December 12, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

FOX32
— Duckworth slams troop deployment. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1755268

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Illinois Democrats applaud as GOP-led Indiana Senate rebuffs President Trump’s push for new redistricting map. DD: Will Indiana be the next red state to turn blue and crash and burn?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/11/illinois-democrats-applaud-as-gop-led-indiana-senate-rebuffs-president-trumps-push-for-new-redistricting-map/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding. The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/09/jesus-zip-ties-taken-evanston-church-updates-nativity/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots. As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border” set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts causing turmoil in Chicago and elsewhere, he sees himself as the good guy. Not everyone agrees.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/12/12/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-deportation-elcentro-california-blowing-rock-boone-north-carolina-migrants-immigration

DAILY HERALD
— Pritzker Military Foundation helps carry on Chicago’s historic tradition of holiday giving. DD: Soon, under Pritzker, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251211/submitted-content/pritzker-military-foundation-helps-carry-on-chicagos-historic-tradition-of-holiday-giving/
— DD: FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251211/news/elgin-police-refute-dhs-account-of-violence-during-immigration-enforcement/
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251211/news/he-doesnt-deserve-to-be-treated-like-a-criminal-effort-underway-on-behalf-of-man-detained-by-ice/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump aims to cut curbs on marijuana via exec order: report. DD: Pot is poison. I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/trump-aims-cut-curbs-marijuana-exec-order-report

JOURNAL COURIER
— Illinois bill would let state inmates work remote jobs for pay
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/illinois-incarcerated-remote-jobs-21236922.php

NPR ILLINOIS
— Foreign-born population shrinks as Trump administration pressures immigrants to go. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have,
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-11/foreign-born-population-shrinks-as-trump-administration-pressures-immigrants-to-go
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-12/trump-struggles-to-find-his-economic-messaging-amid-voter-skepticism

DURBIN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-condemns-president-trumps-racist-comments-towards-immigrants-in-senate-judiciary-committee-executive-meeting

DAILY LINE
— Two candidates running in open Republican primary in Illinois’ 33rd Senate District
https://www.thedailyline.com/two-candidates-running-republican-primary-illinois-33rd-senate-district

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois pauses after Indiana rejects map
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/12/12/illinois-pauses-as-indiana-rejects-map-00688582

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing

www.capitolfax.com


FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Pritzker Threatens Mid-Decade Power Grab to Wipe Out GOP Seats After Indiana Redistricting Move. DD: When will the last Republican leave Illinois?
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/pritzker-threatens-mid-decade-power-grab-to-wipe-out-gop-seats-after-indiana-redistricting-move.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— $1B, unneeded tax hike coming to a tollway near you?
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/1b-unneeded-tax-hike-coming-to-a-tollway-near-you/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— GOP Gubernatorial Hopeful Ted Dabrowski at Marengo Library Today 2-4
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/12/gop-gubernatorial-hopeful-ted-dabrowski-at-marengo-library-today-2-4/
— A Democratic Party Governor Favoring School Choice Financed by Private Donations
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/12/a-democratic-party-governor-favoring-school-choice-financed-by-private-donations/
— Court Seeks New Public Defender as Mark Cook Retires
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/11/court-seeks-new-public-defender-as-mark-cook-retires/
— McHenry County’s Top Law Enforcement Officials Willing To Offer Pritzker Input on Revising SAFE-T Act
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/11/mchenry-countys-top-law-enforcement-officials-willing-to-offer-pritzker-input-on-revising-safe-t-act/
— Ugaste Reminds Pritzker That He Already Gerrymandered Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/11/ugaste-reminds-pritzker-that-he-already-gerrymandered-illinois/
— Porch Thefts in Chicago and Locally
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/11/porch-thefts-in-chicago-and-locally/
— Suggestions for Making Illinois’ No Cash Bail Law Work Better
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/10/suggestions-for-making-illinois-no-cash-bail-law-work-better/
— Crooked Suburban Police Chief Goes Down
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/10/crooked-suburban-police-chief-goes-down/
— Sheriff Hiring Bailiffs, Retired Police Sought for Full and Part-Time Work
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/10/sheriff-hiring-bailiffs-retired-police-sought-for-full-and-part-time-work/
— CORRECTION: Riley Grade School District Announces 103% Tax Increase AFTER MAJOR TAX CUT LAST YEAR TO SPEND DOWN SURPLUS
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/10/riley-grade-school-district-announces-3-tax-increase/
— State Rep. Candidate Bailey Templeton Quantifies Blagojevich Era Allowance of Illegal Alien Kids on Medicaid
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/10/state-rep-candidate-bailey-templeton-quantifies-blagojevich-era-allowance-of-illegal-alien-kids-on-medicaid/
— Dems Forget Federal Supremacy
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/10/dems-forget-federal-supremacy/
— Tax Sale Law Ruled Unconstitutional in Federal Cook County Suit, Logic Will Affect All Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/10/tax-sale-law-ruled-unconstitutional-in-federal-cook-county-suit-logic-will-affect-all-counties/
— UPDATE: Pritzker Continues Unannounced Visits to Crystal Lake, Refers to Excessive SNAP (Food Stamp) Fraud
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/09/pritzker-continues-unannounced-visits-to-crystal-lake/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump advocates for primary against Indiana GOP leader who rejected redrawn congressional map
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/11/trump-calls-primary-indiana-gop-leader-rodric-bray-rejected-redrawn/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Yes, Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother.
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/yes-ilhan-omar-married-her-brother

NEW YORK POST
— Trump: Biden administration weaponized DOJ to target Charlie Kirk to put the Turning Point USA movement ‘out of business.’ DD: Who leads Turning Point USA in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-claims-biden-admin-weaponized-104731208.html

BLAZE
— Mamdani dares ICE to come get him — and throws the Constitution in the trash
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/mamdani-dares-ice-to-come-get-him-and-throws-the-constitution-in-the-trash

COLLEGE FIX
— Turning Point USA leaders forced off campus at Olivet Nazarene university after death threats. DD: Who leads Turning Point USA in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.thecollegefix.com/turning-point-usa-leaders-forced-off-campus-at-illinois-university-after-death-threats/

DAILY SIGNAL
— LGBTQ Activists Hound Debate Venue to Cancel Christian Leader. DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman and an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, the organizations would still be hosting conservative speakers.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/11/were-not-canceling-ohio-venue-stands-for-christian-leaders-free-speech/

FOX NEWS
— GOP accuses Democrats of manufacturing affordability crisis as Obamacare subsidy fight nears deadline. Senate Republicans say Democrats manufactured affordability crisis to score political points in 2026 midterms.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-accuses-democrats-manufacturing-affordability-crisis-obamacare-subsidy-fight-nears-deadline
— Bovino urges Pritzker to follow the example of Louisiana when it comes to ICE. Bovino comments on the consequences of the Biden administration border crisis and threats against ICE agents on ‘Hannity.’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386360430112
— House Dem to force Trump impeachment vote on 2 articles. Rep Al Green, D-Texas, has forced House vote on impeachment articles within two legislative days.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dem-force-trump-impeachment-vote-2-articles

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— New California Law Puts ICE Agents at Risk While Violent Protesters Stay Hidden
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/california-law-newsom-police-unmasked

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Turning Point USA Leaders at Olivet Nazarene U. Forced Off Campus Due to Death Threats. “At no time is this sort of behavior acceptable in our society and certainly not at Olivet, and it will be handled accordingly.” DD: Who leads Turning Point USA in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/turning-point-usa-leaders-at-olivet-nazarene-u-forced-off-campus-due-to-death-threats/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Trump’s $1 million ‘Gold Card’ immigration application plan launches. The program will fast-track residency and citizenship for wealthy immigrants. DD: When your ancestors immigrated, how much money did they have? On my father’s side, they immigrated in 1844. They worked in brick factory in Chicago for 10 years to be eligible to homestead a farm in southeast Crete Township in 1854. On my mother’s side they immigrated in the 1850s and sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-1-million-gold-card-immigration-application-plan/story?id=128320787
— Without affirmative action, elite colleges are prioritizing economic diversity in admissions. Some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges have been enrolling record numbers of low-income students as campuses prioritize economic diversity in the wake of a ban on affirmative action. DD: Because the parents of Black and Hispanic students have less income than the parents of White students, colleges use income as a proxy to give preference to Black and Hispanic students. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. I had to work my way through college.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/affirmative-action-elite-colleges-prioritizing-economic-diversity-admissions-128303327
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In legal memos, the White House has alleged that prioritizing students based on earnings or geography amounts to a “racial proxy” in violation of the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision against affirmative action. In a June letter, Trump officials accused the University of California-Los Angeles of “race-based admissions in all but name.” It criticized UCLA for considering factors like applicants’ family income, ZIP code and high school profile. Colleges often weigh that kind of information in admissions decisions. Yet the Trump administration has declared that the Supreme Court decision outlaws a wide range of long-accepted education practices, including scholarships targeting students in underserved areas.)

ABC NEW YORK
— Mamdani answers questions on his universal child care plan. DD: Ever since I was born in 1948, my critics/opponents have falsely unethically used my mother staying home to raise me and my brother to paint my mother and father as being filthy rich. Because my mother never attended high school, the belief was that her earning potential was very limited. She never worked outside of the home until after my father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. I had to work my way through college.
https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani-answers-questions-universal-child-care-plan/18276590/

CBS NEWS
— Abbott announces statewide push to expand Turning Point USA chapters in Texas high schools. DD: Who leads Turning Point USA in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/gov-abbott-announces-statewide-push-to-expand-turning-point-usa-chapters-in-texas-high-schools/

NBC NEWS
— Republican-led House votes to overturn Trump executive order on federal employee bargaining rights. The rare bipartisan vote, 231-195, marks the first time the House has voted to overturn an executive order from President Donald Trump this term. DD: GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had unionized sooner, I might still be a GAO employee. But if not that, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to take the many adverse actions against me that they did including forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-led-house-votes-overturn-trump-executive-order-bargaining-r-rcna248767

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats Press Noem on Harsh Immigration Tactics. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010582298/noem-house-hearing-immigration-crackdown.html
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/opinion/trump-approval-rating-affordability.html
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly shout at everyone that if you cannot afford something, it is because of Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/politics/trump-affordability-democrats.html

WASHINGTON POST
— A Democratic upset in Miami’s mayoral runoff this week is a wakeup call for Trump heading into the midterms. DD: What is the likelihood that the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct will win?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/11/miami-election-mayor-higgins-democrats/
— DD: Democrat leaders promote IVF to give themselves cover to promote abortion. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors to get rid of me used against me my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I lied about our efforts to have children. In 1989, to punish me, they rudely threw me off audits of IRS, rudely gave me a bad 6-month audit assignment in Iowa, rudely gave unfair performance expectations, rudely gave me an unfair performance appraisal, and rudely ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. I should write about the aforesaid. Of course, Duckworth would applaud the aforesaid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/10/ndaa-ivf-coverage-military-families/

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrats fight for criminals. Republicans fight for the victims of criminals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2025/11/20/sepsis-deaths-lawsuits-prisons-jails-infection-investigation/85755243007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for inflation.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/11/trump-affordability-poll-news/87623654007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Rise of the Mamdani Clones. After the 2024 humiliation, the left is back. It could hurt the party in 2026.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rise-of-the-mamdani-clones-28d0db8b

FORBES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3bRTO00IcI

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
— Immigrant Workers and the Childcare Crisis. DD: What percent of childcare workers are illegals?
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/immigrant-workers-childcare-crisis/

NATIONAL JURIST
— Northwestern Pritzker Law scholarship fund reaches $1 million to support public service careers.  DD: I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. They always stressed that I wanted a career in the automotive industry and that none of my four degrees are in public service. In my defense, I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to join him in taking the postal employment test. I would not have become an IRS employee when I was 22 in 1971 if my Firestone Store boss had not fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, an offer that Oldsmobile withdrew because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://nationaljurist.com/northwestern-law-scholarship-fund-reaches-1-million-to-support-public-service-careers/

EDUCATION WEEK
— DD: To get more votes from minorities, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give minorities more preference.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/trump-admin-accuses-minneapolis-schools-of-racism-in-protecting-minority-teachers/2025/12

PBS
— DD: To illegally bring a child into a country illegally and/or to illegally keep a child in a country illegally is child abuse.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-administration-separates-thousands-of-migrant-families-in-the-u-s

AXIOS
— Ramirez is pressing the House Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment hearings against Noem.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/kristi-noem-impeachment-democrat-dhs-rfk-trump

December 10, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan asks Trump to pardon him after bribery conviction
https://chicago.suntimes.com/madigan-trial-news/2025/12/09/former-illinois-house-speaker-michael-madigan-asks-trump-for-pardon
— As Indiana Republicans move toward redistricting, Pritzker warns Illinois ‘won’t stand idly by’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/12/09/indiana-redistricting-illinois-pritzker-congressional-map
— Pritzker, Johnson slam Trump admin threat to cut funding over CTA safety issues: ‘Action has been taken.’  Federal officials ordered the CTA to develop an enhanced security plan by next week in response to the burning of a woman aboard a Blue Line train last month.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/12/09/trump-administration-cta-crime-federal-funding-threat-jb-pritzker-brandon-johnson
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/12/09/guadalupe-little-village-epiphany-catholic
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/09/tammy-duckworth-senate-hearing-illegal-dhs-arrests-chicago-woman-testimony

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn women against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/10/gallup-young-women-move-abroad/

DAILY HERALD
— Krishnamoorthi, Mendrick survive challenges, but some candidates knocked out
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251209/illinois-state-politics/krishnamoorthi-mendrick-survive-challenges-but-some-candidates-knocked-out/

STATELINE
— 50% of Illinois residents would move if they could. DD: What keeps you in Illinois? My ancestors have lived in northeast Illinois since 1844. I have lived in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978. I have lived in my precinct since 1984. All four of my degrees are from Illinois Universities.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-residents-want-to-leave-state/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders do not want any of their illegals to be deported, and especially those who do not have a criminal record yet. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-10/about-a-third-of-people-arrested-by-ice-had-no-criminal-record-new-data-shows

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fill their schools with illegals. What percent of the students in your school district are illegals?
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/12/09/illinois-governor-signs-bill-on-immigrants-at-child-care-centers-colleges/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— On the GOP side, attorney Jeannie Evans has officially entered the fray, launching her U.S. Senate campaign by presenting herself as a consumer advocate and working mom who has spent her career challenging major corporations. She steps into a marquee Republican primary against former Illinois GOP Chair Don Tracy. “There are important issues that demand leadership,” Evans said in her announcement. “Illinoisans deserve a fresh voice in Washington. I’m a political outsider and working mother who has taken on powerful corporations to help lower the cost of living.” Her résumé includes time at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, co-founding a litigation firm, and serving as a partner at plaintiff-side class-action firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro. Evans is also active in the Federalist Society and says she’s committed to working with President Donald Trump on lowering costs, reducing crime, and expanding education and job opportunities.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/12/10/union-tip-toes-around-endorsing-00684291

