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
Tag: LGBTQ
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.)
May 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Medicaid to promote more hatred against Trump. How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/republicans-proposing-medicaid-cuts-part-president-donald-trump-spending-bill-leaving-americans-worried/16439037/
— DHS says it’s in beginning stages of ‘vetting process’ for immigrant reality TV show
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-homeland-security-says-beginning-stages-vetting-process-immigrant-reality-show-citizenship/16447461/
NBC5
— Joliet surpassed by fellow Chicago suburb as Illinois’ third-largest city. Naperville is now the state’s third-largest city, according to recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/joliet-surpassed-fellow-chicago-suburb-illinois-third-largest-city/3748213/
FOX32
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tells-walmart-eat-tariffs
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/south-africa-afrikaners-refugee-white/
— Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me a) to paint me as being stupid and b) to paint my parents as having been filthy rich. They stress that my ACT score was only 24, that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/federal-dei-crackdown-threatens-illinois-graduate-student-scholarship-program/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/16/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents
DAILY HERALD
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly paint the Pope as being a Democrat, that is, as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250517/news/pope-leo-xiv-not-registered-as-a-republican-in-illinois/
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Candida Cain leaves GOP, announces run for Kane treasurer as a Democrat. Move could lead to potential 2026 contest against her former boss.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/18/candida-cain-leaves-gop-announces-run-for-kane-treasurer-as-a-democrat/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Candida “Connie” Cain on Saturday declared her intent to seek the Democratic nomination in the March 17, 2026 primary for Kane County Treasurer. A Certified Public Account from Gilberts, Cain had worked for current Treasurer Chris Lauzen as Director of Financial Operations from May 2023 until he fired her Nov. 22. In an email, Lauzen, a Republican elected as treasurer in 2022, did not state if he planned to seek a second term. If Lauzen goes for another term, and Cain wins the Democratic nomination, the contest would pit Cain against her former boss in the general election on Nov. 3, 2026. A former Republican, Cain said she has now transitioned to the Democratic Party.)
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-investigations/2025/05/17/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents
LOOP NORTH NEWS
— Bally’s drops racial preferences for Chicago casino IPO. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they were always under tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians to give preference to their employees who were Democrat, and especially to those who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that. Further, since I have been involved in Republican politics since 1999, those above me have been under tremendous pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.loopnorth.com/news/casino0518.htm
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/article_48b5b309-272a-5089-a031-5ad51d5443d8.html
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/article_70550ee6-0906-5acd-9d87-56f31d030b0e.html
KWQC
— Battle over video gaming terminals in Illinois. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/05/17/battle-over-video-gaming-terminals-illinois/
WMBD
— LaHood reacts to Trump Administration announcements
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/17/lahood-reacts-to-trump-administration-announcements/
CITIES 92.9
— SEIU spends big on politics, little on members
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/17/report-seiu-spends-big-on-politics-little-on-members/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders use Walz to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-walz-calls-trump-a-tyrant-who-is-trampling-americans-rights-and-violating-the-rule-of-law/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries who have demographics that vote for Democrats to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally. Those who vote for Democrats are liberal, socialist, communist, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, want/need/demand massive government assistance, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, etc.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-asylum-seekers-still-arrive-at-the-us-border-but-what-will-happen-to-them/
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-clash-with-the-courts-raises-prospect-of-showdown-over-separation-of-powers/
NPR ILLINOIS
— The Democrats who run Congress run GAO. They do the bidding of Democrat leaders against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/how-doge-has-tried-to-embed-beyond-the-executive-branch
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to stop voter fraud.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-doj-focuses-in-on-voter-fraud-with-a-murky-assist-from-doge
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-attacks-on-dei-are-complicating-corporate-sponsorship-of-pride-events
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. I should write about the success that they have had in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-05-16/attorneys-general-ask-educators-for-courage-on-dei-policies
CWB CHICAGO
— DuPage judge refuses to detain man accused of robbing postal worker, trafficking checks stolen from the mail
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/05/judge-refuses-to-detain-man-accused-of-robbing-postal-worker-trafficking-checks-stolen-from-the-mail.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Fleeing persecution, South African arrivals scramble refugee politics. The next Democrat or RINO President will send them back.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3414599/fleeing-persecution-south-african-refugees-scramble-politics/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://freebeacon.com/culture/assessing-the-wreckage-of-affirmative-action/
AMERICAN THINKER
— 86 47 and what madness the U.S. is coming to
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/86_47_and_what_madness_the_u_s_is_coming_to.html
— Robert De Niro’s Trump obsession and Hollywood’s hypocrisy
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/robert_de_niro_s_trump_obsession_and_hollywood_s_hypocrisy.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Democrats push misleading ‘cuts to Medicaid’ narrative after enrolling 1.4 million illegals
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/dems-push-misleading-cuts-to-medicaid-narrative-after-enrolling-1-4-million-illegals-1544202/
— Trump blasts SCOTUS for blocking effort to deport illegal Venezuelan ‘gang members’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/trump-blasts-scotus-for-blocking-effort-to-deport-illegal-venezuelan-gang-members-1544193/
BREITBART
— Court allows Trump to stop collective bargaining for thousands of federal workers. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having been tremendously overpaid by the federal government. In today’s dollars, between 1966 and 1997, my federal pay increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151 /year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and d) I earned a job-related professional license. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on what they could done, but failed to do, to qualify themselves for better paying jobs.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/court-allows-trump-to-stop-collective-bargaining-for-thousands-of-federal-workers/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Columbia College Chicago says DEI values remain despite program rebranding
https://www.campusreform.org/article/columbia-college-chicago-says-dei-values-remain-despite-program-rebranding/27913
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Refusing Radical Demands Week in Education
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/refusing-radical-demands-week-in-education/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/05/18/assessing_the_wreckage_of_affirmative_action_646859.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct.
https://apnews.com/article/institute-museum-library-services-funding-cuts-trump-d3a236243b3a5c2b04e85d2004d1a946
MSN
–Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will foist the sins of your ancestors on you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-knew-the-pain-of-apartheid-how-dare-trump-embrace-afrikaners-as-refugees/ar-AA1EWbdx
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-judge-rules-it-s-ok-to-discriminate-against-lgbtq-people/ar-AA1EVI6U
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-funding-cuts-to-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-will-have-lethal-consequences/ar-AA1EI5C1
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate/expect that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI preference that American citizenship gives minorities and females over Whites and males.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-freaks-after-scotus-trashes-his-birthright-citizenship-arguments/ar-AA1EUxfs
— Those who promote muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/dodge-is-already-pulling-the-plug-on-its-cheapest-muscle-car/ar-AA1EW4Jt
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2025/05/17/dodge-charger-daytona-ev-canceled-slow-sales/83675336007/
https://www.motortrend.com/news/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-r-t-discontinued-ram-ev-delays
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/you-arent-buying-it-so-dodge-might-kill-the-electric-charger-daytona-r-t/
https://moparinsiders.com/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-scat-pack-brings-big-changes/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/denying-due-process-pritzker-sends-clear-message-in-blow-to-trump/ss-AA1EYa6X
MSNBC
— Episcopalians help Democrat leaders promote hatred against South African Whites.
https://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/watch/episcopal-church-refuses-trump-and-says-it-won-t-help-resettle-white-south-africans-239823942002
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zL9mESgmU
NEWSWEEK
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-latest-polls-2072624
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-democrats-trump-2028-president-2073019
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders are overjoyed that Pence criticizes Trump on tariffs and key foreign policy issues as he watches from afar.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/mike-pence-criticizes-trump-tariffs-key-foreign-policy-issues-watches-rcna206755
NEW YORK TIMES
— A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for U.S. Citizenship? D.H.S. Is Considering It. A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said the agency was happy to review “out-of-the-box pitches.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/homeland-security-immigration-reality-show.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/opinion/trump-politics-corruption.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-deportation-el-salvador/
— DOJ’s defense of GAO in Diersen v. GAO was politically motivated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/17/trump-justice-department-prosecutions/
— Democrat leaders use college newspapers to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/17/college-newspapers-trump-international-students/
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/17/walmart-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders say Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/18/trump-enforcement-halt-regulations-laws/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/18/usaid-withdrawal-africa-healthcare/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-05-17/bruce-springsteen-president-trump-manchester-concert
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote student loans. I never got any student loans. If I had, my GPA would have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes 1964-1966 and delivering mail 1966-1969. But that enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-17/student-loans-have-been-confusing-lately-heres-a-guide-to-know-where-you-stand
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/18/supreme-courts-decisions-trump-religion-transgender-care/83675865007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/trump-big-beautiful-bill-immigration-tax/83697340007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that the Pope despises/hates Trump
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/donald-trump-jd-vance-pope-leo-marco-rubio/83672296007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans. 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.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/
— Democrat leaders say that Vance is a brawler for Trump who avoids Harris and Pence mistakes and his assertive public profile sets him up for 2028 Republican support.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/vice-president-jd-vance-visibility-outspoken/83630581007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-attacks-walmart-for-tariff-related-price-increases-63ef9db8
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders say that major companies are anxiously awaiting to see whether or not they will be targeted by the federal government for a DEI investigation.
