-order-slashing-gender-identity-protections/
WREX
— To what extent do those who enforce laws in your county, township, municipality, and school district reject Trump’s election, and therefore, reject the rule of law? While I was an IRS Revenue Officer ( SEE: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/tax-collection-enforcement ) 1971-1980, I enforced federal tax laws. During my last 5 1/2 years, I worked at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.
https://www.wrex.com/news/rockford-police-chief-releases-statement-explaining-stance-on-enforcing-immigration-laws/article_004bbdd8-d809-11ef-bdb4-7fe77ee28417.html
(FROM IRS: As a Revenue Officer, you will conduct tax related civil enforcement investigations, and will be trained in tax law, collection, and civil investigative techniques, to collect delinquent taxes and tax returns. Most of your work is in the field, where you will interact with taxpayers, taxpayer representatives, and third parties at their residences and/or places of business. You will protect taxpayers’ rights, counsel taxpayers on their obligations, and determine how to resolve tax delinquencies.)
WSIL TV
— DEI is race and gender based preference giving, that is, DEI is patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/what-is-dei-and-why-is-it-dividing-america/article_48a7c66a-9773-50de-bc00-4184de4955e9.html
FOX2 WCIA
— Illinois Democrat lawmakers introduce bill to decriminalize prostitution
https://fox2now.com/news/illinois/illinois-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-decriminalize-prostitution/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/illinois-democratic-lawmakers-propose-bill-of-rights-for-sex-workers/ar-AA1xgj1Y
WPSD
— Illinois, State Rep. Patrick Windhorst, R-Metropolis, launches petition against decriminalizing prostitution
https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/illinois-rep-launches-petition-against-decriminalizing-sex-work-citing-safety-concerns/article_ec9ef8a2-d454-11ef-8452-6779cb9ef2f9.html
POSITIVELY NAPERVILLE
— January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, Panel Discussion is planned Jan. 31. Moderated by former Illinois Lt. Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti, the panel will include Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart; DuPage County States Attorney Bob Berlin, and Executive Director at Noomi’s House, Blythe Struck. The DuPage County Historical Museum is located at 102 E. Wesley Street in Wheaton. The Public is invited. (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote prostitution.)
https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2025/01/22/january-is-human-trafficking-prevention-month-panel-discussion-is-planned-jan-31/147476
ELMHURST PATCH
— Dennis Reboletti, supervisor of Addison Township, has seen a big increase in his pay since being elected to the position in 2016. . .His supervisor’s salary started at $54,000. Before his re-election, the board voted unanimously to increase the position’s pay to $79,990, a 48 percent increase. Earlier this month, Patch reported that the supervisor’s pay was going up to $124,900 with the new term starting after the April 1 election. . .According to the township’s latest salary resolution, the position in question is now listed as “Supervisor/Highway Commissioner.”
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/elmhurst-politician-sees-pay-rise-lot
BLACK PRESS
— In a historic step toward economic justice and accountability, Illinois State Representative Sonya Harper has introduced HB1227 to create the Enslavement Era Disclosure and Redress Act, marking a major milestone in the fight for reparative justice. This legislation means that any corporation or institution with ties to enslavement or the transatlantic slave trade discloses its historical involvement and provides redress if it wishes to do business with the State of Illinois. (COMMENT: Soon, if not already, Illinois Democrats will force everyone in Illinois to disclose their ties to enslavement or the transatlantic slave trade. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s from what is now Germany. In their defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois. On my mother’s side, they sharecropped and then bought and operated a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses just north of downtown Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store.)
