June 3, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS2
— Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupt Rep. Sean Casten’s town hall.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/pro-palestinian-protesters-interrupt-rep-sean-castens-town-hall/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in River Forest.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/river-forests-pride-walk-sparks-strong-community-support-kick-off-pride-month

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give Blacks more preference over non-Blacks.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/03/justice-department-investigation-of-racial-hiring-at-city-hall-also-highlights-president-donald-trumps-own-hiring-record/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/03/opinion-china-threat-pete-hegseth-taiwan-strait/
— Nominations deadline extended for 2025 Chicago Top Workplaces. Because GAO’s employees are many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following and because GAO gives preference big time to its employees who are the following, anticipate/expect that they will nominate GAO: Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/top-workplaces-nominations-deadline-extended/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago and Cook County.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/06/02/pride-flag-raising-chicago-cook-county-johnson-preckwinkle
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-culture/2025/06/03/imho-queens-chicago-live-show-darby-lynn-cartwright-alexis-p-bevels

SOUTHERN
— Republican area legislators come down hard on new state budget.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/02/249598/
— Trump responds to Boulder attack in social media post, seizes on suspect’s immigration status.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/02/trump-says-boulder-attack-will-not-be-tolerated/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for inflation and for everything else that is bad.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/02/trumps-hike-of-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-could-raise-these-prices/

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/bill-ensuring-medication-abortion-access-amid-uncertainty-with-trumps-fda-heads-to-pritzker/article_2e26ddfb-4726-4b10-9e42-99b36c877911.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-06-02/time-is-running-out-for-thousands-after-trump-ends-their-temporary-protected-status

WIFR
— Fewer and fewer and fewer political jurisdictions want to be sanctuaries. To be a sanctuary is to promote mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/06/02/you-cant-force-states-do-federal-governments-job-counties-appear-list-sanctuary-cities/
— Pot is bad for your heart.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/06/03/marijuana-may-be-bad-your-heart-whether-smoked-or-taken-edibles-study-suggests/

WGLT
— Homeless encampment residents in Normal continue to relocate after planned deadline
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-06-02/homeless-encampment-residents-in-normal-continue-to-relocate-after-planned-deadline

CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their domination of education in America.
https://chicagoreader.com/columns-opinion/staff-notes/attack-college-trump-speech/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/02/cta-launches-annual-pride-train-to-run-on-red-line-through-june/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-526/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-318/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois taxpayers to pay $1 billion more for approved $55B budget
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e4ffa949-7e2c-404c-8906-65b5aa799b76.html

WIREPOINTS
— The good intentions of our lawmakers don’t pan out for Illinois residents.
https://wirepoints.org/the-good-intentions-of-our-lawmakers-dont-pan-out-for-illinois-residents-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders and their mainstream news media want everyone to assume that voters want the Democrat Party platform, that is, that voters want more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Trump’s critics/opponents, Trump is motivated by revenge. GAO audits IRS. According to my critics/opponents, revenge motivated me to  transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and to ask to be assigned to audits of IRS. They stressed the adverse actions that IRS had taken against me including disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowing my education expenses in 1978, and never promoting me beyond GS-12. In my defense, I stressed that the many codes of conduct that I was under prohibited that. I became a CPA in 1979, Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, licensed CPA in 1981, and a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. Their revenge argument was a pretext. The real reason was that the Democrats who run IRS and GAO do not want Republicans to audit IRS. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Young people are skeptical of the American Dream. What are your demographics? Because of my bad demographics, if I was young today, I would be skeptical of the American dream. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of America. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat employers always pay their Democrat employees more than they pay their Republican employees. Sooner, later, if not always, my Democrat superiors in the federal government paid my Democrat coworkers more than they paid me notwithstanding their having less work experience than they had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How successful have the schools near you been making their students anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In the Age of Trump, National Politics Dominate Republican Primaries. What offices are on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates for those offices? What do you know about them? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. More recently, my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024 and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Trump Puts ‘Anti-American Radicals’ on Notice. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. – Dave Diersen
http;//www.gopillinois.com
— Did you read Money Magazine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_(financial_website) )? If you read its February 1978 4-page article on me  ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ), you would have concluded that the magazine did not pick me for the article to give me financial advice, but a) to foist negative government employee stereotypes on me, b) to paint me as being grossly overpaid, and c) to get IRS to disallow my education deductions. The article caused me many big problems, not the least of which was IRS’s disallowing my education deductions. Ever since the article was published, my critics/opponents have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years. I had been promoted in 1972, 1973, and 1974. In today’s dollars, my salary was $108,978/year. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I was taking graduate accounting courses at DePaul. I owned a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building. I rented out a town home in University Park since 1976 that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I bought new in 1971. My daily driver was a 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

AMERICAN THINKER
— Marxist hate derangement on the ropes?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/06/marxist_hate_derangement_on_the_ropes.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Supreme Court to consider challenge from GOP Illinois rep questioning mail-in ballot counting law.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/02/supreme-court-to-consider-challenge-from-gop-illinois-rep-questioning-mail-in-ballot-counting-law-1548043/

BLAZE
— Trump keeps endorsing the establishment he vowed to fight.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trump-keeps-endorsing-the-establishment-he-vowed-to-fight

BREITBART
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/02/trump-era-target-majorly-tones-down-childrens-pride-month-apparel/amp/

COLLEGE FIX
— Illinois soon could be next state to mandate abortions on campus.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/illinois-soon-could-be-next-state-to-mandate-abortions-on-campus/

DAILY CALLER
— Illinois Dems Lay Budget Woes At Trump’s Feet After Taxing Their Citizens Into Ground.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/02/illinois-democrats-blame-trump-budget-woes-pritzker/
— Previously-Woke Companies Retreat From Pride Month During Trump 2.0
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/02/companies-back-down-pride-month-messaging/

DAILY WIRE
— Weeks Before Illegal Alien Terror Attack, Colorado Dems Passed Law Shielding Illegals From ICE. The law prevents data sharing with immigration authorities and dedicates the money taken from violators to fund deportation defense.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/weeks-before-illegal-alien-terror-attack-colorado-dems-passed-law-shielding-illegals-from-ice

FEDERALIST
— Trump Isn’t Destroying Harvard. Harvard Has Destroyed Itself.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/02/trump-isnt-destroying-harvard-harvard-has-destroyed-itself/
— Boulder Attack Shows Why Trump Is Right To Revoke Visas For Anti-American Views.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/02/boulder-attack-shows-why-trump-is-right-to-revoke-visas-for-anti-american-views/
— If Only SCOTUS Cared About Protecting Americans’ Rights As Much As They Do Illegal Aliens.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/03/if-only-scotus-cared-about-protecting-americans-rights-as-much-as-they-do-illegal-aliens/

MRC TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/oh-no-cbs-fears-trans-foreigners-wont-travel-us-pride-month-over-safety

NEWS BUSTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsbusters.org/node/289260/print

NEWSMAX
— Education Dept Nixes Pride Month for ‘Title IX Month’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/department-of-education-title-ix-month-linda-mcmahon/2025/06/02/id/1213330/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/suicide-hotline-lgbtq/2025/06/02/id/1213337/

TOWNHALL
— Trump Puts ‘Anti-American Radicals’ on Notice. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/06/02/trump-blasts-boulder-killer-and-wokeness-that-enabled-him-n2658026

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— PBS grooms children with Pride post
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5329282-republicans-pbs-pride-post-grooming/

CBS NEWS & AOL
— Democrat and RINO leaders continue to use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colleges-less-diversity-admissions-post-affirmative-action/
https://www.aol.com/news/first-college-class-affirmative-action-174200515.html

CNN
— Supreme Court agrees to hear absentee ballot appeal from Illinois congressman Bost
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/02/politics/mike-bost-supreme-court-absentee-ballot
— Young people are skeptical of the American Dream. What are your demographics? Because of my bad demographics, if I was young today, I would be skeptical of the American dream. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of America.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/politics/age-divide-cnn-poll-republicans-democrats

YAHOO
— Vance accuses universities of racial bias against whites and Asians.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jd-vance-accuses-universities-racial-141710699.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— In the Age of Trump, National Politics Dominate Republican Primaries. What offices are on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates for those offices? What do you know about them?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/nyregion/new-jersey-governor-republican-primary.html
— Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to Illinois Mail-In Ballot Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/politics/supreme-court-mail-ballots.html
— A Fiery Brief Fueled by Conservatives Helped Put Trump’s Tariffs in Peril. A coalition including leading figures on the right said the president’s program did violence to the Constitution. One judge cited it eight times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/trump-tariffs-court-brief.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Tulsa to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly replace American students with students from foreign countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/opinion/international-students-harvard-trump.html
— A 1,400-County Crisis for Democrats
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/podcasts/the-daily/trump-election-democrats-republicans.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Supreme Court will consider reviving Republican challenge to Illinois law on mail ballots.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/02/supreme-court-trump-mail-ballots/f2de2aac-3fc6-11f0-b78e-5ddff7eb1e49_story.html
— Red states tell colleges: Race and gender classes are out, civics in. Lawmakers in Utah, Ohio and Florida have mandated classes on civics and Western civilization and cut classes on race and gender from graduation requirements. How successful have the colleges near you been making their students anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/06/02/republican-state-laws-university-college-classes/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-06-02/tariffs-trade-war-donald-trump-international-trace-court-federalist-society-leonard-leo

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/01/stonewall-trump-trans-lgbtq-monument/82636933007/

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeseq/2025/06/02/affirmative-action-was-just-the-start-now-racial-progress-is-reversing/

BLOOMBERG GOVERNMENT
— Democrat leaders promote Black female Democrat candidates for U.S. Senate in Illinois.
https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/democrats-of-color-vie-in-milestone-race-in-lincolns-home-state

MOTLEY FOOL
— Race, Ethnicity, and Personal Finance in America. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, those who are the following have more money than those who are not the following because they discriminate against those who are not the following: conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, that is, because the aforesaid discriminate against those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.fool.com/money/research/study-race-personal-finance-america/

GOVERNING
— New Illinois Budget Increases Taxes by $1 Billion. The largest increases are on taxes of tobacco, vaping and sports betting, but there are also various changes to corporate rates and collections.
https://www.governing.com/finance/new-illinois-budget-increases-taxes-by-1-billion

STATISTA
— Educational attainment distribution in the United States from 1960 to 2022. I earned a bachelor’s degree (management) in 1970 when only 10.7% of Americans had a bachelor’s degree.  I earned my first master’s degree (business) in 1976, my second (accounting) in 1980, and my third (finance) in 1997. I earned my first professional certification (accounting) in 1979, my second (internal auditing) in 1981, my third (fraud examination) in 1990, my fourth (government financial management) in 1994, my fifth (financial services auditing) in 1996, and my sixth (forensic accounting) in 1997. I earned a professional license (CPA) in 1981. My critic/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed the aforesaid. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attainment-in-the-us/

DAILY BEAST
— According to Trump’s critics/opponents, Trump is motivated by revenge. GAO audits IRS. According to my critics/opponents, revenge motivated me to  transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and to ask to be assigned to audits of IRS. They stressed the adverse actions that IRS had taken against me including disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowing my education expenses in 1978, and never promoting me beyond GS-12. In my defense, I stressed that the many codes of conduct that I was under prohibited that. I became a CPA in 1979, Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, licensed CPA in 1981, and a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. Their revenge argument was a pretext. The real reason was that the Democrats who run IRS and GAO do not want Republicans to audit IRS.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-rages-at-author-michael-wolff-over-harvard-claim/

HR BREW
— Democrat employers always pay their Democrat employees more than they pay their Republican employees. Sooner, later, if not always, my Democrat superiors in the federal government paid my Democrat coworkers more than they paid me notwithstanding their having less work experience than they had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025/06/02/trump-anti-dei-priorities-equal-pay

June 2, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pride-month-begins-june-1-celebrations-world-heres-what-expect-history-lgbtq-marches-events/16624427/
— Illinois lawmakers pass $55.2B budget with new taxes, immigrant health cuts, no transit funding. Senate approves taxes on sports bets, nicotine; no funding for Chicago Bears to build new stadium.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-senate-passes-state-55b-budget-new-taxes-sports-bets-nicotine-products-income-sales-not-affected/16619774/

NBC5
— Musk says he doesn’t ‘want to take responsibility for everything the administration’s doing’
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/elon-musk-responsibility-trump-administration/3757902/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-2025-pride-fest-parade/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm6P-zWZmqA

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Chicago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blIClZQxkpo

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Buffalo Grove.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/hundreds-celebrate-joy-love-togetherness-buffalo-grove-pride-parade
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/carol-hui-mayorga-kennett-missouri-deportation

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— List of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ removed from US government website following criticism.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/sanctuary-jurisdictions-removed-government-website/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: After lawmakers pass budget with cuts and tax hikes, Gov. JB Pritzker blames state’s fiscal challenges on Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/after-lawmakers-pass-budget-with-cuts-and-tax-hikes-gov-jb-pritzker-blames-states-fiscal-challenges-on-trump/
— Outrage over President Donald Trump’s electric vehicle policies is misplaced
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/02/opinion-electric-vehicles-donald-trump-jobs/
— When school boards ride in limousines and students lack the basics
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-school-boards-ride-limousines-100000506.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Hyde Park.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/06/01/hyde-park-art-center-pride-month-lgbtq-artists
— Fake IDs now as good as the real thing — and essential to Chicago’s college social scene. What percent of pot is bought with fake IDs?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025/06/02/chicago-fake-id-college-underage-social-drinking

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Buffalo Grove.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250601/news/buffalo-grove-embraces-its-diversity-with-seventh-annual-pride-parade/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: New taxes on sports bets, nicotine products as Democrats pass $55.2B budget.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250601/illinois-state-politics/new-taxes-on-sports-bets-nicotine-products-as-democrats-pass-55-2b-budget/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— At least 50 Illinois villages, towns, cities and counties to see increases in local taxes
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/06/02/several-illinois-counties-will-soon-see-increases-in-local-sales-taxes/83927679007/

SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/06/02/we-see-you-in-trump-era-washington-world-pride-2025-organizers-aim-to-bring-hope-to-lgbtq-community/

JOURNAL TOPICS
— Young Republicans Host County Chairman, Former Governor Candidate June 3.
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/young-republicans-host-county-chairman-former-governor-candidate-june-3/

NORTHERN STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Dekalb.
https://northernstar.info/126064/opinion/the-importance-of-pride-month/

INDY 100
— Pope Leo to hold mass in Chicago – and people think it’s some ‘top tier’ Trump trolling
https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/pope-leo-xiv-chicago-mass-trump-trolling-2672244594

WGLT
— Central Illinois lawmakers stick to party lines on state budget.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-06-01/central-illinois-lawmakers-stick-to-party-lines-on-state-budget

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pritzker’s budget blame game: Trump
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/06/02/pritzkers-budget-blame-game-trump-00379965