https://fortune.com/article/trump-dei-deadline-investigation-companies-federal-government/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-walmart-tariffs-trade-rising-prices-2025-5
NPR
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/18/1252312214/us-competitive-autocracy
BILLBOARD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-trump-unfit-president-stage-speech-1235974885/
PRESS READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sunday-world-8839/20250518/281711210554249
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/making-of-elon-musk-childhood-apartheid-south-africa
May 17, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WGN9
— Illinois Democrat leaders focus on turning Illinois farmers against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/farming-anxieties-rise-among-illinoisans-as-trade-war-affects-crop-exports/ar-AA1EVUzf
FOX32
— Democrat and RINO leaders got the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s Alien Enemies Act deportations. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/supreme-court-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump’s bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/supreme-court-rejects-trump-deportations/
— Democrat leaders say that the Republican tax bill is filled with illogicalities, craven giveaways
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/editorial-republicans-tax-bill-tips-salt-overtime/
— Under Trump, Republican leaders fight Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, they fight race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/trump-dei/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/16/tariffs-trump-maga-corruption-democracy-america-voters-mona-charen
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/05/16/chicago-catholics-pope-leo-xiv-marriage-lgbtq
— House speaker on Crespo ouster: ‘Can’t allow someone to go rogue’ “He’s free to speak his mind. He’s free to vote his conscience,” House Speaker Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch, said, but added that no one would be allowed to use their official leadership roles “to pursue an agenda that is antithetical to our shared goals” of passing a budget. Since I was 53 years old in 2001, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have rudely dumped me forever because I supported Pat O’Malley in the primary for governor instead of their candidate Jim Ryan. I ran O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. They continue to blame me not only for Ryan’s loss in the 2002 general election, but for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since then. I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/16/emanuel-chris-welch-fred-crespo-ouster-house-commitee-seperate-budget-rich-mller
DAILY HERALD
— GOP candidates for state offices will host discussion in St. Charles Saturday morning
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250516/illinois-state-politics/gop-candidates-for-state-offices-will-host-discussion-in-st-charles-saturday-morning/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250517/news/illinois-seeks-to-prevent-feds-from-tying-funding-for-states-to-immigration-enforcement/
WBEZ
— A quarter of Chicago high schoolers missed more than a month of school last year. When you were in grade school and high school, how many days did you miss? I missed extremely few.
https://www.wbez.org/
SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote protests against Trump
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/05/15/thousands-to-line-ogden-avenue-sunday-to-protest-trump-administration/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— AUGUST 16, 2012 FLASHBACK: GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters: A bunch of political info — daily
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2012/08/16/bernard-schoenburg-bunch-political-info/41733104007/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Republicans forge their tax bill in Trump’s image, with ‘MAGA accounts’ and more
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-republicans-forge-their-tax-bill-in-trumps-image-with-maga-accounts-and-more/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DOGE tried assigning a team to GAO. GAO refused. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They wasted my career and they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They rudely flushed down their toilet a) my three job-related master’s degrees (business-1976, accounting-1980, and finance-1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997), c) my job-related professional license (CPA-1981), and d) what I had learned about IRS by working for it 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 would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-16/doge-tried-assigning-a-team-to-the-government-accountability-office-it-refused
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5401008/doge-gao-congress
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its attempts to expand its reach beyond executive branch agencies, this time seeking to embed in an independent legislative watchdog that finds waste, fraud and abuse in the government. But the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a legislative branch entity that helps audit government spending and suggest ways to make it more efficient, rejected that request on Friday by noting that GAO is not subject to presidential executive orders. The request to GAO had cited President Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order creating DOGE, which, despite its name, is not a formal agency. DOGE’s request to GAO and its response was first reported by NOTUS. A spokesperson for GAO confirmed DOGE’s outreach, and reiterated that “as a legislative branch agency, GAO is not subject to Executive Orders and has therefore declined any requests to have a DOGE team assigned to GAO.” In an announcement to employees posted Friday afternoon, GAO leadership said they sent a letter to Acting Administrator of DOGE Amy Gleason and notified members of Congress, according to a copy of the notice shared with NPR by an employee not authorized to speak publicly. The GAO regularly releases reports that highlight ways to improve government efficiency, like a May 13 review of federal programs with fragmented, overlapping, or duplicative actions it says could save over $100 billion in spending. But there’s been little overlap between GAO’s work and DOGE’s actions so far. “DOGE’s attempted intrusion into an independent, nonpartisan legislative branch agency is a direct assault on our nation’s sacred separation of powers,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which oversees GAO, in a statement to NPR. “DOGE cannot and must not have any access to GAO. Oversight Democrats are monitoring this situation closely and stand behind GAO’s well-established status as a critical legislative branch agency.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about DOGE’s attempts to place a team at GAO. . .DOGE’s efforts to embed at GAO also heighten growing tensions between Congress and the executive branch. Last week, President Trump abruptly fired the Librarian of Congress, a year before the end of her term — raising concerns from members of Congress including Senate Majority leader John Thune. Meanwhile, the watchdog agency has dozens of investigations underway into whether the White House violated the law by freezing funding that had already been allocated by Congress. “ We have right now 39 different investigations underway,” Gene Dodaro, the current head of the GAO, told a Senate hearing on Apr. 29. “We’re trying to get the information from the agencies about what their legal position is for not expending the money,” Dodaro told lawmakers.)
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/community/springfield-pridefest-celebrates-15th-year-on-saturday/article_b8a69af1-3e9c-4178-ae65-55fc98fd9fe5.html
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Vacancy Tax On Landlords Could Help Fill City’s Affordable Housing Gap, UChicago Students Say. I was a reluctant landlord 1976-1984 because I could sell my University Park town home only if I sold it at a big loss.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/16/vacancy-tax-on-landlords-could-help-fill-citys-affordable-housing-gap-uchicago-students-say/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-307/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— The state and the media refuse to ask the proper questions about Chinese companies in Illinois
https://wirepoints.org/the-state-and-the-media-refuses-to-ask-the-proper-questions-about-chinese-companies-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
JEFF BERKOWITZ
— IL GOP US Senate & GOV candidates can win in 2026
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/il-gop-us-senate-and-gov-candidates
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Illinois Freedom Caucus: “Cut the Waste & Bloat”
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/illinois-freedom-caucus-cut-the-waste-bloat-in-budget/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Kids and Marijuana – A Bad Combination
https://illinoisfamily.org/marijuana-2/kids-and-marijuana-a-bad-combination/
— Papal Warmup
https://illinoisfamily.org/faith/papal-warmup/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL prioritizes $3.2B for immigrants, leaves working families behind
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b7099305-d374-404e-8bfd-ee4bc3037919.html
— Illinois home to 15th largest share of roads in poor conditions across country. The smaller the vehicle that you drive, the more adversely that you are impacted by bad roads.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e4846ca4-5b89-4254-b9de-8a0437342e10.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Under Trump, Republican leaders fight Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, they fight race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Since I was 53 years old in 2001, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have rudely dumped me forever because I supported Pat O’Malley in the primary for governor instead of their candidate Jim Ryan. I ran O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. They continue to blame me not only for Ryan’s loss in the 2002 general election, but for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since then. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— DOGE has tried to assign a team to GAO. GAO refused. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They wasted my career and they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They rudely flushed down their toilet a) my three job-related master’s degrees (business-1976, accounting-1980, and finance-1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997), c) my job-related professional license (CPA-1981), and d) what I had learned about IRS by working for it 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 would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that minorities, females, younger people, and veterans should get reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. All my coworkers who were the aforesaid and who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors and supervisors who despised/hated me the most because I was a Republican and/or because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I would focus on my Democrat superiors who flushed down their toilets my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The White House has launched a Drudge Report lookalike website. I should write about the many GOPUSA ILLINOIS lookalike websites and newsletters that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes publish since 2005. Sooner or later, they all go dark. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— India’s Caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am low Caste. They have aways stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that my mother never attended high school, and d) that I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ernst & Young was one of the many CPA firms that had no interest in me because I was too old, that is, a) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, b) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, c) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, and d) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, I was not a minority, female, or veteran. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you attend you senior prom? I did not. I was not viewed as being college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I had spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I was viewed as being draft bait. I had been accepted by UIC, but UIC is not Ivy League. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Federal employees do not have to take a vow of poverty. But few federal employees make GS-13 ($117,807/year). Fewer make GS-14 ($139,211/year). Even fewer make GS-15 ($163,749/year). Extremely few make Senior Executive Service (SES) ($195,200/year). Becoming a federal employee severely limits your earning potential. Unless you are a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government waste your career and get rid of you if they do not promote you to GS-13 by age 25, GS-14 by age 30, GS-15 by age 35, and SES by age 40. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines. They especially use against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. In my defense, I did not earn a) my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) my professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45 , 47 and 48, and c) my professional license until I was 32. Further, I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Congresswoman leading reparations movement says wealthy Black Americans deserve payments, too. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/16/rep-summer-lee-leading-reparations-movement-says-wealthy-black/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Harvard slams ‘abusive and retaliatory’ DOJ investigation over race-based admissions. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if they could have found a qualified minority, female, younger person, and/or veteran, they would have admitted them instead of me.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3414475/harvard-slams-doj-investigation-race-based-admissions/
