October 9, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Chicago gang member charged with soliciting murder of Border Patrol commander
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/alleged-chicago-gang-member-charged-with-soliciting-murder-of-border-patrol-commander/3835142/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Village Mayor Gary Grasso learned law enforcement was in the area looking for someone — and he happened to witness the arrest. “I was very glad to see my government taking care of the people in Burr Ridge and keeping us safe, which is our number one job as an elected official,” Grasso said. “And when people put bounties on immigration officials or ATF officials, I mean, those people should be put in jail, and we should be cooperating with the people doing their job to put them in jail. And it’s a shame that people don’t recognize that these dedicated law enforcement people are doing their job, and now there’s bounties on them.”)

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— US Supreme Court hears arguments in GOP Illinois congressman’s mail-in ballots suit
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/supreme-court-arguments-illinois-congressman-mail-in-ballots-suit/
— U. of C. assistant professor Eman Abdelhadi faces felony charges following arrest at Broadview ICE facility
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/university-chicago-professor-arrest-broadview-ice-chicago-police-trump/

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Mainstream newspapers ever-increasingly exist a) to promote Pritzker and the Democrat Party platform and to elect and reelect Democrat candidates and b) to destroy Trump and the Republican Party platform and to defeat Republican candidates. For opposition research, I pay lots for money for full website access and doorstep delivery of the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, New York Times (7 days a week) , Wall Street Journal (6 days a week), USA Today (5 days a week), Naperville Sun (3 days a week), and Crain’s Chicago Business (1 day a week).
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251009/columns/the-meat-of-newspaper-week-is-in-what-happens-every-day/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DD: Democrat leaders reveal details of DuPage No Kings protests. October 18 rallies will take place at several locations.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/10/02/organizers-reveal-details-of-dupage-no-kings-protests/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Protests are planned for nine intersections on Roosevelt Road in Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, Lombard and Villa Park. Additionally, a rally is scheduled in La Grange from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on La Grange Road between Cossitt and Goodman avenues. In Elmhurst, protestors plan to gather from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. but the location is undisclosed. In Bartlett, a rally is set for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. near the Veterans Memorial at the southwest corner of Stearns and Bartlett roads. The protests are meant to show support for traditional democratic values, including fair elections, due process for all, economic equality and free speech, according to an Indivisible DuPage news release. “These values have faced ongoing challenges by the current Republican administration. Our protests are particularly meaningful at this time given the increased federal presence in Chicago and ICE raids currently taking place in the suburbs,” according to the release. Indivisible DuPage is planning the day of protests locally, along with organizations including the Glen Ellyn branch of the League of Women Voters, the College of DuPage Faculty Association and Indivisible Illinois. More than 2,000 No Kings 2.0 events are registered around the country by local pro-democracy groups, an increase from the first No Kings Day events. Other protests planned for the region include Joliet, Aurora, Bolingbrook, Geneva and Elgin.)

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— DD: Democrat leaders condemn Trump’s call to jail Gov. Pritzker, Mayor Johnson
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-lawmakers-condemn-trumps-call-to-jail-gov-pritzker-mayor-johnson

WAND TV
— Illinois teens drinking nearly twice the national average
https://www.wandtv.com/news/study-illinois-teens-drinking-nearly-twice-the-national-average/article_8ecc4fc1-0cf0-40cf-819a-2aba661b7cee.html

BURR RIDGE PATCH
— Grasso’s Name In Hinsdale D86 Legal Bills
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/burr-ridge-politicians-name-in-hinsdale-d86-legal-bills/ar-AA1JJ1Kb

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-608/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

TED DABROWSKI
— Pritzker’s reckless attack on federal law enforcement must end
https://mailchi.mp/tedforillinois/reckless-attack-314?e=c4ad197eda

ILINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— The Big Lie: Pritzker’s Reckless Rhetoric
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/10/the-big-lie-pritzkers-reckless-rhetoric/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Texas authorities arrest 8 more ‘fake doctors’ in illegal abortion clinic investigation
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/8/texas-authorities-arrest-8-fake-doctors-illegal-abortion-clinic/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Shutdown: Voters say Democrats did it for illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3842338/government-shutdown-poll-democrats-illegal-immigrant-healthcare/

NEW YORK POST
— The Dems are letting Antifa take over their cities — Trump is right to send federal troops to maintain order
https://nypost.com/2025/10/08/opinion/the-dems-are-letting-antifa-take-over-their-cities-trump-is-right-to-send-federal-troops-to-maintain-order/

AMAC
— Media Smears Stay-At-Home Moms as Nazis
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/media-smears-stay-at-home-moms-as-nazis/
— Historic Trump Success on Border Continues as Illegal Crossings Reach 55-Year Low
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/breaking-historic-trump-success-on-border-continues-as-illegal-crossings-reach-55-year-low/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegal aliens: Unsafe at any speed
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/illegal_aliens_unsafe_at_any_speed.html

BREITBART
— Supreme Court Could Kill Voting Rights Act’s Affirmative-Action Gerrymandering, Give GOP 19 More Seats
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/08/redistricting-could-yield-19-more-gop-house-seats-potential-supreme-court-victory/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Louisiana has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration over allowing abortion pills to be mailed into the state from other states.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/louisiana-sues-trumps-fda-over-abortion-pill-mailing-rules.html

DAILY CALLER
— Co-Founder Of Degenerate Forum Reddit Admits It Wouldn’t Exist Without Illegal Immigration
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/08/alexis-ohanian-reddit-immigration-enforcement-censorship-donald-trump-serena-williams-comments/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Meet the ‘Worst of the Worst’ Criminals Arrested by ICE Agents Working for Free
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/08/exclusive-unpaid-ice-agents-continue-to-arrest-pedophiles-smugglers-thieves-as-shutdown-drags-on/

FOX NEWS
— Senate Democrats defy White House warnings, again block GOP bid to reopen government. Schumer says pressure on Republicans will force negotiations.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-democrats-defy-white-house-warnings-again-block-gop-bid-reopen-government
— Abbott slams Pritzker for opposing National Guard deployment
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382389613112
— Texas arrests 8 in widening probe of midwife accused of illegal abortions
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-arrests-8-widening-probe-midwife-accused-illegal-abortions

NEW AMERICAN
— Corrupt Woke Science Being Peddled in Government Schools
https://thenewamerican.com/video/newman/corrupt-woke-science-being-peddled-in-government-schools/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Chicago Mayor Refuses to Answer If He Would Deport an Illegal Who Beat, Raped His Own Wife – Cracks Joke Instead
https://www.westernjournal.com/video-chicago-mayor-refuses-answer-deport-illegal-beat-raped-wife-cracks-joke-instead/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Reporter William Kelly teed up Johnson’s humiliating self-own by recounting a crime that occurred last month, in which an illegal alien from Nicaragua grabbed a woman on the street, bashed her head in, and raped her. “If that had been your wife, Stacie, would you want ICE to deport … that illegal alien? Yes or no?” Kelly asked. Instead of responding, Johnson made a snarky jab, claiming Kelly’s YouTube views had dropped recently. Kelly quipped that his social-media views were much higher than the mayor’s. The reporter then asked Johnson to answer his question. “Answer the question as a man — not as a mayor — but as a man,” Kelly reiterated. “Would you want ICE to deport that rapist?” Once again, Johnson refused to respond. “No? Okay, that’s the answer,” Kelly said. Kelly also ripped Johnson for his frivolous race-baiting, saying the minorities he has spoken to are furious that their mayor prioritizes foreign invaders over Chicago residents. “The real Chicagoans that I talk to, that I communicate with — mostly black and brown, actually — tell me that you don’t seem to know the difference between illegal aliens and real Chicago citizens,” Kelly told Johnson. “They feel that you are siding with the illegal aliens over them in their communities.” As a reminder, Johnson has repeatedly claimed Trump’s move to deploy the National Guard to eradicate crime in Chicago is racist. This flippant invocation of the overused “Race Card” is ironic, since Johnson is under federal investigation for admitting he usually hires black people because they’re the “most generous race” on Earth. As is usually the case when it comes to Democrats, every accusation is a confession. So when left-wing foghorns such as Brandon Johnson call someone “racist,” they’re merely projecting their own racism onto their opponents in order to silence them. Reporter William Kelly is correct: Johnson and his Democratic comrades constantly prioritize the welfare of third-world foreign invaders over the safety of law-abiding, taxpaying American citizens. This toxic, unpatriotic trend must be stopped before this nation devolves into a third-world dumping ground for unvetted armies of illegal aliens who show open contempt for the United States.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Texas National Guard troops now protecting federal property in Chicago area
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-troops-illinois-memphis-chicago-bbb5801b127897639ab5ae5b8c9ff766

NBC NEWS
— The policy divide between blue and red states keeps widening. Americans are facing increasingly different realities on issues ranging from vaccines to abortion to guns, based on what part of the country they live in. DD: Ever-increasingly, if you raise your children in a blue state, anticipate/expect that their Democrat teachers will make them anti-parent, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-heterosexual people, anti-married people, anti-traditional marriage and family,  anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, boozers. gamblers, stoners, and even worse things.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/policy-divide-blue-red-states-keeps-widening-rcna230162

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: What has helped you pay for your health insurance premiums? For me, it has been my taking federal jobs 1966-1969 and 1971-1997 that my peers ether a) failed/refused to qualify themselves for or b) simply refused to take. The federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums because I am a retired federal employee. I qualified myself for my Post Office job in 1966 by taking and passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job in 1971 by taking and passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a job-related bachelor’s degree. I qualified myself for my GAO in 1980 job by earning a job-related master’s degree and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010441604/the-gops-cynical-ridiculous-shutdown-attack.html
— Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration. Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 and replaced me with my Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/black-leaders-trump.html
— Trump Seizes On Shutdown to Punish Political Foes. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors seized on Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of GAO employees like me who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who were in America for a long time. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/us/politics/trump-shutdown-punish-foes.html
— DD: Constructively, Blue States have declared a Second Civil War against Red states. Illegals are soldiers in the Blue State Army.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/national-guard-governors.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Texas National Guard troops are active in Chicago area. Around 200 Texas National Guard soldiers and 300 soldiers from the Illinois National Guard will protect ICE agents and federal property.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/09/trump-national-guard-chicago-texas-troops/
— Trump builds case for deploying National Guard to Chicago, Portland. The president said he would pursue designating antifa a “foreign terrorist organization” and called for Democratic officials in Chicago to be jailed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/08/trump-chicago-jail-johnson-pritzker/

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How much success have Democrat leaders had making everyone sexually active LGBTQers in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/10/08/supreme-court-gay-conversion-therapy-trans-rights/86549177007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— High-on-pot drivers are contributing to more highway accident deaths. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/marijuana-car-crash-deaths-study-wright-state-university-0f762ca1
— Pence: Make HHS and FDA Pro-Life Again. Approval of generic mifepristone is why I warned against RFK Jr.’s appointment.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/make-hhs-and-fda-pro-life-again-ff9e1b21
— Quitters. DD: I should write about the many big adverse actions that my superiors took to get me to quit. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-10-08-2025/card/americans-used-to-be-quitters-k2CcwiFyVg41tbFmTAgq
— DD: As Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote the Democrat Party platform, American students ever-increasingly fall further behind.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/nobel-prizes-science-american-immigrants-trump-administration-960b18e3

BUSINESS WIRE
— DD: Why did you get hired instead of others? I qualified myself for my Post Office job in 1966 by taking and passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job in 1971 by taking and passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a job-related bachelor’s degree. I qualified myself for my GAO in 1980 job by earning a job-related master’s degree and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250429970865/en/New-Research-Finds-the-Most-Likable-Candidate-Gets-the-JobEven-If-Theyre-Not-the-Most-Qualified

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— DD: Because Republicans do better when hiring, retention, and promotion decisions are merit based, Democrats oppose merit based hiring, retention, and promotion decisions. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/05/opm-merit-hiring-plan-includes-bipartisan-reforms-politicized-new-test/405687/

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Government Shutdown: 49% Say Democrats Did It for Illegal Aliens
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/government_shutdown_49_say_democrats_did_it_for_illegal_aliens

ACLU
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push women into combat
https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/pete-hegseth-wants-women-out-of-the-military-and-hes-not-hiding-it

NEW WAYS MINISTRY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newwaysministry.org/2025/10/09/pope-francis-lgbtq-welcome-is-needed-now-more-than-ever/