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-645/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Chicago’s Leadership Fixates on Police Use-of-Force While Violent Crime and Fiscal Crisis Deepen
https://wirepoints.org/chicagos-leadership-fixates-on-police-use-of-force-while-violent-crime-and-fiscal-crisis-deepen-wirepoints-mark-glennon-warns-am560-interview/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
—  IL Statehouse candidate finds 20,000 kids without SSNs getting Medicaid
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_12d4062d-013c-430a-b4f7-402511a179d1.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Transit sales tax hike makes suburbs pay for Chicago problems
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/transit-sales-tax-hike-makes-suburbs-pay-for-chicago-problems/
— Illinois’ $143.5 billion state pension debt saw a tiny dip, but meaningful reform is needed to stop threats to taxpayers and protect state retirees.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-alone-lets-state-pension-debt-top-100b/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What keeps you in Illinois? My ancestors have lived in northeast Illinois since 1844. I have lived in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978. I have lived in my precinct since 1984. All four of my degrees are from Illinois Universities. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— A growing number of Americans are taking on second, third and even fourth jobs to offset inflation and stagnant wages. Have you worked second jobs? I did when I worked for IRS when I was 22-24 years old 1971-1972. I pumped gasoline for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights. The money that I earned helped me a) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, b) pay for graduate business courses at Loyola in 1972, and c) buy a new townhome in University Park in 1972. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Socialists argue that socialist employers, that is, Democrat employers, pay their employees more than capitalist employers, that is, Republican employers, do. Ever since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was able to do the following because the Democrat federal government paid me far more than Republican employers would have: a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., c) pay my expenses to earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, d) pay my review course expenses to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 31, and become a licensed CPA when I was 31, e) get married when I was 29, f) etc. In your opinion, if I had worked for Republican employers, how much would I have been paid? In today’s dollars, the Democrat federal government paid me a) $19.37/hour when I was 18, b) $55,850/year when I was 22, c) $68,315/year when I was 23, $82,655/year when I was 24, $99,069/year when I was 25, $112,280/year when I was 29, $117,807/year when I was 38, and $153,151/year when I was 49.  – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Under the Democrats, the future for White males in America is ever-increasingly bleak. Fewer and fewer and fewer of them seek college degrees. Why is that? They are discouraged. Under the Democrats, non-Whites and females ever-increasingly get more and more and more preference, and especially non-White females who are Democrat, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. If I was young today, because of my bad demographics, I question if I could find the motivation to do what I did. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What have your critics/opponents used to discredit your accomplishments? To discredit my accomplishments. my critics/opponents have always outrageously disgustingly unethically painted my parents as having been filthy rich. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47, I was 21, and my brother was 16. I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that if you have less money than your peers, it is because of Trump. I have way less money than my peers who earned college degrees, professional certifications, and a professional license like I did. But I have way less money because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders use “disparate impact’ to hint/imply/argue/shout that if something results in Whites or males doing better at something than minorities or females, that it is because that something discriminates against minorities and females. Using that, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion standards in the federal government. That ever-increasingly 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— A growing number of Americans are taking on second, third and even fourth jobs to offset inflation and stagnant wages. DD: Have you worked second jobs? I did when I worked for IRS when I was 22-24 years old 1971-1972. I pumped gasoline for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights. The money that I earned helped me a) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, b) pay for graduate business courses at Loyola in 1972, and c) buy a new townhome in University Park in 1972.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/25/americans-polyworking-offset-inflation-stagnant-wages/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrat Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayor race, ending 28 years of GOP control
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3912830/democrat-eileen-higgins-miami-mayor/
— Gen Z socialists (DD: Socialists argue that socialist employers, that is, Democrat employers, pay their employees more than capitalist employers, that is, Republican employers, do. Ever since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was able to do the following because the Democrat federal government paid me far more than Republican employers would have: a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., c) pay my expenses to earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, d) pay my review course expenses to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 31, and become a licensed CPA when I was 31, e) get married when I was 29, f) etc. In your opinion, if I had worked for Republican employers, how much would I have been paid? In today’s dollars, the Democrat federal government paid me a) $19.37/hour when I was 18, b) $55,850/year when I was 22, c) $68,315/year when I was 23, $82,655/year when I was 24, $99,069/year when I was 25, $112,280/year when I was 29, $117,807/year when I was 38, and $153,151/year when I was 49.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/videos/3912567/inside-scoop-jim-antle-gen-z-socialists-christmas-reading-utah-redistricting/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “A lot of younger people today don’t have any stake in the capitalist system because they don’t have any capital,” Antle said. “They study in college, they accumulate a lot of debt to pay off their student loans, and then they are not in a position where they can afford to buy a home when they graduate, so they’re perennially renting. They don’t really feel like they benefit from a lot of aspects of the free enterprise system.” Antle highlights the appeal of socialist candidates, such as newly elected New York Mayor-elect Mamdani. “He ran on an explicitly Democratic Socialist platform,” Antle said. “Many of the people who voted for him were younger professionals making six-figure salaries, but in an expensive city like New York, and in a place where they’re very unlikely to own their own homes, own any of their own property. They really feel the crushing burden of how expensive everything is in the city, and they don’t see how the free market system is really benefiting them.”)

NEW YORK POST
— Citizens are fed up with Dem-invited migrants who have disdain for US law and culture
https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/opinion/citizens-are-fed-up-with-dem-invited-migrants-that-have-disdain-for-us-law-and-culture/
— Send Her Back’: MAGA Crowd Erupts as Trump Claims Ilhan Omar is ‘Here Illegally’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEtkoidi01E

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— DOJ restores equal treatment for all in civil rights enforcement. DD: Democrat leaders use “disparate impact’ to hint/imply/argue/shout that if something results in Whites or males doing better at something than minorities or females, that it is because that something discriminates against minorities and females. Using that, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion standards in the federal government. That ever-increasingly 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.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/10/doj-restores-equal-treatment-for-all-in-civil-rights-enforcement-1609269/

BREITBART
— Pritzker Signs Bill Preventing ICE from Arresting Illegal Aliens near Courthouses
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/12/09/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-signs-bill-preventing-ice-arresting-illegal-aliens-courthouses/
— Trump Approval Rating up as Republicans Applaud Focus on Affordability
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/09/trump-approval-rating-up-as-republicans-applaud-focus-on-affordability/

FEDERALIST
— ‘Gold-Standard’ Immigration Enforcement Bill Lagging In Indiana As Redistricting Sucks Oxygen
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/10/gold-standard-immigration-enforcement-bill-lagging-in-indiana-as-redistricting-sucks-oxygen/

FOX NEWS
— Japan rejects same-sex marriage to save itself from demographic collapse. Tokyo court upholds traditional marriage while G7 nations face plummeting fertility rates.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/japan-rejects-same-sex-marriage-save-itself-from-demographic-collapse
— DHS blasts Newsom over taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegals as California ambulance costs may soar 382%. California governor faces federal criticism over Medi-Cal benefits as transport costs jump from $339 to potentially $1,637.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-blasts-newsom-taxpayer-funded-healthcare-illegals-california-ambulance-costs-may-soar-382-percent

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— ICE Slams Pritzker as Illinois Releases 1,700 Criminal Illegal Aliens — Including Rapists and Pedophiles
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/ice-slams-gov-pritzker-as-illinois-releases-1700-criminal-illegal-aliens-including-rapists-and-pedophiles

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Man Behind App That Helps Illegals Evade ICE Now Suing Bondi, Noem, Homan After Apple Took it Down
https://www.westernjournal.com/man-behind-app-helps-illegals-evade-ice-now-suing-bondi-noem-homan-apple-took/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-ice-arrested-his-mom-18-year-old-citizen-now-caring-for-his-sister-worries-he-could-be-next/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-russia-ukraine-trump-pope-leo-60c898afe3241ff67552f417a06900b0

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Calls Europe ‘Decaying’ and ‘Weak’  President Trump criticized his European counterparts over their defense and Ukraine policies during an interview with Politico. The president also suggested that it was time for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to compromise in the cease-fire talks.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010577149/trump-europe-decaying-weak-ukraine.html
— The Latest Trump Resistance Is Within the Indiana G.O.P.  Some Republicans in the Indiana Senate have resisted a new congressional map despite lobbying from the White House and threats of political consequences.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/indiana-redistricting-trump-republicans.html
— Nancy Mace: What’s the Point of Congress?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/opinion/nancy-mace-congress-republicans.html
— Despite Red-State Efforts, Abortion Rate Nationwide Still Climbs. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/states-new-abortion-laws.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Under the Democrats, the future for White males in America is ever-increasingly bleak. Fewer and fewer and fewer of them seek college degrees. Why is that? They are discouraged. Under the Democrats, non-Whites and females ever-increasingly get more and more and more preference, and especially non-White females who are Democrat, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. If I was young today, because of my bad demographics, I question if I could find the motivation to do what I did. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/12/04/trump-dei-ban-college-men/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Economics of Immigration. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens drive wages down. Noncitizens vote for Democrats.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-immigration-9b4a5b9d
— Potheads Head for the Emergency Room. Two new studies show that the ill effects of THC are increasing. DD: Pot is poison.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/marijuana-referendum-massachusetts-pot-users-emergency-rooms-68fa22cd

FORTUNE
— Americans can’t agree on what ‘middle class’ means anymore. DD: To discredit my accomplishments. my critics/opponents have always outrageously disgustingly unethically painted my parents as having been filthy rich. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47, I was 21, and my brother was 16. I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://www.aol.com/finance/americans-t-agree-middle-class-204839884.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pew Research Center defines middle class as falling between two-thirds and double the median household income—which can vary in U.S. metro areas from about $53,000 to $161,000 annually. . .​With the median household income coming to roughly $83,000 as of September 2025, and steadily climbing as inflation has pushed up household costs.”)

KFF HEALTH NEWS
— Online Abortion Pill Access Up In Early 2025, Despite GOP Efforts to Restrict It
https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/online-abortion-pill-access-up-in-early-2025-despite-gop-efforts-to-restrict-it/

POLITICO
— As Pope Leo’s MAGA criticism builds, Trump suggests he’d meet Catholic leader.
https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-leo-maga-criticism-donald-trump-meeting/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that if you have less money than your peers, it is because of Trump. I have way less money than my peers who earned college degrees, professional certifications, and a professional license like I did. But I have way less money because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/poll-affordability-cost-of-living-00678076

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— 200 DOJ employees who left under Trump say admin is making ‘coordinated effort’ to undermine career staff. The Justice Department is actively pushing out career employees working on civil rights, they say. DD: According to Democrats, the federal government exists to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/12/200-doj-employees-who-left-under-trump-say-admin-making-coordinated-effort-undermine-career-staff/410052/

SUSTAINABILITY
— Why Microsoft Has Scaled Back DEI in its Performance Reviews. DD: To promote Affirmative Action and DEI is to discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.  Because I opposed that discrimination, my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://sustainabilitymag.com/news/why-microsoft-has-scaled-back-dei-in-its-performance-reviews

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

ASAM NEWS
— Duckworth becomes a voice for Asian America. DD: Who is a voice for those who share your demographics?
https://asamnews.com/2025/12/09/hegseth-defense-secretary-controversy-duckworth-response-war-crime-allegations/

NTD
— Documentary Exposes How People Opposed to Critical Race Theory Were Put on Lists. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders promote CRT to get more votes from Blacks.
https://www.ntd.com/documentary-exposes-how-people-opposed-to-critical-race-theory-were-put-on-lists_1112910.html

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Mamdani’s new address: Iconic $100 million Gracie Mansion
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/zohran-mamdanis-new-address-all-about-iconic-100-million-gracie-mansion-the-226-year-old-residence-in-new-york/articleshow/125882778.cms

TELEGRAPH
— Mamdani to move into $100 million mansion after becoming New York mayor, cites family safety, Mamdani, who prominently featured the issue of affordability in his election campaign, has sparked discussion with his decision to move into this $100 million mansion.
https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/zohran-mamdani-to-move-into-100-million-gracie-mansion-after-becoming-new-york-mayor-cites-family-safety/cid/2137078

TIMES OF INDIA
— Illinois Shields ‘ILLEGAL ALIENS’, Pritzker Unleashes Direct Attack On Trump, Noem, Bovino
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/illinois-shields-illegal-aliens-pritzker-unleashes-direct-attack-on-trump-noem-bovino-watch/videoshow/125879701.cms
— Parents’ income puts candidate in creamy layer, Karnataka high court upholds rejection. DD: My parents’ income never put me in the creamy layer. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. My mother never worked outside of the home until he died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/parents-income-puts-candidate-in-creamy-layer-karnataka-high-court-upholds-rejection/articleshow/125840555.cms

December 9, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Pritzker signs bill increasing immigrant protections at Illinois courthouses, hospitals and more. DD: Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasing fill the courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day cares near you with his illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-pritzker-sign-bill-creating-more-protections-immigrants-illinois-la-villita-community-church-chicago/18267491/

NBC5
— Pritzker signs law seeking to limit immigration enforcement at schools, daycares. The bill also curtails enforcement actions at courthouses, hospitals and more. DD: Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasing fill the courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day cares near you with his illegals.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/pritzker-signs-law-seeking-to-limit-immigration-enforcement-at-schools-daycares/3860805/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker signs Illinois immigration law that curbs courthouse arrests and expands right to sue agents
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/09/jb-pritzker-illinois-immigration-law/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Bleak stats on white men not shocking. Economy, class and education now do as much work as race in deciding whether a man will be seen as “marriageable,” employable and likely to climb beyond the station of his birth. DD: Under the Democrats, the future for White men in America is ever-increasingly bleak. Fewer and fewer and fewer White men in America seek college degrees. Why is that? Under the Democrats, non-Whites and females ever-increasingly get more and more and more preference, and especially those who are Democrat, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. If I was young today, because of my bad demographics, I question if I could find the motivation to do what I did. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/12/09/white-men-working-class-college-education-dei-ben-jealous
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The headlines this month about white men, college admissions and the fallout from ending affirmative action startled a lot of people. Stories of declining enrollment and shrinking opportunity for young white men were treated as if they had materialized out of nowhere. Many found it surprising. I didn’t. . .For years now, researchers have documented serious headwinds facing working-class American men: wages that stagnate or fall, especially for men without college degrees; fewer men in college even as women’s enrollment rises; more men detached from the labor force; rising suicide and overdose deaths in many hard-hit communities; and marriage becoming less common and less stable for men with the weakest economic prospects. White working-class men feel this acutely. But they are not alone. White men may have made the headlines, but similar trends are affecting Black, Latino, Native and Asian men —especially those from poor and working-class backgrounds. In today’s economy, class and education now do as much work as race in deciding whether a man will be seen as “marriageable,” employable and likely to climb beyond the station of his birth. So if you’re wondering why a Black civil rights leader cares about the struggles of white men, the answer is simple: In a democracy, you cannot fix poverty for anyone unless you fix it for everyone. Every major leap forward in opportunity in this country has depended on multiracial coalitions. Progress comes when we face the full truth — not when we ignore parts of it. Which brings us to the conversation we are actually having. Or rather, not having. It’s time to readjust our thinking about white men, college admissions and diversity, equity and inclusion. The left and the right have both turned this into a culture war when what we really need is a reality check. On the right, the headlines became a grievance weapon — proof, some claim, that diversity efforts were out to “replace” white men. On the left, the reaction was defensive, as if acknowledging hardship among white families would somehow undermine the fight for racial justice. Neither response had much to do with the truth. And if we’re wondering why we can’t seem to have a real conversation about opportunity, we should start where political scientist Martin Gilens warned us decades ago. By portraying poverty disproportionately with Black faces, American media helped make the white poor — and much of the working class —invisible. That distortion robbed us of the ability to see the full picture of suffering and the full map of shared struggle. When entire communities are invisible, their pain doesn’t get counted. Their boys don’t get counted. Their decline doesn’t make the front page until it shows up as a political shock. That invisibility hurts everyone. It hurts white families like Bill’s. It hurts Black and Brown families navigating the same broken ladders. It hurts the communities trying to build stable futures for their children. Before we talk solutions, we need full visibility — a willingness to see all who are struggling, not just the ones who fit our old narratives. And yes, part of that conversation may involve something like affirmative action for working-class families, including white men. Not the caricatured version people argue about on cable news, but the real kind colleges have long used: giving a boost to students from low-income families, high-poverty neighborhoods, under-resourced schools and overlooked rural counties — from Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta to remote parts of Alaska. Race-based affirmative action sat alongside these class- and place-based efforts; it never replaced them. And even after the Supreme Court’s decision, colleges can still use class-based affirmative action because it recognizes a basic truth: A child’s chances in life are shaped powerfully by ZIP code, wealth and opportunity. The headlines surprised many because they showed only one part of the story. It’s time we tell the whole one. Only then can we rebuild opportunity — for Bill, for the boys in his family and for every family fighting for a fair shot.)