— GOP should be codifying Trump’s executive orders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3413695/gop-not-dems-should-codify-trump-executive-orders-lauren-boebert/
NEW YORK POST
— Supreme Court again blocks quick deportations under Alien Enemies Act in new blow to Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/supreme-court-again-blocks-quick-deportations-under-alien-enemies-act-in-new-blow-to-trump/
— Trump’s ‘knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution’ is tackling long-festering ills no one else would
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/opinion/trump-is-taking-on-long-festering-ills-no-one-else-would-via-his-knock-down-drag-out-counterrevolution/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘U.S. owes us a debt’: Dems demand trillions in reparations ‘NOW’ Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/16/u-s-owes-us-a-debt-dems-demand-trillions-in-reparations-now-1543940/
BREITBART
— Trump Slams SCOTUS for Ruling on Alien Enemies Act: ‘This Decision Will Let More Criminals Pour’ In
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/16/ttrump-slams-scotus-for-ruling-on-alien-enemies-act-this-decision-will-let-more-criminals-pour-in/
DAILY CALLER
— IRS Quietly Puts On New Face, Ousts Anti-Trump Spokeswoman With Drunk Driving Record. I should write about my Democrat IRS superiors and supervisors who despised/hated me the most because I was a Republican and/or because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I would focus on those who a) disallowed my travel vouchers, b) disallowed my education deductions, and c) stopped me from being promoted to GS-13. I would focus on those who flushed down their toilets my earning master’s degrees in business and accounting and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/16/exclusive-irs-ousts-anti-trump-spokeswoman-arrest-record/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Bashes Supreme Court Following Order Further Blocking Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Illegal Gang Members
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/16/trump-bashes-supreme-court-following-order-further-blocking-use-of-alien-enemies-act-to-deport-illegal-gang-members/
FOX NEWS
— Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to deport Venezuelan migrants under Alien Enemies Act. Conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the court’s decision.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-blocks-trump-effort-deport-venezuelan-migrants-under-alien-enemies-act
— Trump says Comey knew ‘assassination’ meaning behind deleted social media post. President Trump claims deleted Instagram post was deliberate call for assassination as Justice Department investigates.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-says-comey-knew-assassination-meaning-behind-deleted-social-media-post
— Trump admin wants 20K National Guard troops to help with mass deportation effort
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/trump-admin-wants-20k-national-guard-troops-to-help-with-mass-deportation-effort/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— House Democrat Launching Resolution for U.S. to Spend ‘Trillions’ on Reparations. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/house-democrat-launching-resolution-for-u-s-to-spend-trillions-on-reparations/
MRC TV
— Trump Signs EO Redirecting Funds Used to Help Illegals to Build a National Center for Homeless Vets
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/nick-kangadis/trump-signs-eo-redirecting-funds-used-help-illegals-build-national-center
NEWSMAX
— Academia’s ‘Mafia’ Cares Little for American Dream, Students
https://www.newsmax.com/parthachakraborty/columbia-sinwar-stem/2025/05/16/id/1211267/
PJ MEDIA
— Most U.S. Voters Want Deportations to Continue
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/16/poll-most-us-voters-want-deportations-to-continue-n4939865
POST MILLENNIAL
— Dem lawmakers demand TRILLIONS in reparations for black Americans. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-lawmakers-demand-trillions-in-reparations-for-black-americans
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5302561-trump-administration-diversity-equity-inclusion/
— White House launches Drudge Report lookalike site. I should write about the many GOPUSA ILLINOIS lookalike websites that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes publish since 2005. Sooner or later, they all go dark.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5277015-white-house-drudge-report-dupe-site/
ABC NEWS
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-weigh-blocks-trumps-order-end-birthright/story?id=121710507
NBC NEWS
— Conservatives block Trump’s big tax breaks bill in a stunning setback. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, named with a nod to Trump, is teetering at a critical moment.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/conservatives-block-trumps-big-tax-breaks-and-spending-cuts-bill-in-a-stunning-setback/3747778/
ASSOCIATED PRESS & NEWS NATION NOW
— Police investigate disappearance of Melania Trump’s statue in her native Slovenia
https://apnews.com/article/melania-trump-statue-slovenia-9440b43a0a6771256522290fb219efce
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/melania-trump-statue-slovenia-stolen/
CNN
— India’s Caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am low Caste. They have aways stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that my mother never attended high school, and d) that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.news8000.com/news/national-world/india-s-caste-system-is-controversial-and-discriminatory-so-why-is-it-being-included-in/article_87c15db9-3951-5039-a397-265ef3c3efde.html
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/takeaways-from-the-supreme-court-arguments-on-birthright-citizenship-and-nationwide-injunctions/ar-AA1ER4zr
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-workers-eeoc-trump-texas-lgbtq-harassment-ab89a52aca37c3b0319ed665852d6252
MSN
— American Pope promises to have an ‘active social media presence’ after using his old account to criticize Trump. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy not only Trump, but to destroy all those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/american-pope-promises-to-have-an-an-active-social-media-presence-after-using-his-old-account-to-criticize-trump/ar-AA1EIpLH
MSNBC & PRETORIA NEWS & NATION
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, a) only Whites discriminate and b) only Whites should pay for the sins of their forefathers.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-afrikaners-apartheid-refugees-genocide-rcna206660
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/pretoria-news/20250516/281672555844566
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/white-south-african-refugees-trump/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. They ever-increasingly do everything that they can to drive his approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Republicans Push to End Immigrant Benefits in Democratic States. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/immigrant-trump-states-california.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/nyregion/nyc-migrants-legal-help-ending.html
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010163960/can-trump-really-end-birthright-citizenship.html
— How many able-bodied people are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/opinion/medicaid-work-requirements-pointless.html
WASHINGTON POST & MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-deportation-el-salvador/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/supreme-court-trump-venezuelan-migrants-gang/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/trump-immigration-asylum-lawsuit-courts/46e1364c-320e-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d6-LRpPzwA
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump bashes Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift on Truth Social
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/16/trump-bruce-springsteen-taylor-swift/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/trans-organizers-describe-prides-importance-under-trump/2025/05/16/85974861-97af-46c7-a279-e585e43a2fec_video.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Pope Took a Vow of Poverty. He May Still Need to File U.S. Taxes. The first American pontiff has special circumstances but may want to file a return even if he doesn’t owe anything. Federal employees do not have to take a vow of poverty. But few federal employees make GS-13 ($117,807/year). Fewer make GS-14 ($139,211/year). Even fewer make GS-15 ($163,749/year). Extremely few make Senior Executive Service (SES) ($195,200/year). Becoming a federal employee severely limits your earning potential. Unless you are a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government waste your career and get rid of you if they do not promote you to GS-13 by age 25, GS-14 by age 30, GS-15 by age 35, and SES by age 40. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines. They especially use against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. In my defense, I did not earn a) my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) my professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45 , 47 and 48, and c) my professional license until I was 32. Further, I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/pope-leo-xiv-us-taxes-f7f1de28
— It Was a Mistake to Skip My Senior Prom. Did you attend you senior prom? I did not. I was not viewed as being college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I had spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I was viewed as being draft bait. I had been accepted by UIC, but UIC is not Ivy League.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/never-be-too-cool-for-your-own-life-why-it-was-a-mistake-to-skip-my-senior-prom-c7900da0
— Americans Are Redefining Old Age. Are you old? I am 76. If you are old, what are you doing with your life? I spend 10+ hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/americans-in-their-80s-and-90s-are-redefining-old-age-5f8ae8a6?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
BLOOMBERG
— Chicago Taps Ernst & Young to Close $1 Billion Gap as Trump Threatens Funds. Ernst & Young was one of the many CPA firms that had no interest in me because I was too old, that is, a) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, b) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, c) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, and d) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, I was not a minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/chicago-taps-ey-to-close-1-billion-gap-as-trump-threatens-funds
FAST COMPANY
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91335032/trump-attacks-digital-equity-act-rural-internet
POLITICO
— Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit, citing rising debt. What percent of Moody’s employees despise/hate Trump?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/moodys-downgrade-us-debt-00355217
ATLANTIC & NPR
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/supreme-court-national-injunctions/682824/
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5399779/supreme-court-justices-seem-divided-in-birthright-citizenship-arguments
PEW RESEARCH
— Among Republicans, conservatives are less likely to trust information from national news media. The mainstream news media exists to elect and to reelect Democrats.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/05/08/republicans-have-become-more-likely-since-2024-to-trust-information-from-news-outlets-social-media/
May 16, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Hyde Park residents threatening lawsuit against city for planned permanent homeless shelter SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY
https://abc7chicago.com/post/hyde-park-residents-threatening-lawsuit-chicago-planned-permanent-dusable-lake-shore-drive-homeless-shelter/16417298/
NBC5
— Owner of Trump souvenir shop says she is being targeted because of politics
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/owner-of-trump-souvenir-shop-says-she-is-being-targeted-because-of-politics/3746829/
WGN9
— What if the mainstream news media had blamed Biden for price increases like it blames Trump for price increases?