October 8, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gov-jb-pritzker-says-president-233400557.html
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative haters dominate Illinois. Anticipate/expect that they will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/opinion-fired-social-media-posts-charlie-kirk-cancel-culture/
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/column-charles-selle-banned-booksrevolutionary-act/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Lake County Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251007/news/great-fear-and-uncertainty-lake-county-leaders-speak-out-against-escalating-ice-operations/
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251007/editorials/daily-herald-editorial-a-war-of-words-we-need-leaders-to-tone-down-the-rhetoric-before-things-get/

ABC7
— Insurrection Act explained: How 1807 law could be used as Trump deploys National Guard in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-is-insurrection-act-1807-us-president-donald-trump-threatens-law-heres-how-been-used-could-work-2025/17959363/

FOX32
— Trump says Johnson, Pritzker ‘should be in jail’ for not protecting ICE
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-brandon-johnson-pritzker-ice

GO PRIDE CHICAGO
— Protest planned Oct. 8 downtown Chicago as Texas troops enter Illinois
https://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/139873329

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-607/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Confederate Chaos in Chicago
https://johnkassnews.com/confederate-chaos-in-chicago/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Cuban-led caravan en route to Mexico City as Trump policies deter migrants from US
https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/world-news/cuban-led-caravan-en-route-to-mexico-city-as-trump-policies-deter-migrants-from-us/
— Parents flex their power with anti-woke ‘Cancel Netflix’ boycott
https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/opinion/parents-flex-their-power-with-anti-woke-cancel-netflix-boycott/

AMAC
— HIJACKED: The Radical Left Takeover of the Democrat Party
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/hijacked-the-radical-left-takeover-of-the-democrat-party-amac-magazine-exclusive/
— Charlie Kirk: America Must Choose: MAGA or Mamdani-ism
https://publication.amac.us/view/864872783/8/
— Netflix in Crisis as Subscribers Flee Over Woke Kids Shows
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/netflix-in-crisis-as-subscribers-flee-over-woke-kids-shows/

BLAZE
— 8 things Chicago has done to put illegal immigrants first
https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-helping-illegal-aliens-history

BREITBART
— Speaker Johnson Shows What Democrats Are Demanding in Order to Reopen Government: Taxpayer-Funded Illegal Alien Health Care, $1.5 Trillion in Partisan Spending
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/07/speaker-johnson-shows-what-democrats-are-demanding-to-reopen-government-taxpayer-funded-illegal-alien-health-care-1-5-trillion-partisan-spending/
— Democrat Spending Proposal Funds Woke Programs, Upends Trump Executive Order to End Crime, Fix Homeless Crisis
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/07/democrat-spending-proposal-funds-woke-programs-upends-trump-executive-order-to-end-crime-fix-homeless-crisis/

FOX NEWS
— Trump drives the shutdown coverage, but leaderless Democrats have broken through with healthcare message. White House stays above the fray as congressional leadership dukes it out.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-drives-shutdown-coverage-leaderless-democrats-have-broken-through-healthcare-message
— You never see the left fight this hard for Americans
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382230908112

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Trump Calls for Chicago Mayor, Illinois Governor to Be Jailed
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-10-08/trump-calls-for-chicago-mayor-illinois-governor-to-be-jailed

ASSOCIAED PRESS
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly side with their criminals and with their illegals against America.
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/national-guard-deployment-portland-chicago-084e526027510d3f7501f475f737bc81
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://apnews.com/article/trinidad-us-military-venezuela-strikes-fishing-fcd24c441f58162b811a24b247334fc5

REUTERS
— Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-threat-invoke-insurrection-act-escalates-showdown-with-democratic-cities-2025-10-07/

CNN
— Trump compares Democrats to ‘insurrectionists’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twCZMMIp4IQ
— India has a festival where a Hindu goddess slays a demon. This year the demon is Trump. DD: In WWIII, will India side with China and Russia or with America?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/india/india-hindu-festival-demon-trump-intl-hnk-dst

MSNBC
— DD: Democrat leaders say “Neighbors push back as Trump’s ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs.” Those who run the mainstream news media are Democrat leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dx266qOOic

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Chicago Democrats ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/fear-ice-chicago.html
— National Guard Troops Assemble in Chicago Area as Trump Officials Make Visits. Troops from Texas arrived in Illinois and are expected to deploy in the Chicago area on Wednesday, a U.S. military official said. Officials there and in Portland, Ore., are trying to block the deployments in court.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/07/us/trump-national-guard-illinois-texas
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly replace citizens of America with citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-universities.html
— Supreme Court to Consider Illinois Mail-In Balloting Lawsuit. The case, one of several challenges to mail-in ballot rules lodged by allies of President Trump, involves an effort to exclude votes received after Election Day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/supreme-court-mail-ballots-illinois.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/texas-lgbtq-schools.html
— Shutdown Politics Has G.O.P. Singing Government’s Praises. As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/politics/shutdown-republicans-trump-government.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump declares English the official language
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/08/trump-univision-youtube/

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration and abortion
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/09/16/trump-immigration-14th-amendment-supreme-court/85977588007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: $1.5M is a retirement ‘magic number.’ Here’s how long it lasts in every state. DD: My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the deferral government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/10/06/retirement-savings-social-security-florida-arizona/86550681007/

BOSTON HERALD
— Democrats’ dream, America’s nightmare
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/10/08/howie-carr-democrats-dream-americas-nightmare/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Oct. 7 Warning for the U.S. on China. Israel got complacent, thinking war would never come. Are we doing the same with Taiwan?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-oct-7-warning-for-the-u-s-on-china-5a60023a

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— 6 Red Flags That Keep Good Candidates from Getting Hired. DD: From what I see, ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less likely that you will be hired: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or if you have ancestors who had been in America for a lone time. I should write about that.
https://hbr.org/2025/10/6-red-flags-that-keep-good-candidates-from-getting-hired

INC.
— DD: What did you do that your superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates did not do? Mine did not earn job-related master’s degrees, professional certifications, and a professional license like I did. Instead. they focused on helping their superiors get rid of their employees like me who were conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a lone time. I should write about that. I would focus on those who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.inc.com/roy-dekel/stop-caring-about-college-degrees-when-youre-hiring/91249033

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Trump Officials Reportedly Discussing Selling Off Student Loans. DD: If you got a student loan, a) you did not work your way through college, b) your GPA should have been higher, c) you should have gotten a job that required a college degree faster, and d) your pay should have been higher. I did not get a student loan. My GPA was lower because I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying. I did not get a job that required a college degree until 10 months after I graduated and my salary was only $55,850/year in today’s dollars.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/08/trump-officials-reportedly-discussing-selling-student-loans
— DD: For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. My parents sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. That  put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree (management), b) three job related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), c) six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and d) a job-related professional license (CPA).
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/10/08/how-trumps-compact-threatens-higher-ed-funding

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— House Republicans advance plan to undermine civil service protections. DD: If you are a federal employee, the more of the following that you are, the fewer protections that you have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The Democrats who run the federal government get rid of federal employees who are the aforesaid because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2025/04/house-republicans-advance-plan-cut-federal-worker-benefits-and-undermine-civil-service-protections/404969/

DAILY KOS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that conservatives cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/7/2347210/-Black-Kos-It-doesn-t-have-to-be-Black-History-month-to-learn-and-celebrate-Black-History

AXIOS
— DD: Do you know any past or present federal employees or retirees? I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for 28 years. I should write about the attitude that people have toward federal employees and retirees. Overwhelmingly, they believe that federal employees are overpaid, their benefits are too generous, and that federal pensions are too generous. In my defense, while I was a federal employee, 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. In today’s dollars, my federal salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year. My Civil Service Retirement System Pension is $66,780/year.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/government-shutdown-federal-workers

October 7, 2025

WHITE HOUSE
— Chicago Mayor’s “ICE-Free Zones” Shield Violent Criminal Illegals, Abandon Citizens
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/chicago-mayors-ice-free-zones-shield-violent-criminal-illegals-abandon-citizens/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Illinois National Guard to patrol Chicago area, as troops depart from Texas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-national-guard-patrol-chicago-area-troops-depart-texas-trump-threatens-use-insurrection-act/17956187/
— Tracking surge in immigration enforcement operations
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-federal-intervention-latest-president-trumps-immigration-enforcement-possible-national-guard-deployment-live-updates/17758521/
— Trump threatens use of Insurrection Act
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-pritzker-address-trumps-effort-deploy-national-guard-illinois-pentagon-authorizes-chicago-mission/17949147/

WGN9
— Federal troops headed to Illinois as lawsuit against Trump administration seeks to halt deployment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmZOxBw6k7g

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago gang member solicited murder of Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/chicago-gang-member-solicited-murder-bovino/
— ‘Our people hire our people’: Long before DOJ probe into Mayor Brandon Johnson, racial politics coursed through City Hall hiring. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/mayor-brandon-johnson-racial-politics-city-hall-hiring/
— Chicago can’t shrug off the unease random attacks create
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/editorial-chicago-random-attacks-women-mental-health/
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight assimilation. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Their slow assimilation held them back. All my grandparents spoke German. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/cps-hispanic-heritage-month/

DAILY HERALD
— DD: For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. I never became a Democrat even though I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees. Democrat efforts to make me a Democrat were frustrated my majoring in management, business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251007/syndicated-columnists/trumps-latest-invitation-to-universities/
— DD: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251006/news/cold-comfort-new-cooler-freezer-help-palatine-food-pantry-fight-food-insecurity/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Illinois diversity commission’s budget ballooning but results lag. DD: Democrats and RINOs use diversity to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_05a70ee4-5c31-4ac2-a881-96f4f779be65.html

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— 27 Police Officers Among Those Injured By Tear Gas During Weekend Protest, Chicago’s Top Cop Says. Police Supt. Larry Snelling also disputed the claim pushed by federal officials that Chicago police ignored calls for help during a chaotic scene Saturday afternoon in Brighton Park.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/06/27-police-officers-among-those-injured-by-tear-gas-during-weekend-protest-chicagos-top-cop-says/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-606/
— Selected press releases. DD: It would be great if Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois would include diersen@aol.com on their press release lists and their press advisory lists.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/07/selected-press-releases-live-updates-308/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Ugaste Previews Fall Veto Session
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/07/ugaste-previews-fall-veto-session/
— Press Release about Chicago ICE Arrests
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/press-release-about-chicago-ice-arrests/
— Can One Believe One’s Lying Eyes,  Officers under Attack? Did or Didn’t Chicago Police Refuse to Assist Ice
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/can-one-believe-ones-lying-eyes/
— Fox River Grove Planning To Cut Electric Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/fox-river-grove-planning-to-cut-electric-tax/
— Homeland Security Claims Pritzker Is Lying
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/homeland-security-claims-pritzker-is-lying/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illinois Democrats escalate confrontation with Trump’s ICE sweeps, National Guard deployments
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/6/illinois-sues-stop-trump-sending-national-guard/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Campuses Brace for Pro-Hamas Protests on Anniversary of Oct. 7
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/campuses-brace-for-pro-hamas-protests

AMAC
— Rotten Core of Public Education on Full Display With Illegal Alien Superintendent
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/rotten-core-of-public-education-on-full-display-with-illegal-alien-superintendent/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘Woke’ Pope digs at Trump in call for open borders: ‘New missionary age.’ DD: Mass/illegal immigration will destroy America.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/06/woke-pope-digs-at-trump-in-call-for-open-borders-new-missionary-age-1590407/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pope Leo XIV did not mention President Trump by name, but it was clear to many who heard his address to Catholics on Sunday that he was taking a shot at U.S. immigration policies. Conservative Catholics, hopeful that the new pope, who was elected in May, would not be as far-left as his predecessor, the late Pope Francis, were sorely disappointed as Sunday’s Mass in St. Peter’s Square took on political overtones. Days after criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration policies, Leo urged the thousands gathered for the service – and Catholics around the globe – to open their “arms and hearts” to migrants, not distinguishing between legal and illegal immigration. The first pope to have been born in the United States, Leo said migrants must not be treated with “the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination.” He urged Catholics to “open our arms and hearts to them, welcoming them as brothers and sisters, and being for them a presence of consolation and hope.” “On Sunday, the pope said the global Church was experiencing ‘a new missionary age’ in which it was tasked with offering ‘hospitality and welcome, compassion and solidarity’ to migrants fleeing violence or searching for a safe place to live,” Reuters reported. “In the communities of ancient Christian tradition, such as those of the West, the presence of many brothers and sisters from the world’s South should be welcomed as an opportunity, through an exchange that renews the face of the Church,” he said, speaking from a prepared text. The Pope’s official account on X has also made his thoughts quite clear on the issue. Last week, the Pope appeared to take a jab at Trump when speaking with reporters. “Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life,” Leo said. “I would reject that there is inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the United States under this administration,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back. “There was, however, significant, inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the previous administration as they were being trafficked and raped and beaten, in many cases killed over our United States southern border.” The Pope’s latest swipe against US immigration policy earned heated criticism on social media.