DAILY HERALD
— Chicagoan Spomenka Vajic, a would-be Republican candidate in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District shouldn’t be on the 2026 primary ballot because she didn’t gather enough petition signatures, state election officials ruled Tuesday.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251209/us-congress-politics/gop-candidate-knocked-off-ballot-in-3rd-congressional-district/
— Cody Holt, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the 33rd state Senate seat, was removed Tuesday from the March primary ballot.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251209/illinois-state-politics/33rd-state-senate-candidate-removed-from-ballot/
— Pritzker signs bill enacting immigrant protections at courthouses and on campus
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251209/illinois-state-politics/pritzker-signs-bill-enacting-immigrant-protections-at-courthouses-and-on-campus/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois sees decline in rate of residents moving out of state. DD: What keeps you in Illinois? My ancestors have lived in northeast Illinois since 1844. I have lived in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978. I have lived in my precinct since 1984. All four of my degrees are from Illinois Universities.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/illinois-sees-decline-rate-residents-moving-out-state

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— State Sen. Andrew Chesney stunned a legislative luncheon audience Dec. 9 when he said that his solution to a housing crisis would be the deportation of all undocumented immigrants.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2025/12/09/freeport-republican-says-deportation-could-solve-housing-crisis/87691471007/

HERALD
— Will County opens vote-by-mail applications this month for March primary
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/12/09/will-county-opens-vote-by-mail-applications-this-month-for-march-primary/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat representing Maryland, says his party must do more to regain public confidence and counter what he calls a “lawless president.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-09/sen-van-hollen-urges-democrats-to-stand-for-something-not-just-be-anti-trump

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-435/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois’ SAFE-T Act ’emboldens’ anti-police attackers
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e2a7dffa-9620-4ade-ba2f-bf8212a1282d.html
— Chicago minority, low-income students struggling to make testing grade. DD; How much money did your parents have. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. My mother never worked outside of the home until he died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_bf6f7a92-0808-459c-a6c3-ea24955f012e.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois state Rep. La Shawn Ford said it’s not hard to comprehend why Chicago Public Schools system low-income and minority students are reading and performing math at much lower levels than their state peers. Even after state officials inflated the number of students meeting proficiency levels by lowering reading and math benchmarks, new Illinois Report Card data shows struggling students still posted achievement gaps as low as 22 points below state average, including Black and Hispanic students scoring as low as 28 points below standards. . .Overall, data shows more than half of CPS students are reading below grade level and roughly 75% are falling short of the mark in math. As for 3rd through 8th-graders, only 35% read at grade level and just 19% are proficient in math. At the high school level, just 32% of low-income 11th graders read at grade level and 17% proved to be competent in math. Noting that wide discrepancies also exist among Black and Hispanic 3rd through 8th graders, Ford pointed out that similar achievement gaps between minorities and other students across the city are also prevalent at the high school level, with Black 11th graders testing 26% below the state average in reading and 28% below in math and Hispanics 12 and 17 points below standards.)

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— UPDATE: Pritzker Continues Unannounced Visits to Crystal Lake, Refers to Excessive SNAP (Food Stamp) Fraud
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/09/pritzker-continues-unannounced-visits-to-crystal-lake/
— Rockford YMCA Follows Marengo Park District Example Opening Fitness Center 24 Hours
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/09/rockford-ymca-follows-marengo-park-district-example/
— Pritzker Meets with McHenry County Leaders, Public, Reporters Not Invited
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/09/pritzker-meets-with-mchenry-county-leaders-public-reporters-not-invited/
— Cody Holt Ruled Off the Ballot in 33rd Senate Republican Contest
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/09/cody-holt-ruled-off-the-ballot-in-33rd-senate-republican-contest/
— Tribune Gives Biss Free Publicity
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/09/tribune-gives-biss-free-publicity/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— America’s vanishing middle class. Crisis demands urgent action.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/9/americas-vanishing-middle-class/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pritzker signs Illinois bill allowing lawsuits against law enforcement officers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3911956/jb-pritzker-illinois-bill-allows-lawsuits-against-law-enforcement-officers/
— Pritzker unchallenged on Democrat primary ballot after Tillman removed by board
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3912752/pritzker-unchallenged-democrat-primary-after-opponent-removed/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Illinois Reps Outraged Over ICE-Arrested Cop Back on Duty
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/09/illinois-reps-outraged-over-ice-arrested-cop-back-on-duty/

FOX NEWS
— Pritzker signs bill to further shield illegal immigrants in Illinois from deportations. Bill goes into effect as Trump administration expands deportation efforts.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pritzker-signs-bill-further-shield-illegal-immigrants-illinois-deportations

PJ MEDIA
— Pritzker, Resisting Trump Means Releasing Murderers and Pedophiles
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/08/for-jb-pritzker-resisting-trump-means-releasing-murderers-and-pedophiles-n4946825
— Pritzker Should Think About Resisting Sandwiches Rather Than Trump
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/12/09/the-morning-briefing-jb-pritzker-should-think-about-resisting-sandwiches-rather-than-trump-n4946836

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Noem claims Mamdani could be violating Constitution with advice to migrants
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5640509-noem-mamdani-migrants-advice/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Pritzker Signs Bill Imposing New Limits on Immigration Enforcement
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/illinois-immigration-legislation-pritzker.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Illinois law protects immigrants from arrest near courthouses, hospitals or colleges. Illinois has a new law shielding immigrants from federal enforcement near courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day cares. DD: Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasing fill the courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day cares near you with his illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/12/09/immigration-chicago-pritzker-courthouse-ice-arrests/6ff39d24-d527-11f0-a93c-a869cf73ebd6_story.html

USA TODAY
— Is it illegal to hire someone based on race? DD: All my employers were always under tremendous pressure to hire minorities and females. They hired me because they could not find qualified minorities and females who would take the jobs.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/12/09/is-race-based-hiring-illegal/87604243007/

FORBES
— DD: Democrat leaders created affordability problems and now they blame Trump for those problems.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinacastellanos/2025/12/09/20-signs-theres-an-affordability-crisis-in-america/

December 9, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois educators are applauding weak school achievement
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/09/opinion-illinois-students-achievement-china/
— Lake County immigrants relieved, but wary as arrests subside: ‘They’re still afraid.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/08/lake-county-immigration-enforcement/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: ICE arrests suspect after standoff between agents, protesters in Elgin
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251208/crime/ice-arrests-suspect-after-standoff-between-agents-protesters-in-elgin/
— Crowded U.S. Senate race could slim down as state board rules on objections
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251208/illinois-state-politics/crowded-senate-race-could-slim-down-as-state-board-rules-on-objections/

NBC5
— Feds threaten to withhold funding after violent incidents on CTA property. The federal government demanded that the CTA take multiple steps to improve safety on its system.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/traffic/transit/feds-threaten-to-withhold-funding-after-violent-incidents-on-cta-property/3860623/

WGN9
— Nativity scenes around Chicagoland opt for political theme during holiday season. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://wgntv.com/news/north-suburbs/nativity-scenes-around-chicagoland-opt-for-political-theme-during-holiday-season/
— Immigration raids cast shadow over Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://wgntv.com/western-suburbs/immigration-raids-cast-shadow-over-feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe/

FOX32
— Here’s how much your family needs to earn to have a stay-at-home parent. DD: In Illinois, it is $79,102/year. My mother was a stay-at-home parent. The belief was that because she never attended high school, her earning potential was very limited. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21 and my brother was 16. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/how-much-family-needs-earn-stay-at-home-parent

WTTW
— Johnson Warns Chicago is Headed for Shutdown Amid Budget Deadlock
https://news.wttw.com/2025/12/08/johnson-warns-chicago-headed-shutdown-amid-budget-deadlock
— CPD Should Revise Promotions Policy After Officer Under Investigation Promoted. DD: IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. According to my critics/opponents, that was much too fast. But I earned an MBA in 1976, I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and I became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/12/08/cpd-should-revise-promotions-policy-after-officer-under-investigation-promoted-johnson

STATELINE
— DHS demands Illinois honor ICE detainers for over 4,000 criminal aliens. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/dhs-demands-illinois-honor-ice-detainers-for-over-4000-criminal-aliens/

SHAW LOCAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly blame Trump for the cost of living.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/12/08/how-illinois-democratic-us-senate-candidates-plan-to-address-economic-issues/

NPR ILLINOIS
— FBI agents sue after being fired for kneeling during racial justice protest. DD: Trump could cite Diersen v. GAO. The 7th Circuit ruled that my Democrat GAO superiors had the power to force me to retire, that is, that they had the power to fire me, when I was 49 years old in 1997, because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-08/fbi-agents-sue-after-being-fired-for-kneeling-during-racial-justice-protest

ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois. DD: My passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was a 30-year-old IRS employee in 1979 was one of my greatest successes. But my Democrat IRS superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled it. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. My passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was a 32-year-old GAO employee in 1981 was one of my greatest successes. But my Democrat GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled it. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.icpas.org/endowmentfund/gift/donation.aspx
(FROM THE LETTER: Every CPA remembers what it took to get there—long nights, financial strain, moments of doubt, and people who stepped in at just the right time. Today’s aspiring CPAs are facing those same moments when continuing to pursue their dream feels just out of reach. More students than ever before are turning to us for scholarships, guidance, and reassurance that the profession has their back.)

IPM NEWSROOM
— Republican Senate Candidate Don Tracy on Israel, ICE, and the future of MAGA and the GOP
https://ipmnewsroom.org/republican-senate-candidate-don-tracy-on-israel-ice-and-the-future-of-maga-and-the-gop/
— Champaign’s only low-barrier shelter is at risk of closing. DD: Chicago Democrat leaders use to send many of their homeless to Wheaton. Big homeless problems in Wheaton diminished after PADS raised its requirements.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/champaigns-only-low-barrier-shelter-is-at-risk-of-closing-some-guests-are-worried/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As the only low-barrier shelter in the area, Strides does not have sobriety or abstinence requirements, and does not conduct criminal background checks before accepting guests.

TRACE
— DD: Democrat leader ever-increasingly paint themselves as being protectors of those who are noncitizens, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, have health problems, non-rich, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, etc.
https://www.thetrace.org/2025/12/chicago-ice-school-safe-passage-violence/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-644/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-434/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

TED DABROWSKI
— Statement by Ted Dabrowski on illegals over citizens: Now for college aid
https://mailchi.mp/tedforillinois/student-aid-for-illegals

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— New Data Exposes Illinois GOP Crisis: Millions of Republicans Aren’t Voting, Party Leaders to Blame. DD: Illinois Republicans see how Illinois Republican leaders have treated me and have treated my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000. I should write about those Illinois Republican leaders who have blamed conservatives like me, that is, who have blamed platform Republicans like me, for Republican losses in Illinois the most since 2000. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform ins conservative. Far too many Illinois Republican leaders fail/refuse to defend and advance far too many planks in that platform.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/new-data-exposes-illinois-gop-crisis-millions-of-republicans-arent-voting-party-leaders-to-blame.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: New voter-participation data circulating among Illinois conservatives is highlighting what many now argue is the real and long-running crisis inside the Illinois Republican Party: collapsing enthusiasm, shrinking turnout, and a leadership class that has failed the base for more than two decades. Illinois has 12.5 million residents, with roughly 10 million old enough to vote. About 8 million are registered. Yet only 6 million typically vote in a presidential cycle, and just 4 million show up for midterms. According to attorney Tom DeVore, who has studied the numbers closely, the picture for Republicans is even worse. . .For twenty years, the Illinois GOP establishment has presided over shrinking maps, shrinking turnout, shrinking relevance, and a stunning refusal to engage real voters on real issues. “You can complain about the Democrats all day long, but at the end of the day they just want it more badly than Republicans,” DeVore said. “We have a voter-enthusiasm problem in Illinois Republican politics. The party sucks, so Republicans don’t vote.” He argues the problem is not Democrat strength — it’s Republican failure. “Republicans not voting allows bad Republican leaders to stay in office,” he said. “It’s a vicious circle that only a group of people with real courage and talent can resolve.” And while party insiders often bristle at criticism, DeVore says the truth is simple: “They want to blow smoke and tell you it’s the Democrats’ problem, when in reality it’s Republican leadership’s failures.” Democrats already dominate every level of state government, and without a significant shift in Republican engagement, 2026 would simply reinforce the trend. The emerging data shows a participation gap, not a population gap — and unless those millions of inactive Republican-leaning voters reenter the process, Illinois’ political landscape is likely to remain exactly where it has been for the past two decades.)
— Illinois Republicans Lose Focus as Property Taxes Dominate Their Messaging — Despite Having Little Power to Change Them
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/illinois-republicans-lose-focus-as-property-taxes-dominate-their-messaging-despite-having-little-power-to-change-them.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pritzker Continues Unannounced Visits to Crystal Lake
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/09/pritzker-continues-unannounced-visits-to-crystal-lake/
— Homeland Security Reveals 1,700+ Illegal Aliens Released from Prison into Society Instead of Given to ICE for Deportation
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/09/homeland-security-reveals-1700-illegal-aliens-released-from-prison-into-society-instead-of-given-to-ice-for-deportation/
— Senate Republicans Seek to Mirror Federal End to Tax on Tips
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/senate-republicans-seek-to-mirror-federal-end-to-tax-on-tips/
— Bruce Leon Gains Support from Orthodox Jewish Leaders for 9th District Democratic Party Nomination
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/bruce-leon-gains-support-from-orthodox-jewish-leaders/
— What Homeland Security Says Happened in Elgin
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/what-homeland-security-says-happened-in-elgin/
— Pay Gap Between Men and Women Lessens: “Women Earn About 91–93 Cents for Every Dollar Earned by Men in Comparable Roles.” DD: My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors paid all my female coworkers more than they paid me. All those who they promoted over me were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like I had.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/pay-gap-between-men-and-women-lessens-women-earn-about-91-93-cents-for-every-dollar-earned-by-men-in-comparable-roles/
— Our U.S. Senator Not Doing Her Homework
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/our-u-s-senator-not-doing-her-homework/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Mamdani should open his mayor’s mansion to illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/9/zohran-mamdani-open-mayors-mansion-illegal-immigrants/
— Conservatives outpace liberals in marrying and having children. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discourage traditional marriage and family.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/8/conservatives-outpace-liberals-marrying-children/
— The new American dream starts with a college search. Choose a school and degree that will make you a success. DD: Choosing the right major is just as important. I should have chosen accounting from the beginning. I didn’t because I erroneously thought I could not pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate evening accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditing examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The profession would not have done that if I had been a minority or a female.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/7/new-american-dream-starts-college-search/
— How multiculturalism and open borders brought Muslims’ religious war from Nigeria to America. Will Americans celebrate Christmas in 100 years? DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, Christianity will die in America.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/7/multiculturalism-open-borders-brought-muslims-religious-war-nigeria/
— Jewish Americans must get on right side of immigration debate. The direct link between leftist leaders, arrivals of unvetted foreigners. DD: My Democrat leaders in the federal government used/forced my many Jewish superiors to take many adverse actions against me. They used/forced my Jewish Post Office superiors to disallow my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and to force me to resign in 1969. They used/forced my Jewish IRS superiors to disallow my travel vouchers in 1974, to disallow my education expenses in 1978, and to not promote me beyond GS-12. They used/forced my Jewish GAO superiors to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer to GAO in 1980, to keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, to delay my promotions and to not promote me beyond GS-13, to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/7/jewish-americans-must-get-right-side-immigration-debate/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ICE puts pressure on Illinois attorney general to honor illegal immigrant detainers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3910538/ice-pressure-illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-illegal-immigrant-detainers/
— How Democrats treat illegal immigrants better than US citizens
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3909088/how-democrats-treat-illegal-immigrants-better-than-us-citizens/