https://wgntv.com/news/walmart-raising-prices-due-to-tariff-costs/
FOX32
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2G_er_7B7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEYwVyGcjw8
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://www.wbez.org/springfield/2025/05/15/lawmakers-save-program-health-benefits-illinois-without-legal-status
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/05/14/illinois-immigrants-closely-watching-supreme-court-arguments-on-birthright-citizenship
WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/does-trump-have-a-case-to-end-birthright-citizenship/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— What if the mainstream news media had blamed Biden for price increases like it blames Trump for price increases?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/retailers-price-hikes-tariffs/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/april-us-consumer-goods-price-tracker/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE IN THE NAPERVILL SUN: Chicago posts 7th largest population increase in nation. What percent of Chicago residents are illegals?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/chicago-census-population-growth/
— Democrat leaders drive the stock market down and then blame it on Trump
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/editorial-donald-trump-stock-market-volatility-tariffs/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. 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.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/medicaid-cuts-illinois/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/what-birthright-citizenship/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/trumps-beautiful-bill-explainer/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/april-us-consumer-goods-price-tracker/
— Buckle up, folks, Illinois’ budget is $536M short. Tax hikes cannot be the fix.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/pritzker-budget-service-tax-illinois/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. 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.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/05/15/pope-leo-xiv-foreign-language-brother-maga-catholic-theological-union-hyde-park-trump-doge
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250515/nation-and-world-politics/what-to-know-about-the-supreme-court-arguments-in-the-birthright-citizenship-case/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago’s population is growing again. What percent of Chicago residents are illegals?
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-reverses-population-slide-2024-gains
RIVER BENDER & JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they ever-increasingly promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-leads-coalition-backing-challenge-to-executive-orders-unlawfully-targeting-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-82535.cfm
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c871cdb7-1410-5d5b-b1ac-f48a2d3e1a5f.html
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-as-trump-targets-dei-republican-led-states-intensify-efforts-to-stamp-it-out/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOUNAL REGISTER
— Illinois Democrats defend Carla Hayden because Trump fired her. My critics/opponents stress that Illinois Republicans did not defend me because my Democrat GAO superiors fired me, that is, because they forced me to retire.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/nation-world/2025/05/14/former-librarian-of-congress-carla-hayden-has-springfield-connections/83548743007/
JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c871cdb7-1410-5d5b-b1ac-f48a2d3e1a5f.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-16/historical-precedent-courts-wrestle-with-white-houses-invasion-claim
— DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist in deportations
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-15/dhs-asks-for-20-000-national-guard-troops-to-assist-in-deportations
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote illegal immigration
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-15/a-once-fringe-theory-on-birthright-citizenship-comes-to-the-supreme-court
WAND
— Pritzker uses Trump’s tariffs to lower Fiscal Year 2026 revenue projection by $536 million. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to force me to retire.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-administration-lowers-fiscal-year-2026-revenue-projection-by-536-million-citing-unpredictable-trump-economy/article_a4e086f6-be18-4409-b9f8-ec8c8e7f9451.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Porn would become crime under Republican proposal
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/porn-would-become-crime-under-republican-proposal/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-south-africa-says-trumps-aid-cuts-stripped-more-than-8000-health-workers-from-its-hiv-program/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their Afghan refugees against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-policy-moves-worry-afghan-refugees-in-us-military-town-and-christian-groups-that-assist-them/
— Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-asylum-seekers-still-arrive-at-the-us-border-but-what-will-happen-to-them/
— Texas Democrats propose resolution to ban Cruz from college playoffs: ‘Well-known curse’ I should write those who have constructively, if not literally, banned me from their events since 2000. I would focus on those who have/had lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and who paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/texas-democrats-propose-resolution-to-ban-cruz-from-college-playoffs-well-known-curse/
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/towns-depend-on-immigrant-labor-20164671
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO
— Youth Employment Data Brief: Racial and Geographic Inequities in Youth and Young Adult Joblessness and Disconnection in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, and the U.S. According to my critics/opponents, they would never have stooped to take the jobs that I took. I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, etc.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CHa2yCwDsgQl6ZF-9NRXPILdLCWPj8vp/view
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Illinois considers lowering scores students need to be considered proficient on state exams. Democrats run the federal government. Since the 1960s, to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, they have ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1976, 1980, and 1997 job-related master’s degrees, b) my 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 job-related professional certifications, and c) my 1981 job-related professional license. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/05/15/illinois-considers-changes-to-test-cut-scores/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-514/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-306/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Republicans say Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act is broken, needs fixing
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_43f9b28d-6ede-4e3f-b102-ca9b48140a9e.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois lawmakers push new $2.7B sales tax on haircuts, Netflix, Uber and other services
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-lawmakers-push-new-2-7b-sales-tax-on-haircuts-netflix-uber-and-other-services/
— Nearly all Illinois communities smaller since 2020; Chicago loses nearly 30K
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/nearly-all-illinois-communities-smaller-since-2020-chicago-loses-nearly-30k/
— Why Chicago Teachers Union’s $7.3B tax hike will hurt all of Illinois
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/why-chicago-teachers-unions-7-3b-tax-hike-will-hurt-all-of-illinois/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they ever-increasingly promote 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
— Democrat Leaders Revive Reparations Demand in Congress. The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you should pay reparations to Blacks: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrat leaders shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have. I should write about the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that. I would write about the success that they had with my Black subordinates. I would focus on the success that they had with my Black subordinate who they replaced me with. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 and gave him my job and my preferred corner office. 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are biggest losses of income that you have suffered? For me, in today’s dollars, they include a) $86,371/year ($2.4 million so far) since 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire ($153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension), b) $23,472/year in 1980 when my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors forced me to take that pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO, c) about $55,000/year in 1971 when my Firestone Store boss fired me, and d) $20.67/hour in 1969 when my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign. I should write a book about the aforesaid adverse actions. They would not have happened if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats run the federal government. Since the 1960s, to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, they have ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1976, 1980, and 1997 job-related master’s degrees, b) my 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 job-related professional certifications, and c) my 1981 job-related professional license. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I had. If not that, my wages would have been lower. The jobs that I had enabled me to a) buy a 6-year-old car when I was 16, b) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. and c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Take American jobs back from China. Remove all vestiges of Biden-Harris China trade policy.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/15/take-american-jobs-back-china/
NEW YORK POST
— World’s tallest building lit up with American flag as President Trump arrives in UAE
https://nypost.com/2025/05/15/world-news/worlds-tallest-building-lit-up-with-american-flag-as-president-trump-arrives-in-uae/
— Vance blasts ‘weak-willed’ US leaders of ‘sanctuary’ cities for turning police into ‘enemies’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/15/us-news/vance-sears-us-leaders-turning-police-into-enemies/
— Secret Service probing ex-FBI chief James Comey for allegedly threatening Trump in since-deleted ‘8647’ Instagram post
https://nypost.com/2025/05/15/us-news/ex-fbi-chief-james-comey-accused-of-threatening-trump-in-since-deleted-8647-instagram-post-deeply-concerning/
AMAC
— Trump Finds the Only Refugees Liberals Don’t Like
https://amac.us/newsline/society/trump-finds-the-only-refugees-liberals-dont-like/
BREITBART
— Majority Support Deporting Illegals from U.S., Including Most Swing Voters
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/15/poll-majority-support-deporting-illegals-from-u-s-including-most-swing-voters/
— Democrat Messaging Falters as They Ask Constituents to Foot Medicaid Costs for 1.4 Million Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/15/democrat-messaging-falters-as-they-ask-constituents-to-foot-medicaid-costs-for-1-4-million-illegal-aliens/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Sounds Off On Birthright Citizenship Ahead Of SCOTUS Argument: ‘Drug Cartels Love It’ “The United States of America is the only Country in the World that does this, for what reason, nobody knows…”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sounds-off-on-birthright-citizenship-ahead-of-scotus-argument-drug-cartels-love-it