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-525/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrats run the federal government. Federal employees are their patronage army. They hired me in 1980, 1971, and 1966 because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They wasted my career and got rid of me because I refused to become a Democrat. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you deduct education expenses? My IRS employee manual strongly encouraged me to take graduate business, accounting, and law courses. But IRS provided no reimbursement for tuition or books. Nevertheless, a) I started taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972 and earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and b) I started taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul in 1976 and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I deducted the tuition and books. In 1978, to get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my deductions. I should write about that. They outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically argued a) that the courses did not relate to my job duties, b) that the courses did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) that I took the courses to get a job in the private sector, and d) that I took the courses to qualify myself for a new trade or business. They ignored the content of my applications, course descriptions, and position descriptions. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What motivated you to overcome workplace obstacles and keep on working? The importance of the Post Office’s mission (delivering mail), IRS’s mission (funding the federal government), and GAO’s mission (fighting government fraud, waste, and abuse) helped me overcome workplace obstacles and to keep on working. While I was a S.S. Kresge employee 1964-1966, it was my wanting money to buy a new car (1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint) to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and classes at UIC. While I was a postal employee 1966-1969, it was my need for money to pay for my UIC and NIU expenses and to buy new cars (1968 Oldsmobile 442 and 1969 Dodge Charger SE) to get to/from classes and work. While I was a Firestone Store employee 1970-1972, it included my need for money to help support my mother and brother. While I was an IRS employee 1971-1980, it included my wanting money to pay for my Loyola and DePaul education expenses, to buy new cars (1972 Corvette, 1974 Dodge Dart, 1978 Chevy Chevette, and 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale), and to buy a new town home in 1972, a studio condo in 1974, a one bedroom condo in 1976, and a home in Wheaton in 1978. While I was a GAO employee 1980-1997 it included my wanting money to pay for my DePaul education expenses in 1980 and my IIT education expenses 1992-1997, to have a home built in Wheaton in 1984, to buy new cars in 1989, 1993, 1995, and 1996, to buy collector cars (1962 Chevrolet Impala SS in 1989 and 1968 Charger R/T in 1994), etc. The importance of the Post Office’s mission (delivering mail), IRS’s mission (funding the federal government), and GAO’s mission (fighting government fraud, waste, and abuse) helped me overcome workplace obstacles and to keep on working. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Democrats Raise Legislative Salaries to $98,304
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/democrats-raise-salaries-to-98304/
— Marty McLaughlin Comments on “Another Year, Another Near Record-Breaking Democrat Budget”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/marty-mclaughlin-comments-on-another-year-another-near-record-breaking-democrat-budget/
— Joe Sosnowski Reacts to Budget: “Tax, Spend, Tax, Spend, Repeat”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/joe-sosnowski-reacts-to-budget-tax-spend-tax-spend-repeat/
— Jeff Keicher Comments on Record Budget, Cites $1 Billion in Tax Hikes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/jeff-keicher-comments-on-record-budget-cites-1-billion-in-tax-hikes/
— Southern Illinois State Rep. IDs Waste in Dems $55 Billion Spending
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/state-rep-ids-waste-in-dems-55-billion-spending/
— Tax Alert from Southern Illinois Republican State Senator Terri Bryant
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/tax-alert-from-southern-illinois-republican-state-senator-terri-bryant/
— Former State Rep. Allen Skillicorn Arrested for Hit and Run in Arizona
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/31/8107/
— The Leftward Bias of Colleges and Universities
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/31/the-leftward-bias-of-colleges-and-universities/
— Illinois Ranks 48th in New Tax Population & Study
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/31/illinois-ranks-48th-in-new-tax-population-study/
— A Splendid Analysis of the Refusal of Democrats to Allow Illinois Legislators Sufficient Time to Consider Budget Bills
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/31/a-splendid-analysis-of-the-refusal-of-democrats-to-allow-illinois-legislators-sufficient-time-to-consider-budget-bills/
— McHenry County One of Six Not Among Those Listed by Homeland Security as Defying Federal Immigration Law
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/mchenry-county-one-of-six-not-among-those-listed-by-homeland-security-as-defying-federal-immigration-law/
— Ness Plans Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/ness-plans-fundraiser/
— Don DeWitte on Democrats’ Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/don-dewitte-on-democrats-budget/
— UPDATE: McHenry County One of Six Not Among Those Listed by Homeland Security as Defying Federal Immigration Law, FEDS REMOVE LIST
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/01/mchenry-county-one-of-six-not-among-those-listed-by-homeland-security-as-defying-federal-immigration-law/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Much of wokeness fueled by the sexual revolution. The left celebrates and protects all the wrong things.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/1/much-wokeness-fueled-sexual-revolution/
— Musk’s historic role showed that even a chainsaw can’t cut federal bloat.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/1/elon-musks-historic-role-showed-even-chainsaw-cant-cut-federal-bloat/
— Left’s ranks are filled with angry, bitter women who have been seduced by lies. Feminism: Marxism’s most grotesque mutation.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/1/lefts-ranks-filled-angry-bitter-women-seduced-lies/
— The ‘gospel of pride’ Is not the Gospel of Christ. Jesus did address sexual morality.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/1/gospel-pride-gospel-christ/

NEW YORK POST
— Democrats made themselves toxic — now they’re addicted to their own poison.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/01/opinion/toxic-democrats-are-addicted-to-their-own-dei-poison/
— DOGE started the war on waste —now it’s up to Congress to keep it going. GAO is supposed to fight government waste. But instead, the Democrats who run GAO wasted me.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/31/opinion/doge-started-war-on-waste-its-up-to-congress-to-finish-it/
— Colorado firebomb terror attack suspect was in the US illegally after overstaying his visa, previously applied for asylum
https://nypost.com/2025/06/02/us-news/colorado-terror-attack-suspect-was-in-the-united-states-illegally-after-overstaying-his-visa-previously-applied-for-asylum/
— Is America’s Jewish leadership failing American Jews?
https://nypost.com/2025/06/01/us-news/is-americas-jewish-leadership-failed-american-jews/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Thank you, President Trump, for Confronting South Africa’s Black Supremacy. In post-apartheid South Africa, hopes for equality have decayed into racial vengeance, as black supremacists target white farmers amid silence from global elites.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/02/thank-you-president-trump-for-confronting-south-africas-black-supremacy/

DAILY SIGNAL
— The Lasting Damage of the George Floyd Riots.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/30/the-stain-of-george-floyd-riots-on-america-5-years-later/
— Harvard, You’re Entitled to Nothing.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/29/harvard-youre-entitled-to-nothing/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Harvard has “been a pox on our educational system at least since the 1920s.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/harvard-has-been-a-pox-on-our-educational-system-at-least-since-the-1920s/amp/

NEWSMAX
— All Immigration Law Violators Should Be Arrested.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/michael-cutler-ice-tom-homan/2025/06/01/id/1213145/
— Noem Defends DHS List Targeting Sanctuary Cities.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/kristi-noem-dhs-sanctuary-cities/2025/06/01/id/1213172/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Citizenship and That Pesky Constitution
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/06/02/citizenship_and_that_pesky_constitution_152863.html
— Democrats Do Stand For Things, Like “Illegal Aliens and Boys In Girls’ Sports”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/06/01/scott_jennings_democrats_do_stand_for_things_illegal_aliens_and_boys_in_girls_sports.html

TOWNHALL
— Mass Deportations Will Improve The Lives Of Every American.
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2025/06/02/mass-deportations-will-improve-the-lives-of-every-american-n2657968
— Democrat leaders push free health care for illegals because that encourages illegal immigration.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/06/01/democrat-pushes-free-health-care-for-illegal-aliens-denies-it-encourages-border-surge-despite-evidence-n2657950

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSN
— Democrats run the federal government. Federal employees are their patronage army. They hired me in 1980, 1971, and 1966 because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They wasted my career and got rid of me because I refused to become a Democrat.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/the-trump-administration-will-now-favour-patriotic-americans-for-jobs/ar-AA1FQ9Ve
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/loyalty-test-for-federal-jobs-trump-demands-patriotic-americans-in-sweeping-hiring-shake-up/ar-AA1FPH8X
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/if-trump-says-jump-gop-lawmakers-find-the-party-fully-on-bended-knee/ar-AA1ueJq5

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Is Said to Have Known About NASA Nominee’s Democrat Donations Before Picking Him
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/politics/trump-musk-isaacman-nasa.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Patel remakes the FBI. I should write about how Gingrich and Bowsher remade GAO. Under Gingrich and Bowsher, the agency dumped half its employees. Overwhelming, those dumped employees were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.  If Gingrich and Bowsher had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/politics/fbi-patel.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Walz.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/politics/tim-walz-democrats-2024.html
— How ICE Is Seeking to Ramp Up Deportations Through Courthouse Arrests
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/ice-courthouse-arrests.html
— Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly make Republicans pay more reparations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/business/china-student-visas-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Blacks to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion/black-history-trump.html?searchResultPosition=1

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump rides to the rescue of Chicago’s flailing mayor. The Justice Department might have just saved Chicago’s Brandon Johnson.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/02/trump-justice-department-chicago-mayor-johnson/
— List of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ removed from US government website following criticism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/01/immigration-sanctuary-jurisdictions-list/18760c42-3f33-11f0-b78e-5ddff7eb1e49_story.html

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2025/05/23/what-do-pride-flag-colors-mean/83820854007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Sanctuary List Disappears From Homeland Security Website. Some local officials said the list contained mistakes.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/sanctuary-list-disappears-from-homeland-security-website-a2da427d
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-hits-back-against-trump-claims-that-it-broke-trade-truce-as-tensions-simmer-1eeb59aa
— Springsteen vs. Trump. ‘The Boss’ and the president play to the same frustrated working-class crowd.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-vs-bruce-springsteen-music-politics-6685d3cf

BLOOMBERG
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly drive the stock market down to punish Trump and to punish the 77 million who voted for him.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-01/us-futures-slip-on-trump-tariffs-crude-surges-markets-wrap

BUSINESS WIRE
— Education Programs Key to Retaining and Attracting Talent for Companies. My IRS employee manual strongly encouraged me to take graduate business, accounting, and law courses. But IRS provided no reimbursement for tuition or books. Nevertheless, a) I started taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972 and earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and b) I started taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul in 1976 and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I deducted the tuition and books. In 1978, to get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my deductions. I should write about that. They outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically argued a) that the courses did not relate to my job duties, b) that the courses did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) that I took the courses to get a job in the private sector, and d) that I took the courses to qualify myself for a new trade or business. They ignored the content of my applications, course descriptions, and position descriptions.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250519254532/en/Education-Programs-Key-to-Retaining-and-Attracting-Talent-for-Companies

MANAGEMENT ISSUES
— What really matters to employees? What motivated you to overcome workplace obstacles and keep on working? The importance of the Post Office’s mission (delivering mail), IRS’s mission (funding the federal government), and GAO’s mission (fighting government fraud, waste, and abuse) helped me overcome workplace obstacles and to keep on working. While I was a S.S. Kresge employee 1964-1966, it was my wanting money to buy a new car (1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint) to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and classes at UIC. While I was a postal employee 1966-1969, it was my need for money to pay for my UIC and NIU expenses and to buy new cars (1968 Oldsmobile 442 and 1969 Dodge Charger SE) to get to/from classes and work. While I was a Firestone Store employee 1970-1972, it included my need for money to help support my mother and brother. While I was an IRS employee 1971-1980, it included my wanting money to pay for my Loyola and DePaul education expenses, to buy new cars (1972 Corvette, 1974 Dodge Dart, 1978 Chevy Chevette, and 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale), and to buy a new town home in 1972, a studio condo in 1974, a one bedroom condo in 1976, and a home in Wheaton in 1978. While I was a GAO employee 1980-1997 it included my wanting money to pay for my DePaul education expenses in 1980 and my IIT education expenses 1992-1997, to have a home built in Wheaton in 1984, to buy new cars in 1989, 1993, 1995, and 1996, to buy collector cars (1962 Chevrolet Impala SS in 1989 and 1968 Charger R/T in 1994), etc.  The importance of the Post Office’s mission (delivering mail), IRS’s mission (funding the federal government), and GAO’s mission (fighting government fraud, waste, and abuse) helped me overcome workplace obstacles and to keep on working.
https://management-issues.com/opinion/7703/pay-vs-benefits-what-really-matters-to-employees/

POLITICO
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/30/trump-administration-patriotic-americans-federal-workforce-00376752

FINANCIAL TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.ft.com/content/443db2f7-edc8-4274-b7d6-e4df40ff145c

June 1, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. The Republican Party platform promotes prosperity and safety.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/studies-show-strong-links-between-poverty-violence-chicago/16610703/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/support-same-sex-marriage-gallup

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Huntley ‘Trump Truth’ store hosts dueling rallies as owner vows to stay open
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/31/huntley-trump-truth-store-hosts-dueling-rallies-as-owner-vows-to-stay-open/
— To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn men.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/men-voters-trump-democrats/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Who owns most of the farmland in Illinois? Not farmers.  My great great grandfathers a) homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township and b) sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/illinois-farming-ownership-climate-change/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters side with Harvard against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/editorial-harvard-university-trump-attacks-graduation/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/chicago-history-june-1/
— Illinois lawmakers pass budget with tax hikes on tobacco, gambling — but adjourn without transit, Bears stadium
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/democrats-propose-tax-hikes-on-cigarettes-vaping-and-gambling-to-balance-55b-budget/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Sizzling hot campaign season forecast for Chicago and Illinois. What offices are on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates for those offices? What do you know about them? How strongly are the leaders of the following recruiting candidates: Illinois Republican Party (IRP), your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township party organization? The leaders of the IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have never recruited me to run for anything. Why is that? I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/30/brandon-johnson-dick-durbin-giannoulias-mendoza-krishnamoorthi-stratton-chicago-illinois-rich-miller
— Illinois legislators unveil $55.2 billion spending plan that cuts immigrant health care program.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2025/05/30/illinois-budget-bill-hbia
— 23 students at Whitney Young Magnet High School get perfect ACT scores. My critics/opponents have always stressed that my ACT score was only 24. In my defense, my score would have been higher if I had not spent so many hours washing dishes instead of studying during my junior and senior years.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/30/whitney-young-magnet-high-school-perfect-act-scores
— Is Chicago’s interim U.S. attorney here to stay? The U.S. Attorney in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/05/30/andrew-boutros-interim-us-attorney-chicago-judges-role-pam-bondi

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/big-10-being-black-in-america-5-years-later/article_dfa73136-5167-4984-8ed9-7829b12d8d41.html

STATELINE
— Illinois Democrat leaders one step closer to legalizing medically-assisted suicide
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-one-step-closer-to-legalizing-medically-assisted-suicide/

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/black-lives-matter-solidarity-rally-takes-over-the-streets-of-springfield/video_f982a8a6-d344-55df-b10e-d40652a0ea6a.html
— Illinois House, Senate Democrats send $55.2 billion budget to Pritzker
https://www.wandtv.com/news/illinois-house-senate-democrats-send-55-2-billion-budget-to-pritzker/article_9525cf0d-5345-499a-870c-ad2e0d0841b1.html

ILLINOIS TIMES
— State officials eye Chicago mayor’s race
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/state-officials-eye-chicago-mayors-race-20240906

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. How many limousine liberal Democrats and RINOs live in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How strongly do they want to protect the value of their homes and their personal safety? Can the conservative Republicans who live there count on them to stop the worst Democrat and RINO policies that promote poverty and crime there? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What offices are on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates for those offices? What do you know about them? How strongly are the leaders of the following recruiting candidates: Illinois Republican Party (IRP), your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township party organization? The leaders of the IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have never recruited me to run for anything. Why is that? I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I have always opposed the promotion of LGBTQ. If Democrat and RINO leaders had promoted LGBTQ back then like they do now, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me, b) if the Post Office had hired me, it would have forced me to resign sooner than it did, c) if IRS had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) if GAO had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1986 and would have forced me to resign in 1993 instead of 1997, d) the RINOs who have run the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) since 1999 would not have appointed me as a precinct committeeman in 1999 and they would have defeated me when I ran for precinct committeeman in 2000. If they had failed to defeat me, they never would have made me MTRO webmaster in 2000 and 2008. When I ran for MTRO Treasurer in 2004, I would have gotten zero votes instead of just 13. Topinka dominated the IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How has Gingrich impacted you? I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. What if Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it? GAO would have offered me a promotion instead of a pay cut to transfer from IRS in 1980. GAO would have immediately and always assigned me to audits of IRS. GAO would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service, currently $153,151/year, before I was 40 in 1988. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. 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 and became a licensed CPA in 1981. All my GAO coworkers who my Democrat GAO superiors 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 were minority, female, and/or younger than me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Those who are liberal or moderate use DEI to get rid of conservatives. Those who are anti-older people use DEI to get rid of older people. Those who are anti-Protestant use DEI to get rid of Protestants. Those who are anti-German American use DEI to get rid of German Americans. Those who are anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time use DEI to get rid of those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Republicans see Darin LaHood as ‘best chance’ for Senate flip in blue Illinois. I hope that he walks in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade. I spoke with his father just before he walked in the parade 20 years ago.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3427031/darin-lahood-republicans-illinois-senate-race/

NEW YORK POST
— Gov. Tim Walz calls on Democrats to be ‘fierce’ and ‘bully the s–t’ out of President Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/05/31/us-news/gov-tim-walz-calls-on-democrats-to-be-meaner-and-bully-the-s-t-out-of-wannabe-dictator-president-trump/

BREITBART
— Giving Illegals Free Health Care Is a Magnet for Illegal Immigration
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/05/31/maher-california-giving-illegals-free-health-care-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigration/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Hopes To Bring ‘Thousands’ Of Refugees From South Africa By Late Summer
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/31/trump-admin-thousands-afrikaner-refugees-south-africa-late-summer/

FOX BUSINESS
— Price of eggs have dropped 61% since Trump took office
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/price-eggs-have-dropped-61-since-trump-took-office

FOX NEWS
— Who is Julius Malema, the South African politician behind ‘kill the farmer’ chant? Critics say politician’s luxurious lifestyle clashes with his calls to protect the country’s poor.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-julius-malema-south-african-politician-behind-kill-farmer-chant
— Trump warns Rand Paul he’s playing into ‘hands of the Democrats’ with ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ opposition. The Kentucky senator said he would support the bill’s ‘wimpy and anemic’ tax and spending cuts if the bill wasn’t going to ‘explode the debt.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-warns-rand-paul-playing-hands-democrats-big-beautiful-bill-opposition

NEW AMERICAN
— Blagojevich: Democrats Are “Monumental” “Hypocrites” and “Liars”
https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/democratic-former-gov-blagojevich-democrats-are-monumental-hypocrites-and-liars/