NEW YORK POST
— Furious anti-ICE protesters threw snowballs at feds to protect Chicago Tren de Aragua gangbanger
https://nypost.com/2025/12/08/us-news/chicago-anti-ice-protesters-threw-snowballs-at-feds-to-protect-tren-de-argua-gangbanger-dhs-says/
— We’re raising kids who can’t do the math — making them easy to manipulate
https://nypost.com/2025/12/08/opinion/were-raising-kids-who-cant-do-the-math-making-them-easy-to-manipulate/
— Woke Protesters Support Trans Instructor On Leave For Religious Discrimination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp9g013RqVQ

BLAZE
— Illinois, Pritzker has released almost 1,800 violent illegal aliens back onto the streets in defiance of ICE
https://www.theblaze.com/news/illinois-gov-pritzker-have-released-almost-1800-violent-illegal-aliens-back-onto-the-streets-in-defiance-of-ice-dhs-says

BREITBART
— Migrant Crime Soared in Obama’s ‘Welcoming Cities’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/12/08/report-migrant-crime-soared-obama-welcoming-cities/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Chick-Fil-A waffles on wokeness with same-sex marriage post and DEI focus
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/chick-fil-a-waffles-on-wokeness-with-same-sex-marriage-post.html?mobile=false

CRISIS MAGAZINE
— Young Americans Are Turning to Socialism—They Deserve Better
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/young-americans-are-turning-to-socialism-they-deserve-better

DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Administration Has Found 62,000 Children, Some Victims of Sex Trafficking and Forced Labor
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/08/trump-administration-found-62000-children-some-victims-sex-trafficking-forced-labor/
— Illegals Plague Our Highways and Our Health Care
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/09/its-road-warrior-out-there/

FEDERALIST
— American Taxpayers Are Paying Somalis Millions To Not Assimilate. DD: All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Sadly, they did not assimilate as fast as they could/should have. Consequently, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school. All my grandparents spoke German. I had to work my way through college.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/08/american-taxpayers-are-paying-somalis-millions-to-not-assimilate/

FOX NEWS
— ICE warns Illinois is releasing violent criminal illegal aliens despite detainers, risking public safety. State has released 1,768 criminal aliens with active detainers since January 2025.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-warns-illinois-releasing-violent-criminal-illegal-aliens-despite-detainers-risking-public-safety
— Inside ‘Little Mogadishu’: Minnesota’s beleaguered Somali community under a cloud of fraud and Trump attacks. Fox News Digital visited ‘Little Mogadishu’ in Minneapolis to hear from Somali residents as national debates over integration and welfare fraud intensify.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/inside-little-mogadishu-minnesotas-somali-community-its-push-belonging

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Harvard Paid Internship For “Students of Color” Challenged by Equal Protection Project
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/harvard-paid-internship-for-students-of-color-challenged-by-equal-protection-project/

MRC TV
— Fox News Special Report Is The Only Nightly Newscast To Cover Mamdani’s ‘How To’ ICE Video For Illegals
https://mrctv.org/videos/fox-news-special-report-only-nightly-newscast-cover-mamdanis-how-ice-video-illegals

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— DD: Democrat leaders created affordability problems and now they blame Trump for those problems.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5640001-trump-speech-pennsylvania-economy/

ROLL CALL
— Congress must become a champion guard dog to defend its watchdog. A hostile executive branch could be in charge of the legislative branch’s investigations. DD: My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed my having been a GAO employee for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. They have also ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed a) my earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, b) my earning professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and c) my becoming a licensed CPA. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on past and present Republican a) federal candidates and elected officials and b) Illinois, DuPage County, and Milton Township party leaders.
https://rollcall.com/2025/12/08/congress-must-become-a-champion-guard-dog-to-defend-its-watchdog/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Dec. 29, the 15-year term of Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro will end, leaving the Government Accountability Office without a Senate-confirmed leader. The Trump administration has made no secret of its hostility toward GAO, and this creates a dangerous opening for the executive branch to undermine or even capture the agency that exists for one purpose: to help Congress do its job. The current president and his allies in Congress have publicly targeted GAO, recognizing that a weakened watchdog means weakened oversight of executive action. GAO support to Congress extends beyond any single administration. If GAO is captured or hollowed out, the damage will outlast the current presidency. Rebuilding independent investigative capacity takes decades. Losing it takes a moment of inattention. At stake is the legislative branch authority and responsibility set forth in Article I of the Constitution to oversee the executive branch. Congress must act immediately to protect GAO during the transition. This means forming a visible, bipartisan, bicameral coalition — backed by constitutional experts—to reject any executive interference with the legislative branch agency.  Any attempt by the current president to appoint, nominate, or direct GAO leadership should be challenged publicly and legally. The message must be unambiguous: GAO belongs to Congress. Most Americans have never heard of GAO. That’s by design. The agency operates as Congress’s nonpartisan, nonpolitical right hand — conducting audits, evaluations, and investigations that give legislators the facts they need to oversee federal programs and hold the executive branch accountable. GAO doesn’t make policy or substitute its judgment for Congress’s. It provides the independent, professional analysis that makes genuine oversight possible.)

ABC NEWS
— Mamdani tells immigrant New Yorkers about their right not to comply with ICE. The New York City mayor-elect posted a video explaining immigrants’ rights.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/zohran-mamdani-tells-immigrant-new-yorkers-comply-ice-128194280

CBS NEWS
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h1-b-visa-fees-rural-health-care-hospitals/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Three Years After Dobbs, the State Divide Over Abortion Deepens. DD: My critics/opponents reject the right to life plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/states-new-abortion-laws.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Because minorities overwhelmingly vote for Democrats, gerrymandering is by definition racial gerrymandering. The Democrats’ 3rd Congressional District in Illinois is a prime example.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/is-this-electoral-map-based-on-race-or-partisanship/2025/12/08/6e43e5bd-7be2-4983-bed5-8e4bcdb01ec5_video.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/09/young-adults-religion-campuses-kirk/

USA TODAY
— College students less comfortable expressing beliefs after Kirk death
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/12/08/charlie-kirk-assassination-students-free-speech-poll/87623920007/

LAW AND THE WORPKPLACE
— EEOC Issues Updated Guidance on National Origin Discrimination DD: I am 100% German national origin and a Missouri Synod Lutheran. All my employers would have hired noncitizens and/or non-German Americans instead of me if they could have. There are many negative German stereotypes. SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_Germans  I lived in Crete 1948-1972 when it was overwhelmingly German American and Lutheran. While I was a Firestone Store employee for more than 2 years and a federal employee for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times virtually all of my supervisors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates had loved ones who were killed by Germans. In my defense, I stressed that while all my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany, they all immigrated way back in 1840s and 1850s. I stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI. I stressed that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII. I stressed that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.lawandtheworkplace.com/2025/12/eeoc-issues-updated-guidance-on-national-origin-discrimination/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The EEOC has issued a one-page technical assistance document, “Discrimination Against American Workers Is Against the Law” and updated its national origin discrimination landing page, reinforcing national origin discrimination protections with a focus on immigration-related issues.  The latest guidance follows the EEOC’s previous 2016 Enforcement Guidance on National Origin Discrimination, which remains in effect. Title VII, which is enforced by the EEOC, prohibits employment discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and applies to most private employers with 15 or more employees. Under Title VII, discrimination based on national origin with respect to compensation and other terms and conditions of employment is unlawful, and employers are prohibited from limiting, segregating or classifying employees in a way that could deprive them of opportunities based on their national origin. The new technical assistance document defines national origin discrimination as “treating employees or applicants unfavorably or favorably because they are from a particular country or part of the world, because of ethnicity or accent, or because they appear to be of a certain ethnic background.” The landing page emphasizes that Title VII protects all workers, “including Americans,” and explains that national origin discrimination can include preferring foreign workers, including workers with certain visa statuses, over American workers.  It further highlights that discrimination can occur when the victim and the person engaging in the discrimination are of the same national origin.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The GOP Can’t Agree on a Healthcare Plan. Some Republicans Are Panicking. Senate is expected to vote this week on Democratic-backed measure to extend enhanced healthcare subsidies. DD: Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married I was 29 years old and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-gop-cant-agree-on-a-healthcare-plan-some-republicans-are-panicking-76b6d89e
— China Is Gearing Up for a Potential Invasion of Taiwan
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/how-china-chinese-invasion-taiwan-ba7e3916

FORBES
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2025/12/08/a-diverse-hire-not-a-diversity-hire/

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.  I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/11/final-schedule-f-regulations-describe-civil-service-protections-unconstitutional-overcorrections/409616/

POLITICO
— Supreme Court seems likely to let Trump fire independent agency heads. DD: Trump could cite Diersen v. GAO. The 7th Circuit ruled that my Democrat GAO superiors had the power to force me to retire, that is, that they had the power to fire me, when I was 49 years old in 1997, because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/supreme-court-slaughter-trump-firings-00681078

NPR
— DD: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly creates more homelessness by destroying traditional marriage and family.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5637407/homelessness-in-the-new-gilded-age
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5637259/placeless-author-traces-the-roots-and-realities-of-mass-homelessness-in-america
— Americans facing unaffordable healthcare costs if ACA subsidies end share concerns. DD: Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married I was 29 years old and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5634778/americans-facing-unaffordable-healthcare-costs-if-aca-subsidies-end-share-concerns

HR ZONE
— DD: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government made it clear that they believed that the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.  I should write about the aforesaid.
https://hrzone.com/2025-12-are-staff-surveys-making-employees-too-entitled/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

DAILY MAIL
— Disturbing truth about Somalis in America that no Democrat will ever confront
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15356833/somali-americans-usa-stats-expert.html
— Woke school gives kids as young as 11 tips on how to ‘come out as trans.’ DD: How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15364609/maryland-westland-middle-school-transgender-binding-lessons.html

HINDUSTAN TIMES
— US tech co-founder says he’ll pay $100,000 per day for H-1B talent: ‘Will set up recurring payment.’  DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/us-tech-co-founder-says-hell-pay-100-000-per-day-for-h-1b-talent-will-set-up-recurring-payment-101765206308941.html

ZOOM BANGLA
— Caste Discrimination a Major Drag on India’s Economy. DD: What Caste were you born into? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://inews.zoombangla.com/caste-discrimination-a-major-drag-on-indias-economy-argues-prominent-economist/

ECONOMIC TIMES
— H-1B visa appointments cancelled for many applicants as US expands social media vetting. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/work/h1b-visa-appointments-cancelled-for-many-applicants-as-us-expands-social-media-vetting/articleshow/125865253.cms

December 6, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Kristi Noem draws protesters at Chicago Christmas tree charity event. Trump’s deportation chief presided over the “Christmas Tree Ship” ceremony at Navy Pier Saturday. She led one of the early aggressive immigration raids near Chicago.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/06/homeland-security-kristi-noem-christmas-trees-chicago-coast-guard-navy-pier
— Feds deploy tear gas in Elgin as hourslong standoff ends in man’s arrest. ICE agents fire tear gas and residents toss snow and water bottles back during a confrontation that ended with a man in custody. State Sen. Cristina Castro was on scene and decried agents for “striking fear” in the community.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/06/tear-gas-deployed-in-elgin-as-feds-detain-man-after-hours-long-standoff

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— On day of Kristi Noem visit to Chicago, federal immigration agents use tear gas on Elgin crowd
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/06/immigration-agents-use-tear-gas-on-crowd-in-elgin/

DAILY HERALD
— Threats pile up as Indiana Republicans confront pressure from Trump on redistricting
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251206/nation-and-world-politics/threats-pile-up-as-indiana-republicans-confront-pressure-from-trump-on-redistricting/

ABC7
— Federal agent involved in crash, ‘chemical irritants’ deployed in Elgin
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-elgin-federal-immigration-agent-involved-crash-highland-ave-7-exposed-chemical-irritants-maple-lane-police/18258436/
–DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/new-hud-housing-program-rules-donald-trump-administration-could-put-formerly-unhoused-people-back-streets/18251645/

CBS2
— Federal agent involved in crash, chemical agents dispersed in Elgin
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/federal-agent-involved-in-crash-chemical-agents-dispersed-elgin-illinois/

WGLT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Somalia.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-12-05/trumps-garbage-comment-met-with-disappointment-in-somalia

FOX ILLINOIS
— ‘They’re really cute’: Trump says he approved ‘tiny cars’ for US production. DD: A 1978 Chevrolet Chevette was my daily driver 1978-1994.
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/theyre-really-cute-trump-says-he-approved-tiny-cars-for-us-production-automakers-manufactured-united-states-japan-kei-smaller-vehicles-driving-gas-fuel-economy-mileage-transportation-environment