BREITBART
— Abbott Defies Pritzker, Greenlights Trump’s Texas National Guard Deployment to Sanctuary States
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/06/abbott-defies-pritzker-greenlights-trumps-texas-national-guard-deployment-to-sanctuary-states/
— White House Highlights ‘Predators’ Taken Off Chicago Streets Thanks to ICE
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/06/white-house-highlights-predators-taken-off-chicago-streets-thanks-ice/amp/

CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— California law allowing anonymous abortion pill prescriptions endangers women
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266975/california-law-allowing-anonymous-abortion-pill-prescriptions-endangers-women-experts-say

COLLEGE FIX
— Colorado State U. renamed DEI programs to give ‘illusion’ of compliance
https://www.thecollegefix.com/colorado-state-u-renamed-dei-programs-to-give-illusion-of-compliance-complaint/
— Trump admin ends taxpayer-funded education scholarships, loans for illegal immigrants
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-admin-ends-taxpayer-funded-education-scholarships-loans-for-illegal-immigrants/

DAILY CALLER
— America’s Defense Giants Are Fueling Wokeness – And Undermining Our Military Readiness
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/07/opinion-americas-defense-giants-are-fueling-wokeness-and-undermining-our-military-readiness-dustin-devito/

FOX NEWS
— Chicago’s ‘ICE-free zones’ endanger operations, embolden protesters. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring ICE from using city parking lots and garages for operations.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-agent-says-chicagos-ice-free-zones-endanger-operations-embolden-protesters
— DHS chief slams ‘violent anarchists,’ pledges full support for federal agents
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/first-fox-dhs-chief-slams-violent-anarchists-pledges-full-support-federal-agents.amp
— Pope Leo says family based on ‘union between a man and a woman,’ defends dignity of unborn.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-leo-says-family-based-union-between-man-woman-defends-dignity-unborn

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Colleges Boost Illegal Immigrant Students
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/ny-post-op-ed-colleges-boost-illegal-immigrant-students/

NEW AMERICAN
— Border Patrol Agents Attacked in Chicago; City Declares Rebellion Against Feds to Protect Illegals
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/border-patrol-agents-attacked-in-chicago-city-declares-rebellion-against-feds-to-protect-illegals/

NEWSMAX
— White House Slams Chicago Mayor for Creating ‘ICE-Free Zones’
https://www.newsmax.com/amp/newsfront/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-jb-pritzker/2025/10/06/id/1229235/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Porter: Pritzker’s Gambit
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/10/06/pritzkers_gambit_153370.html

REAL CLEAR POLICY
— Democrats Want Medicaid for Illegals. Pretend They Don’t
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/10/06/dems_want_medicaid_for_illegals_pretend_they_dont_1139150.html

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Livid: Says Trump Ordered National Guard to Illinois Amid Anti-ICE Violence, Likens Troops to Invaders
https://www.westernjournal.com/pritzker-livid-says-trump-ordered-national-guard-to-illinois-amid-anti-ice-violence-likens-troops-to-invaders/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

REUTERS
— Illinois sues to stop National Guard deployment as Trump escalates clash with states
https://www.reuters.com/world/illinois-sues-block-trump-deploying-national-guard-troops-chicago-2025-10-06/

MSN
— 3 Best First Jobs To Get Promoted Fast. DD: My critics/opponents have always been furious that IRS promoted me when I was 23, 24, and 25.  During that time, my salary increased from $55,850/year to $99,069/year in today’s dollars. My taking job-related graduate evening courses at Loyola during that time helped me get promoted. Extremely few of my coworkers took IRS-encouraged job-related graduate evening courses like I did. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my taking those courses gave me an unfair advantage. They stressed that I could afford those courses because I avoided the Vietnam War draft and because did not have a wife or children to support. In my defense, I helped support my mother and brother when I was 21, 22, and 23 and I worked part-time for the Chicago Heights Firestone store while I was 22, 23, and 24.
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/money/personalfinance/3-best-first-jobs-to-get-promoted-fast/ar-AA1zabGZ

NEW YORK TIMES
— National Guard Troops Are Set to Arrive in Illinois. The mobilization includes some 200 Guard troops from Texas. President Trump said he would consider invoking emergency powers to “get around” legal obstacles.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/07/us/trump-national-guard-illinois-texas
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010441484/dei-helps-everyone-white-men-included.html
— DD: I had part-time jobs while I was in high school and college during the school years and full-time during the summers. That enabled me to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, and 20, pay for my college expenses, and graduate debt-free from NIU when I was 21 in 1970 and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. But my GPA suffered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/opinion/jobs-teenagers.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/us/politics/stonewall-national-museum-trump-funding-cuts.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump presses sanctuary cities to work with ICE, but few are budging. Cities like Boston, Chicago and Portland are facing the threat of lawsuits and federal troop takeovers. But leaders in most “sanctuary cities” are not compromising on their promise to protect (their illegals).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/10/07/trump-portland-chicago-sanctuary-lawsuits-immigrants/

USA TODAY
— DD: Americans ever-increasingly refuse to take bad food industry jobs. What should be done? I washed dishes for the minimum wage 1964-1966. I was the only White male who washed dishes for the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/10/02/us-immigration-border-policy-farm/86168928007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Trump Rules for Radical Schools
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-compact-higher-education-universities-7579714b
— America’s Debt to Israel. The Jewish state has taken on many U.S. enemies since Oct. 7, 2023, even as the left turned against it.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/americas-debt-to-israel-65d09527
— Discrimination Persists at the Coast Guard. It bases eligibility for scholarships on the racial demographics of applicants’ schools.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/discrimination-persists-at-the-coast-guard-efbf4414
— DD: I should write a book about a) my critics/opponents who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican and b) the many big anti-religious, anti-conservative, and anti-Republican things that they have done.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/how-to-spot-when-youre-a-hypocrite-e2c3ecfc

BLOOMBERG
— DD: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Ever-increasingly, they do everything that they can to destroy Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-18/trump-puts-more-federal-civil-servants-under-president-s-control

POLITICO
— Newsom, Pritzker threaten to pull out of National Governors Association over Trump’s troop deployments
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/newsom-pritzker-threaten-to-pull-out-of-national-governors-association-over-trumps-troop-deployments-00595741

ATLANTIC
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. They get rid of their employees who do not give tremendous preference their employees who are minority and/or female, that is, they get rid of their employees who do not discriminate against their employees who are White and/or male.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/employee-firing-first-amendment/681702/

AXIOS
— Which federal workers could lose protections under Trump order. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. If you are a federal employee, the more of the following that you are, the fewer protections that you have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The Democrats who run the federal government get rid of federal employees who are the aforesaid because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/28/trump-executive-order-federal-workforce

October 6, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— National Guard troops traveling from Texas to Illinois Monday, DOJ lawyers confirm. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an ‘ICE free zone’ executive order.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-pritzker-address-trumps-effort-deploy-national-guard-illinois-pentagon-authorizes-chicago-mission/17949147/

NBC5
— ICE ad blitz aims to recruit local law enforcement officers to join deportation efforts. The campaign is part of ICE’s $30 billion initiative to hire 10,000 more deportation officers by the end of the year to supercharge deportations. DD: When I was 22 years old in 1971, I had to have a job. I was helping support my mother and brother. Oldsmobile had withdrawn a job offer that I had accepted saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss had rudely fired me because I had accepted that offer. Because of that, I accepted a job offer from IRS. What if IRS had mot offered me a job, but instead, ICE had offered me a job?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/ice-ads-local-law-enforcement-trump-mass-deportation-efforts/3834043/

CBS2
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signs order prohibiting use of city property for immigration enforcement
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-mayor-executive-order-immigration-enforcement/

FOX32
— Federal workers brace for missed paychecks as government shutdown drags on. With federal workers unpaid and key projects on hold, senators return to vote on a temporary spending bill—amid rising tensions, stalled negotiations, and no clear end in sight.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1719713

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago police will respond to federal calls for help, Larry Snelling says, and denies cops were ordered to stand down
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/chicago-police-ice-border-patrol/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/10/06/academic-neutrality-critical-thinking-texas-a-m-university-melissa-mccoul-akash-belsare

CHICAGO READER
— DHS shops local. In mid-September, the federal government paid a Lake Forest–based company $1 million for launchers to shoot pepper balls like the ones now showering protesters. DD: What will you use to defend your home when Democrat mobs attack?
https://chicagoreader.com/news/pepperball-ice-immigration-protest-broadview/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicagoreader.com/performing-arts/rhinestone-digest/rhinestone-digest-october-2025-drag-families/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-397/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— DD: To promote diversity is to get rid of those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrats get rid of those who are the aforesaid because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_05a70ee4-5c31-4ac2-a881-96f4f779be65.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Former State Rep. DeLoris Doederlein 100 Today, Passed Driver’s Test at 99
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/former-state-rep-deloris-doederlein-100-today/
— Two GOP Gubernatorial Candidates Coming to Wednesday, October 14th Petition Party in Fox River Grove
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/06/two-gop-gubernatorial-candidates-coming-to-wednesday-petition-party-in-fox-river-grove/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Chicago declares ‘ICE-free’ zones as city escalates feud with Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/6/chicago-declares-ice-free-zones-city-escalates-feud-trump/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pritzker vows to boot Noem’s ICE ‘thugs’ from Chicago
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3839552/jb-pritzker-kristi-noem-ice-thugs-chicago/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Dems and their minions open new front against Hegseth
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/06/dems-and-their-minions-open-new-front-against-hegseth-1590314/

BREITBART
— Insurrectionist Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Claims Trump Supporters Want ‘Rematch of Civil War.’  Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/06/nolte-insurrectionist-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-claims-trump-supporters-want-rematch-of-civil-war/
— ICE Under Siege: Second Chicago Vehicle Attack in One Day
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/10/06/ice-under-siege-second-chicago-vehicle-attack-in-one-day/amp/
— At Least 30 Shot During Weekend In Democrat-Run Chicago
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/10/06/at-least-30-shot-during-weekend-in-democrat-run-chicago/

HOT AIR
— Bad Bunny: If You Want to Understand the Halftime Show, ‘Learn Spanish’
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/10/06/bad-bunny-if-you-want-to-understand-the-halftime-show-learn-spanish-n3807513

NEWS BUSTERS
— Duckworth Smears ICE as ‘Gestapo’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/10/05/cbss-margaret-brennan-enables-sen-duckworth-smear-ice-gestapo

PJ MEDIA
— ICE Is Real America
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/10/06/the-morning-briefing-ice-is-real-america-n4944508

PATRIOT JOURNAL
— Pope Leo XIV Blesses Ice Block for ‘Climate Justice’ Drawing Conservative Backlash
https://pjnewsletter.com/pope-climate-justice-woke/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: When American Catholics learned there would finally be an American pope, many hoped for a return to traditional faith and spiritual leadership (you know, actual theology and moral guidance). Instead, Vatican watchers witnessed yet another bizarre spectacle this week that has conservative Catholics questioning what exactly their church leadership stands for anymore. The latest episode perfectly encapsulates why so many faithful feel abandoned by Rome—and boy, did they get a doozy. While Christians face persecution across the globe—from Islamic terror groups burning churches to believers being martyred for their faith—Pope Leo XIV found time for what he apparently considers more pressing matters.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— Trump floats invoking the Insurrection Act
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-floats-invoking-insurrection-act-rcna236030

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Threatens to Use Emergency Powers to Bypass Courts and Deploy Troops. The president said he was considering invoking the Insurrection Act to send National Guard units to Chicago and Portland, Ore., over local objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois called the mobilization “an unconstitutional invasion.”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/06/us/national-guard-trump-oregon-chicago

HISTORY
— DD: To promote diversity is to get rid of those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrats get rid of those who are the aforesaid because they vote for Republicans.
https://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/least-diverse-states.htm

October 6, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— 5 dead, 25 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-oct-3-to-6/

NBC5
— Trump to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Illinois
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trump-to-deploy-texas-national-guard-troops-to-chicago-pritzker-says/3833957/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Illinois Democratic lawmakers take on activist role amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote and protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/illinois-democratic-lawmakers-activist-role-immigration/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote and protect their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/05/congress-members-rally-south-shore-apartment-ice-raid