PJ MEDIA
— Trump Shakes Up ICE Leadership Looking to Speed Deportations
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/05/31/faster-please-trump-shakes-up-ice-leadership-looking-to-speed-deportations-n4940319

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrat and RINO leaders discriminate against those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/31/lgbtq_organizations_seeing_substantial_cuts_in_funding_as_corporations_move_away_from_dei_advocacy.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly dive the stock market down to punish Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/economy/tariffs-apple-401k-savings

ASSOCITED PRESS
— Democrat and RINO sellers raise their prices and blame it on Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/steel-aluminum-tariffs-trump-groceries-0f8bd5f3cd9b8a2860d60125b9e8f2b2

REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump budget cuts for everything that is bad.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-cuts-threaten-safety-training-workers-americas-most-dangerous-jobs-2025-05-31/

MSN
— Pope Leo to hold mass in Chicago – and people think it’s some ‘top tier’ Trump trolling
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-leo-to-hold-mass-in-chicago-and-people-think-it-s-some-top-tier-trump-trolling/ar-AA1FMj1W
— Democrat leaders give minorities preference. Trump gives them prosperity.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-study-reveals-why-trump-is-so-popular-among-minority-voters/ar-AA1FJavr
— Trump administration halts use of race, gender data in federal hiring. 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, veteran, or younger person who would take the job.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-halts-use-of-race-gender-data-in-federal-hiring/ar-AA1FJW4C
— ‘America is back’: US military thriving under Trump administration with a surge of new recruits
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/america-is-back-us-military-thriving-under-trump-administration-with-a-surge-of-new-recruits/ar-AA1FR6sQ
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Those who are liberal or moderate use DEI to get rid of conservatives. Those who are anti-older people use DEI to get rid of older people. Those who are anti-Protestant use DEI to get rid of Protestants. Those who are anti-German American use DEI to get rid of German Americans. Those who are anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time use DEI to get rid of those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/here-s-what-the-data-says-about-who-actually-benefits-from-dei/ar-AA1FQFAK
— My critics/opponents a) attribute all their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute all my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trumps-new-wildly-unhinged-assault-is-exposing-magas-deeper-scam-analysis/ar-AA1FDwe4

CNBC
— Democrat and RINO sellers raise their prices and blame it on Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/trump-tariffs-here-are-the-retailers-raising-prices.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama. As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO sellers raise their prices and blame it on Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/doge-cuts-elon-musk-trump.html
— The U.S.-Canada Border Runs Through This Library. That’s Now a Problem. A wealthy widow built a library and opera house on the border between Quebec and Vermont, a symbol of binational friendship. Now U.S. officials are restricting access to Canadians.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/world/canada/haskell-free-library-opera-house-quebec-vermont-border.html

WASHINGTON POST
— White House budget office rebukes GAO over ‘invasive’ probes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/30/white-house-gao-spending-battle/
— Illegals criminally charged after failing to register with U.S. government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/31/trump-immigrants-registry-doj-justice/
— It’s called the Library of Congress. But Trump claims it’s his.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/31/library-of-congress-trump-executive-branch/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Earlier this month, DOGE — the Elon Musk-run cost-cutting effort, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency — sought to “assign a team” to the Government Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog agency, which rejected the request, according to the GAO. . .GAO spokesperson Sarah Kaczmarek said in a statement that the agency had told DOGE that GAO is a legislative branch agency, not subject to executive orders and “has therefore declined any requests to have a DOGE team assigned to GAO. DOGE acknowledged receipt of our letter. GAO considers the matter closed [and] we are focused on our mission of supporting Congress.”)
— The Democrat Party ever-increasingly moves further to the left.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/31/tim-walz-democrats-2028/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I have always opposed the promotion of LGBTQ. If Democrat and RINO leaders had promoted LGBTQ back then like they do now, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me, b) if the Post Office had hired me, it would have forced me to resign sooner than it did, c) if IRS had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) if GAO had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1986 and would have forced me to resign in 1993 instead of 1997, d) the RINOs who have run the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) since 1999 would not have appointed me as a precinct committeeman in 1999 and they would have defeated me when I ran for precinct committeeman in 2000. If they had failed to defeat me, they never would have made me MTRO webmaster in 2000 and 2008. When I ran for MTRO Treasurer in 2004, I would have gotten zero votes instead of just 13. Topinka dominated the IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/06/01/when-pride-month-2025-lgbtq-june-nyc/53a4612e-3e9d-11f0-912d-d5f4792db3e4_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/05/30/world-pride-dc-trump-capital-pride/
— To argue disparate impact is to argue that if you are minority and/or female and have problems, those problems are never your fault, but they are always the fault of those who are White and/or male.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/01/trump-disparate-impact-discrimination-cases-civil-rights/

USA TODAY
— Trump abandons his most impressive presidential legacy: conservative judges. I should write about the judges and justices in the lawsuits that I have filed. I would focus on those who promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, who promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/01/trump-federalist-society-supreme-court-judges/83947867007/
— Musk, the Trump campaign and ketamine: What to know about the powerful drug.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/05/30/elon-musk-ketamine-trump-campaign/83942817007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— America’s enemies want America to be ever-increasingly dependent on foreign countries. Ever-increasingly, what Americans buy is made in foreign countries.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/us-economy-trump-tariffs-forecast-27f5f6a0

BOOMBERG
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly side with Putin against Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-31/trump-s-appetite-for-punishing-putin-is-about-to-get-a-key-test

FORBES
— Homan blasts sanctuary jurisdictions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOg6X9lW1Q

FAST COMPANY
— My critics/opponents a) attribute all their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute all my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91342985/dei-economy-costs-benefits-evidence-research

STATISTA
— A Third of Americans Worry About Manipulated News. The mainstream news media a) promotes the Democrat Party platform and b) demonizes, denigrates, and condemns the Republican Party platform.
https://www.statista.com/chart/34390/survey-news-attitutes-gci/

BROADBAND BREAKFAST
— Republicans Claim Google ‘Throttles’ Conservative Speech in FTC Filing. Scott and Hudson claim Google routes GOP emails to users’ spam. The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://broadbandbreakfast.com/republicans-claim-google-throttles-conservative-speech-in-ftc-filing/

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— White House says it will cooperate with GAO only when it does not ‘unduly burden’ Trump’s agenda
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2025/05/white-house-says-it-will-cooperate-top-watchdog-only-when-it-does-not-unduly-burden-trumps-agenda/405713/

TIME
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. How many limousine liberal Democrats and RINOs live in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How strongly do they want to protect the value of their homes and their personal safety? Can the conservative Republicans who live there count on them to stop the worst Democrat and RINO policies that promote poverty and crime there?
https://time.com/4322883/limousine-liberal-history-excerpt/

GOOD MEN PROJECT
— Land Reparations Are Possible − and Over 225 Us Communities Are Already Working to Make Amends for Slavery and Colonization. If I sought a political or government office, my critics/opponents would stress that my great great grandfathers a) homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township and b) sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/land-reparations-are-possible-%E2%88%92-and-over-225-us-communities-are-already-working-to-make-amends-for-slavery-and-colonization/

POLITICO
— Inside the split between MAGA and the Federalist Society. Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society used to advise Trump on judges. Now the president and his most loyal allies are going after them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/30/trump-federalist-society-leonard-leo-maga-00378303

NEW YORKER
— According to Democrat leaders only, White Republicans are racists.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/trump-makes-americas-refugee-program-a-tool-of-white-racial-grievance

GUARDIAN
— Trump’s pardoning of Black celebrities is a cynical ploy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/31/trump-pardon-nba-youngboy-larry-hoover

FINANCIAL TIMES
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.ft.com/content/53db0578-9beb-4369-9d79-b6287f8d031f

May 31, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/2025/05/30/the-racial-reckoning-five-years-later-a-few-wins-and-one-major-loss

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250530/news/neighbors-oppose-marijuana-dispensary-proposed-near-bartlett-day-care-center/
— Soon, under Pritzker, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250530/submitted-content/donations-needed-for-west-suburban-community-pantrys-summer-meals-program-as-family-visits-rise-20/

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wandtv.com/medication-abortion-to-be-added-on-college-campuses-passes-il-senate/video_4fdf96bf-468f-5aa2-8d3e-e816b6bcc56f.html

WIFR
— Illinois program tries to rid people of medical debt, but for many help comes too late. Medical debt has become a key obstacle to upward economic mobility, with many failing to receive debt relief. What did you do to avoid medical debt? I always assured that I had health insurance.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/30/illinois-program-tries-rid-people-medical-debt-many-help-comes-too-late/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s downsizing of GAO to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-appeals-court-keeps-block-on-trump-administrations-downsizing-of-the-federal-workforce/

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote child care subsidies. My father earned enough money during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s that my mother could stay home and raise me and my brother. But he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly in 1969 wane he was 47 and I was 21. Consequently, I had to work my way through college.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/we-are-at-the-mercy-of-child-care/

SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— Soon, under Pritzker, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/gov-pritzker-visits-springfield-food-pantry-amid-proposed-unprecedented-federal-snap-cuts/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS CENTER SQUARE
— IL Democrats propose $55B budget with $7K legislator pay hike, tax increase
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e68b4087-b4f8-4563-ba13-4d42031d0f8e.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Lawmakers considering adding more than $64.5 billion in pension costs in final hours of budget negotiations
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/lawmakers-considering-adding-more-than-64-5-billion-in-pension-costs-in-final-hours-of-budget-negotiations/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— A recently retired SEC attorney demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump. SEE: https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-doge-sec-retirement-27ea213a    When GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, SEC would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited SEC and other federal financial industry regulators for the previous 8 years at the GS-13 Step 4-10 Levels, currently $129,588-$153,151/year. I had just earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT. For that matter, IRS would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,675/year. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112.280/year. I became a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor in 1981, and Public Accountant in 1979. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980 and in business in 1976. – Dave Diersen

www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Harvard rejected Trump. Did you apply to Ivy League universities? I did not. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my 1997 IIT degree, my 1980 DePaul degree, my 1976 Loyola degree, and my 1970 NIU degree are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. They stress that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump has a grudge against Harvard because it rejected him and/or his son. Since I was 19 years old in 1968, my Democrat superiors in the federal government have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have a grudge against federal agencies because they took adverse actions against me. To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.  In my defense, the codes of ethics that I have been under since 1979 prohibit me from holding grudges. I became a CPA in 1979 and a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— USDA still discriminating against white farmers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3426279/usda-still-discriminating-against-white-farmers-watchdog-says/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump’s Tariffs Deliver Record $23 Billion Revenue in May. May 22 was the largest day for tariff revenue collections.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/trumps-tariffs-deliver-record-23-billion-revenue-in-may-5865544

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Harvard faces growing calls to tap into its endowment in Trump fight. It won’t be easy. What losses of income have you suffered? In today’s dollars, a) I have suffered a $86,371/year loss of income since 1997, that is $1.85 million, b) my GAO salary was $153,151/year in 1997 and my Civil Service Retirement System pension is only $66,780/year or 56% less, and c) my IRS salary in 1972 was $68,315/year. Further, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors forced me to suffer a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5326114-harvard-endowment-trump-funding-fight-mcmahon/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s downsizing of GAO to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-firings-doge-lawsuit-4d2d9be4dcefa1c76876fb9b1860c3c7

CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/world/international-students-visas-us-trump-intl
— Trump’s mass firings at several agencies will remain on hold, appeals court rules. If Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts had been stopped, I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I would still be GAO employee.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/politics/appeals-court-decline-trump-request-resume-mass-firings
— Trump called it a disaster. Biden blocked it. Now Trump is traveling to Pittsburgh to celebrate Japan’s takeover of US Steel
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/trump-us-steel-nippon-deal

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbbsXZqA7Ew
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsFjNVD_WKw

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH GRAPHIC: The Democrats’ problems run deep, nearly everywhere. This is where voters shifted toward President Trump in each of the last three elections. I should write about the ever-increasing Democrat invasion of DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct since 1978. Because of that, ever-increasingly, leaders of the DuPage County Republican Central Committee and the Milton Township Republican Organization have moved to the left, that is, they have a) dumped more and more and more planks in the Republican Party platform and b) dumped more and more and more Republican Precinct Committeemen like me who support those planks.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-politics-democrats.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/aclu-trump-venezuelan-immigrants-alien-enemies-act.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to Chinese students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/trump-china-student-visas-crackdown-risks.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/asia/us-science-cuts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/china-international-students-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/health/trump-hiv-cuts.html
— The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/google-search-antitrust-chrome.html
— For Federal Workers, Musk’s Chain Saw Still Reverberates. For me, Gingrich’s chain saw still reverberates. My Democrat GAO superiors used his budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/federal-workers-musk-doge.html
— Complaints Languished as Johnson’s Delays Hobbled House Watchdog. The speaker waited more than four months to constitute the Office of Congressional Conduct, preventing it from investigating lawmakers. He has yet to name enough members to allow it to operate at full strength.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/johnson-office-of-congressional-conduct.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s visa clampdown plunges 275,000 Chinese students into uncertainty. Chinese students make up nearly a quarter of all international students in the United States. Here’s who they are and what they’re studying. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to Chinese students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/29/chinese-students-data-visa/
— Trump orders could end Chinese drone sales in the U.S. In WWIII, which countries will side with China against America?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/30/trump-executive-orders-china-drones/
— Trump and Musk try to smooth over a threatened rift. Trump and Musk hold an Oval Office news conference as the billionaire officially steps away from his government role.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/30/trump-musk-try-smooth-over-threatened-rift/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly anti-American military.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/05/29/trump-military-parade-washington-dc-compare-countries/83740378007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk, that is, against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/29/elon-musk-tesla-doge-beautiful-bill-leaving-trump/83907213007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/30/trump-judge-blocks-tariffs-agenda/83926026007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— It’s High Times for State-Subsidized Pot Businesses. Marijuana-use disorder is soaring among the very populations advocates of legalization aim to help.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/its-high-times-for-state-subsidized-pot-businesses-marijuana-use-disorder-3f6aaa15?mod=opinion_lead_pos6

FORBES
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Musk abuses drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81dSmnEARBE

BARRON’S
— A recently retired SEC attorney demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump. When GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, SEC would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited SEC and other federal financial industry regulators for the previous 8 years at the GS-13 Step 4-10 Levels, currently $129,588-$153,151/year. I had just earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT. For that matter, IRS would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,675/year. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112.280/year. I became a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor in 1981, and Public Accountant in 1979. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980 and in business in 1976.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-doge-sec-retirement-27ea213a

BUSINESS INSIDER
–Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more government fraud, waste, and abuse. Their wasting my federal career is just one small example.
https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-cuts-elon-musk-deparature-next-phase-2025-5

ACCOUNTING TODAY
— DEI enters stealth mode; building the business case for DEI in accounting firms. The accounting profession would not have written me off as being too old if I had been a minority or a female. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/dei-goes-into-stealth-mode
https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/building-the-business-case-for-dei-in-accounting-firms

CPA JOURNAL
— Why Are Students Not Choosing Accounting? I should have majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU in 1969 and 1970. I erroneously did not because I was not strong in math and I thought that because of that, I could not pass the CPA examination. But I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. But by then, because I was not a minority or female, the accounting profession wrote me off as being too old.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/03/18/why-the-150-hour-rule-is-not-the-only-major-problem-2/

FED SMITH
— From DEI to Meritocracy: The Federal Government’s Shift in Hiring Practices. 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, of veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/30/from-dei-to-meritocracy-the-federal-governments-shift-in-hiring-practices/

ECONOMIC TIMES & NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
— Did Harvard reject Donald Trump? Biographer claims it’s at the heart of the feud. Did you apply to Ivy League universities? I did not. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my 1997 IIT degree, my 1980 DePaul degree, my 1976 Loyola degree, and my 1970 NIU degree are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. They stress that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/did-harvard-reject-donald-trump-biographer-claims-its-at-the-heart-of-the-feud/articleshow/121530865.cms
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2025/May/31/biographer-says-trumps-harvard-grudge-might-just-be-a-case-of-bruised-ego-and-its-not-his-son-who-got-rejected

INDIA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/harvard-president-alan-garber-jab-donald-trump-speech-2025-batch-standing-ovation-2733586-2025-05-31

NDTV WORLD
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump has a grudge against Harvard because it rejected him and/or his son. Since I was 19 years old in 1968, my Democrat superiors in the federal government have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have a grudge against federal agencies because they took adverse actions against me. To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.  In my defense, the codes of ethics that I have been under since 1979 prohibit me from holding grudges. I became a CPA in 1979 and a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trumps-biographer-michael-wolff-on-why-us-president-has-a-grudge-against-harvard-barron-trump-8551375

May 30, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court for now
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-tariffs-reinstated-by-appeals-court-for-now/3756338/