FOX BUSINESS
— What are biggest losses of income that you have suffered? For me, in today’s dollars, they include a) $86,371/year ($2.4 million so far) since 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire ($153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension), b) $23,472/year in 1980 when my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors forced me to take that pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO, c) about $55,000/year in 1971 when my Firestone Store boss fired me, and d) $20.67/hour in 1969 when my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign. I should write a book about the aforesaid adverse actions. They would not have happened if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/youve-just-gotten-fired-how-forgive-yourself-move
FOX NEWS
— Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., reintroduces reparations legislation for Black Americans. The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you should pay reparations to Blacks: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372861348112
MRC TV
— Democrats Introduce Congressional Resolution Demanding ‘Reparations’ For Blacks
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/democrats-introduce-congressional-resolution-demanding-reparations-blacks
NEWSMAX
— Democrat Leaders Revive Reparations Demand in Congress. Democrat leaders shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have. I should write about the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that. I would write about the success that they had with my Black subordinates. I would focus on the success that they had with my Black subordinate who they replaced me with. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 and gave him my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/reparations-injustice-slavery/2025/05/15/id/1211150/
— GOP Bill Would Codify Trump’s Trans Military Ban
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/gop-bill-codify/2025/05/15/id/1211134/
PJ MEDIA
— Bombshell Revelation Exposes Pete Buttigieg’s Role in Reagan Airport Crash
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/15/bombshell-revelation-exposes-pete-buttigiegs-role-in-reagan-airport-crash-n4939805
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Noem says DHS, Secret Service investigating Comey over alleged ‘assassination’ threat
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5303091-noem-dhs-secret-service-investigating-comey/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. 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.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-saudi-arabia-human-rights-f005cb14a8a0d51b1963a05215305d04
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-israel-gaza-hamas-hostages-05-16-2025-fb5e3b08af46a55b6faeead7b8647dc6
MSN
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. 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.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trump-bragging-about-brokering-ceasefire-between-india-pakistan-may-cause-us-billions-former-pentagon-official/ar-AA1ESP2P
— Trump proposes a MAGA bank account for kids. When I was 16 years old In 1964, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air with the money that I earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers. When I was 17 years old in 1966, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint with the money that I earned washing dishes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-big-beautiful-bill-proposes-a-maga-bank-account-for-kids-what-does-it-mean/ar-AA1EHITi
ABC NEWS
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-targets-dei-republican-led-states-intensify-efforts-121862885
NBC NEWS
— Former FBI Director James Comey under investigation for post seen as a potential threat to Trump’s life
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/james-comey-investigation-instagram-post-threat-trump-8647-rcna207167
CBS NEWS
— DHS requests 20,000 National Guard troops to help with mass deportation. Democrat ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/department-homeland-security-requests-20000-national-guard-troops/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/world/asia/trump-india-pakistan-ceasefire.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/trump-voice-of-america-firings.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/politics/trump-south-africa-afrikaners.html (FRONT PAGE)
WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. 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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/05/15/trump-military-parade-soldiers-sleep-office-buildings/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/05/15/voa-staff-firings-termination-trump/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/15/white-south-africans-trump-racial-discrimination/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/15/trump-qatar-iran-ukraine/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/trump-immigration-asylum-lawsuit-courts/46e1364c-320e-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
USA TODAY
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/15/red-states-join-trump-dei-fight/83518866007/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at women that Republicans cause all the problems that women have.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/13/women-disadvantage-retirement/83370449007/
— House Republicans propose $5 billion for Donald Trump’s school voucher agenda. My parents had less money because they paid to send a) me to Lutheran grade schools for 9 years and b) my bother to Lutheran grade schools for 10 years. Because of that, I had to work my way through college.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/14/house-republicans-advance-school-voucher-bill/83626836007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Bags of Cash From Drug Cartels Flood Teller Windows at U.S. Banks. Chinese money-launderers allegedly made six-figure deposits at Chase, Bank of America and Citibank branches across Los Angeles County. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/china-mexico-drug-money-laundering-banks-907f35f8
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: What if the mainstream news media had blamed Biden for price increases like it blames Trump for price increases?
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/walmart-wmt-q1-earnings-report-stock-2026-b978bcf5
— First-Time Home Buyers Are Struggling. Back in the good old days, that is, back in 1972, I bought a new town home wan I was 24 years old. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary had just increased from $55,850/year to $68,315/year. The down payment came from what I had earned working for IRS for15 months, working part-time for Firestone Stores for 18 months, and working full-time for Firestone Stores for 7 months before that. Those earnings also enabled me to buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971 and to pay for graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/first-time-home-buyers-builders-1bfa046d
FORBES
— Boeing Gets 28 Plane Order From Etihad Airways As Trump Tour Continues
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2025/05/16/boeing-gets-28-plane-order-from-etihad-airways-as-trump-tour-continues/
FED SMITH
— Additional Details Regarding Proposed Cuts to Federal Employee Benefits. Democrats run the federal government. If I was still working for the federal government, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinate would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/15/additional-details-regarding-proposed-cuts-to-federal-employee-benefits/
BROOKINGS
— What Immigration Means For U.S. Employment and Wages. If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I had. If not that, the wages that I earned would have been lower. The jobs that I had enabled me to a) buy a 6-year-old car when I was 16, b) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. and c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-immigration-means-for-u-s-employment-and-wages/
CREATORS SYNDICATE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racists.
https://www.creators.com/read/Ruben-Navarrette/05/25/trumps-racist-refugee-policy-depends-on-whos-coming-to-dinner
LGBTQ NATION
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/republicans-are-obsessed-with-trans-hate-this-one-election-shows-how-democrats-can-push-back/
GOOGLE AI
— Lowering standards. Democrats run the federal government. Since the 1960s, to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, they have ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1976, 1980, and 1997 job-related master’s degrees, b) my 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 job-related professional certifications, and c) my 1981 job-related professional license. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lowering+standards+employment
May 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— IRS criminal investigators in Chicago being ‘deputized’ as immigration enforcers under Trump administration plan. I worked for GAO for 3 years on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) while I was a GS-13 Step 1-3, currently $117,807-$125,661/year. I worked with CID employees for 5 1/.2 years while I was an IRS Revenue Officer at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/irs-criminal-investigators-in-chicago-being-deputized-as-immigration-enforcers-under-trump-administration-plan/
— Trump marvels at wealth of his Arab hosts while he eyes White House and Air Force One upgrades
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/trump-arab-hosts-air-force-one-upgrades/
— Redirect migrant funds to empower Chicago’s youths. What did you do get accepted by a college? I a) took college preparatory courses, b) earned an ACT score of 24, and c) graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/15/opinion-chicago-teen-takeovers-migrant-funds/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Have you been on a do not hire list? When I was 49 years old in 1997, constructively, if not literally, my Democrat GAO superiors put me on everyone’s do not hire list when they forced me to retire. Previously, they had a) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and d) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/14/lincoln-park-high-school-administrators-removed-chicago-public-schools-do-not-hire-list
DAILY HERALD
— ‘The claims against me are unfounded’: Huntley Trump store’s eviction trial delayed
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250514/local-politics/the-claims-against-me-are-unfounded-huntley-trump-stores-eviction-trial-delayed/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/medicaid-illinois-danger-several-fronts
RIVERSIDE BROOKFIELD LANDMARK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their May 18 protest against Trump
https://www.rblandmark.com/2025/05/13/protest-anti-trump-human-chain-brookfield/
WAND TV
— Gun rights activists take to Springfield as state Democrats look to pass multiple gun laws
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/gun-rights-activists-take-to-springfield-as-state-democrats-look-to-pass-multiple-gun-laws/article_e8a4c3cd-f397-4e49-9209-29e68b38c1ca.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-senate-committee-approves-bill-ensuring-medication-abortion-access-amid-uncertainty-with-trumps-fda/article_f126e72a-d598-44c2-b49b-01a58b3272c1.html
WCIA
— Retirement Wave Hits CPA Industry. Why did the CPA industry have no use for me? I was too old. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not pass the CPA examination 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 until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. If I had majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, my entire life would have been different.