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump to affordability critics: ‘I’M FIXING IT’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/6/trump-affordability-critics-im-fixing/
— Universities defy Trump’s diversity essay ban despite federal threats. DD: UIC admitted me when I was 18 in 1966, NIU when I was 20, Loyola when I was 23, DePaul when I was 27, and IIT when I was 43. But because I oppose race and gender based preference giving, if I was 18, 20, 23, or 43 today, they would not admit me today.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/5/trump-admin-threatens-universities-diversity-essay-policies-schools/
— Young people will lead America into tyranny if not stopped
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/5/young-people-lead-america-tyranny-stopped/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats are choosing cartels over Americans
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/3908558/democrats-choose-cartels-over-americans/
— Trump administration announces audit of contractors benefiting from ‘disadvantaged’ business program. DD: All my critics/opponents a) hint/imply/argue/shout that they are disadvantaged and/or b) that they fight for the disadvantaged. They all demonize, denigrate, and condemn me as being advantaged.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/3909429/trump-administration-announces-audit-of-contractors-benefiting-from-disadvantaged-business-program/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump administration will expand travel ban to over 30 countries
https://nypost.com/2025/12/06/us-news/trump-administration-expanding-travel-ban-to-more-than-30-countries/
— America needs to restore high standards before our schools become completely worthless
https://nypost.com/2025/12/06/opinion/alarming-signs-kids-are-paying-a-steep-price-for-low-standards-and-less-testing-in-schools/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— 260K dead found on voter rolls, thousands more ‘non-citizens’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/06/harmeet-dhillon-reveals-260k-dead-found-on-voter-rolls-thousands-more-non-citizens-1608495/

CENTER SQUARE
— Obama-era ‘Welcoming Cities’ program overlaps with illegal border crosser crimes
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_6e09665c-9366-45a5-b950-838e21ca57da.html

FOX NEWS
— Sanctuary cities have ‘absolutely no say’ on immigration crackdowns
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386124149112
— Photos emerge of Somali illegal’s ties to top Minnesota Dems after ICE arrest. Ibrahim has been photographed with several high-profile Minnesota Democrats, including Gov. Tim Walz and ‘Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/photos-emerge-somali-illegals-ties-top-minnesota-dems-after-ice-arrest
— Ilhan Omar says there are few undocumented Somali migrants in the country
https://noticias.foxnews.com/media/ilhan-omar-says-few-undocumented-somali-migrants-country.print
— Trump takes his affordability agenda on the road. DD: What did you do to afford things? I took bad jobs that my peers would not stoop to take. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. According to my critics/opponents, I was grossly overpaid for those jobs and my pension and retirement benefits are much too generous. To qualify myself for better paying jobs, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386127745112
— The Alarming Gaps in America’s Immigration Vetting System
https://radio.foxnews.com/2025/12/06/extra-the-alarming-gaps-in-americas-immigration-vetting-system/

NEWSMAX
— Zero Tolerance for Those Who Impede ICE
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/immigration-ice-dhs/2025/12/06/id/1237327/
— Another Stabbing by Illegal Migrant in Charlotte
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/crime-violence-illegals/2025/12/06/id/1237353/

PJ MEDIA
— Woke Priest Uses His Church’s Nativity Scene to Mock and Defy ICE
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/12/06/woke-priest-finds-a-way-to-mock-ice-in-his-churchs-nativity-scene-n4946773
— When Sanctuary Politics Put a Knife to an Innocent American
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/12/06/when-sanctuary-politics-put-a-knife-to-an-innocent-american-n4946772

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEWSWEEK
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-stumbles-america-lgbtq-forum-speech-11167745

AOL
— Ageism in the Job Market Is Real. DD: I have been fighting ageism since I was 25 years old in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors deemed me to be too old to be promoted to GS-13. I ultimately did make GS-13, but not until I was 38 and had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/too-old-too-young-retire-133059851.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Here’s How Trump Has Made It Harder for Migrants Seeking Asylum and Citizenship
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/politics/trump-immigration-changes.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Skeletons in your closet? No problem, you can be a GOP candidate. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Voters demand more from Republican candidates than from Democrat candidates. They demand even more from Republican candidates who state that they are conservative. Candidates can always run as Independents. Should political parties have the power to stop candidates from seeking offices as a member of their party? If so, what criteria should be used? Far too many candidates have tremendous skeletons in their closets. When those skeletons come out, not only do they lose, but the party that they ran under loses. When their skeletons come out, far too many Republican candidates blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. But nothing has ever been in my newsletters that was not already in the public realm and/or was already known by the Democrats. Democrat leaders have always falsely claimed to have first learned of Republican negatives from my newsletters. Far too many who are involved in Republican activities are Democrat plants.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-01-22/republicans-solomon-pena-george-santos-vetting-candidates-democrats

DESERET NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing destroy traditional marriage and family. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer people are marriage material. What helped make you marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $108,978/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/documents/
https://www.deseret.com/special-series/2025/11/14/american-family-survey-marriage-indifference-needed-family/

WKBW
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Jesus was an illegal immigrant and that he rejects the concepts of countries, borders, and laws.
https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/jesus-himself-was-an-immigrant-buffalo-catholic-diocese-calls-for-compassion-for-immigrants

HEALTH INSURANCE
— Does health insurance cover IVF and other fertility treatments? DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who have used against me the most my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents. According to them, if we had children, I would not have been able a) to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) to earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) to pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and d) to become a licensed CPA in 1981. The aforesaid enabled me to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and to get promoted by GAO to GS-13 in 1986. Would Duckworth agree with my critics/opponents, and if so, why? Duckworth stresses what she has accomplished since she successfully used IVF.
https://www.healthinsurance.org/faqs/does-health-insurance-cover-ivf-and-other-fertility-treatments/

POLITICO
— Immigration courts thrown into chaos as Trump administration purges dozens of judges. The president has ousted about one-seventh of the DOJ judges weighing whether to deport noncitizens.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/06/trump-immigration-court-judge-purges-00679376

SALON
— American workers are refusing to take bad jobs. DD: What bad jobs did you take? I took bad jobs that my peers would not stoop to take. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped lag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. According to my critics/opponents, I was grossly overpaid for those jobs and my pension and retirement benefits are much too generous. To qualify myself for better paying jobs, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/19/american-workers-are-refusing-to-take-bad-jobs-and-thats-good-for-everyone-economists-say/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

TELEGRAPH
— US Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump’s appeal challenging birthright citizenship for children of noncitizens
https://www.telegraphindia.com/amp/world/us-supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-trumps-appeal-challenging-birthright-citizenship-for-children-of-noncitizens/cid/2136503

December 6, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote birthright citizenship.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/12/05/supreme-court-decide-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-violates-the-constitution
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2025/12/05/inmigrantes-tienen-niveles-mas-altos-de-ataques-de-panico-y-ansiedad-y-poca-ayuda

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hanover Park police officer busted by ICE back to full duty. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.  My critics/opponents cannot say anything like that because they did not have to take bad jobs like I had to. I had to work my way through college. Their parents had lots of money. They bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent federal taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/02/hanover-park-police-immigration-blitz-trump/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: A Republican running to succeed longtime U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the largely suburban 9th District was convicted of a sex crime against a juvenile decades ago. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Voters demand more from Republican candidates than from Democrat candidates. They demand even more from Republican candidates who state that they are conservative. Candidates can always run as Independents. Should political parties have the power to stop candidates from seeking offices as a member of their party? If so, what criteria should be used? Far too many candidates have tremendous skeletons in their closets. When those skeletons come out, not only they lose, but the party that they ran under loses. When their skeletons come out, far too many Republican candidates blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. But nothing has ever been in my newsletters that was not already in the public realm and/or was already known by the Democrats. Democrat leaders have always falsely claimed to have first learned of Republican negatives from my newsletters. Far too many who are involved in Republican activities are Democrat plants.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251205/us-congress-politics/9th-district-congressional-candidate-was-convicted-of-sex-crime-against-a-juvenile-records-show/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Friedman’s rivals for the GOP nomination have had varied reactions to his criminal history, as have suburban party leaders. Cleveland surprised Friedman by loudly disclosing his status as a registered sex offender during a candidate meet-and-greet last month in Northbrook. A Cleveland campaign aide then asked Friedman about the case while filming the conversation. That video subsequently was shared with the Daily Herald. When asked about Friedman’s past via email this week, Su said no elected official should have a history of sex offenses. Elleson expressed reluctance to comment on Friedman’s conviction, saying he didn’t know the details. A church pastor, he said everyone deserves a second chance. “I believe in giving everyone the benefit of the doubt,” Elleson said in an email. “None of us know the whole story.” Cook County Republican Party Chair Aaron Del Mar called Friedman’s conviction “entirely disqualifying” and said he should drop out of the race. “Voters have every right to expect basic decency and transparency from anyone asking to serve in Congress,” said Del Mar, who’s campaigning for lieutenant governor as Darren Bailey’s running mate. “Someone with this kind of conviction has no business running for federal office, and it is an insult to the voters of the 9th District to pretend otherwise.” Lake County Republican Party Chair Keith Brin noted that political parties have no control over who runs for office. He encouraged voters to research candidates.)

STATELINE
— Illinois fights federal changes to SNAP eligibility for noncitizens
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-fights-federal-changes-to-snap-eligibility-for-noncitizens/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump official signals potential rollback of changes to census racial categories
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-05/trump-official-signals-potential-rollback-of-changes-to-census-racial-categories

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— The White House, Teenagers and Media Bias
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/the-white-house-teenagers-and-media-bias/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— IVF is Not the Answer to Your Infertility– (There’s a Better One) DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who have used against me the most my and my wife giving up trying to have children without trying IVF, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents. According to them, if we had children, I would not have been able a) to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) to earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) to pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and d) to become a licensed CPA in 1981. The aforesaid enabled me to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and to get promoted by GAO to GS-13 in 1986. Would Duckworth agree with my critics/opponents, and if so, why? Duckworth stresses what she has accomplished since she successfully used IVF.
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/ivf-is-not-the-answer-to-your-infertility-theres-a-better-one/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Norine Hammond Makes Nearly Twice the Income of Her Own Constituents, While Skipping Local GOP Events Amid Ethics Concerns
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/norine-hammond-makes-nearly-twice-the-income-of-her-own-constituents-while-skipping-local-gop-events-amid-ethics-concerns.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Have high school boys really gotten that bad? DD: Do you attend your high school reunions? Were you marriage material when you were in high school? I was not. 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 attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. But worst of all, during my junior and senior years, I spent 28 hours a week washing dishes and 40 hours a week during the summer in between.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-your-land/3897943/have-high-school-boys-really-gotten-that-bad/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: At a time when marriage and birth rates are rapidly declining, a recent Pew poll finding that 12th graders are far less interested in getting married today than they were 30 years ago is alarming. In 1993, according to Pew, some 80% of all 12th graders said they were likely to get married someday, compared to just 67% of 12th graders who said the same thing today. Meanwhile, those who are not interested in marriage at all have almost doubled, from 5% to 9%. But when you drill down on the numbers, an interesting gender imbalance develops. In 1993, 83% of 12th-grade girls expressed a desire to get married someday, compared to 76% of boys. But today those numbers are reversed, with an almost identical 74% of 12th-grade boys interested in marriage, but only 61% of girls. Responding to the new Pew numbers, feminist author Jill Filipovic posted on X, “Might be worth asking what it is about high school boys that girls don’t find appealing, I have a feeling the list is long and informative.” As someone who was once a high school boy (way back in 1993, actually), I can attest that Filipovic is absolutely correct that it would be easy for any high school girl to make a long list of things they did not find appealing about my fellow male classmates and me. But in our defense, we were teenage boys, and we had lots of growing up to do before we became appealing to women. My question for Filipovic is, have high school boys really gotten so much worse than I was in the 1990s? Or maybe our schools and culture are sending a lot more anti-marriage messages to girls today than they were 30 years ago. Pick any Disney movie from the 1990s. Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Hercules, and Tarzan all have romantic heterosexual relationships at their core. Fast forward to today, and Brave, Moana, Zootopia, Encanto, and Wish are all completely bereft of heterosexual pairing off. The female leads in all these movies are not only unmarried but also completely uninterested in marriage. Brave‘s entire storyline is anti-marriage. And in schools, marriage is never promoted while self-discovery and professional achievement are endlessly encouraged. The little time spent on relationships with boys is all negative. Girls are taught that men are dangerous and to recognize signs of dating violence, coercion, toxic relationships, grooming, and manipulation. But are they ever taught how rewarding a life-long marriage to a spouse can be, or what qualities to look for in a good partner? Nope. Never. That would be far too patriarchal and heteronormative. If we want our civilization to survive, we are going to have to turn our marriage and birth rates around. Maybe it’s time we started teaching our children how absolutely essential marriage is to their happiness and stopped attacking high school boys for being … high school boys.)
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Jesus was an illegal immigrant and that he rejects the concepts of countries, borders, and laws.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3389517/raphael-warnock-the-view-kilmar-abrego-garcia-immigrant-jesus/

NEW YORK POST
— Somali illegal migrant fraudster photographed with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar
https://nypost.com/2025/12/05/us-news/photos-emerge-of-somali-illegal-immigrant-fraudster-with-minnesota-gov-tim-walz-rep-ilhan-omar/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/05/us-news/biden-suffers-brutal-gaffe-while-trying-to-pronounce-america-at-lgbtq-conference-in-dc/

WASHINGTON POST
— Supreme Court will hear case on Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship. DD: American citizenship brings with it tremendous benefits and few if any responsibilities. American citizens who are the following get tremendous preference: Democrat, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, poor, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, and/or non-German American.
The announcement sets up a test of a controversial policy that could redefine who is considered an American.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/05/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump/

AMAC
— Trump continues to make progress in the fight against discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies in American higher education. In the most recent development on this front, Northwestern University signed a $75 million settlement and agreed to the administration’s demands to abolish race-based admissions and hiring policies.
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/trump-notches-another-victory-in-battle-against-higher-ed-discrimination/

BREITBART
— Trump’s National Security Plan: ‘Era of Mass Migration Is Over’ DD: If there had been as many noncitizens in America when I was young as there are now, I would not have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. Democrat and RINO leaders would have given the aforesaid to noncitizens.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/12/05/trumps-national-security-plan-era-of-mass-migration-is-over/amp/

CREATORS SYNDICATE
— Affordability: We Need Higher Incomes, Not Lower Prices. DD: What did you do qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.creators.com/read/daily-editorials/12/25/affordability-we-need-higher-incomes-not-lower-prices-4c166

FOX BUSINESS
— Poor people are the only people who pay the price. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders make those who are the following pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, and/or have less money than others.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/palantir-ceo-says-poor-people-only-people-who-pay-price-being-wrong-this-culture

TOWNHALL
— Democrats Fuel Racial Strife to Get Votes
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2025/12/06/democrats-racists-who-fuel-racial-strife-to-get-votes-n2667468

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

C-SPAN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/former-president-biden-speaks-at-lgbtq-forum/5183176