FOX32
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1649490

WGN9
— Cannabis is bad for your heart
https://wgntv.com/news/trending/smoke-it-or-eat-it-cannabis-is-bad-for-your-heart-new-research-shows/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders promote assisted suicide
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/29/illinois-bill-would-allow-terminally-ill-adults-end-their-lives-medical-assistance

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,’ Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder as lawyers praise Trump choice.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/larry-hoover-trump-fbi-boss/
— Democrat leaders use Chinese students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/chinese-students-visa/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racist.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/30/traffic-stops-black-drivers-illinois-public-universities-campus-police-departments

DAILY HERALD
— ‘Huge opportunity’ or ‘stealing’ from suburbs? Senate debates funding plan to save transit
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250529/transportation/huge-opportunity-or-stealing-from-the-suburbs-senate-debates-funding-plan-to-save-transit/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/trump-move-chinese-visas-could-impact-chicago-universities

STATELINE
— Gun owners in Illinois face $10K fine if weapon is stolen and used in a crime. Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/gun-owners-in-illinois-face-10k-fine-if-weapon-is-stolen-and-used-in-a-crime/

DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/29/proposed-edible-tasting-room-for-dekalb-dispensary-gets-early-support/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-30/federal-workers-keep-americas-farms-healthy-what-now-under-trump

HOMEWOOD/FLOSSMOOR PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBT in Homewood/Flossmoor
https://patch.com/illinois/homewood-flossmoor/homewood-flossmoor-pride-fest-set-celebrate-diversity-inclusion

IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Chinese students over American students.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/uncertain-future-for-chinese-students-cause-concern-at-uiuc/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-523/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-315/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— The pension sweetener bill is yet another reminder that lawmakers don’t care about ordinary Illinoisans. Because State of Illinois employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Democrats politicians defend and promote them.  Because federal employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Republican politicians demonize, denigrate, and condemn them.
https://wirepoints.org/the-pension-sweetener-bill-is-yet-another-reminder-that-lawmakers-dont-care-about-ordinary-illinoisans-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
—  The sanctuary counties in Illinois that Trump just put on notice include DuPage County ( https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759 ). Is your county on the list? The following Illinois counties are on the list: Adams, Alexander; Bond, Boone, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cook, Crawford, Cumberland, DeKalb, Dewitt, Douglas, DuPage, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Franklin, Fulton, Gallatin, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jackson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lawrence, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Massac, McDonough, McLean, Mercer, Menard, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Perry, Piatt, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richland, Rock Island, Saint Clair, Saline, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Stephenson, Tazewell, Union, Vermilion, Wabash, Warren, Washington, Wayne, White, Whiteside County, Will, Williamson, Winnebago, and Woodford. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on Civil Service protections? Trump wants to cut them. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly stress that Trump is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, and for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Constructively, if not literally, Democrat and RINO leaders rank those who are under them. The more of the following that you are, the more points that they give you: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The more of the following that you do, the more points that they give you: glorify and praise them, pander to them, serve as one of their operatives or dupes, cover up their wrongdoing, and/or give them money. Of course, Democrat and RINO leaders give me no points. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Uber/Lyft and Real Estate Transfer Taxes Proposed to Bail Out CTA
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/uber-lyft-and-real-estate-transfer-taxes-proposed-to-bail-out-cta/
— Sosnowski Introduces Bill to Allow Switch of Casino Sites
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/sosnowski-introduces-bill/
— Four-Year Community College Degree Legislation Still Alive, But Severely Limited
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/four-year-community-college-degree-legislation-still-alive-but-severely-limited/
— Dems Advance Gun Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dems-advance-gun-bill/
— DeWitte Notes Dems’ Revision of Shift from RTA to NITA (Northern Illinois Transit Authority) Takes Power from Suburbs
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dewitte-notes-dems-revision-of-shift-from-rta-to-nita-northern-illinois-transit-authority-takes-power-from-suburbs/
— McLaughlin Bill for Privately-Financed Statue of Pope Leo IV on Capitol Grounds Stuck in Committee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/mclaughlin-bill-for-privately-financed-statue-of-pope-leo-iv-on-capitol-grounds-stuck-in-committee/
— Ness Goes after Trump
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ness-goes-after-trump/
— Senate Republicans on Electric Rates
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/senate-republicans-on-electric-rates/
— Ugasta’s Views on Democrats’ Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ugastas-views-on-democrats-budget/
— Johnsburg’s Kirk Donald Running for Re-Election as Vice Chairman of the McHenry County Republican Party
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/johnsburgs-kirk-donald-running-for-re-election-as-vice-chairman-of-the-mchenry-county-republican-party/
— Cook County Homeowners Beginning to Feel the Pain the Rest of Have All Along & How State Law Gives Cook County Homeowners Tax Breaks Not Seen in the Other 101 Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/cook-county-homeowners-beginning-to-feel-the-pain-the-rest-of-have-all-along-how-cook-county-homeowners-get-tax-breaks-not-seen-in-the-other-101-counties/
— For Those Interested in a Deep Dive into What DODE Did…
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/for-those-interested-in-a-deep-dive-into-what-dode-did/
— Casten Endorses Biss for Algonquin Township Congressman
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/casten-endorse-biss-for-algonquin-township-congressman/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Assisted Suicide Passes House, Moves to Senate
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/assisted-suicide-passes-house-moves-to-senate/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DHS releases name-and-shame sanctuary list with more than 600 states, cities, counties. DuPage County is in the list.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/29/dhs-releases-name-shame-sanctuary-list-600-states-cities-counties/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago’s government-by-racism is failing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3424244/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-race-comments/
— Trump administration orders ICE to more than triple number of daily arrests
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3425621/trump-ice-triple-arrests/

NEW YORK POST
— ICE shakes up agency with ‘leadership realignment’ in push for a ‘minimum’ of 3,000 migrant arrests per day
https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/us-news/ice-shakes-up-leadership-amid-push-for-3000-migrant-arrests-per-day/

AFPI
— Massive Scale of Chinese Illegal Immigration Threatens National Security
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/massive-scale-of-chinese-illegal-immigration-threatens-national-security

CENTER SQUARE
— ICE calling law enforcement in all counties to help with deportation efforts
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_efdabd74-5fba-4c22-a3ec-1f8fef4ef79d.html

COLLEGE FIX
— K-12 schools spent $19 million in federal tax dollars on ‘restorative justice,’ ‘equitable grading.’ What depressed your GPA? For me, it was my spending far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/k-12-schools-spent-19-million-in-federal-tax-dollars-on-restorative-justice-equitable-grading/

DAILY CALLER
— Washington’s Spending Party Continues As Elon Musk Bids Farewell To Swamp
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/washingtons-spending-party-elon-musk-bids-farewell-swamp/
— FBI Tells Employees No ‘Pride’ Activities On Company Time. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ever-increasingly required their employees to attend more DEI training and events. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Democrat Black subordinate who ran the office’s Black events.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/fbi-employees-no-pride-activites-company-time-june/

EPOCH TIMES
— State Department Says It Will Expand Scrutiny of All Chinese Visa Holders in US. The department has already paused new student visa interviews worldwide and is preparing to revoke visas for Chinese nationals currently in the United States.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/state-department-says-it-will-expand-scrutiny-of-all-chinese-visa-holders-in-us-5865198

FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor calls DOGE ‘an act of war,’ compares second Trump term to Third Reich. ‘You have a president that is cutting off medicine and food [and] working to erase culture,’ Brandon Johnson claimed
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-mayor-calls-doge-an-act-war-compares-second-trump-term-third-reich

NEWSMAX
— Harvard’s Standards Have Dropped. To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly dropped their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-harvard-dei/2025/05/29/id/1212899/

PJ MEDIA
— The Education Department and the Demise of Our Schooling
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/29/the-education-dept-intellectual-silliness-and-the-demise-of-our-schooling-n4940257

TOWNHALL
— Chaos Erupts Outside Immigration Court As Protesters Clash With Police
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/29/police-arrest-dozens-protesting-outside-immigration-court-in-manhattan-n2657815
— Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2025/05/30/democrats-and-their-dei-albatrosses-n2657857

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Karl Rove: Trump tariffs could cost GOP their majorities
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5325112-karl-rove-trump-tariffs-could-cost-gop-their-majorities/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-university-slave-photos-d9c01b7926bba2a686ff325617e93ce9

REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/universities-seek-lure-us-bound-students-amid-trump-crackdown-2025-05-30/

NEWSWEEK
— The Sanctuary Cities, Counties and States the Trump Admin Just Put on Notice. DuPage County is on the list.
https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759
— Levi’s ever-increasingly promotes more DEI and LGBTQ.
https://www.newsweek.com/levis-pride-collection-dei-programs-2078557

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/29/us/harvard-trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/chinese-students-rattled-by-trump-plan-to-aggressively-revoke-visas.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/trump-china-visas-tariffs.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/29/chinese-students-data-visa/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/29/harvard-international-students-hearing/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct. I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School district 200, and my precinct. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/05/29/pew-lgbtq-poll-transgender-acceptance-trump/6498f882-3c95-11f0-912d-d5f4792db3e4_story.html

USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and stress that he is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, and for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/28/trump-due-process-deportations/83824951007/
— Trump lashes out at judges on tariffs, blames Federalist Society for bad legal advice
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/29/donald-trump-federalist-society-judges-tariffs-attacks/83933632007/

TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Florida Attracts Wave Of Newcomers As California, New York, & Illinois See Resident Exodus. Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct.
https://www.tampafp.com/florida-attracts-wave-of-newcomers-as-california-new-york-illinois-see-resident-exodus/

FORBES
— If Trump’s Tariffs Raise Prices Or Are Perceived To, GOP Will Be Hurt In Midterms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdn-0d7mI-w

PBS
— Trump administration pressures ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ by publishing list of places ‘deliberately obstructing’ immigration enforcement
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-pressures-sanctuary-jurisdictions-by-publishing-list-of-places-deliberately-obstructing-immigration-enforcement

FED SMITH
— Important Changes to Proposed Benefits Cuts in House-Passed Spending Bill. Trump wants to cut Civil Service protections. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/28/important-changes-to-proposed-benefits-cuts-in-house-passed-spending-bill/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Election for At-Will Employment  The provision for new hires to elect at-will employment remains in the legislation as well. Newly hired federal employees could opt to become at-will employees in exchange for a lower contribution rate to FERS (the standard 4.4%). This would be an irrevocable decision per the language of the legislation as currently written. However, if employees were to choose to keep their Civil Service protections, they would pay an additional 5% contribution rate to FERS (9.4% total for most federal employees). Federal employees who opt to become at-will employees could face adverse actions, including removal, without notice or the right to appeal the action. Per the language of the bill as currently written, they “may be subject to an adverse action up to and including removal, without notice or right to appeal, by the head of the agency at which the individual is employed for good cause, bad cause, or no cause at all.”)

INSIDE HIGHTER ED
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/05/30/trump-targets-chinese-students-harsh-blow-higher

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/black-and-empowered/202505/finding-compassion-in-the-darkness-of-racism-and-discrimination

AMAZON
— Proud to be Woke. My critics/opponents act like they are proud to be woke. That is, they discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.amazon.com/Politically-Well-Informed-Socialist-Proud/dp/B0BY2LFD7S

TIMES OF INDIA
— IIT has the highest percentage of international students. IIT admitted me in 1992. But it would have admitted an international student instead of me if it could have.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/which-us-university-has-the-highest-percentage-of-international-students-well-its-not-harvard/articleshow/121513373.cms

May 29, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Musk announces departure from Trump administration as 130-day role ends.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/elon-musk-is-leaving-trump-administration-criticizing-presidents-big-beautiful-bill/16580917/
— Chinese students anxious and angry after Rubio vows to revoke visas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chinese-students-call-measure-exclusion-act-rubio-vows-revoke-visas/16585161/

NBC5
— Musk says he’s leaving the Trump administration. Musk announced his decision one day after CBS released part of an interview in which he criticized the centerpiece of Trump’s legislative agenda.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/elon-musk-leaves-trump-administration/3755771/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that Republicans cause everyone’s problems.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-budget-battle-medicaid-cuts-05282025/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Kinzinger.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/kinzinger-talks-trump-and-his-own-future-in-chicago-speech/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZlq2NbAVbU

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Musk is leaving the Trump administration after criticizing president’s ‘big beautiful bill’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/elon-musk-leaving-trump-administration/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: CTA paid some employees to stay home and to not work. Constructively, since 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.85 million in today’s dollars to force me stay home and to not work.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/cta-paid-some-employees-to-stay-home-not-work-watchdog-says/
— Illinois lawmakers ban police from ticketing and fining students for minor infractions in school.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/illinois-school-police-bill/
— Rubio says the U.S. will begin revoking the visas of Chinese students
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/us-visa-interviews-foreign-students/?preview_id=22441198
— Paul Vallas: The real reason Chicago high schoolers are missing so much school — and what to do about it
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/opinion-chicago-high-school-students-absences/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that Republicans cause everyone’s problems.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/27/budget-reconciliation-bill-scapegoating-immigrants-jobs-working-class-america-trump-ben-jealous
— Workers bristle at Trump-backed Nippon-U.S. Steel deal — ‘It’s a bad move’  President Trump approved the Japanese company’s nearly $15 billion bid for the American steelmaker last week. I worked for Firestone 1970-1972. The Japanese company Bridgestone bought Firestone in 1988.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/work/2025/05/28/us-steel-nippon-deal-trump-workers-union
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote hatred against Musk.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/28/elon-musk-desantis-trump-doge-maga-wisconsin-supreme-court-political-kryptonite-x-s-e-cupp
— CTA has paid some workers not to work since the pandemic, costing taxpayers more than $1 million. Constructively, since 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.85 million in today’s dollars to force me stay home and to not work.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/28/cta-state-inspector-general-audit-workers-paid-not-to-work-covid-pandemic

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago taxpayers are footing the bill for legal patronage
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chicagos-legal-outsourcing-costs-taxpayers-millions-op-ed

RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion and LGBTQ.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-urges-american-medical-association-to-ensure-abortion-and-genderaffirming-care-providers-can-get-board-certified-without-risk-82879.cfm?

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-judge-rules-that-trump-administration-wrongly-ended-humanitarian-parole-for-hundreds-of-thousands/

WHEATON PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/kick-out-clowns-rally-protest-trump-warrenville

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Anti-Semitism in Chicago Is Part of a Broader Assault by the Left That Threatens Our Way of Life
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/anti-semitism-in-chicago-is-part-of-a-broader-assault-by-the-left-that-threatens-our-way-of-life

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-522/
— Afternoon briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-314/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois lawmakers want to kick taxpayers in the teeth with expensive pension sweetener bill
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-lawmakers-want-to-kick-taxpayers-in-the-teeth-with-expensive-pension-sweetener-bill-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What if Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI had never existed?  My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA, DEI, and up-or-out to waste my career and to get rid of me. If they had not had those tools, I would have made Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year, before I was 40 in 1988 notwithstanding a) my being a Republican, b) my not earning an MBA until I was 27, c) my not passing the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30, d) my not earning a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, e) my not passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32, and f) my not becoming a licensed CPA until I was 32. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like I had and/or b) were minority, female, and/or younger than me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly lower standards to hire Democrats and RINOs. That has ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my four job-related college degrees, b) my six job-related professional certifications, and c) my job-related professional license.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/no-degree-no-problem-chicago-expanding-access-to-work/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans’ ‘big beautiful bill’ would cement Trump’s executive orders in federal law.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/28/republicans-big-beautiful-bill-would-cement-trumps-executive-orders/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— PBS prefers Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans, 4-to-1
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3423671/pbs-prefers-democrats-anti-trump-republicans-media-bias/
— GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ to cut illegal immigrants off financially
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3422891/republican-big-beautiful-bill-multi-pronged-crack-down-immigration/
— The age of Chinese Communist Party collaborators is here
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3423318/cpac-budapest-hungary-china-age-of-chinese-communist-party-collaborators-here/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump aide Stephen Miller pushes ICE to ramp up immigration arrests to 3,000 per day
https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/trump-aid-stephen-miller-pushes-ice-to-arrest-3000-per-day-report/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses. Democrats are trapped by the toxic DEI ideology they created—too afraid to reform, too broken to survive without it. When will the following dump DEI: a) Illinois Republican Party (IRP), b) your Republican county party organization. and c) your Republican township party organization? RINO IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders have always used DEI to get rid of conservatives, that is, to get rid of Republicans. I should write about that.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/29/democrats-and-their-dei-albatrosses/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Lefty elites hate you, too
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/lefty_elites_hate_you_too.html

BREITBART
— ICE Agents Arrest 40 Illegal Aliens on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket — Including Gang Member, Sex Offender
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/28/ice-agents-arrest-40-illegals-on-marthas-vineyard-nantucket/
— Rosie O’Donnell Says Millions Will Starve, Die If Republicans Pass the Big Beautiful Bill
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/05/28/watch-rosie-odonnell-says-millions-will-starve-die-if-republicans-pass-the-big-beautiful-bill/