https://www.wcia.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/812689749/as-retirement-wave-hits-cpa-industry-prohorizons-guides-firm-owners-through-smooth-transitions/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-funds-from-migrants-sent-back-home-help-fuel-some-towns-economies-a-gop-plan-targets-that/
— How Project 2025 has guided the Trump administration
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-13/how-project-2025-has-guided-the-trump-administration
SOUTH SIDE PATCH
— 11 Students Sickened, Taken To Hospital After Eating Marijuana Edibles At South Side Chicago School. The students got sick just after 2 p.m. at Fort Dearborn Elementary School, at 9025 S. Throop St. in the Brainerd neighborhood. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://patch.com/illinois/southside/11-students-sickened-taken-hospital-after-eating-marijuana-edibles-south-side
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-513/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-305/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats Drag America Into the Mouth of Their Madness
https://johnkassnews.com/a-civilization-that-descends-into-madness/
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— IL Freedom Caucus Statement on IGOLD rally in Springfield
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/il-freedom-caucus-statement-on-igold-rally-in-springfield/
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois politicians killed school choice. Now the federal government could deliver it anyway.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-politicians-killed-school-choice-now-the-federal-government-could-deliver-it-anyway-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write about the ever-increasing success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters, that is, the ever-increasing success that Democrat leaders and their mainstream news media are having promoting more and more and more hatred against Trump. I should write about their ever-increasing success in promoting more and more and more hatred against those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters paint you? They paint me as being blindly loyal to Trump a) because Trump and I share so many demographics and b) because of what I do as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor. But they are wrong. I have never been blindly loyal to any politician and I never will. I am loyal to conservative principles and to the Republican Party platform. My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What percent of the students are female in the college(s) that you graduates from? Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, the future is bleaker for males, and especially for males who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Notwithstanding the fact that I am all of the aforesaid, I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But that was many years ago. All those who were promoted over me were Democrats a) who were female, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When you were in college, what did you major in? I should have majored in accounting. If I had majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, my entire life would have been different. I did not start taking graduate accounting course until I was 27. Because of that, the CPA industry had no use for me. I was too old. Further, I did not pass the CPA examination 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 until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. 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
— Have ever considered taking a pay cut? To force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that much of what I had done for IRS for almost 9 years was very similar to what I would do for GAO, b) that GAO audits IRS, c) that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. I earned that degree in 1980. The aforesaid helped me pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, GAO would have offered me a $5,527/year (5%) pay increase to $117,807/year (GS-13) in today’s dollars to transfer. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Buffett is stepping down at age 94. How has age discrimination impacted you? When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to ever be promoted to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. I ultimately got promoted to GS-13, but not until I was 38 and I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO when I was 31, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, and e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— South African president calls refugees ‘cowards’ after arrival in US
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3410821/south-african-president-afrikaner-refugees-us-cowards/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Presently, many Afrikaner activists and observers believe the group is being purposefully subjected to violence from the black majority, with the government being complicit. Attacks against white Afrikaner farmers are a highly controversial matter. The government doesn’t keep statistics regarding the number of white farmers killed, but news of particularly brutal attacks has enraged many Afrikaners. These attacks are often accompanied by extensive torture, rape, and mutilation. The South African government has emphatically denied any bias against Afrikaners and has maintained that white farmers are victims of a larger crime wave. However, the White House has been unambiguous in its assessment of the situation. “Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white,” Trump said Monday. “But whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa, and the newspaper and the television media don’t even talk about it.” “I don’t care about their race, their color, their height, their weight — I don’t care about anything,” Trump continued. “I just know that what’s happening is terrible.” Trump also punished South Africa on a diplomatic level. He withheld the U.S. government’s participation in the G20 summit scheduled to be held in South Africa later this year. South African Ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool was declared a persona non grata and ordered to leave the country by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called him a “race-baiting politician who hates America and hates [Trump].”)
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— MSNBC declares South African asylum seekers are ‘descendants of white supremacists.’ Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/14/msnbc-declares-south-african-asylum-seekers-are-descendants-of-white-supremacists-1543501/
CENTER SQUARE
— Antisemitism watchdog calls for IRS probe of nonprofit supporting anti-Israel protests
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_9925f97b-0456-480b-8256-17ecd9b3d93e.html
COLLEGE FIX
— Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1 as graduation speakers. For Democrats, the purpose of education is to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/democrats-outnumber-republicans-5-to-1-as-graduation-speakers/
DAILY SIGNAL
— White House Praises House Panel for Booting Illegals Off Medicaid
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/14/white-house-praises-house-panel-for-booting-illegals-off-medicaid/
— Democrats Defend Medicaid Coverage for Illegal Immigrants
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/14/white-house-praises-house-panel-for-booting-illegals-off-medicaid
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Strikes $244 Billion in Deals With Qatar, Including ‘Historic’ Boeing Jet Sale. Qatar Airways signed a $96 billion agreement to acquire up to 210 American-made 787 Dreamliner and 777X aircraft from Boeing.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/qatar-airways-signs-agreement-to-buy-160-boeing-planes-5857662
FEDERALIST
— Here Are 16 Of The Most Egregious Injunctions Barring The Trump Administration From Doing Its Job
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/14/here-are-16-of-the-most-egregious-injunctions-barring-the-trump-administration-from-doing-its-job/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Arizona State to Focus on ‘Gender Equity’ for Women Even Though Campus is 70% Female. What percent of the students are female in the college(s) that you graduates from? Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, the future is bleaker for males, and especially for males who are conservative, Republican, White, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Notwithstanding the fact that I am all of the aforesaid, I was able to earn three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But that was many years ago. All those who were promoted over me were Democrats a) who were female, minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/arizona-state-to-focus-on-gender-equity-for-women-even-though-campus-is-70-female/amp/
NEWSMAX
— Alien Enemies Act Will Keep US Safe
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/pam-bondi-immigration-habeus-corpus/2025/05/14/id/1210991/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting sellers to use Trump’s tariffs to raise prices.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/business/walmart-prices-tariffs
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/trump-law-firms-attacks.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders use a “pregnant Cuban emigre” to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/14/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-immigration-trump/aa603c82-3078-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/14/pope-leo-lgbtq-catholics/
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/13/trump-lies-china-tariffs-qatar-jet/83583303007/
DESERET NEWS
— Utah Democrats hope for revival as Gov. JB Pritzker scheduled to speak at convention. New poll finds only 35% of Democrats are optimistic about future of party.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/05/14/utah-democrats-debate-how-to-respond-to-donald-trump/
SC TIMES
— Trump’s U.S. Attorney pick for Minnesota has never been a prosecutor. To force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that much of what I had done for IRS for almost 9 years was very similar to what I would do for GAO, b) that GAO audits IRS, c) that I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) that I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) that I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. I earned that degree in 1980. The aforesaid helped me pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 and to become a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, GAO would have offered me a $5,527/year (5%) pay increase to $117,807/year in today’s dollars to transfer.
https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2025/05/15/trump-nominates-daniel-rosen-as-minnesotas-next-u-s-attorney/83604701007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE. Buffett is stepping down at age 94. How has age discrimination impacted you? When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to ever be promoted to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. I ultimately got promoted to GS-13, but not until I was 38 and I had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO when I was 31, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination when I was 32, and e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.wsj.com/business/warren-buffett-reveals-he-stepped-down-after-finally-feeling-his-age-b060251f
— FRONT PAGE: Women Are Drinking More—and Doctors Are Worried
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/women-alcohol-use-health-risks-86999148
— Democrats Are Stuck in the Soup. The party is both too old and too extreme. It needs to look to history for a way out.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-are-stuck-in-the-soup-c6cad7b2
— Welcome to the Post-Progressive Political Era. For decades, the right lost almost every battle in the culture. But now the left has clearly gone too far.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/welcome-to-the-post-progressive-political-era-history-culture-4ad308c1
— Career Advice for 2025 Graduates. Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/career-advice-for-2025-graduates-c79b5126
— I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them jobs.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/529-plans-college-savings-alternatives-tips-958b2556
— My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-market-overpaid-salary-9eeabbaa
BANKRATE
— What to do if you are dropped from your home insurance
https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/homeowners-insurance/dropped-from-home-insurance/
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE
— Our Mission: To protect consumers by providing assistance and information, by efficiently regulating the insurance industry’s market behavior and financial solvency, and by fostering a competitive insurance marketplace.
https://idoi.illinois.gov/
ILLINOIS FAIR PLAN
— About Us: The Illinois FAIR Plan Association provides basic and affordable property insurance to applicants in the state of Illinois who are unable to purchase coverage through the standard insurance market for reasons beyond their control. The Illinois FAIR Plan is considered to be one of the top FAIR Plans in the country based the products and services it offers, its excellent working relationship with the Department of Insurance, and the support it has received from the Industry including their effective participation on the Governing Committee. Who We Are: The Illinois FAIR Plan Association is a not-for-profit property insurance association supported by nearly 500 Illinois insurance companies.