NBC NEWS
— Europe will be ‘unrecognizable’ in 20 years due to immigration. DD: How soon will America be unrecognizable because of immigration?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/europe-will-unrecognizable-20-years-due-immigration-white-house-strate-rcna247534

CBS NEWS
— For Gen Zers, finding work after college is often a painful slog. DD: What frustrated your job search? For me, it was potential employers seeing me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Therefore, I took the only job offer that I got. But it was for a job that did not really require a college degree. After my application was approved, I was offered a job that did require a college degree. I accepted it. But that offer was withdrawn because that employer had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had to have a job because I was helping support my mother and brother, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/gen-z-struggle-get-hired-labor-market/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— White House sets up a hall of shame for news outlets. DD: My critics/opponents blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who are/were leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) conservative leaders, and d) religious leaders. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-press-media-bias-hall-of-shame-4571e8bfc924de0d83529b635be0a68c

CNBC
— ‘Trump accounts’ could give your child up to $1,000 for free. Your top questions, answered. DD: What if the federal government had given you a Trump Account when you were born? $1,000 today was worth $74.20 when I was born in 1948. With money I earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet in 1964. With money I earned delivering newspapers and washing dishes, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966. With money I earned doing summer jobs in 1966 and delivering mail 1966-1969, a) I bought a new Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, b) I bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, c) I paid for my college expenses, and d) I graduated debt-free from NIU owning that Charger in 1970.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/trump-accounts-free-money.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/politics/trump-approval-rating.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/biden-lgbtq-award.html
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want everyone in the world to seek asylum in America. Democrat leaders because they vote for Democrats. RINO leaders because they want cheap labor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/opinion/immigration-lawyer-trump-asylum.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A President’s Right to Say ‘You’re Fired’ DD: My Democrat GAO superiors fired me, that is, they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. In federal court, they hinted/implied/argued that was what Congress wanted them to do. I had been an active member in a class action lawsuit since 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. They wanted to give my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate which what they did. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-v-slaughter-supreme-court-independent-agencies-humphreys-executor-federal-trade-commission-38f08c2d

FED SCOOP
— DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they demanded blind loyalty to the Democrat Party platform and especially to its Affirmative Action plank, that is, to its race and gender preference giving plank, its patronage plank, its political affiliation plank, its reverse discrimination plank, its age discrimination plank, its religious discrimination plank, and its national origin discrimination plank. They wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 year old in 1997 because I refused to become a Democrat, because I complained about their loyalty demand and their discrimination, and because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation when I was 40 years old in 1988.
https://fedscoop.com/federal-agency-jobs-trump-loyalty-question-opm-lawsuit/

WEEK
— DD: Anti-conservatives ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://theweek.com/articles/528746/origins-marriage

BANKING RATES
— 3 College Majors With Declining Starting Salaries. DD: In today’s dollars, a) my starting Firestone Store salary was about $50,000/year in 1970, b) my starting IRS salary was $55,850/year in 1971, and c) my starting GAO salary was $88,808/year in 1980. I had earned an MBA in 1976 and I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://www.aol.com/3-college-majors-declining-starting-130232761.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Business: 2025 salary projection: $65,276

MOTHER JONES
— DD: What Caste were you born into? Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-caste-america-birthright-citizenship/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

HINDU
— Scholarships: December 6, 2025. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me for my not getting any scholarships.
https://www.thehindu.com/education/scholarships-december-6-2025/article70332229.ece

TIMES OF INDIA
— Microsoft quietly make big changes to its employee performance reviews. DD: Democrat and RINO employers use performance reviews to get rid of their Republican employees. They paint their Democrat and RINO employees as positively as they can and they paint their Republican employees as negatively as they can. In Diersen v. GAO, I entered into the court record all the many performance reviews that my Democrat superiors gave me 1980-1997. None of them came close to justifying the many adverse actions that they took against me. They forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/microsoft-quietly-make-big-changes-to-its-employee-performance-reviews-company-has-removed/articleshow/125800354.cms

December 5, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Ahead of Kristi Noem’s visit to Chicago Saturday, immigration agents make show of force in west suburbs
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/05/kristi-noem-chicago-immigration-arrests/
— Democrat leaders badmouth Trump Accounts
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/05/donald-trump-baby-bonds-trump-accounts-savings-1000/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders defend the SAFE-T Act.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/12/05/safe-t-act-criticism-pre-trial-detention-cta-burning-lawrence-reed-rich-miller

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251205/nation-and-world-politics/around-the-world-refugees-are-shut-out-of-the-us-by-trumps-new-policies/

ABC7
— Mayor Johnson’s pick for Chicago Housing Authority CEO had ‘lack of operational experience.’  DD: 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, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) no professional license like the one I had.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mayor-brandon-johnsons-chicago-housing-authority-ceo-pick-former-alderman-walter-burnett-had-lack-experience-letter/18255257/

CBS2
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/priest-walks-dolton-pope-leo-home-new-york-statue-of-liberty-immigration/
— Indiana House GOP advances 9-0 congressional map, sending contentious plan to state Senate
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/indiana-redistricting-vote/
— Durbin trying to pass DREAM Act one more time before retirement
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/dick-durbin-dream-act-retirement/

WGN RADIO
— Why college sophomores panic. DD: In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, if I could do it over again, I would have majored in accounting. I erroneously thought I could never pass the CPA examination. But I passed it on my first attempt when I finally took it when I was 30 years old. But by then, the accounting profession viewed as being too old.
https://wgnradio.com/jobs/career-vision/why-college-sophomores-panic-2/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Homeless shelter for families with children opens in downtown Champaign
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/housing/homeless-shelter-for-families-with-children-opens-in-downtown-champaign/article_e1a29a84-4491-44eb-a46c-0b6b9c3dfbae.html

WAND TV
— Another line of attack: White House sets up a hall of shame for news outlets. President Donald Trump’s White House has established a hall of shame for journalists it finds guilty of media bias as it looks for new avenues of attack against legacy news outlets.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/another-line-of-attack-white-house-sets-up-a-hall-of-shame-for-news-outlets/article_4059594e-71ae-579b-8530-4a6f95156f0d.html

WREX
— Realtors say immigration fear is influencing Rockford housing market
https://www.wrex.com/news/realtors-say-immigration-fear-is-influencing-rockford-housing-market/article_7640023e-471a-40cb-965f-4aa531ad4995.html

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Illinois educators hope to tackle thorny issue of math competence. State board developing ‘numeracy plan’ to boost math competency statewide.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-educators-hope-to-tackle-thorny-issue-of-math-competence/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-433/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Forced Charity: ComEd Shifting Electric Burden to Middle Class under Pritzker Administration Order
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/05/forced-charity-com-ed-shifting-electric-burden-to-middle-class-under-pritzker-administration-order/
— Former Republican Congressman Randy Hultgren Retiring as Head of Illinois Bankers Association
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/05/former-republican-congressman-randy-hultgren-retiring-as-head-of-illinois-bankers-association/
— 9th District Democratic Party Congressional Hopeful Bushra Amiwala Marshals Volunteers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/05/9th-district-democratic-party-congressional-hopeful-bushra-amiwala-marshals-volunteers/
— Prairie Grove School District Seeks 16.6% Tax Hike
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/04/prairie-grove-school-district-seeks16-6-tax-hike/
— Crystal Lake High School District Asking for Almost 5% More in Real Estate Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/04/crystal-lake-high-school-district-asking-for-almost-5-more-in-real-estate-taxes/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTINGTON TIMES
— Most universities ignore Trump administration’s ban on diversity-themed admission essays
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/5/universities-ignore-trump-administrations-ban-diversity-themed/
— ‘Ticking time bomb’: How dangers lurked in Afghan evacuee population
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/5/ticking-time-bomb-dangers-lurked-afghan-evacuee-population/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The one-income, middle-class household is a historical myth. DD: I was raised in a one-income household. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/3899251/one-income-middle-class-household-historical-myth/
— Dell teaches an anti-socialist lesson
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/magazine-letter-from-the-editor/3906428/dell-teaches-anti-socialist-lesson/
— The college degree was a signal. Now it’s just noise. DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, b) had less work experience than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3907523/college-degree-was-signal-now-noise/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As college students across the country prepare for their final exams, many assume they’re entering a job market eager to receive them. But the latest data tell a harsher truth: Americans with bachelor’s degrees now make up a record 25% of the unemployed, up from under 10% three decades ago. And for those ages 20 to 24 — the very students heading toward commencement — unemployment has climbed to 9.2%, a year-over-year spike not seen outside recessions. For many parents, these statistics land like a betrayal. They followed the script they were handed, and they urged their children to do the same: work hard, pad the résumé, secure admission, earn the degree. They were assured the payoff would be waiting on the other side. Instead, the very credential that students were promised would open doors for them is now failing even to keep those doors from closing in their faces.)

NEW YORK POST
— Trump to tour nation with economic pitch as Dems hone ‘affordability’ attack
https://nypost.com/2025/12/05/us-news/trump-to-tour-nation-with-economic-pitch-as-dems-hone-maaa-affordability-attack/
— Trump’s Mr. Fix it: Scott Bessent set to tackle affordability crisis. DD: What stopped you from earning more money during your career? For me, it was my Democrat superiors in the federal government who wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They wasted what I had learned a) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) earning six job-related professional certifications, c) earning a job-related professional license, d) working for the Post Office for almost 3 years, e) working for IRS for almost 9 years, and f) working for GAO for almost 18 years.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/05/business/trumps-mr-fix-it-scott-bessent-set-to-tackle-affordability-crisis/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Over 260,000 Dead People and Thousands of Illegals Found in Voter Roll Review Thus Far
https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/05/assist-ag-harmeet-dhillon-over-260000-dead-people-and-thousands-of-illegals-found-in-voter-roll-review-thus-far/

BREITBART
— Minneapolis: ICE Arrests Illegals from Somalia During ‘Operation Metro Surge’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/12/05/minneapolis-ice-arrests-illegals-from-somalia-during-operation-metro-surge/amp/

FEDERALIST
— Normal Americans Are The Ones Who Pay The Price For Biden’s Disastrous Immigration Policies
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/05/normal-americans-are-the-ones-who-pay-the-price-for-bidens-disastrous-immigration-policies/
— Raking In Hundreds Of Millions For Trafficking Kids Destroys U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Credibility On Immigration
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/05/raking-in-hundreds-of-millions-for-trafficking-kids-destroys-u-s-catholic-bishops-credibility-on-immigration/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— U.S. mission in Afghanistan was “two-decade long effort fraught with waste,” watchdog finds
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-mission-afghanistan-fraught-with-waste-sigar-report/

PACIFIC LEGAL
— Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker recently signed legislation rewriting the state’s scholarship rules—and abruptly ending a decades-old race-exclusive program. The change will moot a lawsuit led by a student member of the American Alliance for Equal Rights and represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation at no cost. The law, House Bill 3065, which took effect November 21, struck racial classifications from scholarship eligibility in Illinois.
https://pacificlegal.org/following-plfs-discrimination-suit-pritzker-signs-bill-ending-illinois-race-exclusive-scholarship/

CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: If Democrat and RINO leaders had their way, only those who are the following would be allowed to earn college degrees: Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. I am none of the aforesaid. After I got married when I was 29, I earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31 and a master’s degree in financial markets and trading when I was 48.
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/daily-briefing/2025-12-05

December 5, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Durbin ever-increasingly does more to promote illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/04/durbin-reintroduces-dream-act
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/12/04/donald-trump-maga-approval-rating-low-economy-truth-social-s-e-cupp
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/12/05/homeland-defenders-citizenship-immigration-services-uscis-ice-border-patrol-midway-blitz
— DD: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/public-safety/2025/12/04/thousands-leaving-illinois-prisons-face-high-risk-of-housing-instability-new-study

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
—  Ugaste: Illinois is not doomed to property taxes rising every year — if we end one-party control
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/05/letters-120525/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding. According to Democrat leaders, GOD rejects the concepts of countries, borders, and laws.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/evanston-nativity-baby-jesus-zip-tied-ice-agents/

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Under the Democrats, anticipate/expect that celebrating America’s 250th birthday will be all 1619.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251205/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-celebrating-the-democratic-project-illinois-kicks-off-impressive-plan-for-a/

ABC7
— Supreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026
https://abc7chicago.com/post/supreme-court-allows-texas-use-congressional-map-favorable-republicans-2026/18251573/

FOX32
— DD: Durbin ever-increasingly does more to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1751474

WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/12/04/panic-attacks-anxiety-high-immigrants-federal-deportation-campaign-operation-midway-blitz-trump-ice-border-patrol

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump orders flags to be flown at half-staff to honor Sarah Beckstrom
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/national-guard-shooting-sarah-beckstrom-president-trump-orders-flags-flown-half-staf-honor-memory-washington-dc-shooting-west-virginia-army-specialist-white-house-flag-united-states-district-of-columbia-farragut-metro-shots-fired

WTVO
— Northern Illinois sheriffs demand changes to SAFE-T Act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyssmUydPEA

BLOCK CUB CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/04/how-the-feds-used-propaganda-to-frame-their-war-on-chicago-theyre-lying-constantly/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-432/
(FROM THE ROUNDUP: Illinois Bankers Association CEO Randy Hultgren is retiring … Illinois Bankers Association CEO Randy Hultgren has informed his board of directors he will be retiring from the helm of the statewide business group at the end of the 2026 Spring legislative session. “The IBA is in strong financial shape. We’ve had record participation in recent conferences and we’re coming off legislative and legal wins to protect our members and their customers,” Hultgren said. “We’ve united as an industry to battle the ill-conceived Interchange Fee Prohibition Act that would cause financial losses to Illinois small businesses, hurt consumers and make Illinois banks an outlier in the nation’s banking system. We’ve invested in programs to build talented future leaders for the banking industry; and our organization helped draft the “Access to Credit in Rural Economies Act” which made it into federal law this year and will make it easier for farmers and rural homeowners to access low-cost credit. […] The Board of Directors says a search will begin immediately to succeed Hultgren. “While we would have preferred Randy stay, we respect his decision to step down next year and we’re thankful for his accomplishments on behalf of Illinois bankers. He has led the IBA through a period of unprecedented success and his legislative expertise as a former state and federal lawmaker made us the most effective voice for banks in Springfield, Washington, D.C. and Chicago,” said IBA Board Chair T.J. Burge, president and CEO of the Community Partners Savings Bank in Salem, Illinois. “We’re grateful for the time Randy is committing to our search process, participating in the spring legislative session in Springfield and helping the next leader transition into office. Randy’s successor will have big shoes to fill.”)