DAILY CALLER
— DC Airport Celebrates Pride Month Amid Series Of Plane Mishaps
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/28/pride-month-reagan-national-airport-planes-collisions-mishaps/
— The Alien Enemies Act Is Compassionate … But To American Citizens, Not Illegals
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/28/invoking-alien-enemies-act-compassion-american-citizens-deportation/

EPOCH TIMES
— US to Start Revoking Visas of Chinese Students. The visa revocations will include students with connections to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in critical fields, Rubio said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/us-will-start-revoking-visas-of-chinese-students-rubio-5864719

MRC TV
— Border Apprehensions Plummet 93% as Trump’s Hispanic Approval Jumps to 60%
https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/border-apprehensions-plummet-93-trumps-hispanic-approval-jumps-60

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Trump-Vance ticket is distancing the party from a core constituency — and no one seems to mind.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/07/so-long-social-conservatives/

NEWS BUSTERS
— Borderline Certifiable: NY Times Whines ‘Citizens May Feel’ Trump Cuts to Illegal Alien Aid. How dependent on illegals are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2025/05/28/borderline-certifiable-ny-times-whines-citizens-may-feel

NEWSMAX
— Stephen Miller, Noem Press ICE to Arrest 3K Per Day
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-illegals-arrests/2025/05/28/id/1212631/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— Trump administration has ramped up deportations but is still far below pace it wants. ICE deported more than 17,200 people last month, according to data obtained by NBC News, up more than 50% from February.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-ramped-deportations-still-far-wants-rcna209262

CNN
— Trump administration orders some US companies to halt sales to China
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/economy/trump-us-companies-china
— US court blocks Trump from imposing the bulk of his tariffs
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/business/us-court-blocks-trumps-tariffs

MSNBC
— As Musk exits with a whimper, Trump makes mockery of fighting government waste. GAO is supposed to fight government waste, but the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted me and my career big time. GAO audits IRS. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They also wasted what I had learned a) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance and b) passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn46Kl3-_sg

REUTERS
— US to end use of race, gender in highway, transit contracts
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-agrees-end-use-race-gender-highway-transit-contracts-2025-05-28/

NEW YORK TIMES
— A Disillusioned Musk, Distanced From Trump, Says He’s Exiting Washington. The billionaire has made clear he is frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the federal bureaucracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html
— U.S. Will ‘Aggressively’ Revoke Visas of Many Chinese Students. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the students who will have their visas canceled include people with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in “critical fields.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/china-student-visas-revoke.html
— Trump Administration Tells State Regulators It Won’t Back Some Discrimination Claims. The EEOC said it would stop paying state and local civil rights agencies for claims from transgender employees or those based on “disparate impact.” How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, to settle an EEOC complaint, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted. Because I had accepted that offer, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. I had to have a job.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/eeoc-funding-states.html
— Cuomo Proposes $20 Minimum Wage for New York City. When I started earning $19.37/hour in today’s dollars when I was 18 years old in 1966 working part-time for the Park Forest Post Office, my critics/opponents were furious. In my defense, I had passed the postal employment test, I had earned a high school diploma, I had passed a physical exam, I had passed a background investigation, I had passed a truck driving test, and I had a car that I could use to deliver mail from.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/nyregion/cuomo-minimum-wage-20-dollar.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration moves to upend $37B affirmative action program. The Transportation Department initiative, which serves an estimated 49,000 contractors, was a key lifeline for many minority and women owned businesses. To get more votes from minorities and women, Democrat leaders use government to give more preference to minorities and women.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/28/affirmative-action-dei-trump-contracting/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/28/davicito-song-ice-detained/

USA TODAY
— Should you tell your employer you’re looking for a new job? My Firestone Store boss would never have hired me when I was 21 years old in 1970. I was hired by Firestone’s district office and assigned to his store. He owned the building in Chicago Heights that the store was in. He forced me to pass a 2-week probationary period in the Firestone Store in Gary, Indiana. He disapproved of my being a draft avoider, Republican, college graduate, part-time MBA student at UIC, Protestant, German American, my ancestors having been in America since 1844, and I had been a Crete resident since 1948. He was a veteran and he blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. My on-the-job training included lots of pumping gasoline, mounting and balancing tires, changing oil and filters, changing batteries, and delivering major appliances. I made the best of it, but I did accept a job offer from Oldsmobile in early 1971. He immediately rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted that offer after he had directed me while the store was open to use a ladder, bucket, water, and SOS pads to clean the whitewalls on moldy tires that had been hanging on store’s showroom walls for many years.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/05/20/looking-for-new-job-telling-boss-tips/83677102007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: North Korea Infiltrates U.S. Remote Jobs—With the Help of Everyday Americans
https://www.wsj.com/business/north-korea-remote-jobs-e4daa727
— General Motors CEO Defends Trump Auto Tariffs. Mary Barra says tariffs can help even the playing field with foreign competitors.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/general-motors-ceo-defends-trump-auto-tariffs-d6f15ab9
— Democrat and RINO leaders want America to be more and more and more dependent on foreign countries for everything.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tariffs-may-cost-the-gop-in-2026-messaging-costs-reciprocity-72ca450c
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/mary-barra-gm-donald-trump-tariffs-automakers-ee644493
— Whistleblowers Can Stop Illegal DEI. The Justice Department expands its effort against discrimination by invoking the False Claims Act. As 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, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whistleblowers-can-stop-illegal-dei-justice-department-effort-against-discrimination-expansion-cb83c927
— Harvard Revokes Tenure of Star Professor Accused of Research Misconduct. Francesca Gino, a business professor whose research focused on why people lie and cheat, co-authored papers that included manipulated data. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the real reason why my critics/opponents have taken so many big adverse actions against me was a) that I am extremely bad person, b) that my judgment is extremely bad, c) that my motives are extremely bad, and d) that I am really a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-tenure-revoked-francesca-gino-research-misconduct-2c17e3c7

BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/education-department-targets-pregnant-lgbtq-staff-protections

INC.
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/lgbtq-employees-feel-less-comfortable-in-the-workplace-according-to-a-survey/91194893

POST AND COURIER
— Trump and GOP leave conservatives stranded in wilderness. My Democrat critics/opponents demonize, denigrate, and condemn me as being a conservative. My RINO critics/opponents demonize, denigrate, and condemn me as being too conservative.
https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/commentary/trump-big-beautiful-spending-bill-conservatives/article_ab50c5f0-ab19-40ea-8fa3-9bbb166d20e0.html

NEWS ONE
— Multiple Colleges Cancel Affinity Graduations Amid Trump’s DEI Crackdown. As I graduated from NIU in 1970, Loyola in 1976, DePaul in 1980, and IIT in 1997, fewer and fewer and fewer of those who graduated with me were White males.
https://newsone.com/6189358/affinity-graduations-canceled-amid-trump-dei-crackdown/

POLITICO
— Research shows the massive hole Democrats are in. Voters see the party as being overly focused on diversity. Ever-increasingly, Democrats tell those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/22/democrats-2024-election-problem-focus-group-00195806

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/black-psychology-matters/202505/remembering-george-floyd-as-a-symbol-of-racial-injustice

YAHOO
— I should write about the bad press that car writers have given my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus. They write like they were given draft articles by the car’s direct competitors. I also own a 2013 Charger R/T Max. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T 1994-2005 and a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971.
https://autos.yahoo.com/supercars-burned-bright-fizzled-fast-130010976.html

May 27, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— FBI reopens investigations into cocaine at White House, leaked Dobbs opinion.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/fbi-reopens-investigation-cocaine-white-house-leaked-dobbs-opinion/16555524/

NBC5
— Cuban exiles were shielded from deportation. Now Trump is cracking down.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/cuban-exiles-were-shielded-from-deportation-now-trump-is-cracking-down/3754038/
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS10122HIBg

WTTW
— Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Senior Leadership Team Nearly 50% Black, More Than Half Female.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/27/mayor-brandon-johnson-s-senior-leadership-team-nearly-50-black-more-half-female-analysis
— Can Chicago-Born Pope Leo Remain a U.S. Citizen Now That He’s a Foreign Head of State?
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/25/can-chicago-born-pope-leo-remain-us-citizen-now-he-s-foreign-head-state

WGN RADIO
— Chicago’s own Gary Sinise: Serving military families of the fallen, first responders, veterans, and The Memorial Day concert.
https://wgnradio.com/dave-plier/chicagos-own-gary-sinise-serving-military-families-of-the-fallen-first-responders-veterans-and-the-memorial-day-concert/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— With the Chinese outpacing our tech advances, has our ‘Sputnik moment’ come and gone?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/opinion-us-china-students-education-sputnik/
— Illinois Teacher of the Year from Indian Prairie District 204 has hosted dozens of discussions across the state on belonging. Sadly, if not tragically, the more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the less that you feel like you belong in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. Far too many leaders of the aforesaid organizations reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform. I support all the planks.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/illinois-teacher-of-the-year-from-indian-prairie-district-204-has-hosted-dozens-of-discussions-across-the-state-on-belonging/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/24/what-trumps-cuts-to-medicaid-will-mean-for-nursing-homes-long-term-care-facilities-in-illinois
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/25/northwestern-uic-medical-researchers-diabetes-hiv-trump-funding-budget-cuts

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250526/news/cuts-to-school-mental-health-grants-could-trickle-down-to-local-districts/

WIFR
— Major General John Borling: A Memorial Day Tribute “We Are Americans.” In 2004, Borling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Borling ) was a candidate in the Republican Primary for the United States Senate.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/26/memorial-day-tribute-we-are-americans/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Homeless vets in LA hope that Trump order will create housing for them.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-26/homeless-vets-in-la-hope-that-trump-order-will-create-housing-for-them

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote mote illegal immigration.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-bill-could-allow-immigrants-to-become-driving-instructors/article_0fbe828b-ff74-4e28-9660-d922ed7fffcd.html

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-05-26/where-the-racial-justice-movement-stands-5-years-after-george-floyds-murder

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/26/chicagoans-mark-5-years-since-george-floyds-murder-with-protest-the-work-here-is-far-from-done/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-520/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— What’s behind Chicago’s welcome, but belated, drop in crime
https://wirepoints.org/whats-behind-chicagos-welcome-but-belated-drop-in-crime-wirepoints/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Oberweis’ New Owners Expanding in Congressional District in Which Jim Oberweis Is Running for Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/oberweis-new-owners-expanding-in-congressional-district-in-which-jim-oberweis-is-running-for-congress/
— Tribune Reporter Misinformed about Motive for Consolidating RTA Governing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/tribune-reporter-misinformed-about-motive-for-consolidating-rta-governing/
— Too Cold for the Beach?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/too-cold-for-the-beach/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Legislative Update for the Last Week of May 2025
https://illinoisfamily.org/politics/legislative-update-for-the-last-week-of-may-2025/
— Assisted Suicide Bill Pops Up In Last Week of Session
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/shell-games-with-assisted-suicide-bill/

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Pritzker Calls for “Summer of Love” 2.0?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/pritzker-calls-for-summer-of-love-2-0/
— Illinois School District Defies Title IX… Again
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/illinois-school-district-defies-title-ix-again/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s Department of Education right to combat racial discrimination. Ending DEI policies a legal imperative.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/trumps-department-education-right-combat-racial-discrimination/
— Justice Department says it’s ‘absurd’ and ‘wrong’ to suggest U.S. marshals won’t protect judges.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/justice-department-says-absurd-wrong-suggest-us-marshals-wont-protect/
— Charlie Kirk dismisses SPLC as ‘laughingstock’ for listing Turning Point on ‘hate map.’ My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that  Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were hate groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/charlie-kirk-dismisses-splc-laughingstock-listing-turning-point-hate/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump can’t be bought
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3421969/trump-cant-be-bought-big-tech-finding-out-hard-way/

NEW YORK POST
— US military’s greatest challenge is here at home: How to solve the recruitment crisis.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/opinion/the-us-militarys-biggest-challenge-is-right-here-at-home/
— Pentagon’s new anti-woke ad: ‘No more gender confusion’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/us-news/pentagon-rolls-out-epic-new-ad-touting-end-of-wokeness-under-trump-hegseth-no-more-gender-confusion/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hjyt9QRA20
— ‘Forest Gump’ star Gary Sinise open to Hollywood comeback under ‘right circumstances’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/entertainment/gary-sinise-open-to-hollywood-comeback-under-right-circumstances/

DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Education Secretary Pushed Men Into Women’s Sports.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/26/bidens-education-secretary-who-pushed-men-into-womens-sports-announces-new-gig/
— Trump Announces What He Might Do With $3 Billion He Threatens To Take Away ‘From A Very Antisemitic’ Harvard.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/26/trump-announces-3-billion-threatens-antisemitic-harvard-dei-trade-school/

FOX NEWS
— Trump fires off Memorial Day message targeting ‘SCUM’ who sought to ‘DESTROY’ the US. The president asserts the nation ‘WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN!’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-fires-off-memorial-day-message-targeting-scum-who-sought-destroy-us

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Federal workers grapple with canceled health insurance, bungled benefits after Trump’s layoff chaos
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/politics/federal-workers-benefits-health-insurance

CBS NEWS
— Trump says he’s considering rerouting $3 billion in Harvard grants to U.S. trade schools. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my job-related degrees from NIU (1970), Loyola (1976), DePaul (1980), and IIT (1997) are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government who treated not only my degrees as being worthless, but also my job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997) and my professional license (1981). I would focus on my critics/opponents who have degrees from Ivy League universities.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-harvard-trade-schools-3-billion-grant-money/
— At DNC, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth calls Trump “draft-dodging coward.”  I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. The blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/at-dnc-sen-tammy-duckworth-uses-her-personal-history-to-call-out-donald-trump/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Electric Vehicles Died a Century Ago. Could That Happen Again? Republicans do not target EVs. Republicans target incentives for EVs. I am a Republican. I just bought a EV. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/business/electric-vehicles-history.html
— Republicans do not target EVs. Republicans target incentives for EVs. I am a Republican. I just bought a EV. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/electric-vehicles-house-tax-bill.html
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html
— As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests. The president and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/republican-crackdown-on-aid-to-immigrants-would-hit-us-citizens.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/05/26/hes-throwing-global-pride-trumps-backyard-whos-with-him/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will forever get votes from those who are the following by using government to give them more preference: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger people, LGBTQers, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, those who lack education and/or job skills, those who have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/democrats-language-elite-politically-correct/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/veterans-affairs-cuts-morale-layoffs/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/senate-reconciliation-big-bill/

USA TODAY
— Work till you drop? Here’s why America’s average retirement age keeps rising.  If you are a wage earner in America like I was 1964-1997, and if you are Republican, White, male, or non-veteran, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and that your job will be given to one of your younger coworkers or subordinates who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/22/retirement-age-rising-social-security-medicare/83767525007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing people born in America with people born in foreign countries. Democrat leaders want that because people born in foreign countries vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want that because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.wsj.com/business/california-population-growth-immigration-h-1b-visa-4b526478
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make America more dependent on foreign countries. Most, if virtually all foreign countries despise/hate America.
https://www.wsj.com/business/buy-made-in-america-challenges-e53efd43
— The New Retirement Age in Denmark Is 70. The Danes set an example for timorous American politicians who refuse to reform unaffordable entitlements. If you are a wage earner in America like I was 1964-1997, and if you are Republican, White, male, or non-veteran, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and that your job will be given to one of your younger coworkers or subordinates who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-new-retirement-age-in-denmark-is-70-574b5259

BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/trump-s-research-funding-cuts-create-job-drought-for-scientists

FAST COMPANY
— GM wants to be all-electric by 2035. Why did it lobby to kill California’s EV rule?  GM celebrated the Senate’s vote to block California’s EV mandate—which was also supposed to go fully into effect by 2035.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91339643/gm-wants-to-be-all-electric-by-2035-why-did-it-lobby-to-kill-californias-ev-rule

NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5398042/trump-cuts-could-harm-after-school-programs
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/1253189688/what-trumps-cuts-to-intelligence-could-mean-for-national-security

POLITICO
— GOP declares war on GAO. Republicans are undermining the Government Accountability Office, the century-old agency that roots out waste, fraud and abuse. Who do you know who works for GAO or has worked for GAO? I worked for the Democrats who ran 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.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/gop-declares-war-on-gao-00369762
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The independent Government Accountability Office has served Congress as the nation’s chief investigator of wrongdoing at federal agencies for more than a century. Now it’s under assault. The typically uncontroversial, under-the-radar agency is fighting to retain power against attempts by Republicans in the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill to undercut its legal conclusions and independence — an onslaught that has been fast and furious. . .Vought also claimed that GAO had played “a partisan role” in the “impeachment hoax” of Donald Trump’s first presidency, referencing the House’s vote in 2019 to remove the president ahead of GAO’s conclusion that the administration violated the same “impoundment” law by withholding aid to Ukraine. Sen. Mike Lee piled on a day later. “GAO has lost credibility as an independent body,” the Utah Republican wrote on social media, reacting to Vought’s criticism. Taken together, these events show the extent to which Republicans are increasingly willing to denigrate an agency that has frequently validated their policies and positions, while sometimes delivering findings conservatives don’t like. And this political posture could upend the relationship members of both parties have had with GAO for decades. . .And while GAO is a legislative branch agency, Trump has the ability to dismiss its leader, akin to his firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. GAO spokesperson Jasmine Berry Franklin said in a statement that agency officials “stand behind the quality of our work.” The watchdog’s mission is to deliver “non-partisan, fact-based information to Congress, to help it carry out its constitutional legislative, appropriations, and oversight functions and protect the power of the purse,” she continued. “Our legal decisions do not take a position on the policy goals of a program, they only examine the procedural issues and compliance with the law.” At a recent congressional hearing, Dodaro also stressed that GAO doesn’t want to be in the partisan crosshairs, has no interest in having political sway and is committed to its mandate to respond to requests from lawmakers with the facts. “We’re just responding to help Congress,” Dodaro said. “We’re not trying to influence things one way or the other. We’re nonpartisan. We’re asked a question; we give an answer. It doesn’t matter who it is.”)

PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/catholic-relief-services-faces-uncertain-future-after-trump-cuts-aid-funding

TIME
— How Grads Can Futureproof Themselves As Career Ladders Weaken. Timing is everything. My not majoring in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970 was a very big career mistake. I erroneously though that I could not pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, or veteran.
https://time.com/charter/7286901/how-grads-can-futureproof-themselves-as-career-ladders-weaken/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With the “bottom rung of the career ladder breaking,” according to Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn, new graduates and other workers early in their careers face less certain paths for getting professional toeholds and experience that can serve them over their lifetimes. That also ups the stakes for managers and mentors to help young workers identify and cultivate the skills that will best serve them.)

DC MEDIA GROUP
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject meritocracy a) because they want votes from minorities and from females and b) because with meritocracy, Whites males do better. Overwhelmingly, those who passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on their first attempt like did were White males.
https://dcmediagroup.us/2025/05/26/the-myth-of-meritocracy-diversity-will-never-die/

ECONOMIC TIMES
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I should write about my critics/opponents who are major Republican donors. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trumps-campaign-received-scores-of-donations-from-problematic-donors/articleshow/121429265.cms

JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
— Mass Deportations Would Deliver a Catastrophic Blow to the U.S. Economy. Should America start offering citizens of foreign countries “bad job” employment permits? Fewer and fewer and fewer citizens of American will take bad jobs like I did. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I got those bad jobs because my employers could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take them. Again, should America start offering citizens of foreign countries “bad job” employment permits?
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2024/12/mass-deportations-would-deliver-a-catastrophic-blow-to-the-u-s-economy

KYIV POST
— Ukraine blasts Trump for avoiding the Vietnam War draft. I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. The blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53398

NTD
— What did you do to avoid financial stress? My father frequently decried his not having a college degree. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. To qualify myself for better paying jobs, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45 47, and 48, and c) I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.ntd.com/5-ways-couples-can-curb-financial-stress_1067416.html

AUTO BLOG
— Tesla’s Odometer Lawsuit Could Be EV Industry’s Dieselgate Moment. A class-action suit claims Tesla rigs odometers with software to void warranties early—costing drivers thousands. Could this be Silicon Valley’s Dieselgate?
https://www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-odometer-warranty-lawsuit

May 23, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-bars-harvard-enrolling-international-students/16508338/
— Mag Mile Chicago police stops and searches challenged as unlawful. I walked the Mag Mile weekday evenings 1974-1976 to/from my IRS job in the Loop and graduate business classes at Loyola and my Outer Drive East studio condo.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mag-mile-shakedown-magnificent-chicago-police-stops-searches-challenged-unlawful-drivers-speak-abc7-team/16512120/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-5/23/2025

NBC5
— Motive, possible writings of alleged gunman in D.C. museum shooting investigated. According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday, alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez bought a ticket to the American Jewish Committee’s annual Young Diplomat’s reception just three hours before the event began.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/motive-possible-writings-of-alleged-gunman-in-d-c-museum-shooting-investigated/3752247/
— How did man charged in fatal Jewish museum shooting get gun on plane from Chicago. One motive was shouted and repeated by the Chicago man as he was arrested, officials said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/how-did-man-charged-in-fatal-jewish-museum-shooting-get-gun-on-plane-from-chicago/3752227/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/hate-groups-usa-decline-influence-grows-report/3752407/
— ‘Investment, not tariffs,’ says Japan’s PM following telephone talks with Trump. The U.S. is charging a 25% tariff on imports of autos, a mainstay of Japan’s trade with the U.S. and a key driver of growth for the economy.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-immigration-japan-harvard-may-23-2025-live-updates/3752558/

CBS2
— D.C. shooting suspect graduated from UIC, was part of Chicago activist scene
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/elias-rodriguez-dc-shooting-israeli-embassy-staff-what-to-know/

WGN9
— Agents raid East Albany Park residence amid probe into killing of Israeli Embassy staffers
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/fbi-raids-east-albany-park-residence-amid-investigation-into-fatal-shooting-of-israeli-embassy-staffers-in-dc/
— Officials beef up security at Chicago-area Jewish institutions following ‘act of terror’
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/hate-is-not-an-american-value-state-officials-react-to-fatal-shooting-of-2-israeli-embassy-staffers-in-dc/

WTTW
— Chicago Man Charged With Murdering 2 Israeli Embassy Staffers in DC Told Police ‘I Did It for Palestine,’ Records Say
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/22/fbi-searching-chicago-home-suspect-after-2-staff-members-israeli-embassy-killed-shooting

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump has amassed $600 million in political donations. Here’s how he plans to use it.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/president-donald-trump-campaign-donations/
— Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the Education Department. I should write about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/trump-mass-layoffs-education-department/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Charges filed against Chicago man in the fatal shooting near DC Jewish museum
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/alleged-dc-shooter-israeli-embassy/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/chicago-immigration-court-arrests/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students over American students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/international-students-legal-status/
— Trump organization to pay $4.8M to settle fish-kill lawsuit against its Chicago high-rise
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/trump-organization-to-pay-4-8m-to-settle-fish-kill-lawsuit-against-its-chicago-high-rise/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/illinois-medicaid-gender-affirming-care/
— U. of C. students protest trustees’ ties to Israel as war in Gaza continues
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/university-chicago-palestinian-protest/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Feds charge Elias Rodriguez with murder in embassy shooting: ‘I did it for Gaza’  Authorities say Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, continued to fire on one of the two Israeli Embassy employees as she tried to crawl away.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/05/22/feds-charge-chicago-man-with-murder-in-embassy-shooting-i-did-it-for-gaza
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05/22/elias-rodriguez-chicago-israeli-embassy-staffers-dc
— Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul takes leading role in fighting Trump. ‘We are winning’  Illinois AG Kwame Raoul is a key figure in the Democratic legal battle against Trump’s executive orders and policies. And he believes Democrats are winning.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/05/23/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-fight-against-donald-trump
— They came to a hearing at Chicago’s immigration court, then got arrested. Arrests at immigration courts across the nation this week have rattled people showing up for hearings.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/22/ice-agents-hallways-immigration-court-trump-mass-arrest
— Trump Tower fish-kill lawsuit settled with state for $4.8 million. Illinois Attorney General, Sierra Club and Friends of the Chicago River sued the building operator over violations of environmental law.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/05/22/trump-tower-lawsuit-illinois-settled-friends-of-chicago-river-fish-sierra-club
— ‘Big, beautiful bill’ is another big example how GOP has abandoned conservatism.  I should write about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/22/big-beautiful-bill-trump-conservatism-s-e-cupp
— I had to work my way through college. If I had not had to do that, my GPA would have been higher. Instead of studying, I worked far too many hours a) washing dishes during my junior and senior years in high school 1964-1966 and b) delivering mail while I attended UIC 1966-1968 and NIU in 1969.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/21/chicagoans-with-student-debt-stressed-as-trump-gop-cut-back-relief

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ‘Vital step’ to ending discrimination: Senate approves bill raising age for senior road exams
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250522/transportation/vital-step-to-ending-discrimination-senate-approves-bill-raising-age-for-senior-road-exams/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause hate crimes.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250523/news/police-say-attackers-called-her-a-slur-why-arent-the-suspects-charged-with-a-hate-crime/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— A year ago, Oberweis Dairy was in bankruptcy. Now it’s launching an expansion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/retail/oberweis-dairy-expand-chicago-st-louis-and-florida

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2025/05/22/planned-parenthood-illinois-warns-about-dire-consequences-of-medicaid-cuts/83799626007/

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Soon, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/22/genevas-northern-illinois-food-bank-frets-over-trump-food-aid-cuts/

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/22/city/activists-rally-for-climate-legislation-in-springfield-during-annual-climate-action-lobby-day/

WMBD
— RNC Chairman delivers message to central Illinois GOP on how to turn area and state red
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/22/rnc-chairman-delivers-message-to-central-illinois-gop-on-how-to-turn-area-and-state-red/

WTVO
— Illinois bill to allow mothers paid breaks to breastfeed passes House. While I worked for GAO in Chicago during the 1990s, it gutted its smoking room and turned it into a lactation room.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-bill-allow-mothers-paid-191756705.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— GAO has long done DOGE-like work. I should write a book about GAO. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $117,807-153,151/year. Instead of reforming GAO, Gingrich gutted GAO. Because of that, and because I was one of their very few Republican employees, they wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They flushed down their toilets a) my three job-related master’s degrees, b) my six job-related professional certifications, and c) my job-related professional license. I should write a book about GAO. Further, I should write a book about Gingrich’s success in gutting GAO while I worked for the agency 1980-1997. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-21/gao-has-long-done-doge-like-work
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has attempted to embed itself in another agency. This time, it’s the Government Accountability Office. The office has refused, but as NPR’s Chris Arnold reports, many experts say, rather than try to elbow its way in the door, DOGE should have been asking GAO for help all along. CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: For months, DOGE has been strong-arming its way into government agencies, gaining access to sensitive data and helping to fire workers. Doing that at the Government Accountability Office, that would be way over the line, says David Walker. He used to run the GAO. DAVID WALKER: The DOGE team needs to read the Constitution again. There are three separate and equal branches of government. ARNOLD: GAO operates under the legislative branch – in other words, Congress – not the White House. WALKER: DOGE has zero authority to review GAO’s operations. ARNOLD: Walker’s been nominated to positions by both Republican and Democratic presidents, and he says GAO and DOGE supposedly have a very similar mission – to root out waste, fraud and abuse, except, he says, that GAO has been doing that for decades, has a staff of several thousand people and it’s really good at it. WALKER: GAO’s like a longstanding professional football team, and DOGE has some very bright people, but it’s more like a much smaller pickup football team from MIT. It’s like intramurals, OK? ARNOLD: Over the past 15 years, GAO says its recommendations have resulted in $725 billion in savings and revenue increases. It just came up with an updated list of proposals. It says that could save another hundred billion or more. Just one example – it’s been studying a space-based laser communication system that the Defense Department’s designing. GAO says it’s found a tweak to the program that could save hundreds of millions of dollars. The White House didn’t respond to NPR’s request for comment but has defended DOGE for finding waste, fraud and abuse. And the current head of the GAO recently said that DOGE lately has been engaging more with GAO about some of its recommendations. Still, David Walker says poor planning and inadequate coordination with Congress have hamstrung DOGE. WALKER: DOGE way overpromised on savings, originally promising 2 trillion. They now claim that they’ve saved about 170 billion. But in reality, I think the real savings is maybe one-tenth to one-fifth of what they claim because only Congress can cut spending. ARNOLD: Walker says, so far, DOGE has mostly been targeting programs that the Trump administration just doesn’t like and indiscriminately firing people. Linda Bilmes is a government efficiency expert at the Harvard Kennedy School. She says that DOGE could have learned a lot from GAO. LINDA BILMES: One of the real tragedies of the whole DOGE effort is that they just ignored this kind of expertise and they didn’t tap into the knowledge base of the people already working in government. ARNOLD: She says the chance to work alongside Elon Musk to help reform government lured in a lot of very talented young people. Some of them were students of hers at Harvard. BILMES: I know firsthand some of the individuals who work for Elon Musk, but they were not leveraged in terms of their own talents. They were put in charge of a website that they had no idea what it was and asked to fire people, and they really were put into positions in which they were entirely unsuited for. ARNOLD: Meanwhile, as far as DOGE trying to embed itself in GAO, there’s another thorny issue there. GAO currently has dozens of investigations underway into whether the Trump administration improperly froze funding that was already allocated by Congress. David Walker again. WALKER: There clearly is a conflict of interest there. DOGE shouldn’t be anywhere close to looking at what GAO’s doing in connection with those activities. ARNOLD: The current head of GAO recently told Congress that the Trump administration was not immediately responsive to its investigations.)

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Charting her course as a “Big Tent” Republican. Pamela “Denise” Long seeks 2026 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/charting-her-course-as-a-big-tent-republican-20196900
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A little-known candidate seeking the Republican nomination for Richard Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat says the GOP needs to adopt a “big tent” mentality that encourages bipartisan cooperation and prioritizes substantive solutions over partisan rhetoric. Pamela “Denise” Long, 52, a longtime contributor to Newsweek and Real Clear Politics, is leveraging her experience as a journalist, political analyst and adjunct professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to carve out a space in the crowded field to replace Durbin. Durbin, 80, a Springfield Democrat, is retiring from Congress after five terms in the Senate and seven in the House. Long says she built her experience by dissecting complex policy issues in a bipartisan manner, particularly those affecting Black voters, immigration, economic mobility and environmental protections. She has challenged both major parties to reconsider their outreach strategies. On her side, she’s ascribing to so-called Big Tent Republicanism, which says that certain conservative positions, such as abortion bans or transgender issues, while important to Republicans, push away moderates and liberals open to cooperation on issues that affect nearly every resident, such as property taxes, gerrymandering and budgeting. Long said she wants her candidacy to reflect a focus on those widespread national issues while offering bipartisan criticism and praise when it is called for. “For me, I champion President Donald Trump when he takes actions that align with the principles of conservatism and constitutionality,” she said. “When he deviates from that, as with (former President Joe) Biden and any other candidate, I call those things out. So, I’m not partisan in that way. My focus is on the best interest of the nation.” Long said one example bringing conservative and liberal issues together is her support for increasing environmental protection in the U.S., but implementing it in issues that bring attention to conservative interests. “Being able to take something like environmental policy and be able to apply it to these modern-day issues like immigration is one method to increase environmental protections without incurring too much animosity from any one side,” Long said. Long said she wants to see more investment in urban infrastructure that has been abandoned, rather than support Trump’s plans to allow development and commercial usage of federally protected lands, including national parks. “One thing which unnerves me is how much of our urban infrastructure has degraded and has just been left rotting in many cities, and I would like to see more development,” said Long. “Development of the dilapidated infrastructure that already exists rather than developing our national parks and green space, I think that could bring more jobs to urban residents.” As a Black woman, Long sees the persistent issues facing African American communities and agrees with the conservative sentiment against handouts or excessive support. But she argues that giving job opportunities, career advancements and a general ability to move out of poverty is a large part of that attitude as well. “I think it is important for Black Americans to hear that our federal government is looking for ways to pull them into the workforce,” said Long. “It’s not handholding as much as it is recruitment and making sure that folks realize that they’re pointing to avenues leading to jobs. We must look at recruitment, retention, development and promotion. At what point do we start thinking about the current and potential future state of our economy and what it’s going to look like? Do we somehow work to offer apprenticeships to students in middle school, shadowing perhaps in high school?” Long says her time as an occupational therapist has shifted her view of prisoners and felons to be viewed as people first, criminals second. She supports the idea of low-level and nonviolent criminals having the ability to either work off their crimes or build themselves up in prison to better support their rehabilitation outside of confinement. While she did clarify violent criminals and felons like murderers and rapists require more nuance based on the case, the goal is to produce a rehabilitated member of society. Helping former convicts get their lives together after their due punishment is the way to do that. “Sequestering a human being from society is a solid punishment by itself; you shouldn’t have to be faced with rape, beatings or dehumanizing treatment,” said Long. “You should be sequestered, rehabilitated, strengthened and developed so that you can be moved forward into society and hit the ground running to be productive. I also think that they should maintain their right to vote. They need to be engaged with the society that they’re going to be coming back into. People who are engaged with society and see a path forward and find a vision for themselves, sometimes for the first time, are less likely to offend.”)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-519/
— Evening roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-311/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Here come more pension sweeteners…(aka tax hikes)  My critics/opponent have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension as being too generous. They are furious that I earned full-time CSRS credit while I worked only part-time for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. They are furious that I got CSRS credit for my more than a year of unused sick leave. In today’s dollars, my CSRS pension is only 44% of what my salary was in 1997 and less than what my salary was in 1972
https://wirepoints.org/video-here-come-more-pension-sweeteners-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What differentiated you from your coworkers? I took undergraduate business courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I took a graduate evening business course while I worked for the Democrats who ran Firestone Stores in 1971. I took graduate evening business courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1972-1976. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I took graduate evening accounting courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1976-1980 and GAO in 1980. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. I took graduate finance courses while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1992-1997. I earned a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997. None of my coworkers came close to doing what I did. Of course, my critics/opponents use what I did against me. They hint/imply/argue/shout that because I did the aforesaid and nevertheless my Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO superiors wasted my career, took many adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire in 1997, I must have been an extremely bad person. They ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact a) that I have always been a conservative Republican, b) that all my superiors were Democrats, c) that they never would have taken the adverse actions against me that they did if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, d) that I ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and e) that I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation in 1988. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The ‘pro-Palestinian’ movement is pro-terrorist
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3419729/the-pro-palestine-movement-is-pro-terrorist/