https://blackpressusa.com/press-room-illinois-introduces-landmark-slavery-disclosure-and-redress-bill-hb1227-press-conference-set-for-january-28/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Icing out ICE at the DMV. Nearly 180,000 people have taken advantage of a new law allowing them to apply for a driver’s license or state ID that does not identify their immigration status. The secretary of state by law isn’t sharing the paperwork.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/01/23/illinois-drivers-licenses-dont-identify-undocumented-people-00200187
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-441/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-233/
— Illinois-related Trump coverage roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/22/illinois-related-trump-coverage-roundup/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Do you live in Illinois? Did you vote for Trump? If you live in Illinois and you voted for Trump, what are you doing to protect yourself from Pritzker? Pritzker ever-increasingly makes it clear that he is going to get rid of the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump. What makes you more vulnerable? The less money that you have, the more vulnerable that you are. The fewer who voted for Trump in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct, the more vulnerable that you are. In my precinct, only 373 voted for Trump, but 478 voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Everyone knows that virtually all asylum and refugee claims are false. Everyone knows that citizens of foreign countries come to America illegally and/or stay in America illegally because Democrat and RINO leaders want them to and because they know that Democrat and RINO leaders will give free housing, free food, free clothing, free medical care, free education, free transportation, free etc., Everyone knows a) that virtually all illegals want/need/demand tremendous government assistance, b) that virtually all illegals lack education and/or job skills, and c) that many if not most illegals have health and/or other problems. Democrat leaders want illegals because sooner or later, if not already, illegals vote for Democrats. RINOs want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPONTS
— 45% of Illinoisans voted for Trump, those voters can be powerful base of advocates for change
https://wirepoints.org/theres-45-of-people-that-voted-for-trump-those-voters-can-be-powerful-base-of-advocates-for-change-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-newstalkstl/
— Trump’s deportations won’t create ‘chaos,’ Illinois’ sanctuary policies already create chaos
https://wirepoints.org/trumps-deportations-wont-create-chaos-illinois-sanctuary-policies-already-create-chaos-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Trump brings Stellantis jobs to Illinois. Pritzker takes credit.
https://wirepoints.org/trump-brings-stellantis-jobs-to-illinois-pritzker-takes-credit-wirepoints-quickpoint/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Richard Tado Sends Postcard Advancing His Candidacy for Algonquin Township Supervisor
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/22/richard-tado-sends-postcard-advancing-his-candidacy-for-algonquin-township-supervisor/
— Political Money Poured into Democrat Kelli Wegener’s Campaign to Head McHenry County Board
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/22/political-money-poured-into-democrat-kelli-wegeners-campaign-to-head-mchenry-county-board/
— Wilcox Questions Need for New State Flag
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/22/wilcox-questions-need-for-new-state-flag/
— 300 Republicans Celebrate Inauguration in Marengo
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/republicans-celebrate-inauguration-in-marengo/
— Feds Accuse Pot Exec, Golf Buddies of Insider Trading
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/feds-accuse-pot-exec-golf-buddies-of-insider-trading/
— Projected 2025 McHenry County Employee Compensation: Re-Sa
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/projected-2025-mchenry-county-employee-compensation-re-sa/
— Concealed Carry for Visitors May Be Mandated by Republican Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/concealed-carry-for-visitors-may-be-mandated-by-republican-congress/
— Tribune Continues to Protect Biden
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/tribune-continues-to-protect-biden/
— Trump Presidential Source Documents
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/trump-presidential-source-documents/
— How Did Democrat Kelli Wegener Spend $71,000 on Her Campaign to Head County Board after September?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/how-did-democrat-kelli-wegener-spend-71000-on-her-campaign-to-head-county-board-after-september/
— Resentment of “Black Boys” Expressed by Southern Illinois State Rep. Who Voted for MLK Holiday Bill for Lack of Reciprocity on Mineral Extraction Tax Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/21/black-boy-resentment-expressed-by-southern-illinois-state-rep-who-voted-for-mlk-holiday-bill-for-lack-of-reciprocity-on-mineral-extraction-tax-bill/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WHITE HOUSE
— GUARANTEEING THE STATES PROTECTION AGAINST INVASION: Today, President Trump signed an Executive Order that suspends the physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion of the United States through the southern border.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-protects-the-states-and-the-american-people-by-closing-the-border-to-illegals-via-proclamation/
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump agency says employees are free to say ‘illegal’ and ‘alien’ again
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/dhs-agency-cancels-mayorkas-ban-using-words-like-i/
— Future of DEI up in the air after Trump strips it out of the federal government (COMMENT: In 1971, when I was 22 years old, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/future-dei-air-donald-trump-strips-federal-governm/
— Trump orders 1,500 troops to border
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/trump-orders-1-500-troops-border/
— Russia is turning Latin America against the U.S. with veiled propaganda. Little attention has been paid to the damage Moscow is causing in America’s hemisphere. (COMMENT: In WWIII, which countries will side with Russia and China against America? Those countries are ever-increasingly using their citizens to invade, infiltrate, infest, and destroy America.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/russia-turning-latin-america-u-veiled-propaganda/