DAILY HERALD
— Scholarship brunch supports Latinx students at Elgin Community College. DD: Did you get any scholarships? My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251006/submitted-content/scholarship-brunch-supports-latinx-students-at-elgin-community-college/
— DD: As Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250708/business/prairie-food-co-op-countys-first-community-owned-grocer-opens-in-lombard/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago’s largest accounting firms buck a national trend as layoffs sweep the industry. DD: The accounting profession had no use for me when I became a licensed CPA in 1981 because I was too old, I was 32 years old, and because I was not a minority or a female. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I had worked for GAO since 1980. I had worked for IRS 1971-1980.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/data-center/chicagos-largest-accounting-firms-deloitte-pwc-ey-kpmg

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly blasts Trump.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey-trumps-immigration-policies-offer-pritzker-a-platform/article_1e7ce828-2525-4060-9dad-848b70efb1c4.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Voting is underway in California on new maps that could swing US House control, check Trump’s power. DD: How gerrymandered is your congressional district?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-voting-is-underway-in-california-on-new-maps-that-could-swing-us-house-control-check-trumps-power/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders use Bad Bunny to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Americans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-10-05/snl-roasts-trump-in-season-premiere-as-bad-bunny-addresses-super-bowl-criticism

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Republicans are criticizing Democrats’ opposition to the deployments. State Rep. John Cabello, who’s also a retired Rockford Police detective, said the governor is “more interested in protecting his personal political interests than protecting Illinois families.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/06/trump-orders-up-hundreds-of-troops-to-illinois-00594616

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-605/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— U of I scrutinized over perceived preference for international students
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_bba03ae6-e5c7-4e6b-82a5-44f2c63b89cc.html

WHEATON RECORD
— Campus Community Grapples With Charlie Kirk Assassination
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/10/05/campus-community-grapples-with-charlie-kirk-assassination/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago Police Ordered to ‘Stand Down’ as ICE Agent Surrounded – Legal Experts Warn of Criminal Liability
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/chicago-police-ordered-to-stand-down-as-ice-agent-surrounded-legal-experts-warn-of-criminal-liability.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Merit-based advancement is key to military excellence. DD: As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly dumped merit to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. 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. It all culminated when I was 49 in 1997 when they forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my minority subordinate. 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 I did.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/3836027/merit-based-advancement-key-military-excellence/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump to send 400 Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as anti-ICE protests continue to rage
https://nypost.com/2025/10/06/us-news/trump-sending-400-texas-national-guard-troops-to-illinois-as-anti-ice-protests-continue-to-rage-pritzker/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Legal Discrimination in the Aloha State Under Attack
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/legal-discrimination-in-the-aloha-state-under-attack/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Chicago a war zone over ICE raids, and Illinois’s governor doesn’t think there’s a problem
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/chicago_a_war_zone_over_ice_raids_and_illinois_s_governor_doesn_t_think_there_s_a_problem.html
— The Two-Tiered Justice Sham
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/the_two_tiered_justice_sham.html

BLAZE
— Woke CEOs mocked conservatives. Now the joke’s on them.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/woke-ceos-mocked-conservatives-now-the-jokes-on-them

BREITBART
— Hegseth Blasts Woke Diversity at Navy’s 250th Anniversary
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2025/10/05/pete-hegseth-blasts-woke-diversity-at-navys-250th-anniversary/

COLLEGE FIX
— National teachers’ union leftism draws federal scrutiny, calls to revisit charter
https://www.thecollegefix.com/national-teachers-union-leftism-draws-federal-scrutiny-calls-to-revisit-charter/

DAILY CALLER
— Chicago Police Told Not To Help Border Patrol Agents In Distress
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/05/chicago-police-told-not-to-help-border-patrol-agents-in-distress/

FOX NEWS
— Trump is protecting the American people from ‘terrorist states in our own hemisphere’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382079453112
— Trump ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Illinois, Oregon and other locations
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pritzker-says-trump-ordering-400-members-texas-national-guard-illinois-oregon-other-locations

HOMELAND SECURITY
— Discord, Extremism, and the Charlie Kirk Assassination: A Homeland Security Wake-Up Call
https://www.hstoday.us/perspective/perspective-discord-extremism-and-the-charlie-kirk-assassination-a-homeland-security-wake-up-call/

WESTERN JORNALISM
— Illegal Alien Who Served as School Superintendent Was Registered to Vote and Has Extensive Criminal Record
https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-alien-served-school-superintendent-registered-vote-extensive-criminal-record/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Pritzker says Trump officials ‘want to create the war zone.’ DD: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5539424-chicago-warzone-pritzker-trump/

CNN
— DD: ‘It’s frankly evil’: Casten rips Trump’s plan to lay off employees during shutdown.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/05/politics/video/layoffs-government-shutdown-trump-blame-democrats-sean-casten-intv-nrtf

AOL
— Georgia Steak ’n Shake Owner’s Charlie Kirk Billboard Sparks National Attention
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/georgia-steak-n-shake-owner-171030026.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.aol.com/news/concerns-grow-over-continued-restriction-004400211.html
https://www.aol.com/news/durbin-overwhelmed-pope-leo-support-180707754.html
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-targets-virginia-schools-over-132607509.html

REUTERS
— White House: Mass layoffs will start if shutdown talks ‘going nowhere’
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-layoffs-will-start-if-trump-sees-shutdown-talks-going-nowhere-2025-10-05/

ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appears-reveal-strike-alleged-cartel-drug-boat/story?id=126237676

NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders continue their government shutdown. Trump is starting to use it against them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14V_9ERBqm8

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/trump-caribbean-strikes-drugs-kindness.html
–DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/texas-lgbtq-schools.html
— Push for Military Coverage of IVF Faces Challenge in Congress. A proposal to expand the Defense Department’s health care plan to include in vitro fertilization is moving through Congress but could die behind closed doors, again. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used my and my wife’s giving up trying to have children without trying IVF against me big time.  They punished me in 1989 by throwing me off audits of IRS, by giving me a bad job assignment, by giving me unfair performance expectations, by giving me an unfair performance appraisal, and by ranking me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/military-ivf-congress.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push LGBTQ in schools. How successful have Democrat leaders been pushing LGBTQ in your school district?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/politics/texas-lgbtq-schools.html
— White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes. The Trump administration forged ahead with plans to conduct mass layoffs, as the fiscal standoff appeared to intensify. DD: Because I was one of their very few if not only Republican employee and because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly punished me. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/us/politics/white-house-shutdown-punishment.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: I should write about those who I have done the most to help elect and to help reelect, but who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who blame me and who blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their problems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/05/national-guard-takeover-oregon-trump-immergut/

USA TODAY
— DD: From the beginning, Democrat and RINO leaders have done everything they could to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/10/04/trump-political-enemies-comey-indictment/86451565007/

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote resistance to Trump. What if Republican leaders had promoted resistance to Biden?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/trump-resistance-ice-noncooperation-21081574.php

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— False Charges of ‘Hate’ Encourage Violence. The ADL withdrew its smear of Charlie Kirk. The SPLC should follow its example. DD: My critics/opponents hinted/implied/argued/shouted that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were hate groups. I served as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012 and as an ICRC officer 2003-2007.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/false-charges-of-hate-encourage-violence-d5e07919
— Hegseth Focuses on Fitness. DD: When I was 18 years old in 1966, I was 1-A for the Vietnam War draft even though I could not run because I had a bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. My ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. What if I had tried to enlist?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-focuses-on-fitness-even-as-pentagon-goes-high-tech-723eadfb
— Federal-Worker Buyouts Are Kicking In, Darkening the U.S. Employment Picture. About 100,000 federal workers came off the payroll this week, adding strain to an already weakening labor market. DD: I became eligible for a $25,000 early retirement buyout when I was 45 years old in 1993 because of Gingrich GAO budget cuts. The $25,000 expired in 1994 and the early retirement expired in 1997. I would not be eligible for regular retirement until 2003. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/federal-worker-buyouts-are-kicking-in-darkening-the-u-s-employment-picture-4c3f044b

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

SPECTATOR WORLD
— The shocking state of the American left. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Democratic lawmakers and commentators found themselves in a quandary.
https://thespectator.com/topic/the-shocking-state-of-the-american-left/

DAILY MAIL
— Pritzker says Trump to deploy 400 National Guard troops from Texas to ‘invade’ liberal states
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15165203/Illinois-Governor-JB-Pritzker-Trump-National-Guard.html

TIMES OF INDIA
— How Trump’s 10-point memo directs US universities to ban race and sex in hiring and admissions
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/explained-how-trumps-10-point-memo-pushes-us-universities-to-take-race-and-sex-out-of-hiring-and-admissions/articleshow/124316871.cms

INDEPENDENT
— Trump looking to ban transgender people from having a gun and declaring them ‘mentally ill’
https://www.aol.com/trump-looking-ban-transgender-people-183556531.html

October 3, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— New barricades erected near Broadview ICE facility in effort to limit protesters from blocking street. Local and state authorities installed the barriers Thursday to allow room for protests but also keep the street clear. Demonstrators trying to block federal vehicles from entering and leaving the facility have been met with numerous rounds of rubber pellets and chemical agents that officials say endanger nearby residents and first responders.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/02/local-authorities-to-place-barricades-outside-broadview-ice-facility-to-protect-first-amendment-rights
— DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/02/cardinal-timothy-dolans-charlie-kirk-catholic-church-marc-morial
— DD: Democrats a) love it when DOJ prosecutes Republicans and b) hate it when DOJ prosecutes Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/10/02/trump-law-revenge-comey-adam-schiff-letitia-james-jacob-sullum

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/03/opinion-ice-officer-escalation-protests-chicago/

DAILY HERALD
— District 300 school board member removed as president but avoids censure for Charlie Kirk post. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251002/news/district-300-school-board-member-removed-as-president-but-avoids-censure-for-charlie-kirk-post/
— Trump administration approval of new abortion drug infuriates the right
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251002/nation-and-world-politics/trump-administration-approval-of-new-abortion-drug-infuriates-the-right/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DD: Democrat leaders organize “No Kings” protests in DuPage County October 18
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/10/02/organizers-reveal-details-of-dupage-no-kings-protests/
— Woodridge cancels Hispanic Heritage event after some vendors withdraw
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/10/02/woodridge-cancels-hispanic-heritage-event/

EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— Seven questions with U.S. Senate candidate Don Tracy
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/seven-questions-senate-candidate-don-tracy-21078169.php

BELLEVILE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Local U.S. attorney deals with furloughs, questions about partisan messaging
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article312357794.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders always want to give more preference to international students over American students.
https://www.nprillinois.org/education-desk/2025-10-02/new-student-visa-rule-blasted-by-illinois-attorney-general-raoul

CHICAGO READER
— Five anti-ICE protesters face federal charges
https://chicagoreader.com/news/make-it-make-sense/ice-protest-seminary-bookstore-planetarium-union/

ILLINOIS PATCH
— The Best School Districts In Chicago-Metro Area
https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/these-are-best-school-districts-chicago-metro-area-new-ranking-says

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-395/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How do you view federal employees? While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee. My critics/opponents in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, and Illinois Center Right Coalition have always ignored, dismissed, belittled, and/or badmouthed what I did for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year and for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do you view federal employees and federal retirees? According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me and my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is much too generous. 1997, my GAO salary was $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My critics/opponents stress that while my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, I have gotten a $66,780/year in today’s dollars CSRS pension since then, that is, I have suffered only an $86,371/year (56%) loss of income in today’s dollars since then, that is, I have suffered only a $2.4 million loss in income since 1997. In my defense, in 1997, I had three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six-job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— From what I see, under the Democrats in Illinois and under the RINOs in Illinois, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is in Illinois: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. Back in the good old days, even though I am all of the aforesaid, I was able earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, and earn a professional license. I was able to get and keep jobs that enabled me a) to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, and 29, b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) get married when I was 29, d) etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Catalina Lauf Wheatley Files for Congress in Bryon Donalds’ District
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/02/catalina-lauf-wheatley-files-for-congress-in-bryon-donalds-district/
— Sosnowski on Illinois Sanctuary State Policies
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/02/sosnowski-on-illinois-sanctuary-state-policies/
— State Offers Electric Vehicle Subsidy as Federal Program Ends
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/state-offers-electric-vehicle-subsidy-as-federal-program-ends/
— Keicher Files 14-Foot Bill to Protect Law Enforcement and Those Targeting Them (and Inspired Demonstrators)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/keicher-files-14-foot-bill-to-protect-law-enforcement-and-those-targeting-them/
— Dabrowski Says Pritzker Should Prioritize Literacy Over Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/dabrowski-says-pritzker-should-prioritize-literacy-over-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-efforts/
— State Reps. Jeff Keicher and Joe Sosnowski Holding Thursday Huntley Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/10/01/state-reps-jeff-keicher-and-joe-sosnowski-holding-wednesday-huntley-fundraiser/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— How the DOJ went after Trump’s allies. Jack Smith targeted Republican movers and shakers. DD: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who arranged my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/2/doj-went-trumps-allies/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
—  Huckabee rebuts rumors that Charlie Kirk had turned anti-Israel
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watch/2363138/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Democrats Lament Lost Wages for Federal Workers as Their Paychecks Roll In
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/democrats-lament-lost-wages-for-federal