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COIUNTY BLOG
— Some Dems Propose Another Reason for Seniors to Leave Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/04/some-dems-propose-another-reason-for-seniors-to-leave-illinois/
— Dells Making Capitalists Out of McHenry County Kids Who Don’t Live in Cary, Ringwood or Barrington Hills
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/04/making-capitalists-out-of-mchenry-county-kids-who-dont-live-in-car-ringwood-or-barrington-hills/
— Some Chicago Restaurants Allowed to Accept SNAP (Food Stamps)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/03/some-chicago-restaurants-allowed-to-accept-snap-food-stamps/
— Dems Forcing Motorists to Subsidize Those Fortunate Enough to Take Mass Transit to Work. DD: My wife and I have paid lots more to live in walking distance of a commuter train station.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/05/dems-forcing-motorists-to-subsidize-those-fortunate-enough-to-take-mass-transit-to-work/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Illinois House Republican Deputy Minority Leader Norine “No Show” Hammond didn’t just skip a Republican event Tuesday night – she skipped her own hometown. Hammond was expected to appear at a GOP State Central Committee candidate forum hosted right in her backyard. Local Republicans, activists, and taxpayers filled the room, ready to hear from the leaders asking for their trust. Instead, they got an empty chair. DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would still be hosting candidate forums. If I was still an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, the organization would still be hosting candidate forums.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/no-show-norine-hammond-gop-leader-skips-her-own-hometown-gop-forum-to-party-with-comed-allies-of-pritzker-brandon-johnson.html
— From ‘Trust the CDC’ to ‘Ignore the CDC’: Pritzker Rewrites the Rules to Expand State Control Over Vaccines
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/from-trust-the-cdc-to-ignore-the-cdc-pritzker-rewrites-the-rules-to-expand-state-control-over-vaccines.html
— How the War on the Cartels Is Saving Kane County Families From Further Death and Tragedy
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/opinion-how-the-war-on-the-cartels-is-saving-kane-county-families-from-further-death-and-tragedy.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would still be hosting candidate forums. If I was still an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, the organization would still be hosting candidate forums. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are you in line to get a pension? Are you getting a pension? Ever since I was 49 years old in 1997, my critics/opponents have been furious that I have gotten a $66,780/year in today’s dollars Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension and that the federal government has paid 72% of my and my wife’s healthcare insurance. In my defense, I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years. I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are you in a traditional marriage? My critics/opponents stress, and rightly so, that my being in a traditional marriage since 1978 helped me a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What leave policies do/did your employers have? Ever since I became a federal employee in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that I benefitted from federal employee leave policies. SEE: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/leave-administration/fact-sheets/annual-leave/ and https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/leave-administration/fact-sheets/sick-leave-general-information/ – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. According to them, I did not get any scholarships a) because I am stupid and/or b) because my parents were filthy rich. In my defense, my high school GPA and my ACT score were lower because I spent far too many hours washing dishes in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights instead of studying. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents cannot say the following because they had wealthy parents who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent federal taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer men seek college degrees. Why is that? Under the Democrats, the future for men is ever-increasingly bleak. Democrats ever-increasingly demand that more and more and more preference be given to women, and especially to women who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, minority, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. If I was young today, because of my bad demographics, I question if I could find the motivation to do what I did. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Democrats and to RINOs, when those who are the following advance, it is because of meritocracy: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. According to Democrats and to RINOs, when those who are not the aforesaid advance, it is because they benefit from discrimination against those who are the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To hire, retain, and promote more young minorities and more young females, Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly lower standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, young person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the postal job by passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in business. I qualified myself for the GAO job by earning an MBA and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt. To hire, retain, and promote more young minorities and more young females, Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly lower standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being non-essential. My critics/opponents despise/hate past, present, and future federal employees. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When Trump says or does something that Democrat leaders and/or RINO leaders do not like, they punish all Republicans, and especially Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
— Where did the money come from for your first down payment? For me, back in the good old days, it came from what I earned a) working for IRS for 15 months and b) working for a Firestone Store part-time for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that. I bought a new townhome in University Park ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ ) when I was 24 years old in 1972. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopilinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— White House website rightly focuses on media malfeasance. Difference in Trump, Biden coverage exposed bias like never before. DD: The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/4/white-house-website-rightly-focuses-media-malfeasance/
— Conservatives cried ‘woke’ and Ken Burns made a correction in his new documentary
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/4/conservatives-cried-woke-ken-burns-made-correction-new-documentary/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Meet the IT Firms Discriminating Against Americans
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/no-us-citizens-meet-the-it-firms

NEW YORK POST
— Evanston church faces criticism for Nativity scene showing baby Jesus zip-tied by ICE agents
https://nypost.com/2025/12/05/us-news/illinois-lake-street-church-of-evanston-displays-nativity-showing-jesus-zip-tied-by-ice-agents/

BLAZE
— AT&T says it’s ditching DEI — but is the new policy just a woke smoke screen?
https://www.theblaze.com/news/major-telecom-giant-says-it-s-ditching-dei-but-is-the-new-policy-just-a-woke-smoke-screen

BREITBART
— Consensus: Vast Majority Say Illegals Who Have Committed Violent Crimes Should Be Deported. DD: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/12/04/consensus-vast-majority-say-illegals-who-have-committed-violent-crimes-should-be-deported/
— Elderly Veteran Forced to Work Full-Time as Cashier Will Receive $1.5 Million for Retirement. DD: Ever since I was 49 years old in 1997, my critics/opponents have been furious that I have gotten a $66,780/year in today’s dollars Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension and that the federal government has paid 72% of my and my wife’s healthcare insurance. In my defense, I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years. I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.breitbart.com/local/2025/12/04/video-elderly-veteran-forced-work-full-time-cashier-will-receive-1-5-million-retirement/
— Shops empty in a Hispanic neighborhood as immigration crackdown comes to Louisiana
https://www.breitbart.com/news/shops-empty-in-a-hispanic-neighborhood-as-immigration-crackdown-comes-to-louisiana/

DAILY CALLER
— Harvard Hires Drag Queen ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ As Visiting Prof For Class About ‘Sexual Dissidents’
https://www.aol.com/news/harvard-hires-drag-queen-lawhore-194557216.html

FOX NEWS
— Largest public-sector unions spent eye-popping amount on left-wing politics — 86% funded by member dues. During the 2022 election, about $710 million went to progressive politics, but that jumped to $915 million in 2024.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/largest-public-sector-unions-spent-eye-popping-amount-left-wing-politics-86-funded-member-dues.amp

LEGAL NEWSLINE
— Electronic monitoring vendor enabled Chicago woman’s murder
https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/electronic-monitoring-systems-failure-leads-to-murder/article_13fee083-b8e7-49fe-829e-e21ace80d43a.html

HOMELAND SECURITY
— ICE Arrests Criminal Illegal Aliens from Afghanistan Released Into Our Country by the Biden Administration
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/04/ice-arrests-criminal-illegal-aliens-afghanistan-released-our-country-biden

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— Vatican issues sweeping defense of traditional marriage, DD: My critics/opponents stress, and rightly so, that my being in a traditional marriage since 1978 helped me a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc.
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-issues-sweeping-defense-traditional-marriage-pushing-back-polygamy

NEWSMAX
— Trump Admin Orders Enhanced Vetting for H-1B Visa Applicants. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent federal taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/trump-admin-enhanced-vetting-h1b-visas/2025/12/04/id/1237033/
— Walz Unveils Paid Leave Plan That Includes Illegals. DD: Ever since I became a federal employee in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that I benefitted from federal employee leave policies. SEE: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/leave-administration/fact-sheets/annual-leave/ and https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/leave-administration/fact-sheets/sick-leave-general-information/
https://www.newsmax.com/us/walz-minnesota-plan/2025/12/04/id/1237089/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— ICE Descends on Lowe’s, Home Depot and Leaves with Trucks Full of Illegals in New Orleans. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ice-descends-lowes-home-depot-leaves-trucks-full-illegals-new-orleans/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— DD: Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. According to them, I did not get any scholarships a) because I am stupid and/or b) because my parents were filthy rich. In my defense, my high school GPA and my ACT score were lower because I spent far too many hours washing dishes in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights instead of studying.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5634820-lawsuit-hispanic-scholarship-fund/amp/

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders exist not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/opinion/ilhan-omar-somalia-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/upshot/election-tennessee-republicans-democrats.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) stop them from being deported.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/opinion/immigration-lawyer-trump-asylum.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/04/us/ice-arrests-criminal-records-data.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/nyregion/chinese-father-son-migrants-separated.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Immigration crackdown in New Orleans has a target of 5,000 arrests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/12/04/new-orleans-immigration-arrest-target/754bec54-d153-11f0-92cb-561ee4e6a771_story.html
— DD: Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer men seek college degrees. Why is that? Under the Democrats, the future for men is ever-increasingly bleak. Democrats ever-increasingly demand that more and more and more preference be given to women, and especially to women who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, minority, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. If I was young today, because of my bad demographics, I question if I could find the motivation to do what I did. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/12/04/trump-dei-ban-college-men/
—  DD: According to Democrats and to RINOs, when those who are the following advance, it is because of meritocracy: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. According to Democrats and to RINOs, when those who are not the aforesaid advance, it is because they benefit from discrimination against those who are the aforesaid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/05/trump-plutocrat-meritocracy-experts/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Waste, fraud cost U.S. 29.2B  Afghanistan occupation was doomed.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/03/us-afghanistan-occupation-waste-corruption-report/87585321007/

WOAI
— Ending Teacher Wokeness Starts With Higher Education Standards. DD: To hire, retain, and promote more young minorities and more young females, Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly lower standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2025-12-03-ending-teacher-wokeness-starts-with-higher-education-standards/

HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA
— Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick proposes giving Texas newborns $1,000 each. Patrick’s proposal would be in addition to a federal program that is set to give American babies $1,000 each to invest in the stock market. DD: What did you do when you were young? I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/12/04/537684/dan-patrick-donald-trump-baby-savings-accounts/?amp=1

WASHINGTON REPORTER
— Congressman Pete Sessions: How House Republicans are restoring the American Dream of homeownership. Sessions explains how House Republicans are addressing the affordability crisis hitting too many Americans. DD: Where did the money come from for your first down payment? For me, back in the good old days, it came from what I earned a) working for IRS for 15 months and b) working for a Firestone Store part-time for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that. I bought a new townhome in University Park ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ ) when I was 24 years old in 1972.
https://washingtonreporter.news/p/rep-pete-sessions-how-house-republicans

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Tightens Work Permits for Migrants, Expanding Crackdown on Legal Immigration. Quicker expiration dates primarily will affect immigrants seeking asylum or other forms of humanitarian protections. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tightens-work-permits-for-migrants-expanding-crackdown-on-legal-immigration-b2e90372

TIME
— Immigration Isn’t an ‘Invasion’—It’s the Answer to an Invitation. DD: Democrat leaders invite illegals into America because illegals vote for Democrats. RINOs invite illegals into America because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://time.com/7334455/immigrant-recruitment-mexico-bracero-ice/

REASON
— DD: When Trump says or does something that Democrat leaders and/or RINO leaders do not like, they punish all Republicans, and especially Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://reason.com/2025/12/04/a-deadly-attack-sparks-broad-punishment-for-innocent-afghans/

NATIONAL DESK
—  Do illegal migrants commit more crime than American citizens? DD: What are the demographics of those who commit crimes?
https://thenationaldesk.com/news/fact-check-team/fact-check-team-do-illegal-migrants-commit-more-crime-than-american-citizens-dhs

FED SMITH
— Are You a Non-Essential Federal Employee? How did the “essential” and “non-essential” labels begin, why did they spread during shutdowns, and why are they still in use? DD: Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being non-essential. My critics/opponents despise/hate past, present, and future federal employees. I should write about that.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/12/02/are-you-non-essential-federal-employee/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: If so, what does the non-essential label mean? Your job is not important? Does it mean the federal government does not think your job is important? Does it impact your pay during a government shutdown? Is it a derogatory term? How and when did essential and non-essential terms come into being to describe federal employee jobs?. . .Stigma and morale: The public label “non-essential” can harm morale and public perceptions of federal employees, even if it is technically shorthand for “work that cannot legally continue during a lapse.” The use of the term non-essential (e.g., Time magazine’s phraseology noted above) amplifies and shapes public conversation about the necessity or usefulness of particular government services.)

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Woke Suicide: How the West Arms Its Enemies
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/woke-suicide-how-the-west-arms-its-enemies/

MEAWW
— DHS arrests dozens of ‘violent’ illegal immigrants within 24 hours of New Orleans crackdown
https://news.meaww.com/dhs-arrests-dozens-of-violent-illegal-immigrants-within-24-hours-of-new-orleans-crackdown

NTD
— AT&T Scraps DEI Amid Broader Corporate Shift Toward Merit-Based Policies. DD: The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, young person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the postal job by passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for the IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in business. I qualified myself for the GAO job by earning an MBA and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.ntd.com/att-scraps-dei-amid-broader-corporate-shift-toward-merit-based-policies_1111883.html

December 3, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Student groups, political leaders divided over Northwestern’s federal funding deal with Trump admin.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jewish-student-advocates-political-leaders-divided-northwestern-universitys-federal-funding-deal-trump-administration/18246627/

NBC5
— Trump says he will roll back fuel efficiency standards for vehicles
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-says-he-will-roll-back-fuel-efficiency-standards-for-vehicles/3858427/
— Evanston church puts up immigration-themed Nativity scene with baby Jesus in zip ties. DD: The Democrat Party’s conquering of religion will soon be complete.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/evanston-church-puts-up-immigration-themed-nativity-scene-with-baby-jesus-in-zip-ties/3858423/

CBS2
— Trump administration seeks detailed information on SNAP recipients from democratic states, including Illinois
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/federal-government-wants-democratic-states-to-hand-over-detailed-information-snap-recipients/

WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders use cold temperatures to blast Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/housing/2025/12/03/chicago-homelessness-trump-housing-policies

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Extremely dangerous for the citizens’: Harvey Fire Department staffing down to 40% after new layoffs
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/02/harvey-fire-department-layoffs-danger/
— Evanston church’s Nativity depicts baby Jesus zip-tied by ICE agents. DD: The Democrat Party’s conquering of religion will soon be complete.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/evanston-nativity-baby-jesus-zip-tied-ice-agents/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Venezuela.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/opinion-donald-trump-venezuela-war-chapman/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DD: The Democrat Party is the party of vice.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/12/03/millions-of-dollars-spent-on-these-gambling-machines-in-springfield/87276299007/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Pritzker has all the advantages as he looks ahead to 2026
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-pritzker-has-all-the-advantages-as-he-looks-ahead-to-2026/article_0aeaf64d-16ca-4e87-b833-441bdd4f0b59.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump calls Somali migrants ‘garbage’ as administration reportedly plans ICE operation in Minnesota
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-03/trump-calls-somali-migrants-garbage-as-administration-reportedly-plans-ice-operation-in-minnesota

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-431/
— DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly takes the lead in promoting more hatred against Trump.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/03/pritzker-says-he-has-no-regrets-about-wearing-bullet-proof-vest-on-jimmy-kimmel-show-to-mock-trumps-statements-on-chicago-crime/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker encourages protests as feds challenge use of force lawsuit
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_08633185-3b06-4a71-956a-4b163e474a40.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois has the highest pension debt per capita. Even if the state spent an extra $1 million a day, your distant descendants would still be paying in 2600.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/1-million-a-day-x-600-years-to-fill-illinois-pension-hole/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— U.S. wasted billions trying to fix Afghanistan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/3/us-wasted-billions-trying-fix-afghanistan-says-acting-inspector/
— GAO finds dead people, fabricated applications collected Obamacare tax credit
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/3/audit-finds-dead-people-fabricated-applications-collected-obamacare/