— Cracking down on illegal immigration will raise wages for lower-income Americans (COMMENT: Illegals drive wages down. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/cracking-illegal-immigration-would-raise-wages-low/
— Blitz on illegal immigration underway with troops to border, DOJ investigating sanctuary cities
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/blitz-illegal-immigration-underway-troops-border-d/
— Trump saves the whales in ‘green energy’ showdown. President bans leases for offshore wind farms blamed for deaths of endangered species.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/22/trump-saves-whales-green-energy-showdown/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump’s new policy bans BLM and LGBT pride flags at US embassies and outposts
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3297968/new-policy-bans-blm-lgbt-pride-flags-us-embassies/
— Trump deals a heavy blow to DEI — hopefully it’s lethal (COMMENT: If my Democrat superiors in the federal government had not had Affirmative Action and DEI to use against me, I would have made Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old. Extremely few of my Democrat coworkers earned job-related master’s degrees, professional certifications, or professional licenses. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3297779/trump-deals-heavy-blow-dei-hopefully-lethal/
— Top anti-abortion lawyer talks strategy for new Trump administration
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/3297679/top-anti-abortion-lawyer-strategy-new-trump-administration/
NEW YORK POST
— Foot traffic drops 50% in busy Chicago shopping district known as ‘Mexico of the Midwest’ as Trump immigration raids loom
https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/us-news/foot-traffic-drops-50-in-bustling-chicago-shopping-district-as-trump-immigration-raids-loom/
— ICE arrested 308 illegal migrants — including attempted murderer and a child molester —on Trump’s first full day in office
https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/us-news/ice-arrested-308-illegal-migrants-on-trumps-first-day-in-office-border-czar-tom-homan-says/
— Trump rips ‘idiot’ Gov. Gavin Newsom over sanctuary cities, management of Calif. before devastating LA wildfires
https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/us-news/trump-rips-gov-gavin-newsom-for-not-managing-california-forests-before-devastating-la-wildfires-like-a-nuclear-weapon-went-off/
— Egomaniacal Bishop Budde’s woke rant just makes her another liberal pawn aiming to cut down Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/opinion/miranda-devine-egomaniacal-bishop-buddes-woke-rant-just-makes-her-another-liberal-pawn-aiming-to-cut-down-trump/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Donald Trump’s inauguration has revealed the existence of two realities inhabiting the same plane of existence. Normal Americans—largely but not exclusively Republicans—inhabit actual, objective, scientifically examined reality. Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) reality is a Bizzarro World/backward existence where Normal American victims are aggressors and D/s/c aggressors are victims. It’s a world of self-delusion, raging, drooling, and terminal Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/donald_trump_and_alternate_reality.html
AMMOLAND
— Trump Shuts Down Biden’s White House Office of Gun Control
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/01/president-trump-shuts-down-bidens-white-house-office-of-gun-control/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump gives DEI staffers orders to exit by EOD Wednesday, merit-based hiring resumes immediately (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs have long since dumped meritocracy to advance Democrats and RINOs who are 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.bizpacreview.com/2025/01/22/trump-gives-dei-staffers-orders-to-exit-by-eod-wednesday-merit-based-hiring-resumes-immediately-1517729/
BLAZE
— 2,000 immigrants from Southern Mexico join caravan in hope of entering US despite Trump’s orders
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-caravan-mexico-new
BREITBART
— Durbin: We Should ‘Encourage’ Government Agencies to Defy Trump DEI Order (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/01/23/durbin-we-should-encourage-government-agencies-to-defy-trump-dei-order/
CENTER SQUARE
— Trump’s ‘invasion’ order includes provisions to implement mass deportation plan. Order puts in place processes for mass deportation, prosecutions, targets sanctuary cities.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_3574f1c8-d8ef-11ef-ba1d-a797bb57ca54.html
DAILY CALLER
— Democrat Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez Says ‘Left’ Is Out For Blood After He Criticized Chicago’s Shielding Of Illegal Migrants From ICE
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/20/chicago-dem-says-left-coming-after-him/
DAILY WIRE
— America’s Golden Age Starts, And The Left Still Goes Woke. Wokeness is now the core philosophy of the Democratic Party.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-golden-age-starts-and-the-left-still-goes-woke
— Woke Bishop’s Anti-Trump Sermon Is The End Result Of A Marxist Plot. Budde used a nonpartisan prayer service to lecture Trump about illegal immigrants, transgenderism.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-bishops-anti-trump-sermon-is-the-end-result-of-a-marxist-plot
— Fake Feminist ‘Bishop’ Turns Inaugural Prayer Service Into Woke Anti-Trump Lecture
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1520
— Crazed Priestess Berates Trump On Wokeness
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mks-ep-1657
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Orders 1,500 More US Troops to Southern Border
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-orders-1500-more-us-troops-to-southern-border-5797029
FOX BUSINESS
— Trump is waging a campaign for meritocracy (COMMENT: My critics/opponents oppose meritocracy.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5pPtskcZkg