NEW YORK POST
— ICE Arrests Over 900 Illegal Migrants During Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGkibz6Isk
— Trump sharpens ax on government shutdown day two — with ‘thousands’ of federal firings planned
https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/us-news/trump-sharpens-ax-on-government-shutdown-day-two-with-thousands-of-federal-firings-planned/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Coffee shop attacked for honoring Charlie Kirk now sees huge sales surge, ‘flooded with righteous people’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/02/coffee-shop-attacked-for-honoring-charlie-kirk-now-sees-huge-sales-surge-flooded-with-righteous-people-1589689/
— University response to students ‘thanking’ Charlie Kirk’s killer ‘very telling’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/02/university-response-to-students-thanking-charlie-kirks-killer-very-telling-1589614/

BREITBART
— Rep. Mary Miller on Chicago Crime: Democrats ‘Don’t Care About the People They Represent’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/02/exclusive-rep-mary-miller-on-chicago-crime-democrats-dont-care-about-the-people-they-represent/amp/
— Trump Pressures Elite Universities to Accept More Americans over Foreigners
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/02/trump-pressures-elite-universities-to-accept-more-americans-over-foreigners-dei/

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Hegseth’s Historic Speech, And Why Many Generals Probably Hated It. DD: My critics/opponents who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America as long as mine have been promote race and gender based preference giving, that is, they reject meritocracy, but outrageously, they attribute their personal successes to meritocracy.
https://conservativehq.com/post/pete-hegseths-historic-speech-and-why-many-generals-probably-hated-it
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Meritocracy is the foundational element of being the best at anything and everything. So, why would any General or Admiral be opposed to or criticize the restoration of meritocracy in our military, and the accompanying dismantling of the social engineering and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies that have plagued our military and crippled its effectiveness for over two decades? Simple – because, after eight years of Obama and four years of Biden, many in the audience got where they are either directly through DEI policies or indirectly by being DEI cheerleaders, even as they knew deep in their hearts such policies were wrong and detrimental to the combat effectiveness of the formations they lead.)

DAILY CALLER
— Black Podcaster Explains How DEI Programs Harm Minorities. DD: All the minorities and all the females who Democrats and RINOs advanced over me a) were younger than me, b) had less experience than I had, c) had less education than I had, d) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or e) had no professional license like the one I have.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/02/black-podcaster-explains-how-dei-programs-harm-minorities/

DAILY SIGNAL
— ICE to Patrol Super Bowl in Response to NFL’s Pick for Halftime Show
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/02/ice-patrol-super-bowl-response-nfls-pick-halftime-show/

DAILY WIRE
— Illegal Aliens Ram Cars Into ICE Agents In Two Separate Attacks. The two attacks occurred in the Chicago area.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-illegal-aliens-ram-cars-into-ice-agents-in-two-separate-attacks-dhs-says

FOX NEWS
— Dems rage over feds targeting migrant gang members
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380755685112
— Putin responds to American conservative’s murder: ‘A disgusting atrocity’
https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-leader-responds-american-conservatives-murder-a-disgusting-atrocity
— Trump sees ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to cut government during shutdown. Trump to meet with OMB Director Russell Vought to identify which agencies are ‘political scam’ for potential cuts. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for a DOGE.
While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, they ever-increasingly use Gingrich’s cutting GAO’s budgets to get rid of not only its few remaining Republican employees, but its employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sees-unprecedented-opportunity-cut-government-during-shutdown

HOMELAND SECURITY
— Two Vehicles Used as Weapons Against ICE Officers in Operation Midway Blitz in Separate Incidents
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/02/two-vehicles-used-weapons-against-ice-officers-operation-midway-blitz-separate

NEWS BUSTERS
— NY Times Sides with Anti-Kirk Ghouls Against Libs of TikTok ‘Smear Campaigns’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/10/02/ny-times-sides-anti-kirk-ghouls-against-libs-tiktok-smear-campaigns

NEWSMAX
— 2 ‘Criminally Deranged’ Illegals Ram ICE Officers With Cars in Chicago
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/dhs-illegal-immigrants-ice/2025/10/03/id/1228874/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Johnson, Pritzker and Chicago’s Rules for Radicals. DD: My critics/opponents are disciples of Saul Alinsky.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/10/02/johnson_pritzker_and_chicagos_rules_for_radicals_654450.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Patel terminates FBI’s relationship with ADL amid fallout from Kirk shooting
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5535569-kash-patel-fbi-adl/amp/

MSNBC
— We are ‘angry at being treated as political pawns’: Furloughed USDA worker. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlC-wsVkKMg

MSN
— The 50 colleges with the biggest surge in applicants over the past 5 years. DD: UIC accepted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if minorities and/or females had applied, they would been accepted instead of me.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/the-50-colleges-with-the-biggest-surge-in-applicants-over-the-past-5-years/ss-AA1NJKNG

CNBC
— Musk is telling his followers to cancel Netflix subscriptions
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/elon-musk-calls-for-canceling-netflix-whats-happening.html
— What the government shutdown means for federal workers—hundreds of thousands are required to keep working without pay. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/what-the-government-shutdown-means-for-federal-workers.html

NBC NEWS
— Federal workers share shutdown anxieties
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-workers-share-shutdown-anxieties-young-trump-supporters-expres-rcna235348

NBC BOSTON
— Financial resources for furloughed federal employees. If you are a furloughed federal employee worried about paying your bills, there are some options out there to help. DD: According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me and my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is much too generous. 1997, my GAO salary was $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My critics/opponents stress that while my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, I have gotten a $66,780/year in today’s dollars CSRS pension since then, that is, I have suffered only an $86,371/year (56%) loss of income in today’s dollars since then, that is, I have suffered only a $2.4 million loss in income since 1997. In my defense, in 1997, I had three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six-job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA).
https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/consumer/financial-resources-furloughed-federal-employees/3819639/

NEW YORK TIMES
— How the Shutdown Is Affecting Federal Services and Workers. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a non-essential federal employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/30/us/politics/government-shutdown-furloughs.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Departments also designated some employees, such as federal law enforcement officers, active-duty troops and air traffic controllers, as “essential.” Many will work without pay while the shutdown persists. . .Activities that will cease. . .Non-essential research and data collection.

WASHINGTON POST
— The shutdown is only proving Trump’s point. The president argues that the federal bureaucracy is useless. Shutdowns tend to reinforce that view.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/03/government-shutdown-trump-democrats-politics/

USA TODAY
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise them.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/01/looming-layoffs-federal-workers/86456233007/

MIAMI HERALD
— House members have voted to table a censure resolution against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over her comments following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. DD: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters will ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives.
https://www.newsbreak.com/miami-herald-1592483/4270538385687-four-gop-lawmakers-join-democrats-in-214-213-vote

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOIP OF FOLD: Trump Threatens Far-Reaching Cuts at Federal Agencies. President to meet with budget chief to discuss cuts, says shutdown gave him an ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to slash government’s size.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-to-meet-with-budget-chief-to-discuss-cuts-to-agencies-0ac5a7cb

BARRON’S
— Shutdown Layoffs Could Hit ‘Thousands’ of Federal Workers
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/government-shutdown-news-100325/card/shutdown-layoffs-could-hit-thousands-of-federal-workers-white-house-says-ojM7zWAyKDRvrzSJF8fZ

FORBES
— Netflix Stock Drops Again—Now Down 2.4% Since Musk’s Call For Cancellations
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/10/02/netflix-stock-drops-again-now-down-24-since-musks-call-for-cancellations/

LAW 360
— Illinois Panel Backs Whistleblower’s $3.5M Retaliation Verdict. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I ever-increasingly blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/discrimination/articles/2395319/ill-panel-backs-whistleblower-s-3-5m-retaliation-verdict-

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

GUARDIAN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with drug cartels.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/02/trump-administration-caribbean-drug-cartels

October 2, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do more to protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/ice-courthouses-petition/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/02/editorial-broadview-ice-immigration-protests-pritzker-katrina-thompson/
— FRONT PAGE: Northwestern students boycotting antibias training. DD: I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980 and GAO 1980-1997. They forced all their employees, including me, to take such “training.” All that training was designed to promote more hatred against Republicans, and especially against Republicans like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/northwestern-university-students-boycott-bias-training/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Micol Bez has three weeks to make a choice. The Northwestern University graduate student has spent years studying political epistemology and abolitionism. Now, she is prepared to risk everything — her Ph.D. dissertation, her student status and her visa — in an act of protest she calls “a question of moral clarity.” Bez is part of a group of students boycotting Northwestern’s controversial antibias training video, which critics say conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Those who refuse to complete the online training will be unable to enroll in fall classes, the university said, which could jeopardize their academic standing if they miss the final course registration deadline. “I’m in a profound moral crisis,” said Bez, who is a member of the student group Northwestern Graduate Workers for Palestine. Her refusal to engage in the training, which makes it “impossible to structurally critique Israel, its policies, the apartheid and the ongoing genocide,” she said, is her taking a stand against Northwestern serving “misinformation to thousands of students.”)
— What a federal government shutdown means for Illinois. . .while government offices continue to stay open for their most important operations, so-called nonessential work is suspended, paychecks are not issued and many workers are furloughed until Congress approves a new funding plan. President Donald Trump has amped up the threats this time around, saying he plans to fire employees, rather than just furlough them, a move he says will hurt Democrats. DD: I was a federal worker in Chicago in 1971 and then 1973-1997. In 1971, I was one of the last Republicans who IRS hired. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. If I was still a federal worker, to punish Trump, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now, figuratively, if not literally.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/what-a-federal-government-shutdown-means-for-illinois/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois federal workers heavily stressed as government shutdown yanks paychecks. For federal workers living paycheck to paycheck, the shutdown could mean choosing between paying for groceries or prescriptions, says National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) National President Doreen Greenwald. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. While I was a NTEU member 1971-1980, my IRS salary increased from $55,850/year to $112,280/year in today’s dollars. In my defense, during that time, I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and I almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/10/01/government-shutdown-impact-illinois-chicago-federal-workers
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/broadview-immigration-processing-center-detention-ice-dhs
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/10/01/raoul-student-visa-rule

NBC5
— Chicago’s federal workers face uncertainty amid government shutdown. The City of Chicago has more than 33,000 federal workers. DD: I was a federal worker in Chicago in 1971 and then 1973-1997. In 1971, I was one of the last Republicans who IRS hired. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. If I was still a federal employee, to punish Trump, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now, figuratively, if not literally.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicagos-federal-workers-face-uncertainty-amid-government-shutdown/3832531/

WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly treat Pat Brady as being the spokesman for all Republicans in Illinois. I should write about the many anti-conservative actions he has taken.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-trumps-military-meeting-government-shutdown-and-more/

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— In a posting Wednesday on the Kane GOP Facebook page, party chairman Andro Lerario and Aurora Township Republican Danny Souri announced their candidacy for Illinois governor and lieutenant governor. DD: Facebook is a Democrat website.  Credible Republican candidates in Illinois a) have websites, b) issue press releases and media advisories, and c) include diersen@aol.com on their press release and media advisory email lists.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/10/02/kane-gop-chairman-says-hell-run-for-illinois-governor-in-2026/

LINCOLN COURIER
— New program looks to address lawyer shortage in Illinois
https://www.lincolncourier.com/story/news/state/2025/10/02/new-program-would-address-lawyer-shortage-in-illinois/86345520007/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats voted for a shutdown. Now they have to find a way out
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-democrats-voted-for-a-shutdown-now-they-have-to-find-a-way-out/amp/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders get the Pope to equate illegals with unborn babies.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/nx-s1-5560169/pope-leo-xiv-says-inhuman-treatment-of-immigrants-in-the-u-s-isnt-pro-life

IPM NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do more to protect their illegals.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/standing-up-to-ice-in-the-suburbs-the-peoples-patrol-puts-its-faith-in-resistance/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— According to state estimates, more than 153,000 federal workers in Illinois will be affected by the shutdown, with as many as 45,000 potentially furloughed. While essential services like Social Security and mail delivery will continue, other programs — including some supporting public health, housing and a veterans hotline — face disruption.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/02/shutdown-showdown-pritzker-blames-trump-00591582