NEW TORK POST
— Israeli Embassy terror bares the evil targeting Jews — and America
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/opinion/israeli-embassy-terror-bares-evil-aimed-at-jews-and-america/
— How left-wing Chicago social justice warrior Elias Rodriguez allegedly became homegrown anti-Israel terrorist
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/us-news/homegrown-terror-dc-jewish-museum-shooting-suspect-elias-rodriguezs-path-to-self-radicalization/

AMERICAN WIRE NEWS
— Reporter William J. Kelly asks Chicago mayor point blank, ‘Why are you a racist?’
https://americanwirenews.com/reporter-asks-chicago-mayor-point-blank-why-are-you-a-racist/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Reporter William J. Kelly asks Chicago mayor point blank, ‘Why are you a racist?’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/22/reporter-asks-chicago-mayor-point-blank-why-are-you-a-racist-1545534/
— Disney World suspends migrant workers following Supreme Court brief
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/22/disney-world-suspends-migrant-workers-following-supreme-court-brief-1545543/

BREITBART
— Lockheed ‘Doubles Down’ on Eviscerating DEI After Completing Review Complying with Trump Executive Order on Ending Controversial Practice
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/22/exclusive-lockheed-martin-drops-diversity-equity-inclusion-policies-comply-trump-executive-order/

DAILY WIRE
— Med School Caught Rejecting White And Asian Applicants With Better Scores Than Minorities It Accepts. Statistics show that little has changed at the medical school two years after affirmative action was overturned.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/med-school-caught-rejecting-white-and-asian-applicants-with-better-scores-than-minorities-it-accepts

EPOCH TIMES
— What’s in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’?  The House passed the legislation in a 215–214 vote. It now heads to the Senate.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/whats-in-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-5861362

FEDERALIST
— Democrat-Run States Risk Billions To Push Race Discrimination In Schools. Democrat educators hint/imply/argue/shout
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/23/democrat-run-states-risk-billions-to-push-race-discrimination-in-schools/
— The Left Indulges Anti-White Racism In South Africa Because They Want The Same Thing Here
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/22/the-media-dismiss-anti-white-violence-in-south-africa-because-it-undermines-their-agenda/

NEWSMAX
— Alleged D.C. Shooter Leftist Activist, Biden Backer
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/shooter-terrorism-political/2025/05/22/id/1211966/
— Trump Spending Bill Would Hike Taxes on Elite Colleges. What do those who have degrees from elite colleges think of you? My critics/opponents who have degrees from elite colleges, their operatives, and their dupes look down on me if not despise me if not hate me. I should write about them and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me lately.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/trump-bill-taxes/2025/05/23/id/1212080/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/22/crime_rates_of_illegal_migrants_underreported_152825.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

TIME
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies.
https://time.com/7288251/alien-enemies-act-repealed/

CNN
— Which countries will join with China against America in WWIII?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/china/china-harvard-trump-students-ban-int-hk
— Trump threatens Apple with a 25% tariff if it doesn’t build iPhones in America
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/economy/trump-threatens-tariff-apple

ABC NEWS
— Judge says Trump has power to impose tariffs, but punts lawsuit to different court. The judge cites the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-trump-power-impose-tariffs-punts-lawsuit-court/story?id=122099656

NBC NEWS
— Trump’s image of dead ‘white farmers’ came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa. President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of the video to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as part of what he falsely presented as proof of mass killings of white South Africans.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/africa/trump-image-dead-white-farmers-congo-not-south-africa-rcna208699
— MAGA world turns against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
https://www.aol.com/maga-world-turns-supreme-court-221051688.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/briefing/five-years-after-floyd.html
— Trump’s New Position on the War in Ukraine: Not My Problem. In a reversal, President Trump appears to have backed off joining a European push for new sanctions on Russia, seemingly eager to move on to doing business deals with it. Those who voted for Trump anticipated/expected that he would drive Russia out of Ukraine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/trump-ukraine-russia.html
— Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students. The move was a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the college to fall in line with President Trump’s demands. The following prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America: a) Democrat and RINO leaders and b) Democrat and RINO employers. Democrats want citizens of foreign countries because they want socialism if not communism. RINOs want citizens of foreign countries because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html
— Republicans Harness Tax Code to Punish Trump’s Political Nemeses. Immigrants and wealthy universities, as well as foreign companies, would see higher taxes under the House-passed bill. I paid less federal income tax 1972-1977 and my wife and I paid less federal income tax 1978-1980 and 1992-1997 because we deducted my job-related education expenses. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. I should write about that. Who do you know who deducted their job-related education expenses? I deducted graduate evening a) business courses while I worked for IRS 1972-1976, b) accounting courses while I worked for IRS 1977-1979 and for GAO in 1980, and c) finance courses while I worked for GAO 1992-1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/republicans-taxes-trump-opponents.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/opinion/ice-raids-nashville-immigrants.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-administration-fine-undocument-immigrants.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump welcomes Afrikaners but turns his back on all other refugees. President Trump’s embrace of far-right theories about South Africa led to the resettlement of some 50 White Afrikaners as refugees to the United States this month.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/23/trump-ramaphosa-afrikaners-refugees-south-africa/
— Administration bars Harvard from having foreign students, says thousands must transfer. The Trump administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/president-donald-trump/7fb883aa-3707-11f0-9c9e-0db2d748bea7_story.html

USA TODAY
— Democrat educators use DEI to crank out good little Democrats
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/trump-k-12-public-school-funding-dei-order/83458073007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Supreme Court Lets Trump Fire Agency Officials, but Moves to Protect Fed. Order suggests justices will soon eliminate congressional power to insulate agencies from the White House. In Diersen v. GAO, ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), the courts reaffirmed GAO’s power to waste the careers of and to get rid of its Republican employees, and especially those 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.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-lets-trump-fire-nlrb-and-merit-board-members-cc2dc09a

FORTUNE
The following prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America: a) Democrat and RINO leaders and b) Democrat and RINO employers. Democrats want citizens of foreign countries because they want socialism if not communism. RINOs want citizens of foreign countries because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/23/trump-ban-international-students-affect-us-companies/

FAST COMPANY
— Democrat leaders badmouth Tesla to badmouth Musk to badmouth Trump.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91338704/tesla-cybertruck-is-officially-a-flop

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/resident-scholar/2025/05/23/king-misrepresented-anti-dei-congressional-hearing

PROPUBLICA
— Foreign countries are illegally ever-increasing illegally sending their citizens illegally into America, that is, foreign countries are ever-increasingly invading America illegally.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courts

GUARDIAN
— Which countries will join with China against America in WWIII?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/may/23/harvard-university-international-students-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-us-politics-latest-news

May 22, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump confronts South Africa’s president in Oval Office, shows evidence of genocide
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-host-south-africa-president-cyril-ramaphosa-amid-tensions-resettlement-afrikaners/16492596/

WGN9
— Federal budget cuts threaten academic support for at-risk Chicago youth. What did you do while you were in high school? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, and washed dishes.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/federal-budget-cuts-threaten-academic-support-for-at-risk-chicago-youth/

FOX32
— Johnson calls Trump ‘a monster’ while defending diverse hiring amid DOJ probe
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-mayor-calls-trump-monster-defends-diverse-hiring-doj-probe
— LaHood urges party to put aside differences on Trump’s tax bill. LaHood is vowing that President Trump’s tax bill will not kick any Illinoisans off Medicaid or food stamp programs, and that it’ll just root out waste, fraud and abuse.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1645209

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa/
— Firearm arrest No. 10 made at Naperville Topgolf parking lot
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/naperville-police-topgolf-gun-arrest-2/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/first-homosexuals-exhibit-returns-chicago/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with South Africa against America
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa/
— Speak incautiously about race, Mr. Mayor, and you invite federal scrutiny. Brandon Johnson still has to learn there are some things a mayor should not say.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/editorial-mayor-brandon-johnson-racial-contracting-trump/
— Waukegan parade organizer accuses alderman of intimidation. I should write about my critics’/opponents’ success in ending my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades in 2021, a role that I had since 2005.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/waukegan-council-victor-felix/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/21/trumps-anti-immigrant-ice-raids-deportation-chicago-rainbow-push-ben-jealous

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Naperville police chief says the city will have ‘zero tolerance’ to unlawful conduct at gatherings
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250521/news/naperville-police-chief-says-the-city-will-have-zero-tolerance-to-unlawful-conduct-at-gatherings/
— Defense Department accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump’s use
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250521/nation-and-world-politics/defense-department-accepts-boeing-747-from-qatar-for-trumps-use/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/22/mayor-calls-trump-a-monster-00364698

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-518/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-310/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Broken cities, bad governance: Blue state city residents voting with their feet
https://wirepoints.org/broken-cities-bad-governance-blue-state-city-residents-voting-with-their-feet-fox-news/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood Votes for, Explains Federal Budget Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/22/lahood-votes-for-explains-federal-budget-bill/
— Keicher School Safety Bill Passes Both Houses
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/keicher-school-safety-bill-passes-both-houses/
— Could Republicans Be Taking U.S. Senate Race Seriously?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/could-republicans-be-taking-u-s-senate-race-seriously/
— Florida and Illinois Black Leaders Trade Places at Republican Events
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/florida-and-illinois-black-leaders-trade-places/
— McHenry Organization Gains Housing Subsidy
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/21/mchenry-organization-gains-housing-subsidy/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump puts evidence of ‘White genocide’ in front of South African leader
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/21/trump-plays-video-south-african-leader-showing-purported-evidence/
— House passes Trump agenda bill, sending massive tax and spending cut package to the Senate. Blue-state moderates get more on SALT exemption; conservatives win on green energy, immigration, firearms.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/21/house-republicans-tweak-big-beautiful-bill-ahead-floor-vote/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Hillary Clinton wants immigrant women to do the job American women aren’t doing. I was the only White male who washed dishes in the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights. I did that 1964-1966.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3417646/hillary-clinton-immigration-foreign-women-do-job-americans-arent/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Supreme Court: Children of Illegal Aliens or Tourists are not U.S.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/supreme_court_children_of_illegal_aliens_or_tourists_are_not_u_s_citizens.html
— Can You Be a Trump-Supporter and a Good Christian? The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/can_you_be_a_trump_supporter_and_a_good_christian.html

BREITBART
— Illinois GOP Calls for Federal Intervention as Tensions Mount Over the State’s Trans Athlete Rules
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/05/21/illinois-gop-calls-for-federal-intervention-as-tensions-mount-over-states-trans-athlete-rules/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Forces South African President To Watch Video Of Country’s Leaders Calling For Genocide
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/21/trump-forces-south-african-president-to-watch-video-of-countrys-leaders-calling-for-genocide/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Confronts Ramaphosa Over ‘Afrikaner Genocide’ in Oval Office Meeting
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-ramaphosa-clash-over-afrikaner-genocide-in-white-house-meeting-5861261
— 2 Israeli Embassy Staffers Killed in DC Shooting Near Jewish Museum. The FBI says the attack is being investigated as a potential federal hate crime.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/two-israeli-embassy-staffers-shot-in-dc-near-jewish-museum-noem-5861621
— House Passes Trump Agenda Bill in Early Morning Vote. After weeks of negotiations, in a tight vote just before 7:00 a.m., the House approved the ‘big beautiful bill’ central to the president’s agenda.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/house-passes-trump-agenda-bill-in-early-morning-vote-5861273

FOX NEWS
— Naperville trans athlete conflict grows after tense track meet as state Republicans call for Trump’s help. State representative calls situation ‘disgusting’ as calls grow for the Trump administration to pull federal funding.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/illinois-trans-athlete-conflict-grows-after-tense-track-meet-state-republicans-call-trumps-help

FOX SPORTS
— Illinois state lawmakers get hostile during debates on trans athletes in girls’ sports. Democrat accused Republicans of being ‘obsessed with children’s genitalia’ as tensions mount following Naperville track controversy.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/illinois-state-lawmakers-get-hostile-during-debates-trans-athletes-girls-sports

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Chicago Resident Confronts Mayor Johnson: ‘Why are You a Racist?’ Mayor Johnson is a despicable human being.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/chicago-resident-confronts-mayor-johnson-why-are-you-a-racist/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— No, Ending DEI Programs Would Not Be a Loss to Education
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/no-ending-dei-programs-would-not-be-a-loss-to-education/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Trump’s cultural overhaul throttles local arts, humanities programs nationwide
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/politics/trump-culture-arts-humanities-grants-funding

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/frank-kameny-lgbtq-gay-rights-100th-birthday-rcna207654

REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with South Africa against America
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africans-praise-ramaphosa-keeping-cool-amid-trump-attack-2025-05-22/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/under-attack-by-trump-south-africas-ramaphosa-responds-with-trade-deal-offer-2025-05-21/

NEWSWEEK
— Trump Responds to Israeli Embassy Staff Killings in DC: ‘Must End’
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-responds-isreali-embassy-shooting-washington-dc-2075553

NEW YORK TIMES
— U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump. The Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/qatar-plane-trump-air-force-one.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump confronts South African president over violence against White farmers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-violence/

WALL STREET JOIRNAL
— The GOP’s SALT Deal Folly. Republicans make it easier for Democrats to raise state taxes. Before SALT, my wife and I paid less federal income tax by itemizing, both of us staring in 1978 and I starting in 1972. My critics/opponents were always furious about that. I deducted my graduate business and accounting course expenses 1972-1980 and my graduate finance course expenses 1992-1997.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/salt-cap-house-republicans-mike-johnson-mike-lawler-nick-lalota-tax-bill-7a6ef2ca?mod=opinion_lead_pos2
— You Can Still Negotiate a ‘Best and Final’ Job Offer. Job hunters can talk their way into a better deal, even if the salary is set. Ever since I was 31 years old in 1980, my critics/opponents have used against me big time my taking a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. They have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that pay cut proved a) that IRS had grossly overpaid me, that is, that IRS should not have promoted me in 1972, 1983, and 1974 and b) that was an extremely bad person because I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069/year, because much of what I would do for GAO was similar to what I did for IRS, because GAO audits IRS, because I has almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting, because I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and because I had earned an MBA in 1976. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-offer-negotiations-82550489

BLOOMBERG
— Trump Ramps Up Criminal Charges Against Migrants in California
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/trump-ramping-up-criminal-charges-against-migrants-in-sanctuary-cities

POLITICO
— Trump administration accepts Qatari jet for Air Force One
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/trump-administration-accepts-qatari-jet-for-air-force-one-00362805
— Trump puts South Africa’s president on the defensive over ‘genocide’ claims
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/trump-south-africa-defensive-genocide-00362831
— Trump admin deportation flight to South Sudan violated court order, judge rules
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/trump-deportations-south-sudan-00362919

MEDIAITE
— Reporter William Kelly Slams Chicago Mayor for ‘Black Power Rhetoric’ and Asks Him: ‘Why Are You a Racist?’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/far-right-reporter-slams-chicago-mayor-for-black-power-rhetoric-and-asks-him-why-are-you-a-racist/

DAILY KOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/21/2323597/-Surprise-Trump-s-base-is-motivated-by-racist-hate-and-deep-bigotry-not-economics