NEW YORK POST
— AT&T vows to scrap DEI policies — including worker training that called racism ‘uniquely white trait.’ DD: To get more votes from non-Whites,  Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Whites.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/03/business/atampt-vows-to-scrap-dei-policies-including-worker-training-that-called-racism-uniquely-white-trait/
— Dems’ fake rage at Pete Hegseth is their latest stab at toppling Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/12/03/opinion/dems-fake-rage-at-pete-hegseth-is-their-latest-stab-at-toppling-trump/

BREITBART
— Illinois Law Granting Student Financial Aid to Illegal Aliens Goes into Effect January 1. DD: The Democrats who run Illinois ever-increasingly reject federal law.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/03/illinois-law-granting-student-financial-aid-illegal-aliens-goes-effect-january-1/

EPOCH TIMES
— Rubio Says Venezuelan Government a ‘Transshipment Organization’ for Drug Trafficking. The secretary of state’s comments come amid an escalating pressure campaign against Venezuela and the Maduro regime in recent weeks.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/rubio-says-venezuelan-government-a-transshipment-organization-for-drug-trafficking-5953140

NEWSMAX
— Illinois to Open State Scholarships to Illegal Migrants in 2026
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/illegal-immigrants-illinois-state-scholarships/2025/12/03/id/1236975/

PJ MEDIA
— Illegal Alien Hanover Park Policeman Busted by ICE… Returns to Duty?!
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/03/illegal-alien-policeman-busted-by-ice-returns-to-duty-n4946666

TOWNHALL
— CNN Boosts Anti-ICE Activists Again — This Time by Promoting ‘Whistle Alerts’ for Illegals
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/03/new-orleans-ice-whistles-cnn-tracker-n2667309
— Guess How Many Illegal Immigrants Received Social Security Numbers From the Biden Administration
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/02/guess-how-many-illegal-immigrants-received-social-security-numbers-from-the-biden-administration-n2667250

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Charlie Kirk, that is. against conservatives.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2025/12/03/letter-why-do-people-believe/

POLITICO
— Pentagon watchdog says Hegseth’s Signal use put troops at risk. DD: There never has been anything in GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and there never will be anything that was not already in the public realm and/or that Democrats did not already know.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/03/pentagon-watchdog-says-hegseths-signal-use-put-troops-at-risk-00674547

ATLANTIC
— DD: Democrats and RINOs punish all Republicans for everything that Trump says or does that they do not like.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/trump-refugee-collective-punishment/685115/

ADVOCATE
— Here’s what Mamdani has promised to do for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers as mayor
https://www.advocate.com/politics/zohran-mamdani-lgbtq-campaign-promises

December 3, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— DD: Under the Illinois Democrats, more and more and more Illinois residents are on SNAP
https://abc7chicago.com/post/abc7-chicago-kicks-off-annual-feed-love-campaign-snap-benefits-limbo-millions-how-donate/18113025/

WGN9
— Chicago tops US cities in vehicle congestion
https://wgntv.com/news/traffic/chicago-worst-vehicle-congestion/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/03/group-sues-trump-administration-for-south-shore-raid-footage-that-fed-propaganda-videos-apartment-ice-border-patrol-bovino
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/02/federal-appeals-judge-questions-validity-order-free-hundreds-ice-custody
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for healthcare costs.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/12/03/affordable-care-act-aca-premium-tax-credits-prostate-cancer-la-shawn-ford
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for homelessness.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/2025/12/03/chicago-homelessness-trump-housing-policies

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG POCTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/operation-midway-blitz-criminal-record/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/02/first-ice-raided-their-chicago-apartment-building-now-theyre-being-forced-to-vacate-it/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/02/attorneys-dismiss-lawsuit-restricting-use-of-force-immigration/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/02/im-shocked-chicago-appeals-judge-rips-lower-courts-ruling-to-release-immigration-arrestees/
— Ray LaHood, former GOP congressman and Obama’s transportation secretary, named head of Edgar Fellows program
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/ray-lahood-head-edgar-fellows/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Hanover Park police officer detained by ICE returns to active duty
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251202/news/hanover-park-police-officer-detained-by-ice-returns-to-active-duty/
— DuPagePads receives historic $5 million grant from Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez Bezos. DD: Of course, this will attract homeless people to DuPage County.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251202/news/dupagepads-receives-historic-5-million-grant-from-jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-bezos/

WTVO
— Illinois extends financial aid to undocumented students starting January 1st, 2026. DD: Under its Democrat leaders, Illinois ever-increasingly reject federal law. That is what the Confederate states did.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/illinois-extends-financial-aid-undocumented-110200612.html

WAND TV
— Giving Tuesday – A lifeline for non-profits. DD: What do you give to others? Since 2000, I have given my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to anyone who wants to read them free of charge, without any advertising, and without any donation requests. Since 2004, they have included links to almost 530,000 articles.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/giving-tuesday—a-lifeline-for-non-profits/article_7d1d7292-368e-42d9-a40b-f562a0957ba2.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump says he doesn’t want Somalis in the U.S., urges them to go back to their homeland and fix it
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-02/trump-says-he-doesnt-want-somalis-in-the-u-s-urges-them-to-go-back-to-their-homeland-and-fix-it
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-03/the-use-and-misuse-of-the-word-ideology

NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TV
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity.
https://www.nctv17.org/spotlight/bridge-communities-helps-families-break-the-cycle-of-homelessness/amp/

DURBIN
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army. Durbin ever-increasingly leads the Democrat Army.
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/videos/view/durbin-to-republican-colleagues-what-if-operation-midway-blitz-comes-to-your-state-or-hometown

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-640/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon reacts to plans for permanent guaranteed income
https://wirepoints.org/wirepoints-mark-glennon-reacts-to-plans-for-permanent-guaranteed-income-am560/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Riley Gaines to headline Concerned Parents of Illinois annual gala on Jan. 31, 2026
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/676601776-riley-gaines-to-headline-concerned-parents-of-illinois-annual-gala-on-jan-31-2026
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Concerned Parents of Illinois is proud to announce that Riley Gaines, a nationally recognized women’s rights advocate and former NCAA athlete, will serve as the keynote speaker at this year’s Annual Gala, to be held on January 31, 2026, at Gibsons Oak Brook.)

CITY JOURNAL
— Chicago Transit Doesn’t Need Another Bailout. Declining ridership shouldn’t be rewarded with more taxpayer dollars.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/chicago-transit-authority-bailout

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Democrats Trying to Out-Left-Flank Each Other in 9th Congressional District, Which Covers All of Algonquin Township
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/03/democrats-trying-to-out-left-flank-each-other-in-9th-congressional-district-which-covers-all-of-algonquin-township/
— Woman Set Afire on CTA Makes London Paper
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/02/woman-set-afire-on-cta-makes-london-paper/
— In 9th, Only Justin Ford Favors Stopping Unlimited Immigration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/02/in-9th-only-justin-ford-favors-stoppage-of-rampant-immigration/
— Illinois Dems Decide to Tax Tips
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/01/illinois-dems-decide-to-tax-tips/
— Dem Mass Transit Tax Hikers Repeat 51-Year Old RTA Promise
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/01/dem-mass-transit-tax-hikers-repeat-51-year-old-rta-promise/
— County Board Set to Approve 3% Automatic Annual Raises Starting in 2030, End of Free Family Health Insurance for Those Elected in 2028
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/11/29/county-board-set-to-approve-3-automatic-annual-raises-starting-in-2030-end-of-free-family-health-insurance-for-those-elected-in-2028/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Left-wing group pushes Mamdani-style minimum wage hike to boost Democrats in 2026
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/2/left-wing-group-pushes-mamdani-style-minimum-wage-hike-boost/
— Judge orders ICE to stop most warrantless immigration arrests in D.C.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/2/judge-orders-ice-stop-warrantless-immigration-arrests-dc/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democratic socialist candidate for DC mayor beats record to meet donation requirements. DD: What percent of Democrats who are the following are socialists: liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, non-rich, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3903922/janeese-lewis-george-candidate-dc-mayor-beats-record-donation-requirements/

NEW YORK POST
— Mamdani stokes Italian American outrage after resurfaced tweet shows socialist giving the finger to Christopher Columbus statue: ‘Take it down’
https://www.aol.com/mamdani-stokes-italian-american-outrage-014926956.html
— Michael Goodwin: How NY followed Biden’s, Dems’ charge in harboring illegal immigrant criminals
https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/opinion/michael-goodwin-how-ny-followed-bidens-dems-charge-in-harboring-illegal-immigrant-criminals/
— Chilling new details emerge about ‘killer’ illegal migrants sprung from NY jails instead of being handed off to ICE
https://nypost.com/2025/12/03/us-news/chilling-new-details-emerge-about-killer-illegal-migrants-sprung-from-ny-jails-instead-of-being-handed-off-to-ice/
— Trump freezes immigration applications from 19 countries — and blacklist could expand to more than 30
https://nypost.com/2025/12/03/us-news/trump-freezes-immigration-applications-from-19-countries-and-blacklist-could-expand-to-more-than-30/

AMAC
— Liberals Side with Bloodthirsty Narcoterrorists in Crusade to “Get Trump”
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/liberals-side-with-bloodthirsty-narcoterrorists-in-crusade-to-get-trump/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegal alien remittances: Bessent says ‘follow the money’
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/illegal_alien_remittances_bessent_says_follow_the_money.html

FOX NEWS
— Vance, Trump unleash on Democrats’ affordability ‘scam’: ‘Fixing what [they’ve] broken’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vance-trump-unleash-democrats-affordability-scam-fixing-theyve-broken.print

LEGAL INSURRECTIOIN
— Discrimination Against American-Born Students In Three California University Systems Challenged By Equal Protection Project. Our Complaint to DOJ: DACA/“Undocumented” programs operating at 138 colleges and universities in the University of California, California State University, and California Community College systems systemically discriminate against American-born students on the basis of national origin.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/discrimination-against-american-born-students-in-three-california-university-systems-challenged-by-equal-protection-project/

NEWSMAX
— ICE-Busted Illinois Cop in US Illegally Back on Duty
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/illegal-cop-illinois/2025/12/02/id/1236826/
— D.C. Socialist Mayoral Candidate Sets Fundraising Record. DD: What percent of Democrats who are the following are socialists: liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, non-rich, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time?
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/zohran-mamdani-janeese-lewis-george-washington-d-c/2025/12/02/id/1236810/
— Mamdani’s Big Government Ideas Have No Place in GOP
https://www.newsmax.com/traviskorson/durbin-hawley-sanders/2025/12/02/id/1236756/

PJ MEDIA
— Disparate Impact. Disparate impact rules say any policy or test in which some races or sexes do better than others is illegal discrimination, even if the policy or test has nothing to do with race or sex.
https://pjmedia.com/john-stossel/2025/12/02/disparate-impact-n4946648

WHITE HOUSE
— A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips. DD: My critics/opponents despise/hate my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They have their operatives and their dupes monitor my newsletters closely for anything that the following do not like: a) Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders, b) conservative leaders, and c) religious leaders. To turn the aforesaid against me, they bring what they find to the attention of the aforesaid.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/12/a-call-to-action-submit-media-bias-tips/
(FROM THE POSTING: The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies, purposely omitted context, and outright left-wing lunacy of the Fake News Media — a tall task that demands the help of everyone who believes in facts and accuracy over Fake News. That’s why the White House is calling on everyday Americans to support the truth and hold the Fake News accountable. By visiting whitehouse.gov/biastips , anyone can submit biased or undeniably false articles, and valid submissions will be used to keep the Media Bias Portal updated. So-called “journalists” have made it impossible to identify every false or misleading story, which is why help from the American people is essential. The days of the Fake News Media controlling the narrative with lies, fake anonymous sources, and willful bias are over. If the legacy media won’t honor their responsibility to accurately inform the public, we know the American people will.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— Illinois officials warn rental car companies that it is illegal for immigration agents to swap license plates. The secretary of state sent a cease and desist letter to ICE head Todd Lyons, citing “multiple reports of federal ICE agents illegally swapping out the license plates displayed on vehicles.” DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army. Durbin ever-increasingly leads the Democrat Army.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/illinois-rental-car-license-plates-immigration-agents-illegal-rcna246115

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers in settlement as ongoing strike draws Mamdani and Sanders to picket line. DD: GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized earlier, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, b) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/economy/starbucks-to-pay-35m-to-nyc-workers-in-settlement-as-ongoing-strike-draws-mamdani-and-sanders-to-picket-line

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Calls Affordability a ‘Con Job’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/trump-affordability-economy-messaging.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump calls Minnesota’s Somali community ‘garbage’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-calls-minnesotas-somali-community-garbage/2025/12/02/e7d1d0c1-4d64-4358-9cc0-dbd9e02ede4e_video.html

USA TODAY
— DD: Where did the money come from for your first down payment? For me, it came from what I earned a) working for IRS for 15 months and b) working for a Firestone Store part-time for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that. I bought a new townhome in University Park when I was 24 years old in 1972.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/11/28/trump-50-year-mortgage-home-ownership-gen-z/87352889007/

INDIANA GAZETTE
— The case for a pause on all immigration
https://www.indianagazette.com/opinion/cal-thomas-the-case-for-a-pause-on-all-immigration/article_290c0787-35a7-477c-8eb5-7461ae23afcd.html

BOSTON GLOBE
— The dreaded performance review is, well, under review. DD: Democrat and RINO employers use performance reviews to get rid of their Republican employees. They paint their Democrat employees as positively as they can and they paint their Republican employees as negatively as they can. In Diersen v. GAO, I entered into the court record all the many performance reviews that my Democrat superiors gave me 1980-1997. None of them came close to justifying the many adverse actions that they took against me. They forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/02/magazine/transforming-performance-reviews-workplace/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Great American Baby Shortage. With marriage on the decline, U.S. fertility has slipped well below the replacement rate.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-great-american-baby-shortage-9d2efa16

BUZZFEED
— DD: According to Democrat leaders, the Pope is woke. To be woke is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bellaarnold/conservative-backlash-to-pope
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/honey-people-mad-pope-being-000549348.html

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS
— The Trump Administration’s Dangerous Embrace of Cancel Culture
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-dangerous-embrace-of-cancel-culture/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

FEDERAL
— Illegal Indian immigrant involved in fatal US crash, 4th case in as many months
https://thefederal.com/category/news/illegal-indian-immigrant-involved-in-fatal-us-crash-4th-case-in-as-many-months-218934

MEAWWW
— Trump slams reporter, says Americans getting ‘fake news from guys like you’ on affordability crisis. Donald Trump argued that affordability concerns were a ‘hoax’ started by Democrats, who he said were responsible for rising prices and inflation.
https://news.meaww.com/trump-slams-reporter-says-americans-getting-fake-news-from-guys-like-you-on-affordability-crisis