https://www.illinoisfairplan.com/about.html
May 14, 2025
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write a book about Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on Republican participation in those parades. I would focus on those who are working the hardest to diminish/end Republican participation in this year’s Wheaton and Glen Ellyn parades. They argue that the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) cannot afford the $1,500 cost of entry fees and candy for the parades. In 2007, I succeeded in raising $2,000 on short notice so that an elephant could walk behind U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam in Wheaton’s 2007 parade. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/ I served as the Republican fundraiser for the Wheaton Independence Day parades 2005-2021. In my book, I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end what I did. I have urged MTRO to encourage Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congressional District 3, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois senate, Illinois house, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, etc. to participate in this year’s parades. Please join me in urging MTRO to participate in the parades. Please join me in urging Republican candidates to participate in the parades. I certainly hope that LaHood walks in both parades. His father walked in Wheaton’s 2005 parade. I spoke with him before the parade kicked off. Bob Dole walked in Wheaton’s 1996 parade, Jim Ryan in its 2002 parade, and Obama and his wife in its 2004 parade. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Will the Illinois GOP show up for the 2026 state elections?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-illinois-republican-party-candidates-2026-funding/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: We are in the important pre-primary phase of the 2026 elections in Illinois (circulation of petitions opens in September), when prospective candidates strut their endorsements — and money raised — in efforts to scare off possible opponents. In our basically one-party state, Democratic wannabes are coming off a long bench to make their cases. In contrast, Republicans have no bench of experienced, well-known prospects to speak of. Because of extreme gerrymandering, the GOP has few state legislators and no statewide officials whatsoever. Attractive but no-name candidates are being counseled by Republican insiders that this is a no-win year for the GOP and it’s better to stay out. Will the GOP even show up with a slate of credible candidates for the U.S. Senate, the governorship and all other statewide offices? After all, the party in the White House generally does poorly in the midterm election. And Gov JB Pritzker has more money than Croesus ($3.7 billion, according to Forbes) and seemingly giddy enthusiasm for spending it. Recent history shows he stands ready to bankroll all the Democratic statewide candidates with more than enough money to blow away the opposition. After all, he wants to show national Democrats that he leads his party to victory up and down the line. GOP woes don’t end there. Illinois Republicans are divided into a downstate (outside the seven metro Chicago counties) that is enthusiastically pro-Donald Trump, versus the suburbs, where moderates and Democrats reign. For example, DuPage County and its 920,000 residents used to be largely white and GOP. But the times, they are a’changin’. According to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), a language other than English is now spoken at home in nearly one-third of the households in the six counties surrounding Cook. Republican George Ryan won the governorship in 1998 with 70% of the DuPage County vote, whereas Trump garnered 42% of that county’s vote in 2024. GOP nominees for the U.S. Senate and governorship will have to declare their position on Trump, a no-win situation: Come out strongly for Trump and lose the suburbs or come out against Trump and watch voters downstate sit on their hands in November. Be wishy-washy on Trump, and lose votes across the board. And who will bankroll GOP candidates in the face of such dour prospects? Billionaire Ken Griffin has departed Illinois for Florida, with his millions for GOP causes. Make no mistake: Big money has replaced party organization as the engine of candidate success. Lightning does strike, however. In 2004, little-known state Sen. Barack Obama entered a crowded field that sought an open seat in the U.S. Senate. Trailing in the polls throughout in the Democratic primary, Obama surged to victory when, near the end of the primary, the front-runner’s candidacy imploded almost overnight as a result of juicy revelations of messy marital discord. In the general election campaign that followed, the attractive GOP nominee dropped out of the race because of sexual peccadilloes revealed in unsealed divorce records, and Obama skated into the U.S. Senate. The rest, as they say … I expect there will be no-name and, maybe otherwise, very attractive candidates on the ballot next year for the GOP but with little money. I have mentioned money several times in this essay. In the past decade, Pritzker has spent $400 million on his own and associates’ campaigns. A Democrat, he even sabotaged the Republican primary campaign for governor in 2022. In that year, according to this newspaper, Pritzker spent $24 million to boost the nomination of possibly the weakest of his possible opponents for the general election. Pritzker’s money advertised that Darren Bailey was “too extreme” for Illinois — which was, irony definitely intended, an attractive message for a big swath of conservative GOP primary voters. Shameful politics. Big money, corrosive of democracy, could be the overarching issue for Republican candidates in 2026: “You can’t buy my vote! Don’t let JB Pritzker continue to buy elections in Illinois!” Lightning does strike. But you have to show up.)
— 2002 FLASHBACK: Politicians parade for voters at 4th fests. Jim Ryan, the Republican candidate for governor, began his parade marching in Wheaton in DuPage County, the heart of GOP territory in the Chicago area. Ryan looked fresh and cool after stepping out of an air-conditioned van into the boiling morning heat. He and his wife, Marie, joined the procession just as his sweaty supporters, who had been standing in the sun waiting for him, began their way down North Main Street. “All politics is local–never forget your base,” Ryan said. Indeed, blue-and-white Ryan balloons were fastened to lawn chairs, strollers and benches along the parade route. Only an occasional sign for his Democratic rival, Rod Blagojevich, could be spotted. . .. .But political jockeying surely was in play Thursday. An old political tradition holds that the more influence a politician wields, the closer he will be to the front of the parade line. For example, in GOP-laden Wheaton, U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) launched the parade, with Ryan right behind him. In third place was Republican Joe Birkett, the DuPage County state’s attorney who is running for Illinois attorney general. His Democratic rival, Lisa Madigan, was placed far back.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/07/05/politicians-parade-for-voters-at-4th-fests/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Trump-themed shop in Huntley could be closed over code issues, but owner says it’s political
— Federal judge OKs use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans who are labeled gang members
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/alien-enemies-act-deport-venezuelans/
— Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge in immigration case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/wisconsin-judge-immigration-case/
— The mainstream news media ever-increasingly serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/column-journalism-decline-chicago-local-news-washington/
— From what I see, in the Chicagoland area, jurors are overwhelmingly Democrats
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-juror-act-trial-reform-paul-st-louis/
— Why is CPS treating charter and private schools like liquor stores?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/chicago-charter-schools-vacant/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— City Council committee OKs removal of college degree requirement for city jobs. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/13/city-council-committee-paper-ceiling-college-degree-city-jobs
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote hated against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/14/five-years-george-floyds-murder-national-urban-league-racial-justice-dei-police-reform-marc-morial
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker budget team slashes state’s revenue forecast by $536 million
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-budget-office-cuts-revenue-forecast-536m
— State Farm cleared to hike California homeowner premiums 17%
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/insurance/state-farm-cleared-hike-california-homeowner-rates-17
ABC7
— Federal judge in Pennsylvania rules that Trump’s invocation of Alien Enemies Act is lawful
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-judge-pennsylvania-rules-trumps-invocation-aea-is-lawful/16406471/
— Inflation eased after Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/new-inflation-data-reveal-impacts-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs/16400850/
NBC5
— Senate Republicans react to Qatar gifting Trump a $400 million jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/watch-senate-republicans-react-to-qatar-gifting-trump-a-400-million-jet/3744811/
— Democrat leaders promote a Trump critic
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/commentator-hasan-piker-detained-ohare-airport/3744867/
— Chuck Schumer to block Trump DOJ nominees over Qatari jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/chuck-schumer-pauses-trump-justice-department-nominees-over-qatari-jet/3744418/
FOX32
— 22 Chicago students ingest weed edibles at South Side elementary school. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/22-chicago-students-ingest-weed-edibles-south-side-school
— A new SmartAsset study ranked the 10 wealthiest counties in Illinois based on income, home values, and investment income. Lake, DuPage, and Kendall counties took the top three spots. Cook County, which includes Chicago, ranked ninth overall.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-wealthiest-counties-study
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone in America will be on Medicaid. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer in America are on track to become productive members of society.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1640556
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emma Shafter to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/05/13/family-of-emma-shafer-felt-exploited-by-recent-kristi-noem-visit/83568796007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump’s plan to accept free Air Force One replacement from Qatar raises ethical and security worries
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trumps-plan-to-accept-free-air-force-one-replacement-from-qatar-raises-ethical-and-security/article_909d5190-12f5-59fe-b541-d2d9b9ed1829.html
SOUTHERN
— Republicans dodge, laugh off questions about Trump’s gift plane from Qatar
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/13/republicans-dodge-laugh-off-questions-about-trumps-gift-plane-from-qatar/
RIVER BENDER
— Attorney General Raoul Leads Coalition Suing Trump Administration Over Illegal Immigration Conditions Placed On Billions In Federal Funding. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-leads-coalition-suing-trump-administration-over-illegal-immigration-conditions-placed-on-billions-in-federal-funding-82440.cfm?