— Federal workers should be hired based on meritocracy (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. If they had promoted employees based on meritocracy, they would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old. Extremely few of my Democrat coworkers earned job-related master’s degrees, professional certifications, or professional licenses. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6367529292112
FOX NEWS
— Trump’s ICE racks up hundreds of arrests, including illegal immigrants arrested for horror crimes. Over 460 arrests were made in the first 33 hours of the administration.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-ice-racks-up-hundreds-arrests-including-illegal-immigrants-arrested-horror-crimes
— Judge Jeanine reacts to woke bishop: Where’s the separation of church and state?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJfke_54KeM
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Trump’s Mass Deportation Operation Begins with Over 300 Criminal Aliens Rounded Up on Day One
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trumps-mass-deportation-operation-begins-with-over-300-criminal-aliens-rounded-up-on-day-one/
— Trump Speaks with Hannity About Resounding Electoral Victory, Start to Second Term
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-speaks-with-hannity-about-resounding-electoral-victory-start-to-second-term/
NEW AMERICAN
— ICE Collars Hundreds of Illegal-alien Criminals; Summary Deportations at Border Begin
https://thenewamerican.com/us/ice-collars-hundreds-of-illegal-alien-criminals-summary-deportations-at-border-begin/
TOWNHALL
— Trump Is Sure to Infuriate the Left With His Latest Offensive Against ‘Wokeness’ in Government (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors ever-increasingly became woke influencers.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/01/22/state-department-bans-pride-and-black-lives-matter-flags-from-embassies-with-one-flag-policy-n2650957
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Trump administration fired another shot at “woke” influences in the federal government by targeting the display of Black Lives Matter and Pride flags. Newly-appointed State Department Secretary Marco Rubio issued an order establishing a “One Flag Policy” which prohibits the display of any flag other than the American flag on U.S. outposts on American soil and abroad.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Pentagon is sending 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the US-Mexico border
https://apnews.com/article/troops-border-deploy-active-duty-09324578d2b89db5c44e0ba08f42df47
CNN
— US military ordering thousands more troops to southern border
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/politics/us-military-troops-southern-border/index.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/us/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-explained/index.html
NEWSWEEK
— White House Gun Violence Prevention Website Goes Offline
https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-gun-violence-prevention-website-offline-2018801
NBC NEWS
— Trump moves to fire or force out thousands of federal employees (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors ever-increasingly focused on firing their Republican employees.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5FrLtdd5g
CBS NEWS
— Trump calls bishop a “hater” after sermon directed at president about LGBTQ rights, immigration (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for Trump. 77 million voted for Trump last year.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-calls-bishop-a-hater-after-sermon-directed-at-president-about-lgbtq-rights-immigration/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Those who voted for Harris/Walz eject Trump’s election and reject the rule of law. 3 million voted for Harris/Walz in Illinois.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/sanctuary-cities-trump-immigration.html
— To give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group. To give preference to those who are Democrat, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time is to discriminate against those who are Republican, conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/trump-order-discrimination-federal-hiring.html
— Border, Asylum, Citizenship: Trump Kicks Off Vast Immigration Changes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/trump-birthright-citizenship-border-asylum-immigration.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/business/trump-dei-corporate-reaction.html
— CNN Plots Major Overhaul as It Enters a New Trump Era (COMMENT: 77 million Americans voted for Trump last year.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/business/media/cnn-layoffs-mark-thompson.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump to fight invasion by sending 10,000 troops to the southern border. Illegals are invading, not seeking asylum.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/22/trump-asylum-border-troops-immigration/
— Trump targeted federal workers in his opening act, starting with DEI employees. President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders aimed at overhauling the federal workforce, but the details will determine who is affected and how. (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted DEI big time, that is, they promoted hatred against their Republican employees big time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/22/federal-workers-trump-remote-work/
How Trump’s executive orders could affect federal workers
— Trump has issued orders that terminate DEI positions. Here’s what we know so far. (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted DEI big time, that is, they promoted hatred against their Republican employees big time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/22/federal-workers-trump-orders-dei-return-office/
— Layoffs loom as Trump administration orders leave for federal DEI workers. Employees of diversity, equity and inclusion programs are to be placed on administrative leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Agencies were told to make plans for layoffs. (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they all ever-increasingly became DEI workers.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/22/dei-federal-employees-trump/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/22/anti-lgbtq-politics-youth-mental-health-laws/77858409007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Threatens Sanctions, Tariffs on Russia if Putin Won’t End War in Ukraine. The president urged the Russian leader to make a deal.