May 21, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Huntley Trump store owner claims fines from village, eviction notice are ‘political’  Village says store owner cannot keep items in right-of-way.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-truth-store-owner-claims-fines-village-huntley-illinois-eviction-notice-are-political-im-gonna-fight/16486152/
— Chicago mayor Johnson says Trump administration reflects ‘country club’ in response to DOJ investigation of Chicago’s hiring practices. How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trumps-administration-reflects-country-club-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-says-response-doj-investigation/16482731/
— Multiple citations issued, 2 arrested in large Naperville teen gatherings. Naperville today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/naperville-illinois-news-multiple-citations-issued-2-arrested-downtown-another-teen-takeover-police-say/16483549/
— Chicago committee approves controversial ‘snap curfew’ ordinance; full city council to vote Wednesday. Chicago today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-teen-takeovers-youth-leaders-join-mayor-brandon-johnson-discuss-summer-safety-intitiatives-including-snap-curfuews/16483642/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad including price increases.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/national-restaurant-association-show-2025-chicago-restaurants-feeling-impact-struggling-us-economy/16486189/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/venezuela-deportation-news-roughly-50k-arrived-chicago-last-2-years-limbo-trump-tps-ruling/16486487/
— Dolton plans to take ownership of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home through eminent domain
https://wirepoints.org/dolton-plans-to-take-ownership-of-pope-leo-xivs-childhood-home-through-eminent-domain-abc7-chicago/

NBC5
— Defiant Chicago mayor calls for investigation into Trump administration hiring.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/defiant-chicago-mayor-calls-for-investigation-into-trump-administration-hiring/3750328/
— Trump fails to convince ‘SALT Caucus’ to back tax bill. Before SALT, my wife and I paid less federal income tax by itemizing, both of us staring in 1978 and I starting in 1972. My critics/opponents were always furious about that. I deducted my graduate business and accounting course expenses 1972-1980 and my graduate finance course expenses 1992-1997.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-fails-to-convince-salt-caucus-to-back-tax-bill/3749988/
— Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan. The group of LGBTQ activist climbers said the flag, which is 55 feet by 35 feet, is the largest ever displayed on the face of the world-famous rock climbing destination. By way of contrast, I displayed a 18X12-foot American flag in my previous two Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville. But because my new condo there does not have high or wide enough wall space, I cannot do that there.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/yosemite-climbers-transgender-pride-flag-el-capitan/3750359/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/venezuelans-chicago-temporary-protected-status-deportation-supreme-court/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use alleged hate crimes to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/woman-brutally-attacked-carpentersville-because-lesbian/
— Naperville School District 203 board meeting packed after trans student wins at junior high track meet. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/naperville-school-district-203-board-meeting-trans-student-junior-high-track-meet/

FOX32
— Naperville ‘teen takeover’: Police respond to large gatherings, issue citations and arrest two. Naperville today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/naperville-teen-takeover-police-respond-large-gatherings-issue-citations-arrest-two

WTTW
— DOJ Announces Probe of Mayor Johnson After He Lauds Record of Hiring Black Chicagoans in Senior Positions. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors were very proud of their success in forcing me to retire and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black 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 the one I had.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/19/feds-announce-probe-mayor-johnson-after-he-lauds-record-hiring-black-chicagoans-senior
— Mayor Brandon Johnson: ‘We’re Not Going to Be Intimidated’ By DOJ Hiring Probe
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/20/mayor-brandon-johnson-we-re-not-going-be-intimidated-justice-department-hiring-probe

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Naperville councilman McBroom, DuPage GOP, Awake Illinois battle District 203 over transgender female athletes. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/naperville-school-district-203-transgender-sports/
— Victims’ group alleges that Pope Leo XIV failed to ‘properly investigate’ child sexual abuse in Chicago.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/pope-leo-priest-sex-abuse/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/illinois-americorps-cuts/
— The more crime in a zip code, the more insurance claims.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/opinion-illinois-car-insurance-credit-score-alexi-giannoulias/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote pro-Palestinian activists
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/05/trump-pro-palestinian-activists-jailing-deporting-immigrants-chinese-asian-american-rick-baldoz

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Naperville parents voice objections after transgender student competes in track meet. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250520/other-sports/naperville-parents-voice-objections-after-transgender-student-competes-in-track-meet/
— Chicago suburbs listed among 250 elite towns by U.S. News & World Report. He who sets the criteria determines the outcome.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250520/news/by-the-numbers-chicago-suburbs-listed-among-250-elite-towns-by-u-s-news-world-report/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Dolton plans to take Pope Leo’s childhood home through eminent domain.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/dolton-plans-take-popes-old-home-through-eminent-domain
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote federal spending and b) fight federal spending cuts.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/durbin-duckworth-question-cuts-illinois-hospitals
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/brandon-johnson-slams-lack-diversity-trump-cabinet

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote federal spending and b) fight federal spending cuts.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-senior-advocacy-groups-department-on-aging-urge-congress-to-fully-fund-older-americans-act/article_cb14c002-c7d8-41bd-b93c-011225a7ff2a.html

WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.wsiu.org/2025-05-21/how-two-women-owned-businesses-are-navigating-trumps-tariffs

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Wheaton Memorial Day Parade:10 a.m. Monday, May 26. Hosted by American Legion Post 76, the parade steps off at Hale and Union streets, proceeds west on Union to West Street, then south on West to Wheaton Cemetery, 1209 S. Warrenville Road.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/2025/05/20/where-to-find-memorial-day-ceremonies-and-parades-in-dupage-county/

DES PLAINES PATCH
— Over 25,000 diverse individuals attended the Skokie Cultural Festival. To be diverse you must be liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Because I am none of the aforesaid, Democrat and RINO leaders get rid of me. Diverse Democrats and diverse RINOs get rid of non-diverse Republicans.
https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/over-25-000-diverse-individuals-attended-skokie-cultural-festival

JUST THE NEWS
— Illinois GOP Rep. Mary Miller says SALT deduction is a ‘handout’ to rich donors. SALT is a tax break that allows taxpayers to deduct part or all of what they paid in state and local taxes from their federal tax return. Before SALT, my wife and I paid less federal income tax by itemizing, both of us staring in 1978 and I starting in 1972. My critics/opponents were always furious about that. I deducted my graduate business and accounting course expenses 1972-1980 and my graduate finance course expenses 1992-1997.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/illinois-gop-rep-mary-miller-says-salt-deduction-handout-rich-donors

CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/statement-doj-investigation/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-517/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-309/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois education officials look to hide their failures by lowering reading, math standards. Just say no.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-education-officials-look-to-hide-their-failures-by-lowering-reading-math-standards-just-say-no-wirepoints/
— Lawmakers’ latest attempt to boost public pension benefits.
https://wirepoints.org/today-join-wirepoints-afp-and-ipi-for-a-virtual-roundtable-all-about-lawmakers-latest-attempt-to-boost-public-pension-benefits/
— Is Mayor Johnson really saying such things aloud?
https://wirepoints.org/is-mayor-johnson-really-saying-such-things-aloud-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Bill Proposes $10,000 for Student Teachers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/bill-proposes-10000-for-student-teachers/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Lawmakers investigate federal spending on gambling, adult entertainment and more
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_7fa3a6bf-e87f-4854-8f73-edba9f9e910c.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To be diverse you must be liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Because I am none of the aforesaid, Democrat and RINO leaders get rid of me. Diverse Democrats and diverse RINOs get rid of non-diverse Republicans. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference that they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When were you under the radar? I was under the radar at IRS until I was 25 years old in 1973 and my IRS manager gave me a big high-profile developmental assignment and promoted me to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) because of my performance on it. Because of the aforesaid, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of him and a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976, c) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, c) ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and e) ever-increasingly made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. According to them, that development assignment should have been given to a Democrat who was a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I got the assignment because of my job performance and because I was taking graduate evening business courses. The aforesaid and Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me drew attention to the fact that I was conservative, Republican, a Vietnam War draft avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, and I had been a Crete resident 1948-1972. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
—  What were your superiors proud of? When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors were very proud of their success in forcing me to retire and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black 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 the one I had. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Musk, the Republican Party’s biggest donor, says he will cut political spending. I should write about a) the biggest donors to the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party since 2000 and b) what they think of me. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Too much local government makes Illinois inefficient, raises property taxes
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/too-much-local-government-makes-illinois-inefficient-raises-property-taxes/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Resentment of ICE, backlash against its agents and mission rise alongside Democrats’ condemnations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/20/attacks-ice-rise-alongside-democrats-anti-ice-comments/
— Colleges dump ‘segregated’ graduations after Trump DEI ban
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/20/colleges-dump-segregated-graduations-trump-dei-ban/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Top IRS division appears packed with anti-Trump officials
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3417397/trump-irs-democrat-officials-bias/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley Tells College Grads: ‘Freedom of Speech is Under Attack’ By Trump Administration. Pelley’s speech came just before CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon announced her resignation amid clashes between the network and parent company Paramount. Democrat leaders run the mainstream news media in America. The mainstream news media in America is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://freebeacon.com/media/60-minutes-scott-pelley-tells-college-grads-freedom-of-speech-is-under-attack-by-trump-administration/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Race Fatigue in the United States. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote minorities, females, and younger people because they vote for Democrats and b) get rid of Whites, males, and older people because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/race_fatigue_in_the_united_states.html
— Putin’s cold and dark soul
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/putin_s_cold_and_dark_soul.html
— Trump’s ‘big’ and ‘beautiful’ tax bill retains hundreds of billions (maybe trillions?) in ‘Green New Deal’ spending
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/trump_s_big_and_beautiful_tax_bill_retains_hundreds_of_billions_maybe_trillions_in_green_new_deal_spending.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump’s historic first $1,000 self-deportation flight takes off. Here’s how it’s going …
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/20/trumps-historic-first-1000-self-deportation-flight-takes-off-heres-how-its-going-1544944/

BREITBART
— 1.4 Million Illegals Ordered Deported but ‘Roaming Free’ in U.S. Due to Lack of Detention Space
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/20/expert-witness-tells-congress-1-4-million-illegals-ordered-deported-but-roaming-free-in-u-s-due-to-lack-of-detention-space/
— Spike Lee Slams Trump at Cannes Film Festival
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/05/20/spike-lee-slams-trump-at-cannes-film-festival/

DAILY CALLER
— GOP Pushes Tax To Pay For Trump Agenda And Depress Illegal Immigration In One Fell Swoop
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/gop-tax-pay-for-trump-agenda-disincentivize-illegal-immigration/
— The Biden Cover Up Is Worse Than You Can Possibly Imagine
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/joe-biden-cancer-diagnosis-rebelcast-media-cover-up/

FOX NEWS
— Naperville board meeting erupts over transgender athlete policy: ‘Clear divide on this issue’  Awake Illinois founder Shannon Adcock joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss the debate over transgender athletes in girls’ sports after female track runners were defeated by a biological male.  Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373126420112

NEWSMAX
— DOJ Investigating Chicago Mayor Over Black Hires. How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference that they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chicago-justice-department-brandon-johnson/2025/05/20/id/1211653/

PJ MEDIA
— DHS Slams Walz’s ‘Gestapo’ Comments, Highlights Criminals Arrested
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/20/dhs-slams-walzs-gestapo-comments-details-criminals-arrested-n4939960

REAL CLEAR DEFENSE
— Buh-Bye West Point
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/05/20/buh-bye_west_point_1111220.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEWSWEEK
— Walmart Responds To Trump’s Order To ‘Eat The Tariffs’
https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-responds-donald-trump-eat-tariffs-trade-policy-2075063
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.newsweek.com/talk-suspending-habeas-corpus-hand-grenade-americas-heart-opinion-2074845

REUTERS
— Musk, the Republican Party’s biggest donor, says he will cut political spending. I should write about a) the biggest donors to the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party since 2000 and b) what they think of me. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me lately.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/elon-musk-says-he-is-still-committed-being-tesla-ceo-5-years-time-2025-05-20/

CNN
— Trump’s IRS layoffs could lead to billions in lost revenue as agency sheds auditors
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/irs-staffing-cuts-revenue-loss-trump-dg

MSN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/u-s-hits-brakes-on-trade-war-with-china/ar-AA1F9pdS

CBS NEWS
— Biden’s last prostate cancer blood test was in 2014, spokesperson says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-prostate-cancer-blood-test-2014/

NEW YORK TIMES
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, only non-Whites can be refugees.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000010169282/inside-trumps-exception-for-white-south-african-refugees.html
— Trump-Supporting Christians Accusing Jews of Antisemitism. Jews in America are overwhelmingly liberal. Jews in Israel are overwhelmingly conservative. Liberals get rid of conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/antisemitism-israel-palestine-esther.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/nyregion/nyc-pride-sponsors-trump-tariffs.html
— Democrat leaders encourage Democrats to move into Elmhurst.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/realestate/elmhurst-illinois-real-estate-guide.html
— Democrat Leaders Say How Trump Has Targeted New Groups for Deportation
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/21/us/trump-immigration-policy.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump drafts America’s business titans to burnish his image at home and abroad
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/21/trump-apple-walmart-tariffs-ceos-middle-east/2b609ad6-35f9-11f0-9c9e-0db2d748bea7_story.html

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/20/transgender-pride-flag-yosemite-el-capitan-lgbtq/83750904007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Joe Biden Had Unrivaled Medical Care. How Did His Cancer Go Undetected? Other presidents, including Donald Trump, have undergone and released their prostate screening results.
https://www.wsj.com/health/joe-biden-had-unrivaled-medical-care-how-did-his-cancer-go-undetected-93d735d4

FORTUNE
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/20/scrapping-dei-without-benefits-morally-unjust-bankrupt/

BLOOMBERG
— When were you under the radar? I was under the radar at IRS until I was 25 years old in 1973 and my IRS manager gave me a big high-profile developmental assignment and promoted me to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) because of my performance on it. Because of the aforesaid, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of him and a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976, c) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, c) ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and e) ever-increasingly made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. According to them, that development assignment should have been given to a Democrat who was a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I got the assignment because of my job performance and because I was taking graduate evening business courses. The aforesaid and Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me drew attention to the fact that I was conservative, Republican, a Vietnam War draft avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, and I had been a Crete resident 1948-1972. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/5-affordable-under-the-radar-vacations-to-take-this-summer

ATLANTIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/third-country-deportations/682857/

HR BREW
— Democrat and RINO employers will forever use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025/05/20/why-dei-is-not-disappearing-any-time-soon-for-hr

PEW RESEARCH
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy Republicans who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/05/20/how-much-discrimination-do-americans-say-groups-face-in-the-u-s/

GOOGLE AI
— The Illinois Republican Primary in 2026 will be held on March 17th, 2026. This primary will determine the Republican candidates who will appear on the ballot for the November 3rd, 2026 General Election. Here’s what you need to know:
https://www.google.com/search?q=republican+primary+illinois+2026
(FROM THE POSTING: Governor: Some potential or declared Republican candidates include James Mendrick, Joseph Severino, Aaron Del Mar, Richard Porter, Jeanne Ives, and Blaine Wilhour. Attorney General: The Republican primary for Attorney General in 202(2) saw Thomas DeVore win with 44.2% of the vote, followed by Steve Kim and David Shestokas. Secretary of State: Dan Brady won the Republican primary for Secretary of State with 76.4% of the vote, defeating John Milhiser.)

GOOGLE AI
— DuPage Countywide Republican Primary 2026
https://www.google.com/search?q=republican+primary+dupage+%222026%22+%22countywide%22+offices
(FROM THE POSTING: DuPage Countywide Offices: Generally, DuPage Countywide offices that would be on the ballot include: County Board Chairman, County Clerk, Sheriff, Treasurer.  Republican Candidates (as of May 21, 2025): It’s still early in the election cycle, and a complete list of Republican candidates for DuPage County offices in 2026 is not yet available. However, there is news about the Sheriff’s race: Sheriff James Mendrick has announced he will not be seeking re-election as DuPage County Sheriff. He is instead running for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois. Mendrick has endorsed Undersheriff Eddie Moore as his successor for DuPage County Sheriff.)

WIKIPEDIA
— Illinois U.S. Senate election 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_elections#Illinois
(FROM THE POSTING: Among Republicans, former police officer John Goodman has announced his candidacy. Potential Republican candidates include Congressman Darin LaHood and state Representative Tom Demmer.)
— 2026 Illinois gubernatorial election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Illinois_gubernatorial_election#Candidates
(FROM THE POSTING: Republican Primary Candidates: Declared: James Mendrick, DuPage County Sheriff (2018–present), Running mate: Robert Renteria, author and businessman; Phil Perez, member of the Posen Park District Commission; Joseph Severino, capital management professional and nominee for Illinois’s 10th congressional district in 2022. Publicly expressed interest: Aaron Del Mar, Palatine Township Highway Commissioner, chair of the Cook County Republican Party, and candidate for lieutenant governor in 2022; Richard Porter, former member of the Republican National Committee and the Illinois State Police Merit Board. Potential: Jeanne Ives, former state representative, candidate for governor in 2018, and nominee for Illinois’s 6th congressional district in 2020; Blaine Wilhour, state representative.)