NPR ILLINOIS
— Jewish people in Israel are overwhelmingly conservative. Jewish people in America are overwhelming liberal. Enough said.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-14/multiple-trump-white-house-officials-have-ties-to-antisemitic-extremists
WGLT
— Before Trump weaponized the IRS to advance his political agenda, there was Nixon. How did Nixon impact you? Nixon was president while I worked for the Democrats a) who ran the Post Office in 1969 and b) who ran IRS 1971-1974. They despised/hated Nixon. They blamed Nixon, and therefore Republicans, for America losing the Vietnam War. They punished me, a draft avoider, to punish Nixon. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave request and forced me to resign in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, they disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and they made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They did the aforesaid even though a) I earned an MBA in 1976, b) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and c) I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-05-13/before-trump-weaponized-the-irs-to-advance-his-political-agenda-there-was-nixon
WMBD RADIO
— Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/13/illinois-seeks-to-prevent-feds-from-tying-funding-for-states-to-immigration-enforcement/
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders cite Democrat think tanks
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/12/campus/northwestern-study-finds-democrats-left-leaning-think-tanks-cite-scientific-studies-more-than-republicans/
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://newschannel20.com/question/vote-do-you-support-the-irs-sharing-data-with-ice-to-help-track-down-illegal-migrants-question-of-the-day-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-border-patrol-deportation-trump-administration
NPR ILLINOIS
— Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition. According to Democrat leaders, only Whites discriminate. White Afrikaners should anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will deport them.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-12/episcopal-church-refuses-to-resettle-white-afrikaners-citing-moral-opposition
— According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League colleges are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.nprillinois.org/education-desk/2025-05-13/new-study-suggests-changes-to-illinois-community-college-university-pipeline
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn Native Americans against Republicans.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/our-identity-has-been-frozen-in-time-how-native-american-advocates-are-influencing-springfield/
WHEATON PARK DISTRICT
— 2016 FLASHBACK: WHEATON PARK DISTRICT HOSTS INDEPENDENCE DAY “CELEBRATION!” At press time, sponsors for the Independence Day Celebration included Jerry Haggerty Chevrolet, DuPage County Republicans, and the City of Wheaton.
https://wheatonparkdistrict.com/wheaton-park-district-hosts-independence-day-celebration-july-3-and-4/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-512/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-304/
— Democrat leaders blame Trump and Musk for revenue dip. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump and Musk for everything that is bad.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/manar-trump-musk-are-to-blame-for-revenue-dip/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Illinois DOGE Profile: Centro De Trabajadores Unidos gets $4 million to help illegal aliens evade ICE
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/671354954-illinois-doge-profile-centro-de-trabajadores-unidos-gets-4-million-to-help-illegal-aliens-evade-ice
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL House Republicans call out $1B for NGOs, plan their own budget proposal
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_105bd8f5-b568-41b5-b567-bf49c03bfc51.html
— Legislation would limit how consumers can buy an electric vehicle in Illinois. I should write my experience buying a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Please let me know if you share my interest in that American nameplate muscle car. I also own a 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 Corvette, 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX, and 1972 Corvette. Phone: 630-653-0462 (home) and 630-414-6079 (cell). Email: diersen@aol.com
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1352ecca-a4b6-41f6-b0ae-b18e6dc01128.html
WIREPOINTS
— These NGO funds don’t help ordinary Chicagoans, they sustain networks that keep failed politicians in power.
https://wirepoints.org/these-ngo-funds-dont-help-ordinary-chicagoans-they-go-to-sustain-networks-that-keep-failed-politicians-in-power-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lower standards. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. 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
— According to a recent study, White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Is David Axelrod Pimping for Rahm?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/is-david-axelrod-pimping-for-rahm/
— Americans for Prosperity Send Second Postcard Seeking to Put Pressure on Sue Ness to Vote against Hiking Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/americans-for-prosperity-send-second-postcard-seeking-to-put-pressure-on-sue-ness-to-vote-against-hiking-taxes/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Protesters swarm House committee as Republicans take up cuts to Medicaid, taxes
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/13/protesters-swarm-house-committee-republicans-take-cuts-medicaid-taxes/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— There’s no such thing as a free jet. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3409713/trump-qatar-jet-gift-air-force-one/
— Trump’s deal for illegal immigrants will increase deportations and decrease spending
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/3410142/trump-deal-illegal-immigrants-increase-deportations-decrease-spending/
NEW YORK POST
— Officials describe persecution of South African refugees who are arrived in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te_Syuqog8A
— Trump recklessly accepting a plane from Qatar is the type of unnecessary risk that could ruin his presidency
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/opinion/michael-goodwin-trump-accepting-financial-gifts-from-qatar-is-one-of-the-many-ways-he-can-ruin-his-legacy/
BREITBART
— Saudi Arabia Sets Up Mobile McDonald’s for Trump’s Visit to the Middle East
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/saudi-arabia-sets-up-mobile-mcdonalds-for-trumps-visit-to-the-middle-east/
— Pope Leo’s Brother: The Pope Is Not Woke — He Will ‘Be Down the Middle’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/pope-leos-brother-the-pope-is-not-woke-he-will-be-down-the-middle/
FOX NEWS
— Gianno Caldwell seeks justice for brother killed in blue city ‘enamored with criminals’ rights’: alderman Gianno Caldwell’s 18-year-old brother was fatally shot, along with a female victim, in Chicago in June 2022
https://www.foxnews.com/us/gianno-caldwell-seeks-justice-brother-killed-blue-city-enamored-criminals-rights-alderman
MEGYN KELLY
— Racist and Hypocritical Left and Media Attack White Afrikaners Arriving in United States as Refugees
https://www.megynkelly.com/watch/racist-and-hypocritical-left-and-media-attack-white-afrikaners-arriving-in-united-states-as-refugees/
NRCC
— Hardworking Californians Get the Bill, Illegals Get the Benefits
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/05/13/hardworking-californians-get-the-bill-illegals-get-the-benefits-2/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Medical Schools Are Still Discriminating by Race
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/medical-schools-are-still-discriminating-by-race/
NEWSMAX
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lgbtq-rfk-hhs/2025/05/13/id/1210803/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/13/msnbc_panel_trumps_refugees_descendents_of_the_people_who_created_the_most_diabolical_system_of_white_supremacy_in_human_history.html
TOWNHALL
— Democrats Just Can’t Stop Pushing Nonsensical Assault Weapon Bans
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2025/05/13/the-democrats-just-cant-stop-pushing-nonsensical-assault-weapon-bans-n2656972
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5298112-house-democrats-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-funding-cuts/
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5296524-x-tiktok-meta-youtube-instagram-lgbtq-users-glaad/
ASSOCIATE PRESS
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly blame Trump’s tariffs for all price increases.
https://apnews.com/article/inflation-economy-tariffs-trump-5436b90e8e5a003f228c1bd08186589c
NEW YORK TIMES
— Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-immigration.html
— Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-welfare-medicaid-requirements.html
— Democrat leaders pay “researchers” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump. Who are the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How successful have they been?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-due-process-habeas-corpus.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/13/trump-democrats-sanctuary-lawsuit-immigration/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race based preference giving, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against Whites.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/13/black-doctors-scholarship-ohio/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-05-14/trump-guts-fema-as-climate-disasters-worsen
— Democrat leaders used Voice of America to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-14/voice-of-america-pbs-npr-trump
MIAMI TIMES
— White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/business/studies-show-white-women-benefit-more-from-dei-than-black-people/article_f0bb761e-334c-4151-832d-f3fa0026531a.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/12/slowing-inflation-trump-tariffs/83524058007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/14/gay-pride-month-lgbtq-forum/83583013007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/13/democratic-lawmakers-urge-kennedy-to-save-lgbtq-lifeline/83600490007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How the Ivy League Earned Donald Trump’s Ire. Too many instructors at Harvard, Columbia and elsewhere are less interested in teaching and more interested in student indoctrination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-the-ivy-league-earned-donald-trumps-ire-higher-education-colleges-universities-96631031
— The U.S. Once Built Airplanes Quickly. At its peak, a Ford factory produced one B-24 bomber an hour during World War II.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-u-s-once-built-airplanes-quickly-7e526511
— FRONT PAGE: The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send White Afrikaners back
https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/trump-afrikaner-south-africa-refugee-d5ad7b94
— How Young People Are Coping With Economic Anxiety. I should write about how my avoiding the Vietnam War draft negatively impacted my career big time.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/how-young-people-are-coping-with-economic-anxiety/3ea69cb0-9736-49c5-8f94-f5c1f9be316a
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— How successful have Democrat leaders been taking over Catholic organizations in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.ncronline.org/news/catholic-college-presidents-decry-trump-administrations-interference-higher-ed
GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/us-mexico-border-surveillance