ILLINOIZE
— Why Darren Bailey is Running Again
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/why-darren-bailey-running-again

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-603/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— $725,000 in Democrat Cash Fuels Ted Dabrowski’s GOP Governor Run
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/725000-in-democrat-cash-fuels-ted-dabrowskis-gop-governor-run.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats go all in on health care, betting it’s still a winning message for their flailing party
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/1/democrats-go-health-care-betting-still-winning-message-flailing-party/

NEW YORK POST
— Kash Patel severs FBI’s ties with James Comey-backed Anti–Defamation League after group ripped Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA
https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/kash-patel-cuts-fbis-ties-with-the-anti-defamation-league-after-group-called-charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa-extremist/

AMAC
— New Poll Shows Big Problems for Democrats
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/new-poll-shows-big-problems-for-democrats/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Red states rising
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/red_states_rising.html

BLAZE
— Did the FBI SHADOW BAN Charlie Kirk? Censorship EXPOSED
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-coverup/did-the-fbi-shadow-ban-charlie-kirk-censorship-exposed

BREITBART
— Musk: ‘Cancel Netflix for the Health of Your Kids’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/10/01/elon-musk-cancel-netflix-for-the-health-of-your-kids/
— ADL Drops ‘Glossary of Extremism’ over One-Sided Criticism of Charlie Kirk. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being an extremist. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/01/adl-drops-glossay-of-extremism-over-one-sided-criticism-of-charlie-kirk/amp/

FOX NEWS
— Musk joins Netflix exodus over pro-trans cartoon, whose creator was accused of condemning Charlie Kirk
https://www.foxnews.com/media/musk-joins-netflix-exodus-over-pro-trans-cartoon-whose-creator-accused-condemning-charlie-kirk
— Here’s what Trump wants to do to reshape the federal government during the shutdown. President says shutdown allows administration to cut ‘vast numbers of people’ and programs.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/heres-what-trump-wants-do-reshape-federal-government-during-shutdown?lid=vhfrpzikofy0

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Descendants of Former Slaves Given College Admissions Preferences Under California Legislation. DD: In my defense, I have always stressed that while all my ancestors immigrated during 1840s and 1850s, they have always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/descendents-of-former-slaves-given-college-admissions-preferences-under-california-legislation/

NEW AMERICAN
— What Killed Charlie Kirk? “Trans” Ideology Did — and It’s Killing America, Too. DD: My critics/opponents promote LGBTQ.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/what-killed-charlie-kirk-trans-ideology-did-and-its-killing-america-too/

NEWSMAX
— Musk Calls SPLC ‘Evil,’ Says Group Should Be Shut Down
https://www.newsmax.com/us/elon-musk-splc-propaganda/2025/10/02/id/1228730/

PJ MEDIA
— Creator of Netflix Transgender Cartoon Gets Shredded for Smearing Charlie Kirk As a ‘Nazi’
https://pjmedia.com/michaelcantrell/2025/10/01/creator-of-netflix-transgender-cartoon-gets-shredded-for-smearing-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi-n4944356

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

REUTERS
— Musk becomes first person to hit $500 billion net worth
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/musk-becomes-first-person-hit-net-worth-500-billion-2025-10-01/

NEWSWEEK
— DD: Democrat leaders get to Pope to equate innocent unborn with guilty killers
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-leos-abortion-comment-sparks-backlash-10812905

MSN
— Musk Doubles Down On ‘Cancel Netflix’ Calls Over Trans Character And Director’s Charlie Kirk Post
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/musk-doubles-down-on-cancel-netflix-calls-over-trans-character-and-director-s-charlie-kirk-post/ar-AA1NFpvw

YAHOO
— LGBTQ-promoters say “MAGA Rages at Netflix Thanks to Triggered Elon Musk Post.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maga-rages-netflix-thanks-triggered-084853769.html

REUTERS
— US Supreme Court to hear arguments in Trump bid to fire Fed’s Cook; leaves her in job for now. DD: I succumbed to my Democrat GAO superiors’ threats and took their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 in 1997. What if I had stayed on the job? Who had standing to come to my defense? It would have been my Republican U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives. It would have been Speaker Hastert. It would have been Bush.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-supreme-court-hear-arguments-over-trump-bid-fire-feds-cook-2025-10-01/

CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders get to Pope to equate innocent unborn with guilty killers
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-abortion-pro-life-death-penalty/

NEW YORK TIMES
— After Kirk’s Death, Turning Point Vows to Go On. That May Be Easier Said Than Done. Despite a surge in new campus chapters, there is a void left by Charlie Kirk’s murder that has implications for the entire MAGA movement. DD: Will hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-hates assassinate the next Turning Point leader too?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/us/politics/charlie-kirk.html
— Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads. A new analysis of political advertisers found that the platform profits from ads that include deepfakes and other content prohibited by its own policies. DD: Facebook is a Democrat website. Credible Republican candidates in Illinois a) have websites, b) issue press releases and media advisories, and c) include diersen@aol.com on their press release and media advisory email lists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/technology/facebooks-political-ads-deepfakes-scams.html
— Trump is seeking to deprive millions of Americans of their health insurance.  DD: Knowing that the federal government would pay 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums for life if I could survive until retirement helped me endure my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/opinion/government-shutdown-health-care-democrats.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration seeks to exert control over government shutdown. Officials canceled projects in Democratic states, posted partisan messages on government websites and warned that federal layoffs will begin soon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/01/government-shutdown-deadline-congress-funding/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/30/citizens-seek-damages-after-violent-ice-arrests/86419733007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more hatred against Trump and Hegseth.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/09/30/trump-training-grounds-us-cities-military/86438472007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/10/02/government-shutdown-trump-republicans/86459131007/

MIAMI TIMES ONLINE
— DD: All the many minorities and females that were promoted over me were Democrats or RINOs a) who had less experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were younger than me, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/opinion/charlie-kirk-vs-elite-black-women-a-case-of-insecurity-or-racism/article_6ac5020b-3d89-4a78-a710-01e2397897b8.amp.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Can the Democrat Party Break Free from the Left? DD: Can the Republican Party break free from RINOs?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-democrats-break-free-of-the-left-dc202c58
— FRONT PAGE: America’s Most Dog-Friendly City Has Had Enough. In San Francisco, pets put their paws on cafe counters, roam sports bars and lick gym-goers during sit-ups.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americas-most-dog-friendly-city-has-had-enough-6c0ec18b

AUDACY
— DD: America should focus on meritocracy. If my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors had focused on meritocracy instead of Affirmative Action and DEI, I might still be a federal employee. In my opinion, they would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year, before I was 40. But instead, they wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They flushed down their toilets what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees, c) earning six job-related professional certifications, and d) earning a job-related professional license.
https://www.audacy.com/wwl/news/local/why-shouldnt-our-military-return-to-a-focus-on-meritocracy

HUFFINGTON POST
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters hate Kirk.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charlie-kirk-fired-lawsuits_n_68dc38f1e4b0f3800bccf07e

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Hundreds of federal agents flood Chicago to dismantle Tren de Aragua gang
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DF22rN0Df4ZE
— Trump to bar funding of entities that do diversity work abroad. DD: To promote diversity is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trump-to-bar-funding-of-entities-that-do-diversity-work-abroad-report/amp_articleshow/124268586.cms
— White House sets hiring, foreign enrolment terms for colleges to get funding advantage
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/white-house-sets-hiring-foreign-enrolment-terms-for-colleges-to-get-funding-advantage-report/amp_articleshow/124268312.cms
— ‘Serve Americans, not illegal aliens’: VP Vance slams Democrats
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/serve-americans-not-illegal-aliens-vp-vance-slams-democrats-calls-it-a-democratic-shutdown/videoshow/124264700.cms?from=mdr

INDIA TIMES
— Netflix allegedly loses $15.1 billion after Elon Musk calls out ‘transgender woke agenda’; streamer faces mass subscription cancellations
https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/netflix-allegedly-loses-15-1-billion-after-elon-musk-calls-out-transgender-woke-agenda-streamer-faces-mass-subscription-cancellations/articleshow/124271627.html

HINDUSTAN TIMES
— Damning report on Tyler Robinson’s roommate, Lance Twiggs’s troubled past
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/charlie-kirk-shooting-damning-report-on-tyler-robinsons-roommate-lance-twiggss-troubled-past-101759354868809.html
— Why Musk wants you to cancel Netflix subscription
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/why-elon-musk-wants-you-to-cancel-netflix-subscription-charlie-kirk-shooting-hamish-steele-101759381964593.html

October 1, 2025 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— Democrats Shut Down Government Over Free Healthcare for Illegals
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/fact-democrats-shut-down-government-over-free-healthcare-for-illegals/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders blame Republican leaders for the shutdown.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-tourists-feeling-effects-federal-government-shutdown-pullman-national-monument-museum-parks/17919548/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/government-websites-displaying-messages-blaming-democrats-shutdown/17918723/
— Democrat leaders decry that “4 detained by federal agents at Bronzeville shelter, 37 arrested at South Shore apartment building.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-immigration-enforcement-4-custody-federal-agents-raid-shelter-bronzeville-dhs-officials-say/17919772/

NBC5
— On day one of shutdown, White House says layoffs are ‘imminent.’  The shutdown began at 12:01 a.m. after the Senate failed to pass two partisan government.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-government-shutdown-gaza-israel-hamas-october-01-2025-live-updates/3831967/
— DD: How soon will Democrat leaders officially declare their Second Civil War against Republicans? Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/when-chicago-becomes-melting-pot-for-us-soldiers-and-federal-agents-what-can-go-wrong/3831735/

CBS2
— DD: Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Hegseth. Of course, Duckworth hates me because I fight race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/duckworth-slams-hegseths-stance-on-women-serving-in-the-military/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders decry that “ICE detains 4 people outside Chicago homeless shelter.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/bronzeville-feds-shelter-arrests

WGN9
— Anti-Semitic graffiti found in Hyde Park
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/chicago-hyde-park-antisemitic-graffiti-investigation/

WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/30/it-all-has-stop-broadview-officials-call-ice-end-use-chemical-munitions-rubber-bullets
— Pritzker Expects Trump to ‘Keep the Militarization Going’ Despite Government Shutdown
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/01/pritzker-expects-trump-keep-militarization-going-despite-government-shutdown

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders say “What a federal government shutdown means for Illinois.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/what-a-federal-government-shutdown-means-for-illinois/
— Race for Kane County treasurer in 2026 election begins to take shape
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/candidates-enter-kane-county-treasurer-race/
— Democrat leaders decry that “Bondi and Hegseth rally federal agents and troops in Memphis as part of crime task force.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/federal-agents-troops-memphis/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/sudden-unexpected-infant-death-babies/
— The wild case of Ian Roberts, Des Moines school superintendent, illustrates how employers ignore immigration law. DD: If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/ian-roberts-des-moines-iowa-superintendent-immigration/
— Dogs belong outside, not under my feet at a restaurant.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/column-chicago-dogs-allowed-restaurants-washington/
— DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wanted my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to see the many big adverse actions that they took against me. My RINO superiors in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization want all Republicans to see the many big adverse actions that they take against me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/column-donald-trump-fealty-retribution-chapman/
— DD: For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/01/opinion-us-history-civics-education-democracy/

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders blame Republican leaders for the shutdown.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251001/nation-and-world-politics/many-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-shutdown-will-impact-local-workers-airports-and-services-stakeho/

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders say “ICE’s Broadview facility has become a de facto detention center, minus the rules and oversight.”
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/01/broadview-immigration-processing-center-detention-ice-dhs

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Durbin declines lifetime achievement award from Chicago archdiocese amid controversy
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/10/01/dick-durbin-has-turned-down-an-award-from-the-chicago-archdiocese/86450730007/

STATELINE
— Illinois lawmakers clash on healthcare for undocumented immigrants amid shutdown
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-lawmakers-clash-on-healthcare-for-undocumented-immigrants-amid-shutdown/
— Pritzker claims Trump has dementia. DD: According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you are mentally ill.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/pritzker-claims-trump-has-dementia/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats want to prioritize illegal immigrants over Americans, Vance says of shutdown
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/democrats-want-to-prioritize-illegal-immigrants-over-americans-vance-says-of-shutdown-white-house-government-spending-funding-bill-health-care-insurance-premiums-illegal-immigration-immigrants-president-donald-trump-chuck-schumer

ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Illinois House Republicans: “let ICE do its job”
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/illinois-house-republicans-let-ice-do-its-job/article_28adfd6c-e77b-479a-a040-7efbaf0758c6.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: NPR Illinois functions as an arm of the Democrat Party
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-09-30/trump-administration-uses-taxpayer-dollars-to-blame-democrats-for-government-shutdown
— Stratton aims to bring Pritzker administration policies to national stage. DD: Pritzker promotes more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-10-01/stratton-aims-to-bring-pritzker-administration-policies-to-national-stage

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their homeless and their illegals.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/01/bronzeville-homeless-shelter-residents-traumatized-after-feds-chase-arrest-4-people/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-394/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— GOP rep, Dem alderman: Sanctuary policies drove immigration enforcement surge
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f42a2385-2944-4050-9fe3-674ea17964fc.html
— Pritzker blames Trump for partial government shutdown
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_10b94358-a840-4c45-a699-b7600d107563.html

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Democrats Force Shutdown Over Health Care for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/10/democrats-force-shutdown-over-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— The Schumer shutdown. A Democrat-caused debacle through and through.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oct/1/schumer-shutdown/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ICE and Border Patrol arrest 800 illegal immigrants during Chicago blitz
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3832627/ice-chicago-border-patrol-arrest-800-illegal-immigrants-during-blitz/
— A Republican state lawmaker and a Democratic Chicago alderman agree that sanctuary policies are the reason federal agencies have ramped up their presence in Illinois.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3833451/gop-rep-democrat-alderman-sanctuary-policy-drove-immigration-surge/

NEW YORK POST
— Senate Dems block bid to end government shutdown as agencies set to lay off 750K employees daily
https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/senate-dems-block-fresh-bid-to-end-government-shutdown-as-agencies-set-to-lay-off-750k-employees-daily/
— Mamdani’s perverse need to destroy the Jewish state is driving his campaign
https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/opinion/mamdanis-perverse-need-to-destroy-the-jewish-state-is-driving-his-campaign/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrats believe constitutional rights protect illegal aliens but not American citizens
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/democrats_apparently_believe_constitutional_rights_protect_illegal_aliens_but_not_american_citizens.html

BREITBART
— Vance Debunks Left’s Lies on Govt. Shutdown in Response to Breitbart’s Matt Boyle at WH Press Briefing.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/01/jd-vance-debunks-lefts-lies-on-govt-shutdown-in-response-to-breitbarts-matt-boyle-at-wh-press-briefing/
— Illegal Migrants Were Issued 18-Wheeler Licenses in NY, IL, CA with ‘No Name Given’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/10/01/officials-illegal-migrants-were-issued-18-wheeler-licenses-ny-il-ca-no-name-given/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Purdue ends $34.9 million DEI-linked program after federal funding canceled. DD: I did not earn master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48. I did not earn professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 46, and 48. I did not earn a professional license until I was 32. If f could have benefitted from Affirmative Action and DEI, I would have earned the aforesaid much sooner.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/purdue-ends-349-million-dei-linked-program-federal-funding-canceled/28710

EPOCH TIMES
— Impact of Government Shutdown on Social Security: What to Know
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/impact-of-government-shutdown-on-social-security-what-to-know-5922966

FEDERALIST
— Dems Choose To Shut Down Govt. Rather Than Restrict Free Health Care For Illegals
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/01/dems-choose-to-shut-down-govt-rather-than-restrict-free-health-care-for-illegals/

PJ MEDIA
— Yes, Democrats Shut Down the Government to Give Illegals Free Healthcare
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/10/01/yes-democrats-shut-down-government-to-give-illegals-free-healthcare-n4944329

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more abortion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-dick-durbin-says-overwhelmed-pope-leo-defended-abortion-related-cr-rcna234990
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-misleads-claim-democrats-shut-give-health-care-illegal-immigrants-rcna234905

REUTERS
— White House freezes funds for Democratic states in shutdown slap
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-begins-shut-down-most-operations-after-congress-fails-advance-2025-10-01/

NEWSWEEK
— ICE Agents Rappel From Black Hawk Helicopters Into Chicago for Major Raid
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-rappel-black-hawk-helicopters-chicago-10809228
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter onto the rooftops of Chicago residential buildings, launching a sweeping immigration enforcement operation targeting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members, according to NewsNation. The operation, led by ICE with support from the FBI and U.S. Border Patrol, was designed to apprehend high-priority targets connected to the Venezuelan crime syndicate that U.S. authorities have accused of trafficking, violence, and other cross-border crimes. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January designating Mexican drug cartels and other Latin American criminal groups like the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as terrorist organizations. His administration is ramping up immigration enforcement operations in Chicago after he threatened to deploy the National Guard to quell crime in the city. Nearly 300 federal agents and officers descended upon a five-story apartment complex in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, where U.S. Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino has claimed members of Tren de Aragua have been operating, according to NewsNation. The outlet reported that roughly 30 undocumented immigrants were taken into custody, several of them suspected of gang affiliation. Bovino told NewsNation that the operation proceeded “very smoothly” after federal officers and agents spent several days training for the targeted enforcement effort. Bovino, who is overseeing the ongoing operation in Chicago, added that residents of the South Side should expect an increased federal presence in the area.)

CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in protecting their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sanctuary-cities-crackdown-results/
— DD: Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Hegseth. Of course, Duckworth hates me because I fight race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tammy-duckworth-pete-hegseth-women-in-military-fitness/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Drones, Helicopters, Hundreds of Arrests: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown in Chicago So Far.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/us/trump-chicago-immigration-national-guard.html

WALL STREET JKOURNAL
— DD: If you took out a student loan, your GPA should have been higher, and therefore, you should have gotten a better paying job. Because I worked my way through college, my GPA was lower. One year out, in today’s dollars, my salary was only $55,850/year, two years out, it was $68,315/year, three years out, it was $82,655/year, and four years out, it was $99.069/year.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/student-loan-debt-gen-x-619cffda

SPLC
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/hate-crimes-awareness-month-kicks-off/
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/october-is-hate-crimes-awareness-month/

October 1, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-protest-broadview-illinois-leaders-address-situation-surrounding-facility/17909029/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abc7.com/post/pope-leo-xiv-intervenes-us-abortion-debate-chicago-cardinal-blase-cupich-giving-award-illinois-senator-dick-durbin/17916373/

NBC5
— Portion of major street in downtown Chicago shut down by anti-ICE protest. Several groups including the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA) and Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression took part in an “emergency protest.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/anti-ice-protesters-shut-down-portion-of-wacker-drive-in-downtown-chicago/3831786/

CBS2
— Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as “training grounds”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-25th-amendment-military-training-grounds/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Government shutdown begins as nation faces new period of uncertainty
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/government-shutdown-begins-as-nation-faces-new-period-of-uncertainty/
— Democrat leaders have “Hundreds gather to protest ICE, federal push to deploy military to Illinois.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/immigration-national-guard-downtown-protest-trump-pritzker/
— DD: FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/broadview-mayor-rips-feds-protests/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/president-donald-trump-pete-hegseth-military-training/
— Jewel-Osco agrees to pay $1.9 million to resolve EEOC disability investigation. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because my Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted that offer and because I was helping support my mother and brother, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/jewel-osco-eeoc/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker calls for 25th Amendment after Trump ‘training grounds’ remark
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/pritzker-urges-25th-amendment-after-trump-chicago-remarks

SHAW LOCAL
— Duckworth slams Hegseth’s ‘highest male standard’ policy for military as ‘deeply degrading’  Marine veteran and state Rep. Kifowit joins in denouncing statements. DD: To hire, retain, and promote more Democrat minorities and females, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. 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.shawlocal.com/news/2025/09/30/duckworth-slams-hegseths-highest-male-standard-policy-for-military-as-deeply-degrading/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: To defeat Republican candidates, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly drive the American economy down.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-us-consumer-confidence-declines-again-as-americans-fret-over-prices-job-market/amp/
— To promote wokeness/wokeism is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-how-woke-went-from-an-expression-in-black-culture-to-a-conservative-criticism/
— Civil rights agency drops a key tool used to investigate workplace discrimination.  DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-civil-rights-agency-drops-a-key-tool-used-to-investigate-workplace-discrimination/

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ILLINOIS
— Candidate Forums. DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would be hosting candidate forums. If I was still an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer, I would be urging the organization to host candidate forums.
https://www.lwvil.org/candidateforum

CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/trump-threatens-war-chicago-response/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— US Senate race: Republican Don Tracy held a kickoff fundraiser for his Senate campaign at Saputo’s in Springfield on Tuesday. We hear about 70 “friends, supporters and family” of Tracy’s attended, including state Sen. Jil Tracy, state Reps. Michael Coffey and Brandun Schweizer, Sangamon County Board Chair Andy Van Meter, Sangamon County Republican Chair Dianne Barghouti-Hardwick and businessman Kevin Crumly, who hosted the event.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364
— GOP pushback: House Republican Leader Tony McCombie criticized Pritzker for rejecting the increased enforcement. “The governor can’t claim that he wants to work with law enforcement to remove criminals while at the same time promoting policies that make our communities less safe,” she said in a video. And Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison called recent comments by Pritzker and Johnson “divisive, inflammatory and reckless.” The Illinois Republican Party, meanwhile, is selling merchandise pegged off the immigration enforcement raids. One hat reads: “Chicago ICE Word To Your Mother.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/10/01/pope-defends-church-honoring-durbin-00589364

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/10/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-602/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Chicago’s Rules for Radicals Spread Out Across America. DD: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are disciples of Saul Alinsky.
https://johnkassnews.com/chicago-rules-for-radicals/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— As time goes on, it is ever-increasingly clear that my critics/opponents who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote, most commonly its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. The more of the aforesaid planks that they reject, the more and bigger adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and dupes take against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Trump calls Pritzker ‘loser’ as governor prepares for troop deployment lawsuit
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a4ce97d7-b5aa-4fe1-92f5-de151c1cdfe5.html
— Illinois student struggles continue as enrollments decline. DD: My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree, b) three master’s degrees, c) six professional certifications, and d) a professional license.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_24f0c23a-5e34-405a-8fa1-52ac3bee5e0f.html

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Educators Are Teaching Your Kids to Revere Cop Killers
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-educators-teaching-your-kids-cop-killers

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ‘Word to Your Mother’: Illinois GOP’s Bizarre New Apparel Rollout
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/word-to-your-mother-illinois-gops-bizarre-new-apparel-rollout.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal layoffs strain D.C. region as Trump administration threatens more cuts
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/federal-layoffs-strain-dc-region-trump-administration-threatens-cuts/
— The U.S. Postal Service policy banning people from bringing firearms into post offices violates the Constitution, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/post-office-gun-ban-unconstitutional-judge-rules/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— UPenn Provost Resigns After Boosting Social Media Post Likening Charlie Kirk to ‘Hitler Youth’  Mann, who will remain a professor at the Ivy League university, has courted controversy with a series of public outbursts in recent months.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/upenn-provost-resigns-after-boosting-social-media-post-likening-charlie-kirk-to-hitler-youth/
— AI Dubs Charlie Kirk’s Killer ‘Right-Wing.’ My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being right-wing.
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/ai-dubs-charlie-kirks-killer-right

AMERICAN THINKER
— Situational Outrage: How Democrats Normalize Political Violence
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/situational_outrage_how_democrats_normalize_political_violence.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Pritzker likens Trump to Putin, claims he has dementia, demands 25th Amendment be invoked
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/10/01/pritzker-likens-trump-to-putin-claims-he-has-dementia-demands-25th-amendment-be-invoked-1589272/

BLAZE
— Musk cancels Netflix subscription over Charlie Kirk mockery and transgender indoctrination
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trans-netflix-elon-musk-kirk

BREITBART
— Musk Leads Mass Netflix Membership Cancellations After Company’s Children’s Cartoon Creator Smears Charlie Kirk as a ‘Nazi’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/30/elon-musk-leads-mass-netflix-membership-cancellations-after-companys-childrens-cartoon-creator-smears-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi/
— Creator of Netflix Trans Children’s Cartoon ‘Dead End Paranormal Park’ Under Fire for Smearing Charlie Kirk as a ‘Nazi’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/30/creator-of-netflix-trans-childrens-cartoon-dead-end-paranormal-park-under-fire-for-smearing-charlie-kirk-as-a-nazi/
— Hegseth Rebukes DEI, Fat Troops: ‘We Are Done with That Sh*t’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/30/pete-hegseth-rebukes-dei-fat-troops-we-are-done-with-that-sht/
— Maxine Waters on Healthcare for Illegals: ‘Healthcare for Everybody’ DD: Knowing that the federal government would pay 72% of my and my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums for life if I could survive until retirement helped me endure my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/30/maxine-waters-on-healthcare-for-illegals-healthcare-for-everybody/
— Chicago Mayor Johnson: President Trump ‘Is an Unstable Human Being’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/09/30/chicago-mayor-johnson-president-trump-is-an-unstable-human-being/