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/trump-putin-russia-ukraine-war-truth-social-316f0fe5
— Trump Gives Gun, Drug Agents Deportation Power
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-gives-gun-drug-agents-deportation-power-a62903b4
NPR
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly outrageously, disgustingly, and falsely hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans want to deport all immigrants, both legal and illegal.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5268920/chicago-braces-for-ice-crackdown
— Trump calls DEI programs ‘illegal’ and ‘immoral’. Here’s how he’s ending them. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents promote DEI.)
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5271588/trump-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-federal-workers-government
— How To Survive College When You’re Paying Your Own Way (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always known that I had to work my way through college. But they have nevertheless always outrageously, disgustingly, and falsely hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my parents were filthy rich.)
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/729906856/survive-college-when-youre-paying-your-own-way
TASK & PURPOSE
— Two officers were fired for bucking their chain of command. Now they’re going to work at the Pentagon. Along with Trump’s nominee for defense secretary Pete Hegseth, both men have criticized military diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, or DEI. (COMMENT: Since at least the 1960s, the federal government has been a Democrat Party patronage machine. Because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, their reverse discrimination, and their age discrimination, and because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit in 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997. Previously, they had delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, forced the GAO manager to retire in 1987 who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and promote me in 1986, kept me off audits of IRS for all by 3 years (1986-1988) of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472 pay cut (21%) in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Previously, because of my aforesaid opposition, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. Previously, because of my aforesaid opposition, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969.)
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/trump-pentagon-scheller-lohmeier/
REASON
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump and everyone who voted for him are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly get rid of the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump last year.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/01/22/calling-someone-white-supremacist-in-online-debate-is-opinion/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Calling Someone “White Supremacist” in Online Debate Is Opinion and thus not actionable defamation, unless defendant “implies undisclosed facts by insinuating that the plaintiff” engaged in specific racist acts or made (undisclosed) racist statements. This is the standard view under American defamation law; it had in the past been applied to allegations of Communism, Socialism, etc., but more recently has often been applied to allegations of racism, sexism, white supremacy, etc.)
PBS
— Trump administration moves to begin cutting all federal DEI staff (COMMENT: Since the 1960s, under the Democrats, the federal government has existed to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are 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.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-moves-to-begin-cutting-all-federal-dei-staff
POLITICO
— Federal DEI websites go dark after Trump order and threat of ‘consequences’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/dei-web-pages-cms-nih-go-dark-00200123
SALON
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/23/donald-on-dei-is-not-about-merit/
GUARDIAN
— DOJ says it will prosecute officials who resist Trump’s immigration crackdown (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump is cracking down on all those in America who do not share Trump’s demographics, and especially those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/justice-department-trump-immigration
DAILY MAIL
— Steve Bannon demands reparations for U.S. tech workers in MAGA row (COMMENT: What about reparations for the non-veteran older Republican White male employees a) who GAO wasted the careers of and got rid of 1980-1997, b) who IRS wasted the careers of and got rid of 1971-1980, and c) who the Post Office wasted the careers of and got rid of 1966-1969?)
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/steve-bannon-demands-reparations-for-us-tech-workers-in-maga-row/ar-AA1wJm7s
INDIAN EXPRESS
— Trump says there are only 2 sexes: The transgender debate in sports (COMMENT: Transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete against other transgender athletes.)
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sports/trump-2-sexes-the-transgender-debate-in-sports-9794638/