CAMPUS REFORM
— UNC professor linked to group responsible for posters celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination
https://www.campusreform.org/article/unc-professor-linked-group-responsible-posters-celebrating-charlie-kirks-assassination/28703
— Iowa State fires employee who said Charlie Kirk is ‘rotting in hell’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/iowa-state-fires-employee-said-charlie-kirk-rotting-hell/28700

CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— Durbin declines Chicago Archdiocese award after global backlash over pro-abortion views
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266875/dick-durbin-declines-chicago-archdiocese-award-after-global-backlash-over-pro-abortion-views
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/pope-leo-xiv-comments-on-cupichs-plan-to-bestow-award-on-illinois-senator

DAILY CALLER
— Charlie Kirk’s ‘Protege’ Brilyn Hollyhand Doesn’t Cut It
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/30/brilyn-hollyhand-charlie-kirk-campus-tours-new-york-post/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Democrats Take Heat Over Health Care for Illegal Aliens
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/30/democrats-take-heat-over-healthcare-for-illegal-aliens/

DAILY WIRE
— Hillary Clinton Rips White Christian Men, Sparks Outrage Weeks After Charlie Kirk Assassination. DD: To vote for Democrats is to promote more hatred against those who are White, Christian, and/or male.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-rips-white-christian-men-sparks-outrage-weeks-after-charlie-kirk-assassination

FOX NEWS
— TPUSA chapter support soars after Charlie Kirk assassination. DD: Who is leading the TPUSA effort in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380350416112
— DNC chair calls for DC, Puerto Rico statehood, filibuster elimination, says Trump admin a ‘fascist regime’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dnc-chair-calls-dc-puerto-rico-statehood-filibuster-elimination-says-trump-admin-fascist-regime
— Rogan calls out self-described ‘progressives’ who celebrated the ‘public execution’ of Charlie Kirk. Rogan in disbelief at seeing ‘normal people,’ including housewives and bank workers, cheer activist’s death.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rogan-calls-out-self-described-progressives-who-celebrated-public-execution-charlie-kirk
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6380443240112

NATIONAL REVIEW
— George Washington U Students Believe Charlie Kirk Got What He Deserved
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/george-washington-u-students-believe-charlie-kirk-got-what-he-deserved/

PJ MEDIA
— The ‘Disparate Impact’ Flim-Flam Is Ending. DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, if those who are White and/or male do better at something than those who are minority and/or female, it is because Whites and/or males discriminate against those who are minority and/or female.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/09/30/the-disparate-impact-flim-flam-is-ending-n4944299

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF WAR
— Hegseth Says Promotions, Retention to be Based on Meritocracy. DD: To hire, retain, and promote more Democrat minorities and females, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. 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.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4318944/hegseth-says-promotions-retention-to-be-based-on-meritocracy-not-quotas/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— ‘Get your cell phones out’: Pritzker urges public to post footage of federal agents. DD: Pritzker ever-increasingly protects his illegals.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5528466-jb-pritzker-chicago-illinois-federal-law-enforcement/

ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pope-intervenes-us-abortion-debate-raising-means-pro-126108885

CBS NEWS
— DD: The hate-filled Trump-hating Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tammy-duckworth-accuses-trump-playbook-authoritarianism-military-address/

NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S. Begins Shutdown That Could Lead to Mass Layoffs and Service Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/30/us/trump-government-shutdown-hegseth
— DD: The Voice of America has existed to promote Democrats and the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/voa-voice-of-america-layoffs.html

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/30/ice-chaos-broadview-illinois-wants-them-out/86409208007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Rise of ‘Accidental Landlords’ Is Bad News for Investors Who Bet Big on Rentals. DD: I was a landlord 1976-1984 because I decided to rent out my University Park town home rather than sell it at a loss.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/homeowners-rental-market-landlords-c2f6604f
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/polls/israel-gaza-war-us-poll.html
— FRONT PAGE: DD: The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down,
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/polls/trump-approval-poll.html

POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get the Pope to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/30/congress/pope-leo-dick-durbin-00589172
— DD: Democrat Chicago leader hatred against Trump has only grown since March 11, 2016 when they forced Trump to cancel a rally at UIC.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-cancels-chicago-rally-protests-220660

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

DAILY MAIL
— FBI probes ‘militant Armed Queers’ group for ties to Charlie Kirk suspect… as evidence of its FOREIGN funding grows and deleted posts are revealed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15130313/FBI-Charlie-Kirk-Armed-Queers-foreign-funding.html

INDEPENDENT
— Teen hailed as Charlie Kirk ‘protégé’ is ripped by MAGA crowd after private jet video: ‘Country club’ conservative. Brilyn Hollyhand, who calls himself ‘The Internet’s Youngest Voice of Reason’ online, was ripped into by online users and even fellow right-wing influencers associated with Turning Point USA.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/brilyn-hollyhand-maga-charlie-kirk-private-jet-b2836655.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ilhan Omar because she says that Charlie Kirk’s record of ‘bigotry, hatred and white supremacy’ means there is no legacy to honor.
https://www.aol.com/articles/charlie-kirk-record-bigotry-hatred-101819797.html

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
— Musk Cancels Netflix Over ‘Pro-Transgender Kids Show’
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-joins-netflix-boycott-mass-cancellations-grow-heres-kids-show-comments-that-1745951

September 30, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump directs generals to defend US from ‘war from within.’ DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-directs-generals-defend-us-war/17912017/
— Hegseth rails against ‘woke,’ lays out standards in speech to top generals, admirals
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-know-pentagons-mystery-meeting-top-ranking-generals/17909098/
— Federal agents surround South Shore apartment building as DHS requests military deployment
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/
— Food Security for Life initiative seeks to end hunger among City Colleges students. DD: My parents provided me with room and board in their Crete home while I took classes at UIC 1966-1968.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-pritzker-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-celebrate-launch-food-security-life-initiative-city-colleges/17911862/

WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/09/30/it-all-has-stop-broadview-officials-call-ice-end-use-chemical-munitions-rubber-bullets

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/editorial-donald-trump-military-speech-enemy-within-chicago/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/editorial-ice-downtown-immigration-agents-weekend/
— Pritzker likens Trump to Putin for suggesting military use Chicago, other ‘dangerous cities’ as training grounds. DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/president-donald-trump-pete-hegseth-military-training/
— President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declare an end to ‘politically correct’ leadership in the US military
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/30/trump-hegseth-us-military/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/09/30/donald-trump-pete-hegseth-chicago-military-training-ground-national-guard-operation-midway-blitz
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2025/09/29/broadview-businesses-ice-immigration-protest-suburbs
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09/30/south-shore-immigration-operation-border-patrol-fbi
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/09/29/youth-survey-better-chicago-immigration-mental-health-absenteeism-safe-spaces-beth-swanson
— DD: My critics/opponents blacklist those a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents who are still have lots of clout and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. Most commonly, they reject the equal opportunity plank in the Republican Party platform. They want more and more and more preference for those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, citizens of foreign countries, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/09/30/colbert-kimmel-martin-luther-king-jr-1960s-blacklist-era-ben-jealous

DAILY HERALD
— DD: What percent of generals are anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250930/nation-and-world/trump-tells-a-roomful-of-silent-generals-to-join-a-war-from-within/
— DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250929/nation-and-world-politics/pritzker-calls-federal-deployment-an-attack-on-the-constitution/
— A student ‘womb service’ works covertly to deliver contraception at DePaul. DD: Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly destroying religion.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250930/education/a-student-womb-service-works-covertly-to-deliver-contraception-at-depaul/

WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/29/standing-up-to-ice-in-suburban-chicago-the-peoples-patrol-puts-its-faith-in-resistance

WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their illegals.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/rep-krishnamoorthi-ice-is-acting-with-impunity-right-now/

STATELINE
—  Pritzker’s actions heighten tensions with Chicago law enforcement
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-gop-claims-pritzkers-actions-heighten-tensions-with-chicago-law-enforcement/

GALESBURG REGISTER MAIL
— Illinois reparations hearing set for Oct. 4 in Urbana. DD: Anticipate/expect that the more of the following that you are, the more reparations that Illinois Democrats will make you pay: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.galesburg.com/story/news/local/2025/09/30/illinois-reparations-hearing-set-for-oct-4-in-urbana/86421993007/

OAK PARK
— Welcome to Woke Park, neighbor!
https://www.oakpark.com/2025/09/30/welcome-to-woke-park-neighbor/

X RADIO
— Bailey Says Pritzker “Complete Incompetence, Refusal to Protect Communities” is Why Troops Being Sent to Protect ICE Agents
https://www.thexradio.com/news/local-news/19569-bailey-says-pritzker-complete-incompetence/

WSPY
— During visit to Yorkville, Bailey and Del Mar talk taxes, power shifts as they begin campaign for governor’s race
https://www.wspynews.com/news/local/during-visit-to-yorkville-bailey-and-del-mar-talk-taxes-power-shifts-as-they-begin/article_3b4143b6-bce9-46a8-8131-5db50b80bd5b.html

CITIES 92.9
— Illinois students struggle with academic proficiency. DD: For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/09/30/watch-illinois-student-struggles-continue-as-enrollments-decline/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump floats using Chicago, other Democrat-led cities as military training ground, troops coming ‘very soon’
https://www.nprillinois.org/chicago-il/2025-09-30/trump-floats-using-chicago-other-democrat-led-cities-as-military-training-ground-troops-coming-very-soon

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/09/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-393/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

AM 870 THE ANSWER
— Illegal Des Moines Superintendent Proves ‘Replacement Theory’
https://am870theanswer.com/columnists/charlie-kirk/video/68dc1a08b389e81a75fe3087

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Dabrowski’s Campaign Bankrolled by Democrat Donors Tied to Johnson and Pritzker Allies
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/09/dabrowskis-campaign-bankrolled-by-democrat-donors-tied-to-johnson-and-pritzker-allies.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump, Hegseth present troops with new marching orders: Shape up
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/pete-hegseth-slams-fat-generals-admirals-racial-quotas-announces-new/
— Feds to probe Des Moines schools on diversity hiring in wake of illegal immigrant schools chief
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/feds-probe-des-moines-schools-diversity-hiring-wake-illegal-immigrant/
— Judge calls for public to ‘stand up’ to Trump, compares ICE to KKK
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/judge-calls-public-stand-trump-compares-ice-kkk/
— Trump says he’ll lay off ‘a lot’ of federal workers in a government shutdown. DD: In 1966, I was one of the last Republicans who the Democrats who ran the Post Office hired. In 1971, I was one of the last Republicans who the Democrats who ran IRS hired.  In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who the Democrats who ran GAO hired.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/trump-says-hell-lay-lot-federal-workers-government-shuts/
— How the U.S. military went woke: DEI offices, women in combat and drag shows.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/30/us-military-went-woke/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Portland has refused to enforce the law for five years
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3831005/portland-refused-enforce-law-five-years/

NEW YORK POST
— Hegseth demands troops meet ‘male-level’ physical standards, rails against ‘fat troops’ in military
https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/us-news/pete-hegseth-demands-troops-meet-male-level-physical-standards-rails-against-woke-garbage-and-fat-troops-in-military/

BREITBART
— Trump Vows to ‘Straighten Out’ Dangerous Sanctuary Cities ‘One by One’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/09/30/trump-vows-to-straighten-out-dangerous-sanctuary-cities-one-by-one/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Trump warns Mamdani: No federal funds for a ‘communist’ mayor |
https://www.christianpost.com/news/trump-warns-mamdani-no-federal-funds-for-a-communist-mayor.html

EPOCH TIMES
— Bondi Directs FBI, DEA, Other DOJ Agencies to Guard ICE Facilities. The attorney general also announced the formation of a task force to protect ICE agents.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/bondi-directs-fbi-dea-other-doj-agencies-to-guard-ice-facilities-5922385

FOX NEWS
— Hegseth tells troops to resign if they oppose his plan to scrap ‘woke’ policies and restore warrior ethos. War secretary announced new personnel standards during Quantico speech.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hegseth-tells-troops-resign-oppose-his-plan-scrap-woke-policies-restore-warrior-ethos?lid=q6jfds3fnzv5

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Hyde Amendment Turns 49
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-hyde-amendment-turns-49/

NEWSMAX
— Pritzker Asks Illinois Residents to Post Photos of ICE Agents
https://www.newsmax.com/us/jb-pritzker-chicago-ice/2025/09/30/id/1228420/